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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



September-October, 19iS 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field. 1893 



Rooaerelt Road and Field DriTe, Chicago 



Telephosb: Wabash 9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lbstbk Armour Stanley Field 



Sbwbll L. Ave»y Samuel Insull, Jr. 



W. McCoRMicK Blair Charles A. McCulloch 



Leopold E. Block William H. Mitchell 



Boardman Conoveb George A. Richardgon 



Walter J. Cuhmings Solomon A. Smith 



Albert B. Dick, Jr. .\lbbrt A. Spragus 



Howard W. Fenton Silas H. Strawn 



Joseph N. Field Albert H. Wbttk< 



Marshall Field John P. Wilson 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field Praidnt 



Albert A. Spragub Firtt Viet-Pretidtnt 



Silas H. Strawn Second Vire-Preridtni 



.\LBBtT B. Dick Third VUe-Prtsidtni 



CUFTORD C. Gregg Director and SecreUxry 



Solomon A. Smith . . . Trtaturer and Attitiant Secrelari 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 CUFFOBD C. Grbgg Director of Ike Miaeum 



.ASSOCIATE EDITOR 



WiLniED H. Osgood Curator Emeritua, Zoology 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of AnOiropoloay 



B. E. Dahlgren Chief Curator of Bolant 



Paul O. McGrbw Acting Chief Curator of Geology 



Karl P. Schmidt Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 H. B. Hartb Publir Relaiiom Coumet 



Membera are requested to Inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



R. MAGOON BARNES 



R. Magoon Barnes, "Judge" Barnes or 

 "R. M." to his many friends, died in Hen- 

 nepin, Illinois on July 18 at the age of 83. 

 Bom April 21, 1862 in Lacon, Illinois, he 

 spent his entire life there except for a brief 

 trip to California in childhood with his 

 parents. Returning to Lacon in 1864, the 

 family resumed small town life and he 

 attended public schools leaving them before 

 graduating from high school to attend 

 Northwestern University and later the law 

 school of the Illinois Wesleyan University 

 in Bloomington, where he finished in 1883 

 and received his license to practice law. 



His father, whose "Barnes Law OtRce" 

 dated from 1857, immediately employed 

 him in the firm then Barnes and Muir. 

 Later he became a member of the firm which 

 continued with successive partnerships and 

 at the time of his death was known as 

 Barnes, Magoon and Barnes. At the age of 

 70, he retired from active practice, but 

 never wholly relinquished the law and even 

 in later years made numerous court appear- 

 ances. 



Natural history, and especially orni- 

 thology, became his hobby at an early age. 

 During his boyhood he witnessed the great 

 flights of passenger pigeons, now extinct, 

 the miUions of ducks and shorebirds, then a 

 commonplace, and such present rarities as 

 wild turkeys, trumpeter swans, and whoop- 

 ing cranes were familiar to him. He began 

 to collect birds' eggs in 1876 when only 14 

 years old, and from then on never ceased. 



Later, when his means permitted, he began 

 to augment his own collection by the pur- 

 chase of other private collections from 

 Florida to California and from California to 

 Alaska. Thus his collection became one of 

 the largest and finest in existence. Practi- 

 cally all rarities were included and others 

 were represented by selected series. 



This collection, numbering nearly 40,000 

 specimens, was deposited in the Chicago 

 Natural History Museum in 1925 and in 

 1928 Judge Barnes was appointed to the 

 staff of the Department of Zoology with the 

 title of Assistant Curator of Oology, later 

 changed to Curator, Birds' Eggs. At his 

 death full title to the collection passed to 

 the Museum. 



In pursuit of his hobby and, as he said, 

 "to rescue it from an untimely grave," he 

 purchased the small journal known as 

 The Oologist in 1909 and continued to 

 publish it until 1942. This publication, 

 founded in 1875 and re-established in 1884, 

 had served as a medium of communication 

 among young naturalists throughout the 

 United States and provided the inspiration 

 for many a youth who in later life attained 

 to distinction in the field of zoology. 



During recent years Judge Barnes con- 

 tinued to make additions to his collection, 

 to make frequent visits to the Museum, and 

 to keep in touch through correspondence. 

 His periodic appearances at the Museum 

 were always occasions for reminiscence and 

 jocular banter with other members of the 

 staff with most of whom he had established 

 warm personal relations. Cheerfulness was 

 a characteristic and his engaging person- 

 ality, his fund of humor, and his generous 

 nature will long be remembered. In a sense, 

 he was a link with a past that is gone, a 

 past that but for such as he would lack its 

 full flavor. 



A promotion to the rank of Lieutenant- 

 Commander has been won by Colin C. 

 Sanborn, the Museum's Curator of Mam- 

 mals, on leave for service with the Navy. 

 He had been a lieutenant. 



Staff Notes 



Dr. Paul O. McGrew, Acting Chief 

 Curator of Geology, and Mr. Bryan Patter- 

 son (at present in service with the U.S. 

 Army) have been appointed as lecturers on 

 the geology faculty of the University of 

 Chicago. Their work in this capacity will 

 be conducted concurrently with their duties 

 at the Museum. 



Dr. Rainer Zangerl, formerly Assistant 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy at 

 Notre Dame, has joined the staff of the 

 Museum as Curator of Fossil Reptiles in 

 the Department of Geology. He is engaged 

 in special research on fossil turtles. 



Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, Assistant 

 Curator of the Herbarium, recently returned 

 from a government mission in Venezuela 

 and Ecuador for the Foreign Economic 

 Administration, has been elected to cor- 

 responding membership in the Natural 

 Science institutes of both countries. 



THE MUSEUM HONOR ROLL 

 Now la the Nation's Service 



^ 



Army 



Dr. John Rinaloo, 



Associate, Soatb- 



western Archaeol. 



— Staff Sgt. 

 Dr. Sharat K. Roy, 



Curator. Ged. — 



Capt. 

 D. Dwight Davis, 



Curator, Anat. and 



Osteol.— -Corp. 

 Bryan Patterson, Curator, Paleootolocy — Corp. 

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



Agent, War Dept. 

 Rupert L. Wenzel, .Aast. Curator, Inaects — Capt. 

 Henry S. Dybas, Assistant. Insects — Set. 

 William Beecher, Temp. Aast., Zool. — Corp. 

 Henry Horbace, Asst., Geol. — S. Set. 

 James C .McIntykb, Guard — 2nd Lt. 

 Raymond J. Connors, Guard — Pvt. 

 Frank J. Dutkovic, Janitor — Pvt. 



NaTy 

 Lbstsi Armour, Trustee — Captain 

 Samuel Insuu., Jr., Trustee — Lieut. Comdr. 

 Joseph Nash Field, Trustee — Lieut. 

 CouN Campbell Sakborn, Curator, M«mm.i. — 



Lieut. Comdr. 

 Dr. Alexander Spobhs, Curator, N. Amer. 



Ethnol. — Lieut. 

 LOREN P. Woods, Asst. Curator, Fiabea — 



Lieut, (j.g-) 

 John W. Moybk, Taxidermist — Ch. Specialist 



(Bur. Aeronautics) 

 Jambs H. Quins, Chief Preparator, Paleootol. — 



Metalamitb 2C 

 Patrick T. McEnery, Guard — Master Gunner 

 Nicholas Rbpar, Printer — Aviation Machinist's 



Mate IC. 

 Herbert Nelson, Painter — Painter IC. 

 Elizabeth Best, Guide-Lecturer — 



Lieut, (j.g.). WAVES 

 Uarib B. Pabst, Guide-Lecturer — 



Lieut. Og), WAVES 



Marine Corps 

 Mblvin A. Traylor, Jr. Associate, Birds — Capt. 



Coaat Guard 

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

 John McGinnis, Guard— Ch. Boatswain's Mate 



Other Serrlces 

 Rudyerd Boulton, Curator, Birds — Staff of 



Office of Strategic Services 

 Bryant Mather, Aast. Curator, Mineralogy — 



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

 Dr. C. Martln Wilbur, Curator, Chinese ArdiaeaL 



and Elthnol. — Staff of Office ot Strategic Senrieea 



Completed War Service: 



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



Clifford C. Gregg, Director — Colonel. G.S.C., 

 U.S.A. 



John Stckowski, Guard — Ch. Commissary Stewd., 

 U.S. Navy 



Morris Johnson, Carpenter — Carpenter's Mate 

 IC, U.S.N. R. 



L1.SWBLYN Williams, Curator of Economic Botany 

 — special service for U.S. Government 



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

 rium — field work for Foreign Economic .Admin- 

 istration 



Died la Service: 



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



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



