Report of the President. 3 3 



The Attendance. — On several occasions during the year, 

 the attendance has been such as to tax our resources. The 

 largest daily attendance during the history of the Museum 

 was recorded on February 23, when 7,470 visitors entered the 

 building. The total lecture attendance was 76,779. The 

 number of scholars visiting the Museum for purposes of study 

 has risen from 5,000 in 1902 to 7,032 in 1903, and the number 

 of teachers accompanied by students, i. e., the number of 

 formal classes meeting at the Museum has risen from 317 to 

 430. This is largely due to the effort that has been made to 

 bring the Museum into active co-operation with the teachers 

 of the City and to provide according to their requests. The 

 total attendance for the year was 388,090. 



Associated Societies and Organizations. — The Museum 

 from year to year is becoming more and more a place for the 

 meeting of men interested in science and education. The 

 following organizations have held meetings during the year, 

 and frequently have offered scientific programmes sufficiently 

 attractive to fill the assembly rooms to overflowing: 



The New York Academy of Sciences. 



(Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry ; Biology ; Geology and 

 Mineralogy; Anthropology and Psychology.) 



The Linneean Society of New York. 



The New York Entomological Society. 



The New York Mineralogical Club. 



Audubon Society. 



New York Historical Society. 



American Ethnological Society. 



American Institute of Mining Engineers. 



West Side Natural History Society. 



New York Council of the Sequoya League. 



National Indian Association. 



Prof. H. F. Osborn's class in Palaeontology. 



Prof. M. H. Saville's class in Archaeology. 



Dr. J. E. Peabody's class in Zoology. 



Dr. Clark Wissler's class in Ethnology. 



Lectures. — The courses of lectures to teachers, provided 

 for by a grant from the State, were continued, and Professor 

 Bickmore delivered the following: 



