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]36 The Educational Screen tation of the life of the honey bee in which the statement is definitely made that, "the bee brings home the honey to the hive in pouches on its hind legs," was recently viewed by the writer, this picture having been released as an educational film by a prominent con- cern known all over the country as a producer of educational film. Fre- quently films properly titled are as- sembled with the titles misplaced, and such matter shown to a class causes a false impression which is much worse than no impression at all. The writer began giving lectures to chil- dren in classes nearly twenty years ago, and even at the risk of sacrificing any reputation I may have along this line, I never-the-less make the state- ment that in my opinion, lantern slides, properly selected and properly ex- plained by an expert teacher, can be used to a better advantage in routine educational work than the average moving picture film available today, with its manifold troubles with booth, operator and other legal restrictions and control. Another innovation of the Depart- ment may be worthy of a few words. A lantern slide, of course, is of very little use without suitable apparatus for its projection. A few years ago in the days of the calcium and arc light, of which some of us have probably rather painful recollections of empty tanks and blown out fuses, the projec- tion of a slide on the screen was a very serious matter, the equipment being heavy, cumbersome and requiring an expert to operate. The recent devel- opments of the Tungsten lamps, how- ever, have permitted the perfection oi a projecting lantern to a point where il is no more cumbersome nor difficult tc manipulate than an ordinary tabic lamp. To make possible the use o\ our material by private citizens, the Society purchased forty of the simple four hundred (400) watt projecting lanterns and these have been freel) loaned to borrowers of slides who ar< not fortunate enough to possess ma- chines of their own. There are man) types of these portable projectors or the market, all of therri satis factor) and equally useful. We have confined ourselves to a single type of lantern in order that spare parts may be inter- changeable and as there is a first class projector made in Buffalo, we have felt that there was no reason why we should go out of town for our equip- ment. The writer admits that the idea of loaning a lantern, to be operated and handled by incompetent and un- skilled individuals, appeared at first sight impracticable, but experience has shown us that this can be done and that the average borrower returns the lantern in good condition and appre- ciates the service. About the only thing breakable, except by gross care- lessness, is the filament of the bulb and the average life of one of these bulbs under continuous circulation has been about six (6) months. As this is a perfectly legitimate wear and tear it would be obviously unfair to charge a burnt out bulb to the last user and V