Author: American Entomological Society
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780656477470
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Excerpt from Entomological News, Vol. 40: June, 1929 North American Institutions Featuring Lepidoptera. V. The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois. By J. D. Gunder, Pasadena, California. (plate VII.) The W orld's Fair held at Chicago in 1893, brought together an unsurpassed amount of excellent display material suitable for museum purposes. There had been an era of artistic and industrial development on earth and competition and rivalry had led every nation to produce and exhibit its best. About this time a group of public-spirited citizens decided that at the close of the Exposition, the most important and valuable of these exhibits should remain in Chicago. Thus on August 21, 18-93, was founded the original Columbian Museum. A short time later the name was lchanged to the Field Columbian Museum and the most beautiful of the World's Fair buildings, the Palace of Arts in Jackson Park, was secured as a temporary home. This building was occupied for some twenty - seven years, however. In 1905 the museum limited its scope to the departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology and Zoology and the name was finally and definitely designated as the Field Museum of Natural History in honor of Mr. Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince whose endowments made it possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.