VOLUNTEER WORKERS 



The Museum thanks its faithful volunteer workers for their help 

 during the year. Some of them, designated as Research Associates 

 and Associates, are included in the List of Staff at the beginning of 

 this Report. Other volunteers are : George Brien, Miss Diane DeVry, 

 Michael Duever, Edward Feinstein, Robert Fizzell, Ira L. Fogel, 

 Dr. Robert L. Hass, Mrs. Judith D. Lownes, Thomas Mclntyre, 

 Paul D. Molnar, Joseph A. Pizzo, Philip Porzel, Leon Rainers, 

 Wayne Shadburne, and Miss Carol Smith. 



MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS IN 1956 



The Museum conducted fourteen expeditions and field trips in 1956. 

 Their work is described in this Report under the headings of the 

 scientific departments. Expeditions and field trips of 1956_and 

 their leaders are: 



Department of Anthropology — Chicago Region Archaeological 

 Field Trips, 1955-56 (Miss Elaine Bluhm, Assistant in Archaeology) ; 

 Great Lakes Area Archaeological Field Trips (George I. Quimby, 

 Curator of North American Archaeology and Ethnology); Peru 

 Archaeological Expedition (Dr. Donald Collier, Curator of South 

 American Archaeology and Ethnology); Southwest Archaeological 

 Expedition (Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology) 



Department of Geology — Central America Volcanological Ex- 

 pedition (Dr. Sharat K. Roy, Chief Curator of Geology); Eastern 

 States Paleontological Field Trip (Dr. Robert H. Denison, Curator of 

 Fossil Fishes); Louisiana Sedimentology Field Trip (Dr. Rainer 

 Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles); Paleobotanical Field Trip to 

 Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee (George Langford, Curator 

 of Fossil Plants); Wyoming Paleontological Expedition (William D. 

 Turnbull, Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals) 



Department of Zoology — Borneo Zoological Expedition (Dr. 

 Robert F. Inger, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles); Caribbean 

 Marine Field Work (Dr. Fritz Haas, Curator of Lower Inverte- 

 brates) ; Eastern United States Zoological Field Trip (Henry S. Dybas, 

 Associate Curator of Insects) ; Peru Zoological Expedition (Celestino 

 Kalinowski); Philippine Zoological Field Work (D. S. Rabor, Field 

 Associate in the Department of Zoology) 



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