May 10-1898 Left Washington in Omaha on the 11.05 A.M. B & O train. The day on a splendid one arriving in Pittsburgh a little after noon. doc. 81 May 11-1898 Arrived in Chicago at 10 A.M. After securing our sleeper tickets started out for the Field Columbian Museum. After spending three hours in the Museum was impressed with the great amount of material on exhibiting. The exhibits are however mainly thrown together particularly the transportation. The mounting of animals by Mr. Akeley is very fine and I hope he will continue to do this work and not do as Mr. Hornaday. I cannot say that I can see anything in to methods of mounting.