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Northwest Pacitic Coast ; Plant and Animal Development ; as well as 

 some miscellaneous topics. Good attendance at these lectures attests 

 the appreciation by the public of these talks by the Museum stafif. 



Mention may be made of the special lectures given Wednesday and 

 Saturday afternoons, adapted to the needs of High, Technical, and 

 Grammar School pupils. The Museum also is pleased, during the cur- 

 rent season, to invite the public to a series of lectures on Gardening and 

 Animal Husbandry, put on by Officials of the Milwaukee County 

 School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy. 



In a separate class, perhaps, should be placed the Grammar School 

 Lectures to pupils in the grades from 5th to 8B, inclusive. Especially 

 designed to correlate with the school work of the particular grade 

 attending it, each lecture is supplemented by an hour in the exhibition 

 halls of the Museum during which the pupils view the exhibits pertain- 

 ing to the subject of the lecture. The 8B grade which at school is 

 studying the industrial geography of Wisconsin, is given a lecture on 

 "The Industrial History of Our State"; the 7th grade, just beginning 

 United States history, is told about "The Indians of North America" ; 

 and so on. 



While in the exhibition halls each pupil is provided with a sheet of 

 "Floor Notes" which specifies the exhibits relating to the lecture, and 

 assists him in finding them. In addition, the Museum attendants are 

 entirely at the disposal of the pupils to show them any exhibit and to 

 explain it. This sort of service is meeting with general approval. The 

 young people enjoy it ; and after learning about an exhibit, bring their 

 parents to see it the following Sunday. Teachers, especially those in 

 schools where illustrative material, either pictures or specimens, is not 

 abundant, welcome the opportunity to show their classes the Museum's 

 collections and exhibits, thus giving them correct knowledge of the 

 actual appearance of what they are studying. 



SLIDES AND FILMS 



In the schoolroom the easiest, clearest, and most readily compre- 

 hended way in which a teacher can "get across" a lesson is to "say it 

 with slides." For geography lessons particularly, lantern slides are 

 practically indispensable. Imagine the difficulty of giving a class a 

 correct idea of Argentina, for example, without slides showing the 

 pampas, the mountains, the peoples, animals, and products of the coun- 

 try. What a laborious task to make Argentina appear different from 



