Field Museum 

 of Natural History 

 Bulletin 



Published by 



Field Museum of Natural History 



Founded 1893 



President: Willard L. Boyd 



Editor/ Designer: David M. Walsten 

 Production Liaison: Pamela Stearns 

 Staff Photographer: Ron Testa 



Board of Trustees 



Richard M. Jones, 



Chairman 

 Mrs. T. Stanton Armour 

 George R. Baker 

 Robert O. Bass 

 Gordon Bent 

 Mrs. Philip D. Block in 

 Willard L. Boyd 

 Robert D. Cadieux 

 Henry T. Chandler 

 Worley H. Clark 

 Frank W. Considine 

 Stanton R. Cook 

 William R. Dickinson, Jr. 

 Thomas E. Donnelley II 

 Thomas J. Eyerman 

 Marshall Field 

 Ronald J. Gidwitz 

 Clarence E. Johnson 

 Richard M. Jones 

 John James Kinsella 

 Hugo J. Melvoin 

 Leo F. Mullin 

 Earl L. Neal 

 James J. O'Connor 

 Robert A. Pritzker 

 James H. Ransom 

 John S. Runnells 

 Patrick G. Ryan 

 William L. Searle 

 Robert H. Strotz 

 Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken 

 E. Leland Webber 

 Blaine J. Yarrington 



CONTENTS 



June 1986 



Volume 57, Number 6 



June Events at Field Museum 



Volunteers Do Make a Difference 



by Ellen Zebrun, Volunteer Coordinator 



Field Briefs 



Audubon's "The Birds of America" 

 and the Remarkable History of 

 Field Museum's Copy 



by Benjamin W. Williams, Associate Librarian and 

 Librarian, Special Collections 



A Collector's Tale 



by Alan Solem, Curator of Invertebrates 



22 



Field Museum Tours 



26 



COVER 



John James Audubon 's "Hooping Crane, " plate CCLXI, 

 from The Birds of America. Audubon mistakenly regarded 

 this bird, now known as the sandhill crane, as the young of 

 the whooping crane, with a distinctive youthful plumage. 

 See pages 7-21. 



Life Trustees 



Harry O. Bercher 

 Bowen Blair 

 Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta 

 Clifford C. Gregg 

 William V. Kahler 

 William H. Mitchell 

 Edward Byron Smith 

 John W. Sullivan 

 J. Howard Wood 



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