Chicago Police Department on several occasions during the year 

 when various materials were analyzed for the Police Department's 

 Crime Detection Laboratory by Albert William Forslev, Associate 

 Curator of Mineralogy and Petrology, using the facilities of the 

 Chalmers Mineralogical Laboratory. 



Dr. Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology, spoke before a 

 seminar in biogeography at Northwestern University. Loren P. 

 Woods, Curator of Fishes, addressed an assembly and a seminar at 

 Earlham College and a graduate group at the Gulf Coast Research 

 Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Rupert L. Wenzel, Cura- 

 tor of Insects, addressed the Annual Pest Control Conference held 

 by the Ninth Naval District at Great Lakes, Illinois. Henry S. 

 Dybas, Associate Curator of Insects, spoke before a class in ecology 

 at the University of Chicago and a field biology class from North- 

 western University, He was re-elected president of the South Cook 

 County Mosquito Abatement District. D. D wight Davis, Curator of 

 Vertebrate Anatomy, lectured on the morphogenesis of the face and 

 dentition in mammals before an orthodontists' seminar sponsored by 

 Dr. Sidney Asher of Chicago. 



Supervised classes of art students continued to use the Museum 

 exhibits as a part of their classroom work in sketching, painting, and 

 modeling, and results of this were placed on special exhibition in 

 Stanley Field Hall in the summer. Many universities and colleges 

 in Chicago and other cities continued their use of the Museum. 

 Among them were the University of Chicago, Chicago Teachers Col- 

 lege, DePaul University, Eastern Illinois State College, George 

 Williams College, University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Loyola University, McMaster University (Canada), Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, Morton Junior College, North Park College, 

 Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, Roosevelt 

 University, Valparaiso University, and Wheaton College. The Chi- 

 cago Area Science Fair (sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Science 

 Association), a show in which students of grades six through twelve 

 from all schools within a 35-mile radius of Chicago are eligible, was 

 held at the Museum on Saturday, May 18. Under the co-operative 

 educational plan adopted in 1946 by this Museum and Antioch Col- i 

 lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, thirteen young men and women were 

 employed in 1957 by the Museum. 



Among visitors in the Department of Anthropology during the 

 year were Dr. David Aberle, Dr. Theodore Bank III, Dr. Albert 

 Spaulding, and Dr. James B. Griffin, University of Michigan; Jack 

 Anglin, Dr. Clifford Evans, and Dr. Betty J. Meggers, United States 

 National Museum; Miss Dorothy Bennett, Dr. Samuel A. Barrett, 



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