MEMORANDUM FROM THE DESK OF 

 E. LELAKD WEBBER, DIRECTOR 



Field Museum's Natural History Tours are based, like the Museum 

 itself, on the belief that, in this era of crowded concrete and steel 

 cities, a balanced view of the world and its problems today requires 

 keeping in contact with the basic realities of nature. 



For this reason, our program of natural history tours. 



The Brazil Tour, February lU-March 11, \i±ll emphasize the 

 botany, geology, zoology and ethnology of that vast nation, so rich 

 in natural history. The group, limited to 35 tourists, mil be led 

 by Phil Clark, the Musexm's public relations counsel and an expert on 

 plants and gardening. Field Musevun's Chief Ciirator of Zoology, Dr. 

 Austin Rand, will accompany the tour as a specialist in fauna, 

 particiilarly the birds. At various stops, the group -ivill spend time 

 with such outstanding Brazilians as the naturalist Augusto Ruschi, the 

 landscape designer and botanist Roberto Burle Marx and the geologist 

 Francisco Mueller Basto. 



We have sought in the Tour's careful advance planning, not 

 Just a superficial "tourist's eye" view, but to show Brazil in its 

 many-dimensioned reality: the people and the history in their natural 

 setting of plants and animals, mountains, plains and seas. 



This is Field Museum's third tour. The others, also led and 

 planned by Phil Clark, were to Guatemala and Mexico. 



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