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15 unusual facts about Field Museum of Natural History


Archie F. Wilson

During the 1950s he was a Research Associate in woods at the Chicago Natural History Museum where he kept some of his collections.

Charles Frederick Millspaugh

In 1894 he was appointed curator of the department of botany of the Field Museum of Natural History; from 1897 to 1923 he was professor of medical botany at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College.

Edmund Heller

From 1926 to 1928, he was curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Ernest Volk

In addition to his specimens at the Peabody Museum, Volk's contributions can also be found at the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as at several universities.

Frans Lanting

A 2005 exhibit in the Field Museum of Natural History entitled Jungles focused on the plants and animals of the rainforest.

Hubbs' beaked whale

He believed it to be Andrews' beaked whale (a very similar species found only in the Southern Hemisphere), but Joseph Curtis Moore, an expert on beaked whales at Chicago’s Field Museum, reassigned it to a new species, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, in 1963, naming it in his honor.

James Compton

He has also been Board President of the Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Board of Education, and is a Life Trustee of the Field Museum of Natural History.

James Francis Macbride

In 1921, Macbride joined the staff of the Department of Botany at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to head the nascent Flora of Peru program.

Mogollon culture

Eight decades of subsequent research conducted by teams based out of the Field Museum of Natural History, the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona, the Amerind Foundation, the Mimbres Foundation, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Harvard University, have confirmed Haury's initial findings.

Oliver C. Farrington

Betweenm 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago.

Project Exploration

Participants are recruited from Chicago Public Schools and is particularly active at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Steven Goodman

Steven Goodman is an American Conservation Biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Walter Hartwig

Hartwig turned to comparative cranial anatomy for his dissertation research, conducted at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Willard L. Boyd

After ending his tenure as a university president, Boyd served as the President of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1981 to 1996.

William Carl Burger

He served as Chair of the Botany Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1978-1985 and remains Curator Emeritus of Vascular Plants.


Andrew Watson Armour III

Andrew Watson "Butch" Armour III (October 22, 1908 – December 27, 1991) was a member of the prominent Armour family of meatpacking fame (Armour and Company), a company president, and notable philanthropist who, together with his wife Sarah Wood Armour, gave millions of dollars to Princeton University, St. Mark's School, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, and innumerable other charitable causes.

Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet

Completed globes were mounted along bicycle trails in Grant Park north of the Field Museum of Natural History, on Navy Pier, and along Michigan Avenue.

Dunkleosteus

After studying a biomechanical model of the fish's jaws, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago concluded that Dunkleosteus had the second most powerful bite of any fish (megalodon being the strongest).

Élisabeth Daynès

Her work is present at museums all over the world, like Musée des Merveilles in Tende, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Transvaal Museum in Pretoria and Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm.

Louis Slobodkin

During the early 1930s he served as an assistant to Malvina Hoffman while she was creating the sculptures that would constitute The Races of Mankind exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Robert R. Reisz

Dr. Reisz is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (since 1975), the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh (since 1980), and the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (since 1998).

The Races of Mankind

The Races of Mankind, also known as The Hall of Man, was an exhibition of a series of over 90 statues created for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago by sculptor Malvina Hoffman representing the various races of humankind.

Vorona

V. berivotrensis is known from scattered remains, possibly from a single individual (UA 8651 and FMNH PA715).