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Trustees and Officers.
JOHN DAVID WOLFE, WILLIAM T. BLODGETT,
ROBERT L. STUART, ANDREW H. GREEN,
ROBERT COLGATE, MORRIS K. JESUP,
BENJAMIN H. FIELD, D. JACKSON STEWARD,
RICHARD M. BLATCHFORD, | J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
ADRIAN ISELIN, MOSES H. GRINNELL,
BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN, A. G. PHELPS DODGE,
WILLIAM A. HAINES, CHARLES A. DANA,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JOSEPH H. CHOATE,
HENRY G. STEBBINS. HENRY PARISH.
HOWARD POTTER.
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President :

JOHN DAVID WOLFE.

Vice-Presidents :
ROBERT L. STUART, | WILLIAM A. HAINES.

Secretary :
A. G. PHELPS DODGE.

Treasurer :
HOWARD POTTER.

Executive Committee:
WILLIAM A. HAINES, D. JACKSON STEWARD,
ANDREW H. GREEN, A. G. PHELPS DODGE.
WILLIAM T. BLODGETT.

Finance Committee:
HOWARD POTTER, HENRY G. SEFEBBINS,
BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN.
Auditing Committee:
MORRIS K. JESUP, HENRY PARISH,
A. G. PHELPS DODGE.

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The Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting to the sub-
scribers to the funds of the museum, this, their
First Annual Report, accompanied by copies of their
Charter, Constitution, Correspondence, and Reports of
the Committees and Treasurer.

On the thirtieth of December, 1868, a number of
gentlemen addressed a letter to the Commissioners of
the Central Park, expressing their desire that a great
Museum of Natural History should be established in
the Park, and enquiring if the Commissioners were
disposed to provide for its reception and develop-
ment, to which a favorable reply was received.

On the nineteenth of January, 1869, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :

Wuereas, Nearly all the capitals in Europe, and
more important cities in our own land, including
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Chicago, pos-
sess instructive and valuable museums of Natural
History, while New York, notwithstanding its me-
tropolitan position, is still destitute of such an in-
stitution :

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Resolved, That recognizing the necessity of such
a museum as a means of education and recreation,
and desiring its establishment upon a scale commen-
surate with the wealth and importance of our great
city, we have heard with much satisfaction, that the
opportunity is now presented of securing by purchase,
in Europe, the largest and most valuable collection of
objects of Natural History, which has been offered
for sale in many years.

Resolved, That in our judgment immediate action
should be taken to secure this, or some other collec-
tion, as a nucleus of a great Museum.

Resolved, That, therefore, a Committee be, and is
hereby appointed to raise the necessary funds, and to
act as trustees for, and dispose of the same, and of
the collections when acquired, and with full powers
to do whatever may be requisite or needful in con-
nection with the business, said committee to consist of
such of the signers to the recent letter of inquiry,
dated December 30th, 1868, and addressed to the
Commissioners of the Central Park, as may consent to
serve, with power to increase their number to twenty-
five.

A permanent organization under a special charter
from the State Legislature was effected, and in a few
weeks the sum of $44,550 was secured. <A valuable
collection of North American birds, containing over
three thousand specimens, was purchased from Mr,
D. G. Elliot, and arrangements made with Mr. J. G.
Bell to mount them. This was followed by the pur-
chase in Europe, by Messrs. Blodgett and Elliot, of
the collection of the late Prince Maximilian of Neu-

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wied, in Germany, and of a selection from the Ver-
reaux and Vedray collections in Paris, a full and in-
teresting report of which is hereto annexed.

These valuable collections having been acquired, a
letter was addressed to the Commissioners of the Cen-
tral Park, expressing a desire to know if they would
receive them on deposit within the Park, and suggest-
ing the conditions on which the Trustees would like to
deposit them. A reply was received accepting them
on the terms proposed, and accommodations for their
exhibition are being rapidly completed in the two
upper stories of the Arsenal Building.

In addition to these purchases, valuable donations
have been received. The State of New York, by an
act of Legislature, has offered a series of all dupli-
cates it may acquire; Baron R. Osten Sacken has pre-
sented to the Museum more than four thousand speci-
mens of beetles, and insects of other orders; Mr.
Coleman T. Robinson more than ten thousand speci-
mens of Lepidoptera, representing three thousand spe-
cies; and Mr. A. L. Rawson has presented a collection
illustrating the geology of Palestine and Sinai. Gen.
Charles W. le Gendre, the American Consul at Amoy,
China, has forwarded an invoice of seven boxes of
minerals, woods, etc., the first response to a circular
kindly issued and forwarded by the State Department
of the United States to all our ministers and consuls in
foreign countries. Also, Mr. Lyell T. Adams, U.S. Con-
sul at Malta, has offered to send a complete collection
of specimens from that interesting locality. A similar
circular was forwarded by the Navy Department to
all its officers on foreign stations, and correspondence

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has been opened with some of the societies having
similar purposes with our own. Efforts are being
made to enlist the services of owners and captains
of vessels going from our ports, and we hope in this
way to add largely to our collections. We are fa-
vored with the sympathy of many scientific men in
our city, who already take a deep interest in our
work, and some of whom have promised at no dis-
tant day to add their valuable collections to our
Museum.

In beginning this enterprise everything has been
done to make it worthy of our great Metropolis.
Commissioner Green, in his letter herewith annexed,
says: ‘ Permit me to express on behalf of the Park
Commissioners their high appreciation of the enlight-
ened sentiment that has provided so generously for
all interested in this department of science, and, at
the same time, the hope that this auspicious begin-
ning may, by the continued augmentation of similar
liberality, become an unequalled treasury of science,
alike honorable to the public spirit of the citizens by
whom it has been inaugurated, and an indispensable
aid to those engaged in efforts to increase the knowl-
edge of the science that it is intended to illustrate.”

In closing their Report for the first year, the Trus-
tees feel justified in congratulating the subscribers on
the marked success that has attended their efforts
to meet a great want so long felt by our city.
With a continuance of your deep interest, with the
cordial aid of scientific men in our midst, and allied
as we are in this effort with the Park Commissioners,
we have, if properly supported and aided with funds

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by our fellow citizens, a guarantee of a prosperous
future in the formation of a Museum of Natural His-
tory that will be second to none, and which, while
affording amusement and instruction to the public,
will be the means of teaching our youth to appreciate
the wonderful works of the Creator. Many large
and very valuable collections are offered for sale to
us by persons anxious to place them in a permanent
public institution, and very frequently the results of
the labor and care of years may be obtained for a
fraction of their real value; to secure these and
commence a fund that shall place the museum in an
independent position, the present subscription list of
$52,000 should be increased to at least $100,000, and
the Trustees appeal to the public to aid them in
soon securing this amount.
All of which is respectfully submitted.

JOHN DAVID WOLFE,

President.
A. G. Puetres DonGeE,

Secretary.

INCORPORATION.

AN ACT 10 INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OP NATURAL HISTORY.

Passed April 6G, 1869.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and As-
sembly, 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, Wil-
liam 'T’. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pier-
pont 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 Mu-
seum 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 gen-
eral knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing
popular instruction and recreation,

Ske. 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-

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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.

Src. 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, )

: See
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 tran-
seript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.

~~. Given under my hand and seal of office at the city
{ SEAL. } of Albany, this fourteenth day of April, in the year
~~ one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
D. WILeERs, JR.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

Ata meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Esq., April 8, 1869, the above charter was unan-
imously accepted by a majority of the Trustees.

ALN, A5

To DONATE TO THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY A
COLLECTION FROM THE DUPLICATE SPECIMENS OF NATURAL
HISTORY BELONGING TO THE STATE.

PASSED MAY 8, 1869, BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE,

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and As-
sembly, do enact as follows :

Sreerion 1. The curator of the State Cabinet, under direction
of the regents of the university, is hereby authorized to select
from the duplicate specimens of natura] history belonging to the
State, and those which the State may acquire, and from all other
specimens of natural history which may be disposed of by the
regents or the State, the first and best series of specimens, sub-
ject, however, to the rights of other imstitutions under existing
laws, and label the same with their proper scientific names, and
present them in the name of the State to the American Museum
of Natural History, in the city of New York, all of which is to
be done at the expense of said Museum,

See. 2. This act shall take effect immediately,

STATE OF NEW YORK, )
‘ ‘ Ss. A
Orrice OF THE SECRETARY OF Starr, §
[ have compared the preceding with the original law on file in
this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct tran-

script therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.

(Pe Given under my hand and seal of office, at the city
4 seat. } of Albany, this seventeenth day of August, in the
—*— ‘year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
D. WILLERS, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

Cews EEuUTrLON

QF THE

‘AmERICAN ‘Museum or NaturaL History,

DN DEE CLE Y. ORMINE NV. VOR

ARTICLE I.

Turis 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 second Monday of

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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
November, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year.
They shall also meet at any other time to transact special business
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 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
having 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
Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and corres-
pondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all meetings
of the Trustees, and attend the same.

The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Mu-
seum. He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in books be-
longing to it, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of
the Trustees. He shall report in writing, at each quarterly meet-
ing of the Trustees, the balance of money on hand, and the out-
standing 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.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who 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 lability
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 VIL.

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 meet-
ing may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the sub-
sequent 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.

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.

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ARTICLE XI.

The contribution of two thousand five hundred dollars to the
funds of the Museum, at one time, shall entitle the person giving
the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall en-
title the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum Books or
Specimens 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.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be enti-
tled at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its Exhibi-
tions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplomas, become
members of the Corporation.

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.

New Yorks, December 30, 1868.

Commissioners of the Central Park :

DEAR Strs—A number of gentlemen having long desired that a great
Museum of Natural History should be established in the Central Park, and
having now the opportunity of securing a rare and very valuable collection as
anucleus of such Museum, the undersigned wish to enquire if you are disposed
to provide for its reception and development,

JAMES BROWN, JOHN Davip WOLFE,
ALEX, T. STEWART, ROBERT COLGATE,
BenJ. H. FIELD, I. N. PHELPS,
ADRIAN ISELIN, Levi P. Morton,
Ropert L. Stuart, W. A. HaINEs,
MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, A. G. PHELPS DODGE,
GEORGE BLISS, D. JACKSON STEWARD,
Morris K, JESUP, HowarbD POTTER.

Witi1AM T, BLOpGETT,

; OrFIcE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CENTRAL Park, NEw York, January 13, 1869. t

GENTLEMEN—The Commissioners of the Central Park have received your
communication, in which inquiry is made if they are disposed to provide the
reception and development of a large and valuable collection, as a nucleus of a
Museum of Natural History.

The Commissioners appreciating the views you so kindly express, entirely
concur in the desirability of the establishment of a Mnseum in the Park, that
shall become an aid in the Great Educational System of the city, concentrate
and develop Scientific efforts in all departments of Natural History, and at
the same time be an instructive and acceptable resort for the people of the
city, and for the throng of strangers that visit it.

The Commissioners of the Park will very gladly receive the collection to
which you allude, and will use their best exertions toward the establishment of
a Museum of Natural History, of an extent and excellence in all its depart-
ments that will be creditable to the city, and in their efforts towards the devel-

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opment of such an institution the Commissioners of the Park will highly
esteem your valuable co-operation.
I am, gentlemen, with great respect,
(Signed) ANDREW H. GREEN,
Comptroller of the Central Park.
To JAMEs Brown, ALEX. T. STEWART, JoHN Davin WOLFE, and others.

On the 19th of January, 1869, a meeting of the gentlemen who signed the
above note of inquiry, was held at the residence of BENJAMIN H. Fiexp, Esq.,
and the following resolutions were unanimously passed:

WuereEAs, Nearly all the Capitals in Europe and more important cities in
our own land, including Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago, pos-
sess instructive and valuable Museums of Natural History, while New York—

notwithstanding its metropolitan position—is still destitute of such an institu-
tion :

Resolved, That, recognizing the necessity of such a Museum as a means of
recreation and education, and desiring its establishment upon a scale commen-
surate with the wealth and importance of our great city, we have heard, with
much satisfaction, that the opportunity is now presented of securing by pur-
chase in Europe, the largest and most valuable collection of objects in Natural
History which has been offered for sale in many years.

Resolved, That in our judgment immediate action should be taken to secure
this or some other collection as a nucleus of a great Museum.

Resolved, That, therefore, a Committee be and is hereby appointed to raise
the necessary funds, and to act as Trustees for and dispose of the same, and of
the collection when acquired, and with full powers to do whatever may be
requisite or needful in connection with the business; said Committee to consist
of such of the signers of the recent letter of inquiry, dated December 30th,
1868, and addressed to the Commissioners of the Central Park, as may consent
to serve. with power to increase their number to twenty.

The following gentlemen have already consented to serve as a Committee
and Trustees in accordance with the above Resolution.

Joun Davin WOLFE, WitiiaM T. BLODGETT,
ROBERT COLGATE, Morris K. Jesup,
BENJAMIN H. FLELp, D. JACKSON STEWARD,
Ropert L, Stuart, J. PlERPONT MORGAN,
ADRIAN ISELIN, A. G. P. DopGE,
BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN, CHartes A. DANA,
Wittiam A. HAINEs, JoserpH H. CHoate,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Henry PARISH.

Howarp Porrer,

New York, December 23, 1869.
Anprew H. Green, Esq., Comptroller of the Central Park:

Dear Str—The Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History

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having purchased the extensive collection of Mammals, Birds, Fishes, &c.,
belonging to the late Prince of Neuwied, the Elliot collection of Birds, besides
apart of the Verraux and other collections of specimens of Natural History,
desire to know if the Commissioners of the Central Park will receive them on
deposit within the Central Park, and they would suggest the following as the
conditions upon which they would like to deposit them, viz. :

First-—The Commissioners of the Park to provide accommodations in the
two upper stories of the building known as the Arsenal and such other rooms
as shall from time to time be necessary for the exhibition of the collections
deposited by the American Museum, and shall cause them to be furnished with
glass cases suitable for the preservation and exhibition of such collections.

Second— The Trustees of the American Museum to employ their own Cura-
tors for the care and arrangement of their collection, and to pay them their
salaries, all such persons to be subject to the regulations of the Park Com-
missioners.

Third—Vhe Police force for the protection of the property and the employees
for the cleansing and general care of the rooms to be employed and paid by the
Park Commissioners.

Fourth—The Trustees and Curators of the American Museum to have free
access at all reasonable times to the rooms occupied by their collections.

Fifth—The collections so deposited to be exhibited to the public at least
three days in the week in the name of the American Museum of Natural His-
tory, the Trustees to have the right to close the collections at such times as
shall be necessary for the arrangement and rearranging of the specimens sub-
ject to the regulations of the Park Commissioners.

Sixth—The collections already acquired, and those which may from to time
be acquired and so deposited, to remain the property of the American Museum
of Natural History to be removed by them immediately after the expiration of
six months’ previous notice in writing to the Commissioners of the Park, or
within six months after receiving a written notice from the Commissioners,
asking them to withdraw their property from the Park.

Awaiting the favor of an early reply, I am,

Very truly, yours,
W. A. Hares, Chairman, Executive Committee.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CENTRAL PARK, )

BANK OF COMMERCE BUILDING, 31 Nassau St., NEw York, Jan. 21,1870. §

DEAR Str—I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 23d ultimo, relating to the deposits of certain collections with the Park
Commissioners by the American Museum of Natural History. The terms upon
which it is proposed to make these deposits are such, as will, I think, secure
the object that the Museum and the Park Commissioners equally desire; to
wit, an establishment that shall afford opportunity for popular instruction and
amusement, and for the advancement of the Natural Sciences. If the plan
which insures and combines in this enterprise the interests and means of the

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private citizen, with those of the public, is productive of all the good results
that may reasonably be expected, it will probably be made at once an example
and incentive for uniting the energies of those interested in other branches of
science and art, in similar undertakings.

In accepting these extensive and valuable collections on the conditions
specified, permit me to express, on behalf of the Park Commissioners, their
high appreciation of the enlightened sentiment that has provided so generously
for all interested in this department of science. and, at the same time, the hope
that this auspicious beginning may, by the continued augmentation of similar
liberalities, become an unequalled treasury of science alike honorable to the
public spirit of the citizens by whom it has been inaugurated, and an indispen-
sable aid to those engaged in efforts to increase the knowledge of the science
that it is intended to illustrate.

Very respectfully and truly,

ANDREW H. GREEN, Comptroller of the Park.
W. A. Harnes, Esq.,

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Museum.

REPORT?

ON
PURCHASES MADE IN EUROPE

FOR THE

American Ruseum of Natural istory.

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New York, Jan. 24, 1870.

To the Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural

History :

GENTLEMEN,—A few days after my arrival at Hanover, Ger-
many, on the first of September last, I received from your chair-
man a letter requesting me to act, with the assistance of Mr. D.
G. Elliot, for the Museum, in negotiating for the purchase of cer-
tain collections of specimens in Natural History, which were
offered for sale on remarkably favorable terms.

On the 25th of the same month, I arrived in Paris and hada
consultation with Mr. Elliot, and ascertained that negotiations
were nearly completed for the purchase of the collection of the
late Prince Maximilian of Wied. Baron Bibra, the representative
of the present Prince of Wied, was informed by Mr. Elliot that I
had arrived in Paris, and, as a Trustee and member of the Exec-
utive Committee, was prepared to conclude the terms of pur-
chasing the collection, and he at once made an appointment to
meet us there.

The Committee having placed the proper credit at my disposal,
everything was satisfactorily adjusted and the contract forwarded
to your chairman. The price paid for the entire collection was
£1,500 Sterling, and instructions were given to ship the collection

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from time to time, when ready, by the North German Lloyd’s
Line of Steamships from Bremen. <A full and complete cata-
logue of the collection was furnished, and deposited with Mr. El-
liot, and when copied he will forward the original.

The collection consists of 4,000 mounted birds, 600 mounted
mammals, and about 2,000 fishes and reptiles mounted and in al-
cohol. It is regarded as one of the most important private col-
lections in Europe, and has long been consulted by the scientific
world, and contains a large number of types, the results of the
Prince’s explorations in South America, and many rare specimens
which have been secured at intervals during the period of a long
lifetime. | We were informed by competent experts that the cost
of mounting this collection exceeds the price we paid for it.

The fact that we had secured the important collection of Prince
Maximilian rendered the labor of selecting from the different de-
partments of the Verreaux collection, one requiring great care;
and such work could only be done by one possessing scientific
knowledge. This labor was performed with great assiduity and
skill by Mr. Elliot. A large number of the selections from this
collection embraced the rarest specimens, as they were required
only te enlarge and complete our collections already obtained.

Our negotiations resulted in purchasing the following specimens
from the different departments of this well-known collection, viz. :
about 2,800 mounted birds, 220 mounted mammals, and 400
mounted skeletons of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes, at a cost
of about $16,000 in gold. In this connection I may state, that
the price asked for the collection from which the above were se-
lected was $45,000 in gold. Mr. Elliot informed me that these
specimens, with those previously procured, would render the re-
maining portion of the Verreaux collection, after our selections.
were withdrawn from it, of little value to our Museum.

In addition to the above purchases, at the earnest solicitation
of Mr. Elliot I purchased from M. Vedray about 250 specimens
of mounted mammals and Siberian birds, which were regarded as
very rare by scientific collectors. The price paid was $1,000 in
gold.

Particular pains were taken to obtain the cheapest rate of
freight, and the Cunard Line having made the lowest bid, orders
were given to forward the Paris collections in their steamers.

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The work of preparing the specimens for shipment was at once
begun, and nearly all the selection from the Verreaux collection,
and the specimens purchased from M. Vedray, have already ar-
rived, and are now safely stored in the Arsenal Building on Cen-
tral Park.

We were fortunate in enlisting the services of Mr. Edward R.
Andrews, of the firm of Jas. W. Tucker & Co., at Paris, who
volunteered to give his personal attention to any business con-
nected with the Museum without charge.

The following resumé of the collections purchased by the Mu-
seum may be interesting to the Board of Trustees, namely : 9,500
birds, 870 mounted mammals, 2,000 fishes and reptiles, and one
of the most interesting collections in Europe, consisting of over
400 mounted skeletons of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes.
These purchases have been made from our fund, which does not
exceed $45,000 currency.

The presence of Mr. Elliot in Europe, and the personal interest
he feels in the success of the Museum, are of the greatest import-
ance to us, and he can render the Museum most valuable service
in making separate purchases of such specimens as would greatly
increase the importance of our collection. We have now reached
a point when it would be a questionable policy to purchase any
large collection of mammals or birds entire, as a great portion of
such a purchase would only furnish us with duplicates. On the
other hand, judicious investments can be constantly made in in-
creasing our species and specimens, and it would be a wise de-
cision to authorize Mr. Elliot to make selections from time to
time for the Society, if our exchequer would warrant it. As an
illustration, the American bird, now extinct, called the “Great
Auk,” could be purchased at this time from a private collection
in London. It is the only specimen known for sale, and after it
has gone into a public collection, it may be years before another
specimen can be procured at any price. The same will apply to
various other animals we could have procured, namely, a fine
dromedary, and an Australian buffalo; but our instructions were
confined to the purchase of specific collections and we did not
feel warranted in buying others.

The present condition of the Museum, with the acquisition of
so large a property, may well be regarded by the public with

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favor, and fully satisfy the contributors to the fund; and, in my
opinion, an appeal to the public would be responded to liberally
at this time.

Feeling impressed with the great importance of the enterprise
we have in charge, and of the interest the public will take in its
success, I beg to present this informal report of my participation
in the business of the Museum during the last three months of the
past year, for your consideration.

Respectfully submitted.

Witiiam T,. BiopeGert.

New YORK, JANUARY 21, 1870.

To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History:

GENTLEMEN—As a contribution to the collections of Natural History which
you are forming forthe benefit of the public, I take the liberty to offer for your
acceptance a collection of North American Insects of all orders, except
Lepidoptera.

This collection, formed by me during my residence in this country, contains
about one thousand species of beetles, in about 2000 specimens and about 1800
specimens of the other orders. In all, about 3,800 specimens.

Small as this collection is. when compared to the total number of insects ex-
isting in this country, I hope that it will prove useful in giving an impulse to
the forming of further collections in this branch of natural history.

The specimens are, with very few exceptions, named and properly classified.
The only conditions which I put upon the acceptance of this collection are:

First—That it shall be preserved from injury by being transferred as soon
as possible to entomological cabinet boxes, constructed upon the model used in
the Berlin Museum, and also in Prof. Agassiz’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
in Cambridge; such boxes, as a prolonged experience has shown, are entirely
proof aganst the most dangerous enemy of collections, the destructive beetles
Anthenus.

Second—That the collection should be rendered as useful as possible by being
made accessible to the public, as far as consistent with its safety and preserva-
tion.

The collection has been temporarily arranged in a cabinet of twenty drawers,
kindly lent for the purpose by Mr. Coleman T. Robinson, and is now ready for
delivery.

A collection of insect architecture, principally galls, which I also intend to
present to the Museum of Natural History, has not been put in order from
want of the show cases necessary for its exhibition.

I must distinctly state that I look upon the present arrangement of these
collections merely as a temporary one, affording materials for a future popular
entomological collection such as it is desirable to have established in the
Museum, a collection always open for public inspection, and affording every
person, desirous to learn, the means of acquiring a general knowledge of the
classification of insects, and of naming at least the more striking forms among
their specimens.

I cannot conclude without returning my sincere thanks to Mr. C. T. Robinson
for the facilities and the assistance he most generously tendered me in the arrange-

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ment of the collection. Without these facilities it would have been impossible,
in such a short time, to put these collections in shape for the purpose of pre-
senting them to you.
I am, Gentlemen, very respectfully, yours,
R. OsTEN SACKEN.

New York, JANUARY 25th, 1870.
To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History :

GENTLEMEN—I wish to present to you acollection of American and European
Lepidoptera, consisting of about three thousand species, represented by at least
ten thousand specimens. This collection will be ready for delivery as soon as
suitable drawers are furnished by the Museum for its reception. The Butter-
flies will require twenty and the Moths forty drawers similar in size to those in
which the valuable collections presented by Baron Osten Sacken are arranged.

I will be glad to add to your Library one hundred volumes of books on
Entomological and Conchological subjects.

Iam, gentlemen, yours; very respectfully,
COLEMAN T. ROBINSON.

PARTIAL LIstT OF BOOKS,

Presented by C. T. Robinson.

BRINCKLE, W. D. Remarks on Entomology............ Philadelphia, 1852
CRESSON, E. T. Hymenoptera of Cuba...............- Philadelphia., 1865
DRURY, DRW. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, 3 v...... London, 1837
DALMAN, J. W. Analecta Entomologica...........-.....-- Holm., 1823

ESPER, J. C. Die (Europaischen) Schmetterlinge. 8 v. ...Erlangen, 1777-1830
GROTE & ROBINSON. Synonymical Catalogue of N. A. Sphingidz

Philadelphia, 1865

do Lepidopterological Contributions... New York, 1866
GAEDE, H. M. Beitrage zur Anatomie der Insecten
GERMAR PROF. Die Versteinerten Insecten Solenhofen’s........... 1837

HAGEN, H. Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America..........

Washington, 1861
KLUG, DR. F. Entomologize Brasilianze

LE CONTE, JOHN L. Coleoptera of Kansas and New Mexico. Wash’gt’n 1859

do New species of North American Coleoptera ‘ 1863
do List of the Coleopteraof North America. ‘“ 1863
do Classifiec’n of the Coleoptera of N. America. ‘“ 1861-2

LOEW & OSTEN SACKEN, Monographs of the Diptera of North
America. ‘‘ 1861-2

MELSHEIMER, F. E. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of the United
States. ‘ 1853
MORRIS. JOHN G. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of N. America * 1860
do Synopsis of the Lepidoptera of N. America. bh 1862
OSTEN SACKEN. Catalogue of the Diptera of N. America. At 1858
PROCEEDINGS of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia....... 1861-67
PACKARD, A. 8S. Guide to the Study of Insects.............. Salem, 1868-9
PUTNAM & PACKARD, Notes on Bees... ...5....00000c0000. Salem, 1864
ROBINSON, C. T. American Tortricidz...............+2- Philadelphia, 1869
SCUDDER, S. H. Fossil Neuropterous Insects... .............- Boston, 1865
do Catalogue of the Orthoptera of N. America Washingt’n 1868
SANBORN, F. G. Economical Entomology.........0.-..-sceeeseees Boston
STAINTON, H. T. Manuel of Butterflies and Moths........... London, 1869
TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, 1868-70
TRIMEN, R. Introductien to Classification of Insects.......... London, 1839

WESTWOOD, J. O. Introduction to Classification of Insects. ...London, 1838

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CONCHOLOGY.
BINNEY AMOS. Terrestrial Molluses of the United States. 4 vols.,
GVO. cals ais main nha sileBeyctolece, 3 neve. ane tain olla) obs falintn iio oneeees Boston, 1851, ext seq.
BINNEY, W.G. Bibliography of North American Conchology.. . . .....
A og es I Ee ee ee hs toe Washington, 1863-4
BLAINVILLE, H. DE. Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyhologie.
Di Veg BV Os « o 0.5, cie as a BR Paes ria) Ole 8 sta tletatel actin eine i> orale Paris, 1825-27

BOURGUIGNAT, M. J. R. Malacologie de la Bretagne. 8vo...Paris 1860.
BOURGUIGNAT, M. J. R. Methodus Conch. Denominationis. 8vo. Paris, 1860
CHENU, J. C. Receuil de Coquilles non figurées par Lamarck. Folio

Paris, 1841
CUVIER, M. DE. Histoire et Anatomie des Mollusques. 4to....Paris, 1817
GUERIN, F. E. Dictionaire d’ Histoire Naturelle, 9 vols., 4to..,Paris, 1837-40
HALDEMAN, 8. 8S. Monograph of the F. W, Univalves of the U.S.

SVG Manse sees ves ae tare Pen soo elena ela wes Philadelphia, 1842
JOURNAL de Conchyliologie. 10 vols., 8vo,................ Paris, 1850-62
LAMARCK, G. B. P. A. de. Hist. Nat. des Animaux Sans Vertebres.

DESVOISGS EVO! 5 <sn1= 2.2 coe. (Serpentine oo eS 25 Paris, 1855-48

LEA, ISAAC, Observations on the Genus Unio. 10 vols., 4to. Phila., 1827-70
MOQUIN, TANDON. Mollusques Terr. et Fluv. de France. 3 vols.,

MEO ss a carats Ste eet ae MeictelteRostetane 3 J Aig oier a PARRY VPRO ICiO Paris, 1855
NATURGESCHICHTE der Wiirmer. 4to................... Leipzig, 1842
BPHIPPI RAS Conchylien. (Sivolsi <iiyesiccemceins 4to.Cassel, 1845-51
ROSSMAESSLER, E. A, Land und Siisswasser Mollusken. 3 vols.,

AGO IMRAN op alah oi gie etalwietere o ciotel sales e(gve plsteniir retin shetenciane Dresden, 1835-59
SAY, THOMAS. American Conchology. 3 vols., 8vo........... Philadelphia
SAY, THOMAS. American Conchology. 8vo. .....-.......--- New York.
TRYON, GEO. W., JR. Monogragh of the Pholadacea. 8vo..... Phila., 1862

CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS

ILLUSTRATING THE GEOLOGY OF PALESTINE AND SINAT.
Presented by A. L. Rawson, Esq.

LEBANON. Limestones, Jurassic and Cretaceous; fossils, inclay slate; marl;
ironstone.

GALILEE AND HAuRAN. Basalt; grey and black; limestone; marls.

Jupma. Limestones, dolomite; fossil Cidaris,

JoRDAN VALLEY. Chalky marl; limestones; conglomerate; gravel; clay.

Deap Sea. Limestone; sandstone; marl; chalk; bitumen stone; salt, and
water.

Desert OF PeTRHA. Red sandstone; limestone.

Desert oF RAMLEH. Red sand; sandstone.

Smvat. Granite syenite and dark red porphyry and greenstone.

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JOHN DAVID WOLFE,
ROBERT L. STUART,
ROBERT COLGATE,
BENJAMIN H. FIELD,
RICHARD M. BLATCHFORD,
ADRIAN ISELIN,
BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN,
WILLIAM A. HAINES,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
HENRY G. STEBBINS,
HOWARD POTTER.

Trustees and Officers.

WILLIAM T. BLODGETT,
ANDREW H. GREEN,
MORRIS K. JESUP,

D. JACKSON STEWARD,
J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
MOSES H. GRINNELL,
A. G. PHELPS DODGE,
CHARLES A. DANA,
JOSEPH H. CHOATE,
HENRY PARISH.

President :

JOHN DAVID WOLFE,

Vice-Presidents.
ROBERT L. STUART, | WILLIAM A. HAINES.

Secretary :
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Treasurer :
HOWARD POTTER.

Executive Committee:

WILLIAM A. HAINES,

ANDREW H. GREEN;

D. JACKSON STEWARD,

A. G: PHELPS DODGE,

WILLIAM T. BLODGETT.

Finance Committee.

HOWARD POTTER,

HENRY G. STEBBINS,

BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN.

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Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History, have the pleasure of presenting this, their
Second Annual Report, with copies of their Charter,
Constitution, By-Laws, the letters received pre-
senting property to the Museum, and the Report of
the Treasurer.

The large and valuable collections, which it was
announced in their last Report had been purchased
in Europe, have been received during the past year
in perfect order, and are now safely deposited in
the Arsenal Building in Central Park.

They comprise the entire Museum of the late
Prince Maximilian, of Neuwied, Germany, one of
the most celebrated private collections in Europe,
and especially valuable to the scientific investigators
of zoology on account of the large number of types,
it contains, the results of the Prince’s extensive
explorations in South America, and rare specimens
secured during a long life devoted to this branch of
Natural History ; also the Mammals and Siberian
birds, numbering 250 specimens, purchased of M.
Vedrey, in Paris, and nearly all the selection, com-
prising 220 mounted Mammals, 2,800 mounted birds
and 400 mounted skeletons of mammals, birds, rep-
tiles and fishes from the great collection of the late
Edward Verreaux, of Paris.

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The Elliot collection of birds, consisting chiefly
of North American species and comprising over
2.500 specimens, have been carefully mounted by
Mr. John G. Bell, and placed on mahogany stands.

The 10,000 specimens of Lepidoptera presented
by Mr. Coleman T. Robinson, and the 4,000 speci-
mens of beetles and insects of other orders, donated
by Baron R. Osten Sacken, have also been deposited
in the Museum, and are now being prepared for
exhibition to the public.

Mr. R. A. Witthaus, Jr., has presented a fine col-
lection of foreign beetles, which he is carefully
labelling and placing in the insect cases on the
second floor.

In addition to the collections presented by Mr.
Robinson, he has accepted the position of Curator
of Entomology, without compensation. The Trus-
tees are also under many obligations to Baron Osten
Sacken who has rendered valuable assistance in the
arrangement of the departments embracing his col-
lection.

The Trustees have been ably seconded in their
laborious duties connected with the organization and
development of the various departments of the
Museum, by Professor Albert 8. Bickmore, whose
energy in carrying out the views of the Trustees,
has contributed largely to its present means, and
we therefore take pleasure in recognizing his great
usefulness.

It is with special pleasure that the Trustees are
able to report that the Department of Publie Parks
have approved their plans for cases, and that they

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are already completed. The Commissioners have
caused the second and third stories to be ceiled,
painted and rendered very attractive, and have pre-
pared a convenient room for the Trustees and their
Committees on the first floor, and also three well
appointed work-rooms in the fourth story, where the
Curators are arranging and labelling the specimens
to be placed on exhibition.

The Trustees would also express their thanks to
Hon. Henry Hilton, for his uniform courtesy and
the personal interest he has displayed in the success
of the institution.

The living animals on the first story have been
removed, and the whole building thoroughly
cleansed. The stoves formerly used to heat the
building have been replaced by steam apparatus,
and every precaution taken to preserve the Museum
property from the possibility of damage by fire.

The Curators have been very greatly assisted in
arranging and providing for the preservation of
the collections by the kindness of the Superinten-
dent, the Superintending Architect, and other
executive officers of the Department at the Arsenal.

Valuable donations of Mollusca have been re-
ceived from Professor Bickmore, Mr. Robinson, Mr.
Haines and Mr. Steward, and other specimens from
other generous donors, as shown in the appended
list.

A petition signed by many of our most prominent
citizens, was presented to the Legislature of the
State, during its present session, asking that ‘‘ the
Department of Public Parks be authorized to erect

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a suitable fire-proof building upon the public lands
in the city under their charge, for the establish-
ment and maintenance therein of a Museum of
Natural History by The American Museum of
Natural History, at an aggregate cost of Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars,” and the Trustees
have the pleasure to state that through the cour-
tesy and kind interest of the Department of Pub-
lic Parks, a section in conformity to the petition
was introduced into the bill pertaining to the
Public Parks of the City, and that it has be-
come a law, which section we annex to our
Report.

Hon. Peter B. Sweeny, President of the Depart-
ment of Public Parks, has also promised his influ-
ence to secure due consideration of our views and
plans in carrying into effect the provisions of the
above law.

We have therefore, every encouragement to ex-
pect that in the immediate future our brightest an-
ticipations will be realized ; and relying upon a con-
tinuance of that generous support so freely extended
to us heretofore, that our Museum will become
worthy of the great metropolis it will adorn, and
hoping soon to have it opened not only as an
attraction for visitors from all parts of the United
States, but as a school in which our own children
as well as strangers will acquire information, of
which they would otherwise be deprived, we
feel that too much stress cannot be laid upon
the importance of the institution as a means of
public education.

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The Trustees therefore appeal to all who have at
heart the interests of our city, for the means for the
future development of our institution.

JOHN DAVID WOLFE,

President.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,

Secretary.

All communications should be addressed, AMER-
IcAN MusEum or Narurat History, CENTRAL

Park, New-York.

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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 develop-
ing the study of Natural Science ; of advancing the general knowledge
of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction
and recreation.

Src. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Con-
stitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the
admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their govern-
ment, 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.

Src. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real
and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incor-
poration, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed
one hundred thousand dollars in value.

Src. 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.

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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 there-
from, and of the whole of said original law.

Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of
4 SEAL. SEAL.} Albany, this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

D. WILLERS, JR.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

At a meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore
Roosevelt, Esq., April 8, 1869, the above charter was unanimously
accepted by a majority of the Trustees.

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AON ae

TO DONATE TO THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY A
COLLECTION FROM THE DUPLICATE SPECIMENS OF NATURAL
HISTORY BELONGING TO THE STATE. |

PASSED MAY 8, 1869, BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows :

Section 1. The curator of the State Cabinet, under direction of the
regents of the university, is hereby authorized to select from the dupli-
cate specimens of natural history belonging to the State, and those
which the State may acquire, and from all other specimens of natural
history which may be disposed of by the regents or the State, the first
and best series of specimens, subject, however, to the rights of other
institutions under existing laws, and label the same with their proper
scientific names, and present them in the name of the State to the
American Museum of Natural History, in the City of New-York, all of
which is to be done at the expense of said Museum.

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 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 there-
from, and of the whole of said original law.

Given under my hand and seal of office, at the City of
4 ‘au AL | Albany, this seventeenth day of August, in the year one
—*— ‘thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

D. WILLERS, JR.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

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FROM LAW RELATIVE TO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.

§ 2. The Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks,
in the City of New-York, is hereby authorized to contract, erect, and
maintain in and upon that portion of the Central Park formerly known
as Manhattan Square, or any other public park, square or place in said
city, a suitable fire-proof building for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining therein, under suitable rules and regulations, to be pre-
scribed by the said Board from time to time, a Museum and Gallery of
Art, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, incorporated by chapter one
hundred and ninety-seven, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, or
other institutions of like character ; also, a suitable fire-proof building
for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein, under rules and
regulations to be prescribed by the said Board from time to time, a
Museum of Natural History, by the American Museum of Natural His-
tory, incorporated by chapter one hundred and nineteen, laws of eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine, or other institutions of a like character, at an
aggregate cost not exceeding a sum of which the annual interest at the
rate of interest at which a fund or stock shall be issued, is thirty-five
thousand dollars for each of said buildings, for the use of said corpora-
tions or other institutions of a like character ; and it shall be the duty of
and lawful for the Comptroller of the City of New-York to create and
issue in the manner in this Act provided, such additional amounts of a
public fund or stock, to be denominated the “Museums of Art and
Natural History stock,” as shall be necessary to provide the money re-

quired for erecting said buildings be an amount not exceeding the
aforesaid limitations.

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Awenioan fuseum OF ‘Narunat ppistony,

IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

ARTICLE I.

THis Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM
oF NATURAL HIsTory.

ARTICLE I.

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 Cor-
poration, 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 IIL

The Trustees shall meet quarterly on the second Monday
of every February, May, August and November, at an hour

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and place to be designated on at least one week’s written
notice from the Secretary, and shall, annually, at the quar-
terly meeting in November, elect the officers and commit-
tees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any
other time to transact special business 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 Com-
mittee, 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
having 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 Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives
and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for
all 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,

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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 man-
agement of the Museum, as he may deem proper.

ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who 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 em-
ploy agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting
the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in de-
tail the directions of the Trustees; but the Executive Com-
mittee shall not incur any expense or hability for the Mu-
seum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or ex-
ceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars, in the interval between
the quarterly meetings of the Trustees, without the express
sanction of the Trustees.

ARTICLE VIL

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 inyest the funds of the Museum in its name,
and to take all proper measures to provide means for its
support.

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ARTICLE IX.

A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five
Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current busi-
ness, subject to the subsequent 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.

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 pro-
posed amendment.

ARTICLE XI.

The contribution of two thousand five hundred dollars
to the funds of the Museum at one time, shall entitle the
person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in
Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for
Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of
the above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum
Books or Specimens 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 accord-
ingly, under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may
also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their dis-
cretion.

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All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and
its Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or
diplomas, become members of the Corporation.

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 with-
out notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying
the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at
a regular meeting.

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New-York, December 23, 1869.
ANDREW H. GREEN, Esq., Comptroller of the Central Park :

DEAR Srr—The Trustees of the American Museum of Natural His-
tory having purchased the extensive collection of Mammals, Birds,
Fishes, &c., belonging to the late Prince of Neuwied, the Elliot collec-
tion of Birds, besides a part of the Verreaux and other collections of
specimens of Natural History, desire to know if the Commissioners of
the Central Park will receive them on deposit within the Central Park,
and they would suggest the following as the conditions upon which
they would like to deposit them, namely :

First—The Commissioners of the Park to provide accommodations in
the two upper stories of the building known as the Arsenal and such
other rooms as shall from time to time be necessary for the exhibition
of the collections deposited by the American Museum, and shall cause
them to be furnished with glass cases suitable for the preservation and
exhibition of such collections.

Second—The Trustees of the American Museum to employ their own
Curators for the care and arrangement of their collection, and to pay
them their salaries, all such persons to be subject to the regulations of
the Park Commissioners.

Third—The Police force for the protection of the property and the em-
ployees for the cleansing and general care of the rooms to be employed
and paid by the Park Commissioners.

Fourth—Yhe Trustees and Curators of the American Museum to have
free access at all reasonable times to the rooms occupied by their collec-
tions

Fifth—The collections so deposited to be exhibited tothe public at
least three days in the week in the name of the American Museum of
Natural History, the Trustees to have the right to close the collections
at such times as shall be necessary for the arrangement and rearranging
of the specimens, subject to the regulations of the Park Commissioners.

Sizth—The collections already acquired, and those which may from
time to time be acquired and so deposited, to remain the property of the
American Museum of Natural History, to be removed by them imme-
diately after the expiration of six months’ previous notice in writing to
the Commissioners of the Park, or within six months after receiving a
written notice from the Commissioners, asking them to withdraw their
property from the Park.

Awaiting the favor of an early reply, I am,

Very truly yours,
W. A. HAtnes, Chairman Hxecutive Committee.

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THE CENTRAL PARK, BANK OF COMMERCE BUILDING,

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
31 Nassau St., NEw-YorK, Jan. 21, 1870.

DEAR SrrR—I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 23d ultimo, relating to the deposits of certain collections
with the Park Commissioners by the American Museum of Natural His-
tory. The terms upon which it is proposed to make these deposits are
such as will, I think, secure the object that the Museum and the Park
Commissioners equally desire, to wit, an establishment that shall afford
opportunity for popular instruction and amusement, and for the ad-
vancement of the Natural Sciences. If the plan which insures and
combines in this enterprise the interests and means of the private citi-
zen, with those of the public, is productive of all the good results that
may reasonably be expected, it will probably be made at once an exam-
ple and incentive for uniting the energies of those interestedin other
branches of science and art in similar undertakings.

In accepting these extensive and valuable collections on the condi-
tions specified, permit me to express, on behalf of the Park Commis-
sioners, their high appreciation of the enlightened sentiment that has
provided so generously for all interested in this department of science,
and, at the same time, the hope that this auspicious beginning may, by
the continued augmentation of similar liberalities, become an un-
equalled treasury of science alike honorable to the public spirit of the
citizens by whom it has been inaugurated, and an indispensable aid to
those engaged in efforts to increase the knowledge of the science that it
is intended to illustrate.

Very respectfully and truly,
ANDREW H. GREEN, Comptroller of the Park.

W. A. HAINES, Esq.,

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Museum.

The above was confirmed by the action of the present Board, per let-
ter below, in answer to our inquiry addressed to the Honorable Peter B.
Sweeney, President of the Department of Public Parks.

31 NASSAU STREET,

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS,
New-York, June 14th, 1870.

W. A. HAIngEs, Esq.,
Chairman Executive Committee American Museum of Natural
History :
Srtr—At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Department
of Public Parks, held this day, the following resolution was adopted:

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Resolved, That the arrangements made by the late Central Park
Commissioners with the American Museum of Natural History, and all
matters pertaining thereto be referred to Commissioner Hilton, with
power to carry out the same, procure the necessary cases, prepare the
second and third floors of the Arsenal building for the Exhibition, and
make the necessary arrangement therefor,

Respectfully,
GEORGE M. VAN NORT,
O. DB, Bak a

To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York :

The undersigned, citizens of the City of New-York, respectfully pe-
tition that authority may be given to the Department of Public Parks
in said city to erect suitable fireproof buildings upon the public lands
in said city under their charge, for the establishment and maintenance
therein of a Museum of Art by THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART,
incorporated by Act of April 13, 1870, and a Museum of Natural History
by the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIsToRY, incorporated by Act
of April 6, 1869, at an aggregate cost not exceeding five hundred
thousand dollars for each corporation.

JOHN DAVID WOLFE........... 13 Madison Avenue.
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON...... 8 Fifth Avenue.
JAMES BRO WwNibwd. 7 eae eee 38 East 37th Street.
ROBERT Tits TLOART 2c tes cee 154 Fifth Avenue.
WILSON TGA UND Kites cnees 82 White Street.

8) Jae HIN nso eiietec ant ae 15 Gramercy Park.
Wie GCG. BRYANT... went Intem Nase Roslyn L. I.
ROBERT (COLGATE raw... 2 eee 14 West 23d Street.
D. JACKSON STEWARD......... 150 Fifth Avenue.
ODE COAST C H.W ees een ye 411 Fifth Avenue.
ADRIAN VISHIGIN © 2ccdantisesiskeins 23 East 26th Street.
WILLIAM T. BLODGETT......... 182 Broadway.
BEN: JEU SE INLD, one aha Poses 21 East 26th Street.
SORIN VA MDE A SES PoP Eee 3 West 21st Street.
ON ABUT 7 2) os aceite dcic ctataus oe 229 Madison Avenue.
MUS ST OLGHIS: 5 o-oo oa cep eeiehs 37 Madison Avenue.
RICHARD MORTIMEE). -2..:cces* 20 East 23d Street.
SAMUEL B. F. MORSE..........- 5 West 22d Street.
JAMES B. COLGATE..... - eee. -22 Bast 23d Street.
DARLING, GRISWOLD & CO..... Fifth Avenue Hotel.
ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & CO.....Canal Street.
SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW......... 1 Madison Avenue.
WGN CELAIONS CHD... vyci kets eee 584 Fifth Avenue.

VM NA, 5, ARAL LIFES so we ms,0. 0 xan 8 East 23d Street.

RST RES PEL CL LOIN yy o mee ps = ca ptwieeeten 144 Duane Street.

TP PW VALLsLIEIS ADIOS. ¢ vc esccscuneen Park Avenue, 39th Street.
Ts aE LOGE, fd Bs. seid sve wel ntale ahaha 262 Madison Avenue.
BENNY, Bb. SHERMAN... .....%0 0088 16 West 20th Street.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT......... 28 East 20th Street.

EDWARD MATTHEW6B.......... 101 Fifth Avenue.

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MORTON, BLISS & CO........... 30 Broad Street.
de PERREPONT MORGAN. ..5.2o50- 6 East 40th Street.
JAMES MSBROW Nc. 88. neces es 381 East 30th Street.
HOWARD, PORTER = 202 .3aee eee 387 East 37th Street.
pe AS TAO Wa = sae s-/ay a's Hole 2 ee ete 31 Burling Slip.
SRUe Aen EMA TINGDS': <'0, oc. 2/010 creole steers 376 Broadway.
S. H. WALES. ... . 520 Fifth Avenue.
RICHARD BUTLER. . Stae Ge bia Shaeye.s 45 West 46th Street.
ip IBS TDS SDH 0 Bea sooadce Association Building.
Cee DRM MWAINI REE eS. coca chosen 255 Madison Avenue.
WILLIAM S. ANDREWS......... 7 Murray Street.
GEORGE!) OPDYGHGHs. s...052 sels eee 50 West 47th Street.
PANES TH Re PEW AUN TDD Viera ciaic ere ccs evel ster 22 West 10th Street.
JOEHING Hey EVAWGIG: oo es co eels Sea ee 63 Park Avenue.
AVM API DIESEIVV Ss siave1s/e0. 9 axe ove 2 16 East 38th Street.
WEE GAME HOPPING: o) o:n~ s.cyes 878 Broadway.
SAMUET Ge WARD Rees. ooo ce 103 Madison Avenue.
ILWGIU'S TMUCKBIRMAN j2<.csh.ret 220 Madison Avenue.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS..... Roslyn, L. I.
HD NRYeG. DEAR QUIN. 2s. ca. 01s 21 West 2Cth Street.
AIBN RY iGLEWS2. Scase)...2: aguas 42 Wall Street.
ROBERT HOE: dibe aaceinc cau ssa ox 29 West 19th Street.
Wiser ieATY NOH. Sovegcrd. cs cms uf 137 West 42d Street.

NEwW-YORK, June 27, 1870.
WiiiiaM A. HAINES, Esq.,
Chm. Ex. Com., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. t

DEAR Sir :—Allow me to present to the American Museum of Natural
History, through you, a collection of land and freshwater shells, col-
lected in Switzerland and Wurtemburg.

Yours very respectfully, FRANK DAULTE.

BrRooKLyNn, N. Y., April 16, 1870.

To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN :—Having received from Col. Nicholas Pike, U. 8. Con-

sul at Mauritius, some bones of that extinct bird, the Dodo, I take pleas-

ure in presenting the most complete set of them to you for the Museum.

Yours respectfully, J. CARSON BREVOORT.

New-York, Sept. 1, 1870.
W. A. HAInes Esq., t
Chairman Ex. Committee.

DEAR Sir :—I desire to present to the American Museum of Natural
History my collections contained in thirteen boxes now placed in the
Arsenal] Building, Central Park.

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They comprise a part of the shells and alcoholic mollusca which I col-
lected during my travels in the East Indian Archipelago ; also four skel-
etons of the sea otter from Alaska. The alcoholic collection contains
most of the species found on the shores of Amboyna and the three isl-
ands adjacent, in sufficient numbers to afford ample material for study-
ing their anatomy. It was chiefly to obtain such specimens and to
ascertain beyond a doubt their precise Habitat, that I travelled to the
Molluccas. Respectfully yours,

ALBERT S. BICKMORE.

NeEw-York, Sept. 29, 1870.
W.A HAINEs, Esq.

Dear Srr:—I have taken the liberty of directing to your care the
package herewith sent. It contains copies of my two works on the Fos-
sils of South Carolina, to be presented to the Library of the American
Museum of Natural History, now in course of formation at the Park.

Very respectfully yours, FRANCIS 8. HOLMES.

New-York, ov. 1, 1870.
To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN :—I wish to give the Museum a Conchological Collection

consisting of about one thousand species, represented by four thousand
specimens. Yours very respectfully, COLEMAN T. ROBINSON.

New-York, April 8, 1871.
To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN :—I beg you to favor me by accepting a small collection
of exotic coloeloptera, which I herewith present to the museum.
Hoping that this small contribution will soon be lost among others, I
remain yours respectfully, R. A. WITTHAUS, Ir.

No. 9 EAst 32D STREET,
New-York, Apri 10, 1871.

To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History, Central
Park, N. Y.:

GENTLEMEN :—I herewith beg your acceptance of the following dona-
tion to the Conchological Department of the American Museum of Nat-
ural History : 50 species, 100 specimens of shells from my own collec-
tion.

Wishing you every success, I remain very respectfully yours,

ALBERT STORER,

PATRONS,
By the payment of twenty-five hundred dollars.

JOHN DAVID WOLFE,
JAMES BROWN,
ALEX. T. STEWART.

J ELLows IN PERPETUITY,

By the payment of one thousand dollars.

ROBERT L. STUART, | ROBERT COLGATE,
WILLIAM A. HAINES, _THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
WILLIAM T. BLODGETT, | MORRIS K. JESUP,

D. JACKSON STEWARD, A. G. PHELPS DODGE,
WILLIAM E. DODGE, | D. N. BARNEY,
PETER COOPER, | I. N. PHELPS,
WILLIAM ASPINWALL, | JAMES STOKES,
ROBERT BONNER, D. WILLIS JAMES,

B. H. HUTTON, EDWARD MATHEWS,
EDWARD CLARK, | RICHARD ARNOLD.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE,

FELLows FOR pIFE,

By the payment of five hundred dollars.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN, BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN,
BENJAMIN H. FIELD, ADRIAN ISELIN,
HOWARD POTTER, ALFRED B. DARLING,
CHARLES W. GRISWOLD, | AveA. OW;

SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, | RICHARD MORTIMER,
RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT, | THOMAS A. VYSKH, Jr.,

MEREDITH HOWLAND. | GEORGE GRISWOLD GRAY,
MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, | GOUVENEUR KEMBLE,
JOHN ALSTYNE, | SAMUEL HAWKS,

O. B. POTTER, BENJAMIN AYMAR,
JONATHAN THORNE, JOHN SNEDEN.

MEMBERS FOR pire,

By the payment of two hundred and fifty dollars.

HENRY PARISH, | WM. L. COGSWELL,
HENRY L. BARBEY, | HENRY CHAUNCEY,
THEODORE W. RILEY, JAMES W. GERARD,
ROBERT B. MINTURN, JAMES M. BROWN.
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Since our last Annual Report, it has been our pain-
ful duty to record the loss of our honored associate
and President, Mr. John David Wolfe. Having long
held a distinguished place among New York’s emi-
nent citizens, he departed at last, full of years and
honors, and left behind him a name and memory
which will ever be gratefully cherished by all who
knew him. Possessed of large wealth he gave it
freely to every good cause; blessed with abundant
leisure he devoted it to self culture, and to the de-
velopment of whatever tended to the relief and im-
provement of those about him. <A lover of Science
he lent a friendly hand to its advocates and disciples.
He entered with zeal into the project of this Museum
of Natural History, hoping and believing that it
would prove an honor to his native city, and an im-
portant means of education to its citizens and their
children. It owes its foundation in a large medsure
to his liberal aid and wise counsels, and whatever
success may be in store for it, it will always count
among its best treasures the name and character of
its first President.

The Institution has also sustained a great loss in
the death of Mr. Coleman T. Robinson, its Curator
of Entomology and one of its largest contributors.

*The Third Annual Report is added as an Appendix.

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The past year has been one of marked growth and
increasing prosperity to the Museum. Twenty thou-
sand dollars have been raised to pay off all obliga-
tions on the collections, including the rare and artist-
ically mounted specimens selected from the extensive
property of Madame Verreaux and Madame Verdey,
of Paris, and all these valnable collections have been
safely received and are now placed on public exhibi-
tion. More donations of specimens have been received
during the past few months than the three years
previous. <A list of them, many of which are of
high value will be found later in the report.

To enable the Museum to exhibit these additions,
the Department of Public Parks has completed sev-
eral new cases on the upper two stories, filling up all
the available room, and has also appropriated a part
of the lower floor, which will soon be occupied.

The plans for the new building to be erected, have
been completed, and the preparation of the ground
is already far advanced.

The Trustees would express their thanks to the
Department, its Architects, and to its Executive Offi-
cers on the Park for their uniform courtesy, and the
personal interest they have displayed in the success
of the institution.

The Mammals, Birds, and Insects have been so
completely arranged by Professor Bickmore and Dr,
Holder, as to give the whole exhibition an improved
and very attractive character. Mr. Theodore L. Mead
is kindly transferring to insect-proof boxes, the Rob-
inson collection of Lepidoptera, which has been found
to contain twenty thousand specimens, and includes
many of his types.

The Museum is constantly receiving offers of speci-
mens and books, at very reasonable prices, among
which, we would refer to the very important letter
annexed from Dr. John C. Jay, of Rye, offering to
present his celebrated collection of shells, containing
over 50,000 specimens, when our institution can pur-
chase his library, consisting of Conchological and
other scientific works.

A very important collection of the fossils of South
Carolina, from the Pleiocene and Post Pleiocene peri-
ods, has been offered, and a large and choice collection
of minerals, also rare mammals and skeletons; and
the fact that one of the largest private collections of
birds, and rare works on Ornithology in the world is
soon to be offered for sale in Europe, compels us to
ask that our present subscription list of $80,000 be
increased to $200,000 at once.

On nearly every day during fair weather, our halls
have been thronged by visitors, not only from our
own city and state, but from all parts of the country,
numbering frequently from 5,000 to 10,000. Large
numbers of pupils from the common schools of our city
and its suburbs have come in bodies to the Museum,
under the care of their teachers, who have been ena-
bled, by means of our collections, to impart much
useful instruction.

Scientific men, and advanced scholars from several
colleges, have come to the city solely to profit by the
opportunity the Museum ean already offer them, to
examine rare and unique specimens.

The privileges which subscribers will hereafter en-
joy are stated in the first By-Law. As the import-
ance of this institution in promoting the study of

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Natural History in America is now beginning to be
made manifest, the Trustees confidently appeal to all
who have at heart the interest of our city and coun-
try, for the means to enable it to aceomplish its
important mission.
R. L., STUART,

President.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Secretary.

All communications should be addressed, Amerrt-
can Museum or Natruran History, CenrraL Park,
New-York.

Rye, Westcnester Co., N. Y. i
November 4th, 1871. §

To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History,
GENTLEMEN

Having devoted a large part of my life to the science of Con-
chology, I am deeply interested in the great enterprise so nobly inaugurated by
the citizens of New York, for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History
which shall be fully worthy of our metropolitan city.

My collection of shells comprises fourteen thousand species, twenty thousand
varieties, and fifty thousand specimens, and has cost me many years of continued
labor, and over twenty-five thousand dollars.

My library consists of 850 bound volumes, many of them obtained by giving
unlimited orders, and is probably the most complete of its kind in America. It
has cost over $10,000, but if the friends of science in New York City will enable
you to purchase it at that price, I will present to the Museum my entire collection
of shells described above.

Believing that your institution will enjoy continued and increasing prosperity
and soon become of national importance, and awaiting the favor of an early
reply, I am,

Very truly yours,

JOHN C. JAM

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AINE AVOW
TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,

Passed April 6, IS69.

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 knowledge of kindred sub-
jects, 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 to such Constitution
and By-Laws, the persons named in the first section of this Act, shall be, and
ave hereby declared to be the Trustees and Managers of said Corporation and its
property.

Src. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and per-
sonal 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 subjeet to
the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Tithe of the EKighteenth
Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes.

Sec, 5. This Act shall take effect immediately,

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STATE OF NEW YORK, ) nae
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,

4 seat. this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hun-

aa dred and sixty-nine.
D. Witters, JR.,
Deputy Secretary of State.
Ata meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,
Esq., April 8, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a majority
of the Trustees.

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AN ACT

To DONATE TO THE AMERICAN Museum or Naturat History a CoLiLection
FROM THE DUPLICATE SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY BELONGING TO THE
STATE,

Passed May 8, 1869, by a two-thirds vote.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly do
enact as follows :

Sec. 1. The Curator of the State Cabinet, under direction of the Regents of
the University, is hereby authorized to select from the duplicate specimens of
natural history belonging to the State, and those which the State may acquire,
and from all other specimens of natural history which may be disposed of by the
Regents of the State, the first and best series of specimens, subject, however, to
the rights of other institutions under existing laws, and label the same with their
proper scientific names, and present them in the name of the State to the
American Museum of Natural History, in the City of New-York, all of which is
to be done at the expense of said Museum.

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, i =e
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,

sEaL. | this seventeenth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hun-

dred and sixty-nine.
D. WILLERS, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

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New-York, December 23, 1869.

ANDREW H. GREEN, Esq., Comptroller of the Central Park :

Dear Str—The Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History having
purchased the extensive collection of Mammals, Birds, Fishes, &c., belonging to
the late Prince of Neuwied, the Elliot collection of Birds, besides a part of the
Verreaux and other collections of specimens of Natural History, desire to know
if the Commissioners of the Central Park will receive them on deposit within the
Central Park, and they would suggest the following as the conditions upon which
they would like to deposit them, namely :

First—The Commissioners of the Park to provide accommodations in the two
upper stories of the building known as the Arsenal and snch other rooms as shall
from time to time be necessary for the exhibition of the collections deposited by
the American Museum, and shall cause them to be furnished with glass cases suit-
able for the preservation and exhibition of such collections.

Second—The Trustees of the American Museum to employ their own Curators,
for the care and arrangement of their collection, and to pay them their salaries
all such persons to be subject to the regulations of the Park Commissioners.

Third—The Police force for the protection of the property, and the employees
for the cleansing and general care of the rooms, to be employed and paid by the
Park Commissioners.

Fourth—The Trustees and Curators of the American Museum to have free ac-
cess at all reasonable times to the rooms occupied by their collections.

ifth—The collections so deposited to be exhibited to the public at least three
days in the week in the name of the American Museum of Natural History, the
Trustees to have the right to close the collections at such times as shall be neces-
sary for the arrangement and rearranging of the specimens, subject to the regulations
of the Park Commissioners.

Sixth—The collections already acquired, and those which may from time to time
be acquired and so deposited, to remain the property of the American Museurn of
Natural History, to be removed by them immediately after the expiration of six
months’ previous notice in writing to the Commissioners of the Park, or within
six months’ after receiving a written notice from the Commissioners, asking them
to withdraw their property from the Park.

Awaiting the favor of an early reply, I am,

Very truly yours,
W. A. HAINES,

Chairman Executive Committee.

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OFFICE OF THE Board oF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CENTRAL Park, }
Bank oF CoMMERCE BUILDING, -
31 Nassau Sr., New-York, Jan. 21 1870. |

’

Dear Str—I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 23d ultimo, relating to the deposits of certain collections with the Park Com-
missioners by the American Museum of Natural History. The terms upon which
it is proposed to make these deposits are such as will, I think, secure the object
that the Museum and the Park Commissioners equally desire, to wit, an establish-
ment that shall afford opportunity for popular instruction and amusement, and for
the advancement of the Natural Sciences. If the plan which insures and combines
in this enterprise the interests and means of the private citizen, with those of the
public, is productive of all the good results that may reasonably be expected, it
will probably be made at once an example and incentive for uniting the energies
of those interested in other branches of science and art in similar undertakings.

In accepting these extensive and valuable collections on the conditions specified >
permit me to express, on behalf of the Park Commissioners, their high appreciation
of the enlightened sentiment that has provided so generously for all interested in
this department of science, and, at the same time, the hope that this auspicious
beginning may, by the continued augmentation of similar liberalities, become an
unequalled treasury of science, alike honorable to the public spirit of the citizens
by whom it has been inaugurated, and an indispensable aid to those engaged in
efforts to increase the knowledge of the science that it is intended to illustrate.

Very respectfully and truly,
ANDREW H. GREEN,
Comptroller of the Park.
W. A. Haines, Esq.,

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Museum.

To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York :

The undersigned, citizens of the City of New-York, respectfully petition that
authority may be given to the Department of Public Parks in said city to erect
suitable fire-proof buildings upon the public lands in said city under their charge,
for the establishment and maintenance therein of a Museum of Art by Tuk Metro-
PoLITAN Museum or Art, incorporated by Act of April 18, 1870, and a Museum
of Natural History by the American Museum or Natura Hisrory, incorporated

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by Act of April 6, 1869, at an aggregate cost not exceeding five hundred thousand
dollars for each corporation.

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MX TRAST

LAW RELATIVE TO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.

Section 2. The Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks,
in the City of New-York, is hereby authorized to contract, erect, and maintain
in and upon that portion of the Central Park formerly known as Manhattan
Square, or any other public park, square or place in said city, a suitable fire-
proof building for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein, under
suitable rules and regulations, to be prescribed by the said Board from time to
time, a Museum and Gallery of Art, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, incor-
porated by chapter one hundred and ninety-seven, laws of eighteen hundred and
seventy, or other institutions of like character ; also, a suitable fire-proof building
for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein, under rules and regula-
tions to be prescribed by the said Board from time to time, a Museum of Natural
History, by the American Museum of Natural History, incorporated by chapter
one hundred and nineteen, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, or other
institutions of a like character, at an aggregate cost not exceeding a sum of
which the annual interest at the rate of interest at which a fund or stock shall
be issued, is thirty-five thousand dollars for each of said buildings, for the use
of said corporations or other institutions of a like character; and it shall be the
dnty of and lawful for the Comptroller of the City of New-York to create and
issue in the manner in this Act provided, such additional amounts of a publie
fund or stock, to be denominated the “Museums of Art and Natural History
stock,” as shall be necessary to provide the money required for erecting said
buildings by an amount not exceeding the aforesaid limitations.

CONST LTRRERON

American dtluseum of dlatural History.

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

ARTICLE If.

Tuts Corporation shall be styled the Amertcan Museum
or Natura Hisrory.

ARTICLE IL.

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 Cor-
poration, 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.

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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 quar-
terly meeting in November, elect the officers and commit-
tees for the ensuing year. They shall also mect at any
other time to transact special business 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 Com-
mittee, and a Finance Committee, all to be elected from the
Trustees. All these officers shall hold their oftices for one
year, and until their successors shall be elected.

The election of ofticers shall be by ballot, and the persons
having 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
Anditing Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives
and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for
all 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

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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 man-
agement of the Museum, as he may deem proper.

ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who 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 em-
ploy agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting
the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in de-
tail the directions of the Trustees; but the Executive Com-
mittee shall not incur any expense or liability for the Mu-
seum exceeding two thousand dollars at one time, or ex-
ceeding, 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 VIII.

The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including
the Treasurer, and it shail 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.

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ARTICLE IX.

A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five
Trustees meeting may adjourn and transact current busi-
ness, subject to the subsequent approval of a meeting at
which a quorum shall be present.

ARTICLE X.

3y-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 pro-
posed amendment.

ARTICLE XI.

The contribution of two thousand five hundred dollars
to the funds of the Museum at one time, shall entitle the
person giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in
Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to bea Fellow tor
Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of
the above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum
Books or Specimens 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 accord-
ingly, under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may
also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their dis-

cretion,

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All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and
its Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or
diplomas, become members of the Corporation.

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 with-
out notice in writing of the proposed alteration, embodying
the amendment proposed to be made, having been given at
a regular meeting.

BY-LAWS.

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Patrons giving $2,500, each receive 10 (blank) Season
Tickets and 1 Subscriber’s Ticket.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1000, each receive 5 (blank)
Season Tickets and 1 Subscriber’s Ticket.

Fellows for Life giving $500, each receive 4 (blank) Season
Tickets and 1 Subscriber’s Ticket.

Members giving $250, each receive 3 (blank) Season Tick-
ets and 1 Subseriber’s Ticket.

ssociate Members giving $100, each receive 2 (blank

A te Members giving $100, eacl 2 (blank
Season Tickets and 1 Subscriber’s Ticket.

Annual Subscribers of $10 yearly, each receive 1 (blank)
Season Ticket and 1 Subseriber’s Ticket.

i.

Any Trustee who shall fail to ‘attend three consecutive
tegular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be
a Trustee, unless excused by the Board.

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No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position
of a Trustee who shall not be a * Fellow in Perpetuity ” of
the Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the
Board, excepting Trustees ex-officio.

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PN ATO NS.

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Nov. 8.—Mrs. R. A. WITTHAUS, New York City.
12 Crustaceans.
Nov :10.—Mrs. BENSON, New York City.
1 Case Insects and Dried Fish.
Dec. 1.—HALLOWELL GRANITE CO., Hallowell, Me.
1 Block Granite.
Dec. 1.—Mr. CHAS. GISSLER, Hoboken, N. J.
1 Collection, small Marine Crustaceans.
Dec. 5.—Mrs. JOS. R. REED, New Bedford, Mass.
1 Collection Shells.
1872.
Jan. 10.—Mr. H. W. McCOON.
2 Hornet’s Nests.
Mr. JOSIAH DOW, through G. W. Dow.
1 Stuffed Crocodile.
1 Bottle Shaped Bird’s Nest.
1 Crocodile Skin.
2 Squirrel Skins, Hindostan.
Jan. 22.—Mr. THEODORE L. MEAD, New York City.
55 Species, 81 Specimens Diptera—Colorado, West

Jan. 18.

Virginia and. Florida.

Jan, 22.—Messrs. SINCLAIR & MILNE, New York City.
4 Blocks Sandstone.
1 Block Marble.

Jan. 31.—BODWELL GRANITE CO., Fox Islands, Me.
2 Blocks Granite, Fox Island, Me.
| Block Red Granite, Jonesboro, Me.

Feb. 2—BIGELOW BLUESTONE CO., Malden, Ulster Co., N.Y.
2 Blocks Bluestone.

Feb, 2—Mr. GHO. N. LA WRENCH, New York City.
1 Monkey’s Skin.

Feb, 14.—The Misses BRUCE, New York City.
1 Collection Shells.

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Feb. 14.—Dr. A. M. LORYEA, East Portland, Oregon.
1 Vertebra of Whale.

Feb. 15.—Mr. G. M. BRAINERD, Rockland, Me.
Fragments of Meteorite from Searsmont, Me.

Feb. 19.—Mr. J. P. BERRIDGE, Hudson, N. Y.
1 Block Shell Marble.

Feb. 19.—Mr. THEODORE L. MEAD, New York City.
3 Specimens Silicified Wood, South Park, Colorado.

Feb. 28.—Mr. H. HERRICK, New York City.
3 Birds Nests.
12 Species, 29 Specimens Birds Eggs.

Mar. 1.—Mr. CHARLES BUNTING, New York City.
Blade of Saw-F ish.

Mar. 4.—Mrs. WILLARD PARKER, New York City.
2 Specimens Phyllinn.

Phasmida.

. H. BATTY, New York City.

3 Birds Nests.

Mar. 5.—Mr. D. JACKSON STEWARD, New York City.

2 very large Specimens Crystalized Quartz.

Hw

Mar. 5.—Mr.

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2 Specimens Ammonites.
Mar. 15.—Mr. ALEX. ©. LANIER, through Cuas. Lanter,
Lafayette, Ind.
1 Whooping Crane.
1 Hornet’s Nest.
Mar. 15.—Mr. CHAS. GISSLER, Hoboken, N. J.
2 Specimens Crustacea,
Mar. 27.—MUSEUM COMP. ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
Bulletin No. 2.
Apr. 4.—Mr. D. JACKSON STEWA RD, New York City.
3 Esquimaux Fish and Bird Spears.
11 War Lances.
3 Kiji [slands,
4 Obsidian Lances, New Zealand.
1 War Club.
2 Wooden Flags, Fiji Islands.
1 Fish Spear, Kingsmills Islands,
1 Esquimaux Harpoon.
1 Sharks-Teeth Sword.

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Apr. 10.—Mr: P. T. BARNUM, N. Y. City.
1 Fur Seal, mounted.
] Giraffe,
1 Baboon and Skull of do.
Apr. 10.—Mr. JOHN WALLACE, New York City.
1 Virginia Deer, mounted.
Apr. 12.—CONCORD GRANITE CO., Concord, N. H.
1 Block Granite.
Apr. 25.—Mr. A. H. UNDERHIUL, New York City.
1 Pair Moose Antlers.
Apr. 26.—Dr. R. E. KUNZE, New York City.
47 Species, 60 Specimens Birds Eggs.
Apr. 29—Mrs. JOHN S. KENYON, Tremont, Westchester Co.
1 Collection Shells and Minerals.
Apr. 29.—Mr. N. H. BISHOP, Manahawkin, N. J.
1 Snake, mounted, from Cuba.
1 Skin, Turkey Buzzard.
Apr. 29.—Dr. F. W. LEWIS, Philadelphia, Pa.
Fragment Antler used in Stone Age,—Zarich.
May 1.—Mr. J. H. BATTY, New York City.
4 Birds Eggs.
May 1.—Mr. FULLER, New York City.
2 Specimens Insect Architecture.
May 1.—VAN AMBURGH & CO’S MENAGERIE.
2 Emu Eggs.
May 9.—Mr. D. P. WEBSTER, New York City.
1 Specimen Jamesonite,—U tah.
May 9.—Mr. D. JACKSON STEWARD, New York City.
1 Specimen Madrepora.
May 9—MINNESOTA HIST. SOCIETY.
Annual Report.
May 14.—Mr. W. W. DREW, Blissfield, Mich., through Hyarr
Frost, Esq.
Map of New York City m 1728.
May 17.—Mr. D. P. WEBSTER, New York City.
Specimens of Lead and Silver Ore, Bismuth.
May 24 —Mrs. JUSTUS LAWRENCKH, Yonkers, N. Y.
1 Specimen Silicified Wood, Calistoga, Cal.

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May 31.—Mr. N. R. MOSELEY, New York City.
Bones of 4 Human Ears.

May. 31.—Mr, CHAS. B. HILLHOUSE, New York City.
16 Species, 19 Specimens Birds Eggs.

May 31.—Mr. CHAS. F. CRARY, New York City.
1 White Egret,—Florida.

May 31.—Mr. P. T. BARNUM, New York City.
1 Iguana.
1 Human Hand.
2 Snakes,
1 Phasmida.

May 31.—RUTLAND MARBLE CoO., West Rutland, Vt.
7 Blocks Marble.

May 31.—FRANCESTOWN SOAPSTONE CO., Nashua, N. H.
1 Block Soapstone.

May 31.—Mr. JNO. M. MASTERTON, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
1 Block Westchester Marble.

June 1.—Mr. LEOPOLD SAND, New York City.
1 Wild Boar, Europe.

June 1.—Mr, L. LEVI.
1 Fossil Shark Tooth.

June 1.—Mr. STUART, New Orleans, La.

1 Specimen Cinnamon Garnet.
Mr. CHARLES DRAKE, New York City.
25 Specimens Echinoderms, Pacific O,

June \.—Mr. DURAND, through Ropr. Coiearr.
| Specimen Double Cocoanut.

June 4.—Dr. J. SIMMS, West Exeter, N. Y.
34 Skulls Flat Head Indians,—Columbia R.
1 Pair Horns Rocky Mountain Sheep.

June 1.

1 Vertebra Cetacean,—Pacific Ocean.
3 Embalmed Flat Head Indians.
June 19.—Miss EVELYN G. & Mr. WENDELL BAKER &
EVERT J. WENDEL.
38 Nests, Canaan, Ct.
June 4.—Mr. FRANK CARRYL, Franklin, N. J.

1 Nest with 3 Eggs.

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June 6.—Mrs. J. C. THOMPSON, through Capt. MILts.
1 Specimen Iron Ore—Washington Mts., Morris Co.,
N. J.
June 6.—PACIFIC MAIL S, S. CO. Collected by J. A. Mc-
NEIL, Esq.
24 Gorgonias.
10 Shells.
3 Starfish.
Carophylia.
June 7.—ALEX. MACDONALD, FIELD & CO., Aberdeen,
Scotland.
4 Polished Blocks Granite.
June 12.—Dr. N. R. MOSELEY, New York City.
1 Adult Skull showing spongy layer.
1 Infant Skull.
June 28.—Capt. JOHN BICKMOREH, Tenant’s Harbor, Me.
1 Stone Bowl, Owensville, Ohio.
July 3.—Mr. FRANK CARRYU, Franklin, N. J.
20 Birds Nests and 30 Eggs of various species.
July 6.—Mr. OZIAS CRAIN, Fillmore, Minn.
1 Specimen Cecropia Moth,—Long Branch, N. J.
July 6.-_Mr. CHAS. GISSLER, Hoboken, N. J.
12 Bottles Specimens Crustacea.
July 6.—Mr. JOHN RICE, Albany, N. Y.
1 Specimen Plotus anhinga, Florida.
July 6.—Prof. F. 5S. HOLMES, Charleston, 8. C.
Plates of Holbrook’s Icthyology. ,
July 10.—Mr. C. FRED. HOLDER, New York City.
Jaw of White Shark, Tortugas, Fla.
July 11.—Mr. WILLIAM GRAU, New York City.
1 Alligator Mounted,—Florida.
July 26.—VAN AMBURGH & CO’S MENAGERIE.
Skulls of Gnu and Baboon.
July 29.—Mr. J. W. SHACKFORD, New York City.
1 Specimen Moss,—Catskill Mts.
Aug. 1.—Received from EUROPE through the Smrrusonran Instt-
TuTION, Washington, D. C.
Houne@arian Roya Society or Naturau History,
Pesth, Report for 1870, and 2d Vol. Nos. 10-18.

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OFFENBACH Society oF Natorat History, 11th
and 12th Reports. 2 Vols.
INSTITUTE OF THE GRAND Ducny or LuxremBourG,
Publications. Vol. 12th, 1872.
Francis—CaroLine Museum, Austria—On the Ems,
Iinz, 1871. 1 Vol. ;
SrerrMark, Nat. History Proceedings, Vol. 2, Part 3,
1871. 1 Vol.
Roya Society or Tasmania, Monthly Notices of
Meetings for 1870. 1 Vol.
Royat Georoeicat Ixstirutre, Vienna Proceedings,
1si(l. TL ¥al-.
Monograph on the Chrysomelidae, by C. Stan. From
the Author. 1 Vol.
NaturaL History Soctrty or LUNERERG, 1868,
1869. Reports.
Aug. 3.—Mr. A. W. VOGDES, Lexington, Ky.
Collection Shells and Indian Ornaments, Ft. Fetter-
man, Wyoming Territory.
Sept. 2.—Mrs. BENJAMIN H. FIELD, New York City.
1 Stalactite, Antiparos, Greece.
Sept. 4.—Prof. ALBERT 8. BICKMORE, Museum, Central Park.
1 Complete Skeleton Irish Deer, mounted.
Sept. 7.—OSWEGO FALLS BROWN STONE QUARRY CO,
Fulton, N. Y.
1 Block Brown Stone.
Sept. 24.-—P. T. BARNUM, New York City.
1 Giraffe Skull.
Sept. 26.—Messrs. AUGUSTUS TABER & BROS., New York
City.
2 Blocks Scotch Granite,—A berdeen, Scotland.
3 ‘© Marble, Red, Green and Black,—Kilkenny,
Ireland.
4 Blocks Marble,
dardilla,—ltaly.
Sept. 28.—Professor F. NAGLE.

1 Collection Marine Shells—Curacao, Oruba, Buen—

Levantine, Dove, Black and Gold,

Ayre.

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Sept. 28.—Mr. F. G. MEYER, Brooklyn, N. Y.
7 Spiders, 1 Scorpion.
2 Whip Scorpions, 1 Lizard.
12 Insects.—Para and Rio.
Sept. 28—Mr. WM. M. HALSTEAD, New York City.

7 Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris,— W urtemburg.

Sept 28.—Mr. A. C. VANALSTYNE, Johnston, Fulton Co., N. Y.
Fragment Granite Bowlder
Sept. 28.—Mr. J. VERREAUX, Paris.—586 Insects, viz:
209 Coleoptera, 180- Lepidoptera.
60 Hymenoptera, 51 Hemiptera.
36 Neuroptera, 34 Diptera.
16 Orthoptera,
Sept. 23 —VAN AMBURGH & CO’S MENAGERIE,
1 Skin of large Lioness.
Sept. 28.—Mrs. JOSHUA GILBERT, St. Augustine, Fla.
1 Vase of Shell Limestone.
Oct. 9 —Mr. JORDAN DOWNS, North Louisburg, O.
1 Polished Stone Axe.
2 Lance Heads.
Oct. 9.—Mr. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Jr., New York City.
1 Bat, 12 Mice, 1 Turtle.
1 Skull, Red Squirrel.
4 Birds Eggs.
Oct. 9.—Central Park Zoological Collection.
1 Wapiti.
1 South American Deer.
1 Fawn.
1 Young Leopard.
1 Musk Deer.
1 Prairie Wolf.
1 Small Baboon.
9 Monkeys.
1 Coatimundi.

Paris.

1 Ichneumon.
1 Swan.

1 Guinea Pig.
1 Hog Snake.

Oct

Oct.

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. 9.—Mr. FRANK CARRYL, Franklin, N. J.
9 Birds Eggs.

10.—Mr. J. D. CHEEVER, New York City.
30 Birds Eggs.
1 Humming Bird’s Nest.

Oct. 14.—Mr. CHAS. BINNINGER.
20 Stone Arrow Heads.

Oct. 21.—Mr. R. H. DELAFIELD, New York City.
2 Hornet’s Nests.

Oct. 28.—Lieut. A. W. VOGDES, U.S. A., Lexington, Ky.
43 Fossils.

Oct. 29.—Mr. THOMAS C. ACTON, New York City.

5 large ears Corn.

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PATRONS,

By the payment of Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars.
JOHN DAVID WOLFE.* A. T. STEWART.
ROBERT L. STUART. GEO. SHEPARD PAGE.
JAMES BROWN. | A. G. PHELPS DODGE.
FELLOWS IN PERPETUITY,

By the payment of One Thousand Dollars.

ROBERT COLGATE.
MORRIS K. JESUP.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
D. JACKSON STEWARD.
WILLIAM E. DODGE.
WILLIAM T. BLODGETT.
RICHARD ARNOLD.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
PETER COOPER.
WILLIAM H. ASPINW ALL.
Bee HUTTON:

ROBERT BONNER,
EDWARD CLARK.

D. N. BARNEY.

I, N. PHELPS.

JAMES STOKES.

D. WILLIS JAMES.
EDWARD MATTHEWS.
WILLIAM T. GARNER.
JAMES LENOX.
ALEXANDER STUART.
A. H. BARNEY.

JOHN B. TREVOR.
JAMES B. COLGATE.
COLEMAN T. ROBINSON.*
BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN.
PERCY R. PYNE.

DAVID J. ELY.

ADRIAN ISELIN.
BENJAMIN AYMAR.
JOHNATHAN THORNE.
JONAS G. CLARK,

FELLOWS FOR LiFe,

By the payment of Five Hundred Dollars.

WILLIAM A. HAINES

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD.
HOWARD POTTER.
CHARLES W. GRISWOLD.
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE.*

RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT.

MEREDITH HOWLAND.
MARSHALL 0. ROBERTS.
JOHN ALSTYNE.*

O. B. POTTER.

WILLIAM E. DODGE, Jr.
LEVI P. MORTON.
ALFRED B. DARLING.
AAs LOW:

RICHARD MORTIMER., Jr.

* Deceased.

THOMAS A. VYSE, Jr.
GEORGE GRISWOLD GRAY.
GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE. ~
SAMUEL HAWK.

JOHN SNEDEN.

GEORGE BLISS.

R. A. WITTHAUS, Jr.
HANSON K. CORNING.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
ROBERT GORDON.

STEW ART BROWN.

J. A. C. GRAY.

ABRAM DUBOIS.

C. L. TIFFANY.

LUCIUS TUCKERMAN.

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MEMBERS,

By the payment of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.

HENRY PARISH. JOHN K. MYERS.
HENRY I. BARBEY. HENRY CHAUNCEY.
THEODORE W. RILEY. JAMES .W. GERARD.
ROBERT R. MINTURN. JAMES M. BROWN.

C. N. POTTER. WILLIAM M. HALSTEAD.

WM. L. COGSWELL.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS,

By the payment of One Hundred Dollars.

SAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN. JOSIAH LANE.*
WILLIAM H. GEBHARD. SAMUEL WILLETS.
ALFRED PELL. WM. J. PEAKE.

* Deceased.

Avie EON Dix.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, 1871.

The Trustees of the AMERICAN MuseuM OF NATURAL HISTORY
have the pleasure of presenting this, their Third Annual Report»
with copies of their Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, the letters
received—presenting property to the Museum—and the Report
of the Treasurer. The remaining part of the Verreaux Collec-
tion, purchased in Paris, which was delayed by the Franco-
Prussian war, and subsequent seizure of the French capital, has
been received in perfect order and safely deposited with the other
Museum property in the Arsenal Building on Central Park.

The most valuable donation which the Museum has received
during the year, is the Great Auk, now extinct, presented by
Robert L. Stuart, Esq. It is the rarest specimen in our large
collection of birds.

A full series of the corals of Florida has been purchased of
Capt Medary, U.S. A.

The cases for exhibiting the Museum specimens, commenced
last year by the Department of Public Parks, were completed in
the Spring, and a temporary arrangement of most of the collec-
tions was made, and a Reception, to which our subscribers were
invited, was held on 27th of April; and though a severe storm
occurred on that day, so large a number of our prominent citizens
were present that the hearty interest of all classes in the pros-
perity of our institution was assured at its very opening. Since
that date the Museum has been open every week-day to the
public, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays it has been literally
thronged by hundreds and even thousands, not only of our own
citizens, but by visitors from every land to our metropolitan city.
The attendance on many days may be safely estimated at over
10,000.

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The exhibition cases first completed proving insufficient for
the proper display of the entensive collections of birds and
mammals, the Department built similar cases around the octa-
gons at the corners of the building, increasing the exhibition
space for such specimens in the second story nearly two-thirds,
and in the upper story one-third, and giving both halls a pleasing
effect of completeness. This work was finished on the first of
August, and since that time the large collections of birds and
mammals have been entirely re-arranged, and the specimens not
previously exhibited have been placed in their proper families.
The birds are divided into four principal groups, according to
their geographical distribution. On the second floor are the
birds of South America, and of Africa; on the third floor those
of North America, and of Europe, arranged according to the
system of Professor Lilljeborg, each family having a large
label containing its scientific and common name. The North
American birds have each a label with its scientific name, sex
and haditat, and its common name in large type; and this system
of labelling, alike acceptable to the scientific and cursory observ-
er, will be extended as rapidly as possible throughout the collec-
tions on exhibition.

The Curators have been greatly assisted in their work by the
kindness of the Superintendent, the Superintending Architect,
and other executive officers of the Department at the Arsenal.

A letter endorsed by a large number of our leading citizens,
has been addressed to the Department, asking, in accordance
with our original agreement with the Park Commissioners, “ that
Monday and Tuesday of each week be reserved for the Commis-
sioners of Parks, the Trustees of the Museum, all persons
contributing or desiring to contribute money or specimens, those
wishing to examine the Museum specimens for the purpose of
special study, the teachers and pupils of public schools and the
inmates of charitable and benevolent institutions of the city, the
admission on those days to be by tickets issued by the Trustees,
in accordance with a plan to be approved by the Department,”
in order that the Museum may be used for educational purposes
as well as to afford recreation for the public. These propositions,
which will combine both of these desirable objects, have been
agreed to by the Department, and a special notice to that effect

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has been posted at the Arsenal Building, informing the public
that tickets for those days can be obtained by calling at the office
of the Department of Public Parks, No. 265 Broadway, or of the
Secretary of the Museum. A similar notice has been sent to all
the Natural History Societies in the country. This arrangement,
by furnishing opportunities to teachers to explain the specimens
to their classes, will make the Museum an important part of the

educational system of onr city, and afford facilities for students
from other places. .

JOHN DAVID WOLFE, Preszdent.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Secretary.

NeEw-YorK, WVovember 14th, 1871.

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WILLIAM A. HAINES. JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
HOWARD POTTER. PERCY R. PYNE.
ROBERT COLGATE. | JOHN B. TREVOR
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
ADRIAN ISELIN. WILLIAM EH. DODGE, Jr.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
WILLIAM T, BLODGETT. | FREDERICK W. STEVENS.
ANDREW H. GREEN. | - ABRAM 8. HEWITT.
MORRIS K. JESUP. | CHARLES LANIER.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. |

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WILLIAM A. HAINES. | THEO. ROOSEVELT.

SECRETARY.
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Executive Committee.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. ANDREW H. GREEN.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. D. JACKSON STEWARD.
MORRIS K. JESUP.

Finance Committee.

HOWARD POTTER. J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
FREDERICK W. STEVENS.

Auditing Committee.
ROBERT COLGATE. | THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
JOSEPH H. CHOATE.

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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

THE past year has been rendered one of the most
eventful in the history of the Museum, by the laying
of the corner stone of the new fire-proof building
provided for our Collections by the liberality of the
People of this City. It has also been a most prosper-
ous year, from the fact that the Institution has been
placed on a more permanent basis by the increase of
Annual Members, paying ten dollars yearly. Thus
the current expenses of the Museum will be defrayed,
and subscriptions of S100 and upwards be reserved
for increasing and improving its Collections. The
responses to invitations for such membership have
been most gratifying, and the list of members, which
is appended to this Report, has been increased during
the past eleven months from 350 on the first day of
January to 1100, and promises soon to be sufticiently
large to enable the Museum to secure the additional
aid of gentlemen of high scientific attainments, who
are much needed to classify properly the many speci-
mens it is constantly receiving, as well as to render
it an efficient institution, not only for popularizing
the study of Natural History, but for promoting orig-
inal scientific research.

The maintenance of the Museum in this manner
has not only increased its number of active support-
ers, but has opened the way for large gifts of new
and interesting collections. The largest of these do-

nations has been made by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe,
the daughter of our late esteemed President, and will
be known as the “ Wolfe Memorial Gift.” It consists
of a collection of shells numbering 50,000. speci-
mens, and a valuable library of rare conchological
and scientific works, of about one thousand volumes,
both formed by Dr. John C. Jay, of Rye. The shells
are on exhibition in ten table cases, 44 feet wide by
16 feet long, on the second floor, and the carefully
selected library may be used at any time by original
investigators in conchology.

The Department of Entomology has received an
important addition in the gift from Mr. R. A. Wit-
thaus, Jr., of 8,000 specimens of American Coleoptera,
representing 2,000 species.

The Smithsonian Institution has presented a com-
plete suite of all its publications, and a collection of
birds’ nests. Many friends have also kindly remem-
bered us, and presented valuable specimens, among
which are a finely mounted skin and skeleton of the
Manatee, from Mr. D. G. Elliot.

Since February, $13,000 have been subseribed,
chiefly by the Trustees, for the purchase of new and
attractive collections during 1874, and the Museum
has secured a complete series of sixteen skeletons of
the Moas, or Gigantic Fossil Birds of New Zealand,
the largest of which is over ten feet high.

The Department of Anthropology has been increas-
ed by the purchase of Dr. E. TH. Davis’s collection of
Indian Antiquities, which contains many typical and
rare forms of pre-historic workmanship.

A Department of Mineralogy has been added to
the attractions of the Museum by the purchase from

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Mr. 8. C. H. Bailey of his collection of minerals, num-
bering 7,900 cabinet specimens, and many duplicates
suitable for exchange.

A small but choice series of preparations, illustra-
ting the habits and development of various European
insects, has been purchased, and is on exhibition on
the walls of the middle hall. Over the windows
have been placed a part of the specimens received in
previous donations. Two more cases of finely mount-
ed birds and rare mammals have been received from
Madame Verreaux, completing the purchase begun
three years ago.

On the 2d of June, the Corner Stone of the New
Building was laid, in that part of Central Park west
of Highth Avenue. In view of the widely-extended
interest manifested in the occasion, and of its impor-
tance as a public movement in the cause of science
and scientific education, the Trustees extended an
invitation to all who felt interested, to be present, and
especially invited their Excellencies, the President of
the United States and the Governor of the State of
New York, His Honor the Mayor of the City, and
Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, to assist in the ceremonies. These invi-
tations were accepted with emphatic expressions of
sympathy with the objects of the Museum.

General Grant, accompanied by the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the
Navy was present, and by laying the corner stone
signified the national importance of the undertaking,
and General Dix’s remarks also attested the favor
with which the establishment and rapid growth of
the Museum is regarded by the people of the State,

At the hour appointed for the ceremony, a large con-
course of invited guests and citizens had gathered at
the site of the new edifice. The addresses delivered
on that occasion are appended to this Report.

The Trustees would express their thanks to the
Department of Public Parks, its architects and execu-
tive officers on the Park, for their uniform courtesy
and the personal interest they have displayed in the
success of the Museum.

The number of visitors has been steadily increas-
ing, and has frequently amounted to 10,000 in a sin-
gle day. Teachers have brought their pupils in large
numbers to our halls, and by means of our rare col-
lections have been enabled to impart much valuable
instruction. The Museum is also attracting scientific
men and advanced scholars, by the advantage it can
afford them for scientific investigation.

The privileges which subscribers will enjoy are
stated in the first By-Law; and as the importance of
the Museum in instructing the public and promoting
the study of Natural History throughout our land, is
manifest, we confidently appeal to all our publie-
spirited citizens for the means to enable it to extend
yet more widely its sphere of influence.

R. L, STUART,
President.
WM. T. BLODGETT,

Secretary.

All communications should be addressed, Ammrt-
cAN Museum or Natura History, Cenrran Park,

New-York.

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At a Special Meeting of the Trustees, held March 10th, 1874,
the following letter was received :
To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History.

GENTLEMEN—My father’s official connection with your Board, and his
warm interest in the original inception and foundation of the Museum of
Natural History, have enlisted in it my own interest and led me to desire,
if I might, to contribute in some way to its enlargement and improvement.

An opportunity to do this has presented itself in connection with the
collection of works on Conchology and of specimens illustrating those works,
amounting in all to some fifty thousand in number, collected by Dr. JoHn
C. JAy, and worthy, in the opinion of those most competent to judge, of a
place among the other objects of interest in Natural History, already as-
sembled within the walls of the Museum.

Having purchased this Library and the collection of shells connected with
it, I beg to ask from your Board, the acceptance of both as a contribution to
the Museum of Natural History, and as a gift by which I am anxious to
perpetuate the memory of one who was its earliest President, and one of its
warmest friends.

So soon as I may be apprised of the acceptance of this gift, I shall take
measures for its delivery to the Curator of the Museum, and meantime I
.am, with sincere wishes for the prosperity of the important enterprise com-
mitted to you,

Gentlemen,
Very Truly Yours,
[Signed. | CATHARINE L. WOLFE.

New York, March 6, 1874.

The following Resolutions were unamimously adopted :

Resotvep—That the Trustees of the American Museum of
Natural History acknowledge with feelings of the warmest satis-
faction the note of Miss @urbarne IU; Wolfe. of March 6th, 1874,
proposing to present to the Museum the collection of works on
Conchology and of specimens illustrating those works, amounting
to fifty thousand, collected by Dr. Joun C. Jay, and they accept
the same in grateful remembrance of its first President, JOHN
Davip Worre, and as a gratifying evidence of the continued
interest in the Museum of file AlGtae herself.

Resotvep—That the Collection be accordingly named the Wolfe
Memorial Gift, and be as such, separately placed and preserved in
the Museum.

ReEsoLtvep—That these Resolutions be engr ossed, and signed by
the President, and be presented by him in person in the name and
on behalf of the Board of Trustees

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To the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History.

GENTLEMEN—I desire to offer for your acceptance, a collection of
North American Coleoptera, consisting of about 2000 species, represented by
some 8000 specimens.

As my esteemed friend, Baron OsTEN-SACKEN, has already presented
your Museum with an exceedingly full and well arranged collection of
Coleoptera for public inspection, I desire that my donation may form the
nucleus of a cabinet, to be devoted exclusively to the use of persons spe-
cially interested in the study of Entomology, and to this end I beg to
impose the condition that the specimens shall be preserved either in boxes
such as those in which they now are, or in drawers such as are in use in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge.

I will state here that my collection contains a large amount of unnamed
material, and a number of duplicates. It will require some labor to arrange
the former; the latter will be useful for exchanges.

The Collection will be ready for delivery as soon as you will be ready to
receive it in your new building, which I trust may be soon completed,

Tam, Gentlemen,
Yours Respectfully,

R. A. WITTHAUS, Jr.

November \0th, 1873.

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TCO PORA EEO MN

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 estab-
lishing 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 knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of
furnishing popular instruction and recreation.

Src. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitu-
tion 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 keep-
ing 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.

Src. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and
personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its inccrporation,
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 Eight-
eenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes.

Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately,

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STATE OF NEW YORK, ha
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.

tent Se Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany,
{skaL. + this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight
ai hundred and sixty-nine.

D. WILLERS, JR.,
Deputy Secretary of State.

At a meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,
Esq., April 8th, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a
majority of the Trustees.

Crees Ele eee IN.

OF THE

American atluseum of fatural History,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

ARTICLE I.

Tuis Corporation shall be styled the Amrrtcan Museum oF
Narvrat History.

ARTICLE IZ.

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 resig-
nation, 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 Trus-
tees, 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 IIL.

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 November, elect the
officers and committees for the ensuing year. They shall also meet at
any other time to transact special business 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.

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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 haying a
majority of the votes cast, shall be deemed duly elected.

ARTICLE V.

The President, and in his absence, the First or Second Vice-Presi-
dent, shall preside at all the meetings of the Museum and of the
Trustees.

The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Trus-
tees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing Committee,
and shall preserve the seal, archives and correspondence of the
Museum, shall issue notices for all 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 five, who 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 Com-
mittee shall not incur any expense or liability for the Museum exceed-
ing 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 Anditing 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.

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ARTICLE VII.

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 approv-
al 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.

Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any meeting
ot 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 two thousand five hundred dollars to the funds
of the Museum at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same
to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, shall entitle
the person giving the same to be a Hellow in Perpetutty.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall entitle
the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life. .

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the above
degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum Books or Specimens
to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission
to the same degree, and the President and Secretary shall issue Diplo-
mas accordingly, under the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may
also elect Honorary Fellows of the Museum in their discretion.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be entitled, at
all times, to free admission to the Museum and its Exhibitions, but
shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplomas, become members of

the Corporation.
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.

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BY A Wee

Patrons giving $2500 are each entitled to 10 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single
admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1000 are each entitled to 5 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a
single admission.

°
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single
admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Complimentary

Members giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Complimentary Season
Tickets, 1 Subseriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single admission.

Associate Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2. Complimen-
tary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single
admission.

Annual Subscribers of $10 yearly are each entitled to 1 Subseriber’s
Ticket, and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a single admission.

Ti:

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.

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No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a Trustee
who shall not be a “F ellow in Perpetuity ” of the Museum, unless by
a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting Trustees
ex-officio.

DO NAS Ou S:

1873.
January 1—ANTHONY PECK, Jr., Clinton, N. Y.

Tron Ore.

“ 1—CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE.
Zenick (Suricata Zenick).

“ 1—J. D. CHEEVER, New York.
Nest of Humming-Bird.

*“ 10—WILLIAM A. HAINES, Irvington, N. Y.
Three Fresh-Water Shells.

“ 11—WILLIAM MITCHELL, New York.
Two Indian Stone Arrow-heads.

20—J. B. HOLDER, American Museum.
Three Indian Stone Arrow-heads.
One Indian Stone Gauge, Massachusetts.

-

«A. R. REED, Hot Springs, Arkansas.
One Albino Mole.
se “FRANK CARRYL, New Jersey.
Specimen of Petrified Wood.
“« « WILLIAM LINTZ, New York.
Specimen of Bark Cloth, South America.
« =« ~ROBERT LAWRENCE, New York.
Thirty-eight specimens (tweuty species) of Birds Eggs.
« « ~6F, MARQUAND, New York.
Very fine specimen of Pelican—Mounted.
as “ GEORGE §S. PAGE, New York.
Brook Trout (24 inches in length), 2 lbs. weight.
«= « - Pror. F. S. HOLMES, Charleston, S. C.
Block of Phosphate Rock, Ashley River.
a JOSheH BATLY. Bath) INI:
Twenty-five specimens (fifteen species) of Birds’ Eggs.
« «Through SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Fourteen volumes of ‘ Transactions,” Foreign Societies.
“ «Through E. STEIGER, Esq., New York.
Proceedings Historical Society, Stiermark, 1871. 2 vols.

“ =“ Two volumes of Bergman’s Memoir of Ludovicius Capanus Valcke-
narius, and Bandet’s Life and Works of W. J, Blaen,

«6% 6 JUDGE McCURDY, Lyme, Conn.
Block of Red Granite.

a « WILLIAM DEANS.
Scales of Sturgeon.

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February 5—Mrs. EMILY BEAUTEGEAT, New York.

Lantern-Fly (/a/con), and 14 jars of Reptiles.

“« JOHN B. PERRY, Cambridge, Mass.
Review of Lyell’s Elements of Geology. 1 vol.

“ DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Hayden’s Reports, Geological Survey of Wyoming,

and Nebraska. 3 vois. and 1 pamphlet.

15—HAROLD HERRICK, New York.

Kight Birds’ Nests (four species).
17—Dr. J. E. MANIGAULT, Charleston, §. C.

Skeleton of Domestic Turkey.
24—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

One vol. Ninth Census, 1870.
‘CUS. W. WEBSTER, Troy, N. Y.

Mounted specimen of Red Fox.

‘ ROBERT BROWN, New York.
Craw-fish, Squilla, and one specimen Limax.

March 10O—WM. A. CONKLIN, Central Park Managerie.

Night Heron’s Keg.
“CHARLES DRAKE, New York,
Ball of Hair from Cow’s Stomach.
“ ROBERT L. STUART, New York.
Organ-pipe Coral, very large and fine.
31—Mrs. JACOB F. WYCKOFF.
Specimens of Lapis lazuli, Malachite, and Lead.
“ DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Two volumes Census.
“WM. A. CONKLIN, Central Park Managerie.
Two Heron’s Eggs.
Specimens of [von Pyrites.
“ C.J. MAYNARD, Ipswich, Mass.
Catalogue of Mammals of Florida.

April 11\—Dr. CHARLES MILLER, New York.

Pelvis of Elephant.
“WILLIAM A. HAINES, Irvington, N. Y.
Albino Crow, and Woodehuck (Arctemys).

15— GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, New York.
Sixty Pamphlets on ‘Ornithology.

“ MINTHORNE TOMPKINS, New York.
Seorpion (living specimen), Cuba.

J7—SMITHSONTIAN INSTITUTION, Washington.

Skeletons of seven species of Birds.
22—PROGRAMME of the Royal High School, Chemnitz. 1 vol

23—J. LACY UNDERHILL, New York.
Kight Stone Arrow-heads, Columbia River,

Montana

- pamph,

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May 12—J. CARSON BREVOORT, New York.
Insect Architecture.

“< «Mrs. CHARLES H. ROGERS.
Specimen of the Lace-bark Tree, Cuba.

June 14—Pror. R. DEMCKER, Central Park.
Tanagra Cyanoptera.

cc 6 WWM. A. CONKLIN, Central Park.
Turkeys’ Eggs and Swan’s Eggs,
July 2—Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Memoir Acad. Real das Scien. Lisbon. 17 vols.
Annual Report Free Library, Manchester, England. 1 vol.
Catalogue of a series of Photographs i in the British Museum.
1 vol.
Nas vereins far Naturkunde.
Jahrbiicher Weisbaden. 1 vol.
8. Hohr. Naturfonschender Gesellschaft. 4 vols. Zurich.
W. Koch. Phys. Okons Gesellschaft. 3 vols. K6nigsberg.
K. K. Geol. Reichsanstalt-Wicen. 2 vols.

August 25—-CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE.
American Hound-Fish (Austellus Canis).

September 3—F. 8. WEBSTER, Troy, N. Y.
Two Mounted Pigeons.

os “ HERMANN MULLER, New York.

Two hundred and sixty-eight specimens of insects, with glass
cases.

5 cine pO MED HC uNE Ye
Basaltic Rock, from Giant’s Cave.

we “ Rev. J. W. SHACKELFORD, New York.
Euplectella— Glass Sponge.”

oe “ Dr. J. MORROW, New York.
Specimen of Rattlesnake.

we “ Dr. J. W. FRANCIS, Newport, R. I.
Skeleton of Sword-Fish.

: “ Pror. DEMCKER, Central Park.
One South American Creeper.

we “ CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, FAUNA, Xc., of Brazil.
Gov ernment of Brazil. 1 vol.

i “ FRANCIS CHEEVER, New York.
; Sixty-two species Marine Shells, and Kehini.

« 26—WILLIAM B. De GARMO, New York.
Fifty specimens of Corals from Bermuda.
Lot of Stalactites, ce
Four specimens Corallines, “ 7
Twenty-two Gorgonias,
Lot of Shells and Dried Fruit, ‘

October 11—ANTHONY PECK, Jr., Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y.
Trilobite, from Clinton Rock.

ee OSH. ATKINS, (Coram, No Y:
Hornet’s Nest.

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October 11—D. G. ELLIOT, New York.
Splendid mounted specimen of Bengal Tiger, and two cases of
mounted Lemurs.

« Pror. DEMCKER, Central Park.
Whiddah Bird.

«cE. O. DUNNING, New Haven, Conn.
Lower Jaw of ‘‘ Mound Builder.”

« “« D. JACKSON STEWARD, New York.
Tooth of Mammoth (lephas primigenias).

“Through the U. 8S FISHERY COMMISSION.
One hundred and fifty species of Invertebrates, and twenty
species of Fishes, from Casco Bay, Portland, Me.
“« “ CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE.
Capybara, South America.

cc CHARLES DRAKE, New York.
One large Echinoderm.

November 18—Dr. THEO. HILGARD, Washington, D. C.
Collection of Lichens.
a “ROBERT L. STUART, New York.
Twenty specimens of East Indian Coral.
4 20—Mrs. JOHN B. EATON, U. 8. Army.
Six specimens Carolina Bat.
ae “Miss MARY GELSTON, Fort Hamilton.
Local Lepidoptera.
= 26—WILLIAM L. BREESE, New York.
Three eggs of Gannet; one of Razor-billed Auk ; one of Are-
tic Puffin; Two of Arctic Tern.
es “WILLIAM A. CONKLIN, Central Park.
Quill of Condor.
«FRED. LACY UNDERHILL, Central Park.
Specimen of ‘‘ Satin-earth.”
as 29—Dr. J. W. FRANCIS, Newport, R. I.
Sixteen specimens (seven species) of Fishes.
ee “ _F. S. PERKINS, Burlington, IL.
Two Copper Implements (pre-historic).
* “ - F. 8. OSBORN, New York.
Eggs of four species of Birds.
- ‘FREDERICK SCHUCHARDT, New York.
Portrait of Prince Maximilian.
4 “MARTIN GOLDSMITH, Camden, N. J.
Cuttle-Fish (very large), from Cape May.
a “PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCILBOLOGY.
Six pamphlets Annual Reports, 1 to 6 inclusive,
« J. B. ANDREWS, New York.
Trap-door Spiders and Nests, from Mentone, France, and one
vol. on * Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders.”

November 29—THEO, ROOSEVELT, Jr., New York.
Sixteen Skins of Birds from Africa.

= “A, L. RAWSON.
Geological specimens from Arabia and Syria.

oS “ ATTI DELLA REALE AC. LUC. DI SCIENZE. Lettre et Arti.

1 vol.

1874.
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Echinoderm, from Mendocino, Cal.

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Orange File-fish (JZonocanthus auranticus).

“18—H. LAMB, Norwalk, Conn.
Petrified Wood.

“< J. H. McCULLOUGH.
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One pair Deer’s Antlers.
“<< WILLIAM HILL.
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“ 16—PEABODY MUSEUM.
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“ 95 WARREN DRUMMOND, New Jersey.
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Collections of Brains of Mammals and Birds.

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1873.

Eloge de Jean. Theo. Lacordaire from University of Lege.
1870.

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Lawson, L. D.
Lawton, Walter E.

| Leale, Chas. A., M. D.
Lee, William H.
Lefferts, M. C., M. D.
Lehmaier, M. Hi.

Le Roy, Daniel

| Lesher, Stephen R,

| Leslie, Frank
Leverich, Henry 8.
Leveridge, J. W. C,
Levy, L. L.

Lewis, Charlton T.
Liautard, A. F., M.D. V. 8.
Lindgens, Henry A,

| Littaner, N,

Livermore, E. R.
_ Livingston, Edward
Livingston, John A.

Livingston, L. M.

Livingston, Robt. E.
Livingston, Robt. J.
Livingston, Wm. S.

Lockwood, B.
| Loew, Edward V.
Lord, Charles
Lord, G. D. F.
| Lorseh, Albert
Lothrop, W. K.
Lottimer, William
Lowrey, Joseph §.
Lowry, John
Ludington, C. H.
Ludlow, E. H.
Ludlow, E. Livingston
Lusk, Wm. T., M. D.
Lyle, John 8.
Maas, Adolphus H.
Maas, Gustavus
Mack, Adolph
Mackey, Joseph
Macy, Chas. A.
Macy, Wm. H.
Maddux, Lewis
Major, W. K.
Mali, Charles
Mali, W. W.
Man, A. P.
Marcotte, L.
Marquand, F,
Marquez, F.
Marshall, C. S.
Marshall, D. D. T.
Martin, Bradley
Martin, W. A.
Martin, Wm. C.
Mason, John J., M. D.
Mason, Lowell
Matthews, John
Maxwell, Alexander
McCloskey, Lawrence
McCollom, Geo. W.
| McCurdy, R. Hi.
| McFarland, W. W.
McGill, G. W.
McGinnis, John, Jr,
McGuire, Joseph
McKee, Russell W.
McMullen, Thomas
MeVicker, J. A.
Mead, Ralph, Jr.
Meeker, W. B.
Melcher, John
Menzies, William

| Livingston, Com. J. W.

| Livingston, Wm. S., Jr.

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Merriam, Henry E.
Merritt, Mrs. Julia
Merwin, Geo. A.
Middleton, John
Milbank, J.
Mildeberger, J.
Miles, W. A.
Milhan, J.

Miller, Edmund H.
Miller, George Me.

Obarrio, Gabriel
O’Connor, Chas.

| Post, E. A.

Potter, Miss Grace H,
Potter, Rey. H. C., D. D.
Potter, Howard

Potter, James Neilson
Potter, Miss Lizzie
Potter, Miss M. M.
Powell, William
Powers, Geo. W.
Powers, Wm. P.

O'Connor, Thos. H.

| Odell, Jonathan

| Odell, Mrs. Jonathan
| O’Hara, Charles E.

| Olcott, F. P.

| Olin, S. H.

| Olmsted, Dwight H.
| Olmsted, Fred. Law

Mills, James M. | Olyphant, R. M.

Mills, Topham
Minot, Geo. R.
Minturn, Mrs. A. M.
Minturn, Edward
Mitchell, James L.
Moir, James

Moller, Chas. G.
Moller, Peter

Moller, Wm. F.
Monell, Hon. C. 8.
Moon, John H.
Moore, John P.
Moore, W. H. H.
Morgan, D. P.
Morgan, George H.
Morgan, Henry
Morgan, Matthew
Morgan, Wm. F.
Morris, Henry Lewis
Morrison, E. ;
Morrison, Geo, A.
Mortimer, W. Y.
Moses, M. H.

Mosle, George
Motley, James M.
Mott, Alex. B., M. D.
Mott, William F.
Moulton, Clarence F.
Moulton, Gilman S$.
Mount, Richard E.
Mowry, A.L.
Mowton, Charles C.
Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M.
Murphy, John
Myers, John K., Jr.
Nash, Henry
Navarro, Juan N.
Negus, T. S.
Newell, Clarence D.
Newton, Rev. R. Heber
Nicoll, Henry
Nicoll, H. D., M. D.
Norrie, Adam
Norwood, A. G.
Notman, Peter
Noyes, Henry D., M. D.
Oakley, H. A.
Oakley, M.

Onativia, J. V.
Orton, William
Osborn, Frederic 8.
Osgood, 8.8.

Osgood, Mrs. 8. S.
| Otis, F.N., M. D.

Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Owen, E. H.

Owen, Joshua T.
Palmer, Cortland, Jr.
Pancoast, George

| Parish, Henry

Parsons, Arthur W.

| Parsons, Geo. W.
| Parsons, John E.

| Patterson, Joseph W.
| Payne, Wm. H.

Peabody, Arthur J.
Pearson, Isaac Green
Peck, Norman

Peckham, Walton H., M. D
| Peet, William E.

Pell, Robt. L.
Pelton, Guy R.
Pentold, Edward
Penfold, Wm. Hall
Perkins, C. L.
Perkins, James D.
Perley, Joseph L.

| Perry, John G.

| Perry, Myron

Peters, Geo. A.
Pfeiffer, Carl
Phelps, Benj. K.
Phelps, Geo. D.
Phelps, Mrs. J. J.

Phelps, Royal

| Phelps, Wm.

Phillips, L. J.
Pinkney, J. H.
Pinkus, F. S.

Pirsson, John W
Platt, John R.

Platt, Sam’l R.
Pondir, John* ”
Popham, Wm. H.
Poppenhusen, Adolph
Porter, Hon. John K.
Post, Alfred C., M. D.

Prime, Frederick
Prime, Rufus
Prince, Genl. Henry

| Prince, J. D.

Purdon, James
Purdy, J. F.

Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Pyne, M. Taylor.
Pyne, Percy R.

| Pyne, Perey R., Jr.

Quintard, E. A.
Rader, Louis B.
Rader, Max
Ramsay, C. 8.
Ray, Robert

| Raymond, Chas. H.

Raynolds, C, T.
Raynor, Samuel
Rees, Norman I.

| Reid, Whitelaw

Remsen, Robert G.
Renwick, W. R.
Requa, J. M.
Ribon, J. J.

Rice, E. T.
Richards, J. W., M. D.
Riker, John L.
Riker, Wm. J.
Riley, Chas. V.
Riley, H. Chauncey
Ripley, George
Ritter, John Peter
Robb, J. Hampden
Robbins, George A.

| Roberts, A. W.

Robinson, Geo. B.
Robinson, John R.
Robinson, R. A.
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, Chas, H.
Rogers, John
Rogers, Marvin N.

| Rollins, Daniel, Jr.

Rollis, T. W.
Roosevelt, Miss A. L.
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Jas. A.
Roosevelt, Theodore

Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.

Roosevelt, W. E.
Rosenbaum, A. §.
Rosenblatt, M. G.
Rosenfeld, Isaac
Rosenfeld, L.

Ross, William B.
Rothschild, Victor H.
Rusch, Adolph
Russell, Charles H.
Rubino, Jacob
Ruppel, George
Riitten, August ~~
Rylance, J. H., D. D.
Sanborn, F. G.
Sandford, Charles F.
Sandford, Rollin
Sands, Joseph
Sands, Samuel 8.

Satterlee, F. Le Roy, M.D.

Satterlee, S. R.
Sattig, John

Sayre, Lewis A., M. D.
Schafer, Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon
Schaus, Wm.

Schell, Edward
Schermerhorn, C. A.
Schermerhorn, J. E.
Schieffelin, Chas. M.
Schlessinger, B.
Schmidt, Oscar E.
Scholle, A.
Schroeder, Robert
Schumacher, Fred’k
Schuyler, P. C.
Schwendler, Fred.
Scudder, Linus
Selleck, A. D.
Sexton, Samuel, M. D.
Shaler, Alexander
Shaw, James M.
Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.
Shearman,’Wm. Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Shoals, F. P.

Shoards, Rev. Joseph F.

Sinclair, John
Sistare, George K.
Skidmore, Jeremiah
Skidmore, Samuel T.
Skidmore, William L.
Skinker, E. H.
Slawson, J. B.
Sloan, Samuel
Sloane, William
Sloane, Wm. D,
Slocovich, G,
Smillie, James D.
Smith, Augustus FP,

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| Smith, Charles 8.

Smith, Edward F.
Smith, Elliot
Smith, Geo. W.

| Smith, Hanbury

Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, James J.

| Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.

Smith, Sam’! M.
Smith, 8. 8.
Smith, U. J.

| Smith, Wm. Alex.

Smith, Wm. Henry

| Smyth, B. L.

Snead, Thomas L.
Solomon, RB. L.
Southworth, Henry C.
Spaulding, Henry F.
Speir, Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W.
Spencer, Chas. J.

| Spencer, Hon. James C.

Squires, Robert
Starin, John H.

| Stengel, Prof. Frederick
| Stephenson, John

Sterling, A. F.

la a
| Stetson, C. A.

Stevens, John A.

| Stevens, John W.

Stevenson, V, K.

| Steward, Campbell

Steward, D. Jackson
Steward, Mrs. D. Jackson
Stewart, David

Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard

| Stone, David M.

Stone, Geo. E.

Stone, Geo. I.

Storer, Albert

Storm, Thomas
Stoughton, Hon. E. W.
Stout, Richard
Strange, A. B.

Strong, Charles E.
Strong, Geo. T.

Strong, W. L.

Stuart, Alexander
Stuart, Mrs. Mary
Stuart, Robert L.
Stuart, Homer H.
Sturges, Thomas T., Jr.
Sturgis, Appleton

Sutherland, Josiah
Sutton, E. B.
Suydam, D. Lydig
Swan, Otis D.
Swan, Saml., M. D.
Swan, Wm. H.
Swords, Henry C,
Taber, Henry M.
Tailer, Edward N. Jr.
Taintor, Chas. M.
Talcott, F. L.
Talcott, James
Tappan, J. N.
Taylor, Aug. C.
Tefft, Charles G,
Terbell, H. 8.
Terry, Frederie¢ P.
Therasson, L. F.
Thompson, F, F,
Thompson, §. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, Wm. H., M. D.
| Thurber, H. K.
Tieman, Peter C.
| Tilford, John M.
Tillotson, L. G.
Titus, James H.
| Tobias, Samuel I.
Todd, A. J.
Todd, Wm, James
_ Tomes, Francis
Tompkins, Wm. G,
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, Effingham
Townsend, J. L.
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W.
Tracey, William
| Tracey, Chas.
Tracy, J. Evarts
Trevor, H. G.
Trevor, John B.
Trevor, Mrs. John B.
| Trotter, George
Troup, Miss Louisa
Trowbridge, Edwin L.
Tuck, Edward
Turney, P. W.
Valentine, Lawson
Van Amringe, J. H.
Van Buren, Wm. H,
Van Dusen, Samuel B.
Van Rensselaer, K.

Sturgis, Frederick R., M.D,, Van Nostrand, David

Sturgis, Miss Margaret B.
Sturgis, Mrs, Russell
Stuyvesant, A. V. I.
Stymus, W. Pierre
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, Jobn L,

Van Winkle, E. 8.

| Vanderpoel, Jacob

| Vanwoert, J. V.
Vermilye, W. R.

| Vermilye, Wm. M.

| Von Post, Herman C,

Von Volkenburgh, P.
Waite, Chas. C.
Walker, Evan T.
Walker, Francis T.
Walker, G. L.
Walker, H. W.
Walker, Mrs. Isabella
Wall, Charles
Wallach, Adolph
Wallack, Lester
Walz, Isidor, M. D.
Ward, John E.
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Warren, J. Kearney
Watson, Col. B. F
Watson, John H.
Watson, Wm.

Webb, Gen. Alex. S.

Webb, Mrs. Gen. A. 8.
Webster, David, M. D.

Webster, Sidney
Weed, Thurlow
Weeks, Francis H.
Weeks, John A.

Welch, Uriah

Weld, Francis, M. D.
Welling, Chas. H.
Wells, Dr. Samuel R.

| Wenman, James F.

Westermann, B.
Weston, Theodore
Wetherbee, Gardner
Wheeler, De Witt C.
Wheeler, J. W.

| Wheelock, Geo. G., M. D.

Wheelock, W. A.

| Wheelwright, B. F.
| White, Norman

Whitlock, Thomas
Whitlock, William, Jr.
Whitney, Alfred R.
Whybrew, Chas. T., M. D.
Wiley, Franklin

Wiley, W. H.

Williams, John S.
Williams, P. H., Jr.
Williamson, David B

| Wilson, John

Wilson, John §.
Winslow, James
Winston, FS.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.
Witthaus, R. A.
Witthaus, Mrs, R. A.

| Wolf, Simon A.
| Wood, Isaac F.

Wood, J. 5S. R.

Wood, John D.

Wood, Mrs. John D.
Woodlet, Sidney
Woodruff, Hon. L. B.
Woodward, Thomas
Work, John C.
Wotherspoon, Henry H.
Wright, Charles L.
Wright, Samuel V.
Wright, William P.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Wyckoff, Jacob
Young, Mason

ADDRESSES
LAYING. OF THE CORNER SOR

JUNE 2d, 1874.

PRAYER BY ReyosS. di TYNG, Date

O Lorp, our God! blessed be Thy great and glorious name, which is
exalted above all blessing and praise! Thou, even Thou, art Lord alone.
Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host,—the
earth, and all that is therein,—the seas, and all that therein is, and Thou
preservest them all. The host of heaven worshipeth Thee !

Whither shall we go from Thy Spirit, and whither shall we flee from Thy
presence? If we ascend into heaven, Thou art there; if we make our bed
in hell, behold Thou art there. If we take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead us,
and Thy right hand shall hold us. Such knowledge is too wonderful for
us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.

O Lord, our Lord! how excellent is Thy name in all the earth! who hath
set Thy glory above the heavens. When we consider the heavens, the work
of Thy hands; the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained—what is
man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest
him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels; Thou hast
crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of Thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet.

O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them
all. The earth is full of Thy riches. This great and wide sea also, wherein
are creatures innumerable, both small and great; these all wait upon Thee,
and Thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou makest the grass to
grow upon the mountains, and herbs for the service of man. Before Thee
the mountains break forth in singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands, from the cedar that dwelleth in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop
which springeth out of the wall. Thou hast commanded us to commemo-
rate Thy wisdom and Thy power; to teach unto those who come after
us the glory of Thy works—as wonderful in the least of the beings that
breathes in Thy mercy, as in the mightiest that displays and magnifies Thy
power. Thou hast manifested Thyself and Thy wisdom, as truly in the
lilies of the field as they grow asin the leviathan, who is the king over all
children of pride,

To honor Thee in all these works of Thy hand, would we erect the build-
ing over the foundation of which we now ask Thy protection and Thy
blessing. May it perpetuate the remembrance and the study of Thy wis-
dom and goodness, as all Thy works declare them, and as the knowledge
and thankfulness of men thus combine to make them known. Great and
marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty! just and true are all Thy
ways, thou King of Saints! :

We would humbly, gratefully praise Thee, in all the works of Thy hands
and in the wonders of Thy pardoning love to the children of men. May
Thy gracious blessing rest upon our beloved country—upon the land which
Thou gavest us to inhabit—upon the President of these United States—
upon all whom thou hast established in authority among this people. Pros-
per, we beseech Thee, all our institutions and efforts for the advancement of
human learning. Give habits of righteousness and truth to all our people.
Uphold and edify every plan for the advancement of public and private
virtue, and every effort to reform and rescue the outcast and the neglected
among our people.

And above all give peace to our nation—prosperity to Thy Gospel of Sal-
vation—and the maintenance of Thine own supreme authority, in the name
and person of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In whose words we
would gratefuly say,—

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven. Give us this
day, our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those
who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever and
ever. AMEN.

ADDRESS dy Rozserr L. Stuart, Esq., President
of the Museum, in behalf of the Trustees.

We have assembled on this occasion by the mvitation of the Trustees
of the American Museum of Natural History, to lay the Corner Stone
of the generous edifice which, by the wise liberality of the State of
New York, has been provided for the perpetual use of the Museum,
and, in the appropriate presence of the Chief Magistrates of the City,
the State, and the Nation, to dedicate the structure to the public
service for which it is designed.

In this view it may not be unbecoming for the Trustees briefly to
relate the course of events which have brought this undertaking to its
present advancement, and to declare the purposes which have actuated

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them in the efforts they have made to establish, on a permanent foun-
dation, a Museum which, as they hope, will be worthy of recognition
as a National Institution.

It had long been a subject of regret to many citizens interested in
the cause of education-and culture, that this great city, the most
prominent seat of American civilization, should remain entirely destitute
of any adequate means for the study of Natural History, while all the
other principal branches of science and knowledge found within it their
professors and their colleges, which invited students from all parts of
the land, and furnished them with suitable facilities for acquirmg the
special education which they sought. It was also considered that a
department of knowledge which has in recent years assumed so large
a share of attention and so marked a place in every scheme of Liberal
Education, should have in this city a grand collection of specimens,
free to the inspection of its own citizens as a source of public amuse-
ment, and open to tke use of the teachers and scholars of its public
and private schools as a means of general instruction.

It was for these purposes that the Legislature of the State of New
York, by an Act passed on the 6th of April, 1869, created the
Trustees and their successors 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 establishmg 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
knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular
instruction and recreation. Under this Charter the Trustees immedi-
ately organized, and have, during the five years which have since
elapsed, devoted no inconsiderable amount of time and thought, as
well as of money, to carrying into practical operation its useful pro-
visions. Having by their own contributions, and those of many
publie-spirited citizens who evinced a substantial interest in the project,
obtained the necessary means, they purchased the extensive collection
of Mammals, Birds, Fishes, etc. belonging to the late Prince Maxi-
milian of Neuwied, the Hlliott collection of Birds, besides a large part
of the celebrated Verreaux and other collections of specimens of
Natural History, and thus found themselves in possession of a suitable
nucleus for a complete collection, but without any proper building or
place of deposit, where the specimens might be at the same time safely
preserved and made available for the popular use and enjoyment. At

this stage in their enterprise, the Trustees, being thus able to furnish
a substantial guarantee of their earnest detérmination to accomplish
what they had taken in hand, turned in their hour of need to the
Commissioners of the Central Park, who by their uniform devotion to
the trusts committed to their care had done so much to advance the
welfare and the pleasure of their fellow citizens, and proposed to deposit
their collections, for safe keeping and exhibition, within the limits of
the Park itself, and add the Museum to the already great attractions
of this favorite place of resort. The Trustees were met by the
Commissioners with the most enlightened and liberal sympathy, and
the proposition was accepted by them with the declaration on the part
of the Commissioners, which the event has justified, that the proposed
plan of co-operation, which insured and combined in the enterprise the
interests and means of the private citizen with those of the public,
would probably be made an example and incentive for uniting the
energies of those interested in other branches of Science and Art in
similar undertakings.

Thus by the favor of the Park Commissioners, at the close of the
year in which the Charter of the Museum was granted, its valuable
treasures first acquired were deposited and arranged under the protec-
tion of the People, in the Arsenal building in the Park, according to
written articles of agreement, by which, although remaining the in-
violable property of this private corporation, they were secured and
preserved for the free instruction and enjoyment of all who chose to
visit them.

From that time to the present the Trustees acknowledge with grat-
itude the untirmg sympathy and co-operation of the Commissioners
and their successors in the Department of Public Parks, by means of
which the public has been enabled to enjoy the full benefit of all which
the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring. The fact that the rooms
which were allotted to the use of the Museum have been visited daily
by thousands of all ages and classes, and that the public imterest in its
success has steadily and rapidly increased, is a satisfactory proof of the
wisdom of that jot arrangement.

It very soon however became evident by the rapid growth of the
Museum, and the constant additions which accrued to its collections,
that the temporary accommodations which were the best that the Park
Commissioners have thus far been able to afford, were altogether
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the Legislature, in response to the Petition of a large number of
influential Citizens interested in the cause, by an Act in 1871
relative to the Department of Public Parks, authorized the Com-
missioners to erect upon Manhattan Square, a suitable fire-proof
building for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the Museum
therein, under rules and regulations to be prescribed from time to time
by the Commissioners, and in the same connection and by the same act
the like provision was made for a similar building for the use of “ The
Metropolitan Museum of Art,” the foundations of which are already
being prepared by the Commissioners on the opposite side of the Park.

By this double act of munificence on the part of the people of the
State, the City of New York has been endowed with two institutions
of education and ornament which, though now in their infancy, will at
no distant day be recognized as of great and permanent public advan-
tage, and whatever jealousy may justly pertain to appropriations of
public money to private uses can in no way apply to this Museum of
Natural History. Its Trustees have no personal objects to serve—no
private ends to accomplish. They can gain nothing for themselves
from this or from any future endowments which the wise policy of the
Legislature may furnish to carry out and perfect this undertaking.
Their aims will be all attained, if the people of the City shall justly
appreciate its value, and if its accumulating treasures shall be freely
and wisely used by all who seek them.

We should not do entire justice to this occasion if we failed to record
the gratitude of the Trustees and the community, to one eminent
citizen whose memory is still fresh with us, and will long be kept green
by the perennial growth of the charities which he founded. and sus-
tained.

To Joun Davin WoLrFrs, the first President of this Museum, we are
much indebted for its successful establishment. He entered with zeal
into the project of its creation, believing that it would prove an honor
to his native City, and an important means of education to its citizens
and their children, and dying at a ripe old age, he commended its care
and support to those who have the means and the disposition to do
something for the public welfare.

In recalling, with pride, the progress that has already been made
towards the realization of their plans, the Trustees desire to place on
record their high appreciation of the services of Professor ALBERT 5,
Bickmore, whose zealous devotion to the interests of the Institution,

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and untiring industry in carrying out the wishes of the Hxecutive
Committee, have done much to advance the prosperity of the Museum.

We lay here to-day the Corner Stone of an edifice which shall be
dedicated forever to the study and the culture of Natural History.
These massive foundations already securely laid give promise of the
most solid permanence in the superstructure. The wise forethought
of the Park Commission, in reserving for the future use of the Museum
the remainder of Manhattan Square, has provided amply for its con-
tinued growth.

The presence on this occasion of the President of the United States,
who has kindly consented to assist us in these ceremonies, assures us
of that public interest which is necessary to sustain the undertaking.

The cheermg words of the Governor will doubtless lend the coun-
tenance of the State to support this institution which has been founded
by its bounty, and finally, the Trustees, in pledging once more their
own efforts for its success, would bespeak for it that popular favor

without which it must surely languish and decay.

The Hon. H. G. Sressins, President of the Depart-
ment of Parks, spoke as follows :

When the arrangements for the celebration of the ceremony which
has brought us here to-day were made, the duty was assigned to the
Hon. Satem H. Wates, then President of the Park Commission, to
represent the Department on this important occasion. He has since
then resigned his office as Commissioner and gone abroad. It devolves
upon me to perform the duty which he had expected to fulfill.

Ashe had prepared an Address for this occasion I shall take the
liberty of reading it, and of expressing my sincere regret that he is not
here to carry out the programme we Thad agreed upon. Mr. WaALEs,
in that case, would have said—

The Legislature of the State of New York, at its session of 1864,
placed Manhattan Square, a piece of property belonging to the City,
situate between 77th and SIst streets and 8th and 9th avenues, con-
sisting of about 19 acres, under the control and management of the
Commissioners of the Central Park ; and it was made the duty of the
Board to enclose, lay out, grade, regulate, drain and improve the
same ; and by subsequent enactment in 1868 the Board was authorized

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to erect, establish, conduct and maintain on the Central Park, a Meteor-
ological and Astronomical Observatory, a Museum of Natural History
and a Gallery of Art, and the buildings therefor, and to accept gifts,
devises and bequests upon suitable conditions.

Although the Board of Commissioners was thus early clothed with
ample authority to establish within the Park a variety of museums
that would afford the means of popular cultivation and innocent recre-
ation, yet they have felt that, to insure the proper management of such
institutions, it would be better to leave them to the care of private
associations than for the Board to expend public money in the purchase
of specimens of Natural History or works of Art; and in giving
encouragement to private organizations, the Board made known at its
outset that not only the object of the Association must be approved,
but its sound organization and undoubted ability to command the means
necessary to accomplish its purposes according to a high standard of
excellence, must be first demonstrated. It was, therefore, with feelings
of great satisfaction, that the Commissioners, on the 30th of December,
1868, received a letter from a number of well-known citizens, inquiring
if the Board was disposed to provide for the reception and development
of a Museum of Natural History.

In reply to this letter the Comptroller of the Park wrote, that “the
Commissioners will very gladly receive the Collection to which you
allude, and will use their best exertions toward the establishment of a
Museum of Natural History of an extent and excellence in all its
departments that will be creditable to the City; and in their efforts
toward the development of such an institution, the Commissioners of
the Park will highly esteem your valuable co-operation.”

In pursuance of the authority vested in the Commissioners of the
Central Park, and in accordance with suitable rules and regulations,
the building known as the Arsenal, situate on the east side of the
Park, was carefully fitted up and arranged for the temporary reception
and proper exhibition of a rare and most valuable collection of objects
of Natural History, which had been gathered under the patronage of
the American Museum of Natural History—a society composed of
some of our most public-spirited citizens, and offering every guarantee
of the successful accomplishment of the object for which they were
incorporated,

Such has been the zeal and earnestness displayed by this Society in
the prosecution of its work, that the space already allotted in the

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Arsenal building is now wholly inadequate for the proper display of
their precious Collections, and the Department of Public Parks has
determined to construct a much more extensive edifice, which in its
general design and purpose should equal the largest museums of the
Old World. We are here to-day to lay the Corner Stone of such an
edifice, and as the representative on this occasion of the Department
of Public Parks, I take great. pleasure in assuring the Trustees and the
friends of the Society of the great interest felt by the Commissioners
in the success of this worthy enterprise. ‘To the stranger who comes
here to-day these rugged foundation walls and these rough surroundings
are not well calculated to make a pleasant impression ; but to us who
have watched the rapid growth northward of this city, and who were
familiar with the barren and rocky ground upon which the Central
Park has been created, it requires but little strain upon the imagina-
tion to conceive of the speedy occupation of all these vacant lots by
substantial dwellings, and to picture to ourselves the spot upon which
we now stand, known as Manhattan Square, as covered by the pro-
posed Museum of Natural History, costing

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not less than $6,000,000, and embracing a collection of objects of

ere its final completion,

scientific interest second to none other in the world. As a people we
are sometimes accused of excessive practical and money-making
characteristics; and it cannot be denied that in ail the varied arts and
appliances which minister to the material progress of mankind we have
shown remarkable energy. The Patent Office at Washington is a
stately monument that bears witness to the patient genius which has
wrought out the wonderful inventions now so largely employed in all
the busy affairs of the country ; and while it is true that mechanical
and agricultural fairs and exhibitions have extended their good influ-
ences throughout every State and county im the land, it must be
acknowledged that the same attention has not been given to the,
collection of objects of Natural History, of which our country has
almost an infinite variety.

With the acquisition of wealth and the imtroduction of ease and
luxury in the homes of the rich, there comes most naturally the
enlarged and more noble thought of doing something not only to amuse,
but also to instruct the people.

The subject of museums is beginning to assume new importance in
the estimation of the people.

Hitherto, small and comparatively worthless collections have been

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gathered by private enterprise, and employed chiefly for purposes of
speculation. That which is temporary and speculative must now give
way to something more enduring and instructive, and it seems to me
that our thanks are especially due to the Society of Natural History
for acting the part of pioneers in this great field of science, and for
the zeal which they have shown in the prosecution of the work. So
far as the Department which I now represent is concerned, I do not
hesitate to promise all the assistance it can lawlully render. We
encourage it as not only an object of public interest which shall serve
to attract hitherward strangers from all parts of the land, but also as
a means of intellectual pleasure, profit and relief to our over-burdened
people, and as affordmg a school where the children of the rich and
poor alike can come to study the wonders of nature which are here to
be gathered together, and freely exposed for the common benefit of all.
It is believed that the museums on the Park will become valuable
auxiliaries of that great free public educational system which is already
the pride of our city, as well as the source of. useful practical informa-
tion to agriculturists, merchants and manufacturers throughout the
land. In this country we popularize knowledge, and give to science
a holiday air, and instead of putting our collections, as some haye
proposed, ‘into cold catacombs of science, and long gloomy galleries
in which nature is classified, ticketed, stuffed and covered with dust in
a manner well adapted to create weariness rather than to attract people
to the study of natural objects,” it is our purpose to provide such
structures as shall furnish agreeable entertainment to the general
visitor, while at the same time offering valuable aid to common school
education.

With the hearty co-operation of the Natural History Society, sus-
tained by the genius of Olmsted and the architectural skill of Vaux,
and certain of the sympathy of an enlightened people, the Department
of Public Parks looks confidently forward to the successful completion
of the magnificent scheme, the commencement of which may now be
pronounced as fully inaugurated.

What Mr. Wats has said, and I have just read, will convey a full
conception of the purposes of the structure which is formally begun
to-day. I feel it to be a great honor to assist in the commencement
of a work which will, I trust, be hastened to completion before the
Centennial of our Independence; here to stand as a magnificent
memorial of what our City has been able to accomplish under free

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institutions, and to become a part of the material resources that will
ultimately go to the creation, around this Park, of the home of a
National University.

What nobler exhibitions could be given of the crowning achieve-
ments of this municipality than those which this Museum and its sister
institution, the Art Gallery, will afford? This peerless pleasure ground
for the people, which will proudly boast of these twin jewels as its
legitimate offspring, will contain within itself in miniature the records
of the progress of the country. Its wilderness spots remain as sou-
venirs of what the whole tract was a few short years ago—when a
prophetic SamueL B. RuaGeGLes saw the possibilities that are now
accomplished facts. Its artistic decorations and its Museums of Art
and Natural History will show the best results of a high civilization,
and of a liberality directed by the wisest forethought and the most
cultured taste.

ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR DIX.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

I did not come here with the expectation of addressing you.
You may find it difficult to believe what I say when you see me pres-
ent, and my name in the published order of exercises as a speaker.
But, I can assure you, that I had no intimation from any quarter
that such a service was expected of me, and no knowledge that such
a notice had been given to the public until I saw the programme a
day or two ago, by pure accident. I only say this to exonerate my-
self from the possible imputation of having made an engagement and
failed to perform it; and to tender to you an apology which I am
sure you will, under the circumstances, deem a valid one, for respond-
ing in the most summary manner to your kindness and courtesy.

IT am very much gratified to be with you on an occasion of so much
interest. It is pleasant to stand amid this brilliant assemblage of
beauty and fashion, and of those solid qualities, by which the welfare
and prosperity of cities and communities are wrought out. It is pleas-
ant to see a great metropolitan city like this, casting aside for the
moment the habiliments of its industry, to lay the foundation of a
Museum in which the dead past is to be linked to the living present ;
to be followed as we trust, at no distant day, by a repository of art,
where the ages that have gone by may be kept in our remembrance,
by gathering together the memorials of their achievements; where

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the stately march of Empires may be chronicled to some extent, by
the exhibition of what they have done for social embellishment, and
where the gorgeousness and profusion of Nature may be emulated by
the creative genius of Art.

I know no locality so suitable as this, for such a Museum of artistic
treasure ; no locality in which Art has already done so much for Na-
ture. Most of us remember when, but a few years ago, this whole
district, which now forms the Central Park, was an unsightly and
shapely mass—‘*rudis indigestaque moles.” Now it is a very miracle
of rural beauty, where the most unpromising and stubborn natural
feature has been made to blend and harmonize with the general aspect
of order and grace.

But, ladies and gentlemen, I am forgetting that I only arose to
apologise to you for sittmg down again ; and if I go on, you may im-
pute to me the common frailty which Horace ascribes to singers—
that they can never be induced to sing’ when they are asked, and
never stop when nobody wants to hear them. But I cannot sit down
without saying, it is appropriate that the foundation of this Cosmopol-
itan Museum should be laid by the foremost man of our time, who in
the field did so much by his calm, unconquerable and unconscious
valor, to save the life of the nation, and who im the Cabinet stands
forth as its fearless champion, to maintain its honor and its plighted
faith.

ADDRESS OF PROF. JOSEPH HENRY.

Mr. Presipent, Lapres AND GENTLEMAN:

My address will have one element which I doubt not will elicit
your approbation. I was requested to limit it to ten minutes, and
therefore it will of necessity have the merit especially appreciated on
a warm day, that of shortness. Being thus instructed as to time, I
trust I shall be excused if I do not as fully develop as could be wish-
ed the several propositions which I intend to present in connection
with the interesting occasion on which we are assembled. The first
of these propositions is that modern civilization tends to congregate

the population of countries into large cities, that cities tend to increase

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more rapidly than the general population. These effects may be
referred to two causes, first, the education of the working classes, and
secondly, to the introduction of labor-saving machines. ‘These causes
are notably illustrated in New England, where the masses are more
highly educated than in any other part of the world. No sooner does
the young New-Englander approach manhood, after having enjoyed
the benefits of a common school education, than he abandons the plow
and the spade and hurries to the city or the manufacturing village to
obtain more intellectual and less toilsome employment. The vacuum
which is thus produced is, however, more than filled by the invention,
it may be by the same individual, of patent machines actuated by
steam or horse-power, which will do, in many cases, a hundred fold
more work in a given time than the man himself could accomplish.
Another proposition to which I would call your attention is that cities
in proportion to their extent and rapidity of growth engender habits
of thought and of action of a character the reverse of progress, and
which, if unrestrained, would tend to disintegrate society and resolve
it into its primitive barbarous elements; that these principles are
eminently applicable in New York, which, including the whole popu-
lation at the mouth of the Hudson, is now a vast city, and is destined
to become, I say it without hesitation, the largest city in the world;
no other city having so large a country tributary to it in the richest
productions of the soil and mine, and no other city so favorably situ-
ated in regard to geography and topography to secure these tributaries
perpetually to itself. There are in fact but two outlets for water
communication from the immense region of the basin of the Mississippi,
namely, that along the river itself into the Gulf of Mexico near New-
Orleans and that along the great lakes and the Hudson, terminating
at New-York in the Atlantic Ocean.

It is therefore of the first importance that those who possess the
intelligence, the influence, and the power, who from the experience of
the past are impressed with the tendencies as to the future, should
endeavor to provide all the means possible to avert evils similar to
those with which this city has been afflicted, and which tend to afflict
it in a still greater degree in the future.

Among these means I would of course place im the first rank a
liberal support of the Christian minister and the Christian missionary,
but the labors of these may -be greatly aided by whatever tends to
neutralize the intensified selfishness engendered by the struggle in a

large city for supremacy, and the unfavorable effort of extreme exclu-
sion from intercourse with nature, and above all, the ready indulgence
of degrading passions. This is especially the province of museums of
art and nature. They not only offer a substitute for immoral gratifi-
cations by supplying intellectual pleasures, but may also be rendered
sources of moral and even religious instruction. The establishment,
the begiming of which we are about to imaugurate is, in accordance
with the views we have presented, worthy of the enterprise and intel-
ligence of those who conceived and who have thus far developed it.
It is to be a temple of nature in which the productions of the inorganic
and organic world, together with the remnants of the past ages of the
human family are to be collected, classified, and properly exhibited.
It is to be rendered an attractive exhibition which shall arrest the
attention of the most unobserving of those who, having been confined
all their lives to the city, have come to consider edifices of brick and
of stone as the most prominent objects of the physical world.

We have learned from the interesting address of the President of
the Museum, that already large collections of specimens in natural his-
tory and ethnology have been secured. But sucha collection, however
well arranged and interestingly displayed, is still wanting in an essen-
tial element of higher usefulness. I allude to the spiritual part of its
constitution, to the controlling, intellectual, and moral soul whieh shall
direct its operations and instruct the multitudes who may flock to the
exhibition for amusement or the gratification of mere curiosity, in a
craving for novelties. How imcomparably greater would the import-
ance of this museum be were there connected with it a professor, who
at stated periods of the year would give courses of free lectures on the
objects which it contains, who would expound the laws of the
phenomena of nature, who would point out the operations of that
mysterious principle called life, who would discourse upon the changes
the world has undergone during geological periods, and who would
reconstruct the history of man in primitive times from the remnants
of his previous existence which have been gathered in this institution.

For example, what an effect would be produced on thousands of
the inhabitants of this vast city if it were announced that an Agassiz,
filled with enthusiastic sympathy with his subject and his audience,
and capable of mingling moral considerations with scientific principles,
of directing attention from nature to nature’s God, of not only en-
lightening the heads, but of warming the hearts of his audience, avere

to give free courses of instruction.

Such an announcement would be hailed with mtense interest by
thousands, and the amphitheater of the museum would be crowded to
overflowing with receptive and admirimg auditors. I need only sug-
gest such an arrangement to find, I doubt not, an appreciation of its
importance in every one of my hearers, and the hope felt or expressed
that the directors of this establishment will endeavor to provide an
endowment for the support of such a feature of the museum. But I
have not yet done. The development of the institution would not yet
be complete were it even furnished with all the appliances I have
mentioned. There is still another duty which this city owes to itself
and to the civilized world; I allude to an endowment for the support
of a college of discoverers, of a series of men capable not only of ex-
pounding established truths but of interrogating nature and of discov-
ering new facts, new phenomena, and new principles. The blindness
of the public to the value of abstract science and to the importance of
endowments for its advancement is truly remarkable. No country in
the world is so much indebted for its progress in power and intelligence
to science than ours, and yet no country does so little to encourage or
advance it. Nearly all that is done in this line, is by professors in col-
leges, badly paid, and generally overworked. It is not every one,
however well educated, that is capable of becoming a first-class scien-
tist; like the poet, the discoverer is born, not made, and when one of
this class has been found he should be cherished, liberally provided
with the means of subsistence, fully supplied with all the implements
of investigation, and his life consecrated to the high and holy office of
penetrating the mysteries of nature. What has been achieved in the
knowledge of the forces and operations of nature and the use to which
this knowledge has been applied im controlling and directing these
forces to useful purposes, constitutes the highest claim to glory of our
race. Yet it is a melancholy fact that, notwithstanding the reputation
for wealth and intelligence possessed by our people, for the only
institution intended especially for the advancement of science in this
country we are indebted to a foreigner, James Smithson, and that a
very large portion of the income of this has wrongfully been devoted
to the erection of a costly edifice and the embellishment of grounds,
and expenditures on other Jocal objects unnecessary for the realization
of the intentions of the founder. I am happy, however, to say that
after 25 years of incessant efforts im one line by the directors, Con-
gress has at length been induced to indicate an mtention of redressing

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the evil, and enabling the establishment to devote its whole energies
to the advance of science, the evident design of the testator. New
York at present is the wealthiest, most powerful, and influential city
of the Union, and is destined in the future to be more so. But do
not be offended with me if I say in perfect candor and with the desire
of doing good, that it has done less than any other city, in proportion
to its means, to advance science. More than 75 years ago, Boston
established the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which, an-
nually ever since, has given to the world the result of original labors
in the way of new discoveries.

Philadelphia before the revolution, under the auspices of Franklin,
established the American Philosophical Society, which has still a vig-
orous existence, and continues to annually send its transactions to
foreign societies in exchange for theirs. New-York, also, more than
50 years ago, commenced to establish a Philosophical Society, which
expired, however, in giving birth to a single memoir by De Witt
Clinton on the importance and value of such an establishment. It is
also true that among so many people there have been some who have
been zealously devoted to science, and have done honor to it and the
world, such as a Redfield (I speak only of the dead), who established
the laws of storms, and a Torrey, who devoted an unobtrusive, indus-
trious and productive life, to the advance of chemistry, mineralogy,
and botany. Boast not of wealth, nor of refinement, while original
powers of intellect, the choicest gift of heaven to man, is at a discount
among you. I appeal to the millionaires of this city, if any one of
them is desirous of perpetuating his name and of living in the memory
of mankind long after he has departed this life, to endow, connected
with the Park Museum, a Coliege of Discoveries, with the additional
means of printing and disseminating over the world the results of its
labors. I refer him to the effects which are being produced in regard
to the name of James Smithson, a scion of one of the noble houses of
England, who rightfully anticipated that through the endowment of
his institution his name would live in the history of mankind when the
titles of his proud ancestors were extinct or forgotten. Every year a
publication is issued from this institution, filled with an account of new
discoveries made under its auspices, which is distributed to more than
2,000 foreign institutions. This publication, bearmg the name of
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, thus renders the name of the
founder ubiquitous with continual repetitions, until now, it has become

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as familiar as a household word in every part of the civilized world.
What, in comparison to this, are local monuments, pyramids of flint,
statues of brass, or obelisks of marble? These are seen but by the
few and are constantly subjected to the slow but sure destroyer, time ;
while the other is everywhere present, and is as enduring as civiliza-
tion itself. The operations of the universe are unlimited, and in the
great book of nature, man has scarcely read more than the title-page
or the preface. It was the saying of La Place, ‘ What we know is
nothing; what we do not know is immense; indeed every advance of
knowledge but enlarges the sphere of our ignorance.” How many
problems of the highest interest are pressing upon us even in the line
of biology. What is vitality? Is it an unintelligent force of nature,
like that of attraction, producing crystallization, or an intelligent prin-
ciple operating by the ordinary forces of nature, producing results
indicating design and consequent intention? Can dead matter be
made alive under the influence of certain conditions without propaga-
tion from parents—this is a question which cannot be solved a priory,
and must wait the decision of refined experiments. It has been
reduced to a fact that either every breath of air we inhale, that
every portion of the earth’s atmosphere, is teeming with the germs
of living organisms, or that dead matter may spring into life in accord-
ance with the process of what is called spontaneous generation. In
science every advance in the way of discovery gives us a higher point
of view for making excursions into the regions of the unknown, and
the man of science, however extended his vision, however multiplied
his resources, can never want for worlds to conquer.

God has created man in his own intellectual image, and graciously
permitted him to study His modes of operation, and rewards his
industry in this line by giving him powers and instruments which affect
in the highest degree his material welfare. _ It was the recognition of
the importance of original science that rendered France a few years
ago the center of civilization of the world. The celebrated Museum,
called the Garden of Plants, was not a museum, as it were, of dead
specimens for the gratification of ordimary curiosity, but the theatre of
the labors of a Cuvier, a St. Hilaire, and of the many distinguished
men which have rendered the scientific annals of that country
immortal.

Germany owes her ascendency at the present day not only to the
general education of her people, but to the means which she has proyi-
ded for the discovery of new truths.

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England is becoming awakened to the importance of the same
object, and a portion of the immense income of her universities is
now devoted to the support of original investigators.

With the hope that you will excuse the plainness of some of my
remarks, and attribute them to my ardor for the advancement of
knowledge, and a desire to stimulate the inhabitants of this city to
efforts in the line in which I am most interested, rather than to a ten-
dency to indulge in depreciation or cynical criticism, I must close my
address and throw myself upon your indulgence for having involunta-
rily, as it were, exceeded the limit of my time.

At the conclusion of Professor Hrnry’s address, the Superintend-
eut of the Museum read the following list of articles in the box to be
placed in the corner stone:

1. Reports and Circulars of the Museum.

2. Reports of the Department of Public Parks for 1870, 1871 and
1872.

Manual of the State Legislature.

ee

. Congressional Directory.

Daily Papers—the ‘‘ New York Tribune,” *‘ Times,” “ World,”
‘‘ Herald,” ‘‘Sun,” “ Evening Post,” ‘‘ Mail,” ‘ Express,”
‘Commercial Advertiser,” ‘‘ Journal of Commerce,” “ Staats-
Zeitung,” and the ‘Courier de Etats-Unis,” ‘‘ Appleton’s
Journal,” “ Harper’s Weekly Illustrated Paper,” and “ Frank
Leslie’s Weekly Ilustrated Paper.”

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6. One Dollar and fractional parts in currency.
One Dollar and fractional parts in coin.

The Treasurer deposited the Box in the Corner Srong, which
was then laid by
His ExceLLency
GEN’L U. S. GRANT,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The exercises closed with a Benediction pronounced by the Rev.
Henry C. Porter, D. D.

pegke id HEIN aie.

FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1873.

THE increase of our collections for public exhibition has requir-
ed seven new upright cases, which have been promptly built by
the Department of Public Parks in the lower hall. Two new ones
have also been placed in the upper hall, and the remaining space
available for exhibition on that floor will soon be occupied.

Contracts have been made by the Department for the granite,
mason and iron-work of the new fire-proof edifice on Manhattan
Square, between 8th and 9th Avenues, and 77th and 81st Streets,
and the walls, floors and roof are to be completed by next Nov-
ember. The foundations and basement story are already finished,
and the extraordinary thickness and careful construction of their
walls give an assurance that the structure, when completed, will
be of the most enduring character.

The birds have been re-arranged by Professor Bickmore and
Dr. HonipEr; the South American collection having been transfer-
red from the second floor to the new cases in the lower hall,
and the fine series of skeletons purchased of Verreaux substi-
tuted in their place. The birds of Australia and the Pacific Is-
lands have been separated from those of Europe and Asia, and
placed in a faunal collection by themselves, thus completing the
geographical arrangement commenced when the Museum was
first opened to the public. Manuscript has also been prepared for
a popular guide-boox for visitors.

A Department of Anthropology has been formed, and a collec-
tion of rare implements made by the aborigines of Porto Rico
has been presented by the Trustees. A number of valuable con-
tributions of such specimens have been received, and this new
department promises to be one of the largest and most interesting
features of the Museum.

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An important collection of fossils has been purchased of Prof.
Francis S. Holmes, of Charleston, 8. C., containing the types of
the species figured in the “ Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,”
by Tuomey and Holmes, and Holmes’ “ Fossils of the Post-
pliocene ;” also a very choice and full collection of sharks’ teeth,
from the Eocene beds of the same region.

Many valuable donations have been received. Among the most
important are the gifts of Mr. D. G. Elliot and Wm. B. DeGarmo.

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TRUSTEES:

ROBERT L. STUART. | J: PIERPONT MORGAN.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. | JOSEPH H. CHOATE.

HOWARD POTTER | PERCY R. PYNE.
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ROBERT COLGATE. JOHN B. TREVOR.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. | JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
ADRIAN ISELIN. | WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. | JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ANDREW H. GREEN. | FREDERICK W. STEVENS.
MORRIS K. JESUP. |. ABRAM 8. HEWITT.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. | CHARLES LANIER.
PRESIDENT.

ROBERT J Se ateAc Kt.

VICE PRESIDENTS.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. | THEO. ROOSEVELT.

SECRETARY.
DE ATC KS. O N Stik, WARD:

TREASURER.
JA PLR RP ON Df MOR GUAEN:

Executive Committee.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. H ANDRREW H. GREEN.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. MORRIS K. JESUP.
WM. EK. DODGE, Jr.

Finance Committee.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN. | ADRIAN ISELIN.
FREDERICK W. STEVENS.

Auditing Committee.

ROBERT COLGATE. | THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.

Pror, ALBERT 8S. BICKMORHE, Superintendent.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Assistant.

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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Stnce the establishment of our institution, each
year has witnessed some distinct feature of progress.

The past season has been characterized in a manner
no less favorable than its predecessors. The most
prominent object to which the efforts of the Trustees
have been directed since our last report, has been the
establishment of the Geological Department of the
Museum upon such a basis, both as to its extent and
authority, as to render it of high and permanent
scientific value ; and secondly to secure for our accom-
modation the completion of the new edifice now in
progress under the authority of the Commissioners of
the Central Park.

The first of these objects has, we think, been satis-
factorily accomplished by the purchase of the private
collection of Professor James Hatt, for so long a
period the distinguished head of the Commission for
the geological survey of the State of New York.

The value of this collection is so well known to
scientific men, that it needs only a brief reference, and
we are sure that the friends and promoters of the
enterprise in which we are engaged, will regard it as
a matter of congratulation that a collection so rich
and so vast, is now to be brought forth from compar-
ative seclusion, placed at the great centre of popula-
tion, and made accessible to all. It constitutes a great
Museum in its special department, having more than

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5,000 of its typical forms already illustrated, and
comprises the tangible results of Prof. Hatr’s life-
work. As this work was done from the basis of the
New York geological formations, and large collections
were made from the Western States for the fuller and .
more complete illustration and the fixing of the New
York geological nomenclature, it became a matter of
just pride with us to secure, against the intelligent
and liberal competition of foreign scientific bodies, the
interesting and authentic examples of a work so ex-
tensive and important; especially as these would re-
main the perpetual record of a scientific enterprise
under the authority of the State of New York, ex-
tending over a period of forty years, and undertaken
at a time when the science of Geology had scarcely a
name, and no place or position in this country.

To examine in detail and to arrange systematically
that portion which should remain as the permanent
property of the Museum, will require a laborious and
careful survey of a great amount of material, of which
no full examination has been made since it left the
field, and which remains in many instances in the
original cases. When this has been done, large num-
bers of very desirable duplicates will remain, which
can be made effective in valuable exchanges, and thus
our Museum will be able to secure in this or related
departments important series of specimens attainable
in no other way. ‘The price paid for the Hall Collee-
tion is $65,000, of which sum $40,000 have already
been subscribed by the Trustees and a few friends of
the Museum, so that we feel justified in appealing to
our liberal-minded citizens to aid us in securing the
remainder.

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At an early period of the present year the Trustees
addressed a memorial to the Legislature, in which
reference was made to the benefits which our Institu-
tion was designed to confer upon the public, as well
as to the cordial interest which is felt in its success by
large numbers of our citizens, and asking that the sum
of $200,000 be appropriated for equipping and furnish-
ing the new fire-proof edifice on Manhattan Square.
This measure, receiving the hearty codperation of his
Honor the Mayor and the Comptroller of the City,
and of the Commissioners of the Department of Pub-
lic Parks, was promptly passed by the Legislature.

The Commissioners have prepared plans and speci-
fications for the cases and all interior constructions, and
it is probable that the building will be entirely com-
pleted and ready for occupation early next summer.

Our collections have been enriched by several im-
portant purchases and by many generous gifts, the num-
ber and value of the latter being unusually large.

The Department of Anthropology has been increas-
ed by the purchase of the Hon. E. G. Squier’s rare
collection of antiquities, formed during his several
years of sojourn and travel in Central and South
America; also in this department, to a former contri-
bution is added a new and valuable one by the Hon.
Geo. B. Glover, of Shanghai.

Among the more important additions to our other
departments are the following: a unique series of
eight mounted and eight unmounted specimens, re-
presenting thirteen species, of the Moas or gigantic
fossil birds of New Zealand, purchased last year and
now placed on exhibition: mummies from Columbia
River, presented by Dr. J. Simms, and from Alaska

by the Alaska Commercial Co.: thirteen boxes of
copper and iron ores from Lake Superior, presented
by Samuel Sloan, Esq., and a collection of minerals
from the Western States, presented by Prof. A. E.
Foote: several mounted mammals and birds from
Beirout, Syria, presented by the Rev. D. Stuart Dodge:
many fine specimens of carboniferous plants from
Pennsylvania, presented by Thomas Ingham, Esq.:
the W. J. Hays’ Collection of mounted heads of the
Moose, Buffalo and Cariboo: skulls and antlers of
many species of deer, and a large picture of a herd of
buffalo, all presented by the generous friends of the
lamented artist: Mr. D. G. Elliot’s gift of over eleven
hundred fine skins of birds of North America, and
several mounted mammals.

The Maintenance Fund, received from our Annwal ©
Members, has provided for a limited corps of curators,
and enabled us to purchase the Squier collection.
The services of additional curators are now required
by the constant and rapid growth of our Museum,
and it is hoped that the list of such subscribers will
be largely increased during the ensuing year.

The number of visitors to our halls has been stead-
ily increasing. The turnstile recently placed at the
entrance to the Museum has given the following sur-
prising results, and affords a most satisfactory proof
of the popularity of the institution :

NUMBER OF VISITORS.

For the Week ending Saturday, September 18th, . 17,082
uieee ¥ % 7 25th, . 13,827
October 2d, . 15,204

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16th, . 18,385

23d, . 18,828

30th, . 14,935

November 6th, . 18,904

Whole number for October, 70,846
Total for eight weeks, . 128,943
Average per week, . . 16,118

From the above statistics, it will appear conclu-
sively that while the efforts of the Board of Trustees
have been directed to the establishment of an institu-
tion with high scientific aims, they have not failed at
the same time to make some appropriate return for
the liberal aid of the City by contributing to the
attractions of the Central Park, a highly appreciated
source of popular enjoyment, truly refining in its
tendencies, and calculated to direct the thoughts and
alms of many into congenial channels of observation
and study.

We cannot conclude this brief report without a
sincere and respectful tribute to the memory of our
late associate, Mr. Witxtram T: Bropeert, a gentleman
who, while he possessed a nature in peculiar and ear-
nest sympathy with the liberal and graceful arts, was
from the beginning the friend and zealous promoter
of the interests of this Museum, an institution whose
appropriate though not exclusive field enters largely
into the severe domain of science. We shall miss
his active codperation, his generous and ready aid,
and the intercourse of the ever genial and courteous

gentleman.
ROBERT L. STUART,

President.
D. JACKSON STEWARD,

Secretary.

All communications should be addressed, Amert-
caAN Museum or Naturat History, Centra Park,
New York.

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ESC OREO Raa rro Nn:

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 estab-
lishing 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 knowledge 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 Constitu-
tion 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 keep-
ing 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.

Src. 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.

Src. 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject
to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the Third Title of the Eight-
eenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes.

Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately.

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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.

eye Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany,
4 sEAL.} this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight

—~—~— hundred and sixty-nine.
D. WILLERS, JR.,

Deputy Secretary of State.
At a meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,

Esq., April 8th, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a
majority of the Trustees.

CONS TIVUILLON

OF THE

American Museum of Aatural History,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

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ARTICLE I.

Tuts Corporation shall be styled the American MusEum oF
Natura. 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 II.

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
November, elect the officers and committees for the ensuing year.
They shall also meet at any other time to transact special business
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.

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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 having
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 forall 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 five, who 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.

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ARTICLE VIII.

The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the
Treasurer, and it shal! 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.

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 two thousand five hundred dollars to the
funds of the Museum at one time, shall entitle the person giving
the sarne to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, shall en-
title the person giving the same to be a Fellow in Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum Books or
Specimens 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.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be entitled,
at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its Exhibitions,
but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplomas, become
members of the Corporation.

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.

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BY = rey

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Patrons giving $2500 are each entitled to 10 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single
admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1000 are each entitled to 5 Com-
plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets
for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for
a single admission. :

Members giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a single
admission.

Associate Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 10 Tickets for
a single admission.

Annual Members, $10 yearly, are each entitled to 1 Subseri-
ber’s Ticket, and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a single admission.

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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.

LLL.

No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of a
Trustee who shall not be a “ Fellow in Perpetuity ” of the Museum,
unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board—excepting
Trustees ex-officio.

DON AT TOs .

1874.
November 18—Mastodon’s Tooth, presented by Mr. Root.

December 9—Dr. E. H. DAVIS.
One Box Minerals—Collected by Dr. Berendt in Mexico,
One “ & from South America.
One Box Fluviatile Shells.

os « Mrs. GWYNNE.
Collection of Shells and Minerals.

‘¢ 21—A. R. YOUNG.
One Stone Axe, Southport, Conn.
One Obsidian Lanee Head, Ohio.
Two Specimens of Coral.
One Spider.
Sixteen Specimens Algae.
One Mummy of Crocodile, Egypt.

we 30—Carr. CHAS. P. MERRITT.
Collection of Shells from Montevideo.

vs “GEO. TENNEY.
Specimen of Marble from Jennyjump, Warren Co., N. J.

. “CHAS. E. MILLER.
Specimen of Chrysobothris fulvoguttata.

1875.
January 4—Dr. CHAS. W. GREENLEAF.
One Menobranchus.
One Lota inornata.

“ 15—Revy. L. HOLZER, Church of the Holy Redeemer, N. Y.
Tarandus rangifer (Reindeer.) Two very fine specimens
of Skins from Finmarken, Lapland.
A series of Photographs of the Costumes of Laplanders.

February 1—GEO. W. LAWRENCE.
Copy “ Proceedings Lyceum Natural History,” New York,
containing “ Birds of Costa Rica.”

March 3—D. G. ELLIOTT.
One Felis caracal. Hab. India.
“ Felis rufa. Hab. Cal.
‘“ Felis chaus, Boyos Country, Abyssinia.
“Felis mitis, Brazil.
‘* Felis serval, Sierra Leone.
“Felis javanensis, Sumatra.
“Felis caffra, Cape of Good Hope.
“ ‘Hylobates syndactyla. Hab. Sumatra.

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“ Vierteljahrsschrift de Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in
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“ Verhandlungen der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt.”
1874. Wein.
12 Pamphlets and 1 Folio from the Royal Hungarian
Society of N. H. Budapest
22d Annual Report on the Working of the Public Free
Libraries. Manchester, Eng. 1873-4.

April 29.—A. W. VOGDES, U. S. Army.

Audubon’s “ Synopsis of Birds of America.’

May 1—Dr. SAMUEL W. FRANCIS, Newport, R. I.
One- Torpedo a

‘he OE Oe BUEHLER, ON Ve
Two Skulls and two a. of Maoris, from Chatham
Tslands.

“ 14—Pror. CHARLES RAU.
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One large war club. New Ze: aland.
One small a
One Sword, with shark’s teeth. Pacific Islands.

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“ 29—HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF STEIERMARK.
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Three photographs of the Cohoes Mastodon.

“ 30—S. K. SATTERLEE, Rye, N. Y.
Reptiles from New England.

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“ 5—OTTO M. BUEHLER, N. Y.

Photographs of Chatham Islands, taken on the Transit of
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“Naturgeschichtliche Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Umge-
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e ie Catalog me of Fossil Plants.”
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. : « « ~ Reptilla and Pisces.”
y ‘““ Memoir on the Mylodon.”
i ‘Nautilus Pompilius.”
oh Histological Catalogue. Vol. I.
“ “a v3 ce TI.
‘ “Memoranda on Vegetation.” John Hunter.
Osteological Catalogue. Vol. I. 1-1918.
“e o “ TI. 1914-5906.
. Physiology Gallery. Vol. I

August \—-SAMUEL SLOAN, New York.
Thirteen boxes specimens Copper and Iron Ores, from
Lake Superior District.

“* 10—THEOPHILUS KRAMER, Houston, Texas.
Eggs of the “ Phrynosomma (Orbiculare) Mexicana,” in
alcohol.

September 15—JOHN H. KEMP, New York.
One large birch-bark Canoe, with paddles, made by the
Penobscot Indians of Maine.

we 18—W. A. CONKLIN, New York.
One specimen of Amphioxus, from Naples, Italy.

“ 24_JAMES JACKSON, Paris, France.
One piece Granite, from St. Francis Harbor, Granby Is-
land, Coast of Labrador.
One piece Granite, from Lobster Bay, Coast of Labrador.
Four pieces Amazonite, from Bad Bay, “
One pair each of Esquimaux boots and mittens, from St.
Francis Harbor, Granby Island, Coast of Labrador.

‘s “_WILLIAM A. HAINES, New York.
Eight Crystals of Beryl. Portland, Conn.
One specimen Quartz. us: “

ae ‘ Hornblende. os OC
“ a Tourmaline. sc 6
“c “ Mica. (vs “c -

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Two specimens of the Echinus from St. Thomas, W. I.

“« “JOHN H. KEMP, New York.
One large specimen of fossil Coral.

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One large specimen Cryolite from Iviguck, Greenland,
brought by the steamer Juniata, of the Expedition in
search of Capt. Hall.

“ 3—Rev. STUART DODGE, Beirout, Syria.
One mounted Badger, one Marten, two mounted Squirrels,
one Hedgehog, four Turtles, one Snake, one Dove, one
Sparrow, five Rollers, two Cuckoos, one Heron, two
Ravens, six Foxes, all from Beirout, Syria.

“ 5—B. W. WILLIAMS.
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calities.
Collection of Pebbles from the seashore, Mendocino, Cal.
One Arrow-head, W yndham Co., Conn,
One Butterfly,

“ 7—W. A. CONKLIN.
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One Spine of Star Fish, Squam, “ 4

‘“ 9—By the friends of the late Artist, Mr. W. J. HAYS.
Five Male Moose Heads, mounted.
Three “ “ Skulls.

* “Antlers.

One Elk Head with antlers, mounted.

oe to Sinn: as

eee Antlers, with piece of skull.

aid os disconnected.

‘“ Male Buffalo Head, mounted.
Two + Skulls, with horns.
One ‘s Cow Skull

3 Antelope Head and Horns, mounted.

#: “one horn broken.

L . Skull, with horn.

“ Young Antelope Skull.

‘“ pair horns Rocky Mountain Sheep.

“ “ Black-tail Deer Antlers.
Two “ Musk Ox Horns.
One skull and horns South American Red Deer.
Seven heads American Deer, mounted.
Twelve pairs “Antlers.
One pair Walrus Horns.

‘ English Pheasant, and five other birds.

“ Royal Bird of the Incas.
Three Ducks, ten large Grouse.
One Deer’s Head, horns in the velvet.

“ Rocky Mountain Goat’s Head.

“Antelope Head.
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One Gray Rabbit, three Ermine or Mink, one Otter.
One Porcupine, one Prairie Dog, one Wild Turkey.
Three young Prairie Chickens, 1 Snipe, 1 Woodeock.
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November 13—THOMAS INGHAM.
125 specimens of fossil Plants.
98 f ‘“ European and other fossils.
30 a “ Teeth.
14 Stone implements, and a lot of Minerals.

“ 15J. F. WISSMAN, New York.
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ce “_-JOHN JAY BARGIN, New York.
One Hornet’s Nest.

20—Pror. B. H. WHITFIELD, Clinton, Miss.
46 specimens of Tertiary fossils.
112 Indian Arrow-heads.
So Celts:
28 Valves of Ostrea.
1 box duplicates of Rostellaria.

: 27—Mrs. JOHN CROSBY BROWN, New York.
32 specimens of Shark’s Teeth and other fossils from the
Phosphate beds of Charleston, 8. C.

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“Publications de L’Institut Royal Grand Ducal de Lux-
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? “__G, C. WALLICH, M. D.
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« 5—ALFRED PELL, New York.
Three volumes of “‘ Nature.”

ee “__Mrs. J. ODELL.
Spine of the Drum Fish, Long Branch, N. J.

« —30—Dr. SAMUEL W. FRANCIS, Newport, R. I.
One Rough-legged Hawk.

“« —_31—Hon. GEO. B. GLOVER, Shanghai, China.
No. 1. One set of Chess. ;
. Dominoes, 32 pieces.
+ of bamboo.
Three Bamboo Slips.
Cup and Saucer and 6 Dice.
. Bamboo Box and 82 Slips.
. Sixty-seven Ivory Counters.
. Card Board for playing games.
. Box containing 140 slips of bone.
. 10. One Wooden Chess Board.
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Finlay, Edward S., M. D.
Fiske, Josiah M.
Fitch, John

Fitz Gerald, W. J.
Flagg, Thomas J.
Fleet, Oliver 8.
Fogg, William H.
Foote, E. B., M. D.
Forman, Alexander
Foote, Emerson
Foster, Frank P., M. D.

Foster, J. P. G.
Foster, Wm. R.
Foulke, Thomas
Fowler, Frederick R.
Frame, Charles P.
Francis, Lewis
Fraser, George 8.
Fraser, Wm. A.
Freeborn, G. ©., M. D.
Freeman, Alfred A.
French, Chas. T.
Frey, Frederick T.
Friedman, A.
Frohwein, Theobald
Frost, Samuel
Frothingham, Rey. O. B.
Fry, Chas. M.
Gallup, Albert S.
Garrison, Wm. R.
Gay, Joseph E.
Gebhard, Edward
Georger, Louis F.
Gibbs, Theodore K.
Gibert, Fred. E.
Gifford, Sanford R.
Gillespie, G. D. H.
Gitterman, Henry
Glover, Chas. H.
Goadby, Jas. H.
Godkin, Edwin L.
Godwin, Parke
Goldenberg, Levi
Goodridge, Frederick
Goodwin, Eben
Goodwin, James J.
Gossler, Gustav H.
Gotthold, Lewis
Grace, W. R.

Graet, Chas.
Graham, James L.
Graham, Malcolm
Grant, Henry L.
Gray, John

Greene, W. Henry C,
Greenebaum, H.
Greenleaf, A. W.
Greenleaf, Thos.
Greenwood, Isaac J,
Grinnell, William F.
Griswold, B. W.
Griswold, George

Griswold, Sam’l L., M. D.

Grosvenor, Mrs. M. A.
Grosz, Frederick H.
Grote, Frederick
Guernsey, Egbert, M. D.

Gunning, Thos, B., M. D.

Gunther, O. Godfrey
Gunther, F, Frederick
Gunther, Wm, Henry

| Hall, W. A.

| Heuberer, Chas. E.

Gurnee, W. §.

Habirshaw, W. M.
Hadden, Alexander, M. D.
Haight, Charles

Haines, Miss Emily Somers)
Haines, John P.
Haines, Mrs. John P.
Haines, R. Townley
Haines, W. A.
Haines, Mrs. W. A.
Hall, A. Oakey
Hall, John H.

Hall, Thomas D.
Hall, Valentine G,

Hallgarten, A.
Hallgarten, Chas. L,
Ham, John C.
Hamburger, Max
Hammond, E, A.
Hammond, W. A., M. D.
Hanemann, John T.
Harberger, John §.
Hare, J. Montgomery
Harney, Geo. E.
Harris, Elisha, M. D.
Harrison, Joseph G.
Harrison, Miss M. J.
Hartley, Marcellus
Hasell, Bentley D.
Hatfield, R. G.
Haughwout, Frank G.
Havemeyer, J.
Havemeyer, J. C.
Haven, G. G.
Hawley, Henry E.
Hay, Allan

Hayden, C. E.
Haydock, George G.
Haydock, Robert
Heidelbach, Max
Heins, Wm. F.
Heller, Jonas
Heller, William
Hendricks, Harmon
Hendricks, Joshua

| Hendricks, M. M.

Henry, M. H., M. D.
Hernandez, A.
Hernz, E. Martinez
Hernz, R. Martinez
Herriman, John
Herrman, Abraham

Higginson, James J,
Hills, Henry F.
Hinman, W. K,

Hinton, John, H., M. D.
Hoag, Daniel T.
Hobson, Joseph

Hodges, M. F.
Hoe, Peter S.
Hoe, Richard M,
Hoffman, J. O.
Hoffman, S. V.
Hoffman, W. 0.

| Hoffman, Wm. B.
| Hoguet, H. L.
| Holbrook, E. F.

Holbrook, E. W.
Holbrook, M. L., M. D.
Holcombe, Wm. F., M. D.

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| Holden, E. R.

Holden, James C.
Holder, Francis T.
Holland, Alexander
Holly, Augustus F,
Holmes, Samuel

Holt, Charles L.

Holt, R. S.

Hone, Robert 8.
Hopkins, Lucius
Hopkins, 8. W.

| Hoppin, W. W., Jr.

| Hosack, N. P.

| Houghton, Rev. G, H.
| House, G. V.

Howe, Joseph W., M. D.
Howland, 8. 8.

Hoyt, Alfred M.
Hoyt, John Q.

Hoyt, Oliver

Hoyt, Thomas J.
Hubbard, Frederick

| Hubbard, Samuel F., M D. .
| Hubbard, Gen. T. H.
Hughes, T. W, B.
Hunt, M. Furman

| Hunt, Samuel I.

| Hunt, Seth B.

Hurd, 8. H.

Hutchins, Hon. Waldo
| Hyde, E. Francis
Hyde, Samuel T.
Iddings, W. P.

Irvin, Richard

Iselin, Adrian, Jr.
Iselin, Mrs. Adrian
Iselin, John H.

Iselin, Oliver

Iselin, Wm. E.
Isham, W. B.

Ivison, Henry
Jackson, Geo. T.
Jackson, W. H., M. D,
Jacobi, A., M. D.

| Jacobson, Frederick
Jaffray, E. 8.

Jaffray, Robert

| Jarvis, Nathaniel

Jarvis, Nathaniel, Jr.
Jenkins, 8. F.
Jenkins, Wm. L.
Jesup, Charles M.
Jesup, Maria V. A.
Jesup, Morris K.
Johnson, Jeremiah, Jr.
Johnson, John E.
Jones, George

Jones, Walter R. T.
Jordan, C. N.

Judson, Curtis

Kane, Hon. J. Grenville
Kelly, Horace A.
Kemp, John H.
Kemp, Wm.
Kennedy, John 8.
Kennicutt, Thomas
Kerner, Charles H.
Keyes, George

Kidd, Geo. W.
Kidder, Jerome, M. D.
King, Edward J.
King, George

King, Wm. H.
Kingsland, A. C., Jr.
Kitchen, William K.
Knapp, H., M. D.
Knight, James, M. D.
Knox, Henry E.
Kobbé, P. F.

Koehler, Herman
Kohn, Adolph
Krackowizer, E., M. D.
Kuhne, Frederick

La Forge, A. T.

Lane, Jonas H.
Lanier, J. F. D.
Larremore, Hon. R. L.
Lauterbach, Edward
Lavanburg, Louis
Lawrence, Rev. F. E., D. D.
Lawrence, George N.
Lawrence, Newbold
Lawrence, Samuel
Lawson, L. D.
Lawton, Walter E.
Leale, Chas. A., M. D.
Lee, William H.
Lefferts, M. Clifford
Lehmaier, M. H.

Le Roy, Daniel
Lesher, Stephen R.
Leslie, Frank
Leverich, Henry §.
Levy, L. 8.

Lewis, Charlton T.
Liautard, A. F., M. D.
Lindgens, Heury A.
Linsly, Jared, M. D.

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Linthicum, W. 0.
Littaner, N.
Little, John W.
Livermore, FE. R.

Livermore, Frank, M. D.

Livingston, Edward
Livingston, John A.

Livingston, Com. J. W.

Livingston, L. M.

Livingston, Robt. E.
Livingston, Robt. J.
Livingston, Wm. S.

Livingston, Wm. S., Jr.

Lockwood, B.
Loew, Edward ¥.
Lord, Charles

Lord, G, D. F.
Lothrop, W. K.
Lottimer, William
Lowrey, Joseph 8.
Lowry, John
Ludington, C. H.
Ludlow, E. H.
Ludlow, E. Livingston
Lusk, Wm. T., M. D.
Lyle, John §.

Maas, Adolphus H.
Maas, Frederick M.
Maas, Gustavus
Mack, Adolph
Macy, Josiah, Jr.
Macy, Wm. H.
Maddux, Lewis
Maitland, Robert L.
Major, W. K.

Mali, Charles

Mali, W. W.

Man, A. P.

Manice, Wm. D. F.
Marcotte, L.
Marquez, F.
Marshall, C. S.
Marshall, D. D. T.
Marsland, Geo.
Martin, Bradley
Martin, W. A.
Martin, Wm. C.
Mason, Lowell
Maxwell, Alexander
McAlpin, D. H.
McCready, N. L.
McCurdy, R. H.
McGill, G. W.
McGinnis, John, Jr.
McKee, Russell W.
MeMullen,Thomas
McVickar, J. A., M. D.
Mead, Ralph, Jr.
Mecker, W. B.
Melcher, John

Merriam, Henry E. ,
Merritt, Douglas
Merritt, Mrs. Julia
Merwin, Geo, A.

Metcalfe, John T., M. D.

Milbank, J.
Mildeberger, J.
Miles, W. A.
Milhau, J. J., M. D.
Miller, Edmund H.
Miller, George M.
Mills, James M.
Mills, 8. D.

Mills, Zophar
Minot, Geo. R., Jr.
Minturn, Mrs. A. M.
Minturn, Edward
Mitchell, James L.
Moir, James
Monell, Hon. C. L.
Montague, Geo. L.
Moore, Henderson
Moore, John P.
Moore, W. H. H.
Morgan, D. P.
Morgan, Geo. D.
Morgan, George H:
Morgan, Henry
Morgan, Matthew
Morgan, Wm. F.
Morris, Henry Lewis
Morris, Wm. J.
Morrison, E.
Morrison, Geo, A.
Mortimer, W. Y.
Moses, M. H.
Mosley, George
Motley, James M.
Mott, Alex. B., M. D.
Mott, William F.
Moulton, Clarence F.
Moulton, Gilman S.
Mount, Richard E.
Mowry, A. L.
Mowton, Charles C.
Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M.
Marphy, John
Myers, John K., Jr.
Myers, T. Bailey
Nash, Henry
Navarro, Juan N.
Neftel, Wm. B., M. D.
Negus, T. 8.
Neilson, F.

Netter, Albert
Nichols, Truman, M. D.
Nicoll, H. D.; M. D.
Norrie, Adam -
Notman, Peter

Noyes, Henry, D., M. D.
Oakley, H. A.
Obarrio, Gabriel
O’Connor, Chas.
O’Connor, Thos. H.
Odell, Jonathan
Odell, Mrs. Jonathan
Olcott, F. P.
Olmstead, Dwight H.
Olmsted, Fred. Law
Olyphant, R. M.
Olyphant, Robert
Onativia, J. V.
Orton, William
Osborn, Frederick 8.
Osgood, 8. 8.
Osgood, Mrs. 8. S.
Ostrander, C. V. B.
Otis, F. N., M. D.
Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Owen, E. H.
Owen, Joshua T.
Paddock, Eugene H.
Palmer, Cortland
Pancoast, George
Parish, Henry
Parsons, Arthur W.
Parsons, Geo. W.
Parsons, John E.
Patterson, Joseph W.
Patterson, Thomas C.
Payne, Wm. H.
Peabody, Arthur J.
Peaslee, E. R., M. D.
Peckham, Walton H., M. D.
Peet, William E. |
Pell, Alfred
Pell, John H.
Pell, Robt. L.
Penfold, Edmund
Penfold, Wm. Hall
Perkins, C. L.
Perkins, James D.
Perley, Joseph L.
‘tea John G,, M. D.
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Peters, Geo. A., M. D.
Pfeiffer, Carl
Phelps, Benj. K.
Phelps, Chas. Harris
Phelps, Geo. D.
Phelps, Mrs. J. J.
Phelps, Royal
Phelps, Wm.
Phillips, J. B.
Phillips, L. J.
Phoenix, Phillips
Pierra, Fidel G.
Pinkney, J. H.
Pinkus, F. §,

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Platt, John R.

Platt, Sam’l R.
Pondir, John
Popham, Wm. H.
Poppenhusen, Adolph
Porter, Hon. John K.
Post, Alfred C,, M. D.
Post, E. A.

| Potter, Miss Grace H.

Potter, Rev. H. C., D. D.
Potter, Howard
Potter, Miss Lizzie
Potter, Miss M. N.
Powell, William
Powers, 4@eo. W.
Powers, Thomas J.
Powers, Wm. P.
Preston, Wm. I.
Prime, Frederick
Prime, Rufus
Prince, Gen. Henry
Prince, J. D.
Purdon, James
Purdy, J. F.

| Purdy, Wm. Macneven

Purssell, James
Pyne, M. Taylor
Pyre, Percy R.
Pyne, Perey R., Jr.
Quintard, E. A.
Rader, Louis B.
Rader, Max
Ramsay, C. G,
Ray, Robert
Raynolds, ©. T.
Raynor, Samuel
Redfield, Amasa A,
Rees, Norman I,
Reid, Whitelaw

| Renwick, W. R.

Requa, J. M.

| Rice, E. T.

Richards, J. W., M. D.
Riker, John L,
Riker, Wm. J.
Riley, Chas. V.
Riley, H. Chauncey
Ripley, George
Ritter, John Peter
Robb, J. Hampden
tobbins, George A.
Robinson, Geo. B.
Robinson, John R.
Robinson, R, A.
Rode, Charles
Roelker, Bernard

| Rogers, Chas. H,

Rogers, John
Rollins, Daniel G., Jr.

Roosa, D. B, St. J., M. D.

Roosevelt, Jas. A.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
Roosevelt, W. E.
Rosenbaum, A. S.
Rosenfeld, L.

Ross, William B.

Rothschild, Victor H.

Routh, Henry de B.

Rusch, Adolph

Russell, Charles H.

Riitten, August

Ryan, Columbus

Rylance, J. H., D. D.

Sabine, G, A., M. D.

Sandford, Charles F.

Sandford, Rollin

Sands, H. G., M. D.

Sands, Joseph

Sands, Samuel S.

Satterlee, 8. R.

Sayre, Lewis A., M. D.

Schafer, Sumuel M.

Schafer, Simon

Schaus, Wm.

Schell, Edward

Schermerhorn, C. A.

Schlessinger, B.

Schmidt, Oscar E.

| Seholle, A.

Scholle, J.
Schumacher, Fred’k
Schuyler, Philip.
Schwendler, Fred.
Scribner, J. Blair
Scudder, Linus
Sexton, Samuel, M. D.
Shaler, Gen, Alexander
Shaw, James M.

Shea, Hon. George

| Sheafe, J. F.
Shearman, Wm. Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Shoards, Rev. Joseph F.

| Sinclair, John

Sistare, George K,.

Skidmore, Jeremiah

| Skidmore, Samuel T,

| Skidmore, William L,
Slawson, J. B.

Sloan, Samuel
Sloane, William

Sloane, Wim. D.

| Slocovieh, G,
Smith, Charles 8,

| Smith, Edward F,

| Smith, Geo. W.
Smith, Hanbury, M. D.

| Smith, H. Erskine

| Smith, J. F., M.D,

Smith, James J.

Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.
Smith, Sam’l M.

Smith, 8. 8.

Smith, Thos. C.

Smith, U. J.

Smith, Wm. Alex.
Smith, Wm. Henry
Smyth, B. L.

Snead, Thomas L.
Solomon, B. L.
Solomon, S. B.
Southworth, Henry C.
Soutter, Mrs. J. H.
Speir, Gilbert M.

Spies, A. W.

Spencer, Hon. James C.
Squires, Robert

Starin, John H.

Steers, Henry
Steinway, Albert
Stengel, Prof. Frederick
Stephenson, John
Sterling, A. F.

Stevens, John W.
Stevenson, V. K.
Steward, Campbell
Steward, D. Jackson
Steward, Mrs. D. Jackson
Stewart, David

Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.

Stone, Geo. E.

Storer, Albert

Storm, Thomas
Stoughton, Hon, E. W.
Stout, Richard

Strange, A. B.

Strong, Charles E.
Strong, W. L.

Stuart, Alexander

- Stuart, Mrs. Mary
Stuart, Robert L.
Stuart, Homer H.
Sturges, Thomas T., Jr.
Sturgis, Appleton
Sturgis, Frederick R., M. D.
Sturgis, Miss Margaret B.
Sturgis, Mrs. Russell
Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Stymus, W. Pierre
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Sutherland, Josiah
Sutton, E. B.

Suydam, D. Lydig
Swan, Otis D.

Swan, Saml., M. D.
Swan, Wm. 4.

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Swinton, John

Swords, Henry C.

Tailer, Edward N., Jr.
Taintor, Chas. M.

Talcott, James

Tappan, J. Nelson

Taylor, Aug. C.

Tefft, Charles G.

Terbell, H. S.

Terry, Mrs. Frederic P.

| Therasson, L, F.

| Thompson, S. C.

Thompson, W. Prall

Thomson, James

Thomson, Wm. H., M. D.

Thurber, H. K. .

Tieman, Peter C.

Tilford, John M.

| Tillotson, L. G.

Titus, James H.

Tobias, Samuel I.

Todd, A. J.

Todd, Wm. James

| Tomes, Francis

Tompkins, Wm. G.

Toucey, J. M.

Tousey, Sinclair

Townsend, Effingham

Townsend, H. D.

| Townsend, J. L.
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W.
Tows, F. H.

| Tracy, William
Tracy, Chas,

| Tracy, J. Evarts

Trevor, H. G.
Trevor, John B.
Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Trotter, George

| Troup, Miss Louisa

| Trow, John F.
Trowbridge, Edwin L,

| Tuck, Edward

Turney, P. W.

Valentine, Lawson

Van Buren, Wm. H., M. D.

Van Dusen, Samuel B.

Van Rensselaer, K.

Van Nostrand, David

Van Winkle, E. 8.

Vanwoert, J. V.

Varnum, James M.

| Verhuven, H. F.
Vermilye, W. R.

| Vermilye, Wm. M.

| Von Hoffman, Louis A,

| Von Post, Herman C.

Von Volkenburgh, P.

Waite, Chas. C,

Walker, Edward
Walker, Evan T.
Walker, Francis T.
Wall, Charles
Wall, Michael W.
Wallach, Adolph
Wallack, Lester
Walz, Isidor, M. D.
Ward, John E.
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Warren, J. Kearney
Watson, Col. B. F.

| Watson, John H.

Watson, Wm.
Webb, Gen. Alex. 8.

| Webb, Mrs. Gen. A. 8.

Weber, John
Webster, David, M. D.
Webster, Sidney
Weed, Hon. Thurlow
Weeks, Francis H.
Weeks, John A.
Welch, Uriah
Welling, Chas. H.
Wenman, James F.
Weston, Theodore
Wetherbee, Gardner
Wheeler, De Witt C.
Wheeler, J. W.
Wheelock, Geo. G., M. D.
Wheelock, W. A.
Wheelwright, B. F.
White, Norman
Whitlock, William, Jr.
Whitney, Alfred R.
Wiechers, W. A.
Wiley, Franklin
Wiley, W. H.
Williams, John S.
Williamson, David B.
Wilson, John
Winston, F. 8.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.
Witthaus, R. A.
Witthaus, Mrs. R. A.
Wood, Hon. Fernando
Wood, Isaac F.
Wood, J. L. R.
Wood, John D.
Wood, Mrs. John D.
Woollett, Sidney
Woodruff, Hon. L. B.
Work, John C.
Wotherspoon, Henry H.
Wright, Charles L.
Wright, Samuel V.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

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ROBERT L. STUART. J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
THEODORE ROOSEV ELT. PERO Re. PYNE:
HOWARD POTTER. JOHN B. TREVOR.
ROBERT COLGATE. ANDREW H GRISEN.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
ADRIAN ISELIN. JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. FREDERICK W. STEVENS.
MORRIS K. JESUP. ABRAM 8S. HEWITT.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. CHARLES LANIER.

HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

President.
ROBERT L. STUART.

Vice-Presidents.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. | THEO. ROOSEVELT.

Secretary.
D. JACKSON STEWARD.

Treasurer.
J. PLERPONT MORGAN.

Executive Committee.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. | ANDREW H. GREEN.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. MORRIS K. JESUP.
WM. E. DODGE, Jr.

Hinance Committee.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN. | ADRIAN ISELIN.
FREDERICK W. STEVENS.

Auditing Committee.
ROBERT COLGATE. | THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.

Pror. ALBERT 8S. BICKMORE, Superintendent.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Asszstant Superintendent.
Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of Geology.

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Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting this, their
Ninth Annual Report, to the Patrons, Fellows and
Members of the Museum.

In 1870, after an Act of Incorporation had been
granted by the Legislature, and the Elliot, Maximillian
and Verreaux collections had been secured, an agree-
ment was made with the Department of Public Parks,
that these attractive specimens should be temporarily
exhibited in the Arsenal building, in the Central Park,
while the City was erecting a suitable edifice, absolutely
fireproof, and part of a general plan to be completed, by
the addition from time to time of similar sections, as
the increasing collections of the Museum might require
more space for public exhibition. This agreement
has been fully carried out. In accordance with
an Act of the Legislature, passed in 1870, the De-
partment offered the Trustees that portion of the
Central Park formerly known as Manhattan Square,
as a location. This was accepted, and a_build-
ing has been erected from plans prepared by the
Architects of the Department, and approved by a
Committee of our Board, the cases and interior ar-
rangements having been planned, principally, from
suggestions by our Superintendent.

Last year the Legislature passed an Act authorizing
and directing the Department to make and enter

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into a contract with the Museum for the occupation
by it of the buildings erected or to be erected on the
square, and for transferring thereto and establishing
and maintaining therein its museum, library and col-
lections, and carrying out the objects and purposes set
forth in its charter. In comphance with the pro-
visions of this law, an agreement has been made with
the Department, which is hereto annexed, and _pro-
vides, among other things, that the Museum shall en-
joy the exclusive use of the whole of said building,
under rules and regulations contained in the contract ;
that its exhibition halls shall be open to the public,
‘free of charge, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of each week, and on Monday and Tuesday
to subscribers and students; and that the Trustees
may appoint, direct, control and remove all persons
employed in the building and the museum, library and
collections therein contained.

The directors of the principal museums in America,
and a number of scientific gentlemen connected with
similar institutions in Europe, have already carefully
examined the structure, and pronounce it particularly
satisfactory, in respect to light, space, durability, ele-
gance of finish, and every convenience for the visitor
and the scientific student.

This edifice was opened to the public, by the Presi-
dent of the United States, on the 22d day of Decem-
ber, in the presence of the Trustees, the Commissioners
of Publie Parks, the State and City authorities, and a
large assemblage of our most prominent citizens, and
scientific men of the country. Addresses were deliy-
ered on that occasion by Rosert L. Stuart, Esq.,
President of the Museum; Hon. W. R. Martin, Presi-
dent of the Department of Public Parks; President

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Euror, of Harvard University, and Professor Marsz,
President of the American Association for the ad-
vancement of Science, which are appended to this
report.

The new arrangements, including the selection and
removal to this building of a very large part of our
collections, hitherto deposited in the Arsenal, and their
scientific classification, have required, during the past
summer and autumn, the exercise of a great deal of
eare, labor and thought, on the part of the gentlemen
to whom the work has been entrusted by the Board:
and here, we would perhaps be considered as having
failed in our duty, did we not recognize in an especial
manner, the zealous co-operation of Prof. Bickmore,
and others, particularly at a period which brings to a
definite and satisfactory conclusion, the initial move-
ment in our history, with which they have been so
closely identified.

The reptiles, fishes, corals, minerals and duplicates,
are still exhibited in the Arsenal, for want of space in
the new building, which contains the rarer and more
attractive specimens, displayed in cases that suitably
show their beautiful forms and colors, and invite criti-
cal scientific examination.

The Anthropological department has received the
following additions. By donation:—from Mr. John
H. Pell, sixty articles of Indian dresses and arms;
from Capt. J. H. Mortimer, a series of the implements
of the Esquimaux of Alaska; from Mr. H. G. Marquand,
over two hundred pieces of Missouri mound pottery ;
from Mr. D.J. Steward, a collection of rude stone imple-
ments from Goshen, N.Y.; from Dr. Jacob Knapp, Louis-
ville, Ky., stone axes and arrow-heads. By purchase :—
several lots of Missouri mound pottery, from H.de Mor-

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gan; the Bement collection, illustrating the Stone age
of Denmark, and the two-thirds purchase of the rare
and carefully selected collection of Col. Charles C. Jones,
Jr., of Georgia, containing the specimens described and
figured in his “ Antiquities of the Southern Indians.”

The very important collection of implements used
by the prehistoric men of the valley of the Somme, in
northern France, numbering over three thousand
carefully selected specimens, which was brought
over by Mr. H. de Morgan, from Amiens, has been
purchased and deposited by the President of the Mu-
seum. It is stated to be the most complete and valu-
able series of such objects extant, (that of Boucher de
Perthes, at Abbeville, only excepted), and will afford
to investigators of that popular branch of Natural
Science in America, a means of comparing their spec-
imens with a standard series of the earliest Stone age
in Europe.

The purchase of the Hall Collection, has made
the Departments of Geology and Palaeontology so
important, that the services of a special curator have
been required, and Prof. R. P. Whitfield has been em-
ployed to take charge of that part of our collections.
He has unpacked and placed in the cases of the upper
exhibition hall, the types and rarer specimens of the
“James Hall” and other collections, and is now pre-
paring a series of maps, to show by different colors the
areas of the surface of our continent occupied by the
several formations.

Valuable gifts lave been made to this department,
by Mr. Robert L. Stuart and Professor Hall.

The Wolfe gift of the Jay collection of books on
Conchology, is placed in a library specially prepared
with cases and shelves of iron. Important works have

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been given by the States of New Hampshire, Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota. Dr. Hayden’s Geological survey
has been received from the Department of the Inte-
rior, and the publications of many foreign societies
from the Smithsonian Institution.

The very valuable library of Icthyological and Sci-
entific Books, gathered at great expense and care, by
Mr. James C. Brevoort, (unlimited orders having been
given for rare works during many years), has been
purchased by the President of the Museum, and will
soon be deposited in the Library. It is regarded
as by far the most extensive collection of works upon
Fishes in this country.

The great assemblage on the day of opening the
new building, and the large numbers who daily fre-
quent its halls, show that the usefulness of the Museum
is constantly increasing, and we confidently appeal to
all our public spirited citizens, to unite with the
Trustees in sustaining and promoting the prosperity
of an institution which exists only as a means of
advancing the higher education and increasing the
esthetic and scientific attractions of the city in which
we live.

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LINC O:.RP Orne rome

ANY AGT

TO INCORPORATE THE

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American tuseum 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 knowledge of kindred sub-
jects, 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 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.

Src. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and per-
sonal 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,

Seo. 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.

Src. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately.

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STATE OF NEW YORK, bss
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.

@sa2e@ Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany, thig
fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and

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nooe sixty-nine.

D, WitteErRS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State.

Ata meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,
Esq., April 8th, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a majority
of the Trustees.

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CO-N SE ee

OF THE

American Hfuseum of Natural History,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

ARTICLE I+

This Corporation shall be styled the Amertcan Musrum oF
Natura 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 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

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meeting in November, elect the officers and committees for
the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to
transact special business 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 Thy:

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
having a majority of the votes cast, shall be deemed duly
elected.

Ask CTE We:

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
Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and corres-
pondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all 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 inspec-
tion 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.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who shall
have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library and
other property of the Museum; and shall have power to pur-
chase, 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 meet-
ings of the Trustees, without the express sanction of the
Trustees.

D

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 consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trus-
tees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, sub-
ject to the subsequent 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.

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Such By-Laws, when once adopted, may be amended at any
meeting of the Trustees by a vote ofa majority of those
present, after a month’s notice in writing of such proposed
amendment.

ARTICLE XI.

The contribution of two thousand five hundred dollars to
the funds of the Museum at one time, shall entitle the person
giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum Books
or Specimens to the value of twice the amount in money re-
quisite 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 elect Honorary Fellows
of the Museum in their discretion.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its
Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplo-
mas, become members of the Corporation.

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 amend-
ment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular
meeting.

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Joi dire elo.) aS

I,

Patrons giving $2,500 are each entitled to 10 Complimen-
tary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for
a single admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1,000 are each entitled to 5
Complimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets
for a single admission.

Associate Fellows giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Com-
plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a
single admission.

Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to
1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a
single admission.

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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.

1A Be

No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of
a Trustee who shall not be a “ Fellow in Perpetuity ” 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.

GON T bee

WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS

FOR THE OCCUPATION OF THE NEW BUILDING.

Tis AGREEMENT, made and concluded on the twenty-sec-
ond day of December, in the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-seven, between the Drparrment or Pustic
Parks oF THE Ciry or New York, the party of the first part,
and the American Mvsreum or Narcrat History, party of
the second part, Witnesseth :

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 Department 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 occupation 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 Manhattan square, and for
transferring thereto and establishing and maintaining 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 suita-
ble 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,

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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 tollows, 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 build-
ings 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 sue-
cessor or successors, nor the Mayor, Aldermen and Common-
alty of the City of New York, shall be in any manner charge-
able 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, library, and collections, or such portion thereof as
can be properly displayed to the public therein, and shall have
and enjoy the exclusive use of the whole of said building,
subject to the provisions herein contained, and the rules and

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regulations herein prescribed, during the continuance of the
term hereby granted, or until a surrender thereof, as herein
provided.

Fourthly.—That 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 accessible to the public, tree 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 per-
sons, 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 institi-
tions of learning in said city, in which instruction is given
free of charge, shall be admitted to all the advantages afford-
ed 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 admitted to such advantages, as afore-
said.

Fifthly—That 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 sec-
ond part, and neither the said party of the first part nor the
said the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, shall by reason
of said property being placed in said building, or continuing
therein, have any right, title, property or interest therein ; nor
shall the said party of the second part, by reason of its occu-
pation and use of said building under this agreement, acquire,
or be deemed to have any right, 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 con-
tinuance of this agreement, submit to the said party of the

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first part, its successor or successors, a detailed printed report
of the operations and transactions of the said party of the
second part, and all its receipts and payments, for the year end-
ing 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 per-
formance of 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 supervision 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.

Highthly.—That said party of the second part may, at any
time, after the expiration of three, and before the ex-
piration of six months from the date of the service of a notice
in writing to said party of the first part, its successor or suc-
cessors, or to the Mayor of the City of New York, of its in-
tention so to do, quit and surrender the said premises and re-
move 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 prem-
ises. 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 covenants, articles, clauses and agreements, matters and
things herein contained, which on its part are to be done, per-
formed, 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 herein-
before made has become utterly null and void, and thereupon

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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 afore-
mentioned, the same as in their first and former estate, and
in like manner as though these presents had never been
made, without let or hindrance of the said party of the second
part, anything herein contained to the contrary notwith-
standing.

Ninthly.—And it is further expressly understood, and
agreed, by, and between, the parties hereto, that this agree-
ment may be wholly cancelled and annulled, or, from time
to time, altered, or 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 Secre-
tary, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners
of said Department, 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 affixed 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,
mes 1877.

In presence of JAMES F. WENMAN,

D. Porter Lorp. President Department of Public Parks
of the City of New York.

WILLIAM IRWIN,

Secretary Department of Public Parks
of the City of New York.

SEAL
of the American ROBERT iif SUA. ,
Museum of President American V Pe Fe,
Natural History. vesiden merican Museum of Nat

ural History.

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State oF New Yorg, :
City and County of New York, :

On this 12th day of February, in the year 1878, before me
personally came James F. Wenman, President of the Depart-
ment of Public Parks of the City of New York, and William
Irwin, Secretary of the said Department of Publie 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. Wen-
man is the President, and the said William Irwin is the Sec-
retary of the said Department of Public Parks, and that they
signed their names to the foregoing agreement by order of
the ‘‘ Board of Commissioners” of the said Department of
Public Parks, as such President and Secretary.

W. C. BESSON,

[SHAL. | (73) Notary Public N. Y. Co.
Srate or New York, “ag
City and County of New York, { °"*

On this 12th day of February, in the year 1878, before me
personally came Robert L. Stuart, the President of the Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History, with whom I am personally
acquainted, 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 foregoing 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 like order, as President of said Museum.

W. C. BESSON,

[SHAL. | (73) Nocary Public, N. Y. Co.

Recorded in the office of the Register of the City and
County of New York in Liber. 1426 of Cons., page 402, Feb-
ruary 16, A. D. 1878, at 9 o’clock A. M., and examined.

Witness my hand and official seal,

FREDERICK W. LOEW,

[SEAL. | Register.

DON AT GeuN=..

Jan. Ist, 1876 to Dec. 3ist, 1877.

1876.

february 18—HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF STEIERMARK.
“Beitrage zur Kunde Steiermarkischer Geschichtsquellen.”—
Graz, 1875.
“Mittheilungen zur Kunde Steiermarkischer Geschichts-
quellen.”—Graz, 1875.

ee 23—AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
SCIENCE, through F. W. Putnam, Secretary.
“Memoirs of 1 the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.” No. 1. Salem, Mass.

ss 29—D. W. FERGUSON,
1 specimen Pode longitudinalis, Lamk., from Gulf of
California.

- 29—RUSSELL STURGIS, N. Y.
64 specimens of Birds in skins, from Trinidad, 8. A.

’ March 8—STATE OF NEW JERSEY, through Pror. Gro. H. Coox, New
Brunswick.
1 Box Geological Specimens.

“-16.—BRYCE M. WRIGHT, London, Eng.
2 specimens of Ammonites, from Lyme Regis and Folke-
stone.
1 Shark’s Tooth, from the Chalk of Kent.
1 Apiocrinus, Parkinsoni, Bradford, Wilts.

« -22—Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ies ee D. C.
3 packages publications of foreign societies.*,

igh eeat eee ee oe

as

“ 22—CENTRAL PARK ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION, N. Y., through
W. A. CONKLIN, Director.
1 Moor Macaque (Macacus Maurus). Hab, Borneo.

“ 27—D. W. FERGUSON, N. Y
: species of Seis
s Sponge.

April 4—ALBERT STORER, N. Y
60 specimens of Shells.
1 Neptune’s Cup from Ceylon

“ 15—EDMUND E. CAREY, Hamilton, Bermuda.
1 large specimen Pipe Sponge.

20—EDWARD DELAFIELD, N. Y.
1 case of Game Birds (Mounted).
1 large Trilobite.

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April 20—JOHN CROSBY BROWN, N. Y.
4 rare Fossils from Phosphate Beds of Charleston, S. C.

May 1—GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, N. Y.
Descriptions of 5 new species of American Birds; also of a
new species of Jay, of the genus Cyanocitta; also of a
supposed new species of the genus Cyanocorax—Original
papers, illustrated.

“ 4—ROBERT L. STUART, N. Y.
600 Birds’ Eges from Norway and Sweden.

“* 5—J. B. SNIFFEN, N. Y.
1 Stalactite from Mammoth Cave, Ky.
Specimens of Lime Stone, from Texas.
1 specimen Coquina, Southern Florida.

10—ALBERT LINDSAY, New Vernon, N. J.
3 Stone Pestles.
3 “ Hatehets.
5 Arrow Heads.

“ 10—ROBERT L. STUART, N. Y.
1 large polished Ammonite, from England.
1 specimen Scolopendra Gigas (Giant Centipede.) Hab.
East Indies.

16—HOWARD BECK anp Miss M. N. BECK, Sparkill, Rockland Co.,
NAY

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Collection of 500 Shells, (general.)

“ 16—A. P. MOREWOOD.
Specimen of Tree Fern, from Tamsui, Formosa, China.

“ 16—MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
68 specimens, 61 species of Fishes, collected on the Hassler
and Thayer Expeditions.

“ 171—Dr. MORRILL WYMAN, through Dr. J. O. STONE, N. Y.
“Memoir on Fresh-Water Shell Mounds of the St. Johns
River,” Florida, by Jeffries Wyman.

21—W. G. BINNEY.
“Notes on American Land Shells.” Vol. II, part IV, by
himself.

31—Dr. J. M. DELGADO, N. Y.
4 Anatomical Specimens: preparations of human arterial
venous and nervous systems.
1 specimen Human Arm.

“ 31—E. LEONARD CORNING, Ziirich, Switzerland.

1 Model of the Lake Dwellings made under the direction of
Dr. Keller.

1 Vol. English translation, ‘‘On the Lake Dwellings,” by
Dr. Keller.

305 specimens of the Oeningen fossil flora identified by
Prof. Oswald Heer.

Stone implements, agricultural products, pottery, ornaments,
samples of cloth, and ‘‘Lake Dwelling” antiquities.

June \—-THOMAS BLAND, N. Y.
“A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sealidz of the West India
Islands,” by O. A. L. Moreh, M.D.

‘* 20—Master JOSEPH GREENBAUM, N. Y.
1 slab of Old Red Sandstone containing Fossil Fish.

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June 30—GEO. A. CRISSON, N. Y.
: Collection of Shells from Turks Island, West Indies.

* 30—CAROLINE D. MARWEDEL, San Francisco, Cal.
1 fine specimen of the Bark of the Big Trees of Calaveras
Grove, Cal.

+ 30—Mrs. JOHN W. THOMSON, N.Y.
Specimen of Chinese Pheasant.

‘ 30—FRANK CARRYL, Franklin, N. J.
16 Birds’ Nests.

* 30—Mrs. THEODORE RILEY, N. Y.
A collection of minerals, pottery, implements, utensils,
ornaments, etc., from various parts of the world.

* 30—Pror. B. H. WHITFIELD, Clinton, Miss.
Portions of 5 humeri (human.)
8 pieces of Pottery, 2 Clay Pipes, 6 Stone Implements, from
the Mounds of Madison County, Miss.

“ 30—CHAS. TRAUTMANN, N. Y.
1 pair Horns of Kudoo, from Zambei, S. A.
a ae st Gemsbock, ‘“ cc

‘ 30—EDWARD P. SLEVIN, N. Y.
A collection of Birds and Bird Skins, from Egypt.
1 Flying Fish.

* 30—M. H. STAFFORD, N. Y.

Specimens of Perforated Stones, found in Stafford Creek,
Onondaga Co., N.Y.

July \—JOHN E. YOUNGLOVE.
2 species Fossil Coral, Bowling Green, Ky.
24 specimens Pentremites.

1—Gen. JOHN P. HATCH, Lt. Col. 4th Cavalry.
1 Comanche Shield and Bow.
6 <S Arrows.
2 Cheyenne S
1 Bone Scraper.
“ 14—LOUIS BISANG.
1 Diadem Spider.

** 14—HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, N. Y.
A monumental mass of Rock Salt.

August 31—T. NELSON DALL, JR.
1 Vol.—‘A Study of the Rheetic Strata of the Val di Ledro
in the Southern Tyrol,” by himself.

September 3—G. A. TUTHILI, N.Y.
Specimen of Petrified Oak, also specimen of Iron Ore, from
Timber Brook Mine, N. J.

. 6—C. W. NEVINS, Towanda, Pa.
1 specimen Phasma Femoratum (‘Walking Stick.”)
14—EMANUEL J. ATTINELLI, N. Y.
Specimens of the Bark and Wood of the Big Trees of Cal-
ifornia, Minerals, Fossils, ete.
19—ST. JULIEN FILLETTH, N. Y.
1 Humming-bird’s Nest, Americus, Georgia.
1 Gnat’s Nest.
1 Duck’s Egg, peculiarly black, Chester, S. C.

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October 6—STATE OF OHIO, through Hon. H. H. Rosryson, State Librarian;
Columbus, Ohio.
Report on the Geological Survey for 1870. Vol. I, 1873.
Vol. II, 1874.
Paleontology. Vol. 1, 1873. Vol. 2, 1875. And Maps,
1870, 1873, 1874.

“ 9 STATE OF MICHIGAN, through Hon. W. J. Baxter, Secretary
of State, Lansing, Mich.

Vol. I and ne 1869 to 1873 and Maps—‘‘Survey of the
Upper Peninsula.”

“ 12—CHAS. G. SMITH, N. Y
Specimen of Zeus Capillaris (Hair-finned Dory), taken in a
seine at Gardner’s Bay, L. I.

“« 12--FRANCISCO BAMONTE.
Specimens of Clothing from the Huacas, Ancon, Peru.

“ 19—GEO. N. LAWRENCE, N. Y.
Bulletin No. 4 of ‘Natural Museum.”

“ 16—Capr. JOHN H. MORTIMER, N. Y.
1 Specimen of Asbestiferous Silicified Wood, Nevada.

“ =17—Hon. TOWNSEND HARRIS, N. Y.
6 specimens of Glass Rope Sponge.
1 Shark’s Tooth.

“ 93--STATE OF INDIANA, through Dr. G. M. Leverts, Indianapolis.
Reports on Geological Survey, 1869, 70, ’72,’73,’74, and ’75.
« 94--MAJOR BEEBE, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A collection of minerals, stone axes, arrow-heads, sharks’
teeth, shells, ete.

November 2—LACKAWANA COAL AND IRON CO.
16 specimens Iron Ore, from the mines of N. J.

- 10—Miss MARY GELSTON, N. Y.
Natural Mat of the Roots of the Willow (Salix Vitellina.)

a 12—DAVENPORT, Iowa, ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.
Vol. I, 1867-1876; Proceedings.

ob 15—HENRY F. LYMAN, Cleveland, O.
3 pieces of Pink Coral, Operculi of Turbo.

se 20—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C., through
Dr. F. V. Haypen, U. S. Geologist.
Geological Survey of the Territories, Vol. X
Ys of Colorado and the Territories, 1874.
‘e sb Bulletins Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 6. ‘oa Series.

December 2—Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
3 packages publications of foreign societies.

4 2—SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington.
“Contributions to Knowledge,”—Vols. XX and XXI.

e 2—Dr. G. E. MANIGAULT, Charleston, S. C.
Skeleton of Turtle (“mys serrata.)
“ 22—JOHN WILSON, N. Y.
1 Indian Pipe, from Yankton, Dakota.
a 22—ROBERT L. STUART, N. Y.

“Oatalogue of Shells collected at Panama, with notes, ete.,”
by C. B. Adams.

aa

ol

December 23—DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, N.Y., through Wm. Irnwiy,

Sec’y.
“Third Annual Report,”—May 1st ’72 to Dec. 31st, ’73.

29—UNION IRON CO., Buffalo, N. Y.
75 specimens of Iron Ore.

29—Dr. H. G. PIFFARD, N.Y.
129 Vols. of “Buffon’s Natural History.”

29—STATE OF NEW JERSEY, through Geo. H. Cook, State Geol-
ogist, New Brunswick.
“Geology of N. J.,” 1 Vol. and Atlas, 1868.
+ = Annual Reports, 1870 to 1875.

29—ISAAC JOHNSON, Spuyten Duyvel, N. Y.
1 large specimen Asbestos, found on land of the donor.
29—Rerv. CHARLES P. BUSH, N. Y.
Annual Reports of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, from 1838 to 1876.
29—TRABER & AUBERY, Cincinnati, O.
A large series of Ores from the ‘Hanging Rock Iron Region,”
Ky., including specimens from the Hecla Iron and Mining
Co. and the Etna Iron Works.
29—KASTERN KENTUCKY R. R., through H. W. Batzs, Vice Pres’t,
Cincinnati, O.
Specimens of Iron Ore from the “Hanging Rock Iron
Region,” Ky.
29—CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R., through J. R. ScupHam, San Fran-
cisco.
14 boxes Geological Specimens, Ores and Building Stones.
29—SOUTH AND NORTH ALABAMA R. R., through PRor. GESNER.
Geological Sections and Ores.
29—M. S8. MEPHAM & BRO., St. Louis, Mo.
7 boxes Minerals.
29—HUSSEY & HOWE MINING CO., through HERMAN VEEDER,
Agent, Plattsburgh, N. Y.
3 specimens Iron Ores, from the Arnold Iron Mine.
29—WOODWARD’S GARDENS, San Francisco.
300 Bird Skins.

29—ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, through E. OLDENDORFF, Commisioner
to the Centennial Exhibition.
2 Silver Ornaments worn by the Natives of San Luis.
29—GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA, through Rost. THoMPson,
Director of the Botanical Gardens, Kingston.
58 boxes of Woods and Agricultural Products, illustrating
the industrial wealth of Jamaica.
29—GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA, through Major-GeEn’L LEFRoy,
Governor.
6 boxes of Woods and Agricultural Products.
29—GOV ERNMENT OF CANADA, through A. R. C. Setwyy, F.R.S.,
Director Geological Survey.
6 boxes Ores and Building Stones.
29—GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, BRA-
ZIL, MEXICO, TURKEY, NEW ZEALAND, SANDWICH
ISLANDS, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, BAHAMA ISLANDS,
TASMANIA AND TRINIDAD.
Specimens illustrating the mineral, agricultural and econo-
mic wealth of their respective countries.

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US77. :
January \—Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
11 packages of the publications of foreign societies.
February 12— “The Archeological Collection of the U. S Museum,”
CuHas. Rav, 1876.

“* 14— HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF STEIERMARK.
‘*Mittheilungen & Beitrage fiir 1876.”

ae 14—CONSUL OF PERU, N. Y.
“Hl Peru.” Tomo lI. Lima, 1874.

a 14—BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
Through GEN’L JOHN Eaton, Commissioner.
Reports for 1875 and 1876.

27—D. JACKSON STEWARD, N. Y.
5 Wooden Fish-Hooks with Lines.
1 pair Antelope Horns.
1 Shell Ornament.

‘ 27—JOHN O'BRIEN. :
Wooden Image of Alligator found at Clifton, S. I.

i 27—Miss H. HE. WIER.
Stone Pestle from Ferrisburg, Vt.

27—BODWELL GRANITE CO, Vinalhaven, Me.
1 Slab of Granite with Glacial Markings.

March 3—Mrs. Rey. M. 8. CULBERTSON, Brooklyn.
Wearing Apparel of the natives of the Sandwich Islands,
Foochow and China.

“ 7—STATE OF VERMONT, through Hon. H. A. Huss, State Librarian,
Montpelier.
2 vols. Reports on the Geological Survey of the State.

i—D. JACKSON STEWARD, N. Y.
1 Terra Cotta Vase from Peru.

12—Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, N. Y.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society,
London, 1865—1871.

13—Capt, JOHN H. MORTIMER, N. Y.
Implements and Utensils from the Aleutian Islands.

15—MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
Report for the year 1876.

“ 23—Sir JOHN EVANS, London, England.
“ Note on International Code of Archeological Symbols.”
‘* 23—Dr. JAMES KNAPP, Louisville, Ky.

A collection of Arrow and Spear Heads and Stone Imple-
ments.

* 23—Pror. D. S. MARTIN, N. Y.
Bow and Arrows from the Cherokee Country.

26—WM. A. CONKLIN, N. Y.
1 Papoose Cradle.
1 Indian Arrow, iron point.

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March 26—E. A. HOYT, N. Y.
Specimen of the Monocanthus Massachusettssesis.

“ 28—C. B. BILYIEU, N. Y
1 Skin of Crow.
1 Skin of Scarlet Tanager.

April 3—FRANKLIN C. HILL, Princeton, N. J.
2 Photograph Drawings of the Harpalus Caliginosus.

* 3—CHARLES MANN.
‘Memorial of J. A. Lapham.”

“ 6—Miss ELIZABETH SWANSON.
7 Birds Eggs from Caithnesshire, Scotland.

gs 6—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Ween, DEC:
9 vols. Publications.
Mounted Map of the U.S.

“ 10—BODWELL GRANITE CO.
2 Blocks of Polished Granite.

11—ALBERT STORKER, N. Y.

Collection of Shells.
“ 28—Dr. J. V. MANSFIELD, N. Y.
Specimen of the Boa Constrictor, Centipede and Vampire,
in alcohol.
28—WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS,
through Joun EK. Daviss, Sec’y, Madison.

Vol. III of ‘‘ Transactions,” 1875-6.

“ 30—JOHN F. BURNS.
2 Arrows from the Desolate Is., South Pacific.

* 30—GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA, through Rogsert THompson, Esq.,
Director Botanical Gardens, Kingston.
“ Report on the Jamaica Exhibit at the Centennial.”

May \—Gen’t JOHN H. PELL, N. Y.
Implements and Utensils of the Sioux, Cheyennes and
Arrapahoes Indians, captured by Gen. Sully’s Expedition,
1863 and 1864.

“" 2—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Ottawa, Canada, through
Hon. E. A. MEREDITH, Deputy Minister.
Annual Reports for 1874, 1875 and 1876.

* 3—SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Buffalo.
Bulletin No. 4. Vol. III, 1877.

“ 3—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C.
Notes on a collection of Noctuid Moths, A. R. Grote.
“« 1W1— Hayden’s Reports, 1867 to 1874.
9 vols. Publications.

“ 12—FRANKLIN C. HILL, Princeton, N. J.
Photograph of Mosquito Eggs.

“* 12—GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION OF BRAZIL.
‘* Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janiero.” Vol. I,
1876.

« 12—W. A. CONKLIN, N. Y.
Fossil Calamite Stem, New Jersey Stone Gauge.

“ 16—AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Vol. Land II. Transactions of.

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May 19—GEO. W. GILBERT, Pilot Town, Fla.

12 pieces Plain and Ornamented Pottery from Botten
Island, Fla.

“ 19—BARON C. R. OSTEN-SACKEN, Cambridge, Mass.
Pamphlets on “‘ Western Diptera.”

“ 99—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington.
6 vols. Publications.

June 6—Pror. J. 8S. NEWBERRY.
A collection of Lepidoptera from Ecuador, §. A.

“ 16—Dr. O. FINSCH, Bremen.
“Catalog der Austellung Ethnographischer und Natura-
vissenschaftlicher Sammlungen, Bremen, 1877.

“ 16—R. W. MERCER, Cincinnati, 0.
Wax Cast of Stone Image.

“ 995—WM. HOWLAND PELL, Flushing, N. Y.
“Medicine Man’s” Pipe, from Miss.

“ 26—ALBERT K. FISHER.
8 Bird’s Nests, with Eggs.

‘“ 97—H. G. MARQUAND, N. Y.
Skulls and Fragments from the Mounds at New Madrid, Mo.

“ 99—Dr. T. CLEANEY, Cincinnati, O.
1 box Stone Implements.

July 14—W. L. GRAY, Newark, N. J.
Corundum from Shaft at Mineral Hill, Pa.

“ 15—WARD M. GASLAY.
2 Stone Pestles, found at Port Jervis, N. Y.

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“ 27—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington.
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oe 5—A. P. BICKMORH, Norwalk, O.
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& 5—ROBERT HOWELL, Nichols, N. Y.
1 box Fossils.

“ -20—H. G. MARQUAND, N. Y.
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Relics from various parts of the United States; some rare
specimens from Central America and Mexico, and Stone
Implements of a rude character and of various types, col-
lected at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.

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1 Cameo Shell.

1 Robe made of the Entrails of the Seal.

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Stone Implements.

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tery, Woven Tissue, Grains and Fruit from Ancient
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1 Granite Boulder, Little Falls, N. Y.

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Second and Fourth Annual Reports of the Geological Sur-
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‘* A Review of the Birds of Connecticut.”

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“ Mittheilungen” and ‘‘ Beitrage ” for 1877.

December 3—Miss SARAH P. MONKS, Cold Spring, N. Y.

15 species of Pleiocene and Post Pleiocene Fossils.
Minerals from Santa Barbara and elsewhere in California.

7—J. B. WILLIAMS, Stamford, Conn.
1 Robe made of the Entrails of the Seal.

7I—IOWA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, through C. L. Wartrous,
Des Moines, Ia.
A series of 150 specimens of Wax Casts of Iowa Fruits.

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son, Secretary of State, Concord.
Vols. I and II of the Geology of New Hampshire.

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Upper and Lower Jaw of Cetacean.

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Norrie, Adam
O'Connor, Hon. Charles
O'Connor, Thos. H.
Odell, Jonathan
Odell, Mrs. Jonathan
Oleott, Hon. F. P.
Olmstead, Dwight H.
Olmsted, Fred. Law
Olyphant, R. M.
Olyphant, Robert
Opdyke, W. 8.
Orton, William
Ostrander, ©. V. B.

Otis, F. N., M. D.
Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Paddock, Eugene H.
Pancoast, George
Parish, Henry
Parsons, Arthur W.
Parsons, George W.
Parsons, John E.
Patterson, Thomas C.
Peabody, Arthur J.
Peaslee, E. R., M. D.
Peckham, Walton H., M.D.
Peet, William E.

Pell, John H.

Pell, Robt. L.
Penfold, Edmund
Penfold, Wm. Hall
Perkins, C. L.

Perley, Joseph L.
Perry, Myron

Peters, Geo. A., M. D.
Phelps, Hon. Benj. K.
Phelps, Chas. Harris
Phelps, Geo. D.
Phelps, Royal
Phillips, J. C.
Phoenix, Phillips
Pinkney, J. H.
Pinkus, F. S.

Platt, John R.

Platt, Sam’] R.
Popham, Wm. H.
Porter, Hon. John K.
Post, Alfred C., M.D.
Potter, Miss Grace H.
Potter, Rev. H. C., D. D.
Potter, Howard
Potter, Miss Lizzie
Potter, Miss M. N.
Powers, Geo. W.
Powers, Thomas J.
Powers, Wm. P.
Preston, Wm. I.
Prime, Frederick
Prime, Rufus

Prince, J. D.

Purdon, James
Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Purssell, James
Pyne, M. Taylor
Pyne, Percy R.

Pyne, Percy R.., Jr.
Quintard, E. A.
Ramsay, C. G.

Ray, Robert
Raynolds, C. T.
Redfield; Amasa A.
Rees, Norman I.
Reid, Whitelaw
Renwick, W. R.

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Requa, J. M.
Riker, D. S.

Riker, John L,
Riker, Wm. J.
Riley, Chas. V.
Robb, J. Hampden
Robbins, George A.
Robinson, George B.
Robertson, R. A.
Robertson, Touro
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, Chas. H.
Rogers, John
Rollins, Hon. Dan’l G., Jr.
Roosa, D. B. St. J., M. D.
Roosevelt, Jas. A.
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
Roosevelt, W. E.
Rosenbaum, A. S.
Rosenfeld. L.

Ross, William B.

Routh, Henry de B.
Rusch, Adolph

Russell, Charles H.
Rutler, Thomas

Rutten, August

Ryan, Columbus
Rylance, Rey. J. H., D. D.
Sabine, G. A., M. D.
Sandford, Rollin

Sands, Joseph

Sands, Samuel S.
Sanford, Hon. Charles F.
Satterlee, S. R.

Sayre, Lewis A., M. D.
Schafer. Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon

Schaus, Wm.
Schermerhorn, C. A.
Schmidt, Oscar E.
Scholle, A.

Scholle, J.

Schuyler, Philip
Schwendler, Fred.
Shaler, Gen. Alexander
Shaw, Francis Geo. .
Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.

Shearman, Wm. Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Shoards, Joseph F.
Sinclair, John

Sistare, George K.
Skidmore, Samuel T.
Skidmore, William L.
Slawson, J. B.

Sloan, Samuel

Sloane, William

Sloane, Wm. D.
Slocovich, G.

Smith, Charles S.
Smith, Edward F.
Smith, Geo. W.

Smith, Hanbury, M. D.
Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Roswell

Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.
Smith, Samuel M.
Smith, Wm. Alex.
Smith, Wm. Henry
Soutter, Mrs. J. F.
Spier, Hon. Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W.

Spencer, Hon. James C.
Squires, Robert

Starin, Hon. John H.
Steers, Henry

Stengel, Prof. Frederick
Sterling, A. F.

Stevens, A. O.
Stevenson, V. K.
Steward, Campbell
Stewart, David
Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.

Storer, Albert

Strange, A. B.

Strong, Charles E.
Strong, W. L.

Stuart, Alexander
Stuart, Mrs. R.- L.
Stuart, Robert L.
Stuart, Homer H.
Sturgis, Appleton
Sturgis, Miss Margaret B.
Sturgis, Mrs. Russell
Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Stymus, W. Pierre
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Sutherland, Hon. Josiah
Suydam, D. Lydig
Swords, Henry C.
Tailer, Edward N., Jr.
Taintor, Chas. M.
Talcott, James

Tappan, Hon. J. Nelson
Taylor, Aug. C.

Tefft, Charles G.
Terbell, H. S.
Thompson, S. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, James
Thomson, Wm. H., M. D.
Thurber, F. B.

Thurber, H. K.
Tiemann, Peter C.
Tillotson, L. G.

Titus, James H.

Tobias, Samuel I.
Todd, A. J.

Todd, Wm. James
Tomes, Francis
Toucey, J. M.
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W.
Tracy, Chas.

Tracy, J. Evarts
Trevor, H. G.

Trevor, John B.
Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Trotter, George
Troup, Miss Louisa
Trowbridge, Edwin L
Tuck, Edward
Valentine, Lawson
Van Dusen, Samuel B.
Van Nostrand, David
Van Winkle, Hon. E. 8.
Varnum, James M.
Vermilye, J. D.

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Vermilye, Wm. M.
Von Post, Herman C.
Von Volkenburgh, P.
Waite, Chas. C.

Wales, Hon. Salem H.

Walker, Evan T.
Walker, Francis T.
Wall, Charles

Wall, Michael W.
Wallach Adolph
Wallack, Lester
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Watson, Col. B. F.
Webb, Gen. Alex. 8.

Webb, Mrs. Gen. A.S.

Weber, John
Webster, Sidney
Weed, Hon. Thurlow
Weeks, Francis H.
Weeks, John A.

Wenman, Hon. James F.

Wheeler, J. W.

Wheelock, Geo. G., M. D.
White, Norman
Whitney, Alfred R.
Wickham, Hon. W. H.
Wiechers, W. A.

Wiley, W. H.
Williamson, Hon. David B.
Wilson, John

Winston, F. 8.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.

Wood, Hon. Fernando
Wood, Isaac F.

Wood, John D.

Wood, Mrs. John D.
Work, John C.
Wotherspoon, Henry H.
Wright, Charles L.
Wright, Samuel V.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

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ADDRES See's

AT THE

OPENING OF THE New PBUILDING, Prec. a9, 1857:

+

PRAYER BY REV. WM. ADAMS, D. D.

Almighty God, our Father in heaven, taught to acknowl-
edge Thee in all our ways, we would begin, continue, and
end these services with worshipping Thee as the maker of the
heavens and the earth. The heavens declare Thy glory, and
the firmament showeth Thy handiwork. Day unto day utter-
eth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge; though
their testimony concerning Thee is not in audible language,
yet their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words unto the end of the world.

While sun, moon, and stars proclaim thine eternal wisdom
and power, we bless Thee for the more explicit revelation
Thou hast given of Thyself, in Thy word, and in the person
of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. With all this light shining upon us,
we thank Thee that Thou hast endowed us with rational facul-
ties, capable of studying Thy word and thy works, promising
to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Thyself.

We thank Thee for the Institution in whose interest
we are now assembled, designed to collect those objects
which reflect upon us the proof of Thy creative wisdom, in
forms which awaken delight and devotion; the cedar which
groweth on Lebanon, and the hyssop which springeth out of
the wall, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, all creep-
ing things, the treasures hid in the sand, and whatsoever pass-
eth through the paths of the sea. May these halls be consecra-
ted not to vain show and idle curiosity, but to true science
and a devout study of the works and ways of God.

Thanking Thee for all which is done for the external dec-
oration of the City in which we dwell, may its inhabitants

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cultivate those Christian virtues of integrity, honesty, indus-
try, the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord which
are at once our ornament and our protection.

Bless this city of our habitation, our whole country, the
President of these United States and all magistrates, that we
may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all honesty and godli-
ness, knowing that this is acceptable unto Thee through Jesus
Christ. Thus by all methods of our education here on the earth,
prepare us for an abundant entrance into that city not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens, where no longer with
dim and imperfect vision, but with open face, we shall behold
the glory of the Lord, and changed into his image shall be
with him and like him forever. All which we ask in the
name of Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory forever. Amen.

ADDRESS dy Roserr L. Stuart, President of the Museum,
in behalf of the Trustees.
Lapres AND GENTLEMEN :’

We have assembled for the purpose of opening to the
public, the collections of our Museum, and the Building which
the city has erected for their preservation and exhibition.

This day, when our collections are displayed for the
first time, begins a new and most important era in our
history—and it will be proper on this occasion, to review
briefly the generous efforts put forth by our municipality,
and its citizens, in this way, for the public good, and to indi-
cate some of the fields of usefulness which this Institution
is evidently destined to occupy.

For many years, those of our people who were privileged
to travel abroad, were constantly reminded of the fact, that
in our own wealthy and influential metropolis there were
no such institutions for the higher cultivation of the people,
and their instruction and recreation, as the Museums existing
not only in the capitals of Europe, but even in places of
moderate population. Many of the students of natural
science, who grew up in our midst, moved uway to the neigh-
boring cities, which possessed such attractions, and New York
came to be regarded as so given over to the accumulation of
wealth, as to be too sterile a soil for the cultivation of the
higher branches of education.

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At the close of the year 1868 an unexampled opportunity
presented itself, for securing the nucleus of a Museum of
Natural History. Edward Verreaux of Paris, the largest col-
lector of such specimens in the world, died; and his whole
collection was offered for sale. It was at once determined,
that at last, an earnest effort should be made, to secure a part
of these specimens, and our citizens respended so liberally,
that not only were the means obtained to purchase the choicest
specimens of the Verreaux collection, but also the Elliot col-
lection of the Birds of North America, and the entire Museum
of Prince Maximillian, of Neuwied, Germany. With this
ample proof of the interest taken by our citizens in this
branch of Natural Science, the State Legislature, on April
6th, 1869, passed a special Act, creating such of the principal
subscribers as were willing to serve, a body corporate by the
name of the American Museum of Natural History, for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city, a Museum
and library of Natural History, encouraging and developing
the study of Natural Science; of advancing the general
knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing
popular instruction and recreation.

Negotiations were then opened with the city, represented
by the Commissioners of the Central Park, who had nearly
completed our elegant public pleasure ground, and were ready
to add to its attractions, such means for the further instruction
of our people as would be afforded by such an Institution.

The agreement made with the Park Department, was to the
effect that the Arsenal building should be fitted up with cases,
as a temporary place for exhibiting a part of our specimens,
until a suitable fire-proof structure could be completed.

A petition, signed by many of our most prominent citizens,
was presented to the Legislature, who authorized the Depart-
ment of Public Parks to expend a sum sufficient for such a
building, and to set aside as much of the public lands under
their charge as they should deem necessary, for a site for such
structure, and its future extensions. By virtue of this law,
this square of 154 acres was offered by the Department, and
accepted by the Trustees of the Museum, and plans were pre-

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pared by the Architects of the Department, for a building to
be completed in sections, of which this is one.

On June 2d, 1874, in the presence of the Governor of the
State, the Mayor of the City, the Commissioners of the De-
partment of Public Parks, the Trustees of the Museum, and
many distinguished guests, President Grant laid the corner
stone of this edifice.

Soon after the Museum was opened to the public in the
Arsenal, applications were received from many of our ablest
naturalists, desiring to examine our specimens, and in this
way we were confirmed in our judgment, that a series of
rooms should be provided in the new building for the use of
those, who with such facilities could enlarge the boundaries
of Science, by their original investigations.

Accordingly, the Legislature was petitioned for an ad-
ditional sum, which they promptly granted, for equipping
and furnishing the building; and so judiciously and carefully
has this fund been expended, that the structure stands com-
pleted as you behold it to-day (within the appropriation).

Curators of similar institutions in this country, and promi-
nent scientific gentlemen from abroad, have carefully ex-
amined this edifice, and pronounce it, both in the conception
of the whole plan, and in execution of the portion completed,
comparing favorably with any building heretofore constructed.

Its durability, abundance and perfect diffusion of light,
and elegance of finish are evident to all. It is in all respects
adapted to our wants, for the preservation, exhibition, and
investigation of the collections therein contained.

While the Building has been progressing, the Museum -has
been constantly receiving large and choice collections.

The daughter of the first President and liberal friend of
the Museum has presented as a memorial of her father, the
Jay collection of shells, and library of rare Conchological and
other scientific works.

We consider it also a matter in which the Museum is to be
congratulated, that the Trustees and a few of its friends, have
secured to this city, by purchase, the great Geological and
Palaeontological collection of Prof. James Hall, of Albany,

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for New York has by far excelled all her sister states, in the
liberal amounts she has continuously appropriated for her geo-
logical survey, and the importance of this scientific work is
recognized by the whole world, in adopting the nomenclature
her geologists have proposed.

Our great upper hall is nearly filled with the types and
choice specimens of this one collection.

Two-thirds of the sum necessary for the Museum to pos-
sess this property is already subscribed.

Almost daily, some rare specimens, not previously in the
Museum, are brought to the building, until our collections not
only fill this great edifice, but also the Arsenal, and every year
the additions have been steadily increasing, until even at our
present rate of growth, specimens would be accumulated suf-
ficient to fill three buildings like this, before they could be com-
pleted, if begun this day.

The course pursued by the Museum in securing the typical
collection of Prof. Hall, and placing it here where it will ever
be safe from all possibility of injury by fire and accessible to
all, indicates our wishes to aid original investigators in science,
and this purpose is further shown by the suite of rooms in
the Mansard story prepared for those whose labors will not
only help to develop the great natural resources of our own
land, but will add to the present knowledge of the most
learned in all parts of the world.

Our desire is to aid in the creation, even more than in the
diffusion of knowledge.

The structure which we here dedicate, is one of the largest
buildings devoted solely to Natural History, yet completed in
any land; but it forms only a small fraction of the whole
great plan, and we cordially invite the generous co-operation
of all our citizens, being encouraged to hope for the full real-
ization of our plans, by the presence of this distinguished as-
sembly—the Commissioners of the Park, and his honor the
Mayor, representing the City—by a communication from his
Excellency the Governor representing the State, and by the
presence of the President of the United States, in testimony
of the interest taken by the whole nation in our efforts to
promote the public good.

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ADDRESS by Hoy. Wu. R. Martin, President of the De-
partment of Public Parks.

Mr. Presipent, Lapies AND GENTLEMEN !

To-day the promises of the past four years are performed.
You are in a completed building, its six stories filled with
treasures. Yet it is the opening only to a great future.

As you approached, you saw that the building is but a
section of an unfinished whole. It is bordered by avenues
unregulated, by excavations for future foundations, by sub-
graded park work, and yet, within, it is a royal abode for
science. The collections, complete as they seem, when you
listen to the men who are making them, are but their begin-
nings royal though they be. The satisfaction we all feel, this
day, is supported by the promise of that which is to come.
All that is not behind us is before us, and the future is better
than the past.

I think I interpret the feelings of all, when I say that the
strong impression made here is, that we stand in the presence
of something which shall endure. At the moment, the scenes
we have left outside seem transitory; the spectacle in which
we participate becomes sublime. It is because we are in the
presence of Science—of nature, whose history and whose
mysteries the hand of man has discovered and unveiled. The
breadth of her dominion is opened to us. The lines of her his-
tory are written in these rocks, her beauty gleams in the
plumage of these birds. The whole earth is filled with her
glory—how much more this house which we have made.

It is needless for us to say whether the great teacher makes
the great University, or whether the great opportunity pro-
duces the great teacher. It is enough that they live together.
It is the pride of the great city of New York that it has
created the Central Park for the health and enjoyment of the
people, and in doing so, has made it by the adornment of Art
as beautiful as it could be made. But this is not all; it has
led to an appreciation of Art and of Science. As you tra-
versed the Park you saw the beginning of a Meteorological
Observatory, a place for History, and on either hand, two tem-

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ples erected by the people; to-day, this one opened to Science,
and a few months hence another to Art.

Beyond this thorough appreciation the next step must be
creative. With such aids as are here afforded the human
mind will be aroused. Men will gather here to study and to
teach ; to explore and to discover. I record it as the supreme
satisfaction of this day that it is to this purpose that all the
plans are fitted. The idea on which Talleyrand justified the
French revolution is sometimes true of education— what
principles can not do, a man must.” It is not for curiosity,
not for instruction alone, but to awaken here the great teacher,
to encourage here the great discoverer—that glorious possi-
bility which we proudly name man.

By the authority of the People of the State the people of the
city have erected this building. The Department I have the
honor to represent have been charged with the design and con-
struction. While from all other forms of human work we
gather to give honor to the men of Science, I ask you to
remember Mr. Otmstep. I call you to witness the fidelity
and ability of the architects, Mr. Vaux, and Mr. Munoxwirz,
and the skill and patience of the artisan, the mechanic and
the laborer.

On behalf of the city, Mr. Prestpent, we welcome you to
* this Museum, in which you and we are henceforth associated
for the advancement of true science among the people.

ADDRESS of Cuartes W. Extor, President of Harvard
University.

In whose honor are the chief personages of the nation,
state, and city, here assembled? Whose palace isthis? What
divinity is worshipped in this place? We are assembled here
to own with gratitude the beneficent power of natural science ;
to praise and thank its votaries, and to dedicate this splendid
structure to its service. The power to which we here do hom-
age is the accumulated intelligence of our race applied gen-
eration after generation to the study of Nature; and this
palace is the storehouse of the elaborated materials which
that intelligence has garnered, ordered, and illuminated,
What has natural science done for mankind that it should be

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thus honored? In the brief moments allotted to me I can
but mention three pregnant results of the scientific study of
Nature.

In the first place, natural science has engendered a peculiar
kind of human mind—the searching, open, humble mind,
which, knowing that it cannot attain unto all truth, or even to
much new truth, is yet patiently and enthusiastically devoted
to the pursuit of such little new truth as is within its grasp,
having no other end than to learn, prizing above all things
accuracy, thoroughness, and candor in research, proud and
happy not in its own single strength, but in the might of that
host of students, whose past conquests make up the wondrous
sum of present knowledge, whose sure future triumphs each
humblest worker in imagination shares. Within the last four
hundred years this typical scientific mind has gradually come to
be the kind of philosophic mind most admired by the educated
class; indeed, it has come to be the only kind of mind, except
the poetic, which commands the respect of scholars, whatever
their department of learning. In every field of study, in his-
tory, philology, philosophy, and theology, as well as in nat-
ural history and physics, it is now the scientific spirit, the
scientific method, which prevails. The substitution in the
esteem of reasonable men of this receptive, fore-reaching
mind for the dogmatic, overbearing, closed mind, which as-
sumes that it already possesses all essential truth, and is enti-
tled to the exclusive interpretation of it, is a most beneficent
result of the study of natural history and physics.. It is an
achievement which has had much to do with the modern in-
crease of liberty in human society, liberty individual, political
and religious; it is an achievement of the highest promise for
the future of the race.

The second result which I wish to specify is the. stupend-
ous doctrine of hereditary transmission, which during the
past thirty years, or within the lifetime of most of those who hear
me, natural science has developed and enforced by observations
and comparisons covering the whole field of organized life,
This conception is far from being a new one. Our race has
long practised, though ,fitfully and empirically, upon some
crude and fragmentary forms of this idea. Tribes, clans,

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castes, orders of nobility, and reigning families, are familiar
illustrations of the sway of this idea; in killing, banishing,
and confining criminals mankind has in all ages been defend-
ing itself, blindly, to be sure, but with effect, against evils
which incidentally flow from hereditary transmission; but it
has been reserved for natural science in this generation to
demonstrate the universality of this principle, and its control-
ling influence upon the families, nations, and races of men,
as well as upon all lower orders of animate beings. It is fit-
ting that natural history should have given this demonstration
to the world; for the basis of systematic natural history is
the idea of species, and the idea of species is itself founded
upon the sureness of hereditary transmission—upon the ulti-
mate fact that individual characteristics are inheritable. As
the knowledge of heredity, recently acquired by science, per-
meates society, it will profoundly affect social customs, public
legislation, and governmental action. It will throw additional
- safeguards around the domestic relations; enhance the nat-
ural interest in vigorous family stocks ; guide wisely the char-
itable action of the community; give a rational basis for
penal legislation ; and promote both the occasional production
of illustrious men and the gradual improvement of the masses
of mankind. These moral benefits will surely flow from our
generation’s study of heredity.

Finally, modern science has discovered and set forth the
magnificent idea of the continuity of creation. It has proved
that the development of the universe has been a progress
from good to better, a progress not without reactions and
catastrophes, but still a benign advance toward ever higher
forms of life with ever greater capacities for ever finer enjoy-
ments. It has laid a firm foundation for man’s instinctive
faith in his own future. From the sight and touch of what
the eternal past has wrought, it deduces a sure trust in what

the eternal future has in store.

“And present gratitude
Insures the fnture’s good ;
And for the things I see
I trust the things to be.”

It has thus exalted the idea of God—the greatest service
which can be rendered to humanity. ‘“ Each age must wor-

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ship its own thought of God,” and each age may be judged
by the worthiness of that thought. In displaying the uni-
form, continuous action of unrepenting Nature in its march
from good to better, science has inevitably directed the atten-
tion of men to the most glorious attributes of that Divine in-
telligence which acts through Nature with the patience of
eternity and the fixity of all-foreseeing wisdom. Verily, the
infinite, present Creator is worshipped in this place. A hun-
dred life-times ago a Hebrew seer gave utterance to one of
the grandest thoughts that ever mind of man conceived, but
applied it only to his own little nation, and coupled it with
barbarous denunciation of that nation’s enemies. This
thought, tender and consoling toward human weakness and
insignificance as a mother’s embrace, but sublime also as the
starry heights and majestic as the onward sweep of ages,
science utters as the sum of all its teachings, as the supreme
result of all its searching and its meditation, and applies alike
to the whole universe and to its last atom—“ the eternal God
is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”

ADDRESS dy Prorrssor O. C. Marsu, President of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The opening of this Museum to-day is an important event
in the annals of American Science, and one from which great
results are sure to follow. We see around us, here, already,
treasures of nature from every land, and representing all
periods of the earth’s history. Not merely a few typical speci-
mens, as in most new museums, but rich series, illustrating
the marvellous diversity of Nature, both in the present and in
the past. Such treasures, arranged with system, and to the
best advantage, as here, arrest the attention of every observer,
and invite study. This alone is a grand work accomplished,
and yet we are told, this is but the beginning.

The great Museums of the world are in the great cities;
and it is fitting that New York, one of the few great centers
of culture, should at last take her proper place in Science,
and found a Museum, worthy of herself, for the diffusion of
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than the diffusion of knowledge to strive for here, and that is
the increase of knowledge. The old idea of a Museum was
a show-room: the modern idea makes it a workshop, as well.
If this institution is to hold high rank in Science, as we hope,
it will not be in consequence of the spacious halls before us,
crowded though they be with the rarest of Nature’s products:
but, rather, it will come through the small workrooms in
‘the attic, where the naturalist, with microscope or scalpel,
has patiently worked out discoveries that add to the sum of
* human knowledge. This Museum will fail of its highest good,
fail even to achieve more than a local influence, unless the
workrooms above are made the most important feature of the
whole. These vast collections will spread the elements ot
Natural Science among the people of New York, and the
surrounding region; but the quiet workers in the attic, who
pursue Science for its own sake, will bring the Museum
renown throughout the world.

There is yet a more important reason for making this insti-
tution a center for original research. The science of to-day
stands face to face with great problems. The antiquity of
Man; the origin of the human race; and even the origin of
Life itself, are among the questions which the present age sub-
mits to science, and to which it demands an answer. If these
problems are to be solved by Science, America must do her
full share of the work, for the materials are here. In all that
pertains to ancient life, the Western Continent possesses count-
less treasures, unknown in other lands. These, as I believe,
are to unlock many mysteries in Biology, and render import-
ant aid toward the solution of the profounder questions I have
named. American Science can thus repay its debt to the Old
World, where science began, and gathering new facts, from
broader and richer fields within her own borders, carry
forward, with the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, the
never-ending search for Truth.

If the American Museum of Natural History, opened to-
day under such favorable auspices, does not take a prominent
part in this great work, it will not do justice to its founders,
or to its opportunities. But with such a foundation as we have

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here, and such resources as wait to unfold their secrets within
walls yet to be reared on this commanding site, I venture to
predict for Natural Science in America greater triumphs than
have hitherto been won in any land.

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Highth Annual Heport, 1876.

The Hall Collection, which was purchased last year, has all
been safely received and is now securely stored in the new
building, in a room specially prepared for this purpose by the
Department of Public Parks. The locality and geological
formation of each individual specimen were carefully identi-
fied by Prof. Hall. The whole collection had been so dis-
tinctly labelled when it was gathered, and had been preserved
with such scrupulous care that this great labor progressed rap-
idly notwithstanding its magnitude.

The donations to the Museum during the past year have
been numerous, and of especial value. The principal nations
of the world, and most of our own States, displayed at the
International Exhibition, at Philadelphia, collections illustra-
ting their mineral wealth and other natural resources. The
central location of our institution, at the commercial metrop-
olis of the nation caused these exhibitors to be desirous that
their specimens, gathered at great labor and expense, should
be displayed in New York, where they would be placed on
exhibition, and always seen by the great number of visitors
who frequent our halls from all parts of our own country and
from foreign lands.

The following Governments and States have presented por-
- tions of their exhibits: Jamaica, her entire exhibit contain-
ing a rich display of her tropical woods; Bermuda, her
woods; a part of the woods of Brazil, the Argentine
Republic, Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, and Turkey ; miner-
als from the Governments of Canada, Spain, Brazil, Tas-
mania, and New Zealand. Minerals and building stones from

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the following States: Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, and California; 21
boxes of iron ores from the Hanging Rock region, through
Messrs. Traber & Aubrey, Cincinnati; a series of the iron
ores smelted by the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Co.; a spe-
cially selected collection of the minerals of Missouri, from M.
S. Mepham & Bro., St. Louis; three cases, 10 feet high, dis-
playing the coal and iron wealth of the lands along the route
of the South and North Alabama R. R. Co., through Prof.
Gesner, and 300 carefully prepared skins of the birds of the
Pacitic Coast, from the Woodward Gardens, San Francisco.
From Japan has been received all her exhibit of building
stones, rocks, ores, and clays, and one-half of her woods in
exchange for duplicates of our Mammals.

A series of the fishes collected by Prof. Agassiz, on the
Hassler Expedition, has been received from the Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. The Anthropological
Department has been presented with an important series of
pottery and stone implements from the mounds of Mississippi,
by Prof. Whitfield, of Clinton.

To the Library has been added by donation the Reports of
' the Geological Surveys of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, and
through the Smithsonian Institution the publications of many
foreign societies.

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ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTIONS

H shibited at the Ceninng of the Rew Building,

Deeember “22d 1877:

THE BUILDING.

The building now completed is one section of a plan that can be extended
until it occupies the entire area of Manhattan Square, which contains 1814 acres.
A photographic copy of the ground plan is displayed on the right hand side
entrance, showing that marginal] park-like areas border the structure upon the
outside, and within are four open courts; also a map indicating the relative
position of the square to the Central Park, and the approaches proposed, in
order to make it accessible from the region of the Lake.

This building has been erected by the City, and the collections displayed are
purchased by private subscriptions, and are the property of the Museum.

Each hall is 170 feet long by 60 wide, inside the walls. The lowest story is
18 feet high; the second, or principal story, including the gallery, is 30 feet; the
upper story 22 feet, and the mansard story 16 feet in height.

On the left hand side of the entrance are plans of the new Museum of Nat-
ural History, now in process of erection by Her Majesty’s Government at South
Kensington, London, and beneath it a plan of the British Museum, the red line

indicating the boundary of our square on the same scale.

COLLECTIONS EXHIBITED IN THE LOWER STORY.

The desk cases ranged through the middle of the lower hall are filled with the
Jay collection of Shells, presented by Miss C. L. WoLFE, as a memorial of her
father, the first President of the Museum. Passing to the northern end of the
room, we come to a group mounted by Prof. Warp, of Rochester, consisting of
a Camel from Armenia, a Moose from Nova Scotia, and a Wapiti from the Rocky

Mountains.

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ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT.

On each side of the northern door, three cusés being an actual geological section along
the route of the South and North Alabama Railway Company.

Case A contains Building Stones from Japan, and Marbles from Ireland, Italy,
and Vermont. The desk-case next in order is filled with exquisite Wax
Fruits from the Iowa Horticultural Society.

Case C. (Panels 1 to 10): Woods from Japan. (11-13): Woods from

Bermuda.

Case D. (1-3): Woods from Bermuda. (4-10): Woods from Jamaica.
(11-13): Woods from America,

MAMMALS.
Case F. (2): Wild Buffalo from the forests of the Czar in Lithuania. (6-8):

Seals and Manatee.

Case F. Male, Female, and Young of American Buffalo, mounted by WARD.

Case G. (2): Llama from Peru. (6 and 7): Big Horn Sheep from Rocky
Mountains. (8): Ram from Morocco.

Case H. (1 and 3): Caribou or American Reindeer. (7): Albino Deer, Alps.
(8): Fallow Deer, Europe.

Case F. (2): Chamois, Alps. (6-10): Antelopes, Africa.

Case F. (1-4): Larger Deer from Siam. In front, African Antelopes.

Case L. Old World Monkeys.

Case M. New World Monkeys.

Case N, The Cat Family. (3): Siberian Tiger. (6-8): Lion from Barbary.

This and most of the Animals in the hall were mounted by EDWARD VER-
REAUX, of Paris.

Case O. (land 2): Civet Cats. (3): Ichneumons. (6and 8): Grizzly Bear,
formerly kept alive in the Park Menagerie. (11): Coatimundis. (12 and
13): Skunks and Weasels.

Case P. (1 and 2): Sloths and Armadillos. (3): Otters. (4-8): Dogs and
Wolves. (10-13): Bats.

Case Q. (1): Rats and Mice. (2): Rabbits, and on lower shelf, Chinchillas.
(4): Marmots. (6-8): Upper shelves, Flying Squirrels; lower shelves,
Poreupines. (10-13). Squirrels.

Case R. Marsupials.

Case T. Pigs; and in center, Malay Tapir.

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SECOND FLOOR OR PRINCIPAL HALL.

BIRDS.

Case A and Case B. (1-4): Systematic collection of Birds and their
skeletons illustrating the Families and Sub-Families of the classification

adopted (that of Professor LILLJEBORG, of Upsala, Sweden), from the Thrush
to the Penguin.

Case B. (6) Commence EL.ior collection of North American Birds, the Sub-
Family genus and species, and its common names are shown on the labels.

This collection fills also Cases C, D, E, and F.
Case G. Humming Birds, nearly all from Central and South America.

Case H. Commences Birds of South and Central America. Verreaux and

Maximilian collections fills Cases H, I, J, K, and L.

Case H. (7): Lower shelf, Cock of the Rock. (8): Middle and lower
shelves, Chatterers and Bell Birds. (10): Middle shelf, Umbrella Birds.

Case [. (1): Lower, and (2): Top, Great Macaws of Brazil and Amazon
Valley. (3 and 4): Toucans. (6): The Trogons, with plumage of green
and gold and scarlet, and below Jacmars, in bronze tints. (10): Night

Hawks.
Case J. (4): Condors from Andes.
Case K. (1 and 2): Curasows.
Case LL. (2): Middle shelf, Spur-Winged Screamer. (3): Scarlet Ibises.
Case M. Commences Birds of Europe and Asia, which fills N, O, P, and Q.
.Case N. (8-13): Pheasants.
Case QO. (1 and 2): Pheasants and Peacocks.
Case P. (7): Lower shelf, Hornbills.
Case Q. (8): Two-Tailed Starlings. (12): Pittas.
Case R. Birds of Africa; also in S and F.
Case R. (7): Adjutant Storks.

Case S. (4): Bee-eaters. (5 and 6): Plantain-eaters. (7): Hornbills.

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GALLERY.

ARCHAOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

Cases A, B, C and D. Collection of the Implements of the Pacific
Islanders, deposited by Mrs. E. E. Srurgis.

Case A. Spears and Lances.

Case B. Masks from Solomon Islands, used in religious ceremonies.
Case C. Elegantly carved War Clubs.
Case F. and G. Indian Dresses and Weapons.

Case H. Porto Rico Collars and Stone Axes, and Peruvian Antiquities and
Pottery.

Case I. (land 2): Mexican. (3 and 4): Georgia Pottery.

Case J. Skulls from Maryland, Skeleton from Cave in Kentucky, and rude

stone implements from Goshen, N. Y., presented by D. J. Stewart, Esq.
Cases K, L, M, N and O. Skeletons.
Cases P, Q, R, S and T. Birds from Australia and Pacific Islands.
Case T. (3): Birds of Paradise.

RAILING CASE. North and most of west side, pe MorGan collec-
tion of Stone Implements from the Valley of the Somme, in the northern
part of France. This collection, which is deposited by the President of the
Museum, is regarded as the most complete of its kind, except that of
BouCcHER DE PerTHES at Abbeville. Then follow on the west side collec--
tions from the ‘‘Swiss Lake Dwellings,” the BEMENT series, representing the
Stone Age of Denmark, and specimens from various parts of our own
country. South side, Squier & Davis’ collections from the Mississippi
Valley. On the east side, specimens from Porto Rico, South Carolina,
part of the pE Haas collection, deposited by Mr. D. J. Srewarp, and the
large and choice collection made by Col. CHas. C. Jones, Jr., of Georgia,

described and figured in his “Antiquities of the Southern Indians.”

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UPPER OR THIRD FLOOR.

Jk MEE Sa ELA LO bE CrP © N:

Case A. (3 and 4): Geological Map of New York State, and illustrating the
classification generally adopted. Below are volumes published by the State
Survey, and most of the specimens figured in them are on exhibition in the
Hall, and are indicated by green tickets, as an illustration of the scientific
importance of this collection.

Case B. (1-4): And adjoining Table Case contains 200 out of about 250
existing types of the Potsdam in America. The Cases are filled with spec-
imens illustrating the various formations, as follows:

Case B. (6and7): Calciferous. (8-10): Canadian. (11-13): Birds-Eye,
Black River.

Case C. (1-7): New York Trenton. (8-13): Western Trenton.
Case D. (1-2): Utica, State. (3): New York, Hudson River. (4-10):
Western, Hudson River. (11): Medina Sandstone. (12 and 13): Clinton.

Case E. (1 and part of 2): Clinton. (2-9): The New York Niagara. (10):
Coraline. (11-13): Niagara of Indiana.

Case F. (1-6): Western Niagara. (7 and 8): Guelph and Onondaga Salt.
(10-13): Lower Helderberg.

Case G. (1 and 2): Remainder of Lower Helderberg. (3 and 4): Oriskany
Sandstone of New York. (5 and 7): Oriskany Sandstone of Maryland.
(8-10): Schoharie Grit. (11-13): Corals of the Upper Helderberg.

Case H. (1-10): Upper Helderberg. (11-12): Marcellus Shales. (13):
Hamilton Plants.

Cases I, J, and K contains Fossils of the New York Hamilton group.

Case L. (1 and 2): Western Hamilton. (3): Tully Limestone. (4): Gen-
esee Slate. (5-7): Portage. (8-13): Chemung.

Case M. (1-7): Chemung. (8-10): Catskill. (11-13): Waverly.

Case N. (1): Waverly. (2 and 3): Burlington Division of the Lower Car-
boniferous, (4-11): Keokuk Division. (12-13): Warsaw Division.

Case O. (1): St. Louis Division. (2 and 3): Chester Division. (4-13):
Plants of the Coal Period.

Case P. (1-3): Other Fossils of the Coal Period. (4): Fishes of the Trias-
sic Rocks of the Connecticut Valley, presented by President R. L. Stuart.

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(5-9): Fishes from the same, from HAL.t's collection. (10): Fossil Tracks,
presented by R. L. Stuart, Esq. (11-13): Cretaceans from the Atlantic
States.

Case Q. (land 2): Cretaceans from the Upper Missouri region, collected by
MEEK and HAYDEN. (3-12): Eocene Tertiary, from various localities.
(13): Miocene.

Case R. (1-6): Vertebrate remains from the Upper Missouri. (7): Post
Pleiocene, from Lake Champlain. (8-13): Collection of European Fossils,

embracing Primordial to Carboniferous.

Case S. (1-2): Saurian remains from the Liassic of England. (2-3): Juras-
sic and Cretaceous Fossils, from Europe. (4): Cretaceous and Tertiary Col-
lections, from various sources. (5-9): Pleiocene and Post Pleiocene collec-
tion of South Carolina (HoLMEs’ collection), containing many types and fig-
ured specimens forming the basis of Tuomey and Holmes’ on South Caro-
lina. (10): Cretaceous and Liassic Fossils, containing some large Ammon-
ites. (12-13): Eocene Fossils, from the Paris Basin Beds of France. (18):
Plants of the Miocene Formation of Switzerland.

Case T. Fossil Birds from New Zealand, and a collection of Fossils and
Minerals, illustrating the geology of Yesso, Japan. The Table Cases oen-
tain Fossils from the various formations represented in the Upright Cases,
near which they are placed, except the two and a half on the west side,
and near the north end, the first of which is filled with Vertebrate remains
from HouMeEs’ collection, and the others with a special collection of Brachi-

opoda, from various formations in Europe.

THE ATTIC STORY.

The attic story is divided into a series of work-rooms for scientific men, who
are carrying on original researches. The first room on the right is the Library,
and contains the conchological works gathered by Dr. Joun OC. Jay, and pre-
sented to the Museum by Miss C. L. WOLFE.

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WILLIAM A. HAINES.
HOWARD POTTER.
ROBERT COLGATE.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD.
ADRIAN ISELIN.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

MORRIS K. JESUP.

D. JACKSON STEWARD.

JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
PERCY R. PYNE.

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JOHN B. TREVOR.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ANDREW H. GREEN.
FREDERIC W. STEVENS.
ABRAMS. HEWITT.
CHARLES LANIER.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
OLIVER HARRIMAN.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.

President.
ROBERT L. STUART.

Vice- Presidents.
WILLIAM A. HAINES. | | D. JACKSON STEWARD.

Secretary.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

G@reasurer.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

Executibe Committee.

WILLIAM A. HAINES. ANDREW H. GREEN.
WM. E. DODGH, Jr. MORRIS K. JESUP.
PERCY R. PYNE.

Finance Committee.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN. | ADRIAN ISELIN.
FREDERIC W. STEVENS.

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ROBERT COLGATE. JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
CHARLES LANIER.

Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Superintendent.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Assistant Superintendent.
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Tenth Annual Report,

IS) aS

Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting this, their Tenth
Annual Report, to the Patrons, Fellows and Members of
the Museum.

During the past year marked progress has been made
in the more exact scientific classification of our own
collections, and in receiving on deposit, and thus render-
ing available to the scientific men of our country, sev-
eral collections which have been the subject of elaborate
examination, and have, therefore, become standards of
comparison for all subsequent investigation.

To farther aid the student in his original researches,
we have received on deposit the several special Libraries
of great value subsequently mentioned, and the large
general Library of the New York Academy of Sciences.

The Treasurer’s Annual Report is annexed, showing
that the Trustees, including a small sum from other citi-
zens, have contributed 517,650, mostly for payment on
account of the Hall collection of fossils, and from the
city the sum of $12,500 has been received, to partly de-
fray the necessary maintenance.

The cases in the lower hall have been perfected by
the addition of shelves, and the whole collection of
mammals scientifically arranged. Several members of
the Board of Trustees have purchased and presented
the mounted mammals exhibited by Prof. H. A. Ward
at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, consist-

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ing of acamel, moose, elk, male and female and young of
the bison, male and female of the Rocky Mountain
sheep, caribou, grizzly bear, hooded seal, skeleton of
dugong, and many smaller specimens. A large paint-
ing, “The Wounded Bison,” by the late W. J. Hays,
has been deposited by his widow, and is placed on the
first landing of the stairway.

In the department of Ornithology, the birds of North
America have each been carefully identified, and the
name written underneath the stand of those that are
mounted. A selection has been made from the skins
presented by Mr. D. G. Elliot, to be mounted and added to
the collection on exhibition, and the remainder divided
into series for study and duplicates for exchange. *

Three hundred and eighteen specimens, representing
295 species of the duplicate birds from various coun-
tries, have been forwarded to the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, and we shall receive in exchange nearly all the
species and specimens necessary to render our collection
of North American birds complete.

The number of our specimens in this department is
as follows:

Exhibition Collection, mounted and including a few to be mounted...... 8,893

Duplicates (in skin) css piss 1! sarees aw seep pies brs op - snpme epee omen 1,158
Study, Collection (in SIKinS), ,. .. 5 «- «0 we caey yep ss ney cst seen ee 461

At the opening of the Museum, one year ago, our
Ethnological and Archeological collections, which are
exhibited on the gallery floor, occupied only the eastern
side of the room, but now they fill all but two cases on
the western side, and in these will be exhibited addi-
tions to this department, which have been already
shipped from California and Canada,

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The principal gifts have been a series of fine stone
implements of Ireland, presented by Mr. T. W. U. Rob-
inson, of Durham, England; insignia and ornaments of
Chinese officials, presented by Hon. Geo. B. Glover ;
three models of cliff dwellings in Colorado, by a mem-
ber of the Board; a small collection of rare stone im-
plements from New York State, and some collected by
Dr. C. C. Abbott in New Jersey, presented by Mr.
James Muhlenberg Bailey.

From the estate of the late Dr. A. Habel we have re-
ceived 50 specimens terra cotta vases and figures from
San Salvador and Peru.

Many rare implements have been added to the
Sturgis Collection, and Mr. G. L. Feuardent has de-
posited three cases full of stone and bronze implements
and pottery from the different Swiss Lakes, and bones
and implements of stone from the Dordogne Caves, in
Southern France, obtained from the Marquis de Vibray,
the whole forming a most interesting series, because it
supplements the unique collection from the Somme Val-
ley, deposited by the President of the Board.

In the Geological department the work of opening
the duplicate fossils of the Hall Collection has been
completed, and they have been arranged in drawers in
the attic story. In the Exhibition Hall the collections
have been examined and the duplicate material selected
therefrom, commencing with the Archean formation to
the Chemung group of the Devonian age inclusive. The

specimens have been zoologically arranged under 26

geological formations, and under 35 geographical areas,
and the number which remains for exhibition up to the
Chemung is 52,298, each one of which has been separ-
ately and carefully examined. Of these, the typical
and figured specimens number 5,265, most of which are

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represented in that important series of scientific works,
“The Natural History of the State of New York.”
These numbers indicate that the whole series of speci-
mens which will be selected for permanent exhibition
from the Hall Collection will amount to 80,000 or 100,-
000, and the whole number of typical and figured speci-
mens at about 7,000.

We have received from the estate of the late Carlos
Cobb, through Mrs. E. F. Peterson, a select series, mostly
on large slabs, of the fossils of the Waterlime Group, con-
taining 27 types of Pterygotus, Eurypturus and other
Crustacea.

Mr. Samuel Sloan has presented several remarkably
large and perfect slabs of coal plants from the anthracite
mines at Scranton, Pa.

Mr. D. J. Steward has forwarded several large slabs
of Schoharie grit from Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., and
many separate fossils.

Mr. A. Woodward has presented and arranged 114
rocks, illustrating the geology of Manhattan Island, and
also assisted the Curator of that department.

By exchange with Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, of New
Hampshire, we have obtained a relief map of that State
and 2,000 specimens of rocks representing the work
done by its geological survey under his direction,

From the estate of the late Dr. A. Habel we have re-
ceived 70 specimens of rocks and fossils from Peru, all
of which are new to the collection.

We have received on deposit, and arranged in drawers,
where each specimen is secure and accessible, the col-
lection of rocks and fossils gathered by the United States
National Survey of the 40th parallel, Mr. Clarence
King in charge. It contains 3,525 fossils, 3,880 rocks,
and also 2,800 microscopic sections of rocks, which are

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described by Prof. Zirkel, of Leipsig, Germany, in Vel.
VI. of the elaborate reports of that careful survey. In
the adjoining room are the fossils, rocks and minerals
collected by Prof. Raphael Pumpelly during his exten-
sive travels in California, China and Japan, and the
specimens upon which he has prepared many scientific
papers.

In the same room are the lithological collections of
Major T. B. Brooks, which contain the rocks described
by him and Prof. Julien in the Geological Reports of the
States of Michigan and Wisconsin; also a full series
from Austria, identified by the lithologist of the survey
carried on by that Government, and a similar series rep-
resenting the lithological work done by the Geological
Survey of Sweden.

The lithology of New York and other States received
in the Hall Collection fills 78 boxes of 1? cubic feet each,
and contains the many sections across the State made
by Mather and others. The Geological Survey of New
Jersey have forwarded specimens of their clays, and will
hereafter send, year by year, specimens illustrating the
progress of their work.

The 2,000 lithological specimens received from Prof.
Hitchcock are each labeled by him, and illustrate fully
the volumes published by his survey.

Arrangements are being perfected for the rapid in-
crease of this remarkable amount of valuable material,
purchased or deposited with us, for the use of those con-
nected with the surveys of the various States or the
nation.

Prof. M. E. Wadsworth, of the Geological Survey of
California, worked during a part of the summer on the
specimens described by Prof. Zirkel, and Prof. McGold-

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rick, of St. Xavier’s College, in this city, is studying n
this department and aiding us in its arrangement.

To render these collections available to the investi-
gator, we have paid particular attention during the past
year to the gathering into this fire-proof structure of
libraries of scientific works in the various departments
of natural science that come within the province of our
institution, with the following gratifying degree of suc-
cess

; Vols. Pamphlets,
Jay Library on Conchology, presented by Miss C. L. Wolfe.... 997 180
Brevoort Library on Fishes and General Zoology, deposited by
the President. of the, Board: 4.4 iacid de cierto .cctiodye sites oper 2,083 1,599
scientific Works from yarlous Gonors... . 2.2... <p0+- << msearer 576 293
Library on Mining and Physical Geology, deposited by Mr.
GlarencerKing avis ...pi4. edeo.fs. cheeses - Lanes at. Ae 2,430 1,652
Library of the New York Academy of Sciences, deposited by the
Society for safe keeping..... S bicisiais stave pists oe ee eet ee eee 4,621 1,537
Prof. Whitfield’s Library on Palewontology................. ... | 302 381
Prof. Bickmore’s Library on Ethnology and Archeology....... 908 420
Total: tx ase p. 4 Seles ngs « faces. . erg dys. Sages 11,967 6,062

The Library of the New York Academy is particularly
rich in serials, received from over two hundred similar
Scientific Societies in all parts of the world. The Mu-
seum also is constantly receiving important additions
from foreign Societies, through the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, and from the geological surveys of the several
States and the nation.

Miss C. L. Wolfe has presented an excellent portrait
of her father, the late John David Wolfe, the first Presi-
dent of the Museum, which was painted by Mr. D.
Huntington, and is placed in the hallway of the princi-
pal floor.

A commodious entrance has been added to our build-
ing during the past summer, and, at the request of the
owners of the surrounding property, the sum of $20,-

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000 has been appropriated by the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment to be expended in improvements
upon our Square during 1879.

The New York and Metropolitan Elevated Railroads
have nearly completed their joint route on Ninth
Avenue to our building, and soon the Museum will be
accessible by a ride of a few minutes from any part of
the city. )

Our contract with the Department of Public Parks

provides that on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sat-
urdays and holidays, the Museum shall be open to the
public free of charge, but Mondays and Tuesdays are
reserved for the study and rearrangement of the collec-
tions, and on these days visitors to the city are admit-
ted, and those contributing money or specimens. A
member paying 510 yearly receives a ticket of admis-
sion for himself and family on these days, and to the
spring and autumn receptions, and complimentary tickets
for friends. The privileges of Fellows and Patrons con-
tributing larger sums are stated in the By-Laws.
. A considerable balance being still due Professor Hall
on account of his collection, and a number of the speci-
mens on exhibition having been deposited with privilege
of purchase upon advantageous terms, we confidently
appeal to our public-spirited citizens to join us in enlarg-
ing and perfecting the interesting collections on public
exhibition, and increasing the facilities which will at-
tract the scientific men of our country more and more
to our city.

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IN GOR POR A Teh @ann

AN ACT

TO INCORPORATE THE

American Wusenm 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 knowledge of kindred sub-
jects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation.

Src. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopta 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.

Sec. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real and per-
sonal 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.

Src. 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.

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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 = the
whole of said original law.

ee Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany, this
6 fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
Scced sixty-nine.
D. Witers, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State.

At a meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,
Esq., April 8th, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a majority
of the Trustees.

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Sone ete PON

OF THE

iz CO of.
American Hiuseum of Natural History,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

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ARTICLE I.

This Corporation shall be styled the American Musrum or
Natura History.

ARTICLE I.

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
ease of the death, accepted resignation, or removal from the
State of any Trustee, anew 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 IIL.

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

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meeting in February, elect the officers and committees for
the ensuing year. They shall-also meet at any other time to
transact special business 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, @nd of the object there-
of, at least three days before the meeting is held.

ARTICLE IY.

The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a
Firstand Second Vice-President,a Secretary and a Treasurer,
an Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Fi-
nance 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
having 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 Muse-
um and of the Trustees.

The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the
Trustees, of the Executive Committee, and of the Auditing
Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and corres-

pondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all 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 inspec-
tion 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,.

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with such suggestions, as to the financial management of the.

Museum, as he may deem proper.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who shall
have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library and
other property of the Museum ; and shall have power to pur-
chase, sell and exchayge specimens and books, to employ
agents, to regulate th jmanner and terms of exhibiting the
Museum to wes public, and generally to carry out in sigue 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 meet-
ing 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 ap-
proved 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 consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trus-
tees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, sub-
ject to the subsequent approval ofa 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.

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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 two thousand five hundred dollars to
the funds of the Museum, at one time, shall entitle the person
giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, shali
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum Books
or Specimens to the value of twice the amount in money re-
quisite 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 elect Honorary Fellows
of the Museum in their discretion.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its
Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplo-
mas, become members of the Corporation.

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 amend-
ment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular
meeting.

.

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Poe eee

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le

Patrons giving $2,500 are each entitled to 10 Complimen-
tary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for
a single admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1,000 are each entitled to 5
Complimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 10 Tickets
for a single admission.

Associate Fellows giving $250 are each entitled to © Com-
plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Tickets for a
single admission.

Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to
1 Subscriber’s Ticket, and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a
single admission.

I.

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.

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No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of
a Trustee who shall not be a “ Fellow in Perpetuity ” of the
Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the
Board—excepting Trustees ex-oficio—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.

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CONTRACT

WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS

FOR THE OCCUPATION OF THE NEW BUILDING.

THIS AGREEMENT, made and concluded on the twenty-sec-
ond day of December, in the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-seven, between the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
PARKS OF THE Crry oF New York, the party of the first part,
and the AmMEerIcAN Museum or Naturat History, party of
the second part, Witnesseth :

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 Department of Public Parks, in connection with the
American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art,” the said party of the first partis authorized
and directed to enter into a contract with the said party of
the second part, for the occupation 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 Manhattan Square, and for
transferring thereto and establishing and maintaining therein
its museum, library and collections, and carrying out the ob-
jects 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 suita-
ble 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

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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 par-
_ties 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 build-
ings 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 suc-
cessor or successors, nor the Mayor, Aldermen and Common-
alty of the City of New York, shall be in any manner charge-
able 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 frst 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, library and collections, or such portion thereof as
can be properly displayed to the public therein, and shall
have and enjoy the exclusive use of the whole of said build-
ing, subject to the provisions herein contained, and the rules

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and regulations herein prescribed, during the continuance of
‘the term hereby granted, or until a surrender thereof, as
herein provided.

Fourthly —That 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 accessible to the public, free of charge, from nine
o clock A. M. until halfan 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 per-
sons, upon such terms as the said party of the second part
shall from time to time direct. Butall professors and teachers
of public schools of the City of New York, or other institu-
tions of learning in said city, in which instruction is given _
free of charge, shall be admitted to all the advantages afford-
ed 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 admitted to such advantages, as afore-
said,

Fifthly.—That 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 see-
ond part, and neither the said party of the first part nor the
said the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, shall by reason
of said property being placed in said building, or continuing
therein, have any right, title, property or interest therein; nor
shall the said party of the second part, by reason of its oceu-
pation and use of said building under this agreement, acquire,
or be deemed to have any right, title, property or interest in
said building, except so far as expressly granted by this

agreement.
Sirthly.—That the said party of the second part shall, on
or before the first day of May, in every year, during the con- :

tinuance of this agreement, submit to the said party of the

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first part, its successor or successors, a detailed printed report
of the operations and transactions of the said party of the
second part, and all its receipts 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 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 supervision 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.

Fighthly.— 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 surrender 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 expira-
tion 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 prem-
ises. 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 covenants, 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 herein-
before mac has become utterly null and void, and thereupon

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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 afore-
mentioned, the same as in their first and former estate, and
in hke manner as though these presents had never been
made, without let or hindrance of the said party of the second
part, anything herein contained to the contrary notwith-
standing.

Ninthly.—And it is further expressly understood, and
agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that this agree-
ment may be wholly canceled and annulled, or, from time to
time, altered, or modified, as may be agreed, in writing, be-
tween 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 Secre-
tary, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners
of said Department, adopted at a meeting held on the thir-
tieth 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 affixed 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. Porrer Lorp. President Department of Public Parks

of the City of New York.

WILLIAM IRWIN,
Secretary Department of Public Parks
of the City of New York. ;

: SEAL ROBERT L. STUART,
Cof the American ; P ;
Pg ES President American Museum of Nat-

© Natural History. ural History.

wwe

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Srave oF New York,
City and County of New York, rs
On this 12th day of February, in the year 1875, before me
personally came James F. Wenman, President of the De-
partment of Public Parks of the City of New York, and Wil-
liam Irwin, Secretary 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 agreement by order
of the “ Board of Commissioners” of the said Department of
Public Parks, as such President and Secretary.
W. C. BESSON,
[ SEAL. | (73) Notary Public, N. Y.
Strate oF New York, di
City and County of New York, ae
On this 12th day of February, in the year 1873, before me
personally came Robert L. Stuart, the President of the Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History, with whom I am personally
acquainted, 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 foregoing 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 like order, as President of
said Museum.
W. C. BESSON,
| SEAL. | (73) Notary Public, N. Y. Co.

Recorded in the office of the Register of the City and
County of New York in Liber. 1426 of Cons., page 402, Feb-
ruary 16, A. D. 1878, at 9 o’clock A. M., and examined.

Witness my hand and official seal,

FREDERICK W. LOEW
[SEAL. | Register.

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DONA Lie.

1878.

CAPTAIN HENRY ERBEN, U. S. Navy.
1 specimen of the Samoan Pigeon (Didunculus).

REV. GEORGE WILSON, Glenluce, Wigtonshire, Scotland, through
Pror. J. J. STEVENSON.

86 species Marine Shells from the shores of Scotland.

77 species Fresh Water and Land Shells, identified by
Pror. Dunn, of Edinburgh.

1 piece of Cyclopterus Hibernicus, from Purtonhaugh, Scotland;
a fragment of the Slab figured in Hucu Miier’s ‘‘ Testimony
of the Rocks,”’ p. 453.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., through Grn. Jonn Eaton,
Commissioner. r :
‘*Contributions to the History of Medical Education in the
United States, 1776—-1876.’’
‘‘Circulars of Information,’’ ete. Nos. 1 and 2, 1877; No. 1,
1878.
Report of the Commissioner, 1876.
ISAAC F. WOOD, N. Y.
Drawing of a Fish.
GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, N. Y.
‘‘ Descriptions of New Species of Birds from the Island of Do-
minica.”’ Original paper.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, through Hon. W. J. Baxter, Secretary of State.
Vol. III. of the ‘‘ Geological Survey of Michigan, 1873-1876.”
NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
Vol. IV., Parts III. and IV., of ‘* Proceedings and Transactions,
1876-77.”
STATE OF NEW YORK, through Hon. Auten C. Bracu, Secretary of State,
Albany.
Census of the State, 1875.
L’ACADEMIE ROYALE DE COPENHAGUE.
Bulletin No. 2, April-September, 1877.
Report for 1873.
H. H. HILL, Cincinnati, O.
2 casts of Sculptured Faces.
1 cast of Grinding Stone.
1 Ornament.
HON. GEO. B. GLOVER, Shanghai, China.
Collection of 500 Chinese Coins, arranged chronologically from
B. C. 245 to the present day.
T. M. TRIPPEH, Orange, N. J.
1 Skull and fragments of Pottery from the Mounds of South-
western Colorado.

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY, through Pror. Gro, H. Coox, State Geologist.
‘¢ Report on Clays,’ 1878.
Annual Report, 1877.
13th Annual Report Rutgers Scientific School, 1877.
5th Annual Report New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, 1877.

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, St. Paul.
Proceedings, No. 1.
Annual Report, 1877.
PROF. A. S. BICKMORE, N. Y.
Knife and Scabbard and Arrow used by the Ainos, Island of
Yesso.
Knife and Scabbard used by the Japanese Noblemen.
Malay Cleaver and Sheath, from Amboina.

CAPTAIN CHAS. BATES, Ship Java, 2d, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
A collection of Reptiles, Fishes and Insects, in alcohol, from
Duke of York Islands.
ROBERT L. STUART, N. Y.
Specimen of Preserved Head of S. A. Indian.
Specimen of Preserved Rat.

L. H. AYME, N. Y.

6 bones of the Moa, from New Zealand.

1 skin of Gull, se se

A collection of Algz and Plants, from New Zealand.

Lot of Shells and Fossils.

2 eggs of the Penguin.

4 bottles of Fishes, Reptiles and Insects.

12 Numbers “‘ Proceedings of Royal Society of Tasmania.”
PHILIP HECHT, N. Y.

1 pair Moccasins, ) from the Munneconjoux Indians, Chey-

1 bead Necklace, -
1 skin of Ermine, eee

J. SABIN, N. Y.
9 Volumes Sabin’s Reprints.

SCHOOL OF MINES, Sydney, New South Wales, through
Pror. Tuos. Eeteston, Columbia College, New York.
2 Geological Maps of New South Wales.

WM. H. COHEN, N. Y.
1 fossil Ostrea.

W. B. DEGARMO, N. Y.
1 Calabash Fruit—Bermuda.
A collection of Coral and Shells.
1 Fish.
Several specimens of the Tropic Bird (Phaeton).

FREDERICK ERATH, N. Y.
1 skull.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington.
<¢ Exploration of the Colorado River,” Powell.
‘*Tertiary Flora,’’ Lesquereux.
Bulletins 1, 2 and 3, Vol. 4, U. S. Geological Survey.
ce 10 and 12, National Museum.
“ Birds of Colorado Valley,’’ Coues.
‘« _tomological Commission,’’ 1877.
‘* Miscellaneous Publications,’’ No. 10.
‘Catalogue of Indian Photograpbs.’’

ERNEST FESTE, N. Y.
4 Stalactites, from banks of the Mississippi, near St. Louis.

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF STEIERMARK.
‘* Mittheilungen und Beitrage,’’ 1878.
THOMAS BLAND, N. Y.
Head-dress of a Seneca Chief.
CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Journal—Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, 1878.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
12 packages of the Publications of Foreign Societies.
MRs. WILLARD PARKER.
Ethnological collection from Zulu, Africa.
A collection of Indian Ornaments and Utensils.
ALEXANDER BAMAUNTI, Brooklyn.
Necklace of Stones worn by the Aborigines of Mexico.
GEORGE SYKES, Peekskill, N. Y.
Several Stone Implements and fragments of pottery.
D. JACKSON STEWARD, N. Y.
2 large Slabs of Schoharie Grit.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, Bureau of Engineers, through
Gen. A. A. Humpureys, Chief.
‘* Survey of the 40th Parallel,’’ Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4,5 and 6, with Atlas.
A. H. ALEXANDER, West Hoboken.
Larynx of Howling Monkey.
H. G. MARQUAND, N. Y.
Indian Antiquities, from the Mounds of Missouri.
PEABODY MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHAOLOGY,
Cambridge, Mass.
Eleventh Annual Report.
PROF. R. E. C. STEARNS.
“List of his Contributions to Natural History.”
M. PREVOST.
1 Porcupine Fish.
2 Fangs of Serpent.
Ball of hair from stomach of a cow.
Cube crystal of Native Salt.
1 Nest of Oriole.
MRS. H. PAINE, N. Y.
Collection of Shells (general).
A. C. YATES.
Specimen of preserved ‘“ Native Food.”’
HON. R. C. WINTHROP, Boston.
‘“Correspondence of Hartlib, Haak, Oldenburg and others of the
founders of the Royal Society, with Governor Winthrop, of
Connecticut— 1661-1672.”
ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Lisbon.
2 Pamphlets on the Botany of Portugal.
GUSTAVUS H. ROBINSON, U. S. Army, Davies Island, N. Y.
1 specimen of Cuttle Fish, caught near the island.
STATE OF ALABAMA, through Evcene A. Sarra, State Geologist.
Reports on the Geological Suryey—1875, 1876.
THOMAS W. U. ROBINSON, Durham, England.
A collection of Stone Implements, Arrow Heads, ete., from
England and Ireland.
1 copy of Greenwell’s ‘‘ British Barrows.”
ESTATE OF THE LATE CARLOS COBB, Baffalo, N. Y., through
Miss E, F. Coss.
A collection of Minerals, Fossils and Shells.
HUGH N. CAMP, N. Y.
1 specimen of Lead Ore from the mine of the St. Joseph (Mo.)
Lead Company.

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Agnew, C.R., M.D.
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Albinola, G.
Alexander, Henry M.
Allen, T. F., M.D.
Amend, Bernard G.
Amy, H.

Anderson, H. H.
Anthony, Henry T.
Appleby, Charles E.
Appleton, D. 8S.
Appleton, John A.
Appleton, Wm. H.
Appleton, W. W.
Arnold, John H. VY.
Arnold, Richard
Astor, John Jacob
Astor, W. W.
Auchincloss, Hugh
Auchmuty, R. T.
Avery, S. P.

Bailey, Jas. Muhlenberg
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Bailey, N. P.

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Bell, Hon. Isaae
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Bien, Julius
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| Blakeman, Birdsey

Bliss, C. N.

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| Brady, Hon. John R.
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| Brown, Miss li. W.
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Brown, J. Crosby
Bruce, Adam T.
Bruce, John M.
Bruce, Col. S. D.
Bryson, P. M.
Buell, James

Bumstead, F. J., M.D.
| Burkhalter, S,

Burrill, John E.
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| Byers, John

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Cammann, H. H.
Camp, W. A.
Carryl, Frank
Carter, Robert
Cashman, M. H.

Chalmers, T. C., M.D.

Chandler, Nathan

Charlier, Elié

Cheever, John H.
Child, Lewis P.
Chittenden, Hon. S. B.
Choate, Joseph H.
Choate, Mrs. Joseph H.
Cisco, John Jay

Clark, Alonzo, M.D.
Clark, Bainbridge S.
Clark, Geo. C.

Clift, Smith

Coggeshall, B. W.
Coleman, E. W.
Colgate, Abner W.
Colgate, Mrs. Bowles
Colgate, Chas. C.
Colgate, Mrs. Chas. C.
Colgate, Edward
Colgate, Miss Georgiana
Colyate, Robert
Colgate, Robert, Jr.
Colgate, R. R.

Colgate, Samuel
Colgate, Mrs. Samuel
Colgate, Samuel J.
Collins, Benjamin
Compton, A. T. .
Constable, Miss Amy H.
Constable, Frederick A.
Constable, James M.
Constable, Mrs. James M.
Constant, Samuel §S.
Constantine, A, J.
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Cook, JobnC.

Corning, E. L.

Cossitt, F. H.

Cotheal, Alex. I.
Cottenet, F.

Coutan, Chas. E.
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Crerar, John

Crocker, George Aug.
Crocker, Wm. Baylis
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Crosby, Rev. Howard
Cruger, S. V. R.

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Daly, Hon. Chas. P.
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de Forest, Mrs. Geo. B.
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de Rham, Chas.
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Delafield, Maturin L.
Delamater, Cornelius H.
Delmonico, L.
Devlin, Jeremiah
Develin, John E.
Dickey, Charles D.

Dittenhoefer, Hon. A. J.
Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D.
Dixon, C. P.

Docharty, Prof.Gerardus B.
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Dodge, W. Earl
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Donner, John O.
Douglass, Andrew E.
Draper, Dr. W. H.

Du Bois, Katharine
Du Bois, William A.
Dunbar, Jas. M.
Duncan, John P.
Dunlap, Robert
Earle, John H.

Eaton, Hon. Dorman B.
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Hidlitz, Leopold
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Elfelt, Augustus B.
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Ellis, John W.

Ely, Richard §.

Eno, Amos R.

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Fahnestock, H. C.
Falls, W. A.

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Fechheimer, M. 5.
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Fogg, William H.

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Foulke, Thomas
Fowler, Frederick R.

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Freeman, Alfred A.
Frey, Frederick T.
Frohwein, Theobald

Frothingham, Rey. 0. B.
Fry, Chas. M.

Garrison, Wm. R.
Gebhard, Edward
Georger, Louis F.
Gibbs, Theodore K.
Gifford, Sanford R.
Gilbert, Clinton
Gillespie, G. D. H.
Glover, Chas. H.
Goadby, Jas. H.
Godwin, Parke
Goldenberg, Levi
Goodwin, James J.
Gossler, G. H.

Grace, W. R.
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Greenwood, Isaac J.
Griswold, B. W.
Griswold, Sam’l L., M.D.
Grosvenor, Mrs. M. A.
Guernsey, Egbert, M.D.
Gunning, Thos. B., M.D.
Gunther, C. Godfrey
Gunther, F. Frederick
Gunther, Wm. Henry
Gurnee, W. S.
Haines, John P.
Haines, Mrs. John P.
Hall, John H.

Hall, Thomas D.

Hall, Valentine G.
Hallgarten, A.
Hallgarten, Julius
Hammond, EF. A.
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Hanemann, John T,
Harberger, Sohn S.
Harrison, Joseph G.
Harrison, Miss M. J.
Hartley, Marcellus
Hasell, Bentley D.
Havemeyer, J.

Haven, G. G.

Hawley, Henry E.
Hay, Allan

Haydock, George G.
Haydock, Robert
Heins, Wm. F.

Heller, Jonas
Hendricks, Harmon
Hendricks, Joshua
Hendricks, M. M.
Hernz, R. Martinez
Herriman, John
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Hinman, W. K.
Hinton, J. H., M.D.
Hoag, Daniel T.
Hobson, Joseph
Hoe, Peter S.

Hoe, Richard M.
Hoffman, J. O.
Hoftman, 8. V.
Hoftmav, Wm. B.
Hoguet, H. L.
Holbrook, E. F.
Holden, E. R.
Holland, Alexander
Holt, Charles L.
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Hone, Robert S.
Hoppin, W. W., Jr.
Houghton, Rey. G. H.
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Hunt, Samuel I.
Hurd, S. A.
Hutchins, Hon. Waldo
Hyde, Samuel T.
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Irvin, Richard

Iselin, Adrian, Jr.
Iselin, Mrs. Adrian
Iselin, John H.
Iselin, Oliver

Iselin, Wm. E.
Isham, W. B.

Ivison, Henry
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Jaffray, Robert
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Johnson, John E.
Jones, George

Jones, Walter R. T.
Jordan, C. N,

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Keyes, George
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_ King, Edward J.
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Lee, William H.
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Lesher, Stephen R.
Leyerich, Henry S.
Lewis, Charlton T.
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Lindgens, Henry A.
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Livingston, John A.
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Livingston, Robt. J.
Livingston, Wm. 8.
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Lothrop, W. K.
Lowrey, Joseph S.
Ludington, C. H.
Lusk, Wm. T., M.D.
Macy, Chas. A., Jr.
Macy, Wm. H.
Maddux, Lewis
Major, W. K.

Mali, Charles

Man, A. P.

Manice, Wm. D. F.
Marcotte, L.

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Martin, W. A.
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Mason, J. J., M.D.
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Maxwell, Alexander
McAlpin, D. H.
McCready, N. L.
McCurdy, R. H.
McGinnis, John, Jr.
MeVickar, J. A., M.1
Mead, Ralph, Jr.
Meeker, W. B.
Merritt, Douglas
Merritt, Mrs. Julia
Metcalfe, John T., M.D.
Milhau, J. J., M.D.
Miller, George M.
Minturn, Mrs. A. M.
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Moore, Henderson
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Moore, W. H. H.
Morgan, D. P.
Morgan, Geo. D.
Morgan, Wm. F.
Morris, Henry Lewis
Morrison, Edward
Morrison, Geo. A.
Mortimer, W. Y.
Mosle, George

Mott, Alex. B., M.D.
Moulton, Clarence F.
Moulton, Gilman 8.
Mowry, A. L.
Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M.

Myers, John K.
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Navarro, Juan N.
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Olmsted, Fred. Law
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Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Purssell, James

Pyne, M. Taylor
Pyne, Percy R.

Pyne, Percy R., Jr.
Quintard, E. A.
Ramsay, C. G.
Raynolds, C. T.

Reid, Whitelaw
Reilly, Hon. Bernard
Reisig, Richard, M.D.
Renwick, W. R.
Requa, J. M.

Riker, D. 8S.

Riker, John L.

Riker, Wm. J.

Riley, Chas. V.
Robbins, George A.
Robertson, R. A.
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, Chas. H.
Rogers, John

Roosa, D. B. St. J., M.D.
Roosevelt, Jas. A.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, W. E.
Rosenbaum, A. S.
Routh, Henry de B.
Russell, Charles H.
Rutler, Thomas
Ritten, August

Kkyan, Columbus
Rylance, Rev. J. H., D.D.
Sabin, J.

Sabine, G. A., M.D.
Sage, Russell
Sandford, Rollin
Sands, Samuel 8.
Sanford, Hon. Charles F.
Satterlee, S. R.

Sayre, Lewis A., M.D.
Schack, Frederick
Schafer, Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon
Schley, Wm.
Schuyler, Geo. L.
Schuyler, Philip
Schwendler, Fred.
Shaler, Gen. Alexander
Shaw, Francis Geo.

Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.
Shearman, Wm. Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Sinclair, John

. Sistare, George K.
Skidmore, Samuel T.
Skidmore, William L.
Slawson, J. B.
Sloan, Samuel
Sloane, William
Sloane, Wm. D.
Slocovich, G.

Smith, Charles S.
Smith, Edward F.
Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Roswell

Smith, Rey. Cornelius B.

Smith, Samuel M.
Smith, Wm. Alex.
Smith, Win. Henry
Soutter, Mrs. J. F.
Spier, Hon. Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W.

Spencer, Hon. James C.
Starin, Hon. John H.
Sterling, A. F.

Stevens, A. O.
Stevenson, V. K.
Steward, Campbell
Stewart, David

Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.
Strange, A. B.

Strong, Charles E.
Strong, W. L.

Stuart, Alexander
Stuart, Mrs. R. L.

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Stuart, Robert L.
Sturgis, Appleton

Sturgis, Miss Margaret B. | Wales, Hon. Salem H.

Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Stymus, W. Pierre
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Suydam, D. Lydig
Swan, Samuel, M.D.
Swan, Wm. H.
Tailer, Edward N.
Taintor, Chas. M.
Talcott, James
Tappan, Hon. J. Nelson
Taylor, Aug. C.
Terbell, H. S.
Thompson, 8. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, James
Thorn, Wm. K.
Thurber, F. B.
Thurber, H. K.
Tiemann, Peter C.
Tobias, Samnel I.
Toucey, J. M.
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W.
Tracy, Chas.

Tracy, J. Evarts
Trevor, H. G.
Trevor, John B.
Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Troup, Miss Louisa
Tuck, Edward
Valentine, Lawson
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Van Nostrand, David
Van Winkle, Hon. HE. S.

| Whitney, Alfred R.

| Worsham, Mrs. B. D.

Vermilye, J. D.
Yon Post, Herman C.

Walker, Evan T.
Wall, Charles

Wall, Michael W.
Wallach, Adolph
Wallack, Lester
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Webb, Gen. Alex. S.
Webb, Mrs. Gen. A. S.
Weber, John

Webster, Sidney
Weed, Hon. Thurlow
Weeks, Francis H.
Weeks, John A.
Wenman, Hon. James F.
Wheeler, J. W.
Wheelock, Geo. G., M.D.
White, Norman

Wickham, Hon. W. H.
Wiechers, W. A.
Wiley, W. H.
Williamson, Hon. David B.
Wilson, John
Winston, F. S.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.
Wood, Hon. Fernando
Wood, Isaac F.

Wotherspoon, Henry H.
Wright, Charles L.
Wright, Samuel Y.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

Young, Mason

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ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTIONS

OF THE

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Angvigan use of Natural History,

January ist, 1879.

{Note.—A Visitors’ Guide is in course of preparation, but large additions having just been
received, necessitating a re-arrangement of the collections, the present schedule is now pub-
lished for gratuitous distribution.]

THE BUILDING.

The building now completed is one section of a plan that can be ex-
tended until it occupies the entire area of Manhattan Square, which
contains 18} acres. A photographic copy of the ground plan is dis-
played on the right-hand side entrance, showing that marginal park-like
areas border the structure upon the outside, and within are four open
courts; also a plan and views showing the proposed improvements on
our Square during the present year.

This building has been erected by the City, and the collections dis-
played are purchased by private subscriptions, and are the property of
the Museum.

The lowest story is 18 feet high ; the second, or principal story,
including the gallery, is 30 feet; the upper story 22 feet, and the
rooms in the mansard story 16 feet in height. Each hall is 170 feet
long and 60 wide inside the walls.

On the left-hanu side of the entrance are plans of the new Museum
of Natural History, now in process of erection by Her Majesty’s Gov-
ernment at South Kensington, London, and beneath it a plan of the
British Museum, the red line indicating the boundary of our Square on
the same scale.

COLLECTIONS EXHIBITED IN THE LOWER STORY.

The desk-cases ranged through the middle of the lower hall are filled
with the Jay collection of Shells, presented by Miss C. L. Wours, as a

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memorial of her father, the first President of the Museum. Passing to
the northern end of the room, we come to a group, consisting of a
Camel from Armenia, a Moose from Nova Scotia, and a Wapiti from
the Rocky Mountains, mounted by Prof. H. A. Warp, of Rochester,
and presented by HucuH Aucurcuoss, Esq.

ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT.

On each side of the northern door, three cases, being an actual Geo-
logical Section along the route of the South and North Alabama Rail-
way Company.

Case A contains Building Stones from Japan, and Marbles from
Ireland, Italy and Vermont. The desk-case next in order is filled
with exquisite Wax Fruits from the Iowa Horticultural Society,
made by Con. BRacKErt.

Case B. (1-3): Woods from Bermuda. (4 to 10): Woods from
Jamaica. (11-13): Woods from America.

Case C. (Panels 1 to 10): Woods from Japan. (11-13): Woods

from Bermuda.

SKELETONS.
Case D. (1-7): Crustacea above, and below skeletons of fish, tur-
tles, Manatee and Dugong. (8-13): Birds.
Case E. (1-6): Skulls of Carnivora, below Marsupials, Rhinoceros.

(7): Llama. (8): Skulls and Anatomy of Man. (10-11): Mon-
keys. (12): Rodents.

MAMMALS.

Case F. Order Quadrumana. Old World Monkeys.

Case G. (1-10): New World Monkeys. (11-12): Lemurs. Or-
der Cheiroptera, Bats.

Case H. (1-3): Bats. Order Insectivora, (3): Hedgehogs. Order
Carnivora, (4-18): Lion, Leopards, Tiger, Cats.

Case I. (1-4): Cats. (5-7): Genets. (8): Ichneumons. (10-13):
Dogs and Foxes.

Case J. (1-2): Martens, Ermines. (3): Fishers. (4-5): Skunks
and Coatimundis.

Case K. Grizzly Bear, formerly living in Park Menagerie;
Hooded Seal, Greenland.

Case L. Order Sirenia, (1-2): Manatee. Order Angulata, Sub-Or-
der Perissodactyla, (6-8): Malay Tapir. Sub-Order Artiodactyla,
(3): Babirusa, (10-13): Llama, Caribou.

Case M. (4): Fallow Deer. (8): European Stag.

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Case N. (5): Axis Deer. (10): Roebuck. (12): Musk Deer.

Case O. Male, Female and Young of Buffalo.

Case P. (1-2): Wild Buffalo, Europe, forests of the Czar, very
rare. (3-10): Antelopes, South Africa.

Case Q. (1-3): Spring-bok, Siberian Antelope, Chamois. (4-10):
Morocco Sheep, Male and Female of Rocky Mountain Sheep. Or-
der Hyracoidea, (18): Hyrax or Rock Rabbit.

Case R. (1-4): Order Rodentia, Mice, Jumping-Mice. (6): Dor-
mice. (7-8): Below Beavers, above Flying Squirrels. (10-18):
Squirrels.

Case S. (4): Chinchilla. (6): Poreupines. (8): Rabbits. (10-11):
Order Edentata, Sloths, Armadillos. Order Marsupialia, (12-13):
Opossums, Tasmanian Wolf.

Case T. (1-4): Kangaroo. (5-6): Above Koala, Wombats.
Order Monotremata, (6): Below Duckbills and Echidna.

On the stair-way, first landing, a painting, ‘‘ The Wounded Bison,”
by the late W. J. Hays.

: SECOND FLOOR OR PRINCIPAL HALL.

Hallway, at the head of the main stairs, a portrait of Mr. Joun
Davin Wo tre, presented by Miss C. L. Wore.

BIRDS.

Case A (1-6) and Case B (1-4): Systematic collection of Birds
and their skeletons, illustrating the Families and Sub-Families of
the classification adopted (that of Professor LinisEBore, of Upsala,
Sweden), from the Thrush to the Penguin.

Case B. (6): Commence Extiot collection of North American
Birds, the suh-family, genus and species and its common names

are shown on une labels.
This collection fills also Cases C, D, E and F.

Case G. Humming Birds, nearly all from Central and South
America.

Case H. Commences Birds of South and Central America.
Verreaux and Maximilian collections fill Cases H, I and J.

Case H. (7): Lower shelf, Cock of the Rock. (8): Middle and
lower shelves, Chatterers and Bell Birds. (10): Middle shelf,
Umbrella Birds.

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Case I. (1): Lower, and (2) Top, Great Macaws of Brazil and
Amazon Valley. (3 and 4): Toucans. (6): The Trogons, with
plumage of green and gold and scarlet, and below, Jacmars, in
bronze tints. (10): Night Hawks. (13): Condors from the Andes. :

Case J. (2): Curasows. (5): South American Ostrich.

Case K and CaseL. Birds of Australia and the Pacific
Tslands.

Case M. Commence Birds of Europe and Asia, which fill N,
O, P and Q.

Case N. (6): Quail, Europe and the Himalayas. (7): Sand
Grouse, Syria. (8-13): Pheasants.

Case O. (1 and 2): Pheasants and Peacocks. (7 and 8):
Eagles and Vultures.

Case P. (1-3): Owls. (4): Rollers. (7): Lower shelf, Horn-
bills. (8-10): Cuckoos.

Case Q. (1-2): Ravens, Rooks, Crows. (3): Jays. (4): Ori-
oles. (8): Two-Tailed Starlings. (12): Pittas. :

Case R. Birds of Africa, also in S and T. (1-4): Water Birds.
(6-8): Storks. (10): Bustards. .
Case S. (3): Rollers. (4): Bee-eaters. (5 and 6): Plantain-

eaters. (7): Hornbills.

Case T. (2): Remarkably changeable colored Starlings.

GALLERY.

ARCH AOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
Cases A, B,C and D. Srvrais collection of the Implements _

of Pacitie Islanders.

Case A. Spears and Lances.

Case B. Masks from New Ireland, used in religious ceremonies.

Case C. Elegantly carved War Clubs, Hervey Island.

Case D. (1-2): Paddles, Samoa, New Ireland. (3): top, Sav-
age Island. (5-4): Battle Axes, New Zealand, New Britain.

Cases Eand F. War Clubs, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands,

Case G. (1-2): Ornaments, New Ireland, Fiji Islands. (3-4):
Shark’s Teeth, Weapons, Kingsmills Island.

Case H. Kava Bowls, Tonga Island. Models of Canoes, Fiji
Island.

Case I. Chinese Musical Instruments, presented by Hon. Gro.
B. Guover. Malay Krises.

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Case J. War Spears and Dresses, Pacific Islands.

Case K. (1-4): Fish and Bird Spears, Bows, Harpoons and
_ Dresses of Eskimos. (5-6): Dresses of Indians, Rocky Mountains.
Case L. Dresses of Sioux Indians.

Cases Nand O. Models of Cliff Dwellings and Villages of the
Pueblos, Colorado and New Mexico.

Case P. Pottery from Mounds of Missouri, presented by Mr.
EL G. Manrguann.

Case Q. Stone Rings, Porto Rico; Pottery from Mexico and
Central America.

Case R. Pottery from Peru.

Cases Sand T. Stone Implements from Swiss Lake Dwellings
and Caves in southern France, Feuardent collection, and from
England and Ireland, presented by Mr. T. W. A. Robinson, of
Durham.

Railing Case. North and west of west side, pz Morcan collec-
tion of Stone Implements from the Valley of the Somme, in the
northern part of France. This collection, which is deposited by
the President of the Museum, is regarded as the most complete of
its kind, except that of Boucner pe Perrues, at Abbeville. Then
follow on the west side, tollections from the ‘‘ Swiss Lake Dwell-
ings,” the Bement series, representing the Stone Age of Denmark,
and specimens from various parts ofour own country. South side,
Seure & Davis’ collections from the Mississippi Valley. On the
east side, specimens from Porto Rico, South Carolina, part of the
DE Haas collection, deposited by Mr. D. J. Srewanp, and the large
and choice collection made by Col. Chas. C. Jones, Jr. , of Georgia,
described and figured in his ‘‘ Antiquities of the Southern In-
dians.”

UPPER OR THIRD FLOOR.
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JAMES HALL COLLECTION.

On entering the room, near the centre of the floor is seen the fossil
Skeleton of the Moa (Dinornis gigantenus), an extinct bird from New
Zealand

The Table Cases arranged along the middle of the room contain
Fossils from the various formations, represented in the Upright Cases,
ite which they are placed, except the two and a half on the west
and near the north end, the first of which is filled with Verte-
remains from Houmexs’ collection, and the others with a special
ion of Brachiopoda, from various formations in Europe.

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Case A, on the left as you enter. (Panel 3 and 4): A Geo-
logical Map of New-York State, illustrating the classification gen-
erally adopted. Below are volumes published by the State Survey,
illustrating the fossils of the several formations of the State, most
of the specimens figured in them being on exhibition in the Hall.
Such type specimens are indicated by green tickets, and illustrate
the scientific importance of this collection. (1 and 2): Rocks and
Minerals of the Laurentian Period. (5): Of the Huronian, and in
6, Rocks representing the geology of New York Island.

Case B. (1-4): and adjoining Table Case, contains 200 types
and figured specimens of Fosstzus from the Potsdam formation of
America. Other parts of this and the following cases are filled
with specimens illustrating the various formations, as follows:

Case B. (6-7): Calciferous. (8-10): Canadian. (11-13):
Chazy, Birds-eye and Black-River.

Case C. (1-7): New York Trenton. (7-13): Western Trenton.

Case D. (1-2): Utica Slate. (3): New York Hudson River.
x (4-10): Western Hudson River. (11): Medina. (12-13): Clinton.

Case E. (1-2): Clinton. (3-10): New York Niagara. (11-13):

Niagara of Indiana.

Case F. (1-6): Western Niagara. (7): Gnelph Limestone.
(8): Onondaga Salt Group. (10-13): Lower Helderberg.

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Case G. (1-3): Remainder of Lower Helderberg. (4-8): Oris-
kany Sandstone [opposite Table Case, Oriskany of Maryland. ]
(9-12): Schoharie Grit. (13): Corals of New York Upper Helder-
berg.

Case H. (1-6): New York Upper Helderberg. (7-11): West-
ern Upper Helderberg. (12-13): Marcellus Shale. (13, upper
part): Plants of Hamilton Group.

Cases I and J, and (1-3) in Case K, New York Hamilton. And
(4-6) Western Hamilton.

Case L. (1-3): Tully Limestone, Genessee Slate and Portage
Group. (4-13): Chemung Group. :

Case M. (1-2): Chemung Group. (3-4): Catskill. (5-10):
Waverly Group. (11 and 12): Lower Carboniferous Limestones,
Burlington Division. (13): Keokuk Division.

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Case N. (1-4): Keokuk Division. (5-7): Warsaw Division.
(8-9): St. Louis Division. (10-11): Chester Division. (12-13):
Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures.

Case O. (1 and 2): Remaining Plants of the Coal Measures.
(3-6): Invertebrates and Fish of the Coal Measures. (7-10): Fishes
and Tracks of the Triassic Sandstones, including many presented
by R. L. Sruarr, Esq. (11-13): Invertebrates of the Atlantic
Coast, Cretaceous.

Case P. (1-3): Plants and Invertebrates of the Upper Missouri
Cretaceous. (4-11): Invertebrates of the Eocene. (12-13): Inver-
tebrates of the Atlantic Coast Miocene.

Case Q. (1-2): Cretaceans from the Upper Missouri region,
collected by Mrrx and Hayprn. (3-12): Eocene Tertiary, from
various localities. (13): Miocene.

Case R. (i-6): Vertebrate remains from the Upper Missouri.
(7): Post Pleiocene, from Lake Champlain. (8-13): Collection of
European Fossils, embracing Primordial to Carboniferous.

Case S. (1-2): Saurian remains from the Liassic of England.
(2-3): Jurassic and Cretaceous Fossils, from Europe. (4): Cre-
taceous and Tertiary Collections, from various sources. (5-9):
Pleiocene and Post Pleiocene collections of South Carolina
(Houmes’ collection), containing many types and figured speci-
mens forming the basis of the work of Tuomey and Holmes on
South Carolina. (10): Cretaceous and Liassic Fossils, containing
some large Ammonites. (12-13) Eocene Fossils, from the Paris
Basin Beds of France. (15): Plants of the Miocene Formation of
Switzerland.

Case T. Fossil Birds from New Zealand, and a collection of
Fossils and Minerals, illustrating the geology of Yesso, Japan.

THE ATTIC STORY.

The attic story is divided into a number of rooms for Libraries and
Laboratories for scientific men who are carrying on original researches.
In these rooms are the collections of the National Survey of the 40th
Parallel, Mr. Clarence King in charge; the rocks and minerals gathered
by Prof. R. Pumpelly during his travels, and work on various State
Surveys ; and the choice and large lithological collections of Maj. T.
B. Brooks, containing the rocks described in the Michigan and Wis-
consin State Reports, and a full series from Austria, Sweden, and 2,000
specimens illustrating the lithology of New Hampshire. The following
are the libraries of scientific works already gathered in this fire-proof
structure:

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Vols. Pamphlets.
Jay Library on Conchology, presented by Miss C. L. Wolfe..... 997 180
Brevoort Library on Fishes and General Zoology, deposited by

the President of the Board... .scaseoumtk. cane pat dew eoee 2,083 1,599
Scientific Works from various sources .................------- 576 =—-.293

Library of the New York Academy of Sciences, deposited for safe-
keeping by the Society... 00.002. 2..6.5:

Prof. Whitfield’s Library on Paleontology .................... 352 = 381
Prof. Bickmore’s Library on Ethnology and Archeology ... ... 908 420
Totals t,t tte emis Caarettete domains Cot One lee 11,967 6,062

ARSENAL BUILDING,
Near Fifth Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street.

The collections exhibited here are such as cannot be placed before
the public in the new building, Eighth Avenue and Seventy-seventh
Street, for want of space.

ENTRANCE.

In the entrance, or the first floor, is a skeleton of alarge Walrus, from
Alaska, deposited by the Park. On the south and west sides are Mam-
mals; on the north sidea group, representing an Arab dispatch-bearer,
who, while crossing a desert on a swift-traveling camel, is attacked by a
lion and lioness. The lioness is represented as fatally wounded and
dying, her limbs already rigid, while the lion springs in fury upon
the Arab, who is attempting to defend himself with a curved dirk or
scimitar, and the camel, aware of its danger, turns its head toward its
rider and cries for help. This work was mounted by Epwarp VER-
REAUX, of Paris, and received the highest prize at the Exposition of 1867.

Passing up the northern stair-way we come to the

SECOND STORY.

Along the east and north sides are Corals, Sea-fans and Shells. On
the west side, mounted Fishes, from the Maximilian Collection.
Northern case, lower shelf, an Eel 15 inches in girth; lower shelf,
next case, the blue Dolphin, which frequently changes its colors
when it dies. Next case, lower shelves, the Angel Fishes, con-
spicuous on account of their long fins and bright colors. Large
case, alligator 12 feet long, from Florida; Snakes and Lizards. Large
case, Turtles; unmounted Skeleton of Elephant; large Birch Trees
nearly gnawed off by beavers for their dams; large Nests made by Hor-

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nets. Three southern cases, mounted Fishes, Porcupine Fish, Gar-pike,
Sharks.

South and east sides, the Maximilian Collection of reptiles and fishes
preserved in alcohol. Table cases, eight filled with Shells, two with
Sea-urchins and Sea-fans, and one with Birds’ Nests and Eggs.
| Ascend the northern stair-way to

THIRD STORY.

East and north sides, minerals. Lower shelves, large masses of
Crystallized Quartz, from cave in Ellenville, N. Y., presented by D. J.
StTewarp, Esq.

West side, three cases, economic minerals, Tron Ores, Coals and
Slates from Centennial Exhibition, and fine collection of Missouri min-
erals, from M. S. MepHam & Bro. Central case, east side, four Moose
Heads, and Bison and Caribou Head, W. J. Hays’ collection. West
side, Fibres from Jamaica Exhibit; Cocoons and Seeds, Turkish Ex-
hibit. South-west cases, Birds, mounted and unmounted. South-
east case, Mammals from the Holy Land. Three cases of Insects, pre-
sented by Baron OsTEN-Sacken and Dr. R. A. Wirruats.

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BENJAMIN H. FIELD. | JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
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Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting this, their
Eleventh Annual Report, to the Patrons, Fellows and
Members of the Museum.

It is now our pleasure to state that the institution is
entirely out of debt. The sum due on the James Hall
Collection of fossils and for deficiency in maintenance
during the past year has amounted up to this date to
$28,179.37. The friends of the Museum have given
$3,000, and the sum of $27,250 has been subscribed
by the members of our Board of Trustees to cover
this indebtedness and leave a small balance in the
treasury. From the city. $10,076.54 have been re-
ceived towards maintenance, and from the Annual
Subscribers and other Members, $8,206.80, making the
total amount paid in to the Treasurer for purchases
and maintenance since Jan. 1, 1879, the date of the
last report, $47,033.54.

The opening of the Manhattan Elevated Railway
to the depot on the northwest corner of our square
at Ninth Avenue and 81st Street, has rendered the
Museum accessible by a ride of a few minutes from

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any part of the city, and has been followed by a ae
increase in the number of our visitors.

The Department of Public Parks has a completed
system of sewerage which has drained the depression
between the hills that originally stood on our Square,
so that now we shall hope to have one of the health-
iest locations on Manhattan Island. The improvement —
of the grounds is still in progress, and the Board of
Apportionment has set apart $20,000 for its contin-
uance during the present year.

The rearrangement and scientific labelling of the
collections, which began last year, have made steady
progress, and produced a marked improvement in the
exhibition ; also the important additions to the Museum
mentioned below have been catalogued and displayed
in the cases of the public halls or arranged in draw-
ers in the laboratories of the upper story so as to be
immediately accessible to all students carrying on
original research.

To the Department of Mammals have been added a
fine mounted specimen of the rare Rocky Mountain
Goat, presented by Mr. Percy R. Pyne; five skulls
and eight carefully prepared specimens illustrating the
structure of various parts of the human anatomy, pre-
sented by Dr. J. J. Milhau; a lower jaw of the sperm
whale and a walrus head, presented by Mr. WH. Bart-
lett of New Bedford; and three highly polished shells
of sea turtle from Florida, presented by Mr. Robert L.
Stuart. A large specimen of the long-nosed monkey
of Borneo, has been purchased and lately mounted,
and placed on exhibition. The Park Department, from
its menagerie, has presented a Striped Hyena, a Har-
nessed Antelope, and a young Llama.

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In two of the desk cases, made vacant by moving
specimens on the gallery floor, are exhibited a series of
very rare and valuable shells, deposited by Mr. W. A.
Haines.

In the department of Ornithology, we have received
from the Smithsonian Institution, as a partial exchange
for the specimens we forwarded last year, 89 species
and 104 specimens of bird skins, which, with a selec-
tion made by Mr. D. G. Elliot from the large series
formerly presented by him, numbers 657 skins which
are ready to be mounted and placed in the cases on the
second floor. Mr. Alfred Van Deusen has presented
9 species, 17 specimens, of skins from South America.
A remarkably large and finely colored specimen of the
Wild Turkey, mounted by Mr. Bell, was presented by
the late Mr. Alexander Stuart, and a bird’s skull,
mounted with the bones separate, but retaining their
relative position, presented by Mr. Elhot.

In the Department of Ethnology and Archeology
much labor has been performed in carefully marking
numbers in paint upon the specimens, so that they can
be freely handled by students in this popular branch
of natural science without the possibility of the loss
of their locality.

Large and valuable additions are being constantly
made to our collections upon the gallery floor, and with
the important deposits of similar specimens from all
parts of our country, now rapidly accumulating in our
workrooms, the material will soon be gathered for
making an exhaustive study of American Archeology.
Mr. Hugh Auchincloss has presented a collection of
Indian and Eskimo dresses and implements, made by —
Prof. Robert Bell, on the shores of Hudson’s Bay.

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Mr. Percy R. Pyne has presented a collection of
Indian stone implements made by the late Hon. Brantz
Mayer, which were principally gathered by Prof. Nicol-
let, at the headwaters of the Mississippi.

Mr. F. W. Stevens has presented one-half, and Mr.
Gifford Pinchot one-fourth of a series of similar imple-
ments from New York State, and Mr. Peter C. Cornell
has presented one-half and Mr. B. G. Arnold one-
fourth of another series from the mounds in Ohio.

Prof. S. 8S. Haldemann, of Chickies, Pa., has presented
a rare collection of the dresses, weapons, and imple-
ments of the Indian tribes of British Guiana. Mr.
Jonathan Thorne has presented a celt or stone axe
found in its original handle, probably the only speci-
men on exhibition from the States bordering on the
Atlantic ocean.

Mr. Thomas Cleneay, of Cincinnati, has presented
an important collection from the mounds in the Ohio
Valley. It consists of grooved axes, celts, pestles, flint
knives, and selected arrow heads, a detailed list of
which is given in the record of donations. |

Mr. James Terry, of Hartford, has availed himself
of the facilities the Museum affords for original inves-
tigation, and has brought his great archeological col-
lections to our laboratories. When packed for shipping
it filled one car and weighed five and a half tons. It
is the result of ten years assiduous collecting, supple-
mented with liberal purchases. The area from which
it has been gathered commences on the north at Con-
necticut and includes various parts of the coast States
to Alabama, and the interior States of Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois. The series of stone implements from
Tennessee is very extensive, ‘There are 800 pieces of

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pottery from Missouri and Arkansas, the larger part of
which are ornamented with representations of the
human face or the figures of animals. From Califor-
nia there are 60 odlas or spherical stone pots, 120 stone
mortars, 100 serpentine dishes of elegant finish, and
over 40 pipes. The chipped implements of that coast
excel in the delicacy of finish the finest ones found in
Denmark.

Mr. Andrew EK. Douglass has also made a very im-
portant deposit of specimens, mostly from the mounds
of Florida.

In the Geological department, commencing with
the Chemung group, the arrangement of the specimens
for exhibition, and the selection of duplicate material
has been completed for the paleontological collections,
and there are now on exhibition in the upper hall the
following series:

Selected Types and Figured
Specimens. ~ Specimens.
Prof. James Hall’s Collections. —American......... 76,011 5,519
+ 2 gs —European. ....... 3,878 5
peo: eolmes' wCollection :<).. sie SS gies. Bele 3,930 203
Miscellaneous Collections.—American. .... ........ 2,339
: ae —European...........-. 2,432
PRD eM OBEBEGEIDIUION pases lala sat olecc otecles wha sored 88,590 5 787
Urs fveretal Vo) Let go) ip) a G2) | Ae Oe SSR Ce RpEdob Oates: Cooc 843 843
Total Paleontological Specimens selected for Exhi-
pion sinetheyMiuseumy J24!4.\.| eee Shs cl goles tao tao 6,630

Other specimens have been loaned to Professor Hall
for the continuation of his scientific work, some of
which will probably be figured, making the total of
types and figured specimens nearly or quite seven
thousand. he duplicate fossils selected from the Hall

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and other collections have been arranged to the com-
pletion of 10 sets, as follows :

Species Specimens.
ist Collection ..... 045 RAS DES AES, Ly 1,570 5,198
2d SR oor es IO Oe ord ite 1,290 3,908
3d See ad SOa oar A Nae aoc 1,101 3,397
4th a AiO IDS ShenBeec INE. 3 ~oecitet eee toe le Us 3,180
5th ity. wee derbosis bh ehed ete dene tebe 951 2,827
6th “i 5a Sci aah 4 et ae a 2,458
7th jie “on bbue seaatsaad Gate Ama ase Fae 197 2,221
8th 01 AOE. Dates BUH = eee CR oa 707 2,380
9th « Te ee eS ee 2,324
10th hi) SARS oso aas Mansa Baby S85 658 2,178
Totals 2355 Gist SAEs See)... Sates eto ObG 30,071

Each species in each collection has a separate writ-
ten label containing the generic and specific name,
the author’s ;ame, the locality and geological forma-
tion, and a number which corresponds to a catalogue,
a copy of which is provided with each collection.

Each series has been carefully packed in wooden
boxes that are plainly marked, and the whole is now
ready for immediate delivery. Several collections
have been identified for individuals, the specimens
being retained in payment for the list of identifications
returned. In this work we have been aided by Mr.
A. Woodward, who has given his labor to the Museum.

In lithology, the standard series of rocks deposited
by Major T. B. Brooks, from Austria, Norway and
Sweden, and from Michigan and Wisconsin, have been
placed in drawers in the work-rooms with their micro-
scopical sections. These specimens, together with
those of the 40th parallel survey described by Prof:
Zirkel, have become of such interest, and are so en-
tirely accessible, that scientific experts have come from

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various parts of the country to study them during the
past year.

Important additions have been made to the libraries
deposited with us for safe keeping, and the volumes
and pamphlets already gathered in the elegant study
rooms of our fire-proof building for the benefit of
original investigators, number as follows :

Vols. ahlets.
Jay Library on Conchology, presented by Miss C. L. Wolfe. .... 997 180
Brevoort Library on Fishes and General Zoology, deposited by
the Eresidentiot the Boandiy fi. coms Gee todeeureclednae si-to<'4 2.083 1,599
Scientific Works from various donors.... .... 1.2. -.0- sse0 wees 634 341
Library on Mining and Physical Geology, deposited by Mr.
WIATETICO PRAM Gye oy teloit ts cisic, olceisv's sot slatiataniseniiele Metocser estes cicies 2,430 1,652
Library of the New York Academy of Sciences, deposited by
thesocioty for safe Keeping... 2.6 <<<; sie as shes oictoblemewbigseas 4,939 1,847
Prof. Whitfield’s Library on Palzontology................ 2... 530 461
Prof. Bickmore’s Library on Ethnology and Archeology... .... 987 540
Motaltysic, : FesSEL is de dihs gh Mace held oth eld SARS 12,600 6,620

Students from a number of institutions have come
to the city for the purpose of consulting some works
these libraries contain, which are either unique or not
to be found elsewhere in America.

Our contract with the Department of Public Parks
provides that on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sat-
urdays and holidays, the Museum shall be open to the
public free of charge, but Mondays and Tuesdays are
reserved for the study and rearrangement of the collec-
tions, and on these days visitors to the city are admit-
ted, and those contributing money or specimens. <A
member paying $10 yearly receives a ticket of admis-
sion for himself and family on these days, and to the
spring and autumn receptions, and complimentary tick-

ets for friends. The privileges of Fellows and Patrons
contributing larger sums are stated in the By-Laws.

An illustrated Guide is in course of preparation, but
until it is completed, and as an immediate means of
rendering the Museum a source of instruction an assist-
ant will be in attendance on Mondays and Tuesdays to
receive Members and their friends, and explain the
plan of the institution and the specimens on exhi-
bition. :

The Trustees intend that the Museum shall be made
particularly interesting to the youth of our city, and
a plan is under consideration for rendering it a direct
benefit to the teachers and pupils of our public schools,
and therefore a very important element in our system
of public education.

Several rare collections, supplementing those already
acquired, are now offered us upon very advantageous
terms, and now that the institution has been freed
from all liabilities by subscriptions from the Trustees,
and a By-Law enacted preventing any purchase being
made hereafter, unless the funds to pay for the same
are first provided, we confidently appeal to our public-
spirited citizens to join us in securing such important
additions, and by increasing the facilities for study at
the Museum, render our city more and more attractive
to the scientific men of our country, and our institu-
tion increasingly instructive to our own citizens.

February 10th, 1880.

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INCOR POR De Oahk

AN ACT

TO INCORPORATE THE

American Aljusenm of Natural Pistory,

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 beeome 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 knowledge of kindred sub-
jects, 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 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 per-
sonal 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.

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STATE OF NEW YORK, wa
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.

@eseQ Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Albany,
g mS this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred
GeeeO and sixty-nine.

D. WILLERS, JR., Deputy Secretary of State.

Ata meeting of the Trustees, held at the residence of Theodore Roosevelt,
Esq., April 8th, 1869, the above charter was unanimously accepted by a majority
of the Trustees.

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Sputg "ITeH UI BI

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AN ‘LOVLISHSIG ® NNOUUVH a BdALOLEW

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Cen SPP Tue y Po. N

OF THE

American 4i[useum of Natural Pistory,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

ARTICLE LI.

This Corporation shall be styled the American MusEvo oF
Natura 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 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

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meeting in February, elect the officers and committees for
the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to
transact special business 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 there-
of, 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,
and Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee and a
Finance Committee, all to be elected from the Trustees. A1]]
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
having 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 Audit-
ing Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and
correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all
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 practical; 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.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of five, who shall
have the control and regulation of the Collections, Library and
other property of the Museum; and shall have power to pur-
chase, 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 shal]
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 meet-
ing 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 ap-
proved 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 consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trus-
tees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, sub-
ject to the subsequent 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.

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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 two thousand five hundred dollars to
the funds of the Museum, at one time, shall entitle the person
giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in
Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum books
or specimens to the value of twice the amount in money
requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the Presi-
dent and Secretary shall issue Diplomas accordingly, under
the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may elect Honorary
Fellows of the Museum in their discretion.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its
Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplo-

mas, become members of the Corporation.

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 amend-
ment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular
meeting.

Patrons giving $2,500 are each entitled to 10 Complimen-
tary Season Tickets, 1 uREeHes s Ticket and i0 Tickets for
a single admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1,000 are each entitled to 5
Complimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets
for a single admission.

Associate Fellows giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Com-
plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets for a
single admission. |

Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to
1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10:Complimentary Tickets for a
single admission.

GE

Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive
Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be a
Trustee, unléss excused by the Board.

TL,

No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of
a Trustee who shall not be a “ Fellow in Perpetuity ” of the
Mnseum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the

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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.

ENE ‘

No indebtedness shall (except for the current expenses) be
incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its
cominittees, officers or employees, unless there are at the
time sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same.

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DON AP P@2Nes:

1879.

By bequest of the late DR A. HABKL, through his executor, Hueu D. Brown.

A collection of Geological Specimens, Pottery, several Mummies,
ete., all from San Salvador and Pern.

DR. C. C. ABBOTT, Trenton, N. J.

“ Second Report on the Paleolithic Implements from the Glacial
Drift.”

By the late ALEXANDER STUART, N. Y.

A fine specimen of the Wild Turkey.

Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.

Journal 1876, 1877 and 1878 Society of Natural History of Zurich.

“Verhandlungen der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt 1878 ;
April and May, 1879.

““Wetterauische Gesellschaft fur die Gesammte Natur-Kunde zu
Hanau.”—Bericht, December, 1873, bis Jan., 1879.

‘“ Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet I., Christiania, 1876, 1877
and 1878.”

“‘ Fortegnelse over Separat-Aftryk af Christinia,” 1878.

Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Arktiske Fauna’—I.
Bloddyr of Dr. G. O. Sars, Christiania, 1878.

‘Om Poncelet’s Betydning for Geometrien,” Christiania, 1878.

“Om Stratifikationens Spor af Dr. Theodore Kjerulf,” Christiania,
1877.

“Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter i det
19 de Aarhundrede.”—Throndhjem, 1878.

“ Jahres-Bericht der Naturforschen den Geselischaft Graubundens.”
1876 and 1877.

‘“ Aanteekeningen van Het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap
van Kunsten en Wetenschappen,” 1877 and 1878.

“Verslag van Het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van
Kunsten en,” Wetenschappen,” 1877 and 1878.

‘““Verhandeling over de Verdamping Van Water,” etc.
‘Dr. J. E. Enklaar, Utrecht, 1878.

“Prize Essay on Evaporation,” by Samuel H. Miller, Utrecht,
1878.

Anales del Museo Nacional De Mexico—Tomo I—KHntrega 6a.

JOHN WOLFE, N.Y.

1 Stone Axe.
Lot of Fossils and Shells.

CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Journal—Vol. I, No. 4, January, 1879.
«~~ —Vol. Il, No. 1, April, 1879.
«© —Vol. II, No. 2, July, 1879.

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PROF. J. W. POWELL, Washington, D. C.
5 Relief Maps, geologically colored, of the Colorado Cafion and
Henry Mountains.
1 Relief Map of the High Plateau Region of Utah.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
Annual Report, 1877.
Vols 1, 2, 3, 13, 1% and 15 of the ‘‘ Miscellaneous Collections.”
JONATHAN THORNE, N. Y.
Stone Axe in its original wooden handle, the only specimen known
to have been found in the HWastern States. Found in the bed of
a brook at Thornedale, Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1850.
MRS. L. W. JOHNSON, Hong Kong.
Models of Chinese Woman's Feet.
Chinese Knife and Chop Sticks.
L’ACADEMIE ROYALE DE COPENHAGUE.
Bulletin, 1878—September to December.
a 1879—to May.
DR. OCTAVIUS A. WHITE, N. Y.
Several Fossil Vertebrae, fragments of Bone and Shark Teeth
from the phosphate beds of South Carolina.
ROBERT L. STUART, Esq., N. Y.
Block of Shell Limestone, from Anastasia Island, Florida.
3 Turtle Shells, polished—Florida.
Fine Specimen of “ Floating Coral.’’"—Florida.
E. A. WEMPLE, N. Y.
A section of the Trunk of a Fossil Tree (Sigillaria) from the Coal
Measures of Scotland.
HON. A. J. LESPINNASSE, U. 8. Consul at Merida, Mexico.
7 Skins of Birds, from Mexico. |
1 Shark Skin, from Mexico.
W. H. BARTLETT, New Bedford, Mass.
Lower "Jaw of a Sperm Whale.
Head of the Walrus.
GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, Esq., N. Y.
Several pamphlets, ** completing the West India Catalogues.”
LEONARD B, PASSMAN, Elizabeth, N. J.
Specimen of ‘‘ Corydalus Cornutus.”
DR. J. T. B. HILLHOUSE.
Spiders’ Nests from San Joaquin Valley, California.
D. JAOKSON STEWARD, Esq., N. Y.
4 boxes Schoharie-Grit Fossils.
Several large specimens from Goshen, N. Y.
2 fine Fossil Trilobites from same locality.
STATE OF INDIANA, through Joun Couiert, Esq., Chief of Bureau of Statis-
tics and Geology, Indianapolis.
8th, 9th and 10th Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of
Indiana.
ROYAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM, Brussels.
“Description des Ossements Fossiles des Environs D’Anvers.”
Vols I and II with plates and plates of Vol IV.
PROF. A. S. BICKMORKE, N. Y.
Various Reports and Publications of Scientific Societies.
Stone Arrow Heads and several lots of Clays and Fossils illustra-
tive of a geological section at Gay Head, Mass.

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D. D. WHITLOCK, Bedford, Westchester Oo., N. Y.
Block of Rose Quartz.

JOHN REINER, Wurtsboro, Sullivan Co., N. Y. :
Several Stone Arrow Heads, Axes and Ornaments.

_HON. CHAS. WOLCOTT BROOKS, San Francisco, Cal.

“Japanese Wrecks, ete., Ethnologically considered,”
E. J. FISHER, Sergeant Co. H, 4th U. S. Cavalry.
Sealp of Oheyenne Indian.
3 Arrow Heads.
PROF. O. C. MARSH, New Haven, Conn.
Cast of the left Femur of “ Atlantosaurus immanus,” a Fossil
Reptile from Colorado.
HERBERT H. SMITH.
Calabash Cup and Bird-shaped Bow! from the lower Amazon.
INDIAN MUSEUM, Calcutta.
Annual Report, 1878.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington.
Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1877.
Se «U.S. Geological Survey, Hayden, 1876.
MUSEUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE, Paris.
“Nouvelle Archives,” Deuxiéme Serie, 1878.
ALFRED VAN DEUSEN, Hudson, N. Y.
17 Birds (9 species) from South America.
MRS. JOHN MILHAU, N.Y.
32 Volumes Buffon’s Natural History.—Paris, 1827.
DR. JOHN J. MILHAU, U.S. A, N. Y.
2 Human Skulls.
1 Skull—Oregon Flat Head.
1 tS ‘* —Peruvian.
Mga ae ‘“* —Separated Bones.
1

—Shows the Medullary Membranes, Ear Structure,
etc.

i yet ** —Shows the Arterial Circulation of Cranium.
Specimen of the Human Spine and Aorta.
Hand. ean
ve ae as Foot. —— 73
ri Knee Joint.
Elbow Joint.
Clavicle, ete.
1 piece site Ore on the Ophir Mine, Nevada.
Horns of the Elk.
H. WELD, N.Y. ~-
1 Hornet’s Nest.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANTA.
Report for 1877.
PROF. S. 8. HALDEMANN, Chickies, Lancaster Co., Pa.
A collection of Indian Implements, Ornaments and Utensils.
ROBERT LOGAN, Esq., N. Y.
Block of Marble from Bay of Fundy.
STATE OF ALABAMA, through EuGENE A. Suiru, State Geologist.
Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Alabama for 1877
and 1878.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, Japan.
‘Memoir on the Shell Mounds of Omori,” by Edward S. Morse.

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THGMAS CLENEAY, Cincinnati, O.
443 specimens of Stone Implements found in the Ohio River
Valley.
E. DOREMUS, Esq., Rondout, N. Y.
10 specimens of Fossil Coral from the Coralline Limestone near
Rondout.

C. T. HATHAWAY, N. Y.
3 Fossil Shells from the Miocene Formation at Yorktown, Va.
PROF. W. B. DWIGHT, Vassar College.
6 Fossils (Corals and Shells) from the Trenton and Calciferous
Rocks near Newburg, Pleasant Valley, and Rochdale, N. Y.

MRS. M. C. VERMEULE, Staten Island.
Fossil Leaf from the Miocene of Europe.

SIDNEY DILLON, Esq., N. Y.

A Fossil Turtle from the Miocene of Colorado, and some Concre-
tions from the same State.

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PROF. A. G. WETHERBY, Cincinnati, O.
60 specimens of lower Carboniferous Fossils in exchange for
names.
BERLIN H. WRIGHT, Penn Yan, N. Y.
136 species of Fossils from the Hamilton Group near Penn Yan
in exchange for names.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
104 specimens (89 species) of Birds as part of an exchange of
specimens from the Museum collection.
PROFESSORS McBRIDE & CALVIN of the Iowa University, lowa City, lowa.
38 species of Fossils in exchange for specimens from the Hall
collection.
J. M. CLARK, Canandaigua, N. Y.
51 specimens of Hamilton Group Fossils in exchange for names.

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Morrison, Edward
Morrison, George A.
Mortimer, W. Y.
Mosle, George

Mott, Alex. B., M.D.
Moulton, Gilman S.
Mower, Mandeville
Mowry, A. L.

Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M.

Myers, John K.
Myers, T. Bailey
Navarro, Juan N.
Neftel, William B., M.D.
Neilson, F.

Norrie, Adam
O’Conor, Charles
O’Connor, Thomas H.
Odell, Jonathan
Odell, Mrs. Jonathan
Oleott, Hon, F. P.

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Olmstead, Dwight PF,
Olmsted, Fred. Law
Olyphant, R. M.
Olyphant, Robert
Ostrander, C. V. B.
Otis, KF. N., M.D.
Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Paddock, Eugene H.
Parsons, Arthur W.
Parsons, George W.
Parsons, John H.
Patterson, Thomas C.
Peabody, Arthur J.
Pell, Alfred

Pell, John H.

Penfold, Edmund
Penfold, William Hall
Perkins, C. L.

Perley, Joseph L.
Perry, Myron

Peters, George A., M.D.
Phelps, Royal

Phelps, William Walter

, Phoenix, Phillips

Pinkney, J. H.
Pinkus, F. 8.
Platt, John R.

| Platt, Samuel R.

Popham, Wiliam H.

| Porter, Hon. John K.
| Post, Alfred C., M.D.
| Potter, Miss Grace H.
| Potter, Howard

Potter, Rev. H. C., D.D.

| Powers, William P.

Preston, William I.
Prime, Frederick

| Prince, J. Dt

Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Purssell, James
Pyne, Percy R.
Ramsay, C. G.
Raynolds, ©. T.
Reilly, Hon. Bernard
Reisig, Richard, M.D.
Renwick, W. R.
Requa, J. M.

Riker, D. S.

Riker, John L.
Riker, William J.
Robbins, George A.
Robertson, R. A.
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, Charles H.
Rogers, John
Roosevelt, Theodore
Russell, Charles H.
Riitten, August
Rutter, Thomas

Ryan, Columbus
Rylance, Rev. J. H., D.D.
Sabine, G. A., M.D.
Sage, Russell

Sands, Samuel 8S.
Satterlee, S. R.

Sayre, Lewis A., M.D.
Schack, Frederick
Schafer, Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon

Schley, William
Schuyler, George L.
Schuyler, Philip
Schwendler, Fred.
Shaler, Gen. Alexander
Shaw, Francis George
Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.

Shearman, William Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Sinclair, John
Skidmore, Samuel T.
Skidmore, William L.
Slawson, J. B.

Sloan, Samuel

Sloane, William D.
Slocovich, G.

Smith, Charles 8.
Smith, Edward F.
Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Roswell

Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.
Smith, William Alex.
Smith, William Henry
Soutter, Mrs. J. F.
Speir, Hon. Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W. t
Spencer, Hon. James C.
Starin, Hon. John H.
Sterling, A. F.

Stevens, A. O., M.D.
Steward, Campbell
Stewart, David
Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.
Strange, A. B.

Strong, Charles K.
Strong, W. L.

Stuart, Robert L.
Stuart, Mrs. R. L.
Sturgis, Appleton
Sturgis, Miss M. B.
Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Suydam, D. Lydig
Swan, Samuel, M.D.
Swan, William H.

Tailer, Edward N.
Taintor, Charles M.
Talcott, James
Tappan, Hon. J. Nelson
Taylor, Aug. C.
Terbell, H. 8.
Thompson, S. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, James
Thorn, William K.
Thurber, F. B.
Thurber, H. K.
Tiemann, Peter C.
Tobias, Samuel I.
Toucey, J. M.
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W.
Tracy, Charles
Tracy, J. Evarts
Trevor, H. G.
Trevor, John B.

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Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Troup, Miss Louisa
Tuck, Edward
Valentine, Lawson
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Ven Nostrand, David
Van Winkle, Hon. E §S.
Vermilye, J. D.

Von Post, Herman C.
Wales, Hon. Salem H.
Walker, Evan T.
Wall, Michael W.
Wallach, Antony
Wallack, Lester
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Webb, Gen. Alex. S.
Webb, Mrs. Gen. A. S.
Weber, John
Webster, Sidney
Weed, Hon. Thurlow
Weeks, Francis H.
Weeks, John A.

Wenman, Hon. James F.
Wheeler, J. W.
Wheelock, Geo. G., M.D.
White, Norman
Whitney, Alfred R.
Wickham, Hon. W. H.
Wiechers, W. A.
Williamson, Hon. David B.
Wilson, John

Winston, F. S.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.

Wood, Hon. Fernando

W ood, Isaac F.
Worsham, Mrs. B. D.
Wotherspoon, Henry H.
Wright, Charles L.
Wright, Samuel V.
Wright, William Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

Young, Mason

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In Memoriam.

Tue Museum has been called to mourn the loss of one of
its original founders and First Vice-President,

WILLIAM A. HAINES,

who departed this life on the 5th day of March, 1880, in the
fifty-eighth year of his age.

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted at a
special meeting of the Board of Trustees:

RESOLVED, That this Board has received the tidings of the sudden death
of our Vice-President, Mr. W. A. HAINES, with profound sorrow.

Not only was Mr. Haines one of the number from whom this Institution
received its first impulse, but as Chairman of its Executive Committee, at
the expense of much valuable time, he continued the supervision of its
interests with unabated zeal.

His natural tastes, no doubt, exercised a strong influence over Mr. Haines
in his early efforts for the establishment of the Museum.

He was deeply interested in some of the branches of the Natural Sciences,
and in one specialty, as a collector and exact student, in the whole range of
the subject, he had probably no superior among us.

His collection remains in its fullness and beauty, a monument of his
youthful enthusiasm, which the steady and engrossing pressure of business
life never extinguished.

In his relations to this Board Mr. Haines brought to the discharge of
his duties a trained capacity for business; but it is not to the memory of
the valued and efficient officer, whose tastes and acquirements brought him
into entire harmony as well as active co-operation with its aims, and inspired
large and hopeful views of its future, that we now bring our united tribute,
so much as to that of the man himself. His death leaves a vacancy in the
hearts of those among us who have known him longest and best.

As the useful and upright citizen we can measure him calmly at his just
value, but as the friend and intimate, in his considerateness and equipoise,
his sympathy and warmth, and in the whole moulding and outcome of the
man, there was that which drew us to him, not only with sincere esteem,
but with strong fraternal regard.

A sense of private and personal loss may not obtrude conspicuously in
the official tribute which we pay so sadly to the memory of our deceased
Vice-President; but while we feel called upon to recognize in him, in a rare
degree, the possession of those valuable qualities which must enter freely
into the undertakings of our daily life, in their appropriate direction and
successful issue, we should be untrue to what is best 1n ourselves and most
to be prized in a just estimate of the character of men, did we confine our
view to these alone.

He was not only the sound and judicious adviser and the energetic man
of business, but much more. There was about him a quality of refinement
united to singular purity, and a temper in which decision and sweetness
remarkably combined.

These made up, largely, that characteristic individuality which touched
the deeper springs within us, so that while as a Board we record our testi-
mony of the loss which we have sustained in him as one of our most promi-
nent and active officers, we also deeply mourn the friend and brother whom
we shall see no more.

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ROBERT L. STUART. : JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
ROBERT COLGATE. WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. | JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ADRIAN ISELIN. ANDREW H. GREEN.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN. FREDERIC W. STEVENS.
MORRIS K. JESUP. ABRAM S. HEWITT.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. CHARLES LANIER.
JOSEPH H. CHOATE. | HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
PERCY R. PYNE. OLIVER HARRIMAN.
JOHN B. TREVOR. C. VANDERBILT.

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ROBERT COLGATE. | D. JACKSON STEWARD.

Secretary.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

Greasurer.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

Gexecutive Committee.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ROBERT COLGATE. | ADRIAN ISELIN.
C. VANDERBILT.

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PERCY RK. PYNE. JOHN B. TREVOR.
CHARLES LANIER.

Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, SUPERINTENDENT.
Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, CurATor OF GEOLOGY.

Dr. J. B. HOLDER, CurATor OF ZOOLOGY.

J. J. BARGIN, AssIstANT SECRETARY.

L. P. GRATACAP, AssisTanT CURATOR OF MINERALOGY.
A. WOODWARD, AssISTANT IN GEOLOGY.

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Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting this, their
Twelfth Annual Report, to the Patrons, Fellows, and
Members of the Museum.

In accordance with our purpose that some new
feature of usefulness shall be added to the institution
each year, we have the pleasure to state that through
the liberality of a member of our Board, Mr. Morris
K. Jesup, an Economic Department has been es-
tablished, which will contain specimens in Economic
Botany of all the woods of our country, that are or
may be used for architectural or building purposes, or
in the manufactures—as gums, resins, and dyewoods.
Kach species will be fully illustrated by specimens of
the leaf, flower and fruit. The Museum has had the
good fortune to secure, free of charge, the able services
of Prof. Chas. 8. Sargent, of Brookline, Mass., who is
now preparing for the Tenth U. 8. Census, under Gen.
F. A. Walker, an elaborate report upon the Forest
Wealth of the United States.

The specimens we are receiving will be fully de-
seribed by Professor Sargent and his able corps of
assistants, and will completely illustrate the scientific
and popular information that they are gathering and
placing in their volume of the Census Series, which is
soon to be issued in large numbers by the National
Government. Our collection will therefore have a

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peculiar and permanent value in being the standard
series for future reference and careful study in this
important branch of the industries of our people.

This Department will also include specimens in
Economic Geology, which shall exhibit in all their
varieties the granites, sandstones, limestones, marbles,
slates, clays for brick and tile, and sands for glass, that
are known in America. We are in correspondence
with Dr. George W. Hawes, who with the aid of a
large corps of prominent geologists, is preparing a re-
port for the Census, upon the quarries and ornamental
and building stones of our country, and we anticipate
securing his active co-operation in gathering and pre-
paring for exhibition the exhaustive series of specimens
we desire. These collections will be so amply and
scientifically labelled and illustrated, that it will be a
source of instruction for the artisan and laboring
classes of our citizens, and the pupils of our public
schools, whom it is our special desire to benefit. It
will be supplemented by a gathering of all the maps,
plans and photographic views, that have yet been pub-
lished on these subjects, and such valuable data will
be accessible to all desiring detailed information,
as builders, architects, or persons erecting private
dwellings.

Such costly collections should be gathered only into
a fire-proof edifice, and as our new building is already
filled to overflowing, we shall soon be compelled to
apply to the Municipality and the Legislature, for the
means to erect another wing as large as our present
structure.

Desiring that our institution might take an active
and efficient part in the education of the pupils of our
public schools, a letter was addressed to the Commis-

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sioners of the Department of Education, expressing
our willingness to have a course of introductory
lectures to the study of zoology. delivered at our
expense, to the Principals and the Teachers of natural
history in their Primary Schools. Our communication
was referred by that Board to its Committee on Course
of Study and School Books, who made the following
report, which was unanimously approved by the Board

and forwarded us a reply to our letter:

“That, in the judgment of the Committee, the proposal of the American
Museum of Natural History to make its admirable collection available for the
Educational System of New York, deserves the acknowledgment of this Board.

That the Committee believe that the children of the Public Schools should be
encouraged to visit the Museum at such time as they may have at their disposal,
being convinced that even the immature or uncultivated minds of children
receive most fruitful impressions from even a cursory and superficial acquaint-

ance with the objects presented and arranged in such collections.

The arrangement of the course of studies for the schools would not permit
any disposition by which the children could be allowed or encouraged to frequent
the Museum on school days, and it is believed that such is not the purpose of the
communication of the Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural
History.

That the very simple elements of Natural Science taught in the Public
Schools, are imparted, almost entirely, in accordance with the requirements of
the course of study. by oral instruction, and that-but little time is allowed to
them. Your Committee, while not recommending any increase either in the
amount of instruction in Natural Science, or in the time devoted to it, are of
opinion that the existing requirements of the by-laws, in this particular, should
be fully complied with. For this purpose the teachers themselves should be
thoroughly instructed in the branches in question.

Oral instruction especially requires, on the part of the teacher, a thorough
familiarity with the subject.

The proposal of the Exeeutive Committee of the American Museum of Natural
History, it is understood, embraces a plan of gratuitous colloquial lectures, to be
delivered on any day that may be selected, to a class numbering about twenty-
five or thirty, the course to consist of not less than six lectures. Your Com_
mittee believe that such a class could readily be formed by voluntary action
among the teachers, directed by the City Superintendent, Saturday being the
day selected for the lectures, when the school work would not be interfered

with.
The creditable ambition displayed by the teachers who would embrace this

opportunity of improvement would result greatly to their own advantage, as well
as to that of the children falling under their instruction. It may be stated that
the Professors of the Normal College have visited the Museum with their pupils,
and profitably used the collection for illustration of their own lectures.

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The Committee submit the following resolutions:

Resolved, That the City Superintendent be instructed to issue a circular calling
attention to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History,
as an educational feature, and the desirability of its being visited on
Saturdays and holidays by teachers and pupils; and that he also be
requested to select a class of teachers who will volunteer to attend a
course of free lectures on Saturdays, to be delivered through the courtesy
of the Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural History-

Resolved, That a copy of the above report and resolution be transmitted to the
Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural History.

DECEMBER 23, 1880.

A class of Principals and Teachers has been selected
to the number of thirty, all that can be accommodated
at one time in our present rooms. Professor Bickmore
has been requested to deliver the lectures and they
are now in progress. The enthusiastic interest of
the teachers in this branch of natural science, as
proven by their constant attendance in the severest
weather, has far exceeded our anticipations, and is a
most gratifying indication of the wide and important
field of usefulness our institution is destined to occupy
as a means of educating the youth of our city.

In order to render tbe collections already begun
as complete as possible before purchasing speci-
mens in other departments, the trustees, after de-
fraying all the indebtedness of the institution, con-
tributed during the last year the sum of $6,500 for
an improvement fund, which has been expended in
perfecting the specimens already bought or donated in
previous years. Many of the mammals purchased
from the estate of the late Prince Maximillian have
been partially or wholly remounted, and the specimens
in the whole department are now ready to be placed
on stands of a uniform pattern. The two cases at the
south end of the lower hall have been enlarged to
receive the camel, wapiti and moose. The most im-

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portant addition to this department has been a group
of five ourang-outangs; two adult males, two adult
females, and one young male, from Borneo. All the
specimens are perfect and mounted in most natural
attitudes, and prove to be the most attractive feature
of our exhibition on that floor. They were presented
with the case, complete, by Mr. Robert Colgate.

Our fine collection of crania have been mounted in
the natural position on mahogany stands and placed in

case A, with three complete skeletons of natives of

Australia, presented by Mr. Morris K. Jesup.

A fine case of water birds presented by the estate of
the late Elias Wade, Jr., is placed on the first landing
of the stairway. Six hundred bird-skins presented by
Mr. D. G. Elliot, and received in exchange from the
Smithsonian Institution, have been mounted and
placed on exhibition, and nearly four thousand birds,
including all of the Maximillian collection, and some
from that of Verreaux, have been transferred to new
stands of polished mahogany. This change has proved
to be such an important improvement that the re-
maining white stands, though the best we have been
able to purchase in Kurope, will now have to be re-
placed in a like manner, that the whole collection may
be improved in the most complete manner, and present
an entirely uniform aspect.

In the Department of Ethnology and Archeology a
gift has just been received from the widow of the late
Prof. S. 8S. Haldemann, of domestic utensils, and dres-
ses of the natives of British Guiana, and of stone imple-
ments from various parts of the United States, particu-
larly from near his home at Chickies, Pennsylvania.
Mr. H. R. Bishop has arranged with Dr. J. W. Powell,

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Superintendent of Indian Affairs in British Columbia,
to forward us as rapidly as they may be gathered, a
complete series of the ethnological specimens of that
region, and has already presented a few valuable
ornaments obtained at Victoria, Vancouver’s Island.

Two large photographic transparencies of ancient
pueblos and cave dwellings in Colorado have been
presented by Prof. J. W. Powell, and placed in a win-
dow on the west side of the gallery.

In the Geological Hall, a series of specimens have
been placed in the upright part of the desk-cases, to
illustrate the American portion of Dana’s Manual of
Geology. They are marked “ Dana’s Manual Series,”
and each has a label giving its present scientific name,
and the page and figure where it will be found in that
popular text book. Nearly two-thirds of the American
species are already exhibited in the cases, and all the
others will be added, where the species represented
are not unique.

All the fossils have been identified and labelled in
one of the upright cases, and preliminary labelling
completed in three others. Six geological maps of the
eastern part of the United States have been placed in
the alcoves, near the specimens of the latest period
represented upon them. The first series of the dupli-
cates of the Hall collection has been presented to the
Smithsonian Institution, and in partial return they have
sent us, in alcoholic collections, 103 species, 107 speci-
mens of the fishes of the Pacific coast, and two cases of
reptiles, and will forward us “Collection D,” or the
fourth series of all the specimens dredged on the Atlantic
coast during the past six summers by the U. 8. Fish
Commission. The second series of the Hall duplicates

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has been sold to Madison University, and with a part
of the sum received, a fine series of crinoids and other
fossils have been purchased, consisting principally of
lower carboniferous forms from Crawfordsville, Ind.
The sixth and seventh series of Hall duplicates have
been delivered to Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, to complete
an exchange by which we have received 2,000 speci-
mens of the lithology of New Hampshire, 13 geological
sections across New Hampshire and Vermont, the types
of the Brandon fruits, and all the rocks and _ fossils
that are described in his geological reports in the state
of Maine. These specimens illustrate the results of his
geological observations for ten years in New Hamp-
shire, five years in Vermont, and two years in Maine.
Series 3 to 10, of the Hall duplicates remain for sale.

A rare series of rocks and fossils from Texas has
been presented by the International and Great
Northern Railroad of that State. Prof. J. W. Powell
has added to the alcove containing his previous gifts,
two large transparencies of the “Gate of Lodore”
and ‘ Kagle Crag,” in Colorado. Dr. E. A. Parsons
has presented 136 specimens of post-tertiary fossils,
from the vicinity of Portland, Maine.

Mr. J. W. Drexel has presented his collection of
lepidoptera, numbering 2,200 specimens, and also three
unique volumes of the greatest value and interest, con-
taining all the diplomas conferred on Baron Alexander
Von Humboldt, by the crowned heads and learned
societies of the world.

Mr. C. P. Huntington has deposited with us, Brad-
ford’s large painting of ‘‘The Polaris in Thank-God
Harbor, Greenland;” and it has been placed at the
southern end of the gallery near the collections of

Eskimo dresses and implements, and illustrates in the
most impressive manner the scenery in the land from
which those specimens come.

A catalogue of each Department is in course of pre-
paration, which will render our collections of still
further practical utility. These additions and im-
provements have brought us an increased number of
visitors, who have thus manifested their interest in the
continued development of our institution.

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment have
appropriated $35,000 for the improvement this year of
Manhattan Square. The Department of Public Parks
have been requested to join us in soliciting the
State Legislature to grant the means for making suit-
able entrances into Central Park at 8lst and 77th Sts.,
that our Museum may become properly accessible to
the thousands of visitors to the Park from our own
city, and from all parts ofour land. A footpath is now
also imperatively needed, leading as directly as possible
from our Square to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An indication of the great interest taken in the
Museum by its trustees, and of their high estimate of
the importance of its present and steadily manifested
increasing usefulness, is shown by the fact that they
alone have already contributed to the collections of the
Museum a sum of over $110,000, and now they most
respectfully appeal to the generous citizens of New
York, to aid in the effort to make our Metropolitan
City the centre of the highest scientific culture in our
land, and to join in adding new collections and new
departments to the admirable nucleus which has been

already secured.

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CONS Tt Cita

OF TIE

American Allusenm of Natural Ahistory,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

ARTICLE I.

This Corporation shall be styled the Amertcan Musrum or
Narvuray 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 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 quarterl
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meeting in February, elect the officers and committees for
the ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to
transact special business 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 there-

of 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,
and 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,
having 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 Audit-
ing Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and
correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all
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 practical; 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.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom
the President and Secretary shall be two. They shall have
the control and regulation of the Collections, Library and
other property of the Museum; and shall have power to pur-
chase, sell and exchange specimens and books, to employ
agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exlnbiting 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 meet-
ing 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 ap-
proved 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 consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trus-
tees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, sub-
ject to the subsequent 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.

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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 two thousand five hundred dollars to
the funds of the Museum, at one time, shall entitle the person
giving the same to be a Patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time,
shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow in
Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum books
or specimens to the value of twice the amount in money
requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the Presi
dent and Secretary shall issue Diplomas accordingly, under
the seal of the Museum. The Trustees may elect Honorary
Fellows of the Museum in their discretion. |

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its
Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplo-
mas, become members of the Corporation.

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 amend-
ment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular
meeting.

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Patrons giving $2,500 are each entitled to 10 Complimen-
tary Season Tickets, | Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets for
a single admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1,000 are each entitled to 5
Complimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-
mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets
for a single admission.

Associate Fellows giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Com-
plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10
Tickets for a single admission.

Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets for a
single admission.

Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to
1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a
single admission.

IL.
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.

IIL.
No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of
a Trustee who shall not be a Fellow in Perpetuity” of the
Museum, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the

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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.

TV?

No indebtedness shall (except for the 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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DON Otis

1880.

MRS. THOMAS SAY, N. Y.
1 Volume Michaux’s ‘ Flora Americana.”

a Binney’s Land Shells.
3 9 en Sowerby’s Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells.
Soa i Say’s American Entomology.

PERCY R. PYNE, Esq., N. Y.
“Atlas to the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania.’—HLesquereux.

JOSEPH W. DREXEL, Hsq., N. Y.
A collection numbering 2,235 specimens of Insects, Butterflies,
Moths, ete.
Lot of Crustaceans.
4 Birds of Paradise.
3 Trogans.
16 South American Birds.
1 Rifle Bird.
1 Iguana.
1 Albino Squirrel.
3 Humming Birds.

CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Journal, Vol. II, Nos. 3 and 4.
we LH NOR: Ieeer andes:

Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
kK. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien.
Verhandlung 1879 and 1880.
L'Institut Royal, Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg.
“ Publications’ Tome XVII, 1879.

Catalogue du Ministére de l’Instruction Publique. Exposition
Universelle de 1878. Paris. 4 vols. Catalogue. Section
Belge, I vol.

La Societé Royale Hongroise des Sciences Naturelles. Budapest.
Herman.—Ungarns Spinnenfauna, IIT Band.
Hidegh.—Chemische Analyse Ungarischer Fahlerze.
Spinnyei—Bibliotheca Hungarica Historize Naturalis et Matheseos
Catalog der Bibliothek der Ung. Naturwissenschaftl. Gesellsch.

Anales de! Museo Nacional de Mexico. Tomo II. Entrega la
and 2a.

Royal Society of Tasmania. Report for 1878.

Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Berlin. Zeitschrift. 1879.

Musée Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.

Annales. Tome IV and V.

Philosophical Society of Washington.
Bulletins Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 1871 to 1880.

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ROBERT L. STUART, Esq., N. Y.
2 fine specimens Gogonia (sea feathers.)
9 Nos. of the ‘‘ Atlas Ichthyologique.”’
8 volumes “ Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.”’
5 Vols ‘‘ Naturkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie.”
22 Nos. “ Archiv fur Naturgeschichte Wiegmann.”
4 Nos. of the ‘‘ Journal des Museum Godefroy.”

PHT HE CHE Ney.
1 North American Indian Pouch.

HON. SAMUEL SLOAN, N. Y.
Specimens of the Woods_of Texas.

DR. ISAAC LEA, Philadelphia, Pa., (the author).
1 volume *‘ Contributions to Geology.”

HON. LEVI P. MORTON, N. Y.
1 volume “Fresh Water Rhizopods‘of N. A.” Leidy. 1879.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C.
Report for 1878.

The late ELIAS WADH, through Chas. E. Beebe, Executor, N. Y.
17 American Water Birds in Rosewood Case.
38 Specimens of American Birds.

INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN BR. R., through Mr. Yaukum.
68 Species of Fossils from Texas.
116 Specimens illustrating the mineral and industrial products of
Texas.
30 Specimens of Recent Shells.
2 Teeth of Mastodon.

ASTOR LIBRARY, N. Y.
Report of the Trustees, 1879.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, N. Y.
Journal, Vol. 1, No. 12, 1879.

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE OCO., N. Y., through F. 8. Winston, Esq., Pres.
‘*Proceedings of the Trustees relative to the death of their as-
sociate, W. A. Haines.”

STATE OF WISCONSIN, through the Supt. of Pubie Property, Madison, Wis.
“Vol. IIL of the Final Report of the Geological Survey,” and
Atlas.

STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Albany, N. Y.,
through Prof. James Hall.
24th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st Annual Reports.

JOHN G. WALSH, Tokio, Japan.
Japanese Rain Dress.
1 large piece of Bamboo.
2 doz. fine Arrows.
Japanese Musical Instruments.
India-ink Box.
1 Wooden Pillow.

JAS. MUHLENBURG BAILEY, N. Y.
1 Vol. *‘ Say’s Conchology.”’
1 ‘ ‘*Swainson’s Conchology.”
L * ‘Hist. Nat. des Animaux.”—Chenu.
3 “ ‘ Reereative Science.”
12 ‘ Intellectual Observer.”

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MRS. A. LE PLONGEON.
1. Terra Cotta Vase, made by the Pigmies, Island of Cozumel,
British Honduras.

PEABODY MI'SEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY & ETHNOLOGY
Cambridge, Mass.
12th and 13th Annual Reports, 1880.

HARBOTTLE, Esq.
Gold and Silver Ores from San Juan Co., Col.

HISTORISCHEN VEREINES FUR STEIERMARK.
Mittheilungen 1879.
Beitrage 1879.

G. L. FEUARDENT, Esq.,,N. Y.
2 nests of the Weaver Bird of India.
Several Spines of Fossil Sea Urchins.

LEVY, DRBYFUS & CO., 11 Maiden Lane, N. Y.
1 Doz. Thermometers.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA.
8th Annual Report, 1879.

S. S. STEVENS, N. Y.
Tail of Rattlesnake with 24 rattles.

ABIEL ABBOTT, Esq., N. Y.
1 Zulu Spear.
2 Ostrich Eggs.
Quartz Crystal.
Sea Horse and Crustacea from Gulf Weed.
Model of a Catamaran of the Coast of Brazil.

MRS. WILLARD PARKER, N. Y.
Specimen of the South African Diamond.

HERMAN LUTE.
12 Specimens (5 species) Diurnal Lepidoptera.

RANKIN DAWSON, Esq.
Fragments of Pottery.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
A Series of North American Fishes collected by the U.S. Fish
Commission.
118 Specimens (74 species) of North American Reptiles.
Vol. 22, ‘Contributions to Knowledge.”
Vols. 16 and 17, ‘‘ Miscellaneous Collections.”
Annual Report, 1878.
Report of the U. 8. Fish Commission, 1878.

P..W. SHEAFER, Pottsville, Pa.
A Pamphlet on ‘‘The Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and
their exhaustion.”

L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DE COPENHAGUE.
Bulletin pour 1880, No. 1.
ce 1879, ee

CAPTAIN A. 0. YATES, N. Y.
3 Human Skulls.
1 Snake Skin.
1 lot of Prepared Food. } From the East Coast of Africa.
1 piece Potash Karth.
2 Ivory “Arm Rings.” J

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DR. J. VON HAAST, Canterbury Museum, New Zealand, (the author.)
“Geology of Canterbury and Westland.”

STATE OF INDIANA, through John Collett, Esq. Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics and Geology, Indianapolis.
1st Annual Report of the Department, 1879.

SIEBENBURGISCHEN FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, Hermannstadt.
Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen, XXX Jahrgang.

BERNARD QUARITCH, London, England.
Catalogues, 1880.

PROF. 8S. 8. HALDEMANN, Chickies, Pa.
Flageolet, femur of the Peccary.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington. D. C.
“Geology of the Henry Mountains.”—Powell.
‘‘Lands of the Arid Region.’’—Powell.
Bulletins 1, 2,3 & 4. Vol. V.—Hayden.

“3, 4, 5. Entomological Commission.

“ Circulars of Information.”—Bureau of Education.
“Presh Water Rhizopods.”—Leidy.
‘““N. A. Pinnipeds.”’— Allen.

M. E. NEWBOLD, Wrightstown, N. J.
2 large pieces of Petrified Wood.
1 Indian Mortar.

B. H. WILLIAMS, Elkland, Pa.
1 Indian Pestle.
A series of Pennsylvania Fossils.

OL. PHILIP FIGYELMESY, U.S. Consul at Demerara.
1 ‘‘ Woodskin,” or native bark canoe and 4 paddles.

LORD WALSINGHAM, London, England, (the author.)
1 Vol. “ Pterophoridz of California and Oregon.”
1 Vol. ‘‘ Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum.
1 Pamphlet ‘‘On some new Species of Tineidz.” Also
20 genera (38 species) Lepidoptera.

CAV. ENRICO ASCOLI, Florence, Italy, through Col. J. Schuyler Crosby,
U.S. Consul.

137 Cabinet Specimens of the Stones and Marbles of Italy, Greece,
ete.

CAMPBELL AND STEBBINS, Luray, Page County, Virginia, through Mr.
Isaae N. Merritt, New York.
A Series of Specimens, illustrating the Stalactitic and Stalagmitic
Forms of the Luray Caves, Virginia.

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, St. Paul, Minn.
“Collections.” Vol. III, Part 3.
“Hennepin Bi-Centenary.”

DR. J. R. ROMEYN, Keesville, N. Y.
1 Slab with ripple marks.

‘THOMAS BLAND, Esq., N. Y.
Wax made from the Leaves of a Palm Tree. Para, Brazil.

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MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO DE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA, Mexico.
Anales. Tomo III.
Boletin. Nos. 154 to 165.

MISS ELLEN COLLINS, N. Y.
2 pieces of Limonite from Lakeville, Conn.

C. F. GISSLER, Brooklyn, N. Y.
15 specimens in alcohol.

H. R. BISHOP, Esq., New York.
1 Model of Totem Post.
1 . Kayak.
3 Carved Rattles of the ‘‘ Medicine Man.”
2 ‘ Dishes, Queen Charlotte’s Islands.
2 Models of Canoes.
1 Fishing-Dress (Walrusgut).
1 Cyprus-Bark Cape.
5 Carved Spoons (mountain-sheep horn).
12 Stereoscopic Views. :
9 Photographs. SRE SE
1 Woven Basket.
6 Engraved Silver Bracelets. :
1 Heavy Gold Bracelet. , ig dabidtatians:

A. MEISSEL.
4 Siliceous Petrefactions.
1 Clay Concretion.
1 Specimen Wulfenite. Nevada.

From Oonalaska Indians.

E. H. HAWLEY, New Haven, Conn.
1 Specimen Niccoliferous Pyrite, holding gold. Fulton Co., N. Y-

AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHASOLOGICAL SOCIETY, N Y.
22d Annual Report.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
Annual Report for 1879-80.

MRS. OLIVE THORNE MILLER, N. Y. (the author.)
1 Vol. ‘‘ Queer Pets at Marcy’s.”
1 “ “Tittle Folks in Feathers and Fur.”

T. T. EATON, D.D., Jarrett’s Station, Va.
2 Large Cotton Plants, with fruit.

PROF. J. D. WHITNEY, New Haven, Conn., (the author.)
1 Vol “The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada.”

CAPT. C. P. PATTERSON, Supt. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washing-
ton, D. C.
"55 Specimens of Sea Bottoms, gathered mostly by steamers
Hassler and Blake.
1 Vol. ‘Deep-Sea Sounding and Dredging.”—Steamer Blake.
Chas. D. Sigsbee.

HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, Esq., New York.
12 Vols. U. S. Senate Publications on the ‘Explorations and
Surveys for a Rail Road Route from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific Ocean.” 1855.

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PROF. HENRY G. HANKS, State Mineralogist of California.
‘Biennial Report of the State Mineralogist of the State of
Nevada, 1873 and 1874.”
“Catalogue of the Minerals, Ores, Rocks and Fossils in the Pacifie
Coast Exhibit of the Paris Exposition of 1878.”

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Hi 2c Crt AN Gia St

Received from the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
103 Species—107 Specimens of Fishes collected by the U.S. Fish
Commission along the Coast and Rivers of the Pacific States, in
exchange for the first series of the duplicates of the James Hall
Collection of Fossils.
Also, in exchange for birds, 46 Species—49 Specimens of Birds.
selected from duplicates of the Smithsonian Collection.

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| Sp al si ok Di ah Sa

By the Payment of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars.
ROBERT L. STUART....... $23,500 | WILLIAM E. DODGE, Jr.... $4,700
Miss C. L. WOLEE: s..22 222 10,500 | THEODORE ROOSEVELT*.. 3,300
ROBERT COLGATE..... 8,050 | J. PIERPONT MORGAN.... 3,750
ADRIAN TSELIN.. .. 24.2. 6,450 | ABRAM §S. HEWITT... ...2. 3,100
JOHN Bs CREVOR. sees cee 6,750 | CHARLES LANIER: 2325 225 3,250
FREDERIC W. STEVENS... 17,200 EDWARD CDARK 3%. --scee 3,000
PROV SR PIN es cosa 6,390 | D. JACKSON STEWARD.... 3,250
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.... 6,700 A’ G, PHELPS DODGE se. 2,500
MORRIS K. JESUP........ 5,850 | S. WHITNEY PHGENIX..... 2,500
JOEN Ds WOLKE see. 5,000 | JAMES BROWN*........... 2,500
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS..... 5,300 | A.’ T. STE WART* <>. oye eee oe
JOSEPH W. DREXEL...... 5,050 ° C. VANDERBILT ...5 2 eee Lee

FEAL OWS. EN tPERPES OFT

By the Payment of One Thousand Dollars,

BENJAMIN H:. FIELD,......$2,250°| I. N. PHELPS .. «2. sees $1,000
ROBERT BONNER..ss.:..-. 2,000 | JAMES STOKHS.c22cceeeece 1,000
ALEXANDER STUART*. .. 2,000 | D. WILLIS JAMES.......... 1,000
JAMES B. COLGATH..:..... 2,000 | EDWARD MATTHEWS..... 1,000
WILLIAM A. HAINES*..... 1,750 | WILLIAM T. GARNER*. .... 1,000
WILLIAM T. BLODGETT*... 2,200 | JAMES LENOX*............ 1,000
BENJAMIN AYMAR*...... 1,500 | ASEREOBARNEVQAR! occas 1,000
RICHARD, ARNOLD»... 2.3. 1,500 | COLEMAN T. ROBINSON*... 1,000
OLIVER HARRIMAN....... 1,550 | BENJAMIN B. SHERMAN .. 1,000
JOSEPH H. CHOATE .. 1:500:.) DAVID Jn HLS 2 eee 1,000
JONATHAN THORNE...... 1,500 | JONAS G: COLARKS-c cases 1.000
JOHN =A: C.\GIRAWine Jeon 1,250 | JOHN ANDERSON <<. 7.2. 1.000
HEBER IR. BISHOP e222. 1,250 | JOHN JACOB ASTOR eee 1,000
WILLIAM E. DODGE........ 1,000 | CATHERINE L. SPENCER... 1,000
PEELE 'COORNR ieee anaes 1,000 | JAMES GORDON BENNETT. 1,000
WILLIAM H. ASPINWALL*. 1,000 | CYRUS W. FIELD.......... 1,060
B. H. HUTTON... . 1,000 | ALEX. H. BROWN, M. Po...) 13000
JOHN TAYLOR. JOHNSTON. 15000 | J. A. BOSTWICK seer 1,000
DD gN B ATRINGE YEE" see ce hee 1,000

BE Oew "8" 7 Qe Bae

By the Payment of Five Hundred Dollars.

NAMUEL: WILLETIS.. 222 ce.epo00 | A. AL GOW: scr. eee $500
ROBERT GORDON .... 700 RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr.... 500
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Camp, W. A.
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Carter, Robert
Caswell, John H.

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Chandler, Nathan
Charlier, Elié

Cheever, John H.
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Chittenden, Hon. 8. B.
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Clapp, Wellington
Clark, George C.
Clarkson, Frederick
Clift, Smith

Coffin, Edmund, Jr.
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Colgate, Abner W.
Colgate, Mrs. Bowles
Colgate, Mrs. F. I.
Colgate, Miss Georgiana

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Colgate, Robert, Jr.
Colgate, R. R.

Colgate, Samuel
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Colgate, Samuel J.
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Collins, Benjamin
Compton, A. T.
Constable, Miss Amy H.
Constable, Frederick A.
Constable, James M.
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Cooper, Henry Prouse
Corning, B. L.

Cossitt, F. H.

Cotheal, Alex. I.
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Cowdrey, N. A.

Crerar, John

Crocker, George Aug.
Crocker, William Baylis
Crolius, Clarkson
Crosby, Rey. Howard
Cruger, S. V. R.

Currie, John H.

Curtis, Jeremiah
Cutting, R. Fulton
Cutting, W. Bayard
Daly, Hon. Charles P.
Darling, Wm. A.
Davies, Henry E.
Davies, William G.
Davis, John H.

Davis, Hon. Noah
Davis, Samuel D.
Davis, Theodore M.
Davison, C. A.

Day, Henry

Day, Henry M.

de Forest, Mrs. Geo. B.
de Rham, Charles
Decker, N. H.

Delafield, Maturin L.
Delamater, Cornelius H.
Delmonico, L.

Devlin, Jeremiah
Dickey, Charles D.

Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D.
Dixon, C. P.

Dodge, Cleve H.
Dodge, Miss Grace H.
Dodge, Miss Mary M.
Dodge, W. Earl

Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E, Jr.
Dodge, George E.

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Dows, David
Draper, Dr. W. H.
Du Bois, Katharine
Du Bois, William A.
Dunean, John P.
Dunham, G. H.
Dunlap, Robert
Duryee, Jos. W.
Duval, H. Rieman

| Earle, John H.

Eaton, Hon. Dorman B.
Edson, Tracy R.
Edwards, Jonathan
Egleston, Mrs. Thomas
Ehret, George

Kidlitz, Leopold
Kidlitz, Mark

Kinstein, David L.
Elfelt, Augustus B.
Elliott, John

Ellis, John W.

Ely, Richard 8.

Eno, Amos F.

Eno, Amos R.

Fabbri, KE. G.
Fahnestock, H. C.

| Falls, W. A.

Fanshawe, Geo. A.
Fargo, James C.
Farrington, H. A.
Ferguson, Edward
Fielding, M. B.
Fish, Hon. Hamilton
Fiske, Josiah M.
Fleet, Oliver S.
Fletcher, Andrew
Fogg, William H.
Foote, Emerson
Ford, John R.
Foster, J. P. G.
Foulke, Thomas
Frame, Charles P.
Fraser, George S.
Frohwein, Theobold
Fry, Charles M.
Furniss, 8S. R. C.
Garrison, Wm. R.
Gebhard, Edward
Georger, Louis F.
Gibbs, Theodore K.
Gilbert, Clinton
Gillespie, G. D. H.
Glover, Charles H.
Goadby, James H.
Goadby, Thomas.
Goddard, J. W.
Godwin, Parke
Goldenberg, Levi

Goodridge, F.
Goodwin, James J.
Gossler, G. H.

Grace, Hon. W. R.
Gracie, J. K.

Graham, Malcolm
Greenwood, Isaac J.
Greer, Charles
Grinnell, Thos. P.
Griswold, B. W.
Griswold, Sam’]L., M.D.
Groesbeck, D.
Grosvenor, Mrs. M. A.
Guernsey, Egbert, M.D.
Gunning, Thos. B., M.D.
Gunther, F. Frederick
Gunther, William Henry
Gurnee, W. S.

Hall, John-H.

Hall, Thomas D.
Hallgarten, A.
Hallgarten, Julius
Hammond, K. A.
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Hanemann, John T.
Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D.
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Harrison, Joseph G.
Harrison, Miss M. J.
Hartley, Marcellus
Hasell, Bentley D.
Havemeyer, Theo. A.
Havemeyer, J.

Hateh, Rufus

Haven, G. G.

Havens, Chas. G.
Hawley, Henry H.
Hay, Allan

Hays, Jacob

Hearn, George A.
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Higginson, James J.
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Hoadley, Russell H.
Hoag, Daniel T.
Hobson, Joseph

Hoe, Peter S.

Hoe, Richard M.

Hoe, Robert.

Hoffman, J. O.
Hoguet, H. L.

Holbrook, E. F.
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Hone, Robert S.
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Iselin, Wm. E.
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Jordan, C. N.
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Kemp, John H.
Kennedy, John S.
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Kuhne, Frederick
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Lehmaier, M. H.

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Wright, William Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

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A) s the occasion of the retirement of

MR ROBERT Ss? Dae

from the Presidency of the Museum, the following resolu-
tions were adopted at the Quarterly Meeting of the Board
of Trustees, held February 14th, 1881.

Hesolved—_That the Trustees of the American Museum
of Natural History, have received with deep regret the
peremptory declination of Mr. Robert L. Stuart to serve the
Institution further as its President, and the more so, that
such step on his part has been compelled by the state of
his health.

They desire to put on record their unanimous apprecia-
tion of his earnest and unfailing devotion to its interests,
and of the liberality with which he has always promoted
its various enterprises, and aided in advancing its growth
from its modest beginnings, until under his management
it has reached its present satisfactory position as an educa-
tional and scientific institution.

We are glad to know that we shall continue to have
the benefit of his co-operation and earnest sympathy as a

member of the Board of Trustees.

The Thirteenth

ANNUAL REPORT

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CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK,

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ROBERT L. STUART.
ROBERT COLGATE.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD.
ADRIAN ISELIN.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
MORRIS K. JESUP.

D. JACKSON STEWARD.
JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
PERCY R. PYNE.

JOHN B. TREVOR.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE.

WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ANDREW H. GREEN.
FREDERIC W. STEVENS.
ABRAM S, HEWITT.
CHARLES LANIER.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
OLIVER HARRIMAN

C. VANDERBILT.

D. O. MILLS.

CHAS. G. LANDON

PRESIDENT.
MORRIS K. JESUP.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

ROBERT COLGATE. |

D. JACKSON STEWARD.

SECRETARY.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

TREASURER.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

JAMES M. CONSTABLE.
ROBERT COLGATE.

JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
ADRIAN ISELIN.

C. VANDERBILT.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

FREDERIC W. STEVENS.

OLIVER HARRIMAN.

AUDITING COMMITTEE.

PERCY R. PYNE. CHARLES. LANIER. JOHN B, TREVOR.

Pror. ALBERT S. BICKMORE, Superintendent.
Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of Geology.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of Zoology.

J. J. BARGIN, Assistant Secretary.

L. P. GRATACAP, Assistant Curator of Geology.
A. WOODWARD, Librarian.

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Tue Trustees of the American Museum of Natural
History have the pleasure of presenting this, their
Thirteenth Annual Report, to the Patrons, Fellows,
and Members of the Museum.

In 1875, the Commissioners of the Department of
Public Parks adopted plans prepared by Mr. Frederick
Law Olmsted for drives and footpaths from Central Park
to our Square at Eighth Avenue and 77th and 81st
Streets, but for want of funds no progress was made
with this important work. ‘The Trustees therefore were
obliged to assume the onerous task of asking the Legis-
lature to provide the means for completing this neces-
sary improvement. The Park Department unanimously
approved of our proposition, and we received im-
portant and hearty co-operation from the Mayor and
Comptroller. The bill resulting from our conferences
with these authorities of the City, was promptly passed
by the Legislature and became law, and the Depart-
ment, at our request, have publicly advertised and let
the work which the contracts require shall be com-
pleted by next June.

The improvements upon our Square have been
making rapid progress and have been the subject of
frequent commendation by the visitors to our build-
ing and our own citizens who are interested in the
completion and perfection of our system of public parks.

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The rapid growth of the Economic Department has
been the principal feature in the increase of our col-
lections during the past year. The woods referred to
in our last report as being in the course of collection
by a corps of experienced botanists under the direc-
tion of Prof. Charles 8. Sargent, have been nearly all
received. Our new building being already filled to
overflowing, the Department has given us the upper
story of the Arsenal for a temporary place where these
specimens may be exhibited at once on account of
their importance to architects and builders, and the
artizan and laboring classes of our citizens. The work
of preparing them for exhibition is begun and they
will be displayed to the public during the coming
autumn.

The specimens of Building and Ornamental Stones
forming the other portion of this Economie Depart-
ment are now gathered at Washington and will be
ready for exhibition at the same time. Nothing but
the stern necessity of want of space would warrant us
in placing such costly collections where they may be
destroyed by fire in a few hours, and this illustrates the
imperative need that measures be immediately taken
for securing the ereetion by the City of another sec-
tion of our fire-proof edifice.

The improvements upon the collections began last
year have been vigorously carried on during the past
twelve months. The Mammals which were purchased
in various places, and were mounted on many differ-
ent kinds of stands, have all been transferred to
pedestals of polished cherry and now present a uniform
and elegant appearance.

The Birds have been mostly transferred from the

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white stands on which they were mounted, in Europe,
to stands of polished Mahogany, and this improve-
ment, which is still in progress, will be completed
during the present year. Partitions have been placed
in the cases on the east side of the Main Hall and new
labels attached to a part of the Birds of North America.
One hundred species, one hundred and twenty-five
specimens of skins have been received from the U. 8.
National Museum as a portion of the exchange due us
for specimens we have forwarded in previous years.
A guide to the Collection of Mammals and one to that
of Birds have been nearly completed.

In the Ethnological Department there has been re-
ceived a very large and valuable collection illustrat-
ing the ethnology of British Columbia, gathered by
Dr. J. W. Powell, Superintendent of Indian Affairs
in that part of the Dominion of Canada, This collec-
tion has been made at the expense of Mr. H. R.

Bishop of this city, who has presented it to the

Museum. A similar series of specimens from the West
Coast of Africa, gathered by Mr. O. Jackson and other
agents of Messrs. Yates & Porterfield of this city, has
been presented by Mr. C. P. Huntington.

Mr. Robert L. Stuart has purchased and presented
to the Museum the remaining undivided third part of
the collection made by Col. Chas. C. Jones Jr., illus-
trating the Antiquities of our Southern Indians.

In the Geological Halil, the cases on the east side
have been completed and the preliminary arrangement
and labelling of specimens in them have been finished.
Eight of the table cases formerly at the Arsenal have
been made into sixteen shorter ones and placed in the
alcoves. and are now occupied by the fossils formerly

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in the cases in the centre of the hall, while in the latter
have been exhibited the series of Minerals known as
the Bailey Collection. These specimens have been
supplied with labels on which is being added the local-
ities and names of the species in writing. Complete
labels have also been placed in several of the alcove
cases occupied by fossils. The skeletons of fossil birds
from New Zealand, which had become somewhat im-
paired by the dry atmosphere of the rooms, have been
saturated with glue and remounted. Early in the year
a short guide to the Geological Hall was prepared
and printed, and is sold in the building.

Many fine specimens of plants of the Devonian
Age have been obtained by exchange from Princi-
pal Dawson, of McGill College, Canada, for the eighth
series of duplicates of the Hall Collection, and are
displayed in the alcove cases.

The relief-map of New Hampshire, purchased from
Prof. C. H. Hitchcock has been encased and partially
colored geologically. A friend of the Museum has au-
thorized us to complete and letter it at his expense,
which work will soon be undertaken.

The part of our collection, which needs to be re-
arranged and newly labeled, and to be largely develop-
ed by additions of lately discovered species is the De-
partment of Conchology. The Museum already possesses
in the valuable Wolfe gift, made in memory of our first
President, an admirable nucleus for a complete collec-
tion in this, one of the most popular branches of natural
history.

An Herbarium of North American Plants, preserved
with remarkable taste and eare, has been received from
the late Stephen Whitney Phoenix, and forms the be-

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ginning of a new Department of special interest to those
scientists devoting themselves to the study of Botany

The Brevoort Library on Fishes and other branches
of Zoology, presented by Mr. Robert L. Stuart, and
the Jay Library of conchological works, presented by
Miss C. L. Wolfe, have been catalogued, and arranged
so that any volume or pamphlet can be referred to
without a moment’s delay, and a librarian is now em-
ployed who has continual supervision over our books
and those of the New York Academy of Sciences,
These two series of volumes with moderate additions
every year would soon become one of the best libraries
in our land for those naturalists pursuing original scien-
tific researches.

The Museum has commenced the issuing of bulletins,
of which the first has already been published: contain-
ing three original papers on scientific subjects.

The lectures given by the Superintendent in the De-
partment of Public Instruction to the Principals and
Teachers of our public schools, were so constantly at-
tended and in all respects so successful that the Board
of Education addressed the Trustees a letter express-
ing their thanks for the instruction given, and asking
if a larger room could not be provided where at least
fifty teachers could be accommodated. Regarding this
as the most direct means of making a return to
the city for the liberal grants it has made for the erec-
tion and partial maintenance of their building, the
Trustees, at their own expense have had work-rooms
B and C made into a small lecture hall, and a course
of lectures is now being delivered by the Superinten-
dent upon Physical Geography, to be followed by an-
other course on Zoology. The interest of the teachers

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in these lectures, as manifested by their constant attend-
ance during the stormiest weather, makes this to be
one of the best means the Institution can adopt in or-
der to reach and benefit every family in our city which
has a child in the public schools, and the Board of Edu-
cation have indicated their estimation of the importance
of this work in the following circular to the principals
and teachers:

HALL OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
City Superintendent's Office.

November 11th, 1881.
To THE PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS:

In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Education, and upon
the recommendation of the Committee on Course of Study and School
Books, the undersigned hereby directs the attention of all teachers to the
fact that the American Museum of Natural History, possessing a large and
costly collection of specimens, illustrative and useful in many departments
of science, is now complete, and open to the general public for visitation
and inspection. The Trustees of this Museum, through the President of
their Board, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, have specially extended an invitation
to the teachers and scholars of the public schools, in which invitation the
desire is expressed that the Museum may be utilized in the service of pub-
lic education.

The undersigned therefore suggests and advises that the means of as-
sistance in prosecuting the study of natural science, thus courteously and
definitely placed at the disposal of the schools, be rendered as available
for the purpose mentioned and made as practically useful as circumstances
will permit.

By frequent reference to the existence of the Museum and its many
treasures in the Department of Natural History, the Principals and
Teachers could and should awaken the interest of the children, and by
precept and example, could induce and encourage them to take advantage
of the opportunity thus presented. The fact, that teachers from the several
schools have traveled great distances in inclement weather to attend a
course of Saturday lectures at the Museum, and were amply rewarded for
their time and effort, is proof of the Museum's usefulness from an edu-
cational point of view; and an announcement of what had been done and
is going to be done by teachers, would necessarily be productive of great
effect upon the minds of the pupils. The elements of Natural Science,
taught orally in our schools, are best presented by those who have an ob-
jective acquaintance with that about which they speak and lecture, and the
pupil who can pass from the world of books and oral statements into

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actual contact with the very things of which the books and statements give
only imperfect pictures, is in possession of advantages which it would be
inexcusable to neglect.

Teachers and Pupils should, therefore, on Saturdays and holidays, de-
vote some portion of their time to the Museum and its collections.

Good instruction makes discipline easy. A visit by the meritorious
pupils of the class, in company with the teacher, as a reward for satisfac-
tory service during the week or month, would not only increase the pupil’s
knowledge, but also constitute an effective agency in securing order,
interest and attention in the class room, and would thus make the teacher’s
labor less arduous and exhausting.

The Museum of Natural History is in Seventy-eighth street, between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. It opens-every day, except Sunday, at nine
o’clock A.M., and closes half an hour before sunset.

Very respectfully,
JOHN JASPER,
City Superintendent.

The institution has now become of such importance
in promoting public education that it should at once be
placed on a permanent basis. The sum received from
the city this year, after providing for the necessary
work on the building, has been but little more than
half of the amount required for merely maintaining the
collections already acquired. This large deficiency as
well as all sums for the purchase of new specimens has
been given by the Trustees and a few of our citizens.
To enable the Museum to continue its present impor-
tant work and to extend its labors into new fields of
usefulness, there is now needed an Endowment
Fund, of which the interest only would be expended.
The usefulness of the Institution is now so fully estab-
lished and so generally recognized that we confident-
ly appeal for assistance in making up this Fund to
all the public-spirited citizens of our metropolis.

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ARTICLE I.

This Corporation shall be styled the Amertcan Musrum oF
Narvrat History.

ARTICLE ILI.

The several persons named in the Charter, and such others
as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed
twenty-fiye in all at one time, shall be the Trustees to manage
the affairs, property and business of the corporation, and in
ease of the death, accepted resignation, or removal trom 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 second Monday ot
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

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meeting in February, elect the officers and committees for the
ensuing year. They shall also meet at any other time to
transact special business 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 there-
of at least three days before the meeting is held.

ARTICLE IY.

The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President, a
First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer,
and 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,
having 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
Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives and corres-
pondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meet-
ings 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 practical; 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,

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ARTICLE VI.

The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom
the President and Secretary shall be two. They shall have
the control and regulation of the Collections, Library and
other property of the Museum; and shall have power to pur-
chase, 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 thonsand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten
thousand dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meet-
ing 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 ap-
proved 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 consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trus-
tees meeting may adjourn and transact current business, sub-
ject to the subsequent approval of a meeting at which a quo-
rum 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.

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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 two thousand five hundred dollars to
the funds of the Museum, at one time, shall entitle the person
giving the same to be a patron of the Museum.

The contribution of one thousand dollars, at one time, —
shall entitle the person giving the same to bea Fellow in
Perpetuity.

The contribution of five hundred dollars, at one time, shall
entitle the person giving the same to be a Fellow for Life, Se

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either of the —
above degrees, who shall have donated to the Museum books |
or specimens to the value of twice the amount in money re- —
quisite 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 elect Honorary Fel-
lows of the Museum in their discretion.

All persons receiving such degrees and diplomas shall be —
entitled, at all times, to free admission to the Museum and its
Exhibitions, but shall not, by virtue of such degrees or diplo-_
mas, become members of the Corporation.

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ARTICLE XII.

No alterations shal] 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 amend-
ment proposed to be made, having been given at a regular
meeting.

BY-LAWS.

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Patrons giving $2,500 are each entitled to 10 Complimen-

tary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber's Ticket, and 10 Tickets for

a single admission.

Fellows in Perpetuity giving $1,000 are each entitled to 5

Complimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10

Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows for Life giving $500 are each entitled to 4 Compli-

mentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets

for a single admission.

Associate Fellows giving $250 are each entitled to 3 Com-

plimentary Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10

Tickets for a single admission.

Members giving $100 are each entitled to 2 Complimentary
Season Tickets, 1 Subscriber’s Ticket and 10 Tickets for a

single admission.

Annual Members, paying $10 yearly, are each entitled to

1 Subscriber's Ticket and 10 Complimentary Tickets for a

single admission.

I.

Any Trustee who shall fail to attend three consecutive
Regular Quarterly Meetings of the Board, shall cease to be
Trustee, unless excused by the Board.

Ii.

No gentleman shall hereafter be eligible to the position of
Trustee who shall not be a * Fellow in Perpetuity ” of the
m, unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the
— excepting Trustees ex-officio —nor be eligible unless

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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.

TY.

No indebtedness shall (except for the current expenses) be
incurred by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its
committees, ofticers or employees, unless there are at the time
sufficient moneys in the Treasury to pay the same.

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DONATIONS.

1881.

Ss. T. HAMMOND, Springfield, Mass.
1 piece of Rose Quartz.

WM. H. BARTLETT, New Bedford, Mass.
1 Arctic Whale Bone.

DER HISTORISCHE VEREIN FUR STEIERMARK, Graz.
Mittheilungen, XXVIII. & XXIX. Heft.
Beitrage, 17. Jahrgang.
Festschrift zur Erinnerung an die Feier, etc.
DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE VEREIN FUR STEIER-
MARK, Graz.
Mittheilungen, 1879 & 1880.
“‘ Das Chemische Institut.”

Hon. FRANCIS KERNAN.
Bulletin No. 5, publications of the U. 8. Entomological
Commission —‘‘ The Chinch-Bug.”

Hon. CLARENCE KING, Director of the U. S. Geological Survey,
Washington.
1st Annual Report—1880.
Mrs. 8. 8. HALDEMANN, Chickies, Pa.
_A collection of Ethnological Specimens from British Guiana.
A series of Stone Implements from Pennsylvania, etc.

FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Liverpool, England.
28th Annual Report.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Chicago, Ills.
3d Annual Report—1878
L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DE COPENHAGUE.
Bulletin 1880—No. 2.
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Buffalo, N. Y.
Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 5.
JED. HOTCHKISS, Editor and Publisher, Staunton, Virginia.
“THE VIRGINIAS,” a Mining and Scientific Journal —
Vol. I, 1880.
ABIEL ABBOT, New York.
1 Ocean Fish.
1 Whale’s Tooth.
1 Specimen Branch Coral.
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, St. Paul.
Biennial Report, 1881.
ROBERT L. STUART, Esq., N. Y.
1 Volume ‘‘ Conchologia Indica.”
11 pieces—Fragments of Roman Pottery.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C.
Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1878.
‘* Library Aids.”
Bulletins 1 and 2, Volume 6.—Hayden.
a: 6—Entomological Commission.
Resources of Alaska.—Petroff.
First Annual Report, U.S. Geological Survey.—King.

Pror. GEO. H. COOK, State Geologist of New Jersey.
Annual Report, 1880.

LUCIEN CARR, (the author.)
‘* Notes on the Crania of New England Indians.”
‘* Observations on Crania.”’

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D.C.
Report for 1879.
‘** Contributions to Knowledge,” Vol. 23.
** Miscellaneous Collections,” Vols. 18, 19, 20, 21
“The Silk Goods of America,” Wyckoff.
2 specimens 1 species of fossils.

Through the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D.C.
Museo National de Mexico.
Anales, Tomo Il. Entréga 3*, 4%, 5°.
K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien.
Verhandlungen, Jahrgang 1880.
The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, 1876-78. -
1. Zoology. Fishes, by R. Collett.
‘ Hil. Gephyrea.
2. Chemistry. I. II. Ill. by H. Tornoe.
Royal Society of Tasmania.

Report and Proceedings for 1879.
L’Institute Royale Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg.
Publications—Tome XVIII. 1881.
Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubundens, Chur
Jahres-Bericht 1877-78—1878-79 und 1879-80.
Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Zurich.
Vierteljahrsschrift 1879 und 1880.
London Society of Arts, England.
Journal 1879-80. Vol. 28.
Der Offenbacher Verein fiir Naturkunde.
Bericht—19th, 20th and 21st,—1877-80.
ASTOR LIBRARY, New York.
32d Annual Report, 1880.
ANDREW E. DOUGLASS, Esq, N. Y.
21 Crania of Indians, West Coast of Florida.
F. M. ROGERS.
1 fine grooved Indian Axe, Bay Shore, L. I.
JOHN MICHELS, Esq., N. Y.

1 piece of Teak from ship ‘* Royal George.”

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA, through Eugene A. Smith,

State Geologist, Montgomery.
Report of Progress for 1879 and 4880.
W. W. JEFFERIS, West Chester, Pa.
14 Mineralogical specimens,

+ ie.

ee a

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.

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Cc. D. WALCOTT, N. Y.

1 Mineralogical specimen.
J. W. DEEMS, Brooklyn.

3 specimens Minerals.
HENRY W. BELKNAP, Hartford, Conn.

16 specimens of South American and other Birds.
PEABODY MUSEUM, Cambridge, Mass.

14th Annual Report.
R. D. LACOE, Pittston, Pa.

‘*Coal Flora of Pennsylvania,” by Lesquereux.
CAPT. JOHN M. DOW, N: Y:

A Life-size Stone Image with arms akimbo, unearthed in a
trench at the foot of the Volcano of Turraalba, Costa Rica,
presented to Captain Dow by the Governor of Cartago.

G. A. BOARDMAN, Calais, Me.
1 specimen of the Young of the Petrel.
1 ‘* Gullimot.
OESTERREICHISCHER INGENIEUR & ARCHITEKTEN VEREIN.
Wien.
IL. Bericht des Hydrotechnischen Comités, etc., etc.” 1881.
MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO, Mexico.

Revista, Cientifica Mexicana, Tomo 1. Num. 16.

Revista Mensual Climatoligica Agosto de 1881.

Boletin del Tomo VI, Num. 131.

Anales de Tomo V, 1881.

INDIAN MUSEUM, Calcutta.
Annual Reportand Lists of Accessions, April ’80 to March’81
SIEBENBURGISCHEN VEREINS FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFT in
Hermannstadt.
Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen, XX XI. Jahrgang.
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, N.Y.
Transactions 1881-82.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass. Through
Prof. A. Agassiz, Curator.
Annual Report 1880-1,
REV. S. D, PEET, Chicago, Ills.
The Am. Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Vol. IV. No. 1.
JOHN J. NATHANS, N. Y., through Mr. W. A. Conkling, N. Y.
A large Richly Ornamented Vase from Mexico.
P. R. SLEIGHT, Lagrange, N. Y.
A series of Indian Bones.
WM. DELL HARTMAN, M_D., (the author) Westchester, Pa.
‘“ Observations on the Species of the Genus Partula.”
PROF. JAMES HALL, (the author) Albany, N. Y.
‘** Corals & Bryozoans of the Lower Helderberg Group.” ’80.
‘* Bryozoans of the Upper Helderberg Group.”’ 1881.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, JAPAN. Through Hon. H. Kato, President
of the Department of Law, Science and Literature.

‘* Geology of the Environs of Tokio,” by Dr. D. Brauns. ‘81.

‘*Measurements of the Force of Gravity,” by Dr. T. C.
Mendenhall.— 1881.

BERNARD QUARITCH, London, England. |

Catalogues for 1881.

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Cc. P. HUNTINGTON, Esq., N. Y.
A collection of specimens illustrating the Ethnology of the
West Coast of Africa and Zululand, and a Manuscript Map
of same.
H. R. BISHOP, Esq., N. Y.
A collection of specimens illustrating the Ethnology of Bri-
tish Columbia.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA.
7 specimens, 4 species fossils.
F. O. FRENCH. Esgq., N. Y.
Casing and painting Geological Map of New Hampshire.
PROF. O. C. MARSH, New Haven, Conn.
Casts of Bones of Fossil Toothed Birds, 26 pieces.
SANDERSON SMITH, Esq., Staten Island.
85 specimens, 33 species Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils from
England.
PROF. J. W. DAWSON, Montreal, Can.
295 specimens, 30 species. Post-Pliocene Fossils, Canada.
12 specimens, 7 species Coal-plants.
aa 2 species Graptolites.
M. K. JESUP, Esq., N. Y.
A large and beautiful collection of Fossils and Minerals com-
prising many of great value. Fossils 1062. Minerals 185.
F. A. CALKINS, Esq., N. Y.
Several Blocks of Cemented Gravel, Peekskill.
JOHN WILSON, Esq., N. Y.
12 specimens Cretaceous Fossils from Colorado.
PROF. W. B. DWIGHT, Vassar College.
6 slabs of Trenton Limestone, with Fossils.
PROF. JULES MARCOU, Cambridge, Mass.
10 Trilobites and other Primordial Fossils.

MADISON UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, N. Y.
71 specimens Fossils in exchange for labeling done for them
by curator.

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Morgan, Geo D
Morris, Henry Lewis
Morrison, Edward
Morrison, George A.
Mortimer, W. Y.
Moslé, George
Moulton, Gilman S.
Mowry, A. L.

Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M.

Myers, John K.
Myers. T. Bailey
Navarro, Juan N.
Neftel, Wm. B., M.D.
Neilson, F.

Nichols, Wm. D.
Norrie, Adam
O’Connor, Thomas H.
Odell, Jonathan
Odell, Mrs Jonathan
Olcott, F. P.
Olmstead, Dwight H.
Olmsted, Fred. Law
Olyphant, R. M.
Olyphant, Robert
Oothout, William
Osgood, S. S.
Osgood, Mrs. S. S.
Ostrander, C. V. B.
Otis, F. N., M.D.
Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Paddock. Eugene H.
Park, Joseph
Parsons, George W.
Parsons, John E.
Patterson. Thomas C.
Peabody, Arthur J.
Pell, John H.
Penfold, Edmund
Penfold, William Hall
Perkins, C. L.

Peters, George A., M.D.
Phelps, Royal

Phelps, William Walter
Pheenix, Phillips
Pierrepont, Edwards
Pinkus. F. S.

Platt, John R.

Platt, Samuel R.
Porter, Hon. J. K.
Post, Alfred C., M.D.
Potter, Howard
Potter, Rev. H.C., D.D.
Powers, William P.
Preston. William I.
Prime, Frederick
Prince, J. D.

Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Purssell, James

Pyne, Percy R.
Quintard, E. A.
Ramsay, C. G.
Raynolds, C. T.
Renwick, W. R.
Requa, J. M.

Riker JDas:

Riker, John L.

Riker, William J.
Robbins, George A.
Robertson, R. A.
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, John
Russell, Charles H.

Russell, Henry E.
Riitten, August
Rutter, Thomas

Ryan, Columbus
Rylance, Rev J.H., D.D.
Sabine, G. A., M.D.
Sage, Russell

Sands, Andrew H.
Sands, Samuel S.
Satterlee, S. K.

Sayre, Lewis A., M.D.
Schack, Frederick
Schafer, Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon
Schley, William
Schuchardt, Frederick
Schuyler, George L.
Schuyler, Philip
Schwendler, Fred.
Shaler, Gen. Alexander
Scott, Geo. S.
Seligman, David J.
Shaw, Francis George
Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.
Shearman, William Pitt
Shethar, Samuel
Sinclair, John

Sistare, Geo. K.
Skidmore, William L.
Slawson, J. B.

Sloan, Hon. Samuel
Sloane, Wm. D.
Slocovich, G

Smith, Charles S.
Smith, Edward F.
Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Jas. Rufus
Smith, Roswell

Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.

Smith, William Alex.
Smith, William Henry

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Soutter, Mrs. J. F.
Speir, Hon. Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W.

Spencer. Hon. James C.

Starin, Hon. John H.
Stearns, John Noble
Sterling, ACF,
Sterry, Geo. E.
Steward, Campbell
Stewart, David
Stewart. Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.
Strahan, John H.
Strong, Charles E.
Strong, George A.
Strong, W. L.
Sturgis, Appleton
Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Suydam, D Lydig
Swan, William H,
Tailer, Edward N.
Taintor, Charles M.
Talcott, James
Tappan, Hon. J. Nelson
Taylor, Aug. C.
Taylor, W. B.

Tefft, E.-T.

Terbell, H. S.
Thompson, S. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, James
Thorn, William Kk.
Thurber, F. B.
Thurber, H. K.
Tiemann. Peter C.
Tilford, Frank
Tobias, Samuel I.
Toucey, J. M.
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, John P.
Townsend, R. W

Tracy, Charles

Tracy, J. Evarts

Trevor, H. G.

Trevor, John B.

Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Twombly, H. McK.
Valentine, Lawson
Van Nostrand, David
Van Winkle, Hon. E. S.

‘Vermilye, J. D.

Viele. Gen. Egbert L.
Von Post, Herman C.
Waite, Hon. C.-B.
Wales Hon. Salem H.
Wall, Michael W.
Wallach, Antony
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Watson. John H.
Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H.
Webb, Gen. Alex. S.
Webster. Sidney
Weed, Hon. Thurlow
Weekes, John A.
Weeks, Francis H.
Wenman, Hon. James F.
Wetherbee, Gardner
Wheelock, Geo.G.,M.D.
Wheelock, Wm. A.
Wheelock, Dr. W. E.
White, Horace
Whitney, Alfred R.
Wickham, Hon. W. H.
Wiechers, W. A,
Williamson. Hon. D. B.
Wilson, John
Winston, F. S.
Winthrop, Robert
Witherbee, S. H.
Worsham, Mrs. B. D.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Wyckoff, J. F.

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OF THE

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(CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK,)

77th Street and 8th Avenue.

NEW YORK :

PRINTED EOR LAE MUSEUM.

1883.

American Museum of Natural History.

Trustees.
MORRIS K. JESUP. WM. E. DODGE, Jr.
ROBERT COLGATE. JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ANDREW H. GREEN.
ADRIAN ISELIN. ABRAM 8. HEWITT.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN. CHARLES LANIER.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
JOSEPH H. CHOATE. OLIVER HARRIMAN.
PERCY R. PYNE. C. VANDERBILT.
JOHN B. TREVOR. D. O. MILLS.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. CHAS. G. LANDON.

H. R. BISHOP.

President.
MORRIS K. JESUP.

Vice-Presidents.
ROBERT COLGATE. | D. JACKSON STEWARD.

Secretary.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

Treasurer.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

Executive Committee.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. | D.- JACKSON STEWARD.
ROBERT COLGATE. | ADRIAN ISELIN.
H. R. BISHOP.

Finance Committee.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN. | OLIVER HARRIMAN.
D. O. MILLS.

Auditing Committee.
PERCY R. PYNE. | CHARLES LANIER.
CHAS. G. LANDON.

Pror. ALBERT 8S. BICKMORE, Superintendent.
Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of Geology.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of Zodlogy.

J. J. BARGIN, Assistant Secretary.

L. P. GRATACAP, Assistant Curator of Geology.
A. WOODWARD, Librarian.

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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
1882.

The Trustees of the AMERICAN Museum oF NATURAL History
herewith present their Fourteenth Annual Report, to the Patrons,
Fellows and Members of the Museum.

The improvements proposed by the plans prepared at the ex-
pense of the Trustees, and adopted by the Department of Public
Parks, for connecting Manhattan Square with Central Park at 77th
and 81st Streets, have been completed, and our building with its
costly and interesting collections is now accessible to our citizens
visiting the Park in carriages or on foot. The roadway connect-
ing Eighth Avenue at 81st Street with the Westerly Drive has been
finished, and the roadway and stone bridge at 77th Street were
opened last Thanksgiving Day; and the very marked increase in
the number of our visitors proves the importance of this accessi-
bility in the estimation of the public. These improvements have
been completed for considerably jess than the appropriation pro-
vided, so that it is hoped ample means remain for properly
improving the area of the Park between the two entrances and
the Eighth Avenue and the Westerly Drive. Plans have been
matured for the completion of the system of walks which these
roadways render necessary. Signs have been prepared for guiding
visitors by the most direct paths to the Museum, and during the
coming season it is expected this whole portion of the Park will
be finished in the same complete manner as other parts of our
public pleasure ground.

On Manhattan Square all the filling has been brought in, and
the surface of the borders and the southern half has been covered
with mould, and partly planted. The work is now so far advanced
that it will be completed during the coming summer, with the sum
already appropriated by the Board of Apportionment.

The purpose of the Trustees to add, if possible, every year new
and instructive specimens to the Museum, but more especially to

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complete the collections already begun, has led to making con-
tracts with Prof. H. A. Ward, of Rochester, for all the mammals
of North America, as far south as the Rio Grande between Texas
and Mexico, as is necessary to supplement our present collection
and make it complete in every respect. One consignment of these
specimens has been received, which includes a remarkably fine
group of walruses from Alaska. A second contract made with
Prof. Ward is to provide the Museum with specimens of all the
monkeys of the world, and during the year the Museum will re-
ceive from both these contracts large and valuable additions.

All the mammals on exhibition have been fully and satisfacto-
rily labeled, and the specimens to arrive will be provided with
labels as rapidly as they are placed in the cases.

“Visitors’ Guides,” with photographic views of the different
Halls, have just been issued.

The rapid growth of the Economic Department, particularly
that portion illustrating the forestry of the United States, has ne-
cessitated the construction of a large glass case, in two sections,
extending along the middle of the Lower Hall; and the Wolfe
collection of shells, now on that floor, will be moved to the Upper
Hall where they will be better and more satisfactorily placed, in
connection with their allied fossil forms.

The grand effect of our exhibition halls may be somewhat im-
paired by an overcrowding of cases upon their floors when all the
additions to our collections are received, but it will illustrate the
imperative necessity for an immediate application to the City for
the erection of another wing, of the same form and dimensions as
the one now occupied. If such an additional structure were
begun at once, it is thought more specimens would be gathered,
at the present rate of growth, by the time such building would be
completed, than it could properly display.

In the collection of Birds, in the Main Hall, the transferring
from stands of various forms and materials to a uniform series of
mahogany has been completed, and the Birds of North America
have been labeled.

In the Gallery, the costly dresses, implements, carvings and
other specimens illustrating the ethnology of British Columbia,
which were gathered during 1881, by Dr. J. W. Powell, Superin-

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tendent of Indian Affairs in that province, at the expense of Mr.
H. R. Bishop, have been placed on exhibition. Another supple-
mentary series, collected during the past summer, has been shipped
from San Francisco, and a great war canoe, sixty-two and a half
feet long and ‘over eight feet beam, is now on its way on a steamer
of the Pacific Mail Company, who, with the Panama Railroad
Company, are bringing it to us without expense.

In the Geological Hall the labeling of the collections has been
steadily progressing. The Geological sections illustrated by
specimens of rock from New Hampshire and Vermont, purchased
from Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, have been partially placed on exhi-
bition in case S, and the relief map of New Hampshire has been
finished by means generously given by a friend of the institution.

In the Mineralogical Department the labeling has been pro-
gressing satisfactorily.

In the Lecture Department the instruction given by the Super-
intendent has proved very attractive ; the Lecture Hall at times
has been overcrowded and made thereby uncomfortable. A
course of twenty lectures upon Zodlogy was begun last fall, ten to
be delivered last autumn and ten this spring. The last series
began with an attendance of ror and ended with 154.

The great importance and value of this instruction is shown by
the following extract from the Report of the City Superintendent
of Public Schools to the Board of Education:

“City Supt’s Office, BOARD OF EDUCATION,
No. 146 Grand Street,
New York, February 12th, 1883.

My Dear Sir:

The following is an extract from my annual report for the
year 1882, which will soon be ready for publication :

“Tt seems proper to state that the lectures delivered by Prof. ALBerT
S. Bickmore, at the Museum of Natural History, have been productive
of very good results in this department of study. ‘These lectures, in-
troduced about three years ago, as an experiment, have so grown in
attractiveness and utility, that the class of thirty-five teachers has be-

come one hundred and fifty, representing every Grammar Department

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in the system, and irregularity in attendance has almost disappeared.
The Museum of Natura] History thus, through the teachers, reaches
the pupils of our schools, and through the latter making itself felt in
in nearly every household of our great city, is demonstrating its useful-
ness to the community at large. To Morris K. Jesup, Esq., Chairman
of the Committee in charge of the Museum, and to the other members
of the Committee, great credit is due for the commendable public spirit
which they have displayed in this matter from the very beginning, and
to Prof. Bickmore, who has so ably interpreted and carried out the
Committee’s views, the thanks of the teachers are due for the patience,
ability and kindness he has shown.”

Very truly,
JOHN JASPER,
Morris K, Jesup, Esq. City Superintendent.”

In the Library the Jay and Brevoort catalogues have been iden-
tified during the past year, and cards written for all the books and
pamphlets. These cards are arranged under subjects so that the
student can ascertain at a glance what the Library contains upon
the subject he is investigating. Lists have also been made of the
volumes needed to complete the works on conchology and general
zoblogy. Nine hundred and fifty volumes and seven hundred
and fifty pamphlets have been received, mostly from the national
and state governments upon application by the librarian. A de-
tailed list of these accessions is given in the appendix. <A unique
and very valuable series of about 350 quarto volumes of voyages
and travels has been deposited by Mr. H. J. Jewett.

Bulletin No. 2, upon Conchology, and No. 3, upon Paleontol-
ogy, have been issued and three hundred copies distributed to the
leading societies, libraries and scientific men.

The Trustees, as a Board and as individuals have been called
to mourn the loss of Mr. Ropert L. StuART, whose name has
been associated with the Museum from its earliest inception, and
who was for nine years its President. ‘The minute entered on the
records of the Board of Trustees, expressing a sense of the loss
the institution has sustained, and the generous and noble charac-
ter of its late President, are appended to this report.

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To meet the payment for the specimens purchased of Professor
Ward, and to provide for necessary cases, and for other improve-
ments that are imperatively needed, the sum of $14,000 must be
raised. To properly maintain the collections of the Museum
requires about $25,000, of which $15,000 is provided by the City.
The Trustees are anxious that the balance of $10,000 shall be
made up by members paying $10 yearly,’so that all sums of S100
and more that may be given may be reserved for the purchase of
new specimens.

The privileges of Patrons, Fellows and Members will be found
in the By-Laws.

The Museum, to fully occupy its continually widening field of
usefulness, demands two things: first, provision by the City for
the erection of another wing; and secondly, an endowment, the
interest of which shall be sufficient to develop the present admi-
rable nucleus into a museum commensurate with the prospective
greatness of our nation ; and the Trustees hereby respectfully
appeal to all our public spirited citizens to join them in commenc-
ing such an endowment by raising, by subscription, a sum not
less than $300,000.

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CONST Eero

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, If.

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 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.

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They shall also meet at any other time to transact special business
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
Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee and a Finance
Committee, all to be elected from thé 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 havy-
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 Mu-
seum. 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, ‘They shall have the con-

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 lability
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 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 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, pro-
viding for the care and management of the property of the Corpo-
ration, 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 Stooo or more to the funds of the Museum,

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at 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 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. He

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 speci-
mens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Commit-
tee, 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 pro-
posed to be made, having been given at a regular meeting.

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BY=LAWS.

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Patrons giving $1000 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 1o 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.
[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 reserved

days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among

friends and visitors. ]

Il.

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.

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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.

IV.

No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred
by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its Committees,
Officers or employés, unless there are at the time sufficient
moneys in the Treasury to pay the same.

DONATIONS = 1622.

LIBRARY.

Pror. N. H. WINCHELL, State Geologist of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Annual Report, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Sth, 9th. 1876-1881.
~ Preliminary Report on the Building Stones, ete., of Minn. 1880.
Pror. A. S. BICKMORE, N. Y.
66 Miscellaneous Pamphlets.
Maps of Japan and Bermnda.
Manual of the Legislature of the State of N. Y. 1869, °72.°75.
Nouveau Testamet. 1860.
Nuevo Testameto. 1863.
Nouveaux Dictionnaires Paralléles des langues Russe, Francaise, Allemande
et Anglaise. By C. P. Reiff.
Pror. JAMES HALL, Albany, N. Y.
Report of the Regents on the Condition of the State Cabinet, 9th, 15th.
Part 18th.
Pror. W. C. KERR, State Geologist of North Carolina, Raleigh.
Geology of North Carolina. Vol. 1. 1875.
N. C. Geological Survey, Agriculture—Emmons. 1858.
Geological and Natural History Survey of N.C. Part III. 1867.
The Minerals and Mineral Localities of N. C. 1881.
Physiographical Description of North Carolina. 1882.
ISAAC LEA (the author), Philadelphia, Pa.
“ Further Notes on ‘ Inclusions’ in Gems.” 1876.
A Catalogue of the Published Works of Isaac Lea. 1817-76.
Rectification of T. A. Conrad’s ‘“ Synopsis of the Family of Naiades of
No AS? 1872:
WALTER FAXON (the author), Cambridge, Mass.
‘“ Bibliography, Crustacea.” (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. IX. 6.)
Pror. B. SMITH LYMAN, Northampton, Mass.
Report on the Geology of Yesso. 1877.
Report of Progress for 1878 and 1879.
Dr. ©. A. WHITE, Washington, D. C.
“Supplement to the Bibliograph of N. A. Invertebrate Paleontology.
“ Preliminary Report upon Invertebrate Fossils.”
Pror. E. D. COPE, Phila., Pa.
“ Report upon Vertebrate Fossils discovered in New Mexico.”
Prov. J. D. DANA (the author), New Haven, Conn,
Four Pamphlets.
Pror. T. C, CHAMBERLIN, State Geologist, Beloit, Wis.
Annual Report. 1877, 1878.
F. V. HOPKINS, M. D., East Lake, Cal.
“Report on the Reclamation of the alluvial Basin of the Mississippi
River.”
WM. M. HUDSON, Commissioner, Hartford, Conn.
Reports of the Fish Commissioners, 8th, 9th, 18th, 15th, 16th, 1874-81.

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Dr. J. 8. BAILEY, Albany, N. Y.
‘““Trismus Nascentium.” (2 copies; the author.)
“ History of Aigeria pictipes, G. & R.” (The author.)
‘“‘ History of Cossus centerensis.” (The author.)
Transactions of the Medical Society of Albany Co. Vol. II. 1851-70.
E. M. STILWELL, Commissioner, Bangor, Me.
Reports of the Commissioner of Fisheries, Me., lst-15th. 1869-81.
T. W. POWELL, Esq. (the author), through ANEvRIN Jonzs, Supt. Dept. P. P.
The History of the Ancient Britons.
JAS. M. CONSTABLE, Esq., New York. Through the Lecture Department.
** Aurore and their Spectra.”
T. B. FERGUSON, Commissioner, Washington, D. C.
Reports of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Md., 1st, 2d, 4th, 6th.
1876-81.
R. G. PIKE, Commissioner, Middletown, Conn.
Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Conn., 7th and 14th.
W. H. ROGERS, Halifax, N. S.
Supplement No. 2, 14th Annual Report, Dept. of Marine Fisheries of
Canada.
THEODORE LYMAN, Commissioner, Brookline, Mass.
Reports of the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries, 5th, 11th, 14th, 16th.
R. L. JACK, Townsville, Queensland.
“ Report on Explorations in Cape York Peninsula.” 1879-80, 81.
R. O. SWEENY, Pres. Fish Commission, St. Paul, Minn.
Annual Reports, Ist-7th. 1875-81.
B. B. REDDING, Commissioner, San Francisco, Cal.
Reports of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Cal. 1870-71, 1876-77, 1878,
79, 80.
C. F. GISSLER (the author), N. Y.
12 Pamphlets on “ Crustacea.”
C. A. LIESEGANG, New York.
Natuurlijke Historie van den St. Petersberg, 1802.
H. B. WOODWARD, London, Eng.
‘*A Memoir of Dr. 8. P. Woodward. On Emys Lutaria from the Norfolk
Coast.”
Pror. WALDEMAR KOWALEWSKY (the author), Moscow.
“ Osteologie des Genus Enteloden Aym.”
ALEX. C. ANDERSON, Inspector of Fisheries, Victoria, B. C.
Report. 1881.
F. W. PUTNAM, Esq. (the author), Cambridge, Mass.
“Sketch of Hon. L. H. Morgan.”
R. U. SHERMAN, Commissioner, New Hartford, N. Y.
Reports of the Commissioners of Fisheries, State of New York. 1869-
1881.
FRANK RUTLEY, Esq. (the author), London, Eng.
“Microscopic Structure of Devitrified Rocks from Beddgelert and Snow-
den.”
“The Microscopic Characters of the Vitreous Rocks of Montana, U.S. A.”
Pror. J. A. LINTNER (the author), Albany, N. Y.
‘‘ A New Principle in Protection from Insect Attack.”
“The Insects of the Clover Plant.”
A. S. PACKARD, Jr. (the author).
“On the Homologies of the Crustacean Limb,”

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Pror. G. H. PERKINS (the author), Burlington, Vt.
“ General Catalogue of the Flora of Vermont.”
‘“« Tnjurious Insects of Vermont.”
‘“The Molluscan Fauna of New Haven.”
“On Certain Injurious Insects.”
“More Important Parasites of the Higher Animals.”
“On Some Fragments of Pottery from Vermont.” 4
“Remarks upon the Archeology of Vermont.”
“On the Osteology of Sciuropterus Volucella.”
“ Archeology of the Champlain Valley.”
Pror. JULES MARCOU (the author), Cambridge, Mass
Geology of North America. 1858.
‘““ Reply to the Criticisms of James D. Dana.”
‘‘Relatif 4 la classification des chaines de montagnes d’une partie
l’Amerique du Nord.”
Pror. J. L. LE CONTE (the author), Berkely, Cal.
“¢ Metalliferous Vein-formation at Sulphur Bank, Cal.”
Pror. C. ROMINGER, State Geologist, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Geological Survey of Michigan. Vol. IV. 1878-80.
Hon. TIMOTHY 0. HOWE, Postmaster-General, Washington, D. C.
U.S. Postal Guide. 1882.
GIFFORD PINCHOT, Esq., New York. ‘ ;
“ Brehms Thierleben.” 10 vols.
Dr. A. RENARD (the author), Brussels, Belg.
“ Description lithologique des Récifs de St. Paul.”
‘Les Roches grénatiferes et amphiboliques de la région de Bastogne.”
Pror. T. RUPERT JONES, London, Eng.
‘Notes on the Paloeozoic Bivalved Entomostraca.”
“ Notice of the Geology of Wisconsin.”
W. W. MEECH (the author), Vineland, N. J.
‘Lectures on the Spider.”
WM. BEUTTENMULLER, Esq., New York.
“* Contagious Diseases of Domestic Animals.” 1880-81.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Special Reports, Nos. 33, 41.
JED. HOTCHKISS, Editor and Publisher, Staunton, Va.
“The Virginias,” a Mining and Scientific Journal. Vols. I, II. 1881,
1882.
CHAS. E. WRIGHT, Marquette, L. 5., Mich.
Commissioner of Mineral Statistics, Annual Report. 1877-8, 1879, 1880,
1881.
GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, Esq. (the author), New York.
8 Pamphlets, ‘‘ Ornithology,” Descriptions of New Species, ete.
L. P. GRATACAP, Esgq., N. Y.
Jour. of Comparative Medicine and Surgery. Vol. II. 2. HI. 1.
F. B. HOUGH, Esq., Lowville, N. Y.
Report on Forestry. Vol. II. 1880.
F. PRIME, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.
“Catalogue of Official Geological Reports.”
Dr. OTTO HAHN (the author), Wurtemburg.
“ Giebt es ein Eozoon Canadense? eine mikrogeologische untersuchung.”
“ Giebt es ein Eozoon Canadense ? Erwiderung auf Giimbels und Carpen-
ter.”
“ Bericht iiber zwei Galler meteoriteoritenfille.”

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‘““Eophyllum Canadense aus dem serpentinkalk de Laurentian Gneisses
von Canada.”

Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, New York.
‘* Descriptions of New Species of Fossils from Ohio.”
Pror. M. G. DEWALQUE, Brussels, Belg.
“‘Sur Porigine des Calcaires Devoniens de la Belgique.”
Dr. H. B. GEINITZ, Dresden.
Fiirhrer durch das K. Mineralogisch-geclogische Museum in Dresden.
1879.

G. C. BROADHEAD, State Geologist, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
Report of the Geol. Survey of the State of Missouri.
Vol. I. Field Work of 1873-74, with Atlas.
“The Carboniferous Rocks of Southeast Kansas.” (The author).

Pror. J. M. SAFFORD, State Geologist, Nashville, Tenn.
Geology of Tennessee. 1869.
Report Tennessee State Board of Health. 1877-78.

ANTONIO DE GREGORIO, Palermo.
“ Fauna di §. Giovanni I[larione.”

C. E. COFFIN, Esq., N. Y.
Report of the Chief of Engineers. 1871, 1872, 1873.
““ Reconnaissance in the Ute Country.”—Ruffner.
Vick’s Floral Guide.
State Engineer’s Report on Railroads. 1865.
Cutter’s Guide to the Hot Springs of Arkansas. 1882.

Miss GEORGIANA SCHUYLER, N. Y.

Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific Qcean. 11 volumes.

Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. 1852, 1854, 1856.

Sketches accompanying Report of Coast Survey for 1851.

Smithsonian Report. 1856, 757, 758, 759, ’60, 61.

Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society. 1846, 1848, 1850
and 1858.

Geological Survey of Ohio. Geology, Vol. I. Paleontology, Vol. I.

Andrews’ Report on Colonial and Lake Trade. 1852.

Warren’s Fossil Impressions.

Vince’s Fluxions.

American Almanac. 1861.

Commerce and Navigation of the U.S. 1850.

Census of Boston. 1845.

Eighth Census. 1860.—Kennedy.

Statistics of the U. S. Census. 1850.

Reports on Steam Engine. 1838.

Plans, Profiles and Maps of the State Engineer and Surveyor. -1859.

Gray’s Botany.

Pike’s Mathematical, Optical and Philosophical Instruments. 2 vols.

Gillet et J. H. Magne, Nouvelle Flore Francaise.

Natural History of New York, Agriculture. Vol. III.

Catalogue of the Society Library, New York. 1850.

Transactions of the American Institute. 1850.

““Maury’s Sailing Directions.” 1852.

Directory for the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Geology of Iowa. Vol. I. Parts 1 and 2.

S. D. Tilden’s Map of New York and its Vicinity.

Reports on the Total Solar Eclipse of Aug. 7, 1869, U. S. N. Obs.

Art of War in Europe in 1854-5-6. By Maj. R. Delafield.

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Military Commission to Europe, 1855-56. By Maj. A. Mordecai.
Military Commission to Europe, 1855-56. By G. B. McClellan. —
“ American Atlas of North and South America.”

Illustrated Atlas of the United States and Adjacent Countries.

Miss ELLEN COLLINS, N. Y.

Mrs. M.

Results of Meteorological Observations, 1854 to 1859.
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1865.
Message and Documents, 1866-67.

Good’s Book of Nature.

Vince’s Astronomy.

Humboldt’s Cosmos. By E. C. Otté. 2 vols.

‘“¢ Conversations on Vegetable Physiology.”

Wallace’s Structure of the Eye.

“Johnson on Change of Air, ete.”

“ Influence of Climate in North and South America.”
Buckland’s Geology and Mineralogy. 2 vols.

Roget’s Animal and Vegetable Physiology. 2 vols.
He WAR DION: ye

Patent Office Report. 1851, 759, 60, 761.

Andrews’ Report on Colonial and Lake Trade. 1852.
Congressional Globe. Vol. 24. 1851-52.

“s bs Appendix to Vol. 25. 1851-52.
Bibliotheca Americana, a Catalogue of Books relating to North and South
America.

Bristed’s Resources. .

Darby’s Louisiana.
Lafayette en Amérrique, en 1824 et 1825. Tomes 1 and 2.
New York Review. No. 8, 1839. No. 12, 1840. Nos. 16, 18, 1841.

SANDERSON SMITH, Esq., Staten Island, N. Y.

Patent Office Report. 1852-3.

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1865.

Commercial Relations. Vols. I, IIT.

“Catalogue of the Species of Corbiculadz,” in the collection of Temple
Prime.

“ British Museum. A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms.”

“Catalogue of the Shells of the United States.” By Chas. M. Wheatley.

List of Works referred to in Prime’s Catalogue of the recent Species of
the Family Corbiculade.

‘“‘ Brazilian Echinodermes,” with notes on their distribution, ete. By
Richard Rathbun.

“ Anatomy and Habits of Nereis Virens.” By Frederick M. Turnbull.

Pror. JOHN COLLETT, State Geologist, Indianapolis, Ind.

Pror. A.

11th Annual Report, 1882.

G. WETHERBY, Cincinnati, 0.

‘On the Geographical Distribution of Certain Fresh-water Mollusks.”

“Some Notes on American Land Shells. Nos. I, II.

“Review of the Genus Tulotoma, ete.”

“ Remarks on the Trenton Limestone of Kentucky.”

“Deseription of New Crinoids, from the Cincinnati Group.”

“Description of New Fossils from Lower Sil., and Subearboniferous
Rocks of Ohio and Kentucky.”

“ Descriptions of New Species of Crinoids from the Kaskaskia Group.”

“Descriptions of Crinoids from the Upper Subcarboniferous of Pulaski
Co., Ky.”

J. J. BARGIN, Esq., New York.

“More Public Parks, How New York Compares with Other Cities.”

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The Museum of Natural History. Parts 1-14.
In Memoriam, William A. Haines.
C. WACHSMUTH, Esq., Burlington, Ia.
“ Revision of Paleocrinoidea.” Parts 1, 2.
GEO. M. DAWSON, Montreal, Can.
“ Geology of British Columbia.”
“ Superficial Geology of British Columbia.”
U. P. JAMES (the editor), Cincinnati, O.
Paleontologist. Nos. 1-6, 1878-82.
C. D. WALCOTT (the author), N. Y.
“Description of a New Genus of the Order Eurypterida from the Utica
Slate.”
Hon. JOS. B. CARR, Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y.
Natural History of the State of N. Y. Vols. III, IV, V. (5 vols.)
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Buffalo, N. Y.
Bulletin. Vols. J, I, II, 1, 2, 3. IV, 2,3. 1873-82.
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, N. Y.
Transactions. Vol. I, 1-4, 6-8. 1881-82.
Annals. Vol. XI, 6, 7, 8.
VEREIN FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFT, Braunschweig.
: Jahresbericht. 1880-81.
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Madison, Wis.
Twenty-eighth Annual Report. 1882.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, through Prof. Geo. H. Cook, State Geologist, New
Brunswick.
Agricultural Experiment Station. Annual Report, Ist, 2d. 1880-81.
Bulletin. Nos. 12-23. 1881-82.
Annual Report of the State Geologist. 1876, 1878, 1881.
““Catalogue of New Jersey Plants.” 1881.
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, St. Louis, Mo.
Transactions. Vol. IV, 1, 2. 1880-82.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, Easton, Pa.
18 Pamphlets. fi
WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Publication. Nos. 2, 3.
OTTAWA FIELD—NATURALISTS’ CLUB, Can.
Transactions. Nos. 1, 2, 1880-81; 38, 1882.
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, Madison.
Transactions. Vols. V, XII, XIV, XVI, XVIII, XIX.
CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Journal. Vol. III,4; IV, V, 1-3. 1879-82.
CENTRAL OHIO SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION, Urbana, Ohio.
Proceedings. Vol. I. Part 1. ;
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
Bulletin. Vol. I. 1,2. 1874.
“The Library.” Vol. I. Nos. 1, 2,3. 1882.
OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Columbus.
Annual Report, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th. 1877-80.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, STATE OF ILLINOIS, Springfield.
Transactions. Vols. VIII, X, XI, XIJ, XIV-XVIII. 1869-80.
WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS, Madison.
Transactions. Vols. I, II, 1V, 1872-79. V, 1877-81.

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PENNSYLVANIA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Harrisburg.
Annual Report, 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. 1878-81.
Reports of the Several Banks and Savings Institutions. 1882.
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instructions. 1880-81.
Annual Report of the Adjutant-General. 1882.
Laws of the General Assembly. 1881.
CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Sacramento.
Transactions. 1866-1881.
STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Springfield, Ill.
Bulletin, No. 1. 1882.
DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, Davenport, Ia.
Proceedings. Vol. II, Part 2, 1877-78; IL, 1, Part 2, 1879, 1880-82.
STATE OF OHIO, through Prof. E. Orton, Columbus.
Geological Survey, Vol. III, Geology. 1878.
Geological Survey, Vol. IV, 1, Zodlogy and Botany. 1882.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York.
Anuual Report. 1872-82.
‘‘ Hand Book.” Nos. 1-9. 1880-82.
“ Technical Schools.” Prospectus. 1880-82.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Mass.
Catalogues. 1880, 1881-82.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, Ontario, Can.
The Canadian Entomologist. Vol. XIV, 1-8, 10, 1882.
AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHASOLOGICAL SOCIETY, New York.
Proceedings. 1882.
KANSAS CITY REVIEW, through T. S. Case (the editor), Kansas City, Mo.
Vol. VI, 8. 1882.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEWFOUNDLAND, through ALexanpeR Murray,
Director, St. John’s.
Reports of Progress. 1864-1880, 1882.
Geological and Botanical Map.
“ Wall Map of Newfoundland.”
E. GILPIN, Jr., Inspector of Mines, Halifax, N.S.
The Mines and Mineral Lands of Nova Scotia. 1880.
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The Minerals of Nova Scotia. 1882.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
Bulletin. Vol. X, 2,3. 1882.
THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, Sydney.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, through Dr. Murray, Secretary Board of Regents,
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8th Annual Report. 1855.
STATE OF INDIANA, through J. B. Conner, Chief of Bureau of Statistics.
2d Annual Report, Statistics and Geology. 1880,
3d Annual Report, Statistics. 1881.
THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,
through C. W. Dasyry, Jr., Raleigh.
Annual Report. 1877-78, ’79, ’80, ’81.
Supplement, Bulletin No, 11.
“Ueber eine Isopikraminsiure.” (The author.) 1880.

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CONNECTICUT STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, through T. 8. Govrp,
Secretary, West Cornwall.
Annual. Report. 1st, 3d, 5th, 8-10; 12th, 15th, 1867-82.
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1875-81.
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CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, through H. G. Hanks, State Min-
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First Annual Catalogue of the State Museum. 1882.
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Report on the Fish Breeding in the Dominion of Canada. 1881.
MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, San Francisco, Cal.
Industrial Exhibition. 16th Report. 1881.
NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Newark.
Proceedings. Vol. VII, 1, 2. 1882.
CHRYSOLITE SILVER MINING CO., N. Y.
Annual Report, Prospectus, and Map.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Boston.
Annual Report. 28th, 1880; 29th, 1881.
PEABODY MUSEUM, Cambridge, Mass.
Report. Vols. I, Il, 1. 1868-77.
VERMONT STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, through Dr. H. A. Curtrne,
State Geologist, Lunenburgh.
Annual Report. 1874-80.
KENTUCKY BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE, Frankfort.
2d Annual Report. 1881.
MISSOURI STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Jefferson City.
Annual Report. 13th, 1875; 15th, 1880-81.
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SEN, Assistant-Secretary, St. Paul.
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The Geological and Natural History Survey, Annual Report, 5th and 6th.
1877-78.
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Survey of the County of Houston. 1877.
“Geology of the Rock and Pipestone Counties.” 1878.
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STATE OF COLORADO, Denver.
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MASSACHUSETTS STATE LIBRARY, Boston.
Geology of Massachusetts, by Edward Hitchcock. 1841.

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APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB, Boston, Mass.
Appalacbia. Vol. III, 1. 1882.

THE LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, Eng.
“ Anatomy of the Indian Eiephant.” By L. C. Miall and F. Greenwood.

GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA, through
A. R. C. Serwyn, Director, Ottawa.
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“ Geology of Canada.” 1863. With Atlas.
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1882.
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Reports of Progress. 1870-80.
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Annual Report. 1876-78.
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INDIAN MUSEUM, Calcutta.
Accessions, Appendix “ A.” 1881, 1882.
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. monwealth, Richmond.
Preliminary Report, No. Il. 1878.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
Report, 10th. 1882.

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Dominion Land Acts. 1876.
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Emigration to the Province of Ontario, 1869.
Canadian Prairie Lands. By T. Spence. 1882.
“The Canadian North-West.” By the Marquis of Lorne. 1881.
The Mineral Resources of the Dominion of Canada. 1882.
Information and Advice for Emigrants. 1875.
“The North-West.” By E. Tasse. 1882.
The West and North-West. By Hon. P. Mitchell. 1880,
“ Reports of Tenant Farmers.” 1881.
Annual General Review of the Trade and Commerce of Canada. 1878,
1879. ;
“Province of Manitoba and North-West.” 1881.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, New York,
Report to the Commissioners of P. C. & C., on the Scientifie Portion of
the Cruise of the ‘“ Nautical School-ship Mercury,” Winter of
1871-72.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Md.
Circular, No. 9, 17-20. 1882.

HORN SILVER MINING CO. OF FRISCO, Utah,
Report, 1879-81; Statement and Memorandum, 1882.

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BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, Tallahassee, Fla.
“ Advantages of Florida.” 1882.
Leon County, Florida. 1882.
MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Eng.
Transactions. Vol. XVI, Parts 1-15, 1880-82; XVII, Parts 1 and 2,
1882.
MITCHELL LIBRARY, Glasgow.
Report. 1881.
MANCHESTER FIELD NATURALISTS’ AND ARCH AOLOGISTS’ SOCIETY,
Eng.
Report and Proceedings. 1881 and 1882.
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Bulletin. Ser. 2. Vol. XVIII. No. 87. 1882.

MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Minneapolis.
Bulletin. Vols. I, I. 1873-81.

STATE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, through C. Drew, Agent, Jacksonville,
Fla.
“ Description of Orange Co.”
“Our American Italy.”
“Where to Go in Florida.”
“The Green Cove Springs.”
“Florida Daily Times.”
“The Tavares Herald.”
MIDDLESEX INSTITUTE. Malden, Mass.
Annual Report, 1881-82.
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L’industree Acheuléene dans le loess de la Brie-Champenoise, par Le Bon
J. De Baye. 1881.
K. LEOPOLDINO-CAROLINISCHEN DEUTSCHEN AKADEMIE DER NA-
TURFORSCHER, Halle.
Leopoldina, Heft. XVII. 1881.
SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, Paris.
Bulletin. 3d Serie. Tome X, 1,2. 1882.
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY,
Eng.
Report and Transactions. 1880.
SOCIETE FRIBOURGEOISE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES, Fribourge.
Bulletin. 1879-80, 1880-81.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, Japan, through Hon. H. Karo, President of the De-
partment of Law, Science, ete.
Memoir No. 6.
Chemistry of Saké Brewing. By R. W. Atkinson. 1881.
THE ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Kiel.
“Der Anatomie und Histologie der Anneliden.” By Prof. K. Mébius.

MINISTERIO DE FORMENTO, Mexico.
Boletin Tomo VII. Num. 13-22. 1882.

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HZL. NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, Braunschweig, through Dr. W. Bra-
SIUS.
8 Pamphlets.

DER HISTORISCHE VEREIN FUR STEIERMARK, Gratz.
Mittheilungen, 30 Heft. 1882.
Beitrige, 18 Jahrgang. 1882.

NATURFORSCHER-VEREINS ZU RIGA.
Korrespondenzblatt, XXV. 1882.

DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE VEREIN FUR STEIERMARK, Gratz.
Mittheilungen, Jarhg. 1881.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
U. S. Fish Commission Report. Parts II, II, IV, V, 1874-9; VU,
1879.
Bulletin. Vols. I, Il. Sigs. 1-10. 1881, 82.
Proceedings of the U. 8. National Museum. Vols. I, I, III, IV.
Miscellaneous Collection. Vol. I. .
Annual Report. 1852, 753, ’55-57, ’60, 763, ’69, °70, 74, °79, 80.
“ Constants of Nature.” Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
“ Meek’s List of Birds of Mexico,” ete.
“ Le Contes Comparative Vocabulary.”

TuroucH THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Orricr OF INTERNATIONAL ExcuanGes, Washington, D. C.
Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs, Copenhagen. Oversigt, Nos.
2, 8, 1881; No. 1, 1882.
K. K. GroLogiscHe ReicHsanstaLt, Wien.
Catalog der Ausstellungs-Gegenstiinde bei der Wiener Weltausstellung.
1873.
Verhandlungen, Jahrg. 1881, Nos. 8-14; 1882, Nos. 1-10,
La Socizré Royare HonGrotse pes Scrences Nature.ies, Budapest.
Schenzl, Magyarorszig féldmagnességi viszongia ungarns erdmagnetische
verhiltnisse. 1881.
Orley, ‘‘ Az anguillulidaék maganrajza.” 1880.
Maderspach, Magyarorszig vasérez-fekhelyei ungarns erzlagerstatten.
1880.
Herman, Magyarorszig pokfaunaja II. ungarns spinnenfauna II. 1878.
Museo NacronaL De Mexico.
Anales. Tomo II, 6, 7. 1882.
Musée Royat p’Histortre NaTureLLE DE Beverque, Brussels.
Tome VI, Faune du Caleaire Carbonifére. 1881.
La Socréré p’EMULATION D’ ABBEVILLE.
Bulletin des Procés-Verbaux. 1881.
Kon; Norske VIDENSKABERS SeLskaB, Throndhjem,
Skrifter. 1880.
BoranicaL Sociery, Edinburgh.
Annual Report and Proceedings. 1st, 3d—8th.
Proceedings. 1855.
Tur Norweetan Norra AtLantic Exprpition, 1876-78.
IV. Historical Accounts, ete.
V. Astronomical Observations, Geography and Natural History. 1882.
NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT GrauBUNDENS, Chur,
Jahresbericht, Jahr. XXV. 1880-81,
Roya. Sociery oF TASMANIA.
Papers, Proceedings, and Report. 1880.
NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT IN BASEL.
Verhandlung, Ist Heft. 1882.
Socréra Apriatica pi Scienze Narurart, Trieste.
Vol. VII. 1882.

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R. Brerioreca Nazronaer, Firenze.
Eceker, A. Sulla teoria fisica dell’ Electrotono nei nervi.
Eceker, A. Sulla forze elettromotriei sviluppate dalle soluzioni saline.
Tommasi, D. Ricerche sulle fremole di costituzione dei composti ferrici.
Cavanna, G. Ancora sulla Polimelia nei Batraci Anuri, etc.
Meucci, F. Globo celeste arabico del secolo XI.
Unirep Srares Narionat Museum, Washington, D. C.
Bulletin. Nos. 3, 6, 12-15, 17, 18, 21, 22. 1876-82.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, D. C.
Consular Report. Nos. 1-8. 1880-81.
Commercial Report, 1-17. 1880-82.
“State of Labor in Europe.” 1879.
American Pork, Results of an Investigation. 1881.
Reports of the U. 8S. Commissioners, Vienna International Exhibition of
1873, 1876.
Survey of the Northern Boundary of the U.S. from the Lake of the
Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains. 1878.
Foreign Relations of the United States. 1872, 1873.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.

Bureau OF THE Mrinv.
Annual Report. 1873, 1875-81.
Productions of Precious Metals in the U. S. for 1881.

Orrice Supt. U. S. Lire-Savine SERVICE.
Annual Report. 1881.

OFFICE OF THE LIGHTHOUSE Boarp.
Annual Report. 1873-1881.

Orrice U. 8. Coast anp Groprtic SuRVEY.
Coast Pilot of Alaska. Part 1. 1869.
Coast Pilots A and B, Atlantic Coast.
Charts, Nos. A, B, 114, 115, 116, 369.
Reports. 1876, 77, °78, "79.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C.
Contributions N. A. Ethnology. Vols. III, IV.
“Report on the Yellowstone and National Park.” 1879, ’80, 781.
Report on the G, G. S. of the Rocky Mountains. 1877.
“ Preliminary Report of the Field Work.” 1877.
Second Report U. 8. Entomological Comm.

Bulletin 7, U. 8. Entomological Comm.
Bulletin, U.S. G.G.8. Vol. II,.1,3; VI, 3.

CENsuS OFFICE.
10th Census.—Statistics of the Productions of the Precious Metals in the
U.S. By Clarence King. 1881.
Forestry Bulletin. No. 3, 1-22.
Bulletins Nos. 262, 279, 283, 288, 293, relating to Statistics of Farms ;
Nos. 176, 261, 278, 281, 291, relating to Statistics of Fisheries.
Bureau or Epucation.
Public Libraries in the U. 8. of America. Parts 1 and 2. 1876.
‘National Pedagogic Congress of Spain.” 1882.
“National Science in Secondary Schools.” 1882.
Circular of Information. Nos. 2,38. 1882.
Bureau oF Erunoioey.
1st Annual Report.
“ Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs.” 1880.
“Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages.” 1880.

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GENERAL Lanp OFFICE.
Annual Report. 1879, ’80, 81.
Orrice or Inpran AFFAIRS.
Annual Report of the Commissioner. 1875-81.
Maps. 1878-82.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
“Carroll, Montana to Yellowstone, National Park.” 1875.—Ludlow.
‘“* Yellowstone Expedition of 1873.” By D.S. Stanley. 1874.
“ Expedition up the Yellowstone River made in 1875.” By J. W. Forsyth
and F. D. Grant.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF S1GNAL OFFICER.
Report. 1871, 72, 77, 79.
Monthly Summary. Oct., Nov., Dec., 1880.
Monthly Weather Review. Jan., May, Nov., Dec., 1881; March, April,
May, June, July, Aug., Sept., 1882.
Bulletin. Oct., Nov., Dec., 1880; Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June,
1881.
Professional Papers. Nos. I, III, V, VI, VII, X. 1881-82.
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.
Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah
in 1859.—Simpson.
Report of Exploring Expedition from Santa Fé to the Junction of Grand
and Green Rivers. 1859.—Macomb.
‘* Black Hills of Dakota.” 1875.—Ludlow
“Report upon a Reconnoissance through Southern and Southeastern
Nevada made in 1869.”
Professional Paper, No. 23. Submarine Mines.—Abbott.
“ Reclamation of the Alluvial Basin of the Mississippi River.” 1875, 1878.
Reports Relating to the Mining Débris in the Sacramento River. 1880,
1882.
Systematic Catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico. 1875.
Report of Inspection made in the Summer of 1877, by Gens. P. H. Sheri-
dan and W. T. Sherman. 1878.
Professional Paper, No. 13. Report on the Mississippi River. 1876.
Analytical and Topical Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers,
ete. 1866-79, 1881.
Fox and Wisconsin Rivers Improvement. 1876.—Warren,
Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the
years 1855, 56,57. 1875.—Warren.
Report upon the Ornithological Specimens collected in the years 1871,
72, 18, 74.
Annual Report. 1877, 79, ’81.
Geographical Survey West of the One Hundredth Meridian.
Progress Report. 1872, 1874.
Annual Report. 1874, °77, °79, 80, ’81.
Final Report. Vol. II. Supplement to III. Vols. IV, V, 1-6, VIL.
List of Reports and Maps.
“Table of Camp Distances, ete.” 1872.
“Mean Declination of 2018 Stars.”—T. H. Safford.
“ Plagopterine and the Ichthyology of Utah.” By E. D. Cope.
“Logarithm, Traverse and Altitude Tables.”
“ Field List of Time Stars.”
Report upon Ornithological Specimens Collected in the Years 1871, 1872,
and 1873.
Catalogue of Plants Collected in the Years 1871-73.
“Systematic Catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico, ’—
E. D. Cope.
“Tand Classification Areas and Maps.”

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“Geological Atlas.” 1874.

“Topographical Map of Lake Tahoe Region.”

‘““ Topographical Map of Washoe Mine Region.”

“Outline Map of Washoe, District Nevada.” 1879.

Land Classification Atlas Sheets. Nos. 32 (C), 41 (A), 47 (A), 65 (D),
73 (C), 84 (C).

NAVY DEPARTMENT.
U. S. Nava OBsEeRvVarory. ,

“The West India Cyclone of 1867.” 1868.

“Removal of the U.S. Naval Observatory.” 1877.

“* Meteorological Observations.” 1877, 1881.

Holden.—“ The Multiple Star > 748.” 1872.

Newcomb—‘‘ Equatorial Fundamental Stars.” 1872.

Hall.—Observations of Double Stars. 1881.

Eastman, Transit of Mercury, May 5-6, 1878.

Explanation of the Seal of the U. 8. N. Observatory.

Report on the Total Solar Eclipses of July 29th, 1878, and of January
11th, 1880. Through Hon. Senator Lapua.

“Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus.”

Instructions Respecting Time, Signal to be Used in Connection with the
Transit of Venus, December 6th, 1882.

U. 8S. Arctic Expeprrion, Steamer Polaris, C. F. Hall Commander.
Vol. I, Physical Observations.—E. Bessels.

U. 8. Navy Yarp, Boston, Mass., through J. E. Waxker, Chief of Bureau of
Navigation, Washington, D. C.
“Cruise of the Dolphin.”—Lt. 8. P. Lee. 1854.
“Explorations and Surveys, 1875—Panama and Napipi Expedition.”
1879.
“Explorations and Surveys for a Ship Canal, Isthmus of Darien.” 1874.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C.

Report. 1870-77, 1879, ’80,

Report upon Forestry. Vol II. 1878-79.

Report on the Cotton Insects. 1879.

Contagious Diseases of Swine and Other Domestic Animals. 1880.

Report on Insects Injurious to Sugar Cane. 1881.

General Index of the Agricultural Reports from 1837-76. 1879.

List of Agricultural Societies and Farmers’ Clubs. 1876.

“Culture and Manufacture of Ramie and Jute.” 1873.

Brief Instructions in Regard to Sowing Seeds and Raising Young Plants
of Forest Trees.

“ Planters’ Guide for Cultivating and Curing Tobacco.”

‘** Eucalyptus Globulus.” 1875.

“The History of the Department of Agriculture.” 1872.

Special Reports, 1-8, 10-12, 17-21, 23-32, 35-40, 42-51.

Report on the Climatic and Agricultural Features of the Arid Regions of
the Pacific Slope. 1882.

Florida, its Climate, Soil, ete. 1882.

EDWARD DURYEE, New York.

4 specimens of Turquoise from mine near Santa Fé, N. M.
B. H. WILLIAMS, New York.

7 specimens Minerals.

Dr. CHAS. A. LEALE, New York.
Specimen showing the entire descrimation of the Snake.

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ROBERT HOE, Jr., New York.

Specimens of Fossil Wood and Ancient Stone Implements from New

Mexico
Dr. T. F. AZPELL, U.S. A., New York.
12 Arrows, with Stone Heads, made by Hoopah Indians, Humboldt Bay,
Cal.

ANTHON GESNER, New York.

Tecumseh’s Scalping Knife.
E. BIERSTADT, New York.

150 specimens Minerals.
R. W. FURNASS, Brownville, Neb.

3 specimens “ Diamond Willow-wood.”
E. W. FRAZER, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Part of a Soapstone Pot of Indian manufacture.
Cc. A. HIRSCHFELDER, Toronto, Canada.

1 Bone Whistle.
A. BIERSTADT, New York.

1 Mounted Cariboo. :
A. E. DOUGLASS, New York.

A complele set (18 specimens) of casts and imitations of Bronze and Iron
Implements and Utensils illustrating the Bronze Period in Scan-
dinavia.

THOMAS HODGES, Foreman, Central Park, New York.

1 Wasp’s Nest.

Mrs. R. L. STUART, New York. :

1 Ornamental Case of Birds, beautifully mounted.

6 separate specimens,

5 pieces Bark Cloth.

F. C. FREEBORN.
The Upper and Lower Jaw of a Whale.
WILLIAM H. BARTLETT, New Bedford, Mass.
Flake of Baleen of Arctic Whale.
G. A. BOARDMAN.
Young of Guillemot.
Young of Leach’s Petrel.
C. B. LEACH, New York.
Teeth of Elephas.
HERMAN MERKE, New York.
Collection of Bird’s Eggs, European.
OSCAR S. FRASER, Calcutta Museum.

Skeleton of ‘‘ Biturong.”

Skeleton of Ganges River Porpoise.

3 Crania of Monkeys.

Mr. LINDLEY.
21 specimens of Birds of India.
D. G. ELLIOTT, New Brighton, 8. I.

8 species of Felidae.

1 Gibbon Monkey (II. syndactyla),

1 Spider Monkey (Ateles paniscus).

ROBERT COLGATE, New York.
Male and Female Elliot’s Pheasants.
Mr. LIPPENCOTT.
Collection Reptiles and Insects from Texas.

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GEO. N. LAWRENCE, New York.
2 species N. A. Birds.
Ornithological Pamphlets.
E. W. COLEMAN, New York.
25 boxes South American Insects.
Mrs. J. ODELL, New York.
Tusk of Narwhal.
Underjaw of Orca (whale killer).
Mrs. S. 8. OSGOOD.
Rare form of Bryozoan, from Haddington Sound, Bermuda.
ERNEST NEILSON anp WILLIAM DAVIS.
Collection of Reptiles and Batrachians, representing the fauna of those
forms in Staten Island and vicinity.
H. D. BLACK, New York.
42 specimens of Coal Measure Fossils, from Piedmont Mines, W. Va.
2 Fossil Plants and fragments of Minerals.
PrincipaL J. W. DAWSON, Montreal, Canada.
12 specimens of Fossil Plants from the Devonian of Canada.
penne ee ee 9

14 specimens of Silicified Wood from New Mexico.

ROBERT HOE, Jr., New York.

2 pieces Petrified Wood from New Mexico.
J. H. McCORKLE, New York.

2 specimens Quartz.

Silver Ores from Central City, Col.
JAMES TERRY, New York.

Several hundred Post-pliocene Fossils from Santa Barbara, San Pedro,

and San Luis Obispo, California.

H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Specimens of Utica Slate containing Graptolites, from near Poughkeepsie.
B. MATHIESON, Glasgow, Scotland.

A number of Coal Measure Fossils from Scotland.
Pror. O. C. MARSH, New Haven, Conn.

Lithographic plates of Odontornis and Rhamphorhynchus, the toothed

bird of the West, and a Pterodactyl from Europe.

A plaster cast of the Pterodactyl (Rbamphorhynchus phyllurus).
J. CURTIS, Oakland, California.

Specimens of Nickel and Copper Ores.
THOMAS CONDON, Portland, Oregon, through James Terry.

20 specimens of Fossils, Cretaceous, Miocene, etc., from Oregon.

EXCHANGES.

J. W. DEEMS, Brooklyn.
Ores of Tellurium, Iron and Zine, and several Silicates.
Miss 8. P. MONKS, Cold Springs, N. Y.
38 specimens of Minerals.
E. B. KNAPP, Skaneateles.
40 individual specimens of Fossils, including several fine slabs of Hamil-
ton and Tully Limestone, from Western New York.
B. F. WOOD.
Ores of Tellurium, from Sunshine, Colorado,

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Blanchard, G. R
Bliss, C. N.

Bliss, George

Bodenhamer, W., M.D.

Bonn, William B.
Booss, Frederick
Bouvier, Jobn V.
Bowdoin, G. 8S.
Bowron, Job C.
Braker, Conrad, Jr.
Brandon, Edward
Breslin, J. H.
Brinsmade, J. B.
Bristow, Hon. B. H.

Brockway, A. N., M.D.

Brookfield, Wm.
Brown, Miss E. W.
Brown, Mrs. James M.
Brown, J. Crosby
Bruce, Col. 8. D.
Bryson, P. M.
Buckham, George
Burden, James A.
Burkhalter, 8.
Burnham, Gordon W.
Burrill, John E.
Butler, Charles
Butler, Prescott Hall
Butler, Wm. Allen
Byrd, George H.
Cammann, H. H.
Camp, W. A.
Campbell, Robert B.
Carter, Robert
Caswell, John H.
Chalmers; T. C., M.D.

Chandler, Nathan
Charlier, Prof. Elié
Cheever, John H.
Childs, Lewis P.
Chittenden, Hon. S. B.
Clark, George C.
Clark, R. Smith
Clarkson, Frederick
Coffin, Edmund, Jr.
Coles, Mrs. W. F.
Colgate, Abner W.
Colgate, Mrs. Bowles
Colgate, Miss Georgiana
Colgate, Robert
Colgate, Robert, Jr.
Colgate, R. R.
Colgate, Samuel
Colgate, Mrs. Samuel
Colgate, Samuel J.
Collamore, Davis
Collins, Benjamin
Collins, Miss Ellen
Compton, A. T.
Constable, Frederick A.
Constable, James M.
Constable, Mrs. Jas. M.
Constant, Samuel 8.
Constantine, A. J.
Contoit, Chas. H.
Cooper, Geo C.
Corning, EL.
Cossitt, F. H.
Cotheal, Alex. I.
Cottenet, F.
Cowdrey, N. A.
Crerar, John
Crimimins, J. D.
Crocker, George Aug.
Crocker, William Baylis
Crolius, Clarkson
Crosby, Rev. Howard
Cruger, 8. V. R.
Currie, John H.
Cutting, R. Fulton
Cutting, Robert L.
Cutting, W. Bayard
Davies, Wm. G.
Davis, Hon. Noah
Davis, Theodore M.
Davison, C. A.

Day, Henry

Day, Henry M.

de Forest, Mrs. Geo, B.
de Rham, Charles
Delafield, Maturin L.
Delamater, Cornelius H.
Devlin, Jeremiah
Dickey, Charles D.
Dix, Rev. Morgan, D.D.
Dodge, Cleve H.
Dodge, Miss Grace H.
Dodge, Miss Mary M.
Dodge, W. Earl
Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr.
Dodge, George E.
Dodworth, Allen
Dowd, Hon. Wm.
Dows, David

Du Bois, Katharine
Du Bois, William A.
Duncan, John P.
Dunham, G. H.
Dunlap, Robert
Duryee, Jos. W.
Duval, H. Rieman
Earle, John H.

Ehret, George
Eidlitz, Leopold
Eidlitz, Mark
Einstein, David L.
Elliott, John

Ellis, John W.

Ely, Richard 8.

Eno, Amos F.

Eno, Amos R.

Fabbri, E. G.
Fahnestock, H. C.
Fargo, James C.
Farrington, E. A.
Ferguson, Edward
Fish, Hon. Hamilton
Fiske, Josiah M.
Fleet, Oliver 8S.
Fletcher, Andrew
Fogg, William H.
Foote, Emerson
Ford, John R.

Foster, J. P. Giraud
Foulke, Thomas
Fraser, George 8.
Frohwein, Theobald
Fry, Charles M.
Furniss, 8. R. C.
Gautier, J. HH.
Gebhard, Edward
Georger, Louis F.
Gibbs, Theodore K,
Gilbert, Clinton
Gillespie, G. D, H.

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Glover, Charles H,
Goadby, James H.
Goadby. Thomas
Goddard, J. W.
Godwin, Parke
Goldenberg, Levi
Goodnow, E. K.
Goodridge, F.
Goodwin, James J.
Gossler, G. H.

Grace, Hon. W. R.
Gracie, J. K.

Graham, Malcolm
Greenwood, Isaac J.
Greer, Charles
Grinnell, Thos. P.
Griswold, B. W.
Groesbeck, D.
Grosvenor, Mrs. M, A.
Guernsey, Egbert, M.D.
Gunning, Thos. B., M D.
Gunther, F. Frederick
Gunther, Wm. Henry
Gurnee, W. 8.

Hall, John H.

Hall, Thomas D.
Halsted, Robert
Hammond, E. A.
Hammond, W. A., M.D.
Hanemann, John T.
Harbeck, Mrs. Eliza D.
Hargous, L. §.
Hartley, Marcellus
Hasell, Bentley D.
Havemeyer, F. C.
Havemeyer, H. C.
Havemeyer, James
Havemeyer, Theo. A,
Haven, G, G.

Havens, Chas. G.
Hawley, Henry E.
Hay, Allan

Heller, Jonas
Hendricks, Albert
Hendricks, Harmon
Hendricks, Joshua
Hendricks, M M.
Herriman, John
Higginson, James J.
Hill, Edward
Hinman, W. K.
Hinton, J. H., M.D.
Hitchcock, Dr. R. D.
Hitchcock, Miss 8. M.
Hoadley, Russell H.
Hoe, Richard M.

Hoe, Robert

Hoffman, J. O.

Holbrook, E. F.
Holden, E. R.
Holland, Alexander
Holland, Thomas
Holt, Charles L.
Holt, Henry

Holt, R. 8S.

Hone, Robert 8.
Houghton, Rey. G. H.
Hubbard, Frederick
Hubbard, Gen. T. H.
Hunt, Samuel I.
Hyde, Samuel T.
Treland, John B.
Irvin, Richard

Iselin, Adrian, Jr.
Iselin, Mrs. Adrian
Tselin, Oliver

Iselin, Wm. E.
Isham, W. B.

Ivison, Henry
Jackson, Wm. H.
Jackson, W. H., M.D.
Jaftray, E. 8.

Jattrey, Robert
Jenkins, Wm. L.
Jesup, Jas. R., Jr.
Johnson, John E.
Jones, George

Jones, Joshua
Jordan, C. N
Juilliard, A. D.
Keep, O. H.

Kelly, Eugene
Kemp, Edward
Kemp, John H.
Kennedy, John 8.
Kerner, Charles H.
Kimball, W. C.
King, Edward J.
Kingsland, A. C.
Knapp, H., M.D.
Knox, Alexander
Kuhne, Frederick
Lamson, A. H.

Lane, David
Langdon, Woodbury G.
Larremore, Hon. R. L.
Lawrence, Cyrus J
Lawrence, George N.
Lawrence, Newbold
Lawrence, Mrs. Samuel
Lawson, L. M.
Lawton, Walter E.
Leale, Charles A., M.D,
Leavitt, Henry 8.
Lee, William H.
Lehmaier, M. H.

Lehman, E.

Lehman, M.

Lesher, Stephen R.
Leverich, Henry 8.
Levy, Samuel

Lewis, Charlton T.
Lincoln, Lowell
Linde, Frederick C.
Livingston, Edward
Livingston, John A.
Livingston, Robert E.
Livingston, Robert J.
Livingston, William S.
Livingston, Wm. 8, Jr.
Lockwood, Le Grand
Loeb, 8.

Lord, D. D.

Lorillard, L. L.
Lowrey, Joseph 8.
Lowry, John
Ludington, C. H.
Lusk, William T., M.D.
Lyon, Albert J.

Macy, Charles A., Jr.
Macy, William H.
Maddux, Lewis
Maghee, J. Holme
Mali, Charles

Man, A. P.

Manice, William D. F.
Martin, Bradley
Martin, William C.
Mason, Lowell
Matthiessen, F. O.
Mayer, Alex. J.
MecAlpin, D. H.
McComb, J J.
McCoskry, Mrs.
McCready, N. L.
McCurdy, Richard A.
McGinnis, John, Jr.
Merritt, Douglas
Merritt, Mrs. Julia
Metcalfe, John T., M D.
Meyer, Oscar R.
Milhau, Gen. J. J., M.D.
Miller, D. 8.

Mills, J. G.

Minturn, Mrs. A. M.
Moir, James

Moller, Peter, Jr.
Moore, Henderson
Moore, W. H. H.
Morgan, Geo. D.
Morgan, Geo. H.
Morris, Henry Lewis
Morrison, Edward
Morrison, George A

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Mortimer, W. Y.
Moslé, George
Moulton, Gilman 8.
Mowry, A. L.
Muller, Adrian H.
Munoz, J. M

Myers, John K.
Myers, T Bailey
Navarro, Juan N.
O’Connor, Thomas H.
Odell, Jonathan
Odell, Mrs. Jonathan
Olcott, F. P.
Olmstead, Dwight H.
Olmsted, Fred. Law
Olyphant, R. M.
Olyphant, Robert
Oothout, William
Osgood, 8S. S.

Osgood, Mrs. 8. 8.
Ostrander, C. V. B.
Otis, F. N., M.D.
Ottendorfer, Dr. Oswald
Owens, Wm. W.
Paddock, Eugene H.
Park, Joseph
Parsons, John E.
Patterson, Thomas C.
Peabody, Arthur J.
Pell, John H.
Penfold, Edmund
Perkins, C. L.
Peters, George A., M.D.
Phelps, Royal
Phelps, William Walter
Phoenix, Fhillips
Pierrepont, Edwards
Pinkus, F. 8.

Platt, John R

Platt, Samuel R.
Post, Alfred C., M.D.
Potter, Howard
Potter, Rev. H. C., D.D
Powers, William P.
Preston, William I.
Prime, Frederick
Prince, J. D.

Purdy, Wm. Macneven
Purssell, James
Pyne, Percy R.
Ramsay, C. G.
Raynolds, C. T.
Read, Miss

Renwick, W. R.
Riker, D. 8.

Riker, John L.

Riker, Wm. J.
Robbins, George A.

Robertson, R. A.
Roelker, Bernard
Rogers, John:

Russell, Charles H.
Russell, Henry E.
Rutten, August
Rutter, Thomas
Sabine, G. A., M. D.
Sage, Russell

Sands, Andrew H.
Sands, Samuel S.
Satterlee, 8S. K.

Sayre, Lewis A., M. D.
Schafer, Samuel M.
Schafer, Simon
Schley, William
Schuchardt, Frederick
Schuyler, George L.
Schuyler, Philip.
Schwendler, Fred.
Scott, George 8.

Scott, Mrs. James
Seligman, David J.
Shea, Hon. George
Sheafe, J. F.

Shethar, Samuel
Sinclair, John

Sistare, Geo. K.
Skidmore, William L.
Slawson, J. B.

Sloan, Hon. Samuel
Sloane, Wm. D.
Slocovich, G.
Smedberg, A.

Smith, Charles 8.
Smith, Edward F.
Smith, H. Erskine
Smith, L. Bayard
Smith, Jas. Rufus
Smith, Roswell
Smith, Rev. Cornelius B.
Smith, William Alex.
Smith, William Henry
Soutter, Mrs. J. F.
Speir, Hon. Gilbert M.
Spies, A. W.

Spencer, Hon. James CU.
Staria, Hon. John H.
Stearns, John Noble
Sterling, A. F.

Sterry, Geo. E.
Stewart, David
Stewart, Mrs. Lispenard
Stone, David M.
Strahan, John H.
Strong, Chas. E.
Strong, George A.
Strong, W. L.

Sturgis, Appleton
Stuyvesant, A. V. H.
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, John L.
Suydam, D. Lydig
Swan, William H.
Tailor, Edward N.
Taintor, Charles M.
Taleott, James
Tappan, Hon. J. Nelson
Taylor, Aug. C.
Tefft, E. T.

Terbell, H. 8.
Thompson, 8. C.
Thompson, W. Prall
Thomson, James
Thorn, William Kk.
Thorp, Andrew 8.
Thurber, F. B.
Thurber, H. K.
Tiemann, Peter C.

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Tillinghast, W. H.
Tobias, Samuel I.
Toucey, J. M.
Tousey, Sinclair
Townsend, R. W.
Tracy, Charles
Trevor, H. G.
Trevor, John B.
Trevor, Mrs. John B.
Twombly, H. McK.
Valentine, Lawson
Van Nostrand, David
Vermilye, J. D.
Viele, Gen. Egbert L.
Von Post. Herman C,
Waite, Hon. C. B.

Wales, Hon. Salem H.

Wall, Michael W.
Wallach, Antony
Ward, Mrs. M. H.
Watson, John H.

Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H.
Webb, Gen. Alex. §.
Webster, Sidney
Weekes, John A.
Weeks, Francis H.
Wenman, Hon. James F.
Wetherbee, Gardner
Wheelock, Geo. G., M. D.
Wheelock, Wm. A.
Wheelock, Dr. W. E.
White, Horace
Whitney, Alfred R.
Wickham, Hon. W. H.
Wiechers, W. A. |
Williamson, Hon. D. B.
Wilson, John

Winston, F. 8.
Winthrop, Robert
Worsham, Mrs. D. B.
Wright, Wm. Woolsey
Young, Mason

tn Qemoriam.

At a Special Meeting of the BoarpD oF TRUSTEES of the AMERICAN
MuseuM oF NaTuRAL History, held December 14th, 1882, the
following resolutions in regard to the death of

Mr. ROBERT L. STUART,

were unanimously adopted and ordered to be entered upon the record.

By the death of Mr. Rogperr L. Stuart another of the founders of the Museum of
Natural History, in Central Park, has passed away. It is therefore

ReEsotveD, That in view of the loss of one who has proved himselt so strong and reliable a friend
of its interests, it becomes this Board to recognize the event with appropriate expressions of its un-
feigned sorrow.

Mr. Sruart was elected to the office of President of the Board upon the decease of Mr. John

D: Wolfe, and retired from the position on account ot failing health, to the great regret of the whole
oard.

Mr. Stuart had a Jarge share in the promotion of the prosperity of the Museum from its origin,
Although a man of active business habits and without the possession of extensive scientific acquire-
ments, ‘he was by no means destitute of considerable knowledge of classification in seme very inte-
resting departments, and there was also that in his mental and moral constitution. which found its
appropriate exercise in an undertaking so large in its plan and so entirely designed for the public grati-
fication and improvement. His contributions to its cabinets and treasury were worthy of his reputation
and character as a public benefactor; but, while we cannot speak too highly of him in the relations
he sustained to this Board, we ought not to lose sight of the man as he was, the space he filled and the
work he wrought. His life touched so largely and at so many points the benevolent enterprises of the
day, that in the best sense he might be regarded as a public man.

Were we able. it would be an agreeable task to recite his great and manifold benefactions, public
and private. His large-hearted bounty flowed in a perpetual stream.

The world has grown since Mr. SruarT came upon the stage of action, and in some of its aspects
Mr. Stuart has come up to the full measure of its growth

Dark as may be some of the portents of our time, their grand characteristic, in permanent power,
is yet to be found in the force and development of moral ideas. There have been long ages in the
world’s history in which the law of charity was almost unknown. It is a vital force among men to-day,
and it flourishes by the aid of striking examples as well as by the influence of high and pure precept.
There is nothing better on the earth, and in all its varied manifestations it is destined to mould society
and to become the living bond to bind the world together.

It was the happy and peculiar condition of Mr. Stuart’s life to exemplify among us one of its
phases in a manner as useful to the community as it was rare and exceptional in extent.

Although the architect of his own fortune, and occupied by the cares of a great and engrossing
business, a man of sagacity, understanding well the value and power of money, he escaped its almost
universal contagion and, thoug h living in a day characterized by the temptations and opportunities of
inordinate accumulation, through the force of a liberal and generous spirit he became one of the early
pioneers among us in the gracious and noble art of great giving.

Here, there is no mistaking the position he occupied in this community. He was loyal to the cause
of humanity and a conspicuous example of that which by common consent entitles the memory of
men to a place of high honor.

Possessing a decided christian faith, and loving the tried paths of integrity, he regarded with stern
disapproval the modern legerdemain of the markets by which one takes but does not give.

Mr. Stuart presented in his life another pleasing and softening aspect of character. He took
a singular satisfaction in all things beautiful--in fine volumes, in flowers, birds and shells, and in objects
curious and rare. He loved the arts by which men live and by their taste and plastic skill make our
homes more beautiful to the eye and to the mind.

Life presented to Mr. Stuart many rational sources of enjoyment as well as a wide field of use-
fulness, and in his death a figure to which we have been long accustomed, of large proportions and
remarkable qualities, has gone out of some of the best circles of influence at this great metropolitan
centre.

EP alee Nb Et

ENN AL REPORT

OF THE

Aerie ffascan of ‘tural Histor

(CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK,)

77th Street and 8th Avenue.
MARCH, A. D. 18SS4.

NEW YORK:

PRN AED EF ORS Es Mews Eatielvie

1884.

American Museum of Natural History.

Trustees.
MORRIS K. JESUP. WILLIAM E. DODGE, JR.
ROBERT COLGATE. JOSEPH W. DREXEL.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD. ANDREW H. GREEN.
ADRIAN ISELIN. ABRAM S. HEWITT.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN. CHARLES LANIER.
D. JACKSON STEWARD. HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.
JOSEPH H. CHOATE. OLIVER HARRIMAN.
PERCY R. PYNE. C. VANDERBILT.
JOHN B. TREVOR. D. O. MILLS.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. CHAS. G. LANDON.

H. R. BISHOP.

President.
MORRIS K. JESUP.

Vice-Presidents.
ROBERT COLGATE. | D. JACKSON STEWARD.

Secretary.
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS.

Treasurer.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

Executive Committee.
JAMES M. CONSTABLE. D. JACKSON STEWARD.
ROBERT COLGATE. ADRIAN ISELIN.
H. R. BISHOP.

Finance Committee.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN. | OLIVER HARRIMAN.
D. O. MILLS.

Auditing Committee.
PERCY R. PYNE. | CHARLES LANIER.
CHAS. G. LANDON.

Pror. ALBERT 8S. BICKMORE, Superintendent.
Pror. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator of Geology.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, Curator of Zoology.

J. J. BARGIN, Assistant Secretary.

L. P. GRATACAP, Assistant Curator of Geology.
A. WOODWARD, Librarian.

"NOILOUS ASAUAASNVAL

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‘NV'Id

QINONOUD

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
188s.

The Trustees of the AMERICAN MUSEUM oF NATURAL History
herewith present their Fifteenth Annual Report, to the Patrons,
Fellows and Members of the Museum.

The Treasurer’s Report shows a gratifying increase in receipts
from Life and Annual Members, and from Special Contributions
other than those from the Trustees, thus relieving the Board of a
part of the heavy expenditures for maintaining the Museum dur-
ing the year.

A considerable increase in the number of visitors to the Museum
is also a cause for congratulation.

The work on the improvements to the grounds surrounding the
Museum shows satisfactory progress and signs of early completion.
For this we are indebted to the kind coéperation of the Depart-
ment of Parks.

By the operations of the contract entered into a year ago for
the purchase of all the birds and mammals necessary to complete
the Collections of the Museum, north of the Rio Grande, over
eighty American mammals and one hundred birds have been
added to the Collections during the year. There were also added
fine specimens of the Gorilla and Chimpanzee, with some fifty
other monkeys from all parts of the world.

The Skeleton of a Whale, given to the Museum some years ago
by the late Peter Cooper, has also been placed on exhibition for
the first time.

Guides to the Collections of birds and mammals have been
prepared and placed on sale, and many have availed themselves
of this means to study the Collections.

Dr. Edgar A. Mearns has made a large donation of skins of
North American and European birds, and their eggs, which sup-
plements in an important degree our series on exhibition. He
has also given a suite of the skins of our native birds, as the

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beginning of a Stupy COLLECTION, to remain unmounted and
be reserved for the use of specialists in that department. It is
hoped that this gift may be followed by others from those inter-
ested in the formation of such a Collection. Dr. Mearns has
also been employed to identify, label and catalogue all our
European birds, a work now satisfactorily completed.

Through the liberality and codperation of Mr. Jos. W. Drexel,
an entire change has been made in the Insect Department. Suit-
able cases have been constructed, and the entire collection, except
types and specially rare specimens, has been placed on exhibition,
and now forms one of the attractive features of the main hall.
A Srupy CoLLection has also been begun in this department.

The Department of Archeology has received a large and valu-
able gift from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, being an extensive series of
the stone implements of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of
France and Switzerland.

‘To the Powell Collection Mr. Heber R. Bishop has added the
large Canoe suspended in the main hall, and the four heraldic
posts in the hallway.

In the Geological Department the Curator, Professor Whitfield,
has carried forward the preliminary labelling, and has begun to
place the permanent labels. The labelling of the Collection of —
Minerals has also been completed.

By the liberality of Miss C. L. Wolfe, the Museum has been
enabled to employ a specialist to properly arrange and label the
Wolfe Memorial Collection of Shells, and that work is still in
progress.

The attendance by the teachers of the public schools upon the
lectures given by the Superintendent, Prof. A. S. Bickmore, has
been well maintained, and this instruction has received the atten-
tion it so justly merits. ,

To the Museum Library has been added, during the year, 440
volumes, 444 numbers and parts, and 300 pamphlets. ‘lo accom-
modate these and the large additions made to the library of the
New York Academy of Sciences, we have been obliged to con-
struct additional temporary cases in the corridor, our library-room
being already overcrowded.

Bulletin No, 4, on the Atlantic Whales, was issued during the

early part of the year, and distributed to institutions and indi-
viduals all over the world.

A bequest of S5000 (the first the Museum has received) has
been paid by the executor of the estate of the late Hon. Wm. E.
Dodge, and the Trustees have thought best to place on record the
following resolution regarding the same and other bequests that
it is hoped may from time to time be made:

“ Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Natural History in Central
Park regard it as highly important to constitute a permanent endowment fund of which
the interest only shall be applied to the use of the Museum, as shall be deemed most
expedient by the Board, and therefore it is resolved that the Board do hereby establish
a fund to be called a permanent endowment fund.”

“ Resolved, that the bequest of the late Wm. E. Dodge of $5000 be hereafter known

as the Wm. E. Dodge Fund, and that the same shall constitute a part of the permanent
endowment fund.”

It is the desire and aim of the Trustees to place the Collections
of the Museum in such condition that they may be as useful and
instructive to visitors as possible. The limited means at the
disposal of the institution permits of only moderate advancement
in this important feature.

The Trustees beg to again call attention to the urgent necessity
for an additional section to the Museum building. The already
- overcrowded state of the present structure makes another wing
an imperative necessity.

It is believed that the city, which has been so liberal hitherto
in all matters of education and culture, will be ready to grant the
means for such an additional edifice, if an endowment fund for
the steady development of the institution be supplied from private
sources, and the Trustees again appeal to all public-spirited citi-
zens to join them in commencing such a fund.

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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 HIsTorRY.

ARTICLE IL.

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 ITI.

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 business

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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
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 hay-
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 Mu-
seum. 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. ‘They shall have the con-
trol and regulation of the Collections, Library and other property

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of the Museum ; and shall have power to purchase,gsell 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 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 ‘l'rustees.
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.

AR TIGUEMEXG
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.

ART Cis
By-Laws may from time to time be made by the ‘Trustees, pro-
viding 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 S1000 or more to the funds of the Museum,
at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Patron

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of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint
the successor in such patronship.

‘The contribution of S500, at one time, shall entitle the person
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 $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 speci-
mens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Commit-
tee, 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-LAW} 4,

Ms

Patrons giving S1ooo are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket,
5 Complimentary Season Tickets and 1o Tickets for a single
admission,

Fellows, giving S500, are each entitled to 1 Subscriber’s Ticket
and 1o Tickets for a single admission.

Life Members, giving $100, are each entitled to r 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.

[Nore.—The Exhibition Halls of the Museum are open free to the public on Wednes-
days, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and on all public holidays.

Mondays and Tuesdays are reserved for Subscribers and their friends, Students
and Contributors, when admission is by ticket.

A Subscriber’s Ticket admits two or more persons on Mondays and Tuesdays to
all parts of the Museum, including the Library; also to the Lectures (when given
in the public Exhibition Halls) and to all Receptions and Special Exhibitions. It
may be used by any adult member of the Subscriber’s family.

The Single Admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum on reserved
days (Mondays and Tuesdays) and are issued to Subscribers for distribution among
friends and visitors. ]

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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.
Li
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.

IV,

No indebtedness shall (except for current expenses) be incurred
by the Trustees of the Museum, nor by any of its Committees,
Officers or employés, unless there are at the time sufficient
moneys in the Treasury to pay the same.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS—1883.

DONATIONS.

LIBRARY.

Pror. JOS. LE CONTE (the author), Berkely, Cal.
“On certain Remarkable Tracks, found in the Rocks of Carson Quarry.”
“On Mineral Vein Formation.”
“On the Genesis of Metalliferous Veins.”

G. C. BROADHEAD, State Geologist, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
‘*Carboniferous Rocks of Eastern Kansas.” (The author).

Pror. C. S. SARGENT, Director Arnold Arboretum, Cambridge, Mass.
Annual Report, 1881-82. 1883.

Dr. ANTONIO DE GREGORIO (the author), Palermo, Sicily.
“Sulla Fauna delle Argilla Sacgliose di Sicilia.”
“Nota sul Rilevamento della carta geologiea di Sicilia.”
“Su talune forme e specie nuove Malta e Sicilia.”
‘Una gita sulle Madonie e sull’Etna.”
“Sulla costituzione di una Societid geologica internazionale.”
‘“‘ Studi su talune ostriche viventi e fossili, 1883.”
“Moderne nomenclature des coquilles des Gast¢ropodes et des Péléey-
podes, 1883.”
“Moderne nomenclature des coquilles dans un grand tableau.”
‘Elenco di fossili dell’ orizzonte a Cardita Jouannetii Bast. 1883.”
“ Nuovi fossili terziari.”
Pror. R. HITCHCOCK, Washington, D. C.
Barrande’s Défense des Colonies. V.
Ue Acéphalés. Vol. VI.
Dr. A. RENARD, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Analyses de la Vésuvienne d’ala et de Monzoni.”
“ Recheres sur la composition et la structure des Phyllades Ardennies.”
JED. HOTCHKISS, Editor and Publisher, Staunton, Va.
“The Virginias,” a Mining and Scientifie Journal. Vol. IV. 1-6, 8-12.
1883.
THEO. S. CASE, Editor and Publisher, Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas City Review of Science and Industry. Vol. V, VI. 9-12, VIII.
1-8. 1881-83. ,
J. T. GARDINER, Director New York State Survey, Albany.
Report of the Board of Commissioners, 1877
Report of the Director. 1877-81.
R. E. CALL, David City, Neb.
“Loss and associated Deposits of Des Moines.”
0, J. HOLLISTER, Salt Lake City, Utah.
* “The Resources and Attractions of Utah.”
U. P. JAMES (the author), Cincinnati, Ohio,
The Palentologist, No. 7.

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JOSEPH F. JAMES (the author), Cincinnati, Ohio.
‘““A Revision of the genus Clematis of the United States.”

EDWARD POTTS (the author), Philadelphia, Pa.
“Fresh Water Sponges.”

J. S. FAY (the author), Wood’s Holl, Mass.
Wood’s Holl. The Track of the Norseman.

W. M. DAVIS (the author), Boston, Mass.
‘Structural value of the Trap Ridges of the Connecticut Valley.”

Pror. A. 8. PACKARD, Jr. (the author), Providence, R. I.
“The Systematic Position of the Archipolypoda.”
“Repugnatorial Pores in the Lysiopetalide.”
“Notes on Lepidopterous Larvee.”

““ A new species of Polydesmus with eyes.”

J. C. DALTON, M.D., New York.
“Experimentation on Animals.” (The author).
‘A Treatise on Human Physiology.” (The author).
“Anatomy of the Invertebrata.”—Siebold.
“ Entozoa.””—Cobbold.
‘‘ Lepidosiren Paradoxa.”—Bischoff.
“ Entwickelungsgeschichte der Cephalopoden.”’—K dlliker.
“Uber die Entwickelung der Schildkréten.”—Rathke.
““Uber das Nabelblaschen und die Allantois.”—Mayer.
“De hepate et bile Crustaceorum et Molluscorum.”—Karsten.
‘“Uber die Spermatozoiden der Locustien.”—Siebold.
“The Placenta and Generative apparatus of the Elephant.”—Chapman.
A Sketch of the Progress of American Mineralogy.—Brush.
Report of the Supt., of the U. 8. Coast Survey. 1859, i866.
Report of the U.S. Geological Survey. Clarence King, Director.
U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Vol. XII. Fresh-water Rhi-
zopods of North America.—Leidy.
Census Bulletin. No. 263.

_ Extra. Cereal Production of the United States.
U.S. Geog. Survey West of the 100th Meridian. Vol. VI. Botany.
“Grasses and Forage Plants” (second edition).—Flint.

“On the Food of Animals.”—Thomson.
“On the Structure of the Orang Outang.”—Chapman,
Sitzungsberichte der Mathem. Nat. Classe LXXXIV, Bd., III. Heft.

C. D. WALCOTT, Esq., Washington, D. C.
Report of the Chief of Engineers, for the years 1877-81.
Miss ELLEN COLLINS, New York.
‘Experiment to Determine the Comparative Value of Fuel.”—Bull.
‘“‘ Essay on Vision.”—Adams.
CHAS. TUNISON, Esq., New York.
Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society. Vol. XXIV,
1864; XXVI, 1866.
C. WACHSMUTH, Esgq., Burlington, Ia.
Remarks on Glyptocrinus and Reteocrinus, two genera of Silurian crinoids.
By Wachsmuth and Springer.
L. P. GRATACAP, Esq, Staten Island, N.Y.
“ Night- and Fog-signalling Apparatus.”—Vreede.
Dr. J. B. HOLDER, New York.
‘Chemistry of the Cobb-Bishop Poisoning.”—Doremus and Witthaus.
“ Annual Descriptive Catalogue, ‘ Roses.’”—Bridgeman’s.

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A. P. GOODWIN, Esa.
The Industrial Arts of India. Parts] and Il. By G. M. Bridwood.
Pror. 8. I. SMITH, (the author), New Haven, Conn.
“Early Stages of Hippa talpoida ”
‘““Crusta¢eans of the Atlantic Coast.”
“Notes on Crustacea. Vancouver and the Queen Charlotte Islands.”
“Species of Pinnixa inhabiting the New England Coast, ete.”
‘Preliminary Notice of the Crustacea dredged in 64 to 335 fathoms off
South Coast of New England, ete.”
Report on the Crustacea. Part I, Decapoda. (Bull. X. 17. Mus. Comp.
Zo6l.).
A. E. BRUNN (the author), Ithaca, N. Y.
“Tineidae Infesting Apple Trees at Ithaca.”
P. H. CARPENTER, Esq., London, Eng.
“On the Classification of the Comatula.”
““On the Supposed Absence of Basals in the Eugeniacrinide and in cer-
tain other Neocrinoids.”
W. E. HIDDEN, Esq., Statesville, N. C.
“A Phenomenal Find of Fluid-Bearing Quartz Crystals.”

F. W. PUTNAM (the author), Cambridge, Mass.
“Notes on Copper Implements from Mexico.”
“Tron from the Ohio Mounds, ete.”
‘“‘ Pueblo Pottery.”
THOMAS SOUTHWELL (the author), England.
“On the Occurrence of the Atlantic Right Whale.”
On the Beaked or Bottle-nose Whale (Hyperoodon nostratus).
W. A. CONKLIN, Ph.D., New York.
The Journal (Formerly Archives), Comparative Medicine and Surgery.
Voli Tul nVv: 1881-83,
J. J. BARGIN, New York.
Guide to the Collection of Meteorites. British Museum,
Index to the Collection of Minerals. eS 3
Guide to the Exhibition Galleries.
Guide to the Exhibition Galleries. Nat. Hist. British Museum.
Official Catalogue. International Fisheries Exbibition. London, 1883.
J. A. MACDONALD (the author), Eustis, Fla.
“Plain Talk about Florida.”
Pror. A. S BICKMORE, New York.
8 Pamphlets. '
New York Horticultural Society. Monthly Reports. February, March,
April, May, 1882.
“ Notes on the Extension of the Coild Arms in Rhynchonella.”—Morse.
Panoramic View of the Germano-French Frontier Territories.
Pror. J. M. WHEATON (the author), Columbus, Ohio.
“ Report on the Birds of Ohio.”
Dr. E. A. MEARNS (the author), Highland Fails, N. Y.
“A Partial List of the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon.”
G. F. KUNZ (the author), New York.
“ American Gems and Precious Stones.”
Dr. A. A. JULIEN (the author), New York.
“The Volcanic Tuffs of Challis, Idaho, ete,”
“The Decay of the Building Stone of New York City.”
“The Genesis of Crystalline Iron Ore.”
“The Dunyte-Beds of North Carolina.”

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ARNOLD HAGUE (the author), New York.
“Geology of the Eureka District, Nevada.”
B. SMITH LYMAN (the author), Northampton, Mass.
Map of the Oil Lands Surveys of Japan. Topographical and Geological.
S$. B. SCHIEFFELIN (the author), New York.
“The Foundation of History.”
SANDERSON SMITH, Esq., New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.
Report on the Condition of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel-
phia. :
Commercial Relations. Vol. I, IV.
CHAS. E. WRIGHT, Marquette, L. 8., Mich.
Commissioner of Mineral Statistics. Annual Report, 1882.
Pror. JAMES HALL, Albany, N. Y.
Geol. Survey. State of New York, Palsontology. WOE Wee digo Te
“* Lamellibranchiata.”
8S. H. SCUDDER (the author), tnanaieed Mass.
“Pine Moth of Nantucket —Retinia frustrana.”
Pror. E. S- PICKERING (the author), Cambridge, Mass.
““ Mountain Observatories.”
S. F. EMMONS, Esq., Washington, D. C.
Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey, No. 1. 1883.
JAMES TERRY, Esq., New York.
First Annual Catalogue of the State Museum of California.
Hon. R. P. FLOWER, M.C., New York.
War of the Rebellion. Series I—Vols. V, VI, VII, VIII, IX.
Compendium of the Tenth Census. 1880.
Tenth Census of the United States. Vol. I. Population.
C. H. PECK, State Botanist, Albany, N. Y.
Annual Report. 33d—34th. 1880-81.
Pror. W. B. SCOTT, Princeton, N. J.
Bulletin 3 of Princeton College.
H. H. YOUNG, Secretary of the State Board of Immigration, St. Paul, Minn.
“ Resources and Capabilities of Minnesota.”
Pror. N. H. WINCHELL, State Geologist of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Annual Report. 1881.
R. G. PIKE, Commissioner, Middletown, Conn.
Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Conn., 2nd, 17th. 1883.
Dr. L. G. DE KONINCK, Liége, Belgium
‘“‘ Nouvelle notice sur les Fossiles du Spitzberg.” (The author).
““Mémorie sur les Genres et les Sous-Genres des Brachiopodes.’ ’—David-
son and De Koninck.
‘“* Découvertes Paélontologiques faites en Belgique.”—Malaise.
‘“«Sur une Nouvelle espéce de Crustacé.” (The author).
“ Notice sur une Nouvelle espéce de Davidsonia.” (The author).
“Sur les Fossiles Carboniféres.” (The author).
“‘ Notice sur la Calcaire de Malowka.” (The author).
““Recherches sur les Animaux Fossiles.” (The author).
“Recherches sur les Fossiles Paléozdiques de la Nuovelle-Galies du Sud
(Australie). (The author).
‘Sur la structure et la Composition Minéralogique, ete.”
Mémoires de Paléontologie. No. 1-8. (The author).
“Notice sur la distribution Géologique des Fossiles Carboniféres, de la
Belgique.” (The author).

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VERMONT STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, through Dr. H. A. Currin,
State Geologist, Lunenburgh.
Annual Report. 1872, 1881-82.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, through Pror., Gro. H. Cook, State Geologist, New
Brunswick.
Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin XXV, XXVIII.
Annual Report of the State Geologist. 1882.
CONNECTICUT STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, through T. 8. Goutp,
Secretary, West Cornwall.
Annual Report, 16th. 1882-83.
ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, through 8. D. Fisner, See-
retary.
Transaction. Vols. I, II, Il], V, XIX. 1851-81.
Circular. Nos. 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 1882-83.
THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,
through C. W. Dasnry, Jr., Raleigh.
Second Biennial Report of the Director.
Annual Report. 1882.

CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Sacramento.
Transactions. 1882.

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Lansing.
Annual Reports. 12th-19th. 1875-83.

STATE OF VIRGINIA, Commissioner of Agriculture, Richmond.
Annual Report. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th. 1879-83.

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, through Hon, R. EB. Parrison, Governor, Harrisburg.
DEPARTMENT OF MINES.
Report of the Inspectors of Mines. 1879, ’80, ’81.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Sixth Annual Report. 1882.

CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, New Haven.
Transaetions. Vol. V, 1. 1880-82.

DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, Davenport, Ia.
Proceedings. Vol. III. Part III. 1888.
CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Journal. Vol. V. 4; VI. 1, 2,3. 1882-83.
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, N. Y.
Annals. Vol. II. 10-11. 1882.
Transactions. Vol. II. 2. 1882-1883.
Pact | SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.
Transactions. Vol. I. 1882.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
Annual Report. 4th, 9th, 11th. 1876-81.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI, Ohio.
Ninth Annual Report. 1882.
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB, New York.
Bulletin. Vol. IX. 1,2, 8,12. X. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8-10.
PEABODY MUSEUM, Cambridge, Mass.
Report. Vol. III, 8. 1882. :
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, Mass.
Annual Report. 1881-82. 1882-83.
Bulletin. Vol. X. 4-6, 1882. VII. 9,10. XI. 1, 2,3,4. 1888.

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HARVARD COLLEGE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, Cambridge, Mass.
Annals. Vol. XI, XII, XIII, 1. 1879-82.
Thirty-seventh Annual Report. 1883.
First Circular of Instructions for Observers of Veriable Stars. By E. C.
Pickering.
Observations of the Transit of Venus. December 5 and 6, 1882. By
E. C. Pickering.
Catalogue of 618 Stars. 1880.
NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE, Halifax, N. S.
Proceedings and Transactions. Vol. V. Part IV. 1881-2.
ILLINOIS STATE LABORATORY, Normal, Ill., through S. A. Forses, Director.
Bulletin. Nos. 1-6. 1876-83.
THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION, Augusta, Maine.
Naturalist’s Review. Vol. I. 1,2. 1883.
CANADIAN INSTITUTE, Toronto, Can.
Proceedings. Vol. I, 4,5. 1882-83.
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Washington, D. C.
Bulletin. Vols. 1V, V. 1881-83.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, through Hon. H. D. Dement, Secretary of State, Springfield.
Economical Geology. Vol. I, II, II. 1882-3.
Geological Survey. Vol. VI, Geology and Paleontology. VII, Geology
and Paleontology.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, through the Superintendent of Public Property, Madison.
Geology of Wisconsin. Vol. I, 1873-79. IV, 1873-79. 1883.
MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Lansing.
Annual Reports of the State Board of Agriculture. 1873-82.
CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, through H. G, Hanks, State Miner-
alogist.
Second Annual Report. 1880-82.
DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES, Ottawa, Can., through the Hon.
Commissioner,
Supplement No. 2. Fisheries Statements. 1882.
STATE OF INDIANA, through Prof. Joun Cotter, State Geologist, Indianapolis.
Twelfth Annual Report. 1883. (38 copies.)
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS.
34 Pamphlets.
Transactions. Vol. X. 1882.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baitimore, Md.
Circular. Vol. II, Nos. 20-25., 27.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, Ontario, Canada.
The Canadian Entomologist. Vol. XIV. 11,12, XV. 1-10.
Report. 1882.
General Index to the Thirteen Annual Reports. 1883.
FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY, Burlington, Vt.
Ninth Annual Report. 1885.
WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Publication. Nos. 4, 5, 6.
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Madison, Wis.
“ Portraits of Columbus ; a Monograph.”—Butler.
“ 4 Biographical Sketch of Hon. Chas. H. Larrabee.”—Draper.
Memorial Address. Life and Character of Hon. C. C. Washburne.
Report and Collections of the Society, Vol. IX. 1882.
Report. 1883,

ASTOR LIBRARY, New York.
Thirty-fourth Annual Report. 1882.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
“The Library.” Vol. I. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7.
Second Report. Experiment Station. 1882-83.
ARCH.®OLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, Boston, Mass.
Bulletin 1. 1883.
Regulations, Officers and List of Members.
Fourth Annual Report. 1882-83.

LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
Bulletin. 1883.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Annual Report of the City Superintendent. 1882.
Directory of the Board. 1883.
ESTATE OF THE LATE EDWARD MINTURN, New York.
Message and Documents. Part I. 1864-65.
U. 8. Patent Office Report (Agriculture). 1859.
Encyclopedia; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, ete. 21 vols.
1798-1803.
SILVER ISLET MINING CO., New York.
“Map of the North Shore of Lake Superior, Ont., Min. Lands.”
MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, England.
Transactions. Vol. XVII.
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, Eng.
Reports and Transactions. 1881, 1882.
THE LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, Eng.
Annual Reports. 1882-88.
MANCHESTER FIELD NATURALISTS’ AND ARCH AOLOGISTS’ SOCIETY,
Eng.
Report and Proceedings. 1882.
LIVERPOOL NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB, Eng.
Proceedings. 1882-83.
NORFOLK AND NORWICH NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, Eng.
Transactions. Vol. ILI, Part IV.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.
Transactions and Proceedings. Vol. XIV. Part III.
MINISTERIO DE FORMENTO, Mexico.
Boletin. Tomo VIII. Num. 8-13. 1883.
THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, Sydney.
Report of the Trustees for 1882-3.
DER HISTORISCHE VEREIN FUR STEINMARK, Gratz.
Mittheilungen, 31 Heft. 1883
Beitrage, 19 Jahrgang. 1883.
“ Festrede.” 1883.
WESTFALISCHEN PROVINZIAL-VEREINS FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND
KUNST, Minster. Jahres-Bericht. 1881, 1882.
HZL. NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, Braunschweig, through Dr. W. Biastus.
“Spermophilus rufescens Keys et Blas, fossil in Deutschland, ete.”
‘Ueber neue and Zweifelhafte Végel von Celebes.”
“Vogel von Borneo.”
“On Birds from Ceram.”
“Dr, Platen’s Ornithologische Sammlungen aus Amboina,”

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BRISTOL NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, Eng:
Proceedings. Vol. IV. PartI. 1883.
List of Officers and Council.

SIEBENBURGISCHE VEREINS FUR NATURWISSENCHAFTEN IN HER-
MANNSTADT.
Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen, X XXIII, Jahrgang.

NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN VEREIN, Hamburg und Altona, Hamburg.
Verhandlungen, VIII, Band, IJ, Abth. 1882.
Abhandlungen, 1882.

WETTERAUER GESELLSCHAFT FUR DIE GESAMMTE NATURKUNDE,
Hanau. Bericht, 1883.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
U.S. Fish Commission Report. Part VIII. 1880.
Bulletin. Vol. II. 1882.
Miscellaneous Collections. Vols. XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI,
XXVII. 1882-83.
Annual Report. 1881.
Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum. Nos. 16, 24.

THroucu tas SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.
Orrice oF INTERNATIONAL ExcHaNnGeEs, Washington, D. C.
Societe GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, Paris.

Bulletin. 3¢ Série teme VIII,7. X. 3,4,5,6. XI. 1, 2,3, 5, 6.
Société ZooLoGique DE France, Paris.
Bulletin No. 5. 1882. Nos. 1-2, 3, 6.
Societe NatioNnace, Cherbourg.
Catalogue de la Bibliothéque. 1st Part. 1881.
Museo NacronaL DE Mexico.
Anales. TomolIII. 1, 2, 3,4. 1883.
Betrast Naturatists’ Frerp Crus, Eng.
Annual Report and Proceedings. Series II, Vol. I. Part 8. 1879-80.
Il, Parts, 1, 2. 1881-82.
Herrrorpsuire Naturat History Socrery Frerp Crus, Eng.
Transactions. Vol. II. Parts 1-6.
“List of Members.”
Royat Geonocicat Society, Edinburgh.
Journal. Vol. VI, Part Il, N.S. 1881-82.
Lryyean Socrery oF New Soutn Wates, Sydney. °
Proceedings. Vol. VII. 1,2,3,4. VIII. 1,2. 1883.
Roya Socrery oF TasMANIA.
Papers and Proceedings. 1881.
Sr. GaLLiscHeN NaTURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN GESELLSCHAFT,
Bericht. 1880-81, 1882.
K. K. Greotogiscne RetcHsanstaLt, Wien.
Verhandlungen, Jahrg. 1882, Nos. 11-17; 1883, Nos. 1-9.
Det Koneerige D. VIpENSKABERNES SELSKABS, Copenhagen.
Oversigt, Nos. 2, 3, 1882. No. 1, 1883.
Muste Roya p’Historiz NatureLLe DE BELeique, Brussels.
Annales. Tome IIJ, and Atlas. WII, and Atlas. VIII, and Atlas, X
and Atlas.
Bulletin. Tome I, 1882, Nos. 2, 3.
Tue Norwecian Norru AtLantic Expepition, 1876-78.
VI, Zoology. Holothurioidea.—Danielssen and Koren.
VIF, Annelida.—Hansen.
V/A Mollusca.—Friele.
IX, Chemistry.—Schmelck.
X, Meteorology.—Mohn.

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Institut Roya G&ou., DE LA SuEDE, Stockholm.
Svenonius, Fr. ‘Om ‘Sevegruppen’ i nord ligaste Jemtland och Anger-
monland, ete.”
Linnarsson, G. ‘‘ Graptolitskiffrar med Monograptus turriculatus, ete.”
Lundgren, B. ‘ Undersékningar éfver Mulluskfannan i Sveriges aldre
Mesozsiska, ete.”
Torell, 0. ‘Om Sveriges vigtigaste Kristalliniska bergslag och deras, ete.”
Svenonius, Fr. ‘ ‘ Wemdals—Qvartsiten ’ och Siluriska formationen.”
Tullberg, 8. A. “Skanes Graptoliter.”
Fichstadt, Fr. “Skanes Basalter mikroskopiskt undersokta och besk-
rifna.”
De Geer, G. “Om en Postglacial landsink ning, ete.”
Svenonius, Fr. “ Bidrag till Norrbottens Geologi.”
Lindstrém, A. ‘‘ Skottorp och Démmestorp.”
Stolpe, M. “ Beskrifning till Kartbladet Fjallmo.”
Stolpe, M. “ Beskrifning till Kartbadet Finspang.”
Holst, N. 0. “ Beskrifning till Kartbaden Dalaré och Udt.”
Linnarsson and Tullberg. ‘‘ Beskrifning till Kartbadet vreta Kloster.”
Tullberg, S. A. “ Beskrifning till Kartbadet Ovedskloster.”
Nathorst, A. G. “ Beskrifning till Kartbadet Kristianstad.”
Socitr Vaupoise pes Scrences Natureties, Lausanne.
Bulletin. 2°S. Vol. XVIII, No. 88. 1882.
NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT GRAUBUNDENS, Chur,
Jahresbericht. XXVI. Jahr., 1881-82.
NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT IN BERN.
Mittheilungen. Jahr., 1880, 1881, 1882, Heft. I. ,
L’Assocration Géopkstque INTERNATIONALE, Commission de la Norvége,
Christiania.
Geoditische Arbeiten. Heft I, II, et II]. 1880-82.
Vanstandsobservationer. Heft I. 1882.
L’Acapémig Royae pas Scrences, Lisbon, Portugal.
Memorias. Tomo V. Part 2. VI. Part1. 1878-81.
Journal. Nos. 24-32. 1878-80.
Relatorio da Sessao.
4* Conferencia Sobre Africa.
“Flora dos Lusiadas.”
NassavuiscHEeR VEREINS NatuRKUNDE, Wiesbaden.
Jahrbiicher. Jahr. 33 und 34, 385. 1880-82.
Unitep States Nationar Museum, Washington, D. C.
Bulletin, No. 19. Nomenclator Zoologicus.—Scudder.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, D. C.

U.S. Consular Regulations. 1882.

Register, corrected to August 15th, 188

“Emma Mine Investigation.”

Award of the Fishery Commission, H@lifax Commission, 1877. Vol. I,
II, TI. 1878.

International Fishery Exhibition at Berlin. 1880.

“Fishery Provisions of the Treaty of Washington.”

Fishery ‘‘ Resolution.” 1878.

Articles of the Treaty of 1871, with Great Britain.

“Fishery Question.” 1878.

“M. M. Delfosse as a Commissioner under the Treaty of Washington, on
the Fishery Question.”

Alleged Outrage at Fortune Bay, Newfoundland,

Award of the Fishery Commission.

Description of One Hundred and Eighty Cities, ete.

The Agency of A. B. Steinberger in the Samoan Islands,

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Commercial Report, 27, 28, 30-32., 35.
= ‘* Commerce of the World.
ee ‘““ Manufactures, ete. Index.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.
The Tariff on Imports into the U.8. and the Free List.
Bureau OF THE Minv.
Annual Report. 1882.
CoMPTROLLER’s OFFIce, through Hon. J. Jay Knox, Compt.
Annual Report. 1867, ’68, 74, ’77-82.
‘““ National Banking System.” (Address).
“Dry Bank Statistics.”
“ Lectures on Banking.”
“New York as the Great Banking Centre.”
“ Continuance of the National Banking System.”
Orrice Supr. U. 8. Lire Savina SERVICE.
Annual Lepore 1878, 1882.
Orrice U. Coast aNp GxopETic SURVEY.
Dea Sounding and Dredging. Supplement.
Appendix. Tidal Researches.—Ferrel.
Nicarague Route for an Interoceanic Ship Canal. 1874.
Appendix No. 6-9. Report for 1881. Methods and Results.
The Star-Factors, A. B.C. 1874.
Standard Places of Fundamental Stars.
Report. 1880, 1881.
OrricE oF THE LiguTHouse Boarp.
Annual Report. 1880.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C.
CENsuS OFFICE.
Forestry Bulletin. Nos. 28, 24, 25.
Compendium of the Tenth Census of the U. 8. Parts 1, 2. 1880.
Orrice or InpraN AFFAIRS.
Report of the Committee to Investigate Affairs at the Red Cloud Indian
Agency. 1875.
Half-Breed Scrip. Chippewas of Lake Superior.
Ethnological Directions Relative to the Indian Tribes, U. 8.
Annual Report of the Commissioner. 1882.
Boarp or InprAN COMMISSIONERS.
Annual Report. Fourth, Sixth—Fourteenth. 1872-838.
Bureau oF Epvucation.
The Construction of Library Buildings. Circular No. 1. 1881.
A Manual of the Common Native Trees of Northern U. 8.
“ Report on the Teachings of Chemistry and Physics, etc.”
“ High Schools for Girls in Sweden.”
Circular of Information. Nos. 1-6.
‘Planting Trees in School Grounds.”
“U.S. Bureau of Education, its Work and History.”
Report of the Commissioner. 1881.
GenERAL LAND OFFICE.
Emma Mine and Machado Claim.
Mining Laws and Regulations. ‘“ A.” “‘N.” 1876-82
Coal-Land Law, and Regulations thereunder.
“United States Mining Laws, ete.”
Rules of Practice. U.S. Land Office.
‘Title to Public Lands under the Pre-emption, Homestead, Timber, ete.”
Annual Report. 1882.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.
Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, 1859-60.—Hayden.

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Exploration of the Yellowstone River, 1859-60.—Raynolds.
Exploration and Survey in the Department of Dakota——Ludlow. 1874.
Bridging the Mississippi River between St. Paul and St. Louis. —Warren.
Report of Inspection made in the Summer of 1877.—Bay.
Gens. P. H. Sheridan and W. T. Sherman.
Professional Paper, No. 20. Defenses of Washington.—Barnard.
Professional Paper, No. 22. North Sea Canal of Holland, and Improve- .
ment of Navigation from Rotterdam to the Sea.
Professional Paper, No. 24. Primary Triangulation U. S. Lake Sur-
vey.—Comstock. 1882.
Upper Columbia River.—Symons. 1881,
“The Influence of Forests upon Rain-fall and Inundations.”’
“The Austin-Topolovampo Pacific Railroad Route.”
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF S1GNaL OFFICER.
Report. 1880, 1881.
Monthly Weather Review. May, June, Oct., Nov., 1882. Jan., Feb.,
March, April, July, 1883.
Bulletin. July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1881. Jan., Feb., March,
May, June, July, 1882. April, July, 1883.
Professional Papers. Nos. VIII, IX, XI, XII.
Signal Service Notes. Nos. I, II, IV, V.
Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the U.S. 1813-80.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.
Report of Chief Engineer Geo. W. Melville. The Jeannette Expedition.
Report of Lieut. Jno. W. Danenhower. The Jeannette Expedition.
Register of the Navy of the U. 8. Officers of the Marine Corps. 1882.
“Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo.”
Annual Report of the Secretary. 1873, 1880, 81, 82.
3UREAU OF MEDICINE SURGERY.
Report of the Surgeon General. Vols. 1V, V, VI, VII. 1879-82,
Sanitary Suggestions for the Information and Guide.
Jeannette Expedttion. 1875.
HyproGrapaic OFFICE.
Catalogue of Charts, Plans and Views. Published.
Running Survey of an Island.
Coast of South America, Part I.
Coast of Chile, Bolivia and Pert.
General Examination of the Atlantic Ocean.
General Examination of the Mediterranean Sea.
Physical Geography of the Red Sea.
Navrican ALMANAC OFFICE.
“ Motion of the Moon.”—By S. Neweomb.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C.
Report, 1881 and 1882.
List of Agricultural Societies and Farmers’ Clubs.
General Index of the Agricultural Reports.
Special Reports. Nos. 33, 84, 56-65.
Bulletin. Nos. 1,2. Division of Entomology.
Diseases of Cattle in the U.S, 1871.
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, through J. W. Powern., Director, Washington,
D0;
Monographs, II, “ Tertiary History of the Grand Cafon,”—Dutton,
Second Annual Report, 1880-81.
Bulletin No. 1. 1883.
NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH, Washington, D. C.
Bulletin. Vol. I. 2, 3, 6-9, 11-28, 26, 27-29, 31, 38, 86-42. IT, 1880,
*81. III, 1881-82.

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ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT.

MOBILE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, Mobile, Ala.
1 specimen Red Gum Tree.

A. M. DODGE & CO., Jersey City, N. J.
1 Plank specimen Walnut.
sc Butternut.
Cherry.
Birdseye Maple.
& Pe White Pine.
Ash.

NNON, Spokane Falls, Wash. Ter’y.
lank specimens Tamarack.
% White Pine.

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ETHNOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

L. G. DEKONINCKE, Liege, Belgium.
5 Stone Implements.

Dr. J. C. DALTON, New York City.
6 Javelins poisoned with ‘ Woorara” from the Cachibo Indians, Ucayali
River, Peru. Collected by Prof. J. W. Wright.
1 Mummified Diminutive Head of an Indian. Andes.
1 Seaip Lock. Sioux Indians.
THOMAS MEYER, New York City.
1 Obsidian Arrow Head, found in the Yellow Stone Valley.
Dr. H. M. BACHELER, Gaboon and Corisco Mission, Gaboon, West Africa.
3 Swords used by Pangwe Tribe.
1 Tomahawk used by Galwa Tribe.
1 Broad War Knife used by Galwa Tribe.
L Pipe used by Pangwe Tribe.
2 Spear Points used | by Pangwe Tribe.
1 War Knife used by Galwa Tribe.
1 Armlet from Ogowe River.
Native Cloth used by Ivilli Tribe.

Mrs. PAUL B. LEEDS, New Iberia, La.
Nest of Ten Baskets made by Native Indians, Louisiana.

Mrs. R. L. STUART, New York City.
A large and valuable collection of Stone Implements of the Paleolithic
and Neolithic Periods of France, Switzerland, and England, number-

ing over 2000 specimens.

H. R. BISHOP, New York City.

1 Large Canoe. ) ‘
Alton Posts. f From British Columbia.

HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, New York City,
A large and valuable collection of the Dresses and Weapons of the
Indians of the Columbia River Valley, collected by Mr. James Terry.

Mas. C. D. WARNER, JU. S. A.
War Club of Nez ee Indians.

Mas. SEWELL TRUAX, U. S. A.
Papoose Cradle, Nez Perceé Indians.

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BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT.

ANDREW B. FORBES, San Francisco, Cal.
32 species of Hawaiian Ferns, pressed and mounted.
Capt. GEO. M. WHEELER, U. 8. Geographical Survey, Washington, D. C.
A collection of (108) Plants representing the Mountain Flora of Colorado.

INSECT DEPARTMENT.

JOSEPH W. DREXEL, New York City.
Paid for 152 Cases for the Insect Collection, also for the construction of
suitable frames to place them on the wall.

ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

Mr. FRANKFIELD, New York City.
6 Blocks of Whale’s vertebre.
1 Cranium of same.

Mrs. R. L. STUART, New York City.
1 Argus Pheasant.

S. S. OSGOOD, New York City.
Several specimens and species of Echini and Sponges.

R. D. WOOD.
2 specimens Frigate Pelecan.
1 specimen Tropic Bird.
A. P. GOODWIN.
A “ Brilliant Crow ” (Menucodia Comerii).
W. A. CONKLIN, New York City.
Eggs of Python biseriatus.
R. W. MONROE, Staten Island, N. Y.
The Skin of the Florida Crocodile.
The Skull of a large American Alligator,

Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U.S. Army.

A collection of 276 specimens of the Fishes of Hudson River, in Alcohol,
and handsomely bottled and labelled for exhibition.

A number of Reptiles similarly furnished.

Four hundred and thirty (430) Skins of European Birds (suitable for
mounting), including many species not before seen in our collections.

One hundred and forty (140) Skins of European Birds, prepared for uses
of a Study Collection.

A collection of Skins of North American Birds, suitable for mounting,
and two hundred and ten (210) ditto for study uses.

A large collection of Nests and Eggs.

A collection of Stuffed Fishes.

A collection of Native Tortoises and the Skeletons of same.

1 Lammergeyer Vulture.

6 specimens of mounted Mammals.

15 specimens of mounted Birds.

38 species of Native Fishes, in Alcohol.

Eggs of 27 species of European Birds.

Mrs. E. DOBBIN, Five Points House Industry, New York City.
6 specimens Birds Nests.

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GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

H. BOOTH, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
One Gypsum specimen, from the Salt Vats at Syracuse, N. Y.
One specimen of Azurite from Arizona.

H. McCREARY, New Concord, Ohio.
4 specimens of Coal Measure Fossils from Guernsey Co., Ohio.

H. MOORES, Columbus, Ohio.
11 species of Upper Helderberg Fossils from Columbus, Ohio; and 17
species of Coal Measure Fossils from Carbon Hill, Ohio.

Principat J. W. DAWSON, Montreal.
9 Slabs of Graptolites from the Quebee Group, Point Lé svis, Canada,

Mrs. ROBERT L. STUART, New York City. ~
Meteorite from Atacama, Chili, S. A.
Specimen of Calcedony with water inclusion, from Brazil, 8. A.
ADRIAN ISELIN, New York City.
About 100 specimens of Minerals, including Staurolites, Andalusites,
Claydogs, &c.

A. P. GOODWIN, New York City.
100 species of Land and Marine Shells from Port Jackson, Fla.

L. DE MORGAN, New York City.
Specimens of Cretaceous Fossils from Marlborough, N. J.

J. F. WHITEAVES, for the Geol. Surv. of Canada.
4 specimens of Triarthrus spinosus, Bill, from the Utica Slate at Ottawa,
Canada.

Dr. H. M. BATCHELOR.
Specimen of Steatite, Sea Shell and fragment of Fossil Fish from Africa.

WILLIAM J. WALLACE, New York City.
Several slabs and separate Fossils from near Schoharie, N. Y.

JOSEPH WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa.
35 Miscellaneous specimens of Minerals from various localities.
GEO. H. WESTERVELT, New York City.
1 specimen of Quartz, and one of Oligoclase from Marble Island, Greenland.
D. J. STEWARD, New York City.
20 specimens of Schoharie Grit Fossils from Goshen, N. Y.
E. 0. ULRICH, Covington, Ky.
113 determined species of Lower Silurian Bryozoans.

G. F. KUNZ, Hoboken, N. J.
38 specimens of Minerals from various localities.

S. D. DILL, Nova Scotia.
One specimen of Stilbite.

JAMES TERRY, New York City.
26 specimens of Coal Measure Fossils from Las Vegas, New Mexico.
SILVER ISLET MINING CO., New York City.
One very valuable specimen of Native Wire Silver from Silver Islet, Lake
Superior.

Pror. R. PUMPELLY, Newport, R. I.
A series of the Ores (powdered) reported upon by him for the United
States Census Department.

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EXCHANGES.

GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

G. F. KUNZ, Hoboken, N. J.

56 specimens of Miscellaneous Minerals mostly from Magnet Cove, Ark.
H. STOCKBRIDGE, Jr., Baltimore, Md.

3 specimens of Enstatite from Bare Hills near Baltimore, Md.

J. W. DEEMS, Brooklyn, N. Y.
20 Miscellaneous Minerals for Cabinet.

F. A. SAMPSON, Sedalia, Mo.
35 specimens of Cretaceous and Carboniferous Fossils, in exchange for
Bulletins.

GEORGE CASWELL, Dayton, Ohio.
80 specimens of Clinton Group and Lower Silurian Fossils from Dayton,
Ohio, in exchange for Bulletins.

DANIEL CLARK, Mass.
12 specimens of Garnets and Gibsites from Richmond, Mass.

LIBRARY.

A. E, FOOTE, Philadelphia, Pa.

Preliminary Report on the Natural History of Vermont.—Young.

Second Annual Report. Geology of the Public Lands, Maine and Massa-
chusetts.—Jackson.

Report on Ilinois Coals.—Norwood.

Parker’s Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains.

Plates to accompany the Second Annual Report on the Geological Survey
of New York. 1838.

List of Elevations.—Gannett.

Massachusetts Agricultural Reports. 1856, 1863.

Pror. A. S. BICKMORE, New York.
Egyptian Obelisks.—Gorringe.
Dana’s Manual of Geology. Second edition.
S. L. ELLIOT, Esa., New York.

Skinner on Agriculture. 3 volumes.

Revue Critique des Oiseaux d’Europe.—Schlegel.

Annelida Chzetopoda of the Virginian Coast.— Webster.

Morrell’s Voyages and Discoveries.

Statistics of Coal.—Taylor.

Northwestern Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park.—Jones,
18735.

Raymond’s Mineral Resources west of the Rocky Mountains. 1870, 1872,
1873, 1874, 1875, 1876.

Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of New York.—Colvin.

teports.— First, 1873. Second, 1878-74. Third—Seventh, 1874-79.

Reports of the Inspector of Mines of Pa. 1875, 1877.

Hand-Book of Virginia.—Pollard.

Report on the Geological Survey of the Lead Region of the State of
Wisconsin.—Murrish. ‘

Communication between the Atlantic and Pacifie Oceans, ete.—Moro.

Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of Arkansas. 1859-60,—Owen.

Transactions of the Albany Institute. Vol. VI.

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Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society. 1841, 42, ’46,
47, 59, 60-63, 65, 6771, "76-82.
Boundaries of the State of New York. Vol. I. 1874.
Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society. Vol. VI. 1865-6.
VII. 1867-8.
Report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture. 1873.
Maine State Board of Agriculture. 15th Report.
New Hampshire Board of Agriculture. Vol. VI. 1874.
Massachusetts Agricultural Reports. 1841, 1853, 1869-70.
Ninth Census of the State of New York. 1865.
Eighth Census of the United States. 1860. Population, Manufacturers,
Agriculture, Mortality and Miscellaneous Statistics. 4 vols,, 1864-66.
Ninth Census of the United States. 1870.
Vol. II, Vital Statistics. III, Industry and Wealth.
U.S. Message and Documents. 1849-50. Parts I, II. 1858-9. Parts
10E JUN
Reports of the U.S 5. Coast Sure ey. 1868-75.
Memoranda. Appendix § U.S. C.S. 1875.
Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 1871-74.
Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 1860, ’66, 67,
1869,70,75,"7778. ’
"U.S. Patent Office Reports (Agriculture). 1848, ’49, 753,754, 56, 57, ’66.
U.S. Agricultural Reports. 1862-64.
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, New York.
Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. 2d,
1859. 8th, 1865.
Annual Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of Ontario,
for the years 1867, 1879.
Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the
N. Y. State Cabinet of Natural History. 12th and 13th.
New York Horticultural Society. Constitution and Address. 1821,
1827-30.
Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. 3 vols.
Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society. 1844, °49,
52, °63, BB—’5 7.
Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the City
of New York. 1819.
Hurlgate and the Proposed Canal. 1828.
Feuchtwanger, L. Report on Frye’s Island.
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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List of Contributions.

James Brown, - - -$2.500 | Samuel F. B. Morse, - - 500
John David Wolfe, - - 2,500 Richard Mortimer, - - 500
Alex. T, Stewart, : - 2,500 Rutherford Stuyvesant, - 500
Arnold, Constable & Co., = - 2,000 Thomas A, Vyse, Jr., - 600
Theodore Roosevelt, - - 1,000 © Meredith Howland, — - . 500
D. Jackson Steward, - - 1,000 | George Griswold Gray, - 600
A. G. P. Dodge, - - 1,000 Marshall O. Roberts, - - 500
William H. Dodge, - - 1,000 Gouveneur Kemble, - - 600
Morton, Bliss & Co., - - 1,000 John Alstyne, - - - 600
William T. Blodgett, - - 1,000 Benjamin B. Sherman, - 500
Robert Colgate, - - - 1,000 | Benjamin H. Field, — - - 500
Morris K. Jesup, - - 1,000 Adrian Iselin, — - - - 500
D. N. Barney, - - - 1,000 Samuel Hawks, - - - 500
Peter Cooper, — - - - 1,000 O. B. Potter, . - - 600
Halstead, Haines & Co., ‘- 1,000 Howard Potter, - - - 5600
I. N. Phelps, - . - 1,000 Benjamin Aymar, - - 500
Mr. & Mrs. Jas. Stokes, - 1,000 Jonathan Thorne, - - 500
William H. Aspinwall, - 1,000 John Sneden, - - - 600
Garner & Co., — - - - 1,000 Wm. L. Cogswell, - - 250
Robert L. Stuart, - - 1,000 Henry L. Barbey, - - 260
Robert Bonner, - - - 1,000 Henry Chauncey, - - 250
D. Willis James, - - 1,000 Wilson G. Hunt - - - 200
B. H. Hutton, - - - 1,000 Theodore W. Riley, — - - 250
Kdward Matthews, — - - 1,000 Henry Parish, — - - - 250
Darling, Griswold & Co, = - = 1,000 James W. Gerard, - - 260
Mdward Clayk, — - - - 1,000 Robert B. Minturn, — - - 250
William I. Dodge, Jr., . 500 James M. Brown, - - 260
J. Pierpont Morgan, - - 500 O. N. Potter, - - - 260
A. A. Low, - ’ - 500 Samuel B. SchiefYelin, - - 100

SUBSCRIPTIONS 1870.
ON CONDITION THAT THE PRECEEDING AMOUNT BE RAISED TO $100,000.

John David Wolfe, - - 2,500 , James Lenox, - - - 1,000
Robert L. Stuart. - - 1,000 A, G. Phelps Dodge, — - - 1,000
Alexander Stuart, - - 1,000

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