Oct. 1898. Annual Report of the Director. 289 



The following is a gratifying list of the school classes (thirty pupils or 

 more) that visited the Museum during the year just closed : 



rwoil' Teachers. Pupils. 

 Ch cago — '^ 



Hyde Park High, i loi 



Hyde Park High, i 85 



North Division High, i 80 



Normal, 2 63 



Normal, ' • 2 67 



Normal, 2 67 



Normal, i 65 



Normal, '2 59 



Normal, 4 306. 



Sherwood, 2 50 



Sherwood, i 38 



D. S. Wentworth, 2 74 



D. S. Wentworth 2 51 



Mark Sheridan i 42 



Fernwood, 4 79 



Kershaw, i 36 



Graham, 2 71 



Froebel 5 no 



La Grange Public School i 39 



\'alparaiso (Ind.) Normal School, — 50 



The following comparison between the daily attendance in the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1897, and the year ending Sept. 30, 1898, will 

 be interesting: 



Increase. Decrease. 



Total attendance, 3,963 . . . 



Paid attendance, 189 . . . 



"Attendance of school children on pay days, 1,680 



Attendance of students 573 



Attendance of teachers ' . 45 • • • 



Attendance of members, 91 ... 



Average daily attendance, 1897, . . . 603 



Average daily attendance, 1898, 614 



Acknowledgments. — It is proper to acknowledge the generosity 

 and courtesy of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, the Great 

 Northern Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railroad, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, the Illinois 

 Central Railroad, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 

 transporting members of the Museum staff and material obtained on 



