20 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
and in view thereof the trustees of the American Museum of 
Natural History through their president, Professor Osborn, have 
presented a project to combine such state funds as may be appro- 
priated for this memorial, with such municipal funds as the city of 
New York may similarly provide and thus erect a joint memorial in 
the form of an addition to the buildings of the American Museum 
in New York City. The proposal of the State Museum in its great 
need of adequate room, is that if a building is to be constructed as a 
New York State Memorial to Colonel Roosevelt, it might with emi- 
nent propriety be an exclusively state building located at the capital 
of the State. 
MUSEUM NOTES 
For 6 years past the Museum has given freely to the public 
courses of lectures on a variety of scientific and related themes. 
These have been untechnical and of a character to appeal to general 
audiences which have usually filled the small lecture room of the 
Museum to its capacity. In large part these lectures, which still 
continue, are given by the members of the Museum staff. 
As a matter of record and suggestion the titles of these informal 
illustrated discourses are here given: 
The State Museum: Hiow to Use It 
Diamonds 
The Forests of New York 
Lake Albany — Our Present Abode 
Man and Insects 
How Minerals are Formed 
Mastodons and Elephants of New York 
The Empire State of Indian Days 
Harmonies and Cross Purposes in the Insect World 
Earthquakes of New York 
Nature Monuments 
Life of the Ancient Seas 
The Cat—A Public Menace 
Spiders and Cobwebs 
Nature’s Mathematics 
The Supreme Fight of the Red Man 
Why We Protect the Birds 
Geological History of Lake Champlain 
A Doctor’s Garden 
The State and the Tree 
Where the Weather Comes From 
The State and the Fisherman 
The Land of the Trembling Earth 
What is an Indian? 
Paspebiac — A Fish Story 
Our New York State Parks 
Two Months Underground in the Helderberg Mountains 
Our Struggle for Life Against the Insects 
Later French Settlements in New York State 
Excavations of a Seneca Village Destroyed by DeNonville, 1687 
New York Under Four Flags 
