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Walther Buchen 



Walther Buchen 

 1886-1961 



The Museum records with deep regret 

 the death on June 12, 1961, of Walther 

 Buchen, Sr., Vice President of the Board 

 of Trustees. Mr. Buchen was elected 

 a Trustee and Cor- 

 porate Member in 

 December of 1952 

 and had served con- 

 tinuously on the Fi- 

 nance Committee 

 since 1954. In 1957, 

 he was elected Sec- 

 ond Vice President 

 of the Museum, a 

 position which he 

 held at the time of 

 his death. 



Mr. Buchen was born in December of 

 1886 and received a Master of Arts de- 

 gree from the University of Illinois in 

 1913. He served on the faculty of the 

 University from 1911 to 1915, when 

 he entered the advertising profession, 

 becoming President of The Buchen 

 Company in 1923, and continuing in 

 that capacity until his recent retirement. 



In 1952, Mr. and Mrs. Buchen con- 

 ducted an expedition to the Victoria 

 Nile area and collected for the Museum 

 all the specimens necessary to complete 

 the "Upper Nile Marshbirds" exhibit 

 which is on display in Hall 20. Mr. 

 Buchen was always deeply interested in 

 the work of the Museum and was a fre- 

 quent visitor, having a wide acquaint- 

 ance among the Museum staff. He will 

 be greatly missed. 



Honorary Degree 



In recognition of his eminence in his 

 chosen field of science, Dr. Austin L. 

 Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology, was 

 awarded an honorary Doctor of Science 

 degree by his Alma Mater, Acadia Uni- 

 versity, Nova Scotia, Canada, at its re- 

 cent convocation. 



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Publications 



A new book by Dr. Rand, A Mid- 

 western Almanac, has just been released 

 for sale by its publisher, The Ronald 

 Press Company, and is now available 

 in the Museum's Book Shop. In the 

 "almanac," Dr. Rand and his wife, co- 

 author Rheua M. Rand, describe a nat- 

 uralist's delightful busman's holiday fol- 

 lowing nature's calendar through the 

 successive seasons in the Midwest. In 

 their journey they mingle nature lore 

 and scientific fact about the birds, mam- 

 mals, insects, frogs, and plants that mark 

 each season. The book has 208 pages, 

 with illustrations, and may be purchased 

 for $4.50. 



Indian Life in the Upper Great Lakes, a 

 recently published book by Mr. George 

 Quimby, Curator of North American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, was given 

 special recognition at the Chicago Book 

 Clinic's 12th Annual Exhibition of Chi- 

 cago and Midwestern Bookmaking held 

 in May. Quimby's book was one of 59 

 books from 30 publishers selected as a 

 Top Honor Book for outstanding design, 

 illustration, and bookmaking. Indian 

 Life in the Upper Great Lakes was designed 

 by Greer Allen and published by the 

 University of Chicago Press. 



Study Trips 



Just returned from a six-week's marine 

 study trip to Hawaii, Mr. Loren P. 

 Woods, Curator of Fishes, is now en- 

 gaged in identifying and cataloging the 

 nearly 200 varieties of fish collected on 

 the trip. The Hawaiian expedition was 

 sponsored by the Shedd Aquarium and 

 led by Mr. William P. Braker, the 

 Aquarium's Assistant Director. Assist- 

 ance was given the expedition by the 

 U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by the 

 State of Hawaii's Fish and Game Serv- 

 ice, and by staff members of the Uni- 

 versity of Hawaii. Among the 200 vari- 

 eties of fish collected on the trip are 



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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. Roscoe 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, Treasurer 



Clifford C. Gregg, Director and Secretary 



E. Leland Webber, Assistant Secretary 



* Deceased 



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. 



many species never before included in 

 the Museum's research collections, and 

 at least one new species of angel fish. 



Dr. Alan Solem, Curator of Lower In- 

 vertebrates, traveled to Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, during April to supervise the 

 shipment to Chicago of the Eyerdam 

 collection of shells recently purchased 

 by the Museum. From Seattle, Dr. 

 Solem proceeded to Arizona where he 

 resumed a research project begun last 

 spring — the collecting of land snails in 

 areas charted fifty years ago by two well- 

 known malacologists, Henry A. Pilsbry 

 and James Ferriss (see report in the 

 Bulletin for June, 1960). From the 

 data recorded on these sites, Solem ex- 



