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The Board of Education renewed its special grant for the 

 lending of slides to teachers and this work has been con- 

 tinued throughout the year. The details of 

 Lending of distribution have been efficiently managed by 

 SHdes rn Miss Helen W - Russell, Miss Dorothy Van Vliet 



and Miss Grace E. Fisher. Naturally, it is only 

 those schools that are equipped with lanterns and rooms that 

 can be darkened which can make the most effective use of this 

 material. In spite of this fact, 92 schools have been regularly 

 supplied throughout the year. The systematic use of the slides 

 is indicated by the number of times a school borrows them. 

 While the average number of loans per school is 11, the maxi- 

 mum of loans for a school was 143, P. S. No. 168, Manhattan, 

 holding the record. A further fact of interest has been empha- 

 sized by the work of the year, namely, that teachers find the 

 Lecture Sets with Manuscripts more useful than the general 

 slide collections. More than 53% of the slides lent are in 

 these sets. Six new subjects have been added recently to the 

 series, namely, 



Set 21 — The History of our Country's Transportation, by 



Ann E. Thomas 

 Set 22 — Through the Brazilian Wilderness with Colonel 



Roosevelt, by Geo. K. Cherrie 

 Set 23 — Camera Hunting for Whales, by Roy C. Andrews 

 Set 24 — The Search for Crocker Land, by Donald B. 



MacMillan 

 Set 25— Life in North Greenland, by Donald B. MacMillan 

 Set 26 — Bird Life on an Antarctic Island, by Robert C. 



Murphy 



The Lecture Set 3 — Our Forests and Their Uses, by Geo. 

 H. Sherwood, has been expanded and divided into two parts, 

 namely, 



Part 1, Set 3A — Our Forests and Their Uses — Forests and 

 Methods of Lumbering 



Part 2, Set 3B — Forest Uses and Products — Forest Pro- 

 tection and Conservation. 



