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 ed excitement when Captain Ronne fo- 

 cuses his camera at close range on the 

 monarch of the Far North, the great 

 white polar bear; records the expedi- 

 tionary vessel's struggle against treach- 

 erous ice-floes; or follows the routes of 

 Amundsen, Ellsworth, and Byrd to their 

 starting point for flights over the North 

 Pole. 



November 28 



"The 1963 Mount Everest Story" 



(Illustrated with color slides) 



Maynard Malcolm Miller 



Dr. Miller's stirring account of this 

 successful expedition begins with the de- 

 parture from San Francisco in January; 

 continues through the long march across 

 Nepal from Kathmandu to the upper 

 reaches of the Khumbu Glacier; and 

 ends triumphantly at the dramatic mo- 

 ment of double victory on Mount Ever- 

 est's summit, when two men who as- 

 cended the previously unconquered west 

 ridge meet two others who had come up 

 the Col route on the same afternoon. 



Dr. Miller, who received his Ph.D. de- 

 gree from Cambridge, was in charge of 

 the geological program of the Mount 

 Everest expedition. His responsibility 

 was to study the high glaciers and geol- 

 ogy of the jagged peaks bordering re- 

 mote Tibet. Along the way, he tells the 

 story of the unusual scientific program 

 carried out at altitudes between 16,000 

 to 25,000 feet, and recounts the evi- 

 dence of psychological and physical 

 stress suffered by expedition members as 

 they climbed past glaciers and rock ridges 

 into the rarified air of the world's high- 

 est mountain. The anxious hours pre- 

 ceding and following the conquest, the 

 many episodes of crisis met and over- 

 come, are made vivid with the aid of 

 Kodachrome slides.  



In Memoriam 

 REUBEN M. STRONG 



1872-1964 



L/r. reuben myron strong, Research 

 Associate in the Museum's Division of 

 Anatomy since 1946, died August 11 

 in Petosky, Michigan, where he was 

 spending the summer. His death at 

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the age of 91 brought to a close the 

 career of a remarkable man whose pro- 

 ductivity and scholarly inquiry in sev- 

 eral diverse fields spanned a period of 

 more than seven decades and continued 

 until his final illness. He is survived by 

 a daughter, Madelaine, a resident of 

 New York City. 



Dr. Strong was born October 8, 1872, 

 in North Greenfield (now a part of 

 West Allis), Wisconsin, the descendant 

 of English and Irish ancestors who first 

 came to this country in 1630. After 

 graduation from high school in Wau- 

 watosa, Wisconsin, he was briefly a 

 country school teacher — with janitorial 

 responsibilities — in a neighboring com- 

 munity, and from his salary of $40 a 

 month saved sufficient money to enter 

 Oberlin College, from which he grad- 

 uated in 1897. On receiving his Ph.D. 

 degree from Harvard in 1901, Dr. Strong 

 entered upon a teaching career that 

 continued more than forty years, in the 

 final decades of which (1918-1946) he 

 served as Professor and Chairman of 

 the Department of Anatomy of Loyola 

 University School of Medicine. 



The scope of Dr. Strong's interests 

 and abilities are evidenced by the fact 

 that he, a specialist in anatomy, on oc- 

 casion not only taught chemistry, phy- 

 sics, botany, and zoology, but also dur- 

 ing his earlier years sometimes assisted 

 in the coaching of football and track. 

 A member of numerous learned societies 

 and Fellow of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Dr. Strong became an offi- 

 cer of many and the president of several, 

 including the Wilson Ornithological So- 

 ciety, of which he was also a founder. 

 His scientific publications include more 

 than 125 titles, of which almost half are 

 in the field of ornithology. 



The ornithological publications of Dr. 

 Strong date back at least to 1891 and 

 include studies of avian anatomy, neu- 

 rology, pigmentation, behavior, and con- 

 servation. But his greatest contribution 

 to the study of birds, and one for which 

 he justifiably received the widest ac- 

 claim, is his Bibliography of Birds pub- 

 lished (1939, 1946, 1959) in four vol- 

 umes of 1,641 pages by the Chicago Na- 

 tural History Museum. This monu- 

 mental work, appropriately cross-in- 

 dexed, makes easily available for the 

 first time the authors and titles of some 



25,000 technical papers that constitute 

 the world's more important literature 

 on birds. 



Formal retirement in 1946 was, for 

 Dr. Strong, seemingly but an incident 

 that altered little, if at all, the work pat- 

 terns of a lifetime. During his remain- 

 ing eighteen years he occupied an office 

 provided by the Museum, where he 

 could be found at work almost daily, ex- 

 cept when similarly engaged at his sum- 

 mer home in Michigan. Much of his 

 time was devoted to anatomical studies 

 of albatrosses, but during his last years 

 Dr. Strong became increasingly in- 

 volved in matters of conservation and 

 was an officer or member of various 

 conservation societies. A modest man, 

 cheerful in outlook, and ever responsive 

 to those who sought his help, Reuben 

 Myron Strong will long be remembered 

 with admiration by his former students, 

 the staff of the Museum, and his many 

 friends elsewhere.  EMM£T R< BLAKE 



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