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On Mondays and Tuesdays an admission of 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children under 16 is charged.

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. (Bedford Park.)

STAFF. Curator, Anna B. Gallup; Assistant Curators, Mary Day Lee, George P. Englehart; Librarian, Miriam S. Draper; Assistant librarian, Alison J. Baigri; Clerk, Marguerite Carmichael; 1 janitor, I attendant, I messenger, and 2 cleaners.

ART. 150 photographs of famous paintings and buildings. BOTANY. An educational exhibit of plant models, colored plates and preserved specimens, illustrating plant structure and germination. GEOGRAPHY. Models showing the relation of primitive man to environment in different zones; Dolls dressed in peasant costumes; Relief maps, photographs, etc.

GEOLOGY. 325 minerals and rocks. These include principally the minerals and rocks described in the public school courses of study. There are also 13 colored charts showing glaciers, earthquakes, geysers, deserts, avalanches, water-spouts etc.; a small collection of volcanic products; and a collection of So± gems.

HISTORY. Historical relics and pictures, and a series of models illustrating colonial life. The models consist of dolls dressed in appropriate costumes and surrounded with careful reproductions of the houses, furniture, etc. of the period represented.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 1000+; Insects, on exhibition, 640+, in storage, 5000+; Other invertebrates, 400; Fishes, 50; Batrachians, 100; Reptiles, 75; Birds, on exhibition, 500, in storage, 200; Mammals, 150. There are 6 large and 6 small groups of animals exhibited in natural environment.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Children's Museum began its work in a residence leased as a temporary storeroom by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Upon the opening of the central museum (Brooklyn Institute Museum) this residence was continued as a branch museum for children. The first exhibits were opened in December, 1899; since that time the exhibits and the popularity of the work of the museum have increased so that a new building is very much needed.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The Children's Museum receives $12,000 annually from the appropriation made by the city for the maintenance of the Brooklyn Institute Museums. The grounds are cared for by the department of parks; specimens are purchased from a collection fund composed of private donations.

BUILDING. The museum occupies 5000 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 700 for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the curator-inchief of the Brooklyn Institute Museums.

SCOPE. Public school work is the primary purpose of the museum. Colored charts, mounted birds, and boxes containing life histories of insects are loaned to teachers for classroom use, the teachers calling to select the material and arranging for its transportation to and from the school. A lecture is given at least once a week for each grade of the public schools, with special lectures to any class upon request. Physical apparatus is provided for experiments at the museum and a wireless telegraph station has been established and maintained by young men interested in the subject, five of whom have qualified as expert wireless telegraph operators through individual experimenting at the museum without formal instruction. A description of the work of the Children's Museum was published by the curator in the "Proceedings of the American Association of Museums," Vol. I.

LIBRARY. About 6000 volumes on natural science, biography, geography, history, and art intended for use as a reference library by both staff and public. The library is frequently consulted by students and teachers of all ages as well as by children.

PUBLICATIONS. A section of the "Museum News," issued monthly from October to May by the Brooklyn Institute Museums, is devoted to the Children's Museum. The annual reports of the curator are printed with the reports of the curator-in-chief.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 5.30 and on Sundays from 2 to 5.30. The average annual attendance is 102,000, including an attendance of 18,700 on lectures.

LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Pierrepont and Clinton Streets.)

In addition to an extensive library this society maintains a museum under the care of Mary E. Ingalls, assistant curator, the office of curator being vacant. The museum includes a large collection of Indian implements and relics from Long Island; the C. L. Allen collection of arrowheads and other Indian implements from Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, and Oregon; the Beebe collection from graves at Ancon, Peru; the Scarborough collection of general and local botany; an extensive collection of minerals and rocks from the boulder drift of Long Island; minerals and fossils from the New York State Museum; the Pike collection of East Indian shells; and a collection of Long Island birds. One of the most valuable possessions of the museum is a mounted Labrador duck.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN.

The institute does not maintain a museum but has the John Milton Smith collection of minerals, occupying a wall case about 25 feet in length and 7 shelves high.

BUFFALO:

BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY. Albright Art Gallery. (Delaware Park.)

STAFF. Acting director, Cornelia B. Sage; I stenographer, 1 assistant, I superintendent, and 4 guards.

ART. Oil paintings, 241; Engravings and etchings, 657, including the Willis O. Chapin collection of engravings and the James collection of etchings; Arundel prints, 62; Cartoons, 15; Drawings, photographs, etc., 66; Medals and plaquettes, 6; Miniatures, 10; Sculptures and casts, 39; Miscellaneous, 38.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy was organized in 1862 and an art gallery was opened in American Hall. After occupying a number of other buildings the present Albright Art Gallery was dedicated in 1905. This building was erected by Mr. J. J. Albright at a cost of about $400,000 and provides approximately 19,190 square feet of exhibition floor space in addition to an auditorium.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By the income from a maintenance fund of $140,000 and a city appropriation which amounted in 1909 to $12,000.

ADMINISTRATION. By an acting director, responsible to a board of 29 trustees.

SCOPE. Instruction of the general public is the chief aim of the art gallery. 22 special exhibitions of paintings and bronzes were given in 1909.

LIBRARY. 45 volumes on art.

PUBLICATIONS. (1) Catalogs. (2) Academy Notes, issued monthly since June, 1905. (3) Bulletin, issued quarterly, since 1910. (4) Blue Book, issued annually.

ATTENDANCE. The galleries are open to the public daily from 10 to 5.30 except on Sundays and Mondays, when the hours are 1 to 5.30. Admission is free except on Sunday and Monday, when a fee of 25 cents is charged. The attendance for 1909 was 113,676.

BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

This society, of which Frank H. Severance is secretary and treasurer, maintains museum collections obtained by gift and incidental to its primary work of historical research and publication.

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The collections include Indian implements; household articles of pioneers; portraits and views of local interest; war relics; domestic articles from Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Alaska, etc.; casts of Egyptian and Assyrian tablets; coins and medals. The library comprises 30,000 volumes of a historical nature and is open free to the public, together with the museum, on week-days from 10 to 5 and on Sundays from 2 to 5. The society occupies a building erected in 1900 at a cost of $200,000 defrayed jointly by the state, the city, and the society. It receives a maintenance appropriation from the city but this is not available for increase of the museum. 14 volumes of publications have been issued, but these are not directly related to the museum.

BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.

STAFF. Superintendent, Henry R. Howland; Lecturer, Carlos. E. Cummings; Custodian of museum, William L. Bryant; I stenographer, 1 janitor, and I caretaker.

ANTHROPOLOGY. Archeology, native, 6000±, foreign, 300±; Ethnology, native, 500±, foreign, 1000±. Of special interest are the local collections illustrating the characteristics of each important village site in Erie County, New York, and a collection of 300 specimens of pottery from Chiriqui, Central America.

BOTANY. Cryptogamic and phanerogamic herbaria, 25,000±. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Several collections illustrating the manufacture of marketable goods from natural products, as iron, steel, copper, pearl, mineral dyes, etc.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, 3000+ on exhibition and a large number in storage; Rocks, 2500± on exhibition and many in storage. Special mention may be made of the Wadsworth collection of minerals, mostly from European localities and especially rich in fine groups of fluorite, calcite, quartz, etc. One room is devoted to the geology of Buffalo and vicinity.

PALEONTOLOGY. There are on exhibition 10,000+ invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossils, with a large number in storage and many types and figured specimens. The collection of crustaceans from the Waterlime group in the vicinity of Buffalo is especially important and includes some 80 varieties and over 250 specimens of Pterygotus, Eurypterus, and Ceratiocaris.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 12,900; Insects, 6000±; Other invertebrates, 378; Fishes, 242; Reptiles, 123; Birds, 1100±; Mammals, 75; Bird eggs, 700±; Osteology, 33. 10 large groups are exhibited in natural surroundings; especially noteworthy are those of the American bison

including 6 individuals, Rocky Mountain goats (4 individuals), great blue heron (8 individuals), and whistling swan (5 individuals). HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences was organized in 1861 and incorporated in 1863. During the custodianship of Charles Linden the Society began in 1867 the educational work which has since been one of its controlling purposes. Since 1879 it has sent traveling collections of scientific exhibits to the schools of Buffalo and has given free lectures to school children and their teachers. Since 1905 this work has become an integral and compulsory part of the public school system of Buffalo, all the grammar school children coming by schedule to the society's rooms for their nature study, physiology, etc.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The society is in large part dependent for financial support on its membership dues, which are $5 per annum. It has the income from a very modest permanent endowment and receives a regular appropriation of $1000 a year from the city of Buffalo in partial recognition of its school service.

BUILDING. The society occupies two floors of the public library building. It owns a desirable building site adjoining Delaware Park on which it is hoped to erect a new building.

ADMINISTRATION. By a superintendent, responsible to a board of managers consisting of the officers and twelve managers elected by the society.

SCOPE. The primary objects of the society are the encouragement of original research, the maintenance of local collections, public school work, and instruction of the general public. On Friday evenings from November to May the society gives free public lectures, usually illustrated, on popular scientific subjects.

LIBRARY. 5300 bound volumes; 2000 unbound. The library is restricted to scientific works and is intended for the use of the public. PUBLICATIONS. Semi-annual bulletins are published by the

society, 9 volumes having been issued at the end of 1909.

ATTENDANCE. The museum is open free to the public daily except Sunday from 9 to 5.

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ANTHROPOLOGY. 50 Dakota Indian relics and 300 old English

curiosities.

BOTANY. An American herbarium of 800 sheets; a European herbarium of 100 flowering plants and 500 fungi; and a collection of 200 seeds.

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