iy eg RU NR Shae en /, igh Rd AERIS | j Vy LG FY SGWNY jw i wy i GYM YU fe * IN = u Sy Wives < aon esha aiee BHI eG 088 yr A en! adda y ele ge Th hands 5 Fw vod dns ‘eee go Beste ry v WW etd wiv yg Nw veo Wid addy v v x Figs d' or wT ddl “POee Wy i My UG. y : ges i os YY Ary v VS Ss MAU . PS ie ae 2 WY Me he ears mr t ae eg ah \ \ THE eric ffesean of ‘ata istorp CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK cITY, (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) a ~ -—-- Po NNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members PRINTING HOUSE OF WM. C. MARTIN, 111 Joun St., New York. For the Year 1885-6. | | | bye se 2 < THE Aaucien ffescam of ata istorp CENTRAL PARK, NEW- YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members For:the Year 1885-6. PRINTING HOUSE OF WM. C. MARTIN, 111 Joun St., New York. 1886. ZAIMVHSON a SEP 19 1957 LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MORRIS K. JESUP. BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ADRIAN ISELIN. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH H. CHOATE. PERCY R. PYNE. JOHN B. TREVOR. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. JOSEPH W. DREXEL. ANDREW H. GREEN. ABRAM 8. HEWITT. CHARLES LANIER. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. C. VANDERBILT. D. O. MILLS. CHAS. G. LANDON. H. R. BISHOP. Pror. A. 8. BICKMORE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Dr. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. . J. HAMPDEN ROBB. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. FOR 1886. President. MORRIS K. JESUP. Vice-Presidents. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. Secretary. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. Treasurer. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. Executive Committee. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, Chairman. D. JACKSON STEWARD. CHAS, G2 LANDON: PRB SiO: ALBERT S. BICKMORE. The President and Secretary, ex-officio. Auditing Committee. CHARLES LANIER. JOHN B. TREVOR: ANDREW H. GREEN. Finance Committee. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. O. MILLS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Curator of the Ethnological Department, and in charge of the Department of Public Instruction. Prom, Ro PA WHEE ED: Curator of the Geological and Mineralogical Department. [oA AICI. Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of the Department of Marine Zoology. Assistant Secretary. ea Pa GRVAWIVA Ave, Assistant Curator of the Geological Department. A. WOODWARD, Librarian. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR 1888. The Trustees of the AMERICAN MusEuM oF NATURAL HIsToRY present this their Seventeenth Annual Report to the Patrons, Fel- lows and Members of the Museum. The Treasurer’s account shows the receipts of the year to have been $89,966.54. This includes the generous bequest of $50,000 made by the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt, and $3,586.80 contributed by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe for the purchase of works on Conch- ology to supplement her former gift to the Library. Also $1,500 given by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart toward the purchase of the “ Bailey ” Collection of Birds’ Nests and Eggs, and $8,600 paid by the Trustees to make up the deficiency in maintaining the Museum. The expenditures were $30,508.80 for maintenance, and $6,054.16 for improvements and additions to the collections, while 550,937.50 was carried to the Endowment Fund. The purchases include the “ Bailey ” Collection of Birds’ Nests and Eggs; a group of ostriches, comprising male, female and young; 38 specimens of American birds; 41 specimens of American mammals, and 12 specimens of monkeys, all filling conspicuous deficiencies in these collections; also 56 geological specimens to illustrate the series figured in Dana’s Manual, and 65 volumes of necessary books for the Library. The additions to the Museum by donation and exchange will be found in detail in the list of accessions appended. They show a gratifying increase in both the number and value of the specimens. The work accomplished and in progress in the Museum during the past year may be best summarized by extracts from the reports of the different Curators, as follows: GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. “ PALEONTOLOGICAL CoLLECTIONS.—During the past year much time has been spent in labeling and arranging these collec- 8 tions, more especially those of the Coal Measures, Triassic, Creta- ceous and Eocene Tertiary; the labels being mostly full labels, for permanent use, bearing all the information necessary for ex- hibition purposes. This work has progressed to near the end of the Eocene, in Section 11, Case P, with the exception of parting strips in the latter formation. A few donations have been received, and some additions obtained in exchange for labeling done for other parties. These will be found mentioned under their proper heads. “ Dana’s Manual Series —An attempt was made during the year, to get together, by purchase and by selection from the European collection of fossils in the Museum, a representation of the European series of fossils represented in Dana’s Manual of Geology. Of those placed in the cases to represent this part of the series, there are now present 75 species, represented by 102 specimens; of these 49 species, 56 specimens were purchased for this purpose, leaving 26 species; 46 specimens added from the Museum collections, besides several species which are represented by large individual specimens in the cases, too large to be arranged with the regular series. ‘This illustrates 75 species in the collec- tion against about 154 species illustrated of the European series in the Manual. ‘The remainder are mostly species, specimens of which are difficult to obtain, or very expensive. “ MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION.—The time spent on this col- lection during the year has been chiefly in numbering and record- ing the specimens in the form of a catalogue. ‘The number assigned to the mineral species being that given it in Dana’s System of Mineralogy. ‘This is placed upon the specimen and upon the label, and entered in a catalogue where the specimen is described ; a letter is also placed upon the ticket of each in- dividual specimen of the species, indicating its locality. This work has been accomplished over more than half the collection, and is of such a nature as to be used for a printed catalogue, if required. ‘This collection has also received several valuable additions during the year, both by purchase and donation. Among the former may be mentioned two beautiful groups of crystals of stibnite from Japan, and a small and peculiar meteorite from the Esterville, Iowa, fall. Of the latter series, the beautiful mala- chites and azurites from the Copper Queen Mining Co., through W. E. Dodge, Esq., deserve special notice. “ CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTION.—The collections in this depart- ment have progressed but little in the way of arrangement and labeling, owing principally to the sickness of Mr. Sanderson Smith. This season, however, he is in better health, and there is a probability of greater progress. 9 “GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGICAL HaLiL.—A new guide to the col- lections in this department was prepared early in the year. Being much larger than the first, and illustrated, it has met with a better reception. During the time it has been on sale, nearly nine months, there have been over four hundred copies sold in the building. “ BuLLETIN No. 6, consisting of three paleontological articles, prepared in this department, was published early in October.” DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS. [Mr. J. A. Allen, formerly Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., assumed charge of this department on the rst of May.] “On taking charge of this department in May last, a careful ex- amination of the collections of both mammals and birds was made with reference to their extent and condition of preservation. It was gratifying to find them not only so rich and valuable as re- gards material, but thoroughly free from insect pests. In neat- ness of arrangement, in the character of the specimens, as regards the mounting, and in the number of the species represented, these collections rank easily among the first in the country. The collection of mammals numbers not far from one thousand mounted skins, and about three hundred mounted skeletons. Its noteworthy features are the very large series of the monkeys of the world—by far the finest in America—and the nearly complete series of the mammals of North America. The perfection of these two groups has already been made a specialty, and measures have been taken to supply the few remaining deficiencies in each. “The collection of birds numbers not far from ten thousand mounted specimens, and about three thousand unmounted skins, besides several hundred mounted skeletons. The series of North American birds, which has been made a specialty, is practically complete, nearly every procurable species being represented, while the few still lacking will be soon supplied. “This department also includes a very large collection of nests and eggs, recently purchased of Mr. H. B. Bailey. This collec- tion was brought together with very great care, and ranks as one of the finest and most valuable in the country. In addition to the Bailey Collection, many valuable specimens have been derived from other sources, including a valuable contribution from Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. A. “ Before proceeding to a statement of what has been done in the way of work on the collections, it may not be out of place to refer briefly to some of the needs of this department, in the hope that such a reference may lead some of the many friends of the Museum to take liberal measures to supply them. Although these collections are so large, and in general so satisfactory, they still 10 present deficiencies, several prominent types of mammals, for ex- ample, being wholly unrepresented. It is consequently desirable that means be provided soon to supply the much needed addi- tions. There are also some important gaps in the series of birds, which should be filled as promptly as possible. “The foregoing remarks relate exclusively to the exhibition collections. Buta great natural history museum has a two-fold purpose to subserve: the instruction of the public, and the educa- cation of students who desire a more intimate acquaintance with specimens than can be acquired by viewing them as displayed in the cases of the exhibition halls. In respect to the first, so far as the present department is concerned, few public museums are better equipped; nor has the second purpose been overlooked by the management of the Museum, provision having been already made fora study collection for the use of students and specialists. There is now a good nucleus for a study collection of birds, but it needs supplementing to a large extent in order to bring this very important educational feature of the department to a proper standard of efficiency, or to place it on a level with the exhibition collections. The expenditure of a few thousand dollars on the study collection of birds would suffice to make this Museum an authority second to none on all that relates to North American ornithology. I speak of North American birds particularly in this connection, believing it sound policy to develop our resources and usefulness in certain special lines rather than to diffuse our energies over the general field, with the necessary result of ob- taining only mediocrity instead of distinguishing excellence in a more limited range. And certainly our own native animals are deserving of first attention. “A study collection of North American mammals is equally desirable, and even more important, from the fact that such a collection is more difficult to acquire, and hence would prove correspondingly more useful. At present, however, it cannot be said that we have ever a nucleus for such a collection. In view of the interest in all educational projects, and the liberality so characteristic of many of the wealthy citizens of this city, it would seem that the mere mention of these needs should go far toward supplying the remedy. ‘“ Another serious and even imperative want is the need of more space for the proper display of the objects already in the exhibi- tion cases, which is already inadequate, and must become more so from year to year, with the natural growth of the collections, till additional room is secured by an extension of the Museum build- ing. ‘““MamMALs.—Much time has been devoted to work on the col- lection of mammals. Many of the cases in the lower hall con- taining the mammals were found to be very much crowded, and 11 in order to utilize to the best advantage the very inadequate space now allotted to the collections, additional shelves were inserted wherever possible, and the vertical partitions were removed when necessary. In some of the cases the specimens are still so crowded that only a part can be well seen, while it 1s impossible to place many others so that the labels can be read. ‘The catalogu- ing and critical identification of this part of the collection has thus far occupied the greater part of my time, but this work is now finished. Each specimen has been carefully determined, and its full history, so far as known, entered in the catalogue book. Labels have been prepared for the whole collection, two-thirds of which are already in position; the rest are now being printed, and will be put in place in a few weeks. “The work of identification was greatly retarded, and to some extent rendered unsatisfactory, by the lack of many important works of reference, owing to which lack I have failed to satisfac- torily identify about five per cent. of the mammals thus far studied. “T may add, that in working up the collection, I have found many valuable type specimens, respecting which, and others of special interest, I have made notes that may form the basis of a short paper for the Museum ‘ Bulletin’ on the collection of mammals when there is means to publish it. “T have thus far referred only to the mammals in the Lower Hall. The large collection of monkeys on the bird floor still remains to be catalogued and labeled, in order to complete the work on the mammals. “ Birps.—I have as yet done no systematic work on the ex/zbv- tion collection of birds. ‘The Stzdy Collection was early brought together, and placed in the Curator’s room, and has since been assorted and arranged preparatory to cataloguing. “Through kind assistance gratuitously rendered by Dr. A. K. Fisher, of Sing Sing, and Mr. J. Dwight, Jr., of this city, nearly 500 specimens—including the whole of the Elhot Collection— have been catalogued and labeled. Mr. Bailey has worked assiduously on the col/ection of nests and eggs, which he has arranged in systematic order, placing the eggs in neatly cotton-lined paper trays, and the nests in suitable drawers in the cabinets provided for the collection. He has also catalogued the North American portion of the collection, and will catalogue the rest as soon as he receives the catalogue book, which has been ordered for the exotic part of the collection. As soon as labels are provided, he will proceed to label the whole collection. An order has been given for the construction of four cases in the alcoves of the bird floor, for the public exhibition of a portion of the nests and eggs. The cases are being constructed with cabinets of drawers beneath, for the storage of the reserve collection, which, when these cases are finished, will be removed from the Curator’s room to these cabinets, giving some much needed space for the storage of birds. 12 “Mr. Geo. B. Sennett’s Collection, now on deposit at the Museum, is a very important addition to the scientific resources of the institution, and has already proved of great usefulness to the Curator of this department, to whom it is as freely accessible as if it were the property of the Museum. The collection is not only important as a general study collection of North American birds, but especially so on account of the very large series of rare Texas birds and birds’ eggs it contains. As will be seen from the list of donations appended, Mr. Sennett has contributed a number of rare species of birds and mammals to our North American desiderata. “OsTEOLOGICAL CoLLECTION.—The mounted skeletons of mammals and birds, formerly kept in separate cases by themselves, have been distributed through the exhibition collections of mounted skins. In this way the cases occupied by the skeletons have become available for other uses, while the skeletons them- selves are so arranged that they may be directly compared with the mounted skins of the same species. The collection of skulls and unmounted skeletons have been cleaned and catalogued, and cases having been fitted up for them on the stair-landing, the only available space, the collection is now secure from deterioration and conveniently accessible for use. The utility of skulls and skeletons is so great in the study of mammals that no opportunity to increase this collection should be neglected. The Curator would here add that he feels greatly the need of assistance. He is sure of some volunteer aid from some of the young ornithologists of this city—excellent in quality, but wholly fortuitous, and therefore uncertain. If means could be made available for temporary assistance, when most needed, it would greatly expedite the work of the department. The Curator would also again call attention to the serious degree to which he is crip- pled in his work by the lack of important works of reference relating to birds and mammals, and would urge the meeting of this deficiency with the least possible delay.” DEPARTMENT OF MARINE ZOOLOGY. “At the time the collections were removed from the Arsenal to the new building in Manhattan Square, the several departments were represented so largely in specimens, no provision could be made for the department of Marine Zoology. ‘This being true at the early period of the occupation of the new Museum building, it follows that the rapidly increasing material in all departments contributed practically to exclude it indefinitely from public exhibition. “ An exceptionally fine collection of corals of Florida and West Indies, as well as those of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, had 13 become the property of the Museum. Also, an interesting and valuable display of sponges and the kindred beautiful forms, re- mained without provision in the new building. “One of the many examples of exhibitions planned at this time consisted of a collection of commercial sponges, showing their economic value, as well as technical relations. “The Fish Commission had presented most valuable material, the results of their dredgings on the North Atlantic coast. “ The large collection of fishes and reptiles in alcohol, and the most valuable one of mounted fishes and reptiles, purchased of Prince Maximilian, of Nieu Wied, Germany, remained stored at the Arsenal, unprovided at the new building with room for public exhibition. “ Besides these, great numbers of crustaceans, echinoderms and others of the lower forms of invertebrates remain in bulk, wholly out of sight of the public. “ Regarding the great degree of unfamiliarity prevailing, as to the nature of the vast numbers of our indigenous marine inver- tebrates, it is of the first importance that suitable room be assigned for their display. Indeed, the lack of exhibition space at the present time seriously endangers the proper growth of the depart- ment embracing such forms. ‘The exceptional opportunities for collecting, generously accorded the Museum by the Fish Com- mission, are now of rare value, and not likely to occur again. “Tn view of the manifestly unsafe situation of our collections stored at the Arsenal, it was thought wise to remove most of them, even though they be stored in the basement of the new building, and bestowed temporarily in cases which will soon be impera- tively demanded for legitimate purposes of the respective halls. “Tt will thus be seen that one whole, and a very important department of the Museum, embracing at present reptiles, batra- chians and fishes, insects, crustaceans, mollusca, in alcohol, and the innumerable forms of lower invertebrates is practically ex- cluded from suitable public exhibition. Perhaps a more definite idea of the importance of this exclusion may be obtained by stating that the above are embraced technically under every grand branch of the animal kingdom; the birds and mammals of one of the branches being the only exceptions to a complete summary. “The collection of corals has been increased’ by a most im- portant and beautiful gift from Percy R. Pyne, Esq., consisting of rare and exceptionally fine species from the Pacific Ocean. “These have been placed on exhibition for the present in cases in the Hall of Mammals. The species have been named, and suitable labels attached. “The collections of crustaceans, sponges and others have also been placed in the same locality. 14 ‘Besides the label attached to species, giving the name, tech- nical name, and locality, other and larger labels are placed among the groups, explaining their nature and relations to others. This is an epitome of what is planned for the contents of a visitors’ guide book, which, with some illustrations, 1s especially desirable. “The larger Maximilian Collections of reptiles and fishes in alcohol, the mounted reptiles and fishes, and the invertebrates, in alcohol, having been named many years since, the very desirable task of identification and re-naming has been in progress, and will continue, in connection with other work, with reference to public exhibition, and the final cataloguing of species. “A very considerable collection of duplicate specimens of Florida corals, in excellent form, remains for disposal by exchange or otherwise. “A large collection of specimens of insects have for some time been stored in the somewhat unsuitable drawers used at the Arsenal. ‘These have been removed to other and safer drawers, and placed in the Curator’s room for greater security. “The larger portion of the insects are handsomely displayed on the walls of the Hall of Birds.” LIBRARY. “The additions to the Library, through various means, have been very satisfactory this year. ‘The books and pamphlets received have amounted to—volumes, 396; Nos. and parts, 523; pamphlets, 381. ByeApplicationigery).ysticek 110 Vols. 1g0 Nos. and Parts. 61 Pamphlets. Exchange (Bulletin)... 23 “‘ 220 rs 127 te a (Duplicates). 34 “‘ 23 ae Donation. ace TOA on 103 i 170 Se Runchaseyeeian yee O 5 nine 10 ne Mrotalieeryrce: 300M 523 st 381 oo Number of volumes in Library, Bound. Unbound. Nos. and Parts. Pamphlets. JJanvianyerstyrsS sae ecreer 3,412 “1,115 1,458 2,671 Added during the year....... 282 114 523 381 Motalitoidates-r scene 3,694 1,229 1,981 3,052 “ Bulletin No. 6, issued October roth, 1855; of these and Nos. I, 2, 3, 4,5, there has been distributed this year 446 copies. The exchanges received for the same are equal to any previous year. “The most important journals and proceedings that are in con- stant use should be bound; also the new books, for there is danger of losing parts and plates. I hope sufficient money will be pro- vided for this purpose. I would also like to have cases built at the North end of the next room for the accommodation of Miss Wolfe’s gift. We have already received one instalment.” 15 THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. “The room used for the lecture hall, the only available room in the building, is not large enough for the increasing demand for admission by the city teachers. It will comfortably accommodate about 300, a very small proportion of the 3,000 teachers of the city. With sufficient accommodation, it is probable that at least a thousand would be in regular attendance. On several occasions during the autumn just closed, from 100 to 150 teachers provided with tickets of admission (only a selected number being thus provided), were unable to gain admittance for want of room.” A reading of these reports will make it apparent how much the want of additional space both for exhibition and storage purposes is felt in all the departments. We have now arrived to the point where an additional building is imperatively demanded. The present structure is full to overflowing, and many interesting and important collections have to be kept in their boxes unpacked for want of space to exhibit them, and not even storage room remains for the specimens that may be offered. Unless we soon have another wing to our building, we fear the usefulness of the insti- tution will be seriously retarded. It is calculated that by the time another wing can be erected, we will have accumulated enough material to more than fill the entire structure. Strenuous efforts were made during the year to secure an ap- propriation for this purpose. The Trustees, in conjunction with the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, appeared before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment with that object in view, and up to the close of the year had hoped that their efforts had been successful. The appropriation, however, was not granted, and the embarrassment to the Museum and the public for want of a larger lecture hall and additional exhibition space still continues, and becomes greater with each day’s delay. MORRIS K. JESUP, President. 1885. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIsTorRY, 27 RECEIPTS. Balance from 1884 account, : From the estate of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, “e Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Morris K. Jesup, James M. Constable, Percy R. Pyne, Adrian Iselin, John B. Trevor, Heber R. Bishop, D. O. Mills, Hugh Auchincloss, C. Vanderbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan, The estate of Robert Colgate, Chas. G. Landon, William E. Dodge, Charles Lanier, j Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Joseph H. Choate, Oliver Harriman, “Benjamin H. Field, Harvey S. Ladew, John Wolfe, D. B. Ivison, Mrs. -A. O. Osborn, W.H. Beadleston, . 3 The State Superintendent of /( Public Instruction, ) The sale of Guides, Interest on Invested Funds, The Department of Public Parks { and Annual Members, J Examined ee R. PYNE, and approved, (CHARLES LANIER, $ 242 50,000 I 3,586 1,500 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 300 300 300 300 300 300 200 100 100 100 100 100 6,727 183 300 8,326 Auditing account 68 foro) 80 00 foro) foro) fore) 00 00 fore) fore) 00 00 foro) 00 00 00 fore) foro) fers) foro) 00 00 00 00 foro) 00 95 05 00 06 $89,966 54 Committee. with J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER. 1885. EXPENDITURES. Paid for Salaries, . $18,456 70 imleabor , j : 5,429 15 ‘“ Building cases and repairs on building, 2,477 89 Coals 586 50 ‘Supplies, 273 79 ‘“ Publishing Bulletin a eee Re nore 484 75 ‘‘ Printing Guides, 768 88 ‘“ Printing and Stationery, 294 39 ““ Reception, 571 52 ““ Labels, 209 75 “« Advertising, , 171 99 ““ Postage and Car Fare, 255 94 ‘* Poison and Sundries, ; 17 48 ‘‘ Expressage, Traveling, and Nucor l House Expenses, 172 17 ““ Architect’s bill, 250 00 ““ Interest on debit balances, 1885, : 87 90 —— $30,508 80 Purchased Collection of Birds’ Nest and Eggs, $2,000 0O Birds and Mammals purchased, ; 2,410 57 Geological and Mineralogical Specimens capenvced) 414 65 Reptile Department, Specimens purchased, 40 00 Botanical Department, Improvements } to the Collection, § 50 00 Books and Periodicals purchased, 1,138 94 — $6,054 16 Purchased Bonds for the ‘‘ Permanent En- } dowment Fund,” ) 50,937 50 $87,500 46 Py Balance carried to 1886 account, 2,466 08 [E. &O. E.]| New York, January 28, 1886. J. PIERPONT $89,966 54 MORGAN, T7veasurer, INCORPORATION. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE American Museum of Natural History, Passed April 6, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section tr. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of “The American Museum of Natural History,” to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History ; of encouraging and developing the study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowl- edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. § 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their government, the number and _ election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By- Laws, Rules, and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant to such Constitution and By-Laws, the persons named 19 in the first section of this Act shall be, and are hereby declared to be the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its property. § 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. § 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the restrictions and lhabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. § 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, Vide i OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. § °°’ I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and seal of office at the City of Albany, fit, S)| this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State. CONSTITUTION OF THE American Museum of Natural History, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ARTICLE I. This Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. ARTICLE (II. The several persons named in the charter, and such others as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed twenty- five in all at one time, shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property, and business of the Corporation, and in case of the death, accepted resignation, or removal from the State of any Trustee, a new Trustee shall be elected to fill his place by the remaining Trustees; but no election of a Trustee shall be held except at a quarterly meeting of the Trustees, on written notice of not less than gne week, specifying that such election is to be held, and the vacancy which is to be filled ; and every election of Trustees shall be by ballot, and no person shall be deemed to be elected a Trustee unless he shall receive the votes of at least three-fourths of the Trustees present. ARTICLE III. The Trustees shall meet quarterly, on the second Monday of every February, May, August, and November, at an hour and place to be designated, on at least one week’s written notice from the Secretary, and shall annually, at the quarterly meeting in Feb- ruary, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to transact special busi- 21 ness on a call of the Secretary, who shall issue such call whenever requested so to do, in writing, by five Trustees, or by the Presi- dent, and give written notice to each Trustee of such special meeting, and of the object thereof, at least three days before the meeting is held. ARTICLE IV. The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, an Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Finance Committee, all to be elected from the Trustees. All these officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. The election of officers shall be by ballot, and the persons hav- ing a majority of the votes cast, shall be deemed duly elected. ARAM CI ES Ve The President, and in his absence the First or Second Vice- President, shall preside at all the meetings of the Museum and of the Trustees. The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Trustees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing Com- mittee, and shall preserve the seal, archives, and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meetings of the Trustees, and attend the same. The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Museum. He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in books belonging to it, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees. He shall report in writing, at each quarterly meeting of the Trustees, the balance of money on hand, and the outstanding obligations of the Museum, as far as practicable ; and shall make a full report at the annual meeting of the receipts and disbursements of the past year, with such suggestions as to the financial management of the Museum as he may deem proper. ARC Ba Vile The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom the President and Secretary shall be two. They shall have the con- 22, trol and regulation of the Collections, Library, and other property of the Museum ; and shall have power to purchase, sell, and ex- change specimens and books, to employ agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in detail the directions of the Trustees ; but the Executive Committee shall not incur any expense or lia- bility for the Museum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meetings of the Trustees, without the ex- press sanction of the Trustees. RG valle The Auditing Committee shall consist of three, and it shall be their duty to examine and certify all bills presented against the Corporation ; and no bills shall be paid unless first approved in writing by at least two members of this committee. KGa WAU, The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to take charge of and invest the funds of the Museum in its name, and to take all proper meas- ures to provide means for its support. ARGUE, 1xe A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the subse- quent approval of a meeting at which a quorum shall be present. AMRINKCIE ID, 2G By-Laws may from time to time be made by the Trustees, providing for the care and management of the property of the Corporation ; and for the government of its affairs. Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any meeting of the Trustees, by a vote of a majority of those present, after a month’s notice in writing of such proposed amendment. 23 ARTICLE XI. The contribution of $1000 or more to the funds of the Museum, at any one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such patronship. The contribution of $500, at one time, shall entitle the per- son giving the same to bea Fellow, who shall have the right to appoint one successor in such fellowship. No appointment of a successor shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing, endorsed on the certificate, or by last will and testament. The contribution of $100, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Life Member. Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the above degrees, who shall have given to the Museum books or specimens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Committee, to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the President and Sec- retary shall issue diplomas accordingly under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their discretion. ARTICIE, X11: No alterations shall be made in this Constitution, unless at a regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees; nor by the votes of less than two-thirds of all the Trustees; nor without notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular meeting. BY=-LAWS. ie Patrons giving Srooo are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and 10 Tickets for a single admission. Fellows, giving $500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and ro Tickets for a single admission. Life Members, giving S100, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission. Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single admission. [Note.—A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two persons to the Museum every day except Sunday, and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions, and may be used by any member of the Subscriber’s family. The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among friends and visitors. | JAY, Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a Trustee, unless excused by the Board. JOE No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee who shall not be a ‘‘ Patron” of the Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees ex-officto—nor be eligible unless his name shall be presented by the nominating committee at a Regular Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place. 25 We No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its committees, officers, or employees, unless there are at the time sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same. Ve All bequests or legacies, not especially designated, shall here- after be applied to the Permanent Endowment Fund, the interest only of which shall be applied to the use of the Museum, as the Board shall direct. LIST OF ACCESSIONS—41885. DONATIONS. LIBRARY. MORRIS K. JESUP, New York City. Hand-book to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nos. 1-9. 1884—-85. Russian Reproductions. By J. W. 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Vol. VI. 2, 3, 4. 1885. GEO. N. LAWRENCE (the author), New York City. ““ Descriptions of supposed New Species of Birds of the Families Tyrannide, Cypselide and Columbidz.” “* Descriptions of a New Species of Jay, etc.” Hi Y Parrot of the Genus Chrysotis.”’ a 7 Bird of the Genus Pitangus.”’ a a Birds from the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies.” Five American Birds.” a Me Birds of the Genera Chrysotis, etc.” supposed New Species of Birds from the Islands of Grenada and Dominica, West Indies.” ie a New Species of Cypselidz of the Genus Cheetura.” Four New Species of Birds from Costa Rica.” Two ie ““ of the Family Tanagridze and Tyrannide.” a New Species of Bird of the Genus Engyptila, with notes on two Yucatan Birds.” a New Species of Bird of the Family Columbide.’ ““Characters of two supposed New Species of Birds from Yucatan.” J. A. ALLEN (the author), New York City. On an Extinct Type of Dog. Dr. J. B. HOLDER (the author), New York City. 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Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Annual Report, New York State Museum. Thirty-eighth Annual Report, New York State Museum. 1884-85. Pror. E. A. SMITH (the author), State Geologist, Tuscaloosa, Ala. “Climate, Geological, Topographical, Agricultural, Features of the Cotton-producing States.”’ ““List of Ores and Minerals of Industrial Importance occurring in Alabama.”’ “Dr. Otto Meyer on ‘ Species in the Southern Old-Tertiary.’ W. J. McGEE (the author), Washington, D. C. Map of the United States ‘‘ Geologic Groups.” A. S. GATSCHET (the author), Washington, D. C. ““ Dr. Krauss’ Slavic Customs.” “Dom Parisot ne produria pas le Manuscrit Taensa.”’ ““Le Taensa a-t-il été Forge de toutes Pieces ?” ‘““Le Taensa n’a pas été Forge de toutes Pieces.” —Muller, ‘“ Prince Roland Bonaparte’s les Habitants de Suriname.” Bibliography of his Papers. ” 30 C. E. PUTNAM (the author), Davenport, Iowa. ““ Elephant Pipes” in the Museum of the Academy Natural Science. 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RUNKLE, 144 Light Street, Baltimore, Md. Specimens of the ‘‘ Seventeen Year Locust” (Cicada), from Baltimore. WEBSTER DEACON, through G. W. Wright, Staten Island, N. Y. A specimen of Corydalis, and a Lamellicorn Beetle. J. B. SNIFFEN, 5 East 42 Street, New York City. Several Insects, and vertebre of Black Snake (Bascanion). W. E. D. SCOTT, American Flag, Arizona. Specimen of Heloderma horrida. CoL. NICHOLAS PIKE, Brooklyn, N. Y. A ‘Pine Snake” (Pityophis), and four specimens of a Turtle (7Ze/a- coclemmys geographicus). From THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, through Fish Commission. 126 specimens (26 species) of Crustaceans, dredged by ‘‘ Albatross’ in American Atlantic Waters; in alcohol. PERCY R. PYNE, Esq., New York City. A collection of East Indian and Florida Corals, consisting, inclusive of a few specimens of Echinoderms, Crustaceans, &c., of 125 specimens. , 40 GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. T. H. ALDRICH, Cincinnati, Ohio. Thirty species of rare Eocene Fossils from Alabama and Mississippi. H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. IO species, II specimens from the Cretaceous and Miocene of the West. F. BRAUN, New York. One specimen (Ostrea divaricata Lea,) Eocene, Alabama. N. H. DARTON, Brooklyn, L. I. ; 37 specimens of Lower Helderberg Fossils from near Cornwall, N. Y. Pror. DOUGLAS, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. I specimen of Michelinia convexa d’Orbigny, Cayuga, Canada. Miss F. M. HITCHCOCK, New York City. A fine slab of Gorgonia ? antigua Hall, Trenton Limestone, Herkimer County, N. Y. I. T. HAZEN, West Park, N. Y. Specimens of Utica Slate with Graptolites; five miles above Pough- keepsie, N. Y.; west side of river. ELIJAH A. HOWLAND, New York. End of Mastodon Tusk found at Inwood, N. Y. G. VAN INGEN, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 2 specimens of Utica Slate with Graptolithus divergens Hall. G. W. LAMPLAUGH, England. Several species of Post-Pliocene Fossils from glacial till at dry-dock. Esquimalt, Vancouvers Island, West Coast of America. Miss SARAH P. MONK, Cold Springs, N. Y. I specimen of Duzctyophyton fenestratum Hall. Chemung Narrows, INEWYE I specimen of Ammonites Tornatus Brown. St. Cassian Beds, Ger- many. A. O. OSBORN, Waterville, N. Y. Species of Pupa; Nassau Bahamas. W. J. WALLACE, New York. 1 large slab of Oriskany Sandstone. Cobleskill, Schoharie Co., N.Y. A. WOODWARD, New York. 6 specimens Brachiopods and Lamellibranchs, from Cumberland, Md. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. R. BELL, Ottawa, Can. I specimen of Labradorite, from Labrador. Pror. A. S. BICKMORE, New York, through Gen’l D. B. Warner, United States Consul at St. John’s, N. B. I specimen of Albertite. Helsbough, N. B. F. BRAUN, New York. Crystals of Pyrite from vein in Hoboken Trap. I specimen of Anthophyllite. Brooklyn, L. I. F. L. CISCO, Staten Island, N. Y. Serpentine (warmolite). New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. I specimen of Asbestiferous Serpentine, from Staten Island. 4] COPPER QUEEN CONSOLIDATED MINING CO., through Mr. W. E. Dodge. 7 specimens of Malachite, of which two were very large and beautiful examples of Plumose Malachite; 5 specimens of Azurite, including one very large and beautiful example, crystallized: 6 very fine examples of Stalactitic forms; all from Bisbee, Arizona. N. H. DARTON, Brooklyn. I specimen of Sarmarskite. Yancey County, N. C. I specimen of Prebnite. West Paterson, N. J. Pror. DOUGLAS, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. 20 specimens of Mineral Species from many localities. All cabinet specimens. I, EYERMAN, Easton, Pa. Sphenoidal Chalcopyrite, Octahedral Pyrite, Byssolitic Calcite and Apophyllite, from St. Peters. Warwick, Chester County, Pa. GRAND BELT COPPER CO: 2 specimens Lignite with Gypsum, four specimens Seine Copper; from Hardeman County, Texas. R. C. HAHN, New York. 10 examples of polished Crocidolites. Cape of Good Hope, Africa. GEN’L HOLDEMAN, United States Minister to Siam. I specimen of Trachyte from the block contributed by Emperor of Siam to the Washington Monument. Dr. J. B. HOLDER, New York. I specimen of Molybdenite, I specimen of Fahlunite; both from New Hampshire. W. W. JEFFERIS, Philadelphia, Pa. 8 specimens of Minerals from Chester County, Pa., and from St. Lawrence County, N. Y. S. T. LIPPINCOTT, New York. 9 specimens, embracing ‘‘ Coal Nuts” and Anthracite from Lehigh County, Pa., and Pyrite from Lehigh and Luzerne Counties, Pa. R. McNAUGHTON, Nova Scotia, through S. D. Dill, New York. I specimen of Gold Quartz, I specimen of massive Stibnite; both from Hauts County, Nova Scotia. GEO. P. SENNETT, Meadville, Pa. 1 large specimen of Graphite. Bloomingdale, N. Y. PT. STAUNTON CENTRAL MINING CO., Lake Superior. I very fine specimen of crystallized Copper. Lake Superior, Mich. Jo Co WANALOIR Argentiferous and Auriferous Pyrite. Westport, Conn. W. J. WALLACE, New York. Calcite on a Siliceous Limestone. Stuyvesant, Columbia County, N. Y. D. D. WHITLOCK, Jr., New York. 1 block of Dolomite. Westchester County, N. Y. S. L. WILSON, Conn. i 2 specimens of Garnet in Mica. New Milford, Conn. H. T. WOODMAN, New York. 14 specimens of Muscovite (very fine), from Virginia. ” EXCHANGES. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Miss SARAH P. MONKS, Cold Springs, N. Y. For labels, 121 specimens of Fossil Shells. San Pedro, Cal. W. WHEELER, Washington University, St. Louis. 2 slabs of MJelonites multiporus O. & W. St. Louis Limestone, St. Louis, Mo. LIBRARY. A. WOODWARD, New York City. ““Beitrdge zur Kenntniss der Saiigthiere Amerika’s.” Parts 2, 3. —Wagner. “ Urwelltiche Saugthier-uerresta aus Griechenland.”—Wagner. ‘“Anas cucullata, Nova Species Camtschatica.’’—Fischer. “Diagnosis piscium ad genus acipenserinum pertinentium.’— Lovetzky. ““ Ueber fossile Knochen.’’—Rathke. 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MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. J. B. MACKINTOSH, New York. 12 specimens of Crocidolite, polished, from Cape of Good Hope, Africa. WARD & HOWELL, Rochester, N. Y. 2 specimens of Stibnite Japan. I specimen of Hematite Elba. 45 GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. W. A. HERMAN, New York. One specimen of Pentacrinus subangularis, from the Liassic formation of Holzmiinden, Germany. WARD & HOWELL, Rochester, N. Y. European specimens illustrating the Dana Manual Series; 34 species, 40 specimens. F. BRAUN, New York. European specimens illustrating the Dana Manual Series; 15 species, 16 specimens. PAT ROINSS? By the Payment of One Thousand Dollars. MORRIS K. JESUP. ROBERT L. STUART.* Miss C. L. WOLFE. ROBERT COLGATE.* FREDERIC W. STEVENS. PERCY R. PYNE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. JOHN B. TREVOR. ADRIAN ISELIN. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. JOSEPH W. DREXEL. WILLIAM E. DODGE, Jr. JOHN D. WOLFE.* ABRAM S. HEWITT. C. VANDERBILT. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. CHARLES LANIER. D. JACKSON STEWARD. EDWARD CLARK.* A. G. PHELPS DODGE. 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MORSE.* RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT. MEREDITH HOWLAND. MARSHALL O. ROBERTS.* JOHN ALSTYNE.* O. B. POTTER. Hon. LEVI P. MORTON. HANSON K. CORNING.* STEWART BROWN.* ABRAM DUBOIS. TIFFANY & CO. LUCIUS TUCKERMAN. ALFRED B. DARLING. A. A. LOW, RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr. THOS. A. VYSE, Jr. GEORGE G. GRAY.* GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE.* SAMUEL HAWK.* JOHN SNEDEN.* GEORGE BLISS. R. A. WITTHAUS, M.D. THOMAS BARRON.* GEORGE W. CASS. H. M. SCHIEFFELIN. FREDERICK A. LIBBEY. ROBERT LENNOX KENNEDY. F. R. HALSEY. CYRUS W. FIELD, Jr. H. M. FLAGLER. * Deceased. LANSDORP ey BvIESS By the Payment of One Hundred Dollars. WILLIAM M. HALSTED. JOHN P. HAINES. W. A. HAINES, Jr. RICHARD T. HAINES. HENRY PARISH. HENRY I. BARBEY. ROBERT B. MINTURN. HENRY CHAUNCEY. JAMES M. BROWN. S. GC. WILLIAMS. JAMES W. PINCHOT. ALFRED M. HOYT. HENRY F. SPAULDING. STEPHEN R. LESHER. EDWARD LUCKEMEYER. EFFINGHAM TOWNSEND, ANDREW H. GREEN. WILSON G. HUNT. CONSTANCE B. ANDREWS. FORDYCE BARKER, M. D. GEORGE E. BELCHER, M.D. Hon. ADDISON BROWN. JOHN B. CORNELL. A. DALRYMPLE. WM. BUTLER DUNCAN. JAMES FRASER. WILLIAM H. GEBHARD. JOHN A. HADDEN. BENJAMIN HART. C. P. HUNTINGTON. CHAS. H. KALBFLEISCH. WILLIAM C. MARTIN. JOHN T. METCALF, M.D. WILLIAM I. PEAKE, ALFRED PELL. ISAAC H. REED. S. N. SOLOMON. SAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN. JOHN H. SHERWOOD. HENRY MILFORD SMITH. ALEX. H. STEVENS. HENRY M. TABER. +FRED. F. THOMPSON. WM. M. KINGSLAND. JAMES LOW. ROWLAND G. MITCHELL, Jr. ROBERT G. REMSEN. Pror. A. EK. FOOTE. JAMES KNIGHT, M. D. E. OELBERMANN. R. G. DUN. A. JACOBI, M. D. JOHN PONDIR. ALEX. HADDEN, M.D. Miss E. 8. HAINES. Mrs. W. A. HAINES. JAS. MUHLENBERG BAILEY. GIFFORD PINCHOT. B. G. ARNOLD. CHAS. M. DaCOSTA. A. A. RAVEN. H. D. VAN NOSTRAND. GEORGE RICHARDS. JOHN FITCH. Mrs. B. L. ANDREWS. MANDEVILLE MOWER. JAS. O. SHELDON. EDWARD COLGATE. WASHINGTON E. CONNOR. ANDREW E. DOUGLASS. H. G. MARQUAND. PETER MARIE. JACOB HAYS. ED. KIRK WILLARD. E. J. DONNELL. ISIDOR STRAUS. JACOB H. SCHIFF. EDWARD WINSLOW. 48 W. D. NICHOLS. JAMES TERRY. W. B. NEFTEL, M. D. Miss EK. AYMAR. BENJAMIN WELLES. H. VICTOR NEWCOMB. GEORGE KEMP. C. W. CHAPIN, Jr. Mrs. H. HERRMAN. J. H. DEMOTT. CHAS. P. BRITTON. C. AMORY STEVENS. E. A. MOEN. HENRY B. PLANT. Hon. EDWARD COOPER. SETH BARTON FRENCH. S. DEJONGE. A. C. KINGSLAND. GEO. F. KUNZ. GEORGE GARR. DAVID BANKS. HENRY CLEWS. Mrs. JAMES C. AYER. CHAS. M. CAULDWELL, M. D. Hon. BENJAMIN A. WILLIS. ALBERT MATHEWS. FRANK G. BROWN. CHARLES MORAN. JOSEPH LAROCQUE. FRANCIS P. FREEMAN. LOUIS STERN. LOOMIS L. WHITE. FREDERICK B. WENDT. ANSON PHELPS STOKES. Dr. HENRY F. WALKER. SAMUEL P. AVERY.. BENJAMIN BREWSTER. ISAAC P. CHAMBERS. JOHN N. A. GRISWOLD. HARVEY 8S. LADEW. JOHN WOLFE. D. B. IVISON. A. O. OSBORN. Mrs. A. O. OSBOBN. W. H. BEADLESTON. 49 ANNUAL MEMBERS. By the Payment of Ten Dollars Yearly. Abbott, Frank, M.D. Agnew, Alex. Mch. Agnew, C. R., M.D. Agnew, Hon. John T. Aitken, John W. Aldrich, Mrs. H. D. Alexander, Henry M. Alexander, Jas W. Allen, Dr. T. F. Amend, Bernard G. Amsinck, Gustav Amy, H. ‘ Anderson, E. Ellery Anderson, H. H. Anthony, E. Appleton, Daniel Appleton, D. 8. Appleton, Wm. H. Appleton, W. W. Archbold, John D. Armour, H. O. Arnold, John H. V. Arnold, Richard Astor, John Jacob Atterbury, J. T. Auchincloss, Hugh Auchincloss, Mrs. E. Auchincloss, E. 8. Auchmuty, R. T. Babcock, 8. D. Bailey, N. P. Baldwin, C. C. Baldwin, J. G., M.D. Baldwin, O. D. Baltzer, H. R. Bangs, L. Bolton, M.D. Banyer, Goldsborough Barker, Fordyce, M.D. Barker, Stephen Barlow, 8. L. M. Barnard, Horace Barnes, John 8. Barnes, Theo. M. Barney, Chas. T. Barron, John C., M.D. Bates, L. M. Beadleston, E. Beebe, Chas. E. Belknap, Mrs. A. B. Bell, Hon. Isaac Bend, George H. Benjamin, John Bergen, Z. Bergh, Henry Bernheimer, Adolph Bernheimer, Isaac Bianchi, F. Bien, Julius Billings, O. P. C. Bissinger, Philip Blackford, Kugene G. Blagden, George Blakeman, Birdseye Blanchard, G. R. Bliss, C. N. Bliss, George Bliss, George T. Bliss, William Bloodgood, John Bloodgood, John H. Bonn, William B. Booss, Frederick Borg, Simon Boulton, Wm. G. Bouvier, John V. Bouvier, M. C. Bowdoin, G. 8. Braker, Conrad, Jr. Brandon, Edward Breslin, J. H. Bristow, Hon. B. H. Brockway, A. N., M.D. Brookfield, Wm. Brown, Miss E. W. Brown, Mrs. James M. Brown, J. Crosby Brown, Geo. H. Bruce, Col. 8. D. Bryce, William Buckham, George Burden, James A. Burkhalter, 8. Burrill, John E. Butler, Charles Butler, Prescott Hall Butler, Wm. Allen Byrd, George H. Cadwalader, John L. Cahn, Leopold Cammann, H. H. Camp, W. A. Carreau, Cyrille Carter, Robert Cary, Alanson Cheever, John H. Chesebrough, Robert A. Child, H. C. Chittenden, Hon. 8S. B. Clark, George C. Clarkson, Frederick Coffin, Chas. H. Coffin, Edmund, Jr. Cohen, Bernard Colbron, W. Townsend Coles, Mrs. W. F. Colgate, Abner W. Colgate, Mrs. Bowles Colgate, Miss Georgiana Colgate, Robert, Jr. Colgate, R. RB. Colgate, Samuel Colgate, Mrs. Samuel Colgate, Samuel J. Collins, Benjamin Collins, Miss Ellen Compton, A. T. Comstock, M. Louise Constable, Frederick A. Constable, James M. Constantine, A. J. Contoit, Chas. H. Cooper, Geo. C. Corning, E. L. Cossitt, F. H. Cotheal, Alex. I. Cotting, Amos Crawford, R. L. Crerar, John Crimmins, Hon. J. D. Crocker, George Aug. Crolius, Clarkson Crosby, Rev. Howard Cruger, 8. V. R. Currie, John H. Curtiss, Frank Cutting, R. Fulton Cutting, Robert L. Cutting, W. Bayard Daly, Hon. Chas. P. Davis, Theodore M. Davison, C. A. Day, Henry Day, Henry M. Decker, Joseph 8. de Forest, Mrs. Geo. B. de Forest, W. H. de Rham, Charles Delafield, Maturin L. Delamater, Cornelius H. Demarest, A. T- Dickey, Charles D. Dickey, Hugh T. Dillon, Hon. John F. Dimock, A. W. Dimock, Henry F. Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D. Dodge, Cleve H Dodge, Miss Grace H. Dodge, Miss Mary M. Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr. Dodge, George E. Dodworth, Allen Dowd, Hon. Wm. Dows, David Draper, Dr. W. H. Du Bois, Katharine Du Bois, William A. Du Bois, Dr. Matthew B. Dunean, John P. Dunham, G. H Dunlap, Robert Earle, Wm. P. 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Hammond, W. A., M.D. Haneman, John T. Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D. Hargous, L. 8. Hart, Rev. A. B. Hartley, Marcellus Havemeyer, F. C. Havemeyer, Hector C. Havemeyer, Theo. A. Haven, G. G. Havens, Chas. G. Hawley, Henry E. Hendricks, Albert Hendricks, Edmund Hendricks, Joshua Herriman, John Higginson, James J. Hildburgh, Henry Hill, Edward Hill, Geo. H B. Hillhouse, Hon. Thomas Hinman, W. K. Hinton, J. H., M.D. Hitchcock, Hiram Hitchcock, Dr. R. D. Hitcheock, Miss 8. M. Hoadley, Russell H. Hoe, Col. Richard M. Hoffman, George Hoffman, J. O. Holden, E. R. Holt, Charles L. Holt, Henry Holt, R. 8. Hone, Robert 8. Horton, Burrett W. Houghton, Rev. G. H. Hubbard, Frederick, Hubbard, Gen. T. H. Hunt, Samuel I. Hunter, Mrs. M. L. Hyde, Samuel T. Inman, John H. Treland, John B. Irvin, Richard Iselin, Adrian, Jr. Iselin, Mrs. Adrian Iselin, Oliver Iselin, Wm. E. Isham, W. B. Jackson, Wm. H. Jackson, W. H , M.D. Jaffray, EH. 8. Jaftrey, Robert Jenkins, Wm. L. Jesup, Jas. R,, Jr. Johnson, John E. Jones, C. D. Jones, George Jones, Joshua Juilliard, A. D. Kaufman, B. Kellogg, Charles Kelly, Hugene Kemp, Edward Kemp, John H. Kennedy, John 8. Keppler, Rudolph Kerbs, Adolph Kerner, Charles H. Kinnicutt, Dr. Francis P. Knapp, H., M. D. Knox, Alexander Kraus, William Kuhne, Frederick Kuttroff, Adolf Lambert, Ed. W., M. D. Langdon, Woodbury G. Larremore, Hon. R. L. Lawrence, George N. Lawrence, Mrs. Samuel Lawton, Walter E. Leale, Charles A., M.D. Leavitt, Henry 8. Lee, William H. Lefferts, Frederick R. Lehman, E. Lehman, M. Lesher, Stephen R. Lewis, Charlton T. Lincoln, Lowell Linde, Frederick C. Livingston, Edward Livingston, Robert E. Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, William 8. Livingston, Wm. &., Jr. Lockwood, Le Grand Loeb, S. Lord, D. D. Lorillard, L. L. Lounsbery, R. P. Low, C. Adolphe Lowry, John Ludington, C. H. Lusk, William T., M.D. Lyon, Albert J. Lyon, Hon. Wm. J. Macy, Charles A., Jr. Macy, William H. Maclay, Robert Mahany, David Maitland, Robert L. 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Wing, John D. Winthrop, Robert Witherbee, 8. H. Woerishoffer, Chas. F. Young, Jas. H. Young, Mason Zabriskie, Andrew C. gee . Syres 2) Ce oe VQ Wells Ancien f useum of taal fjston CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND LIST OF MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1886-7. PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND LIST OF MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1886-7. y, LS Pod f NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. 1887. Sadist Serena WWM, C. MARTIN. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MORRIS K. JESUP. BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ADRIAN ISELIN. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH H. CHOATE. PERCY R. PYNE. JOHN B. TREVOR. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. JOSEPH W. DREXEL. ANDREW H. GREEN. ABRAM S. HEWITT. CHARLES LANIER. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. C. VANDERBILT. D. O. MILLS. CHAS. G. LANDON. H. R. BISHOP. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. J. HAMPDEN ROBB. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1887. President. MORRIS K. JESUP. Vice-Presidents. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. Secretary. ALBERT 8S. BICKMORE. Treasurer. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. Executive Committee. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, Chairman. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH W. DREXEL. Be Re BISHOP: THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The President and Secretary, ex-officio. Auditing Committee. CHARLES LANIER. ADRIAN ISELIN. C. VANDERBILT. Finance Committee. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. DSO) Mins: JOHN B. TREVOR. Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Curator of the Ethnological Department, and in charge of the Department of Public Instruction. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of the Geological, Mineralogical and Conchological Department. ee GRALACAE: Assistant Curator of the Geological Department. J. Ae ALLEN; Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of the Department of Invertebrate Zoblogy, Fishes and Reptiles. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Taxidermist. A. WOODWARD, Librarian. WILLIAM WALLACE, Clerk. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR 1886. The Trustees of the AMERICAN MusEuM OF NATURAL HISTORY present this their Eighteenth Annual Report to the Patrons, Fel- lows and Members of the Museum. The Treasurer’s account shows the receipts of the year to have been $43,960.26, of which the City contributed $15,039.19. The receipts include $2,426.16 given by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart towards the Bird Group Collection and the purchase of a rare and unique specimen of crystallized gold; also for completing the binding of the library given to the Museum by Mr. R. L. Stuart ; and $7,500 paid by the Trustees to make up the deficiency in maintaining the Museum. The expenditures were $31,584.08 for maintenance, and $11,109.03 for zmprovements and additions to the collections. The purchases include the Scott Collection of North American birds, a valuable collection of gold specimens and other rare minerals, 30 mounted specimens of American mammals, 132 specimens of American birds, 15 specimens of monkeys, also a number of geological specimens, all supplementing and making our collections more complete. There have been added to our Library by purchase goo vol- umes; this includes the library of Prof. R. P. Whitfield, which has filled a great vacancy. ‘The additions to our collections by donation have been very gratifying. From the Hon. H. J. Jewett we have received his valuable library of travels, and from the Department of Public Parks, through Dr. Wm. A. Conklin, many important and valuable specimens have been received in the flesh and prepared at the Museum by our taxidermist. A collection of 130 European bird skins has been received from Edward Hargitt, Esq., of London. Also, many other important donations, which will be found in detail in the list of accessions. 8 In former reports attention has been drawn to the need of more exhibition space. During the year a very large amount of material has been accumulated, including a collection of the building stones of America, which remain packed in cases ; also 3,000 birds and 150 mammal skins. These specimens, together with other large and interesting collections, cannot be exhibited for want of space. The Educational Department has made most gratifying progress under Prof. A. S. Bickmore. The following bill, granting aid to extend the Museum, has become a law, and is herewith given in full. AN ACT To provide for enlarging the building situated on Central Park in the City of New York and occupied by the American Museum of Natural History, for the purpose of furnishing proper facili- ties for giving increased exhibition and public instruction. The People of the State of New York, represented tn Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION I. The Department of Public Parks in the City of New York, with the concurrence of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, is hereby author- ized to erect and equip an addition to the building situated on that part of Central Park, formerly known as Manhattan Square, and now in the possession and occupation of the American Museum of Natural History, in accordance with a contract made in pursuance of chapter 139 of the laws of eighteen hun- dred and seventy-six. Said addition shall include suitable space for the exhi- bition of the specimens of the Museum, now stored for want of room to display them to the public, and shall also include a lecture hall, which can be used for the purpose of giving to the teachers of the common schools, and the normal schools of the State, and to artisans, mechanics and other citizens, the instruc- tion provided for them in chapter 428 of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six. The Trustees of said Museum shall select an architect to prepare, under their direction, the plans, and to superintend, under the direction of the Commissioners of Parks, the construction of said addition. Said plans, when completed and approved by said Trustees, shall be submitted to the Commis- sioners of said department for their approval, and may include any alteration of the present building made necessary by the enlargement, and such improve- ments and repairs to it as the Commissioners of said department and the Trustees of said Museum may agree are proper and necessary. The Commis- sioners of said department shall provide for the compensation of the architect i 9 out of the fund hereby provided for the erection of said addition. Said equip- ment shall include all the cases and fittings required for the preparation, exhibi- tion and preservation of the specimens, books and property of the Museum, also furniture and fixed apparatus of the lecture hall, and the other rooms of this building. § 2. For the purpose of providing means for carrying into effect the pro- visions of this act, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller, upon being there- unto authorized by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, to issue and sell, but not at less than their par value, bonds or stock of the Mayor, Alder- men and Commonalty of the City of New York in the manner now provided by law payable from taxation, but not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three per centum per annum, and redeemable within a period of time not exceeding thirty years from the date of their issue. § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. §$ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. The annual growth and proper development of your institution necessarily involves yearly increasing expenditures. The arrange- ment and rearrangement continually necessary in a large and growing scientific department not only occupies much time and care, but demands the employment of gentlemen of notable skill and acquirements. Our only assured annual income at present is from the City appropriation of 315,000 and the interest of the $55,000 invested funds. It would appear to be very desirable to place the Museum on such a permanent basis of maintenance that the annual contribu- tions of the Trustees and members could be appropriated exclu- sively to the purchase of objects of science. Valuable collections, which the Museum needs, are continually being offered us for sale, but we are obliged to decline their purchase for want of funds. The great museums of Europe are chiefly sustained by public fund, through the force of an enlightened public sentiment both as to their educational and economic value. The value of what you have already accumulated in your halls rises to a large figure commercially, but it is a difficult task to estimate the money value of what belongs to science and scientific institutions. To their value must be added their ameliorating 10 power, their educational force, and the scope they afford the higher faculties of man to apprehend the wonderful phenomena of nature, and to master and utilize her great forces. To the multitude shut up in stone walls, to whom are afforded an acquaintance with the beauty of natural objects, or to study them in their usual aspects and conditions, the advantage of your Museum is, that it affords opportunity ; and out of a great number who look only vaguely and experience only the healthful excite- ment of a natural curiosity, one here and there may be found endowed with special aptitudes and tastes. Perhaps some child of genius, whose susceptibilities and faculties, once aroused and quickened, will repay in the field of discovery and science, through the force of some new law in its manifold applications or relations, all your expenditure a hundred fold. Commercial values and purely scientific values meet often on common ground; but their essential life belongs to opposite poles. To some it appears necessary to vindicate the employ- ment of large amounts of public money in such an institution as that which you control, from the charge of extravagance ; their ideas of value appear to be limited to that which is exchange- ~ able in the current coin of the market ; but the highest results of character and life offer something which cannot be weighed in the balances of the merchant, be he ever so wise in his generation. The work accomplished and the general improvements in the collections may be seen by the following extracts fromthe reports of the Curators : DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AND ETHNOLOGY. [Under the charge of Prof. A.S BicKMoreE.] In order to render to this department a properly stable char- acter, so that carefully considered plans could be made in advance for the more economic and effective preparation of the photographic illustrations, which are necessary in this new mode of visual instruction, the last Legislature passed a bill providing for the maintenance of the lectures to teachers in the Museum, and for continuing aid to the Normal Schools of the State for a period of two years, commencing October 1, 1886. In accord- ance with the provisions of this law, the Museum entered into a contract with Hon. A. S. Draper, the State Superintendent of 11 Public Instruction. The Museum and the public owe much of the gratifying development of this popular department to the appreciative codperation of Judge Draper, from whose annual report, transmitted to the Legislature, January 5, 1887, is the fol- lowing important extract : “The system is new, but is undoubtedly destined to have an important part in future educational work. ‘The course of lec- tures in progress is eminently attractive and practical, and teachers and those preparing to teach are thus given the advantages of foreign travel and opportunities for scientific research, which they could obtain in no other way. “The need of a much larger lecture hall at the Museum is sorely felt. If it is provided, the information now being supplied to teachers can be extended to mechanics, artisans, and others, as is contemplated by the second section of the law under which we are proceeding. Much of it would be of peculiar interest to this class of our city population. Such lectures as the four upon ‘ Food Fishes,’ and those upon ‘Coal and Petroleum,’ ‘Iron and Lead,’ ‘Tea and Coffee,’ ‘Indian Corn and Tobacco,’ ‘Wheat and Rice,’ ‘Sugar and Salt,’ and many others, would prove of great value to them. The City of New York ought to provide accommoda- tions for carrying on this work, and very likely will.” The rapidly increasing interest in this illustrative method of promoting public education is strikingly manifested in the fol- lowing statement of the number of teachers who have attended the first lecture in the Spring Course during the past four years : Panuvary U2 VSOAy Shainin LOT Bebruanys 14. T8Son a RO BAG Bebruanyy ZO pTSSOs Ga) (clayey Wee te Gene) 286 aMUAahy STOO TA asa Na as cates lamar SO The present lecture hall is designed to seat 275. On January 8, the opening of the present course, 390 teachers were crowded into the little hall—of whom nearly fifty were ladies who were obliged to stand after having taught all the week—and 114 went away, unable to get inside the doors. During the past summer, at the suggestion of Judge Draper, Prof. Bickmore traveled at his own expense in Norway to the North Cape and throughout the sublimest scenery of Switzerland, to gather illustrations and data for his lectures on those countries. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. [Under the charge of Prof. R. P. WHITFIELD. ] PALZONTOLOGICAL CoLLEcTIoNs.—In this collection much has been done during the past year, in providing labels ; a large number of explanatory labels having been added. ‘The vertebrate remains of the Holmes Collection, from the Phosphate beds of 12 South Carolina, have been determined and permanently labeled, as far as they have been described ; and the invertebrate Miocene collection has also been permanently labeled with species labels. Early in the year we received a large collection of European fos- sils from Prof. Karl Zittel, of the University of Munich, Bavaria, in exchange for one of the collections of the Hall duplicates. These have been placed on exhibition, and all the more promi- nent forms provided with permanent labels. In order to provide room for this collection in the cases, many changes were neces- sary, owing to their crowded condition, and caused the expendi- ture of much time. Several other additions were made to this collection during the year, the most prominent of which has been placed in case B, sections g, 10 and 11, in the Chazy, Birdseye and Black River formations. ‘This was a donation, on condi- tion of early publication, from Prof. H. M. Seely, President E. Brainerd and other members of the faculty of Middlebury Col- lege, Middlebury, Vermont, and forms the basis of Bulletin No. 8, recently published. ‘The collection is a very valuable one, as it comprises mostly new forms now become types of their species. MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION.—The catalogue of this collec- tion has been completed as far as the collection affords material, and might now be printed for use from the manuscript book if desirable, after some slight revision. A number corresponding to the species number in Dana’s System of Mineralogy has been placed on each specimen, so that by reference to that number in the catalogue or in the A7anua/ all particulars can belearned. Many valuable additions have been made to this collection during the year, among which is an extremely interesting group of native golds and silvers, obtained partly by purchase by the Museum authorities, and partly by donation from a most liberal patroness. Many other additions, both by exchange and donation, are appended in the lists under their several heads. A great necessity of this collection is want of space, and this necessity becomes the more pressing year by year, as additions are made. The collection now contains about 400 species, or about half the known number ; but as additions are made it be- comes necessary to remove the less conspicuous forms to drawers in the attic rooms, where they are entirely inaccessible to students or the public, unless under the direct personal attendance of one of the Curators. In the present building there is no way in which this can be remedied except by placing drawers beneath the present cases, in which the overflow of the table cases can be placed, and where they will be somewhat more easily examined than in the attic. Economic CoLLection—Suilding Stones. The Museum has lately received a duplicate series of the building and ornamental stones of the United States, collected and studied under the 13 direction of the Tenth Census Commission. ‘This collection con- tains 1,053 nicely dressed, four-inch cubes of rock, accompanied each by a microscopical section for study. It has also over 200 larger blocks of American and foreign building stones and mar- bles, many of them twelve-inch cubes. For the proper exhibition of the Census Commission series it will require certainly not less than 50 linear feet of shelf room for each hundred blocks, or, with maps, charts and other explanatory matter, not less than 600 linear feet of shelf. While for the larger blocks there would be required not less than 150 linear feet, equal to 750 feet in all. At the present time there is not available a single foot of case room in this department in which this collection can be exhibited. The Census Commission series is packed in twenty-four large rough boxes, stored on the lower hall stairway, and the other blocks are strewn along the stairways through two and a half stories of the building, exposed to dirt and injury, and are rapidly deterior- ating in quality and beauty. If this entire collection were properly cared for and protected, it would make a very interesting, instruc- tive and attractive collection, particularly for the artisan class of our city. CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTION.— The Wolfe Collection of Shells. Since the last annual report this collection has been very greatly improved in condition, and at the present time more than three-fourths of that part of it which is on exhibition is neatly arranged systematically, and provided with proper specific labels, so that now it begins to present a very attractive appearance. This collection is now more constantly used for the identification of species by visitors to the Museum than any other collection in the building, from the fact that the shells are not only attractive, but more easily obtainable in New York than any other class of . natural objects. Consequently it is desirable that this collection should be as full and complete as possible. Still, for want of space, there will be a large amount of the collection necessarily stored in the drawers in the attic, and inaccessible to the public ; unless, as in the case of the minerals, drawers can be placed beneath the present cases, accessible to students and amateurs wishing to identify species, under the supervision of a Curator. BULLETIN No. 8, containing two Paleontological articles, the principal one based upon some new Birdseye limestone fossils from Fort Cassin, Vt., was prepared in this department during the autumn, and published just at the close of the year. The collec- tion upon which it is based was a donation, for that purpose, from parties in Vermont, and forms a very valuable addition to the Paleontological Collection at a point where it was particularly deficient. This Bulletin ought properly to constitute the end of Vol. I of the Museum publications, and, with the others preced- ing it, be indexed, so that it might be bound into a single vol- ume—the next one issued beginning Vol. II. 14 DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS AND BIRDS. [Under the charge of Mr. J. A. ALLEN.] Mammats.—The collection of monkeys, numbering 120 species, represented by 166 specimens, has been carefully identified, cata- logued, and labeled, thus completing the work of cataloguing and labeling the collection of mammals. There have been added to the mounted collection 15 species of monkeys and 30 species of North American mammals. Other additions, not yet mounted, include an Indian rhinoceros, a yak, several kangaroos, a capy- bara, two monkeys, and various smaller species, many of them received in the flesh from the Central Park Menagerie. A large collection of Arizona mammals, most of them presented by Dr. E. A. Mearns, has been added to the Study Collection. About thirty species are still wanting to complete the mounted collection of North American mammals. These, it is hoped, may be added at the earliest opportunity. The great need of this department is a study collection of North American mammals, in which each species shall be repre- sented by a good series of both skins and skulls, collected at many different localities, in order to show their phases of geo- graphical variation, as well as the differences depending upon sex and age. Many of the smaller species, as the mice, shrews, moles and bats, should also be represented by specimens preserved in alcohol. Such a collection is absolutely necessary for purposes of study and scientific investigation, and it is of the utmost im- portance that measures be taken at once to secure the requisite material. At present we have not more than a dozen or twenty skins, and about the same number of skulls—hardly enough to be considered as even a nucleus for such a collection. Birps.—About one-half of the mounted collection of North American birds has been catalogued and relabeled, in accordance with the new system of nomenclature recently adopted by the American Ornithologists’ Union. About one-half of the mounted European birds have also been provided with exhibition labels. These together number about 2,200 specimens, or about two- fifths of the exhibition collection. The Study Collection has been rearranged, and about 600 speci- mens catalogued and labeled. This collection now numbers about 4,000 skins of North American birds, and about 2,000 skins of foreign birds. The Study Collection of North American birds requires the addition of 10,000 specimens to bring it up to the proper standard of completeness. The mounted collection of North American birds still requires the addition of about ninety species to render it complete. The additions during the past year number about 200 mounted birds and 3,250 skins, nearly all North American. The additions 15 to the nests and eggs number about 600 specimens, and include many of great rarity and value. — Four cases, combined with cabinets. for storage, have been placed in the Hall of Birds, to which the collection of nests and eggs has been transferred, and in which a selected series of nests and eggs has been placed on exhibition. The removal of the col- lection to its new quarters, and the selection of specimens for exhibition, has been kindly made by Mr. W. B. Bailey, who has also, during the year, contributed many valuable specimens to this department. Early in the year a department of Taxidermy was established, with Mr. Jenness Richardson, formerly of the U. S. National Museum, as taxidermist. Many specimens received since in the flesh have either been mounted or properly prepared for mount- ing ; nearly the whole collection of bats has been remounted, and repairs have been made on many specimens already in the collec- tion. In May, Mr. Richardson began to collect materials for a series of groups illustrative of the nesting habits of the birds found in the vicinity of New York City. Each group will consist of a pair of birds and their nest and eggs or young, with their natural sur- roundings of characteristic vegetation and other accessories. About twenty of these groups are well under way, and will be ready for exhibition early in May. A _ skilled modeler of plants, Mrs. Mogridge, formerly at the South Kensington Museum, of London, has been employed to prepare the vegetation required. The results thus far attained are highly satisfactory, leaving little to be desired in point of effectiveness and truthfulness to nature. Under the new law for the protection of song and native birds recently enacted by the State of New York, the Museum has been called upon to issue permits in the interest of collectors of birds for scientific purposes; a few only have been granted, and these only to well-known ornithologists. In September a Bulletin (Bulletin No. 7) was issued for this department, consisting of a colored plate and 94 pages of text. It included five papers, one on mammals, two on birds, and two on batrachians. DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, FISHES AND REPTILES. [Under the charge of Dr. J. B. Houper.] The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution having intimated to the Executive Committee of the Museum that he was at liberty to present to them a series of casts of reptiles and fishes, I was directed to visit Washington for the purpose of negotiating for their preparation and transfer. This series embraces carefully 16 prepared casts of the food fishes of North America. The casts are taken from fresh examples, and have been colored by an expert, under the eye of a scientist. In most respects this method of exhibiting fishes and reptiles is superior to any. The list of fishes thus offered embraces the names of 88 species, and that of reptiles 14 species; the cost being, when ready for transportation, $727. This collection has been received, with the exception of four fishes, which are very large, and require more deliberate attention. All prove most excellent and important ac- quisitions to our cabinets. During the year the collections of specimens in alcohol have received special attention. The fishes and reptiles have been carefully examined with reference to classification and nomen- clature in accordance with present accepted forms. This work has been completed, and permanent record made of the same. Printed labels are being prepared for these collections, and the specimens, both wet and mounted, will be presented for public exhibition. : The catalogue of fishes, as now completed, embraces the names of 221 species of mounted specimens, and 194 in alcohol. The 88 species of casts of fishes, being representatives of North American food fishes, added, makes a total of 403 species. Besides this summary the department has received large donations during the year, which will be examined and classified in due time. Additional to this we have lately arranged to receive from the U. S. Fish Commission, from time to time, examples of all the fishes of this continent, both marine and fresh water. As this implies large numbers, the specimens will be sent at intervals, in certain groups, to enable a prompt and proper arrangement for exhibition. At present, in the Department of Reptiles and Batrachians, there are permanently recorded: reptiles, 349 species; of batrachians, 72 species. Besides, numerous specimens of both groups have been received during the year as gift, and by purchase. In the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy much valuable material has been added. Through the Smithsonian Institution, two cases containing invertebrates have been received. ‘These consist of a share of the valuable results of the deep-sea dredgings by the U. 5S. 5. “Albatross,” under the management of the Fish Commission. The collections largely embrace objects new to science, ranging from mollusca, crustaceans, through the several lowest branches of the animal kingdom—all of intense interest and value to students of invertebrate zodlogy, as well as highly curious to the passing visitor. Among the more valuable gifts received during the year are seven glass-covered preparations of crustaceans, including promi- 17 nent typical forms, for purposes of study. ‘These are separated in their several numerous parts to show the articulated structure. The Museum is indebted for this gift to Messrs. F. B. Thurber, of New York, and Thomas Higgins, of Liverpool. In view of lack of space in the halls for the suitable exhibition of specimens of the several departments, the collections in alcohol have been arranged and exhibited in the Curator’s rooms. During the past year many students and others have had the privilege of visiting the rooms, and it will continue to be a pleasure to the Curator to extend all possible assistance to any desiring to gain acquaintance with the collections. ENTOMOLOGY. This department has, since July 1st, 1886, for its preservation and extension, been under the care of Mr. E. B. Southwick. The work of classification, determining, and placing on exhi- bition, has been for the past six months continued to the best advantage of the collection now in possession of the Museum. The collection on the first of July, 1886, numbered about twenty-two thousand (22,000) specimens, to which were added by Mr. Southwick five thousand six hundred (5,600) specimens, collected in and about New York City and State, and New Jersey. Seven hundred and fifty (750) specimens were presented to the collection, making the addition for the half year six thousand three hundred and fifty (6,350) specimens, making the total number now in possession of the Museum twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty (28,350) specimens. As a large number are duplicates, these will be utilized for exchanges, and to supply with fresh specimens the exhibition collection. The collection of insects now in possession of the Museum embraces many valuable specimens, as types from Osten Sacken, and are invaluable in the determination of many difficult species. The arrangement of the orders in the Museum has been accord- ing to A. S. Packard, Jr., and in the Hymenoptera, a portion of the Lepidoptera and Diptera, and nearly all the Coleoptera, the insects are classified, named, and on exhibition. The present need of the department is to complete the col- lection of North American insects, and collect and exhibit, as far as is possible, the insects of the Central Park, their manner of living and destructive working, their variations in size and color, all of which will add to the intelligent study, as to the destruction of enemies and preservation of friends. As a-large number of insects feed upon trees, shrubs and plants, a collection of these food-plants, together with the life history of each insect would not only be of great value to science, but would 18 give the general public an idea of the ravages of “noxious insects,” and as to the best means for their destruction, and the preserva- tion of valuable plants. It is proposed that during the coming year the work of col- lecting, mounting and exhibiting, shall be carried out as com- pletely as is possible, to show the life history of our local insects, and no opportunity will be lost that will further such an end. In addition to the exhibition collection, one for study and com- parison will be arranged in cabinets, from which duplicates can be obtained to replace faded and broken specimens in the exhi- bition class. As far as is possible, insects of this locality will be collected and used for exchanges. There seems to be no reason why this collection cannot be made one of the finest in the world, and no more important center for its study and exhibition can be found than in New York City. Many of the finest collections of North American insects have been purchased by the European museums, and while they at present lead us in this department, there seems to be no reason why this Museum should not soon step in the first ranks and lead the world. When it is known and established that the collection is being cared for, and an interest shown in its extension, the public will have more confidence in its management, and many collections now in obscurity will be presented to it as the best means for their preservation and exhibition, and as a lasting monument to many an earnest man’s industry. LIBRARY. [Under the charge of Mr. A. Woopwarp. | The additions to the Library this year, through various means, have exceeded any previous year. ‘The books and pamphlets re- ceived have amounted to: volumes, 1,559; Nos. and parts, 516 ; pamphlets, 1,149. By Application (Librarian). ... 191 Vols. 197 Nos. and Parts. 57 Pamphlets. Exchange (Bulletin)....... 36 182 of go “ (Duplicates)..... TOs 2 a 15 o Donationsaeian cee oes A3ON be 135 is 75 i Purchase ee Srattnaetay caste SSB ene gi2 rh Ro tale Guerre Ny 1,559 516 is 1,149 ae These additions include books, transactions, memoirs, periodi- cals, pamphlets and maps; also the Paleeontological and Geolog- ical Library of Prof. R. P. Whitfield, by purchase. 19 Mr. Hugh J. Jewett has donated 350 beautifully bound volumes on voyages and travels, many of which are rare and difficult to obtain now. ; : The Conchological Library, the gift of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, has received, up to date, 150 additional volumes. Number of volumes in Library, Bound. Unbound. Nos. and Parts. Pamphlets. January Ist, 1886........ 3,694 1,229 1,981 3,052 Added during the year........ 1,398 161 516 1,149 sRotalitodatesneaeniel. 5,092 1,390 2,497 4,201 The books have been much used this year, especially by those not employed in the Museum. Since the middle of May to date, the number of visitors, who came to consult books, 395. The Curators have had in use, in their rooms, about 1,000 volumes. One thousand volumes have been bound, through means gener- ously provided by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, and the Trustees. There are still, however, a large number that require to be bound before they can be made available for use. Bulletin No. 7, issued July, 1886; of these and the other Bulletins, during the year 1886, from January 1st to December 31st, 602 copies were distributed ; 475 were distributed in the United States and Canada; the remainder 127 were sent as ex- changes to scientific and literary institutions and individuals in Europe, India and Australia. The Library of the New York Academy of Sciences, was removed during the month of September, the room being far preferable for the accommodation of books, our library was moved to the room it now occupies, displaying it to better advantage. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 27 account 1886. RECEIPTS. Balance from 1885 account, $2,466 08 From Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, - = 2,426 16 ““ Oswald Ottendorfer, = I,000 OO ‘© J. Hampden Robb, ~~ - . 1,000 00 ““ Morris K. Jesup, - - 600 00 ‘“ James M. Constable, - > - 600 00 ‘« ~ Adrian Iselin, “ 2 600 00 Per Gy kay ayes aae aa = - = 600 00 “ D. O. Mills, - - 600 00 ““ H.R. Bishop, - Soe ae - 600 00 ‘© John B. Trevor, - - 600 00 ““ C. Vanderbilt, - - - = 600 00O “ THE cn useum of Natural history. (Pith Street and Sth Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, ACT OF INCORPORATION, ea PE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, ACT OF INCORPORATION, CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS “ey FOR THE YEAR 1887-8. NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. 1888. ‘111 Jonn St} Established 1835, WEW YORK MNO” BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MORRIS K. JESUP. BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ADRIAN ISELIN. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH H. CHOATE. PERCY R. PYNE. JOHN B. TREVOR. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. *JOSEPH W. DREXEL. ANDREW H. GREEN. * Deceased. ABRAM 5S. HEWITT. CHARLES LANIER. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. C. VANDERBILT. D. O. MILLS. CHAS. G. LANDON. H. R. BISHOP. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. J. HAMPDEN ROBB. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1888. President. MORRIS K. JESUP. Vice-Presidents. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. Secretary. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. Treasurer. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. Executive Committee. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, Chairman. D. JACKSON STEWARD. C. VANDERBILT. Ee Ree BISH@OP: OLIVER HARRIMAN. The President and Secretary, ex-officio. Auditing Committee. CHARLES LANIER. ADRIAN ISELIN: WILLIAM E. DODGE. Finance Committee. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. O. MILLS. PERCY R. PYNE. Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Curator of the Ethnological Department, and in charge of the Department of Public Instruction. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of the Geological, Mineralogical and Conchological Departments. Mig dee (Caled el Oya\ler Assistant Curator of the Geological Department. J. A. ALLEN, Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy. *Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy, Fishes and Reptiles. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Taxidermist. A. WOODWARD, Librarian. WILLIAM WALLACE, Clerk. * Deceased. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR 1887. To the Patrons, Fellows and Members of the Museum : The Treasurer’s account shows the receipts of the year to have been $63,890.71, and the expenditures $61,434.64, of which $31,128.75 was for necessary expenses, which include salaries, fixtures, repairs, labor, etc. The sum of $30,305.88 was for “~~ additions to the collections. Of the total receipts, the city has contributed the sum of $14,989.20. Many large and important additions have been made during the past year, which include the Lawrence Collection of American birds, numbering 12,000 specimens ; a collection of 4,000 Brazilian birds; the Elliot Ornithological Library (of about 1,000 volumes), accompanied by his celebrated collection of hummingbirds, which is next to the largest known in the world. There has been placed in the Geological department a skeleton of a Mastodon, which forms one of the most striking and attract- ive features in this department of the Museum. Towards securing the above-mentioned, striking and valuable collections, the Museum is especially indebted to Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr. Percy R. Pyne, Mr. James M. Constable and Mr. Joseph W. Drexel, for their generous contributions. Especial mention should be made of the addition to the Col- lection of Bird Groups, mounted in characteristic attitudes, and surrounded by natural accessories, the gift of our devoted friend, Mrs. R. L. Stuart. The annexed abstracts from the Curators’ reports show other important additions, both by purchase and donation. 8 During the past year, at the expense of our President and Mr. James M. Constable, an expedition was sent to Montana for buffalo, which did not result in securing the desired specimens, but a large number of skeletons of buffalo and skins and skeletons of other large mammals was obtained, which prove most valuable additions to the ZoGlogical department. As is shown by our Treasurer’s report, there have been two patrons and fifteen life members added to the membership. The annual membership now amounts to five hundred and three members, paying regularly their yearly subscriptions. It would be very desirable if this source of income could be J/argely increased. It is one of the best methods to supplement the annual deficiency, which the Trustees each year, for a long time past, have so generously supplied. The attendance of visitors during the past year have been 160,941, an increase of 34,636 over 1886; an average of 511 per day. The collections of the Museum are now valued at the sum of about $600,000, and it is but right to say that of this large amount your Trustees have been the main contributors. The necessity of adding to these collections increases as time goes on, and it is hoped that more of our citizens will take an earnest and increased interest in our Museum, and so aid the Trustees in making this institution what it should be and what our city has a right to expect—¢he great museum of the country. As was mentioned in the last annual report, the act to pro- vide means for enlarging the present building became a law last year. At a meeting of the Board, held December 22d, Messrs. J. C. Cady & Co. were appointed by the Trustees the architects of the additional structure, and the whole matter relating thereto was placed in the hands of a building committee. Plans for the said structure are now being carefully con-idered, and it is hoped that during this year the foundation will be laid for the new building. Additional exhibition space is imperatively demanded, and any longer delay will result in serious injury to the Museum and its collections. 9 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AND ETHNOLOGY. [Under the charge of Prof. A. S. BickmoreE.] In accordance with the contract between the State Department of Public Instruction and the Museum, for providing free instruc- tion to the teachers of the common schools and to the Normal Schools of the State, I have prepared and delivered twenty lectures in this city, and have visited and lectured at each of the Normal Schools. The large attendance upon the lectures describing the coun- tries I had visited last summer induced me to go again to Europe, at my own personal expense, and travel throughout Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece and Italy ; and in order to gain per- sonal experience for future lectures, I journeyed throughout Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Southern Norway and Scotland, and arrived in New York after an absence of six months. As the small lecture room at the Museum is only calculated to seat two hundred and seventy-five persons, and only one hundred more can be crowded into it, the Trustees hired Chickering Hall for the autumn course of lectures upon the following countries, viz: Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Scotland, India, China, Japan and the Pacific Islands. ‘This hall, after reserving space for the apparatus, contained eleven hundred and ninety-six seats. The largest number present was 1,430, and the average attendance 1,329, so that 133 persons on an average had to stand or sit on the steps of the aisles at every lecture. This is the only series of ten lectures in the whole course of eighty, extending over four years, that could have been delivered outside the walls of the Museum, for the reason that this instruc- tion to teachers, to be by them repeated to their pupils, must be illustrated not only by photographic views of specimens, but must be immediately followed by a careful examination of the costly collections on exhibition in our halls. The growth of the attendance upon the instruction given by this department is shown by the following statement of the number present at the opening lectures of the Autumn Courses for the past four years, viz: October seVSSt ue ee ee ne ero oT oe LOM EUSS Sey iy aren cape ey aie tee eit LON BS SOs se UNA Haan. Pena eaIS SHU SO 7 ee tee ara, Mae ve nT oO The largest number present previous to the beginning of the course just finished was 504, and the sudden increase from this figure to an average attendance of 1,329 is a gratifying proof of 10 the rapidly growing interest among progressive teachers in this illustrative method of communicating knowledge. The teachers attending this instruction are shown by their sig- natures, obtained at the closing lecture, to come from the cities along the Hudson as far north as Sing Sing, from beyond Jamaica, on Long Island, and from all parts of Staten Island, as well as from New York City and Brooklyn. The success that has attended our efforts to aid the teachers of the public schools in this vicinity is attracting attention in all parts of the State, and the next annual meeting of the School Commissioners from all the counties in this State will be held in our institution. GEOLOGICAL AND CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. [Under the charge of Prof. R. P. WHITFIELD.] PALHONTOLOGICAL CoLLECTIONS.—There has been much work done in this department during the year in permanent labels. More than 2,800 labels of this class having been provided ; and of these more than 1,600 are written labels. About 500 of these are type and figured specimen labels, bearing citations of publi- cation. At the end of 1886, labeling had been carried on, on the west side of the hall to near the end of the Eocene, and from the Coal Measures to that point permanent labels had been pro- vided. At the present time this permanent work has been carried along to the end of the American series, and considerable done to the European collections. This latter work has been ‘taken in hand, owing to the nature of the slips with the specimens being such as to incur danger of misplacement by the opening of the case doors. Early in the year, the type and figured specimens of Lamelli- branchiate fossils, for several years in Prof. Hall’s possession, were sent to the Museum. These were all labeled, and a large quantity of them placed on exhibition. The remainder are in drawers in the Attic, but will be put in place as soon as space can be provided for them. In May of this year the Museum authorities authorized the purchase of a skeleton of Mastodon giganteus from Messrs. Ward & Howell. This was done, and the skeleton placed in the centre of the Geological Hall. This skeleton is probably the best of the kind now known, certainly the best mounted, and it now forms the most attractive and interesting object in the Museum. Two fine lots of fossil fish, from the Eocene beds of Wyoming, were also added during the year. Other donations and purchases may be found mentioned in the appendix. 11 MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION.—There has been several im- portant additions to this collection during the year, principally by purchase, mostly of prominent or attractive specimens. Zhere is yet a need of many more large and attractive specimens, in order to make it what it should be for a public exhibition collection. CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTION.—Good progress has been made in labeling this collection. Nearly all specimens on exhibition have been provided with labels, and most of those not so provided are determined and only awaiting the writing of labels. The collection is yet to be numbered and recatalogued, and some undetermined species identified. It now presents a very good appearance, and bids to be a very useful collection, judging from the number of persons seen identifying shells from it. WaNT OF SpACcE.—The lack of space for exhibition in the two last-named collections becomes constantly more apparent and pressing, and also to a great extent in the Palzontological collec- tion. Of this latter collection several hundred types and figured specimens, lately received from Albany, a part of the Hall collec- tion, is at present stored in drawers in the Attic until other specimens now in the cases can be removed to make room for them. Economic CoLLEecTion.—A large amount of material per- taining to this collection, consisting of building stones, etc., now on hand, remains in boxes, or is otherwise stored away and out of sight for want of space to exhibit it, while that now ranged along the stairs and in the passage ways is constantly being injured for the same reason. USE OF THE COLLECTIONS BY VISITORS AND STUDENTS.—The constant increase of interest in, and use of the collections in the department by visitors, and particularly by students, is one of the noticeable features of the halls. To find people in the rooms with text books, peering into the cases, is an almost daily sight, while numbers are often seen with note books and specimens, making comparisons and copying labels. As the labeling pro- gresses this feature is the more and more noticeable, and the number of young people and teachers who bring specimens for identification and criticism is constantly on the increase. In fact, it is frequently the case on Saturdays that half of the day is occu- pied in giving information in this way to visitors for this especial purpose. This, I think, is one of the strongest evidences of the growing use of the Museum and its collections, and must in time create a greater interest in the objects of the institution and sym- pathy with its purposes. There is, however, one very important need of the collections in this department, in the direction of Vertebrate Paleontology, remains of large fishes, reptiles and mammals, a want which ought to be supplied with every oppor- 12 tunity which may offer. The extreme interest which the skeleton of the Mastodon excites is an indication of this necessity, and it seems to me that expenditures in this direction would be of greater benefit to the Museum than of those of any other depart- ment of natural objects. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS AND BIRDS. [Under the charge of Mr. J. A. ALLEN.] MamMAts.—The additions to the collection of Mammals are numerous and important. They include 15 mounted skins, 2 mounted skeletons, 490 unmounted skins, 35 unmounted skele- tons, and 370 skulls. ‘The mounted specimens include a male, a female, a suckling young, and a skeleton of the rare West Indian Seal (Monachus tropicalis), previously represented by only two specimens in all the museums of the world. Also several Mon- keys, a very rare North American Shrew (A/sophyrax bendiret), and a skeleton of an American Tapir ( Zapirus americanus). In my last year’s report attention was called to the great need of a Study Collection of North American mammals. The forma- tion of such a collection is now well under way. Over 200 beautifully prepared skins, accompanied by their skulls, have already been received, and orders still out are being gradually filled. The event of the year, however, is the Museum Expedition to the Bad Lands of Montana, undertaken by Messrs. D. G. Elliot and Jenness Richardson, at the expense of Mr. Morris K. Jesup and Mr. James M. Constable, in search, primarily, of Bisons. While the expedition was only partly successful as regards its principal purpose, it was eminently so in a general sense, the objects gath- ered including fine series of skins and skeletons of the Pronghorn Antelope, Mule Deer, Coyote, and of several of the smaller mam- mals of the region visited. ‘Two Bison skins were obtained, and about to skeletons, besides parts of many others, and about 75 skulls. It was found that the small herd of Bisons reported as occurring in the region visited had been exterminated by Indians and cowboys before the expedition arrived. Besides the speci- mens of the now nearly extinct Bison obtained by the Museum Expedition, a head and a skeleton have been received during the year, the latter being the gift of Robert Harris, Esq., of this city. Further additions entitled to special mention is a collection of 15 skeletons and 52 skulls of Brazilian mammals, added by pur- chase; 72 skins, with their skulls, from Arizona, presented ; a Mountain Goat (JZazama montana), and a Siberian Sheep (Outs nivicola), also by purchase ; finally, the skeleton of the celebrated Elephant “‘ Samson,’—the largest Asiatic Elephant ever brought to America—presented by Mr. W. W. Cole, of this city. This 13 valuable specimen is now in Professor Ward’s hands for macera- tion and mounting, and probably a year will elapse before it will be ready for exhibition. Material has also been gathered for a number of groups of small mammals, two of which are well under way, and will doubtless be ready for exhibition early in May, with the additional bird groups. The total number of mammals in the collection is about as follows: Mounted and on exhibition, about 1,000; skeletons, mounted and on exhibition, 125 ; unmounted skeletons, 60; skulls, 500; unmounted skins, 680; alcoholic specimens, 65. ‘Total, 2,430. Of the unmounted skins, about 450 may be considered as belonging distinctively to the Study Collection; the remaining 230 are intended more especially for mounting, and accordingly | are stored in the basement of the Museum, being preserved in vats, in an antiseptic solution. A portion of these may be con- sidered as duplicates, available for exchange; but fully one hundred of them are specimens which should be mounted for the exhibition series. In view of the fact that the larger mammals of North America are being rapidly exterminated, the Elk, the Mountain Sheep, and several of the other larger species being as surely doomed as the Bison, now already practically extinct, it seems highly desirable that the friends of the Museum should provide the means for se- curing groups of these interesting animals, representing both sexes and various ages, before it becomes too late to obtain them. The expedition sent out this year has secured ample and admir- able material for the proper representation of the Pronghorn and the Mule Deer. The Elk, the Black-tailed Deer, the Mountain Sheep, the Mountain Goat, the Moose, and Caribous, should be secured first, and about in the order named, to which should be added the Bison, which latter should be obtained without any delay. At present these species are all inadequetly represented, not only by too few examples, but by, in many cases, poorly pre- served and badly mounted specimens, by no means doing credit to an institution which may soon be the leading Natural History mu- seum of America. Such groups, if mounted in natural attitudes and with proper accessories, would prove pleasing to the eye and eminently instructive, and in line with the tendency of museums to break away from the too long time-honored and traditional method of arranging in long, monotonous rows, stiffly and other- wise inartistically, mounted effigies of animals. The work of completing the Study Collection of North Ameri- can mammals should also be carried vigorously forward, the ex- pense of this being comparatively trifling, and its importance great. Birps.—The year 1887 will ever be a memorable one in the history of the collection of birds. Any one of the four principal events of the year would serve to mark it as one of importance. 14 First is the acquisition, by purchase, of the Lawrence Collection of American birds, numbering about 12,000 specimens and 4,000 species, including about 300 original types of species described by our veteran ornithologist, Mr. George N. Lawrence, of whose life- work the collection is a result. The collection is eminently a reference collection, containing, as it does, about two-thirds of all the known species of American birds, carefully determined by the highest authorities. It thus forms, so far as it goes, a dictionary of American birds, and especially of the birds of the tropical por- tion of America. Second, the addition of the Elhot Collection of Humming- birds, numbering about 2,000 specimens, representing about 400 species. Besides being one of the largest and most valuable col- lections of its kind in the world, it has special value from having formed the basis of Mr. Elliot’s monograph of this group of birds, entitled “ A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilide,” pub- lished by the Smithsonian Institution in 1879. ‘This collection also includes many types of species. Third, the addition, by purchase, of 4,000 bird skins, several hundred birds’ eggs, and several hundred bird sterna, from the Province of Matto Grosso, Brazil, collected by Mr. Herbert H. Smith. This collection numbers about 300 species, many of them of special interest, and not previously represented in our collection. Fourth, the addition to the exhibition collection of a series of bird groups, eighteen in number, each consisting of apair of birds, with its nest and eggs, mounted in characteristic attitudes, and surrounded by natural accessories, each group being a facsimile reproduction from nature of the vegetable and other surroundings of the nest. These groups, modeled after the plan of the bird groups in the British Museum at South Kensington, are the first of the kind to be placed on exhibition in America. They have been prepared with fidelity and skill, for which great credit 1s due to Mrs. E. S. Mogridge and her brother, Mr Minturn, formerly at the South Kensington Museum, for the modeling of the plants, and to Mr. Jenness Richardson, of the Museum, for the skillful designing of the groups and the effectiveness of the general results. The efficiency of the bird department has been further greatly enhanced by the addition to the Library, by purchase, of Mr. D. G. Elliot’s ornithological library, consisting of about 1,000 vol- umes, carefully selected with respect to their utility as indis- pensible works of reference. This addition provides the Museum with an excellent ornithological library, surpassed by very few similar libraries in this country. During the year a very important change has been made in the method of storing the unmounted skins, through the adoption for 15 this purpose of moth-proof tin cans, about 125 of which have been ordered. One-half of them have been received and are already in use. They give entire satisfaction, rendering every specimen easily accessible, and affording perfect protection against dust and insect pests, thus insuring the perfect preservation of the specimens. The additions to the collection have been wholly unpreceden- ted. In addition to the collections already mentioned, 2,235 specimens have been received from Dr. E. A. Mearns, U.S. A., col- lected in Arizona; about 150 have been purchased; 219 have been collected by Mr. Richardson ; 67 were obtained by the Mu- seum Expedition ; 60 have been received by donation from various sources ; and about 250 have been purchased, including 76 mounted birds, for the North American collection. A further addition, worthy of special note, is a skeleton of the Great Auk, recently received as a gift from the United States National Museum. ‘The total additions number about 21,000 bird skins, of which 200 are mounted; about 600 birds’ eggs, with many nests, mostly South American ; about 300 sterna, and 12 skeletons. About 300 birds previously inthe collection have been remounted and placed on exhibition, making about 500 mounted birds added to the ex- hibition series during the year. The total number of birds now belonging to the Museum may be safely placed at about 39,000. (Adding Mr. Sennett’s collec- tion, of about 5,000 specimens, the total number of birds now in the Museum is about 44,000.) ‘The collection of nests and eggs is second in size and importance to that of the United States National Museum, numbering about 20,000 specimens. Mr. Sennett’s collection, equally available for use, contains about 7,000, making our resources in this department equal to about 27,000 specimens. In the last report attention was called to the need of the fur- ther increase of the North American Study Collection of birds. Notwithstanding the many additions of the present year, this part of the collection has been very little improved, and about 10,000 specimens should be added to it in order to give it a creditable standing in comparison with similar collections in other museums. This matter may be considered as now especially urgent, since an opportunity is open to the friends of the Museum to purchase, ready at hand, a collection which would not only admirably meet this deficiency, but give the American Museum unquestionably the first place, as regards it$ ornithological department, among the museums of this country—a position it can never take while this defect remains. The reception and care of the large accessions has prevented much progress in cataloguing and labeling the collections, which work, however, has been continued at every opportunity. 16 Work on the group collection has taken the greater part of the time of Mr. Richardson and his assistant. ‘The preparation of many specimens received inthe flesh (mostly from the Central Park Menagerie, through Mr. W, A. Conklin, including 22 mam- mals and 20 large birds) has also required considerable time, which, with Mr. Richardson’s two months’ absence with the Museum Expedition, has prevented much progress in mounting the rapidly accumulating material. As already stated, about 300 birds have been remounted, and 73 mounted from fresh specimens, the greater part of the latter being forthe groups. Nineteen bird groups and two mammal groups are well under way, and will be finished in time for exhibition at the Annual Reception. In May a Bulletin (Vol. II., No. 1) was issued for this depart- ment, consisting of 39 pages of text and six plates. It contained two papers, entitled asfollows: I. The West Indian Seal (Zon- achus tropicalis Gray). II. Note on Squalodont Remains from Charleston, S. C. DEPARTMENTS OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, FISHES AND REPTILES. [Under the charge of Dr. J. B. Hotprr.] One of the most valuable acquisitions for the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy is the series of marine invertebrates received last year, and now examined and distributed in suitable glass jars. Each species has been named, and suitable labels attached, on which is placed the “Museum number,” referring to the permanent catalogue of the department, and also a “ Collection Guide.” The latter is added, in lieu of a printed guide, for the ready use of students and others desirous to consult specimens for identification or otherwise. These marine invertebrates consist of echinoderms, actinarians and other low forms, and crustaceans. Notwithstanding the smallness of these creatures, the collection is of great significance. Many of the species are new to science. All have been dredged from our North Atlantic coast, at depths ranging from a few fathoms to several miles. Here are numbers of sea creatures for the first time seen, and in several groups species are multiplied surprisingly. As no other opportunity is offered here for the inspection or study of these rare forms, the Curator has endeavored to present every convenience for the purpose. The entire history of each species, with proper nomenclature, is entered in the “ guide”’ of the department, for the use of students, and it is gratifying to know that many constantly avail themselves of the privilege. Many of the forms which were dredged off our coast have sur- 17 prised even marine zodlogists, and have proved of exceeding interest to all. Several forms of soft corals, gorgonias, etc.—beautiful often in color as well as form—were hitherto known only in warmer waters. The deep sea off our coast has lately been invaded to the depth of between three and four miles. Fishes of most singular form, as well as the lower animals, are among the pro-, ducts of the dredge. Several species of the interesting sea ane- mones of the greater depths are among our series. Marvelous forms of crab-like and shrimp-like creatures also. Our hitherto meagre lists of crustaceans and the lower forms, as indigenous to the North Atlantic shores, is largely increased in species, and additional to the previously acquired collections of invertebrate animals in our cabinets, the present new acquisitions will prove eminently serviceable to those who desire to continue the study of them. During the year a considerable increase has been made in the collections of reptiles and batrachians, mostly those of our native species. Col. Nicolas Pike, of Brooklyn, has aided materially by adding fresh and typical examples of serpents, turtles and batrachians. A notable example of his work in the interest of our Museum Is a series, two species, of our native salamanders, im which is shown the life-history, from the egg to the perfect form ; each day’s growth is shown by individuals. A series of adult specimens is also shown in connection, exhibiting the species. Several other naturalists have materially contributed to increase the collections of indigenous creatures. Mr. M. S. Crane, of New Jersey, and Mr. Arnold Kurth deserve most honorabie mention for their disinterested services in collecting for this department. Being students of zodlogy, the examples presented by them have the character of well-identified and well-prepared objects for study. Mr. Scott, of Arizona, and several friends of the Museum elsewhere—in India, in Canada—have added most acceptable specimens to our cabinets. The Curator has also been enabled to contribute largely to the several branches through personal attention, and it has been a source of gratification that without pecuniary expenditure his departments have exhibited a respectable and continued increase. The crowded state of our collections in the exhibition halls entirely excludes those belonging to the Department of Reptiles. The superb series of North American fishes is handsomely exhib- ited in the lower floor, and there are also on exhibition there fine examples of invertebrate forms. The entire alcoholic collection, embracing invertebrates and reptiles and fishes, is not exposed to public view ; cases are tem- porarily placed on the upper hallway, and the latter are arranged therein. Special collections of indigenous species of reptiles and 18 batrachians, and of fishes and invertebrates, are arranged and classified in the Curator’s room, being especially designed for aiding students who apply for instruction in our native objects. LIBRARY. [Under the charge of Mr. A. Woopwarp.] The additions to the Library this year are principally by pur- chase and donations. The books and pamphlets received have amountedto: volumes, 1,519 ; numbers and parts, 1,172 ; pamph- lets, 1,057. By Application (Librarian).... 88 Vols. 234 Nos. and parts. 39 Pamphlets. Exchange (Bulletin)...... pie 306 a 70 i of (Duplicates) .... 17 “ 3 as 52 a Donationsws-reeae cece 222 ie 73 ty 53 as Purchase Wercrces -iees seas es 1,169 ‘‘ 556 oe 843 xn Motaleen vs see 1,519 1,172 1,057 These additions include, beside the usual exchanges, the Ornith- ological Library of D. G. Elhot, containing nine hundred and eighty-seven (987) volumes, six hundred and seventy-five (675) pamphlets, purchased through the liberality of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mr. Percy R. Pyne. This Library is one made of well-selected books, rare and valuable, ranking third of its kind in the United States. Among them is to be found a complete set of the Ibis, Stray Feathers, Gould’s Birds of Australia, Gould’s Monograph of the Trochi- lide, Buller’s Birds of New Zealand, Malherbe’s Monographie des Picideés, Dresser’s History of the Birds of Europe, Vieillot’s Analyse d’une nouvelle Ornithologie, and many others of the same character. Notable among the donations are : The bequest of the late Dr. James Knight, New York City, seventy-two bound volumes on Botany. Eighty-one (81) volumes added to the Conchological Library, the gift of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. Mr. Geo. Hopkins, of Troy, N. Y., a large collection of the Scientific American and supplement, forming about forty (40) volumes. The Library has been presented with a very fine copy of the work on the Mastodon giganteus of North America, by John C. Warren, M.D. This copy formerly belonged to Dr. Warren’s brother. At his death it came into the possession of Miss M. A. Warren, who requested Mr. J. Warren to present it to some insti- tution, who kindly favored us. The growth of the Library is in every way encouraging and gratifying. Five years ago it had only three thousand (3,000) UG) volumes on the shelves ; now it has about ten thousand (10,000) volumes and several thousand pamphlets. Number of volumes in Library, Bound. Unbound. Nos. and Parts. Pamphlets. January Ist, 1887... ... 5,092 1,390 2,497 4,201 Added during the year..... 5 = Aphis} 206 1,172 1,057 Motalitondates x. -.4- 6,405 1,596 3,669 5,258 Bulletin No. 8, issued December 28th, 1886; No. 1, Vol. IL, May, 1887. Of these and the other Bulletins during the year 1887, from January 1st to December 31st, one thousand and eighty-six (1,086) copies were distributed; eight hundred and thirty-six (836) distributed in the United States and Canada; the remainder, two hundred and fifty (250) in Europe, India and Australia. Three hundred and sixteen (316) volumes bound this year, through the generosity of the Trustees and Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. i The demand for books has been very great this year, more so than any previous year. Most of the books asked for were found in the Library. I am requested by the Trustees to render all assistance possible to the members of the Museum, students and any others who may be interested in natural history, and desirous of obtaining information relating to books, and to make the Library as attractive and useful as possible. Dr. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIsToRY, 1887. To Salaries, - = - e 2 = S Lecture. cpanel - - = = - Labor, - = a = Z = Coal, - - = = 2 z A i Printing (general), - = - - 2 “ce Supplies, - 2 = = 3 3 Stationery, - = = = is ‘ - Postage, - = - - “ - u Expressage, - - < - = = - Reception, = : : 2 = & Labels, - - - rs : - 2 3 Car Fare, 2 + - Bb Bs if Traveling Expenses, - - - - - Custom House ‘‘ is S = = s Sundries, - = - . 3 S B Poison, - 2 z E 5 y 4 Advertising, - = = 2 2 : a Printing Guides, - : = 2 = Repairs, - = S = = & = Fixtures, - - - 2 é a = Printing Bulletins, : - - : - Contingent Fund for Building, - : - Expenses on Lieut. Emmon’s Collection, - Interest on ‘‘ Dr.” Balances, - = - ENDOWMENT, = - - Wolfe Fund for Books Purchased, = = *« Shells, = - = = Library Department, = © - = ol Prof. Whitfield, 5 - - - os DE Ge Elliot: : = s - Geological Department, - = - a for Mastodon, - Mineral Department, - - - 5 - Bird & - - - : ie G. N. Lawrence, = Mammal ai - - - Fish and Reptile Department, = - = Insect Department, = = - - Ward’s Contracts, - - - - - Bird Groups, - = - - - - Total Expenditures, - J 2 Feb. 8.—Balance on hand carried down, - Examined CHARLES LANIER, ADRIAN ISELIN, and approved, Annual Report, - = - 2 $12,910 73 8,189 80 6,130 49 1,067 27 429 46 248 89 603 60 93 38 252 72 344 38 512 05 83 35 5 34 75 $31,128 76 IOI 04 3,357 46 : - 34,486 22 3,941 75 26,948 42 - - $61,434 64 - - 2,456 07 $63,890 71 Auditing Commutttee. in account with J. PPERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER. Cr. 1887. By Balance brought forward (from 1886 account), From the Department of Public Parks, - - State Supt. of Public Instruction, Annual Members, se ** Sale of Guides, sé ae ee ae From LIFE MEMBERS as follows: Mrs. Alexander Cameron, Collecting Permits (birds), Interest on Invested Funds, = Dodge bequest, Vanderbilt bequest, ENDOWMENT. From Mrs. R. L. Stuart, C. Vanderbilt, - : Percy R. Pyne, - James M. Constable. Joseph W. Drexel, Mrs. R. L. Stuart, for groups, za 7 - - Hugh Auchincloss, . F. Laubat, - - m. D. Sloane, - John J. Wysong. - Elliot F. Shepard, - . H. Shoenberger, - Archibald Rodgers, - H. C. Van Post, - H. M. Braem, - Dr. C. M. Bell, - - G. Manheimer, = EV ASV b.ost,) - Julius Wadsworth, - A. Rich: ards, 7 - R. Keppler, - - Edward pele - = Miss C. From the TRUSTEES as O. Jones, - Morris K. Jesup, ~- James M. Constable, - Wm. E. Dodge, - Percy R. Pyne,~- - Adrian Iselin, - - D. O. Mills, - - jee h W. Drexel, - Bishop, - - = Vanderbilt, - Chas. Lanier, ea Hee ~Chas. G. Landon, - J. Pierpont Morgan, - Oliver Harriman, - John B, Trevoi,- - Oswald Abram S. Hewitt, Ottendorfer, Hugh Auchincloss, Joseph H. Choate, enj. H. Field, - [E. & O. E.] New York, February 137, 1888. Feb. 8.—By balance brought down from 1887 account, follows: 8888888 88888888838ss $14,989 20 8,000 00 5,030 00 240 00 16 00 300 00 2,000 0O $16,500 00 2,348 36 500 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 I,500 00 g,200 00 $1,267 15 30,575 20 $31,842 35 32,048 36 $63,890 71 $2,456 07 J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TZveasurer, INCORPORATION. AN AGI TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Passed April 6, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of “The American Museum of Natural History,” to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History ; of encouraging and developing the study of Natural Science ; of advancing the general knowl- edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. § 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their government, the number and election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By- Laws, Rules, and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant to such Constitution and By-Laws, the persons named 23 in the first section of this Act shall be, and are hereby declared to be the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its property. § 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. § 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. § 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, t OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and seal of office at the City of Albany, fies. this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State. CONSTITUTTON OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ARE I Cine This Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL History. Se ARINKOES, 10E The several persons named in the charter, and such others as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed twenty- five in all at one time, shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property, and business of the Corporation, and in case of the death, accepted resignation, or removal from the State of any Trustee, a new Trustee shall be elected to fill his place by the remaining Trustees; but no election of a Trustee shall be held except at a quarterly meeting of the Trustees, on written notice of not less than one week, specifying that such election is to be held, and the vacancy which is to be filled ; and every election of ‘Trustees shall be by ballot, and no person shall be deemed to be elected a Trustee unless he shall receive the votes of at least three-fourths of the Trustees present. RATT Ce Eilts The Trustees shall meet quarterly, on the second Monday of every February, May, August and November, at an hour and place to be designated, on at least one week’s written notice from — the Secretary, and shall annually, at the quarterly meeting in Feb- ruary, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to transact special busi- ness on a call of the Secretary, who shall issue such call whenever 25 requested so to do, in writing, by five Trustees, or by the Presi- dent, and give written notice to each Trustee of such special meeting, and of the object thereof, at least three days before the meeting is held. ; | ARTICLE IV. The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, an Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Finance Committee, all to be elected from the Trustees. All these officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. The election of officers shall be by ballot, and the persons hav- ing a majority of the votes cast, shall be deemed duly elected. ARTICLE V. The President, and in his absence the First or Second Vice- President, shall preside at all the meetings of the Museum and of the Trustees. The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Trustees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing Com- mittee, and shall preserve the seal, archives, and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meetings of the Trustees, and attend the same. The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Museum. He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in books belonging to it, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees. He shall report in writing, at each quarterly meeting of the ‘Trustees, the balance of money on hand, and the outstanding obligations of the Museum, as far as practicable ; and shall make a full report at the annual meeting of the receipts and disbursements of the past year, with such suggestions as to the financial management of the Museum as he may deem proper. ARSE EC lay Wal: The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom the President and Secretary shall be two. ‘The five members of the 26 Executive Committee elected in February, 1887, shall forthwith draw lots for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respect- ively, and the terms for which those drawing the two, three, four and five years, respectively, were elected, are hereby extended to cover those periods; and hereafter at each annual election one member of the Executive Committee shall be elected to serve for five years. They shall have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library, and other property of the Museum ; and shall have power to purchase, sell, and exchange specimens and books, to employ agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in detail the directions of the Trustees; but the Executive Committee shall not incur any expense or liability for the Museum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meetings of the Trus- tees, without the express sanction of the Trustees. ARTICLE VII. The Auditing Committee shall consist of three, and it shall be their duty to examine and certify all bills presented against the Corporation; and no bills shall be paid unless first approved in writing by at least two members of this Committee. ARTICLE VIII. The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to take charge of and invest the funds of the Museum in its name, and to take all proper measures to provide means for its support. ARTICLE IX. A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the subsequent approval of a meeting at which a quorum shall be present. 27 ARTICLE X. By-Laws may from time to time be made by the Trustees, providing for the care and management of the property of the Corporation; and for the government of its affairs. Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any meeting of the Trustees, by a vote of a majority of those present, after a month’s notice in writing of such proposed amendment. ARTICLE XI. The contribution of $1,000 or more to the funds of the Museum, at any one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such patronship. The contribution of $500, at one time, shall entitle the per- son giving the same to be a Fellow, who shall have the right to appoint one successor in such fellowship. No appointment of a successor shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing, endorsed on the certificate, or by last will and testament. The contribution of S100, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Life Member. Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the above degrees, who shall have given to the Museum books or specimens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Committee, to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the President and Sec- retary shall issue diplomas accordingly under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their discretion. ARTICLE XII. No alterations shall be made in this Constitution, unless at a regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees ; nor by the votes of less than two-thirds of all the Trustees; nor without notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular meeting. BY] LAWS: J Patrons giving $1,000 are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and 1o Tickets for a single admission, Fellows, giving $500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and ro Tickets for a single admission. Life Members, giving S1oo, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission. Annual Members, paying S1o yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single admission. [Notr.—A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two persons to the Museum every day except Sunday, and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions, and may be used by any member of the Subscriber’s family. The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among friends and visitors. | II. Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a Trustee, unless excused by the Board. JU No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee who shall not be a “ Patron” of the Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees ex-officio—nor be eligible unless his name shall be presented by the nominating committee at a Regular Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place. 29 IV. No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its committees, officers, or employees, unless there are at the time sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same. We All bequests or legacies, not especially designated, shall here- after be applied to the Permanent Endowment Fund, the interest only of which shall be applied to the use of the Museum, as the Board shall direct. 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Annual Report. 1886. OFFICE OF THE LIGHTHOUSE BOARD. Annual Report. 1886. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C. Monthly Weather Review. October, December, 1886; January to October, 1887. Summary and Review. June, August, November, 1885. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. J. A. ALLEN, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 72 skins and 75 skulls, from Southern Arizona. W. W. COLE, New York City. The large Asiatic Elephant ‘‘ Samson.” DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Mr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent Central Park Menagerie. 1 Kangaroo, 1 Peccary, 2 Deer, 1 Sacred Calf, 1 Leopard, 1 Monkey, 1 Antelope, I South American Squirrel, 1 Mexican Porcupine, 2 Armadillos, 1 Galictis, 1 Paradoxure, 1 Seal, 2 young Sea Lions, 3 young Tigers, 2 young Badgers; all from the Central Park Menagerie. ROBERT HARRIS, New York City. 1 Skeleton of American Bison. Dr. E. A MEARNS, U. S. A., Fort Verde, Arizona. 2 Otters. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, New York City. 9 Skins of North American Mammals. Mrs. ROBERT L. STUART, New York City. 16 Skins, collected in the vicinity of New York City, by Mr. Richard- son, while gathering material for the groups. FRANK J. THOMPSON, New York City. 1 Monkey and 2 young Lions. RALF WALDO, M.D., New York City. 13 Opossums and 4 Bats. DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. H. B. BAILEY, New York City. Collections of nests and eggs, and several skins, mostly North American. HERBERT BROWN, Tuscon, Arizona. 2 skins of Arizona Birds. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Mr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent Central Park Menagerie. 1 White Pelican, 1 Herring Gull, 4 Swans, 2 Geese, I Guan, I Stork, I Spoonbill, 1 White Crane, 1 English Pheasant, 1 King Vulture, 1 Golden Eagle, 1 Roseate Cockatoo, 1 Toucan, 1 Raven; all re- ceived in the flesh from Central Park Menagerie. 44 D. G. ELLIOT, New York City. 2 skins of Franklin’s Grouse; 2,000 skins of Hummingbirds, about 400 species. Cot. N. S. GOSS, Topeka, Kansas. 1 skin of Snowy Plover, 2 eggs of Mississippi Kite, from Kansas. ROBERT B. LAWRENCE, New York City. I skin of Prairie Falcon. Dr. E. A. MEARNS, U.S. A., Fort Verde, Arizona. 2,300 skins of Arizona Birds, including many large Water Birds and ~ Birds of Prey, from Arizona. DANIEL E. MORAN, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 skin of Baird’s Sandpiper, from Long Island, N. Y. L. O. PINDAR, Hickman, Ky. 160 eggs of Kentucky birds. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 1 skin of a Quail, from Central America. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, New York City. 30 skins and mounted birds, mostly from Egypt and Palestine. Mrs. ROBERT L. STUART, New York City. 18 groups of mounted birds, with their nests and eggs; 219 skins, collected in the vicinity of New York City, by Mr. Richardson, in gathering materials for the groups. Capt. P. M. THORNE, U.S. A., Fort Lyon, Col. 1 skin of Western Lark Finch and 1 skin of Western Tree Sparrow. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C., through Prof. G. Brown Goode, Director. 1 skeleton of the Great Auk, from Funk Island. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. A. F. FORESTE, Granville, Ohio. Five species of Trilobites. Clinton Group, Dayton, Ohio. HENRY BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Seven specimens of Copal enclosing insects; six from Zanzibar, one from North Coast of Africa. SANDERSON SMITH, New York. ; Seven species of Fossils, from the Triassic, Nye Co., Nevada, and from the Laramie Group, various localities, and from the Tertiary of Texas. A. O. OSBORN, Waterville, N. Y. One specimen of Pterygotus macrothalmus, from Marshall, N. Y. -One specimen of Dolichopterus macrocheirus, from Forge Hollow, Marshall, N. Y. J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, through Prof. Heilprin. One hundred and thirty-three specimens of Pliocene Fossils, from Caloosahatchie Shell Bed. J. M. CONSTABLE, New York. Two small teeth (2d and 3d) of Mastodon. G. ASHMAN, Herkimer Co., N. Y. One large Orthoceras rigidum Hall, from the Lower Helderberg Limestone, Cedarville, Herkimer Co., N. Y. 45 G. N. LAWRENCE, New York City. The crown of a Mastodon Tooth from Missouri. J. PEARSON, Washingtonville, Orange Co., N. Y. Several slabs of Schoharie Grit with Fossils, from that place. D. HAMILTON, Front St., New York. Block of French Buhrstone, with Fossils. J. M. CONSTABLE, New York. Eleven slabs of Fossil Fish and two Plants, one a Palm Leaf ous the Eocene, Wyoming. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Four specimens of Copper Ores from Morenci, Arizona; three Azurites and one Malachite. CALIFORNIA LAND AND TIMBER CO., through R. D. Perry. One specimen of Magnetic Iron Ore. G. S. STANTON, New York. Specimen of Black Tourmaline in Granite, from New York Island. W. W. JEFFERIS, Philadelphia, Pa. Fluorite, Sphalerite, Barite, from England; Jefferisite, from Pa. NEW JERSEY ZINC MINING CO. Three specimens of Zinc Ore, from Franklin, N. J. (Willemite, Zincite and Franklinite.) J. TERRY, New York. A large collection of Clay Concretions from near Connecticut and Hog Rivers, Conn. D. JACKSON STEWARD, New York. One Calcite. Alston Moor, England. J. M. CONSTABLE, New York. One Calcite. Alston Moor, England. One Quartz and Specular Iron. England. C. A. QUINTARD, Norwalk, Conn. One specimen of Chondrodite. Tully Foster Mine, New York. L. CAHN, Lincoln, Neb. Vial of Zircon Crystals. El Paso Co., Col. Celestite Crystal. Garden of the Gods, Colorado. S. D. DILL, Nova Scotia. One specimen of Gold Quartz, from Centre Rawdon, Nova Scotia. A. A. CARY, Jr., New York. Mineral specimens from New Jersey and North Carolina. (Agalmato- lite, Garnet, Jeffersonite, Apatite, Genthite, Deweylite, Kaolinite, Samarskite.) H. G. HANKS, California. Nine Crystals of Glauberite. Four Crystals of Hanksite, both from California. H. T. WOODMAN, New York. Two specimens of Garnetiferous Vein in Gneiss. New York Island. Four pieces of Rose Quartz. Fairfield Co., Conn. LizuT. EMMONS, U. S. Navy. Five Garnets, from mouth of Stickeen River, Alaska. 46 ARTHUR HARRIS, New York. z Two specimens of Obsidian, from Yellow Stone Park, showing Lithophyses. Two specimens of Sulphur, from same locality. H. MOORE, New York. Specimen of Mountain Leather, from Mexico, State of Guerrero. A FRIEND OF THE MUSEUM, through Mr. H. T. Woodman. One large handsome slab of Gneiss Rock, carrying Garnets, from New Haven Co., Conn. Three specimens of Wernerite. Fairfield Co., Conn. . CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. WALDEMAR KELCH, New York. Specimens of dyrca pexata, A. transversalis, Anomia glabra and Crepidula fornicata, from Long Island Sound. DEPARTMENT OF FISHES AND REPTILES AND THE INVERTEBRATES. Cot. NICOLAS PIKE, Brooklyn, N. Y. Four cases of prepared specimens of Amblystoma, showing their life history. Numerous indigenous Reptiles, from Long Island, N. Y. A. HASSLER. One large Gorgonia. Florida. GEORGE B. SENNETT. Skin of a young Crotalus. Texas. One skin of Lizard. Texas. One skin of Lizard. Texas. Three Phrynosomas. Texas. ADOLPH SEVERT. One Tenia lata. GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. Three Brook Trout. Mounted. One Chelopus guttatus. Mounted. One Chelydra serpentina. Mounted. Two Chelopus insculptus. Mounted. Two Chrysemys picta. Mounted. FRANK M. CHAPMAN. One Trigonocephalus piscivorus. Florida. E. STARK, Chicago. One Pseudemys elegans. Illinois. Dr. RALPH WALDO. Collection of Serpents. Long Island, N. Y. CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE. One skin Testudo carbonaria. South America. ARNOLD KURTH, Florida. One Trigonocephalus piscivorus. Florida. One Crotalus miliaris. Florida. 47 M. S. CRANE, Caldwell, N. J Seven Muhlenberg Tortoises. One Chrysemys picta. Nine Chelopus guttatus. Three Cistudo carolina. Six Chelopus insculptus. And considerable number of Reptiles and Batrachians not yet arranged for cataloguing. JENNESS RICHARDSON. Two Chrysemys picta. Three Chelopus insculptus. Four Cistudo carolina. J. A. ALLEN. One Scaphoipus solitarius. Dr. GARNIER, Toronto, Canada. Twenty-two species of Reptiles and Batrachians. Europe and Canada. E. D. SCOTT, Arizona. : Sixteen Reptiles and Batrachians, from American Flag, Arizona. Dr. JAMES ROSS, New York City. Nineteen species of Serpents, from South America. UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. Invertebrates of Coast of New England, dredged in deep sea. OSCAR S. FRASER, Calcutta Museum. Collection of Serpents and Batrachians, and several large Tortoises in skeleton. BEA CHANGES. LIBRARY. A. E. FOOTE, Philadelphia, Pa. Gazetteer of the State of Vermont. 1824. Memoranda of the Natural History of Hayti. By A. Gregg. C. R. KEYS, Des Moines, Iowa. Bulletin. Des Moines Academy of Sciences. Vol. I, 1. 1885. WM. H. LEWIS, Pawtucket, R. I. Papilio. Vol. I. 1881. L. S. FOSTER, New York City. Maclurian Lyceum. Contributions. Vol. 1, 1, 2, 3. 1827-29. JOHN TATLOCK, Jr. Topographical Survey. Adirondack Region. 3-7. Report. 1880. Third Annual Report. Bureau of Ethnology. 1884. F. M. CHAPMAN. 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D., New York City. Nova Scotian Institute. Proceedings and Transactions. Vol. IV, I, 3; V, I, 3. 1876-1881. : DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. t skin of Mountain Goat. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Consignment of seventeen minerals. (Geyserite, Wulfenite, Aragonite, Cancrinite, Lepidolite, Tourmaline, Cryophyllite, Columbite, Nova- culite, Dufrenite, Turquoise.) BUNCH A SES LIBRARY. Report of the Challenger. Vol. XV. 1886. Zoology. yy i Vol. XVI. 1886. Zoology. ue on Vol. XVII. 1886. Zoology. us is Vol. XVIII. 1887. Zoology. - - - - - 467 OL Stationery, = = = - = = gO 00 Postage, = - - - - - - 285 00 Expressage, - - - - - - 222 47 Reception, - - - - - 402232 Labels, - - - - % - 529 57 Car-fare, - - - = = 96 38 Traveling Expenses, - - - - - 43 98 Custom House Expenses, - 2 = = I5 05 Sundries, - - - - - - 50 31 Poison, - - - - - - 4 20 Repairs, - - - - - - 452 86 Guides, (Fossils and Birds), - - - 848 47 Fixtures, : - - 3 = = 1,205 o8 oe Shops, - - - - - 958 00 Bulletin, = - = - = = 2 25 Interest on ‘“‘ Dr.”’ Balances, - - - 199 00 $35,230 14 ENDOWMENT. Wolfe Fund for Books, - - - - $ 786 49 ee aC See onells: - - ~ = - TOO OO Library Department, - - - - - gig 12 Geological oy - - - + - 635 00 Mineral a - - - oN ae ie 514 50 Ethnological “‘ - - - - - - 658 40 a (Emmons Collection), = = = 12,000 00 Mammal Department, - - - - - 2,646 14 Bird fai - - - - - 1,150 93 Insect = - - - = - 23 12 Fish and Reptile “‘ - - - - - 162 13 Coral Account, = - aoe - - - 2 00 Bird Groups, . - - - - 1,861 74 Mammal Groups, - - : - - - 1,081 89 George N. Lawrence, for Birds, - = = 1,800 00 Ward’s Contracts, - = - = = = 391 00 $24,732 46 $59,962’ 60 By Balance brought down from 1888 Account, 4,262 83 Examined { CHARLES LANIER, ) Auditing and approved, {ADRIAN ISELIN, § Committee, $64,225 43 tn account with J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER. Maintenance. RECEIPTS 1888. Balance from 1887 Account, = = 2 = & 2,456 07 From the Department of Public Parks, = = 15,000 00 oa zi a ms * Balance from 1887, 10 80 State SUPE a “* Tnstruction, - - 8,000 00 ne Collecting Permits, - = 7 s 21 00 ss Sale of Guides, - ss i = E 243 40 ee Dues of Annual Members, - = - 4,150 00 oe Doctor Boaz, (returned), - - - 7 00 i Interest on Invested Funds: Dodge Bequest, - = = = 300 00 Vanderbilt ‘‘ a = S = 2,000 0O 6c Sale of Hall Duplicate Collection, - - ENDOWMENT. Mrs. R. L. Stuart, for Groups, - - - - - For THE ‘‘ Emmons COLLECTION.” SUBSCRIBED AS PER LIST BELOW. 1,312 50 $33,500 77 DOP Mills, > = - $1,000 00 George W. Vanderbilt, $1,000 00 C. Vanderbilt, = a 1,000 oo 6C. P. Huntington, - 1,000 00 J. Pierpont Morgan, - 1,000 oo =6€Elliot F. Shepard, - - 500 00 Percy R. Pyne, - - 500 00 Josiah M. Fiske, - - 500 00 James M. Constable, - 50000 J. D. Rockefeller, - 500 00 HR. Bishop, - = 500 00 H.G. Marquand, - - 500 09 Adrian Iselin, - - - 50000 J. TF. Terry, - - 500 00 Charles Lanier, - soo o0 =H. McK. Twombly, - 500 00 Joseph W. Drexel, - - 250 00 John Sloan, : - 500 00 O. Harriman, - - 200 00: =6FE. C. Moore, 5 - 200 00 C. G. Landon, - - 150 00 6SSamuel Thomas, = 200 00 From Miss Ellen Collins, Life Member Account, - = - 200 Charles S. Schultz, “ 06 6 2 = = = 100 M. K. Jesup, Special Fund, > s = 5 S = 708 J. M. Constable, “ ee - s x B ‘ a 708 From the TRUSTEES: Morris K. Jesup, - 5 iY : = : - $1,000 D O. Mills, 2 E ate = : 5 5 1,000 Wm E. Dodge, 2 4 Z 2 Si 2 2 1,000 H. R. Bishop, - - = 3 & 2 5 - 1,000 Jemes M Constable, - - = = = - = 3,000 CG. Vanderbilt, - - = - = = : = 1,000 Percy R. Pyne; - - 2 9 : S = 1,000 Adrian Iselin, = - - - - = = = 1,000 J. Pierpont Morgan, a = S = = a 1,000 Estate of Jos. W. Drexel, - - - - - 1,000 Oliver Harriman, - = = S = Z = 500 Charles Lanier, - é 3S . - a s 500 Charles G. Landon, = S 2 2 = 500 Oswald Ottendorfer, 2 = = 2 = s = 500 Abram S. Hewitt, = - - é - - 500 Hugh Auchincloss, — - - - - - - - 250 tole) 36 oOo 00 0o 00 oo 00 co oo 00 0O By balance brought down from 1888 account, ec OO: New York, february 11th, 1889. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, $4,257 93 $12,000 00 300 00 1,416 73 $12,750 00 $64,225 43 $4,262 83 Treasurer. INCORPORATION. AN] ECAP TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN Museum oF Natura History. Passed April 6, 1869. The People of the State of New Vork, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of “The American Museum of Natural History,” to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History; of encouraging and developing the study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowl- edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. § 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members, and their government, the number and election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By- Laws, Rules and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant to such Constitution and By-Laws, the persons named in the first section of this Act shall be, and are hereby declared to be the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its property. 23 § 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. § 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. § 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. l Oia 6: ) I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same isa correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany, [L. s.] this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State. CONDTRACH With PoE DEPART MENTE OF PWC GARGS FOR THE OCCUPATION OF THE NEW BUILDING. Tuts AGREEMENT, made and concluded on the twenty-second day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, between the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS OF THE Ciry or New York, the party of the first part, and the AMERICAN Museum or Natura History, party of the second part, Wit- nesseth : Whereas, by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed April 22d, 1876, entitled “ An Act in relation to the powers and duties of the Board of Commissioners of the Depart- ment of Public Parks, in connection with the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” the said party of the first part is authorized and directed to enter into a contract with the said party of the second part, for the occupa- tion by it of the buildings erected or to be erected on that portion of the Central Park in the City of New York, known as Manhat- tan Square, and for transferring thereto and establishing and main- taining therein its museum, library and collections, and carrying out the objects and purposes of said party of the second part ; and Whereas, a building contemplated by said act has now been erected and nearly completed and equipped in a manner suitable for the purposes of said Museum, as provided in the first section of the Act of May 15, 1875, known as Chapter 351, of the Laws of 1875, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein the said museum, as provided by the said last-named act, and by the Act of April 5, 1871, known as Chapter 290, of the Laws of 1871; and, 25 Whereas, it is desired as well by the said party of the first part, as by the said party of the second part, that, immediately upon the completion and equipment of said building, the said party of the second part should be established therein, and should transfer thereto its Museum, Library and Collections, and carry out the objects and purposes of the said party of the second part. Now, therefore, it is agreed by and between the said parties as follows, namely : First—That the said party of the first part has granted and demised and let, and doth, by these presents, grant, demise and let, unto the said party of the second part, the said building and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, to have and to hold the same so long as the said party of the second part shall continue to carry out the objects and purposes defined in its charter; or such other objects and purposes as by any future amendment of said charter may be authorized ; and shall faithfully keep, perform, and observe the covenants and conditions herein contained on its part to be kept, performed and observed, or until the said building shall be surrendered by the said party of the second part, as hereinafter provided. Secondly.—That neither the party of the first part, its successor or successors, nor the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, shall be in any manner chargeable or liable for the preservation of the said building or the property of the party of the second part which may be placed therein, against fire, or for any damage or injury that may be caused by fire to the said property ; but it is agreed that, damages as aforesaid excepted, the said party of the first part will keep said building, from time to time, in repair. Thirdly.—That as soon after the completion and equipment of said building as practicable, said party of the second part shall transfer to, and place and arrange in, said building, its museum, li- brary, and collections, or such portion thereof as can be properly displayed to the public therein, and shall have and enjoy the ex- clusive use of the whole of said building, subject to the provisions herein contained, and the rules and regulations herein prescribed, during the continuance of the term hereby granted, or until a sur- render thereof, as herein provided. 26 Fourthly.—Vhat the exhibition halls of said building shall, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week, and on all legal or public holidays, except Sundays, be kept open and ac- cessible to the public, free of charge, from nine o’clock,a. m. until half an hour before sunset, under such rules and regulations as the party of the second part shall, from time to time, prescribe ; but on the remaining days of the week the same shall be only open for exhibition to such persons, upon such terms as the said party of the second part shall from time to time direct. But all professors and teachers of public schools of the City of New York, or other institutions of learning in said city, in which *instruction is given free of charge, shall be admitted to all the advantages afforded by the said party of the second part, through its Museum, Library, apparatus, and collections, or otherwise, for study, research and investigation, free of any charge therefor, and to the same extent and on the same terms and conditions as any other persons are ad- mitted to such advantages, as aforesaid. Fifthly—YVhat the Museum, Library and collections, and all other property of the said party of the second part, which shall or may be placed in said building, shall continue to be and remain absolutely the property of said party of the second part, and nel- ther the said party of the first part nor the said the Mayor, Alder- men and Commonalty, shall by reason of said property being placed in said building, or continuing therein, have any right, title, proper- ty or interest therein; nor shall the said party of the second part, by reason of its occupation and use of said building under this agreement, acquire, or be deemed to have any night, title, property or interest in said building, except so far as expressly granted by this agreement. Sixthly.—That the said party of the second part shall, on or before the first day of May, in every year, during the continuance of this agreement, submit to the said party of the first part, its suc- cessor or successors, a detailed printed report of the operations and transactions of the said party of the second part, and all its re- ceipts and payments, for the year ending with the 31st day of December next preceding. Seventhly.—That said party of the first part shall have, at all times, access to every part of said building for general visitation and supervision, and also for the purpose of the performance of 27 the duties devolved upon it by the laws of the State of New York, or of the City of New York. ‘That the police powers and super- vision of said party of the first part shall extend in, through and about said building. That the said party of the second part may appoint, direct, control and remove all persons employed within said building, and in and about the care of said building, and the museum, library and collections therein contained. Lighthly.—That said party of the second part may, at any time, after the expiration of three, and before the expiration of six months from the date of the service of a notice in writing to said party of the first part, its successor or successors, or to the Mayor of the City of New York, of its intention so to do, quit and sur- render the said premises and remove all its property therefrom ; and upon and after such notice, the said party of the second part shall and will, at the expiration of the said six months, quietly and peaceably yield up and surrender unto the said party of the first part and its successors all and singular the aforesaid and demised premises. And it is expressly understood and agreed by and be- tween the parties hereto that if the said party of the second part shall omit to do, perform, fulfill or keep any or either of the cove- nants, articles, clauses and agreements, matters and things herein contained, which on its part are to be done, performed, fulfilled or kept, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, then and from thenceforth this grant and demise shall be utterly null and void. And in such case it shall and may be lawful for said Department to serve or cause to be served on the said party of the second part a notice in writing declaring that the said grant hereinbefore made has become utterly null and void, and there- upon the said party of the first part, its successor or successors (ninety days time being first given to the said party of the second part to remove its property therefrom), may re-enter, and shall again have, repossess and enjoy the premises aforementioned, the same as in their first and former estate, and in like manner as though these presents had never been made, without let or hin- drance of the said party of the second part, anything herein con- tained to the contrary notwithstanding. Ninthly.—And it is further expressly understood and agreed, by, and between the parties hereto, that this agreement may be wholly cancelled and annulled, or, from time to time, altered, or 28 modified, as may be agreed, in writing, between the said parties, or their successors, anything herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. In witness whereof, the party of the first part hath caused this agreement to be executed by their President and Secretary, pursu- ant to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of said Depart- © ment, adopted at a meeting held on the thirtieth day of January, A. D. 1878, and the said party of the second part hath caused the same to be executed by their President, and their official seal af- fixed thereto, pursuant to a resolution of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History adopted at a meeting held on the twelfth day of February, A. D. 1877. In presence of JAMES F. WENMAN, D. PorTER Lorp, President Department of Public Parks of the City of New Vork. WILLIAM EFRWIN, Secretary Department of Public Parks of the City of New York. : SEAL 5 ROBERT Te ShUARA : of the American : : Museumof : President American Museum of Nat- : Natural History. : ural History. STATE OF NEW YorRX, City and County of New York, oo On this rath day of February, in the year 1878, before me per- sonally came James F. Wenman, President of the Department of Public Parks of the City of New York, and William Irwin, Secre- tary of the said Department of Public Parks, with both of whom I am personally acquainted, and both of whom being by me duly sworn, said that they reside in the City and County of New York, that the said James F. Wenman is the President, and the said William Irwin is the Secretary of the said Department of Public Parks, and that they signed their names to the foregoing agree- ment by order of the “* Board of Commissioners” of the said De- partment of Public Parks, as such President and Secretary. W. C. BESSON, [ SEAL. | (73) LWotary Public N. VY. Co. 29 STATE OF NEw York, City and County of New York, ne On this r2th day of February, in the year 1878, before me per- sonally came Robert L. Stuart, the President of the American Museum of Natural History, with whom I am personally ac- quainted, who being by me duly sworn, said that he resides in the City and County of New York, that he is the President of the “American Museum of Natural History,’ and that he knows the corporate seal of said museum, that the seal affixed to the forego- ing agreement is such corporate seal, that it is affixed thereto by order of the “ Board of Trustees” of said American Museum of Natural History, and that he signed his name thereto by the lke order, as President of said Museum. W. C. BESSON, [ SEAL. | (73) Notary Public, N. VY. Co. Recorded in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York in Liber. 1426 of Cons., page 402, February 16, A. D. 1878, at 9 o’clock A. M., and examined. Witness my hand and official seal, FREDERICK W. LOEW, [ Seal. } Register. BY-LAWS. ie Patrons, giving $1,000, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber's Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and 1to Tickets for a single admission. Fellows, giving $500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and ro Tickets for a single admission. Life Members, giving $100, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission. Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber's ‘Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single admission. | Nore.—A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two persons to the Museum every day except Sunday, and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions, and may be used by any member of the Subscriber's family. The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among friends and visitors. | ine Any ‘Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a ‘Trustee, unless excused by the Board. GUE No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee who shall not be a “ Patron” of the Museum, unless- by unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees ex-officio—nor be eligible unless his name shall be presented by the nominating committee at a Regular Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place. Ve No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its committees, officers, or employees, unless there are at the time sufficient moneys in the ‘Treasury to pay the same. 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Nos. 25, 27-32. U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Mineral Resources of the U.S. Day. 1886. Atlas to Emmons’ Leadville Report. 1888. 46 BUREAU OF EDUCATION. The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities. 1887. Report of the Commissioner. 1885-1886. BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. Nineteenth Annual Report. 1887. LAND OFFICE. Annual Report of the Commissioners. 1884-1887. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICTLTURE, Washington, D. C. Annual Reports. 1886, 1887. Report of the Botanist. 1886. Bulletin Entomological Division. Nos. 5, 8-19. Bulletin Bureau of Chemistry. Nos. 4, 9, 12, 13, 16-18. Insect Life. Vol. I, 1-6. 1887. MAMMALS. MRS. FREEMAN J. BUMSTEAD, New York City, (through John T. Metcalfe, M.D). Several North American Squirrels, mounted. DR. F. BOAS, New York City. 1 skull of Wolf, 1 skull of Hooded Seal. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 1 Bat. CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE, New York City, (through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent). 1 Chimpanzee (“‘ Crowley’), 3 small Monkeys, 1 Lioness, 1 Kan- garoo, 2 Armadillos, 1 Tiger Cat, 1 Hyzena, 1 Black Bear, 1 Weasel, 1 Sacred Calf, 1 Prussian Sheep. HON. W. F. CODY, (“ Buffalo Bill ”’). 2 Bisons, (cow and calf). LORENZO DANIELS, New York City. The celebrated St. Bernard Dog ‘‘Apollo.” WILLIAM DUTCHER, New York City. 1 Shrew and 1 Field Mouse, from Long Island, N. Y. MISS E. HUBBELL, New York City. The fine Newfoundland Dog ‘‘ Belinda.” J. E. MORSE, Hartsdale, N. Y. 2 young Raccoons. J. RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 7 young Muskrats. W. M. RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 4 Red Squirrels. J. ROWLEY, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. 2 young Raccoons, and 4 young Woodchucks, for use in the Mammal groups. A. A. SMITH, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 Brazilian Porcupine. MRS. ROBERT L. STUART, New York City. 2 groups of Squirrels, mounted with their nests and young. E. E. THOMPSON, Toronto, Canada. 15 skins and 13 skulls of small Canadian Mammals. 47 F. J. THOMPSON, New York City. 1 Jaguar, 1 Monkey, and 1 Armadillo. BIRDS. HERBERT BROWN, Tucson, Arizona, 1 Massena Quail. MRS. FREEMAN J. BUMSTEAD, New York City, (through John T. Metcalfe, M.D). 140 mounted birds, chiefly from Massachusetts and Florida. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. II small birds from New Jersey. J. L. DAVISON; Lockport, N.Y. 2 Cerulean Warblers. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, (through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent Central Park Menagerie.) 1g birds, mostly large, received in the flesh from the menagerie. LIEUT. G. F. EMMONS, U.S.N. 2 skins of the Crested Auk. A. K. FISHER, M.D., Washington, D. C. 13 small birds from Sing Sing, N. Y. COL. N.S. GOSS, Topeka, Kans. 2eggs of the Mississippi Kite, 1 egg of Tropic Bird, 2 eggs of Brewster's Gannet, 1 egg of Blue-footed Gannet. MISS A. B. HAWLEY, New York City. 1 skin of a South American Tanager. IGNATZ HOFF, New York City. t Cock of the Kock, in the flesh. MRS. J. B. HOLDER, New York City. 1 Canary Bird, mounted. JAMES KNIGHT, M.D., New York City. 15 skins of South American birds. BBEN E. OLCOTT, BE. M.; New York City. 4 Humming-birds from Ecuador. Rev. R. B. POST, Orange, New Jersey. 2 Loons, with their nest and eggs. PAULIST FATHERS, New York City. 8 skins of North American birds. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. t Australian Finch. J. ROWLEY, New York City. 7 small birds. L. SODEKSTROM, Quito, Peru. 2 Cocks of the Rock, and 2 Trogons, from Quito. Mrs. R. L. STUART, New York City. Ig groups of mounted birds, with their nests and eggs; 45 skins of birds taken near New York City, in gathering material for the groups. C. G. VOORHEES, New York City. t Blackburnian Warbler. ~ WILLIAM WALLACE, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 4 small birds, received in the flesh. 48 GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. ADS IPG TRO ININIBID NZ, INS WY, One limestone pebble showing effects of solution. Cayuga Lake, ewe F. A. SAMPSON, Sedalia, Mo. Three Conostegites from Coal Conglomerate, E. of Ft. Smith, Se- bastian Co. Mo. Ta eVEMRURG VAIN a Vie One Fulgurite from Forest of Fontainebleau, France. J. DAVISON, Hams Forks, Wy. Scale of Dapedoglossus testis, Tooth of Crocodilus affints. Insects on stone ; all from Green River, Wy. H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Two specimens of Gryphea Pitcheri, Morton, from Weatherford, near Dallas, Texas. S. DILL, Nova Scotia. ‘“Tnfusorial” earth from beds of marl, at Oakley, Cooper River, Charleston, S. C. H. HERTZER, Ohio. Four specimens of Fucoids, Erie Shale, Cleveland, Ohio. Two specimens of Shale, showing Sporangia, Bedford Shale, E. Cleveland, Ohio. MR. ASHMAN, N. Y. Slab of western Niagara Limestone containing ///wnus /xion, from near Chicago, Ills. J: So McLAURY, Yonkers, IN. Y: One specimen of Stromatopora from the Upper Helderberg Lime- stone at Cliff’s quarry, S. of Syracuse, N. Y. W. T. L. TRAVERS, New Zealand. Five sand-worn pebbles from boulder bank of glacial clay between Lyell’s and Evan’s Bays, Wittington Harbor, New Zealand. 1D, IMIBIMPILIGIN IN|, We Two slabs of new species of fossil plant from the Red Catskill beds at Griffins’ Corners, Middletown, Del. Co., N. Y. One specimen of Fern. Same locality. DR. W. CLARK, Berea, Ohio. Two palatal teeth of JZesodus Keplert Newb. from the Cuyahoga shale. One Coprolite with fish teeth, Cuyahoga shale ; Berea, Ohio. R. D. LACOE, Pittston, Pa. Two specimens of Trigonocarpus Dawesi, L. & H. Schultzianus, G. & B. oie ay St Adamsi, Lx. All from Middle Coal Measures, Stark Con Ills. J. TERRY, N. Y. A collection of Concretions (clay-dogs) from Button Bay, Lake ~ Champlain, Vt. A collection of Trenton Limestone fossils from Button Bay Island, 5. of Otter Creek, Lake Champlain, Vt. 4G MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. J. RICHARDSON, N. Y. One specimen of Quartz crystals, Bird Mt., Vt. F. A. SAMPSON, Sedalia, Mo. One specimen of Barite. Sedalia, Mo. HON. S. P. ROMANS, Deadwood, Dak. Seven specimens of Tin Ore (Cassiterite) from Northern Black Hills Disc., Nigger Hill, Dak. Four specimens of Tin Ore (Cassiterite) from Southern Black Hills Dist., Harney’s Peak, Dak. 1D), JaAIMUDE ITO IN|, IN M4 One spécimen of Red Serpentine. Lizards Pt., Cornwall, Eng. One specimen of Dee with Blende and Pyrite. Colorado, GILMAN S. STANTON, N. One specimen of N. v Island Garnet. ce oe ae Mica. MR. A. P. MINEAR, N. Y. Specimens of Native Silver, Argentite, Chalcopyrite, and Galenite from the Amador Mine, Col. MR. FULLER, Jacksonville, Fla. Beautiful Sphere of Iron Pyrite. Madison Co., Fla. JE Weekelivily las Large block of Gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Trias or Cretaceous. 185 Ig CUSCO), Ne We Five specimens of Staten Island Serpentine. Stapleton, St. Is., N. Y 18, VANS IBUU) INC SUONIS | INS We One specimen of Smaragdite from Cullakenee Mine, Clay Co., N.C. SANDERSON SMITH, N. Y. One specimen of Nephrite (Amphibole) Chestnut Hill, Easton, Pa. T. A. MARSHALL, Ogdensburg, N. J One specimen of Chalcophanite. Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., N. J. CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. W.T..L. TRAVERS, New Zealand. One specimen of Helix Hochstetter, New Zealand. EXCL ANGES: LIBRARY. PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Proceedings. 1875, Part III. 1877-1886. 1887, Parts I, II. Jjounnale WediSeniess Violss Ville Vie exe. Rant oll: L. S. FOSTER, New York City. Transactions Conn. Acad. Sci. Vol. IV, Part I. 1877. Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie. Heft LundII. Buda- pest, 1888. Maynard, C. J. The Naturalist’s Guide. 1887. Ridgway, k. A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists. 1886. White. Natural History of Selborne, 1865. Bulletin Geological and Geographical Survey. Vol. IV, No. 1; Wen IN@a: te 50 BIRDS. WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 140 skins of- North American birds, many of them very rare. F. O. JOHNSON, Riverside, Cal. 62 specimens from ‘near Riverside, Cal. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Mr. ETHERIDGE, Queensland, Australia. Permo-Carboniferous Fossils from Bowen River Beds, Queens- land, Australia. Mr. ASHMAN,N. Y. Specimens of Orthis. Watertown, N. Y. J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. Through the Wagner Institute a set of Pliocene and Post Pliocene fossils from Florida. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Dr. H. J. JOHNSTON, Lavis. A collection of rock and mineral specimens from the eruptive series of Southern Italy. J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. Specimens of Green Quartz from Delaware Co., Pa. CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Mr. ETHERIDGE, Queensland, Australia. A collection of recent shells, including 15 genera and 96 specimens. PUNCGEASIS >: LIBRARY. Report of the Challenger. Vol. XX. 1887. Zoology. i " fe Vol. XXI. 1887. Zoology. : < i Vol. XXII. 1887. Zoology. es is ii Vols. XXIII-XXVI. 1888. Zoology. Zoological Record. Vol. XXII. 1887. Catalogue of the Birds of the British Museum. Vol. XII. 1888. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Nos. 64-73. Trow’s New York City Directory. 1887. Metropolitan Directory, 1889. The International Scientists’ Directory. 1888. Uhler’s Check List of the Hemiptera Heteroptera, N. A. Henshaw’s List of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. Edwards’s Revised Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, America, North of Mexico. Caton’s Antelope and Deer of America. Second Edition. Tennent’s Natural History of Ceylon. Lamont’s Yachting in the Arctic Seas. Strickland’s Ornithological Synonyms. Vol. 1. Accipitres. 51 American Journal of Science and Art. 1888. American Naturalist. 1888. Science. 1888. Forest and Stream. 1888. The Ibis. 1888. The Zoologist. 1888. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1888. Nature. 1888. The Book Mart. 1888. American Entomologist. 11 nos. American Naturalist. 7 nos. Canadian Entomologist. 10 vols. Canadian Journal of Science. 14 vols. Papilio. 2 vols. Naumannia, Archiv fiir die Ornithologie. 4 vols. Cabanis’s Journal fiir Ornithologie. 1853-1888. Paleontographical Society. Vol. XLI. 1887. Palzeontographica. 1887-1888. Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie und Palzeontologie. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 1888. WM. A. CONKLIN, New York City. 1888. Denham. Narratives of Travel and Discoveries in Africa. 1826. Bewick’s, T. A General History of Quadrupeds. Second edition. 1791. hylan W. Memoirs of British Quadrupeds. 1809. Blakston, Swaysland and Wiener. Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds. Edwards, G. Essay upon Natural History. 1770. Fleming, J. The Philosophy of Zoology. 1822. Harting, G. The Tropical World. New Edition. 1873. Jardine, (Sir) W. The Naturalist’s Library. 42 vols. Macgillivray, W. The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History. 1839. Morris, B. R. British Game Birds and Wild Fowl. 1864. Provancher, L’Abbe. Le Naturaliste Canadien. Vols. I-XIV. Ogérien, Le F. Histoire Naturelle du Jura. Géologie. Tome I, II. Zoologie. Tome III. Studies from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Winiversity.. Viol wie 2srs) wath aE NAG L387 O—kSe 7. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow. 7 vols. 1851-1887. Journal of the Agricultural Society of England. 33 vols. 1840- 1862. The Official Hand-book of New Zealand. 1875. Transactions of the American Fish Culturists’ Association. 1876- 1888. Transactions of the American Institute. 4 vols. 1868-1872. Transactions Wisconsin Agricultural Society. Vol. XXII. 1884. General Guide to the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural His- tory. 1880. Catalogue of Birds, Animals, Fishes, etc., of the Cuvier Club. 1886. Guide to the Exhibition Rooms, Natural History, etc., British Mu-. seum. 1871. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins fiir Schleswig-Hol- stein. 1878-1886. Bericht Naturhistorischen Vereins in Augsburg. 1-18. 1867-1887. Verhandlungen Naturhistorischen Vereins, Bonn. 1887, 1888. 52 Sitzungs—Berichte de Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1880-1887. Bericht der-Oberhessischen Gesellschaft fiir Naturhistorischen und Heilkunde. Giessen. 1884, 1887. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen. Bre- men. 1887. Jahresbereicht des Vereins fiir Natur., zu Braunschweig. 1887. Annali di Agricoltura Rome. Nos. 121, 126, 131. Guide dans les Collections Préhistoriques, etc. Musée Royale D’Hist. Nat. Bruxelles. 1872. Fiithrer durch das Koénigl. Zoologische Museum zu Dresden. 1881. Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Emden. 1887. Rede ter herdenking van den sterfdag van Carolus Linnzeus, eene eeuw na diens verscheiden, in felix meritis, op den 10 Jan. 1878. By J. A. Oudemans. Linneana in Nederland aanwezig. Tentoongesteld op 10 Jan. 1878, in het Koninklijk Zoédlogisch Genootschap ‘* Natura artis” Magistra ” te Amsterdam. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde te Amsterdam. Zoophytes, etc., of the Wm. Barents Expedition. Bryozoa, etc., * a i 0 Sponges, etc., Lamellibranchs. ce ce ce ce 6c Br G «e a3 MAMMALS: 1 American Tapir; 3 skins and one head of the American Bison; 2 full-grown Florida Manatees, male and female; 1 Fisher, mounted; 13 Monkeys, mounted; 150 skins and 162 skulls of small North American Mammals, for the study collection. FROM THE MUSEUM EXHIBITION. 2 Moose, 2 Caribou, 9 Red Squirrels, 6 Muskrats, 2 Hares, 1 Field Mouse. BIRDS. 800 skins, mostly South American. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Dr. A. E. FOOTE, Philadelphia, Pa. The Klippart Collection of Fossils, representing for the most part Upper Helderberg forms. Rev. W. BIRD, Abeih, Syria. Collection of Syrian Fossils, mostly cretaceous. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. C. H. PENNYPACKER, West Chester, Pa. One specimen Calcite, Cornwall, Eng. a oS ““ Weardale, Durham, Eng. Vivis NEI INS ING We One large group of Smoky Quartz Crystals. Alexander Co, N. C. DRAKE CO., St. Paul, Minn. Two large polished sections of Agatized Wood. 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Abbott, Frank, M.D. Agnew, Alex. Mch. Agnew, Hon. John T. Aitken, John W. Aldrich, Mrs. H. D. Alexander, Henry M. Alexander, Jas. W. Amend, Bernard G. Amsinck, Gustave Amy, H. Anderson, E. Ellery Anderson, H. H. Appleton, Daniel Appleton, D. 8S. Appleton, Wm. H. Appleton, W. W. Archbold, John D. Armour, H. O. Arnold, E. 8. F., M.D. Arnold, John H. V. Astor, John Jacob Atterbury, J. T. Auchincloss, Hugh Auchincloss, Mrs. E. Auchincloss, E. §. Auchmuty, R. T. Babcock, 8. D. Bailey, N. P. Baldwin, C. C. Baldwin, J. G., M.D. Baldwin, O. D. Baltzer, H. R. Bangs, L. Bolton, M.D. Banyer, Goldsborough Barker, Fordyce, M.D. Barker, Stephen Barlow, 8. L. M. Barnard, Horace Barnes, John 8. Barnes, Theo. M. Barney, Chas. T. Barron, John C., M.D. Bates, L. M. Beadleston, E. Beebe, Chas. E. Belknap, Mrs. A. B. Bell, Hon. Isaac Bend, George H. Bernheimer, Adolph Bernheimer, Isaac Bianchi, F. Bien, Julius Billings, O. P. C. Bissinger, Philip Blagden, George Blakeman, Birdseye Blanchard, G. R. Barnes, Mrs. Harriet 8. Bliss, C. N. Bliss, George Bliss, George T. Bliss, William Bloodgood, John H. Bonn, William B. Booss, Frederick Borg, Simon Boskowitz, I. Boulton, Wm. G. Bouvier, Jonn V. Bouvier, M. C. Bowdoin, G. §S. Braker, Conrad, Jr. Brandon, Edward Breslin, J. H. Bristow, Hon. B. H. Brockway, A. N., M.D. Brookfield, Wm. Brown, C. W. Brown, Miss E. W. Brown, Mrs. James M. Brown, J. Crosby Brown, Geo. H. Bruce, Col. S. D. Bryce, William Buckham, George Burden, James A. Burrill, John E. Butler, Charles Butler, Prescott Hall Butler, Wm. Allen Byrd, George H. Cadwalader, John L. Cahn, Leopard Cammann, H. H. Camp, W. A. Carter, Robert Cary, Alanson 57 Cathcart, George R. Cheever, John H. Chesebrough, Robert A. Child, H. C. Clark, George C. Clarkson, Frederick Coffin, Chas. H. Coffin, Edmund, Jr. Colbron, W. Townsend Coles, Mrs. W. F. Colgate, Abner W. Colgate, Mrs. Bowles Colgate, R. R. Colgate, Samuel Colgate, Mrs. Samuel Colgate, Samuel J. Collins, Benjamin Collins, Miss Ellen Compton, A. T. Comstock, M. Louise Constable, Frederick A. Constable, James M. Constantine, A. J. Contoit, Chas. H. Cook, John C. Cooper, Geo. C. Corning, E. L. Cotheal, Alex. I. Cotting, Amos Crawford, R. L. Crimmins, Hon. J. D. Crocker, George Aug. Crolius, Clarkson Crosby, Rev. Howard Cruger, S. V. R. Cullum, Gen. Geo. W. Currie, John H. Curtiss, Frank Cutting, R. Fulton Cutting, Robert L. Cutting, W. Bayard Daly, Hon. Chas. P. Davies, W. G. Davis, Theodore M. Davison, C. A. Day, Henry Day, Henry M. Day, Rev. Henry S. Decker, Joseph 8. de Forest, Mrs. Geo. B. de Rham, Charles De Grauw, Walter N. De Ruyter, John D. Delafield, Maturin L. Delamater, Cornelius H. Dewitt, A. G. Dickie, E. P. Dickey, Charles D. Dickey, Hugh T. Dimock, Henry F. Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D. Dodge, Cleve H. Dodge, Miss Grace H. Dodge, Miss Mary M. Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr. Dodge, George E. Dougherty, A. Dowd, Hon. Wm. Dows, David Draper, Frank E. Draper, Dr. W. H. Du Bois, Katharine Du Bois, William A. Du Bois, Dr. Matthew B. Duncan, Jobn P. Dunham, G. H. Dunlap, Robert Earle, Wm. P. Ehret, George Hidlitz, Leopold EHidlitz, Mare Einstein, David L. Elkins, Stephen B. Ellis, John W. Ely, Richard S. Eno, Amos F. Eno, Amos R. Fahnestock, H. C. Fargo, James C. Farnham, Mrs. Horace P. Ferguson, Edward Ferris, Frank A. Fish, Hon. Hamilton Fiske, Josiah M. Fleet, Oliver 8. Foote, C. B. Ford, John R. Fosdick, Chas. B. Foster, Scott Foulke, Thomas Fraser, George 8. Froment, Frank L. Frost, Isaac T. Fry, Charles M. Gardner, John H. - Gautier, J. H. Georger, Louis F. Gibbs, Theodore K. Gilbert, Clinton Goadby, James H. Goddard, F. N. Goddard, J. W. Godwin, Parke Goldenberg, Simon Goodridge, F. Goodwin. James J. Gordon, George Gossler, G. H. Gotthold, Fred Grace, Hon. W. R. Gracie, J. K. Graham, Malcolm Greenwood, Isaac J. Gregory, Chas. E. Griffiths, John Griswold, Chester Groesbeck, D. Grove, Edwin A. Gunther, F. Frederick Gurnee, W. 8. Hague, James D. Hahlo, Hermann Hall, John H. Halsted, Jacob Halsted, Robert Hammond, E. A. Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D. Hargous, L. 8. Hart, Rev. A. B. Hartley, Marcellus Havemeyer, Hector C. Havemeyer, Theo. A. Hawley, Henry. E. Hendricks, Edmund Hendricks, Joshua Herriman, John Hindburgh, Henry Hill, Geo. H. B. Hillhouse, Hon. Thomas Hinman, W. K. Hinton, J. H., M.D. Hitchcock, Hiram Hitchcock, Miss S. M. Hoadley, Russell H. Hoag, T. Daniel Hodgman, Geo. F. Hoffman, George Hoffman, Paul Hoffman, Rev. E. A. Hogg, T. Egenton Holden, E. R. Holt, Charles L. Holt, Henry Holt, R. S. Hone, Robert S. Horton, Burrett W. Hoguet, Henry L. Houghton, Rev. G. H. Hoyt, Reuben Hubbard, Frederick Hubbard, Gen. T. H. Hunter, Mrs. M. L. Huntington,Geo.S.,M.D. Hyde, Albert G. 58 Hyde, Samuel T. Inman, John H. Ireland, John B. Iselin, Adrian Jr. Iselin, Mrs. Adrian Iselin, Oliver Iselin, Wm. E. Isham, W. B. Jackson, Wm. H. Jackson, W. H., M.D. Jaffray, E. 8. Jaffrey, Robert Jenkins, Wm. L. Jesup, Jas. R., Jr. Juilliard, A. D. Kellogg, Charles Kelly, Eugene Kemp, Edward Kemp, John H. Kennedy, John §. Kerbs, Adolph Kerner, Charles H. Ketchum, A. P. Kinnicutt, Dr. Francis P. Knapp, H., M.D. Knox, Alexander Kraus, William Kuhne, Frederick Kauttroff, Adolf Langdon, Woodbury G. Larremore, Hon. R. L. Lawrence, George N. Leale, Charles A., M.D. Leavitt, Henry 8S. Le Brun, Michael M. Lee, William H. Lefferts, Frederick R. Lehman, E. Lehman, M. Lesher, Stephen R. Lewis, Charlton T. Liautard,A.F., M.D.V.S. Linde, Frederick C. Livingston, Edward Livingston, Robert E. Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, William 8. Livingston, Wm. §., Jr. Lockwood Le Grand Loeb, 8. Lord, D. D. Lounsbery, R. P. Low, C. Adolphe Lowry, John Ludington, C. H. Lummis, Wm. Lusk, William T., M. D. Lyon, Albert J. Mack, J. W. Maitland, Robert L. Mali, Charles Man, Albion P. Manwaring, David W. Markoe, Dr. Thos. M. Marsh, Caleb P. Martin, Bradley Martin, William C. Matthiessen, F. O. McAlpine, D. H. McCready, Mrs. N. L. McCurdy, Richard A. McKibbin, George Metcalfe, John T., M.D. Meyer, Oscar R. Meyer, Thomas Meyers, Col. T. B. Milhau, Gen. J. J., M.D. Miller, D. 8S. Mitchell, Mrs. S. L. Mitchell, W. B. Moir, James Moller, Peter, Jr. Moore, Henderson Moore, W. H. H. Morgan, Geo. D. Morgan, Mrs. P. A. Morris, Henry Lewis Morrison, Edward Morrison, George A. Mortimer, W. Y. Moulton, Arthur J. Moulton, Gilman §. Mulchakey, Rev. James Munoz, J. M. Munro, George Murphy, Henry M. Navarro, Juan N. Newmann, G. F. Noyes, Wm. C. O’Donoghue, Joseph J. Olcott, F. P. Olmstead, Dwight H. Olyphant, R. M. Olyphant, Robert Osgood, Mrs. 8. R. Otis, F. N., M.D. Ottendorfer, Oswald. Owen, Mrs. Thomas J. Owens, Wm. W. Park, Joseph Parsons, John H. Parsons, Wm. H., Jr. Patterson, Edward Patterson, Thomas C. Peabody, Arthur J. Pell, John H. Pellew, Henry E. Penfold, Edmund Penfold, Wm. Hall Peters, George A., M.D. Pettus, James T. Peyser, Frederick M. Phelps, William Walter Pierrepont Edwards Pinkus, F.. 8. Platt, John R. Pool, Frank J. Potter, Howard Potts, Frederick A. Powell, Wilson M. Powers, William P. Purdy, Wm. Ranger, Louis Read, Daniel P. Reederer, Ludwig Remsen, William Rhoades, J. Harsen Riker, D. 8. Riker, John L. Riker, Wm. J. Robbins, Howland Roberts, Miss Mary M. Rogers, Columbus B. Rogers, Henry H. Rolston, R. G. Romaine, B. F. Rothschild, J. Rothschild, V. Henry Riitten, August Rutter, Thomas Sabine, G. A., M.D. Sage, Russell Sands, Andrew H. Sands, Samuel 8. Satterlee, S. K. Saul, Julius Sayre, Lewis A., M.D. Schafer, Samuel M. Schafer, Simon Schaus, Wm. Scheitlin, Edward Schely, Dr. J. M. Scholle, Jacob Schuyler, George L. Schuyler, Philip Schuyler, S. D. Schwendler, Fred. Scott, George S. Seligman, David J. Seligman, I. J. Seligman, Isaac N. 59 Sennett, George B. Shethar, Samuel Simpson, John B. Sinclair, John Skidmore, Mrs. Joseph R. Skidmore, William L. Sloan, Hon. Samuel Sloane, Thomas C. Smedberg, A. Smith, Alfred H. Smith, Charles S. Smith, Geo. W. Smith, John Jewell Smith, James Rufus Smith, Roswell Smith, Rev. Cornelius B. Smith, William Alex. Soutter, Mrs. J. F. Spencer, Hon. James C. Starin, Hon. John H. Stearns, John Noble Stebbins, Jas. H. Steers, Edward P, Steers, Henry Stechert, Gustav E. Stein, Abraham Stephens, Benjamin Stern, Benjamin Stern, Joseph Sterry, Geo. E. Stetson, Geo. W. Stewart, David Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard Stone, David M. Stone, Mrs. Georgiana C. Stone, Mason A. Storm, George Storm, Thomas Strahan, John H. Strong, W. L. Sturgis, Appleton Sutherland, John Sutherland, John L. Swann, James Sykes, William Tailer, Edward N. Tailer, W. H. Taintor, Charles M. Talcott, James Talmadge, Henry Tappan, Thos. B. Taylor, Aug. C. Taylor, Mrs. Catharine A. Tefft, Frank GQ. Tefft, Wm. E. Terbell, H. 8. Thomas, T. G., M.D. Thompson, W. Prall Thomson, James Thorn, William K. Thorne, Samuel Thurber, H. K. Tiemann, Peter C. Tillinghast, W. H. Titus, Erastus Tonnelé, John L. Toucey, J. M. _ Townsend, R. W. Tracy, J. Evarts Trevor, H. G. Trevor, John B. Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, John C. Twombly, H. McK. Ulmann, Joseph 8. Ulmann, 8. B. Van Brunt, Hon. ©. H. Van Brunt, Cornelius Van Norden, Warner Van Rensselaer, K. Vermilye, J. D. Wales, Hon. Salem H. Wallach, Antony Watson, John Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H. Webb, W. H. Weekes, John A. Weeks, Francis H. Weisse, Faneuil D.,M.D. Wells, Wm. Henry Wenman, Hon. James F. Westervelt, J. C. Wheelock, Geo. G.,M.D. Wheelock, Wm. A. Wheelock, Dr. W. E. White, Horace Whiting, F. H. N. Whitely, James Whitney, Alfred R. Whyland, A. E. Wiechers, W. A. Willets, J. T. Wilson, John Wing, John D. Winthrop, Robert Witherbee, S. H. Wray, Mrs. M. A. Young, Jas. H. Young, Mason Zabriskie, Andrew C THE. ae, | merican asam af ata istorp re ‘CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. . (Tith Street and 8th Avenue.) Wi S () . is s ( Bo Ve aXe ; | aes ee Ls =<) EN oH A Le yas. oe ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, al ACT OF INCORPORATION, = _ CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS aa FOR THE YEAR 1889-90. a ppd my 3 PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM ; Pee) 16 ea ee er : Gy 1% <3) ’ Bes ee ee ECE ORES T eeS iS he ee eS y, 4) = o ies: te , & sey er agp eae Ps ies ; : . TENE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, ACT OF INCORPORATION, _ CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1889-90. NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. 1890. 2 PRESS OF WM. C. MARTIN, 111 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MORRIS K. JESUP. BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ADRIAN ISELIN. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH H. CHOATE. PERCY R. PYNE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. ANDREW H. GREEN. ABRAM S. HEWITT. CHARLES LANIER. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. C. VANDERBILT. D. O. MILLS. CHAS. G. LANDON. H. R. BISHOP. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. J. HAMPDEN ROBB. D. WILLIS JAMES. LEVI P. MORTON. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1890. President. MORRIS K. JESUP. Vice-Presidents. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. D. JACKSON STEWARD. Secretary. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. Treasurer. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Executive Committee. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, Chairman. D. JACKSON STEWARD. OLIVER HARRIMAN. Ho Re BISHOE: CHAS. G. LANDON. The President and Secretary, ex-officio. Auditing Committee. CHARLES LANIER. ADRIAN ISELIN. WILLIAM E. DODGE. Finance Committee. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. O. MILLS. PBI RCNOIReAEAVENIE: Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Curator of the Ethnological Department, and in charge of the Department of Public Instruction. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of the Geological, Mineralogical and Conchological Departments. L. P. GRATACAP, Assistant Curator of the Geological Department. Pror. J. A. ALLEN, Curator of the Departments of Ornithology, Mammalogy, Fishes and Reptiles. Also temporarily in charge of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Assistant Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Taxidermic Department. A. WOODWARD, Librarian. WILLIAM WALLACE, Superintendent of Building. JOHN H. WINSER, Assistant Secretary. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR 1880. To the Patrons, Fellows and Members of the Museum: The report of the operations of the Museum for the year 1889 shows the Treasurer’s receipts to have been $53,932.99, and the expenditures $50,775.33. There has been used for the improve- ment and enlargement of the collections $10,104.33, and for maintenance, covering items for salaries, light, coal, fixtures, repairs, labor, etc., the sum of $40,671. The cost of opening two evenings of the week, as well as thirteen holiday evenings, has materially enhanced our maintenance account. The city has contributed $25,000 of the total amount. Eighteen Life Members have been added, and Mr. Edward D. Adams, Miss Phebe Anna Thorne, and Mr. William C. Schermer- horn have become Patrons by the subscription of $1000 each. Messrs. Phillips Phoenix, Lloyd Phoenix and Wm. H. Harbeck have, by subscriptions, been added to the roll of Fellows of the Museum. The total income from members amounts to $12,660, an increase over last year of $8210. Of this amount, $2210 represents the gratifying increase in dues of Annual Members. The accessions in the Geological Department are many. Among the attractive and valuable specimens may be noted: fossil fishes aid large specimens of rich gold quartz, from J. M. Constable, Esq.; two large masses of copper ore and block of vein gold quartz, from Mr. J. D. Hague; seven beautiful ex- amples of velvet malachite, from the Copper Queen Consolidated Mine, through Prof. James Douglas; also a very handsome group of quartz crystals by the President. The rare collection of land shells owned by Mr. John J. Crooke has been donated to the Museum, but not yet received for exhibition. 8 In the Department of Birds and Mammals the additions have been numerous and valuable; the larger number being donations from Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, Surgeon U.S. A., Messrs. Barnum & Bailey, and the Central Park Menagerie, through Dr. W. A. Conklin. The skeletons of the African elephant ‘Jumbo ” and of the Indian elephant “Samson” have been replaced in the Museum. A collection of birds and eggs from South Africa was presented through the liberality of Messrs. D. Willis James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Charles S. Smith. The total number of accessions have been 2270 mammals, 5475 birds, 4000 eggs and 60 skeletons. The Snowden Howland Collection of Eggs of North American birds, numbering near 3000 specimens, has been given to the Museum, through the kind intervention of Mr. Clarence King. Plaster busts of the Chimpanzee have been prepared and for- warded to various scientific institutions in this country and Europe, as noted in the report of the Taxidermic Department. The expedition to the Indian Territory for accessories for use in the Buffalo group was successful beyond expectation, as, in addition to the object of the journey, the Museum acquired 325 specimens of birds and mammals, fully equalling in value the cost of the expedition. Large increase of material has been made in the Insect De- partment, and in connection therewith is now being prepared for an economic exhibit handsome groups representing all phases of insect life, and its injurious effect upon vegetation, to be ex- hibited with the Collection of Woods. Twenty-four groups will be prepared, and are well under way. This valuable feature has not been attempted as yet by any other museum, and will prove of educational value to students and the public. The new halls will afford space for the proper exhibition of the Jesup Collection of Woods, with its accompanying water- colors, representing the foliage, blossoms and fruit. The more frequent publication of ‘‘ Bulletins” by the Curators during the past year ; the conferences of the American Geological Society and the American Ornithologists’ Union, which were held in the new hall, will tend largely to bring the Museum into close relations with the scientific public; and it is a cause for 9 much gratification that the interest manifested by scientific bodies in regard to the Museum is being largely augmented each successive year. Thanks are due to the following for courtesies shown in ex- changes: the National Museum, Washington; Cambridge Mu- seum; Boston Society of Natural History; and Messrs. Wm. Brewster and Charles B. Cory. The Library has, like other departments of the Museum, far outgrown its present limits. Its increase for 1889 is 891 bound volumes and 228 pamphlets; the total acquisitions for the year past being 1119. The total number at present is 12,038 volumes and 5783 pamphlets. Coincident with the completion of the new wing, large and valuable additions will probably be made to this department. The increase in the number of visitors during the past year is extremely gratifying. During the Centennial celebration, on Labor Day and Election Day, the number was nearly 8000 each day. The attendance in the evenings is so great as to cause astonishment that such large numbers should avail themselves of the privilege. It is a most popular feature. The number of visitors the past year has been 383,485, an increase over 1888 of 196,360. Dr. Robert H. Lamborn has placed in the care of the President two hundred dollars to be given to the authors of the three best essays upon the ‘‘ Propagation of the Dragon Fly.” Several carefully-written articles are now in the hands of Prof. Newberry and Dr. McCook for their decision as judges. We are indebted to our friend, Mrs. Stuart, for a contribu- tion of $1367 toward the bird groups during the past year. Several new ones, completed, are awaiting cases; and many ex- ceptionally interesting groups are in preparation by the Taxider- mic Department, including the Buffalo group ; and the mounting of the large Rhinoceros is well advanced. The following-named persons have been elected to Thoneneras membership: Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. A., and Mr. John J. Crooke as Patrons; Mrs. Florence Howland and Prof. James Douglas as Life Members, for their large contributions to the collections. Mr. James Thomson has been constituted a Fellow. 10 The new lecture hall was prepared for our use last autumn. Hon. A. S. Draper, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was present at the opening lecture, and made an address, of which the following is an extract: Mr. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I feel happy this morning. I feel like congratulating everybody upon this auspicious occasion—for such it is. I congratulate the Museum, the Board of Management of this Museum, which has been energetic enough, and broad-gauge enough, and vigorous enough, to ask for and plan out this magnificent lecture hall, opening, as it does, the way for the development of a new idea in educational work. I feel like congratu- lating the City of New York, which has been munificent enough to provide the means with which to erect an extension to this great institution, containing the most magnificent lecture hall upon the continent, if not in the world. I feel like congratulating the cause of education, too, because I believe, and believe sincerely, that we are entering upon a new and more promising phase of educa- tional progress than we have been familiar with. This visual instruction which has been undertaken in this Museum, first upon a very small scale and gradually broadened out and extended until its future prospects appear unlimitable, is doing more for the training of progressive teachers than any other single line of work which is being undertaken by modern educators. I have no doubt about it whatever. It presents educational processes to more than one of the senses— to two of them, to the eye as well as to the ear—and it presents those processes in an attractive way; and not only in an attractive way, but in an impressive way. We sit here and look upon these foreign scenes, and we grow with them. But few of us, comparatively, have had the opportunity of going to foreign lands, and mingling with these monuments of intelligence, the culture and the progress of those lands; but we can sit here, before these sublime views, and learn almost as much of the conditions which obtain in those lands as we can by going there ourselves. You have no idea of the extent to which this experi- ment has attracted attention. There is scarcely a day in which I do not receive enquiries from other States concerning the visual instruction which has been carried on so successfully at the American Museum of Natural History. This thing is attracting the attention of the authorities at Washington. I have no doubt but that it is to play in the future a most generous, important and effective part in educational work. We may be pardoned for quoting here an extract of a letter from Hon. John Eaton: ‘As United States Commissioner of Education for sixteen years, I had an opportunity of observing the marvelous development of your Museum, and of its instructive work. The change to your present commodious hall and the im- proved facilities for illustration is gratifying beyond-measure. The aim of these lectures; the instruction of the children of the people through the teachers ; 11 the subjects selected ; and the methods of instruction employed, have had my hearty commendation, and it has been my hope that other States would imitate this work.” The new lecture room contains 1002 seats, and the average attendance for the ten lectures completely filled the hall. For the Spring Course over three thousand applications for tickets were received from teachers alone. The appropriation of $400,000, authorized by the Legislature, having been granted by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, the work on the completion of the new wing is now well under progress, and it is expected that the addition will be ready for occupation during the coming fall. A large and diversified amount of material is in various stages of preparation pending its location in the new exhibition halls. In the Department of Archzology and Ethnology, Dr. Frederick Starr has been engaged to arrange, label and catalogue the several collections which have heretofore remained unexhibited, and when completed will prove of great interest to the public. A revised set of rules and regulations for the government of the attaches of the Museum have just been completed, changes having been greatly needed by reason of the rapid growth of our institution. Details of statistics giving the growth of our institution might go far toward providing reasons for an appeal by the Trustees for an enlarged spread of interest in the work of maintaining the Museum; but we rely largely upon the generosity of our citizens to assist us in making increased collections. The thanks of the Trustees are given to those members who have associated themselves with the Museum during the year just past, and we hope for a large increase during the years to come. Dr. EXPENDITURES. To Salaries, = - - - = “ etc., Lecture Department, Labor, - - - - - = Coal, = = : a a To Annual Report, General Printing, Supplies, Stationery, Postage, Reception, Car-fare, Travelling Expenses, Poison, Repairs on Building, etc., Fixtures, Emergency Account, Expense Account, Advertising, Geological Account, Ornithological Account, Ethnological Account, Mammal Account, Mineral Account, Entomological Account, Reptiles and Fishes Account, Wolfe “ Library” Fund, Library Account, Bird Groups, Mammal Groups, Economic Account, Special Account, Taxidermic Department, Collecting Material, ‘‘ Indian Territory,” Expressage, Labels, Bulletins, Balance brought down from 1889 Account, - Examined and approved, ADRIAN ISELIN, ) CHARLES LANIER, § THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, $17,774 8,000 7,174 1,099 218 305 471 554 202 15 120 61 14 383 283 500 3,160 328 $40,671 00 $10,104 33 Auditing Commtttee. $50,775 33 3,157 66 $53,932 99 in account with J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER. Cr. RECEIPTS, By Balance from 1888 Account, - = = = $4,242 83 From State Department of Public Instruction, - - 8,000 03 Department of Public Parks, - - - 25,000 00 “* Dues of Annual Members, - - - - 6,360 00 ““ Fees for Collecting Permits, - - - - 23 00 = Sale of) = Guides;” *- - - 2 2 - 339 65 “* Interest on Invested Funds. - - - - 2,300 00 $46,265 51 ENDOWMENT. From Mrs. R. L. Stuart, for Groups, - - - 1,367 48 From PATRONS: Edward D. Adams, - - = = - $1,000 00 Miss Phebe Anna Thorne, - - - - 1,000 00 Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 4 - - - I,000 OO 3,000 00 From FELLOWS: Phillips Phoenix, - = - - - = $500 00 Lloyd Pheenix, - - - S - - 500 00 Wm. H. Harbeck, - - - - - 500 00 1,500 00 From LIFE MEMBERS: John L. Cadwalader, - - - = = $I0O OO Samuel Thorne, - - = = - - 100 00 J. C. Osgood, - - - - - 100 00 Charles Addison Miller, - - - - 100 00 Cornelius N. Bliss, - - = - - 100 0O Thomas B. Musgrave, - - - - - 100 00 Percy Musgrave, - - - - - 100 00 Theodore D. Howell, - = = = - I0O OO er. Re leyman, = = = - - 100 00 John E. Parsons, - - - - - - 100 00 Henry J. Davison, - - - - - 100 00 William Colgate, - - S - - - 100 00 L. Dinwiddie Smith, - - = = = 100 00 John H. Wyman, - - - - - 100 00 George T. Knight, - - - - - 100 00 Thomas W. Strong, - - - - - 100 00 James H. Dunham, - - - - - 100 00 James M. Lawton, - - = = = IOO 0O 1,800 00 $53,932 99 Balance from 1889 Account, - - - - - - = $3,157 66 [E. & O. E.] NEw York, February ro, 1889. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, 7veasurer. 14 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. (Under the charge of Prof. A. S. BicKMoreE.] The following are the subjects of the lectures delivered during the past year under the auspices of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction : SPRING OF 1889. gi. The Palisades and Highlands. | 97. The Mississippi Valley and Gulf g2. The Catskills and the Adirondacks. | States. 93. The White Mountains. | 98. The Stem and the Leaf. 94. The Lakesand Glens of New York. | 99. The Flower and the Fruit. g5. The Falls of Niagara. 100. The Forests of America. 96. TheSt. Lawrence and the Saguenay | AUTUMN OF 188g. tor. Belgium—Waterloo. 106. The Cafions of the Rocky Moun- to2. Holland—Amsterdam. tains. 103. Denmark, Sweden and Southern | 107. The Great Basin and the Sierras. Norway. 108. California—the Yosemite Valley. 104. The- National Yellowstone Park. | 109. British Columbia. 105. Colorado—-Pike’s Peakand Monu-| 110. Alaska. ment Park. At the closing lecture thirteen hundred were present, and so many were unable to get within the large hall that the lecture was repeated the following week, when seven hundred more were present, making the total number who have listened to this one subject two thousand ; and if we had an auditorium which would seat such a great number we have reason to believe that on every fair day it would be full. GEOLOGICAL AND CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. [Under the charge of Prof. R. P. WHITFIELD.] PALHONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.—At the end of 1888, label- ing in this collection had progressed to the end of the Class Lryozoa in the Hudson River Group, from which point the work of the present year (1889) is to be counted. The work has now (January 1st, 1890) progressed to the Lchinodermata of the Lower Helderberg Group. ‘This comprises the remainder of the Hudson River Group from the Bryozoans; the Medina Sand- stone, the Clinton and Niagara Groups, and the commencement of the Lower Helderberg Group to the point above mentioned. Within this area there have been placed 2324 complete labels, of which 699 are either type or figured specimen labels, containing the citations of volume, page, plate and figure in the work in which they were published. 15 ADDITIONS TO THE PALHONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.—Dur- ing March of the past year Mr. James M. Constable purchased and donated to the Museum three very fine fossil fish from the Eocene Beds of Wyoming. But aside from these there have been no additions of value to this collection, aside from those obtained by means of the Wilcox exchanges, which were partly in fossils, but partly also in shells and partly cash. ‘This is rather a poor showing, considering the many very desirable collections of fossils constantly offered to the Museum, which, for want of funds, we have been unable to obtain. THe Hatut DupLICATE COLLECTIONS.—During the year the four sets of these collections, previously sold to Mr. Joseph Wilcox, of Philadelphia, and Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, of Hanover, New Hampshire, were sent away. The two sold to Prof. Hitch- cock have been placed, one in Dartmouth College and the other exchanged for other material, which will enrich the same college collection. Those disposed of to Mr. Wilcox are placed, one in the Wagner Institute in Philadelphia, and the other to be in the Catholic University at Washington, D. C. The Museum has received for the nine collections of these duplicates already disposed of, the following returns : From the Smithsonian Institution, for COLLECTION No. 1.—63 species, 165 specimens of fossil plants, with a collection of marine invertebrates yet to come. Cotu. No. 2.—Madison University, cash, $1750.00. Cou. No. 3.—Vassar College, cash, $1200.00. Cou. No. 4.—University at Munich, Bavaria, 1458 species=4500 specimens of European fossils (all in cabinet). Cot. No. 5.—Still on hand. Coutts. Nos. 6 & 7.—Dartmouth College, Prof. C. H. Hitchcock: Relief Map of New Hampshire; 13 Geological Sections across Vermont and New Hampshire, represented by the hand blocks of rock to the number of 2143; and a colored diagram of each section, numbered to indicate the exact spot where each rock specimen was obtained. Also, 2000 specimens illustrating the rocks of New Hampshire and classified according to the Geological Reports of that State. CoutL. No 8.—McGill University, Montreal, Canada. For this the Museum received a collection of Devonian and Carboniferous fossil plants, studied and determined by Prof. Sir William Dawson, consisting of 130 specimens, representing 68 species. Cott. No. g.—Wagner Free Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., cash, $112.50, and 168 species; 500 specimens Marine Shells, and 12 specimens; 6 species fossil Ammonites, with $37.50 in exchange yet to come. 16 Cot. No. 10.—Catholic University, Washington, D. C., return 35 specimens of Minerals=$60, and 290 Pliocene fossils from Florida, 89 species, with many others yet to come. A COLLECTION OF FOSSILS WHICH OUGHT TO BE SECURED.— There is now for sale in Rochester, N. Y., a special collection of Utica Slate fossils, made near Utica, N. Y., a typical locality, which ought to come into the possession of the Museum, or at least a selection from it. It was originally made by Mr. Rust, of Trenton Falls, N. Y., and sold to C. D. Walcott for $500. It is now in the hands of Mr. Howell, of Rochester, and should be purchased when the means can be obtained. MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION.—The catalogue of this collec- tion is being transcribed by Mr. Gratacap from the rough notes into a large catalogue book, and is now more than half com- pleted. The additions to this department during the year have been marked by two noted donations. One of Malachites, through Prof. Douglas, President of the Consolidated Copper Queen Mining Company, of Bisbee, Arizona; and the other of the finest group of Quartz Crystals ever obtained from an Ameri- can locality, from Mr. Morris K. Jesup. Other donations and several good purchases made to this collection will be found noted in the appendix to this report. This collection may be said to have made fair progress during the year, and if the Tif- fany Collection of Gem Minerals, and the Kunz Collection of Meteorites could be added to it, it would rank as among the noted collections of this country. CoNCHOLOGICAL CoLLECTIONS.—Mr. Sanderson Smith has been employed since the middle of February last on the shell collections. During that time he has worked over the shells of the Bickmore Collections, those of the Haines, Goodwin, Binney and Bland donations, and several miscellaneous lots, the source of which is uncertain. ‘They have been specifically identified and labeled, or the labels with them verified; they have been placed in drawers and partially arranged, those needed for the collection being separated and marked, and are to be provided with labels and incorporated in the collections; while those considered as duplicates will be so arranged as to be available as such. This work is not yet quite complete, but will require some weeks further time. The Binney and Bland Collection has been mostly placed in glass vials or in glass covered boxes, and so arranged as to be comparatively safe from admixture by displacement. THE Jay CoLLecTion.—The work on this collection, con- tracted for by Mr. Sanderson Smith, is nearly completed; only a few species remaining undetermined. 7 Economic CoLLectTions.—#uilding and Ornamental Stones, Ores, etc.—The labels for the Jesup Collection of building stones, received from the Smithsonian Institution, have been placed on the blocks provided for these samples, and the collection ar- ranged in cases. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS AND BIRDS. [Under the charge of Prof. J. A. ALLEN.] MamMALsS.—The additions to the collection of mammals number 2310 specimens, acquired as follows :—By donation: 50 specimens in the flesh; 18 skins and skeletons from South Africa; 20 specimens in alcohol, 332 skins, 518 skulls, and 27 skeletons, from North America. Sy exchange: 15 skins and 12 skulls, from India and Africa. By purchase: 21 Monkeys, mounted; 28 specimens in the flesh; 70 skins and 96 skulls from Mexico; 5 skins from Brazil; 8 skins from Australia and India; 512 skins, 535 skulls, 11 skeletons, and 33 specimens in alcohol, from North America. Among the most important donations is the collection of 300 skins, 500 skulls, 26 skeletons, and 20 specimens in alcohol, pre- sented by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U.S.A. Messrs. Barnum & Bailey have sent us 15 specimens in the flesh, including an American Bison, 8 Monkeys and several large Carnivores. From the Central Park Menagerie we have received, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent, 22 specimens in the flesh, among them the young Hippopotamus recently born in the Menagerie, and other animals of much value. Mr. Frank J. Thompson has pre- sented five Monkeys and a Paradoxure. Birps.—The additions to the collection of birds numbers 5474 skins, about 4000 eggs, and 60 skeletons, as follows :— By donation: 1560 skins, many nests, and about 4000 eggs. Sy exchange: 242 skins, nearly all from South America and mostly representing species new to the collection. Ay purchase : 30 skins from the Bahamas, 85 from Southern Mexico, 128 from Costa Rica, 405 from South America, and 3024 from North America. Among the most important donations is a collection of 1200 skins from North America and Northern Europe, and roo nests and about 1000 eggs from Arizona, presented by Dr. E. A. Mearns. We have also received, through Mr. Clarence King, of this city, the celebrated Snowden Howland Collection of Eggs, well known as one of the largest and most valuable private col- lections of North American birds’ eggs ever brought together. The Museum is also indebted to Messrs. D. Willis James, Charles S. Smith and Cornelius Vanderbilt, for a valuable collection of South African bird skins. 18 The work of identifying, cataloguing and labeling the collec- tions has advanced steadily and satisfactorily throughout the year. ‘The entire collection of mammals, including both skins and skulls, is now catalogued and labeled, excepting a few of the most recent accessions. About 500 birds in the Exhibition Col- lection have been provided with exhibition labels, and general or family labels have been prepared for the entire exhibition series of birds. About 12,000 birds in the Study Collection have been catalogued and labeled, including the whole of the Lawrence Collection. Notwithstanding this satisfactory progress, much work remains to be done on both the Study and Exhibition Col- lections of birds; about 5000 of the latter being still uncata- logued, and about 10,000 of the former. About two-thirds of the uncatalogued material in the Study Collection has only re- cently come into our possession, including the Mearns Collection, which alone numbers over 5000 specimens. Much use has been made of our material during the past year by specialists, and the important interchange of specimens for comparison and study between this department and the leading investigators and museums of this country has been continued. The museum is already one of the leading resorts of specialists engaged in ornithological work. In the elaboration of new material, and in working up special groups, the Curator and his assistant have contributed thirteen papers, aggregating 204 pages, to the Museum “ Bulletin,” as a part of the work of the department during the last year. The following is a list, in the order of publication : 1. Notes ona Collection of Birds from Quito, Ecuador. By the Curator. 8 pp. Published March 22, 1889. 2. List of Birds Collected in Bolivia by Dr. H. H. Rusby, with Field Notes by the Collector. By the Curator. 46 pp. Pub- lished March 22. 3. Preliminary Descriptions of two apparently New Species of Hesperomys from Florida. By Frank M. Chapman. 1 p. Pub- lished June 7. 4. Description of a New Sub-species of the Genus Sigmodon. By Frank M. Chapman. 1p. Published June 7. 5. On the Habits of the Round-tailed Muskrat. By Frank M. Chapman. 4 pp. Published June 7. 6. On Cyclorhis viridis (Vieill.) and its Near Allies, with Re- marks on other Species of the Genus Cyclorhis. By the Curator. 14 pp. Published June 17. 7. Descriptions of New Species of South American Birds, with Remarks on various other little-known Species. By the Curator. 15 pp. Published June 28. 19 8. Revision of the Genus Xyphorhynchus Swainson, with Des- criptions of two New Species. By Frank M. Chapman. 8 pp. Published July 5. g. Description of a New Species of Hummingbird of the Genus Amazilia. By Frank M. Chapman. 1 p. Published July ro. to. Notes ona Collection of Mammals from Southern Mexico, with Descriptions of New Species of the Genera Sciurus, Tamias and Szgmodon. By the Curator. 18 pp. Published October 21. 11. Further Note on Amazilia eneobrunnea. By Frank M. Chapman. 1p. Published October 21. 12. Remarks on Individual and Seasonal Variation in a large series of E/ainea, from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, with a Revision of the Species of the Restricted Genus Ziainea. By the Curator. 25 pp. Published October 31. 13. On the Maximilian Types of South American Birds in the American Museum of Natural History. By the Curator. 68 pp. Published November and December. DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, FISHES AND REPTILES. [Temporarily under the charge of Prof. J. A. ALLEN.] The only noteworthy addition to this department during the year is a very full series of the Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes of Fort Verde, Arizona, collected and presented by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. A. These number altogether about 250 speci- mens, preserved in alcohol. Owing to the lack of glass jars, for the proper distribution and exhibition of the specimens, no work has been done in this de- partment beyond looking after the safety of the collections. All of the recent accessions remain stored in bulk as originally re- ceived. TAXIDERMIC DEPARTMENT. [Under the charge of Mr, JENNESS RICHARDSON. ] The progress of the work for the past year has been most satisfactory, and much credit is due to each member of the de- partment for his proficiency. The large number of specimens that have passed through our hands have either been mounted, made into skins, or skele- tonized, and by the list below it will be found to be larger than in any previous year, 20 The greater portion of the month of April was occupied in re- pairing and placing on a new pedestal the skeleton of the Elephant “Jumbo,” kindly loaned to us by Barnum & Bailey. The most notable specimens that we have received zw the flesh, of which plaster casts and careful studies have been made, were a young Chimpanzee, an Ibex, one of the large Dog-faced Apes, the baby Hippopotamus, an Amherst Pheasant, and two Emus. The Pheasant and Emus have been mounted and are now on exhibition. Early in the year several months were devoted to the prepara- tion of plaster busts of the Chimpanzee “Crowley.” Eighteen (18) were made, and seventeen (17) have been delivered as follows: Prof. J. P. Marshall, Tuft’s College, College Hill, Mass.; National Museum, San José, Costa Rica; Dr. W. A. Conklin, Central Park Menagerie, New York; Mr. Frank J. Thompson, New York; Mr. H.S. Fuller, New York; Mr. Jacob Cook (“Crowley’s” keeper), Central Park, New York; A. Agassiz, Esq., Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown, Zodlogical Garden, Philadelphia, Pa.; Prof. G. Brown Goode, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.; Dr. J. S. Billings, U. S. Army, Medical Museum, Washington, D. C.; Mr. W. T. Hornaday, U. S. Zodlogical Garden, Washington, D. C.; Prof. A. Hyatt, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass.; Dr. P. L. Sclater, London Zodlogical Society, London, England ; Prof. A. Ploppoy, Society of Acclimation, Paris, France; Royal Museum, Dresden, Germany; Dr. Chas. Spitzka, New York; S. A Liautaud, Mi) Vis iNew Yorkin) The following five groups have been completed; the Ruffed Grouse, Loon, Woodchuck, Labrador Duck, and Laughing Gull. Work has been delayed in preparing the groups of Opossum, Black Duck, Muskrat, and Pied-billed Grebe, by lack of cases and the making of leaves and plants. During the spring four most interesting groups were collected, and when they are completed they will be the most attractive in the collection. They consist of the Pied-billed Grebe, with four young; the Black Duck, with thirteen young; the common Striped Squirrel, with six young; and the Red Fox, with five young. With the valuable addition of a fine Buffalo bull, obtained through exchange with the United States National Museum, and the acquisition of the necessary accessories to complete this group, collected during a personal trip to the Buffalo country in the Pan Handle of Texas, in October and November, we are now able to advance with this group until it is completed. The work is fairly begun, and will be finished ready for its case during the summer. This group will comprise one full adult bull and cow; one five- year-old cow, with a six-weeks’-old calf; one yearling cow; one three-year-old cow, and one spike Bull. With these animals will 21 be represented the real Buffalo grass, with the cactus, soap weed and different prairie flowers found at this time of the year; the same character of accessories and grouping being maintained as in the present bird and mammal groups. This group will re- present, as far as possible, this mammal in all its different stages of development, and it is to be hoped that suitable material may be secured to make similar groups of the American Antelope, Moose, Elk, Mountain Sheep, Mountain Goat and some of the Deer, before these animals are exterminated. The number of birds mounted has been one hundred and thirty-eight (138); number of birds made into skins, for Study Collection, five hundred and eighty-four (584) ; number of birds collected in the field and made into skins, three hundred and seventy-five (375); number of birds skeletonized, twenty-two (22); number of birds received from Mr. Allen to be mounted, two hundred and seven (207). Total number of birds received in the flesh and prepared, six hundred and forty-one (641). The number of mammals mounted, thirteen (13); number of mammals made into skins for study, ninety-eight (98); number of mammals skeletonized, fifteen (15); number of mammals col- lected in the field, one hundred and thirty one (131). ‘Total number of mammals received in the flesh and prepared, two hundred and twenty-five (225); number of mammal skulls cleaned for study, two hundred and two (202). The number of mammal skins now in antiseptic solution, that require constant attention, and most of which are not in our collection, is three hundred and fifty-six. LIBRARY. (Under the charge of Mr. A. Woopwarb.]| The additions to the Library this year are as usual principally by donations and exchanges. The books and pamphlets re- ceived have amounted to: volumes, 600; numbers and parts, 588; pamphlets, 328. By Application (Librarian).... 316 Vols. 251 Nos. and Parts. 47 Pamphlets. Exchange (Bulletin)....... (oie. y 217 108 o se (Duplicates)..... Ig ‘“ 8 a I oe IDWWEHOME; J scboodoadaoods teh are 95 ue 105 ‘a Bunrchase:srecaccc en entence r16 us ee 67 Mh ALO tallsaieefalisteenareee! 600 582 328 Among the additions should be mentioned a few of those in constant use: Mr. Hugh Auchincloss.—Schoolcraft’s History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Weinmannos Phytanthoza Iconographia. 1737 to 1745. 6 volumes. 22 C. R. Osten-Sacken (the author), Heidelberg.—17 Pamphlets on Diptera. Boston Society of Natural History.—Proceedings. Vols. XVIII.- XXIII. (Exchange.) British Museum.—Guides. The Australian Museum. The Indian Museum, Calcutta. Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, Russia. —Memoires and Bulletins. 63 volumes. Société Royale Hongroise des Sci. Nat.—g volumes. Fran Kongl. Svenska Vet. Akademien, Stockholm.—29 volumes. Ungarischen Karpathe-Vereins.—15 volumes. Forty-five (45) volumes added to the Conchological Section, the gift of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. The publications of the Museum consist of an Annual Report and: Bulletin, the latter used principally for exchange with kin- dred institutions and societies. The Museum Exchange List shows that the Library is ex- changing publications with one hundred and twenty-five (125) scientists, one hundred and thirty (130) societies, in the United States and Canada. In Europe: twenty-five (25) scientists, one hundred (roo) societies. The Library now contains above twelve thousand (12,000) volumes. The shelves are very much crowded, not showing the books to advantage. Number of Volumes in Library, Bound. Unbound. Nos.and Parts. Pamphlets. January Ist, 1890.......... 6893 1940 4618 5555 Added during the year.......... 133 467 582 228 7026 2407 5200 5783 Three hundred and fifty-three (353) volumes were bound this year through the generosity of the Trustees and Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. There is to be found in the Library a fine collection of books on Natural History, comprising the libraries of Dr. John C. Jay, on Shells; James Carson Brevoort, on Fishes, and many other old and rare works. Also, the Elliot Library, on Birds. The leading periodicals and various other scientific works, which the Trustees will be able to have properly exhibited when the new Library room is ready. INCORPORATION. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Passed April 6, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ‘SECTION 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of “The American Museum of Natural History,” to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History; of encouraging and developing the study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowl- edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. Sec. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their government, the number and election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant 24 to such Constitution and By-Laws, the persons named in the first section of this Act shall be, and are hereby declared to be the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its property. SrEc. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. Sec. 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, : OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. { * I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and seal of office at the City of Albany, [L. s.] this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State. CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ARTICLE I. This Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL History. ARTICLE II. The several persons named in the charter, and such others as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed twenty-five in all at one time, shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property, and business of the Corporation, and in case of the death, accepted resignation, or removal from the State of any Trustee, a new Trustee shall be elected to fill his place by the remaining Trustees; but no election of a Trustee shall be held except at a quarterly meeting of the Trustees, on written notice of not less than one week, specifying that such election is to be held, and the vacancy which is to be filled; and every election of Trustees shall be by ballot, and no person shall be deemed to be elected a Trustee unless he shall receive the votes of at least three-fourths of the Trustees present. ARTICLE, TT, The Trustees shall meet quarterly, on the third Monday of every February, May, August and November, at an hour and place to be designated, on at least one week’s written notice from the Secretary, and shall annually, at the quarterly meeting in Feb- ruary, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to transact special business 26 on a call of the Secretary, who shall issue such call whenever re- quested so to do, in writing, by five Trustees, or by the President, and give written notice to each Trustee of such special meeting, and of the object thereof, at least three days before the meeting is held. ARTICLE IV. The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, an Ex- ecutive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Finance Com- mittee, all to be elected from the Trustees. All these officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. The election of officers shall be by ballot, and the persons hav- ing a majority of the votes cast shall be deemed duly elected. ARTIC: The President, and in his absence the First or Second Vice- President, shall preside at all the meetings of the Museum and of the Trustees. The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Trustees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing Com- mittee, and shall preserve the seal, archives, and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meetings of the Trustees, and attend the same. The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Museum. He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in books belonging to it, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees. He shall report in writing, at each quarterly meeting of the Trustees, the balance of money on hand, and the outstanding obligations of the Museum, as far as practicable; and shall make a full report at the annual meeting of the receipts and disbursements of the past year, with such suggestions as to the financial management of the Museum as he may deem proper. ARTICLE VI. The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom the President and Secretary shall be two. The five members of the 27 Executive Committee elected in February, 1887, shall forthwith draw lots for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respect- ively, and the terms for which those drawing the two, three, four and five years, respectively, were elected, are hereby extended to cover those periods; and hereafter at each annual election one . member of the Executive Committee shall be elected to serve for five years. They shall have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library, and other property of the Museum ; and shall have power to purchase, sell, and exchange specimens and books, to employ agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in detail the directions of the Trustees ; but the Executive Committee shall not incur any expense or liability for the Museum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meetings of the Trustees, without the express sanction of the Trustees. ARTICLE VII. The Auditing Committee shall consist of three, and it shall be their duty to examine and certify all bills presented against the Corporation ; and no bills shall be paid unless first approved in writing by at least two members of this Committee. UIC) WAIOUE, The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to take charge of and invest the funds of the Museum in its name, and to take all proper measures to provide means for its support. ARTICLE IX. A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the subse- quent approval of a meeting at which a quorum shall be present. ARTICLE X: By-Laws may from time to time be made by the Trustees, providing for the care and management of the property of the Corporation ; and for the government of its affairs. 28 Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any meeting of the Trustees, by a vote of a majority of those present, after a month’s notice in writing of such proposed amendment. ARTICLE XI. The contribution of $1000 or more to the funds of the Museum, at any one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such patronship. The contribution of $500, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to bea Fellow, who shall have the right to ap- point one successor in such fellowship. LVo appointment of a successor shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing, endorsed on the certificate, or by last will and testament. The contribution of S1oo, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Life Member. Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the above degrees, who shall have given to the Museum books or specimens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Com- mittee, to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the President and Secretary shall issue diplomas accordingly under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their discretion. ARTICLE XI. No alterations shall be made in this Constitution, unless at a regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees; nor by the votes of less than two-thirds of all the Trustees; nor without notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular meeting. Bes WANS: I. Patrons giving $1000 are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and 1o Tickets for a single admission. Fellows, giving $500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and to Tickets for a single admission. Life Members, giving $100, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission. Annual Members, paying $1o yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single admission. [Note.—A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two persons to the Museum every day except Sunday, and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions, and may be used by any member of the Subscriber’s family. The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among friends and visitors. | Jt Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a Trustee, un- less excused by the Board. ITT. No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee who shall not be a “ Patron”’ of the Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees ex-officio—nor be eligible unless his name shall be presented by the nominating committee at a Regular Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place. 30 Ve No indebtedness shall ( except for current expenses ) be incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its committees, officers, or employees, unless there are at the time sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same. Vv. All bequests or legacies, not especially designated, shall here- after be applied to the Permanent Endowment Fund, the interest only of which shall be applied to the use of the Museum, as the Board shall direct. List OF ACCESSIONS, 1889. DONATIONS. LIBRARY. Through the late Miss CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE. HUGH Bielz, E. A. Fauna der. 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NOUVELLE-RUSSIE, Odessa. Mémoires. Tome XIII, 1; XIV, 1. 1880. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. S. A. BALL, New York City. t Porcupine. P. T. BARNUM and J. A. BAILEY, Bridgeport, Conn. Skeleton of the African Elephant ‘‘Jumbo.” Also 1 Bear, 1 Lion, 8 Monkeys, 2 Coatis, 1 Sacred Cow, and 1 American Bison, received in the flesh. LEBBEUS CHAPMAN, Englewood, N. J. 1 Bat (Vespertilio noctivagans). ANDREW CHICHESTER, Amityville, Long Island, N. Y. 1 Malformed Kitten. CHAS. B. CORY, Boston, Mass. 2 West Indian Bats. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent of the Menagerie. 2 Monkeys, 2 Llamas, 2 Civet Cats, 1 Ichneumon, 1 Ocelot, I young Lion, I Coati, 2 Kangaroos, 1 young Hippopotamus, 1 Philippine Island Deer, 1 Barbary Sheep, 1 young Indian Buffalo, 1 young Hog Deer, 1 Pronghorn, 1 Indian Antelope, 1 Armadillo, 1 Bea- ver, all received in the flesh. A. H. HELME, Miller’s Place, Long Island, N. Y. Skeleton of a Hoary Bat. Mrs. M. E. HUGHS, New York City. I Pointer Dog. GOTTFRIED HUMMER, New York City. Skull of a Wolf, from a cave in West Tennessee. Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U. S. A., Fort Snelling, Minn. 300 skins, 500 skulls, and 20 specimens in alcohol, chiefly from Arizona. 47 Mrs. C. C. HUNT, New York City. t Mexican Hairless Dog, mounted. D. WILLIS JAMES, CHARLES 5S. SMITH, and CORNELIUS VAN- DERBILT, New York City. 18 skins and skeletons of Antelopes and other Mammals from South Africa. C. J. JONES, Garden City, Kans. t adult male American Bison. E. E. OLCOTT, New York City. I Tayra (Golictis barbara), skin and skull. NICOLAS PIKE, Brooklyn, N. Y. I Opossum and 1 Raccoon, from Long Island, N. Y. H. RAY, New York City. I Bat. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 Blackfish skull. GEORGE B. SENNETT, New York City. 2 Peccaries, 1 Wolf, 1 Armadillo, 1 Coati, from Texas and Eastern Mexico ; 1 Badger, from Minnesota. S. P. SLATER, New York City. I St. Bernhard Dog. ERNEST E. THOMPSON, Toronto, Canada. 15 skins, 15 skulls, from Canada. FRANK J. THOMPSON, New York City. 1 Paradoxure, 1 Lemur, 4 Monkeys, received in the flesh. W. J. WARD, Elmsford, N. Y. 2 Minks. L. A. ZEREGA, M.D., New York City. t skin and 1 skull of Otter. DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. E. T. ADNEY, New York City. 4 nests, with eggs, from New Brunswick. CHARLES B. CORY, Boston, Mass. 32 skins, from the West Indies. J. L. DAVISON, Lockport, N. Y. 2 Horned Larks, 4 Cerulean Warblers. W. H. EDWARDS, Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y. 2 Razor-billed Auks, in the flesh. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent Central Park Menagerie. 2 Pheasants, 8 Parrots, 2 Owls, 2 Toucans, 1 Crowned Crane, 2 White Egrets, 1 Great Blue Heron, 2 Flamingos, 2 Ducks, 2 Geese, I Gannet, received in the flesh. Mrs. JOHN A. DOUGHERTY, New York City. 1 Purple-capped Lory. WILLIAM DUTCHER, New Vork City. I Gull. JONATHAN DWIGHT, Jr., New York City. 13 Maryland Yellow-throats, in the flesh. 48 Maj. JOSEPH DELAFIELD and GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, New York City. 40 skins from Japan. THOMAS T. ECKERT, Vice-President and General Manager Western Union Telegraph Co. Section of a telegraph pole, from near Phoenix, Oregon, illustrating the storage of acorns by the California Woodpecker. Rev. T. W. GULICH, Kyoto, Japan (through George N. Lawrence, Esq.). Small collection of skins from the Caroline Islands. A. H. HELME, Miller’s Place, Long Island, N. Y. 1 Gull. D. WILLIS JAMES, CHARLES S. SMITH, and CORNELIUS VAN- DERBILT, New York City. 174 skins, and a small collection of nests and eggs, from South Africa, collected by Dr. B. N. Bridgman. CLARENCE KING, Esq., New York City. The Snowden Howland Collection of North American Birds’ eggs, numbering about 3000 specimens. E. G. LEWIS, New York City. t Manakin, 1 albino Song Sparrow. LEVERETT M. LOOMIS, Chester, S. C. rt Leconte’s Sparrow. Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U. S. A., Fort Snelling, Minn. 400 skins of European birds, 800 skins of North American birds, and 100 nests and about 1000 eggs. E. E. OLCOTT, New York City. 1 Toucan. Rev. R. B. POST, Orange, N. J. 2 Gulls, 2 Loon’s eggs. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2 mounted birds, and 8 skins. W. B. RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 Indigo Bird. R. H. ROBERTSON, New York City. I mounted European Widgeon, from Currituck Sound, N. C. J. ROWLEY, Jr., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Warbler, 1 Woodpecker. CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 2 Bobwhites. W. B. SHERRY, Stoney Brook, N. Y. t skin of Brown Pelican. Miss ELIZABETH TAYLOR, New York City. 3 Snow Buntings, in the flesh. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. RAPHAEL BENJAMIN, New Vork City. Two lots of fossils from the Cincinnati Group. The fossils repre- sented were Bryozoans and Brachiopods from Price Hill and Bold Face Creek, Ohio. 49 J. M. CONSTABLE, New York City. Three specimens of Fossil Fish from the Green River Beds, Twin Creeks, Wyoming. Mioplosus labracoides Cope. Mioplosus sauvageanus Cope. Priscacara serrata Cope. BOYD ELIOT, New York City. One specimen of Spirifera from Four Mile Creek, Prebble Co., Ohio. INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, San Francisco, Cal. Specimens of Brachiopods, Lamellibranchs and Gasteropods from California, New Mexico, Nevada and Oregon. One cast of fossil jaw of camel (original found in the lava beds of Calaveras Co., Cal.). R. D. LACOE, Pittston, Pa. Specimens of Fossil Fruits from the Coal Measures, Washington Co., Arkansas. Cardiocarpus bicuspidatus Sternb. Sphenopteris tne- guilateralis, Lesqr. Cones of Astrophylhtes gracilis, Lesqr. Whittlesia microphylla, Newberry. J. S. McLAURY, Yonkers, N. Y. Fossil Sponge from Onondaga Valley, N. Y. Stromatopora sp? Upper Helderberg. J. TERRY, New York City. Six fossils from Lake Champlain, Vt. Calciferous and Chazy. PHILIP R. UHLER, Baltimore, Md. Two specimens of Ostrea compressirostra, Say. Fort Washington Peninsula, Md. Three impressions in green sand of the same species, Crownsville, Md. Dr. E. A. MEARNS, U. S. Army. Specimens of minerals and fossils from Arizona, embracing Devonian and Carboniferous Brachiopods and Corals. Dr. J. M. SILVA CONTINHO, Rio Janerio, through Mr. G. F. Kunz. Specimens of Quaternary fossil plant impressions found on the shore of the Bay of Bahia, Brazil. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. ANACONDA MINING CO., through James D. Hague, M. E. Two large masses of Chalcocite, weighing 125 and 245 Ibs., from Anaconda Mine, Butte, Montana. A. D. CAMPBELL, New York City. Nodule of Garnet Vein in gneiss from 83d Street and toth Avenue, New York City. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, New York City. Large quartz mass from vein, carrying ‘‘rich gold,” from Lumpkin Co., Georgia. S. D. DILL, Nova Scotia. Two specimens of Pyrolusite from Walton, Nova Scotia. Pror. J. DOUGLAS, New York City. Three large and beautiful masses of Plumose or Velvet Malachite, and two large masses of Botryoidal and solid Malachite. One speci- men of pale green Malachite. One specimen of Chalcanthite. HARRY W. FOELLER, New York City. Seven handsome specimens of Pyrite, Ashland, Pa. from the Tunnel mines. xOTTFRIED HUMMER, New York City. Large ball of Pyrite Crystals from Cerro Gorda, West Tenn, 50 J. D. HAGUE, M. E. One large block of Vein Quartz carrying Gold, from the Empire Mine, Grass Valley, Nevada, Co., Cal. F. HILLE, Canada. Leaf Silver from Silver Mt., Port Arthur Dist., Canada. Native Silver in gangue, Silver Islet, Lake Superior, Canada. Argentite with gangue, Port Arthur Dist., Canada. MASTER SIDNEY HOFFMAN, New York City. Specimen of Clay thrown up by the Charlestown earthquake, Aug. 31, 1886. Mrs. MYRON HUME, Brooklyn, through Mr. Calkins. An example of salt precipitation and crystallization from Salt Lake, Utah. INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, San Francisco, Cal. Specimens of Aragonite, Anabergite, Colemannite, Borickite, Chromite, Cassiterite, Garnet, Linarite, Massive Pectolite, Saponite, &c., from Alaska, California, Dakota, Oregon and Utah. W. W. JEFFERIS, Philadelphia, Pa. Many specimens from various localities, comprising Amazon Stone (Orthoclase), Brucite, Calcite, Cyanite, Corundum, Fowlerite (Rhodonite), Moscovite, Magnetite, Moonstone (Oligoclase), Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite, Staurolite, Stilbite. MORRIS K. JESUP, New York City. Large and very handsome group of Quartz Crystals from Hot Springs, Arkansas. J. S. McLAURY, Yonkers, N. Y. Specimens of Aragonite from Wilcox Quarry, Fayetteville, N. Y. H. G. MARQUAND, New York City. One chalcedony ‘‘ Water-Pocket” Wydrolite from Brazil. Mrs. NICOL, New York City. Two blocks of Red Sandstone (Potsdam) from the Prentice Brown- stone Co., Ashland, Wis. W. NIVEN, New York City. Handsome polished cabochon of Opal from Queretaro, Mexico. One large Calcite rhomb, Lampasas, Texas. One large slab of Itacolumyte, Burke Co., N. C. JOHN PROUT, through W. E. Dodge, New York City. Specimen of vein matter from Hale and Norcross Mine, Virginia City, Nevada. : Section of compressed wood from the lower workings of Consolidated : Virginia Mine, Va. City, Nevada. E. SCHERNIKOW, New York City. Two specimens of Pyromorphite and Wulfenite on sandstone from Sing Sing, N. Y. E. STAHL, New York City. Specimen of Vanadinite, nine miles from Prescott, Arizona. GILMAN S. STANTON, New York City. One specimen of Brucite from Hoboken, N. J. W. S. TEATOR, New York City. Four lumps of Hematite from Dover Plains, found in friable sandstone. Miss KATE TISE, Jersey City. Several blocks of Zinc Ores. 51 CH. W. WARREN, New York City. Two specimens of Peacock Coal from Cumberland, Md. One large block Dolomite with seam of Calcite with Pyrite and Pyn- holite from Kings Bridge, New York Island. Specimen of Tourmaline in Granite, Garnet, Chlorite and Quartz, New York Island. One specimen of Hydro-Magnesite, and one specimen of brown Aragonite, both on Serpentine, Hoboken, N. J. _ Three specimens of Pectolite (pink and brown), and two specimens of Datolite from Paterson, N. J. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD. Four specimens of Obsidian, Yellowstone Park, Wy. Twelve “‘ pistolites” from Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park, Wy. Three Orthoclase Crystals, Monterey, California. A. WOODWARD, N. Y. Large slab of Vein Quartz from Harlem Heights, New York Island. C. E. SNOW, C. E. One specimen of soft Helmatite (iridescent, ‘‘blue ore”), Iron Mt., Mich. CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Mrs. J. RAMSEY, Jersey City. Several specimens of Pinna. A small collection of land shells from Pueblo de Bafios, Ambato, Ecuador, S. America. A. BAILEY, Chepachet, N. Y. Two specimens of Helix Sayit and two of Helix dentifera from Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. W. G. BINNEY, New Jersey. 22 Species and varieties of American land shells for the Binney and Bland Collection. Mr. ETHERIDGE, Australia. Small collection of shells (38 species) from Australia. W. S. TEATOR, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Eight very large specimens of Szccinea obfigua from Barrytown on the Hudson, and four specimens of Szccinea vermeta from Fort Washington, N. Y. E. W. WARD. Two specimens of Pholas castata, from Punta Rassa, Florida. ABBE VATHELET, French Warship Aréthuse. In exchange. Thirty-eight species of shells mostly from the West Indies. WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE, Philadelphia, Pa. Collection of 168 species in partial exchange for fossil duplicate collections. ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Mr. O. DIETZ, New York City. 300 specimens of Beetles. Mr. LUDWIG RIEDERER, New York City. 17 specimens of Lzdellula. 52 Mr. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Englewood, N. J. 20 specimens of Lepidoptera, from New Jersey. Mr. S. V. LIPPINCOTT, New York. 1 Benacus griseus, Say. 2 Calosoma scrutator, F. Mr. A. WOODWARD, New York City. 200 specimens of Coleoptera, from Penn. Mr. WM. BEUTENMULLER, New York City. 300 specimens of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, etc. Mr. CHARLES PALM, New York City. 140 specimens of Lepidoptera. Miss BELLA LEVY, Mt. Salus, N. Y. A smali collection of Insects from Jamaica. Mr. E. E. OLCOTT, New York City. 135 specimens of Insects from U. S. Columbia. Mr. JOSE C. ZALEDON, Costa Rica. 1 Gigantic Locust. Mr. GUSTAV BEYER, New York City. 67 specimens of Beetles from New York and Europe. 25 oy ““ Wasps from New York. THE JAPANESE FAN CO., New York City. 51 bottles of Silkworms, containing about 2000 specimens from Japan. Mr. J. B. BAILEY, Orange, N. J. 64 specimens of Beetles from California. Mr. T. BERENDSOHN, New York. 15 specimens of Luna Moths. Dr. A. S. PACKARD. Providence, R. I. 36 specimens of Insects of various orders. Mr. GEORGE J. ROGERS, Tremont, N. Y. I pair Cecropia Moths. Miss KATE TISE, Jersey City. 2 Hornets’ Nests, 3 Cecropia Cocoons and 2 Cicadas. Dr. EDGAR MEARNS. A small collection of Beetles from Arizona, I vial containing alcoholic specimens of Cattle Ticks and Dipterous Parasites of the Mule Deer. Mr. C. NIXON, Barnegat, N. J. I Hornets Nest. Mr. D. P. B. CONKLIN, New York, N. Y. A small collection of Butterflies and Moths from England. DEPARTMENT OF REPTILES, BATRACHIANS AND FISHES: HERBERT BROWN, Tucson, Arizona. 3 living Gopher Turtles (Xevodates) from Arizona. Dr. H. E. DAVIDSON, Boston, Mass. I Bass, mounted. F. S DOUGLASS, Long Branch N. J. I skull of Ray. 53 Hon. J. FRANCESCO ECHEVERIA, Costa Rica. I Boa skin. Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U. S. A., Fort Snelling, Minnesota. 34 Lizards and Horned Toads ; 35 Snakes, 20 Toads and Frogs, and 162 Fishes. J. A. ROBERTSON, Gainesville, Fla. 1 living Moccasin, from Florida. E. A. SWENSON, New York City. 1 Horned Toad, from Texas. MARINE INVERTEBRATES. J. W. ATKINS, Key West, Fla. I Crayfish, from Florida. FRANK D. BEAN, M.D., New York City. I Crab, from Cape Breton, N. 5S. MLLE. GODART DE BLOSSIERE, New York City. I Sea-fan. D. INGRAHAM, Syracuse, N. Y.. 1 Crab (Dromia lator), from Nassau, Providence. Miss TISE, Jersey City. Collection of Sea-fans and other Radiates. EXCHANGES. LIBRARY. C. R. RADCLIFF, New York City. Goldsmith’s Animated Nature. 2 Vols. 1857. A. W. VOGDES, Fort Hamilton, N. Y. Jackson, C. T.. First Annual Report on the Geology of New Hamp- shire. 1841. Jackson, C. T. Report on the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Rhode Island. 1840. Barrande, J. Wiederscheinung der Gattung Arethusina. Jackson, C. T. Third Annual Report on the Geology of the State of Maine. 1839. Stephenson, M. F. Geology and Mineralogy of Georgia. 1871. SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Boston, Mass. Proceeding. Vols. XVIII-XXIII, 1877, 1888. XXIV, Part I, II, 1889. Memoires. Volume II, Part III, 2, 5. IV, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Historical Notes on the Earthquakes of New England. 1638-69. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C. Report of the Commissioner of Education. 1871, 1872. Compendium of the Ninth Census of the U.S. 1870. Annual Report Supt., of the Coast Survey. 1851. Reports of the Coast Survey. 1857, 1861, 1864. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. A. B. BAKER, Trego, Kans. Skins and skulls, from Trego, Kans. BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 skull, 12 skins, from various localities. 54 DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, R. I. 38 skins of South American Birds. F. O. JOHNSON, Riverside, Cal. 158 skins of California Birds. 5 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge Mass. 22 skins of South American Birds. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 24 skins of mostly rare North American Birds. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Dr. A. S. TIFFANY, Davenport, Iowa, Sixty specimens of fossils, comprising Brachoipods, Lamellibranchs, Gasteropods, Corals and Bryozans, from the Devonion and Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Iowa and Illinois. MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. J. BJENIGARD, New York City. Six specimens of White Pyroxene (Malacolite) from New York Island. J. COHN, New York City. Group and single crytals of Zircon from El] Paso Co., Colorado. H. G. HANKS, (for Bulletins. ) Many handsome specimens of Borax, Hanksite, Glauberite, Living- stonite and Ulexite from California, Nevada and Mexico. E. CLEVELAND, San Diego, Cal. Four pieces of Beryllonite from Stoneham, Maine. F. JONES, Brooklyn, N. Y. One block of curved Mica (Muscovite) from Branchville, Conn. Crystals and specimens of Willemite (Troostite and Canary Yellow variety) from Franklin, N. J Specimen of Pyroxene (Jeffersonite) and specimen of Franklinite, Franklin, N. J Two small cylinders of Russian Malachite. JOSEPH WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. Thirty fine specimens of thirteen species, including Apatite, Brucite, Corundum, Galenite, Orthoclase, Phlogopite, Pyroxene, Prophyl- lite, Quartz, Rutile, Staurolite, Wernerite, and Zircon. MARINE INVERTEBRATES. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 2 specimens of Pseudemys troostt. PURCHASES. LIBRARY. Report of the Challenger. Vols. XXVII-XXIX. 1888. Zoology. es f Vols. XXX-XXXII. 1889. Zoology. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. XIII. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Nos. 74-79. 55 Trow’s New York City Directory. 1889. Metropolitan Directory. 1890. Maximilian (Prinzen von Wied). Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens. 1822-31. Maximilian.—Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817. 2 vols. 1820-21. Maximilian.—Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. 2 vols. 1839-1841. Lichtenstein, H. Verzichniss d. Doubletten d. Zool. Museum zu Berlin. 1823. Spix, J. B. de. Avium species novae in itin p. Brasilian. Vol. I. Azara, F. de. Apuntamientos para la Hist. Nat. de los Paxaros del Paragiiay y Rio de la Plata. 3 Vols. 1802-1805. Edward’s Butterflies of North America. 2 Vols. 8 Nos. 1868-1889. Kuhl, H. Conspectus Psittacorum. z Cabanis and Heine. Museum Heineanum. 1863. American Journal of Science and Art. 1889. American Naturalist. 1889. Science. 1889. Garden and Forest. Vols. I, 2. Forest and Stream. 1889. _ ° The Book Mart. 1889. The City Record. 1889. The Publishers’ Weekly. 1880. The Ibis. 1889. The Zoologist. 1889. Nature. 1889. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1889. Cabanis’s Journal fiir Ornithologie. 1889. Science News. Scientific and Literary Gossip. Entomological Society of Ontario. Report 1872. Agassiz Companion. Hoosier Naturalist. Oologist Exchange. Papilio. Vol. IV. Popular Science Monthly. Kansas City Review. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. Vol. I. Torrey Botanical Club. Bulletin. 1870-1880. Zoologischer Angeiger. Register Jahrgang I-X. 1889. Paleontograpical Society. Vol. XLI. 1888. Palzeontographica. 1888-1889. Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie und Palzeontologie. 1889. WM. A. CONKLIN, Ph. D., New York City. Wood, J. G. White’s Natural History of Selborne. 1853. Hawker, P. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. 1830. Hamet, H. Cours Pratique D’Apiculture. 1866. Brehm. Gefangene Vogel. 1872. Gentry, T. G. Nests and Eggs of the United States. 1882. Chadburne, P. A. Instinct in Animals and Men. 1872. Hooker, W. Natural History. 1873. Gray, J. E. Catalogue of the Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. 1855. Gray, J. E. Catalogue of the Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Supplement. 1870. 56 Gray, J. E. Catalogue of the Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. 1873. Dorner, H. Die Papageien-Ausstellung des Zoologischen Garten zu Hamburg. 1872. Forbes, S. A. The Food of Birds. Rodrigue, J. J. Catalogo de los Génerosy Especies de los Animales que se encuentran en Guatemala. 1885. Zeledon, S. J. Catalogo de las Aves de Costa-Rica. 1882. Lombardini, L. Osservazion Anatomiche. Baraldi. Esperimenti intorno alla Saturnia Pernyi. 1872. Comba. Sulla Moria dei Cervi comuni daini Caprioli Antilopi. 1873. Langdon, F. W. A Catalogue of the Birds of the Vicinity of Cin- cinnati. 1877. Spitzka, E. A. The Peduncular Tracts of the Anthropoid Ape. 1879. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF TAXIDERMY. 54 skins, 54 skulls, from various localities. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 190 skins, 190 skulls, 3 skeletons, from Florida ; 13 skins, 13 skulls, from Little Gull Island and Englewood, N. J., collected by Frank M. Chapman. 94 skins, 94 skulls, 5 specimens in alcohol, from Indian Territory and Northern Texas, collected by Jenness Richardson and John Rowley, Jr. BY DIRECT PURCHASE. 21 mounted Monkeys ; 24 Monkeys in the flesh; 1 Tapir, 1 Jaguar, I Ibex, 1 Antelope, in the flesh; 20 skins and 20 skulls from North Carolina ; 15 skins and 15 skulls from Montana; 23 skins and 23 skulls from California ; 23 skins and 27 skulls from Long Island, N. Y.; 3 skins from Ecuador ; 42 skins and 75 skulls from Ohio ; 34 skins and 28 skulls from near New York City ; 85 skins and 85 skulls from British Columbia ; 70 skins and 96 skulls from Southern Mexico. DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF TAXIDERMY. 292 skins, mostly from vicinity of New York City. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 188 skins, 3 skeletons, from Florida; 34 skins from Little Gull Island, N. Y., and Englewood, N. J., collected by Frank M. Chapman. 128 skins from Indian Territory and Northern Texas, collected by Jenness Richardson and John Rowley, Jr. BY DIRECT PURCHASE. : 405 skins from South America; 30 skins from the Bahamas; 1412 skins from various North American localities; 968 skins from British Columbia ; 85 skins from Southern Mexico; 128 skins from Costa Rica. 57 MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Large specimen of Fluorite, seas green, in a cubical group, from near Macomb, St. Lawrence Co., One specimen of Albite, salts Court House, Va. Tabular Calcite on quartz, Guanajuato, Mexico. Twinned flat combinations of Calcite, Guanajuato, Mexico. Calcite on Amethyst, Guanajuato, Mexico. Scalenohedron of Calcite with Quartz, Guanajuato, Mexico. Interrupted scalenohedra of Calcite, One specimen of Garnet, Alaska. e o Heulandite, Westchester Co., N. Y. = a ‘* Hyalite, New Vork Island. i sf ‘* Itacolumyte (flexible sandstone), Linnville Gap, N. C. Nine pieces of Opal in trachyte, Queretaro, Mexico. One specimen Picrolite (Serpentine), North Carolina. 3 Quartz (fascicled opaque crystal) from Guanajuato, Mexico. Three groups of Topaz from Queretaro, Mexico. One specimen Tourmaline, Essex Co., N. Y. Ten colored Transparencies of Western Scenery. MARINE INVERTEBRATES. 13 living specimens of Chrysemys reticulata ; a series of embryos, in various stages of developement, of the Loggerhead Turtle. FROM MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 6 Snakes, 6 species, from Florida, collected by Frank M. Chapman. t Turtle, 2 Lizards, 1 Toad, 6 Snakes, from Indian Territory and Northern Texas, collected by Jenness Richardson and John Rowley, Jr. leat IP TREO INS By the Payment of One Thousand Dollars. MORRIS K. JESUP. ROBERT L. STUART.* Miss C. L. WOLFE.* ROBERT COLGATE.* FREDERIC W. STEVENS. PERCY R. PYNE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. JOHN B. TREVOR. ADRIAN ISELIN. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS. JOSEPH W: DREXEL.* WILLIAM HK. DODGE, Jr. JOHN D. WOLFE.* ABRAM 8. HEWITT. C. VANDERBILT. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. CHARLES LANIER. D. JACKSON STEWARD. EDWARD CLARK.* A. G. PHELPS DODGE. JAMES BROWN.* A. T. STEWART.* S. WHITNEY PH@NIX.* BENJAMIN H. FIELD. WILLIAM T. BLODGETT.* OLIVER HARRIMAN. ROBERT BONNER. JAMES B. COLGATE. ALEXANDER STUART.* WILLIAM A. HAINES.* BENJAMIN AYMAR.* RICHARD ARNOLD.* JOSEPH H. CHOATE. JONATHAN THORNE.* Miss PHEBE ANNA THORNE. D. O. MILLS. JOHN A. C. GRAY. HEBER R. BISHOP. CHAS. G. LANDON. WILLIAM E. DODGE.* PETER COOPER.* WILLIAM H. ASPINWALL.* B. H. HUTTON.* J. TAYLOR JOHNSTON. D. N. 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Collins, Benjamin Collins, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss M. M. Combe, William Compton, A. T. Conkling, Rev. N. W. Constable, Frederick A Constable, James M. Constantine, A. J. Contoit, Chas. H. Cook, John C. Cooper, Geo. C. Cotheal, Alex. I. Cox, Allyn Cranitch, William I. A. Crawford, R. L. Crimmins, Hon. J. D. Crocker, George Aug. Crosby, Rev. Howard Cruger, 8. V. R. Cullum, Gen. Geo. W. Curtiss, Frank Cutting, R. Fulton Cutting, Robert L. Cutting, W. Bayard Daly, Hon. Chas. P. Davids, W. J. L. Davies, W. G. Davis, George H. Davis, Theodore M. Davison, C. A. Day, Henry Day, Henry M. Day, Rev. Henry §. Decker, Joseph 8. de Forest, Robert W. de Groot, Mrs. William de Rham, Charles De Grauw, Walter N. De Ruyter, John D. Delafield, Maturin L. Dewitt, William G. Dickie, E. P. Dickey, Charles D. Dickey, Hugh T. Dimock, Henry F. Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D. Dodge, Cleve H. Dodge, Miss Grace H. Dodge, Miss Mary M. Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr. Dodge, George E. Doudge, James R. Dougherty, A. Dowd, Hon. Wm. Dowd, Prof. Daniel L. Dows, David Drakenfeld, B. F. Drake, John J. Draper, Frank E. Draper, Dr. W. H. Dreyfuss, L. Du Bois, Katharine Du Bois, William A. Du Bois, Dr. Matthew B. Duncan, John P. Dunham, G. H. Dunlap, Robert Earle, Wm. P. Ehret, George Hidlitz, Leopold Hidlitz, Mare Hinstein, David L. Elkins, Stephen B. Ellis, John W. Ely, Richard 8. Eno, Amos F. Eno, Amos R. Ettlinger, Louis Ewart, James M. Fahnestock, H. C. Fargo, James C. Farnham, Mrs. Horace P. Fellows, Gordon Ferguson, Edward Ferris, Frank A. Fish, Hon. Hamilton Fiske, Josiah M. Fleet, Oliver S. Fletcher, Andrew Flower, A. R. Floyd, James R. Foote, C. B. Ford, John R. Fosdick, Chas. B. Foster, Scott Fraser, George 8. Frost, Isaac T. Fry, Charles M. Gade, Henry Garland, James A. Gautier, J. H. Georger, Louis F. Gibb, John Gibbs, Theodore K. Gilberg, Charles A. Gilbert, Clinton Goddard, F. N. Goddard, J. W. Godwin, Parke Goelet, Ogden Goldenberg, Simon Goodridge, F. Goodwin, James J. Gordon, George Gossler, G. H. Gotthold, Fred. Grace, Hon. W. R. Gracie, J. K. Graham, Malcolm Greenwood, Isaac J. Gregory, Chas. E. Griswold, Chester Groesbeck, D. Guggenheimer, R. Gunther, F. Frederick Gurnee, W. S. Hague, James D. Hahlo, Hermann Hall, John H. Halsted, Jacob Halsted, Robert Hammond, E. A. Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D. Harris, Robert Hart, H. E. Hart, Rev. A. B. Hartt, James C. Hartley, Marcellus Harvier, Ernest Havemeyer, Hector C. Havemeyer, J. C. Havemeyer, Theo. A. Haviland, Edward Hawley, Edwin 63 Hawley, Henry E. Hayden, Brace Hendricks, Edmund Hendricks, Joshua Herriman, John Hill, Geo. H B. Hillhouse, Hon. Thos. Hilyard, George D. Hinman, W. K. Hinrichs, Chas. F. A. Hinton, J. H., M.D. Hitchcock, Hiram Hitchcock, Miss 8. M. Hoadley, Russell H. Hoag, Daniel T. Hodgman, Geo. F. Hoffman, Paul Hoffman, Rev. E. A.,D.D. Hogg, T. Egenton Holden, E. R. Holt, Charles L. Holt, Henry Holt, R. 8. Hone, Robert §. Horton, Burrett W. Houget, Henry L. Houghton, Rev. G. H. Hoyt, Reuben Hubbard, Gen. T. H. Hunter, Mrs. M. L. Huntington, G.8., M.D. Hyde, Albert G. Hyde, Samuel T. Inman, John H. Inslee, Samuel Ireland, John B. . Iselin, Adrian, Jr. Iselin, Mrs. Adrian Iselin, Oliver Iselin, Wm. E. Isham, W. B. Jackson, Charles A. Jackson, Geo. T., M.D. Jackson, John B. Jackson, Wm. H. Jackson, W. H., M.D. Jacques, David R. Jaffray, E. 8. Jaffray, Robert Jenkins, Wm. L. Jesup, Jas. R., Jr. Juilliard, A. D. Kaskel, Albert Kellogg, Charles Kelly, Eugene Kemp, Edward Kemp, John H. Kennedy, John §. Kent, Charles N. Kerbs, Adolph Kerner, Charles H. Ketchum, A. P. Kevan, William Kinnicutt, Dr. F, P. Knapp, H., M.D. Knickerbacker, H. Knox, Alexander Kraus, Prof. John Kraus, William Kuhne, Frederick Kuttroff, Adolf Labaree, Joseph H. Langdon, Woodbury G. Larremore, Hon. R. L. Lawrence, George N. Layng, James D. Leale, Charles A., M.D. Leavitt, Henry 8. Le Brun, Michael M. Le Comte, Joseph Lee, William H. Lefferts, Frederick R. Lehman, E. Lehman, M. Lehmann, Frederick L. Lesher, Stephen R. Lewis, Richard V. Liautard, A.F.,M.D.V\S. Lichtenstadter, Samuel Linde, Frederick C. Lipman, Julius Livingston, Edward Livingston, Robert E. Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, William 8. Livingston, Wm. S., Jr. Lockhart, Robert Loeb, S. Lord, Benjamin Lord, D. D. Lounsbery, R. P. Low, C. Adolphe Low, Josiah O. Lowry, John Ludington, C. H. Ludovici, F. W. Lummis, Wm. Lusk, William T., M.D. Lyon, Albert J. Lyon, Theodore E. Mack, J. W. Macy, J. Augustus Maillard, Henry Maitland, Robert L. Mali, Charles Man, Albon P. Manwaring, David W. Markoe, Dr. Thos. M. Marshall, T. A. Marsh, Caleb P. Martin, Bradley Martin, Oswald J. Martin, William C, Matthiessen, F. O. McAlpin, D. H. McComb, J. Jennings McCready, Mrs. N. L. McCurdy, Richard A. McKibbin, George McKibbin, Gilbert H. Mehler, Eugene Metcalfe, John T., M.D. Meyer, Oscar R. Meyer, Thomas C. Meyers, Col. T. B. Milhau, Gen. J. J., M.D. Miller, D. 8. Mitchell, Mrs. 8. L. Mitchell, W. R. Moir, James Moller, Peter, Jr. Moore, W. H. H. Morgan, Geo. D. Morgan, Mrs. P. A. Morris, Henry Lewis Morrison, Edward Morrison, George A. Mortimer, W. Y. Moulton, Arthur J. Mowry, A. L. Mulchahey, Rev. James Munoz, J. M. Munro, George Murphy, Henry M. Navarro, Juan N. Neumann, C. G. Norton, George F. Noyes, Wm. C. O’ Donoghue, Joseph J. Odell, Mrs. Johnathan Oehme, Julius Olcott, F. P. Olmstead, Dwight H Olyphant, R. M. Olyphant, Robert Osgood, Mrs. 8. R. Ostrander, Charles F. Otis, F. N., M.D. Ottendorfer, Oswald Owen, Mrs. Thomas J. Owens, Wm. W. Palmer, 8. 8. Park, Joseph Parsell, Henry V. 64 Parsons, John E. Patterson, Hon. Nidward Patterson, Thomas C. Peabody, Arthur J. Peirce, Mrs. M. Fay Pell, John H. Pellew, Henry E. Penfold, Edmund Penfold, Wm. Hall Peters, George A., M.D. Pettus, James T. Peyser, Frederick M. Phelps, William Walter Pierrepont, Edwards Pinkus, F. 8. Platt, John R. Poillon, Richard Pool, Frank J. Potter, Howard Powell, Wilson M. Powers, William P. Purdy, Wm. Macneven Ranger, Louis Read, Daniel P. Remsen, William Renwick, Edward 8. Rhoades, J. Harsen Riker, D. 8. Riker, John L. Riker, Wm. J. Robbins, Rowland A. Robbins, 8. Howland Roberts, Miss Mary M. Rogers, Columbus B. Rogers, Henry H. Rolston, R. G. Romaine, B. F. Rosenbaum, A. 8. Rothschild, Hugo Rothschild, J. Rothschild, V. Henry Russell, Henry E. Riitten, August Rutter, Thomas Sabine, G. A., M.D. Sage, Russell Sage, Warren Sands, Andrew H. Sands, Samuel 8. Satterlee, S. K. Sayre, Lewis A., M.D. Schafer, Samuel N. Schafer, Simon Schaus, Wm. Scheitlin, Edward Scholle, Jacob Schlemmer, William Schley, Dr. J. M. Schultze, John 8. Schumacher, Theodore Schuyler, George L. Schuyler, Philip Schuyler, 8. D. Schwendler, Fred. Scott, George S. Scudder, Hewlett Seligman, David J. Seligman, I. J. Seligman, Isaac N. Sellew, T. G. Sennett, George B. Shethar, Samuel Sinclair, John Skidmore, Mrs. Jos. R. Skidmore, William L. Sloan, Samuel Sloane, Thomas C. Smith, Alfred H. Smith, Charles S. Smith, Geo. W. Smith, John Jewell Smith, James Rufus Smith, Roswell Smith, Rev. Cornelius B. Smith, William Alex. Sneckner, William H. Snow, Edward L. Soutter, Mrs. J. F. Spencer, Hon. James C. Spicer, Elihu Spies, A. W. Splint, Thomas G. Starin, Hon. John H. Stearns, John Noble Stebbins, Jas. H. Steers, Edward P. Steers, Henry Stechert, Gustav E. Stephens, Benjamin Stern, Benjamin Stern, Joseph Sterry, Geo. E. Stetson, Geo. W. Stewart, David Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard Stewart, William R. Stiehl, Gustav H. St John, William P Stone, David M. Stone, Mrs. G. C. Stone, Mason A. Storm, George Storm, Thomas Strahan, John H. Strong, W. L. Sturgis, Appleton Sutherland, John Sutherland, John L. Sutton, Effingham B. Swords, Albert 8. Sykes, William Tailer, Edward N. Tailer, W. H. Taintor, Charles M. Talcott, James Talmadge, Henry Tappen, Thos. B. Taylor, Aug. C. Taylor, Mrs. C. A. Taylor, Stevenson Tefft, F. Griswold Tefft, Wm. E. Terbell, H.S. Thomas, T. G., M.D, Thompson, W. Prall Thomson, Giraud F. Thomson, James Thorn, William K. Thurber, H. K. Tiemann, Peter C. Tiffany, Louis C. Tillinghast, W. H. Timmerman, John H. Titus, Erastus Tonnelé, John L. 65 Toothe, William Toucey, J. M. Townsend, R. W. Tracy, J. Evarts Trevor, H. G. Trevor, John B. Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, John Tucker, John C. Turnure, Lawrence Twombly, H. McK. Twombly, Horatio N. Ulmann, 5S. B. Van Brunt, Hon. C. H. Van Brunt, Cornelius Van Norden, Warner Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen Van Slyck, W. H. Van Wickle, A. §S. Van Winkle, Edgar B. Veit, Richard C. Vermilye, J. D. Waldron, W. B. Wales, Hon. Salem H. Walker, William I. Wallach, Anthony Watson, John Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H. Webb, W. H. Weed, Benjamin Weekes, John A. Weeks, Francis H. Weisse, F. D., M.D. Weissman, L. Wells, Wm. Henry Wenman, Hon. James F. Wetherbee, Gardner Wheelock, Geo. G., M.D. Wheelock, Wm. A. Wheelock, Dr. W. E. White, Horace Whitely, James Whiting, F. H. N. Whitney, Alfred R. Whayland, A. E. Wicke, William Wickham, Delos O. Willets, J. T. Wilson, John Wing, John D. Winthrop, Robert Wray, Mrs. Cornelia 8. Wynkoop, Francis 8. Youmans, Daniel D. Young, Jas. H. Young, Mason Zabriskie, Andrew C. Zickel, S. Ra hare t Pte doh: Sen BR 2 b DHE Sia Si Sete oe ee r « £ pi |})! |) CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY,, Chih Street and 8th Avenue, ) + IER BRK noone ae = vex ~AL G4 DW AG 7 s SK SASS) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, ? __ACT OF INCORPORATION, - || CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1890-91. mee. wate ”:ChC.:. pe pe aa ee PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. : 2 ppt a: Be Oy : i . ‘ ee : eG 2S : THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY. (77th Street and 8th Avenue.) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, ACT OF INCORPORATION, CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1890-91. NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM, 1891. PRESS OF WM. C. MARTIN, ; WH Tene 111 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1891. MORRIS K. JESUP. BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ADRIAN ISELIN. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. D. JACKSON STEWARD. JOSEPH H. CHOATE. PERCY R. PYNE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. ANDREW H. GREEN. ABRAM S. HEWITT. CHARLES LANIER. OLIVER HARRIMAN. C. VANDERBILT. D. O. MILLS. CHAS. G. LANDON. H. R. BISHOP. ALBERT S. BICKMORE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. J. HAMPDEN ROBB. D. WILLIS JAMES. ARCHIBALD ROGERS. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1891. President. MORRIS K. JESUP. Vice-Presidents. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. D. JACKSON STEWARD. Secretary. ALBERT 8S. BICKMORE. Treasurer. CHARLES LANIER. Executive Committee. JAMES M. CONSTABLE, Chairman. i: KR. BISHOP. CHAS. G. LANDON. WILLIAM E. DODGE. ARCHIBALD ROGERS. The President and Secretary ex-officio. Auditing Committee. ADRIAN ISELIN. PERCY Roa Paine CHARLES G. LANDON. The President ex-officio. Finance Committee. CHARLES LANIER. D. O. MILLS. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. PERCY R. PYNE. The President ex-officio. Nominating Committee. PERCY R. PYNE. WILLIAM E. DODGE. D. O. MILLS. The President ex-officio. Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Curator of the Department of Public Instruction. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of the Departments of Geology, Mineralogy, Conchology and Marine Invertebrate Zovlogy. be) PVGRADTACA PRP, Assistant Curator of the Geological Department. Pror. J. A. ALLEN, Curator of the Departments of Mammalogy, Ornithology, Herpetology and Ichthyology. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Assistant Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy. JAMES TERRY, Curator of the Department of Archeology and Ethnology. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Department of Taxidermy. W. BEUTENMULLER, Department of Entomology. A. WOODWARD, Ph.D., Librarian. WILLIAM WALLACE, Superintendent of Building. JOHN H. WINSER, Assistant Secretary. TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. To the Trustees, Patrons, Fellows and Members of the American Museum of Natural Fiistory. In presenting the Twenty-second Annual Report of the work of the Museum I may justly assert that the past year has been one of marked growth and prosperity. The much desired Endowment Fund, which has often been brought to your attention, has been secured, and the total sub- scriptions amount to $301,500. ‘The income accruing from this fund will greatly assist in providing valuable additions to the collections for all future time, and it is earnestly hoped that the augmentation of this fund will keep pace with the growth of the institution. Briefly stated, the report of the Treasurer for the year past shows the receipts to have been $57,168.68, of which amount $3,157.66 was a balance from 1889. ‘The expenditures have been $56,105.77, of which sum $13,800.90 have been used for the improvement and enlargement of the collections. The mainte- nance of the Museum has cost $42,304.87. Of this amount the city contributed $25,000, and our members $17,304.87. The lectures by Professor Bickmore have been carried on dur- ing the past fall at a cost of $2000 in excess of the estimate. This resulted from the failure of the Governor to sign the bill for continuing the lectures beyond October rst, last. A subscription of $1000 was made in aid of the “ Carl Lumholtz Expedition” to Northern Mexico and the Sierra Madre, and I fully expect that the result of this exploration will be of much benefit to our institution. The removal of the specimens, and their temporary lodgment in other portions of the edifice, has necessarily been the cause of great confusion and annoyance; and this work has added some- what to the expense of maintenance. 8 Our increase in membership has added to the roll of Patrons, Messrs. William Waldorf Astor, Henry Seligman, Richard T. Wilson, John E. Parsons, Francis O. Matthiessen, A. J. Forbes- Leith, George Bliss, and the Hon. M. C. D. Borden. Messrs. David Wolfe Bishop, Jr., and Cortlandt Field Bishop have become Fellows. The Museum has also gained nineteen Life Members, and one hundred and seventy-six Annual Members. Messrs. W. W. Cole and George H. Brown have been elected Honorary Life Members ; and Mrs. S. Lowell Elliot has been constituted an Honorary Patron by reason of valuable donations. The provision of the exhibition cases for the fitting up of the new building is a subject upon which has been bestowed the most careful consideration. ‘The experience and advice of those familiar with the needs of a museum has been availed of, in order that no precaution might be omitted that would contribute to the best results. Group cases have caused an outlay of about $12,000, and will require an additional expenditure of $6600 for the current year to complete those now in progress. In this connection, we are indebted to the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Minister of the United States to France, for his kindness in procuring for usa series of large photographs of the Exhibi- tion Halls of the Natural History Museum in Paris ; thanks are also due to Professor G. Brown Goode, of the National Museum of Washington, for full working drawings and plans of completed cases. A course of eight lectures was given last fall to members and their families by Professor A. S. Bickmore and Dr. Frederick Starr ; the former delivered a course of five lectures on Economic Botany and Economic Geology, and the latter gave three lectures on the History and Origin of Dress. The last lectures were illustrated largely from the material in the Ethnological Depart- ment. A free lecture to the public was delivered by Prof. Bickmore on each of the following days: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. These lectures were attended by large audiences. The amount of the collateral inheritance tax levied upon the bequest of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt to this Museum, was very generously refunded by Messrs. Cornelius and Wm. K. Vanderbilt; 9 this amount is not noted in the current receipts and payments, inasmuch as the Treasurer very kindly drew his check to the City Comptroller, and immediately received a refund of the amount. I am much gratified with their kind courtesy, in view of the fact that no obligation existed on the part of the executors. Notwithstanding the constant interruptions and annoyances suffered by our official staff, the work in the several departments has been carried on without any very material delay. A synopsis of the work of the different divisions, summarized from the reports of the Curators and Chiefs of Departments, furnishes interesting data. A most notable accession has been made to the Department of Minerals. It has been increased by the magnificent collection of cut and uncut gem material widely known as the “ Tiffany Collection of Gems, etc.,’”’ which was a special attraction dur- ing the late exhibition held in Paris. We are indebted to Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan for this splendid gift. As a special collec- tion of such objects, it is conceded to be without a rival; it will add greatly to the attractions of the Museum. An appropriate case is being constructed in which to exhibit it in the new hall connected with the Geological Department. The entire accumulation of land shells, containing about 2300 species, comprising the collection of Mr. John J. Crooke, of this city, was presented to the Museum during the early portion of the year. This donation will increase the species of the Jay Collection by about fifty-seven per cent., making a most valuable acquisition to the Conchological Collection. Of mammals, the additions acquired by donation, purchase and exchange show a total of 490. The Bird Collection has been increased from similar sources to the extent of 1570 specimens. The most important gift was received from Mr. W. E. D. Scott, and consists of nearly six hundred mammals and birds from Florida. Among the additions to the Exhibition Series are two fine adult skeletons of the Florida Manatee, several groups of Water Birds, and a large number of birds mounted at the Museum. The Mammal Collection was removed from the lower hall dur- ing the summer and stored in the alcoves of the bird hall to await its transfer to the new wing. The accretion of material in this 10 division will be found stated in detail in the departmental report, The Department of Taxidermy has not been obstructed in the performance of its work as have the others. The removal of the mammals from the lower hall made it requisite that many should receive some attention previous to being stored temporarily, and 172 were thus treated. The Indian Rhinoceros (formerly a special attraction in the menagerie of Central Park) is almost ready to be placed on exhibition. The total number of groups now on exhibition amounts to forty- two ; of this number two are mammals and forty are birds. The production of these groups has involved an expenditure of nearly $21,000, exclusive of the cases, and it can justly be claimed that no other museum in the world possesses a similar exhibit equal in interest. [wo mammal and two bird groups are nearly ready for exhibition. After these four groups and the Bison and Moose groups are finished, the work of the department will be the mount- ing of specimens for the general collection. The report of the Entomological Department shows that the greater portion of the year has been devoted to the gathering and preparation of the material for the “ Jesup Collection of Economic Entomology,” the remainder of the time having been spent in making additions to the Study and Exhibition Collections. Thirty- six groups have been added during the past year, of which number five large and twelve small ones are displayed, while forty-four more are nearly completed, among which are included six collected during 1889. The insect groups above referred to are a feature as yet unat- tempted by any other institution, and they have evoked the con- stant praise of visitors. A full description of these groups is appended in the departmental report. Mrs. S. Lowell Elliot has enriched this department by the gift of the fine collection of butterflies, moths, etc., gathered by the late Dr. S. L. Eliot. This collection contains about 6600 specimens of butterflies and moths, and four hundred specimens of wasps, dragonflies and grass- hoppers. The rooms in use for the library have been in a very confused state for a large portion of the year, and are at the present time 11 crowded far beyond their capacity. Notwithstanding this draw- back the department has grown more rapidly than during the previous year; 313 volumes have been bound and 1213 volumes added. During last summer the librarian was instructed by me to make a tour of the several institutions noted in his report, in order to acquire information and plans, to be used in the arrange- ment of our library. The total number of volumes at the present time is 13,273, and estimated at market prices may be said to be worth nearly $100,000. The most valuable donations have been received from Mr. George H. Brown, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, the Geological Survey of New Jersey, Royal Academy of Copenhagen, Provincial Museum of Konigsberg, Australian Museum, and the Royal Academy at Amsterdam. The Departments of Ethnology and Archeology have been for several months under the care of Dr. Frederick Starr, who has been retained to label and arrange the Bishop and the Emmons Collections in the Department of Ethnology. His work has covered the opening, classification, labeling, arranging and cata- loguing of the above-noted collections. The publication of Bulletins has been continued as during the previous year, and has resulted in an increase of exchanges of similar publications from other scientific bodies. Four articles were issued from the Geological Department, embellished with plates, and seven from the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology. I have arranged to have the future osteological work performed as far as practicable in the Museum building. The practice has been to have this work done by outside parties, but investigation has convinced me that it would be well to try the experiment of having it done within our own walls. The record of visitors during the past-year is as follows: Day attendance, 232,037, average per day, 740; evening attendance, 25,028, or an average of 244 per night; the attendance at the ten lectures amounted to 4885. The large centre case in the lower hall has been removed, and the Jesup Collection of Woods placed in the side cases formerly occupied for the exhibition of the mammals. The water colors have been temporarily arranged on the doors outside of the cases. 12 There have been added to the collection twenty-seven photo- graphs, which are displayed on the wall near to the wood speci- mens of thesame species. ‘This collection contains at the present time, 420 species and twenty-five varieties, dressed and on exhi- bition. Nine species have yet to be obtained to make this collec- tion absolutely complete; they are very difficult to acquire, inas- much as they have rarely been seen during recent years. Two hundred and forty-three water colors have been received, and two hundred and twelve more have yet to be prepared, to complete the whole series. The necessary photographs will be added as rapidly as possible. This entire collection of woods, water color drawings and photographs have been scientifically arranged under the super- vision of Professor Charles S. Sargent, the eminent arboriculturist, in charge of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard College, Brook- line, Mass. The year just past has been a period of much confusion and consequent expense, involved by the necessary transfer and storage of the specimens. ‘This work has required the use of the entire force of the Superintendent of the building, and additional help often had to be engaged. ‘The progress of the work was regularly reported to me, and a close supervision kept. ‘This plan resulted in securing the utmost economy in outlay, and the best possible returns for the expenditure. Upon the completion of the new wing there will have been used in the work on the same more than four million brick, two thousand two hundred tons of granite, eleven thousand square feet of glass for lighting, and eighty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five cubic feet of rubble work in the construction of the foundation. The foundation of a portion of the east wing was excavated to a depth of more than fifty-two feet. It may be interesting to incorporate these figures in the Annual Report of this year, as they will no doubt be of some statistical interest in the future. It is my sad duty to record the death of our late associate, Mr. Hugh Auchincloss. His relation as a member of the Board of Trustees extended over a period of more than eight years, during which time he held the position of Secretary, from which office 13 he sought to be relieved on account of declining health ; through his decease the Museum has sustained the loss of a very warm friend. Appropriate resolutions were adopted at the last meeting _ of the Board, which were entered in full upon the minutes, and engrossed copies of same forwarded to the members of his family. Mr. John B. Trevor, another zealous friend of this institution, and formerly a Trustee, died December 22d, last. He gave his best efforts to the interests of the Museum for a number of years until business demands compelled his retirement from the Board. During the first few years of the existence of the Museum, it was maintained solely by the subscriptions of its Trustees and a few zealous friends and members, whose interest in its aims prompted them to assist it. It is fair to assume that the contri- butions of the Trustees, as included in money and gifts of specimens, from the formation of the institution to the present time, will aggregate nearly nine hundred thousand dollars. The growth of public interest in the Museum during the past few years has been rapid and widely distributed, and many friends, recognizing the prominence which it has attained, have been prompted to exemplify their interest and appreciation by gifts of money and collections, substantial in amount. In conclusion, I would tender our hearty thanks to those who have become contributors during the year past, and I cherish the conviction that the coming one will witness an even greater increase in the amount of subscriptions. The history of the formation of endowment funds for public institutions has demonstrated that, after such a result as we have just achieved, a steady increase has followed, and I feel great confidence that we also shall secure ample means to enrich our collections. MORRIS K. JESUP, President. Dr. THE AMERICAN MusEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Lindowment : EXPENDITURES. To Geological Department...............+-.--00.. $196 37 Ormmidnolospteall SF soacuooodouddsoonoKo0des 3,017 33 Ethnological Bes Ty Lis reek Bearcyatey sy cloisbaw netcmean ay pettceeiore 2,787 08 Mammal BS Sek Nav aha vas Cue ae Perales tekoaeretoata ete 1,915 64 Mineral CUE Or meee a Or eM EE teste 230 87 Entomological Mme iuetrrrteraetelocrn trier 5I 70 Reptilestandyhishesiarearaereacieciecicrtteterssieem cine 63 75 WioliexAccount. Shellssas ss -rercrscnericiceisieveroneier: 138 36 ey Wibratyaeronte err iwarc een 201 48 Ibiliinvisd Soy aqaosucoGugGuOOOOuODOUdU SOO guOGS 1,070 12 Birds Groups: Account) ..15 eae eno 222 54 Mra maimall areneg ayy t fey acetic mare isevee retina ra eta rer Monte 1,038 oI Conchological Department...............-..... 831 42 Skeletons! Sscencoenisete scetdeinnsy eros ope sererese erste 186 00 Special PACCOUME. arta reiaistamtoray ret steucltanss svekeroversionel ene 273 58 ilaxidermist) Departments yrs cmeiectiet ener 279 28 ImMSecH Groups ANC COUM eee sys) ste sleheferei yest crane cas ete 1,296 47 Maintenance : MOPS alaTest esekelel evenialedejomyeccon War eek ua are reas $16,162 24 ADOT Sc lal sides eerste te tepacslet tele sien yen eee ecco 8,983 81 INEMAITS aye revaiaietensveys ve airsereus yay uneyeieuedolclaastee ees nare tears 263 39 OSta Ce me seirobartereteie eels here Blinbig Hs 'O-aici oraioecr oid 470 60 NEUES Fay os ais) cra: asus Salone tale evap ecolay nicl Gaemesckenesiarewclion tel oe III 38 Wecturew Departments eiltelerie erates 7,303 82 (CEG DENS mans Arn omer acre OSG ODO MOOT oon gl 67 ANdvertisin oyster ee oie eicreen eto te eter TOO 55 SUPP ESUBrrayVorctevaerteyese ys ohouie ee ileesensfecsienst ores 728 30 iravellinoalixpensessrysaerreryekreiseciecit 40 20 IDpPIMSEIS “ao ganboapoeso Cd do sOU oGbOOOUaaD YS 273 21 Stationenyie aa yrcstetusitsy veielets olchstsiectevsncrsloteversye 415 24 AMMA PINE POLES s-pelses Kelelneive rete otevelsteereieiorstshersr ce 352 13 (COA eae secsioreroweenie ere teroa ear siee sek a en erecta 2,018 79 Primtin oer ane cee inmate tial eKerens sors Chotetey al Gcsnroleteva neon 387 85 Custom House Expenses... ...2....-..- etal acres IO 00 ISX MENSERAICCOUN tee ntee elo penton tamer 2,359 99 TeaibelSiiucyecraietiavelevrensc Tact alee ocak lneh dav eherehe nae eat pare 820 33 BU etins a verse omicis epic ronie ince aera Lee ae eons 1,223 79 POISON malansiecoiiaicre etsrsrovel neh betsier acga oGe0ood 18 II Interest Dr. Balances (1889 and 1890)...... ... 169 47 Balance brought down to January Ist, I89I............ Examined | ADRIAN ISELIN, pe and approved, {CHARLES LANIER, Commtttee. $13,800 go 42,304 87 I,062 91 $57,168 68 in account with J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER. Cr. Lindowment : RECEIPTS. By, Balancetrom December 31, To8Quemiciace eisai $3,157 66 Rromminterest on invested Munds se jeaciersus aleelene T1I,853 47 Salevohe: sy Guides a cacncan acne eneeiiemceitete 170 60 iHeessroms Collecting» Permitsiwnee ee 27 00 $15,208 73 PaTrRoNs’ ACCOUNT: Subscription of Font Mes GD «Borden aoc zjacis et stoves ti cianonersinie eneacieterare 1,000 00 LirE MEMBERS’ ACCOUNT: Subscription MheodoresKeGib bse serene ei rete $100 oo Sb iD); Cowanceill: opops dugoeseocscanbseane 100 00 Brede Cy blavemey err cariere acters a cleli teva: 100 00 Georses BaD SHOneSticreriraverristelterelorictareis) ist: 100 00 Wdwandaleebarrelliey seriall ceiecesiel ste ics 100 00 Shiemcar Wmelis dosoneesobooobasboyoucooEES 100 00 Normang Were od ecient iyo eiciernies 100 00 John, E: Alexandre :...... Dp svarsennctadyetet er este Ms 100 00 sihompsonwD) canter. syste) eer 100 00 lenny, Hee WVOtherspoOnts. -h)ajefe)sterefel rele liegt 100 00 HranklinwleenGuntheteeemacsa-crrictiisv eters 100 00 Stephen luGordonersi-ester Raa fONae Serawsus 100 00 amies)| Crittksharikey ners iocerare cus eays| ous Se vals oh 100 00 CARE @ celle ao parte baa biadcesstotieaveteu ie Mite reine 100 00 YO |j. MKC cscoondonbedokoodseodsoooeT 100 00 MexandersMiattlamdaycreci srsitcisisicrate ciciers rete ster 100 00 Beter Donal diaeresis gaiacia ra stevesecncreeen ae eeaeks 100 00 CharlesPicm Colloy sie werveio terete apie) eo 100 00 EUG DE OMN eis ce ate Mctersee sss ever real ateatne a chars 100 00 1,900 00 $18,108 73 Maintenance : Dues from Annual Members......... ....... $8,060 00 State Superintendent Public Instruction....... 5,999 95 DepartimentsorsbublieiParksityan) scl serene 25,000 00 39,059 95 $57,168 68 Balance fromausSQOvACCOUn te ealacieii-cl cael eiierreteeeee $1,062 oI [E. & O. E.] New York, February 16, 1892. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, 7veasurer. ENDOWMENT FUND. The following amounts have been subscribed and paid into the Endowment Fund of the American Museum of Natural History during 1890. Mirss ROBERT Wis START te Nabe eas aL a aie $50,000 ATER POND ORGAN Gi ieistetarel ett sistem obereleretarraeisrel eter 25,000 PBR C IVA MRE VINEE EUS NEC Date UCC TMU UP tc detent SRE 25,000 TOO) GN Cy BAS eca pai el a eM IT Rae tan ESET ant Ve MS Laie elon 25,000 [PSS MIMS CORNED: AG oocanbabonoGoagnes diaosco56.06 .. 25,000 IMO RIBAS TREN NES UPAR oie rtauscet (aula) hetolza|lodeiitavoielskaparc au cyay bebe nae 25,000 CORNETAUSVANDERBIL DW ahe./Meiralealle tele eyensinvencts| neh vans a eusere 25,000 UWA LTET- DAUM IES 731) OT) GE i SU aoe iii aa eure Pa eal as 10,000 OSWALD OPDEND ORRERG eile cpeniy nish ate Nea onelaral savy ball tele 5,000 GG PeSERUIN TEIN GTO Niiaissctoe rs aiaieieiegvetanetstajeretal abot pvereveuersyeveiatene ete 5,000 SVAN GAC TE AUN IDO NG set NR ONE GL Li pal tad ee eal Sr ateg le canara 5,000 ID), NACHE PANES OCR GOS Sinbad os MoadodgpiaadanvanhoounoOooG6 5,000 Missi PHEBE WANN Al oIHORINEs cleis cis clicieleten teyciessieuarsiccrenctertaene 5,000 @HASHMGANTER: ios cicepamictsrstiis ileus aetensi ces ciel cele derne oe eae ha Noo 2,500 WILLE TAMU NVI/ALD ORI PASTOR creasiitclevepreterysteleieitellsanerstatsnetemrete 1,000 EDENR Ve SELIGMAN Sctlac ciara anehsyars siete sratats arsine coencracersyare acre eye 1,000 FIR BER! IRS BISHOP HS ta catalase ree) Sy men AU LS pete I,000 IRTCHARIDY Ce WVILTES ONG ey etateaircnsterny etsisvel sii anenalchals OBOE eras. ¢ 1,000 JOH Ide INNO Sadupdnonaceboudodb obese doudoHsasoo 1,000 RAN CISUO. MATE ELES SEN) Hei neerehi sje nepatcte nec sellapohaiaictoneretate 1,000 AU ROR BES Us EI Elaaycts tare siclelanarersye delays aie) stavaietate ts teetedatel eaten 1,000 GEORGE SBUTISS A cyactareve has co roles e ohevate rattonabe devs isiakee Polet a pa ane ete laren a ewe 1,000 CORTLAND DEMIR ED EBISHOPRA MAC arine elie cUeletsieporeneicnatstatreletats 500 DAVID MWVOLEE WDISHOP Malt eicrelsyorsic\ctersisistayel ste Utetelrae-tcisi pate teree 500 $246,500 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. (INCLUDING THE MINERALOGICAL AND CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.) PALZONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.—Owing to the condition of the Museum building during the year, less time was devoted to work on these collections than was desirable. Still all that was not fully taken up by changes and work made necessary by the repairs being made was devoted to it. Up tothe first of January, 1891, the work of labeling has been carried forward on the east side of the room to within the Upper Helderberg Group, or into section 13 of Case G, having advanced from the beginning of the Lower Helderberg Group, in section ro, Case F. Within this area there were 1217 complete labels. placed during the year, 477 of which are those pertaining to “type’’ or “figured” speci- mens, requiring citations and references. In addition to this there were 137 complete labels made for a collection of fossils from Palestine, which are not on exhibition for want of space, and about three hundred others replaced in the collection where the damage by water from roof-leakage had destroyed those pre- viously made. ‘There were also 665 labels reprinted by Mr. Gratacap to replace those first used, printed in ved ink and now so faded as to be illegible. About 400 more of these yet remain on the east side of the room, and about 200 on the west side. The aggregate of new permanent labels added to the Palzeonto- logical collections during the year is 2319. The labels for the Palestine fossils all had to be determined and obtained from books published on this Syrian region, and are not yet complete, as the literature necessary for that purpose is not in our library. But few of the labels furnished during the year have been mounted on blocks, as the carpenter employed by the Museum has not had time to make them. This necessarily leaves the cases in much confusion, as the collections have to be removed again to insert the blocks, and it makes an unsightly and dis- agreeable feature which we cannot help, but which ought to be remedied as early as possible, so that it may not interfere with the progress of work. CatTaLocuiInc.—The Paleontological Collection catalogue has progressed in the hands of Mr. L. P. Gratacap to near the middle of Case D on the east side of the room, including two alcove desk cases. 18 DoNATIONS AND PUuURCHASES.—Several donations and two quite valuable purchases of fossils were made during the year. One purchase of a collection of Utica Slate fossils, similar but rather more extensive than that asked for in my last annual report, and at a smaller price. The second of two handsome fossil fish from the Twin Creek, Wyoming Eocene bed. One of these formed the basis of an article in the Bulletin, These, with other donations and purchases, will be found recorded in the Appendix. MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION.—But little work has been done on this collection further than that made necessary by the addi- tion of occasional new material. The catalogue of the collection as it now stands was completed by Mr. Gratacap early in the year. A number of purchases and donations have been made to this collection during the year. The most noted addition is the dona- tion by one of our Trustees of the “ Tiffany Collection of Gems and Gem Material,” exhibited by the Tiffany Co. at the late Paris Exposition, which is unquestionably the finest collection of the kind in existence, and will necessarily be an attractive feature of the Museum when it is placed on exhibition. There will, however, be a necessity of frequent additions from time to time as other material is offered. In fact there is at present quite a quantity of such material now in the Tiffany Company’s hands, which ought to be secured, and also a remarkably brilliant green and violet Australian opal now owned by the G. L. English Co. Economic CoLLECTION.—But few additions have been made to this department during the year. Many promises have been made, but with small results. E. Fritsch, Esq., of 515 West Twentieth Street, has furnished the five other blocks of Algerian marbles, thus filling the case, and giving twelve varieties of these marbles. Also a box of ore samples (chiefly gold and silver) was received from D. O. Mills, Esq., forwarded by S. A. Knapp, Esq., of Hawthorn, Nevada, containing 46 lots, with another box on the way. ‘These samples of ores are marked to show the mine whence taken, and the percentage of metal which they yield. The Col- lection of Building Stones still remains in cases in the attic hall- ways and on the stairs, the latter subject to defacement and injury. It is to be hoped that a permanent place of rest may soon be found for this collection in the new building. CONCHOLOGICAL CoLLECTIONS.--The accessions to this col- lection during the year have been quite important and valuable. A series of marine shells, presented by D. Jackson Steward, Esq., Trustee of the Museum, is composed largely of very fine and valuable shells; and is also quite extensive, although not repre- senting all the groups, and could it have been incorporated in the general collection would have improved its appearance very much, 19 but one of the conditions of the gift is that it shall be arranged separately according to the Lamarckian system of classification, as an historical record of that system. ‘The Crooke Collection of Land and Fresh Water Shells, donated by John J. Crooke, of Staten Island, is also extremely valuable and extensive, and will add very largely to our collections, although not composed of showy specimens. In the four genera, Helix, Cylindrella, Partula and Succinea, for instance, it will add 478 species. The entire land shells of the Jay Collection numbers 1600 species, the Crooke Collection 2300; but the proportion of added species is much above this difference, as many in the Jay are not represented in the Crooke Collection. Accesstons to the Geological Department. BY DONATION. GEO. ASHMAN, New York City. Eight specimens of Lower Helderberg Limestone, carrying Leper- ditia and Beyrichia, from Chepachet, Herkimer Co., N. Y. H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. One hundred specimens of Copal, inclosing insects ; cut and polished ; principally from Zanzibar, Africa. BOOTH, GARRETT & BLAIR, Philadelphia, Pa. A small collection of fossils comprising representatives from Europe and America, and formerly the property of Prof. Booth, of Phila- delphia, Pa. One set of Dr. Jacob Green’s models of the originals of Trilobites described in his Monograph of the Trilobites of North America. J. E. COE, New York City. Fossil Gasteropods from the coal shale at Danville, Ill., and specimens of fossils from the Hudson River Group, Wilmington, Will Co., Ill. E. CUDLICH, Stockton, Pa. Core of Boring, by diamond drill, through coarse sandstone of the Coal Measures at Stockton, Pa. SUMNER T. DURHAM, New York City. Vertebrate fossil remains, from the Marl Pits at Malvern Hills, Virginia. WM. DUTCHER, New York City. Specimen of Chemung Sandstone with fossils, from Stamford, Delaware CorniNeaye Pror. W. B. DWIGHT, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Twenty-one specimens of Primordial Fossils, from the Potsdam sand- stone, shale, and limestone at Stissing Mt., and at Schodack Landing, N. Y. J. HADDAEUS, Sing Sing, N. Y. A number of specimens of detached bones, teeth, etc., with phosphatic nodules, from the mines near St. Projet, Caylus, France. A. H. JOCELYN, N. Y., and O. C. BROWNELL, Tionesta, Pa. Specimen of Stigmaria in oil-bearing sandstone, Tionesta Creek, Alleghany River, Forest Co., Pa. J. S. McLAURY, Yonkers, N. Y. One Septaria, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 20) W. A. F. KELCH, New York City. Specimens of Oriskany, Schoharie, Lower Helderberg, and Hamilton Fossils, found loose at Black Head and Cairo, Round Top, Catskills, Greene Co., N. Y. CLARENCE LOWN, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. One hundred specimens of Copal, carrying insects ; principally from Zanzibar, Africa. ‘These specimens are cut and polished. W. MILLER, New York City. Granite fold in Mica-schist, from West End Avenue, N. Y. City. Miss E. S. MINTURN, New York City. Handsome specimen of Copal tree showing gum filling cavities in the trunk. H. P. PARMELEE, Hillsdale, Michigan. A few fossils from Hillsdale, Michigan. PETER J. STEINER, N. Y. Specimen of Pecopteris? from Coal Measures on Boundary Line of Styria, Carinthia and Salzburg, Austria, 7000 ft. elevation. Miss MARY E. SARTWELL, Brooklyn, L. I. Two blocks of Chazy Limestone filled with Orthis. Found loose, 12 miles from Plattsburg, N. Y. Miss M. O. SEYMOUR, Brooklyn, L. I. Clay Concretions, from Willet’s Point, L. I. Miss J. TERRY, New Haven, Conn. One specimen of Jaclurea magna, from Basin Harbor, Lake Cham- plain, Vt. J. TERRY, New Haven, Conn. One clay Concretion, Southampton, L. I. Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, New York City. A collection of Syrian Fossils, from Palestine. J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. Eocene fossils from Florida and Virginia. Three specimens of a rare Pliocene species of Gasteropod (Solenostetra mengeana), Caloosa- hatclie, Florida. BY EXCHANGE, The Exchange with the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pa., has been completed by the receipt of more than 52 specimens of Lamel- libranchs, and over 170 specimens of Gasteropods, from the Miocene of Maryland ; and over 70 specimens of Mollusca from the Miocene of Virginia. BY PURCHASE. From J. DAVISON, Hams Forks, Wyoming. One specimen of a fossil fish Dapedoglossus testis, from Twin Creek, Wyoming. From H. A. PRIDE, Holland Patent, N. Y. A collection of Utica Slate Fossils, comprising about 200 specimens, from Rome, Marcy, Floyd, Trenton and Holland Patent, N. Y. Accesstons to the Mineralogical Department. BY DONATION. Pror. A. S. BICKMORE, New York City. Two pieces of Pyritiferous Ore in Feldspar and Calcite from the Treadwell Mine, Douglass Island, Alaska. 21 VICTOR F. ALLIEN, New York City. One specimen of Elaterite, a peculiar Mineral Rubber, from Utah. N. A. BIBIKOV, Albuquerque, N. M. Three specimens of Aragonite, from near Albuquerque, N. M. Messrs. BOOTH, GARRETT & BLAIR, Philadelphia, Pa. Three specimens of Zaratite on Chromite. Two specimens Brucite, from Wood’s Mine, Texas, Lancaster, Co., Pa. One specimen of Carbonate of Copper and Lead on Oxide of Cobalt in iron gangue, Mine La Motte, Missouri. R. A. CUNNINGHAM, New York City. Two specimens of Arsenopyrite (Mispickel), from ten miles west of Littleton, N. H. The specimens represent paying ore. J. L. DAVIDSON, Lockport, N. Y. Five specimens of Niagara Limestone, enclosing geodes of Calcite and Dolomite, from Lockport, Niagara Co., N. Y S. D. DILL, New York City. One specimen of Pyrolusite, Walton, Nova Scotia. Mrs. S. LOWELL ELLIOT, Brooklyn, L. I. Some pieces of Graphite from near Union, Massachusetts. J. M. HALLOVAS, New York City. Eleven specimens of Silver Ore (Cerargyrite and Argentite with copper salts), from Mine San Agustine, Huantajaya, Chili, S. A. J. HUNTINGTON, Inwood, N. Y. One ball of concretionary Pyrite, from Millersburg, Va. F. B. JONES, Brooklyn, L. I. One cut and polished sphere of Smoky Quartz. J. S. McLAURY, Yonkers, N. Y. Aragonite from Wilcox Quarry, near Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. GEORGE MEREDITH, New York City. The Gold from his first pan of washings on entering the Placer diggings at Pleasant Creek, Ararat, Ripon Co., Victoria, Australia. Miss E. S. MINTURN, New York City. One handsome specimen of Gold Quartz. One fragment of cut dish of Fluorite. Two specimens of Lava with implanted coin. One specimen of polished Norite (Au Sable Granite). J. PIERPONT MORGAN, New York City. A very valuable and extensive collection of American gems and gem stones in the rough, and also many cut gems of foreign countries. This collection has been known as the Tiffany Collection of Gems and Gem Material, and is that which they exhibited at the Paris (France) Exposition of 1889. W. NIVEN, New York City. One specimen of Vzvenzte from Llano Co., Texas. One specimen cubical Pyrite, large, coarsely striated, from Gilpin Co., Colorado. Rev. RICHARD B. POST, N. Y. Specimens of volcanic lava and sulphur; Kilauea, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Yonkers, N. Y. Three specimens of compact Garnet and Colophonite, from Minerva, near;Schroon Lake, Adirondacks, N. Y. 22 Pror. IF. STARR, New York City. Specimens ‘of Galenite, Mine La Motte, Mo. Wulfenite, Einstein Mine, Mo. is Lepidolite, Mo. J. B. TAYLOR, New Mexico. Specimen of Moss, in part mineralized by a deposit of Carbonate of Lime, from hot springs of Hermosa, New Mexico. TIFFANY & CO., New York City. A large specimen of Rhodonite, from Cunningham, Mass., and a large mass of compact transparent Quartz, with broad terminal crystal planes, from Ash Co., N. C J. E. UNDERHILL, Brooklyn, L. I. A group of limonitic concretions (12 specimens), from Ridgewood, L. I. CH. W. WARREN, Middletown, N. Y. One specimen of Brucite, Hoboken, N. J. Two specimens of Seed Garnet, from roth Avenue and 86th Street ,N. Y. Four specimens of Stilbite, from 56th Street and gth Avenue, N. Y. BY EXCHANGE. F. B. JONES, Brooklyn, L. I. One crystal of Troostite, Franklin, N. Y. Topaz Pebble ?, New Zealand. Cube of agatized wood, Apache Co., Arizona. Precious Opal, Mexico. Star Mica, BY PURCHASE. WM. NIVEN, New York City. One specimen of Descloizite, Georgetown, Grant Co., N. M. ng Vanadinite, oe op Chrysocolla, Bisbee, Arizona. ce ce Accessions to the Economic Department. BY DONATION. E. FRITSCH, New York City. Five slabs of Algerian Marbles, from Djebel, Mount Orousse, Algeria. Di, OS MELEE SSN Ye. Forty-six lots of samples of Ores, gold and silver, with specimens of Borates and Natron, from Hawthorne Mining District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada and Ingo Co., Cal. Accessions to the Conchological Department. BY DONATION. JOHN J. CROOKE, N. Y. A large collection of land and fresh water shells, with a few marine, comprising about 3000 species. Miss COLLINS, N. Y. Specimen of Helix desertorum. A. F. GRAY, Yonkers, N. Y. Lot of shells, Stvophia iostoma Pfr., from Inagua (Bahamas). FRANZ KINZEL, Upper Matacombe, Florida. Specimen of Bulimulus elongatus, Menke, and two specimens of Helix, Menke, from Upper Metacombe, Florida. 23 MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. A small collection of miscellaneous marine shells. Miss MINTURN, N. Y. A lot of shells, mostly West Indian. Rev. RICHARD B. POST, Hoboken. A collection of shells, mostly from Pacific Islands and West Coast of America. GEO. H. RAGSDALE, Gainesville, Texas. Specimens of Buliminus Ragsdale: Pillsbury, from Cook Co., Texas. BY PURCHASE. Pror. HENRY A. WARD. One specimen of Voluta Junonia for exchange. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS AND BIRDS. MammMauts.—The additions number 49 skins, 500 skulls, and about 25 skeletons, obtained as follows :—Sy donation : 86 speci- mens in the flesh ; 120 skins and 115 skulls, mostly from Florida. By exchange: 126 skins and 120 skulls, mostly North American. By purchase: 214 skins and 230 skulls, mostly from Mexico. During the summer the Exhibition Collection was removed from the lower hall to the bird floor, where it is temporarily stored, awaiting the completion of the new Mammal Hall. The Study Collection, including both skins and skulls, is now entirely labeled and catalogued, and arranged for convenient use. Several hun- dred skulls have been cleaned during the year, and the smaller ones placed in vials, safe from dust and perfectly accessible for reference. The chief additions to the exhibition series made during the year are the skeleton of the Indian Elephant ‘‘Samson”’; two adult very fine skeletons of the Manatee, and also various smaller skeletons, and a few mounted Monkeys. The principal additions to the Study Collection are the Buller Collections from Mexico, and several large accessions from Florida. Many valuable spe- cimens have also been received in the flesh from the Central Park Menagerie. The Museum is also indebted to Mr. George R. McKenzie, of Glen Spey, N. Y., for a very fine buck Elk, kindly presented by him for one of the contemplated groups of North American Mammals. Birps.—The additions are 1570 skins, and a small number of nests and eggs, obtained as follows :—Z&y donation: 644 skins, mostly North American, of which 440 were presented by Mr. W.E. D. Scott. By exchange : 175 skins, mostly exotic, including many of great interest. Ay purchase: 751 skins, mostly from Mexico and Central America. 24 About a hundred birds, mounted at the Museum, have been added to the Exhibition Collection during the year. Also several fine groups of Water Birds, including the Labrador Duck group. ‘To the Study Collection have been added nearly 750 specimens from tropical America, and about 600 from Florida. The principal gift to this department has been received from Mr. W. E. D. Scott, as noted above. During the year about 2000 labels for the South American mounted birds have been prepared and printed ; about 1200 Old World mounted birds have been carefully identified and cata- logued, preparatory tolabeling. ‘The additions made to the Study Collection during the year have also been identified, labeled and - catalogued ; the Mearn’s Collection, received last year, number- ing some 4000 specimens, is nearly catalogued. The exchange of duplicates gives us not only much new material, but we are able in this way to secure many valuable specimens not otherwise obtainable. The use of our collections by specialists is steadily increasing, and the pleasant reciprocal relations between this Museum and the leading investigators and museums of this country, mentioned in the report for last year, still continue. As an outcome of the scientific investigation of the Museum collections during the year, the Curator and his Assistant have prepared the following papers, printed in No. 1, Vol. III, of the Museum Bulletin, aggregating 178 pages: t. On Seasonal Variation in Color in Scéurus hudsonius. By the Curator. 4 pp. Published June, 1890. 2. A Review of some of the North American Ground Squir- rels of the Genus Zamias. By the Curator. 72 pp. Published June, 1890. 3. Ona Collection of Birds made by Mr. Clark P. Streator in British Columbia, with Field Notes by the Collector. By Frank M. Chapman. 36 pp. Published October 8, 1890. 4. Descriptions of a New Species and a New Subspecies of the Genus Zepus. By the Curator. 2 pp. Published October, 1890. 5. List of Mammals collected by Mr. Clark P. Streator in British Columbia, with Descriptions of two New Subspecies of Sciurus. By the Curator. 8 pp. Published November 14, 18go. 6. Notes on a Small Collection of West Indian Bats, with Description of an apparently New Species. By the Curator. s pp. Published November 14, 1890. 7. Notes on Collections of Mammals made in Central and Southern Mexico, by Dr. Audley C. Buller, with Descriptions of New Species of the Genera Vesfertilio, Sciurus, and Lepus. By the Curator. 20 pp. Published December 10, 1890. 25 The following paper, published during the year in the Museum Bulletin, was also based on the material of this department. 8. Descriptions of supposed New Species and Subspecies of Mammalsfrom Arizona. By Edgar A. Mearns, Assistant Surgeon U.S.A. 31 pp. Published February 21, 1890. Accessions to the Department of Mammats. BY DONATION. P. T. BARNUM and J. A. BAILEY, Bridgeport, Conn. 1 Sun Bear, 2 Harbor Seals. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent of the Central Park Menagerie. 26 monkeys, including the Chimpanzee ‘‘ Kitty” ; 3 young Lions; 2 South American Panthers; 2 Ocelots; 1 Spotted Hyena; 3 Black Bears; 1 Badger; 1 Otter; 1 Raccoon; 1 Cacomistle ; 2 Coata- mondis ; 2 Kinkajous ; 1 Coyote; 1 Black-backed Jackal ; 1 Red Fox; 1 Black Fox; 1 Yucatan Deer; 1 Virginian Deer; 1 Hog Deer; 1 Reindeer; 1 Indian Antelope ; 1 American Bison and 1 Bison head ; 1 young Indian Buffalo; 3 young Angora Goats; 1 young Camel; 1 Woodchuck; 2 Sloths; 2 Pouched Rats; 1 Rat Kangaroo. ‘Total, 78 specimens, received in the flesh. CHARLES B. CORY, Boston, Mass. 2 West Indian Bats. W. J. HUMMER, Morrison, Iowa. t Red Bat. STEWART LEWIS, Newton, N. J. 3 Squirrels and 1 Woodchuck. GEORGE R. McKENZIE, Glen Spey, N. Y. I fine male Elk. Mrs. MALLISON, New York City. 1 Humboldt Monkey. Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U.S. A., Fort Snelling, Minn. 3 Jackass Hares. Dr. JOHN I. NORTHROP, School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City. 1 Large-eared Bat, from the Bahamas. JAMES RICALTON, Maplewood, N. J. 1 Manx Cat. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. I skull of Babiroussa ; 2 Moles. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 4 Ground Squirrels. CLARENCE B. RIKER, Maplewood, N. J. 5 skins of Brazilian Bats. JOHN ROWLEY, Jr., Hastings, N. Y. 5 Squirrels, 1 Mouse and 2 Hares. Mrs. D. W. STERRELL, New York City. 1 Angora Cat. W. E. D. SCOTT, New York City. 55 skins, with skulls, mostly from Florida; 1 Brown Bat, New York. 26 CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 28 skins, with skulls, from Florida, Connecticut, and New York. Dr. F. TUCKERMAN, Amherst, Mass. 2 Monkeys. WILLIAM WALLACE, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 13 House Rats. BY EXCHANGE, WILLIAM DUTCHER, New York City. 6 Squirrels and 2 Field Mice. GUSTAVE KOHN, New Orleans, La. 32 skins, with skulls, of Hares, Squirrels and Field Mice, from Louisiana. LOUIS MOLNARE, Hungary. 5 skins, from Europe. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass. 12 skins of Squirrels, from various localities. JOHN ROWLEY, Jr., Hastings, N. Y. 21 skins and 21 skulls, of Squirrels and Hares. CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 27 skins and 25 skulls, chiefly fim Florida and New Work ERNEST E. THOMPSON, Toronto, Canada. 5 skins and 3 skulls of Hares. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 6 skins and 2 skulls of Ground Squirrels. BY PURCHASE. THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF TAXIDERMY. 7 skins and skulls. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 48 skins and 50 skulls, mostly from Florida. BY DIRECT PURCHASE. 3 Monkeys, mounted ; 60 skins, with skulls, of North American species, mostly from California ; 168 skins and 180 skulls, from Mexico. Also the following, purchased in the flesh, and prepared in the Department of Taxidermy: 24 Monkeys; 6 Fruit Bats; 1 Polar Bear ; 2 young Black Bears; 1 Lioness ; 3 Pumas; 1 young Otter ; 1 Binturong ; I Red Fox ; 1 Mexican Deer ; 1 Pronghorn Antelope ; 1 Capromys; 4 Varying Hares ; 1 European Hedgehog. Accessions to the Department of Birds. BY DONATION, C. F. ADAMS, Champaign, II. 47 skins, from Borneo. WESTLEY AUSTIN, Rutland, Vt. 1 Snowbird. MORRIS BARNETT, New York City. Collection of Eggs, from Connecticut. J. CARTER BEARD, New York City. 1 albino Scaup Duck. L. BELDING, Stockton, Cal. 7 skins, from California. 27 C. L. BROWNELL, New York City. 1 Acadian Flycatcher. GEORGE C. CANTWELL, Lake Mills, Wis. 1 Leconte’s Sparrow. CHARLES B. CORY, Boston, Mass. 12 skins from the West Indies. J. J. DALGLEISH, Edinburgh, Scotland. g skins from Arctic America. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, New York City, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Superintendent of the Central Park Menagerie. I Chinese Thrush; 1 Blackbird; 1 Toucan; 1 Cockatoo; 1 Blue Macaw ; 5 Hawks; 1 Peacock ; 2 Pheasants ; 6 Rails ; 1 European Plover ; 1 Golden Trumpeter ; 1 Canada Goose ; 1 Brown Pelican ; 5 Herons. Total, 22 specimens, received in the flesh. WILLIAM DUTCHER, New York City. t Blue Heron. W. H. EDWARDS, Amagansett, L. I. 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks ; 1 Red-breasted Merganser. Mrs. P. FULLER, New York City. 2°mounted Owls, from Niagara, N. Y. Mrs. F. P. GILBERT, New York City. 1 Mexican Parrot. F. M. GILBERT, Evansville, Ind. 3 White Fan-tailed Pigeons. CHARLES J. HAYNES, Tarrytown, N. Y. 1 skin of Flamingo. GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, New York City. I albino Ruffed Grouse. LEVERETT M. LOOMIS, Chester, S. C. 42 skins from South Carolina. D. G. NEWELL, New York City. 4 Carrier Pigeons and 7 Barbs; 1 Turkey. D. E. NEWELL, New York City. 4 Bronzed Turkeys ; 2 Black Barb Pigeons; 1 Dun Barb Pigeon; 4 Black Carrier Pigeons ; 1 Dun Carrier Pigeon. Dr. JOHN I. NORTHROP, School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City. 5 specimens of /cterus northropi, including the types of the species, from Andros Island, Bahamas. G. ARTHUR PALMER, New York City. 1 living Carolina Rail. JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 2 South American Hummingbirds, and 6 North American birds. JOHN ROWLEY, Jr., Hastings, New York. 17 skins, from New York. W. E. D. SCOTT, New York City. 440 skins, nearly all from Florida. GEORGE B. SENNETT, Erie, Pa. 1 Fulvous Tree Duck ; 2 Massena Quails, and 2 Bronzed Grackles. CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 3 Coots; 1 Wren. 28 E. W. SMITH, Orange, N. Y. 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch; 1 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. ERNEST E. THOMPSON, Toronto, Canada. 4 Bank Swallows. LOUIS WEISMANN, New York City. 3 bird’s nests. BY EXCHANGE. GUSTAVE KOHN, New Orleans, La. 43 skins, from Louisiana. LOUIS MOLNARE, Hungary. 81 European birds. Dr. JOHN I. NORTHROP, School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City. 27 specimens, from Andros Island, Bahamas. CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. t Ward’s Heron and 1 Brown Crane, from Florida. ERNEST E. THOMPSON, Toronto, Canada. 32 specimens from near Toronto. " UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 25 specimens, mostly from tropical America. JOHN WHITEHEAD, London, England. 8 specimens from Borneo. BY PURCHASE. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 181 specimens, mostly from Florida, collected by Frank M. Chapman. THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF TAXIDERMY. 13 specimens, received in the flesh. BY DIRECT PURCHASE. 76 specimens from Louisiana; 228 specimens from Mexico; 133 specimens from Costa Rica ; 120 specimens from various localities in South America. Accessions to the Department of Reptiles, Fishes and Invertebrates. BY DONATION. J. P. H. BELL, Gainesville, Fla. Collection of Reptiles from Florida. WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New Vork City. I Snake, from Venezuela; 1 Embryo Shark. A. J. CONSTANTINE, New York City. I Sawfish Saw. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, through Dr. W. A. Conklin, Super- intendent of the Central Park Menagerie. 8 Pythons; 3 Iguanas; 2 Alligators; 1 African Snake. JOHN C. KLINE, New York City. Specimens of West Indian Corals. CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 20 Reptiles, in alcohol, from Florida. 29 BY PURCHASE. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. 24 Reptiles from Florida, collected by Frank M. Chapman. BY DIRECT PURCHASE. 1 Boa Constrictor; 2 young Alligators; 3 Pythons; collection of Reptiles from Florida. DEPARTMENT OF TAXIDERMY. The most notable piece of work done during the past year was the mounting of the great Indian Rhinoceros “Bomby.” The skin when removed from the animal weighed 750 pounds. After immersion for four years in an antiseptic solution it was removed, and found to be perfectly preserved. In preparing it for mount- ing, the skin was thinned down to an even thickness of a quarter of an inch, this operation requiring the labor of two men for two months. In mounting, a wooden manikin was used, made to represent as nearly as possible the natural shape of the animal, upon which the folds and ridges were moulded in clay. Over this completed model the skin was then drawn, and the mounting finished in a highly satisfactory manner. Of the 149 mammals received in the flesh a few have been mounted, 55 others prepared for mounting, and 89 made up as skins or skeletons for the Study Collection. Of many of the more important specimens plaster casts were taken while still in the flesh, as a guide in mounting the specimens later ; these casts also afford to artists valuable material for studies. Among those mounted from fresh specimens is the young Hipopotamus received from the Central Park Menagerie. A Muskrat group has been prepared and placed on exhibition during the year. It is designed to illustrate the habits of this peculiar species, and represents a section of a river bank showing a burrow and its interior construction. A winter house, built in the water, of grass and other vegetable matter, is also shown. It has been cut down on one side to exhibit the nest within. During the summer the Mammal Collection was removed from the lower hall to the bird floor for temporary storage during the completion of the new mammal hall. Although in general, the collection is in a good state of preservation, 172 specimens were found in need of more or less repair, and were placed in good order. Repairs have also been made on many of the skeletons, including the Mastodon and the Elephant Jumbo, which is now again on exhibition at the Museum. The Irish Elk, which for many years has been in bad condition, has been entirely re- mounted, and the few missing parts artificially restored. Also 644 skulls of small mammals have been prepared for the Study Collection. 30 Of birds, 89 specimens have been mounted and placed on ex- hibition, and 48 made into skins for the Study Collection, and skeletons made of six others. The mounted birds include a Cassowary and various European and South American species. Work on the Bird Groups has been continued and a number of them completed, including those illustrating the Pied-billed Grebe, the Laughing Gull, the Ruffed Grouse, and the Labrador Duck. ‘The latter is a winter study made on Long Island, where this now supposed extinct species was formerly a more or less common winter migrant. DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. Most of the time during the year has been devoted to the prepa- ration and gathering of specimens for the “ Jesup Collection of Economic Entomology,” and the Study and Exhibition Collec- tions of Insects. In both these collections much progress has been made; to the Economic Collection, thirty-six groups have been added, and to the Study and Exhibition Collections, about two thousand five hundred specimens have been added. Five large and twelve small Economic Insect Groups have been com- pleted and placed on exhibition, and forty-four groups are in progress (including those collected in 1889), and are expected to be finished and ready for exhibition before the summer. ‘These groups will be exhibited with the “ Jesup Collection of Woods”; they represent the life histories and other phases of insects injurious to forest and shade trees, and are illustrated by their food-plants, made in wax, showing the injury done to the trees by the insects. This feature will not only prove useful to prac- tical foresters, but also will be of educational value to students of entomology and the public. During the latter part of the year the collection of insects of the late Dr. S. Lowell Elliot was generously presented to the Museum by Mrs. Margeritha Schuyler Elliot. The collection is a very fine one, and consists of one hundred and forty-five cases, 14 x 24 inches, containing about six thousand six hundred speci- mens of Butterflies and Moths, in absolutely perfect condition, and fifteen cases containing about four hundred specimens of insects of various orders. Almost all the Butterflies and Moths of this collection are bred specimens, and many of our rarer Lefz- doptera are represented by entire broods, showing the variation and intergradation of the species. The suites of Datanas and Limacodes are probably the largest and finest that have ever been brought together. Almost all the specimens in this collec- tion have been collected in New York City and vicinity. Notwithstanding the satisfactory progress that has been made, much yet remains to be done to bring the Museum Collection of 31 insects up to the proper standard of completeness. Additional collections of North American Butterflies and Moths, Beetles and insects of various other orders, would be of great help and importance to the department, and it is hoped that this may be taken into consideration by friends of the Museum, and the defi- ciency remedied. Accessions to the Department of Entomology. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS. About 2500 specimens of insects of various orders from New York City if and vicinity. BY DONATION. Mrs. MARGERITHA SCHUYLER ELLIOT, Brooklyn, New York. About 6600 Butterflies and Moths, and about 400 insects of various orders, collected by the late Dr. 5. L. Elliot. OSCAR THORN, New York City. I specimen of Hickory destroyed by the Cyllene picta. TUDER JENKS, Bryn Mawr, Yonkers, N. Y. 20 specimens of insects. N. W. NOCK, Mappsville, Va. I Mole Cricket. G. B. SENNETT. A few Butterflies from Texas. A. WOODWARD, New York City. About 200 specimens of insects from Mass. IRVIN CADMUS. 1 Living Bird Spider from Baracoa, W. I. JAMES ANGUS, West Farms, New York City. 10 specimens of Lepidoptera. DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. WoRK DONE UPON THE COLLECTIONS.—In the last Annual Report it was stated that Dr. Frederick Starr had been engaged to arrange, label and catalogue the several collections in this depart- ment. He has been at work during the greater part of the year. The collections have all been carefully examined. The duplicate material has been laid aside, and the remainder has been provided with permanent numbers. ‘The special catalogues of the collec- tions, some seventeen in number, have been transcribed into large volumes, three of which are nearly filled. By this numbering and recording the collection is insured against loss and confusion when it shall be transferred to the new building. A system of card labels has been adopted. These are well printed in bold type. Some of them are already in the cases with specimens, but most of them will not be used until the collections are located in new cases. To increase the interest of the specimens, and to make them more readily understood, a number of pen and ink 32 sketches have been made, covered with glass, and neatly bound. These will be laid alongside the specimens in their final arrange- ment on exhibition. DonatTions.—From time to time, for several years past, the Museum has received donations to this department from indi- viduals. Some of these have not been acknowledged in the Annual Reports. A list of such gifts is appended to this report, and the thanks of the Museum are given to the various donors. In the same list are also included gifts from individuals received during the year, ; THE MEARNS COLLECTION FROM ARIZONA.—Dr. Edgar A. Mearns has given to the Museum a large and interesting collec- tion of specimens from the Cliff Dwellings and old Pueblo ruins of the Verde Valley, Arizona. The series includes objects of stone, bone and shell, pottery vessels, materials used in the con- struction of the Cliff Dwellings, articles of apparel, cords, fabrics, etc., etc., and a great amount of food materials, both vegetable and animal, found in these interesting ruins. Dr. Mearns made a large number of photographic negatives of these old dwelling places, and has consented to the Museum having a set of prints made from them. ‘These pictures will add greatly to the interest of this collection. Carp CaTALOGUE.—As an experiment a card catalogue is being prepared of the Emmons and Bishop Collections from Alaska and British Columbia. Such a catalogue it is believed is of greater value and more permanence than any book record. It will also be of great assistance in the preparation of a bulletin of the department, relative to the Alaska series. No publication work has yet been done in connection with the Department of Archeology and Ethnology. It is, however, greatly to be desired. LEcTURES.—Two courses of three lectures each have been delivered during the year by Dr. Starr. The first course upon The Stone Age, considered the several topics: (@) The Man of the Stone Age; (4) The Mounds and their Builders; (c) Mam- moth, Mastodon and Man. ‘The second course was upon the subject: Dress. (a) Deformations; (6) Dress—its Origin and Development ; (c) Ornament and Religious Dress. These lec- tures were illustrated with stereopticon views, largely taken from objects in the collections of the department. They were intended for the members of the Museum and their friends. An ARMENIAN COLLECTION is at present offered for sale in this city at a moderate sum. It illustrates the late Bronze and early Iron Ages in Russian Armenia, and would valuably supplement the Stuart Collections (deMorgan and Feuardent), which finely represent the early and late Stone Ages and the Age of Bronze 33 in western Europe. It is a property which the Museum should own. CoNDITION.—The cases are overcrowded, and thousands of specimens are stored away in boxes and trays. ‘These all need frequent examination to prevent loss and damage from moths, etc. The crowded condition of the cases do not admit of proper display of the specimens. Plans for the permanent arrangement of the collections have been submitted to the management, and it is hoped that the whole series may soon be removed to commo- dious quarters, where the specimens may be suitably mounted and effectively displayed. List of Specimens donated to the Department of Archeology and Ethnology, but not acknowledged in preceding Annual Reports, and of Specimens donated in 1890. ABBOTT, ABIEL. 4 Australian Spears. ABBOTT, C. C. Paleolithic Implements, N. J. AUCHINCLOSS, HUGH. Model of Chinese Tomb. Ethnological Collec- tions, Canada, etc. AYXERE, LOUIS H. Lining of Egyptian Tomb. BACHELER, O. R. Sacred Books, India. BAKER, F. Stone Spearhead. BARCLAY & CO. Jivaros Head. BARLOW, Mrs. S. L. M. 2 Stone Axes. BELL, Mrs. Package Poisoned Arrows for Blowgun. BOOTH, HENRY. Woven Jar, Arizona. COBB, CARLOS. Stone Implements, Northern New York. CONKLIN, W. A. Boomerang, Australia. CONSTABLE, JAS. M. 10 War Clubs, Sioux. DALRYMPLE, Dr. E. A. Pottery of Virginia Indians. DAVIS, H. Celt, etc., 2 specimens. DAVIS, J. P. Carved Wooden Figure, Peru. ELLIOT, D. G. Skull, Socorro, N. M. FIZZLEMESY, Hon. PHILIP. Canoe, Brit. Guiana. CAMP, JOHN L. Stone Carving, Pa. CLARK, WM. 4 Stone Implements, Hawaiian Islands. DOWNIE, Mrs. D. Palm-leaf Book, India. GIBBS, Mrs. THEODORE K., N. Y. City. War Bonnet of Nez Persez Indians. Pottery and Stone Implements, Kentucky. HEWITT, A. S. Collection of Stone Implements, N. J. BRADLEY, JAMES B., JR., Riverdale, N. Y. Collection of Indian Relics, Food Materials, etc. From Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y. City. MARTIN, Dr. C. M. Soapstone Dish. MEARNS, Dr. E. A. Collection from Verde Valley Cliff Dwellings, Arizona. Skull of Child, Arizona. Indian Relics. 34 MEIGS, Mr. Pottery Vessels, etc., 21 specimens, Peru. MEYER, THOS. 1 Spearhead, 2 Copper Implements, 1 Obsidian Arrowhead. PERCIVAL, SPENCER G. Flints, England. Stone Hatchet, Canada. PYNE, PERCY R._ Brantz-Mayer Collection. DE RIQUES, ERNEST. 34 Indian Relics, Ohio and Kentucky. SCUPHAM, J. R. Mortar and Pestle. STEVENSON, J. J. Carving of Head. STURGIS, APPLETON. Skull, New Guinea. VOGDES, A. W. Stone Spears. WADHAUS, E. Stone Spear, N. Y. WILSON, C. H. Indian Pouch. WOOD, WALTER. 1 Spearhead, 1 Gorget, N. Y. THE LIBRARY. The progress which has characterized its later years was fully maintained, and appreciation of its advantages was manifested by the public. The issue of books, for the use of readers, was larger than in any former year. The additions made were both numerous and valuable, as usual by donations, solicitation, exchange and purchase. _The books ‘and pamphlets received have amounted to: volumes, 787; numbers and parts, 1790; pamphlets, 394; equal to 1273 volumes. By Application (Librarian).....293 vols. 367 Nos. and Parts. 34 Pamphlets. Exchange (Bulletin) ...... Bop To = Qos 22 Es (Duplicates)..... PY 83 pe I Monationsa sea ee ee 18g ‘“‘ 135 se 248 a IPUT CHASE Svante nc erekererereranc avs 224 § y 840 es 89 fy Motallerc:secteelevters 787 1790 394 The following gifts of special importance should be mentioned : George H. Brown, New York City.—Elliot’s Birds of North America. Elliot’ s Monograph of the Pittidee and Supplement. ‘“‘ Tetraonine, or the Family of the Grouse. Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, New York City.—14 volumes. Waldemar Kelck, New York City.—8 volumes. Sanderson Smith, New York City.—Geological Map, and a large number of pamphlets. Sir J. W. Dawson, Montreal, Canada.—Set of his writings. Geological Survey of New Jersey, New Brunswick.—Atlas of New Jersey. Musée D’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille.—3 volumes. Kéniglich-Baierische Akademie der Wissenschaften Miinchen.— 19 volumes. 35 Provinzial-Verein fiir Wissenschaft und Kunst, Miinster.—19 volumes. Provinzial Museum, Koénigsberg.—19 volumes. L’Académie Royale de Copenhagen.—12 volumes. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen Amsterdam.— 41 volumes. Asiatic Society of Bengal.—g9 volumes. The Canadian Horticulturist Society. The Geological Society of London. Institute Royal Géologique de Suéde. Entomologiska Féreningen. Deutschen Geol. Gesellschaft. The Australian Museum. See list for other numerous and generous contributions, etc. A number of very rare and valuable books were obtained for the Library at the auction sales of the S. L. M. Barlow and J. Carson Brevoort Libraries. Seventy-nine (79) volumes added to the Conchological Section, the gift of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. Three hundred and thirteen (313) volumes were bound this year through the generosity of the Trustees and Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. The Library now contains over thirteen thousand (13,000) volumes. Number of Volumes in Library, January Ist, ee peplogcs ',12,000 Ad dedwthisWeanyavarusnts yelper ie ein ae min inearays my rae albeaaattay 2 1,273 71 BOY LU Steere uae tt nie a nt AA AU ag Ae eR ee An 13,273 Through the thoughtfulness of the President, who directed the Librarian to make a tour of the public libraries near and in New York City, libraries in the following cities were visited: New Haven, Providence, Boston, Cambridge, Salem, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Princeton, New Brunswick and Brooklyn, for the purpose of gathering information and new ideas for use in the construction of the new library room. Accessions to the Library. BY DONATION. Through the late Miss CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE. Benoist, E. A. Catalogue synonymique et raisonné des Testacés Fossiles. 1873. a Sur les espéces de la Sous-famille des Muricinz observées dans le miocéne du Sud-Ouest de la France. 1880. Berge, F. Conchylienbuch. 1847. Brot, A. Notice sur les Mélanies de Lamarck. 1872. Brugnone, J. Miscellanea Malachologica. 1873. 36 Through the late Miss CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE. Brusina, S. Contribuzione pella fauna dei Molluschi Dalmati. 1866. si Gastéropodes nouveaux de |’Adriatique. 1869. Contribution a la Malacologie de la Croatie. 1870. Bucquoy et Dautzenberg.—Mollusques Marins du Roussillon. Part 17. 1889. Clessin, S. Studien itber die deutschen Species des Genus Anodonta. 1872. Das verhalten der Mollusken im Winter. 1872. Die genera der recenten Siisswasser-Bivalven. Die Planorben Siidbayerns. Ueber Missbildungen der Mollusken und ihrer Gehause. Colbeau, J. A. J. Liste des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles de Belgique. 1859. Deshayes.—Catalogue of the Conchifera or Bivalve Shells in the Col- lection of the British Museum. 1853. D’Ancona, C. Malacologia pliocenica italiana, descritta ed illustrata. 1871-72. Frauenfeld, G. v. Verzeichniss der Namen der fossilen u, lebenden Arten der Gattung caludina Lam. 1865. Be Mollusken. 1868. Jordan, H. K. A Catalogue of British Mollusca. 1866. 1870. Keferstein, W. v. Ueber die geographische Verbreitung der Pulmo- naten. 1865. Langkavel.—Beschreib, v. Siidsee-Conchylien des Donum Bismarck- janum. 1871. Laskey, J. Account of British Testacea. 1809. Mangili, G. Nuove ricerche zootomiche sopra alcune specie di con- chiglie Bivalvi. 1804. Martini and Chemnitz (Kiister). Parts 372-376. 1889-1890. Morch, 0. A. L. Prodromus faunae Molluscorum Groenlandiae. 1857. Catalogus Conchyliorum que reliquit M. N. Suenson. 18 Catalogue d’une collection de Coquilles. 1860. Catalogus Conchyliorum que reliquit, N. C. N. Lassen. 1863. ss Bidrag tilden norske Bloddyrfauna. 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New Jersey. a 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876-78. Pennsylvania. an ts 1879, 1880. Missouri. a sy 1881. Nebraska. i ry 1879, 1880. Colorado. ibs a 1879-1880. Hunt’s Merchant Magazine. Vols. I, II, III, IV. 1840, 1841. Western Review of Science and Industry. Vol. II, 4; IV, 9, 10, Transactions and Journal. 11 odd vols. Transactions and Journal. 133 odd vols. Magazines and Journals. 300 odd vols. INGORE OR ATT O Ne AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Passed April 6, 1869. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of “‘The American Museum of Natural History,” to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History ; of encouraging and developing the Study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowl- edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. Sec. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their government, the number and election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant 56 to such Constitution and By-Laws, the persons named in the first section of this Act shall be, and are hereby declared to be, the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its property. Sec. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. Sec. 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. Oe, I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and seal of office at the City of Albany, [esis:i] this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State. CONSTI TUT LON OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIsTory, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ARTICLE I. This Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HisTory. ARTICLE II. The several persons named in the charter, and such others as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed twenty-five in all at one time, shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property, and business of the Corporation, and in case of the death, accepted resignation, or removal from the State of any Trustee, a new Trustee shall be elected to fill his place by the remaining Trustees ; but no election of a Trustee shall be held except at a quarterly meeting of the Trustees, on written notice of not less than one week, specifying that such election is to be held, and the vacancy which is to be filled ; and every election of Trustees shall be by ballot, and no person shall be deemed to be elected a Trustee unless he shall receive the votes of at least three-fourths of the Trustees present. ARTICLE III. The Trustees shall meet quarterly, on the third Monday of every February, May, August and November, at an hour and place to be designated, on at least one week’s written notice from the Secretary, and shall annually, at the quarterly meeting in February, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to transact special business 58 on a call of the Secretary, who shall issue such call whenever requested so to do, in writing, by five Trustees, or by the President, and give written notice to each Trustee of such special meeting, and of the object thereof, at least three days before the meeting is held. ARTICLE IV. The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, an Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Finance Committee, all to be elected from the Trustees. All these officers shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. The election of officers shall be by ballot, and the persons hav- ing a majority of the votes cast shall be deemed duly elected. PERC Tia The President, and in his absence the First or Second Vice- President, shall preside at all the meetings of the Museum and of the Trustees. The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Trustees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing Com- mittee, and shall preserve the seal, archives, and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meetings of the Trustees, and attend the same. The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Museum. He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in books belonging to it, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees. He shall report in writing, at each quarterly meeting of the Trustees, the balance of money on hand, and the outstanding obligations of the Museum, as far as practicable ; and shall make a full report at the annual meeting of the receipts and disbursements of the past year, with such suggestions as to the financial management of the Museum as he may deem proper. ARTICLE VI. The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom the President and Secretary shall be two. The five members of the a 59 Executive Committee elected in February, 1887, shall forthwith draw lots for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respec- tively, and the terms for which those drawing the two, three, four and five years, respectively, were elected, are hereby extended to cover those periods; and hereafter at each annual election one member of the Executive Committee shall be elected to serve for five years. They shall have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library, and other property of the Museum; and shall have power to purchase, sell, and exchange specimens and books, to employ agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in detail the directions of the Trustees; but the Executive Committee shall not incur any expense or liability for the Museum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meetings of the Trustees, without the express sanction of the Trustees. ARTICLE VII. The Auditing Committee shall consist of three, and it shall be their duty to examine and certify all bills presented against the Corporation ; and no bills shall be paid unless first approved in writing by at least two members of this Committee. ARTICLE: ViIlt: The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to take charge of and invest the funds of the Museum in its name, and to take all proper measures to provide means for its support. ARTICLE IX. A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the subse- quent approval of a meeting at which a quorum shall be present. ARC exe: By-Laws may from time to time be made by the Trustees, providing for the care and management of the property of the Corporation, and for the government of its affairs. 60 Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any meeting of the Trustees, by a vote of a majority of those present, after a month’s notice in writing of such proposed amendment. ARTICLE XI. The contribution of $1000 or more to the funds of the Museum, at any one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such patronship. The contribution of $500, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow, who shall have the right to ap- point one successor in such fellowship. LVo appointment of a successor shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing, endorsed on the certificate, or by last will and testament. The contribution of $100, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Life Member. Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the above degrees, who shall have given to the Museum books or specimens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Com- mittee, to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the President and Secretary shall issue diplomas accordingly under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their discretion. ARTICLE XII. No alterations shall be made in this Constitution, unless at a regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees; nor by the votes of less than two-thirds of all the Trustees; nor without notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular meeting. BY-LAWS. I, Patrons giving $1000 are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and 1o Tickets for a single admission. Fellows, giving 5500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets for a single admission. Life Members, giving S100, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission. Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single admission. ? [ Note.—A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two persons to the Museum every day except Sunday, and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions, and may be used by any member of the Subscriber’s family. The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among friends and visitors. | Le Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a Trustee, un- less excused by the Board. ne No gentlemen shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee who shall not be a “ Patron”’ of the Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees ex-officio—nor be eligible unless his name shall be presented by the nominating committee at a Regular Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place. 62 We No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its committees, officers, or employees, unless there are at the time sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same. Ne All bequests or legacies, not especially designated, shal] here- after be applied to the Permanent Endowment Fund, the interest only of which shall be applied to the use of the Museum, as the Eoard shall direct. 12 aw A IONS) ¢ By the Payment of One Thousand Dollars. MORRIS K. JESUP. ROBERT L. STUART.* Miss C. L. WOLFE.* ROBERT COLGATE.* FREDERIC W. STEVENS. PERCY R. PYNE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE. JOHN B. TREVOR.* ADRIAN ISELIN. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.* JOSEPH W. DREXEL.* WILLIAM E. DODGE, Jr. JOHN D. WOLFE.* ABRAM S. HEWITT. C. VANDERBILT. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. CHARLES LANIER. D. JACKSON STEWARD. EDWARD CLARK.* A. G. PHELPS DODGE. JAMES BROWN.* A. T. STEW ART.* S. WHITNEY PHG@NIX.* BENJAMIN H. FIELD. WILLIAM T. BLODGETT.* OLIVER HARRIMAN. ROBERT BONNER. JAMES B. COLGATE. ALEXANDER STUART.* WILLIAM A. HAINES.* BENJAMIN AYMAR.* RICHARD ARNOLD.* JOSEPH H. CHOATE. JONATHAN THORNE.* Miss PHEBE ANNA THORNE. D. O. MILLS. JOHN A. C. GRAY. HEBER R. BISHOP. CHAS. G. LANDON, WILLIAM E. DODGE.* * Deceased. PETER COOPER.* WILLIAM H. ASPINWALL.* -B. H. HUTTON.* J. TAYLOR JOHNSTON. D. N. BARNEY.* I. N. PHELPS. JAMES STOKES.* D. WILLIS JAMES. EDWARD MATTHEWS. WILLIAM T. GARNER.* JAMES LENOX.* A. H. BARNEY.* COLEMAN T. ROBINSON.* BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN.* JAMES R. ELY. JONAS G. CLARK. JOHN ANDERSON.* JOHN JACOB ASTOR.* WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR. CATHERINE L. SPENCER.* JAS. GORDON BENNETT. CYRUS W. FIELD. ALEX. H. BROWN, M.P. J. A. BOSTWICK. FREDERICK BILLINGS.* Mrs. ROBERT L. STUART. JESSE SELIGMAN. THEO. ROOSEVELT. OSWALD OTTENDORFER. J. HAMPDEN ROBB. J. F. LAUBAT. H. J. JEWETT. WM. D. SLOANE. D. G. ELLIOT. Lizcur. G. T. EMMONS. Cc. P. HUNTINGTON. GEO. W. VANDERBILT. EDWARD D. ADAMS. WILLIAM. C. SCHERMERHORN. JOHN J. CROOKE. HENRY SELIGMAN. RICHARD T. WILSON. JOHN E. PARSONS. FRANCIS 0. MATTHIESSEN. A. J. FORBES-LEITH. GEORGE BLISS. M. C. D. BORDEN. ARCHIBALD ROGERS. GEORGE C. COOPER. Honorary Patrons, Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U.S. A. Mrs. 8. LOWELL ELLIOT. FELLOWS. By the Payment of Five Hundred Dollars. SAMUEL WILLETTS.* ROBERT GORDON. HOWARD POTTER. C. V. S. ROOSEVELT.* CHARLES W. GRISWOLD.* SAMUEL F. B. MORSE.* RUTHERFORD STUY VESANT. MEREDITH HOWLAND. MARSHALL O. ROBERTS.* JOHN ALSTYNE.* O. B. POTTER. Hon. LEVI P. MORTON. HANSON K. CORNING.* STEWART BROWN.* ABRAM DUBOIS. TIFFANY CO. LUCIUS TUCKERMAN. ALFRED B. DARLING. A. A. LOW. RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr. THOS. A. VYSE, Jr. GEORGE G. GRAY.* GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE.* SAMUEL HAWK.* JOHN SNEDEN.* GEORGE BLISS. R. A. WITTHAUS, M.D. THOMAS BARRON.* GEORGE W. CASS. H. M. SCHIEFFELIN.* Pror. WM. LIBBEY, Jr. ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY.* F. R. HALSEY, CYRUS W. FIELD, Jr. H. M. FLAGLER. D. B. IVISON. H. McK. TWOMBLY. HENRY G. MARQUAND. JOHN T. TERRY JOSIAH M. FISKE. ELLIOTT F, SHEPARD. JOHN SLOANE.* JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. PHILLIPS PH@NIX, LLOYD PH@NIX. WM. H. HARBECK. DAVID WOLFE BISHOP, Jr. CORTLANDT FIELD BISHOP. Honorary Fellow, JAMES THOMSON. * Deceased. LIFE MEMBERS. By the Payment of One Hundred Dollars. JOHN E. ALEXANDRE. CONSTANT A. ANDREWS. Mrs. B.7 “\‘NDREWS. B. G. ARN*.D. SAMUEL P. AVERY. Mrs. JAMES C. AYER. Miss EK. AYMAR. JAS. MUHLENBERG BAILEY. DAVID BANKS. HENRY I. BARBEY. FORDYCE BARKER, M.D. W. H. BEADLESTON. GEORGE E. BELCHER, M.D. C. M. BELL, M.D. CORNELIUS N. BLISS. HENRI M. BRAEM. BENJAMIN BREWSTER. CHAS. P. BRITTON. ADDISON BROWN. FRANK G. BROWN. JAMES M. BROWN. JOHN L. CADWALADER. Mrs. ALEX. CAMERON. CHAS. M. CAULDWELL, M.D. ISAAC P. CHAMBERS. C. W. CHAPIN, Jr. HENRY CHAUNCEY. HENRY CLEWS. CHARLES L. COLBY. EDWARD COLGATE. WILLIAM COLGATE. Miss ELLEN COLLINS. WASHINGTON KE. CONNOR. EDWARD COOPER. S. D. COYKENDALL. JAMES CRUIKSHANK. A. DALRYMPLE. CHAS. M. DaCOSTA.* HENRY J. DAVISON. THOMPSON DEAN. * Deceased. GEORGE B. pr FOREST. S. DrJONGE. J. H. DeMOTT. NORMAN W. DODGE. PETER DONALD. E. J. DONNELL. ANDREW E. DOUGLASS. R. G. DUN. WM. BUTLER DUNCAN. JAMES H. DUNHAM. EDWARD J. FARRELL. JOHN FITCH. Pror. A. E. FOOTE. JAMES FRASER. FRANCIS P. FREEMAN. SETH BARTON FRENCH. GEORGE GARR. WILLIAM H. GEBHARD. THEODORE K. GIBBS. JAMES J. GOODWIN. STEPHEN T. GORDON. ANDREW H. GREEN. JOHN N. A. GRISWOLD. FRANKLIN L. GUNTHER. ALEX. HADDEN, M.D. JOHN A. HADDEN. JOHN P. HAINES. RICHARD T. HAINES. W. A. HAINES, Jr. Miss E. S. HAINES. Mrs. W. A. HAINES. WILLIAM M. HALSTED. BENJAMIN HART. FREDERICK C. HAVEMEYER. JACOB HAYS. Mrs H. HERRMAN. ALFRED M. HOYT. THEO. D. HOWELL. WILSON G. HUNT. C. P. HUNTINGTON, D. B. IVISON. A. JACOBI, M.D. Miss C. O. JONES. CHAS. H. KALBFLEISCH. GEORGE KEMP. RUDOLPH KEPPLER. WM. M. KINGSLAND. A. ©. KINGSLAND. GEORGE T. KNIGHT. JAMES KNIGHT, M.D. GEO. F. KUNZ. JOSEPH LAROCQUE. JAMES M. LAWTON. STEPHEN R. LESHER. JAMES LOW. EDWARD LUCKEMEYER. E. H. R. LYMAN. ALEXANDER MAITLAND. GODFREY MANNHEIMER. H. G. MARQUAND. PETER MARIE. WILLIAM C. MARTIN. ALBERT MATHEWS. JOHN J. McCOOK. JOHN T. METCALFE, M.D. CHARLES ADDISON MILLER. ROBERT B. MINTURN. ROWLAND G. MITCHELL, Jr. E. A. MOEN. E. C. MOORE. CHARLES MORAN. MANDEVILLE MOWER. PERCY MUSGRAVE. THOMAS B. MUSGRAVE. W. B. NEFTEL, M.D. H. VICTOR NEWCOMB. W. D. NICHOLS. THOMAS H. O’°CONNOR. C. H. ODELL. E. OELBERMANN. H. O'NEILL. A. 0. OSBORN. Mrs. A. 0. OSBORN. JOHN C. OSGOOD. HENRY PARISH. JOHN E. PARSONS. * Deceased. 66 WILLIAM I. PEAKE. ALFRED PELL. GIFFORD PINCHOT. JAMES W. PINCHOT. HENRY B. PLANT. JOHN PONDIR. HENRY A. V. POST. A. A. RAVEN. ISAAC H. REED. ROBERT G. REMSEN. AUGUSTE RICHARD. GEORGE RICHARDS. CHANDLER ROBBINS. ARCHIBALD ROGERS. SAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN. JACOB H. SCHIFF. CHAS. H. SCHULTZ. JAS. O. SHELDON. ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD. JOHN H. SHERWOOD. I. H. SHOENBERGER.* 5S. N. SOLOMON. HENRY MILFORD SMITH. L. DINWIDDIE SMITH. HENRY F. SPAULDING. LOUIS STERN. ALEX. H. STEVENS. C. AMORY STEVENS. ANSON PHELPS STOKES. - Miss OLIVIA E. P. STOKES. ISIDOR STRAUS, THOMAS W. STRONG. HENRY M. TABER. JAMES TERRY. SAMUEL THOMAS. FRED. F. THOMPSON. SAMUEL THORNE. EFFINGHAM TOWNSEND. SPENCER TRASK. EDWARD TUCK. H. D. VAN NOSTRAND. HERMAN C. VON POST. Dr. HENRY F. WALKER. BENJAMIN WELLES. FREDERICK B. WENDT. LOOMIS L. WHITE. ED. KIRK WILLARD. 8. C. WILLIAMS. JOHN T. WILLETS. Hon. BENJAMIN A. WILLIS. EDWARD WINSLOW. Honorary Life Members, GEORGE H. BROWN. Pror. JAMES DOUGLAS. W. W. COLE. 67 - JOHN WOLFE. HENRY H. WOTHERSPOON. JOHN H. WYMAN. Mrs. JOHN J. WYSONG. Mrs. FLORENCE HOWLAND. HOFRATH A. B. MEYER. ANNUAL MEMBERS. By the Payment of Ten Dollars Yearly. Abbott, Frank, M.D. Abegg, Henry Agnew, Alex. McL. Agnew, Hon. John T. Aitken, John W. Aldrich, Mrs. H. D. Alexander, Henry M. Alexander, Jas W. Alexander, John F. Allen, Calvin H. Allen, Chas. §., M.D. Amend, Bernard G. Amsinck, Gustave Amy, H. Anderson, Arthur A. Anderson, EH. Ellery Anderson, Henry H. Andreini, J. M. Appleton, Daniel Appleton, W. W. Appleton, Wm. H. Archbold, John D. Armour, H. O. Arnold, E. 8. F., M.D. Arnold, John H. V. Arnoux, William H. Aronson, Rudolph Atterbury, J. T. Auchincloss, Mrs. E. Auchincloss, E. 8. Auchmuty, R. T. Austin, William Aufhauser, Samuel Babcock, Samuel D. Bailey, N. P. Baird, John Baldwin, C. C. Baldwin, Edward Baldwin, J. G., M.D. Baldwin, O. D. Baldwin, W. D. Baldwin, William Ballin, Gustav Bangs, L. Bolton, M.D. Banta, C. V. Banyer, Goldsborough Barnard, Horace Barnes, E. W. Barnes, John S. Barnes, Theo. M. Barney, Chas. T. Barron, John C., M.D Beckel, Joseph Beebe, Chas. E. Beekman, Gerard Beer, Julius Beers, M. H. Bell, Hon. Isaac Benedict, James H. Bend, George H. Benjamin, John Bentley, Charles E. Bentley, Norman 8. Berdell, Theodore Bernheim, Abram C. Bernheimer, Adolph Bernheimer, Isaac Bernheimer, Simon Berrian, Charles M. Bianchi, F. Bien, Julius Billings, O. P. C. Bissinger, Philip Blagden, George Blakeman, Birdseye Blanchard, G. R. Bliss, George Bliss, George T. Bloodgood, John H. Bogert, Albert G. Bogert, Henry A. Bogert, Stephen G. Bond, Frank §8. Bonn, William B. Booss, Frederick Borg, Simon Boskowitz, I. Boulton, Wm. G. Bouvier, John V. Bowdoin, G. 8. Bradley, 8. R. Bradley, William H. Braker, Conrad, Jr. Brandon, Edward Breslin, James H. Brinckerhoff, Daniel D. Bristol, John I. D. Bristow, Hon. B. H. Brockway, A. N., M.D Brookfield, Wm. Brown, Miss E. W. Brown, Mrs. James M. Brown, J. Crosby Brown, R. C. Browning, John H.B.,M.D. Bruce, Col. 8. D. Bryce, William Buckham, George Burden, James A. Burden, Henry, 2d Burr, Louis H. Burrill, John E. Butler, Charles Butler, Prescott Hall Butler, Wm. Allen Byrd, George H. Cahn, Leopold Cameron, Edward M. Cammann, H. H. Campbell, George W. Camp, Hugh N. Camp, W. A. Cannon, H. W. Cary, Alanson Cassard, William J. Cathcart, George R. Chamberlain, Mrs. J. F. Cheever, John H. 68 Chesebrough, Robert A. Childs, H. C. Church, E. Dwight Clark, Bernard 8. Clark, Cyrus Clark, George C. Clarke, Charles C. Clarke, Mrs. Sarah L. Clarkson, Frederick Cochrane, John W. Coffin, Chas. H. Coffin, Edmund, Jr. Coffin, William Edward Cohen, Samuel M. Cole, Mrs. A. K. Coles, Mrs. W. F. Colgate, Abner W. Colgate, Robert Colgate, R. R. Colgate, Samuel Colgate, Mrs. Samuel Colgate, Samuel J. Collins, Benjamin Collins, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss M. M. Combe, William Compton, A. T. Comstock, Frederick H. Conger, Henry C. Conklin, William B. Conkling, Rev. N. W. Conover, Alonzo E. Constable, Frederick A. Constable, James M. Constantine, A. J. Contencin, Louis Contoit, Chas. H. Cook, John C. Cooper, Geo. C. Cooper, John Cotheal, Alex. J. Cox, Allyn Cranitch, William I. A. Crawford, R. L. Crimmins, Hon. J. D. Crocker, George Aug. Crosby, Rev. Howard, D .D Cross, Richard J. Cruger, S. V. R. Cullum, Gen. Geo. W. Cummings, Richard Curtiss, Frank Cutting, Robt. Fulton Cutting, W. Bayard Daly, Hon. Chas. P. Davies, William G. Davis, George 8. Davis, Theodore M. Davison, C. A. Day, Henry Day, Henry M. Day, Rev. Henry S. Decker, Joseph 8. de Forest, Robert W. de Groot, Mrs. William de Rham, Charles DeCoppet, Henry DeForest, Chas. T. De Grauw, Walter N.,Jr. DeKlyn, B. F. De Ruyter, John DeVinne, Theo. L. Delafield, Maturin L. Delaney, Arthur J. Dewitt, William G. Dickie, E. P. Dickey, Charles D. Dickey, Hugh T. Dieterich, Chas. F. Dimock, Henry F. Dithridge, George W. Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D. Dodge, Cleveland H. Dodge, George E. Dodge, Miss Grace H. Dodge, Mrs.Wm. E., Jr. Doelger, Peter Dolbear, Miss L. H. Dommerich, L. F. Doudge, James R. Dougherty, A. Dow, John Melmoth,F.Z. 8. Dowd, Hon. Wm. Dowd, Prof. Daniel L. Drake, John J. Drakenfeld, B. F. Draper, Dr. Wm. H. Draper, Frank E. Dreytus, Leon Dryden, John F. Du Bois, Dr. Matthew B. Du Bois, Katharine Du Bois, William A. Duncan, John P. Dunham, G. H. Dunlap, Robert Dyett, A. R. Earle, Wm. P. Ehret, George Hidlitz, Leopold Hidlitz, Mare Eimer, August Hinstein, David L. Einstein, Emanuel Elkins, Stephen B. Ellis, John W. Ely, Richard S. Eno, Amos F. Eno, Amos R. Enos, Alanson T. Ettlinger, Louis Evans, William T, Ewart, James M. Fahnestock, H. C. Fargo, James C. Farnham, Mrs. Horace P. Fellows, William Gordon Ferris, Frank A. Findlay, Andrew Fish, Hon. Hamilton Fleet, Oliver S. Fletcher, Andrew Flint, Miss Helena Flower, A. R. Floyd, James R. 69 Foote, C. B. Ford, John R. Fosdick, Chas. B. Foster, Scott Fraser, George S. Freeborn, G. C., M.D. Froment, Frank L. Frost, Isaac T. Fry, Charles M. Gade, Henry Garland, James A. Gautier, J. H. Georger, Louis F, Gibb, John Gilberg, Charles A. Gilbert, Clinton Gillis, Chas. J. Goddard, Mrs. C. F. Goddard, F. N. Godwin, Parke Godirey, Chas. H. Godkin, Edwin L. Goelet, Ogden Goldenberg, Simon Goodridge, Frederick Goodwin, James J. Gordon, George Gordon, John J. Gossler, G. H. Gotthold, Fred. Graack, John E. W. Grace, Hon. Wm. R. Gracie, J. K. Graham, Malcolm Greacen, Thomas E. Greenwood, Isaac J. Gregory, Chas. E. Griswold, Chester Guggenheimer, Randolph Gulliver, William C. Gunther, F. Frederick Gurnee, W. 8. Hague, James D. Hahlo, Hermann Hall, Fred. J. Hall, John H. Halls, William, Jr. Halsted, Jacob Halsted, Robert Hamilton, Edmond H. Hammond, E. A. Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D. Hardt, William A. Harris, Robert Hart, Rev. A. B. Hartley, Marcellus Hartt, James C. Haskins, C. W. Havemeyer, J. C. Havemeyer, Theo. A. Haviland, Edwin Hawley, Edwin Hawley, Henry E. Hayden, Brace Haynes, A. E. Haxtun, William Hendricks, Edmund Hendricks, Joshua Heroy, Mrs. James H. Hill, Geo. H. B. Hill, Sylvester ©, Hillhouse, Hon. Thos. Hilyard, George D. Hinman, W. K. Hinrichs, Chas. F. A. Hinton, J. H., M.D. Hitchcock, Hiram Hitchcock, Miss 8. M. Hoadley, Russell H. Hoag, Daniel T. Hodgman, Geo. F. Hoe, Peter 8. Hoffman, Paul Hoffman, Miss Susan O. Hoffman, Rey.E.A.,D.D. Hoge, T. Egenton Holden, E. R. Holt, Charles L. Holt, Henry Holt, R. 8. Homans, E. C. Hone, Robert 8. Horton, Burrett W. Houghton, Rev. G. H. Hoyt, Reuben Hubbard, Gen. T. H. Hunter, Mrs. M. L. Huntington, G.8., M.D. Hiipfel J. Chr. G. Hyde, Samuel T. Inman, John H. Inslee, Samuel Treland, John B. Iselin, Adrian, Jr. Iselin, C. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Adrian Iselin, Wm. E. Isham, W. B. Jackson, Charles A. Jackson, Geo. T., M.D. Jackson, John B. Jackson, Wm. H. Jackson, Wm. H., M.D. Jacobus, John 8. Jacques, David R. Jaffray, HE. 8. Jaffray, Robert Jenkins, Wm. L. Jesup, Jas. R., Jr. Johnston, William M. Jones, Walter R. T. Jordan, John J. Juilliard, A. D. Kaskel, Albert Kellogg, Charles Kelly, Eugene Kemp, Edward Kendall, Edward H. Kennedy, John 8. Kent, Charles N. Kerbs, Adolf Kerner, Charles H. Kerwin, Andrew J. 70 Ketcham, E. Ketchum, A. P. Kevan, William King, William F. Kinnicutt, Dr. F. P. Kinsman, Frank W. Kissam, Philip Knapp, H., M.D. Knickerbacker, H. Knox, Alexander Kohns, L. Kraus, Prof. John Kraus, William Kauttroff, Adolph Labaree, Joseph H. Laidlaw, Henry B. Langdon, Woodbury G. Lange, Dr. F. Lange, J. D- Lapham, 8. V. Lathers, Richard Lawrence, George N. Layne, James D. Leale, Charles A., M.D. Leavitt, Henry S. Le Brun, Michael M. Le Comte, Joseph Lee, William H. Lefferts, Frederick R. Lehman, E. Lehman, M. Lehmann, Frederick L. Lesher, Stephen R. Lewis, James F. Lewis, Richard V. Liautard, A.F.,M.D.V.S. Lichtenstadter, Samuel Linde, Frederick C. Lipman, Julius Livingston, Edward Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, William S. Livingston, Wm. 8., Jr. Lockhart, Robert Loeb, 8. Lorbacher, Edmund Lord, Benjamin Lord, D. D. Lounsbery,. R. P. Lounsberry, James 8. Lovell, John W. Low, C. Adolphe Low, Josiah O. Lowry, John Ludington, C. H. Lueder, A Lummis, Wm. Lusk, William T., M.D. Lyon, Theodore E. Macdonald, Charles Mack, J. W. MacRae, Charles Mackenzie, Duncan E. Mackey, Oscar T. Macklin, John J. Macy, I. Augustus Maillard, Henry Maitland, Robert L. Mali, Charles Man, Albon P. Mansfield, Howard Manwaring, David W. Markoe, Dr. Thos. M. Marling, Alfred E. Marsh, Caleb P. Martin, Mrs. C. D. Martin, Oswald J. Martin, William C. McAlpin, D. H. McComb, J. Jennings McCracken, W. V. McCready, Mrs.Caroline A. McCurdy, Richard A. McDonald, John E. McIntyre, Ewen McKee, Russell W. McKibbin, George McKibbin, Gilbert H. McKim, Rev. Haslett, Jr. Mehler, Eugene Merrall, William J. 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Park, Joseph Parker, Dr Willard Parsell, Henry V. Parsons, W. H. Patten, John Patterson, Hon. Mdward Peabody, Arthur J. Peirce, Mrs. M. Fay Pell, John H. Pellew, Henry E. Penfold, Edmund Penfold, Wm. Hall Perry, William A. Peters, George A., M.D. Pettus, James T. Peyser, Frederick M. Phelps, William Walter Pierrepont, Edwards Pinkus, F. 8. Platt, John R. Poillon, Richard Pool, Frank J. Potter, Howard Powell, Wilson M. Powell, William R. Powers, George W. Powers, William P. Purdy, Wm. Macneven Putnam, George L. Ranger, Louis Read, Daniel P. Reamer, Job M. Redding, Mrs. Josephine Remsen, William Renwick, Edward 8. Rhinelander, Chas. E. Rhoades, J. Harsen Rice, W. M. Richard, Auguste Riker, John L. Riker, Wm. J. Robbins, Rowland A. Robbins, S. Howland Roberts, Miss Mary M. Rogers, Henry H. Rolston, Roswell G. ' Romaine, Benjamin F. Rosenbaum, A. 8. Rothschild, Hugo Rothschild, J. Rothschild, V. Henry Russell, Henry E. Ritten, August Rutter, Thomas Sabine, G. A., M.D. Sage, Russell Sage, Warren Saltonstall, Francis G. Sampson, Henry Sands, Andrew H. Sands, Samuel S. Satterlee, 8S. K. Sayre, Lewis A., M.D. Schafer, Samuel N. Schafer, Simon Schaus, Wm. Scheitlin, Edward Schell, Edward Schlemmer, William Schley, Dr. J. M. Schmid, Mrs. August Scholle, Jacob Schultze, John 8. Schumacher, Theodore Schuyler, Philip Schuyler, 8. D. Scott, George S. Scudder, Hewlett Seligman, David J. Seligman, I. J. Seligman, Isaac N. Sellew, T. G. Sennett, George B. Sharp, W. W. Sherman, Charles A. Shethar, Samuel Sidenberg, Gustavus Sill, Charles Sinclair, John Skidmore, Mrs. Jos. R. Skidmore, William L. Sloan, Samuel Smith, Adon Smith, Alfred H. Smith,.Charles §. Smith, Geo. W. Smith, James B. Smith, John Jewell Smith, James Rufus Smith, Rev. Cornelius B. Smith, Roswell Smith, Thomas C. Smith, William Alex. Sneckner, William H. Snow, Edward L. Snow, Elbridge G., Jr. Soutter, Mrs. J. F. Spencer, Hon. James C. Spicer, Elihu Splint, Thomas G. Starin, Hon. John H. Stearns, John Noble Stebbins, Jas. H. Steers, Edward P. Steers, Henry Stechert, Gustav E. Stephens, Benjamin Stern, Benjamin Sterry, Geo. E. Stetson, Geo. W. Stevenson, Preston Stewart, Asa B. Stewart, David Stewart, Lispenard 72 Stewart, William R. Stiehl, Gustav H. St. John, William P Stone, Mrs. Catherine C. Stone, David M. Stone, Edwin Stone, Mrs. Georgiana C. Stone, Mason A. Stone, Sumner R. Storm, George Strong, Charles E. Strong, W. L. Sturgis, Appleton Sutherland, John Sutherland, John L. Sutton, Effingham B. Swain, George F. Swords, Albert S. Tailer, Edward N. Taintor, Charles M. Talcott, James Talmadge, Henry Taylor, Aug. C. Taylor, Mrs. C. A. Taylor, Stevenson Tefft, F. Griswold Tefft, Wm. E. Terbell, H.S. Thieriot, A. Thomas, T. G., M.D. Thompson, John C. Thompson, W. Prall Thomson, Eugene Thomson, Giraud F. Thorne, William K. Thurber, H. K. Tiemann, Peter C. Tiffany, Louis C. Tilford, Charles E. Tillinghast, W. H. Timmerman, John H. Tonnelé, John L. Toothe, William Toucey, J. M. Townsend, R. W. Tracy, J. Evarts Trevor, H. G. Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, John C. Turnure, Lawrence Twombly, H. McK. Twombly, Horatio N. Ulmann, S. B. Valentine, Lawson, Van Brunt, Hon. C. H. Van Brunt, Cornelius Van Norden, Warner Van Rensselear, Kiliaen Van Slyck, W. H. Van Wickle, A. 8. Van Winkle, Miss H. S. Van Winkle, Edgar B. Vantine, Mrs. Harriet M. Vandervoort, W. L. Veit, Richard C. Vermilye, J. D. Voorhis, Wm. W. L. Wales, Hon. Salem H. Walker, William I. Wallace, James Wallach, Anthony Ward, Lebbeus B. Warren, Miss M. W. Watson, John Watson, Walter Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H. Webb, W. H. Weed, Benjamin Weekes, John A. Weeks, Francis H. Weissman, L. Welch, Peter A. Welling, W. M. Wellington, A. H. Wells, Wm. Henry Wetherbee, Gardner Wetmore, Dr. John McKk Wheelock, Geo. G., M.D. Wheelock, Wm. A. Wheelock, Dr. W. E. White, Horace Whitely, James Whyland, A. E. Wicke, William Wickes, Edward A. Wickham, Delos O. Wiebusch, Chas. F. 73 Whitney, Alfred R. Willets, J. T. Wilson, John Wing, John D. Winthrop, Robert Worthen, W. E. Wray, Mrs. Cornelia 8. Wright, Benjamin Wynkoop, Francis 8. Youmans, Daniel D. Young, Jas. H. Young, Mason Zabriskie, Andrew C. Zickel, S. DECEASED MEMBERS Appleton, D.S. Auchincloss, Hugh Beadleston, E. Belknap, Mrs. A. B. Dows, David Ferguson, Edward Foulke, Thomas 1890. Goddard, J. W. Herriman, John Hoguet, Henry L. Kuhne, Frederick Patterson, Thos. C, Riker, D. 8S. Simpson, John B. Sloane, Thomas C. Storm, Thomas Tappen, T. B. Titus, Erastus Trevor; John B. En QDemoriam. At the Quarterly Meeting of the Boarp or TRUSTEES of the AMERICAN MusEuM or NATuRAL Hisrory, held November 17th, 1890, the following minutes, in regard to the death of Mr. HUCH AUCHINCLOSS, were unanimously adopted, ordered to be recorded in full, and that a copy be sent to the family of the deceased. Since our last Quarterly Meeting, one of those associated with us in the Trusteeship of this Institution, has passed from the scene of life’s duties. Mr. HuGH AUCHINCLOSS died on June 8th, 1890. He became a Fellow of the A. M. N. H. in 1871; was elected Secretary in 1879, and remained as such for a period of eight years, until compelled to resign the office by reason of failing health. Inassociating himself with us, Mr. AUCHINCLOssS was not prompted by any peculiar interest in any special branch of science, but by the larger view of affording support and encouragement to an enterprise embracing a wide field ; designed to aid in freeing his native city from something like scientific aridity ; and to establish a centre of scientific interest and entertainment in the midst of the manifold life of a great metropolis. Mr. AUCHINCLOSS had passed the appointed bounds of human life ; the three score years and ten allotted to man. Born in this city when the population, enterprise and business ac- tivities were confined chiefly to the lower end of the island, his life covered that period of phenomenal growth which has been one of the characteristic features of modern history, and not only of growth, but also of change from a condition of somewhat primitive simplicity to one which by contrast, while marked by enormous energy, may be characterized in part as artificial, tawdry and pretentious ; yet aston- ishing when comprised within the limits of a single human life. Our departed friend was fortunate in having placed before him in the family life an example of the highest probity in one whose paternal name he bore. His training in strict business ideas and habits touched the highest standard of commercial integrity, and doubly contributed to the formation of some of the best elements of his character. Simple and unpretentious in his habits of life, Mr. AUCHINCLOss possessed solid qualities which entitled him to the just consideration and confidence of his associates. His relations in business, in financial institutions and religious trusts, are satisfactory proofs of this. He inherited the old Scotch loyalty to family traditions and rela- tions ; his kindly and genial qualities were recognized by all, and his associates recall these marked features of his character with tender regret to his memory. OREM TTT pmAARARAR cs enon fs Aanahha’ A ps nnnnrnanMARAAnnn ahapAhenn rn NNANAA AAAAAA ASAAD AL mp ; ee fe val af POBRORAEEA aarp MAAR alalal | na AR ANA SAA: Ae ance ae A | Aah. A ARCO ARRA | ARAAA TAIN TAPS os AAA R AARNE ie a. AAA annnnnnn ; AANnn Annnhne’ A aW\ AAT ee RIN ER On Pe Aa? 1. 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