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Attendance. — The number of visitors to the Museum 

 during 1904 was 402,449 — a considerable increase over that 

 of previous years. The number of pupils from the schools, 

 public and private, increased from 7,032 in 1903 to 42,380 in 

 1904, a gain of about 600 per cent. This is largely the 

 result of the establishment of new and more intimate relations 

 between the Museum and the Public Schools. Members of 

 the scientific staff have been detailed to give lectures espe- 

 cially prepared for the school children. These have been 

 attended by fully 35,000 pupils. As stated elsewhere in this 

 report, the Museum has kept in circulation among the schools 

 about 140 small collections of natural history specimens, thus 

 still further extending the educational work of the Museum 

 among the Public Schools. 



The number of visitors on holidays is often so great as to 

 tax our resources for their management and accommodation. 

 The attendance at the meetings of the scientific societies held 

 in the Museum has been over 1700; at public lectures, about 

 44,000, besides the 35,000 present at lectures given to school 

 children. 



Associated Societies and Organizations. — As already 

 noted on an earlier page of this report, two small assembly 

 rooms were fitted up early in the year for the use of the 

 scientific societies which have sought affiliations with the 

 Museum, and also for use as small lecture halls. The follow- 

 ing societies and classes have shared the hospitality of the 

 Museum during the past year: 



New York Academy of Sciences. 



New York Entomological Society. 



Linnsean Society of New York. 



New York Mineralogical Club. 



West Side Natural History Society. 



American Ethnological Society. 



Sequoya League. 



Audubon Society of the State of New York. 



Eighth International Geographic Congress. 



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



Dr. Clark Wissler's class in Anthropology. 



Mr. Julius M. Johnson's class in Nature Study. 



