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of the development of the extensive relations of the Museum 

 with the educational system of the country, but particularly 

 with the public schools of New York City. The 

 Publication booklet was prepared by the Curator, assisted by 

 Education 1 ' members of the department staff, with an intro- 

 duction by President Osborn. The publication 

 also gives a resume of the educational work in 191 7 and a list 

 of the schools, colleges and other institutions throughout the 

 country which utilized the Museum in 19 17. These number 

 1,159 institutions. This publication has been sent to all the 

 schools in the city and to prominent educators of the United 

 States and abroad. 



That the Museum is a leader in the development of methods 

 of cooperation with the public school systems is emphasized by 



the attention that this work received from three 

 Opinions foreign educational missions. In October, the 



Educators British Educational Mission, of which Sir 



Arthur Shipley, Vice- Chancellor of Cambridge 

 University, is chairman, visited the Museum especially to study 

 these subjects, and members of the Mission stated that we had 

 far exceeded anything that was done in England. On a visit 

 in November, the Mission of French Scholars, of which Lieu- 

 tenant Colonel Theodore Reinach was the head, expressed 

 similar astonishment at the progress we have made. The 

 Japanese educators have also given much study to the methods 

 employed here. This appreciation from such eminent educa- 

 tors makes even more regrettable the suspension of this service 

 to the public schools because of the reduced appropriation by 

 the City. 



The greatest growth in the work of the Department has been 

 in the lending of slides to schools. This phase of cooperation 



was begun four years ago under a special grant 

 Lending of of $2,ooo.oo from the Board of Education. The 

 Slides results have fully justified the support. The first 



year, only thirty-five schools borrowed slides 

 and the number circulated was 11,929 slides. In 1918, 102 

 schools were using the slides and 72,287 were in circulation. 



