1882.] 7 [Annual Meeting. 



less greatly increase the public usefulness of this school, if the 

 teachers of Boston continue to manifest the same intelligent and 

 active interest as heretofore. 



Eighteen lessons have been given this winter under the title of 

 the " Lowell Free Lectures in the Teachers' School of Science." 

 Eight of these were on Physics, by Professor Cross, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; five were on Geology, by 

 Mr. W. O. Crosby, Assistant in our Museum ; and five on Physi- 

 ology, by Dr. H. P. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School; 

 all were very successful and well attended by the teachers. The 

 small size of the rooms at our disposal, though the physical lec- 

 ture room of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was 

 kindly loaned for our use, obliged us to limit the issue of tickets 

 to about four hundred. 



These were distributed as follows. 



35 to Masters of the Public Schools. 



22 to Sub-Masters of the Public Schools, 



21 to teachers who had attended 7 previous courses. 



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50 u a « a a 3 a a 



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46 to new applicants, all teachers. 



50 complimentary and scattering. 



Only about five hundred circulars were issued, all to names 

 appearing on previous applications, so that the forty-six new com- 

 ers were gained without effort on our part. 



The attendance in the series on Physics was about eighty per- 

 cent, of the tickets specially reserved for the series, in Geology 

 about seventy per cent., in Physiology ninety per cent. The 

 general average was fifty per cent. Mr. E. P. Seaver, the Super- 

 intendent of Public Schools, attended the opening of the course 

 and expressed his approval, adding the remark "that the 

 teacher was ever improving his or her teaching capacity by 

 coming to these lectures as a learner, and that the effects of the 

 lessons given in the Teachers' School of Science had been plainly 



