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News Pul}li--<ii< (I Monthly by Field Must imi t>f Xatural IJIshiry, Chicago Vol. 3 JANUARY, 1932 No. 1 NORTH AMERICAN DINOSAURS OF 100,000,000 YEARS AGO RESTORED IN PAINTING By Elmer S. Riggs A number of animals feeding on the plants head, and the slender hind legs of these Associate Curator of Paleontology in the distance at the left are known as the animals are similar to those of the ostrich. crested dinosaurs. Those in the The fore were smaller and the feet armed A restoration of extinct reptiles in the form foreground legs at the are more common of with claws used in their of a twenty-five foot painting by Charles R. right species seizing prey. They duck-billed dinosaurs. All three animals fed smaller animals. Knight was recently placed on exhibition in upon had four The hind was much the Ernest R. Graham Hall (Hall 38) of Field legs. pair These dinosaurs ranged in size from that and them the animals walked. Museum. This painting represents a scene stronger upon of a large crocodile to that of an elephant. on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains The short-legged animal in the foreground They flourished in North America at a period during the Age of Reptiles, 100,000,000 years is an armored dinosaur. Its back was when the Great Plains area had recently been raised the ago. It is one of the series of twenty-eight covered with a series of bony plates which above sea, when the Rocky Moun- murals presented to the Museum by Ernest served to protect it from attack. From each tains were new, and the whole continent R. Graham. side of the body and the tail projected a row enjoyed a semi-tropical climate. Plenteous * Page i FIELD MUSEUM NEWS January, t9SS Field Museum of Natural History children have been reached by the Museum's NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY extra-mural activities conducted the Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 through COLLECTIONS REINSTALLED N. W. Harris I*ubUc School Extension and Rooaerelt Rood and Lake By Paul S. Martin Michigan, CaUcato the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Assistant Curator of North American Archaeolog>' Foundation for Public School and Children's The North American archaeological ex- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Lectures, while a numerically incalculable hibits of Field Museum have been augmented John Borden William H. MrrcaELL public has been made conscious of the insti- much new material, and have been com- WujjAM i. Chalmers Frederick H. Rawson tution through its publications, reports in by Marshall Field George A. Richardson motion pletely reinstalled in Mary D. Sturges Hall Field Martin A. Ryerson the newspapers, picture newsreels, Stanley 3). The collection features especially Ernest R. Graham Fbbd W. Sargent and radio lectures. (Hall local material representing the prehistoric Albert W. Harris Stephen C. Simms The complete attendance total for 1931, Samuel Insull, Jr. James Simpson Indians of Illinois. Dominating this section and a detailed analysis of the number of William V. Kqxey Solomon A. Smith of the hall is the reproduction of a mound Cyrus H. McCormick Albert A. Spsague people reached by some of the Museum's builder's grave described and pictured in Silas H. Strawn will in the special activities, appear Febniary Field Museum News of 1931. News. September, OFFICERS This group is now supplemented by cases STANifY Field Praident X-RAY STUDIES OF MUMMIES containing various types of archaeological Martin A. Ryerson Pint Vict-Praidtnt specimens representing tribes of this state. Albert A. Spragub Viee-Prendeni Seamd PUBLISHED BY MUSEUM There is also material on exhibition from Jambs Simpson Third Viet-Pretidtnt the famous burial mounds of Ohio. Stephen C. Simms Director and Seeretary A book, unusual both in text and illustra- Hopewell Solomon A. Smith . Treaturer and AnutaiU Sterttam The culture areas treated in this collection tions, presenting the results of studies, made include South Atlantic, by means of the X-ray, of mummified re- Mississippi-Ohio, North Great Lakes, FIELD MUSEUM NEWS mains in Field Museum, was published by Atlantic, Iroquoian, Columbia-Fraser, North Pacific Coast and Stephen C. Simms, Director of the Museum Editor Field Museum Press last month. Roent- California. The Southwest is omitted be- genologic Studies of Egyptian and Peruvian CONTRIBUTING EDITORS cause a special hall representing its impor- Mummies is the title, and the author is Dr. tant group of cultures is in preparation. Berthold Lauter Curator of Anthropoloiry Roy L. Moodie, professor of paleodontology B. E. Dahlgren Acting Curator of Botany Fascinating are the examples of the skill in the college of dentistry at the University ' O. C. Farrington Curator of Geology and ingenuity of the North American Indian Wilfred H. Osgood Curator Zoology of Southern California, and paleopathologist of shown in this exhibition. The to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Hopewell H. B. Hartb Manating Editor mound include of London. Dr. Moodie was formerly pro- specimens grotesque figures cut from mica; ornaments and tools made fessor of anatomy at the University of Field Museum is of the year during from copper; ceremonial paraphernalia of open every day Illinois, College of Medicine. the hours indicated below: obsidian, imported from what is now Yellow- The book is in size (9' x 12') November, December, January 9 A.M. to 4 :30 PJI. quarto stone National Park; and bear-teeth inlaid March, October 9 AM. to 5:00 P.M. and it contains sixty-six pages of text February, April, with pearls. May, June, July, August, September 9 am. to 6:00 P.H. and made seventy-six photogravure plates Those interested in metal working will Admission is free to Members on all days. Other chiefly from roentgenograms prepared in the adults are admitted free on and find in the collection many arrow and spear Thursdays, Saturdays Division of Roentgenology of Field Museum Stmdays; non-members pay 25 cents on other days. heads, and various tools, skillfully fashioned Children are admitted free on all days. Students and Miss Anna Reginalda Bolan, formerly by from hammered copper by early Wisconsin faculty members of educational institutions are admit- assistant professor of roentgenology and ted free of credentials. Indians. Among the Illinois artifacts are any day upon presentation photography at the University of Illinois. The of the Museum, containing some 92,000 hoes and spades made of stone, which were Library These illustrations are regarded as remark- volumes on natural history subjects, is open for refer- used by the tribes of this region for agricul- ence able for their clarity, and they reveal many daily except Simday. tural purposes. From the burial mounds of schools of hitherto unknown facts about the conditions Traveling exhibits are circulated in the Arkansas and Missouri are cunningly manu- Chicago by the Museum's Department of the N. W. of life and the diseases which prevailed in Harris Public School Extension. factured ornaments of shell and excellent ancient Egypt and Peru. The majority of Lectures for school classrooms and assemblies, and examples of the potter's art. Some of this the pictures are of men, women and special entertainments and lecture tours for children at X-ray pottery is fashioned into animal forms, such the Museum, are provided by the James Nelson and children, but there are also a number show- as frogs and fish, while other pieces are Anna Louise Raymond Foundation for Public School mummified animals. Most of the speci- and ing sculptured human faces resembling death- Children's Lectures. are from the collections at Field mens masks. One known as the "skeleton Announcements of courses of free illustrated lectures Museum. jar, on science and travel for the public, and S[>ecial lectures jar," is decorated with pieces of a human in for Members of the Museum, will appear in Field Professor Moodie's book is published skeleton. Museum News. and it con- an extremely limited edition, There are many examples of so-called There is a cafeteria in the Museum where luncheon stitutes Volume III of the Anthropology is served for visitors. Other rooms are provided for "problematical objects," made of polished Memoirs Series of the Museum. The char- those bringing their lunches. slate, serpentine, and marble. These objects acter of the illustrations and the fine Members are requested to inform the Museum paper have been the subject of endless speculation, of of address. used involved a promptly changes heavy publication expense. for no one knows exactly how or for what be obtained from the Museiun Copies may purposes they were made. Unusually large at $5 each, including postage. thousand MUSEUM ATTENDANCE IN 1931 tobacco pipes of stone, made a REACHES RECORD HEIGHT years ago by Indians of Georgia and Ken- are exhibited. These are elaborately An Expedition to Indo-China tucky, At the time of going to press with this carved. Whalebone tools of the Indians issue of Field Museum News attendance Field Museum is sharing in a zoological of Califomia are another feature of the led at Field Museum of Natural History during expedition to French Indo-China, by exhibition. 1931 had reached within a few thousands of Jean Delacour, well-known French zoologist. of this institution is one and one-half million, with the probability The participation BEQUESTS AND ENDOWMENTS financed Marshall Field. The expedition that that figure would be passed within the by Bequests to Field Museum of Natural History may is now in and will continue col- in or collections. remaining days of the year. Up to and in- operation, be made securities, money, books if take the form of a memorial to total of lecting until May of this year.

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