lectured at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, as did Dr. Karl P. Schmidt, Curator Emeritus of Zoology, 

 who also lectured at the University of Utah and at Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden. Henry S. Dybas, Associate Curator of Insects addressed 

 a class in ecology at the University of Chicago, and D. D wight Davis, 

 Curator of Vertebrate Anatomy, lectured at the University of 

 Illinois College of Medicine and at North Central College. Miss 

 Harriet Smith, of Raymond Foundation, on a three-month lecture 

 tour, told the story of the Museum to high-school and preparatory- 

 school groups throughout New York state, illustrating her talks 

 with the Museum's film "Through These Doors." 



The occasion in June of the first meeting in Chicago of the 

 International Union of the Directors of Zoological Gardens made 

 it possible to entertain this distinguished group at the Museum, 

 where various members of the Museum staff served as guide-lec- 

 turers. Curator Emeritus Karl P. Schmidt spoke at the dinner held 

 for this organization at Brookfield Zoo. 



A number of graduate students carried on studies at the Museum 

 under the supervision of various members of our scientific staff, 

 and individual students seeking information came to the Museum in 

 increasing numbers from distant as well as nearby colleges and 

 universities. Classes came to the Museum from the University 

 of Chicago, Chicago Teachers College, De Paul University, Eastern 

 Illinois State College, George Williams College, University of 

 Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Morton 

 Junior College, North Park College, Northwestern University, 

 Roosevelt University, Valparaiso University, and Wheaton College. 

 Supervised classes from the art schools of Chicago use the Museum 

 as a classroom for sketching, modeling, and creative work (each 

 summer the Museum presents in Stanley Field Hall a special showing 

 of work by students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago). 



Because of its many activities for students of all ages, the Mu- 

 seum was selected as the location for the Chicago Area Science Fair, 

 which for the first time displayed exhibits from the entire area 

 in one place (last year the west-area exhibit was held in the Museum) . 

 John R. Millar, Deputy Director of the Museum, and Miss Miriam 

 Wood, Chief, Miss Dolla Cox, and Miss Marie Svoboda, of Raymond 

 Foundation, represented the Museum at the conferences held by the 

 Chicago Teachers Science Association for the Science Fair. 



Under the co-operative educational plan adopted in 1946 by this 

 Museum and Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, nineteen young 

 men and women were employed in 1956 by the Museum in its 

 scientific departments and Library. 



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