Chicago Naturgjl History Museum 



liiseum News 



Formerly Wi/c 



Vol. 16 



MARCH-APRIL, 1945 



Nos. 3-4 



LECTURES AND FILMS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS THROUGH MARCH AND APRIL 



The annual Spring Lecture Course for 

 adults, consisting of nine lectures on sub- 

 jects ranging over a vast geographic span — 

 South America, Alaska, Scandinavia, the 



mentary on the sound track in place of a 

 lecturer in person. 



Following are the dates, subjects, and 

 lecturers for the entire series: 



This is the story of how products of our 

 neighboring Americas save lives of our 

 soldiers, fly with them through German 

 skies, skim with them over dangerous Jap 



RUBBER QUEST 



Shooting wild rapids o( 

 Coco River in Nicaragua in a 

 native canoe. 



A scene from the films 

 accompanying the lecture 

 "Good Neighbors and Stra- 

 tegic Matetials," by Sulhvan 

 Richardson, which opens the 

 Spring Coarse of Saturday 

 afternoon programs. March 3. 

 at 2:30 P.M. 



The party traveled 500 

 miles on this river in search 

 of wild rubbersources. Often 

 boat had to be lowered on 

 rope slings in worst rapids. 



OTHER EVENTS 



Besides the Saturday after- 

 noon lectures for adults, vari- 

 ous other special events are 

 scheduled for March and 

 April. 



Programs for Children. Ray. 

 mond Foundation. Saturday 

 mornings— see page 7. 



Daily Guide-Lecture Tours 

 —see page 8. 



Sunday afternoon Layman 

 Lectures by Paul G. Dallwig 

 (for adults)— see page 8. 



Raymond Foundation- 

 School Radio Council Btoad- 

 casts for children— see page 2. 



Far West of the United States, the Philip- 

 pines, Australia, Mexico, and India — will 

 be presented on Saturdays during March and 

 April in the James Simpson Theatre. 



One presentation, instead of being a 

 lecture in the ordinary sense, will consist of 

 a stage production, "Living India," drama- 

 tizing the life of a family in India, and will 

 be presented April 28 by Ramkrishna and 

 Manorama Modak. 



All the lectures begin at 2:30 p.m., and 

 with the exception of the Modaks' appear- 

 ance, will be accompanied by natural color 

 films. The March 31 program — "Pledge to 

 Bataan" — is to be entirely a color film with 

 sound effects, and accompanying corn- 



March 3 — Good Neighbors and 

 Strategic Materials. 



Sullivan C. Richardson. 



Mr. Richardson who, with two associates, 

 gained fame by making the first expedition 

 by automobile along the entire route of the 

 Pan American Highway from the Rio 

 Grande to Cape Horn several years ago, and 

 who has in previous seasons lectured at the 

 Museum on this trip, now presents still more 

 fruits of that notable journey. In the 

 present film and lecture he tells the story of 

 the materials, so desperately needed to 

 bolster the United States' war and post-war 

 efifort, developed in the other Americas. 



waters; how we get cinchona bark for life- 

 saving quinine, loofa for the U. S. Navy, 

 rubber, tin, quartz, mica, balsa, mahogany, 

 rosella; products needed from Latin-Ameri- 

 can jungles, mountains and deserts to beat 

 the Japs and Hitler, and win the peace. 



March 10 — Alaska and Her People. 



William L. Darden. 



William L. Darden has been a resident of 

 Alaska during a good part of the last twelve 

 years. He recently returned from six 

 months in Alaska, where he flew more than 

 11,000 miles taking color motion pictures 

 for this lecture, which is entirely dififerent 

 from any he has given previously. The 



