Sept. 11--What if you're a fan of "Antiques Roadshow," but your potential treasures run more toward things geological or biological than, say, art historical?
The Field Museum might be able to answer your "What are those?" questions with its second annual free Identification Day Saturday. Museum scientists will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the central Stanley Field Hall to try to help you identify items you own or even have photographed that you've been curious about.
There are guidelines, chief among them that the museum does not want non-human flesh entering its doors. Here's how the Field put it: "You can bring in fossils, rocks, meteorites, seashells, feathers, and photographs of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects--just nothing that's alive or was recently, or the animals (or their fleas) could get loose in the Museum."
Also, appraisals will not be provided, just IDs. What you do with your treasure after that is up to you.
