The Museum News Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...and for poems and other material for special exercises. Large numbers of boys and girls bring reference questions and much independent and consecutive reading "towards definite ends is followed out. The question of creating and maintaining interest in Children's Museum work has long since been settled. We have the children in great numbers, and they are eager to use the Museum in every department, but floor space is inelastic and museum contents cannot be compressed beyond that certain point which we have long since reached. While our lecture room, library and exhibition rooms are filled to overflowing with children, while our offices are crowded, and we haven't enough of them to accommodate the members of our staff, while there are no work rooms except the store rooms already filled, we are receiving inquiries about the Nature Study Club, requests for a resumption of the City History Club work, requests for more sittings in the lecture room, and enlarged laboratory privileges. Nothing can ever satisfy our pressing needs except a fine new building, planned and built for the special work that has grown so rapidly and has become so generally recognized as worthy of generous support. NOTES. At a joint meeting of the School Garden Association and the New York Branch of the American Nature Study Society, held in Public School No. 165, Manhattan, December 4th, Miss Gallup represented the Children's Museum and gave a short description of the work with the Public Schools. About sixty teachers from the High Schools and Grammar Schools of Greater New York were present, and it was a pleasure to find that a large number of these were already familiar with some branch of our work. We were glad to welcome among other museum directors and curators...