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 III 

 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 

 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 

 Mrs. Malcolm N. Smith 

 Robert H. Strotz 

 Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken 

 E. Leland Webber 

 Blaine J. Yarrington 



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 



CONTENTS 



July/August 1986 

 Volume 57, Number 7 



July/August Events at Field Museum 



Pigeons 



by Jerry Sullivan 



Harry Hoogstraal, 1917-1986 



by Robert Traub and Robert F. Inger 



Wildflowers of the Chicago Area- 

 Late Summer and Fall 



by Floyd A. Swink 



11 



Miner W. Bruce: Reindeer Herder, Showman, and 

 Collector for the Field Columbian Museum 19 



by James W. VanStone 



Field Museum Tours 



26 



COVER 



"Winter Sunrise on a Bristlecone Pine, White Mountains, Califor- 

 nia, 1974 " is the title of this compelling photo by Galen Rowell, 

 © Galen Rowell, Mountain Light Photography Inc. 



This and 98 other photos by Rowell, comprising the special 

 exhibit "Mountain Light," will be on display at Field Museum 

 beginning July 5. The exhibit's 99 images taken on and 

 around rugged mountain tops in Tibet, China, Pakistan, Nepal, 

 and North America are incredible masterworks of wilderness 

 photography. 



Galen Rowell "s photographs have appeared in many major 

 publications including National Geographic, Audubon, Na- 

 tional Wildlife, Outside, and Sports Illustrated. He is also the 

 author of five wilderness books. 



Galen Rowell is "a genuine adventurer and — most of all — a 

 world-class, absolutely brilliant photographer. He specializes in 

 heights and distances, finding, climbing and then capturing on 

 film those almost inaccessible peaks that most of us are destined 

 only to dream of. ... " PSA Journal (Photographic Society of 

 America, Inc.) January 1984. 



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