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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



November-Deeember, 19iS 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



RcMsevelt Road and Field Drive, Chicago 



TBLGrMONB: Wabash 9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lester Aruour Stanley Field 



Sewell L. Avery Samuel Insull, Jr. 



W. McCoRMiCK Blair Charles A. McCulloch 



Leopold E. Block William H. Mitchell 



Boardman Conover George A. Richardson 



Walter J. Cummings Solomon A. Smith 



Albert B. Dick, Jr. Albert A. Spragub 



Howard W. Fenton Silas H. Strawn 



Joseph N. Field Albert H. Wetten 



Marshall Field John P. Wilson 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field Presidenl 



Albert A. Sprague First Vict-Presidenl 



Silas H. Strawn Second Vice-President 



Albert B. Dick, Jr Third Vice-President 



CurFORD C. Gregg Director and Secretary 



Solomon A. Smith . . . Treasurer and Assistant Secretary 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 Clifford C. Grbgq Director of the Museum 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR 

 Wilfred H. Osgood Curator Emeritus, Zoology 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of Anthropology 



B. E. DahlgrEN Chief Curator of Botany 



Paul O. McGrew Acting Chief Curator of Geology 



Karl P. Schmidt Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 H. B. Hartb Public Relations Counsel 



Members are requested to Inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



THREE CONTRIBUTORS ELECTED 



Dr. Ruth Marshall, Professor of Biology 

 at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, and 

 Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, Assistant Curator 

 of the Herbarium at this Museum, have 

 been elected by the Board of Trustees to the 

 membership classification designated as 

 "Contributors" to the Museum. This mem- 

 bership classification includes all persons 

 whose gifts in funds or materials for the col- 

 lections range between $1,000 and $100,000. 

 Their names are inscribed in perpetuity on 

 an honor roll in the Museum. 



Also elected, posthumously, was Judge R. 

 Magoon Barnes, of Lacon, Illinois, whose 

 death was reported in the last Bulletin. 



Dr. Marshall presented a comprehensive 

 collection of water mites of high importance 

 to scientific research. She has also been 

 appointed to an honorary post on the staff 

 of the Department of Zoology as Research 

 Associate in the Division of Insects, in 

 recognition of her achievements in her 

 chosen field of science. 



Dr. Steyermark recently returned to his 

 post after several years' absence serving the 

 government on important medico-botani- 

 cal projects in South America for war 

 purposes as an agent of the Foreign Eco- 

 nomic Administration. He collected in 

 spare time many thousands of plants valued 

 at several thousand dollars which he has 

 presented to the Museum. 



Judge Barnes^.bequeathed the Museum 

 an important collection of some 39,000 



birds' eggs. He was an honorary member 

 of the staff as Curator of Birds' Eggs. 



Staff Notes 



Corporal Bryan Patterson and Corporal 

 William Beecher were released from service 

 in the Army in October. Corporal Patter- 

 son, Curator of Paleontology, will return to 

 his Museum post after a brief vacation in 

 California. Corporal Beecher, formerly an 

 Assistant in the Department of Zoology, 

 has been assigned to the N. W. Harris 

 Public School Extension of the Museum. 



Corporal Patterson was in the thick of 

 action on the French and Belgian fronts, 

 was wounded, returned to action, awarded a 

 citation, taken prisoner by the Nazis when 

 he and his men were hopelessly outnumbered 

 on a patrol mission, and released when the 

 main American force swept over the area 

 where he was held captive. 



Corporal Beecher, attached to a combat 

 medical unit, participated in the taking of 

 Rendova, and was engaged in malaria 

 control work on Guadalcanal, the Russells, 

 New Georgia and Bougainville. In spare 

 time he collected many zoological specimens 

 which he sent to the Museum, and made a 

 notable series of paintings of natural history 

 features of the islands, some of which have 

 now been published in newspapers and an 

 encyclopedia. 



Lieutenant Loren P. Woods, U.S.N.R., 

 Assistant Curator of Fishes, is in Japan for 

 work on Japanese fisheries for the American 

 military government. 



Mrs. Harold Florsheim has become a 

 volunteer assistant on the staff of the 

 Department of Anthropology. 



Miss Bernice Kaplan, volunteer in the 

 Department of Anthropology, has been 

 awarded a Museum fellowship by the 

 University of Chicago. Her special research 

 will be in creation of new kinds of exhibits. 



Museology Course 



A course in museology for the graduate 

 students of anthropology in the University 

 of Chicago is being given by the Museum's 

 anthropological staff for the third season. 

 This course serves as an interneship for 

 training students to become competent 

 museum curators. 



Edward H. Bean 



The sad news of the death on Septem- 

 ber 5 in an automobile accident of Edward 

 H. Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological 

 Society's zoo in Brookfield, was noted with 

 deep regret at the Museum. Mr. Bean had 



many friends on the staff of this Museum. 

 He was largely responsible for the extremely 

 cordial relations maintained between the 

 zoo and the Museum, which have resulted 

 in the acquisition of many valuable speci- 

 mens for the Museum collections. 



THE MUSEUM HONOR ROLL 

 Now in the Nation's Service 



^ 



Army 



Dr. John Rinaldo, 



Aasociate, South- 

 western Archaeol. 



—Staff Sgt. 

 Dr. Sharat K. Roy, 



Curator, Geol. — 



Capt. 

 D. Dwight Davis, 



Curator, Anat. and 



Osteol. — Corp. 



Emmet R. Blake, Asst. Curator, Birds— Special 

 Agent, War Dept. 



Rupert L. Wenzel, Asst. Curator, Inserts — Capt. 

 Henry S. Dybas, Assistant, Inserts- Sgt. 

 Henry Horback, Assistant, Geol. — S. Sgt. 

 James C. McIntybe, Guard — 2nd Lt. 

 Raymond J. Connors, Guard — Pvt. 

 Frank J. Dutkovic, Janitor — Pvt. 



Navy 



Samuel Insull, Jr., Trustee- Lieut. Comdr. 



Joseph Nash Field, Trustee — Lieut. 



Colin Campbell Sanborn, Curator, Mammals — 



Lieut. Comdr. 

 Dr. Alexander Spoehr, Curator, N. Amer. 



Ethnol. — Lieut. 

 Loren P. Woods, Asst. Curator, Fishes — 



Lieut, (j.g.) 

 John W. Moyer, Taxidermist — Ch. Specialist 



(Bur. Aeronautics) 

 James H. Quinn, Chief Preparator, Paleontol. — 



MetaUmith 2C 

 Patrick T. McEnery, Guard— Master Gunner 

 Nicholas Repar, Printer — Aviation Machinist's 



Mate IC. 

 Herbert Nelson, Painter — Painter IC. 

 Elizabeth Best, Guide-Lecturer — 



Lieut, (j.g.), WAVES 

 Marie B. Pabst, Guide-Lecturer — 



Lieut, (j.g.), WAVES 



Marine Corps 



Melvin a. Traylor, Jr. Associate, Birds — Capt. 



Coast Guard 



M. C. Darnall, Jr., Guard — Lieut, (j.g.) 



John McGinnis, Guard — Ch. Boatswain's Mate 



Other Services 



RUDYERD Boulton, Curator, Birds — Staff of 



Office of Strategic Services 

 Bryant Mather, Asst. Curator, Mineralogy — 



Civilian Worker, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army 

 Dr. C. Martin Wilbur, Curator, Chinese Archaeol. 



and Ethnol. — Staff of Office of Strategic Services 



Died in Service: 



Theodore Roosevelt, Trustee — Brig. Gen., U.S.A. 

 George Jahrand, Guard — Ch. Machinist, U.S.N. 



Returned to Museum Service: 



Lester Armour, Trustee — Captain, U.S.N.R. 



George A. Richardson, Trustee — Lt. Col., U.S.A. 



Clifford C. Gregg, Director — Colonel, U.S.A. 



William Beecher, Asst. Harris Extension — Corp., 

 Army 



Bryan Patterson, Curator, Paleontology — Corp. 

 Army 



Morris Johnson, Carpenter — Carpenter's Mate 

 IC, U.S.N.R. 



Llewelyn Williams, Curator of Economic Botany 

 — special service for U.S. Government 



Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, Asst. Curator, Herba- 

 rium — field work for Foreign Economic Admin- 

 istration 



