ABSTRACT
Field Museum was one of America’s outstanding natural history museums. Housed in a handsome Greek revival building overlooking Lake Michigan, the collections were under the charge of four departments—Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Anthropology. The last was my home, and its chief was Dr. Paul Martin, my direct boss. Paul was a really wonderful colleague, perhaps fifteen years older than I, and a specialist on American archaeology. Shortly after I arrived, Clifford C. Gregg became the new director of the museum, but Stanley Field, the president, was the chief policymaker.
