WHAT MATERIAL MAY BE ORDERED FOR THE STUDY OF SOME OF THE COUNTRIES. Hundreds of large colored charts help to make facts, conditions, and scenes in geography and history more real and lifelike. As examples of what the teachers may order from the museum to illustrate the work in geography, the following exhibits may serve: Food Products.... Fibers.... Woods... Tree Products... Medicinal plants.... Birds...... FIG. 27.-Harbor of Hamburg. MEXICO. .Sugar, coffee, black frijoles, tea, cocoa, vanilla, lentils, alfalfa. Jute, agave, sisal fibers. .Mahogany, ebony, rosewood, logwood, mora, laurel, guava. Jalap, cascarilla, and others. .Motmot, Mexican trogon, coppery tailed trogon, toucan and others. Minerals, Rocks, and Ores..Silver, gold, copper, iron, lead, tin, onyx, cinnabar, asphalt. Sponges. Mexican Life and History..Home implements, articles of dress and ornamentation implements of war, idols. Industrial Products.. Photographs..... Food Products.... Fibers..... Tree Products.... Pottery, vases, feather work, models of people following various occupations. ...Stereoscopic views and lantern slides. BRAZIL. ..Coffee, cacao, sugar, vanilla, mate tea, cassava, ginger, algarroba, attalea, and para nuts. . Cotton, piassava and agave fibers. ..Rubber, copal, ipecac. Woods. Insects..... Reptiles..... Food products.... Fibers and grasses.. FIG. 28.-The steppes of Russia. .Brazil wood, peroba, palisander, Palo d'Arco, guarabu. .Resplendent trogon, green trogon, parrots, yellow-throated toucan, pitta or ant thrush, chachalaca, and others. Lanternfly, hercules beetle, Brazilian bee, giant walking stick, Coligo or owl butterfly, blue morpho, white morpho, thysania agrippina. Iguana, basilisk. .Giant toad. Large colored chart-The tropical forest, photographs, stereoscopic views and lantern slides. JAPAN. Rice, tea, spices. .Silk, jute, hemp, ramie, bamboo. .Camphor. .Sugi or Japanese cedar, Japanese hemlock, Kirni or iron wood. Birds.. Minerals... Sponges.. Education.. Life in Japan.. Green barbet, rose-ringed parakeet, Paradise fly catcher, Myna or crested starling, Drongo, gold bunting, rose and green finch, blue babbler, and others. Iron, copper, antimony. Venus flower basket, glass rope sponge. Various articles of clothing worn by Japanese men, women, and children. School work of Japanese children; written compositions, drawings, and domestic art work; 143 large photographs showing school life in Japan. Photographs, stereoscopes, and lantern slides. PHYSICS. (A few collections for the illustrations of elementary physics in the Seventh and Eighth grades.) Collection 1507.-The Lever and Its Uses. Apparatus: Simple lever, fitted with two weights. Test by putting weights at different distances, so as to balance in each. Prove that if load is farther from pivot (fulcrum), power must also be farther. Also, the contrary. Tell pupils several uses of lever, such as crowbar, scissors, poker, the forearm, etc. Collection 1520.-Solid Expansion by Heat. Apparatus: Copper ball and ring, alcohol lamp or Bunsen burner. Test cold ball and ring. Show that ball passes through ring. Now heat ball over lamp. Note how hot ball will no longer pass through cold ring. Why so? What has happened to ball? Plunge ball into water to cool. Wipe dry. Now heat ring. Show that hot ring is a loose fit to ball. Why? Ask children if they have seen blacksmith put tire on wagon wheel. If so, get some one to tell how it was done. Collection 1549.-Lifting Pump. Apparatus: Lifting pump, tumbler of water. Let pupils see the parts-suction pipe, cylinder, piston, piston rod and handle, suction valve, piston valve, spout. Ask them to watch working of pump, when suction pipe is put into tumbler and two or three strokes are made. Let some explain the use of each part. Can the pupils tell when the suction valve opens? Why? What is its use? When the piston valve opens? Why? What is its use? For the illustration of elementary physics in the seventh and eighth grades the museum furnishes the schools the necessary apparatus. Iron, copper, and platinum wire, glass tubes, alcohol lamps and Bunsen burners, microscopes, sonometers, organ pipes, magnets, dry batteries, force and lifting pumps, air pumps, steam engines, etc., are sent to the schools upon requisition of the principal. The catalogue gives descriptions of easy experiments to be performed by the pupils. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS-MANUFACTURE OF VARIOUS ARTICLES. Reference Books. Chamberlain-How We Are Sheltered. Clifford-Everyday Occupations. Lewis Modern Industries. Patton-The Teacher's Aid. CORK. Outer bark of the cork oak found in southern Europe and northern Africa. Used for stoppers for bottles and casks, for artificial limbs, for inner soles of shoes, for floats of nets, etc. Collection 195.-Cork Bark. 1. Cork bark in natural roughness, Portugal. 2. Cork ready for the market, Portugal. 3. Cork strips, Portugal. Collection 196.-Processes Showing Manufacture of Cork Products. Cork punching; cork tapering; cork gluing; handcut cork: split cork. FIG. 29.-The cooper's shop. One of a series of charts showing various industries. Collection 197.-Cork Products. Cork paper; cork wood; cork caps and stoppers; cork fish bobbers; cork seine; model of sheet-cork insulation; cork handle; cork soles. Collection 198.-Cork. Case showing the development of cork products. INK, PENS, NEEDLES, PENCILS, SHOES. Collection 1471.-Manufacture of Ink. Glass case showing the different processes in the manufacture of ink. |