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370, and the total number of participants in these was 8,807. Large 

 numbers of people were served by the Library of the Museum, and 

 the scientific study collections maintained in the various Departments. 



A gratifying testimonial to the value of the traveling exhibits 

 circulated among the schools by the N. W. Harris Public School 

 Extension, and the extension lectures and other benefits pro\aded 

 by the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for 

 Public School and Children's Lectures, was received during the year. 

 This came in the form of a large number of booklets prepared by 

 the seventh and eighth grade pupils of the Mozart Public School, 

 in which the children told in their own words of their appreciation 

 of this Museum extension work. By their essays on various subjects 

 which had been thus presented to them, the children showed that 

 they had absorbed much information as a result of the exhibits and 

 lectures. The booklets were forwarded to the Museum through 

 the cooperation of Miss Myrtle McKellar, Science Teacher, and 

 Miss H. Gertrude Jaynes, Principal of the school. 



Dr. Carl Christensen, retired Curator of the Botanical Museum 

 of Copenhagen, was elected a Corresponding Member of the Museum 

 in recognition of his valuable services. Dr. Christensen, one of the 

 world's two foremost authorities on ferns, enabled Field Museum 

 to make photographs of extremely important type specimens of 

 plants, in the course of the work of the Joint Botanical Project of 

 the Rockefeller Foundation and Field Museum, and cooperated in 

 every possible way to promote the success of that project. 



Three names were added to the list of Contributors to the 

 Museum : 



Mrs. Sarah S. Straus, of New York, was elected a Contributor 

 in appreciation of her generous contribution of funds which made 

 possible the highly successful Straus West African Zoological Expedi- 

 tion of Field Museum. This expedition, which Mrs. Straus herself 

 accompanied for several months, resulted in the acquisition of 

 extremely important additions to the Museum's zoological collections. 



Mr. Templeton Crocker, of San Francisco, became a Contributor 

 as a result of his gift to the Museum of a valuable collection of 

 more than 800 ethnological specimens from certain little-known 

 islands of the Melanesian and Polynesian groups. This material 

 was collected by an expedition to the South Pacific, made aboard 

 Mr. Crocker's yacht and under his leadership. 



Dr. Berthold Laufer, Curator of the Department of Anthropology, 

 who died September 13, was posthumously elected a Contributor 



