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The total attendance of children at the Saturday morning lectures of 
1929-30 was 8,900, with an average of 593, and the total attendance of 
adults at the Wednesday evening lectures was 3,323, with an average of 
222. Following is a list of the lectures delivered: 
Brick, ancient and modern, by L. P. Collin. 
The golden isles, by Madge Macbeth. 
Germs — what are they? What are they like? And what do they do? by Norman 
McL. Harris. 
The interior of the earth, by F. J. Alcock. 
A cruise to the West Indies and Panama, by Wilfrid S. Lawson. 
Indian whale hunters of Vancouver island, by Douglas Leechman. 
Ridiculous birds, by H. F. Lewis. 
The lighthouse service of Canada, by J. G. Macphail. 
Ancient reptiles of sea and air, by C. M. Sternberg. 
How glass is made, by L. Heber Cole. 
The quest for ore deposits in the Canadian Shield, by J. F. Wright. 
The Peace River country, by Donald Macbeth Kennedy, M.P. 
Java, past and present, by Diamond Jenness. 
The romance of wild flowers, by D. A. MacKay. 
Glimpses of South and East Africa, by W. H. Collins. 
POPULAR EDUCATION 
Popular education is not the least important of a national museum's 
activities. A museum that aims only at accumulating a great mass of 
material for study, that provides the most adequate equipment and facili- 
ties for investigation, and that concentrates its energies on scientific re- 
search to the neglect of popular education, grows one-sided, and fails to 
attain to a maximum of usefulness to the community it serves. It separates 
itself from the common current of humanity and forfeits the interest, the 
enthusiasm, and the support of the public. 
The members of the staff in many ways have shown their keen appreci- 
ation of the importance of educational effort. 
In the museum halls attractive material in the possession of the insti- 
tution is displayed, with legible labels giving information of a popular and 
scientific nature. Inquirers for further information and for the privilege 
of examining material not on exhibit are courteously received. Guides 
and instructors are provided for groups of tourists, students, and teachers, 
if requested. 
Two courses of lectures are given each year in the auditorium of the 
Museum, one course during the last three months of the year, and the 
other during the first three months of the year. These lectures are given 
to children Saturday forenoons, when the attendance is so large as to 
necessitate their repetition, and to adults Wednesday evenings. To Mr. 
Harlan I. Smith, archaeologist, is due the credit for starting the lectures. 
They were started in 1912 and were held at any convenient time in a 
vacant room on the top floor of the Museum, the cheapest kind of seating 
being improvised. Seating was installed later in the lecture hall and the 
lectures were continued here until February, 1916, when the Museum 
building had to be vacated to permit of the holding of parliamentary 
sessions therein until the Parliament Buildings which had been destroyed 
by fire could be replaced. After that the lectures were held in schools and 
other buildings until the Museum building was again made available. 
