Next Stop: 



BRAZIL 



A special advantage for participants in Field Museum's 

 Natural History Tours is the program of background lec- 

 tures in the natural history of the tour area. The two Brazil- 

 bound groups, leaving in January and February, will meet 

 for a series of four evening meetings in January. 



Only seven places remain open in 25-member Tour B, 

 January 22 - February 16, and Tour A, February 14- 

 March 11, a 35-member group, has been completely booked 

 up for several months. 



Field Museum Chief Curator of Zoology, Dr. Austin L. 

 Rand, who will accompany Group A as Tour Zoologist, and 

 Loren P. Woods, Curator of Fishes, will discuss Brazil's ex- 

 citingly varied birds, mammals and fishes on January 10. 



The gems of Brazil will be shown and described by Dr. 

 Edward J. Olsen, Curator of Mineralogy, on January 17. 



Above: Countryside around Pelropolis, where the lour mil visit 

 private garden-estates, is characterized by sugarloaf-form mountains 

 and a year-round spring climate. Right: Roadside stop near Santa 

 Teresa in the state of Espirito Santo features Cecropia tree and wax 

 begonias growing mild along the bank of a waterfall. Tour members 

 ujiU stop here on the way to a personally conducted tour of the estate 

 of famed zoologist Augusta Ruschi. (Photos by Phil Clark.) 



Carnival gaily will close the Brazilian travels of Tour B and open 

 those of Tour A in Bahia the weekend of February 1J^~16. The 

 two groups will meet together for a Carnival ball on February 15. 



On the same evening Dr. Rupert L. W'enzel, Curator of 

 Insects, will show specimens of some of that country's color- 

 ful insects. 



A tour member, Robert C. Victor, Staff Astronomer of 

 Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, will 

 familiarize tour members with the skies of the southern 

 hemisphere, speaking on "Under the Southern Cross," on 

 January 20. 



Also on January 20, Phil Clark, Public Relations Coun- 

 sel of Field Museum and Brazil Tour Leader and plant spe- 

 cialist for both groups, will show slides of Brazil and its plants 

 and discuss the country's contemporary political situation. 



Tour zoologist for Group B will be a Brazilian, Dr. Helio 

 Ferraz de Almeida Camargo, a bird specialist from the Sao 

 Paulo Departmento de Zoologia. 



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