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the teachers about the collection of slides which the Museum 

 delivers free of charge to the public schools. 



Another important feature of the work is the beginning 

 made in cooperation with the English Department of the 

 New York Training School for Teachers and the Domestic 

 Science teachers of the public schools toward the preparation 

 of slides following an outline of the work in their courses of 

 study. It is hoped that this is a start made in the prepara- 

 tion of a series of "Lantern Slide Handbooks" which will 

 eventually cover the courses of study in the various school 

 subjects, such as Geography, History, Biology, Civics, 

 Domestic Science, and English. 



Twice a year, large classes of students are graduated from 

 the New York Training School for Teachers and from the 



Maxwell (Brooklyn) Training School for 

 The Training Teachers, nearly every member of which goes 

 _, , directly into the school system of Greater New 



York. So, just preceding each commencement, 

 a reception is given at the Museum by the Department of 

 Public Education to the graduating class of each of these 

 schools. The class is given a talk on the Museum's work 

 with the schools and is shown sample lantern slides and two 

 or three reels of educational motion pictures. A tour of the 

 Museum is then made, especially through the Department 

 of Public Education. 



The value of these receptions can hardly be overestimated, 

 for they bring to the Museum these student teachers, who 

 are just ready to enter the schools, and familiarize them with 

 our work and with the ease with which this cooperation 

 may be established, and this at the time they are forming 

 their habits of teaching. 



The nature study collections, which have been lent to the 

 schools for many years, have reached more 



Conections^ pUpils during 1921 than dttring the P recedin g 

 year. The following statistics show the growth 



of this work during the past five years : 



