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Preview of Fall Programs 



October will herald the beginning of 

 Chicago Natural History Museum's free 

 adult lecture series offering colorful mo- 

 tion picture programs — narrated in per- 

 son by well-known travel lecturers — each 

 Saturday during October and Novem- 

 ber. The programs are presented in the 

 James Simpson Theatre at 2:30 p.m. 

 Reserved seats will be held for Museum 

 Members until 2:25 p.m. 



October 7 — Hong Kong — Bamboo 

 Curtain Colony Phil Walker 



October 14 — Cyprus, The New 



Republic Robert Davis 



October 21 — Devil's Highway 



(an expedition down the Colorado 

 River) J 0nn M. Goddard 



October 28 — Heart of the Wild 



(waterfowl, shore birds, and big- 

 horn in their marsh and mountain 

 homes) Cleveland P. Grant 



A complete, and more detailed, listing 

 will appear in next month's Bulletin. 



Also offered at the Museum every Sat- 

 urday during October and November 

 are free motion pictures for children. 

 The films on a variety of natural history 

 subjects will be presented in the James 

 Simpson Theatre at 10:30 a.m. They 

 are provided by the James Nelson and 

 Anna Louise Raymond Foundation. 



October 7 — The Miracle of Trees 



(from the giants of all living things, 

 the sequoias, to the commonest of 

 our shade trees) 



October 14 — Savage Splendor 



(a brilliant parade of wild life in the 

 African jungle) 



October 21 — Hibernation 



(how living things get ready for 

 winter) 



October 28 — Niok 



(the story of a baby elephant in 

 tropical Cambodia) 



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Foreign Visitors 



Two groups of distinguished foreign 

 visitors toured the Museum recently as 

 guests of the United States Department 

 of State. 



From the Soviet Union came Mr. A. 

 Pashchenko, Director of the Kiev Insti- 

 tute of Art; Mr. A. Gritsai, painter; 

 Mrs. L. Kremneva, sculptor; and Mr. K. 

 Bogdanas, sculptor. The Russians were 

 especially interested in seeing primitive 

 art, and their attention was drawn to 

 the Museum's outstanding collection by 

 Mrs. Courtney Ellis. Escorted by Mr. 

 Phillip H. Lewis, Curator of Primi- 

 tive Art, Mr. Emmet R. Blake, Cu- 

 rator of Birds, and Mrs. Ellis, the visi- 

 tors were shown primitive art on dis- 

 play in the new Hall of Polynesian and 

 Micronesian Cultures (Hall F), in the 

 African halls, in the American Indian 

 halls, and in the new Hall of Primitive 

 Art (Hall 2, the Edward E. and Emma 

 B. Ayer Hall). Here the Russian visitors 

 were delighted with the carving by an 

 artist from the Aleutian Islands of a 

 Russian explorer in a three-seated bidar- 

 ka, a kayak-like craft, paddled by Aleut 

 hunters. This carving is part of the 

 newly installed exhibit entitled "Prim- 

 itive Artists Look at Civilization." 



The second group of visitors was com- 

 p6sed of seventeen representatives from 

 leading museums all over the world. 

 They were in Chicago under auspices of 

 the American Association of Museums 

 in cooperation with a State Department 

 program enabling administrators of for- 

 eign museums to visit and study similar 

 scientific and cultural institutions in the 

 United States. After touring the exhibi- 

 tion halls and meeting the scientific staff, 

 the visitors were honored at a luncheon 

 in the Museum arranged by Director 

 Clifford C. Gregg. 



Scientific Meetings 



Dr. Roland W. Force, Curator of 

 Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, 

 delivered a paper on "Political Change 

 In Palau" at the Tenth Pacific Science 

 Congress of the Pacific Science Associa- 



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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lester Armour 

 Wm. McCormick Blair 

 Walter J. Cummings 

 Joseph N. Field 

 Marshall Field, Jr. 

 Stanley Field 

 Samuel Insult, 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 



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. 



tion which began in Honolulu on Au- 

 gust 21 and will continue through Sep- 

 tember 6. Dr. Force was selected to 

 head the conference symposium, "In- 

 duced Cultural Change In the Pacific: 

 Political Organization." The confer- 

 ence is sponsored by the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) and 

 {Continued on page 7) 



THIS MONTH'S COVER 



Our cover calls attention to the Museum's 

 featured exhibit for September, a graphic rep- 

 resentation of the botanical background of 

 Scottish tartans. Superimposed against a 

 tartan pattern — Ancient Stewart, muted col- 

 ors — is a blossom of the woad plant, one of 

 the dye-plants used in that tartan. Woad 

 produces a blue dye and is used also as a 

 mordant for fixing dyes. The cover was de- 

 signed by Robert Anderson, Artist, Depart- 

 ment of Botany, with the cooperation of the 

 Museum's Division of Photography. 



