FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM, a sci entific institution of Chicago, Ill., established through gifts by Marshall Field (q.v.) and other citizens and opened on 2 June 1894. It was in corporated on 16 Sept. 1893 as Columbian Museum of Chicago. In 1894 its name was changed to Field Columbian Museum and again in 1905 to Field Museum of Natural History. Many of the exhibits shown at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 were either dedicated or purchased for the museum and formed the nucleus of its collections which have since then been greatly enlarged. Originally they were housed in some of the buildings erected for the World's Fair, which, in part, have been supplanted by new and more up-to-date buildings. Marshall Field endowed it at its inception with a gift or $1,000,, 00 'Kith' in his lefi 'an Rdi:ttinrial it of $8,000,000. At present the museum consists of the following departments: anthropology, botany geology, zoology and the N. A. Harris Founda
tion of Public School Extension. The latter loans, for purposes of exhibition in pub& schools, exhibits collected in show cases and is rapidly increasing its usefulness. The museum does, in its various departments, scientific re searches, supports explorations on the part of its curators, and issues a series of publications for each department. It also possesses a eral and various special libraries, totaling 71.316 volumes in 1918. Its receipts and dis bursements balanced at $214,277 for 1917; dur ing the same year it registered a total attend ance of 191,197. Consult 'An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Field Columbian (in Field Columbia& Museum Publi cations, Historical Series, Vol. I, No. 1, Chicago 1894) and the annual reports of the director and of the various departments.