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received in the Museum building itself, together with approximately 

 662,000 persons (chiefly children) reached by the outside work con- 

 ducted by the institution through the James Nelson and Anna 

 Louise Raymond Foundation for Public School and Children's 

 Lectures, and the Department of the N. W. Harris Public School 

 Extension. As always, there were further numbers impossible to 

 calculate, benefiting from the indirect influence of the Museum 

 through the media of its publications and leaflets. Field Museum 

 News, and information circulated through newspapers, magazines, 

 radio broadcasts, correspondence, etc. 



Only 99,553 persons, or approximately 5 per cent of the total 

 attendance, paid the 25-cent admission fee. All the rest, numbering 

 1,891,916, either came on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays when 

 admission is free, or belonged to those classifications to whom admis- 

 sion is free on all days — Members of the Museum, children, teachers, 

 students, etc. The highest attendance for a single day occurred on 

 Sunday, September 2, when there were 55,548 visitors. 



The extension lecturers sent by the Raymond Foundation 

 addressed 162,360 children at 428 meetings in their school classrooms 

 and assembly halls. The twenty motion picture entertainments 

 presented by the Foundation in the James Simpson Theatre were 

 attended by 27,653 children. The Foundation also conducted 404 

 guide-lecture tours of the exhibits for children, in which 14,759 

 young people participated. The total number of persons benefiting 

 from these and other activities of the Raymond Foundation, both 

 inside and outside the building, was 213,579. 



Throughout the school year the traveling natural history exhibits 

 circulated by the Department of the N. W. Harris Public School 

 Extension were available in more than 400 schools and certain other 

 institutions daily to approximately 500,000 children. Trucks from 

 the Museum deliver and collect these cases on a regular schedule. 

 This is so arranged that each public school, and numerous private 

 schools, community centers, and other institutions, are provided 

 with cases illustrating two new subjects every two weeks. 



During March and April, and October and November, the 

 Museum's annual spring and autumn courses of free illustrated 

 lectures for adults on travel and science were presented on Saturday 

 afternoons in the James Simpson Theatre. In addition, a lecture 

 especially for Members of the Museum was presented on Sunday, 

 November 25. The total attendance at the seventeen lectures was 

 24,326. Guide-lecture tours provided for groups of adults numbered 



