Lectures for School Children 



57 



The complete statistics of the Circulating Collections in Public 

 Schools for the year are given below : 



1 1915 



1 

 1 



1 

 1916 1917 



1918 



1919 



Number of Col- ) 

 lections in 

 Use J 



Number of Schools ) 

 in Greater New [ 

 York Supplied. . J 



Number of Pupils ] 

 studying Collec- }• 

 tions J 



671 



473 



1.238,581 



704 | 712 



439 1 446 



1,118,322 1 1,075,076 



1 

 1 



629 



419 

 790.346 



668 



385 

 860,992 



In accordance with the agreement with the Board of Edu- 

 cation, full courses of lectures were given during the spring 

 , and fall, both at the Museum and in the Local 



Lectures for 



School Lecture Centers. Several lectures were also 



Children given at certain schools, while during Regents' 



Week, in January and in June, large numbers of high school 

 students from Morris High, Evander Childs, and Washington 

 Irving High School attended special lectures at the Museum, 

 which were followed by laboratory work in the exhibition halls. 

 The lectures dealt principally with geographical, historical or 

 industrial topics, and were especially adapted to the groups ad- 

 dressed. Several members of the Museum Staff have kindly 

 participated in the delivery of these lectures, their special 

 familiarity with the subjects thus increasing the interest of the 

 pupils. The lectures given at the Museum number 57 and the 

 attendance was 23,587, while 33 lectures were given in the 

 schools in which 25,575 children were reached. Thus, all 

 together 90 lectures have been given during the year, at which 

 the total attendance was 49,162 pupils. 



In addition to the lecture work for the schools, the usual 

 courses of lectures to Members on Thursday evenings and the 

 Science Stories for Children of Members on Saturday morn- 

 ings have been arranged. 



