ANNUAL REPORT 1961 Chicago Natural History Museum mm&mm SOUTH ENTRANCE CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (FORMERLY FIELD MUSEUM) ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE SHORE DRIVE Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the year 1961 CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM 1962 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PRESS Contents PAGE Former Members of the Board of Trustees 10 Former Officers 11 Board of Trustees 1961 12 List of Staff 1961 13 Report of the Director 21 Trustees and Officers 23 Gifts to the Museum 25 The N. W. Harris Public School Extension 26 Staff of the Museum 27 James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation 28 Volunteer Workers 32 Museum Attendance 32 Members' Night 32 Memberships 33 Special Exhibits 33 Lecture Programs for Adults 34 Expeditions and Field Trips in 1961 34 Department of Anthropology 37 Department of Botany 43 Department of Geology 49 Department of Zoology 55 Library of the Museum 65 Public Relations 68 Scientific and Professional Societies 69 Co-operation with Other Institutions 73 Motion Pictures 76 Photography and Illustration 76 The Book Shop 76 Publications and Printing 77 Cafeteria and Lunchroom 87 Maintenance, Construction, and Engineering 87 Attendance and Door Receipts 91 Financial Statements 92 Accessions 1961 96 Members of the Museum 107 Benefactors 107 Honorary Members 107 Patrons 107 Corresponding Members 107 Contributors 108 Members of the Museum (continued) page Corporate Members 110 Life Members 110 Non-resident Life Members 112 Associate Members 113 Non-Resident Associate Members 133 Sustaining Members 133 Annual Members 134 Articles of Incorporation 161 Amended By-Laws 163 Illustrations PAGE South Entrance of Museum fkontispibcb Walther Buchen, 1887-1961 9 Winter Journey 31 Effigy Vase 36 Mortuary Pottery 41 Hemp Exhibit 42 Cactus 45 English Walnut 47 Fossil Shark 48 Mammal Exhibit 54 Shaving Knife 59 Collecting Bats 61 War Club 64 Fish Model 67 New Hall 70 Primitive Art 75 Meteorite 86 Visitors 90 6ti7^^?3 photo by Sarra, Inc. WALTHER BUCHEN 1887-1961 Trustee of the Museum since 1952 Second Vice-President since 1957 Contributor and Corporate Member Former Members of the Board of Trustees George E. Adams,* 1893-1917 Emil G. Hirsch,* 1893-1894 Owen F. Alois,* 1893-1898 Charles L, Hutchinson,* 1893-1894 Allison V. Armour,* 1893-1894 Huntington W. Jackson,* 1894-1900 Sewell L. Avery,* 1932-1960 Arthur B. Jones,* 1894-1927 Edward E. Ayer,* 1893-1927 Chauncey Keep,* 1915-1929 John C. Black,* 1893-1894 William V. Kelley,* 1929-1932 Watson F. Blair,* 1894-1928 Leopold E. Block,* 1936-1952 George Manierre,* 1894-1924 John Borden, 1920-1938 Charles H. Markham,* 1924-1930 Walther Buchen,* 1952-1961 Cyrus H. McCormick,* 1894-1936 M. C. Bullock,* 1893-1894 Charles A. McCulloch,* 1936-1945 Daniel H. Burnham,* 1893-1894 John Barton Payne,* 1910-1911 Harry E. Byram,* 1921-1928 George F. Porter,* 1907-1916 Chesser M. Campbell,* 1959-1960 Clarence B. Randall, 1946-1961 William J. Chalmers,* 1894-1938 Frederick H. Rawson,* 1927-1935 Boardman Conover,* 1940-1950 Norman B. Ream,* 1894-1910 Richard T. Crane, Jr.,* 1908-1912 George A. Richardson,* 1930-1957 1921-1931 John A. Roche,* 1893-1894 D.C. Davies,* 1922-1928 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,* 1938-1944 George R. 1893-1899 Davis,* Martin A. Ryerson,* 1893-1932 Albert B. Dick, Jr.,* 1936-1954 Fred W. Sargent,* 1929-1939 James W. Ellsworth,* 1893-1894 Stephen C. Simms,* 1928-1937 Charles B. Farwell,* 1893-1894 James Simpson,* 1920-1939 Howard W. Fenton,* 1941-1951 Frederick J. V. Skiff,* 1902-1921 Henry Field,* 1916-1917 Albert A. Sprague,* 1910-1946 Marshall Field, Jr.,* 1899-1905 Silas H. Strawn,* 1924-1946 Marshall Field III,* 1914-1956 Edwin Walker,* 1893-1910 Ernest R. Graham,* 1921-1936 Albert H. Wetten,* 1939-1953 Frank W. Gunsaulus,* 1893-1894 Leslie Wheeler,* 1934-1937 1918-1921 Norman Williams,* 1894-1899 Albert W. Harris,* 1920-1941 John P. Wilson,* 1932-1959 Harlow N. Higinbotham,* 1894-1919 William Wrigley, Jr.,* 1919-1931 * deceased 10 ormer Off icers PRESIDENTS Edward E. Ayer* 1894-1898 Harlow N. Higinbotham* 1898-1908 FIRST Martin A. Ryerson* 1894-1932 VICE-PRESIDENTS Albert A. Sprague* 1933-1946 Marshall Field III* 1946-1956 SECOND Norman B. Ream* 1894-1902 VICE-PRESIDENTS Marshall Field, Jr.* 1902-1905 Stanley Field 1906-1908 Watson F. Blair* 1909-1928 Albert A. Sprague* 1929-1932 James Simpson* 1933-1939 Silas H, Strawn* 1940-1946 Albert B. Dick, Jr.* 1946-1951 Henry P. Isham 1952-1953 Samuel Insull, Jr 1954 Hughston M. McBain 1955-1956 Walther Buchen* 1957-1961 THIRD Albert A. Sprague* 1921-1928 VICE-PRESIDENTS James Simpson* 1929-1932 Albert W. Harris* 1933-1941 Albert B. Dick, Jr.* 1942-1946 Samuel Insull, Jr 1946-1953 SECRETARIES Ralph Metcalf 1894 George Manierre* 1894-1907 Frederick J. V. Skiff* 1907-1921 D. C. Da vies* 1921-1928 Stephen C. Simms* 1928-1937 TREASURERS Byron L. Smith* 1894-1914 DIRECTORS Frederick J. N. Skiff* 1893-1921 D. C. Davies* 1921-1928 Stephen C. Simms* 1928-1937 * deceased 11 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1961 OFFICERS Stanley Field, President HuGHSTON M. McBain, First Vice-President Walther Buchen, Second Vice-President* Joseph N. Field, Third Vice-President Solomon A. Smith, Treasurer Clifford C. Gregg, Secretary E. Leland Webber, Assistant Secretary board of Lester Armour William V. Kahler trustees Bowen Blair Hughston M. McBain Wm. McCormick Blair J. Roscoe Miller Walther Buchen* William H. Mitchell Walter J. Cummings John T. Pirie, Jr. Joseph N. Field Clarence B. Randall! Marshall Field, Jr. John Shedd Reed Stanley Field John G. Searle Clifford C. Gregg John M. Simpson Samuel Insull, Jr. Solomon A. Smith Henry P. Isham Louis Ware J. Howard Wood committees Executive—Stanley Field, Solomon A. Smith, Joseph N. Field, John G. Searle, Hughston M. McBain, Wm. McCormick Blair, Henry P. Isham, Marshall Field, Jr. Finance—Solomon A. Smith, Hughston M. McBain, Walter J. Cummings, Walther Buchen,* Henry P. Isham, Wm. McCormick Blair, John G. Searle Building—Joseph N. Field, William H. Mitchell, Lester Armour, Louis Ware Auditing—John G. Searle, Clarence B. Randall,! Marshall Field, Jr., Louis Ware Pension—Hughston M. McBain, William V. Kahler, John G. Searle, John T. Pirie, Jr., Samuel Insull, Jr. * deceased t resigned 12 LIST OF STAFF 1961 Clifford C. Gregg, B.S., Sc.D., LL.D., Director E. Leland Webber, B.B.Ad., C.P.A., Assistant Director DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Paul S. Martin, Ph.D., Chief Curator Donald Collier, Ph.D., Curator, South American Archaeology and Ethnology George I. Quimby, A.M., Curator, North American Archaeology and Ethnology John B. Rinaldo, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Archaeology Kenneth Starr, Ph.D., Curator, Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnology Roland W. Force, Ph.D., Curator, Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology* Phillip H. Lewis, M.A., Curator, Primitive Art HOSHIEN Tchen, Ph.D., Consultant, East Asian Collection Allen S. Liss, A.B., Custodian of Collections Alfred Lee Rowell, Dioramist GusTAF Dalstrom, Artist Theodore Halkin, B.F.A., M.S., Artist Walter Boyer, B.F.A., Ceramic Restorer* Walter C. Reese, Preparator Susan Schanck, B.S., Artist-Preparator Agnes M. Fennell, B.A., Departmental Secretary Robert J. Braidwood, Ph.D., Research Associate, Old World Prehistory Fay-Cooper Cole, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Research Associate, Malaysian Ethnology f Fred Eggan, Ph.D., Research Associate, Ethnology J. Eric Thompson, Dipl.Anth.Camb., Research Associate, Central American Archaeology Evett D. Hester, M.S., Field Associate DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY John R. Millar, Chief Curator B. E. Dahlgren, D.M.D., Curator Emeritusf J. Francis Macbride, Curator, Peruvian Botany John W. Thieret, Ph.D., Curator, Economic Botany C. Earle Smith, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Curator, Vascular Plants* Louis O. Williams, Ph.D., Curator, Central American Botany resigned t deceased 13 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY (continued) Patricio Ponce de Leon, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Cryptogamic Herbarium Emil Selxa, Curator of Exhibits f Samuel H. Grove, Jr., Artist-Preparator Frank Boryca, Technician Walter Huebner, Preparator Robert Anderson, Artist Edith M. Vincent, A.B., Research Librarian Dorothy Gibson, Assistant and Departmental Secretary E. P. KiLLiP, A.B., Research Associate, Phanerogamic Botany Rogers McVaugh, Ph.D., Research Associate, Vascular Plants Donald Richards, Research Associate, Cryptogamic Botany Earl E. Sherff, Ph.D., Research Associate, Systematic Botany Hanford Tiffany, Ph.D., Research Associate, Cryptogamic Botany Margery C. Carlson, Ph.D., Associate, Botany DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY Sharat K. Roy, Ph.D., Chief Curator Edward J. Olsen, Ph.D., Curator, Mineralogy Bertram G. Woodland, B.Sc, Associate Curator, Petrology Harry E. Changnon, B.S., Curator of Exhibits Henry Horback, Assistant Henry U. Taylor, Preparator Rainer Zangerl, Ph.D., Curator, Fossil Reptiles Robert H. Denison, Ph.D., Curator, Fossil Fishes William D. Turnbull, Assistant Curator, Fossil Mammals David Techter, B.S., Assistant, Fossil Vertebrates Eugene S. Richardson, Jr., Ph.D., Curator, Fossil Invertebrates George Langford, Ph.B., Curator, Fossil Plants H Orville L. Gilpin, Chief Preparator, Fossils Ronald J. Lambert, Preparator, Fossils Maidi Wiebe Leibhardt, Artist Evelyn Shahroch, Departmental Secretary Ernst Antevs, Ph.D., Research Associate, Glacial Geology Albert A. Dahlberg, D.D.S., Research Associate, Fossil Vertebrates Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering, B.Sc, Research Associate, Fossil Invertebrates Everett C. Olson, Ph.D., Research Associate, Fossil Vertebrates Bryan Patterson, Research Associate, Fossil Vertebrates R. H. Whitfield, D.D.S., Associate, Fossil Plants Violet Whitfield, B.A., Associate, Fossil Plants 1 retired 14 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Austin L. Rand, Ph.D., ScD., Chief Curator Philip Hbrshkovitz, M.S., Curator, Mammals Karl Koopman, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Mammals* Emmet R. Blake, M.S., Curator, Birds Melvin a. Traylor, Jr., A.B., Associate Curator, Birds M. Dianne Maurer, a.b.. Assistant, Birds Robert F. Inger, Ph.D., Curator, Amphibians and Reptiles Hymen Marx, B.S., Assistant Curator, Reptiles Janet Wright, Assistant, Reptiles LoREN P.