CHICAGO 

 NATURAL 

 HISTORY 

 MUSEUM 



Children's Films 



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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) 



James Simpson Theatre. Saturday 

 mornings at 10:30. Free. 



"Trees" — Fall Journey 



The "forest" of North American trees 

 on exhibit in Hall 26 will be explored 

 this month and next by children taking 

 the Museum's new fall Journey, "Trees." 

 The Journey focuses particularly on trees 

 common to the Chicago area — some 

 well-known like the sugar maple and 

 American elm; and others not so famil- 

 iar, such as the chestnut, shagbark hick- 

 ory, and sassafras. The Journey may be 

 taken any time during regular Museum 

 hours through the month of November. 

 Successful completion of "Trees" credits 

 the "journeyer" with points leading to 

 special awards. Instructions and ques- 

 tionnaires are available at the Informa- 

 tion Desk and at the north and south 

 entrances to the Museum. 



Special Exhibit of Bird Paintings 



"Birds of Greenland," an 

 exhibition of 52 watercolors 

 by Danish artist Gitz-Johan- 

 sen, picturing birds that nest 

 in that northern island out- 

 post of Denmark, will be dis- 

 played in Stanley Field Hall 

 October 1 through 22. This 

 special showing of Gitz- 

 Johansen's work has been 

 made available to Chicago 

 Natural History Museum 

 through the generosity of 

 the American Scandinavian 

 Foundation. The exhibition is spon- 

 sored by the Embassy of Denmark and 

 the Carlsberg Foundation of Copenhagen. 



In his watercolors Gitz-Johansen, 

 called "the finest painter of birds . . . 

 since Audubon," has tried to reconcile 

 ornithological exactness with "the paint- 

 er's artistic conception, in order that 

 birds and scenery should form together 

 an artistic whole." The backgrounds of 

 the paintings, therefore, show the strik- 

 ing scenery of Greenland while at the 

 same time the birds, meticulously and 

 colorfully done, are the dominant fea- 

 ture of the paintings. The watercolors 



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"Pintail," by Gitz-Johansen. 



were originally used as illustrations for 

 an exceptional volume on Greenland 

 birds by the noted expert, Dr. Finn Salo- 

 monsen. The book is also on display. 



Audubon Lecture 



The Illinois Audubon Society's 1961- 

 62 series of free nature screen-tours be- 

 gins in the Museum on October 22 with 

 "An Ozark Anthology," the absorbing 

 film story of Leonard Hall's famous 

 "Possum Trot Farm" in the Missouri 

 Ozarks. Hall will narrate the film in 

 person, with mountain music and the 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5 



Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 



THE BOARD 

 Lester Armour 

 Win. McCormick Blair 

 Walter J. Cummings 

 Joseph N. Field 

 Marshall Field, Jr. 

 Stanley Field 

 Samuel Insull, Jr. 

 Henry P. Isham 

 William V. Kahler 



OF TRUSTEES 



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. 



sounds of animals providing background 

 for his commentary. The program be- 

 gins at 2:30 p.m. in the James Simpson 

 Theatre. 



Concert Series Opens 



Gerard Souzay, French baritone, will 

 open Free Concerts Foundation's 1961- 

 62 season with a song recital on Octo- 

 ber 24, at 8:30 p.m., in the James Simp- 

 son Theatre. The program will be the 

 first of eight Foundation-sponsored con- 

 certs to be presented in the theatre in 

 the coming months. Each will feature 

 a well-known guest artist or artists. Free 

 tickets for the Souzay recital can be 

 obtained by sending a self-addressed, 

 stamped envelope to Free Concerts, care 

 of the Museum, Lake Shore Drive at 

 Roosevelt Road, Chicago 5. 

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