Northwestern University, and Western Michigan University. A 

 class in field zoology from the University of Notre Dame visited 

 the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, a biology class from the 

 University of Illinois visited the Division of Fishes, and classes in 

 field biology from Northwestern University and Roosevelt Univer- 

 sity visited the Division of Insects. 



Among other universities and colleges that used the facilities 

 of the Museum were Chicago Teachers College, Illinois Institute 

 of Technology, De Paul University, George Williams College, Mc- 

 Master University (Canada), Morton Junior College, North Park 

 College, and Wheaton College. Supervised classes from art schools 

 continued to use the Museum exhibits as a part of their regular 

 classroom work in sketching, painting, and modeling, and results 

 of this work from classes of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

 were placed on special exhibition in the Museum in May (see page 25). 



The Chicago Area Science Fair (sponsored by the Chicago Teach- 

 ers Science Association), a show in which students of grades 6 through 

 12 from all schools within a 35-mile radius of Chicago are eligible, 

 was held in the Museum on a Saturday in May. Elmhurst (Illinois) 

 Teachers Institute met in the Museum in September to acquaint its 

 members with the programs of the Museum (more than a hundred 

 teachers were present). Facilities at the Museum for meetings 

 were used during the year by various organizations working in 

 fields related to the scope of the Museum, among them the Illinois 

 Audubon Society, Illinois Orchid Society, Kennecott Club, and Na- 

 ture Camera Club. Under the co-operative plan adopted in 1946 

 by this Museum and Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) fifteen 

 young men and women were employed in 1959 by the Museum. 



Among visitors in the Department of Anthropology during the 

 year were Dr. Charles 0. Betchtol and Dr. Victor F. Lenzer, Uni- 

 versity of California at Los Angeles; Barone Professor Alberto Carlos 

 Blanc (Direttore Dell' Institute di Paletnologia), Dell' Universita 

 (Rome); Dr. F. H. Bordes, University of Bordeaux (France); Dr. 

 Stephen Borhegyi, Dr. Robert Ritzenthaler, Lee Parsons, and 

 William Hurley, Milwaukee Museum; Dr. Edwin H. Bryan, Jr., 

 Bernice P. Bishop Museum; Dr. Schuyler Cammann, University 

 of Pennsylvania; Dr. Daniel J. Crowley, University of Notre Dame; 

 Philip Dedrick, Rockford College; Dr. R. A. Deddrick, Fiji Museum 

 (Fiji Islands) ; Joseph J. Dobrich, Washington, D.C.; Emilio Estrada, 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador; Dr. Henry Field, Peabody Museum; Dr. 

 Douglas Fraser, Robert K. Saxon, and Mrs. Carol M. Suchinsky, 

 Columbia University; Dr. Gordon D. Gibson and Dr. S. H. Riesen- 

 berg, Smithsonian Institution; Professor William Godfrey and Pro- 



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