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vision made has resulted in a noticeable improvement in the physical 

 appearance of the exhibition halls throughout the building, more 

 especially in the Departments of Botany and Geology, which now 

 present as near an appearance of completeness as it is desirable or 

 possible for an active Museum to attain. 



In the publications of the Museum for the year, Curator Cory's 

 "Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin" has attracted much favorable and 

 gratifying criticism, while the descriptive catalogue, by Prof. Tarbell, 

 of the collection of reproductions of the bronzes in the Naples Museum, 

 selected by Mr. Edward E. Ayer, constitutes by general consent a 

 valuable contribution to the literature of classical archaeology. 



The murder of Dr. William Jones of the Department of An- 

 thropology, while on an expedition for the Museum among the 

 Ilongots of the Philippine Islands, was a shock to his associates in 

 the Museum, no greater, however, than it was to his compeers and 

 to student ethnologists throughout the world. Dr. Jones was a 

 young man of the very best attainments in his chosen field, whose 

 death came while performing service fully as patriotic and high in 

 purpose as that actuating any man whose career has had a tragic 

 close. The Museum has just learned of the intended return of 

 Assistant Curator S. C. Simms, who visited the scene of Dr. Jones' 

 last work and has secured the material and notes gathered by him 

 and caused a suitable monument, funds for which were privately 

 provided, to be erected at the spot where the body of Dr. Jones was 

 buried. The Trustees have caused a bronze memorial tablet designed 

 by Theodore Lescher to be cast for insertion in the wall surrounding 

 the Philippine collection in the Museum. 



The engagement of Curator Dorsey to prepare a series of articles 

 on the ethnology and sociology of the Old World for publication in 

 the Chicago Tribune, while depriving the Museum for a time of the 

 important service of a much valued member of the scientific staff, is 

 nevertheless so closely allied with the purposes and possibilities of 

 the Department of Anthropology, that the arrangement might be 

 said to enlarge its scope. The letters thus far published have attracted 

 wide attention and there can be no doubt of the importance of this 

 contribution to the knowledge of those concerned in the sociologic 

 conditions of the world and those specially interested in the rapidly 

 changing intellectual and moral averages of the United States by 

 reason of the introduction into its body politic of the peoples under- 

 going the capable scrutiny of Dr. Dorsey. Among other changes in 

 the staff is the acceptance by Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood of an appoint- 



