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THE economic situation in the United States is bearing heavily upon institutes such as museums which depend largely upon the goodwill and financial aid of the people. The annual report for 1934 of the Director of the Field Museum of Natural History shows this clearly. Income, from endowments, tax collections, admissions and membership, was in each case reduced, so that a total of 491,002 dollars stands against 636,318 for 1933. Visitors have fallen from more than three millions in 1933 to less than two millions in 1934, though the earlier year's numbers were abnormally increased by the opening of the “Century of Progress Exposition” hi Chicago. In spite of difficulties, the Field Museum eontiimos to prosecute research in various fields, though theso are now limited to privately financed expeditions; it has added notable groups of animals to its public galleries; and it continues by means of lectures (attended by some 662,000 persons, mostly children) and by travelling natural history exhibits (to more than four hundred schools) to educate the youth of Chicago biologically.
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Field Museum of Chicago. Nature 136, 217 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136217c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136217c0