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Vol. 89, No. 3
Fall 2018

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Member Magazine

Vol. 89, No. 3
Fall 2018

EDITOR
Franck Mercurio

EDITORIAL TEAM

Charles L. Katzenmeyer, Vice
President, Institutional Advancement,
Usha Subramanian, Director of
Individual Giving, Vicky Sanchez,
Director of Membership, Jenna
Lieblich, Membership Manager,

Kate Golembiewski, PR and Science
Communications Specialist

DESIGNER
Bark Design, barkdesignchicago.com

PHOTO SPECIALIST

Nina Cummings, Library Photo
Archivist. All images © The Field
Museum unless otherwise specified.

ON THE COVER

Chartered by the State of Illinois

on September 13, 1893 (125 years
ago!), the Field Museum opened its
doors to the public on June 2, 1894.
The Museums first home was the
old Palace of Fine Arts building from
the World’s Columbian Exposition in
Jackson Park.

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The Field Museum's

125th-Anniversary

CONTENTS

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Dear Member

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Prehistoric Beetle Discovered
Named “Jason”

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Bringing Antarctic Dinosaurs to Life

Community Science:
Liverworts & Climate Change

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Deep Sea Dive Reveals Octopus Nest
in Inhospitable Environment

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Mummies

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Giving Day 2018: Drive Discovery

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New Members to the Field Loyalty Club +
Supporter Spotlight: Ayer Society Members

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Member Opportunities

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Exhibitions, Museum Hours,
Museum Campus Neighbors

(0) JAN LARIVIERE

Dear
Member,

2018 marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Field Museum.
What began as a collection of natural history specimens and anthropological
objects displayed at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition has become the
respected research institution and public museum you know today.

To commemorate these beginnings—and celebrate the achievements of the
past 125 years—the Museum has unveiled the Griffin Dinosaur Experience. In
Stanley Field Hall, visitors can now encounter a flock of pterosaurs, hanging
gardens, and Maximo, the world’s largest dinosaur. Meanwhile, the most
famous dinosaur in the world, SUE the T. rex, will soon debut in a new gallery
in the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet.

The rapid pace of these new installations has astonished many Museum visitors.

But this rate of change is normal at the Field Museum, if not always so visible.
Behind the scenes, there is a constant churn of ideas, additions to collections,
and general excitement surrounding new scientific discoveries. In many
ways, the updates to Stanley Field Hall reflect developments that happen at
the Museum everyday. The Field is always evolving, a fact we celebrated on
September 13 when the Museum commemorated its founding with the public
launch of a $250 million capital campaign.

We invite you to celebrate our milestone anniversary in the year ahead through
a series of public programs, exhibitions, and special events. For the past 125
years, the support of donors and members has been instrumental in creating
the institution we know today—here’s to the next 125 years of your Museum.

RICHARD W. LARIVIERE, PHD

President and CEO

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PREHISTORIC
BEETLE
DISCOVERED
NAMED
“JASON”

BY KATE GOLEMBIEWSKI, PR AND SCIENCE
COMMUNICATIONS

Featherwing beetles are smaller than the
period at the end of this sentence. They
get their name from the feathery fringe on
their wings that enable them to catch the
air and float like dandelion seeds. And, it
turns out, they are prehistoric.

Scientists recently discovered a 99-million-
year-old featherwing beetle preserved in
amber—and they named it “Jason.” The
earliest member of its family to receive a
scientific name, this new beetle is officially
called Kekveus Jason, a reference to the
Greek hero who sailed the world in search
of the Golden Fleece.

IN THE FIELD

“This tiny beetle lived during the
Cretaceous Period, it saw actual
dinosaurs,” says Shuhei Yamamoto,
PhD, a researcher at the Field Museum
who co-led a paper describing the
beetle in Cretaceous Research. “The
amber the beetle was found in is like a
time capsule.”

Amber is fossilized plant resin. When
prehistoric insects became trapped in
resin, their bodies were preserved within
the amber that later formed. When
Yamamoto spotted a tiny black speck in
an amber specimen, he was cautiously
optimistic he had found a prehistoric
insect. “I didn’t have much confidence
at first, but after cutting and polishing
the amber so | could get a better look,

| realized this is truly an amazing fossil,”
Yamamoto said.

The beetle is only 0.536 millimeters long—
dwarfed by the tip of a mechanical pencil.
But under a microscope, Yamamoto was
able to glean details of Jason’s anatomy,
which ultimately revealed it as a different
species and genus from living featherwing
beetles. Despite that, Jason has much in
common with featherwings alive today;
the family of beetles evolved features like
a tiny body size and fringed wings millions
of years ago.

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found in Mexico.
Amber is created
from fossilized tree
sap and often contains
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According to Yamamoto, amber fossils
yield a level of preservation rarely found in
regular rock, especially for insects. “There
are many rock fossils from the Jurassic
and Cretaceous periods, but they're
limited to big animals like larger insects,
mammals, dinosaurs, and birds, because
small insects cannot be preserved in rock
fossil very clearly. Only fossil insects in
amber are preserved in fine detail, in three
dimensions,” explained Yamamoto.

THIS STUDY WAS CONTRIBUTED TO BY RESEARCHERS
FROM THE FIELD MUSEUM, THE KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
MUSEUM, THE CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY,
AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA.

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BRINGING
ANTARCTIC
DINOSAURS
TO LIFE

BY MARIE GEORG, EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT,
AND TOM SKWERSKI, EXHIBITIONS OPERATIONS

Some of most exciting features of
Antarctic Dinosaurs are the realistic, life-
sized replications displayed throughout
the exhibition. As visitors move through
the galleries—set in Antarctica’s distant
past—they encounter a variety of
creatures, including the giant amphibian
Antarctosuchus, the crested dinosaur
Cryolophosaurus, and even an Emperor
Penguin found in Antarctic today.

The process to create these creatures
began with reviewing what is known
about each from the scientific data. The
Museums Curator of Dinosaurs Peter
Makovicky, PhD, and the exhibition team
pulled together reference images and 3D
scans of existing fossilized bones, as well

as information on nearest relatives and
overall size estimates.

A group of outside artists then created
small clay models of each creature for
the entire team to review. Makovicky
noted adjustments to the anatomical
features and consulted with his scientific
colleagues on details of the non-
dinosaurs, such as whether the toes of
Antarctosuchus should be webbed (they
are not) and the correct size and shape of
the Glossopteris leaves.

After anatomical details were adjusted in
the miniature clay models, the replication
producers worked out details of surface
texture with Makovicky. The decision

to sculpt feathers on Cryolophosaurus
was informed by recent discoveries of
feathered dinosaurs in nearby branches
of the dinosaur family tree.

The exhibition team also weighed in on
how the reconstructed creatures interact
with the background murals, their poses
reflecting a moment caught in time.
Antarctosuchus is just stepping out of
the water, and one member of a herd of
tiny dinosaurs lifts its head to view the
approaching Cryolophosaurus, caught
mid-stride.

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Finishing the details of the
Cryolophosaurus teeth

The final maquette of each animal was
scanned, and using this 3D data, a
computerized router cut out the basic
shapes of each. The final sculptural
form was then hand-painted realistically.
With Cryolophosaurus, for example, the
coloring was informed by Makovicky’s
research into the coloring of modern
bird crests. From this data, a bright blue
and pink area around the crest and eye
was chosen.

These replicated creatures are durable
enough to withstand the hands of many
children eager to reach out and touch
Antarctica’s most charismatic creatures
from nearly 200 million years ago.

ANTARCTIC DINOSAURS WAS DEVELOPED BY THE
FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES
COUNTY, DISCOVERY PLACE—CHARLOTTE, NC, AND
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH.

GENEROUS SUPPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE
KENNETH C. GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FUND.

FALL 2018

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125 YEARS AGO, IN SEPTEMBER 1893, THE STATE OF

ILLINOIS GRANTED A GHARTER FOR A NEW MUSEUM
IN CHICAGO.

The institution’s purpose: “the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge,
and the preservation and exhibition of artifacts illustrating art, archaeology,
science, and history.” Hence, the Columbian Museum of Chicago was born.
Today, we call it the Field Museum.

When the Field was founded, the World’s Columbian Exposition was still in full

THE Fl ELD MUSEUM'S swing. Indeed, the WCE served as the main inspiration for the new museum—
and many of the Field’s original collections were acquired from the fair itself.

VA, -AN N IVERSARY The Museum's earliest acquisitions included the Ward's natural history collection,

the entire Tiffany & Company gem display, pre-Columbian gold ornaments,
musical instruments from Samoa and Java, and a large collection of Native
American objects. Since then, the Field Museum's collections have grown from
By Franck Mercurio 50,000 objects to nearly 40 million representing the natural world and human

cultures. (Less than one percent of the Museum's collection can be on display in
the exhibition halls at any one time!)

Institutional Advancement

But the Field Museum is more than its collections. Over the past 125 years, it
has employed scientists, who not only maintain and add to the collections,

but also conduct scientific research. Today, many of our scientists do not limit
themselves to lab work, but travel the world researching flora, fauna, natural
environments, and human societies. And many scientists use the data they
collect to advocate for the protection of species, the conservation of wild areas,
and the solving of Earth’s environmental problems.

Thanks to the support of our members and donors, the Museum continues to
fuel a journey of discovery across time. And the year ahead promises to be filled
with special events and opportunities for our growing community of members
and donors, all in celebration of the Museum’s 125th anniversary.

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(Bottom) A view of the World’s Columbian
Exposition as seen from the Manufacturers
and Liberal Arts Building. The Field Museum
is a direct legacy of the 1893 fair.

(Left) This woolly mammoth model and
mastodon skeleton were displayed in the
Museum’s old Jackson Park building in
1894. The mastodon was first exhibited at
the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

(Below) In honor of the Field Museum's
125th anniversary, a new dinosaur was
installed in Stanley Field Hall. Named
Maximo (scientific name: Patagotitan
mayorum), it is the largest dinosaur
ever discovered.

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A microscopic
view of a
liverwort stem
collected from
New Zealand

Community Science

LIVERWORTS
& CLIMATE
CHANGE

BY KATE GOLEMBIEWSKI AND SHEILA EVANS,
PUBLIC RELATIONS

Sixteen-year-old Kalman Strauss loves
soccer, playing violin, and looking at
microscopic plants. He and 11,000
other volunteers help scientists study
these tiny organisms. It all started when
the volunteers, led by Field Museum
scientist Matt von Konrat, PhD, had a
problem—too many plant photos to

IN THE FIELD

analyze. So they found a solution
by creating a tool that lets regular
people do the analysis.

Liverworts tend to fly under the
radar. “When | tell people | study
liverworts, my opening line is that
their not catching,” jokes von Konrat,
the Field Museum's collections
manager of plants and lead author
of a paper detailing the project in
Applications in Plant Sciences. You've likely
seen liverworts, but probably didn’t realize
it. Liverworts are tiny—about the size of

an eyelash. Since they’re so small, they
respond to climate change more quickly
than bigger organisms, making them
valuable to scientists.

Using liverworts in research requires a
close eye. The intricacies of liverwort
species are only visible through a

microscope, and analyzing hundreds

of thousands of images isn’t easy. “It’s
tedious to go through these photos for
hours,” says von Konrat. “But if you get a
hundred people to do it for five minutes
each, it’s easier.”

The team adapted the online platform
Zooniverse to enable citizen scientists
to analyze photos of liverworts. “The
Microplants project is two-pronged: to
help find differences between these
species, and see if measurements can
actually be done by lay people,” says
sixteen-year-old Strauss, who was one
of von Konrat’s co-authors on the paper.

Over the course of the project, more
than 11,000 participants analyzed
photos. The platform was also used in
classrooms ranging from kindergartens
to college biology classes. Beyond the
contributions to science, von Konrat
says, the project is notable for public
engagement with science.

“This project goes beyond data,” says von
Konrat. “It proves everyone can contribute
to science.” Von Konrat cites a drawing
sent to him by a four-year-old girl who
participated in the project—she drew a
liverwort with heart-shaped leaves.

“That’s my source of inspiration,” says

von Konrat. “That’s why we do it—it’s for
the next generation.”

Two of the paper’s authors, Field Museum
botanist Matt von Konrat and high school
student Kalman Strauss, study liverwort
specimens under a microscope.

Want to join our team of

community scientists? Visit
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octopods are clustered onthe _
sediment-free surfaces near
sites of low temperature fluid
discharge on Dorado Outerop,
3000 miles below sea level in

the North Pacific.

DEEP-SEA
DIVE REVEALS
OCTOPUS
NEST IN
INHOSPITABLE
HABITAT

BY KATE GOLEMBIEWSKI, PUBLIC RELATIONS
AND MARK ALVEY, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

It’s a popular notion in marine biology that
we know more about the surface of the
moon than we do about the bottom of the
ocean—an alien landscape, with crushing
pressure, near-total darkness, warm fluids
wafting from cracks in the Earth’s crust,
and strange, little-known animals.

Case in point: recent deep-sea expeditions
have revealed a group of octopuses and
their eggs in a place where they shouldn't
be able to survive, as outlined in a new
study published in Deep Sea Research

by the Field Museum's Associate Curator
Janet Voight, PhD, and colleagues Geoff
Wheat, PhD, (University of Akron and the
University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Anne
Hartwell, PhD (UA-Fairbanks). Nearly

two miles deep in the ocean, 100 miles
off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, these
scientists used subsea vehicles to explore
the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea
floor made of cooled and hardened lava
from an underwater volcano.

Geochemists hoped to collect samples
of the warm fluids that emerge from the
cracks in the rocks; but they didn’t count
on finding dozens of octopuses huddled
around those cracks. The octopuses

are an unknown species of the genus
Muusoctopus. Up to 100 seemed to occupy
every available rock in the small area. That
in itself is strange, because Muuscoctopus
are normally loners. Stranger still is that
nearly all of the octopuses seemed to be
mothers, each guarding a clutch of eggs
alongside the warm fluid issuing from the
cracks in the outcrop.

Deep-sea octopuses typically live and
breed in cold temperatures. The presence
of so many octopuses around the warm
vents suggests spill-over from a cooler,
healthier habitat nearby, better for egg
brooding. There’s evidence for this larger
population, as scientists observed octopus

arms emerging now and then from other
rocks harboring cooler temperatures and
higher oxygen levels.

Besides shedding light on deep-sea
biology, the study also illustrates the
collaborative nature of science, bringing
together three researchers from different
backgrounds: oceanography (Wheat),
geochemistry (Hartwell), and malacology
(Voight). Says Barbara Ransom, a
program director in the National Science
Foundation’s Division of Ocean Sciences,
“Unexpected discoveries like this one can
dramatically change our understanding of
how the oceans work.”

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The Akeley Camera is a product
of Carl Akeley’s artfulness and
inventiveness—along with
taxidermy, still photography, and
sculoture—and of an impulse to
create a faithful record of the
natural world.

Mr.
Akeley’s
Movie

Camera

By Mark Alvey

Academic Affairs

IN THE FIELD

arl Akeley’s name is familiar to Field Museum members as

the explorer-taxidermist-sculptor responsible for creating

the fighting elephants in Stanley Field Hall; the “Four

Seasons of the Virginia Deer” in Nature Walk; most of the

African mammal groups; and the life-size lion-spearing
bronzes. But Akeley was also an inventor, with more than 30 patents.
His most influential creations grew directly out of his work as an
artist/naturalist—notably, the Akeley Motion Picture Camera, which is
the centerpiece of Mr. Akeley’s Movie Camera, a new exhibition in the
T. Kimball and Nancy N. Brooker Gallery.

Akeley, also a photographer, shot more than 900 photos—all on glass
negatives—during two Field Museum expeditions to Africa (1896 and
1905-06). On his next trip (1909-11) for the American Museum of
Natural History, he wanted to shoot movies, especially of a traditional
Nandi lion hunt. The lion charged, and the spears flew—but his
cumbersome camera couldn't follow the action. “As | walked back

to camp that night, | was determined to make a naturalist’s moving-
picture camera which would prevent my missing such a chance if
ever one came my way again.”

Four years later, in 1915, he patented the Akeley Motion Picture
Camera, a revolutionary device with three key advances that made

it indispensable for filming wildlife: the gear head, which enabled
panning and tilting with one handle (no cranking); the shutter, with

a 230 degree opening that admitted 30 percent more light than

any contemporary camera; and the film magazine, which took

about 10 seconds to load, a third of the time of existing cameras.
The U.S. Army Signal Corps bought the entire output of the Akeley
Camera factory during World War I. After the war, the camera was
adopted by newsreel companies, documentarists (Robert Flaherty
used two on Nanook of the North, 1922), and museums. The Akeley
quickly became essential for Hollywood movies that required nimble
cinematography—adventures, swashbucklers, westerns, and epics—
and especially aerial sequences. The camera held on through the
1940s, when it was supplanted by even lighter and more mobile gear.

The Akeley Camera wasn’t the only invention to grow out of Akeley’s
artist/naturalist tendencies. In 1907, while still at the Field, Akeley
concocted arguably his most durable (literally) contribution to
American society: the cement gun and “gunite” (sprayable concrete).
Inspired by a sprayer his chief taxidermist had rigged up to paint
artificial rocks in a diorama, the Museum's director asked Akeley to
come up with a larger version to spruce up the crumbling facade

of the Field Museum’s first home in Jackson Park. The earliest
commercial cement gun was used to build concrete hulled-ships,
and as the technology evolved it was—and still is—used to construct
bridges, swimming pools, dams, and tunnels.

The Army’s enthusiasm for the camera led Akeley to be appointed

a consulting engineer during World War |. He borrowed some of his
molding and reinforcing techniques from mounting the Field Museum
elephants to create more stable searchlight reflectors, and adapted
features from his movie camera to aiming controls for searchlights.
Whenever a knotty problem arose, his major recalled, the Army
engineers inevitably said, “Let’s see what Akeley says.”

All of Akeley’s creations, from lightweight taxidermy forms to military
searchlights to the Akeley Camera, share a common thread: seeing a
problem and devising a solution. The Akeley Camera is a product of
Carl Akeley’s artfulness and inventiveness—along with taxidermy, still
photography, and sculpture—and of an impulse to create a faithful
record of the natural world.

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(Opposite) Karl
Schmidt and Sidney
Shurcliff film a Green
Iguana with an Akeley
35mm motion picture
camera on the Crane
Pacific Expedition,
1929.

(Top right) Carl
Akeley stands on a

cliff with his motion
picture camera.

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The Field Museum’s Akeley camera is believed
to have been owned by Elmer Dyer, one of the
top cinematographers during Hollywood's
Golden Age—e.g.,Wings (1927), Hell’s Angels
(1930), Only Angels Have Wings (1939)—
called by director Frank Capra “a no-nerve
aerial cameraman who would hang by his
toes on a wing to get a shot.”

With the bulk of Akeley’s taxidermy output,

his most groundbreaking mounts, and his
earliest field photographs housed at the Field,
it made sense to add an Akeley Camera to our
collection of “Akeleyana.” When the camera
came up at auction last year, a small group of
generous donors helped make the purchase
possible. To them we extend our deep and
delighted thanks:

Mr.’ and Mrs. Norman R. Bobins
Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz'

Marsha A. Cruzan'

Marshall Field V'

Mr.’ and Mrs. James S. Frank
Madhavan K. Nayar’

Michael P. Polsky

T Field Museum Trustee

Mr. Akeley’s Movie Camera will

be on view at the Field Museum

through March 17, 2019.

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MUMMIES

BY CONNIE EYER, INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
AND JP BROWN, ANTHROPLOGY

“Taking care of the dead is something

all human cultures do,” notes JP Brown,
Regenstein Conservator for Pacific
Anthropology, “but what's interesting

is that the dry desert environments of
Peru and Egypt provided the opportunity
to create these different forms of
mummification.” Peruvian mummification
predates that of the Egyptians by a
couple thousand years. The similarities
and differences of these two cultures

are depicted in Mummies, currently
presented in English and Spanish at the
Field Museum.

Both traditions have spirituality systems
that focus on a connection with

the living to the departed; however,
special embalmers conducted the
Egyptian process for an elite class of
families, while the South American
mummification tradition was done

by the family. In fact, Brown said, the
bundled remains were often brought
out for special occasions. “The earliest

Chinchurro mummies,” he noted, “were
kept in and near the home, but when a
family group was assembled, they would
be placed out on the sea coast.”

Using non-invasive CT scanning, on
display in Mummies, scientists are able

to view contents of both the mummified
wrappings of the Egyptian elite class in
their elaborate coffins, as well as Peruvian
mummies bundled in blankets or baskets
(see right). The CT scans provide vivid
images of skeletons and skulls from which
the Museum can create 3-D computer
models for forensic reconstruction, Brown
explained, adding that this technology has
improved greatly over the past 10 years.

“Once you have the skull, you
are able to build up a model that
would look reasonably close to
the actual person, minus details
such as skin color, scars, ear and
nose shape, or any of the possible
ravages of disease,” Brown said.
“The value of this technology is
that it enables us to visualize a
collection of mummified remains
as a real person.”

In Mummies, interactive touch tables use
CT scan data to create rich, 3D portraits
of the people of both Egypt and Peru. The
exhibition also features masks, mummified
animals, and beautiful ceramics from the
Field’s extensive collection.

MUMMIES WAS CREATED BY THE FIELD MUSEUM.

MAJOR SPONSORS:

DISC@VER airtines

Mummies will be on view through
April 21, 2019.

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Giving Day 2018:

We are at a moment in history when it is critical
to take a stand for science. For the past 125 years,
the Field Museum has been a scientific leader—

and we are proud of this legacy.

Now, in our historic 125th-anniversary year,
we look forward to the next 125 years of bold
scientific discoveries.

As Field Museum members, your support makes all the

difference. Your gift—$5 or $2,500—fuels the work of our
scientists and educators.

Make a gift or become a Giving Ambassador:

fieldmuseum.org/givingday
“DriveDiscovery” to 71777
312.665.7777

GIFTS CAN BE MADE IN ADVANCE.

SAVE THE DATE

FOR
#FIELDGIVINGDAY!

Wednesday
October 10, 2018

Help us raise $125,000
in one day!

(Above) Terry Grand and a volunteer excavate the Fossil Butte Member of the
Green River Formation, Wyoming, on an excavation led by Lance Grande in
2003. Many of the exquisitely preserved fossils collected from this and other
excavations at the Green River Formation are currently on exhibit in the Griffin
Halls of Evolving Planet.

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A life-sized reconstruction of a
Quetzalcoatlus (an extinct flying
reptile) stands guard outside
the renovated entrance to the
Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet—
and provides a great photo
opportunity for visitors.

By Franck Mercurio
Institutional Advancement

To celebrate its 125th Anniversary, the Field Museum has
transformed the visitor experience in Stanley Field Hall and
installed several new displays. SUE, the T. rex, has moved to
her new gallery inside the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, and
a titanosaur from Argentina—named Maximo—now strides

(Below) Workers prepare to hang a (Right) The Museum's new hanging
pterosaur model from the ceiling of gardens contain more than 1,000 live
the northeast staircase. The flock hydroponic plants growing in inert
leads visitors from Stanley Field Hall volcanic rock and receiving water and
to the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet fertilizer from tubes connected to the

located on the second floor. atrium’s ceiling.

STANLEY FIELD HALL

across the Museum's main atrium. Accompanying Maximo are
four massive hanging gardens and a flock of pterosaurs (flying
reptiles), all suspended from the ceiling. Stop by and see the
dramatic new developments for yourself!

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16

WELCOME
NEW MEMBERS
TO THE FIELD
LOYALTY CLUB

BY MICHAEL WREN, INSTITUTIONAL
ADVANCEMENT

The Field Museum extends its
appreciation to all members of the Field
Loyalty Club. Their 20-plus years of
dedication sets a philanthropic example
for fellow supporters, visitors, and friends,
ensuring the Museum’s bright future.
This list reflects the newest inductees
to the Field Loyalty Club—the “Class of
2017”—who became 20-year Museum
members and donors between January 1
and December 31, 2017.

Anonymous

Mrs. John J. Ahearne

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Anderson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Anderson
Ms. Harriet B. Arnold

Mr. and Mrs. Calvert W. Audrain
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Barber
Carlo Basile and Kim Basile

Mrs. Joan O. Bent

Mrs. Frieda O. Bernstein

Mrs. Lieselotte N. Betterman

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Blaine
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bloink
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bloomquist
Raphael and Shirlann Boghosian
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Bozych
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Bresnahan
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Brown

Ms. Nancy H. Brown

Carol and Tom Butler

Mrs. Fern Callistein

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Calvey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Carroll
Joan and Tom Castino

Dr. Gerald Cohen

Mr. George W. Cook

Mary and Jim Costello

Charles F. Custer

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Damashek
Mark R. DeLancey

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Delbridge

IN THE FIELD

Robert Demos

Mrs. Lidia B. Devonshire

Patricia Ann Dihel and Glen Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Doddridge
Janet M. Dudgeon

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Earle

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Engel

Ms. Barbara D. Fedor

Nel Fetherling

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Finkel

Ms. Doris A. Franklin

Mr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr.
Mr. James A. Gibbs

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Godfrey
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Gordon

Mr! and Mrs.’ Jack M. Greenberg
Mattie H. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr.
Ms. Pat Heidkamp

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Height

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Higgins
Austin L. and Beth M. Hirsch

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holubow

Mr. and Mrs. Kim Fawcett

Mrs. Dorothy Huff

Mr. James E. Hurtienne

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jacobazzi

Mrs. Barbara B. Javaras

Ms. Imoeleanor Jones

Mrs. Noel Kaplan

Dr. Benjamin M. Kaplan

Mary Kay Karzas and Warren K. Reiss
Mr. Ronald S. Katch

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Keating

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Kelly

Keith L. Kempton

Charles? and Marion Kierscht
Lynne King Roberts

J. Philip Klingeberger

Ray H. Kocher

Ms. Linda A. Kovak and Mr. John Helmus

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Krasner
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Kriezelman
Ms. Diane Kroll

Mr! and Mrs. Randolph Kurtz

Dr. Kenneth Kwiatkowski

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Learner

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Levine

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Mr. Arnold Tobin

Jim and SuAnne Lopata

Barry L. MacLean

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Manning
Heidi and Gregory Mayer

Mrs. and Mr. Marguerite McKenna
Steven A. Melnyk

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Milkowski

Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Miller

Norma J. and Kenneth F. Miller

Cynthia A. Moody

Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Moore

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mulcahy

Mr. Thomas E. Mulvihill

Dr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Murakami

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick R. Murtaugh

Mrs. Vreni Naess

Sidney Nagel

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Naureckas

Ms. Lisa Nemeroff

Mr. Oliver S. Nickels

Mary C. Niehaus and Sanjeev Pandey
Charles Noparstak

Mr.’ and Mrs. Neil S. Novich

Mrs. Noel O’Hearn

Charles and Alice Palmer

Mr. Philip Pappas and Dr. Ana Lucia Pappas
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Parenoff

Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Bottari

Mr. Phillip J. Patinkin

Susan |. Phillips

Mr. David Pitrak and Ms. Susan J. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pollard

Mrs. Anne Pollock

Mrs. Jan Pomerantz

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Poy

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ricken

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Rocap

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rolih

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Rosenfield

Mr. and Mrs. Rosner

Jeanne M. and John W.! Rowe

Joan and Paul Rubschlager

Ms. Mary K. Rundell and Mr. Dennis Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherford
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg

Cari and Michael J." Sacks

Giovanni and Kerrie Savaglio

Diane Schneider

Dr. and Mrs. G. Stephen Scholly

Mrs. Sally Schwarlose and Mr. Dan Schwarlose
Marilyn L. Schweitzer and Michael A. Firman

Dr. Penny Bender Sebring and
Mr. Charles Ashby Lewis

Glenn Curtiss and Margaret J. Shaffer
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Shepro

Mr. William A. Simcox

Richard M. Skolly and Kate A. Feinstein
Maureen M. Slavin

Mr. Alan F. Smietanski

Marvin and Annette M. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Smith

lrene Sorenson

Mr. Jay T. Sparber

Faith H. Soencer and Mark Parts
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Stock
Ms. Lynn Strauss and Ms. Stephanie Strauss
Mrs. Filomena Stroup

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers
Mr. and Mrs. David Stueckemann
Connie and Howard Sulkin
James P. Sullivan

Ms. Cynthia Toback

Marla J. Tucker

Frank P. Vander Ploeg

John Vinci

Ms. JoAnne Vogt
Richard L. Wangelin

Mr. and Mrs. Kurt L. Warning Ayer Society Member Profile:
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Weinberger Lorraine and Randy Barba

BY ANNE MORGAN, INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Mrs. Sally Westley

Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Wiberg
Claudia L. Winkler

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Yudell
Jerrold and Carol Zar
exhibitions,” said Randy. “We want to
support the Museum that has enriched
our lives.” As Founders’ Council members,
T Field Museum Trustee Field Loyalty Club members, and Edward
> Deceased E. Ayer Society members, the Barbas
were inspired to ensure the strong
financial future of the Field Museum.

Mrs. Agnes Zellner and Mr. Kurt Zellner
Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Zimbler

IF YOU FEEL AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED

IN COMPILING THIS LIST OR WANT MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FIELD LOYALTY CLUB,
PLEASE CONTACT MIKE WREN AT 312.665.7137 OR

MWREN@FIELDMUSEUM.ORG.
Lorraine and Randolph (Randy) Barba
To learn how to include the Field had no idea as students at Princeton
Museum in your estate plans that they would be standing one day
or other planned gift—or to learn at the Field Museum, fascinated by the

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Society—please contact Anne

MorsaorDiectoronsetatemand bones of a skeleton. Since 1990, first

Gift Planning, at 312.665.7143 or drawn by scientist lectures, the Barbas

plannedgiving@fieldmuseum.org! immersed themselves in all aspects of
the Museum, including sending their
children to the Summer Worlds Tour
camps, which are still happening today.
After retirement, they were able to
indulge in their true passion, travel.

“The rich content, the depth of this
Museum, goes so far beyond just the

Founders’ Council Field Loyalty Club Edward E. Ayer Society
is the Museum's premier giving society honors donors who have supported the members ensure the strong financial

recognizing donors for their annual gifts Museum for 20 or more years. future of the Field Museum by including
of $2,500 or more. the Field Museum in their estate plans.

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Member Opportunities

OCTOBER IS MEMBER APPRECIATION MONTH

Your membership makes an impact every day at the Field
Museum, supporting scientific discovery, public engagement in
science, and the care of nearly 40 million specimens and artifacts
in our collection. To celebrate your support, members will enjoy
special benefits during the entire month of October, including:

- A presentation by Lesley de Souza, Field Museum Conservation
Scientist—Saturday, October 6, 11am

¢ 125th Celebration—Tuesday, October 16, 5:30em

« Halloween Breakfast (perfect for families!)—Saturday,
October 27, 9am

¢ Daily member-only drawings for fun prizes and more!

Check-out fieldmuseum.org/memberevents for a full list of
benefits, exclusively for members!

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HALLOWEEN BREAKFAST

Join us for a family friendly Halloween Breakfast, exclusively for
members! Enjoy a buffet breakfast and chat with Field Museum
scientists to learn about creepy crawlies, skeletons, and more.
Costumes are welcomed!

Saturday, October 27, 9-10:30am
$35/adult
$25/child (ages 3-11)

Space is limited and advanced registration is required. Tickets
go on sale Monday, September 17. For more information or to
purchase tickets, call 312.665.7705. All tickets to this event are
non-refundable.

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BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

Add some natural history to your holiday traditions and celebrate
at the Field Museum. Enjoy a buffet breakfast, create holiday
crafts, and share all of your holiday wishes when you take your
picture with Santa.

Saturday, December 15, seatings at 9am and 10am
$40/adult
$30/child (ages 3-11)

Space is limited and advanced registration is required. Tickets
go on sale Thursday, November 1. For more information or to
purchase tickets, call 312.665.7705. All tickets to this event are
non-refundable.

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125th-Anniversary
Special Exhibitions

Mummies (now through April 21, 2019)
Antarctic Dinosaurs (now through January 6, 2019)
Mr. Akeley’s Movie Camera (now through March 17, 2019)

Looking at Ourselves: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman
(now through February 3, 2019)

Full Circle / Omani Wakan: Lakota Artist Rhonda Holy Bear
(now through January 13, 2019)

Drawing on Tradition: Kanza Artist Chris Pappan
(now through January 13, 2019)

Is It Real? (Grainger Science Hub)
(now through February 24, 2019)

Museum Hours

The Field Museum is open from 9Yam-5pm every day except
Christmas Day, with last admission at 4pm. For special
hours, parking, and public transportation options, visit
fieldmuseum.org/Vvisit.

The Field Museum salutes the people of Chicago for their long-
standing support of the Museum through the Chicago Park District

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MISS SAIGON

All through history, women in East and Southeast Asia have been
central to powerful stories of resilience and courage during
times of conflict, uncertainty, and dislocation. Join us for an
engaging evening of storytelling and discussion—exclusively for
Field Museum members—followed by dinner and a performance
of the famed show, Miss Saigon.

Deborah Bekken, PhD, Adjunct Curator of Anthropology and Lisa
Niziolek, PhD, Boone Research Scientist, will lead a discussion
focused on families and women who have adapted during times
of change—many in inspiring ways that have left their mark on
art, literature, and culture.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018—SOLD OUT

$165 (includes dinner, discussion, and theater ticket)
Petterino’s, 150 N Dearborn Street
Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph Street

For more info and to purchase tickets, please call 312.665.7700.

Museum Campus Neighbors
ADLER PLANETARIUM

Explore the Universe with the Adler Planetarium this fall! On
September 28, round up your family and dive into a night full
of science fiction and fantasy at Family After Dark. Astronaut or
alien ... which path will you choose?

Join us November 9 and 10 as we bring scientific data to life in this
fall’s Kavli Fulldome Lecture: “The Cosmos in a Heartbeat.” Find out
how dramatically our story of the cosmos has shifted in just a few

decades—and catch a glimpse of what the next chapter may hold.

For details, visit www.adlerplanetarium.org

SHEDD AQUARIUM

From autumn nights to the holidays, Shedd Aquarium has
something special for every age. Shedd After Hours offers adult-
themed special events and music 5-9pm on select Wednesdays
in September and October. Admission is free to Illinois residents.
Family Overnights return October 26, November 9 and December 7.
Stay up late and enjoy animal presentations, activities, and
explorations—then sleep among the fishes! And reserve now for a
weekend-morning Holiday Breakfast, which includes a North Pole
surprise. Every Shedd visit includes admission to the new special
exhibit, Underwater Beauty.

For details, visit www.sheddaquarium.org

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Give the Gift
of Membership

Gift memberships can be purchased
online at fieldmuseum.org/membership,
by calling 312.665.7700, or at the
membership desk during your next visit.

As acurrent Field Museum member,

you already know the benefits of
membership. For the holidays, why not
share the gift of discovery with someone
special in your life? The holidays come
around once a year, but a Field Museum
membership brings joy and excitement
all year long.

Gift memberships include:

+ Free Basic admission, along with free or
discounted tickets to special exhibitions

+ Invitation to our Annual Members’ Nights

+ Discounts on education programs and in the
Museums stores and restaurants

+ And so much more!

Buy a gift membership early to ensure arrival before
the holidays! Gift recipients have four months from
the purchase date to activate their membership, so
they won't miss out on any exploration.

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