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Report of the President 



Statistics 



Relating to the Circulating Collections 





1905 



1906 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



Number of Collec- ) 

 tions in use ) 



400 



435 



450 



484 



435 



390 



512 



Number of Schools ) 

















of Greater New > 



York supplied. . . ) 



Number of Pupils ) 



200 



300 



325 



383 



419 



334 



486 



studying the Col- > 

 lections ) 



375,ooo 



800,000 



725,000 



575,8oi 



922,512 



839,089 



1,253,435 



The department has continued to supply various branch 

 libraries of the City, as requested by Miss Annie Carroll 

 Moore, the Supervisor of the Children's Rooms of the Libraries. 

 These collections have been largely ethnological, representing 

 the culture of the Indians, Eskimo, Chinese, Japanese, 

 Koreans and Africans, and have been useful in stimulating 

 the children to read good books pertaining to these people. 



Lectures to School Children. — Two courses of eighteen 

 lectures each have been given to school children during 

 the year. These lectures are fully illustrated with lantern 

 slides and in some instances with moving pictures, and are 

 of material assistance to teachers in their geography and 

 history courses. The total attendance for the two series of 

 lectures was 22,797 pupils. In this connection we wish to 

 acknowledge the generosity of Mr. Theodore A. Price in loan- 

 ing a moving picture film illustrating the cotton industry. 

 Many special lectures have also been given by the instructors 

 and members of the scientific staff, and the teachers them- 

 selves have made extensive use of our series of lantern slides. 



A fund has recently been given by Mr. Henry Phipps for 

 the purpose of supplying carfare to children who, without this 

 aid, are unable to come to the Museum. 



General Lectures. — In addition to the informal lectures 

 to children, the usual general lectures have been given. 

 These include a spring and a fall course to Members of the 



