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the Board of Trustees on account of the pressure of private business, and 

 eleven new Life Members have been elected during the year. A num- 

 ber of important donations have been made in the collections of the 

 Museum , including two very interesting and valuable Chinese paintings, 

 presented by the Tuesday Art and Travel Club of Chicago. The paint- 

 ings are of scroll work on silk, measuring twenty-five and thirty feet 

 in length. Every evidence of progressive activity in scientific and 

 popular lines will be found upon consulting the review of the work 

 following : 



maintenance. — The Budget authorized by the Board of Trustees 

 provided the sum of $179,030 for the maintenance of the Museum 

 for the year ending December 31, 191 2. The amount expended was 

 $167,612 which leaves a margin of $11,418. In addition to the cost 

 of maintenance $70,400 was expended by authority of the Board for 

 collections, expeditions and so forth, bringing the total expenditure 

 for the year to $238,000. 



lecture Course- — The attendance at the two courses given was 

 highly gratifying, the seating capacity $£ Jftullertpn Hall being inad- 

 equate to accommodate those desiring, tp^ attend. ' ' "Following is a list 

 of the lectures given during the year: && 



Thirty-sixth Free Illustrated Lecture Course: 

 March 2. "Elephant Hunting in Africa." 



Mr. C. E. Akeley, New York. 

 March 9. — "A Monkey on Safari." 



Mi. C. E. Akeley, New York. 

 March 16. — "Journeys in Mexico." 



Prof. 0. C. Farrington, Curator of Geology, Field 

 Museum. 

 March 23.— "The Life of the Soil." 



Prof. George T. Moore, Missouri Botanical Garden. 

 March 30. — "The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition: The 



Philippines Before and After American Occupation." 



Mr. Fay Cooper Cole, Ethnologist, Field Museum. 

 April 6. — "Conservation of Wild Life." 



Mr. Richard E. Follett, New York. 

 April 13. — "The Panama Canal and its Makers." 



Mr. Frederick I. Monsen, New York. 

 April 20. — "Egypt and the Nile." 



Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, New York. 

 April 27. — "Southeastern Italy and Sicily To-day." 



Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, New York. 



