Research. Curator Quimby taught a course at the University of 

 Chicago on prehistory and paleography of the Upper Great Lakes 

 region and gave a series of lectures at the Central YMCA on Chicago 

 (11,000 B.C.). Curator Collier taught a course at the University of 

 Chicago on the rise of civilization, Assistant Curator Lewis lectured 

 on primitive art at the Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of 

 Technology, and Dr. Roland W. Force, Curator of Oceanic Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology, spoke at a meeting of the Anthropology Club 

 of the University of Illinois. Classes in anthropology from Wright 

 Junior College (Chicago) visited the Museum. 



Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, conducted a seminar- 

 lecture for the Department of Biology of Saint Louis University 

 and was asked to serve as consultant in preparation of the "Cata- 

 logue of Fossil Spores and Pollen" that is being published in several 

 volumes by Pennsylvania State University. He was installing 

 officer of the Sigma Xi Club at Northern Illinois University, giving 

 the major address, and talked about the Stanley Field Collection 

 of Plant Models (see page 23) on a television program on April 9 

 (WMAQ-NBC). J. Francis Macbride, Curator of Peruvian Botany, 

 was made an Honorary Professor of the University of San Marcos 

 during the recent South American Botanical Congress in Lima, 

 Peru. Samuel H. Grove, Jr., Artist-Preparator, was appointed by 

 the De Kalb (Illinois) Agricultural Association to design and install 

 their corn exhibit for the Tenth International Congress of Genetics 

 held in August in Montreal. A class in botany ("The Plant King- 

 dom") conducted at the University of Chicago by Dr. Barbara F. 

 Falser and Dr. Paul Voth spent an afternoon in Martin A. and 

 Carrie Ryerson Hall (Hall 29, Plant Life) and in the herbaria. Other 

 university classes visiting the Museum and continuing to use the 

 herbaria and the botany library came from De Paul University, 

 Michigan State University, and Valparaiso University. 



During the year the Museum entered into an exchange of geo- 

 logical specimens with Museo Civico of Milan, Italy, which suffered 

 severely during World War II and is now engaged in rebuilding its 

 exhibit and study collections. The graduate course in vertebrate 

 paleontology of the University of Chicago was conducted, as in 

 past years, by Dr. Everett C. Olson, Professor of Vertebrate Paleon- 

 tology at the university and Research Associate on the Museum's staff. 

 Dr. Robert H. Denison, Curator of Fossil Fishes, lectured at 

 the University of Chicago before a seminar on evolution and at the 

 University of Illinois College of Pharmacy before a seminar on 

 paleoecology, and William D. Turnbull, Assistant Curator of Fossil 

 Mammals, talked before graduate students and staff members of 



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