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Member's Night 2012
April 26th, 2012
by John Zehren

Here are the pictures from Member's Night this year. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!
200 species in "LinEpig" Dwarf Spider gallery
April 23rd, 2012
by Nina Sandlin

With the recent loans of specimens from museums in Alaska and Canada, the "LinEpig" ID gallery now has more 200 North American species of Dwarf Spiders posted online.
Calumet Photographic Dispatches March 2012
April 03rd, 2012
by Laura Milkert

Photographic dispatches of discoveries and happenings in the Calumet region
Of William Faulkner, vultures, and nature
March 27th, 2012
by John Bates

William Faulkner was certainly a great author, but he didn't know much about vultures.
Road kill
March 18th, 2012
by John Bates

Our specimens come to us in many different ways, one is off of roads.
All 283 Neotropical flowering plant Families, ALMOST
March 13th, 2012
by Nancy Hensold

In which we search the collection for every little oddball family, for our picture gallery.
Field Museum receives donation of rare, ungrouped achondrite
March 08th, 2012
by Philipp Heck

 

Collections and Research Committee Member Terry Boudreaux and fellow meteorite collector Greg Hupé donated a beautifully polished 4.9-gram-slice of a rare, ungrouped achondritic meteorite (NWA 6704) to The Field Museum. The petrology, the elemental and oxygen isotopic composition share characteristics of different meteorite groups and does not allow to group it with any known group.

 
The 40th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
March 07th, 2012
by Matthew Piscitelli

The Field Museum and the UIC Department of Anthropology sponsored the 40th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory on February 25-26, 2012.
New Guide for Common Spiders of the Chicago Region
March 07th, 2012
by Rebecca Collings

The Field Museum's Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo) has developed a Rapid Color Guide for Common Spiders of the Chicago Region.

 
Calumet Photographic Dispatches February 2012
February 29th, 2012
by Laura Milkert

Photographic dispatches of discoveries and happenings in the Calumet region

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