Nov. 2: to Chicago Left Wash. at 6:45 last evening. Worked up somewhere in Ohio; then through Indiana, and into Illinois to Chicago at 12:30. I was impressed with corn-and-hogs as the chief crop all along. But lots of ground appeared not to be utilized; there was much waste pasture, brush land, and tracts of deciduous growths -- now in winter condition. Save for the coal or manufacturing towns, human dwelling seemed very run down; even several of the towns looked pretty slowly. The chief birds seen were Crows -- up to 8 or 10 in a group, sometimes in corn fields but usually on or over pasture or waste land. Saw a Sparrow Hawk chasing a Crow; a Flicker, a Meadowlark, and many English Sparrows in each town -- still common enough, be it noted! This afternoon I visited the Field Museum. It being Saturday, I was unable to connect with any of the curators. The "guards" said we were on Sat. afternoons; and no guard or other official I could find