YEAR BOOK 



OF THP: 



Public Museum of the City of 

 Vol.1 Milwaukee 1921 



INTRODUCTION 



The Aruseum has heretofore maintained two series of pubHca- 

 tions. its Annual Reports and its Bulletins. The former provides 

 a running recctrd. year l)y year, of the activities and administra- 

 tion of the institution and is, like all such reports, a compilation oi 

 dry facts, necessary for record purposes, but usually cjuite unin- 

 teresting to anyone not concerned with such administrative mat- 

 ters. The bulletins are avowedly scientific publications and com- 

 prise special studies and papers, written for scientific record pur- 

 poses and of i)rimary interest to the specialists in the various fields 

 of science covered. Both these types of publication are invaluable 

 for the particular purpose intended, but neither embraces certain 

 miscellaneous data which are neither of administrative interest nor 

 of sufficient scientihc importance to warrant publication in either 

 the Report or the Bulletin. 



It has seemed wise, therefore, to assemble these data in a more 

 popular form, which may be termed a series of "Notes and News" 

 concerning the Museum's activities, and tt) publish these in the 

 form of an illustrated "Yearbook." 



It is hoped that this will prove of considerable local, as well as 

 general, interest by chronicling various of the field and other activi- 

 ties of the Museum which would be otherwise unnoted and by sub- 

 mitting shorter papers on special studies as these may be developed 

 by the various departments of the Museum. 



The first issue of the Yearbook comprises. 



1. A short summary of "The Early History of the Museum." 



2. Notes on the Museum's collecting expeditions in 1921. 



3. Special notes and news. 



In later issues we hope to amplify these classes of articles and 

 to add others as the Museum develops. In a future issue an article 

 devoted to the later history of the Museum's development will 

 appear. 



The section devoted to the notes on field work and collecting will 

 chronicle these highly important phases of the Museum's activities which 



