Yearbook Volume 21

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...lectures were illustrated by colored views and by moving pictures, the work of the lecturer. Apr. 24--Oliver Bainbridge. Subject: New Zealand, illustrated by colored lantern photographs. IX. A special matinee and evening lecture by Garrett P. Serviss, B.sc., of New York. Subject: Sicily and its Earthquakes, illustrated by colored lantern photographs. This lecture was given on Monday evening, February 8 and Wednesday afternoon, February 10. X. The Main Geographical Collections of the Department have been arranged on the basement floor of the Museum Building, and have been available for use by the public at all times when the Museum is open. The Collections contain upwards of three thousand maps, charts, globes, reliefs, models, books of reference and other geographical publications. Valuable donations have been made to the Collection, and twenty-four geographical models of conspicuous features of the earth's surface, and eight models of Pueblos and cliff dwellings from Arizona, New Mexico and vicinity, together with some fifty enlarged photographic transparencies of places of geographic interest, have been purchased. The Geographical Collections of the Children's Museum are open free to the public at all hours when the Museum is open. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY Officers for 1909-1910 Prof. John Mickleborough, Ph.D. President Prof. A. W. Grabau, Ph.D. Vice-President Wallace Goold Levison, B.sc. Secretary Executive Committee Prof. John Mickleborough, George E. Ashbv Ph.D. Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, M.A. Prof. Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D. Frederic A. Lucas Prof. A. W. Grabau, Ph.D. William G. Bowdoin Prof. John S. Mckay, Ph.D. Wallace G. Levison, B.sc. Frederick Braun C. Roe Gardiner The Department of Geology was organized on December 18, 1888, with...