New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
LECTURES FOR CHILDREN.
Lantern Slides to Illustrate I0lES
Of 4merican Museum STAFF.

The staff of the American Museum Of Natural
History is preparing to give seventy-two Ieclui g
TO at least fifty thousand public school pupils i"
the coming months. The lectures are of an IN
formal nature. and are fully illustrated with Ian
tern slides and specimens. They were Instituted
last year upon a recommendation made by the
New-York City Teachers Association. whose COM
mittee childrens interests chose the subjects.
As was the last year. the series will be com
posed of twenty-four distinct lectures each to be
repeated three times.
Last year forty-fve thousand children listened
to the lectures in the auditorium Of the museum.
All The subjects chosen in connection with
the course OF study i'm the elementary pubic
schools The lectures are given at o'clock on
Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. The series
is divided into parts twelve lectures being de-
livered three times each in October November and
December and another dozen in January. Feoru-
airy March
The lectures are given under the supervision 81
George H. Sherwood. TIE assistant curator OF IN
vertebrate zoology. who has charge of the prep
aration of the specimen cases for school children
described IN The Tribune few days ago The
teachers association is greatly pleased with the
lectures. and the members or the committee on
childrens interests commented as follows on them
in recent report
From the very beginning the lectures have been
an immense success. The museum has conec-
commands. in the members of its staff. the ser
vices of men thoroughly equipped for educating
the lectures range from ten to fourteen. Every
body concerned with the lectures Is a volunteer
The benefit to the children from these lectures IS
greater than is evident upon first and casual
inspection of the matter. The lives of many of our
pupils rather gray and cherries things the
little round In which they move is incredibly mar
row. consisting Of the few dull streets between
their homes and their schools; many Of them nave
neither the parks the beaches; and teSti-
walls few and far between for them. w hen IL
is whispered in the schools that the gentlemen
who speak with the great pictures before them OF
loneliness of tropic and forests. of lofty noun
tain passes and foreign cities. of volcanoes, worn
caves, strange methods OF transportation OF
EsquimauX and Indian camps. and of other nnarFels
too numerous to mention. have Themselves 'peeh
there" the interest deepens.
The lectures for October, November and Decem-
Der each thrice repeated. will be follows
October 10. November 10 December H. a Tour Of
November - and December IL. Methods OF
TRANSPORTATION and Present" H. l. Smith.
October November l. and December IL, "A Tip
Through Mexico o Panama NJ II. Savile.
o. November ~ and December Is llfe among
Cur Indians. 6. H. PePper ~ .,-y ,,u,
October 25 November % and December 20 CITY Bird
Life +. NJ. Chapman.
October ~ November % and December % The Indus
tries Of the United States. G. IL sherwood 49,,
October 80 November - January s The Develop
m OF CITY l. p Gratacap
November and % and January II" The work OF
Water +. O. Hovey-
November and January Il, Travels Through western
Europe and British Isles r. W. Miner.
November o December and January 10. The Physical
Divisions OF he United States f. o. Hovey-
November s. December and January Il. our South
American EeiSthcrs.' .. ". Mead.
November 10 December January 10. In the Nile
Count "