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Roosevelts' Giant Panda Group Installed in William V News Published Monthly by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Vol. 2 JANUARY, 1931 No. 1 ROOSEVELTS' GIANT PANDA GROUP INSTALLED IN WILLIAM V. KELLEY HALL By Wilfred H. Osgood conferences with them at Field Museum be superficial, and it was then transferred Curator, Department of Zoology while the expedition was being organized, to the group which includes the raccoons although it was agreed that a giant panda and allies, one of which was the little panda, The outstanding feature of the William would furnish a most satisfactory climax for or common which is also Asiatic in V. Kelley-Roosevelts Expedition to Eastern panda, their the chance of one was distribution. Still an Asia for Field Museum was the obtaining efforts, getting later, independent posi- considered so small it was best to tion was advocated for in which it became of a complete and perfect specimen of the thought it, make no announcement it when the sole of a peculiar animal known as the giant panda concerning living representative distinct or great panda. In popular accounts this they started. There were other less spec- family of mammals. Preliminary examina- rare beast has been described as an animal tacular animals to be hunted, the obtaining tion of the complete skeleton obtained by with a face like a raccoon, a body like a of which would be a sufficient measure of the Roosevelts seems to indicate that more bear, and feet like a cat. Although these success, so the placing of advance emphasis careful study will substantiate this last view. characterizations are The giant panda is not scientifically accu- a giant only by com- rate, all of them have parison with its sup- some basis in fact, and posed relative, the little it might even be added panda, which is long- that its teeth have cer- tailed and about the tain slight resem- size of a small fox. The blances to those of a so-called giant is in pig. It is small wonder reality smaller than then that the animal most bears and proba- is of unusual interest, bly does not exceed 150 quite aside from its pounds in weight. Skins rarity and its striking obtained from natives coloration. often are stretched so It was discovered as to give a false im- some sixty years ago by pression of size. The Pere Armand David, specimen taken by the "^ French missionary Roosevelts is a full Itationed in the Mou- grown male, and the ping district of western measurements taken China. A skin and before it was skinned skull were sent at that as well as those pro- time to the Paris vided by the skeleton Museum of Natural indicate that the ani- History where they mal had a length of were figured and de- about four feet and a scribed under the name shoulder height of Ailuropus melanoleucus twenty-eight inches. by the famous zoolo- In the group which gist Alphonse Milne- The Giant Panda (Hall 17)—William V. Kelley-Roosevelts Expedition has just been opened Edwards. In later to view in William V. years, reports of the animal were received on the giant panda would have been to invite Kelley Hall (Hall 17) two pandas are shown, occasionally. Natives collected some imper- an unwarranted public interpretation of one being the specimen killed by the Roose- fect skins, mostly without skulls or other failure in case the one great rarity was not velts. The other specimen was prepared bones, and at rare intervals these were secured. The Roosevelts' habit of success, from a skin obtained by them from natives. shipped out and acquired by a few of the however, did not fail them, and they have The animals are shown in their favorite habi- larger museums of the world. brought to Field Museum not the only tat of bamboo thickets which in western China So far as known, up to 1928 the animal giant panda specimen in the world, as some are found growing at altitudes up to 10,000 accounts have but the had never been successfully hunted by stated, only complete feet or more. One of them is seen feeding on white men. It inhabited a remote region and perfect one and the only one killed by the twigs and stalks of bamboo which seem white difficult of access, and even in its home men. to furnish their principal diet, and for crush- grounds it was evidently rare and difficult Owing to the lack of complete skeletal ing and chewing which their extraordinarily to find. It was therefore exactly the sort of material in the past, the exact systematic heavy teeth have doubtless been developed. animal to excite the interest of Colonel position of the panda has been somewhat The animals have been skillfully prepared by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt doubtful. It was at first classified with the Taxidermist Julius Friesser, and a back- when planning their recent expedition bears and called the parti-colored bear, but ground of unusual beauty has been painted through Central Asia. At one of the last its external resemblance to bears proved to by Staff Artist Charles A. Corwin. Work Resumed at Kish history of Kish back beyond 4000 B.C. The Komodo Lizard Exhibited expedition is financed Marshall Field on Excavations on the site of the ancient city by An exhibit of the of behalf of Field Museum, and by Herbert giant dragon-lizard of Kish, near Babylon, have been resumed Dutch East is now on view Weld and others on behalf of Oxford. Komodo, Indies, by the Field Museum-Oxford University in Albert W. Harris Hall (Hall 18). It was Joint Expedition to Mesopotamia, it is re- prepared from one of the specimens obtained ported by Professor Stephen Langdon, direc- the Chancellor-Stuart-Field Museum Trustee Markham Is Dead by of the expedition. This is the eighth Expedition to the South Pacific, 1929. This Bason of the expedition's operations. L. C. With deep regret Field Museum records is the largest extant species of lizard, and JorVatelin is again in charge of field work. the death of one of its Trustees, Charles H. one of the rarest, being found nowhere in About 300 men will be employed in the Markham. Mr. Markham died on November the world except in the islands of Komodo excavating work this season. 24, 1930, at his winter home at Altadena, and Flores of the Lesser Sunda group, east At the end of the last period of work the California. He was 69 years old, and had of Java. A picture of the exhibit, and a diggers had penetrated into strata bearing been a member of the Board of Trustees more detailed article on it, will appear in marks of ancient floods, and had traced the since 1924. a subsequent issue of Field Museum News. Page 2 FIELD MUSEUM NEWS January, 1931 Field Museum of Natural History money and materials aware of the institu- have been of great benefit throughout the tion's of their efforts to assist Museum. His of the Field Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 appreciation support Stanley it in carrying on its work. It is hoped that Plant Reproduction Laboratories has Roosevelt Road and Lake Michigan, Chicago given^C^, the presence of these two lists conspicuously the Museum the leading place among institu-v* *»" in the building will result in a tions of its kind in the field of Year^1^ THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES displayed botany. greater realization on the part of the general after year Mr. Field has supplied funds to John Borden William H. Mitchell public of the great civic indebtedness owed cover the Museum's annual de- William J. Chalmers Frederick H. Rawson operating R. T. Crane, Jr. George A. Richardson to these donors for their support of the ficits, in addition to making many other Marshall Field Martin A. Ryerson advancement of science and education. The generous contributions for various purposes. Stanley Field Fred W. Sargent extension of the benefits to be derived from Above he has done for the Ernest R. Graham Stephen C. Simms everything Albert W. Harris James Simpson the Museum is made possible by the many Museum, shines his personal interest and Samuel Insull, Jr. Solomon A. Smith friends thus directly supporting it, and it is devotion to the institution and its mission, William V. Kelley Albert A. Spragub desired that the visitors the advan- as manifested the of his Cyrus H. McCormick Silas H. Strawn enjoying by large part waking William Wrigley, Jr. tages offered here shall become conscious of hours devoted to serving it. He not only this fact. spends much of his time at work in the OFFICERS It is only just to mention that there are Museum, but devotes many of his hours at Stanley Field President also thousands of other donors of and home and elsewhere to careful and Martin A. Ryerson First Vice-President money thought Albert A. Spragub Second Vice-President materials in lesser amounts, whose gifts are planning for the advancement of its interests. James Simpson Third Vice-President as fully appreciated. Obviously, it would —S.C.S. Stephen C. Simms Director and Secretary be impracticable to display a list of all these, Solomon A. Smith . .Treasurer and Assistant Secretary because of space limitations, and so a some- Rare Acquisitions what arbitrary line cannot be avoided for The of has FIELD MUSEUM NEWS the purposes of the displayed lists. However, Department Anthropology received several valuable gifts recently. L. Stephen C. Simms, Director of the Museum Editor acknowledgments of all these other gifts M. Willis of a appear each year in the published Annual Chicago presented beautifully CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Roman found in Reports of the Director of the Museum, and shaped glass amphora This vase has been added to a Berthold Laufer Curator of Anthropology it is desired that their donors shall feel that Pompeii.
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