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courses proceeded, however, and as, through the aid of the press of 

 Chicago, the value of the lectures was brought more prominently before 

 the public, the attendance gradually grew larger, and in the next 

 course the lecture hall was invariably crowded beyond its seating 

 capacity. 



The second course was as follows: 



Feb. 2. — " Pre-Columbian Man in Ohio." (Illustrated.) 



Warren K. Moorehead, Curator of Archeology, Ohio 

 State University, etc. 



Feb. 9. — "Life Among the Cliff Dwellers." (Illustrated). 

 Warren K. Moorehead. 



Feb. 16. — "The Story of a Birch Tree." 



Dr. Selim H. Peabody, President Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Feb. 23. — " The Other Half of the Discovery." (Illustrated). 



Edward Morris Brigham, formerly connected with 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mar. 2. — " Theories of Evolution." 



Prof. John M. Coulter, President of Lake Forest 

 Universit}'. 



Mar. 9. — "The Fishes of Illinois and Adjacent Regions." (Illus- 

 trated). 

 Dr. O. P. Hay, Assistant Curator of Ichthyology, 

 Field Columbian Museum. 



Mar. 16. — " The Structure and Constitution of Tv^jCteorites. " (Illus- 

 trated). 

 Prof. O. C. Farrington, Curator of Geology, Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



The third course was as follows: 



Mar. 23. — " Giants of Other Days as Revealed in the Zoology of the 



Past." 

 Parti. "Reptiles." (Illustrated). 

 Prof. D. G. Elliot, Curator of Zoology, Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



Mar. 30. — " Giants of Other Days." 



Part 2. "Birds and Mammals." (Illustrated). 



Prof. D. G. Elliot. 

 Apr. 6. — "Cats and the Lands They Inhabit." (Illustrated). 



Prof. D. G. Elliot. 



Apr. 13. — "Through Death Valley." (Illustrated). 



Mr. Frederick I. Monsen, of the Geological Society 

 of California. 

 Apr. 20. — "Yucatan, the Land of Picar and Cuido." (Illustrated). 

 Lecture First — "Along the Coast." 

 Dr. Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Curator of Bot- 

 any, Field Columbian Museum. 



