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The  following  is  a  gratifying  list  of  the  school  classes  (thirty  pupils  or 
more)  that  visited  the  Museum  during  the  year  just  closed  : 
Schools.  ™     ,  _,  ., 
Chxago—  Teachers.  Pupils. 
Hyde  Park  High,   1  101 
Hyde  Park  High   1  85 
North  Division  High,   1  80 
Normal,   2  63 
Normal,  .   2  67 
Normal  .    .    .    .       2  67 
Normal,  ...............       1  65 
Normal,   2  59 
Normal,   4  306 
Sherwood,   2  50 
Sherwood,    ..............       1  38 
D.  S.  Wentworth,  ............       2  74 
D.  S.  Wentworth,   2  51 
Mark  Sheridan,   1  42 
Fernwood,   4  79 
Kershaw,     ..............       1  36 
Graham,   2  71 
Froebel,   .   5  no 
La  Grange  Public  School,    .........       1  39 
Valparaiso  (Ind.)  Normal  School,  .  —  50 
The  following  comparison  between  the  daily  attendance  in  the 
year  ending  Sept.  30,  1897,  and  the  year  ending  Sept.  30,  1898,  will 
be  interesting: 
Increase.  Decrease. 
Total  attendance,  3*963  .  .  . 
Paid  attendance,                                                        189  .  .  . 
Attendance  of  school  children  on  pay  days,    1,680 
Attendance  of  students,   573 
Attendance  of  teachers,                                                45  ... 
Attendance  of  members,  .                                              91  ... 
Average  daily  attendance,  1897,  603 
Average  daily  attendance,  1898,  614 
Acknowledgments. — It  is  proper  to  acknowledge  the  generosit}- 
and  courtesy  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad,  the  Great 
Northern  Railroad,  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway,  the  Canadian  Pa- 
cific Railroad,  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  in 
transporting  members  of  the  Museum  staff  and  material  obtained  on 
