Annual Reports 1884a

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 man- age the af

YORK-(77th Street and- th Avenue.)

CONSTITUTION, -BY-LA AND

LIT'OF MEMBERS

IFOR) THIE YEARk

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Xmerican 52uIll o $aural its or,

CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK,

(77th Street and 8th Avenue.)

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

C VANDERBILT.

D 0 MILLS

CHAS G LANDON

H R BISHOP

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

JAMES M CONSTABLE, CHAIRMAN.

ROBERT COLGATE E R BISHOP.

D JACKSON STEWARD OLIVER HARRIMAN.

The President and Secretary, ex-officio.

PROF ALBERT S BICKMORE,Curatorof theEthnologicalDepartment,andincharge of theDepartmentofPublicInstruction.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

HISTORY present this their Sixteenth Annual Report to the Patrons, Fellows, and Members of the Museum.

The Treasurer's account shows the receipts of the year

to have been $35,770.2i This includes $5,ooo.oo received from the estate of the late Wm E Dodge, contributed to

found a permanent endowment fund; also $7,60i.60

con-tributed by the Trustees to make up the annual deficiency The expenditures were $26,667.49 for maintenance, and

$3,798.36 for improvements and additions.

These purchased additions were mostly new species, and comprise 44 specimens of North American birds, 29 speci- mens of North American mammals, and 20 monkeys; also specimens of minerals, fossils, and insects, and I7 volumes

of needed books for the Library.

The large additions to the Museum by donation and

ex-change will be found in the list of accessions appended Much of the growth of the Library has been found to be

due to the Museum Bulletins, prepared by the Curators, and sent to corresponding institutions and libraries all over

the world in exchange for their publications.

A large increase in the number of visitors has been

no-ticed during the year This is a gratifying indication of the increasing popularity of the Museum.

The collection of American Forestry specimens, the aration of which has been in progress during the past three years, is expected to be placed on public exhibition this spring This collection, it is hoped, will prove another popular attraction to the Museum, and be the means of

prep-largely increasing the knowledge and information of the

Only one hundred and forty-five species of birds, and one hundred and seventeen species of mammals, remain to be supplied to make the American collections in these two departments complete, and it is expected that most of these will be furnished during the year.

In the geological and mineralogical department, the provements on the exhibition cases have been finished, and the labelling and cataloguing of the collections is now go- ing on rapidly.

im-The arranging and labelling of the Wolfe memorial gift

of shells has also made satisfactory progress during the year.

The printed Guides to the different collections have proved to be very popular The supply has lately become

exhausted, and a new series to all the departments is now

under preparation, and will soon be placed on sale at the Museum These new Guides will be amply illustrated, and

cover all the latest arrangements and improvements made

in the collections and the halls during the past few years The small price at which they are sold places them within the reach of everybody, and, in their use, the public will find an easy and popular method of studying the collections.

s At the recent session of the Legislature, an appropriation was made as follows:

[ItemfortheAnnual Appropriation Bill.]

"For the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to enable him to

establishandmaintain in connection with the American Museum of Natural

HistoryinCentralPark,in thecityofNewYork,a courseof freeinstruction,

tobegiven by theCuratorsof saidMuseum, andtobe illustratedbyitstions, tothe teachers of thecommonschools of saidcity, and throughthemto

collec-their pupils, andto theteachers of the common schools and of the normal

schoolsthroughout the Statewhomaywishtoavailthemselvesof thistraining,

and tofurnishthe severalState normal schools with such appliances and- paratusasmay beherebysuppliedtothe schools of saidcity,andarenecessary

ap-forthe properpresentationtotheirteachers and pupils of this instruction on

human andcomparativeanatomy,physiology, andzoology, and other subjects

uponwhich the Boardof Educationof said citymayrequire that oral

tion shall be given, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, to bepaid by the

Treasurer onthewarrantof the Superintendent of Public Instruction, signed by theComptroller."

counter-In accordance therewith, and with the kind co-operation

of the Hon Wm B Ruggles, State Superintendent of lic Instruction, and the Board of Education of this city, a new department has been created in the Museum called

Pub-" The Department of Public Instruction," and a course of lectures to the teachers of the State and city schools is now in progress and meeting with great success.

They are given by Prof Albert S Bickmore, and are

illustrated by the collections of the Museum and by means

of the stereopticon.

Specimens and apparatus to aid in the reproduction of this instruction have been supplied to'the New York city schools and the normal schools of the State, with very gratifying results.

These lectures, the subjects of which are given in the pendix, have been planned for four years, twenty in each year Like those now in progress, all will be richly il- lustrated with original views and drawings specially pre- pared for the course.

ap Although the lecture ha'll of the Museum was recently

enlarged to double its former capacity, the 'number of those desiring to avail themselves of this instruction again ex- ceeds the dimensions of the hall, and many who come can- not gain admittance.

To provide a suitable place for this educational training, plans have been rnatured to enlarge the Museum by the

addition of the rotunda as planned in the original designs for the entire building.

This addition, it is estimated, would give room for a

lecture hall capable of seating twelve hundred persons, and

afford a part of the extra space now so urgently wanted for

lature will be willing to grant the necessary aid to carry out this laudable object.

To widen still further the benefits of this new department

of the Museum, it is proposed, as soon as a suitable hall is provided, that these lectures, and especially those illustrat- ing the physical features and the great natural resources of

our country, shall be repeated to the working classes of the city.

In this way the rich collections of the Museum, such as

that of woods, will become of direct utility to all those who labor or are in any way interested in these materials; and, hereafter, as the Museum acquires additional collections,

it must become an increasingly important aid in the

educa-tion of the artisan and laborer.

It must not be forgotten, however, that with all this creased usefulness comes also increased expenditures, and

in-a larger deficiency to be made up at the close of the year.

The Trustees have, therefore, to appeal to all spirited citizens to aid them One thousand additional annual members at ten dollars a year each would place the institution on a self-sustaining basis, and it is hoped this fact needs only to be made known to the public, who are so much benefited by the Museum, to secure for it the

public-desired amount at the earliest day.

MORRIS K JESUP,

President.

THE AMERICANMUSEUM NATURAI.HISTORY,inaccount

RECEIPTS

Balance from I883account,

From the Estate of Wm E Dodge,

100 00 IOO 00

OO 00 IOO 00

I 000

IOO 00 IOO 00

I 00 00 IOO 00 IOO 00 IOO 00 IOO 00

2,I60 50 I70 00

225 00

i8,823 42

$35,770 21

Examined PERCY R PYNE, Auditing

andapproved CHARLESLANIER, Committee

I884

with J PIERPONT MORGAN, TREASURER.

Publishing Bulletin and AnnualReport,

Printingand Stationery,

Reception,

Advertising,

Postage and Car Fare,

PoisonintzMaterials,

Expressage, Travelling, and

CustomHouseExpenses )Lectures and photographicEstablishment,

Interest ondebit balances, I884,

Birds and Mammals purchased, I,566 00

" Minerals purchased, 1178 50

' Books and Periodicalspurchased, gS 98

Purchased Bonds for the"Permanent Endowment t

[E.&0 E.] NEW YORK,January27, I885.

J.PIERPONT MORGAN, Treasurer.

I I

.

C(ONSTIITUT [ON

OF THE

American Museum of Natural History,

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

ARTICLE I.

This Corporation shall be styled the AMERICAN MUSEUM

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 man- age 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

of at least three-fourths of the Trustees present.

ARTICLE III.

The Trustees shall meet quarterly, on the s'econd Monday

of every February, May, August, and November, at an lhour

and place to be designated, on at least one week's written notice from the Secretary, and shall annually, at the quarter-

ly 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

no-tice to each Trustee of such special meeting, and of the ject thereof, at least three days before the meeting is held.

ob-ARTICLE IV.

The officers of the said Corporation shall be a President,

a First and Second Vice-President, a Secretary, and a urer, an Executive Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Finance Committee, all to be elected from the Trus-

Treas-tees 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

per-sons 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 Au- diting Committee, and shall preserve the seal, archives, and correspondence of the Museum, shall issue notices for all the meetings of the Trustees, and attend the same.

The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the funds of the Museum He shall keep the accounts of the Museum in

books belonging to it, which shall be at all times open to

the inspection of the Trustees He shall repo'rt 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.

The Executive Committee shall consist of seven, of whom

14 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

purchase, sell, and exchange specimens and books, to

em-ploy agents, to regulate the manner and terms of ing the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out

exhibit-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 tween the quarterly meetings of the Trustees, without the

be-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

present-ed 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 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.

con-ARTICLE X.

By-Laws may from time to time be made by the tees, providing for the care and management of the proper-

Trus-ty of the Corpora-tion; 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 posed amendment.

pro-ARTICLE XI.

The contribution of $iooo or more to the funds of the

Museum, at any one time, shall entitle the person giving

the same to be a Patron of the Museum, who shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such patron- ship.

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.

The contribution of $IOO, at one time, shall entitle the person giving the same to be a Life Member.

Any person may be elected by the Trustees to either

of the above degrees, who shall have given to the Museum

books or specimens, which shall have been accepted by the Executive Committee, to the value of twice the amount in money requisite to his admission to the same degree, and the President and Secretary-shall issue diplonm,as according-

ly 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

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

a regular meeting.

BY-L AWS.

I.

Patrons giving $iooo are each entitled to i Subscriber's Ticket, 5 Complimentary Season Tickets, and IO Tickets for a single admission.

Fellows, giving $5oo, are each entitled to i Subscriber's Ticket, and IOTickets for a single admission.

Life Members, giving $ioo, are each entitled to i scriber's Ticket, and 5 Tickets for a single admission Annual Members, paying $io yearly, are each entitled

Sub-to i Subscriber's Ticket, and 2 Tickets for a single sion.

admis-[NOTE.-A Subscriber's Ticket admitstwo persons to theMuseumeveryday

exceptSunday, and to allReceptions and Special Exhibitions, and may

beusedbyany member oftheSubscriber's family

TheSingle admission Tickets admit the bearers to the Museum onreserve days (Mondays and Tuesdays)and are issued toSubscribers fordistributionamong friendsandvisitors.]

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 cepting Trustees ex-officio-nor be eligible unless his name

Board-ex-shall be presented by the nominating committee at a lar Quarterly Meeting prior to the meeting at which said election shall take place.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS 1884.

LIBRARY.

MORRIS K JESUP, New York City

Les Torrents DeBatelica

Trait6PratiquedcuReboisement et du Gazonnement des Montagnes

By P Demontzey

Reboisement desMontagnes, 1861-1878

LeReboisementetleRegazonnement desAlpes,1864 Mathieu.LesTorrentsdesAlpesetle Paturage Marchand

Monographies de Travaux execut6sdans les Alpes, lesCGvenneset

les Pyrenees

MRS ROBERT L.STUART, New York City

Catalogue of theLibrary of the late R L Stuart

MissELLEN COLLINS, New York City

EpisodesofTnsectLife

REV W A LEIGHTON, B A (theauthor), England

TheLichen-Flora Third edition

A B EMMONS(the author), N Y

"Notesonthe RhodeIslandandMassachusetts Coals."

W.J.McGEE (the author), Washington,D C

Thedrainage system and distribution of the Loess of Eastern Iowa

"Modificationsproposeesdans la nomenclaturegeologique."

"OntheOriginand Hadeof Normal Faults."

"Theory of GlacialClimate."

I C.RUSSELL(the author), Washington, D C

"SketchoftheGeologicalHistory of LakeLahontan."

JOHN H CASWELL, New YorkCity.

Report of the PacificRailroadSurvey Vols I.-XII., 1855-60.Report of the U S CoastSurvey 1866

WM BEUTTENMULLER, New YorkCity.

Biography of Elisha Kent Kane -Elder

CommerceandNavigationoftheUnitedStates 1880

India and itsPeople.-Read

Reportofthe Board ofCommissionersonIrrigation, California.CensusBulletins Nos.6, 12, 27,34, 36-40, 42, 43, 46-48,50-54,56-

Statisticalabstractofthe UnitedStates 1881

AnnualReportontheForeign Commerce U S 1882

Commerce andNavigationof theUnitedStates 1882

CottonGoods Trade of the World

Specimenpagesofthe AmericanCyclopsedia

C HART MERRIAM (the author), LocustGrove, N Y

Mammals of the Adirondacks

AReview of theBirdsofConnecticut

"Ravages ofa rare Scolytid Beetle in the Sugar Maple of

North-easternNew York."

"BreedingoftheHarlequin Duck(liistrionicusminttus)."

"Onabirdnew toNorthern NorthAmerica."

"OnBirdsabout Point deMonts, Canada.'

"OnBirds oftheAdirondackRegion."

"Gentry's Nests andEggs of Birds of theUnitedStates."

"Remarkson some oftheBirds of Lewis County, NorthernN.Y.PROF A S.BICKMORE, New YorkCity

"OnPourtalesia,agenus ofEchinoidea." BySven Loven.Forestry Bulletin No.2

is " May, 1884

Circular No 2, U S EntotnologicalCommission

AmericanMeteorologicalJournal Vol.I., 1

Proceedings of theAmer Asso Adv Sci Vol.XXXI 1882.I"UberVogelderSudsee." ByDr 0 Finsch

"Discovery of Mound RelicsatDevilRiver, Lake Huron."-Mason

"Languages ofAfrica "-Mason

"EthnologyofVega."-Mason

"Geological relations of the Limestone Belts of Westchester Co."

J D Dana

"Extractsfromthe Will ofWilliamS Vaux Deceased."

Illustrated Guide and Catalogue of Woodward's Garden

ProgrammeoftheThirty-first MeetingAmer Asso.Adv Sci.Second annualreportAmericanTaxidermists 1881-82

NotesontheEasternCities andMuseums of the UnitedStates

ByAgnesCrane

Abridgment of the Nautical Almanac 1883

The Tribune Almanac 1883

The Evening JournalAlmanac 1883

Reportof theDirector-General, International Cotton Exposition.Die Ebbeundfluth in der RhedevonFinme By E Stahlberger

DR A v KLIPSTEIN (theauthor), throughProf A S Bickmore.Beitrilge zurGeologischen und Topographischen Kenntniss derOstlichen Alpen BandII Abth I II III 1871-83

BeitrigezurGeolog KenntnissderOstlichen Alpen Band I 1845.HON R P FLOWER,M.C., NewYorkCity

War ofthe Rebellion Series I Vols X XI

TenthCensusofthe UnitedStates Vol II.Manufactures,etc

46I I" Vol III StatisticsofAgriculture

Vol.IV Transportation.Vol V.VI.CottonProduction

sc" " " Vol.VII.Valuation, Taxation,etc

Vol VIII Newspapers andPeriodicals, Alaska, Fur-seal Islands, and Ship-building.JAREDMILLER, Brooklyn,N Y

Viaje de la Comission astronomica Mexicana alJapon

ByF D Covarrubias

Old Streets ofNew York By John J Post

FRANKVINCENT, JR (the author), New York City

Norsk,Lapp,andFinn

ThroughandthroughtheTropics

LandoftheWhiteElephant

C F HOLDER (theauthor), New YorkCity

Elements ofZoology

GEO N LANVRENCE(theauthor), NewYork City

"New speciesof Pigeon of the genusEngyptila."

PROF JAMESHALL, Albany, N Y

Natural History,State of New York Palheontology, Vol V.PartI Lamellibranchiata Text

CHAS E BEECHER(the author), Albany,N Y

"C eratiocaridm from the Chemung and WaverlyGroups."

SANDERSONSMITH,New Brighton, StatenIsland, N Y

Anaccountof recent progress inZoology 1879-1881

"NotesonAmericanLandShells." ByW G.Binney

R E CALLandC.E BEECHER (the authors)

"NotesonNevadaShells."

PROF T C CHAMBERLIN, StateGeologist, Beloit, Wis

"HillocksofAngular Gravel"

"CorrelationofTerminalMoraines."

PROF N H WINCOHELL, StateGeologistofMinnesota, Minneapolis.Tenth Annual Report 1881

Eleventh Annual Report 1882

Geological and Natural HistorySurvey 1872-1882 Vol I.Geology.PROF JOHN COLLETT, State Geologist, Indianapolis, Ind

Twelfthand Thirteenth Annual Report 1882, 1883

PROF A H WORTHEN, StateGeologist,Springfield,Ill

Bulletin No 2, Illinois State Museum ofNatural History

W T.HORNADAY(the author) Washington, D C

"Directions forremovingand preserving the skins ofMammals."PROF E C PICKERING, Director, Cambridge, Mass

Thirty-eighthAnnunl Report TheAstronomicalObservatory

" RecentObservations of Variable Stars."

M.JULES MARCOU(the author), Cambridge, Mass

"Notesurla(GologiedelaCalifornia."

SecondGeologicalSurveyofPenn., Report, M M

JEDHOTCHKISS, Editor andPublisher, Staunton, Va

"TheVirginias,"aMining and ScientificJournal Vol V 1884.SOUITHWICKANDJEiNCKS, Publishers, Providence, R I

Random NotesonNatural History Vol I 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 1884

J W FEWKES(the author), Cambridge Mass

"On theDevelopments of Certain Worm Larvae."

W FAXON(theauthor), Cambridge, Mass

"DescriptionsofSpeciesofCambarus."

R D LACOE(theauthor), Pittston, Pa

"CCatalogue of the Paleozoic FossilPlants."

THOS.L CASEY (the author), Philadelphia, Pa

ContributionstotheDescriptionsandSystematicColeopterologyofNorth America Part I

Revisionof theStenini of America north of Mexico

N S GOSS(theauthor), Topeka,Kansas

Catalogue of the BirdsofKansas

OTTO MEYER(theauthor), NewHaven, Conn

NotesonTertiaryShells

S KNEELAND(theauthor), Boston,Mass

"TheSubsidenceTheory of Earthquakes."