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service to the schools was begun in April, 191 5, and has been 

 in charge of Miss Kathryn I. Upson. Unfortunately many of 

 the schools are not equipped with an auditorium that can be 

 darkened or with projection apparatus, and the use of the 

 slides is thus necessarily restricted to relatively few schools. 

 In view of these facts, the growth of the work, as shown by the 

 following statistics, is encouraging: 



1915 1916 



Number of Loans of Slides Made 196 680 



Number of Institutions Supplied 51 93 



Number of Slides Circulated 11,929 38,912 



It is hoped that all the schools may be equipped with stere- 

 opticon lanterns at an early date, in order to avail themselves 

 of the use of these slides. 



The nature of the Museum's lectures for school children has 

 become so well known that it is necessary to say only that the 

 usual courses have been given during the year. 

 Lectures for In addition to the lectures of the regular 



in the Museum" courses, many special lectures have been given 

 to pupils of the elementary and high schools. 

 In all, 76 lectures were given in the Museum, and the total 

 attendance was 44,398. That this was somewhat below the 

 average is due in part to the infantile paralysis epidemic and 

 to inclement weather. 



The department has maintained two local lecture centers in 

 the schools, namely, at the Washington Irving High School, 



in cooperation with Miss Rosemary F. Mullen, and 

 Local in Public School 64, in cooperation with Mr. William 

 Centers ^. Grady. In addition to this, a number of lectures 



have been given by special request in other schools. 

 These lectures are repetitions of those given at the Museum. 

 The total number given outside the Museum was 38, and the 

 total attendance 37,400. The many appeals from teachers to 

 have these lectures given in their schools indicate that they 

 are of real educational value and lead us to believe that the 

 most effective expansion of the Museum educational work 

 would be the establishment of other local lecture centers. Such 



