I go Field Museum oe Natural History — Reports, Vol. IV. 



Thirty-seventh Free Illustrated Lecture Course: 



Oct. 5 .—''A Botanist in the Orient — I." 



Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of 

 Botany, Field Museum. 

 Oct. 12.— ''A Botanist in the Orient— II." 



Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of 

 Botany, Field Museum. 

 Oct. 19. — "In Costa Rica and Panama." 



Dr. S. E. Meek, Assistant Curator, Department of 

 Zoology, Field Museum. 

 Oct. 26. — ''A Naturalist's Reconnaissance in Colombia." 



Prof. Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Nov. 2. — ''The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition: The 

 Pigmies of the Philippine Islands." 

 Mr. Fay Cooper Cole, Ethnologist, Field Museum. 

 Nov. 9.— ''Plant Breeding." 



Prof. J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago. 

 Nov. 16. — "The Geology of China and its Influence upon the Chinese 

 People." 



Prof. Eliot Blackwelder, University of Wisconsin. 

 Nov. 23.— "The Mrs. T. B. Blackstone Tibetan and Chinese Expedi- 

 tion: Chinese Art." 

 Dr. Berthold Laufer, Associate Curator of Asiatic 

 Ethnology, Field Museum. 

 Nov. 30. — "Prof. Whitman's Unpublished Researches on Heredity 

 and Evolution." 

 Dr. Oscar Riddle, Research Assistant, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution. 



Publications. — During the year thirteen publications of the estab- 

 lished series were issued and some of these exceed in importance any 

 hitherto published by the Institution. Following is a list of the publica- 

 tions issued and their distribution: 



Pub. 152. — Anthropological Series, Vol. VII, No. 4. Antiquities from 

 Boscoreale in Field Museum of Natural History. By 

 Herbert F. De Cou. 68 pages, i map, 64 halftones, 2 zinc 

 etchings. Edition 1,500. 



Pub. 153. — Zoological Series, Vol. XI. The Mammals of Illinois and 

 Wisconsin. By Charles B. Cory. 505 pages, numerous 

 maps, halftones and zinc etchings. Edition 2,500. 



