Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PUPILS' COURSE OF LECTURES 89 THE PUPILS' COURSE OF LECTURES. ^HE second series of lectures to the public-school children, the programme of which was published in the April number of the Journal, comprised thirty-four lectures upon twelve subjects. The records show that the total attendance at these lectures was more than 20,000 school children from Staten Island, Brooklyn and the upper Bronx, as well as from Man- hattan. Although the usual number coming from each school was from forty to sixty pupils, some schools sent large delega- tions, notably P. S. 189, 99th St. and Second Ave., from which. 200 to 400 pupils came to a lecture, and P. S. 177, Market and Monroe Sts., from which 200 to 300 pupils were brought. The lectures were not given during school hours, and attendance at them was in no wise compulsory, so that, inasmuch as the classes were accompanied by their teachers, the large numbers of pupils availing themselves of the opportunity to supplement their class work indicates not only the interest felt by the children in their studies, but also that of the teachers in their classes. Although the lectures were primarily designed to supplement the classroom work, they undoubtedly have been the indirect cause of spreading much general information. Frequently teachers w4th their pupils have arrived early at the Museum and have spent an hour or more before the opening of the lecture in studying the collections, for instance: the bird groups and the series illustrating the protective coloration and mimicry of in- sects. On the way to the lecture hall children have caught glimpses of exhibits which have aroused their interest to such, an extent that afterwards they have been seen at the Museum on Sundays or holidays accompanied by their parents. The Carnegie Institution has recently published a paper, " The Coral Siderastraa radians and its Postlarval Development," by Dr. J. E. Duerden, Honorary Curator of Coelenterates. The work is based upon observations carried on for four months while the author w^as Curator of the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, and was completed at the American Museum.

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