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the roof of the building. The building itself can be considered as being 

 in good repair, yet the overhanging cornices which are rapidly de- 

 teriorating occasion a certain amount of anxiety and are promptly 

 removed as conditions demand. During the year the entire building 

 was thoroughly examined by an expert assigned for this inspection by 

 D. H. Burnham & Company, the architects. The report states that 

 all brick work is in first class shape, as is also the structural steel in the 

 columns and girders. The staff work throughout the interior of the 

 building was found to be in good condition. The skylights were also 

 reported as being in good state. A special request was made that this 

 expert examine the floor loads throughout the building, and it is gratify- 

 ing that the report states that much care had been exercised in this 

 respect and where an unusually heavy load is concentrated the floor had 

 been thoroughly reinforced in each instance. 



LECTURE Courses. — The lecture courses have been particularly inter- 

 esting and well attended. They have been participated in by dis- 

 tinguished scholars and students in the various branches of the natural 

 sciences, and acknowledgment is here made of the generosity and good 

 will which this participation manifests toward the Museum. 



Thirty-eighth free illustrated lecture course, delivered during the 

 months of March and April, 1913. 

 March i. — "A Look into South America." 



Prof. RoUin D. Salisbury, The University of Chicago. 

 March 8.— "Fossil Collecting." 



Mr. A. W. Slocom, Assistant Curator, Division of Inver- 

 tebrate Paleontology, Field Museum. 

 March 15. — "Cultural and Somatic Evidences of Man's Antiquity." 



Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University. 

 March 22. — "Spain — Country and People." 



Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, New York. 

 March 29. — "Newfoundland." 



Prof. M. L. Fernald, Harvard University. 

 April 5. — "Wild Flowers of the Chicago Region." 



Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of Botany, 



Field Museum. 

 April 12.— "Crossing the Andes of Northern Peru." 



Mr. W. H. Osgood, Assistant Curator of Mammalogy 



and Ornithology, Field Museum. 

 April 19. — "Logging California Redwoods." 



Mr. Huron H. Smith, Assistant Curator, Division of 



Dendrology, Field Museum. 



