New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-04
OBJECT LESSONS FOR SCHOOLS.
THE DEYROLLE SCHOLARS MUSEUM on
EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTE.

THE DEYROLLE SCHOLARS MUSEUM ON
EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTE.
The Brooklyn Institute has secured for exhibition
y, the Bedford Park Chldren's Museum the first
example Of the French Scholars Museum I'M
ported into this country. The French people nave
carried their elementary school system to high
degree OF excellence. The late NJ Emile Deyrolle
was the inventor of the museum His Musee
Scholaire" Of which the institute now possesses
the first ins,alment. is. In brief, pictorial ana
material epitome of this busy world OF the
KINGDOMS of nature and the l.fe OF the race Inc
servants Of man in the arts and sciences ana 'he
thousandfold devices by which our species mas
triunphed over brute matter In moulding the WORM
TO iis use are here concisely set forth
white the museum has been wonderfully popular
Ia France II has been almost unheard of in Anglo
Saxon countries The main purpose OF the H.
stitute in importing It is not so much on account
Of the direct good that children IN the local schoos
will receive from frequent visits 10 Bedford PARK
though this will be considerable. as 10 enforce the
lesson that each school building ought to have
some such equipment of its own. In France thirty
thousand schools are thus provided. The MINISTRY
of Public instruction yearly distributes thousahu
Of the museums among ne RCGTe set forth is de-
sired and the children are allowed freely 10 hahoie
and examine the specimens .,oo.,or xrere
received at the museum p9ncing, a"G ,oodyeSr ex
I'VE have mere" said ne, "a first instalneht OF
the Childs Museum OF Emile Deyrohe. designed ioT
use in elementary schools. IT consists, nFst, OF
a series of l43 cartoons illustrating the CHIEF facts
Of natural history, agriculture me IecHlcaI iiIuTs
tries the history Of the earth. the rocks and MIN
erals, the useful and harmful plants and animals.
and so on In each instance there is a picture OF
the animal plant or mineral. and a descrlptio ION
,brougb which the raw material has passed In the
processes OF manufacture. The firm OF VI. De!-
roles Sons has also sent US TWO small sc I
museums for the use Of schools one 10 cost sl9 ana
chd's herbarium in twenty-five examples OF
pressed flowers. about the same number OF minerals;
Several small stuffed animals and fifteen types OF
moths butterflies and other insect life The 81
museum offers larger natural objects and many
value In the schoolroom They Will be exhibited
al Bedford Park to show how much can be done 10
equip school Win ite d rnnS Of ,n,eras, IN the
stories told by the cartoons. Children taught
the difference between plants useful Tor 1000 those
ornamental and those poisonous. Inc 1909 lnous-
tries are taken up in minute detail Tor cotee Tea
sugar bread and score Of other common articles
OF diet. there are. first, the bush tree or plant
next the raw grain fruit. following that the re-
suits of the processes Of grinding. pressing. baking
refining crystallizrg. as the case may De. In
the still more instructive processes Of manufacture
ing cloth or paper. the child handles the original
flax wool or cotton Carding. spinning and weav-
OF finished and unfinished cloth shown. III leather
is considered the PUBL learns wnether IN ma ma
hog or the sheep. The shaving OF the tur from me
hide the bark used in tanning and the modes OF
finishing morocco and other hne and coarse feathers
An idea OF the completeness with which the col
lectons are made may be had from the following
figures: Number of colored plates; 500; numbeer
of natural specimens 100. Natural size Is uniformly
This condition are excluded Professor Goodyear
stated 10 the reporters that the compete Muses
scholaire issued by the Deyroe people Sn rs "a me-
institute could secure il In its entirety. The ex-
hibit Is open 20 the public on the basement noor
in the geographical room or the MUSEUM builulhs
in the Eastern Parkway.