Jan., 1910. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



333 



ment to the Assistant Curatorship of Mammalogy and Ornithology. 

 Mr. Osgood brings to the Department of Zoology an established 

 reputation of high order. He is a scholar, an author, and an educator. 

 His better known labors have been with the mammals of the North- 

 west Coast, and he is an acknowledged authority among the younger 

 group of mammalogists. He is at present in London working up the 

 Museum African material, in which it is believed a number of new 

 types will be found. Prof. B. E. Dahlgren, the well known modeler 

 in wax and glass, especially assigned to the Department of Botany, 

 is an acquisition of importance. A number of striking pieces result- 

 ing from the art, skill, and scientific knowledge of Prof. Dahlgren 

 have already been placed on exhibition in the Botanical gallery. 

 One or more minor resignations have been offered in the scientific 

 departments, capable men accepting advancement to higher positions 

 in other institutions. 



The creation by the Board of Trustees of an Administration 

 Committee to which was assigned some of the duties theretofore 

 imposed upon the Executive Committee, and the monthly meetings 

 of this new Committee at the Museum, has been of distinct advantage 

 in the more prompt consideration of important questions by the 

 corporation authorities. 



The President (Sefior Don Manuel Estrada Cabrera) of the 

 Republic of Guatemala requested the United States Bureau of Fish- 

 eries to recommend some person to make a survey of Lakes Amatitlan 

 and Atitlan, for the purpose of determining whether and how the 

 quantity and quality of the food and game fishes of those lakes could 

 be increased. Assistant Curator Meek was recommended, because 

 of his knowledge of and interest in Tropical fresh-water fishes. The 

 survey was made by Dr. Meek while on a Museum expedition to 

 Central America. The scientific result of this survey was recorded in 

 a publication of the Museum, Vol. VII, pages 159 to 206. Three 

 other Museum publications with a total of 75 pages resulted from this 

 expedition. 



By consent of President Higinbotham of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, the collection of sketch models loaned to the Museum by 

 the World's Fair of 1893, which have been on exhibition in the 

 Rotunda since 1894, were presented to the West Chicago Park 

 Commissioners for exhibition in the public parks of the city, excepting 

 a few pieces selected by and presented to the Art Institute. A number 

 of these models have been installed in Garfield Park, and add a dis- 

 tinct note of artistic culture to the grounds. 



