Report of the President 17 



It is gratifying to report that the relations between the 



Museum and various institutions for higher education in 



. . the City are steadily becoming closer and 



^ . more effective. The staff of the Department 



_ „ , of Anthropology has prepared a series of lec- 



Colleges and t \ % \. . v * _ . . _ . a . 



. . tures on the Religion ana social Organization 



of Primitive Peoples, which the students of 

 Columbia University, New York University, the College of the 

 City of New York and other institutions have been invited to 

 attend. A further plan of educational cooperation in anthro- 

 pology with Columbia University is under consideration. 

 Classes from Columbia, under the direction of William K. 

 Gregory, have met regularly at the Museum for the examina- 

 tion and study of the palaeontological and zoological collections. 

 Active cooperation with the College of the City of New York 

 exists through the work of our Curator of the Department of 

 Public Health, C.-E. A. Winslow, who is also Associate Pro- 

 fessor of Biology at the College. 



As shown in the full report of Curator Sherwood, the 

 Museum Extension System now reaches 501 schools in the 



The Public borou ^ hs of the Cit ^' and I »37 8 .599 pupils have 

 _ , , studied the Museum's circulating collections. 



Schools _. , - t1 r , . 



The total number of collections in circulation 



during the past year was 597. The number of pupils of the 



public schools who attended the regular lectures in the 



Museum was 39,352, an increase of 7,423. 



The extension of Museum instruction to the blind is pro- 

 gressing rapidly through the aid of the Jonathan Thorne 



™, ™- „ Memorial Fund. The first of a series of annual 

 The Blind , . . , .. , . . ,, 



lectures for the blind in the Museum was given 



by Rear Admiral Peary on December 18, followed by a special 



exhibition of our arctic collections. 



The general attendance shows an increase of 19,700 over 

 last year, the total being 866,663. The largest attendance is 

 k a on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and holidays. 



The evening attendance on the two days of the 

 week that the Museum is open has been very limited and 

 does not justify the expenditure it entails. 



