Page 8 



CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



Septemberr-Oelober, 19iS 



SATURDAY CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS 

 —RAYMOND FOUNDATION 



The James Nelson and Anna Louise 

 Raymond Foundation for Public School 

 and Children's Lectures will present its 

 autumn series of free motion picture pro- 

 grams for children on Saturday mornings 

 during October and November. These 

 programs, to which children from all parts 

 of Chicago and suburbs are invited, will be 

 presented twice each Saturday, at 10 a.m. 

 and at 11, in the James Simpson Theatre 

 of the Museum. 



Following is the schedule: 



October 6 — Indians Today. 

 Also a cartoon. 



October 13 — This Amazing America. 

 Also a cartoon. 



October 20— Realm of the Wild. 

 Also a cartoon. 



October 27 — Title to be announced. 



November 3— Magic from the Earth. 

 The story of coal and oil. 

 Also a cartoon. 



November 10 — Along the Mississippi. 

 Also a cartoon. 



November 17 — Chimpanzee Circus. 



Mr. Leon Smith, trainer of the chimps 

 in the St. Louis Zoo, will explain the pic- 

 tures. He will be accompanied by his 

 dog Suki. 



November 24 — All-Cartoon Program. 



LECTURE TOURS ON WEEKDAYS, 

 SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 



Conducted tours of exhibits, under the 

 guidance of stafif lecturers, are made every 

 afternoon at 2 o'clock, except Sundays and 

 certain holidays. On Mondays, Tuesdays, 

 Thursdays, and Saturdays, general tours 

 are given, covering all departments. Special 

 subjects are offered on Wednesdays and 

 Fridays; a schedule of these follows: 



September 



Wed., Sept. 5— Heads and Tales— The 

 Malvina Hoffman Bronzes (Mrs. Roberta 

 Cramer). 



Fri., Sept. 7— Meet the People — Our 

 Neighbors Around the World (Emma 

 Neve). 



Wed., Sept. 12— Our Daily Bread— Plants 

 of Economic Importance (Mrs. Roberta 

 Cramer). 



Fri., Sept. 14 — Prehistoric America (Emma 



Neve). 



Wed., Sept. 19— The Ancient Magic of 

 Jade (Mrs. Roberta Cramer). 



Fri., Sept. 21 — People of the Pyramids 

 (Emma Neve). 



Wed., Sept. 26— Before the Dawn of Man- 

 Prehistoric Plants and Animals (Mrs. 

 Roberta Cramer). 



Fri., Sept. 28— The Story of Purs— Fur- 

 bearing Animals (Miriam Wood). 



October 



Wed., Oct. 3— Oriental Weavers (Mrs. 

 Roberta Cramer). 



Fri., Oct. 5 — Color Changes in Nature — 

 Leaves, Birds, Fish, Mammals and 

 Reptiles (Miriam Wood). 



Wed., Oct. 10— Double Ten, the New 

 China (Emma Neve). 



Fri., Oct. 12 — Along the Ancient Routes of 

 Silks, Spices and Gold (Mrs. Roberta 

 Cramer). 



Wed., Oct. 17— Whales— The Largest Mam- 

 mals in the World (Miriam Wood). 



Fri., Oct. 19 — Past and Present in Africa 

 (Emma Neve). 



Wed., Oct. 24— Ghost Stories— Masks and 

 Magic (Mrs. Roberta Cramer). 



Fri., Oct. 26— The Largest and Smallest 

 Animals (Miriam Wood). 



Wed., Oct. 31 — Stone Age Europe (Emma 



Neve). 



GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



Following is a list of some of the principal 

 gifts received during the last two months: 



Department of Anthropology 



From: T. L. J. Klapp, Jr., Chicago — a 

 Sac and Fox buffalo robe, Illinois. 



Department of Botany 



From: The Griffith Laboratories, Chicago, 

 28 samples of spices; T/5 Louis B. Martin, 

 U. S. Army — 44 cryptogams. New Guinea; 

 Dr. G. W. Prescott, Cheboygan, Mich.— 78 

 specimens of algae, Panama and Canal 

 Zone; Dr. Alton A. Lindsey, Albuquerque, 

 N. M. — 20 specimens of algae. New Mexico; 

 Robert Runyon, Brownsville, Tex. — 43 

 cryptogams, Texas; Dr. Delzie Demaree, 

 Monticello, Ark. — 82 specimens of algae, 

 Arkansas; Dr. Paul D. Voth, Chicago— 89 

 specimens of algae, Illinois; Funk Bros. 

 Seed Company, Bloomington, 111. — 18 speci- 

 mens of inbred and hybrid corn; Prof. J. 

 Soukup, Lima, Peru — 64 herbarium speci- 

 mens, Peru; Escuela Agricola Panameri- 

 cana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras — 800 her- 

 barium specimens, Honduras; W. A. Toole, 

 Baraboo, Wis. — 23 pot herbs and medicinal 

 plants. 



Department of Geolo^ 



From: Edwin C. Galbreath, Springfield, 

 111. — femur of Canis latrans, Illinois gravel 

 pits; Dr. M. J. Groesbeck, Porterville, 

 Calif. — a specimen of chalcedony after 

 stilbite and one of porphyritic diorite, 

 California; Miss Ann Zay, Oak Park, 111. — 5 

 geological specimens; C. N. Bruegger, 

 Chicago — a specimen of native copper, 

 Wisconsin. 



Department of Zoology 



From: the late R. M. Barnes, Lacon, 111. — 

 collection of 39,317 North American birds' 

 eggs in 24 cases; Boardman Conover, Chi- 

 cago — 27 game birds; Chicago Zoological 

 Society, Brookfield, 111. — a rattlesnake, an 

 armadillo, 2 mamba heads, 2 baby swans, 

 and 13 other birds; Lincoln Park Zoo, 

 Chicago — an infant guanaco and 2 bird 

 skins; Lieut. Comdr. Colin C. Sanborn, 

 U.S.N. R.— 4 bird skins and 13 fish, Peru 

 and Hawaii; T 5 W. J. Beecher, U. S. Army 

 — 2 centipedes, Guadalcanal; Lt. Harry 



Hoogstraal, U. S. Army — 14 fish, 6 bats, a 

 mouse, 2 bandicoot embryos, and 19 speci- 

 mens of worms and Crustacea, Australia and 

 New Guinea; J. D. Bangston, Mason, Tex. — 

 a ring-tailed civet cat, Texas; Capt. Robert 

 Traub, U. S. Army — 23 snakes, lizards, and 

 frogs, India; University of Chicago, Chicago 

 — 2 guinea pigs; Miss Frances Poe, Wil- 

 mette. 111. — an infant opossum, Illinois; 

 Lieut. Loren P. Woods, U. S. Navy— 9 

 snakes, frogs, and lizards, California; Lt. 

 and Mrs. Frederick Greeley, Winnetka, 111. 

 — 2 snakes, Texas and Wisconsin; Corp. 

 Bryan Patterson, U. S. Army — 122 fresh- 

 water shells, Illinois; Walter F. Webb, 

 Rochester, N. Y. — an egg mass of a marine 

 snail, Florida; Capt. Carl Mohr, U. S. Army 

 — 8 bats, Philippine Islands; Dr. J. L. B. 

 Smith, Grahamstown, Union of South 

 Africa — a scale of living coelacanth; A. 

 Kapturski, Chicago — a domestic pigeon; 

 Shemroske Bros., Chicago — a domestic 

 pigeon; Roger Conant, Philadelphia, Pa. — 

 27 specimens of turtles from 6 species; Ens. 

 John F. Kurfess, Milwaukee, Wis. — 30 

 snakes, lizards, and frogs, Illinois and 

 Admiralty Islands; Dr. Clarence R. Smith, 

 Aurora, 111. — a snapping turtle and a soft- 

 shelled turtle, Illinois; Lt. H. R. Mead, U. 

 S. Army — 8 fish specimens, Africa. 



Library: 



From: Lieut. Comdr. Colin C. Sanborn, 

 U.S.N.R.; Paul H. Baldwin, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii; Thomas A. Edison, Inc., West 

 Orange, N. J.; P. W. Fattig, Emory Uni- 

 versity, Georgia; B. F. Goodrich Company, 

 Akron, Ohio; William M. Harlow, Syracuse, 

 N. Y.; Armando Hunziger, T., Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina; Rui Simoes Menzes, 

 Portuleza, CeSra, Brazil; F. Nabil, Secre- 

 tary, General Iranian Delegation, San 

 Francisco, Calif.; Albert E. Parr, New York 

 City; Raymond Rogers, Wilmington, Calif.; 

 South Bend Lathe Works, South Bend, Ind.; 

 R. E. Woodruff, Cleveland, Ohio; and Dr. 

 A. A. Dahlberg, Col. Clifford C. Gregg, 

 Dr. Fritz Haas, John Crerar Library, Mrs. 

 Frank J. Psota, and Westinghouse Electric 

 Supply Company, all of Chicago. 



Annual Report Published 



By the time this issue of the Bulletin is 

 mailed, distribution of the Annual Report 

 of the Director for 1944 to members will 

 either be completed or on the verge of com- 

 pletion. The publication was delayed due 

 to man shortage in the Museum's Division 

 of Printing, and the accumulation of a back- 

 log of publications exceeding the capacity of 

 the Museum Press. The report is the last to 

 be made by Mr. Orr Goodson, Acting 

 Director, who recently accepted a position 

 elsewhere prior to the return to the director- 

 ship of Colonel Clifford C. Gregg, absent 

 for several years on Army service. 



Regent of Iraq Visits Museum 



Price Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq, during 

 a recent sojourn in Chicago spent several 

 hours in a visit to the Museum. Director 

 Clifford C. Gregg acted as host. 



PRINTED BV CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PRESS 



