Jews of Yemen: a Vanishing Culture

Vol. 18. No. 1 January 1993 the American Museum of Natural Historv Participating and Higher Members of

Jewish woman in Haidan. Yemen Jewish men praying in Sanaa. Yemen Jews of Yemen: A Vanishing Culture

Thursday, January 7 7:00 p.m. Main Auditorium $7 for Members, $10 for non-Members

bride Is their drive away evil spirits.) The crowded ghetto of retain distinct aspects of Beth Shearim. the most famous Sanaa. In the seen celebrating in the company of Yemenite heritage, Others, the chil- Sanaa. Yemenite Jews created a style do not danc« Jewish cemetery in the Near East are much women only, for women nowhere else in dren of mixed marriages, during {common of architecture known company of men. Only the third century CE w^th their grandparents' or sing in the Middle East. They did the only less familiar era), contains a Yemenite catacomb. the at certain points of the prenuptial — that of artisans culture. Its work allowed them father, brothers, This burial site is difficult to reach. footage of tradi- ceremony are her silversmiths, cop- The film includes in- — becoming skilled to be present. entrance is overgrown, and the celebrations, rituals, and uncles penmiltcd weavers, woodworkers, tional Yemenite scriptions pigment have been persmiths, Johanna Spector, in red and music. Spector's camera Anthropologist masons. dances, almost time and and is music ethnologist as well as a obliterated by homes of several Yemenite who a Between 1948 and 1950 large enters the weather Those that can still be read filmmaker and director, will introduce families as Ihey celebrate the Passover numbers of Yemenite Jews emigrated form the first historical evidence of an the film and answer questions from about those Seder in ways that are unique to to Israel, Little was known conclusion. Her established Jewish community in Yemenite Jews. the audience at its who remained behind ar\d Yemen. pre-wedding film 2.000 Years of Freedom Vanishing In one segment — a For In Jeuis of Yemen: A Cochin Jews of India centuries the Jews of Yemen — young bride wears Honor: The filmmaker Johanna Spector ceremony a enjoyed freedom and prosperity But CuHure. premiered at the Museum last Jan- anklets to protect her from the evil takes the viewer to modem Israel and with the suicide of the last Jewish king gold uary; Jews of Yemen had its ceremonial areas eye. a pearl studded headdress, a — rode his into the homes and 1986, according to legend he and vast amounts of premiere here in Jews of Yemenite descent. brocade coat, horse into — and the increas- of modem film is 78 minutes long. Use the sea including necklaces, earrings, The the people the film visits, like jewelry, ing power of Islam. Yemenite Jews Some of the January Members' programs and six bracelets worn in a prescribed the young boys who go to school to for the were stripped of their land, forbidden considered magi- coupon on page 3 lo register special order. (All jewelry is lo farm, within small learn Aramaic and the and confined is thought to program. pronunciation of Hebrew. cal, since its tinkling areas of villages and of the capita! of Yemenite '

Behind-the-Scenes and $7 for non-Members. Use Tour; Adult-Child regis- of the Members* Museum Tours Members' Robbers, the coupon on page 3 to Workshop Assassins, and ter. Department of Geology of The Making a Manipulators: Entomology Asia Southern Thursday, January 21. Calendar Some Bees I Members' Workshop Fridav. January 8 5:00-9:00 p.m. Sunday. January 10 3:00. 4:30. and Have Known Identifying Saturday, January 23. 10:30 a.m.-noon and 6:00 p.m. 14 10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 1:00-2:30 p.m. Thursday, January Rocks and 7:00 p.m. Their Minerals Come upstairs to the Mu seum's fifth floor to visit collec- Curator Jerome G. Rozen Tuesday, January 19. and tion areas and research offices own in the Department Members can set their has worked Tuesday. January 26 that are never open to the since the agendas at this calendar- of Entomology general public. Representa- can explore the 5:30-7:30 p.m. Members Myles he's traveled making workshop- June 1940s, and tives from the Department of geological diversity of Asia SOLD OUT basic skeleton around the world to conduct the will provide the Entomology's curatorial and with Sidney Horcnstein. Robbers, Assas- of materials for kids research At staff will talk of envi- and plenty Geologist Sidney Horenstcin scientific to Mem- Museum's coordinator Manipu/o(ors: and parents to create their sins, and workshop that bers about their research and ronmental public programs. hosts a two-part for the Bees I Have Known own personal calendars Some identify and clas- fieldwork and display speci- He'll lead tours through the shows how to talk about some of the year. he'll rocks. mens from the biggest collec- Mammals and new sify the major groups of halls of Asian behavior he's ob- The workshop is geared fascinating specimens and tion of any of the Museum's Asian Peoples to obsewe the Hell use actual between the served, focusing on the evolu- topographic toward chHdren exhibits to explain the scientific departments — a wide variety of cleptoparasitic bees — Museum 9, Tickets are tion of that numbers throughout the ages of 6 and differences between igneous, collection more features found creatures whose per couple and available remarkable metamorphic than 17 million insects and world's largest continent. $26 sedimentary and and survival depends on their skill avail- only to Participating arachnids. Tickets are $16 and murder. rocks. Members, Call the at theft and Tickets are $12; call Participating and Higher Tickets are $40 and available (212) able only to The program will take place Membership Office al (212) and Higher 769-5606 for information Higher Members. Call (212) Kaufmann Theater. only to Participating for information in the availability. ticket availability 769-5606 about 769-5606 for arc free for Members Members, tickets. Tickets and information. about

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considered as part There arc no right or whether ifs a species, or a wrong interpretations of his- of a ciwlization. evolutionary group — torical science, asserts anthro- diverse history. This pologist Jeffrey Schwartz. has a unique more than What counts, he says, are the makes its discovery matter ol unearthing a data and the context in which just a fossil or sequencing a species" evidence is assessed. At the Members' program What the DNA; it's an issue of inter- will preting data in order to recon- Bones Tell Us Schwartz , pieces of a explore conflicting ideas about struct the missing human origins and evolution. puzzle. physical Focusing on the inner A professor of at the Univer- workings of archeology and anthropology Schwartz is anthropology. Schwartz ex- sity of Pittsburgh. can be learned also a research associate at plains what expedition to i/.t ' liiver of Doubf American Museum. These fietd photos were taken during the 1 914 from fossils and fragments of the book, ancient cultures and civiliza- Copies of his new the Bones Tell Us tions. Bone fragments can be What be to identify ani- (Holt and Company), will used not only Theodore Roosevelt's last of available for purchase at the mal species but also to tell adventure wjas & twjo-mor\th ol pTogTsm. and Schumrtx wttt lhe\r pasl W\«oirv- Studies odyssey down a 930-mile- after the lecture. sliow llic land's sign copies boru's cdn long Amazon tributary that sustain animal Use the January Members' past capacity to had never before been ex- domestic or wild. programs coufion on page 3 life, whether plored. This "'River of Doubt" creature — to register for the program. Every living — called because no one so — knew exactly where it went has since been named for the former president, who nearly died during the 1914 expedi and Stieglitz: year a team of 20 O'Keeffe tion. Last Brazilians and Americans An American Ronianc:e used Roosevelt's extensive maps, photographs, and his Wednesday, February 10 book Through the Brazilian 7:00 p.m. Wilderness to retrace his Kauhnann Theater journey. Their historical comparison documented environ- $6 for Members, $10 for non-Members mental changes in one of the world s most remote regions. Tweed Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great- grandson, will tell Members about his experiences on the 1992 Rio Roosevelt expedition, which was only the third Dou- known navigation of the river. Tliey were an extraordinary lished in hardcover by paperback by Nobody has traveled its length couple from the start. Alfred bleday and in Eisler chronicles the since 1926. when a second Stieglitz. a 52-year-old master Penguin). between expedition verified the origi- of photography, was intro- storniy relationship hundreds rocks and had to be replaced sands of insects and titans and cap- nal explorers' findings and duced to Georgia OKeeffe's these artistic samples, on the spot Virtually all of of plant and fish tures the flavor of their times quieted suspicions about the work before he ever met her. which had never journey's authenticity- the explorers came down many of barely and milieu, from the vibrant eariier Although she was cataloged by outsiders Two scientists from the with jungle fever and infec- been scraping by as a teacher, the bustle of New York in the American Museum were tions or suffered other in- Tweed Roosevelt collected 28-year-old OKeeffe was Twenties to the desert expedition insects for the American Mu Abiquiu. among the 1914 expedition juries, and three uncowed by Stieglitz's reputa- grandeur of New Depart- members The survey and members died. seums Entomology tion and enraged at his pre- Mexico. adventurers had ment and mollusks for Eisler has been an art edi- mapping expedition, which The 1992 sumption in exhibiting her of Com- sponsored by the Brazil- the advantages of modem Harvard's Museum matched in tor for George Brazillcr Pub- was work, Evenly Zoology. He and the government, is Theodore conveniences such as satellite parative character, each was lishers and worked in the ian force of expedition members at Roosevelt's "forgotten" expe- technology, freeze-dried food, other the others critic and inspira- exhibitions department found the region remarkably Wildenstcin and Co. Copies dition, overshadowed by his and modem tents and insect tion, and their love story is the past 7b better-known adventures in repellents. Nonetheless they unchanged over legendary. of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz w\\\ discomforts years and believe they expen be available for purchase at Africa and the American faced the ongoing Benita Eisler explores the way the former Rough of sweltering heat, rain, and enced it much the of the the program, and Eisler will West The myths and realities did Rider and his party endured high humidity along with the former president O'Keeffe-Stieglitz relationship sign books after the talk. Members posed by insects, Use the January book, Use the January Members harrowing setbacks — several perils as she discusses her coupon on page •> coupon on page 3 of their dugout canoes were snakes, and piranha. programs O'Keeffe and Slieglilz: An programs program crushed by rapids and They encountered thou- to register for the American Romance (pub- to register for the program. sunk or - — —

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programs are His- jYte following Gagaku and Bugaku: ton Adams Professor of conjunction with University A presented in Music and Dance of tory at Yale Department's recipient of the MacArthur the Education the Japanese Court ongoing series Contact: Cu/- Foundation's prestigious Alternative written numer- turai Changes. Sunday, January 17 award, he has perspectiues. 2:00 and 4.00 p.m. ous books about China, the Chi- No tickets are necessarv- Kaufmann Theater most recent of which is limited and perform- This pro- but seating is The Jo Ha Kyu nese Roundabout. first- available on a first-come, ance group presents bugaku. gram is cosponsored by the infor- sefved basis. For further Japanese court dances of the China Institute in America. mation about these free seventh century and new which are made interpret ancient programs, works that Leonhardt People possible in part by the gen- dances with Western move- of the family of Fred- ment. Center erosity 1:00-4:30 p.m. erick H. Leonhardt and by Gagaku (court music) and Samuel and dances gifts from the its accompanying January 2 and 3 Foundation, call that resulted May Rudin were art forms Filipino Music Traditions. within (212)769-5315. from Japanese contact Ku/intang and RondaUa. musicians of Asia. Gagaku Using gong drums and era (1868-1912) Indigenous the Meiji stringed instruments, mem- Lumad: Western music and and studied bers of the Karadyaan En- Filipino Music pieces in composed new semble of Amauan explain Dance gagaku- Western style with and demonstrate Spanish melodies, The program performs on January 9 Saturday. January 9 type influences on Rlipino musical The Karadva'an Ensemble the variety of influ- 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. explains traditions. court Kaufmann Theater ences on this ancient A/Ier Columbus: The Fil- and story- tradition. Experience Linda A. Music, dance, ipino English as an indian director of January 16 and 17 (elling derived from the in- Pichon, executive and The Tradition Language S N Sridhar traditions of the Amauan, discusses the impact Koto Music digenous Andean Music emd Kamal K Sridli.ir offer

Members' Workshop on Cuisine. Sunday. •^IVIenibers' Workshop on Japanese second choice. Japanese Cuisine Febniary 28, Please indicate a first and ll;00am. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, February 28 p.m. tickets at $15 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 . Number of Members' and Higheru- u Membersm«™u^,.<: $15. and open only to Participatmg (no more than 2. please): Ages 18 and up Total amount enclosed for program:

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host and producer of West Address; the foods that Americans Japanese culinary traditions Cable restau- Meets East on Vision and their relations to folklore enjoy in Japanese .State: .2ip:. sample in New Jeniey. Kinney has City: are this Mem- rants. Participants will the focus of Japan-America assortment of Japanese lectured for bers' workshop, which also an Daytime telephone: attempt to societies and has taught looks at Japanese dining and dishes, and they'll Japanese cooking at the New lea-dnnking etiquette and identify which ingredients School. Bloomingdale's. and Membership category: . gives some tips on eating with were used in them. worked King s Cooking Studios. chopsticks. Pal Kinney has to the American Museum of The 90minute presentation Please make check payable ten closely with the Japanese self-addressed stamped Members will sample C. Natural History and mail with a Greater New will take place in the Edith ingredients typical to community in Cuisine. Membership Office A-n^''"" She Blum Lecture Room. Use the envelope to Japanese cuisine. Host Pat York for a dozen years. Central Park West at 79th to register, Museum of Natural History. series of tele- coupon at right Kinney will explain what each has produced a 10024-5192. note that tickets Street. New York. NY in Japan for and please ingredient is and how it is vision interviews mail. currently are available only by used in preparing many of Fuji/Sankei and is Presents The Department of Education Spring 1993 Lecture Series The Polar Explorers: Four Giants of the Arctic and Antarctic March 18 Four Thursday evenings, starting 700-8. 30 p.m. ,^ . (or non-Mcmbers $31.50 for Members. $35 have been a The North and South Polar regions Anstotle first theorized source of fascination since landmass balanced the that an unknown southern continents. Author Kenneh weight of the northern scholar ot A Chambers, lecturer in zoology and a exploration, will trace four ot the history of polar inpol^r history. the most exciting expeditions Pole. Fndtjof Mar 18: A Gomble /or Ihe North Pole, Nansen and his search for the Ernest Shackleton s Mar. 25: Endurance. Sir the Antarctic. voyage to . epic c »i, ToJces the South Apr 1 RoaJd Amundsen that 'teniblc place. Pole. A first glimpse of BUzzord. Sir Douglas 1910-13) Apr. 8; Howe of the British Antarctic Expedition of (the ship Terra Nova on the Mawson's lone journey of survivaL The Polar Explorers

Gems and Crystals from the American Museum Feb. 25 Four Thursday evenings, starting

700-8:30 p.m. . non-Members,^ $31 50 for Members. $35 for uses Harold and Enca This (our-session st?ncs the AniGncan Van Pelts magnificent photos of the fabulous Museum's gems and crystals, including will Tiffany-Morgan gem collection. Participants the rich history and gain a deeper appreciation of finest gem collections. diversity of one of the world's scientific assistant in the Joseph J. Peteni. senior present the Department of Mineral Sciences, will optional tour of the J K, series, which features an details ol the Morgan Hall of Gems t&ee below (or

types and occur- Feb. 25: Diamonds. Properties, rences, history, legends and lore. Mar 4 Emeralds, Rubies, and Sapphires. history. legends Properties, types and occurrences, and lore, topaz, Mar. U: Semiprecious Gems. Beryls, and tourmaline, zircon, opals, crystalline quartz, other rare and unusual gems, Gems. Mar. 18: Ornamental ond Organic and amber. Jades, turquoise, lapis, pearl, coral,

the Wilderness) Tour off the J.P. Morgan nZeonliim (scene from Chang: A Drama of Memorial Hall of Gems

Friday evening. Feb. 26 7:00-8:30 p.m. $15 (no discount for Members) senior scientific assistant in the Joseph .1 Peters, lead a tour of Department of Mineral Sciences, will Peters will discuss the Hall of Minerals and Gems. hall, which was the design philosophy behind the the special Faberge opened in 1976. and point out and new menagerie, the Faberge school of carving, figure produced acquisitions. Asterism - a starliUe seen in the Star ot by reflected light, which can be will be discussed, India and the De Long Ruby - gem crystals and along with the earths pockets of the giant slab of the history and acquisition of nephrite jade.

Culture on Film Three Tuesday evenings, starting Feb. 23 7:00-8:30 p.m. $27 for Members. $30 for non-Members in which This senes will explore some of the ways Elaine filmmakers have represented other cultures, Film Chamov. a programmer of the Margaret Mead and Video Festival, hosts the series, Wilderness. Feb. 23: Chony: A Drama of the Cooper This 1927 classic, directed by Merian C. was and Ernest B Schoedsack of King Kong fame, followed by a dis- shot in Thailand, The film will be nature" theme. cussion of its "man against Weekend Whale Watch off Cape Cod evening wiU Mar, 2: Films of A\ Maysles. Tliis Weekend Whale Watch off \ Cape Cod Friday. Saturday, and Sunday, May 21. 22. and 23 Limited to 45 adults Spend a weekend whale watching off the rich feeding grounds of Stellwagen Bank, near Cape Cod, where several species of whales are commonly seen at close range Our search for these magnificent creatures involves three 4-hour private charter cruises from Provincetown. In addition to the marine biologists aboard the boat, two Museum staff members will accompany the group: Tallwrt Spence. environmentalist and chairman of the Edu- cation Department, and naturalist Stephen C. Quinn. who will assist in identifying the many species of cojistal birds. Other features of the weekend include optional guided nature walks along the dune and marsh areas of the Cape Cod National Seashore, an exploration of historic Provincetown, an evening slide-talk on marine mammals, and a stop at the reconstnicted whaling port of Mystic. Connecticut Cost includes transportation, two nights' accommodations, meals, and lectures. Animal Drawing Eight Tuesday evenings, starting March 9 7:00-9:00 p.m. $105 (no discount for Members) Materials not included Limited to 25 people Join a Museum artist to sketch subjects such as gazelles on the African plains and limber wolves in the snowbound North, After the Museum has closed to the public, students gather to draw animals from the famed habitat groups as well as individual mounted specimens, Stephen C. Quinn. assistant manager in the Exhibition Department, discusses drawing technique, animal anatomy, the role of the artist at the Museum, field sketches, and how ex hibits arc made. Individual guidance is given to each participant, whether beginner or experienced artist. The following exhibition halls serve as studios: the Akeley Hall of African Mtimmals, the halls of North American Mammals and Birds, and Ote.in 1 ifc Walldng Tour Spring Flowers and Trees in Central Pari* Saturday. May 1. and Wednesday. May 12 9:00-11:00 a.m. Limited to 25 people $15 per walk (no discount for Members) A two-hour morning walk in Central Park ob- serves Ijotanical signs of spring. Participants will learn about plant identification and ecology from William Schiller, lecturer in botany for the Education Department.

Lecture Series 2 MountainlopandSorea/ WUdfhwers. one of the masters of the Amer- envelope look at the work of 1 enclose a stamped, self -addressed Above the timberline and in the evergreen wood- tradition. Al Maysles. Excerpts payat)lc ican documentary together wilh a t heck {or money order) of a land below, from Gre\; Gardens, the haunting story to the American Museum of Natural History for: 3 WUdfhwers of Moist Woodlands. Spring mother-daughter relationship that was filmed in a and fall flowers, decaying East Hampton mansion. Advance registration is requested but registration 30-minute 4, Wildflowers of Dry Environments. Pine Mar, 9: Cross-Culfura/ Satire. Two will be accepted on the opening night if the looking glass. In barrens and seashores. tickets art- films reverse the anthropological course if not filled. No single lecture the tribe Wildflowers of the Wetlands. Bogs, Babakiuria Australian Aborigines examine 5. sold. There are no refunds. Children are not country, o[ middle-class Euro-Australians in their marshes, and swamps. admitted to lectures, workshops, or field trips. a and in Harold of Orange Native Americans take For further information call (212) 769 5310, comic look at the ways in which others have repre- Please print: sented them. Spring 1993 Field Trips

and Workshops Course TSay" Hour Wildflowers off the applications, For field tnp costs, itineraries, and Course T5ay" Hour Northeast call (212) 769-5310, Five Monday ahemoons, starting Feb. 22 Name:. 2:30-4:00 p.m. Weekend for Bird or Enthusiasts Address; Five Thursday evenings, starting Feb. 25 7:00-8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2 City: _Statc: Mp:. I $36 lor Members, $40 for non-Members Limited to 36 adults are native to Thousands of species of wildflowers Participants on this two-day trip take a bus to Daytime telephone: the Some are common, northeastern United Slates. wooded areas near New York City and to the Pine of life. A payable to the American others are rare, and all are part of the web visit a lake and Please make check Baaens of New Jersey, where they J with variety of wildflowers of forest, meadow, pine bar- ' Museum of Natural flislnrv -md mail a area. The group is accommodated overnight bog to: Lee ren, and wetland — including carnivorous bog ' stamped, self-addressed envelope near Toms River. The tour continues to Brigantine will American plants. Arctic creepers, and omate orchids — ! lure Series. Education Department. National Wildlife Refuge, where many marsh birds lecturer in botany History. Central Park West at be discussed by William Schiller, ! Museum of Natural as well as woodland species can be seen. for the Department of Education, Street. New York, NY 10024 5192, associate profes I 79th This trip is led by Jay Pitocchclli. 1. Anatomy of a Wildflower Basic structure, Kutztown University family and environment sor of biology at —

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1890 the magnate assembled A wealth of rare books, collecHon that rivaled the and drawings is a manuscripts, Europe: Mor- great libraries of housed in the Pierpont within a decade, his holdings gan Library. This remarkable required a building of their collection — which Gncom- own, The original library passes the historv, art. and building, completed in 1906, of Europe and the literature Charles F. Middle was designed by United States from the McKtm as a Renaissance-style Ages to the twentieth century palazzo of formal elegance n...,nS«.»-.n.rn^d-U^^^^^ — focus of the Mem- is the grandeur. '"»"'"' and understated rrf.um auf.m '"r^^,„„;^„, f„,Mn Clin^m .T.«.rn.« o-n. nWJU.H.iU: bers' program A Great 1924 J. P. Morgan. Jr.. The CoUections of In Legacv- library into a Librory transformed the the Pierpont Morgan public institution as a memo- Charles E Pierce. Jr. the to his fathers 'love of director, will discuss rial library's books and manuscripts collections. rare ;:w% the wide-ranging educa- and his belief in the which consist of not only the tional value of the collec- library's holdings but also ' «... .n tions he had gathered. Ta.s '^'-'f'"rr;rirE;^^^^^^^^ other collections that were Today the library serves as dispersed to other instituUons both a museum and a center such as the Metropolitan Mu- scholarly research. The seum and our own American for collections have grown many Museum. Pierce is the fourth times over, but they maintain to serve as director individual written decades. their focus on the in the library's seven and the history of The Morgan Library origi- word books. nated ufith the medieval and See below for details of the Renaissance manuscnpts. 'itHr- Members' guided tours of the -I rare books and fine bindings, Morgan Library. Use the master drawings collected and register 1478 coupon on page 3 to Lives, printed in Venice in by J Pierpont Morgan Plutarchs the program. (1837-1913). Beginning in for

Members' Tours of private collection of illumi- rooms ufill be viewed along manuscript leaves in Library from the nated Morgan with some items exquisite- Pierpont Amenca. It features The permanent collection. wrought miniatures from E.Pierce, Jr., the ly February 18 (Charles Romanesque period Thursday, director, will discuss the library's Renaissance and and through the Higher Members the institution's history and'"oXTto''p'"articipa.in9 and beyond and comprises more holdings at a Members' pro- l?f examples of Rem- up other feature than 100 Ages 18 and gram, see the Spanish, ish. French. English. on this page for details) and German manuscript The tours will also view the to visit paintings Members are invited library's cunent exhibition. will last about an midtown palace of marble H, Bresiauer The tours a The Bernard below hour. Use the coupon floors, antique wooden ceil- CoJfection o/ManuscrlpI register, and please note ings, and stained-glass win- /l/uminalions. This exhibition to only spectacular that tickets are available dows. They'll see offers a rare opportunity to historical, by mail. items from artistic, see works from the finest and literary collections that span four millennia and a civilizationii- score of Morgan Lib^n;. the private library Members- Tours of the Pierpont Originally . indicate a first and second J. Pierpont Mor- Febniary 18. Please of financier 1 Thursday. gan, the Pierpont Morgan choice, Library has grown into a complex of buildings of differing 10:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. styles and periods that covers Us treasury of Members' tickets at $10 half a city block. ! Number of paintings, sculptures, and (no more than 2, please): objets dart ranges from in- Total amount enclosed for program: scribed tablets of Mesopotamia from to the Gutenberg Bible, Name; prints by Rembrandt to of Moz

8 Shoestring Players world. The Players been performing their The Shoestring The players will perform a have brand of innovative children's Present witty and charming variety of since 1980 Their lesser-known stories that arc theater philosophy is to create good especially chosen for their theater on a shoestring bud Magic, ability to stimulate a child's Love, with presentation tech- thought and imagination. The get niques that are inventive and Brussels Swedish folktale "Urs, My and amusing The magic of a Lad!" stars a clever young Shoestring performance lies man. a vain princess, an in- Sprouts in its appeal to children's helper, and an angry visible minimal " imaginations — with king. "Into the Jungle is a January 30 changes of costume and with- Saturday, comic talc from Java in which 3:30 p.m. out scenery or props, the 1:30 and a princess chases a prince actors transform themselves Kaufmann Theater into the jungle — and barbar- into minrors. windmills, $6 for Members. ians chase the princess and bridges, and a multitude of $10 for non-Members the gods chase the barbar- other devices. 5-12 ians. One of the oldest of Ages The program lasts about an Celtic stories. The Black hour, with a brief intermission Horse." is a dramatic tale which the audience from ancient Ireland A mys- during can participate in a creative- terious black horse carries its The Shoestring Players dramatics adventure Adults rider through fire. ice. and the to the Museum this at least as return forces of will enjoy the show allnew pro- ocean so that the month with an much as the children (and courage and love will triumph Love. Magic, and gram, concludes maybe more). Young over evil. The show Brussels Sprouts. Use the Januarv Members' with Baba Yaga." a comedy audiences will be captivated coupon on page 3 witch in old programs adaptations about a foolish The Shoestring Players by these original to register. the Russia, of folktales from around

The World of Animals

Saturday, February 20 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Kaufmann Theater non-Members $5 for Members, $8 for Ages 5 and up

lizards tail, which is half of its Join naturalist Bill Robin- length, breaks off in a stnjg- real live look at son for a predator gle. Sometimes the wildlife ecology. His program distracted by the wiggling The World of Animals, is tail and lets the upper body which shows how wild crea- crawl off to safety (and to tures adapt to their environ- regenerate another tail) ments, features live animals natural-bom escape artist stage and a discussion of A on Robinson on stage tneir roles In nalure. will join armadillo can pull a get- Guest stars include a legless The away by using its powerful lizard, an animal that has front legs to dig a burrow Its evolved to the point where it masterpieces of engi- resembles a snake save for its dens arc neering that measure up to six eyelids and tiny ear openings. four feet Anyone who's seen Raiders feet long with pits deep, Robinson will explain of the Lost Ark has seen be as many as Please note that all these bizan-e crea- why there may demonstrate their flight pat- years. scores of cobra, which will rear up armadillos in a litter but the king attendees, parents and chil — the movies seething 1 1 terns by soaring over the tures and spread its hood, and a males have no sisters and the dren alike, must have tickets, snake" pit was actually filled that audience's heads, 16-foot-long python babes in Robinson females no brothers. who presents his and strollers and with legless lizards, volunteers from the Robinson, the other guests daring will not be admitted to to rescue a Among dramatic wildlife programs to amis once attempted audience can come on stage barking lizard, which the theater. Use the January snake" from the path of an are a thousands of schoolchildren method to help hoist. And a pair of programs coupon find will show its unusual appeared at Members' oncoming car only to friends — an owl each year, has predators, an alli- feathered page 3 to register. snapped in of bluffing Museum for the past 13 on that the animal a red-tailed hawk — will the gator snapping turtle, a big and two in his hands; the legless

Classic Science-Fiction Film Series This Island Earth

Saturday. February 6 3:00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater $4 for Members, $7 for non-Members

and Members' C/assic row, Faith Donnergue. The Earth Reason It is about Science-Fiction Film Series Rex lings who find themselves lakes a look at some of the trapped on a planet that's best sci-fi movies ever made being bombarded by meteors Brian Sullivan, the Hayden directed at it by an enemy •1 Planetarium s production planet designer, will introduce each film is 87 minutes long the series with a The movie in 30- and will be preceded by a slide show focusing on the other minute slide show, Upcoming film's special effects and films in the series arc Silent features that mark it as a Running. Journey to the Far filmmaking milestone. Side the Sun. and A/ien, Next month's feature is This of Use the January Members' Island Earth, a 1955 produc- programs coupon on page 3 tion directed by Joseph M. Newman, stamng Jeff Mor- to register. —

Members' Workshops on Reading and Interpreting Topographic Maps and Maidng Topographic Models Februaiy 9 Tuesday, February 2, and Tuesday, Members $40^r^^rs^n. and open only to ParHcipating and Higher

Horenstein. the Sidney Members" Workshops on Reading and Interpreting Museum's coordinator of Topographic Maps and Making Topographic Models. environmental public pro- Tuesday. Febmary 2, and Tuesday. Febniary 9. grams, will present a two-part 5:30-7:30 p.m. workshop that shows participants how to interpret topo- Number of Members' tickets at $40 graphic maps and make their (no more than 2, please): own topographic models. Total amount enclosed for program: The first session will focus on the basics of map interpretation: topics include longi- tude, latitude, scale, and Name: distance Members will begin to learn how to read and Address; interpret contour lines and to make profiles of ter- how .Zip:. City: _State: rain on maps. At the second session the class will conclude Daytime telephone: its instruction on interpreting contours and learn the ele- Membership category: _ ments of constructing topographic models based on contour lines. Participants should bring a Please make check payable to the American Museum of sharp pair of scissors to class Natural Historv and mail w/ith a self-addressed, stamped — all other materials are to: Top Maps. Membership Office. American covered by the $40 fee. Use envelope Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th the coupon at right to regis- Street. New York. NY 10024-5192. ter, and please note that tickets are available only by mail.

- Voung Members can take Origaim for Itids for Kids. Wednesdays. February 3. 10, and 17, their first steps in origami, the Origami incredible art of paperfolding, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Wednesdays, February 3. 10, and 17 at a series of three progres- of Members' tickets at $40 4:00-5:30 p.m. sive classes. Number than please): $40, and open only to Participants will start with (no more 2. enclosed: Participating and Higher Members the most basic folds and leam Total amount Ages 8 and up more complex models each week They'll make boxes, birds, animals, flowers, fruit, and geometric shapes from a variety of papers from around the world. Neither scissors Name: nor glue will be needed, and the $40 fee includes all mate- Address; rials Origami vocabulary and .State: ^ip:. symbols will be introduced, City: and each student will receive telephone: illustrated instructions for the Daytime models they've learned so category:, that they can reproduce their Membership exciting new creations at home. The sessions wilt be led by professional paperfolder payable to the American Museum of Michael Shall, who is a mas- Please make check mail with a self-addressed, stamped ter teacher. Natural History and Workshop. Membership Office, Use the coupon at right to envelope to; Children's of Natural History, Central Park West at register, and please note that American Museum 10024-5192. tickets are available only by 79th Street, New York, NY mail.

New and Improved

about cli- dinosaur bones and nosaur exhibit. important questions A variety of renovations are stricted. The halls of Earth features miss Global Warm- mate change, shows how sci- Museum. History, Late and Early Mam- other specimens, along with Don't under way at the answe' models, plans, and drawings ing: Understanding the entists are working to We are giving a new look to mals, and Late and Early Di- which features these questions, and suggests and creating an nosaurs arc closed until of the new halls now under Forecast, our dinosaurs to re- construction Dinosaur devo- hands-on exhibits, multimedia what individuals can do up-to-date exhibition hall illus- further notice duce the risk of global warm biology and Previews of the renovated tees should be sure to stop by displays, and interactive com- trating human the last Roosevelt Memorial Hall puter programs focused on ing. This month is evolution. fossil halls on the fourth floor the to see Global Warto arc are on display in Gallery 77. on the second floor for a look one of the most important chance While these renovations dis- Galley 3; it is on some Work tn Progress; From at the Borosaurus, the environmental issues of our ing in taking place access to 19 freestanding di- lime The exhibition poses play Ihrough January exhibition halls will be re- Drawir^gboard to Dmosaurs worlds tallest

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Entrances Notes During Museum hours yisitors can enter the Museum the building through the 77th Street entrance, parking lot entrance (81st Street), and the Roo- seuelt Memorial Hall entrance (79th Street and Hours Central Park West} Visitors attending pro- Halls Fxhibition grams after hours can enter the building -Thurs, & Sun 10:00 a.m -5:45 p.m. Mon entrance at 79th 10:00 a,m.-8:45 p.m. through the driveway Pri & Sat Street and Central Park West. The Museum Shop p.m. Mon -Thurs. & Sun 10:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Naturemax & Sat 10:00 a.m.-7:45 Fri. Rain Forest tells the story of the 400- 11:00 a.m. or2:30p.m. on weekends. The group Shop Tropical The Junior - and than 1 and no more than ,„ „« a.m.-4i45^c p.m. million-\;ear evolution of tropical rain forests should be no fewer Mon.-Fn 10:00 cost and reseorchers to under- 20. The fee Is S275 plus $15 per child. (The 10:00 a.m.-5;45 p.m. the efforts of scientists Sat, & Sun favor these regions before the\j disappear. The incfudes all materials, juice, ice cream, and Library stand The Museum Australia. cake is not included.) Call (212) 769- p.m. film, which was shot in Queensland. bags The j^,es_Fri 11:00 a,m.^:00 Mo/aysra, and Costa Rica, is narrated bv choreog- 5606 /or further information. Saurus Fast Service Eatery Diner and focuses on the rain 11:00 a.m.^:45 p.m. rapher Geoffrev Holder D3l,y are forests' biological diversity Doi/y shouifimes Parking Garden Cafe 81st Street be- 10:30and 11:30a.m., 1230. 130. 230. 3 30. The parking lot is located on Reseruotions: (212) 874-3436. Columbus 4:30 p.m. tween Central Park West and Mon.-Fri 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and Lunch Tropical Ram Avenue. Space is limited and available on a first- 5:30-730 m. On Friday and Saturday evenings. Fri. & Sat p Dinner: Magic Egg, a computer- come, first served basis. Call the Membership 11:00 a.m.^:00 p.m. Forest is shown uiilh The Brunch: Sat, & Sun 769-5606 for fn/ormatlon about animated visual jourr^ey that shou;cases the tech- Office at (212) Whales Lair the magic alternative parking. p.m. nology of IMAX filmmaking. Through 3:00-8:00 9:30 a,m.-9:30 p.m. p^ graphics, viewers enjoy a high-speed Sun.-Thurs ".*..'....".-'. p.m. of computer Sat Noon-8:00 9:30 a.m. -midnight through a blueprint city, take a digital Fri. & Sat most holidays Noon-5i00 p.m. flight Sun & by Saiurn. Shou^times Cars: $12; Buses: $11 floor of roller coaster ride, and fly Snack Carts (at 77th Street & on the first are at 6.00 and 7.30 on Friday and Saturday the Roosevelt Memorial Hall) Museum Tours a.m.-4iOO p.m. evenings. Sat, & Sun 11:00 Highlights Tours are available to Schedules and prices are subject to change Free Museum The Discovery Room Indlutdua/s and families. Tours are conducted without notice. Call (212) 769-5650 for further distributed at the first-floor informa- 2:15. and Passes are daily at 10: 15 and 1 1:15 a.m.. i: 15. Ages 5-10 information tion desk beginning at 11:45 am- Spotlight Tours are also available (Participating and Higher Members): 3:15 p.m. Free by on adu!t. Admission Spotlight Children must be accompanied to individuals and families. Current Adults: $4 single feature. $5.50 double feature and weekdavs. global ujarmlng. Closed on hotidavs feature Tour topics include dinosaurs, p.m. Children: $2 single feature; $3 double Sat & Sun Noon^:30 gems and minerals, and many others. Call the The Natural Science Center Volunteer Office for times and topics. Birthday Parties For children of all ages and their families. Group Tours are available for a fee. All Group partie.s for young Members 5~10 years ho/idays. Theme the Volunteer Closed on Mondavs and p.m. on Tours must be scheduled through old are two hours long and held at 3:30 2:00^:30 p.m. call (212) 769-5566 Tue...-Fri and at Office. For details, p.m. Wednesdays, at 4.00 p.m. on Fridays, Sat. & Sun 1:00^:30

Happenings at the Hayden

and at on Fridays and SalunJays at 7:00. H 30, bers and $10 for non-Members, Use the coupon 10 00 p.m. For prices and show scliedutc. Sky Show right to register, and for additional information call 769.5900. (212)769-5900 call (2 12) . . Shores Bold Visions . Distant before visiting (beginning Jan. 6) Courses for Stargazers It's always a good idea to call i the Planetarium, since prices, programs, and European explorers reached the offers a variety of courses on Long before The Planetarium showtimes arc subject to change without no- Americas these continents saw the rise of amazing advanced astronomy along with classes on basic and tice. For general Planetarium information, civilizations — from North American deserts to meteorology and geology, aviation, and navigation. call (212) 769-5900. t Visions . . call Mexican and Andean jungles Bold For further information about the courses (212) Distant Shores explores the sophisticated skylore of 769-5900. the Maya, Aztecs. Inca. and Anasazi and the ways in which this knowledge influenced their daily lives. Showtimes: Children's Shows Mon.-Fri 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. for Structure Wonderful Sky is a special Sky Show Lecture: "Mapping a Large Scale (except for Jan, 2 and Feb. 6), Sat 11 00 a.m. preschoolers. Children sing along with images of of the Universe.' Wednesday. February 10. 1:00. 2 00. 3:00, 4:00. and 5:00 p.m. learn their favorite Sesame Street Muppets as they 7:30 pm. 1:00, 2:00. 3:00. 4:00. and 5:00 p.m. Sun about rainbows, the phases of the moon, sunsets, Number of Members' tickets at $6: Admission to the Sky Show for Participating and Sat.. tickets at $8: and stars. Sat.. Jan, 2. at 10:30 a.m.. and Number of non-Members' chil- Higher Members is $4 for adults and $2 for program: Feb, 6. at 1030 and 11:45 a.m. Admission for Total amount enclosed for non-Members' prices and additional infor- dren. For Participating and Higher Members is $4 for adults mation. call(212) 769-5900. Tuesday, February 16, and $2 for children. African Storytelling. Shows usually sell out in advance; reservations, by 7.00 p.m. payable tickets at $8:__ Lectures mail only, are necessary. Make your check Number of Members' Hayden Planetarium (Attn, Wonderful Sky. Number of non-Members' tickets at $10: p.m., Mar- to the On Wednesday, February 10. at 7:30 enclosed for program: Central Park West at 81st Street, New York, NY Total amount garet Geller of the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysi- 10024). indicate membership category and a first cal Observatory will present an illustrated talk. and second choice of showtimes, and include a self- Name:. "Mapping a Large Scale Stmcture of the Universe." addressed, stamped envelope. For additional infor- patterns in the universe that Shell reveal surprising 769-5900. Address: as she mation, call (212) emerge through supercomputer animation and Robots in Space features Lucasfilm's R2D2 presents three-dimensional representations of galax- especially for chil- City: .State: ^ip:- C-3P0™c and has been created ; ies within a few hundred billion light years of the dren ages 7 to 12, Together with a live host, these Milky Way. I telephone: _ famous space robots take children on a tour of the Daytime This take place in the Sky Theater. lecture will probes — the real Higher Mem- universe. See how satellites and Tickets are $6 for Participating and Please make check payable to the Hayden help us learn about worlds near and ; the coupon at space robots — bers and for non-Members. Use ' self-addressed, $8 planets and Planetarium and mail with a far Journey from the earth to other nght to register, for additional information call Hayden and ' stamped envelope to: Lecture. dislantblackholes. Sat, Jan2.at 11:45 a.m. Ad^ (212)769-5900. at 81st Street. 1 Pl.melanum. Central Park West Participating and Higher Members is $4 mission for 10024-5192. additional infor- ! NewYork. NY African Sky Lore for adults and $2 for children. For mation, call (212) 769-5900. On Tuesday, Febaiary 16. at 7:00 p.m., Cheryl Please note that ticket orders are subject to ; without Byron and Something Positive will present African availability and cannot be processed I starry dome. self -addressed storytelling under the Planetanum s Laser Shows ' telephone number and stamped, assistance by ticket requests or Theyll tell of African sky lore with \ envelope Do not include into another dimension where laser visu- effects. Journey Museum programs. dancers, musicians, and Planetarium ! checks for American create a dazzling 3-D als and rock music combine to This program is suitable for adults and children. experience of sight and sound Shows arc presented Tickets are $8 for Participating and Higher Mem-

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Echo of the Elephants

Thursday, March 4 7:30 p.m. Main Auditorium $8 for Members, $12 for non-Members

driveway entrance at Botswana. Over the years through the past 25 years there Zaire, and matriarch, and has spent the 79th Street and Central Park West, Meet Echo, the elephant she has come to know and recognize elephants and working for exhibit about P.T. and the closely knit family that she studying individuals, where the involvement more than 700 different their conservation. Her Bamum's world-famous circus ele- holds together within Kenya's Am- has enabled her to chronicle began at Lake Man- which High- history of with elephants phant is on display. Volunteer boseli National Park. The their relationships, social organization, National Park in Tanzania, where will be available to Echo's 14-membcr family — their yara lights Tour guides Hamil- behavior, and life cycles she worked with lain Douglas- the exhibit. births, deaths, tragedies, and joys — is at the Museum discuss study. Moss's appearance on his pioneering elephant of Northwest Coast Indi- the focus of a Members' program by ton conjunc- In the Hall con- next month is presented in In 1972 she began the longest outside the Auditorium) there conservationist Cynthia Moss. publication of her third ans (just mammals, the tion with the specimens tinuing study of these will be a special display of Moss, who spent 18 eventful Echo the Elephants (Mor- Research Project book. of collections for months her kin. Amboseli Elephant from the Museums following Echo and row}- Use the coupon on page 3 to Kenya, which she continues to to observe. Jean Augustin. will discuss day-to-day life among the in Members associate register for the program. direct. Moss is also a senior technician in the Department elephants. Shell describe their family Members may wish to complement senior Washington. DC-based will be on hand to units, usually consist of adult with the of Mammalogy, which their evening with the elephants by African Wildlife Foundation, which fascinating aspects of elephant females and their offspring, and the look at the discuss of her arriving early to take a supports her research As part physiology, and hell illustrate his intriguing methods by which the less- Museums current Jumbo exhibit on efforts, she has specimens of teeth, social males find mates. conservation remarks with the first floor of the Roosevelt Memo- surveys of other elephant Bom and educated in the United conducted tusks, and hide. rial Hall. Come into the Museum populations in Kenya. Tanzania. States, Moss moved to Africa in 1968 Film Series and literary works. Classic Science-Fiction Workshops on able to Participating and historical, Members' and Higher Members ages 8 and The institution's history will be discussed, Reading and up. Call the Membership architecture This Island Earth 769-5606 ior with the collection s Interpreting Office at (212) along Saturday, February 6 information about ticket avail- growth h-om an assortment of Topographic Maps manuscripts and ability. Renaissance Mars and Making rare books to a fabulous trea- Invaders from Fishing Topographic Ice sury of paintings, sculptures, Saturday, March 6 The tours Models Saturday. February 6 and objets dart 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. will also view the library's Tuesday. February 2, and 3:00 p.m. Join Friends of Fishes, current exhibition The Tuesday. February 9 CoJ- Kaufmann Theater curators from the Department Bernard H Breslauer 5:30-7:30 p.m. lUumi- Members. $7 for non-Members of Ichthyology, and members lection of Manuscript $4 for Sidney Horenstcin. the of the Hudson River Founda- nations. Museum's coordinator ol sent by an enemy planet The tion for a spectacular day of The tours will last about an The Members* C/ossic environmental public pro- film is 87 minutes long. nature walks, ice fishing, and hour. Tickets are $10 and Science-Fiction Film Series grams, will present a two-part the Invaders from Mars, next a gourmet catered lunch at available only to Participating takes a look at some of workshop that shows partici- made. month's feature, is a 1953 cult Blue Mountain Lodge in and Higher Members ages 18 best sci-fi movies ever topo- pants how to interpret the Hayden favorite directed by William Peekskill. New York. and up. Brian Sullivan, graphic maps and make their Cameron Menzies. David, the Tickets are $60 per person Planetarium's production own topographic models. each 12-year-old hero, is an ama- and available only to Partici- Members' Workshop on designer, will introduce Tickets are $40 and avail- 30- teur astronomer whose trou- pating and Higher Members movie in the series with a able only to Participating and focusing on bles begin when he sees a The fee includes lunch and Japanese Cuisine minute slide show Higher Members Call the and flying saucer disappear into a roundtrip bus transportation the films special effects at in his backyard No Membership Oflice (212) Sunday, February 28 mark it as sandhill from the Museum to Blue other features that 769-r)606 lor information a.m. and 1:30 p.m. one believes that David sa>.v Mountain Lodge. For further 11:00 a filmmaking milestone. saucer, not even tiboul ticket availdbility. Japanese culinary traditions feature is This the flying information call (212) 289- Febaiarys sporting their relations to folklore 1955 produc- when people arc 3605 or fax (212) 427-6659. and Ishnd Earth, a Origami for Kids peculiar X-shaped scars on are the focus of this Mem- tion directed by Joseph M. Mor- their necks and acting uerv Wednesdays, February 3. Members' Tours of bers' workshop, which also Newman, starring Jeff and strange Can David beat the 10. and 17 looks at Japanese dining and row. Faith Donnergue. Earth- Martians and save the world'* 4:00-5:30 p.m. The Pierpont tea-drinking etiquette and Rex Reason. It is about themselves Use the February Members' Young Members can Icam Morgan Library gives some tips on eating with lings who find planet that's programs coupon on page 3 how to make boxes, birds, chopsticks. trapped on a Thursday. February 18 bombarded by meteors to register animals, [lowers, and fruit The 90-minute programs being and 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. using only colored paper will be presented by Pat Kin- folding fingers. their own ney in the Edith C. Blum profes- SOLD OUT At Origami for Kids Lecture Room. Tickets are Michael from previous issue sional paperiolder $15 and available only to Fifth-Grade Special Shall will introduce partici- and Higher A guided Participating most basic folds, Members can take a pants to the Call the Member- the Pierpont Morgan Members. and the classes will learn tour of midtown ship Office at (212) 769- more complex origami mod- Library, an elegant for information about building that houses a remark- 5606 els each week, of artistic. ticket availability Tickets arc $40 and available collection

discussion, displays, Friends of Rshes has informal ) formed a new committee to and a petting tank. educate students about the The 90-minute sessions two Saturdays each Hudson River and its fauna. take place is open The committee consists of month. The program and is lim- students who want to share to all fifth-graders students per ses- their enthusiasm for science ited to 16 information by giving fifth-graders the sion. For further director opportunity for hands-on call Heidi Michelsen. experience. The program will of the Elementary Education explore the variety of fish in Committee at (212)289-360:. the Hudson River through or fax (212) 427-6659. rauNDA

ISSN 0194-6110

Vol. 18. No. 2 Febmaiy 1993

Donna Bell — Editor Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Sen/ices Angela Socccxiato — Designer Rita Campon — Copy Editor Evelyn Robbins — Proofreader Peter Zelaya — Fulfillment Coordinator

Rotunda, a publication for Participating and Higher Members of Die American Museum of Natural History, is July anci published monthly September through June, bimonthly magazine. August. Publication offices are at I^aturoi History at J'" American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West / 76 Street. New York. NY 10024-5192 Telephone: (212) '^ Membership- 5606. Subscriptions: $50 a year for Participating Amencan $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 paid at New Museum of Natural History, Second-class postage York. NY Postmaster; Please send address changes to: Natural Rotunda. Membership Office. American Museum of History. Central Park West at 79th Street. New York, NY

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' NOTE- Orders received less than ten days Museum: Inside and category:. pick-up at the door «n The Membership show dales will be held for presentation if Out IS an encore the program If tickets American Mmeum of iê day of aj^.^'l^'r"''^^'^ or„, of one of our most popular make check payable to the will be advised m wnting Please an event is sold out. you Museum tours, and prompt History and mail with ^ w.M be returned. Babes in Natural «"-«****T h*n OfhcenHê by phone and your check for the and Out. Membership to programs. registration is advised envelope to: Inside strollers wiU not be admitted Central Park West at arms or limited number of places. Use %;'rican Museum of Natural Histoj, 10024-5192. the coupon at right to regis- 79th Street. New York. NY ter, and please note tickets are available only by mail. Stones Speak What the Making Silent Bones Tuesday. March 9 7:00 p.m. TeUUs Kaufmann Theater non-Members.* u « Free for Members. $7 for Wednesday, when they began to domesti- February 17 cate plants and animals. 7:00 p.m. An expert in prehistoric Kaufmann Theater technology. Nicholas Toth Free for Members, the San was described by $7 for non-Members Francisco Chronide as 'the experi- scientific world's most enced maker and user of primitive stone tools. A dis- tinguished scholar. Toth holds graduate degrees from Ox- ford and Berkeley. His pioneering work has been stone tools Cracking mongongo nuts with featured in National Geo- of graphic. Scientific earliest tool describe the combination Who were the American, and many other intellectual detective work and makers' How did they live, His book. Mak experimentation publications. kinds of tools did hands-on and what Silent Stones Speak: enabled him to make the ing they make and use? Most that Eoohtion and the speak. He'll Human imporlant. how did this early silent stones Dawn of Technologv (Simon or makes its discovery more explain how his re-creation of There are no right technology influence human of and Schuster), which he of his- than just a matter primitive technology helped wrong interpretations cvolulion? with anthropologist unearthing a fossil or sequem reconstruct the lives of wrote toncal science, asserts anthro- the Members' program him to At Kathy Schick, will be available ing a species' DNA; it's an Speak Stone Age humans and the pologist Jeffrey Schwartz. Making Silent Stones program data in for purchase at the says, are the issue of interpreting Nicholas Toth beginnings of civilization. What counts, he archeologist copies of the reconstruct the miss- stone Toth will sign the context in which order to these questions to In manufacturing data and will address alter the show. ing pieces of a puzzle primitive ancestors book is assessed. At the fascinating look at the tools, our evidence offer a is presented professor of physical right This program program What the A our Stone Age an- learned to favor their Members' world of conjunction v/ith the up- anthropology at the Univer- their left, thus in Tell Us Schwartz will He'll transport listen- hands over Bones cestors. of the Mu- Schwartz is lateraliza- coming opening ideas sity of Pittsburgh. of the encouraging "brain explore conflicting ers to the other side pennanent associate at right-brain/left' seum's newest origins and also a research — the savannas of East tion." the about human world the Hall of Human American Museum that plays a role in exhibition, evolution. the the plains of northern brain split Africa, Biology and Evolution The Copies of his new book, mountains of human intelligence and cre- Focusing on the inner China, and the state-of- Us making gave new hall will feature archeology and What the Bones Tell Guinea — to show how ativity. Tool workings of New technology that illus- Holt and Company), humans access to new the-art anthropology. Schwartz ex- (Henry early prehistoric sites have early trates human biology, will be available for purchase excavated, sources of food, including plains what can be leanned been discovered, cre- Schwartz which anatomy, evolution, and of at the program, and interpreted. He'll protein from meat, from fossils and fragments studied, and can attend a after the lee grow, and ativity. Members civiliza- will sign copies time back more helped the species ancient cultures and also trace hall on Thurs- forms of social preview of the fragments can be ture. than 2 million years to the created new tions. Bone April 1 (details about the program is presented behavior, including planning day, not only to identify ani- This point when a tool-making used up- will appear in next in conjunction with the for the manufacture preview species but also to tell of animal stood poised to step ahead mal ol the Mu month's RotundaV of coming premiere humanlund. and use ot too\s. Toth wiU their past history Studies into the iuVure ol February Members newest exhibition, the of early Use the show the land's seum's spent five years discuss the movement bones can Tolh. who programs coupon on page 3 Hall of Human Biology cind away from Africa, past capacity to sustain ani- leaching himself to make and humans will how register. Evolution. Members fire, and to whether domestic or Age tools, will how they tamed mal life, the use Stone the chance to preview Every living creature — wild. next month s part new hall — see whether it's considered a species, or Rotunda for details. of a civilization, a Use the coupon on page 3 a diverse evolutionary group — unique history. This to register. The 1992 Rio Roosevelt has a Expedition Priestesses Thursday. February 25 Egyptian 7:00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater and Power non-Members $7 for Members, $10 for From Nefertiti to Cleopatra the Great such as satellite a second conveniences Roosevelt's last since 1926. when Ihcodore technology, freeze-dried food, expedition verified the origi- adventure was a two-month Friday, March 19 and and modem tents and insect 930-mile- nal explorers' findings 7:00 p.m. odysscy down a repellents Nonetheless they quieted suspicions about the long Amazon tributary that discomforts Kaufrnarm Theater authenticity. faced the ongoing before been ex- eariier journeys $10 for non-Members had never of sweltering heat, rain, and $6 for Members, Two scientists from the plored. This 'River of Doubt" were high humidity along with the because no one American Museum — so called posed by insects, — the 1914 expedition perils it went among knew exactly where piranha and snakes, and VII. for the members. The survey Egyptian Akhenaten. to Cleopatra has since been named They encountered thou- Ancient mapping expedition, which country's last resident former president, who nearly and hundreds priestesses often served as the sponsored by the Brazil- sands of insects during the 1914 expedi- was divine consorts for the state s ruler. died of plant and fish samples, ian government, is Theodore Currently a J Clawson tion. Last year a team of 20 most important deities and expe- many of which had never Metropoli Roosevelt's "forgotten" hus- Mills Fellow at the Brazilians and Americans outsiders. played key roles in their by his been cataloged by Bianchi extensive dition, overshadowed Sometimes tan Museum of Art, used Roosevelt's Roosevelt collected bands reigns adventures in Tweed the Egyp photographs, and his lietterknown women ruled as served as curator of maps, insects for the American Mu these Africa and the American at the book Through the Brazilian pharaohs in their own right. tian Department Rough seums Entomology DeiJart- retrace his West, The fonner Priestesses Brooklyn Museum for 15 Wilderness to mollusks for At Egyptian his party endured menl and time he Their historical com- Rider and Nefertiti to years, during which journey. Harvard's Museum of Com- and Power, from environ harrowing setbacks — several Robert organized the international parison documented Zoology He and the Cleopatra the Great. dugout canoes were parative Cleopatra s mental changes in one of the of their Steven Bianchi will explore loan exhibition rapids and other expedition members remote regions. sunk or crushed by concepts of Egypt — Age of the worlds most found the region remarkably the fundamental rocks and had to be replaced Ptolemies. His latest book, Tweed Roosevelt. over the past 78 the ancient Egyptian male- Virtually all of unchanged Ne/ertm Roosevelt s great- on the spot. from a /nslde t/ie Tomb o/ Theodore years and believe they expert female relationships the explorers came down November grandson, will tell Members theorehcal and religious per- was published in it much the way the fever and infec- enced Museum experiences on the with jungle the the J. Paul Getty about his former president did. spective. He II review by tions or suffered other in- Members 1992 Rio Roosevelt expedi- careers of Egypt's most illus- Use the February died Use the February Members' J third juries, and three of them coupon on page tion, which was only the coupon on page 3 trious women, from Nefertiti. programs adventurers had programs program of the river. The 1992 pharaoh to register for the known navigation register for the program. the wife of the advantages of modem to Nobody has traveled its length the J — — — —

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Members' Day Trip to the Norwalk Maritiine Center

Sunday. March 21 Higher Member. too. ^.d ope'nVnCto Participating and Ages 13 and up

the Here's your chance to like in the days of bestow an extra 1 transform the earth. Join dinosaurs, or by splitting North June Myles for a globe-mak- continent America at the Grand ing workshop in which you If you like the conti- can create a fantasy planet, Canyon. nents just the way they are, test your knowledge of world globe that geography, or do something you can make

itime life, starting with a Name: coastal salt marsh, progress- Name: ing through 22 marine envi ronments and concluding with Address: Address: a re-creation of the depths of State: -Zip:, State: .^ip:. the open ocean, where huge City; City: sharks, stingrays, bluefish, telephone: and other creatures swim in a Daytime telephone: Daytime 110.000-gallontank. category: . category; .— Mcmtiership Participants will watch the Membership feeding of sharks and seals, American Museum of payable to the American Museum of Please make check payable to the Please make check then see the IMAX movie To self-addressed, stamped mail with a self-addressed, stamped Natural History and mail with a Ry on a curved screen that s Natural History and American Center. ^^"^^^^[^^^'1^2'; envelope to Globes. Membership Office. eight stories wide and six envelope to: Mantime Park West at Central Park West at 79th of Natural History. Central of Natural History. stories high They'll also visit American Miiseum Museum 10024-5192. New York, NY 10024-5192, ihe new exhibit Sharks.', 79th Street. New York, NY Street, which features live sharks and rays and numerous hands-on ,

Museum The Department of Education Presents Spotlight Tours Spring 1993 Lecture Series

Gems and Crystals American Museum archeol ogist Paul Goldstein presents This four-session series his own research on offers a deeper appreciation Tiwanaku in Peru and Chile of the rich history and diver- in the context of the sity of one of the worlds Museum's 100-year history of finest gem collections, Joseph field studies of this fascinating J Peters, senior scientific and little-known civilization. assistant in the Department of This scries will take place on Mineral Sciences, will present two Monday evenings, March the lectures on four Thursday 1 and 8. from 700 to 8:30 evenings, starting Febnjary p.m. $21,50 for Members. 25, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. $25 for non-Members, $31.50 for Members. $35 for non- Members West African An optional tour of the J, P. Archeology: Morgan Hall of Gems is pre- Invisible Early sented in conjunction with Gems and Ctystals Cities of the Niger this series; the tour will be on Frontiers in Brain Friday, February 26. from River 7 00 to 8:30 p,m $15 {no Science Hundreds of massive city discount for Members). mounds and funerary tumuli These three perspectives dot the Niger River's inland on new explorations into the Culture on Film flood plain south of the Sa- human brain take place on This series, hosted by hara Desert. Excavations and Tuesday evenings, starting Elaine Chamov, a program- surveys at the legendary cities March 2. from 700 to 8:30 mer of the Margaret Mead of Jenne-jeno and Timbuktu p m $27 for Members. $30 Film and Video Festival, will have confirmed the great age for non- Members. explore some of the ways in and indigenous origin of Mid- March 2: Nature's Mmd: which filmmakers have repre- dle Niger urbanism But until Left Brain. Right Brain, and sented other cultures. The the late 1970s, these cities Brain Maps. Michael Gaz- programs will include special were invisible to archeolo- zaniga of the Center for Neu- guest filmmakers and scholars gists. Therein lies the tale ol robiology al DC Davis will and take place on three Tues- how we look for urban civi- present his findings concern- day evenings, starting Febru- lization in Africa and in parts ing brain adaptations to envi- ary 23, from 700 to 8:30 the globe as tar removed ronmental challenges. of p,m, $27 for Members. $30 as northern China. March 9: How Did Human for non-Members, lecluie Language Evolve? Steven This slide-illustrated IS presented by Roderick J. Pinker of the Department of Mcintosh, professor of an- Brain and Cognitive Sciences Tiwanaku and New thropology at Rice Univers/^. at Ihe Massachusetts Institute Research on the on Tuesday, February 23, of Technology challenges the from 7:00 to 8:30 p,m. myth that language is a cul- Origins of Andean $13,50 for Members. $15 tural invention. States for non-Members, March 16; Genes. findings in Peru. Molecules, and Mind How New Chile, and Bolivia indicate Other courses include do we think, feel, and remem- that the short-lived Inca em- IVild/loujers of the North- ber? Ira B, Black, professor at pire inherited much of its east. Animal Drawing. the Robert Wood Johnson on Feb. 9 and March 9 sophisticated statecraft, reli- Walking Tour of Spring Bears tours Medical School, will discuss gion, art, science, and culture Flowers and Trees in Cen- altering brain functions in from far more ancient soci- tral Park. Weekend for Bird response to the environment, Tiwanaku Enthusiasts. Weekend The Volunteer Office has mals and Peoples Saturdays, eties like the unique capital at Cape Cod. organized free Spotlight Tours February 6 and March 6. African American civilization. From its Whale Watch off 1,45 p.m. well over 12,000 feet above Bird Identification for the ot some of the Museums Cemetery in New altiplano, and Field Class in most intriguing exhibits. The Ratn Foresfs Although sea level in Bolivia's Beginner, percent York of Identification. Use the following SjXJtIight Tours will they constitute only 6 Tiwanaku dominated much Bird surface, the rain southern almost coupon below to register, tak(* picicv in Febaidry and of the earth's Three lectures by urban the Andes to all life the arrival further information March. For further informa- forests arc essential historian Sherrill Wilson and 1 .000 years before and for planet their de- call (212) 769-53 10 tion call (212) 769-5566, on the and Jean Howson of the NYC of the Inca, irreplace- struction will be an Landmarks Commission will February Pre Co}unibian Treasures. able loss, Mondays, examine the history of New 2:45 Lecture Series The Museum s newest hall, 8 and March 8. pm York City's African American together with a exhi- 1 enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope which opened in 1989. fea- Bears. The temporary community and spotlight new of Seors: /maginalion (or money order) payable to the American Museum tures the fascinating art trea bition discoveries, The talks will be check will open on siires of South America, and ReaUtv presented on three Monday Natural History for: $ the M/ednesdays. February 3 June 4, Warm up for evenings, starting February Advance registrahon is requested, but registration will be m exhibition with the Museum s and March 3. 145 p 22. from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. filled. accepted on the opening night if the course is not bears. Tuesdays, Creation of a Diorania. resident $27 for Members. $30 for Please call in advance: (212) 769-5310. Tlie Museums timeless and February 9 and March 9. non-Members. realistic dioramas are among 12:45 p.m. Minerals and Myths, For its outstanding features^ The Polar Course No. of tickets Price Total Come discover how they arc millennia people have used Explorers: Four worn minerals as an en- made. 7"hiirsdovs. February and the hancement to physical and Giants of No. of tickets Price Total 4 und March 4. i 45 p.m. i Course h'ndanyered Species. Pro- mental well being. Find out Arctic and found environmental changes the origins of some popular Antarctic I Name: minerals are making it difficult — and myths about and Febru- Author Kenneth A, Cham- sometimes impossible — for gems Wednesdays. 1 Address:, bers, lecturer in zoology and a certain animals to survive. arv 10 and March 10, 12.45 p.m. scholar of the history of polar State: ,Zip:. Rnd out which creatures are ; City: exploration, will trace four of most vulnerable and why they Northwest Coast Indians. the most exciting expeditions are in danger of extinction. As social, political, and envi- Daytime telephone: — in polar history The lectures ot Fridays. February 5 and ronmental conditions change, Please make check payable to the American Museum will take place on four Thurs- self-addressed March 5. 6:30 p.m. these weavers of wood and Natural History and mail with a stamped, day evenings, starting March Education^ Africa Learn how animals carvers of totem poles have envelope to: Lecture Series. Department of 7:00 to 8:30 p,m. West al and people have adapted to adapted and surwved, Tues- 18. from Amencan Museum of Natural History. Central Park $31,50 for Members. $35 Africa's diverse environments da\;s. February; 16 and 79th Street. New York, NY 10024-5192, for non-Members in the halls of African Mam March 16 2 45 p m . —————

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Feb, 6, and Sat Snack saw the rise of amazing Americas these continents for Participating and Roosevelt Memorial Hall) 1 1 :45 a.m. Admission the deserts to and p.m. civilizations — from North American for chil- Sun 11:00 a.m.^:00 Members is $4 for adults and $2 Sal, & Wsions ... Higher Mexican jungles and the Andes, Bold The Discoverv Room dren. ,. . explores the sophisticated skylore of by distributed at the firstfloor mforma- Distant Shores sell out in advance; reservations Passes are ways Shows usually Ages 5-10- Aztecs. Inca. and Anasazi and the check payable desk beginning at 11.45 a.m. the Maya. mail only, arc necessary. Make your tion daily lives. an adult. this knowledge influenced their Wonderful Sky, Chiidren must be accompanied by in which to the Hayden Planetarium (Attn; June 28, New York. NY Closed on hoiidavs and weekdays. Through Central Park West at 81st Street. 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Shows entrance, the 8:30. and 10:00 building through (he 77(h Street on Fridays and Saturdays al 7:00. and the Roo- Lectures schedule, telephone parking lot entrance (8Ut Street), p m For prices and show (79th Street and p.m.. Mar- sevelt Memorial Hall entrance On Wednesday. February 10. at 7:30 (212) 769-5900, Astrophysl- Central Park West). Visitors «"«"'''"9.,P^':^^ garet Geller ol the Harvard Smithsonian enter the butldrng talk. call before visiting grams after hours can cal Observatory will present an illustrated Us always a good idea to driveway entrance at 79th Universe,' programs, and through the Mapping a Urge Scale Structure of the the Planetarium, since prices, Street Central Park West. universe that to change without no- and She'll reveal surprising patterns in the showtimes are subject information, emerge through supercomputer animation as she tice For general Planetarium of galax- 769-5920. presents three-dimensional representations calM212) Naturemax hundred billion light-years of the 400- ies within a few Tropical Rain Forest tells the story of the Milky Way, millionyear evolution of tropical rain forests. On Wednesday. March 3. at 7:30 p.m.. cosmo- are 10.30 and 11:30 a.m.. Lecture: "Mapping a Large Scale Structure Dailv showtimes of the laboratory for At- naut Georgi M, Grechko 10, 12 30. 130. 2:30. 3:30. and 4:30 p.m. of the Universe. Wednesday. February mospheric Research in Moscow will present a talk. On Friday and Saturday evenings. Tropical Rain 7:30 pm Soviet Space Program: Past. Present, and Magic Egg at 6.00 and The Members' tickets at $6: Forest is shown LUilh The experiences with Number of Future," Grechko will tell of his 7:30 p.m. Number of non-Members" tickets at $8:^ space program, which began with his are subject to change the Soviet enclosed for program: Schedules and prices famous design Total amount work as an engineer at Korolyovs without notice Call (212) 769-5650 for further involved in the unmanned bureau. He was also Storytelling. Tuesday, February 16. information. the African research program, which included Luna-9, (Participating and Higher Members): lunar 7:00 p.m Admission He'll then spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Adults: single feahjre; $5.50 double feature first Number of Members tickets at $8: $4 tour of the for- offer a personal, behind-the-scenes tickets at $10: Children: $2 single feature; $3 double feature Number of non-Members" Soviet space program. merly top-secret Total amount enclosed for program: are part of the Frontiers in As Birthday Parties These lectures and Astrophysics scries and will take Program: Past, Theme parties for young Members 5-10 vârs tronomy Lecture: "The Soviet Space on Sky Theater Tickets are $6 for Partici Wednesday. March 3. old are two hours long and held at 3:30 pm place in the Present, and Future." Higher Members and $8 for non-Mem- Wednesda\/s. at 4.00 p.m. on Fridays, and at pating and 7:30 p.m. group can be purchased at the Planetarium at $6: n 00 a.m. or 2:30 pm. on weekends. The bers. Tickets Number of Members' tickets lectures, beginning at should be no fewer than 10 and no more than box office on the nights of Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: child (The cost m., or use the coupon at right to register, enclosed for program: 20 The fee is $275 plus $15 per 6 30 p Total amount favor informaUon call (212) 769-5900, includes all materials, juice, ice cream, and and for addihonal 769- bags. The cake is not included.) Call (212) Name:. 5606 for further information. Ahican Skylore Cheryl Address: Febniary 16. at 700 p.m . Parking On Tuesday. Positive will present African Street be- Byron and Something .State: îp:. The parking lot is located on 81st City: under the Planetarium's stanry dome. tween Central Park West and Columbus storytelling while dancers, musi- on a first African sky lore will be told Auenue. 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The statelv Triceratops. a North American native, weighed up to six tons. Its massive head constituted one third of its lensih onrf afforded this vege- tarian a formidable defense.

Velociraptor. (he "swift plun- derer." sported a large sickle claw on the second toe of each foot. Specimens of this animal were discovered by the The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park Museum's Central Asiatic Expe- ditions of the i920s. Exhibition opens on Friday, June 1

at p.m. in the Kauf- molecular lab. take place 7:00 Cinematic magic meets scientific tions. The Dinosaurs of Jurassic mann Theater Tickets are $7 and June 1 1 . the day the Park will compare the speculative On Friday. reality in the new exhibition The Di- use the exhibition opens, Members can attend available only to Members; nosaurs which ar- elements of the movie, which was of Jurassic Park, Members' programs coupon on best- a special program lo learn more about June rives in Gallery 3 this month Models based on Michael Crichton's fact-based and fictionalized as- page 3 to register. of Steven seller, with what is really known about the the dinosaurs that appear in to the extraor- pects of Jurassic Park James Clark, Please note that due Spielbergs blockbuster movie will be dinosaur physiology and behavior For Fellow in dinary expense of assembling and on example. Jurassic Park's fictional who is a Frick Postdoctoral display at the Museum all summer. exhibition, there will the Department of Vertebrate Paleon- maintaining this The exhibition, is jointly pre- dinosaurs were cloned from the DNA which charge to Gallery 3, tology and a member of the Mongo- be an admission sented by the American Museum and of an insect fossilized in amber. This expedition lo General admission is $5 for adults, the insect had fed on a live dinosaur lian-American Museum Dinosaur Society, was created by senior dinosaur beds of the Gobi Desert, $2.50 for children, and $3 for Research Casting International of millennia ago. The exhibition wilt the citizens; Members admission is $4 for will discuss the extent to which the Toronto and features specimens from feature samples of insect -bearing adults for children story is just a story. TJie program will and $2 the Museum s extensive fossil collec- amber and DNA from the Museum's Remembering the Little Bighorn

native people Friday. June 25. will mark the of the of Northern Plains. At the con- the 1 17th anniversary

" clusion of the lecture, Custer's 'last stand at Little he'll Bighorn On that day Paul show his film. Last Stand oi Bighorn, which Stekler will present a Mem- Little is 53 minutes long. bers' program that will ex- program will take plore how this particular The 7:00 p.m. event became an enduring place at in the Theater. Tickets historical icon. Kaufmann for Stekler will balance the are $8 Members and $12 more common perspective of for non-Members. Use the whites with the seldom heard coupon on page 3 to register program. but equally compelling view of for the

Alien

The Members' classic sci- utes long, will be shown on ence-fiction film series con- Saturday, June 5. at 3:00 in Kaufmann cludes this month with a p.m, the The- of the Little Bighorn by E. S. Curtis 1908 photograph screening of Alien. Ridley ater, Before the movie starts, Scott's 1979 outer space Brian Sullivan, the Hayden production thriller, "In space no one can Planetarium's

' 30- hear you scream. warned designer, will offer a the movie's ads. and Mem- minute slide show pointing Bears: Imagination and Reality bers are cautioned that the out the special effects and that the film's exceptionally realistic other features make might be dis- film a classic. Tickets are $4 Exhibition opens Friday, June 4, in Gallery 77 special effects turbing to impressionable for Members and $7 for non- minds. Membcrs; use the coupon on Alien, which is 124 min- page 3 to register.

The popular images of A Saturday with hears — in myth, art, litera- the Bears lure. and hislorv — from Rediscovering Saturday. June 12 prehistoric times to the pres- 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Age Tools ent are contrasted wKh the Stone On Saturday. June 12. a reality of bears in nature in variety of exhibition-related the new exhibition Bears: evrnl^ vAVi be ottered. Choose Imaglnalion and Reollly In Members can see how the strate the technique of flint- or all of the following some practice addition to fanciful depictions tools used by Paleolithic peo- knapping, an ancient activities, and use the coupon Annaud and is 93 minutes 1 a six of the animal, including ples and contemporary Abo- that was rediscovered by on page 3 to order tickets. long, it will be shown from variety o( interpretations ol Indians are made teenth-century gunsmiths 10:30 am. to noon in the riginals and Goldilocks and the Three demonstra- The program will take Breakfast with the Bears Under Theater. at a lecture and Bears." the exhibition por- Anthropologist John place on Wednesday. June 9, Come to the Garden Cafe, Tickets are available only to tion. trays the bear as scientists Alexander of the Department from 5:30 to 7.30 p.m. Tick located on tht- Museum's Participating and Higher it- only and researchers know of Vertebrate Paleontology, ets are $35 and available lower level, and start your day Members ages 5 and older. In Beors, iwaginalion and Re been making tools to Participating and Higher with the bears by having a addition to the movie, the who has aliiy was produced by the almost 20 years, will dis- Members. Call the Member hearty breaklast. The menu $15 fee includes a bear crafts (or Science t^luseum ol in which these ship Office at (212) 769- features granola with berries workshop, in which partici- cuss the ways Minnesota, tools were manufactured by 5606 for information aboul and nuts; croissants, brioche, pants can create a folk art hunter-gatherers and demon- ticket availability. and toast, served with butter, item with a bear motif to take honey, and jam; scrambled home (drop in any time be- eggs with smoked salmon; tween noon and 2:00 p m.). bear hunt, Members' Preview fruit garnish; and juice, cof- and a self-guided Thursday. June 3 fee, and milk. Breakfast will in which participants will Members can sec the new be served from 8:00 to 9:00 receive a packet of bear facts and the price of $12.75 that includes puzzles, games, exhibition before it opens to a.m.. includes tax and clues to a treasure hunt the public and attond a proper person and locate gram on bear ecology, Volun- gratuity. around the Museum to bears and bear artifacts. teer Highlights Tour guides Exhibition Tours Hunters will receive a bear ISSN 0194-6110 will be on hand in the gallery the from 4i00 to 7:00 p.m. to These family lours of prize. take place be- addition, items Vol 18, No 6 point out exhibition highlights exhibition will In some opens to Museum's collec- June 1993 and answer questions. fore the Museum from the general public. The tours, tions will be on display and The preview is free and the last about 20 minutes, Augustin, senior techni- Donna Bell — Editor open only to Participating which Jean entrance to Department of Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Services and Higher Members. Your leave from the cian in the at 8:40, 9:00. Mammalogy, will be on hand Angela Soccodalo — Designer valid membership card will Gallery 77 tick- the specimens' Rita Campon — Copy Editor admit you and a guest to 9:20. and 9:40 am. No to discuss necessary for the significance. Evelyn Robbins — Proofreader Gallery 77 ets arc and Peter Zelaya — Fulfillment Coordinator Afterward naturalist An- tours, which are free only to Participating Members' Guided drew Simmons will present open Members on a Hunt Rotunda, a publication for Participating and Higher Bear Facts, a special Mem- and Higher Bear basis Members of the American Museum of Natural History, is program that will guest- first-come, first-served Friday. June 18 bers' July ano presentation of a valid published monthly September through June, bimonthly star a live black bear cub. upon SOLD OUT magazine. membership card. Volunteer Highlights Tour August. Publication offices arc at Natural History; Simmons, an expert at han- 7^th Members not American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at dling wild animals, will ex- guides will show guest bears of the Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, Telephone; (212) 769 plain why some bears are A Movie. Workshop, and only the 5606. Subscriptions; $50 year for Participating Membership. threatened or endangered Bear Hunt new exhibition but also some a resident $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 American and discuss their adaptations Real bears Bart and Douce of the Museum's at New tours will take Museum of Natural History, Second-class postage paid for survival. are the stars of The Bear, an bears. The 7:00 p.m York. NY. Postmaster; Please send address changes to: The program will take internationally acclaimed hit place at 4:00 and Natural are geared toward adults. Rotunda. Membership Office, American Museum of place at 730 p.m. in the about two bears—a giant and History, Central Park West Street. New York. NY Kaufmann Theater Tickets kodiak and an orphan cub — Tickets, which are available at 79th mail, are free and 10024-5192, are $5; use the June Mem- struggling to survive in the only by Participating and bers' programs coupon on wilderness. The 1988 film limited to Printed by Waldon Press. Inc New York page 3 to register. was directed by Jean-Jacques Higher Members — ——— —

Members* Workshop June Members* Deciphering the Human Skeleton Programs Coupon Name: Wednesday, July 14 p.m. 4-30-6:30 „. . , . Higher Membersw Address. $40, and open only to Participatmg and Ages 18 and up City: .State: ^ip:.

When only the bones re- Daytime telephone: the Human Skeleton. Wednesday, July 14. main, how much information Deciphering p.m. $40, and open only to Participating and about an individual can be 4:30-6:30 Membership categorv:. Ages 18 and up. reconstructed^ Jeffrey Higher Members. Schwartz, professor of an- Total amount enclosed:. Members' tickets at $40 thropology at the University Number of to American more than 2, please); Please make check {if applicable) payable the of Pittsburgh and research (no enclosed for program: of Natural History and mail with a self- associate in anthropology at Total amount Museum stamped envelope to; June Members' the American Museum, will addressed, Membership OHice, American Museum of present an introductorv work- Programs. Park West at 79th Street, New that examines the analy- Name: Natural History. Central shop not York, 10024 '^ 192 Telephone reservations are ses and limits of forensic NY refunds or exchanges. anthropology- Address: accepted. No by The workshop will begin eight .State: .Zip: Unless otherwise indicated, no more than focusing on human variation City: tickets may be ordered for a program. Participat- the degree to which an and Members are entitled to four tickets per might find ele- Daytime telephone: ing osteologist Members' price. Higher Members anatomy program at the ments of skeletal Associate Members categorv: are entitled to six tickets, and significant in reconstructing Membership are entitled to one ticket. an evolutionary history, payable to the American Museum of discuss the fea- Please make check Schwartz will stamped 7:30 p.m. History and mail with a self-addressed, Bear Facts. Thursday. June 3, tures that are strictly anatomi- Natural Office, American tickets at $5: envelope to: Deciphering. Membership Number of Members' cal "noise" and those that History, Central Park West at 79th Total amount enclosed for program: correspond to the criteria Museum of Natural 10024-5192. use to determine Street. New York. NY osteologists Alien. Saturday, June 5. 3:00 pm. sex of an individual. Par- the Number of Members' tickets at $4: ticipants will test the stereo- Number of additional tickets at $7; of gender based on typies Total amount enclosed: European material and see second half of the from the bones. how consistently skeletal mor- The Science Behind Jurassic Park Enrollment is limited, and a The male workshop will be specimen phology can be termed Friday. June 11. 7:00 pm. geographically reading list will be provided They'll also ob- oriented. A or female. Use the Number of Members' tickets at $7: sample of skeletal upon registration. serve how certain aspects of diverse enclosed: above to register, and Total amount will be available for a coupon aging and disease can alter material note that tickets are firsthand study of how much please parts of the skeleton from Rememberins the Little Bighorn can be extracted available only by mail "male" to "female." information Friday. June 25, 7 00 p m. Number of MtMiibeti, lickela at $8-- Number of additional tickets at $12: Total amount enclosed:

Operation Fantasy Dinosaurs Fantasy Dinosaurs of the Movies Tuesday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. Berkshire of the Movies Number of Members' tickets at $9: Number of additional tickets at $12: Tuesday, July 27 Tuesday, July 20 Total amount enclosed for program: 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Operation Berkshire. Tuesday. July 27, 7:00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater Kaufrnann Theater Number of free Meinliers' tickets Free for Members, $12 for non-Members $9 for Members, (no more than 2. please): for non-Members $8 Number of additional Members' tickets at $5: Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: — Total amount enclosed for program: animals have A cooperative covert law Prehistoric in motion pictures enforcement effort. Opera- appeared early 1900s, when tion Berkshire was enacted since the medium itself was still to curtail the illegal commer- the primitive. The Members' cial sale of protected species program Fantasy Dinosaurs of fish and wildlife. Members Saturday with the Bears of the Movies is a retrospec- can hear about the operation, Saturday. June 12 (see the feature on page 2). animals on which uncovered a large crim- tive of prehistoric film that includes elements of inal network trafficking in Number of Members' tickets for breakfast, film history and special-effects illegal venison and — of all movie, workshop, and bear hunt at techniques. Some rarities will things — gallbladders from $27 75 each: be featured among the clips only black bears. Number of Members" tickets for breakfast pic- will from numerous motion Colonel Wayne Brewer at $12 75 each: tures, including such early work- discuss the undercover opera- Number of Members' tickets for movie, silent classics as Gertie the tion, a three-year project shop, and bear hunt at $15 each: Dinosaur and The Dinosaur that's considered the largest Total amount enclosed for program: Missing Link. Ex- and most successful operation and the cerpts from more familiar of its kind ever conducted in I films like One MiUion BC. the Northeast. Name: - I Gorgo. Godzilla The assistant director of King Kong. forthcoming The Dinosaur us. the Smog Monster, and law enforcement for the New Address: Secret the Lost Society Dinosaur £ncyc/ope York State Department of Babv. of shown. The dia (coauthored by Don Environmental Conservation. Legend, will be !l as City: .State: Mp: lecture will be fol- Ijessem) He has acted Brewer will discuss the ojsera- hour-long creative consultant for the tions under- lowed by a question-and- dangers for the Dinosours Daytime telephone: session. television specials cover officers, the lucrative answer Dinosaurs and for Donald F, Glut — aka'Di and More market for bear gallbladders, Membership category: host a video produced by the and the international scope of nosaur Don" — will institution and Fantasi/ Dinosaurs of the Smithsonian of the traffic in illegal fish and check payable to (he American Museum has been involved in prepar- Please make the Movies, which is presented in stamped wildlife Hell also discuss Natural History and mail with a self-addressed, with the Jurassic ing exhibits at museums use of wildlife remedies in conjunction with the Bear:,. Mcmbc-rsliip Ottict-, country. envelope to: Saturday Glut is the around the Asian cultures. Park exhibition. History. Central Park West at June Members' American Museum of Natural author of several books, in- Use the Use the June Members' 79th Street, New York. NY 10024-5192. Complete Di- programs coupon at right to programs coupon at right to cluding The and the register register for the program. nosaur Dictionary ——

Workshops for Kids Members* Summer August 13 Monday, August 9-Friday. Walking Tours Ages 7-9

The Hudson River was the Historian Pcler Laskowich indispensable water- with Members colonies' will wdlk the way, and its control was around some of New York's of early British plans landmark buildings and point objective of division and conquest. The out vestiges ol the city's past. river's defense is a dramatic Tickets for these tours are wealthy people who $15 and available only to tale of forsook their holdings for a Participating and Higher desperate souls who Members ages 18 and up, cause, fought in the shadow of the the coupon below to Use ingenious minds that gallows, and register, and please note who devised a sort ol subma- tickets arc available only by rine and stretched a great mail. unbroken chain across the Hudson- Grand Central Manhattan retains visible Terminal and remnants of the revolutionary walk* Park Avenue era- Participants in this tour will observe evidence Tuesday. June 22 ing patriotic fervor at Bowling 2:30-4:00 p.m. of Green, learn about specific SOLD OUT Iroquois contributions to the and hear of a When the original Grand Constitution, the was pro- victory so stunning that Central Terminal on August 12 Yorktown played ivilt team the bear facts posed in the 1860s. the band at Children Turned Upside- tabloids scornfully suggested "The World American bear images alternative name — End of Down-" of our tive an Jurassic Pork Museum's displays Between the featured in the exhibition the World Its hard to believe friends — the Gallery 3 and a feathered premier Chelsea: dinosaurs in Bears.- /magfnation and Re- now. but America's largest, the fastest, and the York bevy of bears in Gallery 77, differ- was once a The New birds ality, They'll see the thoroughfare an espe- great swimmers (yes, Ago the Museum will be between fairy-tale bears tortuous stretch of wooded of a Century — and then honor ences habitat this can swim) August 17 cially exciting Goldilocks' hosts) and ravines and rocky hills. Tuesday. these flying stars by making a (like summer. Young Members de- to exploring the p.m. natural-bom bears, and In addition 3:00-4:30 bird mobile, Weather permit- can join June Myles for a fun- weather, of Grand Central and their lunch pending on the roles little ting, they'll share it bears re- that includes mid- creation Although filled week either visit the Ceniral Park Avenue in the the birds in Central Park they'll semblance to its eighteenth- workshops at which with York, this week Zoo or view the Nature- of present-day New play a game or two while Park century estate form. Chelsea bring bag lunches and examine the kids will film AnIarcIicQ. Kids wW walking tour will observing the antics of our max resisted change more picnic outdoors in be- bear of the has and they'll also make their own remaining splendor local birds- !( it rains, successfully than most other tween their immersion in will ensure their in the subtle presentation hats, which grand desian — coal see a Naturemax city neighborhoods. Its dinosaurs, birds, or bears. bears" at home ) the Grand Central they'll status as top qenius of and work- of Antarctica: if not. chutes, horse-walks, Tickets are $15 per of the sumnnet in the hidden Zoo. for the rest viaduct and to visit the Central Park bootscrapers bear witness for the half-day pro- Avenue itself. shop nature of Park Also, each child will build a a bygone age. The Chelsea grams on Monday and Friday simple birdhouse to take Hotel is an acknowledged and $30 tor the midweek Leaf Literacy General are home and rent out to a landmark and the activities. The workshops August 13 The Revolution feathered family. Friday, Theological Seminarv a hid- Participating and nearby and the open only to 10:30 a.m.-noon den one. Higher Members, and enroll- New Nation in walking Participants on the ment in each workshop is Explore the lorest commu New York the area's participants. Use tour will feel how limited to 20 Bears nity and the trees inside and Wednesday. July 7 Chelsea's August 12 long streets make the coupon below to register, Thursday, outside the Museum. Kids will 5:30-7:00 p.m. polar opposite of that tickets p.m. blocks the and please note 10:30 a.m.-2:30 look at some of the creatures Broadway. They'll see how available only by mail. leaves and how New York was an occupied are many other Plains hidden by the expressed a class s Like — the stoop lives depend on the city during the Revolution Horse admired their consumption, Indians. Crazy seized control in conspicuous trees. Each child will make a the British Noses the strength of bears, and he they'll discover in the Know Your of 1776 and and leaf sampler" of trees com- the summer way August 9 can-ied a shield emblazoned streets of this enclave the Monday, Central Park remained for seven years, Partici- monly found in generation long 10:30 a.m.-noon with a bear symbol. one-third of the of life of a that can be a guide to tree ID destroying pants can look at Crazy stay. past. rove the subsequent park visits. city during their Participants will Horses shield and other Na- on Museum to seek creatures with oversized noses. They'll learn how these animals use Summer Workshops for Kids per tour, and open only and Members- Walking Tours. $15 their jumbo proboscises Know Your Noses. Mon. Aug. 9 Members, Ages 18 and up. "nosey" masks. lo ParlKipating ond I i.ghci create really No. of tickets at $15: tickets per tour Please indicate number of Jurassic Park. NYC. Tues.. Aug. 10 July 7 in New York. Wednesday, __Reuolu(fon Park, No. of tickets at $30: August 17 Jurassic ^Chclsea. Tuesday. Bird Slats. Wed,. Aug. 11 tickets at $15 NYC Number of Members' No, of tickets at $30: please): Tuesday, August 10 (no more than 2 per tour, Bears. Thurs.. Aug, 12: No. of tickets at $30: for program: 10:30 a.ni.-2:30 p.m. tickets at Sib: Total amount enclosed Leaf Literacy, Fri.. Aug, 13: No. of Steven Spielberg s dinosaurs are in town, and Total amount enclosed: after viewing these Hollywood Name: celebrities kids will make Name:

I some dinosaur models to fit Address; \ their own scripts. They'll also Address; see some authentic dinosaur .State: ^ip: .Zip: City: __ and make some take- City: .State: I fossils I home fossils. Both meat- I ' Daytime telephone: ' I eaters and plant-eaters should Daytime telephone: I

I bring lunch. I Membership categon;:^ — Membership category:. MuseuniorrrTM I Please make check payable to the American I payable to the American Museum of stampe Please make check Bird Stats History and mail with a sclf-addrcssed. scU-addressed. stamped Natural Natural History and mail with a Wednesday, Workshops, envelope to: Summer i^i'l Tours, Membership Office^ ^^"^^'f';!'''^ we^i 't<^ envelope to Walking August 11 Natural History. Central Park West at Amencan Museum of of Natural Histoiv, Central Park American Museum 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Street. New York. NY 10024-5192. 10024-5192- 79th 79th Street. New York, NY Children will survey the — —

Kensico Dam and Members' Day Trip to Members' Day Trip to Reservoir. Thursday, July 15. 900 am -500 p.m $50. and o|Den only to Participating and Higher Members, Ages Kensico Dam 18 and up. Number of Members' tickets at $50 and Reservoir (no more than 2. please): Total amount enclosed for program: Thursday, July 15 p.m. Name: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 ^ u- u m u and open only to Participating and Higher Members $50, Address: Ages 18 and up City: -State: .Zip:

is located in cen- intake chambers The dam Horenstein. the at the dam's Sidney tra) Westchester, near Val- Daytime telephone: of and chlorinating plant, and Museums coordinator will be water-testing halla. Transportation public pro- they'll visit the environmental bus from the Museum, and Membership category: to see how New York by host a trip to Ken- lab grams, will participants should be sure to is monitored to Reservoir, a City's supply of sico Dam and comfortable clothes and Please make check payable to the American Museum high quality of its wear of the city's ensure the vital component lunch. Natural History and mail with a self-addressed, stamped Horenstein will bring a bag system. Mem- potable water Office. American water-supply Use the coupon at right lo envelope to: Kensrco. Membership discuss the ecology of reser- bers will have an opportunity of Natural History, Central Park West al 79th Kensico's register, and please note that Museum structure voirs and explain to admire the dams only by Street. New York. NY 10024-5192 structure of tickets are available beauty. importance in the and architectural mail the water-supply system. Participants will take a look

descend more than 200 feet Water Works: Members' Tour of the I»fYC below Van Cortland! Park to How How Water Works Water Supply and Pollution Control Systems Thuis observe the internal water only to day. July 8. 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. $50, and open works. The trip will conclude and up. Supply and Participating and Higher Members Ages 18 Tour of NYC's Water at Hillview Reservoir. Representatives from the Control Systems Number of Memberstickets at $50 Pollution Department of Environmental (no more than 2. please): Protection will be on hand at Total amount enclosed for program: Thursday, July 8 all of the sites to explain as- a.m.-5:00 p.m. of the system, and 9:00 pects Name: $50, and open only to Participatmg Sidney Horenstein. the Mu- coordinator of envi- and Higher Members seums Address: Ages 18 and up ronmental public programs, will lead the tours. City: .State: .^ip: Tickets arc $50 each. The can observe a also sec how the city treats its Members program are for water and storm flow. fees for this paragon of modern-day engi- waste Daytime telephone: begin with an transportation and educa- neering on a tour of the New The trip will Ward's tional presentations only, sys- extensive tour of the Membership category: — York City water supply charge Control Plant, there is no admission much-vaunted sys- Island Pollution tem. The tours o( the sites No food o( From there Members will (or Pteo^e moke check poyabte lo the Amerirt^n MMse»im tem provides the best-quality on the lours, the Bronx for a tour will be available mail with a self-addressed, stamped municipal water in the world, travel to Natural History and Park Reservoir so be sure to bring a bag Office. American participants can observe of the Jerome envelope to: Water Works. Membership and Use the Filtration Plant lunch and beverages. Central Park West at 79th some of the workings of the and Pilot Museum of Natural History, part of coupon at right to register, current system and the city's The tours will view Street. New York. NY 10024-5192, and please note that tickets planned improvements for the Third Water Tunnel in the will are available only by mail. the future. Participants will Bronx, where Members

Members* Whale Watch Clearwater Sail

Thursday, July 22 1:00-4:00 p.m. ^ „. . w u July 29. Members Come aboard an Okeanos place on Thursday, $36. and open only to Participating and Higher m. Ocean Research Foundation from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p Ages 8 and up bus vessel to watch for whales Members will travel by lo Mon- and seabirds. sharks, turtles, from the Museum tauk. where they'll cmise for only by mail order; use the fishes. A ' tickets per and a variety of Come aboard the class- confined to four 4'/.' are $75 register. naturalist will explain the hours, Tickets are available coupon below to room of the waves" to help request. Tickets to Partici- range of whales and other sea and available only hoist the sails and learn about pating and Higher Members creatures that may be en- River ecology. The the Hudson volunteers will ages 13 and older. Use 1:00-4:00 p.m $36. countered, and Clearwater vessels arc repli- Clearwater Sail. Thursday. July 22. register, and be available throughout the coupon below to and Higher Members, Ages 8 cas of the vessels that linked and open only to Participating tickets are cmise to answer questions. please note that the riverfront communities and up. take available only by mail. The whale watch will during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I The crew will discuss the Whale Watch. Thursday. July 29. 7:00 Members' Hudson's ecology and the Number of Members' tickets at $36 a,m.-8:00 p.m. $75, and open only to Participating and problems arising when eco- (no more than 4. please): Higher Members. Ages 13 and up. for program: logical relationships arc ig- Total amount enclosed nored. They'll show how the Number Members' tickets at $75: of environment might be made Total amount enclosed for program: cleaner, healthier, and more Name: productive, and they'll illus-

Name: — I trate life within the river with Address: the sloop's nets and other I Address: ^ip; equipment. City: _State: Sailors must be at least 8 City: .State: Mp: years old: children under that Daytime telephone: age will not be permitted Daytime telephone: ~ aboard. Be sure your clothes Membership category: _ [ are warm and casual (soft- Membership category: payable to the American Museum of soled, flat-heeled shoes arc Please make check ; the American Museum of stamped Please make check payable to History and mail with a self-addressed, stamped advised). This cruise is an Natural j Nalural History and mail with a sclf-addresscd. Membership Office, Amentan , environmental excursion, not envelope to: Clearwater. Membership Office. American al 79th envelope to Whale Watch. of Natural History. Central Park West , 79th a leam-how-to-sail trip. Be- Museum Museum of Natural History. Central Park West at 10024-5192. cause of the limited enroll- Street. New York. NY Street. New York. NY 10024-5192. ment, participants arc was established in 1988 to ACaU John recognize John Burroughs' Why Me? Burroughs efforts to inspire young natu to Teach ralists- His nature essays for Book Awards children were published a A program for the hearing impaired century ago in special school editions and caused nature Saturday. June 12 Naturalist Vincent G, De- study to blossom in 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. thier was awarded the 1993 classrooms all over America John Burroughs Medal Award The books selected for the PROGRAM CANCELLED for Nature Writing for his list feature perceptive and book Crickets and Katydids. artistic accounts of direct thousands of Each year Concerts and Solos (Harvard experiences in the world of visit the Mu- schoolchildren University Press. 1992), nature. The list seeks to en- need you as a seum. We The annual award is pre- courage writers, artists, and volunteer to answer leaching sented to the finest natural publishers to produce books questions and add to their history book published in the that invite young readers to wonder about their sense of previous three years — a explore nature. world. Teaching volun- PlaywTighl Bara Casclcy place in the Kaufmann The- the work combining scientific Come Back. Salmon. teers work with classes on Swain returns to the Museum ater There are no tickets or accuracy, firsthand ficldwork. Molly Cone. Sierra Club limited schoolday mornings. Previous for Children. for the premiere of Wh\j Me?. reservations; seating is and literary skill. Crickets Books teaching experience is not Elephants Calling. a portrayal of courage in the and available on a first-come, and Katydids. Concerts and required; we will train you. face of personal conflict An first-served basis. Solos is a story of the musi- Katharine Payne. Crown next teaching volunteer engaging one-act play, the This program is made The cianship of courting crickets, Publishers. Inc. training program starts this Muir, program will be signed as well possible by a gift to the katydids, and grasshoppers John Wilderness fall. as spoken Why Me? is pre- Education Department from during the summer of 1938. Protector. Ginger For Call the Museums Volun- sented by Panacea Produc- the Vidda Foundation. Dethier is the Gilbert L. Wadsworth. Lerner Publica- 769- teer Office at (212) 769- tions. information call (212) Woodside Professor of Zool- tions Co. 5566 for an application. This free program will take 5186. ogy at the University of Mas- Nature Spy. Shelley Rot sachusetts at Amherst. His ner and Ken Kreisler, Macmil- other books include Ecology Ian, of a Summer House, To Orphan: The Story of a Travel Photography in hattan surveys regional geol- Know a Fly. Fairweather Baby Woodchuck Faith Workshops Pennsylvania ogy. Fees are $22 for Mem- Duck. The Ant Heap. Man's McNulty. Scholastic Inc. A photographic field trip bers and $25 for Plague, and World of the The Night of the Whip- and explores and captures on film non-Members, Adults only. Tentmakers. poorwill. Nancy Larrick, Field Trips the charm of New Hope. Philomel Books. Pennsylvania, and the scenic The Nooks and Crannies 1992 John Burroughs The Call of the Runniny surroundings of Bucks of Western New York List of Nature Books for Tide: A Portrait of an Island The Department of Educa- County. Professional photog- Harbor Young Readers Family. Nancy Price Graff, following tion presents the rapher Willa Zakin leads the A unique opportunity to The Young Readers" List Little. Brown, and Co further infor- programs. For tour, working with partici- learn about the formation of mation call(212) 769-5310. pants individually and in metropolitan New York's groups. The trip will take bays and other waterways Family Across the Sea Marbling: An Ancient place on Saturday. June 5. awaits participants on Tues- Contact: Tuesday, June 15 Paper Craft from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. day. June 8. from 6;00 to arc for Cultural Change, This film traces how schol- On Saturday. June 5. an The fee is $75 (no discount 9:00 p m Fees $22 con- for non- ars have uncovered the workshop will offer for Members), and enrollment Members and $25 all-day Alternative Gullah Adults only- nection between the instmction in the production is limited to 25 adults. Members. Perspectives people of South Carolina and of marbled pa[}er Partici Exploring the Brooklyn citizens of Sierra Leone. Fam- pants will use a variety of Boat of the Geology The final segment ily Across the Sea shows produce about Shoreline techniques to Education Departments year- African-Americans kept Saturday. June 5. from how ten sheets of marbled paper Cruises On long series in observation of with their homeland to 4:00 p.m.. a their ties each, The worksliop will take 11:00 am the Columbian Quincenlen- centuries of oppression cruise along the Brooklyn over place from lliOOa.m. to A Geology Cruise Around nial looks at contemporary through their speech, songs, shore spotlights local history pm. The fee is $65 (no Manhattan 600 themes and issues facing and customs Produced by Members). Mate- On Tuesday, June 1. from and geology. Fees arc $32 discount for indigenous peoples For fur- Educational for South Carolina are included and enroll- 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.. a three- for Members and $35 rials ther information and a min.. 1991). Man- non-Members. Adults only. Television (56 ment is limited to 20 adults hour boat trip around brochure. call(212) 769- 7:00 p.m., Kaufmann The 5315. ater.

American Indians: European Contact and the Question of Color Leonhardt People Center Doctrine of Discovery A 22 Sunday, June 6 Tuesday. June The first documentary to 1:00-4:30 p.m. Tonya Gonnella Frichncr, confront ' color conscious- Esq.. discusses the political ness" in the black commu- and social ramifications of the nity, Question of Color legalities used to justify 500 A derived from explores the devastating ef June 5 and 6 highlights from America Is in form music years of conquest and domi- harmonies. fects of a caste system based Shin;in. Dawn Saito uses the Heart, a play adapted Western West nation, including the Doctrine and Sioux on conformity to European Butoh. a contemporary from Carlos Bulosan's novel African rhythms, of Discovery and Manifest melodies. ideals of skin color, hair tex Japanese dance style, to cele- of the same title that depicts Destiny. She will also discuss Warrior IVomen Wizards. ture. and facial features. Pro- brate shinjin. a Buddhist term the experiences of Filipino the influences of native cul- Holder shows slides of duced and directed by Kathe expressing realization of the migrant workers in the Robin tures on European society. her artwork to explain the Sandler (58 min,. 1992). Buddah mind, 1930s. Frichner is a member of the Chinyelu. an ex- Anti Asian Violence: A Asian-American Studies. relevance of female empow- Onondaga Nation. Snipe Mamadou African cultural prac- Rising Trend The Commit- John Ko and Kelly Nishimura erment and living in harmony Clan of the Haudenosaunee. pert on the tee Against Anti- Asian Vio- talk about Asian-American with nature. and president of the Ameri- tices and values in Hemisphere, will lence (CAAAV) discusses the studies as part of a growing can Indian Law Alliance, 2:00 Western commentary on both historical antecedents to anti- multicultural awareness. p.m., Kaufmann Theater. offer Kaufmann Asian violence and explains Roots to Rea/ify Corky films. 7:00 p.m.. No tickets are necessary for their attempts to resolve such Lee. who has documented Contemporary Japanese Theater. Seating problems through community and photographed the experi- these free programs. Dance empowemierit, ences of the Asian-American is limited and on a first-come, Sunday, June 13 For further GodzUh's "The Curio community for 20 years, first-served basis. Saeko Ichinohe and Com- Tribute to our Ancestors " information and a brochure, Shop. Nina Kuo. a member explains his attempts to rec- pany present a program in Sunday. June 27 call (212) 769-5315, of the arts organization tify forgotten and omitted which a new work and a jux- CINQUE Folkloric Dance Education Depart- Godzilla, shows slides from elements. These tapositioning of traditional Theater performs the music programs are made the exhibit "The Curio ment and contemporary and dance of West Africa. possible in part by grants Shop," which challenges the June 19 and 20 movements illustrate the Cuba. Brazil. Haiti, Puerto from the Chase Manhattan limited ways in which Asian- The People Center is changing culture of contem- Rico, and the United States Bank, Citibank, and gifts Americans arc viewed by closed for Fathers Day week- porary Japan In addition to The company's dancers, ac- from the Samuel and May other cultures. end. performances by Ichinohe. robats, mimes, and musicians Rudin Foundation, the Henry of the program features dancers hail from many countries Foundation, Vidda Foun June 12 and 13 June 26 and 27 Nias Yukie Okuyama and Jeff the African diaspora. 200 dation, and the family of America Is in the Heart. Rainbow of Sound. Mem- Moen 2:00 and 4 00 p.m., pm- and 4:00 p.m.. Kouf Leonhardt. Kabayan Players present bers of Mamma Tongue per- Frederick H Kaufmann Theater rnonn Theater. —

Fishing wich. Peter Bodo of the New York Times. Jerry Saltwater Fly Woliand. president of NYC Trout Unlimited, and members of the Salty Ryroders. Curators from the will hand to help a family cookovit Department of Ichthyology be on Friends of Fishes is sponsoring participants can fish, learn to seine and identify fishes. on the beach at which For fishing information call Paul Dixon at Orvis or just sit back and relax. Bring waders, fish seine, 697-3133. and Michael Noyes towels, snorkels, fishing gear New York at (212) boots bathing suits, gourmet cooUout with or John Pipicelli at the Sportsman's Den at (203) a hearty appetite for Ihc and 869-3234 For registration information, call Friends soft drinks, and pastries. yjinc beer, 360 envelope to: Friends of Fishes. Department of June 13. of Fishes at (212) 289-3605 or fax (212) cookout will take place on Sunday. History, The for adults and $30 Ichthyology. American Museum of Natural Park in 6625. Tickets, which are $60 00 to 9:00 p.m. at Shenvood Island from 4 ordered by mail; Central Park West at 79th Street. New York. NY be guided by for children under 12. may be Westport Connecticut. Anglers will number of tick- make your check payable to Friends of Fishes/ 10024-5192- Please specify date, of Orvis. New York. Michael Noycs and Paul Dixon self-addressed ets, and daytime and evening telephone numbers. of Green- AMNH. and mail it with a stamped, John Pipicelli of the Sportsman s Den

2:30. and 4:30 pm The Discovery Room 12.30. Friday and Saturday at 600 and 7:30 p.m.. Passes are distributed ot the first-floor informa- On Museum 5-10. Antarctica is shoiun on a double bill with Tropical tion desk beginning at 11 .45 a.m. Ages Rain Forest. The Museum offers a dinner/theater Children must be accompanied by an adult. package that includes admission, double feature, Notes Closed on hotidavs and weekdays. p.m. and dinner in the Garden Cafe. For reservations Sat, & Sun Noon-4:30 Hours call (212) 769-5350. The Natural Science Center Exhibition Halls Schedules and prices are subject to chnngc For chi/dreno/al/ ages and their /amilics. -Thurs. & Sun 10:00 a.m,-5:4b p.m. 769 5650 for further Mon and holidays. u/i(bout notice. Call (212) a.m.-8:45 p.m. Closed on Mondaiis Fri & Sat 10^00 jues-Fri 2:00-4:30 p.m. information. The Museum Shop 1:00-4:30 p.m. Admission (Participating and Higher Members): a.m.-5:45 p.m. Sat, & Sun Mon -Thurs. & Sun 10:00 Adults: $4 single feature; $5.50 double feature a.m.-7:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat 10:00 Children: $2 single feature; $3 double feature Shop The Junior Entrances -Fri 10:00 a,m -4 45 p.m. Mon hours visitors con enter the Parking a.m.-5:45 p.m. During Museum 8lst Sat. & Sun 10:00 The Museum's parking lot is located on building through the 77th Street entrance, the The Museum Ubrary Street betiueen Central Park West and Columbus lot entrance (81st Street), or the Roo a.m,-4:00 p.m. parking first- Tues.-Fri 11:00 Avenue. Space is limited and available on a seuelt Memorial Hall entrance (79th Street and Saums Fast Service Eatery first-served basis-, fees are $12 for cars and Diner West) Visitors attending pro- come, p.m. Central Park to Daily 11:00 a.m.-4:45 buses. The lot Is open from 9:30 a.m. grams after hours can enter the building $11 for Cafe on Sunday through Tfiursday and from Garden through the driveway entrance at 79th 9:30 p.m. f?eserua(ions: (212) 769-5865 a.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday. Street and Central Park West. 9:30 Lunch: Mon.-Fri 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Hertz Manhattan, located one block away from 5:30-7:30 pm. (between Dinner: Fri, & Sat the Museum at 210 West 77th Street 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Naturemax o//ers parking Brunch: Sat. & Sun presents Antarctica, a Broadway and Amsterdam). The Naturemax Theater through Whale's 1-air discounts to Members — on Monday exploration of the highest, driest, cold 3:00-8:00 p.m. thrilling discount regular Fri earth Friday Members receive a $2 off est. and most myslerious continent on Noon-8:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Menibcr.s Sat ..-....-.. ore 10:30 and 11:30 prices and on p.m. Shouitimes /or Antarctica Sun & most holidays Noon-5:00 receiue a $3 discount. 1:30 and 330 pm. daily. Tropical Rain first floor of a.m.. 769-5606 Snack Carts (at 77th Street & on the evolu Call the Membership Office at (212) Forest. Luhich portrays the 400-mi/lion-year Memorial Hall) about alternaliue parking. the Roosevelt resources, is shown at for information p.m. tion of these uanishing Sat & Sun 11:00 a.m.^:00

Sun 1:00. 2:00, 3:00. 4:00. and 5:00 p.m. Donate canned foods during the month of Admission to the Sky Show for Participating and Happenings June receive a 10 percent discount in the chil- and Higher Members is $4 for adults and $2 for Planetarium gift shop. All food will be donated to dren For non-Members' prices and additional infor- at the Hayden the Children's Aid Society mation, call (212) 769-5900

before visit- Shows It's always a good idea to call Children's ing the Planetarium, since prices, programs, are subject to change without Wonderful Sky is a special Sky Show for and showtimes Planetarium information, Special for Families preschoolers Children sing along with images of notice For general 769-5100. Sesame Street Muppets as they leam call (212) 769-5920 or (212) On Saturday. June 12. 19, and 26, at 11:00 their favorite rainbows, the phases of the moon, sunsets, am., the Planetarium will present Teddv's Quest, a about at 1030 and 11:45 a.m.. Sat . June 5. new Sky Show for children ages 3 to 10. All kids and stars. Sat,, July 10. at 10:30 a.m. Admission for can purchase up to 4 are encouraged to bring their teddy bears—admis- and Teddy's Quest. Members for adults Participating and Higher Members is $4 price. Please Indicate a sion for the bear is free. tickets at the Members' conjunction and $2 for children. choice. Teddi;'s Quest, which is presented in (irst and second usually sell out in advance; resen'ations, by with the exhibition Bears. Imagination Shows Sat.. June 12. 11:00 a.m. Museum payable mail only, are necessary. Make your check 11:00 and ReaUtxj (see page 2). tells the story of a teddy Sat.. June 19. am. Sky, to the Hayden Planetarium (Attn Wonderful 11:00 a.m. bear was bom in space and sets out on a quest Sat, June 26. who York, Central Park West at 81st Street. New NY adult Members' tickets at $4: to find a friend. As Teddy travels through space, he Number of 10024). indicate membership category and a first children's tickets at $2: learns many things, including how stars are formed. Number of Members' second choice of showtimes, and include a self- adult tickets I how to identify constellations, and what it's like on and Number of non-Members' addressed, stamped envelope and your daytime the moon. at $5:_ number For additional information, call children's tickets Tickets for Participating and Higher Members are phone Number of non-Members* (212)769-5900. $4 for adults and $2 for children. Use the coupon at $2,50: Robots in Space features Lucasfilm s R2D2 and at right to order tickets, and for non-Members' Total amount enclosed: and has been created especially for chil- prices and additional information, call {212} 769- C-3P0n.c Together with a live host, these 5900. dren ages 7 to 12. Name:_ famous space robots take children on a tour of the Address: universe- See how satellites and probes — the real worlds near and space robots — help us learn about City: _Statc: .^ip:. Sky Show earth to other planets and far. Journey from the at 11:45 am. Daytime telephone: distant black holes. Sat . July 10. Bold Visions . . . Distant Shores Admission for Participating and Higher Members is reached the check payable to the Hayden Long before European explorers $4 for adults and $2 for children. For additional Please make rise of amazing Planetciriiim and mail with a self-addressed, Americas these continents saw the infomiation. call (212) 769-5900, Quest. Hayden civilizations — from North American deserts to stamped envelope to: Teddy's West at 81st Street. Mexican jungles and the Andes Bold Visions . . Planetarium. Central Park Distant Shores explores the sophisticated skylore of Laser Shows New York. NY 10024-5192. and the ways the Maya. Aztecs, Inca, and Anasazi orders are subject to Journey into another dimension where laser Please note that ticket in which this knowledge influenced their daily lives. dazzling be processed without visuals and rock music combine to create a availability and cannot Through June 28. stamped, self- addressed 3-D experience of sight and sound. Shows are pre- telephone number and ShouJtimes ticket requests or sented on Fridays and Saturdays at 700. 830. and envelope Do not include Mon.-Fri 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. programs. 10 m. For prices and show schedule, checks for American Museum Sat 11:00 a.m. (except for June 5). 00 p telephone (212) 769-5900. 1:00. 2:00. 3:00, 4:00. and 5:00 p.m. :po-2 MT3 0, p ON 9 a^ ID n ©to - N9 O g rti 0) 00 O •^^^ O re 3- I- U3 5 ^-! ^ £ -06^9 TO < 3 to 2 O IS D 03 § 10 is a is h o ? 3 !^ 3 IP 2. CT- Q n? c 33 o ft O a. o 5' (3" " :r "n ? 3 &< IT 3 ^ 5 o in 2 5*1 S ? (0 a. — I, tT] O C

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Orion Rendezvous. . . A Star Trek® Voyage of Discovery p.m. on Monday models, alien 1 -30 and 3;30 uniforms. Enterprise 3;00. own. Explore where stars are bom through Friday and LOO. 2:00. Climb aboard the starship Antares costumes, and assorted props and and the galactic graveyard of a star 4 00 p.m. on Saturday and Sun- for journey. Actor LeVar s original and a cosmic powerful photos from Paramount for that died in one of the most day. Admission to the Sky Show Burton — alias Lieutenant Comman- 1960s television series will be on explosions in the universe. Space Participating and Higher Members is der Geordi La Forge of Star Trek- This exhibition was curated by and Star Trek, fans alike display- and $3.50 for children. The Next Generation* — narrates a enthusiasts and Space Museum $6 for adults gone where the National Air without will know that they have Prices are subject to change thrilling new Sky Show that premieres and explores the historical, political, planetarium audience has gone notification. For additional informa- on July 9 at the Hayden Planetarium. no cultural issues and themes social, and Rendezuoui and the century and before. the tion about Orion Enter the twenty-fourth con- that were incorporated into Show is presented in Trek* Retrospective, call (212) journey where six suns This Sky Star to a place Retrospec- weekly series. junction with a Star Trek, 769-5100 blaze in the sky, then voyage to a sun Showtimes for the Sky Show are at the Planetarium. Starfleel 100 million times bigger than our tive Fantasy Dinosaurs Summer Workshops for Kids of the Movies

Children will retrospective of prehis- offer commentary on the clips Know Your Noses. Kids Birds Stais. A Young Members can join and discuss film history the Museum's displays toric animals on film. Fantasy and rove the Museum to seek survey June Myles for a fun-filled the Movies special -effects techniques oversized of our feathered friends, Dinosaurs of week of workshops that will creatures with mobile, and build clips from numerous The program will take learn how these ani- make a bird features take place from Monday, noses, on Tuesday. July simple birdhouse. IVednes- motion pictures, including the place 20, at mals use their jumbo pro- a August 9. through Friday. Gertie the 7:00 p.m, in the Kaufmann really doy. August 11. 10.30 early silent film August 13. Tickets for the boscises, and create p.m. Dinosaur and other classics Theater. Tickets are $9 for "nosey" masks. Monday. a.m. -2:30 programs, which are geared Members and $12 for non- -noon. Bears. Participants will such as Orie Million BC. toward children bet

Deciphering the Human Skeleton

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Museum, will to Participating and Higher The analyses and limits of the American Vol. 18, No, 7 extent to which Members ages 18 and up. forensic anthropology are the discuss the July/August 1993 about an individ- Call the Membership Office at focus of the Members' work- information (212) 769-5606 for informa- shop Deciphering the ual can be reconstructed Donna Bell — Editor tion about ticket availability Human Skeleton. Jeffrey when only the bones remain. Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Services will take Enrollment in this workshop Schwartz, professor of an- The workshop Angela Soccodato — Designer July 14, is limited, and a reading list thropology at the University place on Wednesday. Rita Campon — Copy Editor 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tick- will be provided upon regis- of Pittsburgh and researcli from Evelyn Robbins — Proofreader and available only tration. associate in anthropology at ets are $40 Peter Zelaya — Fulfillment Coordinator

Rotunda, a publication for Participating and Higher Members of the American Museum of Natural History, is a'^^ published monthly September through June, bimonthly July Trip to magazine. Members* Day August, Publication offices are at Natural History at '^^' American Museum of Natural History. Central Park West Kensico Dam and Reservoir 769- Street. New York. NY 10024-5192. Telephone: (212) year for Participating Membership, The trip will take place on 5606. SubscripUons: $50 a Sidney Horenstein. the water supply system. Partici- Amencan $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 look at the Thursday. July 15. from 9:00 Museum's coordinator of pants will take a at New Museum of Natural History. Second-class postage paid dam's intake chambers and a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tickets are environmental public pro- changes to: and available only to York, NY Postmaster. Please send address host a trip to Ken- chlorinating plant, and they'll $50 Natural grams, will Rotunda. Membership Office, American Museum of water-testing lab to Participating and Higher sico Dam and Resen.'oir. visit the York, NY Members ages 18 and up History. Cenh-al Park West at 79th Street. New where Members will learn see how New York City's ensure Call the Membership Office at 10024-5192. about the ecology ol reser- supply is monitored to 769-5606 for informa- Kensicos impor- the high quality of its potable (212) voirs and Printed by Waldon Press. Inc. New York tion about ticket availability. tance in the structure of the water operation Berkshire July/August

Tuesday, July 27 Members* 7:00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater Prosrams Coupon Free for Members, $8 for non-Members

A cooperative covert law enforcement effort. Opera- tion Berkshire was enacted to curtail the illegal commercial sale of protected species Name: of fish and wildlife. Members can hear about the operation, Address: which uncovered a large crim- .Slate: .Zip:. inal network trafficking in City: illegal venison and — of all Evidence seized during Operation Berkshire things — gallbladders from Daytime telephone: international scope of black bears. The assistant director of and the Colonel Wayne Brewer will law enforcement for the New the traffic in illegal fish and Membership category:. He'll also discuss the discuss the undercover opera- York State Department of wildlife. 4 of wildlife remedies in tion, a three-year project Environmental Conservation, use Total amount enclosed:. cultures. that's considered the largest Brewer will describe the oper- Asian August American and most successful operation ation's dangers for the under- Use the July/ Mem Please make check (if applicable) payable to the lucrative bers' programs coupon to Natural History and mail with a self- of its kind ever conducted in cover officers, the Museum of register for the program to: Ju/y/Augusl the Northeast. market for bear gallbladders. addressed, stamped envelope Members' Progrartis. Membership Office, American Museum of Natural History. Central Park West M 79ih Street. New York. NY 10024-5192 Telephone reservations are not accepted. No refunds or Stanford White's New York exchanges. September 8 Wednesday. Unless otherwise indicated, no more than eight 7:00 p.m. tickets may be ordered for a program. Participat- Kaufmann Theater ing Members are entitled to four tickets per $6 for Members, $10 for non-Members program at the Members' price. Higher Members are entitled to six tickets, and Associate Members are entitled to one ticket.

Revolution In NY mansions of Van- The architect and Ragtime; the fata! triangle the great The work of Wednfsdrty, July 7, 3:00 p.m. White was also portrayed in the film derbilt, Whitney, and Pulitzer; designer Stanford of Members' tickets at $15 other edifices. Number the The Girl in the Red Velvet and scores of (1853-1906) represents (no more than 2, please): After the program, Lowe peak of Beaux-Arts elegance Swing Votal amount encioscd for program: will sign copies of his book in (he New York of the late Architectural historian White's York nineteenth century. The ar- David Garrard Lowe will ex- Stanford New I (Doubleday). which will be chitect's life and career ended amine the influences, devel- Fantasy Dinosaurs of the Movies purchase. with his scandalous murder by opments, and impact of available lor Use Tuesday, July 20, 7 00 p m, register millionaire Harry Thaw, who Whites masterpieces. Sun/iv- the coupon at right to Number of Members' tickets at $9: was deranged by his passion ing examples include the for the program, Number of additional tickets at $12: for Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit. Washington Square Arch; the Lowe will also lead a walk- Total amount enclosed for program: White passed into popular second Madison Square Gar- ing tour that looks at White's the legend when E L. Doctorow den; the Metropolitan, architectural wonders (see Operation Berkshire. Tuesday, July 27. 7:00 p.m. adapted his story in the novel Colony, and Players clubs; related article below). Number of free Members" tickets (no more than 2. please): Number of additional Members' tickets at $5:

Number of non-Members' tickets at $8:, . Members' Walking Tour Total amount enclosed for program:

Chelsea. Tuesday. August 17, 5:30 p.m. Beaux-Arts Buildings Number of Members' tickets at $15 (no more than 2, please): of New York Total amount enclosed for program: Morocco. Wednesday. August 18, 8 00 p.m. Number of Members' tickets at $7: Number of additional tickets at $10: Discover some of the sur- Total amount enclosed for program: viving vestiges of New York City's Beaux-Arts beauties on Beaux-Arts Buildings of New York Sunday, September Woman of Power. Thursday. August 26. 7:00 p.m. a walking tour that will spot- 12. $15, and open only to Participating and Higher Mem- Number of free Members' tickets light the work of architect Please indicate a first and second choice, (no more than 2. please): Stanford White, Historian bers. 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Number of additional Members' tickets at $5: David Garrard Lowe, who will Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: present the Members' pro- Number of tickets at $15 (no more than 2. please) Total amount enclosed for program: gram Stanford White's New Total amount enclosed: York (see the related feature Biosphere. Wednesday. September 1, 7:00 p.m. above), will lead the tour. Number of Members' tickets at $8: Participants will meet at the Number of additional tickets at $12:_ Washington Square Arch and Name: Total amount enclosed for program: explore the Greenwich Vil- Address: lage area, visiting White's Stanford White's New York birthplace. Judson Church, City: -State: ^ip: Wetlni^sday. September 8, 7:00 p.m. and buildings by White on Members* tickets at $6: Broadway, Number of Daytime telephone: Number of additional tickets at $10; Tours will take place on Total amount enclosed for program: Sunday. September 12. at Membership category:. U OOam, and 1:00 pm. NOTE: Orders received less than ten days before Tickets are $15 each and Please make check payable to the American Museum of show dates will be held for pick-up at the door on available only to Participating self-addressed, stamped if ticketn are still available. If and Natural Histoiv and mail with a the day of the program Higher Members ages 16 or envelope to: Beaux-Arts Buildings. Membtrship Office. an event is sold out, you will be advised in writing and up. Use the coupon at Amencan Museum of Natural History. Central Park West at by phone and your check will be returned. Babes in right to register, and please 79th Street. New York. NY 10024 5192 arms or strollers ivill not be admitted to programs. note that tickets are available only bv mail. Morocco and the Biosphere 2: Human Experiment Casbah Dance The Experience Wednesday, September 1 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 18 Theater Kaufmann 8:00 p.m. Members. $12 for non-Members $8 for Kaufmann Theater $7 for Members, $10 for non-Members

The oldest continuing clas- The Casbah Dance Experi- is under the direction sical folk dance on earth, ence ol its founder. Morocco, who is Raks Sharki. is among the performer entrancing numbers to be a leading and au- perfonned at a Members' thority in her field. Her per career includes evening of Middle Eastern fonning and North African dance. appearances around the Morocco and the Casbah world, and she has spent Dance Experience will pre- more than 30 years trying to recover, preserve, sent a fascinating array of find, and the vanishing dance ethnic dance forms, ranging present from demonstrations of bal- forms of the Middle East and ance and dexterity — such as North Africa. Morocco's ex- research is reflected those of the Moroccan Tea tensive Tray Dance and Raks el As- by the troupe's repertoire, Expe saya. an Egyptian women's and the Casbah Dance cane dance — to the mystical rience is celebrated for the dance called Guedra. a trance authenticity of its dance of benediction and performances as well as its betrothal that originated with joyous entertainment. the so-called Blue People of Use the coupon on page 3 the Sahara, to register.

ever constructed by humans Biosphere 2. the largest self-sustaining ecosystem

They've since its inception in 1984, There's a Garden of Eden 'microhabitats-' will recycled their wastes and the and his presentation in the middle of the Arizona natural resources cover the history of bio- desert — three acres that ecosystems' discovering spheric design, current and encompass a rain forest, a in the hope of manage the future research projects at miniature ocean with a coral better ways to implications resources of Biosphere 1 — Biosphere 2. and reel, a marsh, and 3.800 for the future. The program plant and animal species, all the earth itself . Allen, the vice presi- will be illustrated with slides enclosed vwithin a huge glass John Biospheric Develop- and augmented by a brief dome Biosphere 2 is the dent of views of for Space Biospheres video showing recent largest sell-sustaining ecosys- ment present the the ecosystems inside Bio- tem ever constructed by hu- Ventures, will sphere 2. mans. For the past two years Members' program Human Use the July/August Mem- eight scientists and engineers Biosphere 2. The has been bers programs coupon on have been sealed inside the Experiment Allen project page 3 to register. biosphere while they study its involved with the

Women's Equality Day Observance

Woman of Power

Thursday. August 26 7:00 p.m. Dinosaurs Kaufmann Theater Free for Members. $8 for non-Members of Jurassic Park i ^. .-

The reptilian stars of Steven Spielberg's block- currently on display which balances who is an editor, lecturer, and buster movie Jurassic Park are A day in the life of a project," appear in with the successful lobbyist for in Gallerv 3. Models of the dinosaurs that Cherokee Nation leader is the Cherokee culture crea- women's issues. She has won the film, along with actual fossils of these focus of the documentary modem world. /* spot- awards for her direction and tures, are featured in the exhibition. "''''^" Chief Wilma P MankiWer: The half-hour video and the ground- production of this documen- jointly presented by the American Museum Woman of Power. The first lights Mankiller s Researc tary as well as for music and Dinosaur Society and was created by woman among the nation's breaking work in governance news videos After the film. Casting International of Toronto. 21 democratically elected and community development expense Scott will discuss the making Please note that due to the extraordinary Mankiller heads a tribe in modem tribal life, "l would chiefs. this exhibttion. to remembered." of the documentary and an- of assembling and maintaining of 113.000 — the largest like most be Oen- someone swer questions from the audi- there will be an admission charge to Gallery 3. group of Cherokee in rural Mankiller says, "as chu- ence. eral admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for Oklahoma. She oversees the who helfjed our people enter Members on Use the July/August Mem- dren. and $3 for senior citizens; nation's government, educa- the twenty-first century The ui bers' programs coupon on admission is adults. $2 for children. and judicial our own terms." $4 for tional, medical, display througn will be hosted page 3 to register for the nosaurs of Jurassic Park u;i// be on systems and is responsible for The program Mary Scott, program. September 12. the first "self-government by filmmaker .

Members' Workshop Members* Trip to Block Island 11 Friday. September lO-Saturday, September Understanding Geology

Wednesdays. September 22 and 29 5:30-7:30 p.m. Members on a natural p.m. on Friday, with bus Savor one of the last pany $50. and open only to Participating of the island that transportation from the Mu weekends of summer with a history tour Higher Members some exciting mo- seum to Montauk, where and getaway to one of the Nature promises (Block Members will spend the 18 and up Conservancy's "last great ments of birdwatching Ages along the flyway of night- The next morning places." Atrip to the island lies migratory species). they'll cruise to the island. resourceful, independent many highlights include Participants will arrive back at farming and fishing commu- Other tour at around 9 00 the Maze — several miles of the Musevim nity of Block Island will take The trip is carefully cut paths that mean- p.m on Saturday. •I visitors back to a simpler open only to Participating The spectacularly beau- der through pine forests and time. Members ages 18 emerge on the cliffs at the and Higher tiful and secluded region has the island — and up The fees — which escaped the scourge of de- northeast end of North include transportation, hotel velopment (thanks to its resi- and the abandoned which stands as a quiet accommodations, buffet dents" foresight, sacrifice, Light, — island's north- breakfast, and island tour and hard work), and the sentinel at the by are $145 per person for sin remains the unspoiled ern end and is bordered island for that serve as a rookery gle occupancy and $195 it was a century dunes treasure the local seagull popula- double occupancy. Use ago. for the coupon below to request Naturalists from the tion . begins at 7r00 further information. Okeanos Institute will accom The trip

Members' Adult-Child Workshop USS Enterprise Retrofit Sunday, September 19 I 10:30 a.m.-noon or 1:30-3:00 p.m. andj Higheru- u Membersm ™k«« per couple, and open only to Participatmg geology. $26 Sidney Horenstein will fundamentals of Ages 7 and up show you how geologists Participants will work individ- of determine the relative ages of ually to create facsimiles folded mountains, which re- and rocks and how some of the instruction manuals generation (or vice versa) Trekkies. unite! June Myles plans or moon's prominent features sult from continental colli pass along valuable ancient rational will be provided; however, a They'll also make is calling all intergene were formed. This two-part sions. of amusement. All star- wealth of ordinary and un- forms minerals that illus- wannabe starship captains home workshop will bring geologi- models of materials will be avail- ships will be beamed honor of the Plan- usual lite and make trate the crystal systems. together in enter your position on cal principles to able for the enterprising To etarium's Star Trek» Retro- them easily understandable. This is a hands-on work- navigate in our captain's log. use the spectiue exhibition. Trekkie willing to shop, so come prepared to Note: indica- Horenstein. the Museum's the creativity sector. coupon below. The mission: to build a coordinator of environmental roll up your sleeves. Use the the presence of your Enterprise or This adult-child workshop tion of model of the public programs and a geolo- coupon below to register, and allow the adult adult-child team will be ac- another futuristic spacecraft. is intended to please note that tickets are mail. gist, will use commonplace Trekkie to infiltrate the next cepted only by No computerized engineering items to demonstrate some available only by mail

Members' Weekend in Lancaster County Membership Workshops and Weekends. Use this Clear coupon to register for Summer Workshops for Kids. dates). USS The Lost Dutchman Gemboree water Sail (indicate first and second choice of Enterprise Retrofit (indicate first and second choice of and Understanding Geology To receive further in Saturday, August 14-Sunday, August 15 times), formation about the trips to Block Island and the Lost Dutchman Gemboree. please check the appropriate box. spend the Participating and Higher A summer festival of min- Inn, where they'll Sunday. Members Members ages 13 and older. erals, fossils, gems, and jew- night, On Name(s) of program{s): for in the morn- Fees are $145 per person elry, the Lost Dutchman will pan for gold occupancy and $195 Gemboree draws thousands ing and return to the fair- single occu- at 5:30 per person for double of visitors to eastern Penn- ground, departing pancy. Use the coupon at sylvania. Among its attrac- p.m, limited to right for further information. tions are specimens for Registration is program beginning or advanced col- Number of tickets and price (please Indicate which

lectors, fine-cut gems, cus- if more than one): ^ tom-designed jewelry, jewelry repair and stone- setting booths, and many other items and services. Total amount enclosed:. trip to Block Island Members can visit the G Send me further informaUon about the Lost Dutchman gemboree and pan for gold o Send me further information about the in a lovely stream that flows Gemboree through the meadows and woods of Amish country. Name; Gold was discovered during the first gemboree. and visi- Address: tors have panned each year since. The gold flakes are City: .State: .^ip: small but fairly abundant, so chances of coming up with a Daytime telephone: showing of gold are good. Participants will travel by Membership category: bus from the Museum to the of fairgrounds in Lebanon, Please make check payable to the American Museum stamped Pennsylvania (the drive is Natural Histon^ and mail with a self-addressed , Membership approximately four hours). envelope to: Workshops and Weekends, Central Park They'll spend the afternoon Office Amencan Museum of Natural History. 10024-5192 at the fair and in the evening West at 79th Street. New York. NY they'll attend a workshop on gemstones at the Quality Scuba Diving and Seining

Sunday. August 22

The Gulf Stream's eddies divers, seines for waders), fish identification help from lead tropical fish into the the shallows of local beaches by aquarium staff, barbecue and social, and a special late summer, and these mi- member- Friends of Fishes, grant fish sun^ve only until ship in reservations, call the weather turns cold. Join For Friends of Fishes at (212) staff members from the New York Aquarium and the De- 289-3605 or fax (212) 360- partment of Ichthyology in 6625- Divers must also pre- obsen/ing and collecting these register at Pan Aqua at (212) Proof of certifica- exotic fish on a Sunday cook- 496-2267. is required, and the out at the beach. tion use diving equipment is The program is presented of by Friends of Fishes. Pan included in the fee. Aqua, and the New York Tickets can be ordered by your check Aquarium for Wildlife Preser- mail. Make vation, Tickets are $99 for payable to Friends of Fishes/ and mail with a self- divers. $60 for nondivers, AMNH. envelope and $30 for children under addressed stamped 12. Proceeds from the event to; Friends of Fishes. Depart- Ichthyology, Amen- will benefit the Department of ment of Ichthyology Admission in- can Museum of Natural cludes entrance to the aquar- History, Central Park West at ium and a tour, the use of 79th Street. New York. NY collecting equipment (nets for 10024-5192,

Bears: Imagination and Reality

Learn and Teach Origami

teers, helping the Museum In these special classes for p.m- on six Wednesdays: teach at the annual Origami volunteers, origami specialist September 8, 22, and 29. 20. Holiday Tree as well as the Michael Shall will instruct October 6. 13, and classes spring and summer origami beginners in the art of fold- Please note that the lesson tables. The teaching tables ing. Students start with sinnple are progressive: each from are staffed at all times during models like the swan, sail- builds upon teachings Museum hours in the holiday boat, and jumping frog and the previous class. with season, including weekends progress to more complicated The classes are free, provided. In ex- and evenings models like the flapping bird all materials To register for the origami and omega star. change, students are the classes for volunteers, please The sessions will be con- expected to repay 12 call (212) 769-5566. ducted from 6:30 to 8;30 class hours as origami volun-

Summer Fun at the Origami Table

volunteers The volunteers will be on Museum visitors of all ages Life, The origami demand, hand from Monday. August can take a break from the are back by popular how 2, through Sunday. August art. liter- summer heat by joining the and they'll show visitors The popular images of bears — in myth. 15. from 11:00 a.m. to to the origami volunteers in the air- to fold paper into sailboats, ature, and history — from prehistoric times 3 00 p m bears in conditioned Hall of Ocean whales, and jumping frogs present are contrasted with the reatity of and nature in the new exhibition Bears: Imagination an Reality. Winnie the Pooh, Smokey the Bear, and exhi- arrav of teddy bears are among the Gallery 77 among through the Solar System bition's fanciful representations of the bears A Planet-Walk bears us. Bears also depicts the less familiar black and grizzlies. The Earth as a Peppercorn Sundays. July 18 and August 15 1:00 p.m. A Call to Teach Free

schoolday mornings. Previous picture the The planet-walk is a 1.000- Robert Campanile will take Each year thousands of It's difficult to not participants on a journey of schoolchildren visit the Mu- teaching experience is dimensions of the solar sys- yard model of the solar sys- covers the seum, need you as a required; we will train you. planets arc relatively tem that was devised in 1969 discovery that We tem—the training universe. teaching volunteer to answer The next teaching small and distances between by astronomer and teacher this fall Ottewell, The walk be- For further infonmation their questions and add to program starts them almost absurdly great. Guy Volun the tours, call the Vol- their sense of wonder about Call the Museum's is gins on the Planetarium's about For a model whose scale 769- unteer Office at (212) 769- the world Teaching volunteer Office at (212) true to size and distance, it s front steps at 81sl Street, 5566. teers work with classes on 5566 for an application necessary to step outside. where volunteer tour leader U

Celestial Museum Fender-Bender Notes

The Peekskill Meteorite Hours Exhibition Halls Mon -Thurs. & Sun 10:00 a,m,-5:45 p.m. a.m.-8:45 p.m Fri. & Sat 10:00 The Museum Shop p.m. Mon.-Thurs. & Sun 10:00 a.m.-5:45 10:00 a.m,-7:45 p.m Fri, & Sat The Junior Shop 10:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. \ New York, Mon.-Fri October 9 of last year a Peekskill. a.m.-5:45 p.m. On Sat &Sun 10:00 after hearing a loud crash. resident ventured outside embedded m her The Museum Library A football-sized meteorite lay 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. trunk ot Tues.-Fri having drilled its way through the driveway, Diner Saunjs Fast Service Eatery Chevy Malibu. p.m. her 1981 Daily 11:00 a.m.-4:45 was visible around most oi tne The meteorite Garden Cafe since it occurred on a eastern United States, and 769-5865 Choice. Treasures from 124 season, Reservations: (212) Librarians during the high school football in the Friday night Lunch: Mon,-Fri H-ÔMP'-^-Ô pm Years of Cottecting is on display professional video photogra- several amateur and Sat library Gallery scien- Dinner Fri. & recorded the event. This footage offers X-.^^^^';^''"'-p.m. nhers Brunch: Sat, & Sun U:00 a.m,-4:00 opportunity to calculate the meteonte s tists a rare Parking „- a known asteroid. W^P^'^^^^ p.m. on filst orbit perhaps to 3.00-8:00 The Museum's parking lot is located and the meteorite will be on display Noon-8:00 p.m. and Columbus The car Street between Central Park West foyer, starting ^^ Museum in the 77th Street Noon-5:00 p.m. auaifabic on a first- at the Sun, & most holidays Avenue. Space is limited and the first floor of are for cars and July 30. Snack Carts (at 77th Street & on come, first-served basis: fees $12 a^rri, to Hall) is open from 9:30 the Roosevelt Memorial $1 1 for buses. The lot Thursday and from Sat & Sun ll:00a.m.-4:00p.m. 9:30 p.m. on Sunday rfirough Saturday Discovery Room 30 a m to midnight on Friday and The ,, . / 9 , informa- block away from Passes are distributed at (he first-floor Hertz Manhattan, located one 11.45 a.m. Ages 5-10. West 77th Street (between Happenings tion desk beginning at the Museum at 210 an adult. offers parking Children must be accompanied by Broadway and Amsterdam), Monday through Hayden Closed on hoUdaii& and weekdays. discounts to Members: on at the Noon-4:30 p.m. discount off regular Sat. & Sun Fridav they receive a $2 Sunday Members The Natural Science Center prices and on Saturday and all ages and their families. discount, For chjidren of receJuea S3 ne.Q cf.f\f. (212) 769-5606 Closed on Mondays and ho/idays, Call the Member.shlp 0//ice at 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. alternatiue parking. Sky Show Tups'"^^ -Fri for in/ormation about and 2:00-4:30 p-m -A Star TrcKg, Orion Rendezvous.. 1:00-4:30 p.m Tours Sat. & Sun Museum ,, Discovery auoilableui to, Voyage of {rce Museum Highlights Tours are conducted Individuals and /omtllcs. Tours are new Sky Show. 10:15 and 11:15 a.m.. 1:15. 215. and See page 1 for details of the Entrances dally at enter tt\e available During Museum hours visitors can 3:15 p.m. Free Spotlight Tours are also Street entrance^ the building through the 77th to individuals and families. Children's Shows Street), or the Roo- All Group parking lot entrance (81st Group Tours are available for a fee. for (79th Street and through the Volunteer Wonderful Sky is a special Sky Show seuelt Memorial Hall entrance Tours must be scheduled images of attending pro- 769-5566. preschoolers. Children sing along with Central Park We^t). Visitors Office. For details, call (212) as they learn enter the butld$ng their favorite Sesame Street Muppets grams after hours can sunsets, entrance at 79th about rainbows, the phases of the moon, through the drivewav Outreach Program Admission Park West. Volunteer Staff is ouailable to and stars. Sat,. July 10. at 10:30 am. Street and Central A member of the is for organization a free slide stiow for Participating and Higher Members $4 present to your show. collections. Call the adults and $2 for children for the July 10 that highlights the Museums Wonderful Sfcy (212) 769-5566 for details. Starting in August, admission to Naturemax Volunteer Office at and Higher Mem- Antarctica, a will be $6 for adult Participating The Naturemax Theater presents Showlimes are bers and $3-50 for their children, the highest, driest, cold- A Fifth-Grade Special thrilling exploration of committee 10:30 and 11:45 am. continent on earthy Friends of Fishes has formed a new Sat Aug, 7. at est and most mysterious reservations by about the Hudson River and Shows usually sell out in advance: take a spectacular helicopter nde to educate children Viewers will student Make your check payable with the first The committee consists of mail only, are necessary. over towermg glacial peaks and dive its fauna Wonderful Sky. the want to share their enthusiasm for to the Hayden Planetarium (Attn: explore the crvstolline caverns o teachers who humans to expert Street. New York. NY natural his- giving fifth-graders hands on Central Park West at 81st glacier. Antarctica depicts the science by Chaos fish membership category and a first beauty of the The program will explore the variety of 10024) indicate tory, delicate ecology, and awesome ence showtimes. and include a self- Hudson River through informal discussion, and second choice of earth's last great wilderness. in the . , , on your daytime 1 JU petting tank. addressed, stamped envelope and Shoiudmes /or Antarctica are lO.SOand 1 displays, and a call take place two batur phone number. For additional information, am J:30and3:30p.m.doi/y. Tropical Rain The 90minute sessions 400-millionvear evolu- each month. The program is open to all (212)769-5900. . the days . „^„ Forest, which portrays and to per session. For features Lucasfilm s R2DZ is shoiun at fiflh-qraders and is limited 16 Robots in Space tion of these vanishing resources, especially for chil- call Heidi Michelsen. director C-3PO™o and has been created 2:30. and 4:30 p.m. further information 12:30. at with a live host, these p.m Elementary Education Committee, UU) dren ages 7 to 12. Together On Friday and Saturday at 6 00 and 730 of the the 427-6659. take children on a tour ot bill with Tropical or fax (212) famous space robots Antarctica is shouin on a double 289 3605 real satellites and probes — the a dinner/theater universe. See how Ram Forest, The Museum offers — help us learn about worlds near and admission, double feature, Phone Numbers space robots package that includes 769-51UU earth to other planets and reservations infomi.ition (212) far. Journey from the dinner in the Garden Cafe. For Museum and £T"estions oû' Sat.. 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Shows 8:30. and 10:00 Birthday Parties °'"""^^?;:^ outside NV'staiiisog on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00. young Members 5-10 years telephone Theme parties for p.m For prices and show schedule, prrr on old are two hours long and held at 3:30 (212)769-5100. S:;^:^nt/Pubhc Affair;::::| 7|-5^^^ through Fndav The group should be no jl 769-5566 Tuesday Office 2 2 no more than 20. The fee is Volunteer before visit- fewer than 10 and 769-5150 Its always a good idea to call all Museum Shop 2 $275 plus $15 per child (The cost includes ^ 769 b4UU since prices, programs, Services • 2 2 ing the Planetarium, cream, and favor bags. The Ubrary change without materials, juice, ice magazine 2 2 769 5500 and showUmcs are subject to 769 5606 for Natural History cake is not included.) Call (212) (212)769-5500 notice. For general Planetarium information. Members- Book Program further information. caU (212) 769-5920 or (212) 769-5100. 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I, Vol 18, No, 8 September 1993 of the American Museum of Natural Historv For Participating and Higher Members

Strange New Worlds: Star Trek and the Sixties

Thursday, September 23 7:00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater $6 for Members, $9 for non-Members the future in United Federation of Planets and organized a major Star Trek ret- an optimistic vision of the Even people who have never seen has empires. The conflicts could be Romulan and Klingon rospective exhibition that is now on which these an of Star Trek are familiar in episode their mission to episode "A Private Little War" — display at the Hayden Planetarium resolved. In fulfilling with the expression "Beam me up. Captain Kirk attempts to estab- life and new civiliza- which (sec page 15 for details). At the Mem- seek out new Scotty." and recognize Mr, Spock"s a balance of power between a program Strange New Worlds. tions, the Enterprise crewmembers lish pointy-eared head. Ever since its pre- bers' aggressor — challenged to over- defenseless state and an Star Trek and the Sixties, shell dis- were constantly miere in 1966, devotees around the first Vietnam parable. prejudices as they inter- was television's ways in which the series re- come their world have followed the series, which cuss the television his- aliens, making racial Star Trek again made flected contemporary issues such as acted with projected the wonders of intergalacttc show's ongoing tory with the mediums first interracial sexuality, and the search tolerance one of the travel in the twenty-third century with civil rights, and Uhura. themes. kiss, between Kirk themes, and con- for Utopia. values, concerns, premise was based on a To register for Strange New While the nation was wracked by The show's flicts that emerged directly out of Trek and the Sixties. Cold War scenario: Star Trek charac- Worlds: Star America the Vietnam War. economic crises, I 1960s uneasy state of use the September Members' pro- upheaval, and urban and cam- ters operated in an Mary Henderson, curator of art at cultural grams coupon on page 3- Star Trek presented suspended hostilities among the the National Air and Space Museum. pus rebellions. Members' Evening with James Donaldson Stanford White's New York Wednesday, September 8 Ghosts of 7:00 p.m. Horn Kaufmann Theater Cape $6 for Members, $10 for non-Members and

houses on Long Is- Architect and designer ences, developments, and country master- land and on the Hudson Whales Weep Not Stanford White was bom in impact of While's River. New York in 1853. He was pieces After the program, Lowe 14 murdered here in 1 906 at the Among White's other fa- Tuesday. September will sign copies of his book original Madison Square Gar- mous works are the Washing- 7:00 p.m. Stanford White's New York den, a building of liis own ton Memorial Arch in Kaufmann Theater which will be design. White's creations Washington Square. Judson (Doubleday). Free for Members. available for purchase. Use embody the peak of Beaux- Church, the Century and $8 for non-Members on page 3 to Arts elegance in the New Metropolitan clubs, the the coupon register for the program. York of the late nineteenth Tiffany and Gorham build- will also lead a walk- century, and in Stanford ings, and glorious mansions Lowe at Whites White's New York architec- for the Pulitzers. Whitneys, ing tour that looks architectural wonders (see the tural historian David Garrard and Vanderbilts White was related article below). Lowe will examine the influ- also a major designer of

Two films that take viewers tion, the film incorporates Members' Walking Tour over the sea and under it are archival stills and recent ac- featured this month at the tion footage that dramatizes Beaux-Arts Buildings of New York Museum: Ghosts of Cope the struggles of these tall Horn, an exciting tale of the ships. Together, these ele- SOLD OUT from American sailing ships thai ments provide a somber, previous issue of rounded the treacherous mysterious look at this part of Rotunda hom. and Whales Weep Not, maritime history. a documentary that reveals Whales Weep Not concen- the underwater world of the trates on a research project planet's largest toothed sponsored by the World predator, the sperm whale. Wildlife Fund in Sri Lanka's of the sur- 'A Discover some James Donaldson, producer Indian Ocean Whale Sanctu- viving vestiges of New York 1 _l and director of the films, will ary. The film follows a dedi- City's Beaux-Arts beauties on introduce them and answer cated team of researchers as a walking lour that will spot- 3 questions afterward. they document the social light Ihe work of architect The power and struggle of behavior and population dy- Stanford White, Historian D sailing ships at sea are cap- namics of the sperm whale, David Gairard Lowe, who will tured in Ghosts of Cape immortalized in Melville's present the Members' pro- Memoriat Church in 1905 Horn, an in-depth view of the Mobif-Dick as a symbol of gram Stanford White's New Judson American square-riggers that mans attempt to conquer York (see the related feature battled their way around the nature. 1} lage area, visiting White's Tours will take place on above), \fA\\ lead the tour. The 52-minuIe feature Author Richard Ellis called 12. at hom will meet at Ihe birthplace. Judson Church, Sunday. September Participants focuses on actual ships and Whales Weep Not "a film of Washington Square Arch and and buildings by White on 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. crews that made the unqualified excellence. The Greenwich Vil- Broadway. Both tours are sold out. explore the hazardous 18,000-mile voy- world will know more about 1 age from the docks of New sperm whales when the film York to San Francisco by way is shown than all the novelists of Cape Hom, an area con- and whalers — yes, and even sidered the worst comer of the writers and painters of River Cruise ' Hudson could ever tell. the ocean world. whalers — Ghosts is highlighted by The film is 25 minutes long Saturday. October 2 actual footage taken by Alan Don't miss this special Noon-4:00 p.m. Villiers and Captain Irving Members' evening. Use the $50 for Members, $60 for non-Members Johnson aboard square-rig- coupon on page 3 to gers in the 1920s. In addi- register.

Don't miss the fall colors! seum's coordinator of envi- the relationship of Black Rock Spend an idyllic afternoon ronmental public programs. Forest to the rest of the Hud- aboard a catamaran on a Hud- will point out the highlights of son Highlands. son River Cruise and enjoy the landscape and aspects of Participants will cruise up spectacular views of the Hud- geological interest. Hell pro- to West Point and back. ISSN 0194-6110 son Highlands' fall foliage. A vide the ongoing commentary Members should bring a bag pair of experts will be on hand with William Schuster, the lunch. Use the coupon on Vol. 18, No. 8 to discuss fascinating aspects of director of the Black Rock pjage 5 to register, and please September 1993 the scenery. Forest Consortium, who'll note that tickets are available Sidney Horcnstein. the Mu- talk about local plant life and only by mail. Donna Bell — Editor Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Services Angela Soccodato — Designer Rita Campon — Copy Editor Members* Trip to Block Island Peter Zelaya — Fulfillment Coordinator Risa Miller — Program Coordinator September 10-Saturday. September 11 Friday, Rotunda, a publication for Participating and Higher Members of the American Museum of Natural History, is published monthly September through June, bimonthly July and Saturday. magazine, Savor one of the last week- promises some exciting mo- 9:00 p.m. on The August. Publication offices are at Natural History/ at 79tn ends of summer with a get- ments of birdwatching (Block trip is open only to Participat- American Museum of Natural History, Cenh-al Park West 769 away to one of the Nature Island lies along the flyway of ing and Higher Members ages Street. New York. NY 10024-5192, Telephone: (212) Membership Conservancy's "last great many migratory species) 18 and up The fees — which 5606. Subscriptions. $50 a year for Participating places" — the resourceful, The trip begins at 7 00 include transpxirtation, hotel $100 a year for Contributor Membership, © 1993 American independent farming and p.m. on Friday, with bus trans- accommodations, buffet break Museum of Natural History Second-class postage paid at New fishing community of Block portation from the Museum to fast, and island tour — are York, NY Postmaster: Please send address changes to: single Natural Island. Montauk. where Members will $195 per person for Rotunda. Membership Office, American Museum of Naturalists from the spend the night. The next occupancy and $145 for dou- History. Central Park West at 79th Street. New York. NY Okcanos Institute will accom- moming they'll cruise to the ble occupancy. Use the 10024-5192, pany Members on a natural island- Participants will arrive coupon on page 5 to request information. history tour of the island thai back at the Museum at around further Printed by Waldon Press. Inc. New York

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From Parlor to Politics September Members* Thursday, September 30 Programs Coupon 7:00 p.m., Kaufmann Theater $6 for Members, $9 for non-Members

entry of Name: Millions of American show how the women from different back- women into politics placed center Address: grounds entered reform family concerns at the and movements and politics dur- of the reform agenda ^ip:. shaped legislation and social City: .State: ing the tumultuous period twentieth cen- between 1890 and 1925 policies of the organized to Daytime telephone: '. known as the Progressive tury. Women promote temperance and Era. Excluded from formal reform, abolish child Membership category:. political power (most women labor labor and develop kinder- could not vote or hold public Edith, 5 years old. and Total amount enclosed: ^ before 1920). they gartens and playgrounds, office worked alt day in a payable to the American improve public health. The Please make check (if applicable) formed national organizations cottonfield in work Texas Museum of Natural History and mail with a self- address the country's grow- profession of social to 1913 envelope to September Members' unreg- began with community cen- addressed, stamped ing social problems — of Hull Programs. Membership Office. American Museum industrial expansion. ters like Jane Addams ulated 79th Street, New Chicago, where A curator in the museum's Natural History. Central Park West at rapid urban growth, rising House in not I poor division of Political History, York. NY 10024 5192 Telephone reservations are immigration, and increasing immigrants and the seaaces. she coordinated From Parlor accepted. No refunds or cNchanges. barriers between races and found social Mayo has been a staff to Politics, a permanent between classes. ofheruiise (ndtca(ed. no more than eight Smithsonian's exhibition at the museum. Unless Historian Edith Mayo will member of the program. Participat- Use the coupon at right to tickets may be ordered for a emergence of National Museum of Ameri- discuss the ing Members are entitled to four tickets per 1 She'll can History for over 20 years. register. women into public life. program at the Members' price. Higher Members are entitled to six tickets, and Associate Members are entitled to one ticket.

Behind-the-Scencs Tours of the Stanford Whites New York Wt^dnesdciy. Septemhcr 8. 700 p.m. ( Herpetology Number of Members' tickets at $6: Department of Number of additional tickets at $10: and Ichthyology Total amount enclosed for program: I Ghosrs of Cape Horn and Whales Weep Not 4 14, 7:00 p. in, Saturday, October 30. and Thursday, November Tuesday, September Higher Members Number of free Members' tickets $12, and open only to Participating and 13 and up (no more than 2. please): Ages Number of additional Members' tickets at $5: Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: Cold-blooded creatures Total amount enclosed for program: with backbones are the focus Members" upcoming Sixties uf the Strange New Worlds: Star Trek and the I behind ttie-scencs tours at the Thursday, September 23. 7:00pm. Museum. The tours will visit Number of Members' tickets at $6: one of the world's preemi- Number of additional tickets at $9: nent research centers for a Total amount enclosed for program: look at the fishes, amphibians, and reptiles in the De- From Parlor to Politics partment of Herpetology and Thur->day, Sfptember 30, 7:00 p.m. ichthyology. Number of Members' tickets at $6: Members will visit the de- Number of additional tickets at $9: collection areas partment's Total amount enclosed for program: and labs, which are never open to the general public, to DNA Analysis. Thursday. October 14. 7:00 p.m. sec and hear about ongoing Number of free Members' tickets research in systcmatics and (no more than 2, please): evolution — information that Number of additional Members' tickets at $5: is used for conservation ef- Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: Total amount enclosed for program: forts around the world. The department develops and Members' private viewing of Antarctica Behind-thc-Sccncs Tours of the Department of Her- maintains a collection of Wednesday, October 20. 7:30 p.m. petology and Ichthyology. $12. and open only to Partici- whole preserved specimens, Number of Members' tickets at $5: 15-minute program; pating and Higher Members. Tours will leave at bones prepared as skeletons, Total amount enclosed for confirma- intervals and last about an hour. We will send you and tissues frozen for bio- start. War of the Worlds tion by mail indicating the exact time your tour will chemical study or prepared Saturday. October 23. 4:00 p.m. Please indicate a first, second, and third choice. for light and electron-micro- Members' tickets at $6: scope study Number of Number of additional tickets at $9: Saturday. October 30. between 10:30 a.m. and noon Scientists from the depart Total amount enclosed for program: Saturday. October 30. between 1:15 and 2:30 p.m. ment will be on hand to de- 4, between 5 00 and 5:45 p m. scribe how specimens are Thursday. November Forbidden Journey. Sunday. October 24. 3:00 p.m. November 4, between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. gathered in the field and pre Thursday. Number of Members' tickets at $6: pared for the collections. Number of additional tickets at $9: tickets at $12 each: They'll talk about their use of Number of Total amount enclosed for program: Total amount enclosed for program; — dermestid beetles in cleaning skeletons and the value of Ghost Stories. Friday. October 29, Name; preserving specimens in alco- Family program, 600 p m the meth- hol. They'll explain Number

Journey Members* Forbidden Rug-Hooking Workshops The Life of Alexandra David-Neel Two Fridays, October 15 and 22 6:30-8:00 p.nri. ^ ... . Membersw u« Sunday, October 24 and open only to ParticipaHng and Higher $40, 3:00 p.m. Ages 16 and up Kauhnann Theater $6 for Members, $9 for non-Members

(except the scis- wouen woolens into strips, the materials This is the Year of the hooked through a sors) to complete it. In the American Crafl. and here is which they according to first session you'll Icam the your chance lo get hooked on burlap backing drawn with charcoal. hooking basics, and the fol- a new hobby. June Myles will patterns designs usually lowing week you'll learn a introduce you lo an ideal The primitive surroundings variety of techniques to finish winter pastime that will pro- reflected their — barnyard animals, the the piece. (Ideally, you'll find vide hours of quiet amuse- some time to hook in ment and help you weed out homestead, and family pels. handmade between.) Then you'll be your closets. Some of these ready to create one-of-a-kind Most nineteenth-centurv coverings for drafty floors family heirlooms, and pieces on your own, from settlers in the New World became rugs. collectors' items of pillows to room-sized couldn't afford to import car- others are Use the coupon on page 5 pets from their homelands, so the 1990s. two-part workshop to register, and please note they turned to the materials at At this very small that tickets are available only hand — old fcedsacks and you'll start with a provide all by mail worn-out cloths. They cut project, and we'll David-Neel in a shrine room

The and Mystery in Tibet^ pub- Members' Day Trip to Forbidden Journei/: Life of Alexandra David- lished in the 1930s, are still Neel will profile the adven- in print. tures and accomplishments of Barbara Foster, an assistant Mountain at Hunter College, Hawk zun extraordinary woman, A professor compulsive traveler, an ex- and her husband. Michael fascinat- Saturday. October 16 plorer, an opera singer, a Foster, will present a ing account of David-Neels 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. ^ „.. w feminist, and an internation- Membersu « 101 years of adventure, $60, and open only to Participatmg and Higher ally acclaimed writer. David- known honor, intrigue, and fame Ages 1 3 and up Neel is perhaps best the authors for her 1924 expedition into The Fosters are Journev the closed holy city of Lhasa, of Forbidden Francisco. Tibet- She was the first for- (Harper/San biography of David- eign woman ever to enter the 1989), a presentation mystical capital. Ncel. and their 125th David-Neel entered the urill coincide with the the birth of the forbidden city disguised as a anniversary of Durrell beggar, one of her many woman L-awrence transformations from a mid- termed "the most astonishing Members can enjoy an ' She wrote Frenchwoman of her time autumn day of birdwatching dle-class Parisian. Eastern themes Use the September Mem at Pennsylvania's Hawk 25 books on into bers' programs coupon on Mountain, a spur of the Kil- that have been translated and her page 3 to register for the tatinny Ridge in the eastern many languages, Mi; program. Appalachians, After leaving Joiirne\i to Lhasa and Magic their breeding grounds in Canada and the northern states, thousands of migrating hawks and other birds of prey Members' Workshop pass through Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, where they're admired by flocks of bird- Understanding watchers- Naturalist Stephen C. Geology Quinn, a Museum authority on birds and birdwatching, Wednesdays. September 22 and 29 will accompany Members (see 5:30-7:30 p.m. page 13 for details of Quinn's weekly field classes in Central $50, and open only to Park). He'll join Members on Participating and Higher Members a hike around the mountain Ages 18 and up to look for raptors, and while lunching on the mountains north lookout, they'll watch for migrating birds of prey. Sidney Horenstein will fundamentals of geology. Transportation is by bus; show you how geologists Participants will work individ- is about three hours the drive of determine the relative ages of ually to create facsimiles sure to wear each way. Be re- rocks and how some of the folded mountains, which proper clothing for the out- moon's prominent features sult from continental colli- doors, including hiking boots were formed. This two-part sions. They'll also make or sneakers, and don't forget illus workshop will bring geologi- models of minerals that to bring binoculars and a bag systems. are no refresh- cal principles to life and make tratc crystal lunch (there work- them easily understandable. This is a hands-on for sale at the sanctu- ments to Horenstein, the Museum's shop, so come prepared ary). Use the on page 5 coordinator of environmental roll up your sleeves. Use the coupon register, public programs and a geolo- coupon on page 5 to to register, and please note tickets gist, will use and please note that tickets are available only commonplace that mail items to demonstrate some are available only by by mail. Members' Aduh-ChUd Workshop Ghost Stories

Friday. October 29 Enterprise Theater V Kaufmann ^ , ^, , USS ^^ p.m._ ft Family program (ages 5-12): 6:00 Retrofit $5 for Members. $8 for non-Members Adults' program: 8:00 p.m. non-Members Sunday, September 19 $8 for Members. $12 for 10-30 a.m.-noon or 1:30-3:UU p.m. per couple, and open only to $26 American story- and Higher Members performers and students of and Native Participating Legends, myths, and true- and Simms has tellers as well as classical and up are the fabric world folklore. Ages 7 lilc adventures modern Western theater Laura been hailed as a major force from which storyteller careful adap- of story- artists. Through tales of in the renaissance Simms weaves her interpretation. the United Stales. tation and She s been telling in enchantment. Simms conveys the timeless Museums most She has developed a vast among the beauty and meaning of these repertoire of traditional tales popular performers since contemporary audi Asia. Europe, stories to her Halloween from Africa. 1968. and ences. and the Americas, many of shows are a longstanding coupon on page 3 she heard from Ttbetan Use the tradition. which Museum register for the programs Buddhist lamas. Maori elders. to One of Americas foremost A

Biosphere 2: The Human Experiment Wednesday. September 1 7.00 p.m. Kaufmann Theater S8 for Members. $12 for non-Members

able for the enterprising Trekkics. unite! June Myles TreUkie willing to navigate in intergenerational Garden of Eden IS calling ail There's a the creativity sector. starship captains in the middle of the Arizona wannabe adult-child workshop Plan- This that together in honor of the desert — three acres intended to allow the adult Star Trek retro- is encompass a rain forest, a etarium's infiltrate the next Trekkie to coral spective exhibition (see page miniature ocean with a generation (or vice versa). Of reef, a marsh, and 3.800 course, all starships will be The mission: to build a plant and animal species, all beamed home the Enterprise or enclosed within a hufl&fllas* model of To enter your position on another futuristic spacGcratt. dome Biosphere 2 is the our captain's log. use the No computerized engineering largest self-sustaining ecosys- coupon below Note: indica- plans or instruction manuals ever constructed by hu- of your tem a tion of the presence will be provided; however, mans. For the past two years adult-child team will be ac- wealth of ordinary and un- eight scientists and engineers cepted only by mail. usual materials will be avail- have been sealed inside the while they study its biosphere Biosphere 2. and implicaUons Ventures, will present the microhabitats." They've program program for the future. The wastes and the Members' recycled their be illustrated with slides Biosphere 2. The Human will ecosystems' natural resources a brief Allen has been and augmented by discovenng Experiment. in the hope of video showing recent views of coupon to involved with the project and Tours. Use this to manage the Membership Workshops better ways the ecosystems inside Bio- Geo/og^^^ its inception in 1984, Cruise Understanding Biosphere 1 — since reg.ster for Hudson resources of sphere 2. £n and his presentation will Hookmg. and itself. Hawk Mountain. Rug ^1?/';/ the earth Call the Membership Office ^fftirnes To re the history of bio- of . cover first and second choice Allen, the vice presi- ticket Retro/it (indicate John at (212) 769-5606 for to Block Island, spheric design, cunrent and information about the trip dent of Biospheric Develop- ceive further projects at availability box. Biospheres future research please check the appropriate ment for Space

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^ if more than one): On Saturdav. October 23. at 4:00 p.m.. there will be a special showing of War of the Worlds. Total amount enclosed: .... a\^h icUnH the tnp to Block Island based on H. a Send me further information about a 1 953 film G. Wetts' classic science- Name; fiction fantasy. The screening will be by Brian Sullivan, Address: hosted the Planetarium's de- Zip: signer of special effects, City: ___State: who will introduce the answer ques- Daytime telephone: film and tions afterward. The 85- will be Membership category: minute film shown in the Under The- ^rn^""" are $6 for Please make check payable to the ater. Tickets ""J^^'^^'^J and $9 for non- Natural History and mail with a Members *«»'-***fJ******* ^^^/JP*.OffK:e ^-ours. Memtjen^hip Members: u-ie the envelope to: Workshops and Central Park West at Members' American Museum of Natural History. September coupon on 79th Street. New York. NY 10024-5192. programs page 3 to register. Insect in Amber The Teachings of a Tiny Mummy

"We showed that there are many traits belonging largely what people think America "Its behavior is that are not basal among October 14. assistant curator Carpenter to Mastotermes On Thursday. transitional to termites." says instance, there Members pro make it termites." says Carpenter. "For is Ward Wheeler will present the wood. You can go out "Its colonial and it lives in the worker members of a which he'll discuss his cooperative foraging by qram DNA Analysis, at Pennsylvania, in dead logs. (ind it, say, in sorts of collaboration and com- Svstematics and colony. It entails all the Museum's Molecular feel uncomfortable work in Both Carpenter and Grimaldi members, information on will take place at 7:UU munication among colony Laboratory. The program superficial features to compare with the use of such to get back — this is Theater. Tickets are free where you're going and how p.m. in the Kaufmann within a group. For exam- qroups or classify insects In some morphological Higher Members and ^H for not at ail a primitive trait. for Participating and might be a colonial, living while Cryptocercus but it doesn I September Members pro- ple features they appear to be primitive, non Members. Use the living termites - are tar mastotermitids — as all ancestral in any other traits, to register. follow that they are grams coupon on page 3 their social organization than any more advanced in got some morphological features that are darwiniensis s fea- They've cockroach. And not all of M. other temiites." less primitive than those of its fellow temiites, tures are truly -primitive' among

scientists clone di- In the story of Jurassic Park gut of a prehistoric nosaurs from DNA found in the Its an unlikely blood-sucking fly encased in amber. has been repli- scenario; however, prehistoric DNA derives "ot 'rom cated right here in the Museum, ll between ^0 and a dinosaur, but from a tiny mummy tenmite Mastoter- 30 million years old — the extinct electrodominicus. mes .L, n , Jurassic Park, the Like the donor mosquito of It was stud- Museums termite was found in amber. team efforts ol Kob ied through the interdisciplinary Wheeler, and David DeSalie. John Gatesy. Ward of Mu- Grimaldi, who built on the previous work colleague seum scientists Jim Carpenter and his the phylo- Barbara Thome, All share an interest in the other genetic relationships among termites and cockroaches. insect Groups, particu\arly once had The Mastotermes genus of lennites many widespread representatives, today, the only dwells 'n northern living species. M, daru.iniensis. well for itself. Accord- Australia. There it does quite of Australia where ing to Wheeler, "In the parts have to be made ol they live, the telephone poles cement. They will eat anything else. What makes a temiite a termite? Grimaldi ex- a term denoting plains that all termites are eusocial. "There are work- division of both labor and castes, a queen. They con- ers reproductives. soldiers, and reduced wing stmct nests. They usually have highly their wings. veins They digest cellulose. They shed morphologically, having They're veiv highly reduced fact, that's one thing that s lost many characters. In place who their closest relatives made it difficult to cockroaches^ Are are among the insects. Are they they praying mantises?" was thought to Until fairly recently. Mastotermes and cockroaches be a missing link between temiites On the other — a sort of "specialized cockroach." members of the side of the evolutionary fence, as cockroach group Cryplocercus were thought of " was chal- primitive temiites. That relationship and Thome lenged by entomologists Carpenter even before DNA analysis that ter- "There was this notion for some time just social cockroaches," says Carpen mites were _ was supposed ler "Within termites. Mastotermes superficial ways it to be the most primitive. In some example, a cock- looks kind of like a cockroach For pronotum that roach has an expanded plate called a Mosiofermes' pronotum covers its head. Well. expanded than doesn't cover its head, but its more any other termite's." and Grimaldi points out other morphological are laid behavioral similarities. -Mastotermes- eggs ootheca. or glued together, looking sort of like an have, he an egg pod. of the type that cockroaches of cockroaches says. "Also, there arc certain types cellulose much that are primitively social and digest " and Crvptocer- as termites do, Both Mastotermes cus have gut endosymbionts (in this case, a variety cellulose. of protozoa) that help them digest Carpenter points out that there are thousands of cockroach species. Some are quite beautiful, and outdoor dwellers that never venture into a Republic. many are Australia, this male wood gnat was found in the Dominican bathroom. The genus Crypiocercus con- A native of kitchen or about 25 million years old. as is (he specimen on page 7. in North It is tains at least two species that are found I

This anole lizard's visible bones make it an extraordinary specimen. It's thought that the trapped lizard had already started to decompose when it was enveloped by a second coating of resin.

The PCR machine replicate^ DNA mechanically. "Most ambers almost float in seawatcr. In fact, if about relationships "basically an elaborate heat Grimaldi too. wondered the Wheeler describes it as go to the Dominican Republic, you find questions I had you presence of a termite species. -One of the ing and cooling block system, In the among mines high and dry several thousand feet up classified in the Mas- amber under high tempera was whether all of the species marine sediments special enzyme that is stable in the mountains, but they're in related. 1 suspec- melted into its strands lotermes genus are really closely turcs. the DNA is alternately Grimaldi envisions high tides from a hurricane classically the genus synthesized That is done over ted they might not be. because sediment. Amber and new strands are covering the deposits of resin with penny defined on the basis of primitive charac- over again. Its sort of like give a man a has been occurs. Plates slide against each and Mastotermes ever forms as uplift and eventually he's a mil- ters that evolved long before million years and double it every day. other, mountains are fomicd. and 25 large anal lobe on the mimicking replication in the cell evolved — things like the genetic strands. lionaire,' You're later an insect yields its ancient Thai's something that cockroaches. with a piece of equipment."" hind wing. remain intact to the point where it have, but most How can DNA comparison of se- praying mantises. and grasshoppers con- The conclusion drawn alter a studied after millions of years? "Amber classifying humans on can be other insect species: have lost it. Us like quences with those of many termites and isoprenes. which are substances before humans tains terpenes group. Cockroaches of hair — it evolved long Termites are indeed a unique the basis preserve anything that becomes mired in that help closely related to each other ever evolved." bactericidal and mantids are more r l j » the flowing sticky resin. Amber has Mastoter that since many ot the identi- they are to termites. Additionally. Grimaldi suspected materials, and It s the than properties. It also dehydrates Mastoter used to define the genus were electrodominlcus (the mummy) and fying characteristics actually preserves and embalms the mes used as a dehydration that of Australian so generalized. Mastorermes was being mes darwiniensis (the voracious eater DNA." than to ground , ^ are closer to each other taxonomic dumping the desiccating telephone poles) In fact, the Egyptians knew about Taxonomists have always used morphology and termites, and are most definitely termites. used it to help pre- other properties of amber, and they placed a behavior as primary tools of classification; today, According to Wheeler, these studies "have "They ground it up and impreg- role. In this serve mummies. termites are genetics plays an increasingly important nail in the coffin of the old theory that They also stuck it into the an insect nated the burial gauze. case, the Museum had in its vast collection specialized cockroaches," that parts of cadavers." can be repli- so well preserved in Dominican amber becomes Now that ancient strands of DNA •'Not everything that gets stuck in amber could be sequenced, copied, and studied. can an entire insect — or a dinosaur — be its DNA ' cated, mummified, Grimaldi points out. 'Very often you Grimaldi. the Museum's amber specialist, says uncovered? piece and the insect within is just a about amber. crack open a Jurassic Park dinosaur there are many misconceptions of Grimaldi notes that in no tissue inside. Perhaps 80 percent it's an husk, with of blood-sucking people think it's a gemstone. but is extracted from the gut a "Many that," DNA People often the specimens arc like thousands of speci- organic substance — fossilized resin. insect. "In the thousands and for our scientists, the extinct Mas- produced by a Fortunately that I've looked at." he it with pine trees, but its of insects in amber associate rodominicus was in good enough mens and totermes elect blood-sucking insect that variety of plants, including conifers studied, says. "I've never found a for its DNA to be extracted and from the Dominican condition have dozens of angiospenns. The material specimen required was replete with blood We "Getting DNA from an amber few from an extinct species of the mosquitoes and no-see-ums, we even have a Republic comes technology and a huge amount of a high degree of these groups suck genus Hymenoea. which was a large canopy ticks, sand flics, horseflies — all to Wheeler. He. along with Dc- ' work." according it The blood, and not one of them has blood in legume tree. , in the genetic phase ' Salle and Gatesy. was involved skinny, there are hundreds ot flat, the mosquitoes are Grimaldi explains that days to go ticks are all and the research, "Instead of taking two the world. They vary in of problem, says Grimaldi. is "you're not amber deposits throughout might for a recent Another from organism to sequence las it but 300 million years of age to "fairly only dealing with minuscule amounts of tissue, age from about There is not veiv ' it took us six months oldest specimcnl. least partly digested, recent — just thousands of years old The the blood should be at of very poor quality, and it s prone from much DNA. its of cloning an entire amber that we have with insects in it is Wheeler calls the chances We had to do many checks and 135 million to contaminaUon. small. The pieces of DNA we Lebanon. It's Lower Cretaceous, about individual 'vanishingly " controls couple of hundred base years old genetic isolated were tiny — just a Although the isolation and replication ot other Museum scienUsts ten to the ninth or more base pairs Sometimes Grimaldi and complicated, pairs, not the materials is quite technical and and deposits to augment the actually involved in the creation of an or- go to the amber mines general terms. "The basic that are Wheeler describes it in it often, however, the thing. The other thing is that s Museums collection, More insolubility in ganism. That s one way one isolates DNA is through its organized. The buys amber from a network of contacts in very important to have these pieces Museum specimen, cmsh it, and add a ethanol You take the t just they see some- is important. You can different areas of the world. 'When Then order of the genes very that will lyse fbrcak up] all the cells. " chemical what they contact me. says Grimaldi. them together in a long string and see thing interesting everything else that is also put you want to get nd of of how the chro- for these pieces. We re fortunate happens We have no knowledge You have to pay So we use a series of enzymatic — insoluble in ethanol. these creatures." in having a very generous patron for amber mosomes are structured in steps to lake out other things. The and we have a and purification " Wheeler adds, "is made of Museum Tmstee Robert Goclet — with some "A chromosome. is to add ethanol to the solution support. final step There is also a pro- beautiful collection here largely due to his more things than simple DNA. and the DNA comes out of solution." According to salts that we know nothing about Fur- How are these fossils formed^ the termite's tein scaffolding The scientists had only portions of organism from from a tree when it is injured, you cant just start off an Grimaldi. resin flows material, they chose a thermore get DNA to work with. Of this that have to be and organisms become trapped in it "You scratch — there arc maternal effects small to be diagnostic for deter- target sequence thought the zvQote first flowers, moss, fragments of ferns, myriad insects, present from the beginning, when relationships between and within groups. even get some tiny verte- mining Everything that directs this is mater- spiders, and mites — you both within living starts dividing. This sequence was then replicated brates such as lizards and frogs- nally provided, and we don't have it," device called a PCR (polymerase organisms and in a theoretically impossible to "One big question is why (here is so much 'Tm not saying that its reaction) machine. trunk it chain Wheeler pauses for a amber. you slash a hymenaea tree's do. Us just that" — and here When and put it into a ptas- "We actually take the DNA right now." bleeds But this doesn't account for the mas- — "we're not going to do it resin. producing piece of organic mate- moment think hap- mid [a tiny. s€lf -re sive amounts of amber we find. What 1 turn put into a bacterium. When the hymenaea forest rial), which is in pened is that a hurricane trashed a bacterium reproduces, the plasmid is replicated millions of years ago — the trees bled incredible can isolate the plasmid DNA. along with it Later we — Ruth Q. Leibowit2 amounts of resin and populations in that forest be rcextract it, and sequence it," came mired." Antarctica Cuba 22 Nature of an Island Exhibition opens in Gallery 3 on October A new exhibition witi preview: in the Akeley Members' ^ „„ -, «^ open Wednesday, October 20. 4:00-7:00 p.m., Galterv on September p.m. an and private viewing at Naturcmax, 7:30 1 7. Cuba: Nature of Island is a photographic chronicie of the Museum's work with Havana's Museo Nacional de Historia on The worlds greatest mys- view of the exhibition Natural in studies of the Wednesday. October 20. biodiversity. leries lie at the bottom of the island's to 7;00 p.m. At globe. Until 1821 no one had from 4:00 7;30p.m. there will be a ever seen Antarctica, and it showing of the Na- took over a centurv for a few special Antarctica. The determined explorers, pio- turemax film continent's icy expanses are Nature Lectures neers, and scientists to truly The Mack Lipkin Man and dramatically recaptured on put Terra Australis Incognita the Naturemax Theaters (the Unknown Southern Geologist Frank H.T. Rhodes 66-foot wide Speaker: Land) on the map Nobody four-story high. screen in the IMAX format, owns Antarctica — it is not a which uses film ten times the countrv or a province or a Charles Darwin's Portrait conventional 35-mm territory, and there are no size of Viewers take a spectacu natives- Everyone who visits is film. of a Small Planet through icy chasms a foreigner, and the nations lar ride work and over towering glacial that undertake scientific and Charles Darwin's Portrait dive through six there act jointly to oversee all peaks and ice to explore the un- the continent's activities. feet of of a Large Primate And what have they found? derwater caverns of a glacier Mu- The new exhibition Antarc- Sidney Horenstein, the October 26 coordinator of envi- Monday, October 25, and Tuesday, Uca profiles the region's wild- seum's ronmental public programs 7:00 p.m.. Main Auditorium life and its human visitors, ^ ^ , ... curator for the for Members, $20 for non-Members revealing the effects humans and resident Both lectures: $10 will offer a ten- $10 for non-Members have had on the global envi- exhibition, Single lecture: $5 for Members. and slide ronment and the scientific, minute introduction show before the film, which is political, and economic evolution driven by natural Frank H.T, Rhodes, the ocean-deeps, and mountain shape 42 minutes long. choices that will unique portrait of selection The scientist's early free and president of Cornell Univer- chains. The Antarctica's future. Exhibits The preview is the planet that IDarwin cre- reticence in addressing the open only to Participating sity, will present this year's include penguin dioramas, a of humankind in the Lipkin Man and Nature ated represented the first place pro- and Higher Members; your Mack mummified seal, video evolutionary scheme will be train- attempt to design a model of membership card is your Lectures. A geologist by grams, three-dimensional valid along with the faculty the mechanism by which the addressed, ticket of admission. Tickets ing. Rhodes holds the models of ice features, and influence of studies of human professor of geology earth "works." Darwin's the- by people who for the private viewing at rank of tools used earth were the origins and characterislicsby use the at Cornell. In addition to his ories about the have lived and worked on the Naturemax are $5; Wallace foundation for his later theory Huxley. Lyell, and coupon on page 3 to order doctorates in philosophy and continent. source of The great evolutionary de- science, he hotds honorary of evolution and the Members can attend a pre- ttcUels. about bates of the nineteenth cen- degrees from more than 20 fundamental questions natural law. tury will be reviewed and institutions. His numerous nature and linked to contemporary con- awards include the Geological The second lecture, Portrait of cerns about human nature, Society's Daniel Pidgeon Charies Darwin's will take human values, and human Fund. Lyell Fund, and Bigsby a Large Primate, October destiny. Antarctica Medal. place on Tuesday. ti will examine Use the coupon below In 1987 Rhodes was ap- 26. Rhodes and register for the lectures, and Lecture Series pointed by President Reagan Danvin's mature career conviction that for further information call to the National Science his growing October 27 through (212) 769-5019. Five Wednesdays, starting Board, and in 1989 he was species developed 7:00-8:00 p.m. appointed by President Bush Kaufmann Theater to the President s Education Series tickets: $20 for Members, Policy Advisory Committee. $25 for non-Members The author of more than 70 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Lectures. Please indicate major scientific articles and single or both lectures. monographs and 60 articles on education. Rhodes' books Mon., Oct. 25. andTues.. Oct. 26 include The Evolution of Number of Members' tickets at $10: Life. Fossils, and Language Number of non-Members' tickets at $20: o/(fie£ar(fi. Total amount enclosed for program: American Museum scien- Upper Atmosphere to the The lectures will begin on been to Edge of the Uniuerse, tists who have October 25. with chair- Monday. Mon.. Oct, 25. only discuss the William A Gutsch. Jr . Antarctica will Charies Darmin's Portrait of astron- Number of Members' tickets at $5: continent at a series of slide- man and associate Hayden o Smait Planet. Darwin's Number of non-Members' tickets at $10; illustrated lectures. They'll omer at the early scientific vocation was Total amount enclosed for program; discuss glaciers and climate Planetarium Penguins geology, and his voyage changes, penguins and other November 17: aboard the Beagle (1831-36} Tues., Oct. 26. only drifting and Other Aniorctic Birds. birds, dinosaurs and publication Barrowclough. coincided with the Number of Members' tickets at $5: continents, the ozone hole, George F of Charles Lyell's Principles non-Members' tickets at $10; and the na- chairman and associate cura- Number of global wanning Geologv- Armed with Department of Ornithol- of Total amount enclosed for program: ture of the upper atmos- tor. Lyell's methodology. Darwin phere, and the continent's ogy, Antarctic devoted himself to the study treasure trove of meteorites. December 1: of the earth, based on his presented in Dinosaurs and Drifting Con- Name: This series is great curator. conviction that some conjunction with the upcom- tinents. Mark Norell. law of nature remains to be 3 exhibition (see Department of Vertebrate Address: ing Gallerv discovered by geologists" the related feature above.) Paleontology. unpublished note). (Darwin, City: .State: ^ip: The lecture recounts Dar- October 27: Antarctica: To register, make your early life and explains the Ameri- win's Daytime telephone: Ice and the Rocks Beneath. check payable to the devotion of his early sci- Michael Novacek. vice presi- can Museum of Natural His- entific career to the search for dent and dean of science. tory and mail with a self- Membership categorv; envelope this law. 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8 The Department of Education Presents Mystery, Research, and the Dead Sea Scrolls Fall 1993 Lecture Series Tuesday. October 19 7:00-8:30 p.m. $22.50 for Members, $25 for non-Members

Placed in caves more than 2,000 years ago and discovered in 1947. the Dead Sea Scrolls yielded rare insights into the origins of Judaism and Chris- tianity The scholars controlling access to the scrolls have long contended that nothing of interest remains in the unpublished portions: Robert Eisen- nian, professor of Middle East religions at California State University at Long Beach, challenges this view as he relates the history, context, and background of these important documents. Eisenman is the coauthor of The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, the

firs! complete translation and interpretation of 50 key documents in more than 35 years.

Two Evenings urith Jared Diamond on Our Disastrous Past

Tuesday, November 2, and Thun;day. November 4 7:00-8:30 p.m. $18 for Members. $20 for non-Members

Jared Diamond is professor of physiology at UCLA's Medical School and a member of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. A frequent contributor to Natural Histor\f magazine, he is the author of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Fu- ture of the Human Animal, which will be available for purchase at the lectures. Nov, 2: The Great Leap Forward: How and When Did Humans Become Different from other Animals? By 100.000 years ago. the skeletal anatomy of some of our ancestors was already nearly modem, yet we were still little more than glorified apes in our behavior. It was only around 40.000 years ago that art, religion, and other dis- prfcipi tinctly human traits began to appear Wh.it tated our great leap lorward and linally made us human? Nov. 4: Ecological Collapses of Ancient Civi- Disastrous Past Two Evenings with Jared Diamond on Our lizations: The Golden Age that Never Was. Among the most riveting puzzles of human history are the collapses of past civilizations such as those of the Classic Maya and the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest. Could some of these societies have unwittingly undone themselves by destroying their environment? These fascinating mysteries are warnings of our own potential fate.

From Belz to Brooklyn: The Hasidim Monday. October 18 7:00-8:30 p.m $13,50 for Members. $15 for non-Members

Ever since Rabbi ben Eliezcr. known as the Baal Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name"), began teaching Hasidism in the early eighteenth centun/. world Jewry has not been the same. Today the largest concentration of Hasidim in the world is located in three small communities in Brooklyn: Borough Park. Crown Heights, and Williamsburg. In this slide-illustrated lecture Yale Strom will discuss the research involved in his new book. The Hasidim of Brookl\>n: A Photo Essay. He'll also part play musical recordings that capture an integral of Hasidic life.

Belz to Brooklyn: Wildlife Conservation: From The Hasidim Predators, Prey, and Habitats Behind the Sacred Mask: Tools of the Sacred attempts to Navajo life. Hillemian will discuss his Two Tuesdays, starting November 9 Sacred Clowns by heighten awareness of the richness and complexity 7:00-8:30 p.m. of Navajo culture. Tony Hillerman $22.50 for Members, $25 for non-Members The author of 16 books. Hillerman is best known mystery novels involving the Navajo Tribal Tuesday. September 21 for his introduce the by the Anthropologist Peter Gold will 7:00-8:30 p.m. Police- His work has been specially recognized Apache meaning and ritual use of sacred masks from several $18 for and senior citizens, Navajo Nation and honored by the Jicarilla Members traditions on both sides of the Indian schools important cultural $20 for non^Members people, and his books arc used in Bering Strait He'll discuss Yupik Inuit (Alaskan throughout the Southwest Hillemian has also been Eskimo) shaman s vision masks; kachina ritual honored by the American Anthropological Associa- Author Tony Hillerman compiles some of the Hopi and Pueblo Indians; Apache and book. Sacred Clowns, will masks of the available today tion- Copies of his newest most valuable ethnological material Navajo tutelary deity masks: ajid the vast masked available for purchase and autographing in his mysteries, which offer a sensitive portrayal of be Dance Culture in Morocco and Egypt

Four Mondays, starting October 18 7:00-8:30 p.m. $31.50 for Members. $35 for non-Members

Carolina Varga Dinicu performs, teaches, and directs her own dance company under the stage name Morocco. She has researched dance, music. and dress in North Africa, the Mideast, the Mediter- ranean, and the Caucasus for three decades. Oct. 18: Foikiore of Morocco. This lecture examines dances from more than 20 Berber tribes and features theatrical folk dances and the best male shaba and tray dancer in Morocco, Oct. 25: National Folklore Troupe of Egypt (Firqua Kawmiyva). Theatrical dances based on folkloric or social themes — which are traditional dances and costumes and which arc fantasy or satire? How much influence came from outside Egypt? Nov. 1: Stars of Egyptian Oriental Dance. Stylistic differences among the top stars of the cur rent Egyptian Oriental dance scene and changing styles in costuming, music, and movement. Nov, 8: Folklore of Egypt and Sudan Who are the Dervishes and why do they whirl? What are the differences between the Turkish and Egyptian Dervishes? Who and what are the Ghawazi? The Land and People of Siberia Monday. October 18. and Tuesday, October 19 7:00-8:30 p.m. $22.50 for Members. $25 for non-Members

Susan A, Crate, a graduate student in Siberian folklore at the University of North Carolina and a professional storyteller, singer, and interpreter, will present her research on Siberian culture and folklore. Oct. 18: Cultures and Sacred Lands of South- ern Siberia. This presentation explores the regions Tanna- of Buryatia and Lake Baikal, Mongolia, and today. Tuva, viewing traditional cultures as they are the Sacred Behind the Sacred Mask: Tools of Oct. 19: Dance of Life. Circle of Life. The amval Sakha of northeastern Siberia celebrate the the United States sent a naval squadron tS that issue from both whalers, festival. The panlheuns dnd rites o! Tibetans of summer with the isiakh kumiss treaty in 1852. The story of the open- religion. negotiate a that festi- Buddhism and the pre-Buddhist Bon circle dance, an integral part of both sides, is rich in asyokhai meaning of ing of Japan, as seen from Sakhas Nov 9: Masks and the Sacred. The in contemporary times as the frustration. val emerges universe be- pageantry, intrigue, and and masks as mirrors of the soul and the major ethnic voice. This lecture presents slides yond, soundtracks of the contemporary festival. Nov, 16; Masks and the Ritual Process. Masks within an individ- as tools for establishing Ifie sacred the Shamans: of the Planets ritual Music of Geology ual, family, and community at large through dance and healing practices. Songs and Drums Four Thursdays, starting October 21 on Mu- Gold will lead participants in this scries Siberia 7:00-8:30 p.m. seum tours that examine and discuss masks cur- from $31.50 for Members. $35 for non-Members Eskimo rently on display. Tours will look at the Monday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m., with slides, gallery on Wednesday, November 10. 7:00-8:30 p.m. This series of lectures — augmented Peoples on Wednesday, film — will take a tour of the and the Hall of Asian $13,50 for Members, $15 for non-Members laser disk images, and November 17. at 7:00 p.m. planets and their moons for a look at their salient Horcnstein, coordinator of At the turn of the century the American Museum geologic features. Sidney begin undertook one of the most ambitious and influential the Museum's environmental programs, will Prestcr John and discuss The Heirs of anthropological expeditions ever mounted. The with an exploration of the solar system Expedition, under the direction origin of the planets. Three Tuesdays, starting October 19 Jcsup North Pacific the documented cultures of eastern Oct- 21: Origin of the Solar System. 7 00-8 30 pm. of Franz Boas, of artifacts, Dynamic Earth Members. $25 for non-Members Siberia, collecting thousands Meteorites, the $22,50 for Asteroids photographs, and wax-cylinder sound recordings. Oct. 28: The Moon. Mercury, and the associated with the practice 4: Venus and Mars medieval legend of Prester John, a fabulously Many of these itenxs arc Nov. The Moons. for early explo- traditional shamanism. Nov. 18: Jupiter and Saturn and Their rich Eastern mler. was the impetus of Root, audiovisual program is presented by Thomas Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto ' Nina rations by Europeans seeking his wealth This assistant in the Department of director of Library Services, introduces a complex R Miller, scientific fact. who will examine the songs and history that combines myth, legend, and Anthropology, Mushrooms and Conifers, instruments of Siberian shamans, the contexts in Ear/y collected, and their relevance to Oct, 19: The Legend of Prester John and which they were Mosses and Ferns search for the fabulous riches of the post-Soviet cultural revival in Siberia. Exploratior\s. The Five Thursdays, starting October 14 Prester John led to the the mythical Eastern njler 7:00-8:30 p.m. and Portuguese explorations around early Spanish or the Indian Ocean, the South Seas, and AInca. into Uncertain Roads: Five Mondays, starting October 18 explorations opened the Pacific to beyond. These 2:30-4:00 p,m. English. Dutch, and US expeditions, of the Gypsies the In Search $36 for Members. $40 for non-Members Oct, 26: Napoleoi} in Egypt The Egyptian Thursday. October 21 Campaign and the Scientific and Artistic Com- introduces 7:00-8:30 p.m This series of slide-illustrated lectures addition to military forces. Napoleon mission. In ferns of forest floors $13.50 for Members, $15 for non-Members the mushrooms, mosses, and a group of scientists, artists, musicians, and took and meadows, lichens of rocky and sandy places, savants suffered the same poets to Egypt. These conifers Identifica- The Gypsies — or Rom, as they call themselves algae at the edge of the sea, and hardships as the foot soldiers and were abandoned are of species from the Northeast in Romany — are probably one of the most roman- tion and ecology British conquerors The Commission estab- the to the lecturer in botany in tically envisioned groups of people in the world. stressed by William Schiller, lished Egyptology as a science, formed I'lnstitut de misunderstood and Education Department. and discovered the They're also one of the most I'Egypte and the Cairo Museum, in Plants minorities in Europe and the United Stales 1. Surutual Strategies and Evolution Stone, maligned Rosetta Diuersity Sexua/ity today. Yale Strom will discuss his recent research 2. Seoiueed and Nov, 9: The Opening of Japan: Commodore Lichens Gypsies in Sweden, Hungary. Romania, 3. The World o/ Mushrooms and the US Naval Squadron. Japan was among the Perry and Ferns, and the First Forests and the Ukraine as presented in his new book Un- 4. Mosses. closed to all foreigners (or centuries. Determined to 5. Lining Fossils certain Roads: In Search of the Gypsies Conifers and establish safe harbors and coaling stations for its

10 once lived — this tour will years. He where CXikc Blington on wild animals for more than 20 » lectured Broadway to turn east at 96th cubs, carnivo- wend its way down Minerals, Myths, travels with and exhibits big cats, bear Street and conclude at Central Park West. and birds of prey, telling fascinating rous reptiles, 24 Wilh Central Park as a Front Yard. Magic creatures survive and adapt Oct and tales about how these West, this Starting at 86th Street and Central Park 9 environments Audiences of all ages Tuesdays, starting November within their at the Three tour will head north along the park to end wildlife behavior, including the p.m. attain insights into 96th Street. The 7 00-S:30 and how First Church of Christ Scientist at for non Members in which species become endangered for Members. $30 ways of buildings near Central Park $27 management contribute to architectural merits research and wildlife love this it clear why so many people in part by will make senior scientific assistant in the their survival. This program is supported Joseph J Peters, neighborhood. relate human- for Conservation. Inc. Department of Mineral Sciences, will Global Communications 000-year-old love affair with gemstones. itu's 35 CiviHzo- Nov 9' Paleoiithic Times and Eariv Sterling Hill Mine jewelry- The Rise of Weslem Trip to tion Cro-Magnon Greece, and Rome. Civilization in Judea. Egypt, Saturday, October 2 or for per- Gemstones used in religion, art. science, 9:30 a,m.-5;00 p.m. Breastplate of Aaron. King Members) sonal adornment. The $50 (no discount for Lapidibus Solomons Mines Theophrastus' De Limited to 36 adults Natural History 315 BC), Pliny the Elder's (c k Jersey in Graeco-Roman gem lore. Visit the last operating zinc mine New Ic AD 77). Alchemy s spectacular Nov 16 European Middh Ages. and tour underground tunnels, view learn St, Jerome, an early Chnstian in a natural environment, and origins in Alexandria. mineral displays gemstones in the Bible. Medi- history and technology. Joseph J- expert on the use of about mining the works of St. Hildegard senior scientific assistant In the Department eval theories found in Peters. curative or deadly powers leads this exciting tour. and St Albert about the of Mineral Sciences, sources of misinformation of gemstones. Literary gemstones. . about , » j the Americas and for Nov 23: Gem Mylhologies of Spring 1994 Weekend mythologies of Chinese jade. Far East The ancient and Buddhism on jade Enthusiasts Dual influence of Taoism Bird Polos thirtcenth-centurv v>s.t to symbolism. Marco Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15 of Ceylon. Gemstone mythology the gem -rich island Limited to 36 adults; fee: $175 Olmec, Maya and /^ec of India. Use of jade by stone fetishes of Native Amen- near cultures. Turquoise ^i-.^^ A two-day bus trip covers wooded areas evening can Indians, New York City and makes daytime and in the Pine Barrens visits to a lake and bog area continues to Brigantine I-' Myths, and of New Jersey. The tour Minerals, marsh birds National Wildlife Refuge, where many the can be seen. This trip Magic Tour of as well as woodland species at Pitocchelli. professor in biology HaU is led by Jay Morgan Memorial 769-5310 for J.P. Saint Anselm's College. Call (212) of Gems the itinerarv and application. Nov. 22 Friday, Nov. 19, or Monday. 7:00-8:30 p-m, '^T 1994 Weekend Members) Spring $15 (no discount for Cape Cod Limited to 20 adults Whale Watch off

2t)-SuiiiJ,iv, May 22 Joseph J. Pctcre, Fndciy M.iy take 1 .001 nights for It would aduWb. ice: $400 the Department of Min- UmWed to 40 senior scientific assistant in lu relate all of the stories he s learned S Sciences. whales involves three 4-hour II tell some of Our search for about minerals, myths, and magic. He private charter from Provincetown. Sailor in the Valley of Dia- whaic crutef s by the best — Sinbad the the boat, Fall Botanv In Central Park lo the marine biologists aboard Cellini's brush with death in the In addmon monds Bcnvenuto the cunous Museum staff members will accompany Saint Angelo in 1537. and other two Castle of in natural group- Brad Burnham. senior instnjctor gemological tales. and naturalist science in the Education Department, the Stephen C Quinn. who will assist in identifying Series that be seen. Jumbo Lecture many species of coastal birds may accommo- Drawing Cost includes transportation, two n'9hts October 2 Animal Saturday, lectures. Call (212) 769-5310 19 dation, meals, and 2:00-3:30 p-m. Eight Tuesdays, starting October for the itinerarv and application. 7:00-9:00 p.m. and 27 discount tor Two Wednesdays. October 20 $105 (materials not included; no 7:00-8:30 p.m. Members) and limited to 25 persons non-Members^^ ^ $27 for Members. $30 for Lecture Scries as artist to sketch subjects such Join a Museum stamped, self-addressed envelope presented in conjunc- timber wolves in I enclose a These lectures, which are gazelles on the African plains and payable together with a check (or money order) exhibition Jurnbo: The Worid-Famous North After the Museum has closed tion with the the snowbound American Museum of Natural History tor; natural history ot ele- famed habitat groups to the Elephant, will explore the to the public, students use the conservation issues. mounted specimens, Stephen phants and . r individual registration . , as well as requested, but the time of the Advance registration is and His Relatives. At naturalist and assistant manager in Oct 2 Jumbo C Quinn opening night If the little will be accepted on the for many years after, very Department, guides each par- Jumbos capture and Museums Exhibition single lecture tickets course is not filled. No about the history of African elephants. beginner or experienced artist. was known ticipant, whether advance. There are no refunds. the Depart- are sold in Richard Van Gelder, fomier curator in workshops, Children are not admitted to lectures, will discuss the natural history ment of Mammalogy, information call or field trips. For further of elephants. _, in Central Park Forest tie- Botany (212)769-5310, Oct 20; Conseruation of African i Conservation Opera- 2 or 16. or Wednesday. Oct. 13 Please print; phants Bill Weber, director of Saturdays, Oct. Conservation Society, a.m. tions for NYZSAhe Wildlife 9:00-11:00 Members) work and a preservation project $15 per walk (no discount for will describe his T5ay" Hour * elephant. people Course focused on the elusive African forest Limited to 25 Aspirin Oct 27- Why Save Elephants: The Hour associate walk in Central Park ob- Course Day Approach. Jeheskel Shoshani, research A two-hour morning Partici- views the fall the nowers and trees. wilh the Cranbrook Institute of Science, serves signs of in ecological, evolu- about plant identification and Name: elephant from artistic, biological, pants will learn William Schiller, lecturer in botany in tionary, and historical standpoints. ecology from I Address: the Education Department.

.Stale: .Zip:. Predators, Prey, City: Arthur Marks Tours and Habitats Daytime telephone; or and 24 Four Saturdays or Sundays: October 23, 24. 30. Sundays. October 3 to the American p.m. , I check payable 7, 13. or 14 1:30-3:30 ^ Please make 31. November 6, lor a walks: $15 for one (no discount of N,ilural History and mail with 11:00a.m. or LOOpm $25 for both I Museum envelope to: Lec- adult Members. $10 for adult Members) Stamped, self-addrcsscd Each program $9 for American children. $7 for ture Series. Education Department. non-Members. $6 for Members I History. Central Park West at and children West Side: Museum of Natural non-Member students Oct 3 Living on Manhattan's 10024-5192. 79th Street. New York. NY Broadwavand Central Park West- Starting at celebrated wildlife expert near the place Andrew Simmons, a 106th Street near Straus Park — raised, and specializing in predators, has studied, 11 . ——

1993 Margaret Mead Film Festival T 10 Monday, October 4-Sunday, October S Monday-Thursday, 6:30-10:30 p.m. C Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

ences." In 1988 Young re- ogist. Andrea Gschwendtner. October 5 turned to the community with Tuesday. 1992. 50 min. US premiere.) century. his son and daughter-in-law to In the early twentieth create a follow-up film that Auditorium Rudolph Poch. Vienna's first pioneered the interweaves archival and con- Black Man's anthropologist, 6:30 p.m. and temporary footage, focusing Thomas. use of moving pictures Houses (Steve With on a mother who struggles to premiere.) wax-cylinder recordings. 1992. 58 min, NY survive in the face of illness. outbreak of World War 1, "They've got blue eyes and the and economic and work in the death, how can they he continued his blond hair, so POW marital hardships Speakers: The settle- Austro-Hungarian be Aborigines^" Susan Todd, Andrew Young camps. His studies were used ment of Wybalenna (Black eugenics estab- later during the Man's Houses) was will also he a retro- film weaves There for the movement. This lished in the 1830s of the work of Time and documentary to spective internment of black sun/ivors drama about thy Asch. who will present Euro- raise chilling questions of the conflict between discuss his ethnographic misuse of anthro- and Aborigines in Tas- the use and peans and films. On Tuesday. October 5, documents pological research. mania. This film hell show the Indonesia films. of this site the reoccupation and on Wednesday, October Tasmanian Aborigines by Thursday, October 7 6, the Yanomamo films searching for the mass graves October 6 on Wednesday. ancestors. It also ex- The Anthropologist of their Auditorium plores the meaning of aborigi- Festival T-Shirt today, when genetics Tempus de nality 6:30 p m These 100 percent cotton and skin color matter less Baristas. (David MacDougall, T-shirts feature the festival s and cultural as- min. World pre- than kinship 1993. 100 4-mask logo Use Director distinctive sociation. Speaker: miere.) The change in the coupon below to order Steve Thomas, effected by technol- lifestyles sure to specify Cry. and be 7:50 p.m. Hear My are the focus of this film, ogy large, or extra-large. Drygas. 1991. medium, (Maciej Janusz in which a 17-year-old shep- The shirts are $11.50 each 47 min.) A powerful and herd named Pietro compares for Members and $13 for disturbing portrait of the with those of his 60- his life non-Members. 1968 public self-immolation year-old father and their mu- 60-year- of Ryszard Siwiec. a tual friend Miminu, who is old Pole protesting Soviet 43. Although separated by Become a Friend of the oppression of Poland in only 20 years, they have the Festival for $125 wake of the invasion of grown up in dramatically Weaving Benefits include a festival Czechoslovakia, different worlds. Speaker: official T-shirt; an together family reminis- Director David MacDougall. pass; an for two to the Di- cences, eyewitness accounts, 8:30 pm, Children of invitation film rectors Reception, a gather- and archival lootage. this Fate: Life and Death In a confusion, ing of the festival's inter- conveys the shock, Sicilian Famify. (Susan Todd, of film direc- and mixed reactions of those Andrew Young, Robert national array 1 advisory committee and directly touched by this des- Young. 1992. 85 min.) In tors, staff; and reserved seating perate act. 1961 Robert Young went to contribution be- document for NBC (make your Sicily to you fore September 30 and the social conditions of Cor- Kaufmann Theater slum. can reserve a seat for any tile Cascino. a Palcnnno 6:30 screening). Please use 7:45 p.m. The Dragon The documentary was never deemed the coupon below to become Bride. (Joanna Head. 1993. aired since it was a Friend. 55 min. Video. US premiere.) "too powerful for US audi- on Monday. October 4 Madame lEau The man-iage of a teenage 16-year-old girl to four 8- to I brothers is not unusual Film Festival among the Nyinba people of 1993 Margaret IVIead opment when they travel to Daily tickets, which go on the Ncpalese Himalayas. The faithful Festival Pass week- Holland with their the sale at 5:00 p.m, on young bride faces pnce ol 5'36: to learn how to apply Number of passes at Members a.m. on mule life with four days and at 10:30 prospect of non-Members' price of $40: windmill technology to their Number of passes at arc $7 (or Mem- husbands as preparations for weekends, The enclosed: drought-ravaged fields. begin. Total amount l)ers and $8 for non-Members the lavish wedding results are both comical and and arc not sold in advance, T-Shirt Speaker: Director Margaret Mead Film Festival does not guarantee surreal, A ticket Theater Medium Urge _ Extra-large film of your Jean Rouch. Under _ _ admission to the pnce of $llj'"^ 8:40 p.m. TheShvitz. Number of T-shirts at Members' is on a first- choice; all seating b;30 p.m. Zoo. (Frederick price of $13: (Jonathan Berman. 1993. 47 Number of T-shirts at non-Members' — first-served basis. 130 min.) come, un- Wiseman, 1993 enclosed: Octo- min. NY premiere.) An Total amount A festival pass {valid Wiseman captures the drama community is forged in for likely ber 4-10) is $36 Mem- life at the Miami last tra- of everyday Festival non-Members)- the 240" heat of the Friend of the bers ($40 (or Zoo with his masterful obser- each: ditional sleambaths in the Number ol Friends at $125 — right to Ihe the coupon al vational style. He reveals the United States. The film traces Total amount enclosed: order a pass. European interrelationships of the insti- are how this Eastern The following listings animal, human, ethi- videos evolved into the tution's a complete schedule of films and For a com- custom has Please send me icstival highlights. cal, research, and financial and late twentieth century. plete schedule of films elements. or Speaker: Director Jonathan videos call (2121 769-5305 Berman. Name:. use the coupon at nght, Wednesday, October 6 Address: Monday. October 4 Under Theater 6;.30 p.m. Total Baby. City: _State: Davis, 1993. 57 min. Auditorium 9:20 p.m. Ladyboys. (Kate wry look 1992. 51 World premiere.) A Daytime telephone: 6:30 p.m. Madame i'Eau. (Jeremy Man-e, at some of the contemporarv 1992. 105 min, min. Video.) Two teenage (JeanRouch, philosophies and products of Memljership category: Jean Rouch boys leave their homes in US premiere.) American middle-class child Museumo — rural Thailand to seek fame check payable to the American and his Nigerian friends juxtaposed with Please make transvestite rearing is sclf-addrcssed, s*^^j^ Lam. Damour^. and Tallou, and fortune as Natural Historv and mail with a glamorous shifting practices and beliefs Dept Amen Jaguar and perfonners. In the to; Mead Festival. Educallon _ who appeared in cen- envelope 3"*^ since the seventeenth at 7yth create an- cabarets of the urban south Museum of Natural History, Central Park West Petit d Petit — Speaker Director Kate pain, preju- tury. other improvisalional film. they encounter NewYork. NY 10024-5192. strive Davis. new twist to the dice, and humor as they They bring a 7 50 p m The Anthropof- concept of agricultural devel- for new identities.

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A Global Cultures in Bird ID in Central Park Field Class in a Changing World 9:00-11.00 a.m. 7:00-9:00 a.m. Thursdays. Tuesdays. 21.and28 September 9. 23. and 30 S^;?ember7,14 October?, 14. 21, and 28 Octobers. 12, 19, and 26

Join naturalists Stephen C Quinn (on Tuesday) and Harold Feinberg (on Thurs- city-wide events, including the fall mi- The Education Department day) in observing hun- thai observations of the five birds through offers public programs qration of of Puerto cultural dredth anniversary Park. Participants will celebrate diverse Central and the Dominican Re- species groups and their traditions. Rico learn how to identify Indigenous demonstra- public, the Year of to their field marks, Lectures, films, according Peoples. Festival Korea. India song tions of music and dance, habitat, behavior, and Festival. Black History is and perform- The fee for the program workshops, These Month, Women's Historv paid to the instruc- ances are featured. $5, to be Month, Asian Pacific Ameri- before the programs will address cultural tor each moming Month, and the and biases, can Heritage starts. There is no pre- misconceptions walk city s global mosaic of cul- issues concerning adults and regislration. Classes meet world, tures and traditions. from the Museum on youths in a changing across For a brochure listing spe- Cen- the preservation and northeast comer of and Multi the cific programs call the and 77th change of cultural traditions. tral Park West Outreach Office al These programs are pre- cultural Street- conjunction with (212)769-5315 For further information call sented in (212)769-5310.

Fall Crafts Drawn from the Sea Holiday Chfldren's Northwest Coast Indian One 8 or 9-ycar-old with one panzees will help to define Grades 4 and b (ayes ')-l 1) similarities, Stories fundaim^ntals of adult their connections, 7-9) Learn the by Grades 2 and 3 (ages Join us for a multicultural 4 Workshops differences. Presented drawing with contour drdw and a totem at the an- Can you "read" water holiday craft (estivity Anita Steinhart. physical ing. pen-and-ink, and pole? Totem poles serve as Presented by craft doctoral candi- techniques. Children will Museum. thropology unlocking color Saturday, memory devices, and artist Robin Otton. date, Tujo Sundays. Nov. 7 study basic fish anatomy stories and legends, Tradi- Nou. 20. Session A: 10:30 14. 2:00^:00 p.m. in the Hall of Ocean and totem sketch B; tional stories about Angela a ni.-noon, Session $30. Lite. Presented by other objects of 12:30 -2:00 p.m $20. poles and Tripl-Welss. art dirwcror at Coast art wilt be Northwest 87 Saturday. Nou. 13. young children using PS Swimmers SATURDAY told to 10:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m. $25. Beautiful visit to the 8-10) WORKSHOPS FOR artifacts and a Grades 3 and 4 (ages exhibition hall. Presented by Learn about sawfish, PRESCHOOLERS the Knitting Ron Sopyla, instructor at sharks, and angcllish in a Grades 5 and 6 (ages 10-12) Talc Montessori School. program that ex- A Whale's Westside how wool gets discovery adult 10:30 Discover One 4-year-old with one Saturday. Oct 16. plores fish adaptations SUNDAY COURSES from the back of a sheep to Children will help tell the a.m.-l:30p.m. $25. through games, fish printing, back. Children will see your the Team a humpback whale's songs, film, and a visit to Join the Green tale of demonstrations of carding 5 (ages 9-11) migration from the warm Hall of Ocean Life. Presented Grades 4 and and spinning and learn simple of the south to the Science Fun Merryl Kafka, assistant A two-part awareness waters techniques. Presented by 7-9) knitting on environmental colder northern seas Film, Grades 2 and 3 (ages director of education at the workshop by Museum science education our planet a take-home sheet ac- Find out how to make rain- New York Aquarium Sa(ur problems facing song, instmctor Emily Ogrinz. Sot- the Hall of tricks with mirrors, Children are given a tivity, and a visit to bows, play day. Nov. 20. 10.30 today- urday. Nov 13. 10:30a.m.- take home. Life are included. Pre- and peek around the comer a.m.-l2:30 p.m. $20- green audit" to Ocean 1:30 p.m. $25. in- seen. Presented At the second meeting, a sented by Dayna Reist. without being York Schlesinger, review of the audit will instructor at the New by Dina Cukier in science teacher, crease their awareness and Aquarium and specialist computer education, Saturday. Oct. 23. show how we all can make a early childhood PS. 140. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION a.m.-l:30 p.m. $25. difference. Presented by Roy Saturday. Oct. 2. 10:30 Workshops for Young People Mueller, special events coordi- 10:30-11:30 a.m. $20. workshopfs): nator/assistant manager, the register for the following i would like to Eat Nature Company. South The Fish We 3 (ages 7-9) Workshop: Street Seaport, Tu;o Sun- HALF-DAY Grades 2 and 10.30 WORKSHOPS is a flounder flat? days Oct- 17 and 24. Why Jirst: does a tuna cat? These Students last name:. a.m -12:30 p.m. $30. Making What Paper questions about 9-11) and other Grades 4 and 5 (ages Grade: Making Tunnel Books food from the sea will be Age: The craft of paper-making and 6 {ages 10-12) answered by making fish Grades 5 centuries old. Participants ^rst: of is playing games, and Parent's last name:. Based on an exploration study prints, use microscopes and Pre- chil- designing your own fish. the Hall of Ocean Life, while learning plant structure science Daytime phone (area code): dren will draw marine life, sented by Museum of paper-making. Pre- the art instructor Brad then cut. fold, and assemble a education sented by Museum science Saturday. Nov. 6. Address: • three-dimensional tunnel Jay Bumham, education instructor $25. Presented by Lois Mor- 10:30a.m.-l:30pm. book. Holmes. Salurday. Oct. 9. _State: îp: and book ariist, City: rison, textiles 10 30 am '1:30 pm. $25. author, and teacher of Ameri- Total amount enclosed: can crafts. Tujo Sundoys. Drawing Whales All About Fish Oct. 17 and 24. 10 30 Grades 5 and 6 (ages 10-12) check per with one adult sizes are limited. Separate One 6-ycar-old Life Register early. Class a.m.-12:30 p-m. $30. Visit the Hall of Ocean Children will leann about Richard Ellis, the well- discounts are not fish with limited registration fish shapes and how Pl'a'i'SrtSrTue to Human Origins known painter of marine breathe and swim in a hands- Grades 5 and 6 (ages 10-12) natural history Ellis will talk money order payable to program that includes Sôrcheck or orion whale ^::^^ Children study human about the Museums Natural History and a .elf-ad- making fish pnnts. visiting the ^rAmer'can Museum of gins using museum casts of exhibits and the hall's design Workshops for Young Ocean Life, and creat- sapped envelope to broadly Hall of and intro- dressed Na^- fossil ancestors to Presented and construction tducat.on. American Miûm of ing fish windsocks. of p'op!. Dcpartinent ol trace our evoluiionary Uncage duce children to techniques Park West. New York. Levy, who has 79th Street and Central primates. by Judith Saturday. uâ^Hiltory and those of other Mu- drawing whales. taught at the Carnegie NY 10024-5192, A session in the laboratoiv Nov. 6. 10:30 a.m.-l .30 seum of Art. Sarurday. Oct. using skeletal material of both a.m.-noon. $25. p.m. $25. modem humans and chim- 16. 10:30 13 )

and dead reckoning for Thursdays, beginning pres sun; most and individuals like our 6:30-9:00 p.m. ent and prospective owners and Sept. 21; in multiple systems of small boats. The come for Members course Stargazcrs of galaxies $166.50 Courses for clusters. The types p^ovide^ practical chartwork for non-Members stars $185 in which we find these and includes such topics Intended lor those planning as diverse. Discover are equally written ex- the compass, bearings, fixes, and to take the FAA exploding galaxies lighthouses, exotic for an instrument buoys and the Milky amination about our own fix, current basics This course also pro- running vectors Patterson of rating. Way with Joe information for and tides, and rules of the Depart- vides updated Columbia University's competency nautical road Boating safety and As- instnimcnt ment of Astronomy emphasized. No prerequi checks and familiarizes VFR is trophysics, tech- sites. Students are required to pilots with instrument purchase an equipment kit. niques. Subjects include elec- ADF, METEOROLOGY tronic navigation (VOR. DME, SAT, NAV. and and Climate NAVIGATION: Weather LOFiAN). weather analysis, Eight Thursdays, beginning INTERMEDIATE aircraft performance, commu- 6:30-8:40 p,m. Sept. 23; and radar proce- COURSES Members nications $85,50 for of specialized dures, use Introduction to Celestial for non-Members $95 charts and publications, en the Navigation Everyone talks about and depar- route approach beginning This course is for Ten Thursdays, weather- procedures, applicable ture 23: 6:30-8:40 p.m. those who would like to know Sept, federal aviation regulations, about the atmosphere $99 for Members more psychological factors affecting how it $1 10 for non-Members — how it works and exten- pilot performance, and the This course is for those affects us. Topics include in sive use of fligfit computers of the have completed Nouiga- structure and motions will who flight planning Students climate, weather tion in Coastal Waters or atmosphere, opportunity to prac- have an piloting forecasting, and atmospheric who have equivalent tice procedures on a flight- such as rainbows, experience- The course cov- optics deck simulator. The instructor practice of halos. and twinkling stars. No ers the theory and is FAA certified. formal training in physics or celestial navigation, the sex required. tant and its use. and the com- math is Weather to Fly plete solution for a line of Ten sessions. Tuesdays position. Problem-solving and and Thursdays, beginning month. The night sky SPACE ART are emphasized. coming 6:30-8:10 pm. chartwork ASTRONOMV': simulated by Sept. 21. will be accurately to Space Art Students are required to pur- COURSES Introduction $99 for Members BASIC Zeiss projector in the Sky of Sight-Reduc- the Five Wednesdays, beginning chase a copy will $110 for non-Members Theater, and students 6:30-8:40 p.m tion Tables for Marine Sept, 22: This new course is not for Introduction to learn how to find prominent Navigation. Volume 3 $67-50 for Members but for anyone of the season pilots only Astronomy constellations non-Members (Pub. No, 229). $75 for flying, its safety, when to see interested in Eight Mondays, beginning and where and artist Dennis Planetarium and what goes on in the cock- Tuesdays, gatherings of the moon and Sept, 20. or eight will discuss drawing for Celestial Davidson pit while flying in bad Astronomy Sept. 21; planets. The Planetarium's how beginning and painting techniques, Designed for the Navigators collection of special weather. 6:30-8:40 p.m. extensive research scientifically accu- beginning upcoming to curious and the concerned, Eight Wednesdays, for Members effects udll illustrate $85,50 rate astronomical art, the explains mainte- Sept, 22; 6:30-8:40 pm. including the course for non-Members celestial events, the $95 historv of space art. and weather $85.50 for Members showers and eclipses. nance inspections, A first course in astronomy, meteor at the Plane- role of the artist briefings, and airplane sounds $95 for non Members introduce the Students will also learn about designed to tarium In this studio course, sensations Students will This new course is current and interesting aspects of prominent planets, create astronomy who arc many students will be assured of a more pleasant designed for students without missions, and how to the universe to those space and paintings with familiar with navigai drawings flight when next they fly. The already back- deep-space treasures like 1 a math or physics find individual guidance from the Tuesdays and the stars but want to and class meets on ing by ground. Topics include earth nebulae, star clusters, Rendering tech- astron- instructor. Thursdays for five weeks. know more about the the moon, the galaxies that are visible op as a planet, niques in acrylic, gouache, that makes it work. 1 or small omy system, the stars, the through binoculars will celestial soltir pen and ink, and airbmsh ics include systems of galaxies, quasars. telescopes. MilUy Way. be demonstrated. Students NAVIGATION: coordinates and the naviga black holes Common supplies and must bring their own BASIC COURSE tional triangle: the absolute planet observations such as How to Use a Telescope and be prepared to sketch at and distances of the Navigation in Coastal motions and the rising and beginning Enrollment is motions Eight Mondays, the first session. navigational stars, planets, of the sun and moon 630-8:40 p.m. Waters oi seUing Sept. 20; limited to 15 students. the moon; the motions Eight Mondays, beginning and atv explained. No previous Members $85.50 for 6:30-9:00 p.m. the earth in the solar system, astronomy is Sept. 20; knowledge of $95 for non-Members and lunar configura- for Members planetary assumed. The course serves introduction to choos- AVIATION $99 An tions as observed from earth, the inter- $110 for non-Members as J prerequisite for ing and using a small amateur for Private Ground School piloting and many other subjects courses, where An introduction to mediate-level telescope. Topics include and Commercial Pilots specific areas are covered in of telescopes, basic optics Fifteen sessions, Tuesdays more detail altitude-altaz- equatorial and and Thursdays, beginning mountings, eyepieces, imuth Sept, 21, 6:30-9:00 p.m. in Astronomy set- Adventures collimating a telescope, for Members $166.50 for Stargazcrs Five Saturdays, beginning observation, locat- Courses ting up for $185 for non-Members 9:40-11:40 a.m, and the Oct 9: ing objects in the sky. helps private course(s) This course to register for the following Planetarium $67.50 for Members and other obser- I would like use of charts and commercial pilots pre- non-Members $75 for vation aids. No previous : for the FAA written Name of course: ; ; — pare „i,. only^nuTTow Confused about the differ- knowledge of astronomy is (Please note that discount prices apply examinations. It can also help Price: ence between a star and a and this course is Higher Members, assumed, as a refresher for biennial Participating and planet^ Cant tell astronomy particularly recommended for flight reviews, relieve some astrology? Don't know the pur- from those considering fear of flying, and Class beginning: or a instances of Aquarius from Sagittarius of a telescope and chase survey some aspects of flight black hole from a brown those who have one but training and aircraft owner- I Name; dwarf? Join us for a new aren't sure how to use it. ship. Subjects include physio- Saturday course for the whole logical factors affecting pilot Address: (ages 10 and up). family performance, visual and elec- Through the use of the Sky ASTRONOMY: _Zip: tronic navigation (VOR, ADF, City; .State: labs, and astronomi- INTERMEDIATE Theater, DME. SAT, NAV. and equipment, we will ex- cal COURSES LORAN), charts, publications, Daytime telephone: plore the birth and death of computers, principles of aero- uni- stars, the origin of the Galaxies dynamics, weather, instru- Membership category; search for extrater- Stars and verse, the engine/propeller Six Tuesdays, beginning ments, restrial life, and the current operations, communications, to Sept. 21; 6:30-8:10 p.m. this coupon with your check payable night sky. Please mail ^^l^^^_ regulations, and safety Stu- for $72 for Members ican Museum-Hayden Planetarium to: Courses ^'^'^ non-Members dents will plan cross-country Park West and Highlights $80 for ers. Hayden Planetarium, Central fl^' f"^ .^ Celestial opportunity come in a wide vari- trips and have an 10024-5192. Registration by mail '^ Three si-kn ted Mondays: Stars New York NY f°'Te flight-deck simula- preceding of colors — red, yellow, to try the accepted until seven ^^ys Oct. 18. Nov. 15. Dec, 13; ety recommended and is — sizes — from tor. The instructor is FAA call (212) and blue and first For additional information, ''^^Y; 1 6:30-7:40 p.m, class. caras giants to dwarfs. Learn about certified. Monday-Friday, 9:30 a,m,-4:30 pm No credit $27 for Members chcciw ^^^ diversity of stars, from include ticket requests or $30 for non-Members the cepted. Do not their sometimes Ground School for This course will focus on their births to American Museum programs. death throes as Instrument Pilots interesting and exciting spectacular the sessions, Tuesdays Not all stars arc Fifteen events in the skies of the supcmovae.

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Laser Shows Show Lecture Sky Astrophysics dimension where laser visu_ Frontiers in Astronomy and Journey into another TrehT pm., Thomas combine to create a dazzlmg 3-D Rendezvous.. -A Star On Monday. October 25, at 7:30 als and rock music Orion are presented Boston University will present an illustrated experience of sight and sound. Shows of Discovcrv Bania of 10:00 Voyage in the Life of the Uni- and Saturdays at 7:00. 8:30. and talk The First 100 Seconds on Fridays " probing the strange and show schedule, telephone verse Bania will discuss how p m For prices and space may cosmic happenings at the beginning of time (212) 769-5100 aboard the starship Anfares for a Climb the nature and fate of the LeVar Burton joins the crew as Ueu- help us to understand iourncy Actor a good idea to call before visit- character universe. It's always Geordi La Forge, the „ . a . rnant Commander Frontiers m Astron- Planetarium, since prices, programs, Generotion: This lecture is part of the ing the on Star Treh The Next change without he plays series. Jic^^ets^L^ *6 for showtimes are subject to century and journey to a omy and Astrophysics and the twenty-fourth for non- Planetarium information, Fnter voy- and Higher Members and $8 notice For general blaze in the sky, and then Participating where six suns tickets, or (212) 769-5100. D"ace own Use the coupon at right to order call (212) 769 5920 100 million times bigger than our Members aac to a sun ticket availability and and explore the and for information about Discover where stars are bom the lectures call (212) 769-5900. of star that died in one of upcoming qalactic graveyard a the universe. Space the most powerful explosions in Lecture: "The First 100 Seconds in Trek fans alike w,ll know that October 25. SuLsts and Star Life of the Universe." Monday. no planetarium audience has Children's Shows they have gone where 7:30 p.m. Show for tickets at *b gone before. Wonderful Sky is a special Sky Number of Members' with images ol preschoolers. Children sing along (no more than 4, please): ^^"""Tp'ri 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Sesame Street Muppets as they learn Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: 4:00 p.m. their favorite 2:00, 3:00, and moon, sunsets, sS & Sun'.::....l:00. about rainbows, the phases of the Total amount enclosed: for Admission to the Sky Show Pf^^^Pf^^S/"^ at 1030 and 11:45 am o and stars. Sat.. Oct. 2, is $6 for adults and $3,50 Admission for Par- Higher Members Nov. 6, at 10 30 a,m Name:. subiect and Sat,. 2 to 12. Prices and schedule for adults and rh^drcn ages ticipating and Higher Members is $6 notice, For no.Membe. pn^^ to change'without $3.50 for children. Address: infonmation. call (212) 769-bIUU. reservations by and additional Shows usually sell out in advance; your check payable .State: JSp:- mail only, are necessary. Make City: (Attn: Wonder/ul Sky. to the Hayden Planetarium 81st Street. New York. NY telephone: Central Park West at Daytime ; and a lirst 10024) indicate membership categoiv include a sell- — and i and second choice of showtimes. Membership category: Exhibition your daytime addressed, stamped envelope and call payable to the Hayden 1 phone number. For additional information, Please make check ond mail with a self-addressed. . Planetarium Hayden Lucasfilms R2D2 and envelope to: Lecture , Star Trek' Exhibition: Robots in Space features stamped the Sixties especially tor chil- Central Park West at 81st Street. A Retrospective of C-3P0"* and has been created Planetarium, these a live host, 10024 5192. 1 dren ages 7 to 12 Together with New York. NY on a tour of the famous space robots take children subject to 1 starfleet uniforms, Enterprise probes - the real that ticket orders are Alien costumes, universe. See how satellites and P\ei.s«^ note photos from n«ar and be processed without , models and assorted props and - help us Icam abou. worlds availability and cannot SMce robots ^iclf-addressed unyiiHi 1960S television senes are on planets and sLmipt'd. , Pa^r.Vuunis fa^ Journey from the earth to other telephone number and special exhibition curated by the [Na- 1145a.rn ticket requests or display in a black holes. Sat.. Nov 6. at envelope Do not include { historic distant Explore the is programs. Space Museum. Higher Members Museum | tional Air and Admission for Participating and checks for American themes^ political, social, and cultural children. For additional cal for adults and $2 for series, f-or $4 into the weekly Star Trek incorporated information, call (212) 769-5900. information call (212) 769^5100.

ondSaturdav_ 30 a.m. to midnight on F^'^^^^V Visitors attending pro- 9 Central Park West)- Membership Office at (212) 769-5606 the building Call the grams after hours can enter a/ternafrue parkmg. 79th for in/ormation about Museum through the drivewav entrance at Park West. Street and Central Museum Tours are available,, ui to. Notes Free Museum Highlights Tours Naturemax families. Tours are conducted a . . individuals and Theater presents Antarctica o 115.2:15. and Hours The Naturemax dailvat 10:15 and 11:15 a.m.. the highest, driest, cold also available Exhibition Halls thrilling exp/orafjon of 3 15 pm Free Spotlight Tours are 10:00 a.m-5:45 pm. mysterious continent on earth. page 16 for fur- Mon.-Thurs. & Sun est. and most to individuals and families. See a.m.-8:45 p.m. Antarctica are 10:30 and 1 l.JV Fri- & Sat 10:00 Showtimes for ther information- 3:30 m daiV Tropical Ram available for a fee. All Group The Museum Shop _ ^ _ am 1.30 and p Group Tours are p.m. 400-mil/ion-year evoh the^ohnteer Mon,-Thurs. & Sun 10:00 a-m.-5:45 Forest u.hich portrays the Tours must be scheduled through a.m.-? 45 p.m. uonishing resources, is shown at 769 5566. Fri, & Sat 10:00 lion of these Office. For details, call (212) 2:30. and 430 pm. The Junior Shop . . _ 12:30. . , oo p.m. and 7.30 pm..„ „ Mon.-Fri 10:00 a.m.-4:45 On Friday and Saturday at 6:00 a,m,-5:45 p.m. on a double bill u^ilh Tropical Sat. & Sun 10:00 Antarctica is shown and ° The Museum Ubrary Rain Forest, Schedules P'^'^^lt'f^'i^Jtn p.m. 769-5650 for Tues.-Fri 11:00 a,m.^:00 change without notice. Call (212) Diner Saurus Fast Service Eatery further information. p.m. Members): Discover and Higher Daily 11:00 a.m.^:45 Admission (Participating double feature Garden Cafe Adults $4 single feature; $5.50 double feature Rx|iloi.* our IntrH fralare Brunch; Sat. & Sun 11:00 Theme pari.es for young Members held at 330 prn on AntantUtt Whale's Lair ^ „ _ _ old are two hours long and 3:00-8:00 p.m, and at rnlrw. p^ Wednesdays, at 4.00 p.m. on Fr\days IfuUutn n rompifir dinnrr Noon-8:00 p.m. The group or il-ttrrt and r»ff»e - 53t or 2:30 p.m. on weekends. apiftuer y^j -".' 1 1 00 a.m. Noon-5:00 p.m. and "" "^^^1'/'°" per pT»on ^l Sun, & most holidays should be no fewer than 10 . on the first floor of per chid (The cost Snack Carts (at 77th Street & is $275 plus $15 20 The fee lloura Hall) the Roosevelt Memorial includes alt materials, juice 769^' u,„.h.Mon..hn: 11:30 -:i.30 a,m.-l:00 p.m. '^V/T???)Call 769- Bnuu-h: UrOO *.00 Sat,& Sun 11:00 cake is not included.) (212) Su„ml..y and Sunday bogs. The •" f" **"'" * ** ' ' The Discovery Room 5606 for further information. ihnnrr .roIUVt. October I. rA9J«ft5 dosed in September; re-opens For K^'Mrvfltu>ii!'.'.«?^2 The Natural Science Center reopens October J. on 81st C\o%ed in September, The Museum's parking lot is located ^PENQ, West and Columbus Street between Central Park available on a first ^ Entrances Space is limited and enter the Avenue. Museum hours uisifors can for cars and During come, first-served basis, fees ore Sl2 building the 77th Street enironce, the ajn to throuQh buses. The lot is open from 9 30 or the Roo- $11 for parkmg lot entrance (51st Street), on Sunday through Thursday and from Street and 9 30 p m seveit Memorial Hail entrance (79th 15 I i

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Antarctica October 22 Exhibition opens in Gallery 3 on

preview: Members' . ^„ -, «« _ Wednesday, October 20, 4:00-7:00 p.m 7:JU p.m. and private viewing at Naturemax,

Horenstein. erns of a glacier. Sidney exhibition on Wednesday. Octo- what have they found? The the Museum's coordinator of environ- mysteries lie at And p.m. At the The world's greatest ber 20. from 4:00 to 700 resident exhibition ^n\o,rci\cQ profiles the mental public programs and Until 1821 new special Ihe bottom of the globe. 7 30 p.m. there will be a offer a regions wildlife and its human visi- curator (or the exhibition, will no one had ever seen Antarctica, and showing of the Naturemax film the effects humans introduction and slide deter- tors, revealing icy exten-minute it century lor a few The continent's took over a fKnXQTcWca. which is 42 have had on the global environment on show before the film, mined explorers, pioneers, and scien- are dramatically recaptured political, and eco- panses and the scientific, four-story- minutes long tists to truly put Terra Australis the Naturemax Theater's only choices that will shape Antarc- preview is free and open Southern nomic screen in the The Incognita (the Unknown penguin high. 66-fool-widc Higher Members; tica's future, Exhibits include to Participating and Land) on the map. Nobody owns format, which uses film ten seal, video IMAX membership card is your or a dioramas, a mummified S.'Jmm your valid Antarctica — it is not a country the size of conventional three-dimensional models times admission. Tickets for the there are programs, spectacular nde ticket of province or a territory, and film. Viewers take a are features, and tool^ used by peo- private viewing at Naturemax $5; who visits is a of ice and over towering no natives. Everyone worked on the through icy chasms programs ple who have lived and use the October Members' foreigner, and the nations that under- peaks and dive through six feet glacial 3 to order tickets. continent. cav- coupon on page take scientific work there act jointly to explore the underwater Members can attend a previe«.v ol of ice to oversee all the continents activities. Members* Ghost Stories Rug-Hooking Workshops Fridav, October 29 Kaufmann Theater Fridays, October 15 and 22 Family program (ages 5-12): 6:00 p.m. $5 for Members, $8 for non-Members Adults' program: 8:00 p.m. Get hooked on a new learn a variety of techniques $8 for Members. $12 for non-Members hobby with June Myles. to finish the piece. who'll show you how to cre- The workshops will take ate one-of-a-kind collectibles, place on two Fridays, Octo- from pillows to room-size ber 15 and 22, from 6:30 to story- true- performers and students of and Native American Legends, myths, and mgs At this two-part work- 8:00 p,m. Tickets are $40 classical and are the fabric world folklore, Simms has tellers as well as life adventures shop you'll start with a very and available only to Partici been hailed as a major force modem Western theater from which storyteller Laura small project, and we'll pro- pating and Higher Members artists. Through careful adap weaves her talcs of in the renaissance of storv Simms vide all the materials (except ages 16 and older. Use the interpretation, enchantment. She's been telling in the United States- tation and the scissors) to complete it In coupon on page 5 to register, She has developed a vast Simms conveys the timeless among the Museum's most session you'll learn and please note that tickets of these the first performers since repertoire of traditional tales beauty and meaning popular the basics and then you'll are available only by mail 1968, and her Halloween from Africa. Asia, Europe, stories. Members' shows are a longstanding and the Americas, many of Use the October coupon on page 3 Museum tradition which she heard from Tibetan programs Buddhist lamas, Maori elders. to register for the programs. One of America's foremost War off the Worlds

Saturday. October 23 DNA Analysis

effects, will commemorate Thursday, October 14 On the night before Hal- the loween in 1938 thousands of notorious event with a screen- listened ing of 1953s IVoro/ the searchers different disci- horrified Americans Museum scientists made Assistant curator Ward from Worlds. Sullivan will intro- are working together to to an account of a Martian history recently when they Wheeler will discuss this pro- plines the film, redefine concepts invasion in which aliens duce which won an extracted some of the oldest ject and others currently refine and landed in New Jersey and Oscar for best special effects, DNA ever recovered from a under way in the Museum's of evolutionary history. everything in their and answer questions after- The program will take annihilated fossil. A 30-million-ycar-old Molecular Systematics Labo October path. Their panic arose from ward. The show will take termite encased in amber was ratory. He'll describe the lab, place on Thursday, all-too-realistic on Saturday. October in the Kauf- Orson Welles' place their subject, and they ampli- where researchers study the 14. at 7:00 pm Theater. Tickets are radio broadcast of the H. G. 23. at 4:00 p.m, in the Lin fied and sequenced its DNA. DNA of living and extinct mann Wells science-fiction thriller der Theater. Use the coupon (No, they have no plans to animals to trace patterns of free for Members and $8 for non-Members; use the War of the Worlds on page 3 to order tickets, use their findings to resurrect evolution, and talk about the Brian Sullivan, the Plane- which are $6 for Members dinosaurs.) ways in which Museum re- coupon on page 3 to register. tarium's designer of special and $9 for non-Members.

Members' Day Trip to Hawk Mountain Hudson River Cruise Saturday. October 16 Saturday, October 2 Join naturalist Stephen C. through the area after leaving 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tick- Quinn, a authority tlieir breeding grounds in els are $60 and available only Museum Point about local plant life and the Higher Cruise up to West on birds, for an autumn day Canada and the northern to Participating and and back aboard a catamaran relationship of Black Rock of birdwatching at Pennsylva- states, and participants will Members ages 13 and up. for magnificent views of the Forest to the rest of the Hud- nia's Hawk Mountain in the hike around the mountain to Use the coupon on page 5 to Hudson Highlands' fall fo* son Highlands, eastern Appalachians. Thou- observe the raptors. register, and please note that liage Sidney Horenstein, the The trip will take place on sands of migrating hawks and The trip will take place on tickets arc available only by Museum's coordinator of Saturday. October 2, from other birds of prey pass Saturday. October 16, from mail. environmental public pro- noon to 4:00 p.m. Tickets grams, will point out high- are $50 for Members and lights of the landscape and $60 for non-Members and aspects of geological interest, available only to participants Forbidden Journey and William Schuster, the ages 13 and older. Call (2121 director of the Black Rock 769-5606 for information The Life of Alexandra David-Neel Forest Consortium, will talk about ticket availability.

Sunday. October 24

Explorer, opera singer, woman ever to enter the (Harper/San Francisco, feminist, and internationally forbidden city. 1989), and their presentation acclaimed writer — Alexandra Barbara Foster, an assistant on Sunday. October 24, will David-Neel led a life filled professor at Hunter College, coincide with the 125th an- with adventure, honor, in- and her husband. Michael niversary of David-Neels ISSN 0194-6110 trigue, and fame. The French Foster, will present a lively birth. The program will start

author is perhaps best known account of David-Neel's life at at 3:00 p.m in the Vol, 18. No. 9 for her 1924 expedition to a special Members' program, Kaufmann Theater Tickets October 1993 Lhasa. Tibet, when she dis- The Fosters are the authors are $6 for Members and $9 guised herself as a beggar to of David-Ncel's biography. for non-Members, Use the Donna Bell — Editor become the first foreign Forbidden Journey coupon on page 3 to register. Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Services Angela Soccodato — Designer Rita Campon — Copy Editor Peter Zclaya — Fulfillment Coordinator Behind-the-Scenes Tours of the Risa Miller — Program Coordinator

Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology Roiundo, a publication for Participating and Higher Members of the American Museum of Natural History, is Saturday, October 30, and Thursday, November 4 published monthly September through June, bimonthly July and August, Publication offices are at Natural History magazine. scientists will show to hear about the use of der- Saturday, October 30. be- 79lh Museum American Museum of Natural History. Central Park West at some of the institu- mestid beetles in preparing tween 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 Members Street, New York. NY 10024-5192, Telephone: (212) 769- tion s collections of fishes, skeletons and the value of p.m. and Thursday. Novem- 5606. Subscriptions: $50 a year for Participating Membership; amphibians, and reptiles, and alcohol-preserved specimens. ber 4. from 5:00 to 9:00 $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 American they'll talk about how these They'll use microscof)cs to p.m. Tickets are $12 and Museum of Natural History. Second-class postage paid at New specimens are gathered in the take a close-up look at speci- available only to Participating York. NY Postmaster: Please send address changes to: field and prepared for the mens and observe live dis- and Higher Members ages 13 Rotunda. Membership Office. American Museum of Natural collections. Participants will plays of some of the and older Use the coupon on History, Central Park West at 79th Street. New York. NY visit laboratories and other Museum's resident fish page 3 to register for lours, 10024-5192. areas in the Department of The tours, which last about which have limited availabil- Herpetology and Ichthyology one hour, will take place on ity. Printed by Waldon Press. Inc New York —— ——————————— —

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October 20. 7,30 p m consists of an assortment contains miniatures of the Czar Members' tickets at $5: Faberge boxes, frames, Number of Total amount (inclosed for program: — clocks, and fantasies, the court of niques used by October 23. 4:00 p.m. curator history of the House the Worlds Saturday, Mary Ellen Sinko, the techniques of War of the role of im- jeweler and col- Faberge. and Number of Members' tickets at $6: of the Forbes magazine workmasters. in Faberge's his at illustrated perial patronage of additional tickets $9: lection, will give an please use the Number describe high- To register, trea- career. She'll Total amount enclosed for program; -— „ lecture on the Faberge Members' programs ^^ ^^ _ collection that October October 24. 3:00 p.m. the col- lights from the Forbidden Journey. Sunday. sures. 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All attendees Please indicate a first, second, and College in Jersey City, She p.m. 3:00 p.m. safe, easy-to- _1 1:00 a.m. _1:00 will see to conduct Young Members has had many years of teach- Members tickets at $6: and understand experiments of Number of onstage chemical magic all grade supervi- ing experience at of additional tickets at $10: their own under adult Number then create some of their frequently program: complete levels and Total amount enclosed for annual sion Those who own at the eighth addresses high school and private viewing of Star Trek the lab session will earn a Members' presentation of Chemistry in the college science classes November 'J, 6 00 p m Junior Chemist certificate Tuesday, Kids. Patricia Ann Red- for New York area. 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Redden is a professor Gorillas science. both children departmental please note that Number of Members' tickets at $8: — the chemistry and Then kids will go to and adults must have tickets additional tickets at $12: chairperson at Saint Peter s Number of Edith C. Blum Lecture Room Total amount enclosed for program: Department. of, Her-M«r Behind-the-Scenc-. Tours of the Part.c- and Ichthyology. $12. ..nd open ony to p^tJc^y irvminute Ming3 Higher Members, Tours will eave at in Central Park an hour. We will «nd you confla- Field Class in Bird ID Serials and last about exact time your tour will start. tion by mail indicalmg the and third choice, a.m. Please indicate a first, second, Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 10:30 a^rn^ and noon &,turday. October 30. between October 5, 12. 19, and 26 1-15 ^^^ — Saturday. October 30. between 2,30 P^"V ~ 5:00 and 5:45 p.m. Thursday. November 4. between 9:00-11:00 a.m. 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Thursday. November 4. between 21. and 28 Zl October 7. 14, Number of tickets al $12: program: Total amount enclosed for days before NOTE- Orders received less than ten across from the Museum on pick-up al the door on according to their field marks, show dates will be held for Join naturalists Stephen northeast comer of Cen- stHI available. If and song. the program if tickets are Tuesday) and habitat, behavior, the day of the C. Quinn (on tral Park West and 77th advtsed m wnUng or for the program is sold out. you will be Harold Feinberg (on Thurs- The fee an event is Babes m instruc- Street. check will be returned. mi- $5. to be paid to Ihe bv Dhone and your day) in observing the fall For further information call admitted to programs. each morning before the strollers wUI not be birds through tor at aLs or gration of the Education Department walk starts There is no pre- Centra! Park, Participants will (212)769-5310. registration Classes meet learn how to identify species .

Members' Private Viewing greatest breakthrough came of the Mist: with her understanding Gorillas in imitating Trek^ Exhibition gorilla etiquette: by Star and contentment Story their feeding Tuesday, November 9 The True vocalizations, grooming her- p.m. Exhibition Viewing and keeping a low profile 600 30 self, p.m. Sky Show Tuesday. November (while ignoring any bluff 7:00 group and open only to 7:00 p.m. charges from the $7, Members to be ac- Participating and Higher Main Auditorium ^, , leader), she came non-Members a $8 for Members. $12 for cepted by the gorillas as harmless presence Once Members can attend a pri- Millions of viewers all over relaxed, the study groups the vate viewing of the exhibition the planet have enjoyed many aspects of their followed by a special showing revealed Star Trek television eluded original daily behavior that had of the current Sky Show, series since its 1966 The most Rendezuous: A Star other observers. The images of Orion the premiere. fascinating results came in Trek' Voyage of Discouery, Captain Kirk (William Shat- long term as the life histories Actor LeVar Burton — alias ner), Mr. Spock (Leonard gorillas unfolded. Lieutenant Commander of individual Lieutenant Uhura photog- Nimoyl. A wildlife biologist, Geordi La Forge of Star (Nichelle Nichols), and other and writer, Redmond Trek^: The Next Generoiion rapher, crewmcmbers of the USS has studied cave elephants in — narrates a cosmic journey Enterprise are more familiar and am- twenty-fourth century Kenya and reptiles actual into the to fans than those of phibians in Papua New in which viewers observe astronauts. Guinea. He introduced David places where six suns blaze Trekkers can satisfy their Attenborough to a gorilla and explore where stars are for nostalgia at the of a appetites family during the filming bom and die. Hayden Planetarium, where memorable Life on Earth The Planetarium will open the Star Trek* Retrospective episode and taught Sigoumey at6:00p.m, on Tuesday. Exhibition is on display. The how to grunt like a 9. for the Mem- Weaver which was coordi- November portrait exhibition, gorilla for her 1987 bers' viewing of the exhibi- nated by the National Air and Fossey in a film biography. The Sky Show will start of Space Museum, features tion. Pablo, a young Redmond worked at at 7:00 pm.. and afterward Redmond grooming Starfleel uniforms, annotated each Karisoke as Fosseys research exhibition will remain ailverback. The two have known and other props from the from 1976 to 1978. scripts, everyone has had other since Pablo's infancy. assistant The exhibits are open until for the the show. in 1980 he worked the opportunity to see it. Vse turc of the 250 remaining organized thematically. ex- Before they met Dian Fos- Mountain Gorilla Project and October Members' pro — the friends that in which the the mountain go- great apes took ploring the ways sey. Rwanda's in the following year he grams coupon on page 3 to almost certainly saved reflected American their cousins from she series rillas knew part in a census of the register. from extinction, sensibilities in the 1960s. the genus Homo almost Vimnga gorillas. His Mem- Fossey began her fieldwork as killers and habitat will feature solely establish- bers' program in 1967 with the destroyers. Fosseys two of his work Karisoke reminiscences conser- ment of the decades of study and with Fossey and review con- Research Centre in the vation among the gorillas successes and fail- Volcanoes region of servation her 1985 murder. Virunga a ended with ures in the region, including Rwanda. All previous gorilla Dino-Mite Ian Redmond, a longtime of the effects of had been made at a discussion and friend of Fos- studies colleague quar- Rwanda's civil war. w...^..—distance, since at close will talk with Members on page 3 seys. J^l'h..o^hu- Use the coupon Deal! ters gonllas are a ra,d Dinner her philosophy Tboul her life, to register for the program. mans (and vice versa). Her of conservation, and the fu- Prime Rib Dinner vfgi'tuhUs with puuitoes ttnil Day Trip to the Members' 5:0O-7:3O pm Every Frulay and Saturday, Package Reservation INaluremax Dinner Theater Shinnecock enlree. IruUulet a lomplele dinnpr JCJ-i 00 per p^r^on ^X uppeli«.r or dr»*en and cojfee. Saturday. November 13 p.m. 9:00 a.m.-6:00 Higheru „l„, Members U^h,Mou.-fri: 11:30 -3:30 Participatmg and Brunch: II .00 4:00 $50. and open only to StUurxlay tind Sunday 5-00 - 7:30 Ages 13 and up Dinr\fr lettiing. fri.- Sol: F,ir KP8crvalionsr«U2J2-fl74-J436 church. A member Village. Mem- center and arrival of English Southampton After the of the tribe will discuss Shin- bers can observe the ways in colonists on Long Island local and answer Shinnecock have necock culture quickly displaced which the Indians were questions. Afterward. Mem- C4 ... kept their culture alive on a tribes, such as the that and many will be served a meal their reservation. bers the island's tour of Corchaugs on features foods popular among Participants w^ll travel by North Fork, simply disap- Museum to the native peoples. Shinnecock Indi- bus from the peared. The Use the coupon on page 5 reservation. A guide will wel- endured, and today about please note ans and introduce to register, and descendants come visitors 200 of their tickets are available only reservation and its history that tract of the occupy a wooded mail. with tours of the community by AduIt-ChUd Workshop land on Shinnecock Bay in Members' Feast of Clay Members' Walking Tour of Sunday, November 21 10:30 a.m.-floon and 1:30-3:00 p.m. Van Cortlandt Park $26 per couple, and open only to Participating and Higher Members Sunday, November ? Ages 5-9 and Higher Members a^iroi«To"nIv'to arp^ting for your |?f The pilgrims celebrated individual favors up seasonal candle hold Ages 13 and their first harvest with a ban- guests, centerpiece for the quet, and we commemorate ers. or a not cooking their Thanksgiving every year table. If you're ments were hidden from taste geological formations influ- year, perhaps your Geologist Sidney Horcn- the with turkey and all the trim- this topography. British invaders during whimsical Mem- ence the park's year you can will run toward a stcin will accompany Revolutionary War, Horen- mings. This Participants will stroll along leftovers (guaranteed bers on an exploration of one Members delight your family and plate of divisions stein uall talk with definitely recreation part of the Putnam fat- and salt-free and of the city's biggest of the parks friends with table ornaments railroad line, about the origins the Mu- now-abandoned Like noncaloric). c areas, Horenstein, and those of the park's of your own creation. o the exterior of the lake coupon on page seum's coordinator of envi- observe the pilgrims, you'll be work- Use the Cortlandt man- mystery monuments. please note public programs, 1748 Van ing with a product from the to register, and ronmental the coupon on page 5 only climb to the top of Use arc available point out some of Van sion, and earth: self-hardening clay. that tickets will to order tickets, which arc Vault Hill to see where some Cortlandt Park s historical Join June Myles to fashion by mail. available only by mail order. of New York City's docu- features and descnbe how its -

Members' Guided Tours of Antarctica Lecture Series Antarctica Five Wednesdays, starting October 27 7:00-8:00 p.m. Friday. November 12 Kaufmann Theater and Higher Members $20 for Members, l^e: a'ndVnVr^V^J'p'rtidpating Series tickets: $25 for non-Members

Atmosphere to the American Museum scien- Upper Edge of the Universe. lists who have been to can explore the William A. Gutsch. Jr.. chair- Members Antarctica will discuss the exhibition in and associate astron- new Gallerv 3 continent at a series of slide- man of professionally omer at the Hayden the company illustrated lectures. They'll Volunteer Highlights Planctanum. trained discuss glaciers and climate who'll discuss November 17; Penguins Tour guides, changes, penguins and other fascinating dis- and Other Anlcrctic Birds, Antarctica's birds, dinosaurs and drifting explorations of F. Barrowclough, plays, from continents, the ozone hole, George atmospheric chairman and associate the region's global warming and the na- to its role in curator. Department of phenomena ture of the upper atmos- Participants Ornithology global wamiing. phere, and the continent's of the December 1: Antarctic will also view some treasure trove of meteorites, permanent exhibi- Dinosaurs and Dri/(fng Con Museum's This series is presented in the conti- Mark Norell. curator. tions that relate to conjunction with the upcom- tinents Department of Vertebrate nent. ing Gallery 3 exhibition (see last about an Paleontology. The lours page 1 for details). hour and are not recom- make your mended for children under October 27: Anlarctica To register, coupon below to check payable to the Ameri 13. Use the Ice and the Hocks Beneath. note that Museum of Natural His register, and please Michael Novacek, vice presi- can only by tory and mail with a self- tickets are available dent and dean of science . addressed, stamped envelope mail. November 3: Antarctic Antorctlca. Attn Sidney Treasures from Space — to: Horenstein. coordinator of Meteorites. Martin Prlnz. environmental public pro curator, Department of Min- grams. American Museum of eral Sciences History. 79lh Street November 10: Anforctica: Natural Central Park West, New Us Weather, the Ozone at York, NY 10024-S192, Holei the Nature of the

° Membership Workshops and Tours Use th^s^o^P«" Hoofclng. and Dav Trip rcq.ster for Hawk MounKm.. Kug second and toShinnecock Reservation. Indicate a first register for Guided Tours o} third choice of times to Von Cortondt Park and Antarctica and Walking Tours of choice of times for Clav Workshops. a first and second

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by passenger expeditions. Address: Island, home of the first US From January 3 through The two on-board helicopters research base on the conti- Discovery Cniises will remote is- _Statc: 25. permit access to City: nent. They'll spend several — follow in the wake of early and allow Weddell Sea. land destinations adventurers on days in the explorers and aerial surveys of icebergs and telephone: _ for the rarely seen Daytime exciting natu- looking one of its most glaciers. A fleet of Zodiac penguin. Other to date: emperor put ral history adventures landing craft can quickly category:— highlights include stops at the Membership Icebreaker Expedition to passengers ashore wherever Orkney Islands. South Muscurn of South Geor- South an to the Amcncan Antarctica and there is open water, and make check payable Georgia and its impressive Please gia Island. extraordinary team of Mu- History and mail ^^th a concentration of seals, pen- NaTufal MembcrshpUMce'hfp'ofU^e This will be Discovery and naturalists tVorlcshops and Tours«»-**^7X species of seum lecturers envelope to guins, and four Central Park West at Cruises* eighth journey to provide an in-depth edu- Museum of Natural H.sto^ and the Falklands. will Ameri^^:^ will cruise albatross, 10024-5192. Antarctica- Tourists cational program, New York. NY The powerful, polar class 79th Street. the ice-choked channels of For further information, call icebreaker Kapitan Khleb- the Antarctic Peninsula as 769-5)700 (outside New take participants to (212) the nikou will they head south of York State: 800-462-8687) that are seldom visited Antarctic Circle to Stonington places ——

Cuba: Nature of an Island

On display in the Akeley Gallery

tures bilingual text, is on earliest fossils of a land dis- joint the results of this unusual play in the Akeley Gallery cional de Historia Natural In mammal ever unearthed in are special places the scientists Islands explored project. Among 16- through January 3, Afterward they're Havana have of the West Indies. The for natural history — discoveries are the remains Nalure an remarkable flora and fossils are Cuba: of Island unique plants Cuba's species million-year-old blessed with a previously unknown will go on permanent display together since 1989. sloth, a relative of the but their native fauna have from a and animals, of monkey that may in the Museo Nacional The new exhibition Cuba: two-toed tree sloth of South species are prone to extinc- humans colo- an Island features died out after de Historia Natural in research team of Nalure of 7.000 America. tion, A specimens nized Cuba at least Havana. American photographs and The exhibition, which fea- scientists from the years ago. They also found illustrate some of the Museum and the Museo Na- that

Lectures The Mack Upkin Man and Nature Lecture Series Rhodes Fall Speaker: Geologist Frank H.T- Charles Darwin's Portrait

will present The Geol Explore the mysteries of stein of a Small Planet the Planets. human origins, search for ogy of addition, animal expert Portrait Solomon's mines, and dis- In and Charles Darwin's Andrew Simmons vinll host a cover the geological marvels lively family program. of the solar system at the Large Primate Wildlife Conservation of a 1993 Fail Lecture Series. Prev, and Habi- sponsored by the Education Predators. Tuesday, October 26 The programs — featur Monday, October 25, and Department. tats. wild animals such as 7-00 D m.. Main Auditorium ^ , m* u Speakers include Robert ing live for non-Members carnivorous reptiles and birds rerturcs: $10 for Members, $20 who will present Both Eisenman. on for non-Members of prey — will be repeated lecture: $5 for Members, $10 Mystery. Research, and the Single Saturdays and Sundays, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jared four October 23, at M Diamond, whose topic is beginning a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Disastrous Past. Joseph 11:00 Our call Department For further information J. Peters of the evolution driven by natural {212)769-5310. Monday the ocean-deeps, and mountain of Mineral Sciences will offer Frank H T, Rhodes, early from 9:00 unique portrait of selection. The scientist's and Magic. through Friday of Cornell Univer- chains- The Mincrols. Myths, president in addressing the p.m. that Darwin cre- reticence Sidney Horen- am to 5 00 present this year's the planet and geologist sity, will place of humankind in the Man and Nature ated represented the first Mack Lipkin scheme will be to design a model of evolutionary Lectures. A geologist by train- attempt the addressed, along with the faculty the mechanism by which ing. Rhodes holds the of human " influence of studies earth works Darwin's the- rank of professor of geology by were the origins and characteristics Mead his ories about the earth 1993 Margaret at Cornell. In addition to Wallace- theory Huxley. Lyell. and philosophy and foundation for his later doctorates in great evolutionary de of evolution and the source of The science, he holds honorary cen- Film Festival questions about bates of the nineteenth from more than 20 fundamental degrees will be reviewed and nature and natural law. tury - October 10 institutions. His numerous Monday, October 4 Sunday, linked to contemporary con- Geological The second lecture, awards include the nature Portrait of cerns about human Daniel Pidgeon Charles Daruiin's Society's values, and human Large Primate, will take human Fund, Lyell Fund, and Bigsby a 10. destiny. of p.m on Sunday. October place on Tuesday, October A fascinating assortment Medal- below to which go on will examine Use the coupon films from Daily tickets, Rhodes was ap- 26- Rhodes anthropology In 1987 lectures, and 5.00 pm. on week- Darwin's mature career and register for the around the world are featured sale at pointed by President Reagan further information call days and at 10:30 am on his growing conviction that for in the 1993 Margaret Mead to the National Science weekends, are $7 for Mem- developed through (212) 769-5019- Film Fesfiuaf. For a complete Board, and in 1989 he was species and $8 for non-Members schedule of films and videos bers appointed by President Bush and are not sold in advance. calU2 12) 769-5305- to the Presidents Education ticket does not guarantee The festival hours arc from A Policy Advisory Committee. admission to the film of your Nature Ucturcs. Please indicate 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Mon- The author of more than 70 Mack Lipkin Man and choice; all seating is on a first- day. October 4, through major scientific articles and single or both lectures. basis. A Thursday. October 7. from come, first-sepjed monographs and 60 articles festival pass (valid October Oct. 26 11 00 am. to 8:30 p.m on on education. Rhodes' books Mon.. Oct- 25. andTucs., 4-10) is $36 for Members Saturday. October 9; and include The Evolution of Number of Members tickets at $10: and $40 for non-Members. I tickets at $20; from ll;00a,m. toSiOO Life. Fossils, and Language Number of non-Members' \ program: of the Earth. Total amount enclosed for The lectures will begin on Monday. October 25. with Mon.. Oct. 25. only Striped Bass Tag Charles Daruiin's Portrait of Number of Members' tickets at $5: a Small Planet. DaPAfin's Number of non-Members' tickets at $10; program; Release in NY Harbor early scientific vocation was Total amount enclosed for and geology, and his voyage aboard the Beagle (1831-36) Tues.. Oct. 26. only Friday, November 26 coincided with the publication Number of Members' tickets at $5: of Charles Lyells Principles Number of non-Members' tickets at $10: with amount enclosed for program: Tom Lake. Captain of Geology;. Armed Total Friends of Fishes and the adviser baykccper Lyells methodology. Darwin Foundation Joe Shastay. and Hudson River himself to the study Wilner. Soup, sand* devoted the second annual Andy present of the earth, based on his Name: outing wiches. beer, wine and day-afler-Thanksgiving great sweets will conviction that some will cheeses. fnJit. and at which participants to be fishing gear law of nature remains Address: and release striped be sen^d. and all catch, tag. discovered by geologists" will be provided. bass. (Darwin, unpublished note). City: .State: Fnday, For additional information At 8:30 a.m.. on recounts Dar- Fishes at (212) The lecture 26. anglers will call Friends of November life and explains telephone: 289-3605 or fax (212) 360- win's early Daytime board the Miss Elizabeth at make your the devotion of his early sci- Seaport. A first- 6625, To register, South Street search for payable to entific career to the Membership category: fishing vessel with a check for $60 class will discuss Fishes/ AMNH and this law. Rhodes heated cabin, the Miss Eliza- Friends of Museumo the centrality of the Beagle Please make check payable to the American captained by Joe Pe- mail with a self-addressed, stanpe beth is to Darwin's Natural Histon; and mail with a self-addressed, envelope tO: Friends explorations plowski. Participants will be stamped Special tvems other work, including his envelope to: Mon and Nature. Office of .John Wald- of Fishes. 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^" 3:0(^8:00 p.m ^t^"'" Museum Noon-8:00 p.m. Sat Noon-5:00 p.m. Sun. & most holidays the first floor of Notes Snack Carts (at 77th Street & on the Roosevelt Memorial Hall) a,m.-4:00 p.m. Hours Sat. & Sun 11:00 Sun 10:00 a.,n.-5,45p.n,. ^!^r-"Tût & Entrances 10:00 a.m.-8:45 pm. , ^°\ Sa, During Museum hours uisitors can enter the Shop entronce. the The Museum building through the 77th Street 10:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Mon -Thurs, & Sun entrance (81st Street), or the Roo- p.m. narking lot p.m. on 10:00 a.m,-7:45 {79th Street and are two hours long and held at 3 30 Fri & Sat sevelt Memorial Hall entrance old pro- at 4.00 p.m. on Fridays, and at Central Park West) Visitors ottending Wednesdavs. 10:00 a.m.^:45p.m. or 2:30 p.m. on weekends. The group ^Mon™"/""" grams after hours can enter the bujj^'ns 11 00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.-5:45 p.n.. 79th no fewer than 10 and no more than ^°\sun::.:::: through rhe drivewav entrance at should be $15 per child, ffhe cost Central Park West. 20 The fee is $275 plus p.m. Street and f ^'xues^-Fr.— 11:00 a.m.-4:00 includes all materials, juice, ice c^ô"'- "« Z?^'' included.) Call (212) 76^- Discoverv Room bogs. The cake is not The , „ . / Naturemax at the first-floor mforma- a further information. Passes are distributed The Naturemax Theater presents Antarctica, 5606 for Ages 5- 0, beginning at 1145 aw highest, driest, cold- lion desk thrilling exploration of the by an adult. be accompanied on earth. Parking , „, ChUdreT} must most mysfehous continent , est, and parking lot Is located on tfUl holidoys and uêekdays^ ar^d 1 .JO The Museum's Closed on . on « « Showtimes for Antarctica arc 10 30 1 and Columbus Noon^:30 p.m. Street between Central Pork West Sal. & Sun daffy. Tropical Ram am I30and3:30p.m. limited and available on a first Natural Science Center 400millioryvear evolu Auenue Space is The Forest, which portrays the cars and their famiUes. first-served basis; fees are $12 for children of all ages and resources, is shouin at come, for tion these uanishing 9.30 am- to ôijday^^^ of buses. The lot is open from Closed on Mondays and 4.30 p.m. $11 for _,2:30 p.m. 12:30. 2:30. and Sunday through Thursday and from 6.00 and 7:30 p.m 9 30 p.m. on ^^^' ^ On Friday and Saturday at Saturday- and 2:00^.30 p.m. 9-30 to midnight on Friday and double bill with Tropical am Antarctica is shot*;n on a away from 1:00-4:30 p.m. Hertz Manhattan, located one block Sun and prices a-'e subject to Sat. & Rain Forest. Schedules West 77th Street (between 769-5650 for the Museum ol 210 change u;iIhout notice Call (212) Amsterdam), offers parking Dining Broadway and Museum further information. on Monday through .- u \ discounts to Members: (Participating and Higher Members): regular Admission they receiue a $2 discount off $5.50 double feature Fridav Adults- $4 single feature; on Saturdav and Sunday Members double feature prices and Garden Cafe ^<.^c Children: $2 single feature; $3 ,„ receiue a $3 discount. at (212) 769-5606 S;^C-/^'^^^":--a.n.-3:30p. Call the Membership 0//ice Birthday Parties information about aflernatlue porking young Members 5-10 years for ^r:^;S,.ti:n:::::=n;oo^":i?S^m: Theme parties for

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Part'cpating and Admission to the Sky Show for Laser Shows and $3.50 lor Higher Members is $6 for adults Le€:ture laser visu- schedule subject into another dimension where children ages 2 to 12. Prices and Journey combine to create a dazzling J u Astrophysics without notice For als and rock music Frontiers in Astronomy and to change ,7°",'^'=")^^^ are presented call (2\2) 769-5100.gS'" of sight and sound. Shows October 25, at 7 30 p.m.. Thomas and additional information, experience On Monday, 8:30. and 10:00 illustrated and Saturdays at 7:00. Boston University will present an on Fridays Bania of show schedule, telephone in the Life of the Uni- m For pnccs and talk "The First 100 Seconds p probing the strange (212)769-5100. verse Bania will discuss how Exhibition time and space may happenings at the beginning of and fate of the us to understand the nature no laser shows on help star Trek® Exhibition: Please note: There will be universe. Sixties 22. and 23. due to theater reno- _ o« Stevec. « A Retrospective of the Oct, 8. 9. 15, 16. November 16. at 7;30 p.m Enferpnse On Tuesday. costumes, Starfleet unifomis. Space Flight Center Alien vations. Maran of the NASA Goddard props and photos from Space models, and assorted illustrated lecture. "Hubble series are on will present an original 1960s television the latest findings Paramounts Telescope Update." Hell discuss curated the Na- display in a special exhibition W first rescue and preview the HSTs Explore the histon- '' Seconds in the from orbit Air and Space Museum, Ucture: "The First 100 tional October Zb. mission. . . themes Monday. _ social, and cultural I Life of the Universe." Frontiers rn PiS_ cal. political, These lectures are part of the Star Trek* senes. For incon^orated into the weekly ! 7:30 p.m series. Tickets are ^-b tronomx^ and ^Astrophysics 769-5100. of Members' tickets at $6 infomiation call (212) I Number and Higher Members and $8 tor for Participating (no more than 4, please); adjacent coupon to order 1 »a: non-Members. Use the of non-Members tickets at ; Number information about ticket availability tickets, and for Total amount enclosed: 769-5900. [ and upcoming lectures call (212) Children's Shows for ' "Hubble Space Telescope is a special Sky Show Lecture; Wonderful Sky p.m. with images of Tuesday. November 16. 7:30 nreschoolers. Children sing along Update." Muppets as they learn Number of Members" tickets at $6 their favorite Sesame Street Sky Show moon, sunsets, more than 4. plcase):__ about rainbows, the phases ol the (no tickets at $8: Star Trek" 30 and 1 1-45 am Number of non Members' Orion Rendezvous.. .A and stars, Sal.. 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New voy- Central blaze in the sky. and then category and a lirsi telephone: place where six suns indicate membership I Daytime our own. 10024) 100 million times bigger than showtimes, and include a sclt- age to a sun second choice of I the and stars arc bom and explore and your daytime Membership category:__ Discover where addresscd. stamped envelope ; died in one ol the call galactic graveyard of a star that phone number, For additional information, universe ^pace payable '-'he Hayden powerful explosions in the 1 Please make check most self-addressed. will know that and mail with a enthusiasts and Star Trek* fans alike Space features Lucasfilm's R2D2 Planetarium and has Robots in Lectures Hayden no planetanum audience especially for chil envelope- to: they have gone where and has been created 1 s amped C-SPO" West at 81st Street, with a live host, these PlanTtarium. Central Park gone before. dren ages 7 to 12, Together 31. the 10024-5192. 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Tuesday, November 30 7:00 p.m. Main Auditorium for non-Members $8 for Members, $12 strenuous the gorillas-long, tiring, an unstable political the stu- mud. and over the entirety of the as outstanding among roving patrols life and niond complicated by The story of Dian Fosseys climate—is further Rwandans who can who worked at the camp. A s Viaingas using mountain dents and their slaughter. Fowey achievements among the poachers This is actual con- biologist, photographer, and prove themselves. grown to leg- wildlife decades of observational studies gorillas of Rwanda has as Fossey s two not theoretical conserva- wnter. Redmond worked by the servation, endary proportions. Fosseys adven- were constantly internjpted assistant from 1976 to tion." of the great research defend the animals she re- tures among the greatest he worked for the need to Fosseys concept of active conser- as 1978: in 1980 apes, whom she came to regard the searched. her from much of the Mountain Gorilla Project and in a vation alienated almost certamly the years she developed friends and whom she part in a cen- Over community, most fund-rais- following year he took frequent patrols scientific extinction, have been policy that advocates and saved from gorillas. His contn- conservation organizations, sus of the Virunga destroy poacher ing writers and journalists in in wildlife areas to cost Fossey related by Karisoke. Fossey wrote many Rwandans It also magazines bulions to weapons, backed up books, newspapers, and accolades but equipment and or more of her numer- were not for personal enforcement her life—one even Hollywood firm and prompt law 1985. around the world, gorillas and active by enemies murdered her in for the sake of the promotes ous stylishly melodramatic Active conservation also rendered a the Virunga Vol- gorillas, however, survive conservation within of breeding Tlie portrayal, Members can learn the census counts in regions about his In addition to reminiscing of canoes," concentration and strong facts the past and the future and ranging will re- about talk with Members with Fossey. Redmond Redmond will animals' limited work Karisoke Research Centre safeguards for the and fail- the work at controversial philoso- view conservation successes about Fosseys the lucrative from one of Fosseys closest friends habildt-rather than including the active conservation. The al- ures in the region, Redmond, who phy of of tourists, "i am only and co-workers. Ian under encroachment Rwandos civil war. To regis- ready arduous circumstances the effects of this month- person, but one person on comes to the Museum studied—at an one the program, use the coupon which the gorillas art* "1 know what ter for In GoriWas in the Mrsi. her moving spot Fosscy wrote, of 10.000 feet in a region on page 3 Karisoke. altitude done for the protection of account of her years at foot -deep has to be subject to torrential rains, Fosscy warmly acknowledged Red- —

and will lead them on a tour Members' Private his- ChemistTV for Kids discuss the reservation's tribe Viewing of Star tory. A member of the Saturday. November 6 Shinnecock Exhibition will talk about Young Members will expe- Trek culture and answer questions, rience the magic of chemistry and Sky Show The trip will take place through demonstrations and Tuesday. November 9 from 9:00 am. to 6:00 pm hands-on experiments at the Members can take a seat in Tickets are $50 and available eighth annual presentation of Captain Kirk's chair and step only to Participating and Patricia Chemistrv for Kids, of and into the transporter room Higher Members ages 13 Ann Redden, a professor of page the Enterprise at a private up. Use the coupon on chemistry and departmental note viewing of the Planetarium's 5 to register, and please chairperson at Saint Peters only current exhibition. The Star that tickets are available College in Jersey City, will Trek retrospective exhibition, by mail. host the program, which is which was coordinated by the geared toward children be- National Air and Space Mu- tween the ages of 5 and 12. seum, features Starfleet uni- Showtimes are at 11:00 forms, props, and Forbes 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. in The am.. memorabilia from the 1960s the Kaufmann Theater. Tick- Magazine television series. Members will ets are $6 for Members and Collection of also view the cun-ent Sky presented this Faberge Renaissance for non-Members, Please Czar Alexander III $10 Orion Rendezvous. A show, Faberge wife, Maria Feodorovna. in 1894 note that all attendees must egg to his Star Trek Voyage of Discov- have tickets, and use the Tuesday. November 23 ery. November Members' pro- The Planetarium will open page 3 to dart created by grams coupon on of The objets at 6:00 pm. on the night register. jeweler Peter Carl Faberge— the private viewing. The Sky including his celebrated Impe- Show will start at 7:00 p.m.. Discover Easter Eggs—are the and afterward the exhibition rial illustrated lecture- every* focus of an will remain open until New Guinea Members* Mary Ellen Sinko. curator of Papua one has had a chance to see Tour of the Forbes magazine collec- Walking Tickets arc $7 and avail- it. highlights tion:, will discuss above the Tari Gap in the Van Cortlandt able only to Participating and The American Museums from the collection amassed mist-shrouded mountains Park Higher Members. Use the scientists have conducted by publisher Malcolm Forbes, surrounding lands are November Members" pro- research in Papua New The the his- Shell also talk about home to the majestic bird oi Sunday. November 7 grams coupon on page 3 to Guinea for decades, and an tory of the House of Faberge paradise, exotic plants and Geologist Sidney Horen- register. exciting land and river Discov- of imperial pa- and the role February 16 flowers, and the 'Wigmen, stein will lead walking tours ery Tour from tronage in Faberges career. knovm for their elaborately around Van Cortlandt Park in through March 1 follows in The program will take painted faces and amazing the Bronx Horenstein, who that tradilion, Trip place at 7:00 p.m. in the hair embel- coordinator Members' Day large island of New wigs of human is the Museums Tickets The Kaufmann Theater, lished with feathers, flowers, of environmental public pro- to the Shinnecock Guinea was virtually the last are $6 for Members and $9 Traveling along about histori- uninhabited place on earth to and shells. grams, will talk Reservation the for non-Members; use the Sepik allows participants features and describe how be explored by Europeans, cal 3 to register November 13 coupon on page to visit fascinating villages geological formations influ- Saturday. and even today parts of the Islands earli- with immense and distinctive ence the park's topography. Many of Long country have little contact vanished after "spirit houses and to see The tours will take place at est inhabitants with the West. The island is so of local art- and 130 the arrival of colonists. Not wonders and its stunning arrays 10:30 am . noon, rich in natural whose de- work and artifacts. p.m. Tickets are $16 and the Shinnecock, Adult- isolation from every major a reserva- Members' Accompanying this Discov- dvailable only to Participating scendants maintain land mass except Australia Village. Tour and providing an and Higher Members. Call tion in Southampton Child Workshop: has allowed the evolution of ery by bus educational enrichment pro the Membership Office at Members can travel Feast of Clay unique u^ldlife. Islanders main- from the Museum to the traditions gram are an anthropologisl (212) 769-5606 for informa 21 tain diverse cultural where a guide Sunday, November worked with Margaret tion about ticket availability. reservation, that were studied by Margaret who This Thanksgiving you and and an ornithologist/ Mead earlier in this century. Mead your child can work together have Participants on this Discov- naturalist, both of whom to create a holiday keepsake extensive research ery Tour will divide their time conducted you'll treasure for years that in Guinea. For further in New Guinea between the New lo come. June Myles will Southern Highlands and the information call Discovery assist adults and kids in fash- or the highlands Tours at (800) 462-8687 ornaments Sepik River, In ioning tabletop 769-5700 in New York they'll stay at Ambua Lodge, (212) from self-hardening clay which is perched 7,000 feet State. options include individual favors for each guest, seasonal candle holders, or a centerpiece. The 90-minutc workshops are geared toward children between the ages of 5 and 9. They'll take place at 10:30 lOUNDA a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $26 per couple and are ISSN 0194-6110 available only to Participating and Higher Members. Use Vol. 18. No. 10 the coupon on page 5 to November 1993 register, and please note that tickets are available only by Donna Bell — Editor mail. Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Services Angela Soccodato — Designer Rita Campon — Copy Editor Yolanda Loften — Fulfillment Coordinator Members' Risa Miller — Program Coordinator Tours of Guided Rotunda, a publication for Participating and Higher Antarctica Members of the American Museum of Natural History, is and published monthly September through June, bimonthly July Friday. November 12 August, Publication offices are at Natural Historic magazine, Visit Antarctica in the i" American Museum of Natural History. Central Park West at 7 company of professionally 769- Street. New York. NY 10024-5192 Telephone: (212) trained Volunteer Highlights 5606. Subscriptions: $50 a year for Participating Membership: Tour guides. The Gallery 3 $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 Amencan tours will take place at 4:00. New Museum of Natural History. Second-class postage paid at 5:30. and 7:00 pm- Tickets York. 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cookies and colorful candies. Name: Build the house of your windows of gingerbread This Members' family work- sweetest dreams at the Mem- houses and apartments. will show par- shop has become an annual Address; bers' annual gingerbread- June Myles parents and kids house-making workshop ticipants how to raise the tradition as .Zip:. return each year to build a City: .State: Gumdrops, jelly beans, candy beams and assemble the new holiday creation. Use the canes, and other tasty treats structure of their no-bake telephone: the edi- coupon on page 5 to register, Daytime are the stuff of architectural houses. Then comes and please note that tickets fantasies as they form the ble art —decorating the assortment of are available only by mail. Membership category; . bricks, shingles, doors, and houses with an

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Chemistry for Kids. Saturday. November 6. Please indicate a first, second, and third choice of times- ^11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Number of Members* tickets at $6: Number of additional tickets at $10; Total amount enclosed for program;

Members' private viewing of Star Trek Tuesddv, Nuveiiiber 9. 6:00 p ni, Number of Members' tickets at $7; Origami Holiday Workshops Total amount enclosed for program: The Forbes Magazine Collection of Fabergc Saturday, December 11 Tuesday. November 23. 7:00 p.m. 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., 2.00 and 3:00 p.m. Number of Members' tickets at $6; tickets at $2 materials fee per person, Number of additional $9: . and open only to Total amount enclosed for program: Participating and Higher Members GoriUas in the Mist. Tuesday. November 30. 7:00 p.m. Nunil)er of Mt-inbets' tickets al $8: scissors, no glitter, no No Number ol additional tickets at $12; all ages glue—Members of Total amount enclosed for program: can learn to make animals, stars, and other enchanting Endangered Species. Friday. December 10, 7:00 p.m. figures with just sheets of Number of free Members' tickets colored paper. Families can (no more than 2. plea5e):__ experience the centuries-old Number of additional Members" tickets at $5: charm and satisfaction of Number of non-Members' tickets at $8; paperfolding at the fifteenth Total amount enclosed for program: annual Holiday Origami Workshops. December U. Young Children s Work- Origami Holiday Workshops. Saturday, first, second, and third shop (ages 4-6). Youngsters Please indicate workshop level and a will fold a few models from choice of limes. the following possibilities: __ Young Children's Workshop butterflies, swans, jumping Beginners' Workshop frogs, candy canes, purses, Intermediate Workshop boxes, or sailboats. Children 10:30 a.m. 11:30 am. must be accompanied by an ^ 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p m. adult. Number of Members' tickets al $2: Beginners' Workshop Total amount enclosed for program: (ages 6 and older). Partici- of pants will fold one or more Valley Forge. Wednesday. December 15. 7;00 p.m. the selections: a following Number of Members' tickets at $7; blow-up panda, a bunny, a Number of additional tickets at $10: whale, butterfly, frog pup- a a Total amount enclosed for program: pet, a penguin, or a crystal. intermediate Workshop (ages 7 and older). Partici- NOTE: Orders received less than ten days before pants in this workshop should on dates will be held for picU-up at the door origami show be comfortable with available. If paperfolder Michael Shall, all the program if tickets are still All workshops are taught the day of folds such as mountains and advised in writing or and Members will receive origami an event is sold out. you will be valleys, rabbit ears, inside- by Museum volunteers Instructionb to take and your check will be returned. Babes in members of the Friends of paper and by phone reverse, and squash folds. admitted to programs. of Amer- home. Use the coupon at arms or strollers will not be They'll learn at least one of the Origami Center right to register, and please the following models: a dove, ica. At the conclusion of the been note tfiat tickets are available a dinosaur, a star, a straw- workshops, which have only by mail. berry, or a seal. organized by professional Members' Day Trip to the New President Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for the American Museum Day of 750 and an A trative staff Ellen V Putter, the first endowment of over $200 woman to serve as chief exec- 124- million. utive in the Museum's with the As president of the Mu- year history, takes office as seum. Putter's goals include president this month. Putter, making the Maseum a leading who has been president of Dinosaurs public forum, both nationally Barnard College for the past and internationally, for the December 4 1 3 years, succeeds George Saturday, debate of the great scientific p.m. D Langdon, Jr.. who 9:00 a.m.-6:30 issues of our time; substantially announced last December $50, and open only to enlarging the Museums ed- that he intended to step down Participating and Higher Members for both adults and when he completed his five- ucative role Ages 10 and older children; dramatically increas- year term. ing the Museums visibility and Putter. 44. was the in New York: and youngest person ever to head influence schol- at making the Museum's a major American college arly work better known. the lime of her inaugural She A Barnard alumna. Putter is renowned as a dynamic received her JD degree from voice for higher education. Columbia University She moves from the steward- the School of Law in 1974 and Scier\ce Behind the Ma\^' ship of a select educational Futter Can you clone your own corporate law at Ellen V. faculty and practiced hem. At this exciting exhibi- institution with a dinosaur? And if you could, Milbank. Tweed. Hadley. and which looks at the staff over 700 and an en- want to? After a tion, of She would you than $60 McCloy for six years. Park benefits and risks of genetic dowment of more named president the follow- hot summer of Jurassic acting president of participants will to a cultural institution became can ponder engineering, million ing year. mania Members adminis- Barnard in 1980 and was what scientists know with a curatorial and these and other burning ques- learn about dinosaur behavior, size, tions at Philadelphia's physiology. They'll also Academy of Natural Sciences. and of the dinosaurs Naturalist June Myles will see some modem-day relatives. (Partici escort Members on the trip, Valley Forge: exhibition which departs from the pants will tour the own.) The group will Preservation American Museum at 9:00 on their Years of American 100 at arrive back at the a.m. Participants will arrive Museum at 6:30 p.m. 15 the academy at about 1 1 ;00 December If you missed the American Wednesday, a,m. for a private behind-the- Jurossic Park 7:00 p.m. scenes tour led by the head of Museums exhibition or if you saw it and Kaufmann Theater the vertebrate paleontology for non-Members whetted your appetite for $7 for Members, $10 department. After a bag lunch it dinosaurs, this trip is a an academy docent will lead a more not-to-be-missed opporlunilv tour of the permanent di- the coupon on page 5 to nosaur exhibits. Use please note that Before heading homeward register, and are available only by participants can explore the tickets exhibition Jurassic Park: The mail.

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Monday, December 6, through Thursday, December 9 7:30 p.m. Main Auditorium $12 for all children, $17 for adult Members, S22 for adult non-Members

the Holiday cheer abounds with today's world by inviting dance the New York Revels at a audience to sing and performance of traditional with them in the aisles. and dances, processionals, carols, A cast of 70 children and drama. The Wfnler Rev- adults will perform a variety the an- els echoes the Celtic rituals of dances including cient "Abbots Bromley" Washington's headquarters at Vallev Forge that marked the seasonal boundary between shadow antler dance (in which massive and sunshine at the end of dancers bear the of a reindeer atop then the comfort and but not forgotten. the old year and the begin- horns An important chapter in lodged in and a year is Valley Forge Through heads). Morris dancing, War wannthof Philadelphia, Its This ning of the new. America's Revolutionary The Revels on high ground, with National Historical Park's performance and participa- sword dance began witli the Conti- location histoTV superin- will sing a wassail Schuylkill River to tlie centennial, and park tory theater the Revels mum- chorus nental Army's vjinter the Beach will variety of pagan car- north and Valley Creek to the tendent Warren D. mers blend song, dance, and song, a encampment at Valley Forge. Holly and talk with Members about the drama into a celebration of ols (including "The site was named a west, made it defendable In 1893 the ritual Hunt agencies that managed Valley life itself. the Ivy" and the park, and terrain. national historical " a century. the Wren song), and Years The bitterness of the winter Forge over the last A nonprofit organization. ing of at Volley Fortie 100 choral Valley He'll show slides of the site Revels is dedicated to the grand Renaissance Preservation, the park's the army endured at of to by early in Ameri- and discuss how the desire communication of timeless piece accompanied superintendent will discuss its Forge is legendary an idea and handbells history, but the training preserve it grew from traditions. Its repertoire is instruments history. can plac^^ table will take received tliere passed around a kitchen drawn from many cultures, Perfomianccs Washington's troops took the soldiers Decern national park of that nightly from Monday. De- contributed greatly to their into the and its productions show up bivouac positions in Thursday. De- Yorktown four today. all cultures in all times are fed ber 6. through cember 1777 at the Pennsyl- triumph al Cafe the November Mem- the same great river of cember 9, The Garden Forge was years later. The reinvigorated Use by vania camp, Valley on each evening army departed from Valley bers' programs coupon myth, story, and song. The will be open far enough away from the page 5 to June 1778. and page 3 to register for the troupe members seek to re- Use coupon on British troops to discourage Forge in abandoned program vive community celebration in register. attacks—the redcoats were their camp was Workshop Endangered Species: Members* Restoring the Deciphering Black Howler Monkey the Human Skeleton Thursday, December 16 5:30-7:30 p.m. $40. and open only to Friday, December 10 Participating and Higher Members 7:00 p.m. Theater Kauhnann », . Free for Members, $8 for non-Members

problems that When only the bones re- some of tlie en- main, how much information forensic anthropologists about an individual can be counter in ihc field, the reconstructed? Jeffrey The second half of deal with speci- Schwartz, professor of an- workshop will Participants will test thropology at the University mens stereotypes of gender of Pittsburgh and research the European material associate in anthropology at based on how consistently the American Museum, will and see morphology can be present an introductory skeletal or female. workshop that examines the termed male observe how conclusions of forensic anthro- They'll also aspects of aging and pology. certain can alter parts of the The worksliop will begin disease skeleton from 'male ' to fe- with a lecture, supplemented geographically di- with slides and specimens, male" A sample of skeletal dealing with analyses and prob- verse material will be available for k'tns in forensic studies. Tliese study of how much include disease and pathology. firsthand information can be extracted Irauma. artificial manipulation bones. and alteration of parts of the from the Enrollment Is limited, and a skeleton, normal skeletal vana- reading ifsf will be provided tlon. and the determination of registratiun Us<' tin- age and sex of tfie individual. upon below to register, and Schwartz will disfuss the coupon note that tickets arc stereotyiJes that have crept please witl discuss strategies available only by mail Mammalogist hreil Koontz into these studies and point out for preserving endangered species

after an acclima- with a team and released visionarv piece Park, has worked Hailed as a tion period into the of scientists for the last two of legislation, the Endangered Cockscomb Basin Wildlife an ambitious project Use this coupon to Species Act was signed into years on 100,000-acre I^embership Workshops and Tours. of Sanctuary, a to reestablish a population the Human Skeleton and the day law by President Nixon in preserve located in register for Deaphcnng in nature obser- black howler monkeys Heseruation and the Phiiadelphia December 1973. In southern Belize, He'll discuss trips to Sfilnnecoclc combined first, second, and nation's 20 the basin. The Natural Sciences- Indicate a vance of our the radio tracking of the mon Academv of pressures of yellow fever, times to register for the years of commitment to con- their release and third choice of dates and keys after ol hurricane damage, and a first and secorid choice serving endangered species, which this project Gingerbread House workshops, the the ways in ot overhunting had dnven tours, and a first and second choice ^4embers can hear about the to possible times for Antarctica in contributes a black species to local extinction Workshops and Con Ed Tours, ndicate reintroduction of the restorations of other endan- times for Oav 1978. choice of dates for The Winter howler monkey into the gered primate populations by first, second, and third Koontz will describe how Cockscomb Basin of Belize. methods. Reuels. captured similar of wild howlers were Fred Koontz, curator Use the coupon on page 3 healthy population in the Bronx from a of program(s): mammals at to register. ! Name(s) Belize, transported. ZooAVildlifc Consen/ation northern

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Our Own Backyard A Natural History of the Hudson River Valley Di scQver beginning January 19 Five consecutive Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Main Auditorium Explore our ]\atureniax Dinner Theater Package experi- Geological available laboratory features: Own Backvard. a five- Freeman, US See our latest Our ments, and complete a take- Survey. part lecture series, covers a exam. TropkoLRainForest February 2. "Botany and home final variety of topics concerning program River; Plants.' The January 19 River ecology, geol- Zoology of the nnd Antartwa Hudson feature a welcome by Stuart Findlay. Institute of will ogy, and hydrology The pro- entree, "Inverte- William T. Golden, chairman Includes a complete dinner the ways Ecosystem Studies: grams will focus on Museum. ^^^y-m " Daniels. NY of the American appetizer or dessert and coffee which geology and land use brates, Robert qq in The series program directors basin shape State Museum, perner person ^3. in the drainage Smith, curator February 9: "Zoology of are C. Lavett habitat and influence ecology of the Department River: Birds," Dennis emeritus factors lead to the for- the Such Ichthyology, and John Hours communi- Mildner, Hudson River Estu- of -3:30 mation of distinct research associate Lunch, Mon.^Fri: 11:30 arine Research Reserve; Waldman, ties of fishes and other Founda- Brunch: 11:00 - 4:00 Reptiles." at the Hudson River Saturday and Sunday water flows "Amphibians and organisms as is - 7:30 tion. Our Own Backward Dinner seating, Fri.- Sat: 5:00 the Adirondacks Michael Klemens. AMNH from high in by the Friends of Department of Herpetology presented call 212-769-5865 to New York Bay- The biol- For Reservations "Mam- Fishes Committee of the these organisms—how and Ichthyology; ogy of of Ichthyology " James Rod, National Department and why their numbers fluctu- mals. and the Hudson River Foun- plants, Audubon Society. ate, the food chain, proceeds benefit 16; Specialty dation, All will be exam- February and habitat— of Ichthyol- workshops with speakers of the Department III the final session regis- ined ogy meet with the registrants' choice. trants will information call Registration fees are $100 For further speakers in half-hour work- rg^...... •^^^^ ,^H^f^--^^^ $120 for Friends of Fishes at (2 1 2) focus on areas of for Members and shops that or fax (212) 360- non-Members for the series 289-3605 special interest. your for 6625. To register, make "Introduction without credit, and $160 January 19; Friends of lectures may check payable to Biotic Geog- credit Individual to the Hudson: enclose a a space-avail- Fishes/AMNH. f-avett Smith. be attended on raphy," C. self-addressed enve- tickets are $25 for stamped, AMNH; "Geology of the able basis; Member-Get-a-Member non-Mem- lope, and mail to: Our Own Sidney Horenstein, Members. $30 for Valley." Friends of Fishes. bers, and $10 for students Backi;ard. AMNH. Department of Ichthyology. "Environment and senior citizens. January 26: Natural register American Museum of Valley: Clima- Participants who o( the Hudson Street and Cen- will be re- History. 79th " me- for college credit tology. Irv Gikofsky. York. attend the five lec- tral Park West. New teorologisl. WPIX and quired to several NY 10024-5192 CBS-FM; Hydrology." Ward tures, perform one of

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I from the earth to other planets and Admission to the Sky Show for Participating and far. Joumcy distant black holes. Sat.. Nov. 6, and Sat,. Jan. 8. Lecture Higher Members is $6 for adults and $3.50 for 1 1 :45 a.m. Admission for Participating and children ages 2 to 12. Prices and schedules subject at in Astronomy and Astrophysics Frontiers is $4 for adults and $2 for chil- without notice. For non-Members prices Higher Members 16, at 7,30 p.m.. Steve to change On Tuesday. November additional infomiation, call (212) 769- call (212) 769-5100. dren. For Goddard Space Riglit Center and additional information, Maran of the NASA 5900. lecture, "Hubble Space will present an illustrated Telescope Update" Hell discuss the latest findings from orbit and preview the HST's first rescue Exhibition Eclipse Talk mission. in Astron- Exhibition: meteo- This lecture is part of the Frontiers Star TrekH On Monday. 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celebration of the founder Jack Langstaff will perform in Revels York Revels' fifteenth year in New The New York Revels The Winter Revels December 9 Monday. December 6. through Thursday. for non-Members |=^2"fraii Sren.1?7"or Members $22 on December !* Sign language performance place nightly perform Performances will take brass quintet with timpani will Main as companions in celebration from Monday, December 6. through Merrymakers in the Museums early music repertoire and accom festivities will be a an 9. The Garden trans- Among the par- Thursday. December Auditorium will find themselves Lord pany the chonjs and audience in "feast of fools"' ritual, in which a be open each evening from medieval village when the segments, including a grand Cafe will ported to a from the audi- ticipatory are of Misrule is chosen 500 to 7:00 p.m Reservations New York Revels reenact the piece with handbells. of mummers will ap- choral 769 5865. medieval Eng- ence. A group Christmas recommended; call (212) pageants and myths of George The company's first pear in the folkplaV of Saint Use the coupon on page 5 to register of 70 children and adults in Cambridge in 1971. land A cast and perform a tradi- Reveh. held processionals, and the Dragon and for the program will perform carols, was a glowing mix of medieval Uonal sword dance. Musical selections New York Revels will be collab- 1, songs and dances, song and dance. This The traditional folk Head ceremo- Renaissance not-for- the will include the Boar's orating with City Harvest, a poetry, and rituals associated with kind of theater — a centuries in the vibrant new to folk nial carol, sung for profit organization committed winter solstice. By singing familiar format with folk music, Church. Oxford; vaudeville-style on a canned- with dining hall at Christ's around feeding the homeless, songs and dancing in the aisles dances, and skits that revolve Wassail song, sung as a village during the evenings of the joins in the the theme — has food drive the cast, the audience of an ancient ceremonial celebration with mimed 'animals' performances. Please bring Winter Revels. American cities to Revels spirit of The as spread to nine perfor- the farm; and pagan carols such canned goods with you to the The heart of the Revels is commu- Langstaff. the Revels Ivy" and the rihial date. Jack the homeless of organi- The Holly and the mance to share with nity participation. A nonprofit founder, will be returning to New of the Wren" song, whose container for collecting dedicated to teaching "Hunting celebration of the New York. A zation, Revels is of sun. York to perform in sources date back to the days the goods will be provided- people by imparting timeless tradi fifteenth year in New York. and vegetation worship A Revels' 1 animal, tions that bond participants together - 1

Members' Aduh-Child Workshop with origami folds such as Members' Tours of the and Higher Members ages 10 mountains and valleys, rabbit and older Call the Member- inside-reverse, and Holiday ship Office at (212) 769- ears, Make a squash folds. Con Edison 5606 for information about House All participants will receive Gingerbread ticket availability. Plant origami paper and instnjc- home The Saturday, Dec. 18, or Sunday. Dec. 19 Endangered Species: tions to take will take place at OUT Thursday, Dec. 2 workshops SOLD SOLD OUT 10:30 and 11:30 am, and Restoring the 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. There is Sidney Horcnstein. the Howler a $2 materials fee per per- Museum's coordinator of Black son, and tickets are available and public programs, will lead a Monkey only to Participating tour of the Con Edison plant Higher Members. Use the pro- at West 59th Street. Partici- December Members' Friday, Dec. 10 to pants will see the generator grams coupon on page 3 and learn about how it sui>- register. plies local power. They'll There were no black monkeys in southern observe ail of the facility's howler Forge: operations, including the Belize for more than a decade Valley production of steam that's until an ambitious conserva- 100 Years of used to drive the turbines that tion program reestablished generate electricity. them in the Cockscomb Preservation This tour involves extensive Basin- Fred Koontz, curator climbing; mammals at the Bronx walking and stair of Wednesday, Dec. 15 participants should be confi- Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Build the gingerbread drops, jelly beans, and other dent in their ability to keep Park, has worked with a team The Continental Army of house of your dreams at the candies will make up the trim- pace with the group. of scientists for thelast two 1778 endured the winter of Members' annual workshops, mings. Tours will take place at years on reintroducing their discontent at Valley which June Myles will show The 90-minute workshops 4:00 and 6 00 p.m. Tickets howlers to the basin. Koontz in Forge, a Pennsylvania en- parents and kids how to raise will take place at 10:30 am are $16 and available only 1o will describe how wild howlers campment that's synonymous and assemble the and 1:30 p.m. each day and Participating and Higher were captured from a healthy the beams American history with their no-bake are geared toward children Members ages 16 and older. population in northern Belize, in structure of the face of hard- colorful as- between the ages of 5 and transported, and after an courage in houses. Then a war- 10. acclimation period, released ship. The revolutionary sortment of cookies, gum- didn't find their glorious into a 100,000-acre nature riors years later preserve summer until four at Yorktown. but the hard A Day This program is presented lessons learned at Valley in observance of the twentieth with the contributed greatly to anniversary of tlie Endan- Forge triumph. gered Species Act. a legisla- their ultimate Dinosaurs named a tive landmark in conservation. The campsite was national historical park in The lecture will begin at 7:00 Saturday, Dec. 4 at Vallev Forge. p.m. in the Kaufmann The- 1893 and Preservation ater. Tickets are free for 100 Years of ISSN 0194-6110 On a day trip to the Members and $8 for non- park superintendent Warren Philadelphia Academy of Members. Use the coupon on D. Beach will talk with Mem- Vol. 18, No. 11 manage- Natural Sciences, Members page 3 to order tickets. bers about the site's December 1993 will take a private behind-the- ment and development over scenes tour and a guided tour the last century. Donna Bell — Editor of the academy's permanent Origami The program will take Sheila Greenberg — Manager of Membership Sen/ices dinosaur exhibits. They'll also place at 700 p.m. in the Angela Soccodato — Designer explore the special exhibition Holiday Kaufmann Theater. Tickets Rita Campon — Copy Editor Jurassic Park: The Science are $7 for Members and $10 Yolanda Loften — Fulfillment Coordinator Behind (he Mayhem, which Workshops for non-Members, use the Risa Miller — Program Coordinator looks at the benefits and risks coupon on page 3 to register publication for Participating and Higher of genetic engineering. Saturday, Dec. 1 Rotunda, a of Natural History, is The brief behind-the-scenes Members of the American Museum June, bimonthly July and will the head of published monthly September through tour be led by Deck the halls with origami Members' Workshop August, Publication offices are at Natural Histori; magazine, the academy's vertebrate expert instniction aher some 79th department, and American Museum of Natural History, Centra! Park West at paleontology at the fifteenth annual Deciphering Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, Telephone: (212) 769- a docent will guide Members Origami Holiday Workshops. permanent ex- 5606. Subscriptions: $50 a year for Participating Membership. around the Members of the Friends of the Human visit $100 a year for Contributor Membership. © 1993 American hibits. Participants will the Origami Center of Amer Jurassic Park exhibition Museum of Natural History. Second-class postage paid at New the ica will be on hand to instruct Skeleton their own to leam about York, NY. Postmaster; Please send address changes to: on Members of all ages in the descendants of Rotunda, Membership Office, American Museum of Natural modem-day engaging art of paperiolding. Thursday. Dec. 16 recent dis- History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY the dinosaurs and Workshops arc available at dinosaur be- 10024-5192. coveries about three levels: a Young Chil- SPACE MAY BE havior, size, and physiology. dren's Workshop, geared AVAILABLE Statement of ownership, management, and circulation: Title of Myles will accompany June toward 4- to 6-year-olds, at publication: Rotunda (ISSN 0194-6110), Dale o( filing: Sept 29, tup. which An introductory workshop Members on the which children must be ac- 1993, Frequency of issue: Monthly except (or July/August issue that examines the analyses will depart from the American companied by an adult; a Number of issues published annually: 11. Annua! subscription price and limits of forensic anthro- Contributor Museum by bus at 9:00 a.m. Beginners' Workshop for $50 a year for Participating Members; $100 a year (or pology, Deciphering the fwlembers publicalion and return at 6 30 p.m. (The participants ages 6 and older; Complete mailing address of known office o( Human Skeleton will demon- Central Park West al 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, drive is about two hours each and an /nfermediale Work- strate how much information Complete mailing address of the headquarters or general business way.) Tickets are $50 and shop for more experienced about an individual can be offices of the publishers: Same. Publisher: L Thomas Kelly. available only to Participating hands who are comfortable reconstructed when only the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West al 79th American bones remain. The workshop Street, New York. NY 10024-5192. Editor: Donna Bell, Museum of Natural History, Central Park West al 79th Street, New will be presented by Jeffrey York, NY 10024-5192 Managing Editor None. Owner: American Schwartz, professor of an- Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street. New thropology at the University York. NY 10024-5192, Known bondholders, mortgages, and other Pittsburgh and research of of security holders: None The purpose, function, and nonprofit status associate in anthropology at this organization and Ihc exempt status for Federal income tax the American Museum. The purposes has not changed during the preceding 12 months. Extent program, which will take and nature ol circulation: (A) signifies average number o( copies o( place from 5.30 to 7:30 each issue during preceding 12 months, and (B) signifies average date. Total p.m., will begin with a slide- number of copies ol single issue published nearest to filing requested lecture and conclude with an number ol copies: (A) 33,570 (B) 39,252, Paid and/or circulation — sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, and examination of specimens. counter sales, (A) None (B) None, Mail subscription: (A) 32.586 (B) Tickets are $40 and avail- 38.452 Total paid and/or requested circulation: (A) 32.586 (B) able only to Participating and 38.452. Free distribution by mail carrier, or other means — samples, Members. Enrollment Higher complimentary, and other free copies. (A) 866 (B) 500 Total is limited, and a reading list distnbution (A) 33,452 (B) 38,952 Copies not distnbuied: (A) 1 18 will be provided upon regis- (B) 300. Return from news agents (A) None (B) None Total: (A) above tration. Call the Membership 33.570 (B) 39,252 1 certify that the statements made by me Office at (212) 769-5606 for are correct and complete, (signed) Donna Bell, Editor. ~" A Day with the Dinosaurs ticket availability. Printed by Waldon Press. Inc. New York — —————————— — 1

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Sithathor-vunet. Species. Friday. December 10. 7:00 p.tn Pectoral (chest ornament) belonging to Princess Endangered ruled during the of free Members' tickets the daughter of Pharaoh Sesostris It. who Number than please): twelfth dynasty (c. 1900-1870 BC) {no more 2. Number of additional Members' tickets at $5: Number of non-Members' tickets at $8: Total amount enclosed for program:

Origami Holiday Workshops. Saturday, December 1 third Please indicate workshop level and a first, second, and Tutank- loan exhibition Cleopatra's symbolism of ancient found in the tomb of times. The the choice of Bianchi will explain Egypt — Age of Egyptian jewelry is the focus hamen, Young Children's Workshop properties of Ptolemies. His latest book. of a Members' program pre- the symbolic Beginners' Workshop ways Inside the Tomb of Nefertttl. I Robert Steven these materials and the Intermediate Workshop sented by year. color enhances their was published last Bianchi. a former J. Clawson in which 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. (Bianchi will also offer a one- at the Metropoli- symbolic value. 3:00 p.m. Mills Fellow ancient 2:00 p.m. curator of day symposium on Art. The slide Bianchi served as Members' tickets at $2: tan Museum of the Number of Department at Egyptian sculpture; see will explore the mate- the Egyptian Total amount enclosed for program: lecture below.) Brooklyn Museum for 15 related feature rials used in the creation of the which time he Use the coupon at right to p.m. ancient Egyptian jewelry. years, during Valley Forge. Wednesday, December 15, 7:00 the intcmational register. Focusing on chest ornaments organized Number of Members tickets al $7: Number of additional tickets at $10; Total amount enclosed for program:

Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Members' Symposium Thursday. January 6. 7-OOpm, Number of Members' tickets at $6: Number of additional tickets at $9: Egyptian Sculpture Total amount enclosed for program: Ancient p.m The Coral Reel at Night. Tuesday. January 1 1. 7:00 Number of Members' tickets at $7: Januaiy 22 Saturday, Number of additional tickets at $10: 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. . enclosed for program: Higheru- u Membersm «iw.ir* Total amount $60, and open only to Participating and An Initiation Kut. Friday. January 14. 7:00 p.m. Number ol free Members" tickets evidence of this please): temples to de- tures the best (no more than 2. symposium will tombs and A one-day particularly with the additional tickets at $5: the methods of extract- dialectic, Number of trace the history of Egyptian scribe Period of Akhenaten of non-Members' tickets at $8: ing stones from quarries, Amama Number sculpture, from practical fac- program: and its aftennath. Sculptural Total amount enclosed for and transporting them, and sculpt- tors such as the quarrying by the statues, traditions are defined of the stones ing them into transportation at the head Thursday. January 27. 7:00 p.m. "Sculpture and Symbol- elite ruling class, Sea Monsters. to aesthetic considerations pharaoh, and tickets at $8; second lecture, of which IS the Numbei ol Members' symbolic rele- ism." the such as the succeeding generation additional lickets at $11: presents Egyptian civilization each Number of vance of statuary to Egyptian inherits the sculptural norms Total amount enclosed for program: terms of its cultural symbol- society and the development in explore the established by its predeces- through the eigh- ism. Bianchi will of sculpture will suggest ways Players. Saturday. January 29. connotations of stones such sors. Bianchi Shoestring teenth dynasty and beyond. the inhented sculp- first and second choice. quartzite. which is charged in which Indicate a The symposium will be as and tural traditions of the early 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Steven with solar implications presented by Robert dynasty might be Members' tickets at $6: an appropriate stone for eighteenth Number of Bianchi. who will also host a thus Amun. modified in order to create the Number of additional tickets at $10: program on an- images relating to Members' new styles and enclosed for program: also discuss the signifi- seemingly Total amount cient Egyptian jewelry {see He'll of the Amama Period. of statue placement forms the related article above). cance than ten days i>€forc The lectures will take place NOTE- Orders received less Stones within ancient monuments In the first lecture. 12;30 wiU be held for pick-up at the door on concluding lecture will from 10:30 a.m. to show dates Bianchi will The are still available. If and Processes." and l;30to3 30p.m day of the program if tickets define the development of p,m the offer din overview of the vari- will be advised in writing or lunch is included in event is sold out. you ancient Egyptian sculpture as A buffet an ety of stones used in ancient wiU be returned. Babes in the fee. Use the coupon on phone and your check a dialectic between tradition bv Egyptian statuary and the will not be admitted to programs. Bianchi wA\ page 5 to register, and please arms or strollers stones. Hell and innovation. sources for these are available the art of the eigh- note that tickets use information from pictorial focus on which fea- only by mail. representations found in teenth dynasty, 1 .

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Ladders to the Sky Tuesday, January 1 7:00 p.m. Theater Saturday, Januafv 29 Kaufmann $10 for non-Members 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. $7 for Members. Kaufmann Theater the natural world. In $10 for non-Members alien world, filled with addition $6 for Members. "Nothing." asserts marine murky, 5-12 ambiguous shapes and brood- to describing the delights and Ages biologist Joseph Levine. "can shadows the perils of diving at night, prepare you for night ing fully Levine will explain why Levine will introduce Mem- night a tropical sea. Prop- diving in diving with a camera can bers to this little-known be erly equipped, you float, world, using breath- an underwater photographer s weightless, in an alien shadow photographs by under- dream come true, medium. Without the sun taking photographer Jeffrey A writer, filmmaker, and overhead, the distinction be- water Rotman and describing per- science educator, Levine is tween up' and down' be- observations- At The vice president of Boston Sci- comes a concept rather than sonal Coral Reef at Night heW ence Communications and an a reality. the transformations associate in the Fish Depart- Water that beckons invit- discuss at Harvard University's that occur as afternoon fades ment ingly by day greedily swallows twilight and then to Museum of Comparative the beam of even the first to darkness. With darkness Zoology- His research on the strongest underwater search- total "rush hour" on the physiology, ecology, and light, limiting vision to an comes commuters evolution of vision in aquatic uncomfortably small sphere. reef, when aquatic undersea animals, conducted between Anything beyond the reach of change shifts In an metropolis with no police Harvard and the Marine Bio- that light is unseen and un- lights on streets or logical Laboratory in Woods seeable. And what your flash- force, no appeared in jour- in buildings, and no social Hole, has light does reveal assures you governing behavior. The nals such as Science and that you're not in Kansas (or. code and in resulting struggle between Scientific American for that matter. Manhattan) shaped several books- anymore. For darkness trans- predator and prey has prolonged and elab- Usc the coupon on page 3 forms the brightly colored, the most the guard in to register. whimsical daytime reef into a orate changing of

The Shoestring Plovers Bigeve, a noctumat visitor to the coral reef The ever-popular results in Pampalche's be- Shoestring Players return to trothal, and in a wild and heroine is the Museum nexl month for hilarious chase the Ladders to the Sky. an ener- pursued to a happy ending. Sky," a getic performance o( four "Ladders to the Sea Monsters during folktales from around the drama from the Northwest world The players combine Coast Indians, tells the an- Dinosaurs cient talc of Lupan and Lu- Age of dance, acting, and storytelling the and with a touch of mime, panwenza, the father singing, and stand-up comedy mother of all people. One evening, as the sun is setting, Thursday. January 27 in their performances. These into the original adaptations of less- Lupanwenza is lured 7:00 p.m. Snoqualme. the familiar folktales are certain night sky by Kaufmann Theater of the night. Lupan to captivate young audiences. spirit $8 for Members, $11 for non-Members Shoestring productions use builds an arrow ladder to the they only minimal costumes and stars to save her. and with Snoqualme hot no sets at all, calling on the escape audience's imagination as the on their trail. Lupan fools During the Mesozoic Era tors that exhibited many among the marine reptiles in players create fountains with Snoqualme. shattering the Snoqualme (approximately 245 to 65 adaptations for rapid acceler- that they swam with two pair^ their fingers, beds with their arrow ladder, and face million years before present), ation. They probably used an of wing-shaped limbs for un- bodies, a boiling caldron with is trapped forever as the the biggest predators in the ambush mode of attack to derwater "flying." their voices, and much more. of the moon. Sicilian comedy world's oceans were reptiles. capture prey, lying in wait for Paleontologist Judy Mas- In "Water of Life." an ad- In the not related to the their quarry and capturing sare, who teaches earth sci- from Germany, a "Meatloaf,' Ninetta longs for Although venture a prince while she dinosaurs inhabiting the land them with a quick lunge. The ence at SUNY Brockport, is prince journeys far and wide a handsome ex- her aunt. Zia Maria, environments, some of the later ichthyosaurs. however, specialist in the study of to find a cure for his ailing helps perfect meatloaf. aquahc reptiles were almost as displayed several adaptations tinct marine reptiles. She 11 father. Undaunted by jealous make the large, reaching lengths of 40 for fast, continuous swim- talk with Members about her brothers and banishment from While Ninetta daydreams, a steals meat- feet. Ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, ming, including a streamlined investigations into the tooth his kingdom, the brave prince shaggy dog the the geosaurs. and mosasaurs were shape, a dorsal fin. and a shape and the biomechanical shows selfless generosity to an loaf, and Ninetta chases the prehistoric counterparts of crescent-shaped tail. Their aspects of swimming in pre- old woman and finds his re- dog into Prince Guide's gar- and love at today s whales, dolphins, and superficial resemblance to historic aquatic predators ward in an enchanted castle. den, where she finds lions. living dolphins is striking and the ways in which these stud- A comedy from Russia, first sight. sea to suggests that ichthyosaurs. reflect interesting patterns "Pampalche of the Silver The program is about an The first ichthyosaurs ies brief inter- on earth had a build like dolphins, were pursuit of extinction and ecological Teeth" is the story of a beau- hour long, with a appear similar to that of geosaurs predators, swimming over replacements tiful young woman with a mission, in which actors and in cre- and mosasaurs, which ap- large areas in search of prey. Use the December Mem- smile so bright it blinds all audience participate a the The plesiosaurs include both bers' programs coupon on beholders. 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Museum's They'll see a history of the study at Monticello they will not and public pro- part workshop the presitientiat environmental toy soldier in a series of diora- on display among workshop take any rock for granite memorabilia grams, will host a mas and vignettes, featviring manuscripts and Use the coupon below to shows how to identify conquis- that inch-high Aztecs and master register. Tickets are available Washington's head- direction of classify the major groups and Indians. rooms — and tadors, cowboys jeweler/goldsmith Peter Carl recog- only by mail. quarters for the Eidttle of of rocks and how to jousting knights, and Gls and Adams' Faberge is from the l.irgest Tlie galleries' Yorktown. John Doughboys. private collection of his firms kitchen law office in Brain- trophies range from the prize work in the world. White tree. Jefferson's study at for the best pen of which will last the dining' The tours, at the Monticello. and Leghorn chickens approximately one hour, will Egg Laying room of Grant's Illinois Northhampton be led by a curator. The gal variety of urns, house. Trials to a arc located on the Twelve of the famed impe- lerles trophies, and loving cups. Forbes made by the ground floor of the from the maga- rial Easter eggs Selections Building. 62 Rfth Avenue, at House of Fabcrg^ for the last zincs 3.000 American histor- 12thStret't Russia are the comer of and related two czars of ical documents the coupon below to among the more than 300 Use are featured among the that items luxe register, and please note pa- fantasies and objels de exhibition of presidential available only by This selection of tickets are Highlighting the larger on display. pers. mail. treasures made under the gallery are lour miniature

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visit all seven continents, the ends of the earth, and the surrounding oceans Although these tours are reserve free. Members should spaces by calling the Volun- teer Office at (212) 769- 5566. Space is limited to 25 people per tour.

Sign Language Tour

The World Tour Natural Historv Spotlight of the Holidays

Tours Saturdays, Saturday, Dec. 18 Dec. 1 1 and Jan. 22 1:45 p.m. 6:30 p.m. At the end of one year and another Sumlays. the beginning of around the world Dec. 12 and Jan. 23 cultures a variety of ways, 1:00 p.m. celebrate in many of which are rooted in The Volunteer Office offers natural history. This annual Tours, a series of Spotlight trace world in holiday history tour will conducted by pro- Travel around the which are festive symbols minutes on the American the origins of fessionally trained Volunteer 80 which and traditions. By searching guides. Tours Museum's World Tour, Highlights Tour behind of geol- for the meaning some from the second floor will feature aspects many as 50.000 base- way and surprising depart customs, the tours will As ogy, astronomy, paleontol- today's neighbors. Celestial Fender between the Roosevelt Ro- meaning ball-sized meteorites fall to and ecology. On piece together the Peekskii! Mete- tunda and the Hall of African ogy, biology, earth each year but because Bender: The of the holiday sea- tour participants will ex- and spirit display in the 77th Mammals, For further infor- this most of them fall in remote orite, on the planet — its origin, son. features the mation call (212) 769-5566, amine areas, only about 1 in 1.000 Street Lobby, car. a cast of the meteorite, is ever found. The chances of portion of the actual a meteorite's landing in a city and a This display in- and hitting an object are one meteorite. Leonhardt People analysis of the me- in a billion — but that's ex- cludes an in a nature and source Global Cultures Center actly what happened last year. teorite's exhibition, which is on In October of 1992 a foot- This 1:00-4:30 p.m. through next month, Changing World ball-sized meteorite crashed display is made possible by the gen- December 4 and 5 through the trunk of a 1981 leaving a 6- erous support of the Arthur Music of the indigenous Chevrolet Malibu. grave! drive- Ross Foundation. Caribbean. Through music inch crater in the and song. Robert Borrero and Company demonstrate the continuance of Native Ameri- ship, and we'll send them can culture and tradition in Member-Get-a- information and an applica- The Education Department playing "mestizo" music on Boriken (Puerto Rico) and tion. When someone you offers a series of programs stringed instruments such as throughout the Caribbean. Member recommend for membership that celebrate diverse cultural charangos, mandolins, harp, The Columbian Change. be better than becomes a Participating groups and their traditions. and bandurria. and they'll In this slide-illustrated presen- What could and privi- Member of the Museum, we'll This month's programs are perform popular dances from tation Bobby Gonzalez exam- sharing the benefits Participating mem- thank you with a $10 coupon presented in conjunction with the Andean region. ines the cultural and biological leges of friends and to apply toward your next the conclusion of the United consequences of 1493, the bership with Participating membership Nations' observance of the year Christopher Columbus relatives? below to renewal. This form must be Year of Indigenous Peoples. Latin American landed on the island of Use the form used to qualify for the $10 No tickets are necessary for Film Program: Boriken. recommend friends or rela- these free programs, but seat- Preserving Native Tradi- tives for Museum member- coupon. Centuries uses ing is limited and available on Five tions. Christina Bryant a first-come, first-sen/ed basis. Later slides and puppets to relate

For further information call how native people used to I the Education Department at Tuesday. live and care for the natural (212)769-5315. December 7 environment and discusses Membership Services. American Museum of Natural 7:00 p.m. the desirability of reclaiming History. Central Park West at 79th Street. New York. these ways. indigenous and Kaufmann Theater NY 10024-5192.

''Mestizo** Music Guatemalan Indian Rigo- December 11 and 12 These folks may be interested in Participating member- the 1992 indigenous Dances of and Dance of the berta Menchu. ship: Nobel Peace Prize winner, is Mexico. Members of Mexico: Andes Centuries Traditions wear featured in Five /mages and 1 Name: Later, an examination of the colorful costumes as they Wednesday, native current status of Central perform dances of the Address: 1 _ December American aboriginal civiliza- peoples of Mexico. p.m. 7:30 tions. The film portrays the Through Natiue Ei/es. Auditorium City: State: -Zip:. Main ways in which Central Ameri- Tchin examines difficulties to peoples in con- The world- renowned group can Indians have struggled facing native preserve the few surviving temporary American society, Inkhay will perform native 2. Name: unrealistic expecta- and "mestizo" music and traditions of their once-rich including misconceptions, and dance from the mountains of civilization, and it considers tions, Address: possible fate of agrarian Hollywood's cultural misrep- Bolivia. Peru, and Ecuador. the confronting a resentations Using wind and percussion communities City; State:. -Zip: arable land indigenous Folklore of instruments, they'll play an- shortage of Five Centuries Laler is a Latin America. Argentina cient music still perfomied in production of the Na- Palacios recounts tales of South America Inkhay will 1992 My name is:. tional Film Board of Canada. native pjcoples of Guatemala. also demonstrate European film is 54 minutes long. Peru, and Panama. influence in Andean music by The Address:

Programs for December 18 City: State: -Zip:. M«iw:«no Fa«taikii, Swnuri and 19 are to be announced. daik*, lix ilw Lww*i*B<*»™i Hoi», itw WUft FouvbiKm. «*»« Fowidrton. H(»wJ Huah» M***! In* «rf w'oy Rudm RumdMicn. Wtfcm R««kifJi The People Center will be TZMG . Nonnan and Bort* Wlnaen Fd^vb- line S H juid Hder R Sdwuw F*nilV Fnndauon, bn ai«MijJan«nlWikQl«iii/Oub«jLa«i*«IB»rkN*wVoAS«»«Coi«ia^ closed on December 25 IV*. J "^ o( Fndnick H L«w*i«i« AH. tjt-«nl Moore Foimbnon, Int and «w UnnV and 26. Museum Current Exhibitions The Moveable

for that have occurred in the past American Museum, in models, and computers The occur in in the natural and those that could partnership with cultural orga- on-site courses details actions sciences, anthropology, and the future, and nizations from all five bor- that individuals, communities, oughs, has launched a the arts. Moveable Museum's and nations can take to slow specially designed vehicle that The exhibition is an adap- global warming. transports the Museums edu- current of Globai Worming; cational resources and ex- tation Understanding the Forecast, The Moveable Museum iv a hibits to New York City by the joint initiative of the New community centers, which was developed schools, the Mu Museum and the Environ- York City Council, city parks, street fairs, and Defense Fund. The scum's Education Depart- other neighborhood facilities. mental explores the possi- ment, and the Chase classroom on wheels exhibition This Bank. For furtht r impact of a rise in the Manhattan features artifacts and research ble temperature, depicts information call (212) 769 specimens from the earth's of climate changes 5304, Museum's collections, videos. scenarios J

South Pacific Cruise

Antarctica Librarian's Choice experts on many exhibit of rarities from groups, the Marquesas of Museum history and wildlife of An a century the island The For nearly of the complex Iradi Library's exten- Tuamotus, Each is aspects Antarctica are portrayed in a the Museum American Museum has been and the tional cultures of these Is- sive collections is on display dramatically different; the dramatic new exhibition. active in exploring the far- lands. The itinerary includes the Library Gallery. Librar- Marquesas are volcanic, with Penguin dioramas, a mummi- in flung islands of the South Takaroa. Treasures and deep, stops at Rangiroa. ian 's Choice. Discov- high, jagged peaks fied seal, three-dimensional Pacific In April 1994 Hiva Oa. Coilect- Tuamotus Nuku Hiva. Ua Pou, features, and from 124 Years of to this fertile valleys; the models of ice ery Caiiscs will return of which the circular and Fatu Hiva, each who ing features items from foot- are low-lying atolls — tools used by people area, following in the glimpse of Photographic. shimmering features a unique worked on the Rare Book, noted Museum reefs encircling have lived and steps of such South Pacific, For furiher Archives col- lagoons. the are among the Film, Art. and as Harry blue continent anthropologists information, call Discovery lections. The gallery is located In addition to experiencing displays in Gallery 3. Through Shapiro and Margaret Mead, 462-8687 or beauty of Tours at (800) on the fourth floor. careers the splendid natural January 2. both of whose in New York participants will be (212) 769-5700 most of this century. Polynesia, Barosaurus spanned State Thc offered insights from a team This cruise will explore two Origami Tree The worlds tallest free- dinosaur exhibit is Don't miss the Origami standing on the second Holiday Tree, on display on on display floor of the Roosevelt Memo- the first floor of the Roosevelt five-story-high Memorial Hall through Jan- rial Hall. A Barosaurus rears up on uary 9. Be sure to stop by the its hind legs to protect teaching table, where volun- young from an attacking teers instnict visitors in the its Dino-Mite Aihsaurus. .;,v fine art of folding. The Museum houses the and most com- Nature of an worlds largest Cuba: prehensive collection of fossil a Deal! Island vertebrates, and work on Dinner exhibition area is under Photographs and speci- new way on the fourth floor. The mens from the American Earth History. Late Museum's cooperative ven- halls of and Early Mammals, and Late Dinner ture with the Museo Nacional Prime Rib and Early Dinosaurs are vegetables de Historia Natural in Havana with potatoes and closed for renovations. The are display in the Akeley on will open first of the new halls Gallery on the second floor. early next year. Through January 3, pm Every Friday and Saturday. 5:00-7:30

Naturemax Dinner Theater Package entree, Includes a complete dinner |f)T QO per person ^X appetizer or iiessert and coffee, Hours Lunch, Man.- Fri: 11:30-3:30 4:00 Saturday and Sunday Brunch: 11:00 - - 7:30 Dinner seating, Fri.- Sat: 5:00 For Reservations caU 212-874-3436

self-portrait of Tttian Ramsay P^^'^.J^^r;^ are on dtspiav and archival photographs in the Library Gallerv Walking the Wall WaU A Modcrn-Day Odyssey along Hadrian's

by Paul F. Beelitz

originalti, appeared in Roman times MUecastle 49 and Willowford Bridge, as they

highway ating fraffic in England, Still worse, the that opened outward, the better to coUections man- wooden doors weren't matching up to those In the fall of 1991 Paul Beelitz. numbers on the signs traced dispatch patrols sense of direction Deportment of Anthropologv. book, and I had to tmst my ager in the integral part of the system, in my England. Milecastles were an in the small the path of Hadrian's WaU in northern The area was mostly rural until I anived face consisting of part of the curtain and misad- their northern stopped for the last The following are his adventures — town of Wallbottle, where I up to 10 feet thick. The wall was wall, which was time to come. — along the wall. I was to have for some ventures high, including its parapet. drink probably over 15 feet Turret IIB and In Heddon-on-the-Wall. between built into the wall at the third-mile Publius Aelius Two turrets were 200-yard section of In AD 122 the Roman emperor Milecastle 12. there is a lovely marks between the milecastles. These housed delivered by trireme, made landfall on South of the road and surrounded by ver- Hadrianus, a ladder to the parapet, the wail. extent ol guards who could climb smooth from the island that was the northwesternmost danc grass, the wall's gray stones are continuous through the three-component system of could not yet lay claim to the first substantial his empire. The Romans Disrupting centuries of rain and wind. It's milecastles, turrets, and the wall itself- now call England, however, for the wall; the stones making up the north all ol what we sequence, on an average section of the defenders of the milecastle-turret-tunret between northern tribes had proved persistent and south faces are dressed, and the area every seven miles, were forts. These were more and in keep- of first place their homeland, For military reasons, filled with rubble. Its also the for they served as admin- them is they extensive than milecastles, ing with the Roman desire to define all that vallum — an earthwork that runs the and supply depots and were usually where the that wall be istrative centers can would call theirs, Hadrian ordered a length of Hadrian's Wall on the south — by settlements. entire the mouth of the River surrounded with a central built across the island from be seen. In total it is 40 yards wide the model with my 'wall book. 1 d the cast to the Solway ! compared continuous Tyne on the North Sea in 5-inch depression 3 yards wide, flanked by laboriously cut an Ordnance Survey map into in the west, a distance of for the soutiv Firth on the Irish Sea 8" graph mounds. The vallum provided security sections, mounted them on 6" x sheets of more than 70 miles. The wall's importance varied encouraged civilians, at least bound them. The right-hand side of em side of the wall; it centuries. dei>ending upon paper, and to throughout the ensuing of whom were not fond of the Romans, the OS map section with complete some the Romans quit England each page had the the military situation, until the wall only at the causeways along topographical detail and the left-hand side a more approach in AD 383. Both sides had infor- southern gates of the milecastles, sections, ap- pedestrian road map section. Hadrians Wall, still extant in large the road before coming upon a gleaned from several sources about that 1 was well along wish to combine a long-distance mation to peals to those who menacing Bridge Out sign. Not only would I have particular section of the wall and listings of bed-and- walk with an interest in archeology. After years of have designed to retrace my steps for a mile or so. but also I'd Newcastle- breakfasts along the way. The book was thinking about it I walked the wall from spanned to west, and to find an alternate route The overpass later be read from back to front, or east upon-Tyne in the cast to Carlisle in the west 1 workers wield of 2.5 miles. the A69, a major highway, on which ra- each turn of a page meant an advance learned that it would have been entirely more Newcastle. ing heavy equipment were making major repairs wanted to be On Wednesday, after the first night in tional to walk from west to east, but 1 workers gcner east on the north bank of The A69 roared underneath, but the I had to travel three miles true to the Roman soldiers who landed in the east tenuous of ously allowed me to cross an intact but wall. the River Tyne. I took the train to the town ,ind walked west to their assignments along the fort SEGEDVNVM, section of the overpass. to the Roman infantry- Wallsend, site of the Romans 1 paid no tribute, however, s soon began. At this point Hadrian whose foundation can still be seen. The region My troubles men who carried many pounds of raiment and taken at all. for its course is entirely around Newcastle is industrialized, particularly at Wall exists not equipment in the fomi of helmets, chest armor, each by the B6318. highway with one lane in lead Wallsend. where the clamor of the Swan Hunter up A swords, javelins weighted with three-pound to the direction and no shoulder was hardly the place laden with sleeping gear, shipyards is a reminder that it's remarkable balls, shields, and a pole for I been arrested foundation of SEGEDVNVM still exists, for the next take a safe walk. should have utensils, food, and the occasional reminder of home well those of mo Wall is seven miles west, ! endangering my own life as as sunny Mediterranean. My pack, the airline extant bit of Hadrian's on the from both directions in ey.- weighed a mere walked four miles along the road where the wall torists who sped at me counter attendants informed me. endured used to be, past factories, auto supply stores, pubs, cess of 70 mph. With each passing tmck 1 six pounds, the first garages, and warehouses to downtown Newcastle, two shock waves of violently disturbed air: A day was well spent in Newcastle-upon-Tyne s Milecastle 4 and the PONS AEUVS. a wood pushed off the vehicle's front and the second which is filled with Roman where Museum of Antiquities, were accompa stones from bridge spanning the Tyne, used to be. dragged from its rear. Both bursts artifacts, a temple reconstniction. and ballistic. 1 bus back to the point where nied by gravel and road debris gone with tnbules and the names of co- On Thursday took a the wall carved highway so walk had ended Hadrian's Wall used to be I walked along the right side of the legions, and legionnaires The museum's my horts, dive into where the A61 15 is now After about an hour of that I'd see oncoming vehicles in time to most interesting feature was a long-scale model of apartment the thick at roadside. After dozens of leaps built and its sur- walking west along a road bordered by bmsh the entire wall as it was originally thumb businesses, semidetached houses, into the brush 1 considered sticking out my topography. At every mile along the wall's complexes, small rounding length of schools. I came upon the remains of Turret 7B didn't, because my goal was to walk the built stone milecastles, glonlied and length the Romans to ex- (the second turret west of Milecastle 7) in a residen- the wall — even where it no longer existed gateways where tolls were collected and tariffs only two area. Soon I was beyond the Newcastle area and Carlisle. According to my book it was acted With barracks large enough for up to 50 tial that currently occu- 16 used to an area about 60 by 80 looWng for the B6528. the road miles to Harlow Hill, where Milecastle men, milecastles covered clus pies the walls course, This was the first of many be. and where surely one building in the small leet and had staircases leading up to a parapet occasions when highway entrance and egress ramps ter that made up the town would be a pub. around the perimeter that gave access to a tower dangerous proposition for Ameri- the trip had could be surveyed The were crossed, a My greatest fear in preparing for from which the frontier more dav sturdy cans, who tend to look the wrong way when negoti been rain, which was supposed to fall on gates to the north were typically a pair of

8 avoid ankle- was a faint path in spots, but to an altitude of 900 feet. There Instead of rain, a wind came fast and working fanm at stepped from in October immersion in the mud 1 mostly not picturesque views, since Sewing deep west at up to 50 mph. as a , Here were the first with varying in from the hummock or rock to another, Snq overlooks the southern land that descends to one that night cheerfully reported Shields climbing a few fences and *:£ broadcast miles degrees of success After extraordinary effort the River Tyne and north toward Scotland, 25 the wind required fragrantly coniferous woods. I came Skinq into famihouse around 4 o'clock, passing through on my mind. If away. 1 arrived at the I had truck-dodging to the B6318, nldallv when east to a road that would lead after checldng in. went out again to walk even the remains of the vallum in and workout to reach the road, but fh^rc had been U had been quite a walls course to see some of what I had walked along one of its along the east along the highway 1 could have only to walk h s area I would need was good. Glimpses of missed distance of a ^nunds where the drainage and then north to Great Chesters. a lady of Sewing Shields Farm made tea when revealed only muddy The hour, 1 reached side of the brush mile and a half and a loss of half an ê other asked. "Where are you eating been even more difficult 1 got back and pocket to confimi the that would have for the wall book in my side faonland isn't place to eat within miles of tonight? There a felt sick. route, but the book was gone and 1 " thought about that; thus far Id slept it offered no here Hadn't it? It had been Harlow Hill, but the last time 1 looked at •^SvTmade "Never mind. " she said, When was that East Wallhouses. in places near restaurants. Slaty Sike and book indicated I realized my route was menities The her sons ate their a while; once "youll eat here tonight. ' She and had an even smaller direction I needed to head site of Milccastle 18. not Haltwhistle Bum. the nn the and 1 was ham in the kitchen, as was their custom, noon and .there 1 climbed fences? buildings It was Past was pretty clear. Where had cluster of sitting room Her husband, first served the same in the often there. Id hitchhike to the were plenty of variables, tor I had Tere no sustenance went back some generations at There from the whose Scot family side to the other a repast. I took a break the same fence from one niace that offered around 7:30 and ate climbed north- Sewing Shields, came home at impossible. For a Lhwav and walked across farmland to the where thick woods made passage his dinner in my company. had crops was as much a of leaving tlic book behind 1 through the low dead moment I thought Walking Shields' buildings were made hungrv. "You know. Sewing of the wall in my walking into the wind, 1 was Ordnance Survey map hindrance as Hadrians Wall." he said. "But an uncut parchment^ Ahead with the stone h-om with jottings, infomiation started to feel like pack, but it wasn t filled mouth unusual." 1 wasn t ^nd mv don't be surprised, it's not all that and the of water fed by the Whittle accommodations and transportation, IreZ^small bodies world practical town on surprised, for throughout the tracing of the wall the Span-ow Letch, and the histotv- Additionally, its Welton burns, structur^. I wall's and country folk have quarried ancient were and color-coded to indicate which sections Whittlcdean Watercourse, to Wa\k wasn't showed him my copy of The First Man steps water was far extinct. I had to retrace my there. I found that the extant and which When I got a reprint of an were Hadrian's Wall, by William Hutton. was probably a reservoir since men along the sike exactly, below and places between Newcastle , , u . 1802 book sold at many book in the wet parts of it by encasing cob- wasn't long before 1 saw the hulldinq a wall around It ask the workers and Carlisle. fence, laying face up in dangerous chain-link fencing. I couldn't 78-year-old grass alongside a hies ,n During the summer of 1801. the to the couldri t talk of cattle dip. It was open cross the site because 1 proximity to a mass oermission to perambulated over 600 miles through the have drowned author of Slaty Sike and was soaked low rasp and the wind would nothing pages with the map ^ve a England, visiting Roman sites with pointed north of held it open while walking have said. My left arm around the edges, so I out anything 1 could knowledge of his his umbrella, kitbag. and the time 1 nodded their but and it was dry by desired direction and the men main cast along the B6318. ,n the disapprobation. The antiquanan s toward looks. daughters off highway and up the hill albeit with some quizzical which turned left the assent, his beloved 'shattered Wall, I objective was AESICA, preceded East Wallhouses. which Great Chesters. also known as More farmland back. "I envied the he walked from west to east and motorized tricycle In the distance I saw farmer on an all-terrain traversed with great difficulty. of the Wall, Hutton A people in the neighbourhood to AESICA, chas- the kind displayed at car darted to and fro across the way ,nullicolored pennants, valued it no more than "though 1 knew they was I was wrote pastures du jour, AESICA vigorously flapping in the wind, converse with ing his cattle to the dealerships, it stood 1 wished to before the soil on which as extant but was in woclul at least something to dnnk indicated on the map certain I'd find resident, but never saw one^ the an intelligent Fortunately. Ihe site is protected by ride to food. him chastis- condition. hitching a , of the book shows , -ru were The modem cover Environment, so its unlikely to the Robin Hood Inn, They Department of the Happily, it was one atop the wall with a dressed pint ot ing two locals, further Turret 45A and a good when 1 rasped for a deteriorate much closing for the afternoon drop it into a wheelbar- stone in his hands, ready to preserved atop Walllown drew another. section of the wall are well it while the keeper that it a bitter and inhaled other. Hutton lamented area (proba- row held by the a steep descent toward the from another room Crags, and 1 began The cook was called in "The property is mine, and up farmer were to say. crosses the line ol the wall and post-lunch break) and asked to make only where the 86318 from his I please, he could bly right to direct it as The wall no have a begins 10 run parallel lo the north beef pie. regret, but not re- a (inc "U is an argument 1 can surrounding Green- confirmed by the reply. longer exists in the countryside Lessons learned today and " of the wall still mn through fute Even though parts footpath took mc over the course of Hadrian s Wall head but a well-marked keeper 1) Don't walk the protected by the Depart- private property, it s now Toddle and Tipalt burns and to East Wallhouses. convergence of the from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Environment. more chal- all ment of the picturesque golf course made you II spend through a There's not much wall to see. and through the wet woods The next day I passed existence of the vallum Every town on the lenging by the intermittent vjour time dodging lorries, 2) Shields Farm and abruptly met surrounding Sewing stretch, a water bottle, over a half-mile * t have a pub. so 3) cany north country . , -i niap doesn of landscape that makes the next-to-last mile- the the type Milecastle 48 in Gilsland was the zealous in keeping down view north 1 had been too barely obscured the so alluring. The rain the last and most interest another pint of castle that still exists and weight of my pack. While 1 had to the Broomê and from Sewing Shields Crags steps once leading to the water. 1 one that 1 saw. The filled an empty bottle with view ing bitter, the keeper and the Cheviot Hills, The projecting the Greenlee loughs exist, and it was by the site of Milecastle S^. rampart still left, my way past the gentler topog- making west offered an exciting change; archeologists were able to deter- Street to the Fox and flight's course that and turned south onto Dere replaced by the chasms also previous days was West of here 1 and collapsed into raphy of mine the wall's 15-foot height. where 1 ate dijiner Pennines, The Ro- Hounds Hotel, crags of the northern and B. before coming and high saw my last two turrets. 48A fortifications with mans crowned these natural Bridge, where Roman engineers continued two miles south ot to the Willowford Friday morning I survey vast expanses On Hadrian's Wall and could span Ihe River Irthing. which has CORSTOPITVM. a fort site in the built a bridge to on Dere Street to path. River now turned north across the wall s Corbridge on the north bank of the a well-preserved town of "Tquickly made VERCOVICIVM path to the bridge crosses part of the wall was The well-maintained Tyne, Although its not actually east of Milecastle 37. It stone house fort and civil settlement property, and a box outside a worthwhile detour, tor it public, but the private CORSTOPITVM was a be officially open to the lady of the house depot loo early to required a 20-pcnce deposit. The arsenal, a granary, and a supply impregnable to sheep served as an nates were designed to be serving Sunday dinner to her detachments ot English took time out from system Special fort's remains. 1 lor the frontier not humans. Throughout the questions about the nvcr. It of about Jb acres family lo answer my craftsmen lived there, and a town identified and showed reconstnjc- cast over the Heritage labels the river, Id have to walk adjacent to the site officer s couldn t ford grew around it. In the museum gateways, hospital, commanding to Gilsland tions of its just come and then north caived stone fountainhead r'^^^^he civil- way Id is the Corbridge Lion, a barracks, and would take me building, latnnes, S/^nf proper where a modem bridge a stag it had just taken the Murder portraying a feline eating to the south included enough time that mommg ian settlement woman across the Irthing. I'd lost dou/n. a popular Roman subject, the remains of a man and waste any more, House, where Slaty Sike and didn't want to of Roman granary is appeared on well-preserved example a were found, Both don t want A fourth century to ford the rivcr^ 1 from the Will it be possible were typically about lUU since the busi- part of the site. Granaries buried surreptitiously Gilslarid, but I also to have been to retrace my steps to get to and built in pairs Uniy the nian s ribs. feet long and 30 feet wide of a sword was found in Birdoswald the ness end want to see the fort at seen; these illustrate terraced slope wasn t the foundations can be farther down the high, so I expect you Th? museum river's not running too the Ooor several feet the wall, unbro- The technique of raising west along you II get Roman yet. so 1 continued it somewhercbut circulation, op^n might be able to cross leaving chambers for air including Milecastle 37 mem- above ground, " family ken for a mile west and this both to mc and to of wet She said drainage, and rodent control. below Milecastle 37 at the bottom From far bers who nodded their affirmaUon. would have to walk of barking dogs, To get back to the wall I came a cacophony west over the cen- 500- Cuddy's Crag Irthing's course moved CORSTOPITVM s a fox hunt was The north up Dere Street from norting horses, and shouts: Bndges eastern pier and elevation horns turies The Willowford the walls 3.300-foot the edited hunts depicted but foot elevation to It was unlike the middle of pasture, con^ inTosress, abutment still stand in miles. The wall's course line of charge in over a distance of 2.5 for there was no concerted disappeared as the nver cut its had on film their counterparts of which 1 d horses, and Imued under the wretched B6318. the hounds, I walked south one direction. Instead, way deeper into the western bank. to head west along the assorted obstacles in many cross. enough, I decided ^V^f- ^rlet tunics negotiated looking for a place to route ol the along the east bank roughly following what used to be the 48 dogs before being inter- Department ot directions. 1 counted wide, and a wall and The river wasn't very road built before the path who told me not to can Stanegate. a strategic nipted by a couple on the guidebook said that '^the river 8-5 miles catch the the Environment as Carlisle. I walked because "they never the extending as far west t been) bank climbed, by worry (I hadn generally be forded and the Hill, ate a sandwich along local roads to Grindon covered a quarter-miôf the north lor two for lodg- more energetic." 1 from a newsstand, and then headed of the afternoon looking Dunng rny '"I spent the rest bank but there were no prospects. undulating pas- day. Sunday, cast miles on a little-used road through set out on the following spend days dumping ings and and I would signaled tne have youth my friends tureland. dull roar in the distance straight where 1 should was a thm The I continued River until there would veer oil When walk- rocks into the Rahway B6318. that the highway horribly wrong Instead of that we but I knew nght. I went surface of the water to a tew mmed dam just above the could look foiu'ard as Id intended. I ended to the southwest and I ralong Haltwhistle Bum. The children living around this countryside d'cfonary. could walk across days of wall surrounded only by _ Sike. Sike isn 1 in my inclination how- the up alongside Slaty the Irthing had no such undershot Mileca^le through section of Stanegate. I a rivulet running By walking the but the Slaty variety was not to find a section sufficiently milecastle. and ever and I was 23, the easternmost remains of a and woods. The '-"d r^^^'^^P'^ crossing ^sture. farmland, shaUow and slow to afford a safe which overlooks the Kiver perpetually muddy from the fort CILVRNVM. Z either side and was on next page other side of the local cattle continued North Tyne Up the hill on the and the daily effluence of bed-and-breaK moisture B6318 was Sewing Shields Farm, a for Stargazcrs Courses ent and prospective owners that are SCIFI clusters, and galaxies of small boats. The course or visible through binoculars Science Fiction and provides practical chartwork small telescopes. 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6" reasons tree, climbed turf cut into 18" x 12" x blocks. The inviting open pasture. I found a sturdy from previous page the conrinued vary: it may have been because jumped to the ground, and rolled to a stop. Gray given for this turned west. To the south was a steep it. The river even grayer sky and lime used for mortar was geologically unavailable Plantation. 1 clouds skirted rapidly across an 200-foot rise through the Willowford were in laid there west of the Irthing. or perhaps the Romans seeing cows chewed their cud indifferently while 1 have to negotiate this and forget about the would a hurry to finish the wall. In the ensuing years, Birdoswald (CAMBOGU\NNA), for half an hour Milecastle 49 and this section of the I hadn't eaten since Romans supposedly completed respec- It was past 3 o'clock and the westernmost extant milecastle and fort, lime bed and headed southwest, wall with stone, presumably having transported been far better to head back breakfast, so I left my tively. U would have the wall or even a far below. Across the river to the building site. Yet none of the bridge and taking the mod- overlooking the Irthing cast after examining the evidence for see the high ground where Mile- lone turret stands west of here, so passage to CAMBOGLANNA, to the north I could em bridge for is sketchy CAMBOGLANNA were perched. the later construction of the wall in stone the forbidding and heavily wooded castle 49 and 1 ascended out of my hotel treated to a dead Monday morning I checked side of the river 1 was On bank 10 feet at a time in bursts of energy. Along my eight south continued on the A69s shoulder for gasp sheep, well decomposed, and stretches of abom- early and I grabbed at a tree long enough to Periodically. the train to London before making Mains, where a footpath miles to Carlisle, whence 1 took quickly for air. Rotten branches or inable mud heavily and distance from Milecastle 1 to the road to Low Row, In all. I'd walked the trunks often broke away, sending me flailing at led me to south left with many a lengthy diversion wall was a mile north but all that was Milecastle 65. ground too slippery to give any purchase. Upon The are the River West of Carlisle to Bowness. there dev- some turrets. In the lowlands west of of the wall. gaining the top of the plantation I discovered a were the wall entirely of no remains at all from Irthing the Romans at first built ilish barbed-wire fence separating dark woods

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