Jan. 1935 Annual Report of the Director 225 



lecture tours and meetings for adults — raymond foundation 



The services of guide-lecturers were offered, as in former years, 

 without charge, to clubs, colleges, conventions and other organiza- 

 tions, and to Museum visitors in general. Special tours were offered 

 in July and August for the benefit of those attending A Century of 

 Progress exposition. The printed monthly tour schedules were 

 placed at the main entrance for the use of visitors, and were also 

 distributed through libraries and other civic centers of the city 

 and suburbs. During the year, 153 general tours and 189 tours 

 covering specific topics were offered to the public. The adult groups 

 which took advantage of these lecture tours numbered 323, with a 

 total attendance of 7,545 individuals. Besides the regular public 

 tours, special tours were given to 47 groups from colleges, clubs, and 

 other organizations, and these were attended by 1,262 persons. 



The James Simpson Theatre was used for several meetings during 

 the year. In February, 1,050 foreign-born adults attended a program 

 given by the Board of Education; in March, 1,250 members of the 

 Juvenile Council of the Cook County schools held an all-day session; 

 in June, the foreign-born adult commencement of the city schools 

 was held there for 582 graduates; and in October, both the Theatre 

 and the small lecture hall were used for four meetings of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, attended by 763 persons. Total attendance 

 at all seven meetings was 3,645. 



SUMMARY OF ATTENDANCE AT ENTERTAINMENTS, LECTURES, 

 TOURS, ETC. — RAYMOND FOUNDATION 



The total number of groups reached through the activities of 

 the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for Public 

 School and Children's Lectures was 1,222, and the aggregate attend- 

 ance included in these groups numbered 213,579 individuals. 



LECTURES FOR ADULTS 



The Museum's sixty-first and sixty-second courses of free 

 lectures for adults were given in the James Simpson Theatre on 

 Saturday afternoons during the spring and autumn months. They 

 were illustrated by motion pictures and stereopticon slides. Fol- 

 lowing are the programs of both courses: 



Sixty-first Free Lecture Course 



March 3 — Monarchs of the Air. 



Captain C. W. R. Knight, London, England. 

 March 10— The Passing of the Old West. 



Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, F.R.G.S., Cohasset, 

 Massachusetts. 



