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Statistics of School Service 



L939 1940 

 Loan Lectures (Lantern Slides, etc.) 



No. of sets lent 38 15 



No. of teachers involved 169 28 



No. of pupils attending 12,647 1,975 



Material Supplied 



Total number of requests from schools 655 1,020 



Number of different institutions 202 310 



High Schools and High School Annexes 



Brooklyn (Total No. 48) 24 24 



Queens (Total No. 28) 9 12 



Manhattan (Total No. 53) 14 14 



Other Boroughs (Total No. 33) 11 10 



Junior High Schools (Total in Brooklyn 31) 12 8 



Colleges and Universities (Total in Brooklyn 7) . . 11 II 

 Elementary Schools 



Brooklyn (Total No. 237) 70 171 



Queens (Total No. 1 54) 8 7 



Manhattan (Total No. 135) 3 7 



Other Boroughs (Total No. 156) 7 2 



Private and Parochial Schools 15 19 



Other Institutions 18 25 



Number of potted plants for nature study 2,115 4,130 



Number of Petri dishes filled with sterilized agar. 1,002 552 



Total number of teachers supplied with material. 4,742 10,230 



Total number of pupils reached 281 ,729 448,883 



Living Plants Placed in School Rooms 



No. of schools 64 35 



No. of plants 1 ,065 588 



No. of teachers involved 2,082 1,287 



No. of pupils reached 83,915 45,264 



Plants Distributed (Raised in Classes) 36,038 40,633 



No. of persons taking plants 1 ,394 1 ,535 



Total number of schools represented 150 156 



Seed Packets for Children 



No. of schools 569 68 1 



No. of teachers 7,982 8,160 



No. of pupils 319,343 325,023 



No. of packets 958,028 975,072 



Exhibits Provided 



No. of exhibits i 9 8 



Viewed by, 110,620 152,685 



1 Not including five exhibits installed at the 1940 World's Fair, which were, 

 of course, viewed by uncounted thousands. 



