Excerpt from Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Vol. 3: Annual Report for the Year 1908 Mr. Frank C. Baker Curator Mr. Frank M. Woodruff Taxidermist Miss Nellie G. Bunnell Office Assistant honorary curators. Dr. Thomas C. Chamberlin General Geology Dr. Stuart Weller. Paleontology Dr. Oliver C. Farrington Mineralogy Prof. E. J. Hill Botany announcement. 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.