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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY £>OT CENTRAL CIRCULATION BOOKSTACKS re- The person charging this material is return to sponsible for its renewal or its was borrowed the library from which it Date stamped on or before the Latest for each Lost below. The Mlnimom Fee Book is $50.00. of books are reason. mutilation, and underlining Theft dismissal from lirilsSnary action and may result In 333-8400 To REN^^'c^iu TELEPHONE CENTER, LIB RARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS APR 3 1995 due date below When renewing by phone, write new previous due date. Field Museum of Natural History Fom>fDED BY Marshall Field, 1893 Publication 287 Report Series Vol. VIII, No. 2 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES YEAR 1930 FOR THE fur- , 4. /U"''Jlj- '^^/yvo/. -^V o/ ^ . ^ ,,S^ NATURAL X>^ *^ HISTORY > POVNDKO BT MAnSHALL FIELD ^ Chicago, U. S. A. January, 1931 ^^ '""""y nr rut Field Museum of Natural History Reports, Vol. VIII, Plate XXI FREDERICK H. RAWSON A Trustee of the Museum and Patron of the Museum's Arctic Expeditions of 1926 and 1927-28 and its African Expedition of 1929-30 Field Museum of Natural History Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 Publication 287 Report Series Vol. VIII, No. 2 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR 1930 Chicago, U. S. A. January, 1931 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS .8^ BEQUESTS Bequests to Field Museum of Natural History may be made in securities, money, books or collections. They may, if desired, take the form of a memorial to a person or cause, to be named by the giver. 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CONTENTS Page Board of Trustees 272 Officers and Committees 273 List of Staff 274 Report of the Director 277 Lectures and Entertainments 302 James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for Public School and Children's Lectures 304 Nature Study Course 309 Lecture Tours for Adults 310 Educational Meetings 310 Radio Broadcasting 310 Division of Publications 311 Library 314 Expeditions and Research 316 Anthropology 316 Botany 326 Geology 344 Zoology 346 Accessions 354 Anthropology 354 Botany 363 Geology 374 Zoology 378 Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying and I^abeling 383 Installations and Rearrangements 387 Anthropology 387 Botany 393 Geology 396 Zoology 406 The N. W. Harris Public School Extension 411 Art Research Classes 412 Division of Public Relations 413 Division of Printing 418 Division of Roentgenology 419 Divisions of Photography and Illustration 420 Division of Memberships 421 Attendance Statistics and Door Receipts 422 Financial Statements 423 List of Accessions 424 Articles of Incorporation 451 Amended By-Laws 453 List of Benefactors 458 Honorary Members 458 Patrons 459 Corresponding Members 459 Contributors 460 Corporate Members 462 Life Members 463 Non-Resident Life Members 466 Associate Members 466 Non-Resident Associate Members 488 Sustaining Members 488 Annual Members 491 272 Field Museum of Natural History—Reports, Vol. VIII THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES John Borden William H. Mitchell William J. Chalmers Frederick H. Rawson R. T. Crane, Jr. George A. Richardson Marshall Field Martin A. Ryerson Stanley Field Fred W. Sargent Ernest R. Graham Stephen C. Simms Albert W. Harris James Simpson Samuel Insull, Jr. Solomon A. Smith William V. Kelley Albert A. Sprague Cyrus H. McCormick Silas H. Strawn William Wrigley, Jr. DeCbasbd, 1930 Charles H. Markham Jan. 1931 Annual Report of the Director 273 OFFICERS Stanley Field, President Martin A. Ryerson, First Vice-President Albert A. Sprague, Second Vice-President James Simpson, Third Vice-President Stephen C. Simms, Secretary Solomon A. Smith, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary COMMITTEES executive committee Stanley Field Albert A. Sprague Albert W. Harris Marshall Field William J. Chalmers John Borden James Simpson Silas H. Strawn finance committee Albert W. Harris James Simpson Martin A. Ryerson Solomon A. Smith Frederick H. Rawson building committee William J. Chalmers Samuel Insull, Jr. Cyrus H. McCormick Ernest R. Graham William H. Mitchell auditing committee James Simpson *Charles H. Markham Fred W. Sargent pension committee Albert A. Sprague William V. Kelley Solomon A. Smith *DBCBASED 274 Field Museum of Natural History—Reports, Vol. VIII LIST OF STAFF DIRECTOR Stephen C. Simms DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Berthold Laufer, Curator A. L. Kroeber, Research Associate in American Archaeology ASSISTANT CURATORS Albert B. Lewis, Melanesian Ethnology J. Eric Thompson, Central and South American Archaeology Paul S. Martin, North American Archaeology W. D. Hambly, African Ethnology Henry Field, Physical Anthropology T. George Allen, Egyptian Archaeology John G. Prasuhn, Modeler DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY B. E. Dahlgren, Acting Curator Paul C. Standley, Associate Curator of the Herbarium J. Francis Macbride, Assistant Curator of Taxonomy James B. McNair, Assistant Curator of Economic Botany Samuel J. Record, Research Associate in Wood Technology Llewelyn Williams, Assistant in Wood Technology Carl Neuberth, Custodian of Herbarium DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY O. C. Farrington, Curator Henry W. Nichols, Associate Curator Elmer S. Riggs, Associate Curator of Paleontology Sharat K. Roy, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Bryan Patterson, Assistant in Paleontology DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Wilfred H, Osgood, Curator William J. Gerhard, Associate Curator of Insects C. E. Hellmayr, Associate Curator of Birds H. B. Conover, Associate in Ornithology assistant curators John T. Zimmer, Birds Karl P. Schmidt, Reptiles R. Magoon Barnes, Birds' Eggs Alfred C. Weed, Fishes Edmond N. Gueret, Vertebrate Skeletons Colin C. Sanborn, Assistant in Mammalogy Walter A, Weber, Assistant and Artist DwiGHT Davis, Assistant in Osteology Emil Liljeblad, Assistant in Entomology TAXIDERMISTS Julius Friesser C. J. Albrecht L. L. Pray Leon L. Walters Arthur G. Rueckert Ashley Hine resigned Jan. 1931 Annual Report of the Director 275 department of the n. w. harris public school extension Cleveland P. Grant, Acting Curator A. B. WoLCOTT, Assistant Curator THE LIBRARY Emily M. Wilcoxson, Librarian Mary W. Baker, Assistant Librarian Elsie Lippincott (Librarian) REGISTRAR AUDITOR Henry F. Ditzel Benjamin Bridge Clifford C. Gregg, Assistant to the Director RECORDER—IN CHARGE OF PUBLICATIONS Elsie H. Thomas PURCHASING AGENT J. L. Jones THE JAMES NELSON AND ANNA LOUISE RAYMOND FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S LECTURES Margaret M. Cornell, Chief Franklin C. Potter June Work Miriam Wood Gordon S. Pearsall DIVISION OF PUBLIC RELATIONS H. B. Harte, in charge DIVISION OF MEMBERSHIPS Pbarle Bilinske, in charge DIVISION OF PRINTING U. A. DoHMEN, in charge Lillian A. Ross, Editor DIVISIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION C. H. Carpenter, Photographer Carl F. Gronemann, Artist A. A. Miller, Photogravurist DIVISION OF ROENTGENOLOGY Anna Reginalda Bolan, in charge STAFF ARTIST Charles A. Corwin SUPERINTENDENT OF MAINTENANCE John E. Glynn CHIEF ENGINEER W. H. Corning William E. Lake, Assistant Engineer resigned ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1930 To the Trustees of Field Museum of Natural History: I have the honor to present a report of the operations of the Museum for the year ending December 31, 1930. In reviewing the achievements of the Museum during the past twelve months it is most gratifying to record once again not only an impressive increase in the number of visitors to the institution, but also a marked rise in the rate of increase. The total number of visitors during 1930 was 1,332,799, or 164,369 more than in 1929, which, with a record of 1,168,430, had the largest attendance of any previous year. This gain over 1929 is more than 14 per cent. The year 1930 was the fourth consecutive year in which the number of visitors has exceeded one million. How the rate of increase is rising is shown by comparing the gain of 144,803 made in 1929 over the 1928 attendance, with the 164,369 gained in 1930 over 1929. It is of interest to note that of the total number of visitors during 1930 only 160,924 paid admission. Attendance on free days totaled 1,079,367, while free admissions on pay days due to the special privileges granted Members, children, teachers, etc., numbered 92,508. Of the total number of visitors it seems safe to estimate that fully one-third were children. That the Museum is successfully fulfilling its mission, not only as a place of immense interest for casual visitors, but also as an active and important educational institution of great and increasing scope and influence is indicated by statistics (to be found elsewhere in this Report) on the work carried on through the extra-mural activities conducted by the Department of the N. W. Harris Public School Extension, and the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for Public School and Children's Lectures. Through these two units of the Museum organization. Field Museum's benefits were extended outside the walls of the building to approxi- mately 716,000 school children. Thus, adding to this the number of persons actually coming to the Museum, the educational influence of the institution, including both inside and outside work, reached directly more than 2,048,000 individuals. In recognition of eminent services rendered to Science, the Board of Trustees in 1930 elected Mrs.