Understanding Diversity
Field Museum of Natural History 1989/1990 Biennial Report
Introduction, Page 2
Investigating Diversity in Nature, Page 4
Financial report, Page 20
Donors to the Collections, Page 34
Understanding Diversity in Human Cultures, Page 38
Volunteers, Page 44
Trustees, Officers & Committees, Page 48
The diversity of life is extraordinary. There are said
to be a million or so different kinds of living animals, and hundreds of
thousands of kinds of plants.
But we don't need to think of the world at large. It is
amazing enough to stop and look at a forest or at a meadow — at the
grass and trees and caterpillars and hawks and deer.
how did all of these different kinds of things come
about; what forces governed their evolution; what forces maintain their
numbers and determine their survival or extinction; what are their rela-
tions to each other and to the physical environment in which they llve?
These are the problems of natural history, problems
that concern ourselves as animals and that concern us even more as
originators of this thing called civilization — which is, after all, merely a
rather special sort of an animal community.
Marston Bates, The Nature of Natural History
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Reprinted by Prince'
Copyright © by Marston Bates, © Renewed by Nancy Bi
Introduction
The
Objects of
Our
Affection
Pictured in this report
are a few dozen of the
nearly 20 million
natural history
specimens and
cultural artifacts in the
Field Museum
collections, along with
a very few of the staff
members, volunteers,
contributors, and
visitors who make
these inert objects
come alive.
livery large organization lives with a verbal shorthand that compresses
complex ideas or experience into a word or phrase. This seems inevitable, and the
Field Museum is no exception to the rule. What should not be inevitable is that we
fail to explain ourselves when we communicate with our friends.
Among the Museum's most pervasive buzzwords are systematics and
cultural understanding. Between them, they represent a large part of what we are about
as an institution — the kind of research we do and the ethos that governs our
educational work. In this report we've tried to illuminate those concepts. I hope that
through them readers will gain a better understanding or the special role the Museum
plays in basic science, environmental education, and human relations.
As I conclude my term as chairman of the Museum's Board of Trustees,
I want to thank my colleagues, the Museum staff and volunteers, the Chicago Park
District, and our public, corporate, and individual donors for helping prepare the
ground for the Museum's second century.
In this regard, I should call attention to one fact that pops out of the
financial figures in this report. In 1990, unrestricted contributions by individuals and
family foundations increased 33 percent over 1989, and represented 65 percent of
total unrestricted giving, up from 55 percent in previous years. Despite the recession,
total unrestricted giving increased by 1 1 percent, to more than $2 million. These
increases reflect not so much larger individual contributions as a large increase in the
number of contributors. That is a happy development, not least because it creates a
new base from which to build even larger constituencies in the future.
Robert A. Pritzker, Chairman, Board of Trustees
'Systematics' and 'Cultural Understanding' —
Between Them, These Words Represent a Large Part of What
We Are About As an Institution
Opposite: An Egyptian mortuary cloth depicting the goddess Osiris. Above right: a bronze mirror with a handle in the shape of a
woman holding a papyrus blossom over her head. Both objects were collected by Edward E. Ayer in 1895
Investigating Diversity in the Neotropics
Fungi, Fishes, Relict Forests, the Advance of the
Angiosperms, the Family Life of the Blackbirds,
and the Rise of Tiwanaku
Inset: Jalcophila peruviana, a new genus and species of the sunflower family, Asteraceae, found by Michael 0. Dillon in the Andes of
northern Peru. (Illustration by Peruvian professor Segundo Leiva Gonzales.)
Background: Azorella compacta, an Andean cushion plant of the carrot family, Umbelliferae.
When Field Museum
scientists are "in the field," that could
mean Borneo or Iowa or Kenya, or any
of numerous other locations around the
world. But chances of bumping into a
curator are highest in the New World,
between latitudes 23.5° north and 23.5°
south: the neotropics.
No doubt there are many
idiosyncratic reasons why one-third of
the Museum's curators — a dozen
Ph.D.s with as many different research
interests — have chosen to work in this
region. The most important reasons,
however, have to do with institutional
tradition and commitments (the
Museum's Flora of Peru project, for
example, has been the work of
generations of curators since 1921), and
the extreme diversity of tropical
environments that so excites museum
people. [See page 7.]
Within this relatively small
area of Central America and northern
South America, Field Museum curators
have in recent years been able to study
the effect of ocean currents on desert
vegetation [page 10] and, not far away,
the ecological associations of small
mammals in Andean rain
forests. They have
catalogued the 400 species
of the coffee family in
Costa Rica, among other
floras and faunas, and
have been mapping the
variation among the
thousands of species of
tetras in the tropical
freshwater streams of
Venezuela. On the shores
of Lake Titicaca, they are unearthing the
succession of cultures that led to the rise
and ultimate demise of one of the
earliest empires in the Americas. In the
Peruvian highlands, they have demon-
strated the independent evolution of
birds confined to mountain peaks above
the clouds.
These and other Field
Museum research projects are in most
outward respects quite traditional.
Curators find, collect, sort, describe,
classify, and preserve the objects of their
Above: test tubes
containing pine roots
inoculated with
mushroom cultures to
form the symbiotic
relationship known as
mycorrhizae.
Background:
a scanning electron
microscope image of
the spores of Laccaria
tortilus, magnified
1,000 times.
Brycon falcatus, a
South American tetra
collected by Barry
Chernoff.
attention. But armed with computers,
the techniques of molecular genetics,
analytical tools like "phenetics" and
"cladistics," and machines like the
scanning electron microscope and the
superconducting cryogenic magneto-
meter, contemporary museum-based
scientists can often ask more difficult
questions of their data than their
predecessors could. And frequently
nowadays, especially in the tropics, their
data and analyses have high utilitarian
value for conservation and development.
Botanist Gregory M.
Mueller, for example, has as one of his
research projects a survey of the
mushrooms in the oak forests of Costa
Rica, and he and his colleagues have
collected more than 2,500 specimens.
These are being subjected to several
different laboratory tests, including
electron microscopy, so they can be
assigned a genus and species, their
relationships assessed, and information
on their life histories obtained. Cultures
of some of these mushrooms are also
being amassed so they can be grown
next to Costa Rican oak seedlings to
learn which are potentially able to form
a specialized symbiosis. Oaks and
mushrooms form joint underground
structures called mycorrhizae on which
both are dependent, but the known
pairings have been worked out for some
temperate forests, not tropical ones.
Foresters in Central and South America
have been replacing stands of native oaks
with foreign species, a practice that
could lead to problems — plantations of
foreign trees do not support the diversity
of native insects, birds, and other
animals and plants that complex native
forests do. Mueller's research will help
enable the industry to develop
reforestation technology that does not
upset local ecosystems.
In Ecuador, Peter R. Crane,
chairman of the Department of
Geology, has found remarkably well
preserved fossil plants. Similar
assemblages have been found in Virginia
and Portugal and include minuscule
flowers that still contain pollen grains.
Under the scanning electron micro-
scope, these hundred-million-year-old
fossils have unlocked many of the
mysteries in the reproductive biology of
basal angiosperms — the primitive
flowering plants. Moreover, studying the
pollen preserved within the flowers
enables Crane and his Field Museum
colleague Scott Lidgard to interpret with
greater confidence the data in their
imposing study of the rise of the
flowering plants, which is based on
analysis of fossil pollen data from many
parts of the world. To their own
surprise, they discovered that between
120 million and 80 million vears ago
(the mid-Cretaceous period), during the
time the present continents and oceans
were taking shape, the flowering plants
and their nearest relatives, the Gnetales,
began to diversify rapidly in equatorial
regions and to spread to higher latitudes.
But soon the Gnetales died off, perhaps
vanquished by the preadaptive power of
the flowering plant, which subsequently
came to dominate every terrestrial
ecosystem except the high-elevation or
high-latitude spruce and pine forests.
This news, and the analytical methods
employed by Crane and Lidgard, have
attracted wide interest,
including in the oil industry
— much or the worlds oil is
found in mid-Cretaceous rock
Funding from the Petroleum
Research Fund of the
Below and
background: Scanning
electron microscope
images of fossil pollen
grains about
100,000.000 vears old.
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American Chemical Society will support
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Systematics
The kind of work that most Field Museum scientists do is called systematics —
a word that is not in the vocabulary even of many well-educated people.
Paleobotanist Peter Crane, chairman of the Museum's Department of Geology,
defines systematics as the science of "documenting and understanding the
relationships between organisms. " At a basic level, this means collecting,
describing, and sorting the plants and animals of a given place. Cartoon images
of butterfly hunters in pith helmets aside, systematics is the foundation on
which all other study of life on earth is constructed. As a practical matter, such
studies are essential in conservation and environmental planning, and in any
consideration of evolution.
Beyond this, systematists may take a group of related organisms (the New
World blackbirds, for instance, or the tropical fresh-water tetras) and seek to
understand it in detail — its subdivisions, geographic distribution, patterns of
behavior, ecological relationships, evolutionary history. The greater the
diversity in a place or in a group of organisms, the greater the challenge of
understanding its forms and relationships.
At yet another level of investigation, systematists may try to understand the
processes at work in the patterns of relationship they have discerned — the
biochemistry of evolution, say, or the mathematics of shape and size change.
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Above: Icterus
galbula bullocki, a
common North
American oriole. The
24 oriole species are
descendants of one of
the oldest lineages
within the family of
New World
blackbirds.
Background: DNA
sequence of Icterus
galbula bullocki was
used to determine the
evolutionary
relationships of
orioles.
further research by Crane and Lidgard
that will expand their database
geographically over a longer time span
and provide new insight into the long-
term interactions of vegetation and
climate in the history of our planet.
Bosque Monteseco, in
northwestern Peru, is one of several
remnants of a vast forest that 30,000
years ago stretched through what are
now Ecuador and Colombia as well as
Peru. Field Museum botanist Michael
O. Dillon, with American and Peruvian
colleagues and students, has been
surveying the forest as part of the Flora
of Peru project. In isolation, many of the
plants and animals there have evolved
into new species that are found nowhere
on earth except these 6,000 acres.
Because the forest is in the path of
agricultural development, the researchers
have been working with the local schools
to develop science-education programs
in hopes that a new generation will
come to appreciate and protect natural
diversity.
Fish are a lot quicker than
land animals to change their physical
characteristics to accommodate
environmental change. In an effort to
better understand the process at work,
zoologist Barry Chernoff studies two
groups of fishes — the silversides, whose
several dozen species inhabit a wide
variety of ecosystems throughout the
Americas, and the tetras, whose several
thousand species are confined to tropical
freshwater streams. These tropical
waters, however, offer a multitude of
mini-environments through which to
trace the fishes' changing features.
Chernoff is interested in exploring
mathematical aspects of evolutionary
change, and in the theoretical question
of how much change makes a "species."
But in the Orinoco Basin of Venezuela,
where deforestation and channelization
are destroying habitat at a rapid pace,
the most pressing research priority is
simply to identify previously
undescribed species before they are gone.
Scott M. Lanyon, chairman
of the Department of Zoology, is
another frequent visitor in the
neotropics, where he has done
collecting, conservation consulting, and
Opposite: Inca plates, ca. 1400 A.D., from the Emilio Montez collection acquired by the Museum in 1893.
research in his own specialty, the New
World blackbirds — the redwings,
crackles, meadowlarks, bobolinks,
orioles, and other songbirds. Despite the
blackbirds' familiarity as a gtoup, not
much is known about how the 97
species are related to one another, and
Lanyon is using the techniques of
molecular biology in an effort to
construct the family tree. Lanyon is
principally interested in studying the
evolution of mating and nesting
behaviors, including plumage and song,
which among the blackbirds are both
extremely varied and highly unusual.
Birds typically pair for a season, males
and females often look alike, they tend
to be territorial and to have a species-
specific song. But blackbird species may
exhibit sexual promiscuity, males and
females may be of sharply different size
and color, they often mimic other birds'
songs, and may tolerate dozens of nests
in one tree, among other odd behaviors.
Lanyon hopes to be able to plot these
morphological and behavioral
characteristics against the family tree
derived ixom DNA studies, to suggest
how and why one led to another.
Lest we forget, human
beings are also a result of natural history,
and their group behaviors — cultures —
while not genetically determined, have
patterns and processes of change that
museum-based researchers can study by
means of systematic collections.
Thirteen thousand feet up in the Andes,
during the reign of Caesar Augustus in
Rome and for a thousand years after, the
city of Tiwanaku ruled an immense
empire that was built on the surplus
provided by a remarkably sophisticated
agricultural technology. The system of
terraced fields, naturally irrigated and
insulated against the cold Andean
nights, had been developed during the
preceding 1 ,000 years by a succession
of village
cultures
around
Lake
Titicaca. Field
Museum
archaeologist
Charles Stanish
has begun a ten-year
project to investigate the
origins of the agricultural technology
The
Biochem
Labs
The Biochemical
Laboratories, a
Museum research
facility, produced its
first DNA sequence
data in T990, obtained
by using a recent
technological
innovation known as
the polymerase chain
reaction (PCR). The
technique permits
genetic analysis of
DNA extracted from
small pieces of tissue,
including dried or
alcohol-preserved
tissues. In a rare
instance, the Lab was
able to sequence
DNA from a 20,000-
year-old leaf fossil.
Major projects have
involved analysis of
the evolutionary and
biogeographic
relationships among
blackbirds (Scott
Lanyon) and South
American fruit bats
(Bruce Patterson).
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and development of political systems
that culminated in the long reign of
Tiwanaku, and its decline before the
rise of the Inca about 1450 A.D. With
teams of U.S. and Peruvian students, he
has so far uncovered 450 new archae-
ological sites that reveal evidence of six
different cultures. There is some hope
that the amazingly productive terraced
agriculture can be reintroduced by the
current residents of the area, the
Aymara Indians.***
The Love of
El Nino, and the
Fear of Goats
It hardly ever rains in the
coastal deserts of Peru and Chile. Life is
sustained there by seasonal fogs from
which plants condense moisture. Even a
few species of bromeliads endure the
spare environment, like their neighbors,
by condensing moisture on their leaves
and roots, while their numerous
relatives in wetter climates collect water
in specialized leaf bases that form a tank.
These tanks provide aquatic environ-
ments capable of sustaining other
organisms such as small frogs, snails, or
insects.
But Field Museum botanist
Michael O. Dillon, on a collecting trip
in the Chilean Atacama Desert, found
some bromeliads over three feet tall
growing on a steep cliff about a
thousand feet above sea level. The site
was inaccessible; Dillon had to use a
rope lasso to bring one down — and was
surprised to receive a small shower when
the plant was uprooted! It proved to be a
previously undescribed species that had
managed to retain a functioning tank in
the desert. All individuals in the area
contained substantial amounts of water,
some as much as a pint, even though
there had been no rain for more than a
year. In the desert, that much water
makes a tempting target for any
herbivore.
Dillon has concluded that
the plant is most closely related not to
nearby species but to bromeliads of the
genus Tillandsia that grow in tropical
savannas and cloud forests from
Colombia to Peru. He estimates that
there are fewer than 200 scattered
individuals of the new species, which has
managed to survive only by clinging to
cliff faces where neither the domes-
ticated nor the wild goats that graze in
the area can get at it. Dillon named the
species Tillandsia tragophoba — from
the Greek tragos, goat, and phobos, fear
— in an effort, he wrote in a journal of
the New York Botanical Garden, "to call
attention to the rapid and continuing
destruction of natural vegetation by
grazing animals," a problem now being
addressed by the Chilean conservation
authorities.
Foraging livestock had been
a concern of Dillon's since 1983, when
he was in the Peruvian Desert at the
time of the El Nino phenomenon, a
periodic ocean-atmosphere event which
that year was perhaps the strongest in
history; among other climatic effects, it
produced the first major rains in the
desert since 1925. Dillon's principal
work has been in Peru, where he is
continuing a Field Museum project —
begun decades before he was born —
to catalog all the plants in that extremely
diverse country. During the 1983 El
Nino, as he drove down the Peruvian
coast, he was startled to see the desert
blooming with unusual plants
whose seeds, apparently, had
lain dormant for decades. Such
insular, opportunistic plant
communities would be interesting in
themselves and good subjects for the
study of evolution. A few months later,
when Dillon returned to the area to do
further research, he found that ranchers
in the mountains had driven their cattle
down to the coast to forage amid the
new vegetation, and it was now severely
disturbed or destroyed.
Subsequent El Nino events
and a freak rainstorm in northern Chile
in July 1987 have reinvigorated the
desert's vegetation and stimulated
research. The result will be an exhaustive
survey and computer analysis of desert
fog-dependent plant communities in
Peru and Chile that in turn — given the
periodic return of El Nino — will
provide baseline data for the study of
global warming.***
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Computer
Services
Computerization of
the Museum's
research, collections
management, exhibit,
and administrative
functions has
accelerated in recent
years and is poised for
expansion and
upgrading. Currently,
in the scientific
departments, a DEC
VAX 1 1/785 running
the Unix 5.3 operating
system is connected
to more than 120
personal computers
and a wide range of
peripherals.
Upgrading is planned
to add image-
processing
applications, to
increase connectivity
within the Museum
and between its
departments, and to
permit networking
with other research
and educational
institutions.
Left: Tillandsia tragophoba, a new cliff-dwelling bromeliad of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Above right: the
blossom of 7. tragophoba. (Illustrations by Marlene Werner.) Backgroun tesecoensis, a new
species of the sunflower family, Asteraceae, found by Dillon in the Pei
The Spirit of Giving:
Friends and Supporters of the
Field Museum of Natural History
eyenne moccasins decorated with glass beads, collected in the Black Hills of South Dakota about 1900. Background: A
Chippewa apron with a pouch, also beaded, donated to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Coombs about 1915.
The Founders'
Council
Individual Members
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Lowell E. Ackmann
(Ackmann Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley N. Allan
Mrs. Margaret B. Allyn
(TheAllyn Foundation, Inc.)
Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Alsdorf
(Alsdorf Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. A. Watson Armour [II
Mrs. Lester .Armour
Mrs. P. Kelley Armour
Mr. & Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Mr. Vernon .Armour
Mr. Robert Asher
Mr.* & Mrs. Edwin N. Asmann
(O. Paul Decker Memorial
Foundation)
Mr. &C Mrs. George R. Baker
Mr. & Mrs. Judson C. Ball
Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bankard
George Barr*
Miss Kristina Barr
(Kristina Barr and George Barr
Foundation)
Ms. Virginia T. Bartholomay
(Ruth and Vernon Taylor
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Bass
(Robert and Isabelle Bass
Foundation, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Baumgarten
Mr." & Mrs. George R. Beach
Dr. & Mrs. Robert A Beatty
Dr. & Mrs. Nenad Belie
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Bent
Mr. & Mrs. Harry O. Bercher
Mr. & Mrs. James F. Bere
Mr. & Mrs. Allen C. Berg
Mr. Richard S. Berger
Mr. & Mrs. Bowen Blair
Mrs. Philip D. Block, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Block III
(JB Charitable Trust)
Mrs. Daniel J. Boone
(The Seabury Foundation)
Mrs. G. E. Boone
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Boone
Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. Boyd
Mrs. Harold S. Brady
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Bramsen
(Svend and Elizabeth Bramsen
Foundation)
Mrs. Dorothy T. Braun
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Bro
Mr. & Mrs. Bertram Z. Brodie
(Edwin J. Brach Foundation)
Mrs. Helen D. Bronson
Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Brown
(Cameron Brown Foundation)
Mr." & Mrs." Henry A. Brown
Ms. Jennifer Martin Brown
(The Martin Foundation, Inc.)
Mrs. Murray C. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Roger O. Brown
Mr. Fred J. Brunner
(Fred J. Brunner Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Brunner
Mr.* & Mrs. DeWitt W.
Buchanan, Jr.
(Buchanan Family Foundation)
Mrs. Donald P. Buchanan*
Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Buehler, Jr.
(A CP Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock
(Dean and Rosemary Buntrock
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Burd
Mr. 8c Mrs. Donald J. Cameron
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Roy Carney
(Peter R. and Marina G.
Carney Foundation)
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Wells Carton
Mr. & Mrs. Hammond E.
Chaffetz
(Chaffetz Family Foundation)
Mrs. Jerry G. Chambers
Mr. & Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
Mr. & Mrs. Walter L. Cherry
(Virginia B. and Walter I.
Cherry Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Childs
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Chiles
Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Clark, Jr.
Mr. Richard W. Colburn /
Ms. Robin Lucas (The
Negaunee Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Considine
Mr. & Mrs. Stanton R. Cook
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Cooper
(Richard H. Cooper
Foundation)
Mr. 8* Mrs. John R. Covington
(Howard L Willett
Foundation, Inc.)
Mrs. William S. Covington"
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Cowles
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Crane
Mr. & Mrs. William F. Crawford
(The Crawford Foundation)
Mr. &C Mrs. Lester Crown
(Arte and Ida Crown
Memorial)
Mrs. Sandra K. Crown
Ms. Susan Crown, Mr. William
Kunkler III (Arte and Ida
Crown Memorial)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Cruikshank
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Dabovich
Mr. & Mrs. O. C. Davis
(O. C. Davis Foundation)
Dr. & Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta
( Walter E. Heller Foundation)
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Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Delaney
Mrs. Charles S. DeLong*
Mr. Donald J. DePorter
Mr. & Mrs. James R. DeStefano
Mr." & Mrs. Albert B.Dick III
(The Dick Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Edison Dick
(EJD Foundation)
Mrs. Clinton O. Dicken
Mr.* & Mrs. William R.
Dickinson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
(Sudix Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
(Gaylord Donnelley 1983 Gift
Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Donnelley
(The Nina H. and James R.
Donnelley Foundation)
Mr. 8c Mrs. Thomas E. Donnellev II
(Thomas E. Donnelley II
Foundation)
Mrs. George H. Dovenmuehle
Mr. &C Mrs. Robert C. Edwards
(Woodruff and Edwards
Foundation!
Mr. Huntington Eldridge, Jr.
(Buchanan Family Foundation)
Mrs. R. Winfield Ellis
Mrs. Marjorie H. Eking
Mr. Evans Erikson
(Evans W. Erikson Foundation)
Mr. &C Mrs. Gordon R. Ewing
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Eyerman
Mary 8c Bruce Feay
Mr. 8c Mrs. Robert C. Ferris
Mrs. Joseph N. Field
Mr. 8c Mrs. Marshall Field
(Jamee and Marshall Field
Foundation)
Mr. &C Mrs. Steven D. Fifield
Mr. &C Mrs. M. Peter Fischer
Mr. 8c Mrs. Morgan L. Fitch, Jr.
Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr.
(Enivar Charitable Fund)
Mr. &£ Mrs. Charles Robert Foltz
Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Foreman
(Peter and Virginia Foreman
FoundationlPeroke Foundation)
Mr. &C Mrs. Charles W. Foxwell
Mr.* &C Mrs. Gaylord Freeman
Peter B. 8c Donna B. Freeman
Mr. 8c Mrs. William M. Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Friend
Mrs. Edmund W. Froehlich
Mr. &C Mrs. Marshall B. Front
Mr. 8" Mrs. Maurice F. Fulton
(Maurice and Muriel Fulton
Foundation, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Gerrie
Mr. &C Mrs. Gerald S. Gidwitz
* Deceased
From the Field Museum Library: Snake Foot, a figure from Vipera
Pythia, a treatise on venomous snakes by Marcus Aurelius
Severini (1580-1656), published in1651.
Eighty-Six
New Members
Eighty-six new members
joined the Founders' Council in
1989-90, bringing the total to
340. The Council's Award of
Merit, recognizing significant
contributions to the study of
natural history, was presented
to Harvard University biologist
Edward O. Wilson. Previous
recipients include Sir David
Attenborough, the
documentary film maker,
Roger Tory Peterson, the
wildlife artist, and Stephen Jay
Gould, the essayist. In 1990,
Laura and Marshall Front
succeeded John B. Judkins, Jr.
to the Council's chair.
Individual Founders' Council
members annually contribute
SI, 500 or more in unrestricted
gifts or gifts to other special
funds; give a single or
accumulated gift of $25,000 or
more for permanent
membership; make a deferred
gift of $50,000 or more; or
make a gift of a major
collection.
Corporate and foundation
members of the Founders'
Council annually contribute
$5,000 or more in
unrestricted gifts.
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New Visitor
Marketing
The Museum launched an
aggressive visitor marketing
plan in 1989 and 1990 through
the Public Relations
Department with the
assistance of Leo Burnett
U.S.A., a top advertising
agency. A new marketing
theme, "Field Museum - The
Smart Way to Have Fun, "
inspires an integrated program
of publicity, promotions, and
advertising that has helped the
Museum exceed attendance
and revenue goals both years.
New corporate marketing
partnerships with United
Airlines, American Express
Travel Services, Pizza Hut,
McDonald's, KLM Royal Dutch
Airlines, top Chicago hotels,
major radio stations and
retailers enhance promotional
activities.
Mr. Joseph L. Gidwitz
(The Division Fund/Gidwitz
Family Foundation)
Dr. Elizabeth-Louise Girardi
Mr. &C Mrs. James J. Glasser
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Good
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Goodall, Jr.
(Tborson Foundation)
Dr. & Mrs. John G. Graham
Mr. & Mrs. William B. Graham
(William B. Graham
Foundation, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Grainger
(The Grainger Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Gray
Lewis & Misty Gruber
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Guenzel
Mr. & Mrs.* Robert P. Gwinn
Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III
Mrs. Burton W. Hales
(Hales Charitable Fund, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. Corwith Hamill
(Happy Hollow Fund)
Drs. K. W. & Lucy Hammerberg
Mrs. Charles L. Hardy
(Elliot and Ann Donnelley
Foundation)
Mrs. William A. Hark
Mr. & Mrs. D. Foster Harland
Mr. & Mrs. King Harris
(Harris Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Hawkes
Mr. & Mrs. Laurin H. Healy
(Winona Corporation)
Wayne E. & Colette J. Hedien
Mr. & Mrs. Ben W. Heineman
Mrs. Harold H. Hines, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Hines
Mr. George C. Hixon
Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Hodous
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Hoellen
(Sulzer Family Foundation)
Mr. Myron Hokin
(Dave Hokin Foundation)
Mr. Wayne J. Holman III (Wayne
J. Holman, Jr. 1963 Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Holzheimer
(Holzheimer Fund)
Carl Holzheimer*
Mr. Keith A. Hooper
Mrs. H. Earl Hoover
(H. Earl Hoover Foundation)
Mrs. William D. Home
Mrs. Irvin E. Houck
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Howe
Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Huizenga
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hyndman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Ingersoll
(Mr. and Mrs. Robert S.
Ingersoll Foundation)
Mr. Marshall Isaacson
Mr. & Mrs. Hal Iyengar
Mr. & Mrs. Reinhardt H. Jahn
Mrs. Harold James
(Butz Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Jannotta, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Jelinek
Mrs. Barbara Smail Johnson'
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence E. Johnson
(Clarence E. Johnson and
Shirley M. Johnson Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. S. Curtis Johnson III
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Judkins, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Kackley
Mr. & Mrs. Morris A. & Alice B.
Kaplan (Mayer and Morris
Kaplan Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Byron C. Karzas
Mrs. Spencer R. Keare
Carolyn M. & Douglas E. Keats
Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Keiser
Mr. Milt Keller
Donna Kennedy
Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Kierscht
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Kinsella
(J. J. Kinsella Charitable Lead
Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. F. M. Kirby
(F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick
(John E. and Phyllis D.
Kirkparick Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Kolar
Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel
Mrs. Ray A. Kroc
Mr. Carl A. Kroch
Mr. William H. Kurtis /
Ms. Donna LaPietra
Mrs. Richard W. Leach
(Isabella Leach Charitable Lead
Trust)
Paul H. & Theo H. Leffmann
Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Lehman
(New Prospect Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Leslie
(The Leslie Fund)
Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie
Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Levin
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Lewis
Mr. & Mrs. George Lill II
Lucia Woods Lindley /
Daniel A. Lindley, Jr.
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Mrs. Renee Logan
The Honorable & Mrs. John J.
Louis, Jr.
(John J. Louis Foundation)
Mrs. Rena I. Lozins
Bettina R. MacAyeal
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Madigan
Mr. & Mrs. CaryJ. Malkin
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Malott
Sandy & Jerry Manne
Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Marcus
Mr. & Mrs. Ira G. Marks (Ira &
Janina Marks Charitable Trust)
Mrs. Geraldine F. Martin
(The Martin Foundation, Inc.)
Mrs. Harold T. Martin
Mr. & Mrs. R. Eden Martin
Mr. Clifford G. Massoth
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Matz, Jr.
Mrs. Beatrice Cummings Mayer
Mr. & Mrs. Oscar G. Mayer
(Oscar G. and Elsa S. Mayer
Charitable Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. McCaskey
Mr. & Mrs. Archibald McClure
(CDM Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Brooks McCormick
(Brooks and Hope B.
McCormick Foundation)
Mrs. Susan McDowell
Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. McLachlan
Mr. & Mrs. Cirilo A. McSween
Dr. & Mrs. L. Steven Medgyesy
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Meeker (John
C. Meeker and Withrow M.
Meeker Charitable Lead Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Hugo J. Melvoin
Mrs. Richard Merrick
Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Meyer
Mr. & Mrs. David R. Meyers
(Meyers Charitable Family
Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Newton N. Minow
(Minow Family Foundation)
Mrs. William H. Mitchell*
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F.
Montgomery
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Morrow
Mrs. Arthur T. Moulding
Mr. & Mrs. Leo F. Mullin
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Murphy
Dr. & Mrs. Charles F. Nadler
Colonel & Mrs. John B. Naser
(JBN Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Neal
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Nichols
Mrs. Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. James J. O'Connor
Mr. & Mrs. Wrigley Offield
Mrs. Eric Oldberg
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Thomas O'Neil
Mrs. Gilbert H. Osgood
Mr. & Mrs. James Otis, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Oughton
Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Patterson
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Pavey
' Deceased
From the Field Museum Library: Anthropomorphic rendering of a
mandrake root, from Gait der Gesundtheit, an herbal
pharmacopoeia compiled by Joannes de Cuba and published in
Augsburg in 1486 — the oldest printed book in the collection.
Mr. &: Mrs. Richard J. Peterson
(Otto W. Lehmann
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel L. Petre
Mr. & Mrs. John Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pigott
Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Potter
(McClurg Foundation)
Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Printen
Mrs. A. N. Pritzker
Mr. James Pritzker
Mr. Robert A. Pritzker
(Pritzker Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John Shedd Reed
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Reed
(Robert C. Reed Family Fruit)
Miss Ruth Regenstein
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Reichelderfer
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A.
Reynolds, Jr.
Mr. Ottomar D. Roeder
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal
(D&RFund)
Mr. Ted Ross
(Ross Charitable Frust)
Mr. & Mrs. David S. Ruder
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Runnells
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Sanders
Mr. & Mrs. David R. Sawyier /
Timothy Sawyier
Mr. Leonard B. Sax
(Sax Family Foundation)
Mr.* & Mrs.* Norman J.
Schlossman
(Jocarno Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Schroeder
Dr. & Mrs. John S. Schweppe
Mrs. John W. Seabury
(The Seabury Foundation)
Mr. Michael D. Searle
(Searle Family Frust)
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Searle
Searle Family Trust)
Mr. Michael Segal
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Shapiro
(Soretta and Henry Shapiro
Family Foundation)
Mr.* & Mrs. John I. Shaw
(Arch W. Shaw Foundation)
Mr. Jeffrey Shedd
Mr. & Mrs. Saul S. Sherman
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Shields
(Bessie Shields Family
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Short, Jr.
Mrs. John M. Simpson
Mrs. Thomas B. Singleton*
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Siragusa
Mr. & Mrs.* Edward Byron Smith
(Edward Byron Smith
Charitable Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Byron
Smith, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm N. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Worthington L. Smith
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Snydacker
Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Sommer
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Sondheimer
Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Sparks
(Jack D. and Fredda Sparks
Foundation)
Mrs. George T. Spensley
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Spore
(Howard L. Willett
Foundation, Inc)
Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Staehle
Mrs. Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt
Mr. & Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Wallace J. Stenhousejr.
Mrs. David B. Stern, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs.* David W. Stewart
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Stitt
Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Stone
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Street
(The Seattle Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. Stride
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Stuart, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Erwin A. Stuebner
Mr.* & Mrs.* Bolton Sullivan
(Bolton Sullivan Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Sullivan
(Bolton Sullivan Fund I Susan
and John W. Sullivan
Foundation)
Mrs. James Swartchild'
(Collier-Swartchild Foundation)
Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Phelps Hoyt Swift
(Ruth and Vernon Faylor
Foundation)
Barbara Olin Taylor /
F. Morgan Taylor, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Taylor, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Taylor III
Dr. & Mrs. Samuel G. Taylor III
Mr. & Mrs. Edward R. Telling
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Thorne
Mrs. Reuben Thorson
(Fhorson Foundation)
Mr.* & Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken
(HBB Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. George S. Trees
Mr. & Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
(Howard J. and Paula M.
Trienens Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Tyler
Mr. & Mrs. Edgar J. Uihlein
Katherine L. Updike,
Robert Wagner
Mr.* & Mrs. Herbert A. Vance
(Herbert A. and Dorothy J.
Vance Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore W.
Van Zelst
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Vernon
Dr. & Mrs. Harold K. Voris
Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Wagner
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Walsh
Mr. & Mrs. Hempstead
Washburne, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Dey W. Watts
Mr. & Mrs. Morrison Waud
Mr.* & Mrs. E. Leland Webber
Mr. & Mrs. Roderick S. Webster
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Weiss
(William L. and Josephine B.
Weiss Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Welsh III
(McCrea Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler
Mr. & Mrs. George F. Wilhelm
Mrs. Abra Prentice Wilkin (Abra
Prentice Charitable Trust)
Mrs. Howard L. Willett, Jr.
(Howard L. Willett
Foundatioti, Inc. )
Dr. & Mrs. Philip C. Williams
Mrs. Benton J. Willner
(Madeline and Henry Straus
Endowment Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Winn
Mr.* & Mrs. J. Howard Wood
Mr. & Mrs. William
Wood-Prince
Mr. & Mrs. Blaine J. Yarrington
Mrs. George B. Young
Mr. & Mrs. George D. Young
Mr. & Mrs. Max Zar
Mrs. Claire B. Zeisle
* Deceased
15
Donor
Groups
In 1989, four new support
groups were organized to
encourage and recognize, with
additional membership
benefits, those who donate
funds to the Museum beyond
basic membership. These are
the Field Contributors
(SW0-S249), Field Adventurers
(S250-S499), Field Naturalists
(S500-S999), and Field
Explorers ($1,000-$1,499).
Members of these groups are
listed in the publication "Field
Museum Donor Groups. "
Donors of $1,500 or more
annually are named to the
Founders' Council.
From the Field Museum Library: Sea creature from Konrad
Gesner's Fischbuch, published in Zurich in 1575.
The
Founders'
Council
Corporation and
Foundation members
Abbott Laboratories
Allen-Heath Memorial
Foundation
The Allstate Insurance Company
American National Can Company
Ameritech
Amoco Foundation, Inc.
Amsted Industries, Inc.
Arthur Andersen & Company
Aon Corporation
Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
Bankers Trust Company
The Barker Welfare Foundation
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Beatrice Company
Borg- Warner Foundation
Boulevard Bank
Leo Burnett, U.S.A.
The Chase Manhattan
Corporation
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Tribune Company
Commonwealth Edison Company
Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Company
DeSoto, Inc.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
FMC Corporation
Fel-Pro/Mecklenburger
Foundation
Elizabeth Ferguson Trust
First National Bank of Chicago
Ford Motor Company
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Geraldi Norton Memorial
Corporation
Harris Bank Foundation
Helene Curtis, Inc.
Household International, Inc.
IBM
Illinois Bell
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
The Interlake Corporation
Kemper Educational and
Charitable Fund
Kemper Financial Services, Inc.
The James S. Kemper Foundation
Kraft General Foods
Louis R. Lurie Foundation
John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Marshall Field's
Robert R. McCormick Charitable
TrustMcMaster-Carr Supply
Company
MidCon Corp.
Molex International, Inc.
Morton Thiokol, Inc.
Nalco Chemical Company
Northern Illinois Gas Company
The Northern Trust Company
John Nuveen & Company
Peat Marwick Main & Co.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Price Waterhouse
Prince Charitable Trusts
Quaker Oats Company
The Regenstein Foundation
The Rice Foundation
S & C Electric Company
Safery-Kleen Corp.
Sahara Coal Company, Inc.
Santa Fe Southern Pacific
Corporation
Sara Lee Corporation
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Skil Corporation
Staley Beverage Company
Tiffany & Company
Touche Ross & Co.
United Airlines
USG Foundation, Inc.
Harry Weese & Associates
Burke, Wilson & Mcllvaine
Wm. Wrigleyjr. Company
* Deceased
The Women's
Board
Mrs. Keene H. Addington
Mrs. Edward King Aldworth
Mrs. Stanley N. Allan
Mrs. Richard I. Allen
Mrs. James W. Alsdorf
Mrs. J. Robert Anderson
Mrs. Angelo R. Arena
Cynthia Armour
Mrs. A. Watson Armour III
Mrs. P. Kelley Armour
Mrs. Laurance H. Armour, Jr.
Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Mrs. Edwin N. Asmann
Mrs. Thomas G. Ayers
Mrs. Warner G. Baird, Jr.
Mrs. George R. Baker
Mrs. Claude A. Barnett
Mrs. Stephen M. Bartram
Mrs. Robert O. Bass
Mrs. George R. Beach
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Mrs. James H. Becker
Mrs. Theodore A. Bell
Mrs. Edward H. Bennett, Jr.
Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger
Mrs. Gordon Bent
Mrs. Harry O. Bercher
Mrs. Michael A. Bilandic
Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Mrs. Bowen Blair
Mrs. Frank W. Blatchford III
Mrs. Joseph L. Block
Mrs. Philip D. Block, Jr.
Mrs. Philip D. Block III
Mrs. Edwin R. Blomquist
Mrs. John J. Borland, Jr.
Mrs. Arthur S. Bowes
Mrs. Willard L. Boyd
Mrs. Lester Harris Brill
Mrs. K. Dane Brooksher
Mrs. Cameron Brown
Mrs. Jennifer Martin Brown
Mrs. Roger O. Brown
Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington
Mrs. Albert C. Buehler, Jr.
Mrs. Clark Burrus
Mrs. Robert N. Burt
Mrs. Robert D. Cadieux
Mrs. Douglas H. Cameron
Mrs. Robert A. Carr
Mrs. Robert Wells Carton
Mrs. Hammond E. Chaffetz
Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
Miss Nora F. Chandler
Mrs. Walter L. Cherry
Mrs. Donald C. Clark
Mrs. W.H.Clark, Jr.
Mrs. J. Nothhelfer Connor
Mrs. Frank W. Considine
Mrs. Stanton R. Cook
Mrs. Edward A. Cooper
Mrs. James R. Coulter
Mrs. William S. Covington*
Mrs. Mark Crane
Mrs. John V. Crowe
Mrs. Lester Crown
Mrs. Sandra K. Crown
Mrs. Susan Crown
Mrs. Robert Lane Cruikshank
Mrs. Herschel H. Cudd
Mrs. Dino J. D'Angelo
Mrs. John A. Daniels
Mrs. Leonard S. Davidow
Mrs. O. C. Davis
Mrs. Howard M. Dean, Jr.
Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta
Mrs. Emmett Dedmon
Mrs. Robert O. Delaney
Mrs. Charles S. DeLong*
Mrs. Charles Dennehy
Mrs. Edison Dick
Mrs. William R. Dickinson, Jr.
Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon
Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II
Mrs. William C. Douglas
Mrs. Maurice F. Dunne, Jr.
Mrs. Robert C. Edwards
Mrs. R. Winfield Ellis
Mrs. Marjorie H. Elting
Mrs. Josephine Fairman Elting
Mrs. Winston Elting
Mrs. Gordon R. Ewing
Mrs. Thomas J. Eyerman
Mrs. Meyer Feldberg
Mrs. Calvin Fentress
Mrs. Robert C. Ferris
Mrs. Robert Fesmire
Mrs. Joseph N. Field
Mrs. Marshall Field
Mrs. Charles Robert Foltz
Mrs. Peter B. Foreman
Mrs. Francis G. Foster, Jr.
Mrs. Hubert D. Fox
Mrs. Earl J. Frederick
Mrs. Gaylord A. Freeman
Mrs. Marshall Front
Mrs. William D. Frost
Mrs. Maurice F. Fulton
Mrs. John S. Gates
Mrs. John A. Gavin
Mrs. Robert H. Gayner
Mrs. Robert B. Gerrie
Mrs. Isak V. Gerson
Mrs. Gerald S. Gidwitz
Mrs. James J. Glasser
Mrs. Philip W. Goetz
Mrs. Julian R. Goldsmith
Mrs. Paul W. Goodrich
Mrs. William B. Graham
Mrs. David W. Grainger
Mrs. Roger Griffin
Mrs. Robert C. Gunness
From the Field Museum Library: Frontispiece from Ricreatione
dell'occhio, a treatise on sea shells published in 1681 by Filippo
Buonanni (1638-1725).
Mrs. Burton W. Hales
Mrs. Corvvith Hamill
Mrs. Charles L. Hardy
Mrs. King Harris
Mrs. Charles Cotton Harrold III
Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Mrs. David C. Hawley
Mrs. Frederick Charles Hecht
Colette J. Hedien
Mrs. Ben W. Heineman
Mrs. Duncan Y. Henderson
Mrs. Stacy H. Hill
Mrs. Rembrandt C. Hiller, Jr.
Mrs. Edward Hines
Mrs. John L. Hines
Mrs. John H. Hobart
Mrs. Richard H. Hobbs
Mrs. Thomas D. Hodgkins
Mrs. Thomas J. Hoffmann
Mrs. David B. Horn
Janice S. Hunt
Mrs. Chauncey Keep Hutchins
Mrs. Robert C. Hyndman
Mrs. Stanley O. Ikenberry
Mrs. Robert S. Ingersoll
Mrs. Sue Ish
Mrs. Frederick G. Jaicks
Mrs. Brian Jerome
Mrs. Clarence E. Johnson
Mrs. S. Curtis Johnson III
Mrs. Richard M. Jones
Mrs. John B. Judkins, Jr.
Mrs. Wallace Kaehler, Jr.
Mrs. Byron C. Karzas
Mrs. John J. Kinsella
Mrs. William T. Kirk, Jr.
Mrs. Robert D. Kolar
Mrs. Richard Kracum
Mrs. Walter A. Krafft
Mrs. Bertram D. Kribben
Mrs. John H. Leslie
Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie
Mrs. Edward H. Levi
Mrs. Michael S. Lewis
Camille Lione
Mrs. Richard G. Lione
Mrs. Chapin Litten
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Mrs. Franklin J. Lunding*
Mrs. Walter M. Mack
Mrs. John W. Madigan
Mrs. James F. Magin
Mrs. Robert H. Malott
Mrs. Carter H. Manny, Jr.
Mrs. Richard Marcus
Mrs. Edward Matz, Jr.
Mrs. David Mayer
Mrs. Frank D. Mayer
Mrs. Frank D. Mayer, Jr.
Mrs. Brooks McCormick
Mrs. George Barr McCutcheon II
Mrs. William J. McDonough
Mrs. Andrew McKenna
Mrs. Eugene J. McVoy
Mrs. John C. Meeker
Mrs. Henry W. Meers
Mrs. Hugo J. Melvoin
Mrs. Allen C. Menke
Mrs. Robert E. Merriam
Mrs. J. Roscoe Miller
Mrs. Philip B. Miller
Mrs. Newton N. Minow
Mrs. Charles H. Montgomery
Mrs. John R. Montgomery III
Mrs. Kenneth F. Montgomery
Mrs. Carolyn S. Moore
Mrs. Vernile Murrin Morgan
Mrs. Arthur T. Moulding
Mrs. Aidan I. Mullen
Mrs. Leo F. Mullin
Mrs. Elita Mailers Murphy
Mrs. Charles Fenger Nadler
Mrs. Charles Fenger Nadler, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph E. Nathan
Mrs. Earl L. Neal
Alice Neild
Mrs. John Doane Nichols
Mrs. Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr.
Miss Lucille Ann Nunes
Mrs. James J. O'Connor
Mrs. Ralph Thomas O'Neil
Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr.
Mrs. Harry D. Oppenheimer II
Mrs. Richard C. Oughton
Mrs. Donald W. Patterson
Mrs. O. Macrae Patterson
Mrs. Hope Haywood Paul
Mrs. R. Marlin Perkins
Mrs. Richard J. Phelan*
Mrs. Richard J. Pigott
Mrs. Charles S. Potter
Mrs. Virginia F. Pullman
Mrs. William Putze
Mrs. Neil K. Quinn
Mrs. James H. Ransom
Mrs. Howard C. Reeder
Mrs. Robert W. Reneker
Mrs. Don H. Reuben
Mrs. Joseph E. Rich
Mrs. John M. Richman
Mrs. Frederick Roe
Mrs. Edward M. Roob
Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal
Mrs. John S. Runnells
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Mrs. George W. Ryerson
Dr. Muriel S. Savage
Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Mrs. Charles E. Schroeder
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Schultz
Mrs. William L. Searle
Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior
Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Melissa A. Shennan
Mrs. C. William Sidwell
Mrs. John R. Siragusa
Mrs. Gerald A. Sivage
Mrs. Edward Byron Smith*
Mrs. Edward Byron Smith, Jr.
Mrs. Gordon H. Smith
Mrs. Malcolm M. Smith
Mrs. Stephen Byron Smith
Mrs. Charles H. Solberg
Mrs. Lyle M. Spencer
Mrs. Garzert Spiegel
Mrs. Jack C. Staehle
Mrs. Harlan F. Stanley
Mrs. E. Norman Staub
Mrs. Gardner H. Stern*
Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson III
Mrs. Roger W. Stone
Mrs. William S. Street
Mrs. Robert H. Strotz
Mrs. Barry F. Sullivan
Mrs. John W. Sullivan
Mrs. James Swartchild*
Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.
Mrs. Edward F. Swift
Mrs. Hampden M. Swift
Mrs. Phelps H. Swift
Mrs. John W. Taylor, Jr.
Mrs. John W. Taylor III
Mrs. Edward R. Telling
Mrs. Richard L. Thomas
Mrs. Bruce Thorne
Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken
Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken, Jr.
Mrs. Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.
Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
Mrs. C. Perin Tyler
Mrs. Theodore W. Van Zelst
Mrs. V. L. D. von Schlegell
Mrs. Thomas M. Ware
Mrs. Hempstead Washburne, Jr.
Mrs. E. Leland Webber
Mrs. Arnold R. Weber
Mrs. William L. Weiss
Mrs. John Paul Welling*
Mrs. Daniel R. Welsh
Mrs. John L. Welsh III
Mrs. B. Kenneth West
Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler
Mrs. Richard R. Whitaker, Jr.
Mrs. Julian B. Wilkins
Mrs. Philip C. Williams
Reverend Dr. Ruth Teena
Williams
Mrs. Norman B. Williamson
Mrs. Robert H. Wilson
Mrs. Wallace C. Winter
Mrs. Arthur W. Woelfle
Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky
Mrs. Clarence N. Wood
Mrs. J. Howard Wood
Mrs. William Wood-Prince
Mrs. Frank H. Woods
Mrs. Blaine J. Yarrington
Mrs. George B. Young
* Deceased
17
Women's
Board
Under the leadership of
Presidents Mrs. James J.
O'Connor (1989) and Mrs.
Howard J. Trienens (1990) the
Women's Board raised
$700,000 for general support of
the Museum's activities. Each
year the Board provides an
elegant setting to preview the
Museum's latest exhibit
renovation. The Pacific exhibit
was celebrated at two Fall
galas: "One Enchanted
Evening, " chaired by Mrs.
Thomas J. Eyerman with
United Airlines as underwriter;
and "Jewels of the Pacific,"
chaired by Mrs. John M.
Richman with underwriting
from Kraft, Inc. The Christmas
Tea, attended each year by
some 1,500 children, was
chaired in 1989 by Mrs.
Howard M. Dean, Jr. and in
1990 by Mrs. Andrew
McKenna. Thirty-seven
members volunteer for the
Ambassador Program,
founded in 1990, to greet the
public and to enrich their visits
to the Museum.
From the Field Museum Library: The "bishop fish," from Libri de
Piscibus Marinus, published in 1554 by Guillaume Rondelet
(1507-1566).
18
Special-
Interest
Support
Groups
The Friends of Field Museum
Library was organized in 1990
to promote interest in and
support for the Library and its
programs of book and journal
acquisition, collection and
preservation, and exhibition
and publication. Under the
chairmanship of Mrs. T.
Stanton Armour, a member of
the Museum's Board of
Trustees, the group has
launched a newsletter,
Gatherings, and sponsored the
acquisition of several rare
books, including Richard
Bradley's A Philosophical
Account of the Works of
Nature, published in London in
1721. Other special-interest
groups are the Friends of
Ruatepupuke II, the Maori
meeting house now
undergoing renovation on the
Ground Floor, and the
Outreach Council, formerly
known as the Public Programs
Support Group, which aids the
Museum's community
outreach program.
The Friends
of Field
Museum
Library
Mrs. Lester Armour
Mr. & Mrs.' T. Stanton Armour
Mrs. Philip D. Block, Jr.
Mrs. G. E. Boone
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Borland, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. Boyd
Mr. & Mrs. Roger O. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Chaneske
Dr. & Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta
Mrs. William R. Dickinson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Donnelley
Mr. & Mrs. ThomasE. Donnelley II
Dr. & Mrs. George Dunea
Josephine F. Elting
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ferris
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Field
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Robert Foltz
Mr. & Mrs. Earl J. Frederick
Dr. & Mrs. John S. Garvin
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Gates
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gidwitz
Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser
Dr. & Mrs. John G. Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Guenzel
Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. HafFner III
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Hayman
Mr. & Mrs. Laurin H. Healy
Mrs. Harold H. Hines, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Kolar
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Lewis
Mrs. Rena I. Lozins
Mr. James A. Marshall
Mr. & Mrs. Brooks McCormick
Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Meers
Mr. & Mrs. Hugo J. Melvoin
Mrs. Arthur T. Moulding
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Thomas O'Neil
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Oppenheimer
Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel L. Petre
Mrs. George A. Poole
Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Potter
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Rich
Mrs. Frederick Roe
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Runnells
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Mr. Edward Bvron Smith
Mr. &C Mrs. Worthington L. Smith
Mr. &C Mrs. Harry L. Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Francis H. Straus II
Mr. & Mrs. Terence A. Tanner
Mr. & Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore W.
Van Zelst
Dr. & Mrs. Rupert L. Wenzel
Mr. Willard E. White
Dr. & Mrs. Philip C. Williams
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Winn
Mrs. George B. Young
Mr. & Mrs. Max Zar
7 Chair
The
Outreach
Council
Tony Armour
Jonathan H. Bogaard
Nancy M. Bush
Arturo Cisneros
Kevin S. Considine
Matthew S. Eyerman
Elizabeth Jolls Giese
Gerald P. Giese
Claire Hartfield
Philip L. Harris'
Carrie Healy
J. Duncan Healy
Laura Jones
Richard Jones
Mary Kay Karzas
Mercedes A. Laing
Carl Lavender
Patricia J. Lawson
Marda Lebeau
Louise Lefkow
David Lefkow
Adriana 3allen Litvak
Susan Lopez
Alexis MacDowall
Patricia McMillen
Therese M. Obringer
Jesse G. Reyes
Laurie D. Roston
Robert Rosen
Julie P. Shelton
Louise K. Smith
Rhonda Y. Stivers
Mary Wilson
Nikki Zollar
' Chair
Friends of
Ruatepupuke ii
Mr. & Mrs. James Ballard
Mr.' & Mrs. Donald Cameron
Ms. Jane Connolly
Mr. John Cook
Ms. Lucy Fairbank
Mary & Bruce Feay
Mrs. Rebecca Gilson
Mr. James P. Littlejohn
Mr. John M. MacDonald
Mrs. Dagmara Nyman
Ms. Frances L. Osgood
Ms. Florence O'Shea
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Schultz
Mr. Delbert Erie Yarnell
Ms. Tory Light
' Chair
From the Field Museum Library: Fishpersons. from Historiae
Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis by Joannes Jonstonus (1603-1675),
published in Amsterdam in 1657.
Rice Foundation
Leads Donors
'Into the Wild'
With a pathbreaking gift that
will total $5 million, the Daniel F. and
Ada L. Rice Foundation has led the
Museum "Into the Wild" — a new
thematic exhibit, subtitled "Animals,
Trails & Tales," on the world's animals
and their environments.
Many contributors large
and small have come forth eagerly to
support this major mounting of the
Museum's zoology collections. Among
them: The National Science Foundation
made its largest grant ever for a museum
exhibit ($1.2 million), and the members
of the Windy City Grotto chapter of the
National Speleological Society (cave
explorers) put together $1,000 and no
little expertise to help redeem the
reputation of the much-maligned bats.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks
McCormick contributed funds for a
diorama on wild turkeys, and
Mrs. R. Winfield Ellis for the
stunning installation of Carl
Akeley's famous "Four Seasons"
diorama. Franklin J. Lunding
pledged a gift in memory of his wife,
Virginia, for the passenger pigeon
diorama, and Gaylord and Dorothy
Donnelley to support a new interactive
exhibit on natural areas around Chicago
The Ronald McDonald
Children's Charities donated $150,000
to help enhance the exhibit as a family
experience, and the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation gave $1.4 million for
exhibit construction and educational
programming.
The exhibit, including a
Nature Walk that will take visitors from
Chicago to Alaska and to South
America, opens in November 1991 in
the first-floor west halls, which will now
be known as the Daniel F. and Ada L.
Rice Wing.***
19
Above: a West Indian
butterfly of the family
Papilionidae, donated
to the Museum by
David Matusik in 1990.
Background: A
spectacled caiman
(Caiman crocodilus),
found in the wild from
southern Mexico to
northern Argentina.
The caiman will be on
display in the "Into
the Wild" exhibit.
Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balances
December 31, 1990 and 1989
Current
Operating Fund
Fund Designated
For Special Purposes
1990
1989
1990
1989
Fund Functioning
As Endowment
1990
1989
Assets
Cash
Interest and Dividends
Receivable
$952,516 $1,172,748
32,000 14,000
Pledges Receivable
309,750
25,250
Museum Stores Inventory
1,354,884
1,471,134
Investments
3,915,860
1,992,086
Prepaid Pension Cost
571,110
467,121
Deferred Note Issuance Costs
Other Assets
566,919
602,981
Museum Properties, Net
Collections
$533,000 $533,000
100,000 150,000
53,828,200 54,026,689
$7,703,039 $5,745,320
$54,461,200 $54,709,689
Liabilities and Fund
Balances
Accounts Payable
Accrued Liabilites
Deferred Revenue
Contributions
Other
Notes Payable
Due To (From) Other Funds
$1,164,707 $1,372,940
978,735 899,720
146,162 161,754
4,057,581 1,980,05^
U58.591) ($3,311,232)
Total Liabilities
Fund Balance
6,347,185 4,414,466 (4,158,591) (3,311,232)
1,355,854 1,330,854 4,158,591 3,311,232 54,461,200 54,709,689
$7,703,039 $5,745,320
$54,461,200 $54,709,689
Current Operating Fund, Fund Designated for Special Purposes and Fund Functioning as
Endowment are Unrestricted Funds.
Museum Restricted Fund Endowment Fund Total All Funds
Property Fund
1990 1989 1990 1989 1990 1989 1990 1989
$952,516 $1,172,748
$846,090 $281,490 $167,000 $167,000 1,578,090 995,490
891,667 2,574,866 $734,000 $5,000 150,000 2,185,417 2,755,116
1,354,884 1,471,134
38,800,938 18,279,980 17,526,519 16,889,660 114,071,517 91,188,415
571,110 467,121
789,520 356,578 789,520 356,578
350,000 247,886 264,582 1,164,805 867,563
48,010,462 46,505,192 48,010,462 46.505,192
11 11
$89,688,678 $67,998,107 $981,886 $269,582 $17,843,519 $17,056,660 $170,678,322 $145,779,358
$1,164,707 $1,372,940
$230,726 $70,396 1,209,461 970,116
$10,958,120 $7,129,132 10,958,120 7,129,132
313,143 43,548 459,305 205,302
31,300,000 13,000,000 31,300,000 13,000,000
10,390,387 8,234,278 (10,289,377) (6,903,098)
41,921,113 21,304,674 981,886 269,582 45,091,593 22,677,490
47,767,565 46,693,433 17,843,519 17,056,660 125,586,729 123,101,868
$89,688,678 $67,998,107 $981,886 $269,582 $17,843,519 $17,056,660 $170,678,322 $145,779,358
Statements of Revenues, Expenses and Changes in Fund Balances
Years Ended December 31, 1990 and 1989
Current
Operating Fund
Fund Designated for
Special Purposes
Fund Functioning
As Endowment
1990
1989
1990
1989
1990
1989
Revenues:
Chicago Park District
Property Tax Collections
$6,660,554
$5,585,944
Government Grants
532,846
499,392
Interest & Dividend Income
2,972,946
3,310,228
$98,709
Net Realized Gain (Loss) on
Investments Sold
103,561
($782,907)
$2,263,062
Contributions
2,253,005
1 ,706,463
494,316
706,222
Memberships
557,514
510,634
Admissions
2,094,226
2,139,140
Auxillary Enterprises
(Museum Stores, Vending,
Tours, & Food Services)
3,911,775
3,719,542
Other
16,625
22,513
255,179
158,994
Total Revenues
18,999,491
17,597,417
353,888
158,994
(288,591)
2,969,284
Expenses:
Research & Collections
3,779,600
3,182,384
144,514
193,042
Public Programs
1,443,757
1,386,576
72,045
181,198
Finance & Museum Services
6,087,603
5,677,786
5,736
75,098
Development & External
Affairs
1,604,404
1,666,730
46,551
36,325
Administration
1,602,456
1,616,394
61,317
8,466
Auxillary Enterprises
(Museum stores, Vending,
Tours, & Food Services)
3,680,851
2,919,384
741
Depreciation
Note Interest & Amortization
Overhead Costs Charged to
Grants
(466,257)
(546,806)
Total Expenses
17,732,414
15,902,448
330,904
494,129
Increase (Decrease)
In Fund Balance
Resulting from
Revenues and Expenses
1,267,077
1,694,969
22,984
(335,135)
(288,591)
2,969,284
Fund Balance:
Beginning of Year
1,330,854
1,305,854
3,311,232
3,433,324
54,709,689
51,968,841
Add (Deduct) Transfers
Non-Mandatory
(1,059,895)
(213,043)
1,059,895
213,043
Museum Property
Additions
(676,610)
(1,456,926)
(255,719)
Total Return
494,428
20,199
(499,898)
Other
540,000
(500,000)
Net Realized Gain on
271,564
Investments Held
End of Year
$1,355,854
$1,330,854
$4,158,591
$3,311,232
$54,461,200
$54,709,689
Current Operating Fund, Fund Designated for Special Purposes and Fund Functioning as
Endowment are Unrestricted Funds.
Museum Restricted Fund Endowment Fund Total All Funds
Property Fund
1990 1989 1990 1989 1990 1989 1990 1989
51,518,126 $1,619,832
15,901 (489,122)
888,928
$6,660,554
$5,585,944
,870,680
$1,810,040
2,403,526
2,309,432
883,382
869,863
5,473,163
5,799,923
28,238
($249,823)
$696,139
(1,016,829)
2,601,878
728,285
949,945
1,196.198
119,972
4,671,804
557,514
2,094,226
3,911,775
1,160,732
3,482,602
510,634
2.139,140
3,719,542
181,507
1,937,909
1,920,649
3,681,592
2,922,637
2,000,083
1,897,308
888,288
883,470
2,422,955 1,130,710 3,482,347 3,658,086 946,375 816,111 25,916,465 26,330,602
970,940 926,144 4,895,054 4,301,570
697,985 800,518 2,213,787 2,368,292
1,002 6,094,341 5,752,884
69,595 1.720,550 1,703,055
226,132 188,637 48,004 107,152
3,253
2,000,083 1,897,308
888,288 883,470
466,257 546,806
3,114,503 2,969,415 2,253,783 2,383,873 23,431,604 21,749,865
(691,548) (1,838,705) 1,228,564 1,274,213 946,375 816,111 2,484,861 4,580,737
46,693,433 45,326,892 17,056,660 15,657,012 123,101,868 1 1 7,69 1.923
1,765,680 2,731,139 (833,351) (1,274,213)
144,787 (159,516)
(540,000) 500,000
474,107 83,537 829.2C
$47,767,565 $46,693,433 $- $- $17,843,519 $17,056,660 $125,586,729 $123,101,868
24
Spring
Systematics
Symposia
Each year the Museum
sponsors an interdisciplinary
symposium on topics bearing
on problems in systematics
research. Organized by
Matthew H. Nitecki, curator of
fossil invertebrates,
Department of Geology, these
symposia have been supported
by the National Science
Foundation. The 13th annual
symposium in 1990 was
concerned with the
understanding and meaning of
ethical judgment and the
relation between ethics and
evolution.
Special Gifts:
Restricted,
Capital, and
Endowed
Funds
Individuals and
Family Foundations
$100,000
Gladys N. Anderson Estate
June B. Davis Estate
Mrs. R. Winfield Ellis
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Grainger
(The Grainger Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Leslie
(The Leslie Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Oscar G. Mayer
(Oscar G. & Elsa S. Mayer
Charitable Trust)
Arthur Rubloff Estate
Olive M. Shepherd Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Staehle
Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken
Lucille R. Wiser Estate
The Women's Board
$10,000 to $99,999
Anonymous
Carolyn S. Akenson Estate
Mrs. P. Kelley Armour
Helen K. Bieker Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Roger O. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Buehler, Jr.
(AGP Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Cooper
(Richard H. Cooper
Foundation)
The Crown Family
(Arie & Ida Crown Memorial)
Dr. & Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta
(The Walter E. Heller
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II
(Thomas E. Donnelley II
Foundation)
Jamee & Marshall Field
Foundation
Evelyn Frank Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Guenzel
Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III
Mrs. Charles L. Hardy
(Elliott & Ann Donnelley
Foundation)
' Deceased
Walter R. Hauschildt Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Laurin H. Healy
(Winona Corporation)
Mrs. Beatrice C. Mayer
Mr. & Mrs. Brooks McCormick
(Brooks & Hope B. McCormick
Foundation)
Philip M.McKennaFoundation, Inc
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F.
Montgomery
Dessie P. Morrow Estate
Mrs. Arthur T. Moulding
Harry G. Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal
(D&RFund)
Norman J. Schlossman Estate
The Seabury Foundation
Edward Byron Smith
(Edward Byron Smith
Charitable Fund)
Gretchen Stewart Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
(Howard J. & Paula M.
Trienens Foundation)
Chester D. Tripp Estate
Jane B. Tripp Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Blaine J. Yarrington
(The Chicago Community
Trust)
$1,000 to $9,999
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Lowell E. Ackmann
(Ackmann Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. A. Watson Armour III
Cynthia Armour
Mrs. Lester Armour
Mr. & Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Vernon Armour
Mr.* & Mrs. Edwin N. Asmann
(O. Paul Decker Memorial
Foundation)
Abby K. Babcock Estate
Kristina Barr
(Kristina Barr & George Barr
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Bass
Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Bedford
Louis Bein Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore A. Bell
Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Block III
(J. B. Charitable Trust)
Mr.* & Mrs. Daniel J. Boone
Mrs. G. E. Boone
Mrs. Arthur S. Bowes
Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. Boyd
Helen D. Bronson
Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Cameron
Mr. & Mrs. Worley H. Clark, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Considine
Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Cottrell, Jr.
John R. Covington (Howard L.
Willett Foundation, Inc.)
Mrs. William S. Covington*
Elizabeth M. Covington Estate
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Cowles
A. G. Cox Charity Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Crane
Mr. & Mrs. John V. Crowe
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Cruikshank
Mrs. Suzette Morton Davidson
Mrs. Charles S. DeLong*
Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Dean, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Delaney
Mr. & Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Donnelley
(Nina H. & James R. Donnelley
Foundation)
Filing O. Eide
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon R. Ewing
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Eyerman
William F. Farley
(William F. Farley Foundation)
Mary & Bruce Feay
Mr. & Mrs. Reuben Feinberg
(Joseph & Bessie Feinberg
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Field
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Robert Foltz
Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Foreman
(Peter & Virginia Foreman
Foundation/Peroke Foundation)
Robin Foster
Mr.* & Mrs. Gaylord Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall B. Front
Josephine D. Galitzine Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gidwitz
Elizabeth L. Girardi
Mr. & Mrs. William B. Graham
(William B. Graham
Foundation, Inc. )
William M. Hales
(Hales Charitable Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Corwith Hamill
(Happy Hollow Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. King W. Harris
(Harris Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Harrold III
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Mr. & Mrs. Ben W. Heineman
H. John Heinz III Trust
Philip Hershkovitz
Mr. & Mrs. Rembrandt C.Hiller, Jr.
Elizabeth Hoffman
Mrs. Harold James
(The Butz Foundation)
William B. Jeffries
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence E. Johnson
(The Clarence E. & Shirley M.
Johnson Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Curtis S. Johnson III
Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey E. Kapnick, Jr.
(The Kapnick Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Kinsella
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Kolar
Mrs. Arthur H. Krausman
Mrs. Bertram D. Kribben
Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie
The rubbings reproduced on pages 20 to 33 are from tomb bricks and tiles of the Han Dynasty
(207 B.C. - 220 A.D.) found in Sichuan Province, China.
Dr. & Mrs. Edward H. Levi
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Malott
(Camalott Charitable
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Carter H. Manny, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Marcus
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Matz, Jr.
Cirilo McSween
Mr. & Mrs. William J. McDonough
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew McKenna, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Allen C. Menke
(Menke Family Foundation)
Mrs. J. Roscoe Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Philip B. Miller
Miner- Weisz Charitable
Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Newton N. Minow
(Minow Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Leo F. Mullin
Miss Jeanne E. Murray
Hisazo Nagatani
Col. & Mrs. John B. Naser
(J BN Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Neal
Abbie L. Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Neisser
( The Neisser Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. John Doane Nichols
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Notz, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. James J. O'Connor
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr.
Harry D. Oppenheimer II
(Oppenheimer Family
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. James Otis, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Patterson
(The Warwick Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Patton, Jr.
Mrs. Pauline Yacktman Petre
(Pauline Yacktman Foundation )
Mr. & Mrs.* Richard J. Phelan
Mr. & Mrs. Allan M. Pickus
Mr. & Mrs. John Pusinelli
Mr. & Mrs. Neil K. Quinn
Audree M. Ragan Estate
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Reichelderfer
Mr. & Mrs.Thomas A. Reynolds, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Richman
George N. Ross Estate
John W. Ruettinger Estate
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Runnells
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Sanders
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Sargent
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Schroeder
(The Schroeder Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Searle
Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior
(The Morgan-Senior
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Shapiro
(Soretta & Henry Shapiro
Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Siragusa
Mr. & Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm N. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Byron Smith
Mrs. Frederick W. Spiegel
(Ruth & Frederick Spiegel
Foundation I H. H. Butler
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Stone
(Roger & Susan Stone Family
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Street
(The Seattle Foundation)
Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Strotz
Mrs. James Swartchild '
(Co/lier-Swartchild Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Taylor, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John W.Taylor III
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Thorne
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Vogel
Harold K. Voris
Mr. & Mrs. R. B.Walsh, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Hempstead
Washburne, Jr.
Mrs. Imy Wax
Mr. & Mrs. Roderick S. Webster
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Weiss
(William L. & Josephine B.
Weiss Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Welsh III
(McCrea Foundation)
Mrs. B. Kenneth West
Dr.* & Mrs. Louis O. Williams
Dr. & Mrs. Philip C. Williams
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Wilson
James R. Wimmer
Winnetka Garden Club
Mrs. J. Howard Wood
Mr. & Mrs. William Wood-Prince
Claire Zeisler
$100 TO $999
Anonymous
Mrs. Lester S. Abelson
(Lester S. Abelson Foundation)
Alicia Ann Adams
Mrs. Keene H. Addington
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Adlesick
Katharine D. Agar
Janet AgranofI
Mr. & Mrs. Edward K. Aldworth
Sharon A. & M. Mehdi Alister
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley N. Allan
Dorothy K. Allen
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Allen
Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Alsdorf
(Abdorf Foundation)
Julius Alvarez
Mr. & Mrs. J. Robert Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. John Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. Kimball R. Anderson
Sandra K. Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Anderson
Thomas W. Andrews
Mr. & Mrs. Lester J. Anixter
Mr. & Mrs. Bennett Archambault
Mr. & Mrs. Angelo R. Arena
Dr. & Mrs. David Ashbach
'Deceased
Total Gifts,
Bequests,
and Grants
1985
mmmmm ~ $1, 561,817 (25%)
$386,978 (6%)
^ $831,132 (14%)
™"^^^^^™ $2,493,174 (41%)
■■■™™ $874,090 (14%)
Total: $6,147,191
1986
^^^^^™ $1,595,207 (19%)
^ $358,258 (4%)
^™ $625,265 (8%)
^"""■■™ $1,232,994 (15%)
Total: $8,289,491
$4,477,767 (54%)
1987
^^ mmmm SI, 633,257 (19%)
■ $455,155 (5%)
$247,439 (3%)
$4,707,580 (55%)
$1,496,781 (18%)
1988
Total: $8,540,212
^^^■"™ $1,951,155 (18%)
$493,684 (4%)
™"^^™ $1,838,112(77%;
$4,897,390 (45%)
$1,755,182 (16%)
Total: $10,935,523
1989
■^^^^ $1,848,348 (22%)
^ $1,064,317 (12%)
$570,599 (7%)
^«i^^— $2,938,585 (35%)
$2,065,774 (24%)
Total: $8,487,623
1990
^ mmm $2,051,140 (18%)
$1,271,875 (11%)
■ $1,446,231 (13%)
$4,621,670 (40%)
$2,056,093 (18%)
Total: $11,447,009
1 Unrestricted Giving
1 Restricted Giving
'Bequests & Endowments
1 Capital
1 Government Grants
26
Scientific
Iiiustration
Four Field Museum artists
produce illustrations of
specimens and artifacts to
supplement the research of
the curatorial staff. They
employ a broad range of
techniques, but each has
refined a particular style:
Zbigniew Jastrzebski
specializes in pencil or pen
and ink stipple renderings of
skeletal structures and
reconstruction of pottery;
Clara Richardson-Simpson in
line and stipple
representations of zoological
and paleontological
specimens; Marlene Werner in
using carbon dust and scratch
board techniques; and Zorica
Dabich in crow quill drawings
of botanical subjects and
water color paintings of South
American monkeys.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Ayers
Richard Badger/Inge Fryklund
Mrs. Warner G. Baird, Jr.
Edwardine M. Baker
Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Baker
Lance C. Balk
Dr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Baiter
Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bankard
Walter Baranowski
Mr. & Mrs. Norbert J. Barbahen
Dr. &Mrs. J. W. Barnes
Jane E. Barnett
Mr. & Mrs. E. Keith Barns
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Barrett
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Baumgarten
Lawrence W. Bay
Mrs. George R. Beach
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Virginia L. & William K. Beatty
Mrs. James H. Becker
Dr. Helen R. Beiser
Dr. Nenad Belie/Ellen Stone Belie
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Bell, Jr.
Coburn Bennett
Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Bennett, Jr.
Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bent
Mr. & Mrs. Harry O. Bercher
Richard A. Bergdahl
Richard S. Berger
Mrs. Byron E. Besse
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Bilandic
Mr. & Mrs. Kendrick D. G. Bisset
Carolyn P. Blackmon
Mr. & Mrs. Bowen Blair
Mrs. Frank W. Blatchford III
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Block
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson C. Block
Mrs. Philip D. Block, Jr.
Mrs. Edwin R. Blomquist
Mrs. Harlan G. Bogie
James Bohnen
Merlin Bohse
Richard E. Boice
Dr. Brian M. Boom
Jeffrey W. Boyar
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley D. Boyer
Mrs. Nancy Brandt
Mrs. Lester Harris Brill
Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Brizzolara
Margaret Broch
Robert H. Brooke
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Brooker
T. Kimball Brooker
Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Brown
(Cameron Brown Foundation)
Jennifer Martin Brown
(The Martin Foundation, Inc.)
Jerry Lee Brown / Evelyn Priebe
Josiah Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Browne
Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington
Dr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Bunta
Dr. & Mrs. William C. Burger
Mrs. Gunnar Burgeson
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Burkhardt
Donald E. Burney
Mrs. Joseph A. Burnham
Marie Kraemer Burnside
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Burrows
Mr. & Mrs. Clark Burrus
Rhett W. Butler
(Butler Family Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Dean C. Byrd
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory D. Byrne
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Cadieux
(Cadieux Charitable Trust)
Eleanor F. Caldwell
Mr. & Mrs. L. Bradley Callicott
John F. Calmeyn
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Cameron
Mr. & Mrs. John G. Campbell
Mr. & Mrs. Kyle L. Campbell
Mrs. Robert A. Carr
Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Carson
Beatrice Carter
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Wells Carton
Dr. & Mrs. Ramon E. Casas
Mr. 8c Mrs. Brian J. Casey
Mrs. Jack Cavcnaugh
Mr. & Mrs. Hammond E.
Chaffetz (Chaffetz Family
Foundation)
Mrs. Jerry G. Chambers
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M.
Champion, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
Michael F. Chaneske
Elvin E. Chariry/Roxanne M. Ward
Mrs. Mary V. Chen
Mr. & Mrs. Walter L. Cherry
(Virginia B. & Walter L.
Cherry Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Chester
Mr. & Mrs. August C. Chidichimo
William G. Chorn
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Christian
Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Ciriacks
Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Clark
Dorothy Clissold
Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Clow, Jr.
Gregory Coakley
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Collopy
Walter Compton
Janet N. Connor
Mr. & Mrs. Stanton R. Cook
Mrs. Edward A. Cooper
Mrs. Gale C. Corley
Gerald Corrigan
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Coughlin
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Coulter
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Cousins, Jr.
Roger E. Covey
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Cowan
Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Crisafulli
Carta S. Crofoot
Wayne C. Cross
Mrs. Sandra K. Crown
Paul F. Cruikshank
Mr. & Mrs. Herschel Cudd
David W. Cugell, M.D.
Mr. John F. Cuneo, Jr.
(The Cuneo Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Lin
Cunnison
Kenneth H. Currier
Clarence Curtis
Gertrude L. Curtis
Dr. & Mrs. Robert P. Cutler
Mr. & Mrs. William Czerwinski
Casimer J. Czochara, Jr.
Thomas J. Czubak
Dr. & Mrs. Anthony M.
D Agostino
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest A. Dahl, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. DinoJ. D'Angelo
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Daniels
Mr. & Mrs. Ken M. Davee
(The Davee Foundation)
Mrs. Leonard S. Davidow
Charles A. Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Davis
Wendell K. Decker
Mrs. Emmett Dedmon
Mr. & Mrs. Louis H. T. Dehmlow
Ruth M. A. Denn
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dennehy
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Der Kacy
Amy T. Dickinson
Mrs. William R. Dickinson, Jr.
Paul Dickman
Michael O. Dillon
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Dillon
Rocco A. Dimeo
Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon
Patricia Dodson
Dr. Robert D. Dooley
Dr. & Mrs. Erl Dordal
Ron Dorfman
Mr. & Mrs. James Doughan
James C. Dowdle
Robert A. Duewerth
Mrs. Robert J. Duffy
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Dugan
Dr. & Mrs. George Dunea
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice F. Dunne, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Durrett
Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Dusza
Donna G. Earl
Robert J. Eck
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Edwards
(Woodruff & Edwards
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Elias
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Elkins
J. Thomas Eller
Mr. & Mrs. E.W.Elliott, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. James P. Elmes
Mrs. Josephine F. Elting
Mrs. Marjorie H. Elting
Daniel N. Epstein
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Estey
Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Evans
Lucy F. Fairbank
Edith H. Falk
Mrs. John V. Farwell IV
Peter A. Fasseas
Mrs. Irene H. Fausr
Harry & Arlene Feiger
Dr. & Mrs. Meyer Feldberg
Mr. & Mrs.Warren L.Fellingham, Jr.
Mr. John R. Fenner
Robert J. Ferrari
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ferris
Mrs. Robert Fesmire
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Fisher
Mr. & Mrs. Irving S. Fishman
Mr. & Mrs. Henry G. Fitts, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William Florian
Mr. & Mrs. A. Robert Florio 111
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight W. Follett
Mr. & Mrs. Francis G. Foster, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Foulkes
Mrs. Hubert D. Fox
Mr. & Mrs. Earl J. Frederick
Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
The Friday Club
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Frost
" Mr. & Mrs. Maurice F. Fulton
(Maurice & Muriel Fulton
Foundation)
Donald I. Funk. M.D.
Dan Galardy
Dr. & Mrs. John S. Garvin
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Gates
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Gates
Mr. & Mrs. James J. Gavin, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Gebhard
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond I.
Geraldson, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard C. Gerber
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Gerlicher
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Gerrie
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Gibbons
Mr. & Mrs. James Gidwitz
Joseph L. Gidwitz
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald P. Giese
Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Giesen
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Gifford, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. George Gilbert
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred E. Gladding
Mrs. James J. Glasser
(D&RFund)
Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Glinsman
Thomas W. Goldberg
Dr. & Mrs. Julian R. Goldsmith
Mr. & Mrs. John T. Golitz
Mr. & Mrs. Roberto Gonzalez
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Good
Morris F. Goodman
Edward Gordon
Lawrence W. Gougler
Dr. & Mrs. John G. Graham
Mary Jo Green
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas V. Greene
Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Greenman
Colonel & Mrs. Clifford C. Gregg
Mr. & Mrs. George Price Grieve
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Grobarcik
Mr. & Mrs. John Grochowski
Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Gronkiewicz
Lewis & Misty Gruber
Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Grunschel
Dr. & Mrs. RolfM.Gunnar
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Gunness
Delores H. Gustafson
Dr. & Mrs. Ralph F. Haag
Mrs. Burton W. Hales
(Hales Charitable Fund)
Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Hall
Mr. & Mrs. J. Parker Hall
Ernestine Hambrik, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hanson
Irving B. Harris
Philip Harris / Claire Hartfield
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson K. Harrison
Karen R. Harsha
James W. Hart
Kyle L. Harvey
Dr. William A. Haseltine
Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm H. Hast
Clarence M. Hatfield
Mr. & Mrs. F. William Hauschildt
Mr. & Mrs. Marty Hauselman
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hawley
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Hayes
Maryann C. Hayes
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Hayman
Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Healy
Mr. & Mrs. J. Duncan Healy
Josephine Hedges
Wayne E. & Colette J. Hedien
James L. Heller
Mr. & Mrs. Duncan Y. Henderson
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hengehold
Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Henke
Mary Ellen Hennessy
Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Hensold. Jr.
Derral R. Herbst
Norman Hessler
EdnaM. Hill
Mr. & Mrs. Stacy H. Hill
Mr. & Mrs. David Lea Hillis
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hines
Mrs. Harold H. Hines, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Hines
Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Hintz
Mrs. Edwin F. Hirsch
Mr. & Mrs. Joel S. Hirsch
Dr. & Mrs. Jerome H.
Hirschmann
Edward B. Hirshfeld
Mrs. Richard H. Hobbs
Joel Hochberg
Mr. & Mrs. Larry J. Hochberg
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Hoekstra
Harry Hoffman*
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Hoffmann
John A. Holabird, Jr.
Craig J. Holderness
Mr. & Mrs. David B. Horn
Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Horwitz
Mr. & Mrs. Allen F. Hosticka
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Humbert
Mr. & Mrs. Philip W. Hummer
Marjorie M. Humphrey
Mrs. Harvey Huston
Mrs. Chauncey Keep Hutchins
Mr. & Mrs. Howard H.
Hutchinson
Mrs. W. F. Huter
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hyndman
Dr. & Mrs. Stanley O. Ikenberry
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Ingersoll
Dr. Dominique Irvine
Ellen Isaacson
Sue B. Ish
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Jablon
* Deceased
Unrestricted
Giving
1985
'$559,088 (36%)
' $213,700 (14%)
Total: $1,561,817
$789,028 (50%)
1986
1 $498,149 (31%)
5305,200 (19%)
Total: $1,595,207
$791,858 (50%)
1987
'$587,200 (36%)
'$187,000 (11%)
'$859,057 (53%)
Total: $1,633,257
1988
'$558,256 (29%)
'$302,150 (16%)
'$1,040,750 (55%)
Total: $1,951,155
1989
$563,697 (31 l .
$262,700 (14%)
$1,021,951 (55%)
Total: $1,848,348
1990
$466,452 (23%)
$253,580 1 12%)
1 $1,331,108 (65%)
Total: $2,051,140
■Corporations
1 Foundations
'Individual & Family Foundations
Note: This chart details the "Unrestricted Giving"
column shown in the "Total Gifts, Bequests, and Grants"
chart on Page 25.
28
In The Field
The Museum's new
membership publication, In the
Field: The Bulletin of the Field
Museum of Natural History,
premiered in July 1990 with
news of the discovery by Field
Museum researchers in
Madagascar of a living
population of red-tailed
Newtonia (above), a bird long
thought to be extinct. The
bimonthly newspaper features
articles by curators and others
on the Museum's research
activities and public programs,
and highlights events of
interest to members.
Dr. Lauren Krent Jacker
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Jacob
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick G. Jaicks
Gordon K. James, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. James
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Jannotta, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Colt Jerome
Dr. Timothy A. Johns
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson
Charles B. Jones
Phyllis A. Jones
Robert J. Jordan
William K. Jordan 11
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Joyce
Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy
Marjorie June
Edward J. Juracek
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Kalsch
Philip J. Kania
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Kanter
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Karlin
Eugene Kart
Mr. &C Mrs. Byron C. Karzas
Mary Kay Karzas
Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Kasper
Dorothy A. Keating
Catherine M. Keebler
Mrs. Richard L. Keller
Mrs. Norman R. Kelley
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Kellogg, Sr.
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Kelly
Mr. & Mrs. Donald P. Kelly
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Kelly
Mrs. A. Frederick Kempe
Joseph F. Kindlon
Margaret Mertz King
Neil King
Dr. Steven R. King
Mrs. William T. Kirk, Jr.
Bruce Klefstad
Edward T. Klunk
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Koenig
Dr. Vilma L. Kohn
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel B. Kokes
Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke
(Koldyke Family Foundation)
Leonard Kolender
Barry Konig
Robert W. Kopaczewski
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kopp
Dr. Richard Korf
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kostal
Howard G. Krane
Mr. & Mrs. Lee V. Kremer
Mr. & Mrs. Frederich A. Kremple
Mr. & Mrs. Warren R. Kremske
Timothy J. Kress
Mrs. Irwin E. Kretchmer
Scott Krueger
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Kuehnle
Duane R. Kullberg
Mercedes Anita Laing
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur La Velle
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall S. Leaf
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Leet
(Leet Charitable Trust)
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Lefkow
Bernice H. Lehmann
Hon. & Mrs. George N. Leighton
Frederick R. Lent
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Levin
Mr. & Mrs. Fred J. Levy
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Lewis
Mary E. Liebman
Charlotte T. Lindar-Gorbunoff
Camille Lione
Mrs. Richard G. Lione
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Lipsky
Mrs. F. Chapin Litten
M. Susan Lopez
David B. Love
Mrs. Rena I. Lozins
Bettina R. Mac Ayeal
Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Mack
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mack
Mr. & Mrs. William O. Maddocks
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Madigan
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Mages
Mrs. Patricia A. Magon
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Mahoney
Francis M. Malone
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Manchee
Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Marc
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Marks
James A. Marshall
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Matta
Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Matz
Mrs. David Mayer
Mrs. Frank D. Mayer
Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Mayer, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. George Barr
McCutcheon II
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne McDaniel
Clarence T. McDonald, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William H. McElnea
Dr. & Mrs. Ernest G. McEwen
Mr. & Mrs. John E. McGovern, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John P. McHugh
Mr. & Mrs. Harold F. McKay
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. McMillan
Mr. & Mrs. Ben McQueen
Mrs. Eugene J. McVoy
Elisabeth C. Meeker
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Meeker
Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Meers
(Henry W. Meers Fund)
Ernst Melchior
Charles W. Melind
Nancy F. Meloy
Mr. & Mrs. Hugo J. Melvoin
Mrs. Herman Menzel
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Michaels
George F. Mihelic
Norman A. Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Miller
Rebecca Anne Miller
Mrs. Robert Montes
Mr. & Mrs.John R.Montgomery III
Mr. & Mrs. Carl E. Moore
Mrs. Carolyn S. Moore
Mrs. Remo Morelli
Juliet Morgan
Scott A. Mori/Carol Gracie
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Morrison
Gregory M. Mueller /
Betty A. Strack
Mr. &Mrs. Roger William
Mueller
Mr. & Mrs. Aidan I. Mullett
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Mundstock
Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Munn III
Nina A. Murphy
Richard J. Murphy
Ann E. Murray
Dr. Mary Aileen Murray
Barbara Murtha
Dr. & Mrs. Charles F. Nadler
Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Nadler, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph E. Nathan
Lois E. Natusch
Dr. & Mrs. Charles R. Neach
Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Neal
Mr. & Mrs. Cary L. Neiman
Mr. & Mrs. Norman W. Nelson
Patricia A. Nemeth
Thomas B. Nendick
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome J. Nerenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Nesburg
Dr. & Mrs. Lorin I. Nevling, Jr.
Ralph G. Newman
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Newton
Christine Niezgoda
Diana L. Nolan
Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Nordlund
Lucille Ann Nunes
Mrs. John Nuveen
Paul R. Nylander
Marjorie E. Nystrom
Mrs. Anton Oberhuber
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice J. O'Brien
(M. J. Family Foundation)
Therese M. Obringer
Paul E. Ogle
Thomas R. Okleshen
Carl B. Olson
Mrs. Norman Olson (Katherine L.
Olson Charitable Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Thomas O'Neil
Mrs. Harry D. Oppenheimer II
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Oppman
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Oughton
Mr. & Mrs. Ray E. Over
David T. Owsley
Mr. & Mrs. Willard C. Packard
Mr. &C Mrs. Samuel Papanek III
Dr. & Mrs. William L. Parish, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Parker, Jr.
Bonnie P. Pashkow
Mr. & Mrs. Monroe B. Passis
Cathy Patrick
Bruce Patterson
Mrs. O. Macrae Patterson
Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Patterson
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Pavey
Mr. & Mrs. Carleton Pearl
Frederic C. Pearson
Mary Chase Pell
Marianne F. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Julian S. Pern-
Richard E. Petit
Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Petty- Weeks
Mr. & Mrs. John Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Pickering
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pigott
Jeffrey M. Pines
Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Plochman III
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard G. Pollack
(Mary Jane & Bernard Pollack
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Polner
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth N. Pontikes
Mrs. George A. Poole
Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Porter
Mr. & Mrs. David Poster
Jamie Ann Potash
Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Potter
Mr. & Mrs. Newell Pottorf
Prairie Woods Audubon Society
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Pranian
Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Printen
Mr. & Mrs. Dale A. Pritkin
Mrs. Virginia F. Pullman
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Radtke
Mr. & Mrs. Norman X. Raidl
Anthony Ramirez
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Ramsay
George A. Rannev, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. James H. Ransom
Mr. &£ Mrs. Roy A. Rauschenberg
Dr. Peter H. Raven
Dr. & Mrs. William R. Reed
Mr. & Mrs. H. Thomas
Reepmeyer
Miss Ruth Regenstein
Lewis W. Reich
Mrs. Robert W. Reneker
Rovvena M. Rennie
Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Renwick
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Reskin
Mrs. Merle Reskin
Mr. & Mrs. Don H. Reuben
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Rich
Mr. & Mrs. R. Norton Richards
Dr. E. P. Richardson, Jr.
Mrs. Samuel A. Rinella
Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Rippert
Dr. & Mrs. W. R. Risk
Mr. & Mrs. Harry V. Roberts
Penelope Robinson
Rhonda Rochambeau
Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Davis Rockwell
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Roe
(Milius Roe Foundation)
Mrs. Ward C. Rogers
Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Roob
Mr. & Mrs. John Rose
Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Rosen
Dr. & Mrs. Max Rosenberg
Sarah R. Rosenbloom
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Rosin
Elizabeth B. Roth
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon G. Rothrock
Lawrence Rowan
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Rowe
H. Nelson Rowley III
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest J. Rua, Jr.
Don Ruegg
Mr. & Mrs. I. W. Ruge
Saul & Beverlee Ruman
Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Ruppman
Nancy Tamm Ruscitti
Mary A. Russell
Dr. John H. Rust
Mrs. Shirley A. Sallas
Mr. 8c Mrs. Gerald B. Salrzberg
Mr. & Mrs. Quentin E. Samuelson
Norman L. Sandfield
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph N. Sargo
Regina M. Sariol
Mr. & Mrs. Dante G. Scarpelli
Mr. & Mrs. George Schaaf
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Schaefle
Mr. & Mrs. Henry F. Schiele
Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Schiller
Dr. Laurence D. Schiller /
Cathleen A. Weigley
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Dr. & Mrs. J. A. Schoenberger
Mrs. Robert J. Schofield
Ray J. Schoonhoven
Mr. & Mrs. Rodd M. Schreiber
Dr. & Mrs. Robert F. Schroeder
Richard E. Schultes
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Schultz
Calvin Selfridge
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Sents
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Sertich
Mr. & Mrs. C. Olin Sethness
Mr. & Mrs. John Shad
Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Shaw
John M. Shay
Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell B. Sheinkop
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Sheldon
Julie P. Shelton
Melissa A. Shennan
John G. Shields
Dr. Robert W. Shoemaker
Lauretta Silver!
Michael Silverstein
Mrs. John M. Simpson
Mrs. Gerald A. Sivage
Mrs. Frank A. Slauf
Mr. & Mrs. Guy Slaughter
Susan A. Sloma
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Smith
Mrs. Gordon Smith
Jackie Smith
Mrs. Lawrence D. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Worthington L. Smith
James E. Smittkamp
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Sohl
Mrs. Gatzert Spiegel
Michael & Judith Spock
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Membership
Three members won trips to Hawaii and another a trip to New
Zealand in raffles during the three-night members' previews of
"Traveling the Pacific" I November 1989) and "Pacific Spirits"
(November 1990). A special program featuring talks by Pacific
exhibit developers in August 1989 drew more than 1,000 members
Attendance
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1,089,167
■ 1,165,027
■ 1,156,184
i^" 1,332,707
■■^^ 1,498,208
^^^™ 1,465,938
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The New
Explorers
The Museum's Education
Department, working with a
group of Chicago teachers, the
University of Chicago Lab
School, and Argonne National
Laboratory, developed a
curriculum for fourth- to
eighth-graders to accompany
the "Islands in the Jungle"
episode of The New Explorers,
the PBS television series
produced by Museum trustee
Bill Kurtis. The series aims to
teach science and to interest
students in scientific careers
by personalizing scientific
adventure and discovery.
("Islands" features the work of
Field Museum researchers in
Peru.) The Museum is the
repository for tapes of the
series, which are available for
loan to teachers along with
teaching materials and hands-
on activities for students.
Amoco Corp. and Waste
Management, Inc. have
helped subsidize a national
marketing campaign for the
teaching materials. A second
year of the series is in
production, and the Museum
is again participating in
curriculum development.
Mr. & Mrs. E. Norman Staub
Robert J. Stavigna
Mr. & Mrs. Allan I. Steinberg
Mr. & Mrs. Gardner H. Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Harry L. Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson III
Hal S. R. Stewart
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Stitt
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Stocker
Mr. & Mrs. Francis H. Straus II
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob C. Stuck!
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Study
Mr. & Mrs. Barry F. Sullivan
Mr. & Mrs. Bert O. Sullivan, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Sullivan
(Susan R. &]ohn W. Sullivan
Foundation)
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Surpless
Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Jack A. Swelstad
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. Swick
Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Swift III
Mrs. Gustavus F. Swift, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore P. Swift
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Tafel
Nina Tai
Jackie L. Tajiri
Mr. & Mrs. Terence Tanner
Bill S. Taylor
Carol G. Taylor
Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. Taylor
John W. Terborgh
Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Thomas
Marilyn Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Prasong Thongsai
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Thoresdale
Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken, Jr.
Karl Tilton
Paul E. Tobin
Nobuo Tokunaga
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Townsley
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Tracy
Victor R. Trautwein, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tubergen
Norman Tucker
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Q. Tuma
Dr. & Mrs. William D. Turnbull
Mrs. C. Perin Tyler
Matilda J. Tyler
Dr. & Mrs. Edward Unger
Mr. & Mrs. James Vallely
Mrs. Herbert A. Vance
Lillian Vanek
Sandra E. Van Tilburg
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore W. Van
Zelst (Minann, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Vender
George Vernon
Mr. & Mrs. William Taylor
Vickers
Mr. & Mrs. Gary S. Visconti
Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Voysey
Robert W. Wadsworth
Mr. & Mrs. S. A. Wagner
Mr. & Mrs. George M. Walker
' Deceased
Malcolm M. Walker
Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Walker
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wallace
Mr. & Mrs. E. Worthington
Walters
Mrs. Thomas M. Ware
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Warkenthien
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Warner
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Warner
Mr. & Mrs. Russell V. Watts
Mrs. E. Leland Webber
Dr. & Mrs. Arnold R. Weber
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Wehr
Michael E. Weiner
Carey Weiss
Mrs. John Paul Welling*
Mrs. Daniel R. Welsh
Dr. & Mrs. Rupert L. Wenzel
Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler
Mr. & Mrs. Curtis R. Whisler
Dr. & Mrs. Walter W. Whisler
Mr. & Mrs. Richard R.
Whitaker.Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Lee E. Whitcomb
Mr. & Mrs. Miles D. White
Willard E. White
Eldon L. Whiteside
Mr. & Mrs. Lawson E.
Whitesides, Jr.
Sally M. Whiting
Constance Wiedeman
Mr. & Mrs. Thornton B. Wierum
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde F. Willian
Mrs. Benton J. Willner
(Madeline & Henry Straus
Endowment Fund)
Dr. & Mrs. Lanny Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Wilson
John T. Winburn
Barbara K. Wing
Mr. & Mrs. Elwyn C. Winland
John W.Winn '
Nancy Corwith Hamill Winter
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Wise
Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Wohlers
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Wolfe
Sheffield Wolk
Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky
Arthur M. Wood
Henry C. Wood, Jr.
Mrs. Frank H. Woods
Mary H. Woodward
George C. Wright
Mr. & Mrs. Merle Wyld
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Young, Jr.
Mrs. George B. Young
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Zalatoris
Mr. & Mrs. Max Zar
Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Zehner
Mr. & Mrs. Merrill Zenner
Mr. & Mrs. Frank O.
Zimmermann
Lois Zoller
Gift in Trust:
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Special Gifts:
Restricted
Capital, and
Endowed
Funds
Corporations and
Foundations
$100,000 and Above
Amoco Foundation, Inc.
Aon Corporation
The Chicago Community Trust
Elizabeth Ferguson Trust
The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc.
The Joyce Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Robert R. McCormick Charitable
Trust
The Regenstein Foundation
The Daniel F. and Ada L.Rice
Foundation
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
$10,000 TO $99,999
The Allstate Foundation
Amsted Industries Foundation
The Baxter Foundation
Beatrice Foundation
The Chase Manhattan Corporation
Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Comdisco Inc.
Commonwealth Edison Company
The DeSoto Foundation
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Fel-Pro/MeckJenburger Foundation
First National Bank of Chicago
Foundation
FMC Foundation
GE Foundation
Geraldi-Norton Memorial
Corporation
Helene Curtis Industries Inc.
William Randolph Hearst
Foundation
Walter E. Heller Foundation
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Kemper Educational & Charitable
Foundation
Kemper Financial Services, Inc.
James S. Kemper Foundation
Kraft General Foods
Bertha LeBus Charitable Trust
Louis R. Lurie Foundation
Midcon Corporation
Morton International
National Boulevard Foundation
The Northern Trust Company
John Nuveen and Co.
Polk Bros. Foundation
The Quaker Oats Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Ronald McDonald Children's
Charities
Saferv-Kleen Corp. Sara Lee
Foundation
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Simpson Trust Foundation
The Siragusa Foundation
Susman & Asher Foundation
Touche Ross and Co.
United .Airlines Foundation
Walgreen Co.
Harrv Weese & Associates
Wm. Wrigleyjr. Company
$5,000 to $9,999
American National Bank
Foundation
AT & T Foundation
Bridgestone/Firestone
Leo Burnett USA
Centel Corporation
CR Industries
DDB Needham Worldwide
Marshall Field's
Harris Bank Foundation
Hartmarx Corporation
Household International
The Peoples Gas Light & Coke
Company
Price Waterhouse & Co.
Rockwell International
Salomon Foundation Inc.
Sargent & Lundy
Schwarz Paper Company
Skil Corporation
$1,000 TO $4,999
ACCO International, Inc.
Ameritech Foundation
ARCO Foundation
Bankers Trust Company
Berg, DeMarco, Lewis & Sawatski
William Blair & Company
Burke, Wilson & Mcllvaine
Chicago Title & Trust Company
Chicago Tribune Foundation
The Coca-Cola Company
GATX Corp.
GTE Automatic Electric
Laboratories, Inc.
Hascek-Melville Corporation
Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley Co.
Illinois Bell
IMCERA Group
International Business Machines
Corporation
Kirkland & Ellis
LaSalle National Bank
Maytag Corporation Foundation
McDonald's Corporation
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Moore Business Forms, Inc.
Motorola Foundation
Northern Illinois Gas
Ogilvy & Mather, Inc.
Philip Morris Incorporated
Rubloff, Inc.
Santa Fe Pacific
Schal Associates
Seattle Foundation Trust Fund
Shell Companies Foundation, Inc.
|. Walter Thompson
USG Foundation, Inc.
Winston & Strawn
Xerox Corporation
$100 to $999
Chicago Extruded Metals
Exchange National Bank
First American Bank of Chicago
Home Savings of America
Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc.
Kellum Temporaries
Douglas Kenyon Inc.
Louisville Community Foundation
Depository, Inc.
Marquette National Bank
William M. Mercer-Meidinger-
Hansen, Incorporated
Midwest Bank & Trust Co.
Montgomery Ward Foundation
Morgan Stanley & Company
R.J.R. Nabisco, Inc.
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc.
Oriental Art Society of Chicago
Pepsico Foundation
Pfizer, Inc.
Roosevelt University
Strombecker Corporation
U.S. West Foundation
Vedder, Price, Kaufman &
Kammholz
Henrv C. Wienecke, Inc.
World Book Publishing Company
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Benefactors
Sustaining Benefactors are individuals, foundations, and
corporations whose cumulative contributions total $1,000,000 or
more. During 1989 and 1990, the following individuals were
formally recognized as Sustaining Benefactors for their
exceptional generosity: Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Staehle and Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore D. Tiecken. (Theodore D. Tieken passed away on
January 24, 1990.
Museum Benefactors are individuals, foundations, and
corporations whose cumulative contributions total $100,000 or
more. During 1989 and 1990, the following individuals and family
foundations were formally recognized as Museum Benefactors:
Mrs. Pamela Kelley Armour
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cooper
(The Richard H. Cooper Foundation)
The Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
Mr. and Mrs. Corwith Hamill
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Leslie
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Byron Smith
During 1989 and 1990, the following corporations and
foundations were formally recognized as Museum Benefactors:
Ameritech Foundation
Chicago Tribune Foundation
DeSoto Foundation
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Harris Bank Foundation
Kraft, Inc.
International Business Machines Corporation
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
National Endowment for the Arts
Peat, Marwick and Main
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
S&C Electric Company
Santa Fe Southern Pacific Foundation
Sara Lee Foundation
Simpson Trust Foundation
United Airlines Foundation
Waste Management
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Geology Labs
An $800,000 renovation of the
Museum's paleontological
research facilities has begun
that will revamp some 6,700
square feet of laboratory
space. Among the areas
marked for improvement are
the geomagnetics laboratory,
the fossil and rock preparation
facilities, and the image-
analysis laboratory. The work
is supported by a $375,000
grant from the National
Science Foundation and a
$200,000 commitment from the
Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
Unrestricted
Gifts
Corporations and
Foundations
$5,000 and Above
Aon Corporation
Amoco Foundation, Inc.
Bankers Trust Company
The Barker Welfare Foundation
William Blair & Company
Borg- Warner Foundation, Inc.
Burke, Wilson & Mcllvaine
Chicago Board ol Trade
Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Tribune Foundation
Continental Bank Foundation
Crum & Forster Foundation
The DeSoto Foundation
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
First National Bank of Chicago
Foundation
FMC Foundation
Ford Motor Company Fund
HBB Foundation
Harris Associates L.P.
Household International
Illinois Bell
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Interlake Foundation
International Business Machines
Corporation
J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Kemper Financial Services, Inc.
Kraft General Foods
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
MacLean-Fogg Company
Marshall Field's
The Nalco Foundation
Northern Illinois Gas
The Northern Trust Company
The Albert Pick Jr. Fund
Polk Bros. Foundation
Quaker Oats Foundation
S & C Electric Company
Sahara Coal Co., Inc.
Santa Fe Pacific Foundation
Sara Lee Foundation
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Sears, Roebuck &C Co.
United Air Lines Foundation
Waste Management, Inc.
W.P. & H.B. White Foundation
E. W. Zimmerman Products, Inc.
$100 to $4,999
ACCO International Inc.
Akzo Chemicals Inc.
Alexander Building Company
Allied- Signal Foundation, Inc.
Ameritech Foundation, Inc.
Anderson Secretarial Service
ARCO Foundation
Ashland Products Company
AT & T Foundation
Axia, Inc.
Baird Foundation
Banc One Wisconsin Foundation,
Inc.
Banque Paribas
Bell & Howell Foundation
Beslow Associates Inc.
Blum-Kovler Foundation
Helen V. Brach Foundation
Brand Companies Charitable
Foundation
The Brunswick Foundation, Inc.
Leo Burnett Company USA
Central Steel & Wire Co.
The Cherry Corporation
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Chicago Bears Football Club Inc.
Chicago Bridge & Iron
Foundation
Chicago Corporation
Chicago Public Schools
The Clinton Company/Artist in
the Park Program
CNA Foundation
Commodity Warehouse Corp.
Consolidated Papers Foundation
Cooper Lighting
Corey Charitable Foundation
CPC International
Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy
Fund
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
Draper & Kramer Incorporated
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
E-J Industries, Inc.
Elkay Manufacturing Co.
Federal Signal Corporation
Ferrara Pan Candy Co.
The Field Corporation Fund
Firemans Fund Insurance Co.
First Boston Corporation
First National Bank of Evergreen
Park
Florsheim Shoe Co.
Follett Corporation
GATX Corp.
General Binding Corporation
General Motors Co.
George S. May International Co.
Geraldi-Norton Memorial
Corporation
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Great Northern Nekoosa Corp.
Guarantee Trust Life Insurance
John Hancock Charitable Trust
Harris Bank Foundation
Harza Engineering Company
DC Heath and Company
Helene Curtis Industries Inc.
Walter E. Heller Foundation
Houghton Mifflin Company
Hyatt Regency Chicago
Hyre Electric Co.
Illinois Central Railroad
IMCERA Group
Intermatic, Inc.
Johnson & Higgins of Illinois
Keck Mahin & Cate
James S. Kemper Foundation
Kirkland & Ellis
K Mart Corporation
Lawson Products Inc.
Levy Organization
Liquid Carbonic Corp
Lyphomed, Inc.
Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
Masonite Corp.
The May Stores Foundation, Inc.
Mayer Brown & Piatt
Maytag Corporation Charitable
Foundation
McDonald's Corporation
McGraw Foundation
McKinsey & Company
McMaster-Carr Supply Co.
William M. Mercer- Meidinger-
Hansen, Inc.
Mid-America Foundation
Mid-City National Bank of Chicago
Midas International
Milex Products Inc.
Monsanto Fund
Montgomery Ward Foundation
Morton International
Motorola Foundation
Near North Insurance Agency
John Nuveen & Company
Old Republic International Corp.
On The Scene
P-K Tool & Manufacturing Co.
Packaging Corporation of America
P.C. Brand, Inc.
Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.
Pittway Corporation Charitable
Foundation
Prudential Foundation
Retirement Research Foundation
Schawk, Inc.
Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation
Searle
Security Pacific Foundation
Shell Companies Foundation, Inc
J.R. Short Milling Company.
Skil Corporation
Sleepeck Printing Company
Smith Barney & Co. Inc.
Square D Foundation
Standard Federal Savings
Stein Roe & Farnham
Stepan Company
John S. Swift Company
Oakleigh L. Thome Foundation
Time, Incorporated
The Travellers Companies
Foundation
United Conveyor Corporation
USG Foundation, Inc.
Vance Publishing Corporation
Vienna Sausage Manufacturing Co.
Public
Entities
The Chicago Park District
Chicago Board of Education
City of Chicago, Office of Fine Arts
Illinois Arts Council
Institute of Museum Services
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment tor the
Humanities
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
State of Illinois, Department of
Energy and Natural Resources,
Illinois State Museum
Division
Matching
Gift Program
Corporation and
Foundations
Acco International Inc.
Allied-Signal Foundation, Inc.
Ameritech Foundation, Inc.
Aon Corporation
ARCO Foundation
AT & T Foundation
Baird Foundation
Banc One Wisconsin Foundation,
Inc.
Bankers Trust Company
Helen V. Brach Foundation
The Brunswick Foundation, Inc.
Leo Burnett USA
Centel Corporation
The Chase Manhattan Corporation
Chevron USA, Inc.
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Tribune Foundation
Cigna Foundation
Citicorp USA Inc.
CNA Foundation
Continental Bank Foundation
Corning Glass Works Foundation
CPC International, Inc.
Digital Equipment Corporation
RR. Donnelley & Sons Company
Equicor, Inc.
The Field Corporation Fund
Firemans Fund Insurance Co.
Follett Corporation
GATX Corporation
WAX'. Grainger
Great Northern Nekoosa
Corporation
Gult & Western Foundation
John Hancock Charitable Trust
Harris Bank Foundation
Houghton Mifflin Company-
Household International
Illinois Bell
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
IMCER\ Group
International Business Machines
Corporation
Fred S. James & Co. ot Illinois
Kansas Citv Southern Industries,
Inc.
Kemper Educational & Charitable
Foundation
Kemper Financial Services, Inc.
James S. Kemper Foundation
Kirkland & Ellis
K Mart Corporation
Kraft General Foods
Louisville Community Foundation
Depository, Inc.
May Stores Foundation, Inc.
Mayer Brown 6v Piatt
McDonald's Corporation
The McGraw-Hill Foundation
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Montgomery Ward Foundation
Morton International
RJR Nabisco, Inc.
Nalco Foundation
Northern Illinois Gas
The Northern Trust Company
John Nuveen and Company
Paramount Communications
Foundation
Peoples Gas Light & Coke
Company
Pepsico Foundation
Pfizer Inc.
Philip Morris Incotporated
Pittway Corporation Charitable
Foundation
Quaker Oats Foundation
Retirement Research Foundation
Santa Fe Pacific Foundation
Sara Lee Foundation
Searle
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
Spiegel, Inc.
Square D Foundation
Time. Incorporated
U S West Foundation
United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Co.
USG Foundation, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc.
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Planned Giving
Bequests have played an important part in the growth of Field
Museum to its present eminence; they enable the Musuem to
better plan for the future. Today, several other forms of planned
giving are also possible.
Form of bequest: "I give and bequeath $ to the Field
Musuem of Natural History, located in Chicago, Illinois, for its
general purposes. "
Please consider a gift to future generations. To discuss long-
range gift planning, call or write:
MELINDA PRUETT-JONES
Director of Major Gifts and Estate Planning
Field Musuem of Natural History
Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496
(312) 322-8868
The Collections Stand at the
Heart of the Field Museum's
Mission As a Scientific Institution.
i odent discovered by John Flynn , Department of Geology, during recent excavation in the Chilean
I by William Simpson, chief preparator of fossil vertebrates. Background: Magnified view of a fossil
ears old, collected by Lance Grande, Department of Geology, in the Green River area of Wyoming.
Donors
To The
Collections
Department of
Anthropology
Margaret Ackerman
Anonymous
Harry and Norika Bridges
Joan Brown
William Burger
Dorothy M. Cameron
Eddie Deerfield
Eleanor Eldred
Ellen Emberton
Alan Ferg
Douglas W. Greene
Christine Gross
Mr. and Mrs. Ahmad Gurmani
Chui Mei Ho
Susanna Ling Nagata
Larry Olin
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Romig
Herbert N. Rosen
Mrs. Thomas M. Thomas
Byron Weil
Department of
Botany
Academia de Ciencias de Cuba,
Habana, Cuba
Academy of Sciences or the
U.S.S.R., Moscow
Arizona State University, Tempe
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard
University, Cambridge
Massachusetts
Asociaccion Mexicana de
Orquidenologia, Distrito
Federal
Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Honolulu, Hawaii
Botanical Institute of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, Krakow
Botanical Museum and
Herbarium, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Botanical Museum, Goteborg,
Sweden
Botanische Staatssammlung,
Miinchen, Germany
British Museum, London, England
Buffalo Museum of Science, New
York
Mary Jane Bumbey
California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, California
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Central State University, Edmond,
Oklahoma
Centre O.R.S.T.O.M., French
Guiana
Centra de Estudios Farmacologicos
y de Principios Naturales,
Buenos Aires.Argentina
Centra de Pesquisas do Cacau,
Itabuna, Brazil
Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago,
Illinois
Clemson University, South
Carolina
College of Pharmacy, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques
de la Ville de Geneve,
Switzerland
Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York
Department of Scientific &
Industrial Research,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix,
Arizona
Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina
Gabriel Edwin
Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami,
Florida
Fairmont State College, West
Virginia
Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, Florida
Gary Herbarium ot Harvard
University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Gesamthochschule Duisburg,
Germany
Hattori Botanical Laboratory,
Nichinan-shi, Japan
Herbario Alberto Castellanos, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Herbario Nacional de Costa Rica,
San Jose
Herbario Nacional de Nicaragua,
Managua
Herbarium Australiense, Canberra,
Australia
Hugo de Vries-laboratorium,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Institut fiir Botanik und
Botanischer Garten der
Universitat, Wien Austria
Institut fiir sustematische Botanik
der Universitat Zurich,
Switzerland
Institute of Systematic Botany,
Utrecht, Netherlands
Instituto Basico de Biologia
Medica e Agricola de
Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e
Estatistica, Distrito Federal
Instituto de Botanica Darwinion,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto de Botanica, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Instituto de Botanica del Nordeste,
Corrientes, Argentina
Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa,
Mexico
Instituto Tecnologico de Ciudad
Victoria, Mexico
Iowa State University, Ames
Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Jardin Botanica Las Cruces, Costa
Rica
Jardin Botanico Nacional "Dr.
Rafael M. Moscoso", Santo
Domingo, Dominican
Republic
Maarten Kappelle
Maureen D. Keller
Kochi University, Japan
Laboratoire Plantes Medicinales,
La Paz, Bolivia
Laboratory for Plant Taxonomy
and Plant Geography,
Wageningen, Netherlands
K.M. Leelavathy
David P. Lewis
Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens,
Sarasota, Florida
Mercer Arboretum & Botanic
Garden, Humble, Texas
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Missouri Botanical Garden, St.
Louis
Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois
Museo Argentino de Ciencias
Naturales, Buenos Aires
Museo Botanico, Cordoba,
Argentina
Museo Nacional de Historia
Natural, Santiago, Chile
Museo Nacional de Historia
Natural, Guatemala
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi,
Belem, Brazil
Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, France
National Museum in Prague,
Czechoslovakia
National Taiwan University,
Taipei
Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County, California
New York Botanical Garden
New York State Museum, Albany
Harumi Ochi
Ohio State University, Columbus
Organisation Recherche
Scientifique et Technique
d'Outre Mer, Lima, Peru
Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden,
Lawai, Hawaii
Pennsylvania State University,
University Park
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del
Ecuador,
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana
Dana Richter
Rijksherbarium, Leiden,
Netherlands
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,
Scotland
Royal Botanic Gardens, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada
35
Fossil
Preparation
The Museum's international
reputation for high-quality
fossil preparation was
enhanced in 1990 with the
successful casting of a 135-
million-year-old fossil bird
discovered in northeastern
China, the oldest known
modern bird. The fossil,
embedded in cross-sections on
either face of a fractured piece
of rock, had defied
conventional means of
preparation. William Simpson,
pictured opposite, used an acid
solution to dissolve the bones,
leaving a natural mold in the
rock. A spray ed-on latex "peel"
of the mold was used to create
another mold in silicone
rubber, from which durable
epoxy casts were made.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
England
Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey
Roger Mark Rutz
Leif Ryvarden
Sam Houston State University,
Hunstville, Texas
San Franciso State University,
California
Jose Schunke
Shaman Pharmaceuticals, San
Carlos, California
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute, Balboa, Panama
Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
Southwestern at Memphis,
Tennessee
Stetson University, DeLand,
Florida
Fui Lian Tan
Texas A 8c M University, College
Station, Texas
Tropical Agriculture Research
Station, Mayaguez, Puerto
Rico
Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana
U.S. National Arboretum,
Washington, D.C.
U.S. National Seed Herbarium,
Beltsville, Maryland
Union College, Schenectady, New
York
Universidad Autonoma de
Guadalajara,
MexicoUniversidad Central de
Venezuela, Maracay
Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Caracas
Universidad de Alcala de Henares,
Madrid, Spain
Universidad de Antioquia,
Colombia
Universidad de Los Andes, Merida,
Venezuela
Universidad de Puerto Rico, San
Juan
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio
Piedras
Universidad Mayor de San Andres,
La Paz, Bolivia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Honduras, Tegucigalpa
Universidad Nacional, Bogota,
Colombia
Universidad Nacional de
Ascuncion, Paraguay
Universidad Nacional de la
Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos
Universidad Nacional Mayor de
San Marcos de Lima, Peru
Universidad Nacional, Valle,
Colombia
Universitet i Bergen, Norway
University of Aarhus, Denmark
University of Alabama, University
University of Alabamba,
Tuscaloosa
University of Alaska Museum,
Fairbanks
University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada
University of Arizona, Tucson
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los
Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida
University of Helsinki, Finland
University of Iowa, Iowa City
University of Kansas, Lawrence
University of Maryland, College
Park
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks
University of Reading, England
University of Sofia, Bulgaria
University of South Carolina,
Columbia
University of South Florida,
Tampa
University of St. Andrews,
Scotland
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Texas, Austin
University of Tokyo, Japan
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Vermont, Burlington
University of Victoria, Canada
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin Center -
Waukesha County
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee
Waimea Arboretum & Botanical
Garden, Haleiwa, Hawaii
Dick Wason
Molly A. Whalen
Tony Young
Department of
Geology
Donald Baird
Black Hills Institute for Geological
Research, Inc, Hill City,
South Dakota
John Bolt
Lee Campbell
Mary Carman
Jennifer Clack
Peter Crane & Andrew Drinnan
Aureal Cross
R. Drachuk
John Flynn
Melhem Freiji
Thomas Funderburk
Allan Graffham
Lance Grande
Thomas Guensburg
Richard Hebdon
Jurgen Henzel
James Hopson
Walter Kiihne
Thomas Lindgren
Michael Moore
Museo Argentino de Ciecias
Naturales, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Museum of Paleontology,
University of California,
Berkeley, California
Natural History Museum of
Hradec Kralovc,
Czeckoslovakia
Matthew Nitecki
Michael Novacek
Lanny Passaro
Randy Patrick
A. Peterson
Ronald Pine
Joe Pohl
William Rieger
Paul Sereno
Carl Stock
Peter Toepfer
Yakimitsu Tomida
William Turnbull
James Tynsky
Rupert Wild
Michael Woodburne
Peter Wu
Ellis Yochelson
department of
Zoology
RolfL. Aalbu
Academy of Natural Science,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Peter Ames
Kumio Amoaka
James Ashe
Australian National Insect
Collection, CSIRO, Canberra,
Australia
Margaret Baker
George Barnett
Karl Barrel
Donald Baumgartner
William Bemis
F. Bonet
Stephen Bortone
William Braker
R. Michael Brattain
Barbara Brown
John Cadle
J. Milton Campbell
Christopher Carlton
Ted Cavender
Donald Chandler
Chicago Zoological Society,
Brookfield, Illinois
Dale Clayton
David Cook
Cornell University, Section of
Ecology and Systematics,
Ithaca, New York
Dallas Zoo, Dallas, Texas
Mark Deyrup
Michael Dillon
Robert Drews
Millie Dybas
Patricia Escalante
Harley Falcon
Amanda Fisher
Timothy Gaudin
Julio Gisbert
Daniel Golani
Steven Goodman
Thomas Gnoske
William Gosline
Lance Grande
David Greenfield
Gregory Guliuzza
Robert Hamilton
Harris Educational Loan Center,
Field Museum
Harza Engineering, Chicago,
Illinois
Lawrence Heaney
John Hechtel
Phillip Hershkovitz
ly made of plant products, of unknown African origin, donated to the
my collection by Dr. Christian Puff, University of Vienna. Above right:
lily Chrysomelidae, collected in Costa Rica in 1990 by Ronald Pine, research
and donated to the Museum. Background: A ceremonial stone
New Guinea, collected in 1943 and donated to the Museum by Judge
/as stationed at Nadzab Airfield near Lae, New Guinea, during World War II.
Leslie Hubricht
Rainer Hurterer
Michael Huybensz
Robert Inger
Douglas Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Anita Keller
Douglas Kelt
William Kephart
Julian Kerbis
Timothy King
David Kistner
Peter Kovarik
Michael Kowalski
Carl Krekler
Peter Krimmel
Scott Kuipers
Tamotsu Kusano
Horace Last
MA. Latimer
Lincoln Park Zoological Society.
Chicago, Illinois
Ernest Liner
John Lundberg
Borys Malkin
David Matusik
Dianne Maurer
Peter Meserve
Kenneth Mierzwa
Toni Milewski
Alan Mootnick
Charles Nadler
Shun-Ichiro Naomi
Philippine National Museum.
Manila, Philippines
NMNH, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
Douglas Nelson
Harry Nelson
Altred Newton, Jr.
North Carolina State Museum,
Raleigh, North Carolina
Roy Norton
Charles O Brien
Lynne Parenti
Ronald Pine
Mitchell Pakosz
Townsend Peterson
Aldo Poiani
Norman Radkte
Michael Redmer
Michael Reed
David Rees
Alan Resetar
Luis Rivera-Cervantes
Manuel Ruedi
Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Sacramento Zoo, Sacramento,
California
John Sailor
Thomas Schulenberg
John G. Shedd Aquarium,
Chicago, Illinois
Thomas Simon
James Sipiora
Syliva Solem
William Southern
William Stanley
Steven Stephenson
Douglas Stotz
Mr.& Mrs. William Street
Robert Stuebing
Kevin Swagel
William Szelistowski
William Tan-
Donald Taphorn
Margaret Thayer
James Thomerson
Melvin Traylor
William Turnbull
Universidad Nacional Autonoma,
Mexico City, Mexico
The University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
USSR Academy of Science,
Moscow
Bernard Verdcourt
Kevina Vulinec
John Wagner
Harlan Walley
David Ward
Flovd Werner
Max Wilcomb
David Willard
Louis Williams
Sandra Wilmore
Lawrence Wilson
Kirk Winemiller
Glen Woolfenden
Mrs. Chang Man Yang
Daniel Young
Laura Zaidenberg
R. Zweifel
Field Museum Library
Qamar Ali Abbasi
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Abler
Kraig Adler
Mrs. Ralph A. Bard, Jr.
Marianne Berman
Antonio Berst
Tanisse Bezin
Biological Laboratory, Imperial
Household, Japan
Carolyn Blackmon
Sister Cecilia Bodman
Bolerium Books, San Francisco,
California
John Bolt
Mrs. G. E. Boone
Mrs. Frank Bopp
Willard L. Boyd
Ronald A. Brandon
Bennet Bronson
John Clay Bruner
Michael Bullis
William C. Burger
Juan Jorge Buza
Michele Calhoun
Chicago Historical Society,
Chicago, Illinois
Kuo-hsing Chou
Phil Clark
Dr. Glen H. Cole
Colorado Historical Society,
Denver, Colorado
Consul General of Canada,
Chicago, Illinois
Council ot Planning Libraries ,
Chicago, Illinois
David M. Crawford
Robert E. Dahm
Christine Danziger
Mrs. Leonard S. Davidow
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton,
Ohio
Pamela Hibbs Decoteau
Otto Degener
Michael O. Dillon
Durban Natural Science Museum,
Durban, South Africa
DuSable Museum of African-
American History, Chicago,
Illinois
Michael Duty
A. Jacob Dykstra
William Earle
Luis Sigifredo Espinal T.
Catherine Evamy
Alfredo E. Evangelista
W. Peyton Fawcett
Foundation for Research
Development, Pretoria, South
Africa
The Friends of Field Museum
Library
Warren E. Garst
Ken Grabowski
Eduardo R. J. Guimaraes
Lawrence Heaney
Carol Elaine Hendrickson
Herpetological Society of Japan,
Kawasaki, Japan
Philip Hershkovitz
Glenn C. Hjort
Robert F. Inger
International Cultural Society of
Korea, Seoul, Korea
International Hoya Association,
Central Point, Oregon
Krzysztot Jakubowski
Japan Fisheries Resource
Conservation Association,
Tokyo, Japan
Richard I. and Marrian G. Johnson
Kadoorie Foundation, Hong Kong
John Kethley
Jonathan C. H. King
Janice Klein
Daniel K. Koch
Dr. Guenther Kunkel
Mr. and Mrs. David Landman
Janet La Salle
Elbert L. Little, Jr.
Monica Liu
Llovd Librarv and Museum,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Peter Lowther
Ronald J. Mahoney
Rene Edmond Malaise
Adrian G. Marshall
Charles A. Martijn
Hymen Marx
Eugene Maurey
Merriam Center Library, Chicago,
Illinois
Missouri Botanical Garden Library,
St. Louis, Missouri
Robbin C. Morgan
Morris Arboretum of the
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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R. I. G. Morrison
Museo de Entomologia, Medellin.
Colombia
Masayuki Nakamichi
Mathew H. Nitecki
Larry Olin
Edward J. Olsen
Christian d'Orgeix
Victor Raul Pacheco-Torres
Alton J. Parker
Paul J. Patchen
Charles Rand Penney
Dale Pontius
Richard L. Post
Ghillean T. Prance
Jose Ramirez-Pulido
David A. Rasch
John S. Runnells
Marie Serbius
Paul Sereno
Marco A. Serna D.
Joyce Shaw
Louise Sherman
Jack H. Sloan
Djaja D. Soejarto
Michael Spock
John E. Stanton
Kenneth Starr
Llois Srein
Robert G. Stolze
Guy Stresser-Pean
Nikos S. Tenekides
John Terrell
L'niversidad Tecnica Federico
Santa Maria
Edward Valauskas
Leigh M. Van Valen
Theodore W. Van Zelst
James W. VanStone
Gregorv Ylamis
Harold K. Voris
Daniel B. Ward
Rubert L. Wenzel
Benjamin W. Williams
Tadanao Yamamoto
Gary E. Yela
Understanding and Respect
/ For the Diversity
Of Human Cultures
Wonder breaks the tradition of hands-off museum displays, providing a variety of specimens and artifacts for close-up
e antler of a white-tailed deer. Background: four varieties of pine cone. Opposite, right: Nineteenth-century Nkisi
Nkc from the Shilango River area of Zaire. Such figures are used for magical and medicinal purposes.
1 he Field Museum is
preparing a major permanent exhibit on
the natural history and human cultures
of Africa. It already has a major
permanent exhibit on ancient Egypt.
Question: Will this
juxtaposition say to visitors that
Pharaonic Egypt was somehow not an
African civilization? What if anything
should the Africa exhibit say about
Egypt in the 2,000 years since
Cleopatra?
Question: If emphasis is
placed in the new exhibit on the need to
preserve the natural habitats of Africa's
unique animals — the elephants,
giraffes, hippos, apes, etc. — will this
devalue the struggle to develop the
continent's resources for its people?
Question: If the display of
"palace" art from Benin notes that the
Medici collected the work of these
artists, does that imply that "tribal"
ceremonial and decorative artifacts are
not of comparable artistic significance?
Speaking or tribes — which, in fact, the
exhibit will not do — if the exhibit is to
have ethnographic depictions of African
cultures, should they include the "white
tribes" of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South
Africa along with such communities
as the Zulu, Shona, and Masai?
These are ethical and
political as well as intellectual and
aesthetic questions — there are many
more just as complex — and the
Museum's response to them requires
thoughtfulness and sensitivity. Politics
and ethics are implicated because of
what one scholar calls "the politics of
representation" — there are living
people whose lives and societies will be
affected by the images and ideas about
Africa that the Museum's exhibit
imparts to American popular culture.
Moreover, images of Africa subtly
influence both the self-image of
African-Americans and the ways in
which Americans of other races interact
with them.
Such considerations arise
not only in the context of the Africa
exhibit, but in many areas of Museum
activity. The issue of the propriety of
certain kinds of displays, e.g., of
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Pajama
Parties
Museum Overnight
programs have
proved phenomenally
popular with the
public. Since July,
1990 they have been
scheduled almost
monthly by the
Museum's Education
Department. On a
typical Overnight, 250
to 300 persons camp
out in the exhibit
halls. Each evening is
programmed with a
different theme and
participants attend
workshops,
performances, and
other events while
seeing the exhibits in
a different light.
Overnights have been
held for families,
educators, and
community youth
groups.
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Putting
Gossamer
on Display
Many of the objects in
the Museum's Pacific
collections are made
of materials as fine as
spider web and
beetles' wings. They
were not made to last,
yet some have been in
the Museum 80 years
or more. Before such
objects could be
displayed in the
"Pacific Spirits"
exhibit, the staff of the
Division of
Conservation had to
ensure that they
would survive the
exposure — a
complex task
requiring object-by-
object treatment.
Some objects
incorporating plant
materials were
stabilized with
methylcellulose, and a
large broken leaf was
repaired with
Japanese tissue and
wheat starch paste;
both substances can
later be removed if
necessary. Even the
lighting in the exhibit
was set to protect the
artifacts.
religious items not meant to be seen by
non-initiates, comes up from time to
time. The policy that guides the
Museum in these matters is one
of cultural understanding
and mutual respect — a
respect for the internal validity of
every human culture; the idea that,
while uniquely the product of a certain
kind of Western culture, the Museum
should be a bridge between the West
and others; a sense of the Museum's
responsibility to those whose cultures are
respresented in its collections and
exhibits, as well as to the diverse people
of its home community.
In putting together the
Museum's permanent exhibit on the
Pacific, for example, the developer,
Phyllis Rabineau, consulted with the
directors of the national museums in
Tahiti, Papua New Guinea, the
Marshall Islands, and Vanuatu. Among
other things, these discussions helped
the developers avoid giving the
impression that Pacific cultures are
frozen in time, despite the fact that the
Museum's collections largely represent
the first two decades of this century.
The director of the Alele
Museum in the Marshalls urged
Rabineau to use a contemporary
working outrigger canoe in the exhibit,
with all the additions and modern
materials that contemporary Marshallese
have substituted for "traditional" design
and construction; the resulting display,
says Rabineau, "has an integrity that a
reconstruction or a restored 19th-
century piece would not have."
Marshallese also created all the roof-
thatching used in the exhibit.
Exhibition of human
remains is another extremely delicate
subject, and here too Rabineau's
consultations proved valuable. The
director of the National Museum of
Papua New Guinea advised that it
would be inappropriate to display the
skulls — trophies of headhunting —
that would normally have been in the
windows of a Iatmul men's house such
as was planned for the exhibit. On the
other hand, the director of the Vanuatu
Cultural Center saw no problem with
Above: A Maori treasure box, origin unknown, used for safekeeping of valued heirlooms.
Background: Photograph of an Alaskan Athapaskan boy wearing a shell necklace. Right: A Cheyenne toy —
a doll in a papoose board, collected in Montana by S.G. Simms in 1907.
the display of a rambaramp — a
memorial figure that incorporates the
skull of a respected member of the
community — so long as it was placed
high enough that no woman could look
down on it. (In "Pacific Spirits," the
rambaramp stands so tall that all visitors
of both sexes must look up to it.)
Jonathan Haas, the
Museum's vice president for collections
and research, has been consulting with
Native American groups lor what he says
is "a first start in reorganizing the Native
American exhibits and a first start on a
new dialogue with Native American
peoples." Representatives of the Hopi,
Blackfeet, Blood, and Iroquois have
been to the Museum recently to review
materials related to their communities
"and give us counsel on the appropri-
ateness of the exhibits and the treatment
of the collections," says Haas, who along
with President Willard L. Boyd was very
much involved in the discussions among
museum professionals, Native American
leaders, and members of Congress that
led in 1990 to passage of the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act. (All human remains
have been taken off exhibit in the Native
American halls.)
The sensibilities of Native
Americans and of women visitors to the
Museum were at issue in the case of the
"Sacrifice to Morning Star" segment of
the Pawnee exhibit. A diorama shows a
human sacrifice, specified as requiring a
female victim kidnaped from a
neighboring tribe. A visitor from Ohio,
Ann Throckmorton, was appalled by
what she felt was a racist and sexist
portrayal of violence against women,
and wrote a letter to that effect
demanding that the diorama be
removed. Michael Spock, vice president
for public programs, decided to display
Ms. Throckmorton's letter and to solicit
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News
Around
the World
News of the Field
Museum is reaching
diverse audiences
around the world.
Through the Public
Relations
Department, nearly
7,000 print and
broadcast media
stories were
generated in more
than 7 7 7 foreign
countries plus 26
states and WO cities
in the United States in
1989 and 1990.
Highlights were major
stories in The New
York Times, Town
and Country, CNN,
Japan television, and
the Canadian
Broadcast Company.
'
comments from other visitors. Some
4,500 visitors replied, most to the
effect that "You can't rewrite
history" or that depictions of differing
cultural norms were the essence of
anthropological exhibits in museums.
The Pawnee Tribal Council, for its part,
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Ford City
The Museum's first
satellite store opened
in November, 1990 in
the lower-level arcade
of the Ford City
shopping mall south
of Midway Airport.
The 2,200-square-foot
store offers books,
toys, clothing, jewelry,
and art from many
cultures and programs
a variety of
educational and
cultural events
throughout the year.
Ford City is Chicago's
largest mall and
serves the most
diverse clientele.
said that "though we are not proud of
it, it is our history and should stay on
view." As a result of the controversy,
however, several errors were corrected
— the sacrifice should have been facing
east, not west; women as well as men
participated in the ceremony, etc. It was
also apparent that the exhibit labels
were inadequate, and these were
expanded to give greater context for the
ceremony.
Temporary exhibits and the
Museum's education department also
emphasize cultural understanding and
respect, from weekend musical offerings
to the long-term Outreach Program
that takes museum-based cross-cultural
programming to eight AfricanAmerican,
Hispanic, and Asian Chicago neighbor-
hoods where surveys indicate few
people ever attend museums. The
annual Neighbors Night brings thou-
sands of residents of these neighbor-
hoods to the Museum, where they can
sample not only the "fun" parts of each
other's cultures — music, food, dance,
etc. — but the wider and deeper
perspectives on the world that the
Museum's collections and exhibits offer.
For both school and family groups, the
education department also produces
annual festivals celebrating Hispanic-
American and African-American
heritages.
For more than two decades,
the education department and the
Chicago Public Schools' office for gifted
students have conducted the Field
Museum Honors Science Program, a
museology course for high-school
students that has always enrolled
students from varied ethnic back-
grounds. In 1990, for the first time, the
department began a similar course lor
gifted junior-high students who have
not yet mastered English; these students
have prepared an exhibit on Mexican
and Mexican-American Day of the
Dead observances that will be mounted
in the Webber Resource Center in the
fall of 1991.
Adinkra cloth is a traditional art among the Ashanti of Ghana, worn for mourning. Stamped designs include,
at left, a symbol of faithfulness, and, in the background, a symbol of fthe power of God.
1 he new exhibit on Africa
will include material on the African
diaspora in the Americas, making direct
the link — via the slave trade —
between Chicago's largest ethnic
community and the social and political
history of Africa.
Early on, the Africa Project
staff held a series of community forums
to discover what people wanted or
needed to know and to discover
community resources that might feed
into the project. One of the reasons for
choosing to do an exhibit on Africa
rather than on, say, Asia or Latin
America, according to Michael Spock,
was the importance of the black
community in Chicago and the fact
that, other than school groups, the
Museum drew relatively few black
visitors. By creating an innovative
exhibit through an innovative process,
the Museum could speak to that
community through its collections, and
the black community could speak to the
larger society through the Museum.
The project staff has
developed cooperative relationships with
Chicago's DuSable Museum of African-
American History and with two
museums in Africa. Africable, a
13-week cable-television
phone-in program produced
by the project team,
introduced Chicagoans to
African nationals and emigres living
in the area.
Thirty fifth-graders of all
races from city and suburban schools
were enlisted in 1 988 in a five-year
museology program, "Learning About
People and Museums"; they have
produced a mini-exhibit on common
misconceptions about Africa and, with
their questions and responses, have
helped the project staff to refine exhibit
concepts. The students, as tenth-graders,
will become docents when the exhibit
opens in 1993. They have learned a
good bit about Africa, a great deal about
life and work in a great museum, and
most of all about each other. "Cultural
understanding and mutual respect" has
become part of their culture.***
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Dance shields from
Akikuyu Province of
Kenya
Volunteers in Field Museum
Science and Education:
Four Hundred Very Bright Points of Light
Inset above: Hernandez's helmeted iguana (Corytophanes hernandesii) is native to the Atlantic foothills and lowlands from central
Veracruz, Mexico southward through Guatemala. Background: the snowy owl's white plumage offers camouflage against predators in
its wintry northern habitats. Both creatures will be on display in "Into the Wild."
JN early 400 volunteers
devote time regularly to the Museum,
working as unpaid part-time staff. Each
year, they contribute the equivalent of
22 full-time positions which, if salaried,
would cost more than $500,000.
Volunteers perform critical
services throughout the Museum, but
perhaps none have done work so
difficult, or so rewarding, as those who
staffed the traveling exhibit "Remember
the Children" in the winter and spring
of 1990. The exhibit examined the
horrors of the Nazi extermination camps
through the eyes of the 1.5 million
children — Jewish, Gypsy, retarded, or
physically handicapped — who were
murdered in them from 1933 to 1945.
Half the 50 volunteers
who served as exhibit guides were
"Eyewitnesses," people who had
survived the camps or were children of
survivors or members of the liberating
armies. These volunteers were able to sit
down with visitors, especially children,
and bring to life an almost incompre-
hensibly vile period of history.
Other volunteers were
trained to move through the exhibit,
answer questions from children and
adults, deal with sensitive issues and
situations, and help children assimilate
the experience, trying to show how even
simple schoolyard bullying and
stereotyping can contribute to institu-
tionalized discrimination and violence.
45
Design and
Production
Barbara Beardsley
Joseph Byrnes
Michelle Corrazzo
Susan Dalipagic
Sandra Erjavac
Naomi Pruchnik
Linda Schubert
Gus Sisto
Terri Smolin
Selene Wacker
Anthropology
Dee Aiani
Patinya Ambuel
Carole Anderson
Dodie Baumgarten
Garland Brown
Sol Century
Birdie Chang
Elizabeth Cheetham
Peter Coey
James Coplan
Ralph Cowan
Connie Crane
Jeannette DeLaney
Elizabeth Dinsmore
Patricia Dodson
Molly Donovan
Paul DuBrow
Jack Ewing
Andrew Fahlund
Josie Faulk
Mitzi Fine
Lisa Flanagan
Kirk Frye
Vesna Garber
Madeleine Garceau
Peter Gayford
Ann Gerber
Margaret Farwell Goes
Leah Goldberg
Robert Gowland
Deborah Green
Lisa Heidel
Noreen Jolley
Rebecca Kam merer
Lisa Labinger
Stephanie Lako
Cecile Leroux
Jane Levin
Betty Lewis
Valerie Lewis
Kathy Lutarewych
Jack MacDonald
Theresa McGill
Andrew MacLeod
Sam Mayo
Withrow Meeker
Carolyn Moore
George Morse
Mary Nelson
Louise Neuert
Herta Newton
Irmgard Nirschl-Rauch
Laura Nunez
Susan Parker
Paula Phillips
Dorothea Phipps-Cruz
Julie Pitzen
Marina Post
Michael Popowits
Carla Reiter
Robin Rinehart
Marea Sands
Lisa Shogren
Llois Stein
Margo Thayer
Ika Tomaschewsky
Julius Wagman
David Walton
Theresa Williams
Wang-Fai Wong
Ed Yastrow
Archives
Chloe Cornell
Aimee Drolet
Kinberley Krause
Julia Mond
Charlene Rehbock
Tania Ryan
Amy Sliwinski
Frances Stromquist
Botany
Virginia Beatty
Arun Dabholkar
Liz Farwell
Peter Fortsas
Terry Gillespie
William Gillespie
Daniel Goldfarb
Dennis Hall
Nancy Harlan
Patricia Jasaitis
Sharon Kramer
Sandra Lee
Lillie Mannings
Margaret Martling
Selwyn Mather
Paula Morales
Stella Muir
Naomi Pruchnik
Joseph Salzer
Hana Sawyer
Martha Singer
Dan Snydacker
Haydee Trainer
Randy Upton
Weekly
Education
Paul Adler
Shirley Anderson
Dee Arbanas
Pamela Armstrong
Jean Baldwin-Herbert
Michael Bardwell
Gwen Barnett
Paul Basile
Jeanne Bedrosian
Ruth Berns
Frieda Bernstein
Sidney Bernstein
Katherine Bisping
Blanche Blumenthal
Nada Boulos
Lloyd Bradbury
Judith Brower
Olga Buenz
Joseph Byrnes
Irene Cantine*
Alice Cap
Kitty Carson
Linda Celesia
Mary Sue Coates
Anemic Cosentino
Ellie DeKoven
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Restored photos.
Above: Malvina
Hoffman sculpts the
clay bust of Kamala
Chatterji, at left in
photo. This is from one
of more than 1,300
negatives taken by
Hoffman and her
husband, S.B.
Grimson, for the "races
of man" sculpture
project in the early
1930s. These have now
been transferred to
safety film and
preserved.
Background, right: A
dragon robe of silk
satin and gold made
for one of the sons of
the Qianlong Emperor,
mid-18th century
China. This is one of
several thousand
historic exhibit display
photographs that were
in danger of chemical
deterioration and have
now been preserved.
Cynthia Chejfec Dezara
Violet Diacou
Phyllis Dix
William Duvall
Aldona Dziedzic
Kitty Egan
Toby Ehrlich
Jenny Elliott
Geraldine Enck
Rhoda Feldman
Mit/i Fine
Barbara Fisher
Mi mi Fiszel
Lisa Flanagan
Liz Flury
Toby Frankel
AJta Mae Frobish
Mimi Futransky
Rhoda Gellman
William Gellman
Patricia Georgouses
Wayne Gerdes
Delores Glasbrenner
Kathleen Gleason
Alvin Goldblatt
Janis Goldman
Halina Goldsmith
Phyllis Goldstein
Mary Griffin
Ann Grimes
Judith Hannah
Curtis Harrell
Shirely Hattis
Penny Haynes
Helen Helfgott
Eselean Henderson
Audrey Hiller
Jack Hoffman
Tina Fung Holder
Harold Honor
Zelda Honor
Ruth Hostler
Sandra Hubbel
Deke Hundley
Ellen Hyndman
Ursula Jacobius
Connie Jacobs
Sheila James
Brian James
Arlene Johnson
Nancy Johnson
Venice Johnson
Ellie Kadan
Tirza Kahan
Rosemary Kalin
Julie Kay
Joan Kelly
Katharine Kelly
Milton Kohn
Kimberley Krause
Dianne Kueck
Mary Beth Kwasek
Carol Landow
John Lawson
Michael Lenzi
Patricia Levinson
Ruth Lew
Catherine Lindroth
Frances McBee
Louise McEachran
Clifford Massoth
Britta Mather
Selwyn Mather
Melba Mayo
Beverly Meyer
Sara Meyers
Candace Minks
Harriet Molloy
Gayle Morgan
Virginia
NewtonCatherine
O'Brien
Joan Opila
Anita Padnos
Kay Pickett
Irene Poll
Maureen Powell
Ellen Quinn
Dan Reilly
Elly Ripp
Jerry Ripp
Barbara Roob
Sarah Rosenbloom
Anne Ross
Isabella Rzepka
Joseph Salzer
Lucille Salzer
Randi Savitzky
Marianne Schenker
Sol Schindel
Florence Seiko
Jessie Sherrod
Ethel Shiner
Terri Smolin
Arlene Specht
Mary Lou Stanley
William Stanley
Helen Stein
William Stein
Ben Stern
Louise Suhajda
Bernard Sullivan
Ruby Suzuki
Christine Szorc
Jane Thain
Mark Weinberg
George Wolnak
Sally Wood
Zinette Yacker
Adele Zaveduk
Weekend
Education
Janet Archer
Jacqueline Arnold
Terry Asher
Sandra Atkinson
Lynne Bailey
Lucia Barba
Cvnthia Bassett
Susan Bee
Timothy Benally
Susan Bennett
Elaine Bernstein
Anne Ursula Bielski
Karen Boton
Jennifer Botte
Johanna Brainin
Ricky Brainin
Fran Braverman
Carol Briscoe
Carol Brna
Nancy Burke
Madelyn Bushnell
Joseph Cablk
Renee Calderon
Alice Cap
Mary Cheshareck
Nicole Collins
Norma Cotton
Leslie Cox
Karin Dahl
Anthony Davis
Elaine Day
Millicent Drawer
Josei Duanah
Faye Dulcy
John Dunn
Linda Egebrecht
Jo Elworthy
Bonnie Engel
Carlos Flores
Amy Franke
Debra Jean Frels
Fritzie Fritzshall
Barbara Gardner
Bernice Gardner
Phyllis Ginardi
Frederic Gleach
Vonda Gluck
Evelyn Gottlieb
Thomas Grygiel
Michael Hall
Patricia Hansen
Mattie Harris
Regina Harrison
Kate Heston
Tanya Hines
Clarissa Hinton
Scott Houtteman
Gittel Hunt
Vernon Hunt
Michael Jacobs
Lavonne Jahnke
Sandra Lewis Jensen
Joan Johnson
Jim Jones
Malcolm Jones
Carol Kacin
David Kalensky
Colleen Karp
Ida Kersz
Dennis Kin/ig
Alida Klaud
Nance Klehm
Joanne Kluga
Kate Kuehn
Mary Jo Lucas-Healy
Kristin Lynch
Frances McBee
Linda McKinney
Tom McNichols
Gabby Margo
Maryann Marsicek
Cheryl Martin
Marita Maxey
Julie Medina
Thomas Miller
Barbara Milott
Gail Munden
Elizabeth Murphy
Caroline Mylander
John Nelson
Mary Nelson
Gizela Neumann
Joseph Neumann
Janice North
Kathleen North-
Tomczyk
Dennis O'Donnell
Gary Ossewaarde
Albert Poll
Pam Robinson
Esther Rosenbloom
Janet Russell
Gladys Ruzich
Terry Sanders
Katherine San Fratello
Marian Saska
Charise Scharpenberg
Lester Schlosberg
Ann Schuppert
Lucy Searls
Pat Sershon
Adam Seward
Sharon Rae Shananquet
Judith Sherry
Karen Sholeen
Shirley Smith
Beth Spencer
Ann Spenner
Gregory Trush
Colleen Vitkovich
Teri Vlasak
Editha Walker
Dorothea Wechselberger
Ben Zajac
Irene Zlobnicki
Weavers
Program
Nancy Berg
Sharon Boemmel
Jenny Elloitt
Agatha Elmes
Elizabeth Enck
Fritzie Fritzshall
Mearl Gable
Wynn Graham
Julie Hurd
Margaret Jones
Colleen Karp
Barbara Keune
Sheree Moratto
Marianita Porterfield
Krvs Stephenson
Char VC "iss
Judie Yamamoto
Geology
Ian Ausubel
Barbara Ballard
Irene Broede
Sophia Brown
Arruro Cisneros
Virginia Cox
Elizabeth Cook
Aldona Dziedzic
Jane Edmunds
Michael Henderson
Philip Keener
Deborah Kelly
Jennifer Lambert
Michelle Lazar
Joseph Levin
Manuel Matanguihan
John McConnell
Sara Mickel
Donald Newton
Doris Nitecki
China Oughton
Jeanne Popowits
Naomi Pruchnik
Susan Roop
Angie Shaw
Julie Teetsov
Housekeeping
Bvron Collins
Library
John Craib-Cox
Elizabeth Dilworth
Arden Frederick
Robert Gowland
Ruth Howard
Mabel Johnson
Dorothv Oliver
Christopher Quinn
James Reed
Marie Louise Rosenthal
James Skorcz
Worthington Smith
Membership
Dennis Bara*
Loretta Green
Lisa Kawczinski
Lillian Kreitman
Irene Turner
Women's Board
Ambassadors
Heather Bilandic
Teddv Buddington
Lvnn Burt
Lenore Cameron
Bobbie Cook
Marianne Cruikshank
Miriam Ewing
Joan McKenna
Karen Pigott
Helen Thomas
Ruth Teena Williams
Paula Trienens
Joan Webber
Sue Whitaker
Photography
Reeva Woltson
Program and
Exhibit
Development
Roxanna Beatty
Huei-Min Chern
Karol Kuehn
Robin Lage
Lawrence Levin
Monte Lloyd
Sharon Mitchiner
Lorain Olsen
Jerry Ripp
Liza Suarez
Ann Thomas
Laura Vanderlei
George Wolnak
Public
Relations
Frank Leslie
Earl Robinson"
Bruce Saipe
Tours
William Roder
Zoology Office
Maxine Walter
Amphibian and
Reptiles
Robert Brunner
Sophie Ann Brunner
Ingrid Fauci
Heather Lochner
Bernard Rozran
Heather Seemann
Birds
Paul Baker
Robert Cary
Sheila Demkovich
Terri Donovan
Joseph Fisher
Thomas Gnoske
John Goeb
Mary Hennen
Joan Klonowski
Scott Kuipers
Valerie Lewis
Thomas Pavela
NathaniaJ Trienens
Fishes
Paul Bryan
Connie Escobar
Greg Guliuz: a
Irmgard Nirschl-Rauch
Thomas Simon
Insects
Neal Abarbanell
George Barnett
Eric Espe
Ron Garner
J. Dennis Molina
Pauline Segal
Invertebrates
Stanley Dvorak
Henry Greenwald
Dorothy Karall
Donna Nakagiri
David Walker
Mammals
Malena Ahmed
John Beery
Lorin Brown
Clayton Dean
M. Alison Ebert
Betsy Ebert
Carlene Friedman
Alexandra Gnoske
Thomas Gnoske
William Kephart
Susan Knoll
E.J. McAdams
Larrv Misialek
Susan Moy
Thomas Patterson
Sheila Reynolds
Jack Sloan
Janet Madenberg Stevens
Virginia Turner-Erfort
Karen Van Vorhis
Laura Zaidenberg
* Deceased
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Photo Restoration
Among the Museum's collection of half a million
photographs are some 20,000, dating from 1920 to
1950, that were taken using nitrate-based film
before it was known that such film was chemically
unstable. In 1989 Nina Cummings, photo
researcher in the Department of Photography, and
an outside contractor, the Chicago Albumen
Works, began a two-year project, funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities, to restore
and conserve this portion of the collection. Photo
collections that have been saved include Malvina
Hoffman's round-the-world studies for her epic
sculpture project, "The Races of Man," and Anne
Fisher's portraits, landscapes, and architectural
photos of Iraq in 1928.
Background: Housefront in Kano, Nigeria, from a photo taken during the Strauss West African Exp.
of 1934. Above, right: Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) mortuary figure of a woman playing polo. Both |
were among those saved in the Museum's preservation project.
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Board of Trustees
December 31, 1990
Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Robert O. Bass
Gordon Bent
Mrs. Philip D. Block III
Willard L. Boyd
Robert D. Cadieux
Worley H. Clark
James W. Compton
Frank W. Considine
Thomas E. Donnelley II
Thomas J. Eyerman
Marshall Field
Laura DeFerrari Front
Marshall B. Front
Ronald J. Gidwitz
Wayne E. Hedien
Richard M. Jones
John J. Kinsella
William C. Kunkler III
William H. Kurtis
Hugo J. Melvoin
Leo F. Mullin
James J. O'Connor
Robert A. Pritzker
John S. Runnells
Patrick G. Ryan
William L. Searle
Mrs. Theodore B.
Tieken
Mrs. Howard J.
Trienens
Blaine J. Yarrington
Life Trustees
Harry O. Bercher
Bowen Blair
Stanton R. Cook
Mrs. Edwin DeCosta
Mrs. David W. Grainger
Clifford G. Gregg
Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Edward Byron Smith
Robert H. Strotz
John W. Sullivan
Officers
Robert A. Pritzker,
Board Chairman
Marshall Field,
Vice Chairman
Frank W. Considine,
Vice Chairman &
Treasurer
Richard M. Jones,
Vice Chairman
Thomas E. Donnelley II,
Vice Chairman
John J. Kinsella,
Vice Chairman
Leo F. Mullin,
Vice Chairman
John S. Runnells,
Secretary
Willard L. Boyd,
President
Executive Committee
Robert A. Pritzker,
Board Chairman
Marshall Field,
Vice Chairman
Frank W. Considine,
Vice Chairman
& Treasurer
Richard M. Jones,
Vice Chairman
Thomas E. Donnelley II,
Vice Chairman
John J. Kinsella,
Vice Chairman
Leo F. Mullin,
Vice Chairman
John S. Runnells,
Secretary
James J. O'Connor,
Ex- Officio
Willard L. Boyd,
President,
Staff Liaison
Collections and
Research Committee
Richard M. Jones,
Vice Chairman
Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Henry T. Chandler
Worley H. Clark
Thomas J. Eyerman
Laura DeFerrari Front
Marshall B. Front
Wayne E. Hedien
William C. Kunkler III
Hugo J. Melvoin
John S. Runnells
Jonathan Haas,
Staff Liaison
Development
Committee
Leo F. Mullin,
Vice Chairman
Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Mrs. Philip D. Block III
Worley H. Clark
Frank W. Considine
Thomas E. Donnelley II
Thomas J. Eyerman
Laura DeFerrari Front
Marshall B. Front
Philip L. Harris
Wayne E. Hedien
John J. Kinsella
William L. Searle
Mrs. Malcolm N. Smith
Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
Blaine J. Yarrington
Willard E. White,
Staff Liaison
Public Programs
Committee
Marshall Field,
Vice Chairman
Mrs. Philip D. Block III
Philip L. Harris
H. Harry Henderson
Maria Bechily-Hodes
Ronald J. Gidwitz
Mrs. David W. Grainger
John J. Kinsella
Mrs. Theodore B. Tieken
Mrs. Howard J. Trienens
Michael Spock,
Staff Liaison
Finance Committee
Frank W. Considine,
Vice Chairman
Robert O. Bass
Gordon Bent
Bowen Blair
Robert D. Cadieux
Hugo J. Melvoin
William L. Searle
Robert H. Strotz
Blaine J. Yarrington
Jimmie W. Croft,
Staff Liaison
Audit and Pension
Subcommittee
Hugo J. Melvoin,
Chairman
Robert O. Bass
Gordon Bent
Jimmie W. Croft,
Staff Liaison
Museum Services
Committee
Thomas E. Donnelley II,
Vice Chairman
Harry O. Bercher
Robert D. Kolar
William C. Kunkler III
William L. Searle
Robert L. Wesley
Jimmie W. Croft,
Staff Liaison
Nominating
Committee
Marshall Field,
Vice Chairman
Mrs. T. Stanton Armour
Gordon Bent
James J. O'Connor
Blaine J. Yarrington
Willard L. Boyd
Staff Liaison
Marketing
Committee
John J. Kinsella,
Vice Chairman
Mrs. Michael Bilandic
Mrs. Philip D. Block III
James Compton
Ronald J. Gidwitz
Philip L. Harris
William A. Hensley
Mrs. William J.
McDonough
Mrs. Newton M. Minow
Kurt P. Stocker
Willard E. White,
Staff Liaison ■>
Centennial
Committee
Marshall Field,
Honorary Chair
Thomas E. Donnelley II,
Co-Chair
Mrs. Malcolm N. Smith,
Co-Chair
Gordon Bent
Willard L. Boyd
Jonathan Haas
Michael Spock
Willard E. White
Administration
Willard L. Boyd,
President
Jimmie W. Croft,
Vice President,
Finance & Museum
Services
Jonathan Haas,
Vice President,
Collections & Research
Michael Spock,
Vice President,
Public Programs
Willard E. White,
Vice President,
Development &
External Affairs
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Credits
Text: Ron Dorfman
Portraits (pages 3, 4, 12, 34 & 38): Marc PoKempner.
New photographs of artifacts and specimens were taken for
this project by John Weinstein, the Museum's head
photographer.
Special thanks to Nina Cummings and the photography staff
— Mark Alvey, James Balodimas, Linda Dorman, and Diane
Alexander White — for their help in coordinating and
reproducing images for this report.
The following individuals also deserve recognition for their
efforts on this project: Paul Baker, Joe Cajandig, Carol
Carlson, Steve Crescenzo, John Ditzel, William Grewe-
Mullins, Christine Gross, Gregory M. Mueller, Rodger
Patience, William Simpson, Charles Stanish, Kevin Swagel,
Tom Wagner, Ben Williams.
This report printed on recycled paper with soy bean inks.
On the Cover
Background: Members of the Field Museum and their families
during Members' Night, 1991.
Front cover, top right, is a fossil sting ray, 49 million years old,
collected by Lance Grande in the Green River area of Wyoming;
center left is the fruit of Anona glabra, a member of the custard
apple family, collected in 1983 by R.G. Stolze along the banks of
the Sebastian River in Florida; below is an ornament of office (a
staff with silver fish and Peruvian coins) worn by elected leaders
of Aymara Indian communities in Peru, collected by Charles
Stanish in 1990.
Back cover, upper left is a Chinese ground beetle, Carabus
lafossei giganteus, a rare species often found in Chinese
apothecary shops for use in traditional medicine ; below is a
multicolored beaded bandolier bag, probably Seminole, ca. 1840,
of unusual design, including the human figure on the flap.
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