Museum Membership Shows Steady Growth 



Field Museum nieinbcrship has more 

 than doubled in the 1960's and passed 

 the 15,000 mark in November. 



Steady growth in membership has 

 been the trend since 1954, when the 

 Museum had 5,280 members. With an 

 annual average increase of about 200 

 members, membership was 6,555 by 1 959. 



During the 1960's, the number of new 

 memberships each year increased to a 

 net average of about 500 with a sharp 



increase of 2,000 in each of the last 

 three years. 



With the increase in membership has 

 come an accelerated program of special 

 exhibits, lectures and other events in 

 which members have participated. Mem- 

 bers are the life blood of Field Museum 

 and no aspect of the 1960's is more im- 

 portant to the Museum's future than 

 the increased interest and number of 

 its Members. 



15,000 



12,500 



10,000 



7.500 



5,000 



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CALENDAR OF EVENTS ''7f ^f^y'f^'"- [' 'p-^-:^ ^'^'-'^^ 



ana inunday and Uecember 26-januaryi .x 



The Museum will be closed on Christmas Day. 



December 1 "Earth, Life and Man" Lecture Series "The Amazon Valley 



Forest," by Donald R. Simpson, Assistant Curator, Peruvian Botany, will 



close the fall group of 75th Anniversary Lecture Series by Museum Curators. 



1 p.m.. Lecture Hall. Admission is free. 



December 1 Audubon Society Series "Four Seasons" This film journey into 

 British Columbia will be narrated by Wilfred E. Gray. 2:30 p.m., James 

 Simpson Theatre. 



December 26 and 27 Holiday Science Lectures See Page 7. 



Through December Winter Journey: "Ancient Sea Monsters" Newest in 

 the Raymond Foimdation's Journey Program series for children introduces 

 boys and girls to the prehistoric giants of the ancient seas. Any child who can 

 read and write may participate in the free do-it-yourself Journey Program. 

 Journey sheets are available at Museum entrances. 



Through January 27 Javanese Puppets Hall 9 Gallery. See pages 8 and 9. 



Half a Billion Years of Illinois History Do-it-yourself tour in observance of 

 the State's Sesquicentennial celebration ends on December 3. Capsule journey 

 through times takes visitors through the worlds of anthropology, botany, 

 geology and zoology. A free brochure guides visitors to pertinent exhibits. 



Chicago Shell Club, December 8, 2 p.m. 

 Nature Camera Club of Chicago, December 10, 7:45 p.m. 

 MEETINGS: Chicago Mountaineering Club, December 12, 8 p.m. 

 Illinois Orchid Society, December 15, 2 p.m. 

 Great Lakes Chapter of Sierra Club, December 17, 7:30 p.m. 



FIELD MUSEUM 

 OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Roosevelt Rd. at Lake Shore Dr. 

 Chicago, Illinois 60605 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lester Armour 

 Harry O. Bercher 

 Bowen Blair 



William McCormick Blair 

 William R. Dickinson, Jr. 

 Thomas E. Donnelley II 

 Marshall Field 

 Nicholas Galitzine 

 Paul W. Goodrich 

 Clifford C. Gregg 

 Samuel Insull, Jr. 

 Henry P. Isham 

 Hughston M. McBain 

 Remick McDowell 

 J. Roscoe Miller 

 William H. Mitchell 

 James L. Palmer 

 John T. Pirie, Jr. 

 John Shedd Reed 

 John S. Runnells 

 John G. Searle 

 John M. Simpson 

 Gerald A. Sivage 

 Edward Byron Smith 

 William G. Swartchild, Jr. 

 Louis Ware 

 E. Leland Webber 

 J. Howard Wood 



HONORARY TRUSTEES 



Joseph N. Field 

 William V. Kahler 



OFFICERS 



James L. Palmer, President 

 Harry O. Bercher, Vice-President 

 Bowen Blair, Vice-President 

 John M. Simpson, Vice-President 

 Edward Byron Smith, 



Treasurer and Assistant Secretary 

 E. Leland Webber, Secretary 



DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM 



E. Leland Webber 



CHIEF CURATORS 



Donald Collier, 



Department oj Anthropology 

 Louis 0. Williams, 



Department of Botany 

 Rainer ^angerl. 



Department oJ Geology 

 Austin L. Rand, 



Department oJ Zoology 



BULLETIN 



Edward G. Nash, Managing Editor 



DECEMBER Page 16 



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