Lectures for School Children 51 



1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 



Number of Collections 

 in Use 712 629 668 887 869 



Number of Schools in 

 Greater New York 

 Supplied 446 419 385 448 477 



Number of Pupils „ m m 



Studying Collections 1,075,076 790,346 860,992 1,176,055 1,247,515 



Many special collections of mounted birds, small mam- 

 mals, butterflies, moths, beetles, shells, etc., 

 Collections h ave b een i en ^ to the various classes in art and 

 ° r r design, which are under the supervision of Dr. 



James P. Haney. These specimens have been 

 in constant use, and the demand for this material is greater 

 than we have been able to supply. 



In 1921, forty-six regular lectures were given for school 



children in the Museum auditorium, arranged in four courses 



in the spring and four courses in the autumn. 



Lectures These were planned to supplement the class- 



for School , r ,, , , i . 



„,.,, room work of the teacher, one course being on 



Children . . * 



the Early History of America, one on the Geo- 

 graphy and Industries of the United States, one on the Geo- 

 graphy of Foreign Countries, and one on Natural History. 

 These lectures are given after school hours, and the attend- 

 ance is optional. 



Besides these lectures of the regular courses, nineteen other 

 lectures were given to school children in the Museum auditorium. 

 Six of these were given during Regents' Weeks to groups of 

 High School students, who came to the Museum not only for 

 the lectures, but also to do laboratory or indoor field work in 

 one or more of the exhibition halls. 



During the year the Museum has given lectures to school 

 children in three centers outside the Museum auditorium: 

 one at Washington Irving High v School, in cooperation with 

 Miss Florence W. Slater, for the children from the ele- 

 mentary schools of the neighborhood ; one at Public School 

 No. 64, Manhattan, in cooperation with Mr. Louis A. Marks, 

 Principal; and one at Public School No. 42, Bronx, in co- 

 operation with Mr. Eugene B. Gartlan, Principal. 



