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ULLETIN B Vol.24. No.1- January 1953 Chicago Nciiural His tory Mus eunt \, WM * Page 2 CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN January, 195S Chicago Natural History Museum in Chicago and St. Louis. In 1923 he founded -THIS MONTH'S COVER- Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 The Buchen Company, of which he is presi- Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5 dent. He is a resident of Winnetka, Illinois. The emperor penguin in its ant- Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 arctic home, as shown in a habitat group in one of the Museum's THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TWO STAFF VETERANS halls of birds (Hall 20), appears on our cover. Lester Armour Samuel Insull, Jr. RETIRE; OTHER CHANGES The specimens in Sewell L. Avery Henry P. Isham this were collected Rear- Wm. McCormick Blair Hughston M. McBain group by A number of in the staff of the Walther Buchen WiLUAM H. Mitchell changes Admiral Richard E. Byrd in J. Cummings Clarence B. Randall Walter Museum—retirements, transfers, new ap- Albert B. Dick, Jr. George A. Richardson "Little America" for the Brook- John G. Searle and Joseph N. Field pointments, resignations, effective from field Zoo and were to Marshall Field Solomon A. Smith presented 1 —have been announced Colonel Marshall Field, Jr. Louis Ware January by the Museum by the Chicago Zo- Stanley Field Albert H. Wbttbn Clifford C. Gregg, Director. Details of the John P. Wilson ological Society. most important follow: OFFICERS Dr. Wilfrid D. Hambly, Curator of African Stanley Field President Marshall Field First Vice-President Ethnology at the Museum for the past Henry P. Isham Second Vice-President retired 31. Something About Penguins Samuel Insull, Jr Third Vice-President twenty-six years, on December Solomon A. Smith Treasurer Dr. Hambly's career in the Department of The of is less Clifford C. Gregg Director and Secretary penguin reality hardly strange R. Assistant has been marked notable John Millar Secretary Anthropology by than the penguin of fancy and fiction. achievements. In Penguins, of about seventeen species, are 1929-30 he was leader THE BULLETIN ^^_ flightless birds of southern, mostly antarctic, of the Frederick H. -^'*'-*' *" EDITOR oceans. They swim with flipper-like wings. Rawson West African Clifford C. Grbgg Director of the Museum One species has an estimated 3,800 tiny Expedition, in the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS feathers on the top of its forearm; one species course of which he ex- holds its on its feet while it incu- Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of Anthropology single egg vast areas of Theodor Just Chief Curator of Botany plored bates; the young of another species are gath- Shabat K. Roy Chief Curator of Geology Karl P. Schmidt Chief Curator of Zoology Angola (Portuguese ered into community groups under the care West and Ni- MANAGING EDITOR Africa) of a few adults; and another species gets geria. The H. B. HartK Public Relations Counsel compre- transportation in migration by sitting on hensive collections ice cakes and ASSOCIATE EDITORS drifting sits, fasting, on the ice, that he brought back, its molt. Helen A. MacMinn Christine Tardy during twenty-day One species has representing many certain places where its individuals go to die. tribes of both coun- Wilfrid D. Hainbly Members are requested to inform the Museum The upright pose, apparent shortsighted- tries, form a large part promptly of changes of address. ness, pompous dignity, and black-and-white of the exhibits in the Hall of African Ethnol- evening-dress effect, suggesting human ogy (Hall D). beings, have resulted in penguin toys, pen- Dr. the WALTHER BUCHEN ELECTED Hambly supervised installation of guins in advertisements shown smoking the exhibits in Hall as well as TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES D, supple- cigarettes and reading books, and, most African exhibits in Hall E and mentary famous of all, the penguins baptized in error Walther Buchen, prominent Chicago adver- Australian exhibits in Hall A-1. He has by St. Mael on Anatole France's Penguin executive and founder of The Buchen tising been responsible for much scholarly research Island. was elected a member of the Company, in the African field and also in craniometry Austin L. Rand Museum's Board of Trustees at a meeting and is the author of a number of scientific Curator of Birds 15. held December publications of the Museum. In addition, Mr. Buchen fills the he has written many popular books for both vacancy caused by the children and adults. recent death of Leo- laboratories of the Museum's Department Born in Clayton, Yorkshire, England, pold E. Block. of Botany, retired on Dr. Hambly, after graduating from Hartley Mr. Buchen, well- December 31. Mr. College became a schoolteacher. In 1913 he known for his hunting Copulos came to the was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan of big game in Africa, Museum in 1910 after Archaeological Expedition for the Wellcome has been inter- a career as a commer- long Historical Museum of London. When the ested in the activities cial artist, becoming first World War began in 1914, he enlisted in of the Museum. He the first of the techni- the British Royal Naval Division, a service has contributed to the cians engaged in the similar to the United States Marines, and Department of Zo- preparation of lifelike fought at Gallipoli and in France. ology large collections Wahhcr Buchen reproductions of Following the war he was a lecturer in of African animals, plants of the world for biology at Eastham Technical College and particularly birds, obtained on two expedi- the exhibits now a research worker for the Industrial Research tions in recent years. In the summer of 1952 housed in Martin A. Board in London. Dr. Hambly came to the he sponsored and led an expedition to East and Carrie Ryerson Milton D. Copulos United States in 1926 and joined the staff of Africa especially for Chicago Natural History Hall (Plant Life, this Museum at that time. his years Museum. During Hall 29). In 1914 Mr. Copulos left the at the Museum he became an American Mr. Buchen, who was born in Theresa, employ of the Museum for a period of years, citizen and was awarded the of Doctor Wisconsin, began his adult life as a member degree working at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy of Science Oxford for his in of the faculty of the University of Illinois, by University Philadelphia and at the American Museum African research. after earning a Master of Arts degree there. of Natural History in New York. He re- In 1915 he entered advertising and rose to Milton D. Copulos, for many years an turned to Chicago Natural History Museum executive with in the important positions agencies artist-preparator plant reproduction (Continued on page 6, column 1 ) January, 195S CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN Pages FOUR YEARS ON A ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN COLOMBIA By PHIUP HERSHKOVITZ world, area for area. Its mam- permit. All animals have para-sites and ASSISTANT CURATOR OP HAllllALS comparing malian fauna may prove to be even more there was no shortage of fleas, lice, mites, COLOMBIAN Zoological Expedi- varied. One result of the expedition is proof ticks, etc., on mammals shot or trapped. with of the THEtion, personnel one, writer, that Colombia, though only about one- Rupert Wenzel, Curator of Insects, reports left on November and Chicago 22, 1948, twentieth the size of all North America, has that my collection of external parasites in- arrived in the next Barranquilla, Colombia, at least one-half as many kinds of mammals. cludes many new to science. He is especially after a in Miami to day stopover change And no wonder! Colombia connects the two enthusiastic about a parasitic fiy belonging It returned to on planes. Chicago Septem- American continents, it faces both the to a group heretofore known only from the ber 16, 1952, the same route. by Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and it borders Old World. It is the most primitive type in The Colombian Zoological Expedition, on Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and its group and, strangely, was found on the which was in the field for three years and ten Brazil, sharing their faunas. most sjjecialized species of bats. months, is one of the continuous col- longest It is but fair to record, at this point, one in the of the ALL-EMBRACING VARIETY lecting expeditions history anomalous case where the capture of mam- Within Colombia's territorial limits are mals was incidental to botanizing. In poking found all the world's climates and nearly all about palm groves to get a certain kind of the major geographic regions and biophys- palm for Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, Curator Emeri- ical zones of South America. The country is tus of our Department of Botany, I discov- composed of the northern limits of the Andes, ered, in the tree selected, a very rare arboreal longest and second highest mountain chain spiny rat that was previously known only in the world; a vast piece of Amazonian from the first specimen sent from Colombia jungle drained by the mightiest river in the a century and a quarter ago. world; the largest share of the South Amer- ENCOUNTERS MILITARY ACTION ican llanos or pl?iins comparable to our prairies or to the Argentine pampas; the Unsettled political conditions and official semi-arid Caribbean coast and the desert of censorship in Colombia made travel in gen- the Goajira Peninsula; the humid and for- eral difficult and a planned itinerary impos- ested Pacific Plain and Piedmont, a portion sible. In some cases I was able to complete of the basin of the Maracaibo, which is collecting and leave a region just before the South America's largest lake; and far-flung bits in isolated mountains or "lost worlds" of the original Guiana highlands.