14 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
the globe representing the sun which correspond to the radii of 
their orbits. With a sun of the diameter chosen, it is possible 
to get only Mercury, Venus and the Earth into the foyer, which 
is 112 feet across. Mars is in the West Corridor and Jupiter is 
at the extreme end of the Wood Hall, 233 feet distant. The 
orbits of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are so great that they 
cannot be gotten into the building on the scale selected for the 
sun. The light for Saturn would have to be placed out in the 
avenue, while that for Uranus would be twice as far away and 
that for Neptune would be more than a quarter of a mile from 
the sun’s globe in the foyer, or nearly half-way across Central 
Park. 
ACTING upon the request made by the New York City Teach- 
ers’ Association, the Museum arranged a series of informal lec- 
tures for school children, which have been given by members of 
the scientific staff of the Museum on Monday, Wednesday and 
Friday afternoons during October, November and December. 
The subjects were selected by the Committee on Children’s In- 
terests of the Association, with the purpose of supplementing the 
regular class-room work. There were twelve lectures in all, each 
of which was given three times, covering topics in geography, 
history, astronomy and physiology, and they were given accord- 
ing to the schedule to be found on a succeeding page. At first 
it was believed that one of our small assembly rooms would be 
sufficient to accommodate the classes, but this proved entirely 
inadequate, and the lectures were adjourned to the large audi- 
torium. The lectures have proved so popular that the auditor- 
ium has been filled to overflowing, and, in order to accommodate 
all the pupils who wished to attend the course, the Museum has 
given extra lectures on some of the topics. The children attend 
in classes, accompanied by their teachers. From twenty to 
thirty schools have been represented at each lecture, with from 
ten to two hundred pupils present from each. Classes have 
attended from schools from upper Manhattan and the Bronx, 
the lower East Side, Long Island City, Brooklyn and Staten 
Island. From October 1 to December 1, more than 20,000 
children attended the lectures. The teachers have been warm 
