extensive use of these modules. In 1 988 Sease received a 

 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to continue 

 research on the modules and assess their performance. 



Center for Academic Programs 



As a result of the Museum's Capital Campaign, three major 

 new scholarship programs were added to the Museum's 

 array of supports for nonstaff use of the collections: the 

 Borg-Warner Robert 0. Bass Visiting Scientist Program, 

 the Prince Visiting Scholars Program, and the Lester 

 Armour Family Graduate Fellowship. 



In 1987-88, the Scholarship Committee made a total 

 of 87 awards, of which 22 went to exceptional graduate or 

 undergraduate students and the remainder to visiting sci- 

 entists from around the world, including scholars from 

 Asia, South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa as well 

 as the United States and Canada. 



Additions to the Collections 



The Department of Botany acquired several important col- 

 lections from endangered tropical areas in 1987-88. As a 

 result of a program sponsored by the National Institutes of 

 Health, the herbarium received a major collection of plants 

 from Southeast Asian tropical rain forests. The objective of 

 this program, headed by Research Associate Doel Soejar- 

 to, is to collect plants that will be tested for substances that 

 might help in treating cancer and AIDS. The herbarium 

 also received major collections of South American gras- 

 ses and palms that are already revealing several new 

 species. 



A longtime and active volunteer in the Department of 

 Anthropology, Carolyn S. Moore, contributed 25 Japanese 

 textile stencils to the Collections. Further anthropological 

 additions included over 700 Japanese paintings, sketch- 

 es, and art objects from Katharine and the late Com- 



mander Gilbert E. Boone, as well as a collection of 

 Japanese inro, netsuke, and ojime from Jeanette and Carl 

 Kroch. 



The Department of Zoology's collections were also 

 enriched. The Division of Invertebrates augmented its 

 important collection of land snails. In 1987, Curator Alan 

 Solem traveled by helicopter to survey patches of rain for- 

 est in Western Australia. Over 29,000 specimens of land 

 snails were collected, and among these Solem dis- 

 covered two new genera and about 50 new species. 

 These specimens will greatly assist Solem as he continues 

 to study how these organisms originated and evolved. 



The Library 



Interns, volunteers, and staff members have devoted con- 

 siderable effort in the past two years to organizing and 

 processing archival and manuscript collections for use by 

 staff and outside researchers. 



The correspondence of Herman Strecker (1836- 

 1901), lepidopterist and dealer in butterfly and moth 

 specimens, comprises nearly 10,000 letters from natural- 

 ists around the world concerning entomology and collect- 

 ing. These papers are rich as well in biographical and 

 general historical information. 



The papers of Charles Wake (1835-1910), an anthro- 

 pologist who made important contributions to early kin- 

 ship studies, include a document of particular interest to 

 the Library. As librarian of the ethnographic department of 

 the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Wake compiled a 

 list of the books in the department's library, noting the 

 donor or lender and including Wake's subject classifica- 

 tion of the book. The list is thus of great interest for the 

 history of late nineteenth-century anthropology; and 

 because a considerable portion of the books from the col- 

 lection were among the earliest accessions to the Field 

 Museum Library, its contents are being checked against 

 the Library's current holdings. 



Field Museum of Natural History Library 

 Year-End Holdings 



Library 



Total 



1984 



1985 



1986 



1987 



1988 



223,722 



226,682 



229,566 



232,269 



236,006 



Percent 

 Growth 

 1984-88 



5.5% 



1988 Use of Collections (in volumes) 



Total 



3,819 



2,225 



641 



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