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At a meeting of the Board held May 21, Mr. Leshe Wheeler 

 and Mr. Joseph N. Field were elected Corporate Members of the 

 Museum ; and at a meeting held June 18 they were elected as Trustees. 

 Messrs. Wheeler and Field fill the places on the Board which had 

 been vacant since the deaths in 1932 of Trustees William V. Kelley 

 and Martin A. Ryerson. 



It is a pleasure to note that Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, 

 famous British anthropologist, who is a good friend and a Correspond- 

 ing Member of Field Museum, was knighted in 1934 by His Majesty 

 King George V of England. Sir Grafton has performed many 

 valuable services for Field Museum. 



Many new exhibits of importance were completed during 1934. 

 Outstanding among these is the series of sculptures of champion 

 domestic animals of Great Britain, for the exhibition of which a 

 new hall, Hall 12, was especially prepared. These sculptures, of 

 which there are nineteen, are a gift to the Museum from Trustee 

 Marshall Field, and are the work of the noted sculptor, Mr. Herbert 

 Haseltine, who visited the Museum for the purpose of making sugges- 

 tions as to their installation. The sculptures are in marble and 

 bronze, one-fourth life size. Types of horses, beef and dairy animals, 

 sheep, and swine are included. The collection represents a new 

 departure in the policy of the Museum, as hitherto all exhibits in 

 the Department of Zoology had been limited to wild animals. 



A number of new habitat groups of wild animals were added to 

 the zoological exhibits. Especially striking is the group of the rare 

 African antelope known as the bongo, installed in Carl E. Akeley 

 Memorial Hall (Hall 22). This is an animal seldom seen either in 

 museums or by hunters in its homeland. Specimens for this group 

 were collected by the Harold White- John Coats African Expedition 

 (1930) after one of the most difficult hunts in the career of Captain 

 Harold A. White. The group was prepared by Staff Taxidennist 

 C. J. Albrecht, and has a painted background by Staff Artist Charles 

 A. Corwin. In the same hall there was installed also a group of 

 aardvarks, composed of specimens collected by the Harold White- 

 John Coats Abyssinian Expedition (1929), and mounted by Taxi- 

 dermist Albrecht. Aardvarks are among the world's most peculiar 

 animals, and because of their remarkable speed in burrowing it 

 is difficult to obtain specimens. 



In William V. Kelley Hall (Hall 17) four new habitat groups of 

 Asiatic animals were installed. The two most important species of 

 deer in Asia, the sambar deer, and the swamp deer or barasingha, 



