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Following is a summary of the Lecture Courses given during 

 1918: 



Lectures to School Children Given in the Lrc°tures Attendance 



Museum 31 10,343 



Lectures to School Children Given Outside 



the Museum . , , , . . . 22 19,575 



Total Lectures to School Children 53 29,918 



Lectures to Members of the Museum 8 4,805 



Lectures to Children of Members 8 8,774 



Many of the high schools make large use of the Public 

 Health Charts in their classes in physiology and hygiene, of 



the mounted birds and animals in their classes in 

 Cooperation art, and of various collections of our loan series 

 Schools m their classes in physical geography and biology. 



But twice a year, during Regents' Week in 

 January and again in June, we cooperate with several of the 

 high schools in a special way. The biology classes from these 

 schools come to the Museum with their teachers for lectures 

 and for laboratory work. The lecture is given in the Museum 

 auditorium by one of the biology teachers, or more frequently 

 by a member of the department staff. Systematically planned 

 laboratory work is done in one or more of the following halls : 

 Habitat Groups of North American Birds, Public Health, 

 Habitat Groups of Amphibians and Reptiles, Darwin Hall, 

 Insect Hall, and North American Forestry. 



The department has furnished guides to teachers and classes 

 visiting the Museum, regardless of whether they were from 



private, parochial, or public schools, and regard- 

 Docent less of whether they were from New York City 



Schools or elsewhere. Teachers have been encouraged to 



concentrate their attention at any one visit upon 

 the exhibits of a single hall, or at most, those of two halls. 



Circulating loan collections of natural history specimens and 

 of anthropological material have been in use during the year 

 in seventeen branch public libraries of the City. In the prepara- 

 tion of these the Department of Public Education has had 

 generous help from the Department of Anthropology both in 



