THE CHICAGO VENTURE 
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1894-5-6-7 
The leading part taken by me during the decade 
1884-1894 in researches relating to the antiquity of man in 
America, and the geological ppovieis involved in these re- 
searches, brought me into contact with a number of the geolo- 
gists of the country interested in the geological phases of 
the problem. : Among them was Dr. T. C. Chamberlain, a geolo- 
gist of first distinction, who was, and is (1926) at the head 
of the Geological Department of the University of Chicago, who 
induced me to join hig department of Si University as non- 
resident Professor of Anthropic Geology, and as lecturer on 
the relationsof the American race to the geological periods 
and formations. Through Dr. Chamberlain's influence I was 
later offered the position of Curator of the Department of 
Anthropology in the Field Columbian Museum, then coming into 
prominence among the museums of the country. | It happened 
that while considering the Chicago offer there were strong 
influences at work to move me to accept a similar position in 
the New York Museum, Mr. Jessup being at that time President. 
The attraction of the two Chicago positions proved the stronger, 
however, and I prepared to close my long and most agreeable 
association with the Washington iasbttuc ious and my associates 
and collaborators of a period of twenty-three years. A farewell 
banquet was arranged in which sixty-four of my scientifie and 
artistic associates and other friends participated. The 
banquet, faulty dexeriicé in a preceding volume, was a most 
interesting affair, and a tribute to me not readily forgotten. 
