enable the teachers and the pupils to utilize the time spent at 



the Museum to the best advantage, the plan was adopted in 1906 



ot providing an instructor for such classes. This instruction was 



adapted especially to children. This branch of the work has 



. . ^ ._. had a steady growth and the plan of giving 

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„ . special lectures to pupils, illustrating the facts 



brought out in the lectures by later examination 



of the collections in the exhibition halls, has developed from it. 



In some instances teachers have preferred to give their pupils 



special talks or lectures themselves. For this purpose, the 



Museum has provided several small class rooms, equipped with 



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TEACHER AND CLASS AT THE MUSEUM 



chairs, tables, blackboards and stereopticon, which have been 

 reserved on request. Not infrequently specimens from the study 

 collections also have been placed in the class room for special 

 study. The Museum possesses more than 30,000 lantern slides, 

 of which about 12,000 are colored, and the field parties which 

 the Museum is sending to remote parts of the earth bring back 

 photographic material which enables us from time to time to 

 make additions to the series. The views illustrate plant life, 

 animal life, industries, customs of people and physical geogra- 

 phy. Up to the present time, it has not been practicable to 

 lend these slides for use outside the building, but for several 

 years teachers have been permitted to select slides to illustrate a 

 desired lecture which was later given in the Museum's classrooms. 



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