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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (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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CIRCULATING COLLECTIONS 113 THE CIRCULATING NATURE STUDY COLLECTIONS. URING the school year 1906-1907 the circulating Nature Study Collections were used by 660,740 pupils in the city public day schools and 79,358 pupils in the vaca- tion schools. The demand for the sets has increased so that the Museum last summer procured an automo- bile to facilitate delivery to the schools. The specimens in the collections have been selected with a view to supplying material required in the Syllabus of Nature Study issued by the Board of Edu- cation, and there are now thirteen of these collections, containing in all five hundred sets. The collections and the number of pupils in the ordinary schools using them are shown in the following list:
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Collections. No. OF Pupils. Native Birds. Adapted for Grades lA-J^B: Owl Set — Containing owl, chickadee, nuthatch, song sparrow, kinglet 89,565 Blue Jay Set — Containing blue jay, woodpecker, cross- bill, junco, English sparrow ...... 85,882 Robin Set — Containing robin, red-winged blackbird, oriole, meadow-lark, chipping-sparrow .... 76,813 Bluebird Set — Containing bluebird, phoebe, barn swal- low, house wren, chimney swift ..... 66,394 Tanager Set — Containing scarlet tanager, red-eyed vireo, goldfinch, humming-bird and pigeon .... 64,957 Insects. Adapted for Grades 2A-5A: Containing cynthia and cecropia moths, monarch butter- fly, etc., and typical representatives of the different groups of insects 41,327 Special Insects. Adapted for Grades 2A-5A: Containing life-history of cecropia moth, development of monarch butterfly, life and work of honey-bee and household insects 81,285 Mollushs. Adapted for Grades 4-4 and 5A: Containing shells of about twenty-five mollusks, including the oyster, clam and chambered nautilus . . . 26,325 Crabs. Adapted for Grade 5A: Containing relatives of the common blue crab . . 1,830

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