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plan. The interior treatment of the theatre will be in harmony with that 

 of the main btiilding and it will be equipped with every modem appliance 

 for facility and comfort. 



The Trustees have named the large hall along the east side of the 

 Department of Botany on the second floor of the new biiilding in honor 

 of Mrs. Stanley Field. In this hall will be installed the collections in 

 plant reproduction, for which expensive and elaborate work under the 

 direction of the Department of Botany, Mrs. Field has provided the 

 essential funds. It will be known as Sara C. Field Hall. 



The plaster model of the new Museimi building, which has been on 

 exhibition in the Rotunda of the present building for several years, by 

 vote of the Board of Trustees has been presented to the Architectural 

 School of Armour Institute. 



The Woman's Temple building, located at the comer of La Salle and 

 Adams streets, mortgage upon which was given to the Museum by Mar- 

 shall Field before his death and which mortgage was foreclosed after 

 years of default, was sold to the State Bank of Chicago during the month 

 of May, and the proceeds added to the capital of the General Fund. 



In order to increase the income to a simi demanded by the extended 

 service of the public schools by The N. W. Harris Public School Ex- 

 tension of Field Musetmi of Natural History, the heirs of the late Nor- 

 man W. Harris, who provided the foundation for the Extension, have 

 donated to the Museum the sum of $25,000.00. 



Tmstee William Wrigley, Jr., having granted an exclusive privilege 

 to the Museum to survey, excavate and collect archaeological material 

 on Catalina Island, the Museimi, by permission of the grantor, entered 

 in an arrangement with the Museum of the American Indian of New 

 York City to prosecute scientific investigation on this island for the 

 period of two years. An expedition for this purpose is to be com- 

 missioned by Mr. George G. Heye, President of the Museimi of the 

 American Indian, early in 1920. 



A gift of imusual interest came from President Field; a Chinese 

 cloisonn6 figure, perfect in execution and rich in color, about twenty- 

 two inches high, representing a Grand Lama of the Buddhist Church of 

 Tibet. Upon comparison with other in^ages, the statue is identified as a 

 portrayal of Pal-dan-ye-she, a church dignitary only next in rank to 

 the Dalai Lama of Lhasa, and known as the Tashi Lama. Extended 

 reference to this donation is made elsewhere. 



An important accession during the year consisted of the private bo- 

 tanical collection of Mr. Edward T. Harper of Geneseo, Illinois. This 

 collection is composed of 10,000 fungi, 10,000 flowering plants, over 

 800 titles of books and pamphlets and approximately 1,500 photograph 



