CHICAGO 

 NATURAL 

 HISTORY 

 MUSEUM 



Free Concert 



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On Tuesday, December 12, Free Con- 

 certs Foundation will present Claude 

 Frank, pianist, and the Lenox String 

 Quartet in a chamber concert featuring 

 the works of Beethoven, Carter, and 

 Schumann. 



The program, which begins at 8:30 

 p.m., will consist of Beethoven's "Trio, 

 B Flat Major, Opus 11," "String Quartet 

 No. 2" by Carter, and "Piano Quintet, 

 Opus 44" by Schumann. For free tick- 

 ets send a stamped, self-addressed enve- 

 lope to Free Concerts, Chicago Natural 

 History Museum, Roosevelt Road at 

 Lake Shore Drive. 



Audubon Wildlife Film 



"Roving Three Continents," a color 

 motion picture about biologist Bristol 

 Foster's travels across Africa, Asia, and 

 Australia in a Landrover, will be pre- 

 sented free in the James Simpson Theatre 

 by the Illinois Audubon Society on Sun- 

 day, December 3, at 2 :30 p.m. The film, 

 concentrates on the rare animals, birds, 

 and plants of the three continents, and 

 will be narrated by Foster in person. It 

 is the second in a series of Audubon wild- 

 life programs to be presented in the Mu- 

 seum during the coming months. 



Photographic Exhibit 



Forty new photographs have been 

 added to "People and Places in India," 

 an exhibit of photographs and minia- 

 ture clay sculptures on display in Hall 

 18 (ground floor, west). The new photo- 

 graphs, which replace the forty that 

 opened the exhibit in 1959, were selected 

 from more than 400 negatives made by 

 John Moyer, head of the Museum's Di- 

 vision of Motion Pictures, during his 

 three-years' residence in India as a con- 

 sul of the United States. The photo- 

 graphs chosen depict the different peo- 

 ples and castes comprising the popula- 

 tion of India, and also demonstrate the 

 varied terrain encountered in traveling 

 from the northern boundary of India 

 along the Himalayan range down to the 



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rain forests of Cape Comorin in the ex- 

 treme southern tip. The small clay mod- 

 els of Indian people that are also a part 

 of the exhibit are noteworthy because 

 they represent a dying art in India which 

 the present government is trying to re- 

 store. 



Research Grant 



The National Science Foundation has 

 awarded a grant of $29,500 to the Mu- 

 seum to assist the research of Dr. Louis O. 

 Williams, Curator of Central American 

 Botany, on the Flora of Guatemala. The 

 grant is to be applied over a period of 

 five years. The research is a continua- 

 tion of that initiated in 1941 by Paul C. 

 Standley, then curator of the herbarium. 

 Nine volumes of the Flora have been 

 published by the Museum, and it is esti- 

 mated to be more than half completed 

 now. When the research project is com- 

 pleted it will lie the first modern, compre- 

 hensive flora to be published on any part 

 of the Mexican-Central American floris- 

 tic region. 



Scientific Meetings 



In September, Dr. Edward Olsen, 

 Curator of Mineralogy in the Depart- 

 ment of Geology, attended meetings at 

 the General Electric Laboratories in 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Olsen also 

 lectured to the senior class of Air Force 

 R.O.T.C. cadets at the Illinois Institute 

 of Technology on the general geological 

 features of the earth. 



"The Hidden Potential of Museum 

 Photography" was discussed by Mr. 

 Homer V. Holdren, Assistant Photog- 

 rapher in the Division of Photography, 

 at a panel discussion held during the 

 annual meeting of the Midwest Muse- 

 ums Conference in East Lansing, Mich- 

 igan. Other staff members attending 

 the meeting were Mr. E. Leland Web- 

 ber, Assistant Director, and Miss Miriam 

 Wood, Chief of the Raymond Founda- 

 tion. 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1S93 



Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5 



Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 



THE BOARD 

 Lester Armour 

 Wm. 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. Roscoc 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 Anthtopology 



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. 



Dr. Robert H. Denison, Curator of 

 Fossil Fishes, was elected vice-president 

 of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontol- 

 ogy and Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of 

 Fossil Reptiles, was elected secretary- 

 treasurer at the Society"s annual meet- 

 ings held in the Museum last month. 

 Newly elected president is Dr. Samuel 

 Welles, from the University of California 

 at Berkeley. Approximately 80 scientists 

 who specialize in the study of fossil ani- 

 mals with backbones came to the meet- 

 ings from various parts of the United 

 States and Canada. During the con- 

 ference Mr. William D. Turnbull, Assist- 

 ant Curator of Mammals, discussed re- 

 search on small fossil mammals. 



Erratum 



The author of the article, "Messen- 

 gers from Outer Space," which appeared 

 in last month's Bulletin (November, 

 1961), is Dr. Sharat K. Roy, Chief 

 Curator of Geology. 



