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of the Department of Zoology, and his acceptance of the post of 

 Honorary and Supervisory Curator of the same department, was an 

 important change in the scientific staff during the year. The change 

 was the result of the consideration of two years, and is intended to 

 give Mr. Elliot greater freedom of action with regard to his individual 

 work and movements, and at the same sime to retain to the depart- 

 ment, over which he has presided since the opening of the Museum, the 

 benefits of his scholarly attainments and wide Museum experience. 

 His successor as Curator of the department is Charles B. Cory, lately 

 of Boston, but now a resident of Chicago, who, since the inaugura- 

 tion of the Museum, has been the Curator of Ornithology. Orni- 

 thology now becomes a division of the department of Zoology, and 

 Mr. Cory becomes the curator of all the divisions and sections that 

 would naturally come under Zoology. The personnel of the depart- 

 mental staff remains otherwise unchanged. 



Lecture Courses. — Three Lecture Courses have been given since 

 the date of the last Annual Report, and a gratifying increase in the 

 attendance has to be recorded. There have been very few lectures 

 when the demands for admission have not exceeded the capacity of 

 the hall. 



Following is the Twenty-third Lecture Course, with the subjects 

 and lecturers, delivered during the months of October and November, 

 1905: 



Oct, 7. — "Land of the Maya." 



Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, Curator of Botany. 

 Oct. 14. — '"The Making of the Grand Canon." 



Prof. A. R. Crook, Northwestern University, 

 Evanston, 111. 

 Oct. 21. — " Hayti — The Negro Republic." 



Mr. George V. Nash, New York Botanical Garden. 

 Oct. 28. — "The Trout and Salmon of North America." 



Dr. Seth E. Meek, Assistant Curator of Zoology. 



Nov. 4. — "The Fishes of Illinois." 



Dr. Seth E. Meek, Assistant Curator of Zoology. 



No v . 11. — " Primitive Art. 



Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



Nov. 18. — "Meteorites." 



Dr. 0. C. Farrington, Curator of Geology. 



