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THIS MONTH'S COVER- 



"Angry Fox" 

 William Vokoun, Jr. 

 Downers Grove, Illinois 

 from the 

 Sixteenth Chicago 

 International Exhibition 

 of 

 Nature Photography- 

 sponsored by 



Chicago Natural History Museum 

 Chicago Nature Camera Club 



Stanley Field Hall 

 February 5-25 



Showings of color slides 



Sundays, February 5 and 12, 



2:30 p. m. 



James Simpson Theatre 



Research Awards 



The National Science Foundation has 

 awarded the Museum a $12,000 grant 

 for support of research entitled "Cul- 

 tural Stability in the Upper Litde Colora- 

 do River Drainage," under the direction 

 of Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of 

 Anthropology. 



The grant will be used to conduct ar- 

 chaeological and ecological studies at a 

 series of sites in Apache and Navajo 

 Counties in east-central Arizona. Within 

 this area, research will be concentrated 

 on the ruins of an unknown culture, the 

 Snowflake, which takes its name from 

 the nearby, contemporary town of Snow- 

 flake, Arizona. It is believed that the 

 origin, development, and dispersal of 

 this early culture may hold some of the 

 keys to the later developments of Hopi 

 and Zuni cultures, which apparently 

 arose from a common source in this area. 

 If ties between the Hopi or Zuni cul- 

 tures and earlier ones located in the 

 drainage of the Upper Little Colorado 

 can be established, archaeologists will 

 then possess an unbroken, documented 

 sequence of culture history in this region 

 extending across a period of some eight 

 or ten thousand years. 



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The National Science Foundation has 

 also awarded the Museum a $9,800 grant 

 for the use of Dr. John W. Thieret, Cura- 

 tor of Economic Botany, in furtherance 

 of his study of flora and vegetation in the 

 region that has now been made accessible 

 by the newly-constructed Yellowknife 

 Highway, located in the Southwestern 

 District of Mackenzie, Northwest Terri- 

 tories, Canada. Dr. Thieret began his 

 field work in the highway region in 1958 

 and 1959 and will continue and com- 

 plete it during the course of the 1961 

 and 1962 Northwest Territories Botan- 

 ical Expeditions. 



Chamber Music Concert 



Free Concerts Foundation will bring 

 The Quartetto Italiano to Chicago on 

 Friday, February 3, to highlight its fourth 

 free concert, an extra program in the 

 1960 series being presented in the Mu- 

 seum's James Simpson Theatre. 



The program will consist of the Haydn 

 Quartet in E flat major, opus 33, num- 

 ber 2; Beethoven's Quartet in F major, 

 opus 135; and the Ravel Quartet in F 

 major. 



Free tickets to the concert may be 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

 Lester Armour William V. Kahler 



Wm. McCormick Blair Hughston M. McBain 



Walther Buchen J. Roscoe Miller 



Walter J. Cummings William H. Mitchell 



Joseph N. Field John T. Pirie, Jr. 



Marshall Field, Jr. Clarence B. Randall 



Stanley Field John G. Searle 



Samuel Insull, Jr. Solomon A. Smith 



Henry P. Isham Louis Ware 



J. Howard Wood 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field President 



Hughston M. McBain First Vice-President 



Walther Buchen Second Vice-President 



Joseph N. Field Third Vice-President 



Solomon A. Smith Treasurer 



Clifford C. Gregg Director and Secretary 



E. Leland Webber Assistant Secretary 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 Clifford C. Gregg Director of the Museum 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of Anthropology 



John R. Millar Chief Curator of Botany 



Sharat K. Roy Chief Curator of Geology 



Austin L. Rand Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 Paula R. Nelson Public Relations Counsel 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR 

 Marilyn Jindrich Associate in Public Relations 



Members are requested to inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



obtained by sending a self-addressed, 

 stamped envelope to the Chicago Nat- 

 ural History Museum, East Roosevelt 

 Road and Lake Shore Drive. The con- 

 cert begins at 8:30 p.m. 



From left to right, Sir Edmund Hillary, Kumja Chumji, and Mr. Desmond Doig, on the Museum steps. 



