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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



March-April, 19i5 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 

 RooseTelt Road and Field Drive, Chlcaiiu 



Tblbphonb: Wabash 9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

 Lester Armour Stanley Field 



Sewell L. Avery Sauuel Insull, Jr. 



W. McCoRMiCK Blair Charles A. McCulloch 



Leopold E. Block William H. Mitchell 



BOARDHAN CONOVER GBORCB A. RICHARD6ON 



WALTBR J. CUUHINGS SOLOMON A. SMITH 



Albert B. Dick, Jr. Albert A. Spragub 



Howard W. Fenton Silas H. Strawn 



Joseph N. Field .Albert H. Wetten 



Marshall Field John P. Wilson 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field President 



.Albert A. Spragub First Vice-Presidtnl 



Silas H. Strawn Second Vice-President 



Albert B. Dick Third Vice-President 



•CUFFORD C. Grbgg Director and Secretary 



Orr Goodson Acting Director and Acting Secretary 



Solomon A. Smith. . . Treasurer and Assistant Secretary 



* On leave in active service as a Colonel in the United 

 States Army. 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 WiLPRED H. Osgood Curator Emeritus, Zoology 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of Anthropology 



B. E. Dahlgren Chief Curator of Botany 



Henry W. Nichols Chief Curator of Geology 



Karl P. Schmidt Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 H. B. Hartb Public Kelations Counsel 



Members are requested to Inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



PROFESSOR SAMUEL J. RECORD, 

 MUSEUM ASSOCIATE, fS DEAD 



The Museum regretfully reports the death, 

 on February 3, of a highly esteemed mem- 

 ber of its staff, Dr. Samuel J. Record, 

 I*rofessor of Forest Products and Dean of 

 the School of Forestry of Yale University. 



For the past twenty years Professor 

 Record has served as Research Associate 

 in the Museum's Department of Botany 

 and consultant in matters pertaining to 

 woods and wood anatomy. His close rela- 

 tions with the Museum date from 1923, 

 when he called to urge the assemblage of 

 collections of tropical wood samples accom- 

 panied by authentic herbarium specimens 

 for determination. He was promptly offered 

 for study exactly such a collection, a part 

 of which had just arrived, and the rest of 

 which was in process of being assembled 

 by a Museum botanical collector in British 

 Guiana. He pronounced it the first prop- 

 erly made extensive collection of foreign 

 woods that had ever come to his notice, and 

 undertook the study of the woods with the 

 aid of one of his students. 



When it was decided to reduce the 

 Museum's exhibits of North American 

 woods to a single hall, he was asked to aid 

 in the selection and to prepare the descrip- 

 tive labels, which were subsequently pub- 

 lished by the Museum in the form of a hand- 

 book. Through his wide contacts with 

 foresters and firms engaged in the lumber 

 industry he solicited and obtained for the 

 Museum many important additions to the 



exhibits of domestic and foreign woods. 



In return, members of the staff became 

 contributors to his Yale University wood 

 collection and to his technical periodical, 

 Tropical Woods. 



Professor Record was one of the founders 

 of the International Association of Wood 

 Anatomists and author of Timbers of the 

 New World, a summary of his wide knowl- 

 edge of American forest trees and their 

 woods, published last year. — B.E.D. 



Staff Notes 



Mr. Loren P. Woods (Assistant Curator 

 of Fishes, on leave for service in the Navy) 

 has been promoted from the rank of Ensign 

 to Lieutenant (j.g.). Lieutenant Woods 

 recently visited his associates at the Museum 

 during a furlough. 



Mr. George Jahrand, Museum guard on 

 leave for service as a chief machinist in the 

 U. S. Navy, died in service January 5. His 

 is the second star on the Museum service 

 flag to be changed to gold. 



Mr. Henry Horback, (Assistant in Geol- 

 ogy, on leave for service with the U. S. 

 Army) has been promoted to the rank of 

 staff sergeant. 



Mr. Robert Yule, Assistant in Archae- 

 ology, Department of Anthropology since 

 1932, has had to retire from the service of 

 the Museum because of failing eyesight. 

 He left on February 10 for special instruc- 

 tions offered to the blind and near-blind by 

 the Barnes School, at Henniker, New 

 Hampshire. Fellow employes at the Mu- 

 seum presented him with a repeater watch 

 equipped with chimes to tell the time 

 without visual reference. 



Dr. Francis Drouet, Curator of Crypto- 

 gamic Botany, has been elected Research 

 Associate in Botany on the faculty of 

 Northwestern University, in recognition of 

 his scientific attainments, and his co-opera- 

 tion with the university in various projects. 

 This election honors both Dr. Drouet and 

 the Museum. 



Dr. Everett C. Olson, of the Walker 

 Museum of Paleontology at the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed to the 

 Museum staff as Associate, Division of 

 Invertebrate Paleontology. 



Mr. Fred Barkley, of the staff of the 

 University of Texas, has taken a leave of 

 absence from that institution for temporary 

 employment at this Museum. He will be 

 engaged in research projects in the Museum 

 herbarium. 



Mr. Harry Changnon, who has been 

 working in the Department of Geology for 

 five years, has been promoted to the position 

 of Assistant in Geology. 



THE MUSEUM HONOR ROLL 

 Now in the Nation's Service 





Army 



George A. Richard- 

 son, Trustee — Lt. 

 Col. 



Clifford C. Gregg, 

 Directors-Colonel, 

 G.S.C. 



Dr. John Rinaldo, 

 Associate, South- 

 western ArchaeoL 

 — Staff Sgt. 



Db. Shasat K. Roy, Curator, Geo). — Capt. 



D. Dwight Davis, Curator, Anat. and Osteol.— 

 Corp. 



Bbyan Patterson, Curator, Paleontology — Pfc. 

 {Reported missing in action since Jan. 19, 1 945 1 



Emmet R. Blake, Asst. Curator, Birds— S[>ecial 

 Agent, War Dept. 



Rupert L. Wenzel, Asst. Curator, Insects— Capi. 



Henry S. Dybas, Assistant, Insects — T/5. 



William Beecher, Temp. Asst., Zool. — Pfc. 



Henry Horback, Asst., Geol. — S. Sgt. 



Jambs C. McIntyrb, Guard — 2nd Lt. 



Raymond J. Connors, Guard — Pvt. 



Frank J. DUTKOVIC, Janitor — Pvt. 



Navy 



Lester Armour, Trustee — Comdr. 



Samuel Insull, Jr., Trustee — Lieut Comdr. 



Joseph Nash Field, Trustee — Lieut. 



COUN Campbell Sanborn, Curator, Mammals- 

 Lieut. 



Dr. Alexander Spoehr, Curator, N. Amer. 

 Ethnol. — Lieut. 



Loren P. Woods, Asst. Curator, Fishes- 

 Lieut, ij-g-) 



John W. Moyer, Taxidermist — Ch. Specialist 

 (Bur. Aeronautics) 



Jambs H. Quinn, Chief Preparator. Paleontol. — 

 Metalsmith 2C 



Patrick T. McEneey, Guard — Master Gunner 



Clyde Jambs Nash, Guard — Master Gunner 



Nicholas Repab, Printer — Aviation Machinist's 

 Mate IC. 



Morris Johnson, Carpenter — Carpenter's Mate 

 IC. 



Herbert Nelson, Painter — Painter IC. 



Euzabbth Best, Guide-Lecturer — 



Lieut, (j.g.), WAVES 



Marie B. Pabst, Guide-Lecturer^ 



Lieut, (j.g.), WAVES 



Marine Corps 

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



Coast Guard 

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

 John McGinnis, Guard — Ch. Boatswain's Mate 



Other Services 



Rudyerd BotJLTON, Curator, Birds— SUff of 

 Office of Strategic Services 



Bryant Mather, Asst. Curator, Mineralogy — 

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



Llewelyn Williams, Curator of Economic Botany 

 — on special service for U.S. Government 



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

 rium — field work for Board of Economic Warfare 



Dr. C. Martin Wilbur, Curator, Chinese Archaeol. 

 and Ethnol. — Staff of Office of Strategic Services 



Died In Service: 



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

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



Served and Honorably Discliarged: 



John Syckowski, Guard — Ch. Commissary Stewd. 

 U.S Navy 



