Oct.  1897. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Director, 
199 
The  responses  to  this  invitation  have  been  entirely  satisfactory, 
and  the  committee  to  decide  the  result  will  be  appointed  and  enter 
upon  its  duties  within  a  few  days.  Among  the  visitors  to  the  Museum 
in  bodies  during  the  past  year  may  be  noted  the  following:  134  dele- 
gates to  Universal  Postal  Congress;  ^American  Institute  Mining  En- 
gineers: 181  pupils.  Class  of  Zoology,  Hyde  Park  High  School;  127 
pupils  from  City  Normal  School:  84  pupils  and  1  teacher  from  City 
Normal  School,  seventh  grade:  69  pupils  and  1  teacher  from  Primary 
Normal  School:  136  pupils  and  1  teacher  from  Cook  County  Normal 
School;  119  pupils  and  3  teachers  from  Burroughs  School:  72  pupils 
and  1  teacher  from  Normal  Practice  Training  School;  75  pupils  and 
4  teachers  from  Hyde  Park  High  School:  60  pupils  from  the  Farren 
School;  114  pupils  and  2  teachers  from  West  Division  High  School; 
124  pupils  and  6  teachers  from  J.  N.  Thorpe  School:  59  pupils  and 
6  teachers  from  Helen  Heath  Settlement  School. 
Herewith  are  submitted  financial  statements,  analysis  of  attend- 
ance, list  of  accessions,  names  of  members,  etc.,  etc. 
FREDERICK  J.  V.  SKIFF, 
Director. 
