Catalogue Of The Historical Collection And Objects Of Related Interest At The Childrens Museum PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Historical Collection and Objects of Related Interest at the Children's Museum As a part of the Hudson-Fulton celebration, it was planned that some of the larger public educational institutions of New York should issue catalogues of such portions of their collections as related to the discoveries of Hudson or the inventions of Fulton. Allotments for this purpose were made by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, New York Zoological Park, New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The Central Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences contains the Tooker collections of Indian implements, illustrating the arts and industries of the Indians at the time of their discovery by Hudson, and collections of the animals and plants found in this vicinity. As the story of the Indians will be told at length in the Catalogue of the American Museum of Natural History, and the animals and plants will be described by that institution, the Zoological Park and the Botanical Garden, it seemed best to confine the publication of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to a Catalogue of the history exhibits at the Childrens Museum, the more that such a publication would have not merely a passing interest, but a lasting value as a book of reference. This catalogue has been prepared by Miss AgnesE. Bowen, who has planned and largely executed the exhibits in the Childrens Museum, and also written their very full descriptive labels. This exhibit has proved of very great interest to both children and teachers, and of great value in teaching the history of Brooklyn and its relation to the history of New York and of the country at large, and to Miss Bowen belongs the credit for the exhibits and for this catalogue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.