James P. Bacon, re- 

 search assistant, car- 

 ries on the Borneo 

 Zoological Expedition 

 from a jungle treelop 

 perch. See article. 



EXPEDITIONS 1964 



.L/uring 1964, Museum research in the field begins in 

 our own Great Lakes region and moves to the far West, to 

 Europe, Australia, Borneo, and the Indian Ocean. Here 

 is the roster of field trips for each Museum Department. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Dr. Donald Collier is planning 

 a six-weeks' study trip to museums in Spain and the 

 U.S.S.R. In Moscow he will deliver a paper at the In- 

 ternational Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological 

 Sciences and study the American collections in the Mu- 

 seum of Anthropology. He will also observe Soviet mu- 

 seum exhibition techniques in Moscow and Leningrad. 

 In Madrid he is scheduled to talk at the 35th International 

 Congress of Americanists and in Seville he will study Inca 

 and Aztec materials from the time of the Spanish Con- 

 quest. 



Dr. Paul S. Martin will again return to the Southwest, 

 where he is investigating the culture of early man in 

 eastern Arizona. Each year, Dr. Martin's archaeological 

 "digs" provide a rare opportunity for the training of 

 students. Other continuing field work in the Department 

 is that of Mr. George I. Quimby, who will be exploring the 

 Upper Great Lakes region for Indian sites of the period 

 between 1600 and 1760. 



BOTANY. This spring Dr. Louis 0. Williams returned 

 to the Museum with a harvest of botanical specimens 

 from the western slopes of the Sierra Madres in Guate- 

 mala. He collected, also, on the same chain of volcanic 

 mountains in western Costa Rica early this year. 



GEOLOGY. Dr. John Clark is scheduling a series 

 of summer field studies in Illinois and Indiana to carry 



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out paleoecological explorations that will tie in with the 

 paleoecological work in this area which Dr. Rainer ganger! 

 and Dr. Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. have been engaged in 

 for several years. Dr. Richardson expects to concentrate 

 his field work in Will and Kankakee Counties, where he 

 will search for Pennsylvanian fossils in the strip mines. 

 Also working in Illinois is Mr. Harry E. Changnon, who is 

 collecting information for a guide to the geology of the 

 Chicago region to be used by teachers and students of 

 this area. 



Wyoming is the target of Dr. Robert Denison 's 1964 field 

 studies. He plans to hunt for the remains of the earliest 

 known vertebrates in Ordovician rocks of that state. Dr. 

 Bertram G. Woodland will continue his research on the 

 structures of metamorphic rock in the Central Black Hills. 

 During trips to Montana and Ontario, Canada, Dr. Ed- 

 ward J. Olsen will seek terrestrial mineralogies similar to 

 the meteorite mineralogies he has been analyzing this 

 winter in the laboratory. 



And in southern Australia, Mr. William D. Turnbull is 

 continuing his search for fossil marsupials of the early 

 Tertiary and late Cretaceous periods. 



ZOOLOGY. Last month Dr. Joseph C. Moore com- 

 pleted a world-wide trip to examine museum specimens 

 of beaked whales. Mr. Loren P. Woods is presently on the 

 research ship, Te Vega, continuing his studies of the fishes 

 of the Indian Ocean under joint auspices of the United 

 States Program in Biology and UNESCO. This year, the 

 Borneo Zoological Expedition moved to a new site to 

 continue its collecting and observation of lizards, snakes, 

 and frogs. According to Dr. Robert F. Inger, current work 

 is being done from tree platforms at various heights from 

 60 to 110 feet above the ground. 



