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CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



January-Fdnvary, X9i5 



MUSEUM RADIO CITATION 



A citation has been awarded to the 

 Museum by the Executive Committee of the 

 School Broadcast Conference, for educa- 

 tional excellence in the recent series of radio 

 programs, "Places and Peoples," presented 

 jointly by the Museum and the Radio 

 Council of the Chicago Board of Education. 



The Museum programs dealt with various 

 geographic areas and races, especially upon 

 regions of the world with war significance. 



Chiefly responsible for preparation of the 

 programs were Miss Miriam Wood of the 

 Museum's Raymond Foimdation, and Mrs. 

 Isabel Callvert of the School Broadcasting 

 Council. 



Children's Art Classes 



Every Saturday, youngsters — ranging 

 from children of six up to youths of sixteen 

 ^boys and girls both, from the Saturday 

 Junior School of the Art Institute can be 

 found at work with stools and easels in odd 

 comers among the exhibits at the Chicago 

 Natural History Museum. 



During December, the best results of this 

 activity were shown for public inspection in 

 a special exhibit of chalk drawings and 

 ceramic objects in Stanley Field Hall. The 

 selections were made by instructors. 



GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



Following is a list of some of the principal 

 gifts received during the last two months: 



Department of Aiithropolo£y: 



From: Carter H. Harrison, Chicago — a 

 Chippewa birch bark canoe (Wisconsin) and 

 10 19th Cent. Bolivian textiles; Lawrence 

 E. Fishleigh, Chicago — a carved piece of 

 kauri gum representing the head of a Maori 

 chief. New Zealand. 



Department off Botany; 



From: Dept. of Forestry, Belize, British 

 Honduras — 52 herbarium specimens, British 

 Honduras; Dr. Fred A. Barkley, Austin, 

 Tex. — 29 specimens of algae, Mexico and 

 the U. S.; Charles A. Heath, Chicago— 88 

 color prints and a leaflet on S. African flower- 

 ing plante; T-5 Henry S. Dybas, U. S.A. — 

 98 herbarium specimens. La.; Dr. B. Elazari- 

 Volcani, Rehovoth, Palestine — 48 specimens 

 of algae, Palestine; Mrs. J. M. Stifler, Wil- 

 mette. 111. — 587 specimens of fungi, North 

 America; Mrs. John W. Barrett, Freeport, 

 111. — 2 "palm shoot" canes, Siam; Jose 

 Eugenio Leite, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil — 32 

 herbarium specimens, Brazil; Museo Na- 

 cional, San Jose, Costa Rica — 80 herbarium 

 specimens, Costa Rica; Harry K. Phinney, 

 Evanston, lU. — 170 specimens of algae. 111.; 

 Dr. M. A. Brannon, Gainesville, Fla. — 18 

 specimens of algae, Fla.; Dr. Walter Kiener, 

 Lincoln, Neb. — 122 specimens of algae. Neb.; 

 Dr. Delzie Demaree, Monticello. Ark. — 59 

 specimens of algae. Ark.; Robert Runyon, 

 Brownsville, Tex.— 42 specimens of algae, 

 Tex.; O. C. Durham, North Chicago, 111. 

 — 58 herbarium specimens, western and 

 central U. S. 



Department of Geology: 



From: C. Wible, Tacoma, Wash.— 20 

 specimens of chalcedony concretions and 

 country rock. Wash.; Ralph L. Lincoln, 

 Chicago — a trilobite, Va.; William E. Men- 

 zel, Chicago — a specimen of metahewettite 

 on sandstone, Ariz.; Percy A. Robbins, 

 Chicago — 5 mineral specimens, Alaska. 



Department of Zoology: 



From: Ensign and Mrs. Loren P. Woods, 

 Trenton, N. J. — 595 fish specimens, 26 

 shells, 49 specimens of mollusks and 

 barnacles, 7 millipedes, a garter snake, an 

 alligator lizard, and a tadpole, Calif., 

 Hawaii, and Solomons; Paul Neumann, 

 Chicago — 26 amphibians, 3 crayfish, and 31 

 beetles and allies, N. M.; Sgt. Thane A. 

 Riney, U. S. A. — 4 snakes, a lizard, and 2 

 bats. 111.; Oden H. Meeker, Port-au-Prince, 

 Haiti — 15 lizards, Haiti; T-5 Henry S 

 Dybas, U. S. A. — a gecko and 100 speci- 

 mens of shells and crustaceans. Wash, and 

 Hawaii, L. A. Posekany, U. S. A. — 3 fish 

 specimens, 6 centipedes, a whip-tailed 

 scorpion, and a beetle larva, Bougainville; 

 Lt. and Mrs. Fred Greeley, Winnetka, El.— 

 2 leeches and 5 mites from a bat. Wis.; 

 Lieut. Colin C. Sanborn, U. S. N.— 485 

 land shells and a baby gecko and eggs, 

 Hawaii; Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago — 2 

 new-bom Siberian tigers, an ibis, 6 snakes, 

 and 2 sirens; Chicago Zoological Society, 

 Brookfield, 111. — an ostrich, 2 monkeys, 2 

 Gould's monitors, and 10 mites; Boardman 

 Conover, Chicago — 3 great-horned owls, 

 Sask., Canada; Maj. W. G. Downs, U. S. A. 

 — 94 beetles, 2 bugs, and a biting louse, 

 Bougainville; Delzie Demaree, Monticello, 

 Ark. — 58 specimens of shells, Fla. and Ark. ; 

 C. J. Albrecht, Homewood, Dl. — a tim- 

 ber wolf and a Virginia deer, Ont., Can- 

 ada; S. A. Edgar, U. S. A.— 24 land shells 

 and crustaceans, Hawaii; J. W. Walls, 

 Chicago — a red fox. 111.; Mrs. E. A. Mark, 

 Chicago — a hoary bat. 111.; Lieut. Alvin R. 

 Cahn, U. S. N. — 103 specimens of marine 

 invertebrate animals, Aleutians; Maj. H. J. 

 Bennett, U. S. A. — 5 fish specimens, Solo- 

 mons; Pvt. Bryan Patterson, U. S. A. — a 

 dragonfly, Chicago; Cpl. D. D. Davis, U. S. 

 A. — 120 insects and allies. Ark. and Calif.; 

 Edwin C. Galbreath, CPhM, U. S. N.— 2 

 fish specimens, S. Pacific; Pfc. William J. 

 Beecher, U. S. A. — 11 bats, Solomons; Capt. 

 John A. H. Powell, U. S. A.— 4 fish speci- 

 mens. Sterling Isl.; Pvt. Jerry K. Cordell, 

 U. S. A.— 22 frogs, Ga.; U. S. Public Health 

 Service, Hamilton, Mont. — a tick (para- 

 type), Colombia. 



Ubrary: 



From: U. S. Arctic, Desert, and Tropic 

 Information Bureau, U. S. Army Map 

 Service, New Zealand L^ation, and Dr. 

 Henry Field, Washinton, D. C; Insitituto 

 Botanico da Facultad de Ciencias, Lisbon, 

 Portugal; L. E. Richdale, University of 

 Otago, New Zealand; Dr. Stig Ryden, 

 Gotenburg, Sweden; Enrique Rioja, Cha- 

 pultepec, Mexico; James Homell, St. 

 Leonards-on-Sea, England; Gustave A. 

 Fester, Santa Catalina, Argentina; Paul 

 Bellamy, Cleveland, O.; Benjamin F. 

 Howell, Princeton University, N. J.; Nevada 

 Department of Highways, Carson City, 

 Nev.; Timken and Roller, Canton, O.; 



NEW ME.MBERS 



The following persons became Members 

 of the Museum during the period from 

 October 16 to December 16: 



Contributors 



William F. E. Gurley,* Stuart H. Perry 



.\saociate Members 



David E. Baer, Mrs. Harold G. Barrett, 

 Dr. Edward W. Beasley, James F. Leahy, 

 Miss Edna LeBaron, Miss Hattiemae Quick, 

 Mrs. Arthur J. Utter, Arthur L. Wanner. 



Sustaining Members 



Emil Eitel 



Annual Members 



Mrs. Henry D. AUer, Miss Isabel M. 

 Altman, Mrs. Harry C. Bates, James R. 

 Bishop, Marlon Brando, Mrs. Louis C. 

 Braudy, Fred Brinkman, Carl Channon, 

 Oscar A. Cherry, David Chertow, Morton 

 C. Chesler, Arthur T. Clarage, Eari M. 

 Converse, P. J. Dee, G. T. Drake, Mrs. 

 Alfred L. Eustice, Edmund Fairchild, 

 Michael H. Fitpold, L. N. Fleckles, Jr., 

 John T. Gallagher, Dr. Earl Garside, John 



F. Gilroy, Dr. Emelia J. Giryotas, Myer H. 

 Gladstone, M. Goldschmidt, Mrs. Robert P. 

 Greenlee, Miss Anna E. Gustafson, Miss 

 Ruth M. Gustafson, Clayson J. Hauck, Mrs. 

 Teresa Clary Hughlett, Ralph C. James, C. 

 LeVergne Jones, Kent Jones, H. Donald 

 Kahn, Rev. Niketas Kesses, Miles O. King, 

 Sol C. Kirman, John J. Klickner, Dr. Floyd 

 C. Klier, E. E. Knourek, William M. 

 Knourek, Louis A. Kolssak, Dr. Bernard C. 

 Kolter, William F. Kompare, Herman J. 

 Kramer, William J. MacKenzie, Arthur W. 

 Mall, Mark P. Mamalakis, Abel Marcus, 

 Raymond K. Mathewson, Miss Ada Marie 

 McCarty, Robert G. McGregor, Mrs. 

 William L. McKerrow, Frederick L. Mc- 

 Nally, James D. Meers, Thomas J. Murphy, 

 Jr., Dr. John S. O'Connell, Frank M. Opeka, 

 Frank Pendergast, Dr. Peter Petraitis, John 

 Petrie, George J. Pope, Ray W. Preikschat, 



G. G. Preston, John A. Prosser, John B. 

 Quan, John B. Reynolds, Mrs. Thomas A. 

 Reynolds, Lester N. Rivldn, Mrs. Eldon H. 

 Sager, Oscar L. Scalbom, Mrs. Mario M. 

 Sdaky, Leland W. Short, Dr. Charles 

 Smalley, Miss Mary M. Sullivan, Hector 

 Suyker, Edmund F. Swan, Mrs. Theodore 

 Trautmann, Wirt B. VanSlyke, Miss 

 Kathryn Wade, H. Boyd Weeks, R. B. 

 Weeks, G. L. Winsberg. 



'Deceased 



Aid to Recreation Program 



On November 22, the Museum partici- 

 pated in an exhibit of material representing 

 Chicago's outstanding facilities for educa- 

 tion and recreation, under the auspices of 

 the Chicago Recreation Commission. Mr. 

 John R. Millar, Curator of the N. W. Harris 

 Public School Extension of the Museum, 

 was the representative of this institution. 



Stanley Field, Lake Forest, 111.; Dr. Alfred 

 Rehder, Jamaica Plains, N. Y.; and Board- 

 man Conover, Dr. Fritz Haas, Dr. Paul O. 

 McGrew, Dr. Earl E. Sherff, Henry W. 

 Nichols, Dr. Alfred Emerson, and Charles 

 A. Heath, all of Chicago. 



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