After a very careful consideration of the different possibilities of bringing the schools and the museum together, it was thought best to make the institution a traveling museum which would go to the schools and carry to the teachers the illustrative material which they needed at the time when they needed it.

A MUSEUM ON WHEELS.

The material is sent to the schools by a large automobile truck in the service of the museum. The schools are divided into five sections, each of which has a delivery day once a week. The principal of a school which has its delivery day on Monday asks his teachers on the preceding Friday to send him the numbers of all the collections in the museum catalogue they will need for the illustration of their lessons during the following week. These numbers he inserts in an order blank for the curator, and on the following Monday the wagon delivers the material at the school, taking back at the same time the collections used during the previous week.

WHAT THE MUSEUM CONTAINS.

The material in the museum is arranged and grouped in accordance with the course of study followed in the schools. The following are some of the groups:

Food Products, comprising the cereals in the plant and the grain, and their products; coffee, tea, sugar, cacao, in the various stages of production; spices, etc.

Materials for Clothing. The various animal and vegetable fibers of the world, and the fabrics made of them.

Tree Products.-Domestic and foreign woods; rubber, gutta percha, camphor, cork, etc., in all stages of preparation; materials for dyeing and tanning, etc.

Industrial Products showing the various stages in the manufacture of glass, paper, leather, ink, pen, pencil, needle, etc., besides such products as are made from the materials mentioned in the former groups.

Articles and models illustrating the life and occupations of the different peoples of the world; such as implements, wearing apparel, models of houses, industrial products, etc.

The Animal World, mounted and dried specimens, and specimens in alcohol.

Plants, and models and charts of plants..

Minerals, rocks, and ores.

Apparatus for the illustration of physics and physical geography.
Musical and literary records for phonographs.

Charts, colored pictures, maps, and objects illustrating history.

Charts illustrating astronomy.

Charts illustrating physiology.

Collections of art objects, and models used by the classes in drawing. Classified collections of photographs, stereoscopic pictures, and lantern slides to accompany the objects in the preceding groups.

These groups are subdivided into smaller sections, or collections of from 4 to 8 objects, each of which represents a class or family of the group, as, for instance, in the case of birds, collections of wading birds, of owls, of finches, etc. Each collection is accompanied by a number of photographs, sterescopic pictures, and lantern slides.

The collections are numbered and listed in the museum catalogue. With each article mentioned a brief explanation is given as to its use, where it is found, etc. At the head of each group a number of reference books are mentioned. These books are found in the teachers' library; they give information about all the specimens in the group. Copies of the catalogues are found on the desk of every teacher in the schools.

A FEW TYPICAL GROUPS AND COLLECTIONS.

The following extract from the printed catalogue will show the principle according to which the material is arranged:

MATERIAL FOR CLOTHING.

Reference Books.

Chisholm-Commercial Geography.
Hanan-Textile Fibers of Commerce.
Lyde-Man and His Markets.

Toothaker-Commercial Raw Materials.

COTTON.

Collection 100.

Fibrous portion of fruit of cotton plant. Cotton most extensively used is that cultivated in the southern part of the United States, from Virginia to Texas.

1. Cotton bolls, Louisiana.

2. Cotton, unginned, Texas.

3. Cotton, ginned, Arkansas and Mexico.

4. Cotton seeds.

5. Cottonseed linters.

6. Miniature cotton bale.

Collection 101.-Cotton of Other Countries.

1. Sea-island cotton, West Indies.

2. Peruvian or kidney cotton, Peru.

3. Silk cotton obtained from the Bombax or cotton tree, Honduras and Venezuela. 4. Pods of cotton tree, Philippine Islands.

See p. 44.

Collection 102.-Other Cotton Products.

1. Cottonseed oil. Substitute for olive oil; also used for burning in lamps, soap making, and lubricating.

2. Cotton-oil cake. Used as cattle food and fertilizer.

3. Cottonseed meal.

4. Cottonseed meal.

Ground cottonseed cake.
Cattle food.

5. Cottonseed-oil soap and soap powder.

6. Cottolene. Cooking fat obtained from cottonseed oil.

7. Varieties of paper made from cotton stalks. The bark is separated from the stalk, carded, and heckled, and changed into a pulp from which paper is made.

Collection 103.-Manufacture of Cotton.

Glass case showing the various stages of manufacture of cotton goods.

Collection 55.-Paper Made from Cotton Stalks.

Varieties of paper made from cotton stalks. The bark is separated from the stalk, carded and heckled, and changed into a pulp from which paper is made.

Collection 56.

Implements used in the manufacture of cotton in the Philippine Islands: (1) Model of cotton crusher; (2) model of spooling apparatus.

Illustrations of cotton and cotton industry.

Collections.

104. Stereoscopic views. Cotton industry of various countries.

105. Cotton industry-Fifteen copies of one view-"Cotton pickers in the field.” 106. Cotton industry-Fifteen copies of one view-"Cotton on the levee-New Orleans."

By means of the cotton exhibit the children are taken to the cotton fields, where they study the plant, the method of preparing the soil, the harvesting; to the cotton gin, where the seed is separated from the lint; to the markets to see the baling and shipping; to the large cotton factories where the lint is spun and woven into fabrics; and to the refineries to learn how cottonseed oil, oil cake, cottolene, and soap are made. How busy and successful human genius has been in devising more adequate contrivances to produce better fabrics and to supply the demands of the world for cotton goods more rapidly is shown by a comparison of the primitive and crude implements used by the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands with the magnificent machinery in the large eastern factories as represented by the stereoscope and lantern slides.

Additional illustrations of the cotton industry are offered by a well-selected collection of lantern slides. These slides may be used to great advantage when cotton raising is discussed in connection with the geography of the Southern States and the cotton industry