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CHICAGO NATURAL 



HISTORY MUSEUM 



Acquisition 



Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, 

 Director, accepts pre- 

 historic pottery vessel 

 from Veraguas Prov- 

 ince, Panama — a gift 

 to the Museum's De- 

 partment of Anthropol- 

 ogy from the National 

 Museum of Panama. 

 Presentation is by Mrs. 

 Angela Munoz de Lew, 

 Consul-General of Pan- 

 ama in Chicago. Cere- 

 mony took place during 

 Pan-American Week 

 (April 8-14), when the 

 Pan-American Council 

 honored sixty-eight years 

 of scientific cooperation 

 between Chicago Nat- 

 ural History Museum 

 and the countries of 

 Latin America. On the 

 table in the photograph 

 are a few of the many 

 hundreds of publica- 

 tions by Museum sci- 

 entists reporting their 

 research on the anthro- 

 pology, botany, geol- 

 ogy, and zoology of 

 various Latin Ameri- 

 can countries. 



Spotlighting the 



Museum's Photographers 



We have received a number of in- 

 quiries about the source of the remarka- 

 ble photographs of the Fuller Collection 

 appearing in last month's pictorial fea- 

 ture, "A Panorama of the Pacific." The 

 Museum staff members responsible for 

 these outstanding photographs of South 

 Pacific artifacts are Mr. John Bayalis, 

 Photographer, and Mr. Homer V. Hol- 

 dren, Assistant Photographer, who to- 

 gether with Miss Mary Creed comprise 

 the Museum's Division of Photography. 

 Bulletin readers have long known them 

 as the source of the striking cover photo- 

 graphs for which the periodical is noted. 

 It is less well known, however, that Mr. 

 Bayalis and Mr. Holdren also supply a 

 large percentage of the photographs of 

 the Museum and its activities that ap- 

 pear in the Chicago and nationwide 



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press. Their most recent work forms an 

 integral part of the Museum's new Hall 

 of Polynesian and Micronesian Cultures 

 (Hall F, ground floor), and adds an 

 important dimension to the visitor's 

 appreciation of the art objects displayed 

 in the hall. 



This Month's Cover and 



a New Museum Journey 



Dinosaurs will be the focus of an all- 

 out hunt during the months of June, 

 July, and August when the Museum 

 offers youngsters a new summer Jour- 

 ney, "Dinosaur Land." Equipped with 

 detailed travel instructions and special 

 "weapons" — pencils or pens and Jour- 

 ney questionnaires — hundreds of chil- 

 dren will set out through the Museum's 

 halls for a trek back through time as far 

 as 175 million years when animals weigh- 

 ing more than 30 tons roamed the earth. 



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 

 Win. McCormick Blair 

 Walther Buchen 

 Walter J. Cummings 

 Joseph N. Field 

 Marshall Field, Jr. 

 Stanley Field 

 Samuel Insult, Jr. 

 Henry P. Isham 



J. Howard 



William V. Kahler 

 Hughston M. McBain 

 J. Roscoe Miller 

 William H. Mitchell 

 John T. Pirie, Jr. 

 Clarence B. Randall 

 John G. Searle 

 Solomon A. Smith 

 Louis Ware 

 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. 



All children are invited to participate in 

 the Journey and may obtain travel in- 

 structions and question sheets at the in- 

 formation desk and the north or south 

 entrances. When completed, the ques- 

 tionnaires should be turned in at the 

 doors for credit leading to Museum Jour- 

 ney awards. 



Already ahead of the other "hunters" 

 is Nancy Ninke, 15, a young student 

 at the Art Institute. She early found 

 these prehistoric giants of absorbing in- 

 terest, as evidenced by her pen and ink 

 drawing of the Museum's Gorgosaurus 

 exhibit, which appears on our cover. 

 Her drawing was displayed in the Mu- 

 seum during May as part of the annual 

 student art exhibition of the Junior 

 School of the Art Institute. 



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