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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



Jtdy-Auinisi, 19iS 



NINE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN 

 OFFERED THIS SUMMER 



The James Nelson and Anna Louise 

 Raymond Foundation for Public School 

 and Children's Lectures will present on 

 Thursday mornings during July and August 

 its annual summer series of nine free pro- 

 grams for children. Eight of the programs 

 will be motion pictures, and one will be a 

 special stage production by the well-known 

 Proctor Puppets of Springfield, Illinois. 

 Included among the puppets in the Proctors' 

 presentation are types from countries such 

 as Java, China, and India, as well as native 

 American comic characters. Animated 

 cartoons will be a feature of many of the 

 motion picture programs. 



The entertainments will be given in the 

 James Simpson Theatre of the Museum, 

 and each program will be given twice, at 

 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. in order to accommodate 

 maximum audiences. Children are invited 

 to come alone, accompanied by parents or 

 other adults, or in groups from clubs and 

 various centers. Admission is free. Follow- 

 ing are the dates and titles of the various 

 films: 



July 5 — Let's See Chicago 



Color and black and white pictures 

 of Chicago as a summer vacation 

 spot. 



Also a cartoon. 



July II — Orphans of the North 



A story about a small girl in the 

 interior of Alaska. She sees many 

 wild animals. 



July 19 — Puppet Show 



The Proctor Puppets, of Spring- 

 field, Illinois. 



July 26 — Land of Liberty 



More than a century and a half 

 of the American story. 



August 2— Youth takes to Wings 



The story of flight from birds to 

 planes. 



August 9 — King and the Scullery Maid 

 Also a cartoon. 



August 16 — The Passing of Time 



The story of telling time from 

 the earliest days. 

 Also a cartoon. 



.\ugust 23 — Wedding of Palo 



Picture of Eskimo life in Green- 

 land. 



.\ugust 3# — An All Cartoon Program 



patrons. A progressive line passing steam 

 tables, and salad, dessert, etc. counters 

 now expedites serving the public, and assures 

 enforcement of the "first come, first served" 

 rule which it was impossible to carry out 

 under the system formerly employed. 



Cafeteria Service Improved 



Service in the Museum Cafeteria has 

 been improved by recent changes in the 

 equipment and the method of handling 



GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



Following is a list of some of the principal 

 gifts received during the last two months: 

 Department of .\jithropolo^ 



From: Mrs. Clarence C. Prentice, Lake 

 Forest, 111. — 2 feathered baskets, Pomo 

 Indians, California; Llewelyn Williams, 

 Chicago — a wooden manioc grater, Kuri- 

 pako tribe, Venezuela. 



Department of Botany 



From: L. J. King, Wooster, Ohio— 325 

 specimens of cryptogams, Ohio and Indiana; 

 Hermann C. Benke, Chicago — 125 speci- 

 mens of cryptogams, Wisconsin and Illinois; 

 Robert Runyon, Brownsville, Tex. — 33 

 specimens of algae, Texas; Dr. Richard W. 

 Pohl, Colorado City, Tex. — 14 specimens of 

 algae, Texas; Dr. V. J. Chapman, Cam- 

 bridge, England — 80 specimens of myxo- 

 phyceae, Jamaica; University of Chicago — 

 the late P*rof. Charles J. Chamberlain's 

 collection of herbarium sheets, photographs, 

 seeds, and preserved material of cycads; 

 Prof. J. Soukup, Lima, Peru — 42 herbarium 

 specimens, Peru; Dr. Jose Cuatrecasas, Call, 

 Colombia — 120 herbarium specimens, Co- 

 lombia; Prof. Jose Eugenio Leite, Cidade de 

 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil — 69 herbarium 

 specimens, Brazil; Museo Nacional, San 

 Jose, Costa Rica — 57 herbarium specimens, 

 Costa Rica; Prof. E. Barros V., Concepcion, 

 Chile — 115 herbarium specimens, Chile. 



Department of Geolo^ 



From: Emit Liljeblad, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 —a specimen of orthoceras, Sweden; Eugene 

 Mayfield, Chicago — a specimen of anntdaria 

 longifolio, Illinois. 



Department of Zoology 



From: Lt. Harry Hoogstraal, U. S. Army 

 — 58 mammals, 41 fish, and 2 fre-sh water 

 snails, Dutch New Guinea; the late Arthur 

 Wolf Herz— 175 insects. United States; Dr. 

 Wilfred H. Osgood, Chicago— 83 rodents, 

 Mexico; J. G. Little, PhM3/c, U. S. Navy— 

 2 blind snakes, Guam; Pfc. Kevin W. Marx, 

 U. S. Army — 2 lis^ards, 5 snakes, and a fish. 

 New Caledonia and Pelau Island; S/Sgt. 

 G. Banner, U. S. Army — 30 lizards and 3 

 snakes, Molucca Islands; Chicago Zoologi- 

 cal Society, Brookfield, III. — a Malayan 

 bear, a waterbuck, a dingo, and 2 birds; 

 Groh Brothers, Chicago — a domestic pigeon; 

 Capt. Robert Traub, U. S. Army— 2 bats, 

 30 insects, and a scorpion, India; Mrs. 

 Frederick Greeley, Hondo, Tex. — 27 speci- 

 mens of land shells, Texas; T/5 William J. 

 Beecher, U. S. Army — 256 birdskins, Solo- 

 mon Islands; Sid Buzennius, Berwyn, III. — 

 a domestic pigeon; Charles Strebling, Lyons, 

 111. — a domestic pigeon; Lewis W. Bell, 

 Oak Park, III. — a domestic pigeon; Robert 

 R. Boehland, Rockford, III. — 2 domestic 

 pigeons; H. Eric Buri, Birmingham, N. J. — 

 a domestic pigeon; Walter O. Grant, Chicago 

 — a domestic pigeon; Joseph N. Koehler, 

 Chicago — a domestic and a common pigeon; 



SUMMER GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS 

 MORNINGS AND AFTERNOONS 



During July and August conducted tours 

 of the exhibits, under the guidance of staff 

 lecturers, will be given on a special schedule, 

 as follows: 



Mondays: 11 a.m., Plants Useful to Man; 

 2 P.M., General Tour (Exhibition halls, 

 all Departments). 



Tuesdays: 11 a.m., Animals the World 

 Around; 2 p.m.. General Tour. 



Wednesdays: 11 a.m.. The People of the 

 Worid; 2 p.m.. General Tour. 



Thursdays: 11 a.m., and 2 p.m.. General 

 Tours. 



Fridays: 11 A Jf., Stories in Stones; 2 P.M., 

 General Tour. 



Persons wishing to participate should 

 apply at North Entrance. Tours are free. 

 There are no tours given on Saturdays, 

 Sundays, or on July Fourth. 



By pre-arrangement with the Director, 

 special tours are available to parties of ten 

 or more persons. 



Lt. (j.g.) Loren P. Woods, U. S. Navy— 12 

 fish specimens, California; Charles D. Nel- 

 son, Grand Rapids, Mich. — 20 specimens of 

 exotic fresh water mussels; J. E. Johnson, 

 Jr., Waco, Tex. — 108 reptiles and amphibi- 

 ans, Texas; E. O. Miller, China Springs, 

 Tex. — an earless lizard and a western 

 massassauga, Texas; Corp. Michael H. 

 Bevans, U. S. Army — 2 lizards, Okinawa 

 Shima; Pvt. Roger D. Mitchell, Wheaton, 

 Dl. — 2 lizards, Georgia, and 31 specimens of 

 land shells, England; Dr. Graham P. 

 DuShane, Chicago — 17 newts, Illinois; Capt. 

 Carl Mohr, U. S. Army — 2 bats, Philippine 

 Islands. 



Raymond Foundation: 



From: Robert Yule, Henniker, N. H. — 

 392 kodachrome slides. 



Library: 



From: Edgar Anderson, St. Louis; Ber- 

 nard Benesh, North Chicago, III.; A. M. 

 Clark, Melbourne, Australia; Cleveland 

 I*ress, Cleveland; H. Daniel, Medellin 

 Carrera 51, Colombia; Ford Motor Com- 

 pany, Dearborn, Mich.; Carlton M. Her- 

 man, Sacramento, Calif.; Albert M. Kling- 

 man, Philadelphia; V. J. Carlos Lehmann, 

 Popayan, Colombia; Oliverio M. de O. 

 Rnto, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Frank E. Peabody, 

 Berkeley, Calif.; Pittsburgh Plate Glass 

 Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Raul Ringuelet, 

 La Plata, Argentina; Dr. Daniel Rubin de 

 la Borbolla, Mexico City; C. Van Riet Lowe, 

 Johannesburg, South Africa; Celanese Cor- 

 poration, Dr. Jesse J. Dossick, and Miss 

 Frances E. Wynne, Bronx Park, New York; 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dr. 

 Henry Field, and the Library of Congress, 

 Washington, D.C.; and Col. Clifford C. 

 Gregg, William J. Gerhard, Dr. Fritz Haas, 

 Orr Goodson, Alex K. Wyatt, Dr. Fred 

 Barkley, Dr. Reuben M. Strong, and Bur- 

 gess Manning Company, all of Chicago. 



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