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Field  Columbian  Museum — Reports,  Vol,  i. 
not  need  to  employ  outside  agencies  in  this  direction.     The  follow- 
ing table  s 
operations 
ing  table  shows  the  actual  results  only  of  a  large  series  of  detailed 
Lantern  Trans- 
Department.  Negatives.  Prints.  parencies. 
Anthropology   141  no  .  72 
Botany,   74  14  66 
Geology,  133  85  135 
Zoology,   64  377  72 
On  Expeditions   400 
812  586  345 
Printing. — The  printing  office  is  one  of  the  busy  money-saving 
sections  of  the  institution.  The  printers  have  been  constantly  at 
work,  new  type  and  increased  facilities  have  been  provided,  and  the 
section  is  now  prepared  to  do  all  the  printing  of  the  Museum  except 
the  publications.  The  two  exchange  catalogues  were  printed  in  the 
Museum  as  were  all  of  the  lecture  announcements,  advertising  cards, 
large  labels,  stationer)-,  etc.,  etc.  The  following  figures  show  the 
number  of  impressions  in  the  way  of  label  printing  and  general  jobs: 
Labels.         Other  Impressions. 
Anthropology  i.Q/6  I3i45Q 
Botany,  1,071  8,810 
Geology,  2,405  ;   
Graphic  Arts,   424   
Industrial  Arts,                                              456  100 
Zoology    
Director's  Office   26,286 
Library                                                             140  5,935 
Admissions. — The  total  attendance  for  the  year  was  about  10,000 
less  than  the  year  preceding.  The  paid  attendance  shows  a  decrease: 
the  admissions  on  free  days  was  about  the  same,  while  the  free  admis- 
sions on  pay  days  was  3,000  larger  than  last  year.  This  increase  is 
almost  entirely  of  school  children  and  students.  The  public  school 
authorities  have  made  greater  efforts  to  induce  pupils  to  attend  the 
Museum  this  year,  and  a  great  many  classes  accompanied  by  their 
teachers  have  visited  the  institution  for  observation  and  study:  but 
probably  the  greatest  factor  in  the  sharp  increase  in  the  attendance 
of  school  children  has  been  the  offering  by  Mr.  H.  N.  Higinbotham, 
of  a  series  of  cash  prizes  for  the  best  written  paper  by  a  pupil  of  the 
public  schools  of  the  State,  on  the  Museum  and  its  collections.  This 
contest  has  awakened  a  very  lively  interest  on  the  part  of  the  pupils 
of  the  public  schools,  more  especially,  of  course,  in  Chicago  where 
the  Museum  was  more  accessible.  The  rules  of  the  contest  were 
announced  in  a  circular  issued  by  Mr.  Higinbotham,  as  follows: 
