NATURAL HISTORY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 6

NATURAL HISTORY

TUITION BY FILMS SYDNEY MUSEUM SCHEME : fFROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT! ? ■'' s SYDNEY, Feb. 10 A grant exceeding £IOOO, which the Australian Museum. Sydney, received from the Carnegie Corporation of New lYcrk for expenditure "on an educational purpose," is to be devoted to making natural history films for exr hibition in schools. The first picture, "Life on a Tidal Flat," taken at Gunnamatta Bay, near Sydney r has already been made by the museum staff with the moving-picture apparatus purchased with part of the Carnegie grant. The staff photographer, •Mr. G. C. Clutton, was assisted by officers of the scientific staff, and an interesting record has been secured of ! the teeming life on a tidal flat at low tide. The picture shows squids, octopuses, crabs, shrimps and quaint forms of sea life in close-ups and wriggling in shallows. The text of the lecture to accompany the film for the use of teachers is being prepared. The museum director. Dr. Anderson, said further pictures planned would inV elude the various stages in the life of the butterfly, and the life story of the cicada. A native cat in captivity at the museum would also be filmed, and later, there would be a production showing the habits of the marsupial mouse. !