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FIELD MUSEUM NEWS 



December, 1933 



Field Museum of Natural History 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 

 Roosevelt Road and Lake Michigan, Chicago 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Sewell L. Avery 

 John Borden 

 William J. Chalmers 

 Marshall Field 

 Stanley Field 

 Ernest R. Graham 

 Albert W. Harris 

 Samuel Insull, Jr. 

 Cyrus H. McCormick 



John P. 



William H. Mitchell 

 Frederick H. Rawson 

 George A. Richardson 

 Fred W. Sargent 

 Stephen C. Simms 

 James Simpson 

 Solomon A. Smith 

 Albert A. Sprague 

 Silas H. Strawn 

 Wilson 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field President 



Albert A. Sprague Pint Vice-President 



James Simpson Second Vice-President 



Albert W. Harris Third Vice-President 



Stephen C. Simms Director and Secretary 



Solomon A. Smith . . . Treasurer and Assistant Secretary 



FIELD MUSEUM NEWS 



Stephen C. Simms, Director of the Museum Editor 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Berthold Laufer Curator of Anthropology 



B. E. Dahlgren Acting Curator of Botany 



Henry W. Nichols Acting Curator of Geology 



Wilfred H. Osgood Curator of Zoology 



H. B. Habte Managing Editor 



Field Museum is open every day of the year during 

 the hours indicated below: 



Nov., Dec, Jan., Feb., Mar. 9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. 



April, September, October 9 A.M. to 5:00 p.m. 



May, June, July, August 9 A.M. to 6:00 p.m. 



Admission is free to Members on all days. Other 

 adults are admitted free on Thursdays, Saturdays and 

 Sundays: non-members pay 25 cents on other days. 

 Children are admitted free on all days. Students and 

 faculty members of educational institutions are admit- 

 ted free any day upon presentation of credentials. 



The Museum's natural history Library is open for 

 reference daily except Saturday afternoon and Sunday. 



Traveling exhibits are circulated in the schools of 

 Chicago by the N. W. Harris Public School Extension 

 Department of the Museum. 



Lectures for schools, and special entertainments 

 and tours for children at the Museum, are provided 

 by the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond 

 Foundation for Public School and Children's Lectures. 



Announcements of free illustrated lectures for the 

 public, and special lectures for Members of the Museum, 

 will appear in Field Museum News. 



A cafeteria in the Museum serves visitors. Rooms 

 are provided for those bringing their lunches. 



Chicago Motor Coach Company No. 26 buses go 

 direct to the Museum. 



Members are requested to inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



MEMBERSHIP IN FIELD MUSEUM 



Field Museum has several classes of Members. 

 Benefactors give or devise $100,000 or more. Contribu- 

 tors give or devise $1,000 to $100,000. Life Members 

 give $500; Non-Resident Life and Associate Members 

 pay $100; Non-Resident Associate Members pay $50. 

 All the above classes are exempt from due.'^. Sustaining 

 Members contribute $25 annually. After six years they 

 become Associate Members. Annual Members con- 

 tributo $10 annually. Other memberships are Corpo- 

 rate, Honorary, Patron, and Corresponding, additions 

 under these classifications being made by special action 

 of the Board of Trustees. 



Each Member, in all classes, is entitled to free 

 admission to the Museum for himself, his family and 

 house guests, and to two reserved seats for Museum 

 lectures provided for Members. Subscription to Field 

 Mu.SEUM News is included with all memberships. The 

 courtesies of every museum of note in the United 

 States and Canada are extended to all Members of 

 Field Mu.seum. A Member may give his personal card 

 to non-residents of Chicago, upon presentation of 

 which they will be admitted to the Museum without 

 charge. Further information about memberships will 

 be sent on request. 



BEQUESTS AND ENDOWMENTS 



Bequests to Field Museum of Natural History may 

 be made in securities, money, books or collections. 

 They may, if desired, take the form of a memorial to 

 a person or cause, named by the giver. 



Cash contributions made within the taxable year 

 not exceeding 15 per cent of the taxpayer's net income 

 are allowable as deductions in computing net income 

 under Article 251 of Regulation 69 relating to the 

 income tax under the Revenue Act of 1926. 



Endowments may be made to the Museum with the 

 provision that an annuity be paid to the patron for life. 

 These annuities are tax-free and are guaranteed against 

 fluctuation in amount. 



Oliver C. Farrlngton 



DEATH TAKES DR. FARRINGTON, 

 CURATOR OF GEOLOGY 



Dr. Oliver Cummings Farrington, Curator 

 of the Department of Geology at Field 

 Museum for the past thirty-nine years, and 

 internationally recognized as a leading 

 authority on gems, gem minerals, and 

 meteorites, died November 2. He was 69 

 years old, and had been seriously ill for 

 several months. 



Dr. Farrington received his bachelor's 

 and master's degrees in science at the 

 University of Maine, and his doctorate at 

 Yale. Previous to his curatorship here, he 

 was a teacher of science in various eastern 

 academies, and was 

 connected for a 

 time with Yale 

 University, and 

 with the United 

 States National 

 Museum. From 

 1894 to 1904, in 

 addition to his 

 duties at the Mu- 

 seum, he served as 

 a lecturer on miner- 

 alogy at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 

 He was the author 

 of a number of 

 books, and a fre- 

 quent contributor 

 to scientific jour- 

 nals. Honors had 

 been bestowed 



upon him by the Geological Society of 

 America, the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the American 

 Association of Museums, the Society for 

 Research on Meteorites, Sigma Xi, and Phi 

 Beta Kappa. He did important special 

 work for the Paris Exposition of 1900 and 

 the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. 



After funeral services in Chicago, Dr. 

 Farrington was buried at Brewer, Maine, 

 where he was born in 1864. He is survived 

 by his widow, the former Clara A. Bradley 

 of New Haven, Connecticut.. 



At its meeting on November 20, the 

 Board of Trustees of the Museum adopted 

 the following resolution in honor of Dr. 

 Farrington: 



"In the death on November 2, 1933, of 

 Dr. Oliver Cummings Farrington, Curator 

 of Geology at Field Museum of Natural 

 History since 1894, the Board of Trustees 

 is sorrowfully aware of the loss of one of the 

 oldest, and one of the ablest, members of 

 the Museum Staff. Dr. Farrington had 

 been associated with this institution, as 

 head of its Department of Geology, from 

 the very beginnings of its active functioning 

 as a scientific organization. 



"In scientific circles Dr. Farrington was 

 regarded with extreme respect and admira- 

 tion not only for the very successful work 

 he did in building up Field Museum's 

 geological collections and activities, but 

 also as a great scholar, and one of the 

 world's foremost authorities on gems and 

 gem minerals, and on meteorites. 



"The tremendous breadth of his knowl- 

 eage of all divisions of the science of geology, 

 and his outstanding skill in museum work, 

 have their permanent monument in the 

 exhibits occupying the various halls of his 

 Department, which bear throughout the 

 evidences of his mastery of the subjects 

 they illustrate. Learned to the highest 

 degree, he was supremely possessed of that 

 faculty which makes the ideal museum 

 man — the ability to translate his erudition 

 into forms easily intelligible to the least- 



read layman. He was, thus, a great educator, 

 spreading knowledge to the millions of 

 people visiting the exhibits for which he 

 was responsible. 



"Dr. Farrington frequently went out into 

 the field to collect material for the Museum, 

 his most important undertaking of this kind 

 having been as leader of the Marshall Field 

 Geological Expedition to Brazil in 1922-23. 

 He was the author of important scientific 

 publications issued by Field Museum and 

 other publishers. He had achieved note as 

 a teacher of science in academies and 

 universities, and was an officer and fellow 

 of prominent scientific societies. Great 

 expositions sought and received his advice 

 and assistance in their scientific divisions. 

 Some years ago the Trustees of Field Mu- 

 seum elected him a Life Member of this 

 institution. 



"In his passing the Trustees recognize the 

 loss of a man of broad intellect and high 

 character, whose devotion to science resulted 

 in a career of splendid achievements. 



"Therefore, be it resolved, that this 

 expression of the Trustees' appreciation of 

 Dr. Farrington's many years of loyal and 

 valuable service to the Museum and to 

 science, be permanently preserved on the 

 records of the Board; 



"And be it further resolved that our deep 

 sympathy be conveyed to his bereaved 

 family, and that a copy of this resolution 

 be transmitted to his widow." 



A memorial resolution was adopted also 

 by the Director, scientific staff, and entire 

 personnel of the Museum. 



RAYMOND FOUNDATION PRESENTS 

 FINAL AUTUMN PROGRAM 



The last of the autumn series of enter- 

 tainments for children, provided by the 

 James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond 

 Foundation for Public School and Children's 

 Lectures, will be given Saturday morning, 

 December 2, in the James Simpson Theatre 

 of the Museum. The motion pictures, 

 "Through the Year with Animal Friends: 

 Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter," 

 will be presented. There will be two show- 

 ings, one beginning at 10 A.M. and one at 11. 

 Children from all parts of Chicago and 

 suburbs are invited. Admission is free. 



Four New Contributors Elected 



In recognition of recent valuable gifts to 

 the Museum, four friends of the institution 

 have been elected to the class of Museum 

 membership designated as Contributors, 

 which embraces those whose contributions 

 in money or materials range between $1,000 

 and $100,000. 



Leon Mandel and Fred L. Mandel, Jr., 

 of Chicago, were elected Contributors for 

 their generous contributions of funds which 

 made possible the Mandel-Field Museum 

 Zoological Expedition to Venezuela in 1932. 



Master Stanley Field Blaschke of Cold 

 Spring-on-Hudson, New York, has been 

 elected a Contributor in recognition of a 

 gift of $1,000 in cash made in his name by 

 his father, Frederick Blaschke, the sculptor 

 who prepared the groups in the Hall of the 

 Stone Age of the Old World, and several 

 groups in Ernest R. Graham Hall of His- 

 torical Geology. 



Miss Malvina Hoffman of New York and 

 Paris, who made the sculptures repre- 

 senting the races of mankind exhibited in 

 Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall, was elected 

 a Contributor in recognition of the gift of a 

 limestone bust of a Chinese boy. 



