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NEWSLETTER
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Pyblished Harvard College
once in a while Cambridge 38, Mass.

Several honors have recently been bestowed upon CZ staff
members:

Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences awarded its 1962
Hayden Memorial Geological Award to Dr. Alfred Romer. The award
was made November 7th following a dinner in Dr. Romer's honor at
the Academy of Natural Sciences. Following the presentation, Dr.
Romer addressed a distinguished audience of scientific and lay public
on "Ancestral Vertebrates" — evolution of the early vertebrate form
as seen from the ancient marine fossil record.

The Hayden Memorial Geological Award was founded in 1888 by
Mrs.- Emma W. Hayden, in memory of her husband, Dr. Ferdinand V.
Hayden, distinguished American geologist. The Deed of Gift provides
that it shall be given "As a reward for the best publication, explor-—
ation, discovery or research in the sciences of geology and paleon-
tology..." It is awarded every three years.

Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, American iluseum of Natural History,
served as chairman of the award committee, and in his presentation
Speech noted that three generations of MCZ directors were represented
in the audience. Besides Dr. Romer, recently retired from that
position, was his successor, Dr. Ernst Mayr. Dr. Romer's predecessor,
Dr. Thomas Barbour, was represented by his daughter. |

The Geological Society of America, at its annual meeting in
Houston, awarded Dr. Romer the Penrose Medal, established in 1927
by the late R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. The medal is awarded "in recognition
of eminent research in pure geology" and of "outstanding original
contributions or achievements that mark a decided advance in the
Science of geology."

George G. Simpson has won the Darwin Medal for 1962 for his
work on fossil animals and evolutionary theory. The silver medal is
" given biennially in reward of work of acknowledged distinction
in the field in which Charles Darwin himself laboured."

Dr. Phillip Darlington has been appointed Alexander Agassiz
Professor of Zoology. Dr. Darlington is now in the moors and bogs
OS southernmost Tierra del Fuego, collecting beetles in the footsteps
of Charles Darwin.

The XIII International Congress of Ornithology met in Ithaca,
June 17-24, with President Ernst Mayr in the chair. By July, Dr.
Mayr and Dr. Simpson were in Wartenstein, Austria, attending the
Wenner Gren Conference on Hominid classification and evolution, and
in the first week of September, Dr. Mayr presented an invitation
lecture on the new systematics to the International Conference of
poses Biochemistry, Physiology, and Serology at the University

ansas.

: Tilly Edinger represented the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Paldontologische Gesellschaft
in Tubingen, Sept. 3-9, and also read a paper at the 3rd International
Conference of Neurobiologists in Kiel, Sept. 26-29. An extensive
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has recently become Vice-president (for 1963) of the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology.

Next week Giles .Jead leaves for the short shakedown cruise of
the "Anton Bruun,"biological research vessel recently refitted for
the International Indian Ocean Expedition of 1963-1964, Ilead's
interest being the testing of midwater trawls for use during the
Expedition. ‘The shakedown cruise will track from Woods Hole to
Bermuda.

"Old Doc Bigelow continues to sit in his room and fuddle around
with fishes" (quoted verbatim from Dr. Bigelow himself).

Dr. N.B. Marshall of the British Museum (Natural History), who
will be in Woods Hole during 1963 and 1964, and Dr. R.H. Gibbs, Jr.,
ichthyologist at Boston University, have been appointed honorary
"Associates in Ichthyology" in the Fish Department of the MCZ.

The fish collections have been enriched recently by the addition
of bathypelagic fishes from three cruises of research vessels of the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and further additions are
expected.

Ernest Williams is spending early December in California to
review and discuss motion pictures of lizards.

Dr. Elizabeth Deichman retired Sept. 1, 1962 as Curator of
Invertebrates. Until a new appointment is made, Herbert Levi will
be acting curator of the invertebrate collections.

Arne Lewis is in Egypt working with Elwyn Simons of Yale in
Eocene and early Oligocene Fayum deposits, west of Cairo. The MCZ
is delighted to have a representative on the expedition and to have
a share of the collections. Until now we have not had a scrap of
material from these deposits.

Herbert Levi spent the summer in Europe studying, in particular,
black-widow spiders of southern Italy and Yugoslavia, and in general,
terrestrial invertebrates. Large collections of spiders, scorpions,
myriopods, and some mollusks travelled back to the MCZ with him. He
will soon be off to Curagao for two weeks, again in pursuit of black-
widows.

Isa Ganet writes from Quito: "I am making a vonderful coilection
of Penaeid shrimps from the waters of Ecuador. There are trawlers
working in several localities and I have been able to go aboard on
two different occasions. In addition to that, I have been collecting
on the north shore where there is no commercial fishing yet, but
plenty of shrimps. I will deposit at the MCZ most of the material.
Mollusks are very abundant too, and I am sure Bill Clench will be
very happy with the shells we (Gerardo is helping!) are gathering.

"Humming=-birds are quite a sight in this land. You would enjoy
looking at the ones with long tails feeding at the flowers in every
garden in Quito. I have tried to see a condor in las atlas sierras,
but so far have only seen one in a small zoo here in the city."

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curating the alcoholic collections of the bird department.

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During her July trip to the British Isles, Miss MacKenzie
visited the library of the British Museum of Natural History, to
check recent accessions and the British Museum of Antiquities, where
she examined early zoological tracts from which photostats were
made to complete MCZ copies of these works. She also went to the
Linnean Society where she examined some annotated and manuscript
works from Linnaeus! private library, and to the libraries of the
Royal Geographical Society, the Zoological Society, the Geological
Museum, the Geological Society where Louis Agassiz's "Poissons
Fossiles" is prominently displayed, and the Marine Biological Station
at Plymouth.

Dr. Barbara Lawrence has received a Milton Fund grant "to con-
tinue an investigation that has been underway for the last two and
a half years, of the large, coyote or wolflike animals that have
been appearing in the wilder parts of New England and have every
indication of increasing in number and taking over the empty predator
niche. The animals in question have been variously identified as
coyote, coydog, and wolf, on the basis of general comparisons or
measurements of skins and skulls. That these criteria are presently
inadequate is amply evidenced by the disagreement between competent
taxonomists. It is hoped that behavioral, genetic, and serological
data can be used to supplement these.

"The pattern of land use and the distribution and abundance of
large mammals in New England has shifted drastically in the last 350
years. When the colonists arrived, the land was forested and wolves
and mountain lions preyed on deer and larger game, keeping it in
check, With the clearing of land and intensive farming, these
were killed off, and by the end of the neneteenth century, wolves
had virtually ceased to exist. With the opening of the West and the
gradual abandonment of New England farms, the forests have come
back. Man's settlements in more remote areas increasingly became
beads on a string of highways, backed by great wild areas which are
seldom visited except during the hunting season. In these wild
areas over the last fifteen years or so, the animals which we call
Simply "canids" have been gradually increasing. By now, we believe
there is a small resident population.

"The long range aim of this project is to establish the identity
and origin of these beasts, to investigate their behavior and biology,
and to find out what we can about their effect on the rest of the
fauna. The approach to the problem will be a multifaceted one inc-
ce ultimately behavior and ecological, chromosome,and serological
studies."

Clayton Ray will represent the MCZ on an expedition (with
Florida) to Dominican Republic, Antigua, St. Kitts and St. Eustatius.
The expedition will seek, in an extinct St. Eustatius volcano crater,a
"dark brown lizard, about four inches long, with a large head,"
recorded but not collected by a Dutch ornithologist.

Kenneth Boss had a successful summer in Europe, spending more
than 6 weeks at the British Museum (Natural History} studying their
collection of Tellinidae, the bivalve family on which he is writing
his thesis. He also visited the museums in Geneva, Copenhagen and
Paris. Support came from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and
from Sigma Xi.

j Vida Kenk spent the summer in Washington D.C. and Europe, and
1S now working with Dr. Turner on Petricolidae, along with course-
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of jubilation -— everything is just fine: I'm at a site suggested by
Otto Solbrig; the Kiskadee is very abundant, the Fork-tailed Fly-
catcher abundant (locally), the Machetornis rixosa and Serpophaga
subcristata common, and a few other species represented. Lots of
work, and it should fit just nicely inside two weeks. Of the marsh
birds I hoped to find, only Hymenops is common (locally), none of the
others is common enough to be worth time spent away from the species
that are common. But those are quite worthwhile — it feels good to
have the data rolling iné"

Francois Vuilleumier and David Hill will spend Christmas vacation
in extreme western Haiti, driving, if they find the raad passable
(and there is considerable question about that) from Port-au-Prince
to Jeremie. They hope to explore the little-investigated area in
preparation for a longer trip next summer.

Rod Suthers has been studying bird navigation at the Hayden
Planetarium of the Museum of Science.

The entomology students covered most of the United States, and
some of Mexico, on their summer field trips: Ellis MacLeod and
Guy Bush collected Brachypanorpa, chrysopids, and tephritids in the
Black Mts. of North Carolina; Ellis MacLeod spent the remainder of
the summer in the southern and western states; Dr. Howard Evans and
Guy Bush spent several weeks in Mexico where they were joined by
George Ball of the University of Alberta; Guy Bush also spent some
time in the southern states as well as Nova Scotia; Charles Porter
covered the southeastern U.S. in his collecting trip this summer.
Joseph Beatty and Allen Brady obtained interesting collections of
Spiders in the southern andwestern parts of the country.

Allen Ormiston had a grant from the Committee on Evolutionary
Biology, enabling him to spend a month on Bathurst Island, N.1.T.,
doing detailed collecting of Devonian trilobites from a thick section
of carbonate rocks. Presently, he is doing the systematic paleon-
tology of these and previously collected trilobites.

Frederick C. Shaw spent last summer in the Champlain Valley of
New York and Vermont collecting trilobites from Middle Ordovician
rocks. He is now attempting to sort out the cubic yards of rock
and specimens resulting from this expedition, and finish his thesis,
which is particularly concerned with the systematic paleontology and
stratigraphy of this rock group.

since returning from Peru in Feb. 1962, Tom Szekely has been
working on his thesis, concerning the geology of an area on the
Cordilleran slopes of southern Peru.

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thesis, "The Significance of Textural Variation and Skeletal Break-
down in some Recent Carbonate Sediments." John is leaving and in
1963 will be working in the research lab of the Pan American Petro-
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from the Natural History Museum in Buffalo, John Werkheiser from MIT
and Lawrence Walker from Univ. Texas and UCLA.

Richard Haedrich, from Chadds Ford, Penn. (site of the battle of
Brandywine) is working on high-seas fishes, particularly stromateoids.

John Musick has been working with the ecology, distribution and
general natural history of sharks off the coast of New Jersey, but
at the moment is buried in course work.

Ira Rubinoff is completing study in speciation of fishes across
the Isthmus of Panama, along with additional studies of such panaman-
ian areas as the Pearl Islands.

Charles Taylor is working on animal horns.

Here are some notes to help keep track of the far-flung (and
some near-flung) Museum products: Allen Hunt, Assistant Professor,
Geology Department, University of Vermont, Burlington, is making
good progress with his thesis and expects to get his degree at the
end of this academic year.

L.L. Deliott is now head of the department of geology and geo
graphy at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. He was in Cambridge
briefly last summer with drafts of portions of his thesis.

Zeddie Bowen is now Assistant Professor of Geology, University
of Rochester, Rochester, New York. He writes enthusiastically of
his job, and of his new home. His thesis is nearing completion and
he hopes to get the degree by the end of this year.

Stan Rand is now in Brazil (Dept. Zoologia, CP 7172, San Paulo)
working with Dr. P. Vanzolini.

Josef Vagavolgyi received his PhD in June but stayed on with
a research grant, working on the distribution of the families of
land mollusca.

Bob Carroll is now at the Redpath Museum, McGill Univ., for the
year.

John Chase is at Ohio Wesleyan Univ.

To establish closer contact Letween staff and graduate students,
a Monday afternoon tea has been organized. Visitors are especially
welcome. Ruth Turner, who is in charge, reports that the attendance
has been about 40-50. Expenses for the teas are defrayed by an
anonymous donation.

The Fossil Mammal Hall is now being finished with an exhibit on
the process of fossilization. Pliuns for an invertebrate paleontology
hall are being drawn up as the next long-term exhibition project.

Volume XV of the Check-List of Birds of the World has just been
published, containing Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae,
Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae,
Paradisaeidae, and Corvidae. Volume X, containing thrushes and bab-
blers, will go to the printer early in 1963.

A revised price list for Museum publications is now available
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No more mud holes! The parking lot has been black-topped, at
no expense to the Museum, and a broad yellow line marks off 77
spaces allotted to the MCZ, an increase of 37 over our previous
cramped area.

Some recent visitors have been Patricio Sanchez, Robert Usinger,
Joel Hedgepeth, and A.D. Blest. Prior to Thanksgiving, W.B. Scott
of the Royal Ontario Museum was here working on our collections for
his "Fishes of Atlantic Canada" now in preparation. Dr. Loren P.
Woods, Curator of Fishes at the Chicago Natural History Museum, has
been here for about a month working on berycoid fishes for a forth-
coming volume of "Fishes of the Western North Atlantic?" He will
return to Chicago within the next too weeks.

Ira and Bobby Rubinoff have a son, Jason.

The Carl Helms announce the arrival of a daughter, Katherine,
on Oct. 22.
The Allen Bradys acquired a second son, Kevin, this summer.

Linda Loring and Jerry Ardith both are making wedding plans.
Linda was in Turkey during the summer and collected five spiders.

Christmas shoppers, don't forget that the Museum Shop has a
nice choice of books, specimens, games, and pictures, but none of
the commotion usually associated with Christmas shopping. Proceeds
Support renovation of the exhibition halls.

The Natural History Seminar features local talent for the re-
mainder of the term: Dec. 11, Arthur Merrill; Dec. 18, Dick Foster;
Jan. 8, Dick Johnson; Jan. 15, Raymond Laurent.

Speakers at seminars past included Joe Vagvolgyi on Triodopsis, Clayton Ray,
Herbert Levi, Jean Langenheim on amber, Loren Woods, Ian Nisbet, JP. Swinchatt,
Allen Keast, and Ormiston on the Arctic.

George Nelson, the oldest retired member of the museum staff, died at his
home in Vero Beach, Florida, last April at the age of 86. George joined the
museum staff as a preparator in 1902. He was then a rosy~cheeked young man of 26,
as can be seen from his photo on the bulletin board in the director's room. For
a good part of his career he worked on modern vertebrates ~- skeletons, hides,
and mounts. Eventually, however, arsenic poisoning affected his health, so that

_ he was forced to spend his winters in Florida and change his museum work to the
preparation and mounting of fossil skeletons. In 1937 he was given a corporation

_ appointment as Preparator-in-chief. He retired to Florida in 1946. Nelson was

_ remarkably clever with his hands, and exceetlingly competent in any field from

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