Oct.  1895.  Annual  Report  of  the  Director.  9 
courses  proceeded,  however,  and  as,  through  the  aid  of  the  press  of 
Chicago,  the  value  of  the  lectures  was  brought  more  prominently  before 
the  public,  the  attendance  gradually  grew  larger,  and  in  the  next 
course  the  lecture  hall  was  invariably  crowded  beyond  its  seating 
capacity. 
The  second  course  was  as  follows: 
Feb.    2. — "  Pre-Columbian  Man  in  Ohio. "  (Illustrated.) 
Warren  K.  Moorehead,  Curator  of  Archeology,  Ohio 
State  University,  etc. 
Feb.    9.  — "  Life  Among  the  Cliff  Dwellers. "  (Illustrated). 
Warren  K.  Moorehead. 
Feb.  16. — "  The  Story  of  a  Birch  Tree." 
Dr.  Selim  H.  Peabody,  President  Chicago  Academy 
of  Sciences. 
Feb.  23.- — "The  Other  Half  of  the  Discovery."  (Illustrated). 
Edward  Morris  Brigham,  formerly  connected  with 
the  Smithsonian  Institution. 
Mar.    2.  —  "  Theories  of  Evolution." 
Prof.  John  M.  Coulter,  President  of  Lake  Forest 
University. 
Mar.   9.  —  "The  Fishes  of  Illinois  and  Adjacent  Regions."  (Illus- 
trated). 
Dr.  O.  P.  Hay,  Assistant  Curator  of  Ichthyology, 
Field  Columbian  Museum. 
Mar.  16.  — "  The  Structure  and  Constitution  of  Meteorites."  (Illus- 
trated). 
Prof.  O.  C.  Farrington,  Curator  of  Geology,  Field 
Columbian  Museum. 
The  third  course  was  as  follows: 
Mar.  23. — "Giants  of  Other  Days  as  Revealed  in  the  Zoology  of  the 
Past." 
Parti.     "Reptiles."  (Illustrated). 
Prof.    D.   G.     Elliot,    Curator    of  Zoology,  Field 
Columbian  Museum. 
Mar.  30.  — "  Giants  of  Other  Days." 
Part  2.     "  Birds  and  Mammals."  (Illustrated). 
Prof.  D.  G.  Elliot. 
Apr.    6.  — "  Cats  and  the  Lands  They  Inhabit.  "  (Illustrated). 
Prof.  D.  G.  Elliot. 
Apr.  13.  — "  Through  Death  Valley. "  (Illustrated). 
Mr.  Frederick  I.  Monsen,  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  California. 
Apr.  20. — "  Yucatan,  the  Land  of  Picar  and  Cuido."  (Illustrated). 
Lecture  First — "Along  the  Coast." 
Dr.  Charles  Frederick  Millspaugh,  Curator  of  Bot- 
any, Field  Columbian  Museum. 
