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statement was $208,467. The difference, $86,000, between this 

 amount and .the cost of maintenance is accounted for by special 

 appropriations, for: cases, $10,000; expeditions, $11,000; pubHca- 

 tions, $5,500; special exterior repairs, $5,500; and collections pur- 

 chased, $50,000. The latter item exceeds any amount previously 

 expended for new material in any one year with the exception of the 

 first year of the Museum's existence. 



Staff of the Museum. — The Staff has been augmented by the 

 appointment of Dr. Jesse M. Greenman, formerly of the Gray Her- 

 barium, as Assistant Curator of the Department of Botany, and 

 by the appointment of Dr. N. Dearborn as Assistant Curator in 

 charge of Ornithology. 



Lecture Courses. — Both the Autumn and the Spring Lecture 

 Courses were given in FuUerton Memorial Hall by special ar- 

 rangement with the trustees of the Art Institute, and it is en- 

 couraging to state that the capacity of the hall was taxed at almost 

 every lecture. Opportunity is here taken to thank the gentlemen 

 who very generously cooperated in this method of public instruction. 



Following is the Twenty-first Lecture Course, delivered during 

 the months of October and November, 1904, with the subjects and 

 lecturers : 



Oct. I. — " Wild Flowers of the Chicago Basin." 



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



Oct. 8.- — "Japan — Land of Lacquer and Bamboo." 



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



Oct. 15. ■ — " Variation of Birds." 



Dr. N. Dearborn, Department of Ornithology. 



Oct. 22. — " Crystals." 



Dr. O. C. Farrington, Curator of Geology. 



Oct. 29. ■ — " Wyandotte and Marengo Caves." 



Dr. O. C. Farrington, Curator of Geology. 



Nov. 5. — "A Naturalist in Africa — Field Columbian Museum 

 Expedition." 

 Prof. D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E., Curator of Zoology. 



Nov. 12.. — " Cats and the Lands they Inhabit." 



Prof. D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E., Curator of Zoology. 



