NEW YORK MUSEUM

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 12

NEW YORK MUSEUM

BBVIEW OF THE YEAR'S W.ORK.

Announcements of additions to the forces of . paleologists now working in Central Asia and of intensive work in this section of the globe were made by the director of the Natural History Museum at the fifty-fourth annual meeting of trustees. Important discoveries .in. Central Asia have led to the appointment of two new collectors, and numerous fossils which are said to have bean unearthed have prompted the natural scientists to hope that within the present year more definite evidence may be obtained of a previous land connection between Asia. and North America.

The most .serious -work at home which ; the museum, contemplates for. the ne^t decade Will be the construction of the six remaining building sections, estimated to cost 9,000,000 dollars, according to plans which have long been under consideration. ■ . , i Reports indicate that the museum had i it.3 most successful year during 1922, and decided increases are shown in attendance and in endowment, states a special correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor." The 1923 budget, calling for expenditures of 965,143 dollars, • apart from special gifts and funds, is the largest ir/the institution's history. Attendance at the museum last year j ,wa5""T,309,856, exceeding that of the preceding year by nearly 200,000. The 1921 call for a 2,000,000-dollar increase in endowment brought donations of 1,903,000 dollars, and contributions made by the trustees made it possible for the eeason'a work to be carried. forward without interruptions. The museum's department of public education also extended its activities . during the year, and 824: nature study .collections were utilised by 1,648,608 pupils; 217 lectures were.delivered before a total of M 9,600 school children, 5396 loans of slides were made to 226 school children, and (S3SS lor.ns of slides were made to 226 schools, where they | were seen by 2,582,585 pupils,