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HALL 34. 
LECTURE HALL. 
This is reserved for all public meetings, lectures, etc., held in 
the Museum. Courses of popular lectures on travels, expeditions, 
investigations and on scientific and technical subjects are here 
given on Saturday afternoons of March and April, and October 
and November, by curators of the museum and prominent inves- 
tigators and scientists. The lectures are usually illustrated with 
stereopticon views. 
The semi-circular mural paintings on the sides of the room 
possess an intrinsic and historical value. The one on the north 
wall — a scenet in Homeric Greece — is by Mr. F. D. Millet; the 
other illustrates a typical industry, that of pottery, and is by L. K. 
Earle. These paintings adorned the ceiling of the corner pavili- 
ons to the Manufactures Building, and were contributed by the 
Exposition to the Museum. On the west wall is a laige equestrian 
picture of General Winfield Scott, while opposite it is one of Gen- 
eral John A. Logan — the former loaned by Robert McCurdy, the 
latter by the Chicago Veteran Club. In the corners of the Hall 
are placed a heroic bust of Washington, presented by Susse Freres 
of Paris; a life-size statue of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of W^ar 
in the Lincoln cabinet, and the stooping figure of a fawn— a frag- 
ment of a fountain — by R. P. Bringhurst, of St. Louis. 
