THE LIVING MUSEUM Vol. 1. No.6 October, 1939. Illinois State
Museum Springfield, Illinois Located on Fifth Floor of
Centennial Building A monthly guide to a keener understanding of
the Illinois State Museum as a living thing--a Museum whose
exhibits are planned for popular enjoyment without loss of
scientific accuracy. GEESE ON THE WING October--and in the north
there has been a growing exodus of flying things. Out of the
vast Canadian marshes where, for a brief summer, geese nest and
rear their young--out of here, on a night with a pushing north
wind, come the geese, heading south. Perhaps they flew over
while you slept--the blue geese and snow geese from Baffin Land,
or big Canadas from Saskatchewan. Perhaps, in a cold October
rain, you heard wild honkings, and, if you looked up, maybe you
saw silver-bellied birds circling over the city, picked out by
lights below, confused by the lights and reflections on the
clouds. There is a strange, nostalgic longing in most of us when
the geese go over. It is a longin