York. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, Curator Emeritus of Zoology, pre- 

 sided. Short addresses were delivered by Colonel Clifford C. Gregg, 

 Director, who is on leave of absence with the armed forces, and the 

 Acting Director. The meeting was followed by a reception in 

 Stanley Field Hall, where guests enjoyed a preview of a special exhibit 

 illustrating highlights in the Museum's history, as well as the 

 photographs selected for exhibition in the first photographic salon 

 sponsored by this institution. 



The most important feature of the commemorative program was 

 President Field's announcement that the name of the Museum 

 was to be changed, and his further announcement that the institution 

 was to receive a gift from Mr. Marshall Field, Trustee, which would 

 provide income at least equivalent to his annual contributions in 

 recent years. 



In conformity with the suggestion of Trustee Marshall Field and 

 President Stanley Field, duly approved by the Board of Trustees, 

 the name of the Museum was officially changed on December 6, 1943, 

 from Field Museum of Natural History to Chicago Natural History 

 Museum. The certificate of amendment to the articles of incorpora- 

 tion of the institution had previously been filed and recorded. 



The periodical, Field Museum News, was given the name Chicago 

 Natural History Museum Bulletin, to become effective with the 

 January, 1944, issue. 



More than fifteen years ago, this Museum, in anticipation of the 

 possible destruction of historic botanical collections in Europe, 

 proposed a plan for photographing such specimens, which was carried 

 out in part with the co-operation of the Rockefeller Foundation. 

 Mr. J. Francis Macbride, Associate Curator of the Herbarium, spent 

 more than ten years photographing type specimens in the herbaria 

 of Berlin, Copenhagen, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, Madrid, and 

 elsewhere, making more than 40,000 photographs. This project has 

 been abundantly justified in the last year during which certain of the 

 European collections are known to have been destroyed by bombing, 

 and many others, about which confirmed information has not yet 

 been received, may have been likewise lost to science. The only 

 substitute for some of the type specimens lost through the destruc- 

 tion of European collections will be these photographs (see Fig. 1). 



Contributions . . . 



Owing, no doubt, to the demands of various war causes, and the 

 campaigns for investment of all possible funds in war bonds, con- 



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