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Charles H. Morse, Jr., George Alexander McKinlock, John C. Shaffer, 

 Dorr E. Felt, A. Watson Armour, Theodore C. Keller, E. D. Hiilbert, 

 Frank S. Cunningham, Henry W. Farnum, B. E. Suimy, John Barton 

 Payne, Honore Palmer, Alfred Decker, David R. Forgan, George F. 

 Getz, Clarence M. Woolley, John Bumham, Augustus S. Peabody, 

 Samuel M. Hastings, P. D. Block, Joseph H. Defrees, Arthur T. Aldis, 

 John F. Jelke, E. J. Lehmann, George L. Veatch, Eugene B. Clark, 

 Oliver T. Wilson, Norman Bridge, W. H. Miner, Clive Runnells, 

 N. Landon Hoyt, William P. Martin, Robert Stuart, Robert W. Stewart, 

 Henry P. Crowell, Gustavus S. Fernald and WilHam E. Clow. 



Mr. James Simpson was elected a Patron of the Museimi, in recog- 

 nition of the eminent service he has rendered to the Institution. 



Amendments to the By-Laws made during the year have created 

 two new classes of memberships. Associate Members and Sustaining 

 Members, and have also provided additional privileges for all classes 

 of memberships. These privileges are indicated in the revised By-Laws 

 which will be found in this report. In this connection also, an agreement 

 has been entered into with other contemporary institutions for an 

 interchange of courtesies and privileges for Life and Annual Members. 



The Board of Trustees had presented for their consideration during 

 the year a proposal from the South Park Commissioners, asking the 

 consent of the Trustees to the erection by the Commissioners of a 

 Stadium, which it is proposed to construct on the south side of the 

 Museum building and which would encroach one himdred and twenty 

 feet, approximately, upon the restricted areas, which under the terms 

 of the contract between the Museum Trustees and the South Park 

 Commissioners providing a site for the Museum building, it was agreed 

 should remain free of structures imless otherwise concurred in by the 

 Museimi. After full consideration of the request, the Trustees gave 

 their consent to the construction of the Stadiimi as shown on the plans 

 submitted. 



The ordinance under which the South Park Commissioners set aside 

 a tract of land in Grant Park for the site of the new btiilding, in con- 

 sideration of which dedication the Institution is to be open free to the 

 public three days in each week, having been brought to the attention of 

 the Board of Trustees, it was decided that the Musetun should be open 

 free to the public on Thursdays, Satiu-days and Simdays. 



During the year arrangements were made with the Illinois Central 

 Railroad to construct a foot-bridge over the tracks of the railroad at 

 Park Row which would permit foot passage from the Park Row station 

 platform, or from the Park just outside of the retaining walls east and 

 west of the tracks, the Museiun to assume the cost of the structure. 



