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Courses of lectures for school children, planned to supple- 

 ment the regular school work, were given during the spring 



and autumn. For a number of years, the lee- 

 Lectures to tures to school children, which have been given 



in the Museum auditorium, have consisted of 

 four courses in the spring and four courses in the autumn. A 

 change was made this year in the autumn courses. Instead of 

 four lectures a week, the same number of lectures was given, 

 but they were arranged in two courses a week. Since it is a 

 serious undertaking for a teacher to conduct a class to the 

 Museum for a lecture and home during the rush hour, it was 

 thought that teachers and pupils could attend a greater number 

 of the lectures of the entire series if they did not occur so fre- 

 quently. 



Following is a summary of the Lecture Courses given during 



I 9 l 7 : Number 



of 

 Lectures Attendance 



Lectures to School Children Given in the 

 Museum 73 40,798 



Lectures to School Children Given Outside 

 the Museum 30 38,525 



Total Lectures to School Children 103 79,323 



Lectures to Members of the Museum 8 8,557 



Lectures to Children of Members 8 4,916 



In addition to the above series, there have been held in the 

 Museum, lectures under the auspices of the City Department 

 of Education, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation 

 Society, the New York Academy of Sciences and Affiliated 

 Societies. 



Twice a year, during Regents' Week in January and again 

 in June, biology classes from various high schools of Greater 



New York come to the Museum with their 

 Cooperation with teachers for lectures and for definite labora- 

 and Teachers t0I T wor k i* 1 the exhibition halls. During the 



year, pupils from nine high schools were repre- 

 sented, and laboratory work was done with Habitat Groups of 

 North American Birds, North American Forestry, Public 



