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of Field Museum from October 22 to 25. The sessions, which 

 comprised both technical and general discussions, were attended by 

 nearly 200 leading ornithologists from all parts of the country. This 

 was the second time the Union had held such a meeting at Field 

 Museum, similar sessions having been held here twelve years pre- 

 viously. Members of the staff of Field Museum's Department of 

 Zoology presented several important papers. 



The Museum prepared for the visitors a special exhibition in 

 Hall 20 of about one hundred original paintings made by the late 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes, noted naturalist and artist, during the course 

 of the Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition 

 (1926-27). These paintings were received at the Museum several 

 years ago as a gift from Mr. C. Suydam Cutting, of New York, 

 who was also a member of the Abyssinian expedition. 



As has been the experience in other years, the holding of the 

 annual International Live Stock Exposition at the Union Stock 

 Yards brought a large additional attendance to Field Museum 

 during the period of the exposition, December 1 to 8. Besides the 

 many persons from out-of-town who visited the Museum inde- 

 pendently, two large groups of children were brought to the Museum 

 under the auspices of the Four-H Clubs, an organization promoting 

 the interests of young people on farms. There were a group of 540 

 girls, and one of 646 boys. They were given special service by the 

 guide-lecturers of the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond 

 Foundation for Public School and Children's Lectures. 



A party of delegates to the annual convention of the Chicago 

 Dental Society spent a morning in the Department of Geology 

 studying the metallurgy of metals used in their profession. 



The International Exhibition of Taxidermic Art, sponsored by 



the technical section of the American Association of Museums, had 



.y) its Chicago showing in Hall 20 of Field Museum from April 1 to 15. 



\f This exhibit, consisting of 473 photographs of animal groups, mounts, 



^ sculptures, and material illustrating taxidermic methods, comprised 



P examples of the work of eighty of the world's most highly skilled 



^« taxidermists. The staff of Field Museum was well represented 



among these, the works shown including examples by Staff Taxi- 



Z^. dermists Julius Friesser, C. J. Albrecht, Leon L. Walters, Leon L. 



VS' I Pray, Ashley Hine, Arthur G. Rueckert; Assistant Taxidermists 



■y ^ John W. Moyer and Frank Letl; and Staff Artist Charles A. Corwin. 



vjCf ^ There were received during the year from Miss Malvina Hoffman, 



^ and placed in storage in the Museum, plaster casts of all the sculp- 



