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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



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SATURDAY AFTERNOON LECTURES VISITORS TO PRESENT MUSEUM BUILDING PASS 30 MILLION 



The Museum will present its annual 

 Autumn Lecture Course for adults on 

 Saturday afternoons during October and 

 November. Eight lectures on natural 

 science and travel in far places will be given. 



The lectures, most of which are accom- 

 panied by motion picture films in color, 

 will be given in the James Simpson Theatre, 

 and all begin at 2 :30 p.m. 



oHowing are the dates, and the subjects 

 and lecturers booked: 



October 6— Outdoor Symphony. 



Bert Harwell. 



Mr. Harwell, of Berkeley, California, is 

 western representative of the National 

 Audubon Society. He has unusually 

 revealing color films of bird life, and presents 

 whistled imitations of bird songs. 



October 13 — Back Yard Safari. 



Murl Deusing. 



This is a sequel to "Big Game Hunting in 

 the Back Yard" which Mr. Deusing gave 

 in a previous series at the Museum. Lecture 

 and films tell the story of how he and his 

 children found natural history excitement in 

 exploration of their own back yard. 



October 20— Exploring Jungle Gar- 

 dens With a Color Camera. 

 Mulford B. Foster. 



Mr. Foster is a botanist who has pene- 

 trated lowland jungles and high mountains 

 throughout the tropics of North and South 

 America seeking and studying rare plants 

 and their habits. His lecture on his adven- 

 tures and discoveries is illustrated with 

 kodachrome slides. 



October 27— Haiti. 



Robert Stanton. 



Haiti, the Black Republic, has been 

 called the most amazing island in the Carib- 

 bean. Mr. Stanton brings a brisk narrative 

 of its life, and illustrates his story with 

 motion pictures in color. 



November 3 — LAND OP Tomorrow — South 



Africa. 



Atisten West. 



Mr. West was born in Natal, and his 

 early years were spent in ranching and 

 farming in southwest Africa. In color 

 films he presents the scenery of his native 

 country, and the life of the colonists as well 

 as that of various native tribes. 



November 10 — BIRDS of the Sage Brush 



Country. 



Martin K. Botey. 



"Regulars" attending the Museum's 

 lectures year after year remember with 

 pleasure Mr. Bovey's several previous 

 appearances on these programs. This new 

 lecture is on the bird life of Alberta, Canada. 



The thirty-millionth visitor to cross the 

 threshold of the present Chicago Natural 

 History Museum building entered the 

 institution's portals at 1:05 P.M. July 15. 



The 30,000,000th visitor to this building 

 was also the 35,839,580th visitor in the 

 history of the Museum, as the institution 

 had 5,839,579 visitors during a little more 



Photo courtesy Chicago DAILY TIMES 



VISITOR NO. 30,000,000 GREETED 



Mrs. T. W. Glaze receiving book presented by the Museum from Miss Virginia Dcmpsey (right), Book Shop attendant, 



as a token marking the arrival of the 30,000,000th visitor to enter the present Museum building (and 35,839,S80th in 



history of the Museum, both buildings). Mrs. Glaze was accompanied by her husband and two children. 



When the counter in the hand of the guard 

 clicked for No. 30,000,000, it was Mrs. T. W. 

 Glaze, 4012 Deyo Avenue, Brookfield, 

 Illinois, who was coming through. Miss 

 Virginia Dempsey, North Door attendant, 

 and Mr. George Woodward, guard, informed 

 Mrs. Glaze that, as the thirty millionth 

 visitor she was the guest of the Museum 

 and entitled to come into the institution's 

 Book Shop and select any volume she 

 desired as a gift. She selected Malvina 

 Hoffman's Heads and Tales. 



than twenty-five years' occupancy of its 

 former location in Jackson Park (the 

 Palace of Arts of the 1893 World's Fair, 

 now reconstructed as the Museum of Science 

 and Industry). 



The present Grant Park building was 

 first opened to the public on May 2, 1921. 

 Thus, in the twenty-four years of occupancy 

 of this building, attendance has averaged 

 1,250,000 visitors a year, against only 

 233,000 a year during the twenty-five years 

 in its former location. 



November 17 — Roads North. 



Karl Robinson. 



Mr. Robinson, who for years has lived in 

 Alaska, accompanies his lecture with color 

 films covering the territory from San Fran- 

 cisco Bay to Fairbanks, Alaska. The 

 traveling is done over roads built for war 

 but destined to be the highways of peace. 



November 24 — Volcano in Action. 



Dr. Frederick Pough. 



Dr. Pough, curator and chairman of the 

 department of geology at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, brings the 

 story, in narrative and color films, of per- 



haps the outstanding natural history phe- 

 nomenon of many centuries — the eruption 

 of the new Mexican volcano, El Partcutin. 

 His films show the wiping out of the town 

 of Parfcutin, the growth of vast lakes of 

 lava, and the awesome spectacle of the 

 volcano at night. 



No tickets are necessary for admission to 

 these lectures. A section of the Theatre is 

 reserved for Members of the Museum, each of 

 whom is entitled to two reserved seats. Re- 

 quests for these seats should be made in 

 advance by telephone (WABash 9410) or in 

 writing, and seats will be held in the Mem- 

 ber's name until 2:30 o'clock. 



