-1961: 

 Recalled 



ief Curator of Botany 



and reinstalled several times. The result 

 has been the creation of a number of 

 exhibits for which the Museum is world- 

 famous: Malvina Hoffman's life-size 

 sculptures in bronze showing the races 

 of mankind; the eight dioramas of Stone 

 Age man; the hall showing Indian Amer- 

 ica before Columbus, which started a 

 trend in exhibition that has influenced 

 practically every museum in the coun- 

 try; the world's finest exhibition hall of 

 reptiles and amphibians, made possible 

 by techniques of mounting developed at 

 Chicago Natural History Museum; the 

 collection of murals of prehistoric ani- 

 mal life painted by Charles R. Knight; 

 the hall of fossil vertebrates featuring 

 the 72-foot Brontosaurus skeleton; the 

 reconstruction of a Coal Age forest of 

 240 million years ago; the development 

 of some of the finest botanical exhibits to 

 be found in any museum in the world; 

 and habitat groups of animals in natural- 

 istic settings equal to the best that can 

 be seen anywhere. This program of 

 change and development is going on 

 now — witness the new Hall of Polynesian 

 and Micronesian Cultures opening on 

 April 29 of this year — and may be ex- 

 pected to go on indefinitely. 



Anniversaries invite forward as well as 

 backward glances. The slogan of the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of 

 the Museum in 1893 was "A living mu- 

 seum is a growing museum." Growth 

 in a museum implies change, certain 

 kinds of institutional "growing pains," 

 and the outmoding of vesture. A living 

 natural history museum is never fin- 

 ished. It serves its community and the 

 natural sciences as no other social insti- 

 tution can, and to continue this service 

 is the purpose and function of Chicago 

 Natural History Museum. 



Editor's note: Mr. Millar joined the staff of the 

 Museum February 1, 1918, and has personally 

 witnessed the changes of which he writes. 



MUSEUM NEWS 



Free Concerts Festival 



Benny Goodman and Leon Fleisher 

 will be among the featured guest artists 

 in the Mozart-Schubert Music Festival 

 (May 2-4) that brings to a climax the 

 Free Concerts Foundation's 1960-61 sea- 

 son in James Simpson Theatre. Addi- 

 tional artists will be Saramae Endich, 

 soprano; Leslie Parnas, cellist; Sidney 

 Harth, violin; and other members of the 

 Festival String Quartet assisted by War- 

 ren Benfield, bass viol. 



All festival concerts are scheduled to 

 begin at 8 :30 p.m. Performing at the first 

 concert, on Tuesday, May 2, will be 

 Leon Fleisher, Leslie Parnas, and mem- 

 bers of the Festival String Quartet. They 

 will play the Arpeggione Sonata and the 

 "Trout" Quintet by Schubert, as well as 

 Mozart's G minor Piano Quartet. 



The Wednesday, May 3, concert will 

 be a violin-piano sonata recital by Sid- 

 ney Harth and Leon Fleisher. 



Benny Goodman highlights the Thurs- 

 day, May 4, concert, along with Warren 

 Benfield, Saramae Endich, Leslie Parnas, 

 and members of the Festival String Quar- 

 tet. The program will include Mozart's 

 Clarinet Quintet and songs for soprano; 

 and two Schubert selections. 



Tickets may be obtained by sending a 

 self-addressed, stamped envelope to Free 

 Concerts Foundations, Chicago Natural 

 History Museum, Roosevelt Road and 

 Lake Shore Drive, clearly indicating the 

 number of tickets and the concert, or 

 concerts, desired. 



Longer Museum Hours 



Beginning May 1 the Museum will 

 be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven 

 days a week. 



New Staff Member 



Joanne L. Evenson has joined the staff 

 of the Raymond Foundation. A grad- 

 uate of the University of Wisconsin, 

 Miss Evenson's major field of study was 

 geology. She will assist with the pro- 

 grams and tours for school children and 

 adults, and will take part in all other 

 Raymond Foundation activities. 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5 



Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lester Armour 

 Wm. McCormick Blair 

 Walther Buchen 

 Walter J. Cummings 

 Joseph N. Field 

 Marshall Field, Jr. 

 Stanley Field 

 Samuel Insull, Jr. 

 Henry P. Isham 



William V. Kahler 

 Hughston M. McBain 

 J. Roscoc Miller 

 William H. Mitchell 

 John T. Pirie, Jr. 

 Clarence B. Randall 

 John G. Searle 

 Solomon A. Smith 

 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, Tteasurer 



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. 



Exhibit of 



Children's Art 



An "exhibit on exhibits" will be pre- 

 sented by the Museum during May when 

 paintings, drawings, and prints inspired 

 by Museum displays and created by stu- 

 dents of the Junior School of the Art In- 

 stitute will be featured in Stanley Field 

 Hall. Seventy-six students will be rep- 

 resented in the display. 



The imaginative art work to be shown 

 in the student art show represents the 

 efforts of children as young as five years 

 old and up through the teens. Through- 

 out the year the Art Institute holds 

 classes in the Museum, where the stu- 

 dents have an opportunity to study plant 

 and animal structures, forms of primitive 

 art and design, and art techniques of an- 

 cient civilizations. The student art work 

 will remain on display May 1-31. 



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