io  Field  Columbian  Museum — Reports,  Vol.  i. 
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Apr.  27. — "  Yucatan,  the  Land  of  Picar  and  Cuido."  (Illustrated). 
Lecture  Second — "In  the  Interior." 
Dr.  Charles  Frederick  Millspaugh. 
The  fourth  course  of  lectures  was  planned  for  the  Saturday  after- 
noons of  October  and  November,  1895,  and  began  on  October  5, 
the  programme  being  as  follows: 
Oct.     5.  — "  Cats  and  the  Lands  They  Inhabit." 
(Repeated  by  request). 
Prof.    D.    G.   Elliot,   Curator    of    Zoology,  Field 
Columbian  Museum. 
Oct.  12.  —  "Living  Pictures  of  Invertebrate  Animals." 
Prof.  A.  H.  Cole,  University  of  Chicago. 
Oct.  19.  —  "Edible  and  Poisonous  Mushrooms." 
Dr.  Charles  Frederick  Millspaugh,  Curator  of  Bot- 
any, Field  Columbian  Museum. 
Oct.  26.  — "  A  Chapter  in  the  Early  History  of  Chicago." 
Prof.  O.  C.  Farrington,  Ph.  D.,  Curator  of  Geology, 
Field  Columbian  Museum. 
Nov.    2.  —  "Structure  and  Natural  History  of  Sharks." 
O.  P.  Hay,  Ph.  D.,  Assistant  Curator  of  Ichthyology,. 
Field  Columbian  Museum. 
Nov.    9.  — "  On  the  Origin  of  Coal." 
H.  W.  Nichols,  Curator  of  Economic  Geology,  Field 
Columbian  Museum. 
Nov.  16. ■ — "  The  Ethnology  of  the  Japanese." 
S.  Choyo,  Commissioner  of  Fine  Arts,  Imperial  Jap- 
anese Commission,  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion. 
Nov.  23.  —  "Archeology  and  Episodes  of  Travel  in  Mexico." 
Prof.   W.    H.    Holmes,   Curator  of  Anthropology,. 
Field  Columbian  Museum. 
Nov.  30.  — "  Origin  and  Development  of  the  Native  Architecture  of 
Mexico."   Prof.  W.  H.  Holmes. 
The  course  was  opened  auspiciously  by-  Prof.  Elliot,  the  lecture- 
hall  being  comfortably  filled.  This  lecture  course  has  been  brought 
prominently  before  the  universities  of  Chicago  and  vicinity,  and  the 
public  school  principals  and  teachers. 
Publications. — The  first  edition  of  the  Guide  to  the  Museum, 
was  prepared  during  the  early  spring  of  1894,  and  appeared  in  time 
for  the  opening  day,  June  1.  Owing  to  the  somewhat  unsettled- 
state  of  the  collections  at  that  time,  there  was  much  difficulty  in  pre- 
paring accurate  plans,  or  even  descriptions.  This  Guide  contained 
248  pages  and  provided  a  systematic,  although  condensed,  presenta- 
tion of  all  the  material  then  in  the  Museum,  indicating  the  location  by 
