52 Report of the President 



A summary of the lectures is given in the following table: 



Number of 



Lectures Attendance 



46 Regular lectures to school children in the Museum 



Auditorium 23,981 



13 Special lectures to school children in the Museum 



Auditorium 3,228 



6 Lectures to High School students during Regents' 



Weeks in the Museum 3,020 



3 Lectures to students from the Training Schools for 



Teachers in the Museum 461 



4 Lectures in cooperation with the School Garden 



Association in the Museum, by Mr. Van Evrie 



Kilpatrick 1,976 



5 Lectures to Boy Scouts in the Museum 1,083 



1 Lecture to Private Schools in the Museum 200 



8 Lectures to Members of the Museum 4,679 



8 Lectures to Children of Members of the Museum . . . 9,840 



25 Lectures by Teachers in the small lecture halls of 



the Museum 1,575 



3 Other lectures in the Museum, not listed above 131 



10 Lectures at Washington Irving High School 10,700 



14 Lectures at P. S. 64, Manhattan 12,600 



19 Lectures at P. S. 42, Bronx 7,450 



13 Lectures to Schools outside of the Museum, not 



listed above 7,835 



6 Lectures at Fox Hills Hospital 4,250 



1 Lecture at New York Botanical Garden 150 



1 Lecture before Parents' and Teachers' Association . . 300 



186 Total attendance 93,459 



The attendance at the lectures to school children given in 

 the Museum was lower than usual. This was without doubt 

 due largely to the great amount of time spent by the schools 

 during the autumn upon the America's Making Pageant. 



Acknowledgment should be made here to the generous 

 help in the lecture work that was given by various members of 

 other departments of the Museum. 



The most striking growth in any activity of the Depart- 

 ment was in the loan of lantern slides to the 

 Lantern Slides P UDnc schools. This is graphically shown in 

 the following table of comparative statistics: 



Total Number of Borrowers 



Total Number of Loans 



Total Number of Slides Lent 



Number of Public Schools Borrowing 



Number of Loans to Public Schools 



Number of Slides lent to Public Schools 



This growth is significant, as it emphasizes the great im- 

 portance of visual instruction as a method of education. 



1919 



1920 



1921 



164 



235 



295 



1,470 



2,435 



3,963 



80,468 



138,133 



209,451 



92 



154 



182 



1,032 



1,933 



3,187 



58,107 



116,342 



175,272 



