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Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for Public School and Children's 

 Lectures, which she founded in 1925, and to the support of which 

 she has been contributing annually since that time. 



Mr. Leslie Wheeler, of Lake Forest, Illinois, contributed $500 

 to be devoted to the purchase of desirable bird specimens for addition 

 to the Museum's collections. 



Mr. Leon Mandel, of Chicago, gave an additional $232.43 for 

 expenses of the Leon Mandel Guatemala Expedition of Field Mu- 

 seum, which he originally financed for the Museum with a contribu- 

 tion in 1933 of $4,351.30. 



Mr. Henry J. Patten, of Chicago, is the donor of a total of 

 $500, one-half of which was for addition to the general operating 

 funds of the Museum. The balance is to cover the cost of publication, 

 in the Survey of Persian Art, of certain drawings, made by Mr. 

 Rowland Rathbun, of Sasanian stucco found at Kish by the Field 

 Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to Mesopotamia. This 

 publication will be prepared at Oxford under the editorship of Mr. 

 Arthur Upham Pope. 



The American Friends of China, Chicago, contributed $482 for 

 the purchase of material for addition to the Museum's Chinese collec- 

 tions, and for books on China for addition to the Library. 



From the Rosenwald Family Association the Museum received 

 two payments totaling $2,500, representing the interest from October 

 1, 1933, to October 1, 1934, on the bequest of the late Mrs. Augusta 

 N. Rosenwald. 



The will of the late Mrs. Abby K. Babcock provides a legacy 

 of $100,000, subject to the life interest of her husband, Mr. Frederick 

 R. Babcock, formerly of Chicago. 



The South Park Commission, and its successor, the Chicago 

 Park District, turned over to the Museum $101,226.19, representing 

 the institution's share, as authorized by the state legislature, of 

 collections made during 1934 under the tax levies for 1932 and 

 previous years. 



Friends of the Museum have continued, as in past years, to make 

 generous gifts of material for addition to the collections of the various 

 Departments. Some of these have already been noted in preceding 

 pages in connection with their acquisition by expeditions or their 

 installation among the exhibits. Details of the many gifts will 

 be found in the departmental sections of this Report under the 

 heading Accessions, and in the tabulated List of Accessions which 



