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ment of Botany, discontinued three years ago, the Museum has been 

 so fortunate as to again secure the services of Dr. B. E. Dahlgren 

 as an Assistant Curator in charge of this work, which he will resume 

 with competent assistants within the next month. Work on the 

 shops and studios required for this section has already commenced. 



The death of Mr. Norman Wait Harris, foimder of the N. W. Harris 

 Public School Extension of Field Museum, must be announced. The 

 Board of Trustees at a meeting held August 14th unanimously adopted 

 the following: 



''The. death of Norman Wait Harris has closed a life whose success 

 and whose deeds were based upon and actuated by steadfast Christian 

 principles and an unswerving faith in himian character. His wealth 

 was amassed by investments in public and private obligations imder- 

 taken for the development and betterment of civic conditions and 

 public education. 



*'No man of business in these or other times has been more scrupu- 

 lous in his methods, more honorable in his dealings, or more just in 

 measuring the rights and privileges of individuals or communities. 

 All his manifold transactions, his endowments and gifts to religious, 

 benevolent and educational causes, exemplify a purpose to dedicate 

 these benefactions so as to uplift humanity, and push it forward not 

 alone for its material good but for its spiritual welfare. 



He was a philosopher in philanthrophy as he was in finance. The 

 honor and respect so generally shown him in life will be accorded his 

 name by all classes for generations. 



''In expressing this appreciation of the life and character of Mr. 

 Harris, the Board of Trustees of Field Museum of Natural History, 

 which Institution has been the grateful object of his wise and humane 

 generosity, desire especiall}^ to record their conviction that in no direc- 

 tion in which Mr. Harris has selected a means of manifesting his interest 

 in men and their children, will larger, deeper or more lasting good have 

 been done than by the endowment of The N. W. Harris Public School 

 Extension of Field Museum of Natural History. 



"The Board of Trustees of Field Musetim of Natural History, 

 having unanimously adopted the foregoing, do instruct that the same 

 be spread upon the records of the Board and request the President to 

 cause the same to be properly engrossed and attested and presented 

 to the family of the late Norman Wait Harris. 



The progress of the Harris Extension to the Public Schools is re- 

 ferred to in another part of this report, but the impressive fact that 

 over 250,000 public school children are now included in the service 

 of this Extension is a matter for special mention. 



Mr. Stanley Field, President of the Museum, has during the year 

 provided the ftmds for the establishment of a Pension System in behalf 

 of the employes of the Museimi whose compensation is not above a 



