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CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 



''Sources of Jewelry" was given. Lecture room, lantern slides, and 

 museum specimens have been used for Scout meetings, and examina- 

 tions for certain merit badges have been conducted by the museum staff. 



It is in such ways that the museum co-operates in the work of 

 schools, clubs, and, in fact, any group banded together for study of 

 natural history. 



Prize Contests, 



Interest shown in bird study contests has led Mr. Robert 0. Morris 

 generously to add to his gifts cash prizes for identification of trees. 



Tree Labeling 



Tree labeling also made possible by gifts from Mr. Morris has pro- 

 gressed during the year. One hundred and eleven specimens have 

 now been named along city streets, and about school buildings where 

 boys and girls may study them in preparation for prize contests. 



What the Museum is doing for adults. 



Considering the second question, Whstt is the museum doing for 

 adults, an excellent lecture season with an attendance of over three 

 thousand persons at a cost of about seven cents per capita can be re- 

 ported. There were three courses in which classes worked for aca- 

 demic credit. The speakers were Dr. George E. Dawson, whose sub- 

 ject was ''Scientific InteUigence and Human Survival," and whose 

 audiences never numbered less than one hundred persons. The museum 

 is grateful to Dr. Dawson for generously giving each year his services 

 in lectures that are indeed a credit to the institution. 



Dr. WilHam B. Kirkham followed Dr. Dawson in six lectures of 

 equal importance and interest. The subject, "History of Man from 

 the Biological Standpoint," developed Dr. Kirkham's discussion of the 

 previous year, and at points linked up with Dr. Dawson's course, 

 altogether forming series of exceptional educational value. 



A spring course on the "Relation of Plants to Their Habitat," by 

 Miss Fannie A. Stebbins, was another appreciated opportunity. Three 

 half -day field lessons supplemented an equal number of lectures at the 

 museum, and theses by members of the class indicate interest awak- 

 ened by study of plant areas. 



In addition to these credit courses, there have been Professor 

 Loomis's first-hand accounts of "Hunting Extinct Camels in Wyom- 

 ing"; a cinema lecture by William Finley that gave nearl}^ one thousand 

 persons glimpses of remote parts of the country from the Gulf Coast 

 to the Rocky Mountains; and lectures by Frederick Scott and Manley 

 B. Townsend conveyed to large audiences the appeal of the out-of-doors. 



Thanks are due and cordially given by the museum to the daily 

 papers for publishing excellent and detailed reviews of these lectures. 



The Museum's Needs. 



Thrice in its history, the museum has been obliged to find a larger 

 home. On no occasion, however, was the need of ampler quarters 

 greater than at the present time. A larger Springfield and its huge 



