Holiday Science Lectures in 7th Year 



"How We Inherit" will be discussed by James F. Crow, 

 Professor of Genetics and Chairman of the Department of 

 Genetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, at the 

 seventh consecutive Holiday Science Lectures program held 

 at the Museum. 



Sponsored by Field Museum and the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and financed by the 

 National Science Foundation, the program provides oppor- 

 tunities for outstanding high school science students to hear 

 lectures in depth by eminent scientists. Modeled after the 

 renowned Christmas Lectures of the Royal Institution of 

 Great Britain, the AAAS Holiday Science Lectures are de- 

 signed to give students an informative, authoritative and 

 stimulating account of the progress, problems and methods 

 in an active area of research. 



Dr. Crow will present four lectures: "How Chromosomes 

 Behave" and "How the Gene Is Made" on December 26 

 and "How the Gene Works" and "How Evolution Occurs" 

 on December 27. Each lecture will be followed by a ques- 

 tion and answer period. 



Prior to his association with the University of Wisconsin, 

 where he joined the faculty in 1948, Dr. Crow was an in- 



Students attending a previous Holiday Lecture at the Museum 



structor in Zoology and later Assistant Professor of Zoology 

 and Preventive Medicine at Dartmouth College. He was 

 elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 

 1961 and is a past president of the Genetics Society of Amer- 

 ica and the American Society for Human Generics. 



Holiday Science Lectures are held in six major U. S. 

 cities during the Christmas holiday period. 



Scientific Prize Honors Former Curator 



D. Dwight Davis 



A late Field Museum Curator has been honored by the 

 American Society of Zoologists through its establishment of 

 an annual prize in his name. The D. Dwight Davis Prize 

 in Vertebrate Morphology will be given for the outstanding 



paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Society. 



Field Museum's curator of anatomy for 35 years until his 

 death in 1965, Davis "re-established comparative anatomy," 

 says Dr. Karel F. Liem, Associate Curator of Vertebrate 

 Anatomy at the Museum. "His approach to vertebrate 

 morphology stimulated the thinking of probably all Amer- 

 ican morphologists. This prize has been extablished to 

 stimulate graduate students, by recognizing their original 

 work and contribution to the field of vertebrate morphology." 



Davis, who ranks among the foremost comparative ana- 

 tomists of the 20th century, is best known for his monu- 

 mental work entitled, "The Giant Panda," published by 

 Field Museum Press in 1964. Su Lin, the giant panda, 

 was acquired by Chicago's Brookfield Zoo in 1937. When 

 Su Lin died a year later, his body was given to Field Mu- 

 seum where it was prepared for exhibition and has been a 

 popular exhibit ever since. Davis' study on the structure, 

 relationships, and evolution of the giant panda was a mile- 

 stone in providing a new direction to the investigation of 

 vertebrate animals. 



Any graduate student who has not been awarded his 

 doctorate degree will be eligible for the Davis Prize, which 

 will be approximately equal to the interest collected by 

 the award fund during a calendar year. Dr. Carl Cans, 

 Professor of Biology at the State University of New York 

 at Buffalo, fund chairman, is receiving contributions from 

 those who wish to honor Davis' memory in this way. 



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