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enjoy fine nature photographs will be well advised to write to the Pub- 
lications Department, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver 6, 
Colorado, for the leaflet describing their complete “Museum Pictorial” 
series. 
Paul H. Lobik, 48385 Wabansia Ave., Chicago 
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Memorial Book Fund 
Mr. C. O. DECKER, Honorary Vice-President of the Society, has called our 
attention to a recent article in “The Franklin Alma Mater,” a publication 
of Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana. The article tells of. a $1000.00 en- 
dowment fund established by Mr. Charles F. McElroy and his son, George, 
as a memorial to the late Mrs. Charles McElroy. The income from the 
fund will be used to purchase books in the fields of ornithology and biology 
for addition to the college library. 
The fund was established in recognition of Mrs. McElroy’s great interest 
in the study of birds. She was secretary of the Chicago Ornithological 
Society for two years, and after moving to Springfield, Illinois in 1943, 
became secretary of the Springfield Nature League. Some of her many 
articles on birds were published in this Bulletin. As Mr. McElroy stated: 
“We believe that her interest in birds may be continued in a practical way 
by Franklin College through this gift.” 
Members of the Society who recall Mrs. McElroy might wish to con- 
tribute to the fund in recognition of the service she gave to the Chicago 
bird groups in past years. Copies of bird or nature books could be sent to 
Franklin College with the request that they be added to the Cora Clarke 
McElroy collection. Such books are marked by a distinctive bookplate show- 
ing songbirds poised at an open window. As Mr. Decker points out, this 
is a fitting memorial to one of Franklin College’s most distinguished 
alumnae, a woman who was a prominent ornithologist in the Chicago area 
for many years. 
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Audubon Screen Tours 
THE NEXT AUDUBON lecture to be sponsored by the Illinois Audubon Society 
will be “Land of the Scarlet Macaw” by Ernest P. Edwards. This colorful 
film shows much of the brilliant variety of life in Mexico, including flowers, 
wildlife, rugged scenery, and picturesque natives. Bird-lovers will especial- 
ly like the scenes of boat-billed herons fishing, the tiger bittern, and the 
motmots of El Salto. This lecture will be presented in James Simpson 
Theater at the Chicago Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road and 
Lake Shore Drive. The time is 2:30 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 1954. 
