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in the preparation of plant accessories for the several large mammal 

 groups still tmcompleted, the Olympic elk group, the bison group, and 

 the capybara group. The taxidermists have finished the preliminary 

 models and manikins for a single Alaska moose. A giraffe and a hippo- 

 potamus are partly finished and practically ready for installation. The 

 entire collection of the Division of Ichthyology and Herpetology was 

 packed during the year and is now ready for shipment to the new build- 

 ing. The Section of Taxidermy has prepared the accessories for a 

 nimiber of small groups of local fishes and has been engaged in mounting 

 certain fishes to fill in gaps in the synoptic series, which it is planned to 

 make comparatively complete. In the Division of Entomology over 

 three months at the beginning of the year were devoted to preparations 

 for moving. As the entomological collections can be packed rather 

 expeditiously and as it was unwise to render them inaccessible for any 

 great length of time, the members of this Division assisted in the prepa- 

 ration of other material for removal. A large part of the year has been 

 devoted to the making of two insect groups for a new case that was 

 designed and bmlt to accommodate them. One of the groups will repre- 

 sent the most conspicuous and characteristic insects of the sand dune 

 region at Miller, Indiana, and the other will show the well known and 

 destructive tomato worm in all its stages and with wax reproductions 

 of its natural surroundings, etc. For specimens, casts of burrows, 

 leaves and other accessory material, local field trips were made whenever 

 they were considered necessary. While neither of the two groups has 

 yet been finished, both have been so far advanced toward completion 

 that they will be ready for installation by the latter part of January. 

 The Division of Osteology packed fifteen exhibition cases with moimted 

 skeletons and eighty-nine crates and boxes of various sizes, such as those 

 for the whale, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and camel, including 

 small ones for small ligamentary skeletons and skulls, which are now 

 ready for removal. The skeletons, ntmibering twenty-seven (mostly 

 ligamentary), that could not be packed in the condition they were in, 

 were remoimted. 



THE N. W. HARRIS PUBLIC SCHOOL EXTENSION OF FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



— At the close of the year there were 646 cases available for circulation 

 among the public schools of Chicago. In view of the painstaking me- 

 thods employed in the taxidermy and accessory work of all zoological 

 groups, it is with pride and pleasure that attention is called to the fact 

 that of the total cases available for circulation, fifty-eight zoological 

 cases were completed during the past year. 



When plans were being formulated for the actual loaning of cases to 

 the public schools, it was the opinion of a committee composed of school 



