Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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90 THE A MERIC A N M USE UM JO URN A L THE CIRCULATING NATURAL HISTORY LOAN COLLECTIONS.
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WING to the increase during the school year 1904- 1905 in the demand for the small nature study collections which the Museum loans to the public schools it has been necessary to prepare additional sets. The following collections have been added to those in use last year: Owl, Blue Jay, Robin and Bluebird, ten each, duplicating the original bird collections, and ten collections, constituting a new series, each containing a Pigeon, a Goldfinch, a Hummingbird, a Vireo and a Scarlet Tanager. Twenty sets of a collection showing cross, longitudinal and oblique sections of ten species of our more common trees have also been prepared. The total number of collections available for nature study work at the present time is 235. They have been in use in 184 of the city schools, distributed among the Boroughs as follows: Manhattan, 139; Brooklyn, 28; Bronx, 13; Queens, 3; Richmond, i. Up to May i, the collections have been studied by 255,845 pupils, as follows: Birds 157,649 Insects 34,532 Woods 21,836 Minerals 12,185 Mollusks 9,452 Starfish ^^^ZZ Corals '^,115 Crabs 5,943 The total number of pupils studying the different sets to the •end of the school year will be about 325,000. MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. Appreciation of the work done by the Jesup North Pacific expedition in the study of the tribes of Eastern Siberia has been shown in special manner by the Czar of Russia, who has be- stowed upon President Jesup the Knighthood of the Imperial and Royal Order of St. Stanislaus of the first degree. The or-

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