CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS 



The Museum continued in co-operative relation with the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology of the University of Chicago and the New- 

 berry Library (Ayer Collection) in the Philippine Studies Program, 

 which enjoys the support of the Carnegie Foundation (see Annual 

 Report 1954, page 81). During 1956 the Rockefeller Foundation 

 granted scholarships for community studies in the Philippines to 

 three students in the Program, and the Ford Foundation awarded 

 similar grants to two others. In connection with the Museum's 

 participation in the Micronesian-insect Survey (see Annual Report 

 1955, page 81) about thirty shipments totaling 5,868 specimens of 

 Micronesian insects were sent to co-operating specialists for study. 

 Of a total of more than 80,000 Micronesian insects processed in the 

 Museum's Division of Insects since 1948, only about 6,000 must 

 still be distributed to specialists. These remaining specimens belong 

 to groups for which specialists have not yet been assigned. Some of 

 the many other research projects in which the Museum has been 

 co-operating with museums and universities throughout the world 

 are mentioned in the reports of our scientific departments. 



A course in museology was given in the Department of Anthro- 

 pology in co-operation with the Department of Anthropology of the 

 University of Chicago. The graduate course in vertebrate paleon- 

 tology of the University of Chicago was held as usual in the Museum 

 by Dr. Everett C. Olson, Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at 

 the university and Research Associate on the Museum's staff. 



George I. Quimby, Curator of North American Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, conducted a seminar at the University of Chicago. 

 Roland W. Force, Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, 

 addressed a seminar on field methodology at Northwestern Uni- 

 versity and at the University of Chicago. Dr. Theodor Just, Chief 

 Curator of Botany, conducted a graduate seminar in systematics, 

 ecology, and biogeography at Northwestern University and lectured 

 before the departments of botany and zoology at Iowa State College, 

 where, at a general lecture, he showed the Museum's film "Through 

 These Doors." Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, Curator of the Phanero- 

 gamic Herbarium, lectured on his Venezuelan expeditions at the 

 Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University (St. Louis) 

 and, as principal speaker, at the two-day Science Fair at Kansas 

 State Teachers College. 



Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles, addressed a class 

 in geology at the University of Chicago on paleontological pro- 

 cedures as shown by the Museum's Mecca project (see page 52) and 



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