Those who have given $1,000 to $100,000 in money or materials 

 are elected Contributors by the Board of Trustees (see page 119 for 

 roster of Contributors). Contributors elected are: Dr. William R. 

 Bascom, Holly Reed Bennett, Rudyerd Boulton, Walter J, Cum- 

 mings, Dr. David C. Graham, Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, Henry P. 

 Isham, Joseph H. King, Dr. Paul S. Martin, William H. Mitchell, 

 Philip Pinsof, Solomon A. Smith, Stewart J. Walpole (posthumously 

 elected), and Louis Ware. Gifts of materials received during the 

 year are listed at the end of this Report (see page 108) and under the 

 heading "accessions" in the reports of the scientific departments. 



The Karl P. Schmidt Library was bequeathed to the Museum. 

 This unusual collection of books is remarkably complete in its cover- 

 age of the herpetological literature and also includes travel literature 

 in connection with natural-history studies (see page 71). 



SPECIAL EXHIBITS 



Outstanding among special exhibits on display during the year in 

 Stanley Field Hall were four that called attention to recent impor- 

 tant additions to the Museum's study collections. These were : ma- 

 terials collected by Roland W. Force, Curator of Oceanic Archaeology 

 and Ethnology, and Mrs. Force in the Palau Islands and given to the 

 Museum (see page 42) ; portraits of human types in Central America 

 and Indonesia by Elisabeth Telling, presented by her to the Museum 

 (see Annual Report 1956, page 42); spectacular stag and scarab 

 beetles from the collection of the late Dr. Eduard Knirsch of Vienna, 

 purchased by the Museum (see page 64) ; and a representative selec- 

 tion of Chinese rubbings collected by Dr. David C. Graham and 

 given to the Museum (see page 43) . The later exhibit was timed to 

 coincide with meetings of the American Anthropological Association 

 in Chicago in December (see page 83), as was an exhibit of sacred 

 mushrooms of Mexico, the hallucinogenic fungi currently being in- 

 vestigated for possible medical uses. 



An exhibit in November to show food plants of New World origin 

 contained food plants of common worldwide acceptance and use as 

 well as many whose cultivation is still largely limited to areas where 

 they were grown at the time of Columbus. Insects embedded in 

 plastic by Julius J. Nagy, drawings of cultivated flowers by Ethe- 

 lynde Smith, and the now perennial exhibitions of nature photog- 

 raphy, handcrafted gems and jewelry, and drawings by students of 

 the Art Institute of Chicago, whose classes meet in the Museum, 

 were other special attractions during the year. 



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