sonnel increased from 166 in 1937 to 236 

 in 1963. A dynamic program of exhibit 

 modernization was carried forward with 

 the interest and support of President 

 Field and maintained the Museum's rep- 

 utation as a leader in exhibition. In 

 this period 125 expeditions and field 

 trips were conducted in more than 40 

 countries, reaching every continent ex- 

 cept Antarctica; and more than 150 

 field projects were undertaken within 

 the United States. 



The largest single foundation grant in 

 the history of the Museum, received in 



1963 from the National Science Foun- 

 dation, provided funds to construct a 

 building addition that will greatly en- 

 large the Museum's capacity for research 

 and education. As the Museum plans 

 for the future, it is with genuine appre- 

 ciation for his contribution to the growth 

 and strength of the Museum that we 

 wish Dr. Gregg well in his retirement. 

 It is fortunate that Dr. Gregg's years of 

 experience will be available through his 

 continued service on the Museum's 

 Board of Trustees. _, . ... 



E. L. W. 



MUSEUM RECEIVES $875,000 GRANT 



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"n members' night, Mr. Stanley Field, 

 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, an- 

 nounced that the Museum has received 

 a grant of $875,000 from the National 

 Science Foundation, which will be used 

 for new construction to enlarge facilities 

 for basic scientific research and graduate 

 education. 



Recently a booklet describing the new 

 construction was sent to all Members. 

 Of the four scientific departments, the 

 Department of Geology will be affected 

 most by the expansion. New and re- 

 modeled areas to be provided for geo- 

 logical research include a diagnostic 

 X-ray unit for the radiographic study 

 of rocks and fossils; a photographic lab- 

 oratory; a rock-sectioning laboratory, 

 and a thin-sectioning laboratory. The 

 Chalmers Mineralogical Laboratory will 

 be enlarged, as will the paleontology 

 library. A classroom for lectures and 

 seminars, study rooms for graduate stu- 

 dents, and workrooms for visiting scien- 

 tists are also to be added. Storage space 

 for the Department's scientific collec- 

 tions will be approximately doubled. 

 An estimated one-third of the 250,000 

 cubic feet of added space is designed to 

 connect directly with the present Li- 

 brary, and will be used primarily for 

 additional book stacks. 



The new construction alleviates a 

 long-standing space shortage that be- 

 came critical when the University of 

 Chicago proposed the merger of its fa- 

 mous Walker Collection of fossil inverte- 

 brates with the Museum's paleontology 

 collections. In accepting the merger, 



Museum Director E. Leland Webber 

 stated : "The addition of the collection 

 to the Museum's geological holdings, to- 

 gether with the new construction, will 

 create an outstanding national center 

 for research on fossil invertebrates. We 

 welcome this opportunity for greater re- 

 search based on the Walker Collection 

 and for continued close collaboration 

 with nearby universities." 



Orvillt L. Gilpin (left), Chief Preparator of Fossils, 

 and Harry E. Ckangnon, Curator of Geology Ex- 

 hibits, unload a shipment of Walker Collection speci- 

 mens. About a thousand trays of fossil specimens 

 have arrived at the Museum since the first of the year; 

 shipment of the complete collection of more than a 

 million specimens is expected to continue at two- or 

 three-week intervals throughout the summer. 



STAFF NOTES 



Paul Martin Honored 



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"r. paul s. martin, Chief Curator of 

 Anthropology, was elected President of 

 the Society for American Archaeology 

 at its annual meeting held recently in 

 Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The So- 

 ciety is the leading professional asso- 

 ciation of archaeologists in the United 

 States. 



For the past thirty years Dr. Martin 

 has headed Museum expeditions to the 

 southwestern part of the United States, 

 where his work has made possible the 

 reconstruction of several prehistoric In- 

 dian cultures. Many of the Museum's 

 exhibits on life among the Indians of 

 New Mexico and Arizona before Co- 

 lumbus are based entirely on the origi- 

 nal discoveries of these expeditions. His 

 field schools, conducted each summer at 

 the site of his digs, provide an outstand- 

 ing opportunity for the archaeological 

 training of high school and college stu- 

 dents. 



In 1960, Dr. Martin was responsible 

 for the discovery and excavation of a 

 large kiva, or ceremonial chamber, in 

 which an unusual sacred image was 

 worshipped. The stone god, found in a 

 carefully constructed crypt within the 

 great kiva, furnished new evidence con- 

 cerning the religious beliefs and cere- 

 monies of the Pueblo Indians who lived 

 in Arizona from a.d. 1250 to 1350. 



Currently Dr. Martin is using com- 

 puters to analyze archaeological debris 

 collected by the random sampling of pre- 

 historic Indian sites. Through such 

 computer analysis "the study of extinct 

 cultures can now go far beyond descrip- 

 tion," he recently wrote. "We can ask 

 new questions about the life of prehis- 

 toric peoples — questions that were never 

 before possible. Years ago we used to 

 think that archaeology could not recover 

 data on the social organization of an ex- 

 tinct people. We now know it can. 

 These sorts of questions are the real 

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