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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



May-June, 19i5 



LECTURE TOURS ON WEEKDAYS 

 IN MAY AND JUNE 



Conducted tours of exhibits, under the 

 guidance of staff 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: 



May 



Wed., May 2— By-Products of the War- 

 Shortages Create New Ideas for Using 

 Primitive Products (Mrs. Roberta Cramer). 



Fri., May 4 — Meet the People — Our 

 Neighbors Around the World {Emma 

 Neve). 



Wed., May 9 — Story of Garden Plants 

 {Miriam Wood). 



Fri., May 11— What Fossils Tell Us 

 {Velma D. Whipple). 



Wed., May 16 — The Unseen Museum — 

 Stories About the Cases {Emma Neve). 



Fri., May 18 — True Fish Stories {Miriam 

 Wood). 



Wed., May 23 — Native Homes of Circus 

 Animals {Velma D. Whipple). 



Fri., May 25 — Agriculture and Foods 

 Among Primitive Peoples {Mrs. Roberta 

 Cramer). 



Wed., May 30 — Memorial Day — no tour. 



June 



Fri., June 1— The Shrinking World— Travel 



and Exploration {Emma Neve). 

 Wed., June 6 — Brilliant Blossoms — The 



Showiest of Flowers {Miriam Wood). 

 Fri., June 8 — Sons of Han — Our Chinese 



Allies {Emma Neve). 

 Wed., June 13 — Birds and Their Homes 



{Velma D. Whipple). 

 Fri., June 15 — The Land of Montezuma — 



Colorful Mexico {Mrs. Roberta Cramer). 

 Wed., June 20 — The Americas {Mrs. Roberta 



Cramer). 

 Fri., June 22 — Expedition Tails and Tales 



{Velma D. Whipple). 

 Wed., June 27 — Along the Ancient Routes 



of Silks, Spices, and Gold {Mrs. Roberta 



Cramer). 

 Fri., June 29 — Bathing Beaches — Swimmers 



Past and Present {Velma D. Whipple). 



GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



Following is a list of some of the principal 

 gifts received during the last two months: 



Department of Anthropology 



From: Benjamin B. Felix, Dundee, 111. — 

 4 pieces of pottery, Yucatan, Mexico; Lt. 

 Comdr. Ward E. Guest, U. S. Navy— 6 

 ethnological specimens. New Hebrides; Mrs. 

 E. G. Gibson, Momence, 111. — a barbed 

 fish spearhead of whalebone, Yahgan tribe, 

 Tierra del Fuego. 



Department of Botany 



From: New York Botanical Garden, New 

 York — 305 herbarium specimens, Costa 

 Rica; Dr. Earl E. Sherff, Chicago— 21 

 herbarium specimens, Hawaii; Hermann C. 

 Benke, Chicago — 130 herbarium specimens, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, and 



Oklahoma; U. S. Forest Service, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. — 363 herbarium specimens, 

 Ecuador, and one from Costa Rica; Escuela 

 Agricola Panamericana, Tegucigalpa, Hon- 

 duras — 2,300 herbarium specimens, Hon- 

 duras. 



Department of Geology 



From: M. C. Thoroman, Columbia Falls, 

 Mont. — 16 geological specimens, Montana; 

 Mrs. A. J. Kudrua, Berwyn, 111. — a speci- 

 men of tin ore. South Dakota; Donald 

 Bannon, Chicago — a specimen of marl. 

 Canal Zone; Mrs. E. A. Russell, Chicago — 

 a jade ornament; Fernando Paba, Medellin, 

 Colombia — 3 specimens of bituminous coal, 

 Colombia. 



Department of Zoology 



From: Edwin C. Galbreath, CPhM, U.S. 

 Navy — 4 fishes and a spiny-bellied spider, 

 Marshall and Solomon Islands; Sgt. Henry 

 S. Dybas, U. S. Army — 112 lower inverte- 

 brates, Saipan, Mariana Islands; Corp. 

 Eugene Ray, U. S. Army — 16 snakes, geckos, 

 crabs, and slugs, Philippine Islands; Lin- 

 coln Park Zoo, Chicago — 9 birds and a Cali- 

 fornia boa; Lt. Harry Hoogstraal and Stan- 

 ley G. Jewett, Jr., U. S. Army — 51 rodents 

 and bats. New Guinea and Philippine 

 Islands; Alan Solem, Oak Park, 111.— 2 

 shells, Mariana Islands; T/5 D. Dwight 

 Davis, U. S. Army — a snake, Texas; Dr. 

 Wesley R. Coe, La Jolla, Calif. — 46 mussels. 

 Pacific coast; Norman French, Springfield, 

 111. — 2 lizards, Arizona; Corp. William J. 

 Beecher, U. S. Army — 2 millipedes, Solomon 

 Islands; S. A. Edgar, U. S. Army— 64 shells 

 and crustaceans, Eniwetok, Marshall Is- 

 lands; The American Varnish Company, 

 Chicago — a lizard in copal, Africa; Capt. 

 Rupert L. Wenzel, U. S. Army — 19 snakes 

 and frogs, Brazil; C. M. Barber, Flint, 

 Mich. — a soft-shelled turtle, Florida; E. C. 

 Richardson, Chicago — a least weasel, Illi- 

 nois; Laurence M. Klauber, San Diego, 

 Calif. — 2 lizards, Brazil; Chicago Zoological 

 Society, Brookfield, 111. — 7 birds; Bernice P. 

 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii — 2 land 

 shells, Caroline Islands; E. Hagen, U. S. 

 Army — 10 fish specimens, Saipan, Mariana 

 Islands. 



Library : 



From: American Fuchsia Society, San 

 Francisco, Calif.; Emil Beer, Berwyn, 111.; 

 A. B. Du Mont, Passaic, N. J.; Essex 

 Ornithological Club, Salem, Mass.; Mrs. 

 M. R. Harned, Rockford, 111.; James 

 Hornell, St. Leonard-on-Sea, England; 

 Theodor Just, Notre Dame, Ind.; Dr. 

 Angel Maldonado, Lima, Peru; Manitoba 

 Department of Mines and Natural Re- 

 sources, Winnipeg, Canada; Eliot G. Mears, 

 Stanford University, Calif.; North American 

 Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Professor E. L. Palmer, Ithaca, N. Y.; 

 Lieut. Colin C. Sanborn, U. S. Navy; 

 Walter P. Taylor, College Station, Tex.; 

 Wells-Dickey Company, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 Capt. Rupert L. Wenzel, U. S. Army; 

 Wyoming Game and Fish, Cheyenne, Wyo. ; 

 Office of Strategic Services, Inter-American 

 Development Commission, Dr. Henry Field, 

 and Leon Kelso, all of Washington, D.C;. 

 J. F. McLaughlin and Western Union 

 Telegraph Company, New York; and B. N. 

 Benesh, Boardman Conover, Dr. A. E. 



Emerson, Miss H. Elizabeth Story, and 

 Robert Yule, all of Chicago. 



NEW MEMBERS 



The following persons became Members 

 of the Museum during the period from 

 February 12 to April 13: 



Associate Members 



Randolph Bohrer, Miss Fannie S. John- 

 ston, Walter S. McCloud, Robert K. 

 Mielenz, James L. Palmer, Dr. Theodore R. 

 VanDellen. 



Annual Members 



F. W. Adams, Henry Bengston, Garrett 

 L. Bergen, Fred G. Bovee, Miss Ruth M. 

 BuruU, Mrs. Evelyn Butler, Arthur G. 

 Dale, Charles R. Drake, Leonard Dubkin, 

 Dr. Marguerite S. Flores, Herbert S. 

 Futran, William Gallauer, Werner H. 

 Grabbe, William H. Grigg, Miss Marian 

 Hegg, Charles H. Hocking, Paul Kay, 

 Robert A. Kirkman, Leo Krumdieck, Mrs. 

 John W. Mathews, Quinlan J. McNall, 

 Donald F. Moore, Miss Frances M. Mullin, 

 Francis L. Newton, James L. Newton, 

 Robert B. Overend, Reuben L. Perin, Miss 

 Frances Poe, Robert C. Preble, Romolo 

 Roberti, John Roggenkamp, Alphons J. 

 Scheuber, Bertha M. SchoU, Miss Elizabeth 

 J. Spencer, Joseph L. Strong, Hugo Stumpp, 

 Dr. Paul E. Thai, Philip R. Toomin, Irving 

 S. Toplon, Hy Wasserman, Paul G. Water- 

 house, Mrs. Henry J. Way, Michael Wayne. 



Anthropologists Meet 



The Museum was host on April 6 to a 

 meeting of the Chicago Anthropological 

 Society, held in the lecture hall. Seventy- 

 five members of the profession attended. 

 Mr. George I. Quimby, Jr., Curator of 

 Exhibits in the Museum's Department of 

 Anthropology, was chairman of the com- 

 mittee of arrangements. 



Death of Dr. L. H. Shattuck 



The administrative officers and staff of 

 the Chicago Natural History Museum join 

 with those of their sister institutions of this 

 city in an expression of regret over the death 

 of Dr. L. Hubbard Shattuck, Director of 

 the Museum of the Chicago Historical 

 Society on March 29. Dr. Shattuck had 

 made an enviable record in his field, achieved 

 great success in administering the Society's 

 museum, and had been prominent in many 

 other civic and national activities. In the 

 joint relationships engaged in between the 

 various museums of Chicago, he had been 

 notably friendly and co-operative. 



Visiting Hours Change May 1 



Beginning May 1, summer visiting 

 hours, 9 A. M. to 6 P. M., will go into 

 effect until September 3 (Labor Day). 



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