May- June, 19i5 



CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



Pages 



with few exceptions are from original paint- 

 ings by Gould himself. 



Photography replaced bird prints to a 

 large extent in ornithological books from 

 1890 on. The books became smaller and 

 more usable, with text and actual photo- 

 graphs predominating. 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes, who has been 

 called Audubon's successor by many, and 

 the greatest portrayer of birds that ever 

 lived, dominated the modern period until 

 his untimely death in 1927. Although his 

 works are all smaller than Audubon's and 

 the two cannot be compared in decorative 

 effect, Fuertes surpasses Audubon in subtle 

 expression of the character of birds he 

 portrayed. With Fuertes leading the way, 

 and the works of young American artists 

 receiving well deserved praise and encour- 

 agement, 20th Century bird illustration 

 thus far may be said to have reached its 

 zenith in the United States. 



SPECIAL EXHIBIT 



A temporary exhibition of books designed 

 to illustrate the chronological development 

 of bird prints from 1555 to the present day 

 is on view at the south end of George M. 

 Pullman Hall (Hall 13). The exhibit opened 

 April 17 and will continue until June 4. 



One book, Willughby and Ray's Orni- 

 thologia, was graciously loaned by the John 

 Crerar Library. All others are from the 

 Museum Library which is open to the public 

 during Museum hours except on Saturday 

 afternoons, Sundays, and holidays. 



The Museum extends its thanks to Mr. 

 Arthur Ross and Mr. Harry Owens of the 



Lakeside Press, and to Mr. Carl O. Schnie- 

 wind. Curator of Prints and Drawings at 

 the Art Institute, for their help with labels 

 and in determining the process used in 

 printing many of the illustrations. 



The Division of Birds is grateful for assist- 

 ance given in preparing the exhibit by Mr. 

 Albert Cohn of the Library; Miss Peggy Col- 

 lings, artist; Mr. James R. Shouba, Assistant 

 Superintendent of Maintenance, Mr. John 

 R. Millar, Curator of the Harris Extension, 

 Mr. Raymond Hallstein, Mr. Harold Grutz- 

 macher, and Mr. Ray Herring of the Divi- 

 sion of Printing, and of course to Mr. Karl 

 P. Schmidt, Chief Curator of Zoology. 



LONG-TAILED KINGFISHER, NEW GUINEA 



Painted by Walter Alois Webcf while a member o{ the 



Museum's Cornelius Crane Pacific Expedition in 1928.29. 



In the current exhibit of bird prints. 



MOGOLLON CULTURE 



Prehistoric Americans who lived in 

 western New Mexico during a period 

 dating from a thousand or so years before 

 the Christian era to about a.d. 700 suffered 

 physically from malnutrition due to inade- 

 quate diet. Mentally they tended to 

 be "isolationists." These conclusions are 

 reached by research into evidence unearthed 

 by Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of 

 Anthropology, and associated archaeolo- 

 gists. The results are detailed in a 174- 

 page book issued by the Museum Press — 

 The SU Site — Excavations at a Mogollon 

 Village. The research was conducted over 

 several years by the Field Museum Archaeo- 

 logical Expeditions to the Southwest, led 

 by Dr. Martin. 



The SU site, where ancient ruins of several 

 villages were excavated, is located in a can- 

 yon of the Apache National Forest. The 

 people whose history was studied are an 

 extinct Indian tribe known as the Mogol- 

 lones. The extensive collections resulting 

 from the excavations, including pottery, 

 remains of old house types, human and 

 animal burials, implements, and various 

 other kinds of artifacts have been subjected 

 to intensive investigation at the Museum, 

 and to comparisons with similar material 

 collected from sites representing other pre- 

 historic cultures of this and near-by regions, 

 some related to the Mogollon, and some 

 distinct. The following brief excerpts from 

 Dr. Martin's book give some picture of life 

 as it was led by these early and little known 

 inhabitants of the Southwest: 



"Mogollon culture was an undeveloped, 

 unsophisticated, unalloyed, unvarnished, 

 homespun kind of culture with no striking 

 or dramatic features. The general Mogol- 

 lon cultural pattern was unadorned and 

 lowly, and based on almost minimal require- 

 ments. It was homogeneous, non-expansive 

 in that it probably sought no, or few con- 

 tacts with other cultures ('isolationism'). I 

 should guess that the people of this culture 



were mild, timid, retiring When 



Pueblo Indian influences drifted into the 

 Mogollon area, the resistance of the Mogol- 

 lon culture was so mild that the Pueblo cul- 

 ture became the dominant one. 



ARMY REPORTS SAFE RETURN 

 OF BRYAN PATTERSON 



T/5 Bryan Patterson, Curator of Paleon- 

 tology on leave for service with the U.S. 

 Army, reported missing in action January 

 19, has been safely returned to the American 

 lines, the War Department has notified Mrs. 

 Patterson. 



In a message received April 28, General 

 Ulio, Adjutant-General, telegraphed Mrs. 

 Patterson: "The Secretary of War desires 

 me to inform you that your husband T/5 

 Bryan Patterson returned to military control 

 2nd of April, 1945." 



Earlier in the same week, Mrs. Patterson 

 had received a letter giving the first account 

 of how Mr. Patterson had disappeared. It 

 stated that "Corporal Patterson was 

 reported missing in action 19th January, 

 1945, during an attack against enemy posi- 

 tions near Faymonville, Belgium." 



The differences in title apparently are 

 accounted for by successive promotions in 

 rank. Before he was reported missing, the 

 Museum's information was that Mr. Pat- 

 terson was a private first class. 



PRESIDENT FIELD SERVING 

 FOR 37TH YEAR 



Re-elected at the Annual Meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees, Mr. Stanley Field is 

 now serving his thirty-seventh consecutive 

 year as President of the Museum. All other 

 Officers who served in 1944 were re-elected. 

 They are: Mr. Albert A. Sprague, First 

 Vice President; Mr. Silas H. Strawn, 

 Second Vice President; Mr. Albert B. 

 Dick, Jr., Third Vice President; Mr. Solo- 

 mon A. Smith, Treasurer and Assistant 

 Secretary. 



No successor has to date been chosen to 

 fill the place on the Board of Trustees left 

 vacant by the death in France of Brigadier 

 General Theodore Roosevelt. The board, 

 as at present constituted, includes, besides 

 the re-elected officers, Messrs. Sewell L. 

 Avery, W. McCormick Blair, Leopold E. 

 Block, Boardman Conover, Walter J. 

 Cummings, Howard W. Fenton, Marshall 

 Field, Charles A. McCulloch, William H. 

 Mitchell, George A. Richardson, Albert H. 

 Wetten, and John P. Wilson. Three others 

 are absent on service in the Navy, namely: 

 Commander Lester Armour, Lieutenant 

 Joseph N. Field, and Lieutenant Com- 

 mander Samuel Insull, Jr. Mr. George A. 

 Richardson has completed his service as a 

 lieutenant-colonel with the Army Air 

 Forces. 



The effects on the earth's surface of snow 

 and ice are illustrated by specimens in the 

 physical geology collections on exhibition 

 in Clarence Buckingham Hall (Hall 35). 



