Lecturer" who devotes his services to the Museum on a voluntary 

 basis to entertain large audiences on Sunday afternoons, con- 

 tinued this unique work from January to the end of April, and from 

 October to the end of the year. 



For its daily guide-lecture tours for both adults and children pre- 

 sented throughout the year (except on Sundays) the Raymond 

 Foundation instituted a number of novelties by a change in the type 

 of subjects covered, with the gratifying result that much additional 

 publicity was promoted and many exceptionally large audiences 

 were attracted to the Museum. Many special groups of adults and 

 children made use of the various facilities of the Museum including 

 the theatre, lecture hall, guide-lecture services, etc. All told, 775 

 audience groups for various events within the Museum brought an 

 aggregate attendance of 72,681, and extra-mural activities reached 

 several hundred thousand other persons. 



Raymond Foundation . . . 



The work of the Raymond Foundation continued in 1943 along 

 the lines established in 1942, namely: lectures, tours, motion pictures, 

 stories, and various combinations of programs according to the 

 interests and requests of groups of people, especially children. 



Interest has centered generally around war regions and their 

 peoples. The summer series of lectures and motion pictures, Back- 

 grounds of the War, begun in 1942, was enlarged and extended in 

 1943. Every effort was made to explain the war regions by use of 

 Museum materials and still and motion pictures. 



Nine new extension lectures were offered to the schools, along 

 with a selected group of well-established lectures. The response 

 centered primarily on three new lectures: North Africa (the people 

 and geography of the countries, as reviewed by a recent participant 

 in military action in Africa, illustrated with colored slides); Wings 

 over the World (airplane ideas gleaned from animal aviators, illus- 

 trated with still photographs and color motion pictures) ; and 

 Islands of the South Pacific (a general survey of the geography of the 

 islands and the customs of the people). 



Personnel changes, due primarily to the war, hampered Raymond 

 Foundation activities. 



Transportation problems, noted in the previous year, became 

 still more accentuated in 1943, increasing the difficulties for school 

 groups coming to the Museum for lectures, tours, and study. The 



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