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courses of lectures in the other boroughs have been established on the 

 request of the school authorities and made part of the school work. In 

 connection with our lectures the attendance is entirely voluntary on the 

 part of the children, and the relatively large attendance possesses, in con- 

 sequence, a peculiar significance. No special records have been kept this 

 year to show from which schools the attendance is drawn, but a test 

 record, kept during the entire season of 1912-1913, shows the following 

 schools: 13, 14, IS, 16, 17, 18, 29, 34, St. Peter's Academy, School of the 

 Immaculate Conception, St. John de la Salle, Curtis High School, and the 

 Staten Island Academy. The familiarity gained with the faces of these 

 children during the year when the records were kept makes it possible to 

 estimate that these schools were all represented during the present year, 

 and we have had also several classes from schools 3 and 4, located at 

 Kreischerville and Huguenot. 



Museum Extension Work 



In addition to the lectures delivered at the Museum the members of the 

 staff have freely given their services in the cause of public education 

 whenever called upon to do so. Personally I have had the privilege of 

 addressing two audiences at the parish house of the Unitarian Church on 

 Clinton Avenue, New Brighton, on the topic Some Celebreties Who Have 

 Lived on Staten Island, and I also gave an illustrated lecture before the 

 Great Kill Association on The Selection, Planting, and Protection of 

 Trees. Mr. Cleaves has been untiring in his missionary work on behalf 

 of our wild birds, having lectured on the subject at Tottenville, Rossville, 

 Prince's Bay, Huguenot, Richmond, Westerleigh, and New Brighton. Mr. 

 Cleaves also gave a course of four bird lectures in connection with the 

 Department of Education, in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx; 

 one lecture at Little Falls, N. J., and one at Washington, D. C. 



In connection with topics of general scientific interest may be mentioned 

 the lectures given by me in the regular Saturday afternoon courses at the 

 New York Botanical Garden, on Swamps, Ancient and Modern; The 

 Mammoth Trees of California; and The Fossil Forests of Arizona; and 

 one on The Ancient (Prehistoric) and Modern Geography and Geology 

 of New York City, before the Patria Club of New York. 



All such activities on the part of the museum staff tend to make the 

 Association more widely known and are of value to us for that reason. 



Another important line of museum extension work is that accomplished 

 in connection with the Boy Scouts. The museum troop of Boy Scouts, 

 under the leadership of Mr. Charles L. Pollard, has an enrolled member- 

 ship of sixteen first-class and eight second-class scouts, and eleven tender- 

 feet; and it is of interest to note that this troop contains more first-class 

 scouts than any other in New York City, according to a report transmitted 

 at my request by Mr. Pollard, and that when the merit badges, now worn 

 by the members of the troop, are formally conferred next month, it will 

 have to its credit many more such badges than any other local troop. 



