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FIELD MUSEUM NEWS 



October, 19S3 



AUTUMN LECTURE COURSE 

 TO OPEN OCTOBER 7 



Field Museum's Sixtieth Free Lecture 

 Course will begin on Saturday, October 7, 

 and continue on Saturday afternoons 

 through October and November. In all, 

 eight travel lectures, illustrated with motion 

 pictures and stereopticon slides, will be 

 given. All the lectures will be presented 

 in the James Simpson Theatre of the 

 Museum, and all will begin at 3 p.m. Follow- 

 ing is the complete schedule of dates, 

 subjects and speakers: 



October 7 — The Desert Road to 

 Turkistan 



Owen Lattimore, Washington, D.C. 



October 14 — Jungle Islands of the South 

 Seas 



Sidney Shurcliff, Boston, Massachusetts 



October 21 — Gorillas 



Harry C. Raven, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York 



October 28 — My Life as an Indian Chief 



Walter McClintock, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 



November 4 — The Spell of Egypt 



H. C. Ostrander, Jersey City, New Jersey 



November 11 — RepubUcs in the Clouds — 

 Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia 



Major James C. Sawders, Nutley, New Jersey 



November 18 — By Way of Cape Horn 



Alan J. Villiers, Melbourne, Australia 



November 25 — Amazon Twilight 



Earl Hanson, Carnegie Institution, Washington, 

 D.C. 



No tickets are necessary for admission 

 to these lectures. A section of the Theatre 

 is reserved for Members of the Museum, 

 each of whom is entitled to two reserved 

 seats on request. Requests for these seats 

 may be made by telephone or in writing 

 to the Museum, in advance of the lecture, 

 and seats will then be held in the Member's 

 name until 3 o'clock on the day of the 

 lecture. Members may obtain seats in the 

 reserved section also by presentation of 

 their membership cards to the Theatre 

 attendant before 3 o'clock on the lecture 

 day, even though no advance reservation 

 has been made. All reserved seats not 

 claimed by 3 o'clock will be opened to the 

 general public. 



MOTION PICTURES FOR CHILDREN 

 —RAYMOND FOUNDATION 



Nine free motion picture programs for 

 children will be presented on Saturday 

 mornings from October 7 to December 2, 

 inclusive, in the autumn series of entertain- 

 ments provided by the James Nelson and 

 Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for 

 Public School and Children's Lectures. 

 These will be given in the James Simpson 

 Theatre of the Museum, and each will 

 be presented twice, at 10 A.M. and 11 a.m. 

 Children from all parts of Chicago and 

 suburbs are invited. 



Following is the schedule showing the 

 titles of the films to be shown on each date: 



October 7 — Hawaii, the Beautiful; Ki- 

 lauea, the Volcano; Earthquakes; White- 

 tail, the Deer 



October 14 — Heroes of the Sea; Columbus 



October 21 — Animals in Motion; 

 Glimpses of Tibetan Life; Strange Tibetan 

 Dances; Moose — King of the Forest 



October 28— Simba 



November 4 — Hunting Dinosaurs; The 

 Romance of Glass 



November 11 — The Frog; The Ants' Cow; 

 The Mystery Box; From Dog to Airplane 



November 18 — Musk Ox and Polar Bear; 

 The Sky Splitter; Comets and Eclipses 



November 25 — A Furry Tale; The Puritans 



December 2 — Through the Year with 

 Animal Friends: Spring; Summer; 

 Autumn; Winter 



CHINESE GATEWAY FOR SALE 



Due to lack of a suitable place in Field 

 Museum in which to exhibit it, the famous 

 Chinese gateway in the possession of this 

 institution is being offered for sale. The 

 attention of other museums, societies, and 

 individual art collectors is called to this 

 remarkable opportunity to acquire a rare 

 and valuable addition to their collections, 

 outstanding for its artistic beauty and its 

 impressive size. The gateway at present 

 is to be seen standing in front of the Chinese 



Chinese Gateway 



This remarkable example of Chinese art, carved 

 from teakwood, is 19 feet high and 16 feet 9 inches 

 in breadth. 



Exposition on the grounds of A Century 

 of Progress, where it has attracted much 

 attention from world's fair visitors all 

 summer. It is carved from teakwood, and 

 is 19 feet in height and 16 feet 9 inches in 

 width. It was first brought to this country 

 from China for exhibition in the Palace of 

 Education at the Panama Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition of San Francisco in 

 1915. A complete description of the gate- 

 way, and an interpretation of the many 

 remarkable carved figures which decorate 

 it, may be obtained from Field Museum 

 Anthropology Leaflet No. 1 entitled "The 

 Chinese Gateway," written by Dr. Berthold 

 Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. Copies 

 of this leaflet will be sent free, upon request, 

 to any institution or individual interested 

 in the possibility of purchasing the gateway. 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



All Members of Field Museum who 

 have changed their residences or are 

 planning to do so are earnestly urged 

 to notify the Museum at once of 

 their new addresses, so that copies of 

 FIELDMUSEUMNEWSandallother 

 communications from the Museum 

 may reach them promptly. 



Fossils Collected in New Jersey 



Sharat K. Roy, Assistant Curator of 

 Invertebrate Paleontology, spent the month 

 of September on a field trip in the region 

 near Dover, New Jersey, where he collected 

 fossils of Cambrian age for addition to the 

 Museum's collections. 



OCTOBER GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS 



Conducted tours of exhibits, under the 

 guidance of staff lecturers, are made every 

 afternoon at 3 p.m., except Saturdays, 

 Sundays, and certain holidays. Following 

 is the schedule of subjects and dates for 

 October: 



Week beginning October 2: Monday — Eskimo Life; 

 Tuesday — General Tour; Wednesday — African Ani- 

 mals; Thursday — General Tour; Friday — Seeds and 

 Fruits. 



Week beginning October 9: Monday — Animals 

 and Plants of Long Ago; Tuesday — General Tour; 

 Wednesday — Egyptian Exhibits; Thursday — General 

 Tour; Friday — Costumes of Primitive Peoples. 



Week beginning October 16: Monday — Fishes, 

 Amphibians and Reptiles; Tuesday — General Tour; 

 Wednesday — Hall of Plant Life; Thursday — General 

 Tour; Friday — Man Through the Ages. 



Week beginning October 23: Monday — South 

 American Plants and Animals; Tuesday — General 

 Tour; Wednesday — Chinese and Tibetan Art; Thurs- 

 day — General Tour; Friday — Crystals, Gems and 

 Jewelry. 



Monday, October 30 — Habitat Groups; Tuesday — 

 General Tour. 



Persons wishing to participate should 

 apply at North Entrance. Tours are free 

 and no gratuities are to be proffered. A new 

 schedule will appear each month in Field 

 Museum News. Guide-lecturers' services 

 for special tours by parties of ten or more 

 are available free of charge by arrangement 

 with the Director a week in advance. 



Gifts to the Museum 



Following is a list of some of the principal 

 gifts received during the last month: 



From Dr. Florentine Felippone — a red bat, Uruguay: 

 from Homer Forbis — 5 hair-worms, Missouri; from 

 Frederick H. Test — 2 rodent skins with skulls, and 

 12 bats, Honduras; from Dr. John A. Elliott — a hog- 

 nosed snake, Illinois; from F. J. W. Schmidt — 4 snakes 

 and a turtle, Wisconsin: from Russell T. Neville — a 

 lizard, 3 frogs, 4 bats, and 4 salamanders, Missouri; 

 from Thomas K. Birka — a tiger salamander, Wiscon- 

 sin; from C. C. Liu — 22 toads, China; from Wesley 

 Lee Laybourne — a northern water snake, Illinois; 

 from Treville Lawrence — a black vulture skeleton, 

 Georgia: from F. D. Flanders — a molar tooth of 

 Elephas imperator, Texas; from A. C. Jones — 2 cerus- 

 site and 2 wulfenite specimens, Ontario; from Dr. 

 T. F. Seymour — 4 specimens of free gold in matrix, 

 Arizona: from John W. Jennings — specimens of jasper 

 and chalcedony, Arkansas; from William B. Pitts — a 

 mineral specimen and 14 polished agate specimens, 

 California; from C. N. Ackerman — a skull and one- 

 half skeleton of Bison americanus, Illinois: from Prince 

 M. U. M. Salie — 55 precious stones, Ceylon; from 

 School of Forestry, Yale University — 75 herbarium 

 specimens, British Honduras: from Alexander E. 

 Lawrance — 200 herbarium specimens, Colombia: from 

 Museo Nacional — 23 herbarium specimens, Costa 

 Rica; from Professor A. O. Garrett — 78 herbarium 

 specimens, Utah; from Companhia Ford Industrial do 

 Brasil — 52 wood and herbarium specimens, Brazil; 

 from Mrs. E. A. Talcott — a lignum vitae ruler; from 

 H. G. Moore — 6 musical instruments, Africa, Jeru- 

 salem, and Constantinople; from Karl P. Schmidt — 

 3 pre-Columbian clay heads, Santo Domingov 



NEW MEMBERS 



The following persons were elected to 

 membership in Field Museum during the 

 period from August 16 to September 15: 



Annual Members 



Miss Madelyn M. Bader, Mrs. Alfred S. Burdick, 

 John W. Denison, George G. Goldie, Mrs. Charles E. 

 Goodell, William A. Gray, Frank J. Hurley, Arthur 

 J. G. Illian, William P. Kelly, Clarence E. Kohl, 

 Mrs. O. T. Kreusser, T. J. Reed, Mrs. Bertram M. 

 Winston. 



An unusually large specimen of sagebrush, 

 about six feet high and six feet around, is 

 on exhibition in the Hall of Plant Life. This 

 bush, widely found in the west, was an im- 

 portant item in the life of the pioneers, who 

 used it for fuel. 



The origin and uses of jet or "black 

 amber" are explained by an exhibit in the 

 Department of Geology. 



NTE3 BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS 



