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Civics and Philanthropy, and present plans for its use include the util- 

 ization of the material for recurrent public civic exhibitions and for 

 loan exhibitions, controlling the material in storage by means of in- 

 dices at the school. 



COUNCIL FOR LIBRARY AND MUSEUM EXTENSION. 



A conference, organized in November, 1909, by the leading libraries 

 and museums of Chicago as a basis for systematic and comprehensive 

 cooperative effort on the part of these institutions to extend their 

 facilities to the largest possible number of people in the entire com- 

 munity. The council is now engaged in furthering plans for issuing a 

 handbook to the educational and recreational resources of Chicago. 

 This is to be prepared in newspaper style and it is hoped that a quarter 

 of a million copies may be issued for free distribution through various 

 agencies in the city. The council meets at the Chicago Public Library 

 on the second Friday of each month. 



FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Staff. Director, Frederick J. V. Skiff; Curators, George A. 

 Dorsey (anthropology), Charles F. Millspaugh (botany), Oliver C. 

 Farrington (geology), Charles B. Cory (zoology); Assistant curators, 

 S. C. Simms, Berthold Laufer, and Albert B. Lewis (ethnology), 

 Charles L. Owen (archeology), Jesse M. Greenman (botany), Henry 

 W. Nichols (geology), Elmer S. Riggs and Arthur W. Slocum (paleon- 

 tology), Seth E. Meek, William J. Gerhard, Edward M. Gueret, and 

 Wilfred H. Osgood (zoology) ; Modelers, C. A. Gardner (anthropology), 

 B. E. Dahlgren (botany) ; Preparators, O. E. Lansing, Jr., H. H. Smith, 

 R. A. Dixon, and W. H. Beardsley (botany), J. B. Abbott and C. T. 

 Kline (geology), S. F. Hildebrand, William Buettner, A. B. Walcott, 

 and A. W. Henn (zoology) ; Preparator and artist, J. A. Burt (anthropol- 

 ogy); Preparator and field assistant, Fay C. Cole (anthropology); 

 Taxidermists, Leon L. Pray, Julius Freisser, William Heim, and Philip 

 Ffeim (zoology) ; Recorder, D. C. Davies; Assistant recorder, B. Bridge; 

 Librarian, Elsie Lippincott; Assistant librarian, E. M. Wilcoxson. 



Anthropology. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, native, 65,712, 

 foreign, 665; Ethnology, native, 24,778, foreign, 35,720. Civilized 

 peoples, ancient, 24,539, modern, 5 7 56; Life-size ethnological groups, 10; 

 Miniature ethnological groups, 7; Models, without human figures, 11. 



The more notable collections in ethnology are: The Stanley Mc- 

 Cormick Ffopi material; Edward E. Ayer collection of North Ameri- 

 can Indian material ; Robert F. Cummings Philippine material ; Mrs. 

 T. B. Blackstone collection from China and Thibet; Joseph N. Field 



