We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
MUSEUMS AND THE VISUAL IDEA
Combs of hard rubber (processes of making)
Coconut (by-products)
Cereals (wheat, oats, rye, rice)
Cotton (fiber to fabric)
Jute and products
Cotton thread (manufacture)
Pyralin and products
Ivorynut (button-making-)
Linoleum (processes of making)
Mushrooms (common table variety)
Principal American hard woods
Tea (model, showing growing and preparing)
Japanese lacquer
Coffee
Nutmeg
Poison ivy
GEOLOGICAL
Coal (origin)
Ores of common metals
Plate glass and mirror making
Fossils from rocks near Chicago
Structural or mild steel
Asbestos and products
Useful minerals
Pigments
Salt (various kinds)
Graphite and products
Natural and artificial abrasives
Semi-precious stones
Fossil plants of Illinois
Hydrocarbons
Soils
Chinaware (its making)
Volcanic products
White lead (its making)
Types of common rocks
Cloisonne (its making)
Silver-plated spoon (its making)
Steel pen (its making)
Model of gold mine
Dinosaur. Trachodon (model)
Dinosaur. Triceratops (model)
ZOOLOGICAL
Little brown bat
Potato beetle
Tomato worm
Norway or house rat
Striped ground squirrel (gopher)
Burrowing crawfish
Buffalo group (model)
Bank swallow (habitat group)
Chimney swift (habitat group)
Cedar waxwing (habitat group)
Red-headed woodpecker (habitat group)
Seasonal coloration (birds)
Tiger swallow-tail moth (life history)
Luna moth (life history)
Whip-poor-will (habitat group)
Pearl button making
Sheep wool (preparation)
Leather tanning
Burying beetle
Seventeen-year cicada
Sponge
Insect galls
Dogfish
Damsel-fly
Muskrat
APPEAL OF THE DRAMATIC
Introducing the element of the dramatic into any exhibit is a certain bid for the child's interest, and a valuable means of stimulating him to find out for himself other less spectacular facts about the object
in question. Ingenious use of this appeal has been made over and over again in preparing the museum cases. The writer has seen a group of children stand spellbound before a case in which the cruel-beaked northern shrike, or butcher bird, was shown, in company with the field-mice, sparrows, grasshoppers and other unlucky victims which he had impaled on thorns or the barbs of a wire-fence. After the exhibit the child would turn to the label and read, with keen appreciation, the economic fact of the bird's importance to man through his warfare on mice and other creatures that devour crops. In similar fashion the appeal of the dramatic is utilized in reproducing the burrows of the familiar striped gopher, or "ground squirrel." A cross-section of earth is shown, giving interesting glimpses of passages leading to the warm nest underground where baby gophers are brought up in the way they should go. Alongside the summer home, and in the selfsame case, is reproduced a section of the winter house, topped by a thick layer of snow, with the little creature snugly curled up in the passageway far below, enjoying its long winter sleep. Roused to real interest by this fascinating exhibit, the child digs eagerly into the meat of the label for the facts of hibernation — later, perhaps, to add to his knowledge through outside research.
BOTANICAL NEEDS
"One of our keenest regrets," laments Dr. Simms, "is that thus far we have been unable to reproduce wild flowers that are sufficiently natural to make it worth while, and sufficiently sturdy to stand up under the rough
13