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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (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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I'hiilo hy Georye Carle Bird houses made by boys of Public School No. '>, The Bronx, on the basis of collections sent by the Museum Museum Helps Boys to make Bird Houses Public School A'O. o, The Bronx The collections of birds that the Museum sends out to the public schools liave proved very helpful in the matter of furnishing concrete evidence of the size of birds the boys of Public School 5, The Bronx, decided to build houses for. The school has always made much of Audubon's birthday, which comes about the same time of the year as does Arbor Day, and the pupils have taken a lively interest in the fate of the birds that used to be so numerous about the Bronx. Therefore when it was sugf?ested that the boys make bird houses to put up in the yards to coax back some of the wanderers, the notion was taken up enthusiastically. The ^teacher of constructive work in the upper grades sent for the collections of birds as they came to the school and allowed the boys to judge of the size ani appropriateness of the hoases for the various birds. They read in suggested books about the kinds of birds that lived in artificial abodes and searched every- where for facts concerning the nature of their habitat. It was in accordance with these ideas that they built the houses, save that in some the more ambitiou.s put glass whidows in the hope that they might be able to observe the birds actually at work Ijuilding or broofling. For the most part the houses were made in hoins out of school ami with tools of the pupil's own. The school, not being provided with a shop, was ill-equipped for the furth(>ranco of any very elaborate work, but the untiring zeal of the instructor made the boys eager to work. The results proved to be extremely creditable and boys that had heretofore shown not much evidence of constructive ability, when once they were laimched on tliis lively problem with a definite, concrete goal, developed remarkable skill and ingenuity. Also it must be said that there came from the work as well a moral develoiiment of which there was good reason to be proud. The Jesup Collection a Stimulus for Wood Collections made hy Boys Public School No. 150, Brooklyn The children are told of things in nature but rarely have the opportimity of .seeing them except through the collections. The class of 5.\ boys were interested in examining the different woods at the Museinn. One boy made a collection of hard woods, wliich the other boys take great pleasure in studying. The Mounted Bird .means much in the Ima(;ination of the City Child Piil>lic School No. 70, Mfutholtun, Grade 2B These little people of the second grade, brought up imder the abnormal conditions of the city, love the birds of the collection. They smooth and pet them, and even ki.ss them when I am not watching. The Museum gives Children a Gre.\ter Love for Living Animals Public School No. 76, Muuhattau As our pupils live within walking distance of the Mu.seum, they go there frequently. The great attraction for the boys are the wonderful Indian collections. For cla.ss use the bird 2.58

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