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Lectures and Meetings 



Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, Director, and 

 Mr. E. Leland Webber, Assistant Direc- 

 tor of the Museum, attended the annual 

 meeting of the Association of Science 

 Museum Directors at Cranbrook Insti- 

 tute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Mich- 

 igan, on May 23. Dr. Gregg introduced 

 the panel discussion on "Problem of 

 Sportsman Collections for Museums." 



Dr. Gregg also attended the annual 

 meeting of the American Association of 

 Museums held in Detroit May 24-26 at 

 which he was one of three panel speakers 

 on the subject of "Federal Support of 

 Museums." Other staff members attend- 

 ing the meeting of the Association in- 

 cluded Mr. E. Leland Webber, Assistant 



Director, Mr. John R. Millar, Chief 

 Curator, Department of Botany, Miss 

 Miriam Wood, Chief of the Raymond 

 Foundation, Dr. Roland W. Force, and 

 Mr. Allen S. Liss, Custodian of Collec- 

 tions, Department of Anthropology. 



Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of Fossil 

 Reptiles, was recently selected by the 

 American Geological Institute to par- 

 ticipate in its "Visiting Geological Scien- 

 tist Program," through which eminent 

 geologists from larger institutions are 

 brought to the campuses of smaller col- 

 leges and universities to lecture and to 

 confer with the faculty on curricula, de- 

 partmental organization, and expansion. 

 Dr. Zangerl visited the West Texas State 

 University (Canyon, Texas) and Brig- 

 ham Young University (Provo, Utah). 



Dr. Louis A. Williams, Associate Cura- 

 tor of Central American Botany, attended 

 the annual meeting of the Society for 

 Economic Botany held in Boston. He 



BELOW (Botany): A 

 reconstruction of a fossil 

 plant that lived more than 

 150 million years ago, the 

 giant Cycadoidea, also 

 attracted many Members. 



also visited the Gray Herbarium at Har- 

 vard University and the National Mu- 

 seum's herbarium in Washington, D.C., 

 where he checked his manuscript for the 

 next part of the publication, Flora of 

 Guatemala, against specimens in the col- 

 lections of both institutions. 



Ohio State University was the site of 

 a recent gathering of American anthro- 

 pologists and archaeologists attending 

 the annual meetings of several scientific 

 organizations held on that midwestern 

 campus. Among those participating 

 were Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator 

 of Anthropology; Dr. Roland Force, 

 Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and 

 Ethnology; and Mr. George I. Quimby, 

 Curator of North American Archaeol- 

 ogy and Ethnology. Two papers were 

 presented by the Museum staff, one by 

 Mr. Quimby on "Protohistoric Indians 

 of the Upper Great Lakes Region," and 

 the other by Dr. Force entitled "Pa- 

 lauan Paradox: Some Comments on 

 Kinship Terminology." Another re- 

 cent paper by Dr. Force, also based on 

 his research on the Palauan language, 

 appeared in the April 21, 1961 issue of 

 Science. Entitled "Keys to Cultural Un- 

 derstanding," the paper discussed the 

 relation of figures of speech to funda- 

 mental modes of perception. At the 

 Ohio meetings, Dr. Force was elected 

 first vice-president of the Central States 

 Anthropological Society. 



(Continued on page 8) 



LEFT MIDDLE (Anthropology): Dr. Hoshien Tchen, 

 consultant on the Museum's East Asian Collection, demon- 

 strates Chinese brush writing for a fascinated group. 



RIGHT MIDDLE (Geology): Mr. David Techier, 

 Museum Assistant in Fossil Vertebrates, explains some 

 interesting facts about a fossil duck-billed dinosaur being 

 prepared for exhibit. 



(Except where other credit is given, photographs in this issue are 

 by the Division of Photography.) 



