FlKI.I) rol.UMiiiW Mt-sKL'M — KlCI*UKTit, VOL. I. 



Apr. Viictitan, lUv l^aixl ol l'i«.aranil( ' (Illustrated). 



LcHf '• *^ ' ' " In till- I"' 



I)r. ' Ti« k Ml. .;li. 



The fourth i:oui.s« i-i .• • i-n- -^ >^.i-« j-iannctl (or tin- Saturtlay aflcr- 

 nooiiv iif October sin«l Novcrnlx' i*<o; auil Itppan on Ortolirr c. 

 til- , ,,rannnr bruig as follows: 



Oct. <, and ihr I ■' ''^ They Inhabit. " 



«l\r by request). 



1 C». Mlliot, Curator of Zoology, Field 



uiiian Miiscuni. 

 '* • l.iMii;; i 11 uirrs of Invertebrate Animals."' 



I'rof. A. H. Cole, I'nivcrsity o( C'hicago. 

 (> • Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms. " 



Dr. Charles Frederick Millspaugh. Curator of Bot- 

 any, I'irld Columbian Museum. 

 (> ,.,, — _\ i napter in the Ivarly History of C.hica^,w. 



Prof. O. C. Farrington. I'h. I)., (urator of Geology, 

 Field Columbian Museum. 



Nov. a. — "Structure and Natural History of Sharks." 



(). V. Hay. Ph. I).. .Assistant Curatorof Ichthyology, 

 Field Columbian Museum. 



N. ^ ', " On the Origin of Coal." 



H. \V. Nichols. Curatorof Economic Geology, Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



•Nov. it>. ••'Ill- I-^tl: ' \ i>f the Japanese. ' 



S. ( Ct)mmissiouer of I'ine .\rts, Imperial Jap- 



ai ommission, World's Columbian Exj^osi- 



tion. 

 No\ ■' Archeology and l.pisodes of Travel in Mexico. 



Prof. \V. H. Holmes, Curator of \nthroi...lorv. 

 I'ield Columbian Museum. 

 Nov. ' Origin and Development of the Native Architecture of 



Mexico." Prof. \V. II. Holmes. 



The course was opened auspiciously by Prof. Elliot, the lecture 

 hail bring comfortably filletl. This lecture course has been brotight 

 prominently before the universities of Chicago and vicinity, and the 

 public school principals and teachers. 



PuBUCATi The first edition of the Guide to the Museum 



was prepared durmg the early spring of 1894, and appeared in time 

 lor the opening day. June i. Owing to the somewhat unsettled 

 stale of the collections at that time, there was much difficulty in pre- 

 p.T'" '   -trate plans, or even descriptions. This Guide contained 

 84 , .^L .md provitled a systematic, although condensed, presenta- 

 tion of all the material then in the Museum, indicating the location by 



