Lectures, its founder, Mrs. James Nelson Raymond, again contrib- 

 uted $6,000 in accordance with her annual custom of many years. 



Mr. Haddon H. MacLean made a gift of $1,000 in cash, and 

 Lieutenant Alvin R. Cahn, U.S.N.R., made a gift of anthropological 

 material from the Aleutian Islands. The collection is valued at more 

 than $1,000. Both of these donors were, in consequence, elected 

 Contributors (a membership classification including all persons who 

 give or devise between $1,000 and $100,000 to the Museum in money 

 or materials, and whose names thus become enrolled on an honor 

 list in perpetuity). 



A gift of $2,500 was received from Mr. Wallace W. Lufkin, whose 

 earlier gifts had already resulted in his election as a Contributor. 



From the estate of Joseph Adams there was received a bequest 

 in stocks valued at $12,025, to be known as the Joseph and Edith 

 Adams Subscription. Mr. Adams was posthumously elected a 

 Contributor. 



For notable gifts to the Museum during his lifetime, the late 

 Dr. Louis Schapiro was also posthumously elected a Contributor. 



Cash gifts were received also from Mr. Boardman Conover, a 

 Trustee; Mr. Peder A. Christensen of Detroit, Michigan; and from 

 the estate of Joan A. Chalmers. Gifts of Museum material included 

 a collection of several thousand butterflies and moths presented by 

 Mrs. Edward F. Lustig, of Elkhart, Indiana; and a valuable col- 

 lection of Coleoptera, assembled by the late Frank J. Psota and 

 purchased for the Museum by an anonymous donor. 



The Chicago Park District turned over to the Museum 

 $121,642.39, as its share of taxes levied to aid in the support of 

 several museums under an act of the state legislature. 



Trustees and Officers . . . 



The President of the Museum, Mr. Stanley Field, served his 

 thirty-fifth consecutive year in that office after being re-elected at 

 the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees on January 11. All 

 other officers who served during the preceding year were re-elected 

 and served out their full terms. 



Trustee W. McCormick Blair was appointed Acting Chairman of 

 the Auditing Committee, which automatically made him a member 

 of the Executive Committee, during the absence of Lieutenant 

 Colonel George A. Richardson on active service with the Army Air 

 Forces. 



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