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The attendance was 
as follows: 
Total attendance . , . . 
Average attendance . 
First Series 
Six 
children's 
lectures 
5,690 
948 
Six 
adult's 
lectures 
2,770 
462 
Total attendance . . . . 
Average attendance . 
Second Series 
Eleven 
children’s 
lectures 
8,830 
803 
Eleven 
adult’s 
lectures 
4,970 
452 
First and Second Series 
Total attendance 
Total attendance at all lectures 
Children 
14,520 
Adults 
7,740 
22,260 
There was an increase over the previous year of 4,615 in the total 
attendance at all lectures. The average attendance at the lectures in 
1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33 was: (1) children’s lectures, 660, 755, and 875, 
respectively; and (2) Wednesday evening lectures, 308, 340, 457. It is 
significant that the increase in the average attendance at the Wednesday 
evening lectures in 1932-33 was 117 over 1931-32, whereas in the previous 
year the increase in the average attendance at the Wednesday evening 
lectures was only 32. The average attendance at the adult’s lectures has 
grown from 250 in 1929-30 to 457 in the past year. The seating capacity 
of the lecture hall is 406 so that at most of the lectures last year it was 
necessary to use spare chairs. The additional chairs did not solve the seating 
problem, however, as many people were refused admission to the hall on 
Wednesday evenings after it was filled almost beyond capacity. On Satur- 
day mornings there has been a corresponding increase in the attendance of 
school children, but it is possible to accommodate all the children attending 
by repeating the lecture two or three times. 
The success of the lectures and the widespread interest they have 
aroused in cultural subjects is due chiefly to the speakers who have given 
their time and talent generously to this public service. The Lecture Com- 
mittee acknowledges its indebtedness to the speakers and takes this oppor- 
tunity to thank them again most heartily for their cordial co-operation. It 
may not be generally realized that many hours of study are spent by the 
speakers in preparing for these lectures and the spontaneity with which 
they are given testifies to the concentrated study that has -been devoted 
to them. 
Up to this year practically all the speakers have been residents of 
Ottawa. The National Museum has no funds available to pay the travelling 
and hotel expenses of speakers and it is not possible, therefore, to invite 
distinguished speakers from elsewhere to lecture at the Museum unless they 
happen to be in Ottawa on other business or wish to pay their own expenses. 
The following out-of-town residents very kindly consented to lecture at 
the Museum in the winter of 1933: F. E. Holloway, Montreal; J. M. 
Humphrey, Malakwa, British Columbia; L. R. Macgregor, Australian Trade 
Commissioner in Canada, Toronto; and William G. Ernst, K.C., M.P., whose 
home is at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, but lectured while he was in Ottawa 
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