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tention to the educational value of the various exhibits, and 

 then, when time permits, the class is taken into the lecture 

 hall and shown moving pictures or stereopticon slides il- 

 lustrative of some of the exhibits. 



The visits by schools in the year have been as follows: 



Schools of San Francisco 



Number of classes 280 



Number of teachers with the classes 270 



Number of pupils 19920 



Schools outside of San Francisco 



Number of classes 26 



Number of teachers with the classes 18 



Number of pupils 444 



Total number of classes 306 



Total number of teachers 288 



Total number of pupils 10364 



THE PAN-PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS 



Under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union, the First 

 Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress met at Honolulu x\ugust 2 

 to 21. The Director of the Museum attended the Congress, 

 as a member of the Pacific Explorations Committee of the 

 National Research Council and representing also the Califor- 

 nia Academy of Sciences and the Pacific Division of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. He 

 sailed from San Francisco July 28 and returned September 

 8. August 3 to September 1 were spent attending the ses- 

 sions of the Congress and visiting places of interest on the 

 islands of Oahu and Hawaii. 



The number of delegates and others in attendance upon 

 the sessions of the Congress was more than 100. There were 

 present delegates from New Zealand, Australia, the Philip- 

 pines, China, Japan, Canada, England, and the United States, 

 many of those from the United States representing various 

 scientific bureaus of the Government. 



The papers and discussions at the sessions of the Congress 

 covered many phases of the geology, meteorology, and natural 

 history of the Pacific and its contained islands, and it was 

 clearly shown that much of importance remains to be learned 



