MEMBERS' NIGHT 



The annual Members' Night, which was held this year on Friday 

 evening, May 8, turned out to be the Museum's most successful 

 event, of the kind. Ideal weather permitted 1,620 visitors to attend, 

 this being the record attendance to date. Special features of the 

 occasion were the first public showing of the famous Fuller Collec- 

 tion of ethnological objects under the title "Panorama of the Pacific" 

 (see page 51), the newly reinstalled Hall of Meteorites and Minerals 

 in the Department of Geology (see page 65), and the Hall of North 

 American Trees in the Department of Botany (see page 57). Re- 

 freshments served in Stanley Field Hall during the evening carried 

 out the Polynesian theme of the "Panorama." As usual, a chartered 

 bus operated between State Street and Jackson Boulevard and the 

 Fourteenth Boulevard entrance of the Museum. Many Museum 

 visitors came early enough to begin their evening with dinner in the 

 Museum cafeteria. 



MEMBERSHIP 



New Members of the Museum in all catagories in 1959 totaled 

 almost 1,500, more than doubling the figure for the previous year. 

 Losses by death, transfers, moving from the Chicago area, and 

 cancellations reduced the net gain to 833, which is substantially 

 better than the net gain of 219 in 1958. The membership rolls of 

 the Museum now carry the names of 6,555 different persons com- 

 pared with 5,722 a year ago, in addition to a substantial number of 

 Members who are listed in more than one category of membership. 

 Names of Contributors elected during the year by the Board of 

 Trustees are given on page 37. Complete membership lists begin 

 on page 126. The fees of our Life and Associate Members build 

 up the endownment funds of the Museum, and dues paid annually 

 are included in our operating funds. The Museum is grateful to 

 its Members for both their interest and their support. 



It is with deep regret that 1 record the death of Dr. B. P. Georges 

 Hochreutiner, Honorary Director of the Musee, Conservatoire, et 

 Jardin Bontaniques and Honorary Professor of the University, 

 Geneva, who had been a Corresponding Member of this Museum 

 since his election by the Board of Trustees in 1933. (See page 126 

 for roster of Corresponding Members — scientists or patrons of science, 

 residing in foreign countries, who have rendered eminent service to 

 the Museum.) 



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