22 TD HE AS Ueber 0 BON SBE ioe eee 
IAS Members Invited to Participate 
in Nature Photography Exhibit 
CALLING ALL PHOTOGRA- 
PHERS! You’re invited to par- 
ticipate in the 23rd Chicago 
International Exhibit of Nature 
Photography — and enter your 
best nature pictures into com- 
petition with the finest work of 
leading photographers all over 
the world. 
The illustration at left (‘‘Por- 
trait of a Loon” by Kenneth W. 
Fink) won a ribbon in a previous 
exhibition. Ten silver medals 
and scores of honorable-mention 
ribbons are awarded for the top 
pictures. 
The exhibition, sponsored by 
the Chicago Nature Camera Club 
and Field Museum, has a dead- 
line of Jan. 15, 1968, for entries: 
Fees are $1, plus return pos- 
tage, for four slides, and/or $1 
plus postage for four prints. You 
may enter pictures of any natural 
history subject — birds, wild- 
flowers, insects, marine life, land- 
scapes, and geology. Accepted prints then will be displayed in the Field 
Museum from Feb. 1 through 24, and accepted slides will be projected in 
the Museum’s Simpson Theatre on two Sundays, Feb. 4 and 11, at 2:30 p.m. 
The panel of five distinguished judges includes Alfred Reuss, nature 
photographer, bird-bander, and former director of IAS. For entry blanks, 
write to Paul H. Lobik, 22W681 Tamarack Dr., Glen Ellyn 60137. 
H A cat iat 
‘In the dusk that preceded the blackness of the night, the darkening 
woods around me were filled with fluted notes and bell-like ca- 
dences, the song of the hermit thrush. This shy brownish bird 
with its rusty reddish tail is attuned to the conditions of the forest. 
It seeks them out in selecting its breeding ground. Its nature de- 
mands the solitude, the half-light of the northern woods. When 
trees are felled and sunlight pours in, it moves away, retreating 
into the deeper forest. Its twilight song, rich and serene, is like the 
haunting voice of the dark north woods.”’ 
—Edwin Way Teale 
