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December 27; 1929 WILMETTE .LIFE 7 ESYHER· GOULD·s . TRAVEL c .oRNER. FLUID TIME ments provided by the ] ames Nelson Cruising lazily in imagination through and Anna Louise Raymond Public school and Children's Lecture division s of adults these southern seas, in that general of the museum. Thousand_ portion of the globe airly indicated by have attended courses of free illusHarry Franck in his title "East of trated lectures on science and travel Siam," we are moved to wonder what given in the museum's James Simplife on one of these remote story-book son theater by eminent explorers and islands would be like? "The Sand- scholars of this country and Great wich Islands," "The Friendly Islands" Britain. The museum's library, and the the "Society Islands," all of these study collections of specimens mainhave the sound of picnics and hos- tained for the use of students and perpital.ity. Would it if .we w~re to ?rop sons engaged in research, have been off here. seem to us ett.her hk~ a ptcntc expended and improved. ~embership or ~osprtable? What IS the I.rfe of the in the museum has increased notably whrtes w~o are voluntary extles here? 1 until now nearly 6,000 persons are on What bnngs them, and w~at k.eeps the rolls as active supporters of the the~? Have ~hey some mordmate institution. , .. passionate longmg for coral strewn beaches, for blue skies ? Th~ museum s expe~htwns during Our wondering takes us back to a 1929 mcluded the followmg: · · b k · b J The William V. Kelley-Roosevelt exf ~scmatmg oo wntten y a~es pedition to eastern Asia, led by Theodore Norman Hall, one of the few arttcu- and Kermit Roosevelt, who with a large lates among the exiles. It is called staff of scientists made enormous zoo"On the Stream of Travel." In it he logical collections in litt1~-known P.arts . of French Indo-China, Chma and Ttbet. descnbes some o~ the people whom he The Crane Pacific expedition, led by has had for netghbors lll these far Cornelius crane and Karl P. Schmidt. places-some of his neighbors living the latter a member of the m~se~m staff eight or more hundred miles away. who was in. charge o! the scientific per. . sonnel. This expeditwn made a 30,0000t one man who particularly caught mile voyage ca1ling at remote islands of his imagination he says "I came to the South Pacific and collecting specl· 1 · h h ·' f 1 mens of their fauna. The trip was made t h e cone uston t a~ e ts one o t 1ose on Mr. Crape's yacht, the "lllyria." men who love sohtud~ a~ <?ther men The Frederick H . Rawson-Field Museum love beauty; that to htm tt ts really a Ethnological expedition .to West Africa. manifestation of beauty in its most' led by W. D. Hambly of the museum staff. ravishing, pitiless form. " The natives i~~ expedition's work is continuing into The Chancellor-Stuart-Field Museum called him the "forgotten one." Concerning his own residence in Tahiti he expedition to the South Pacific, sponsored explains that it is only there that thus and led by Philip M. Chancellor, former f · h · I' f h h h d h t' Chicago newspaper reporter, and Norton ar 111 ts 1 e as e a enoug tme Stuart. which is specializing in reptilian for . things he loves-to loaf, to think, collections. to dream, to read,-time to lose track The Field Museum-Oxford university of time. There its tyranny loosens its joint expedition to Mesopotamia, spanhold. "You find that you are losing sored for the museum by Marshall Field, · Jr., which is now going into its eighth your o Id conceptiOn of time. It be- year of excavations on the site of Kish, a comes, like the air, fluid, seemingly in- center of civilization dating back to beexhaustible, you live in it and by it fore the flood in which Noah played so but it never intrudes itself as some- important a role. y d The Harold White-John Coats-Field . b ·t h mg not to e wasted. ou o waste museum expeditlou to Abyssinia, Kenya it prodigally-but I am not at all con- and Tanganyika, which secured imporvinced that this is to be deplored." tant zoological collections. Let us stop and pack up some of this The Field Museum-Williamson Undersea expedition to the Bahamas, led by fluid time and bringing it back with us, J. E. Williamson, which performed sublet us mix it with, and so soften, sorne marine exploration and collected material of our own unyielding variety. for proposed undersea groups to be con~tructed at the museum. The Thorne-Graves-Field Museum arctic MUSEUM HAS BUSY YEAR expedition, which made zoological collecExtensive and diversified activities, tions in the far north, under the leaderboth at home and abroad, have been carried on during the year 1929 by Field Museum of Natural History, i.t was stated this week by Stephen C. Simms, director of the institution, in reviewing the accomplishments of the past twelve months. Fourteen important scientific expeditions working for the museum have blazed their trails in widely separated parts of the world, and a fifteenth got under way just as the year closed, Director Simms pointed out. Outstanding among the achievements at home was the completion and placing on exhibition of the world's only life-size restoration of a Neanderthal family and their cave. Indicative of the deep interest taken in the museum by Chicagoans and visitors to the city, the records show that 1929 is the third successive year in which the number of visitors has exceeded one million. Exhibits in all departments of the museum have been added to and improved. Practically every school child in Chicago and vicinity has been reached over and over again during the year by some of the 1,000 traveling exhibits circulated in the schools by the N. W. Harris Public School Extension department of the mucteum, and by the free motion pictures, lectures, museum tours, and other entertain- ship of B111ce Thorne &.nd GeorP Coe Mr. and :Mrs. John \Yelton Fisht-:, Graves II. Jr., 62~ Greenwood ayenue, returned The Second Marshall Field, Jr., Archaeological expediUon to British Honduras last week 'Th uts j4 v ftom c.t ·si~ · weeki'-which collected Maya antiquities under ! rip in California, wherf~ Mr. Fisher the leadership of J. ·Eric Thompson. The Marshall Field, Jr., Botanical ex- h~:d gone for hi·; h~alth. He has now pedition to the Amazon, led by Dr. B. E. a!wo!t fully recov~r.:d from his illnf'ss. Dahlgren. I DUTCH MILL ~'TOFFEE English Totlee as made by The Dutch Mill with its delightful tang, is the perfect confection for the holiday parties. Be sure to place .your order for this favorite early, so that there will be no chance of your being disappointed. .,.__....,~~ENGLISH Salted Almonds Cashew Nuts Salted Pecans Salted Pistachios Spiced Almonds DUTC Wilmette Shop 1187 Wilmette Ave. Shops All Over Chicago unh nur bt.at mt.a~t.a fnr a Jrnsptrnus Ntnt I tar Jostph .D. Toloff ::OurPhOtograpbs(tioe ForecJer ;, ,, 518 Davis St., Evanston Univ. 2178 .. i.