Attendance 41 



Reports of the Director and Curators 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



Frederic A. Lucas 



For the first time in the history of the Museum, the attend- 

 ance has reached the million mark, again illustrating the point 

 that the best way to gain attendance is to have 

 something worth while for the visitor to see. 

 Credit, however, should be given to the weather for a part of 

 the attendance, the fine mild months of January and February 

 having much to do in bringing to the Museum the phenomenal 

 number of 132,589 and 101,452 visitors, a gain over the pre- 

 ceding year of respectively 60,796 and 24,698, the January at- 

 tendance being practically double the number that ever came 

 before during that month. 



As a slight offset to this was the drop in June, caused by the 

 continued moist heat which sent multitudes to the country and 

 sea beaches and kept others in the seclusion of their homes. 



The small influence on attendance of special exhibitions that 

 do not appeal to the general public is indicated by the fact that 

 the number of visitors during October, when the Eugenics Ex- 

 hibition was open, was but 12,000 greater than in 1920, an in- 

 crease that might have occurred under ordinary conditions. 



STATISTICS OF NUMBERS REACHED BY THE MUSEUM AND ITS 

 EXTENSION EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 



1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 



Board of Education Lectures 32,790 21,624 1,191 17,632 27,362 



Lectures to School Children 

 and Classes visiting the 



Museum for Study 57,463 21,484 35,221 57,627 51,133 



Meetings of Scientific So- 

 cieties and Other Meetings 



and Lectures 25,549 20,928 21,475 25,491 34,206 



Total 115,802 v 64,036 57,887 100,750 112,701 



Attendance in Exhibition 



Halls 786,151 627,302 810,575 937,265 1,061,696 



Total Attendance for 



all Purposes 901,953 691,338 868,462 1,038,015 1,174,3.97 



Lectures to Pupils in Local 



Centers 38,525 19,575 25,575 33,761 30,750 



Numbers reached by Circu- 

 lating Collections 1,104,456 817,610 955,438 1,312,487 1,247,515 



Grand Total 2,044,934 1,528,523 1,849,475 2,384,263 2,452,662 



