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University. Our staff in pure science has never been so strong as it is at the present moment, or so united in the spirit of friendly coöperation. The research product of the Museum has grown by leaps and bounds; the volume of our publications has increased several fold; the popular publications, based on the pure researches of their authors, have spread the scientific influence of the Museum all over the world. It is interesting to observe that these branches of science relinquished by many of our universities are taken up by our museums.

The details of these explorations, researches and publications are given in the usual reports by the Director and Heads of Departments. A summary of scientific publication during the last five years is as follows:

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North
American
Exploration

In coöperation with the National Museum and other museums, North America from the Arctic to the Isthmus is now well covered by our explorations, publications and photographic collections, including historic and prehistoric races of men, the insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, as well as the extinct ancestors of these living groups. Especially noteworthy serial publications on recent explorations, completed or well advanced, are papers on the "Anthropology of the Southwest" with the Archer M. Huntington Fund, the great Bibliography of Fishes with the Jesup Fund, and the six volumes on Fossil Vertebrates with the Jesup Fund. Aided by the Jesup Fund', Professor Osborn, as a member of the

Professor Osborn's research, travel and publication fund is devoted to the salaries of his research assistants and artists engaged in this work, and in part to his own travels.

staff of the United States Geological Survey, has just completed his monograph, "Titanotheres of Western America," on which he has been engaged for nineteen and a half years.

About $75,000 has been expended since 1910 on South American exploration and publication through successive expeditions led by Chapman, Roosevelt, Cherrie, Miller and Richardson. Our senior

South
American
Exploration

Curator, Dr. J. A. Allen, has produced a series

of classical papers on South American mamExpeditions into the interior bear the name of Theodore Roosevelt. Doctor Chapman's "Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia," recently awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal by the National Academy of Sciences, is also a classic and leads to similar volumes on the birds of Peru and of Chile. The materials and collections will fill our South American Hall.

We have thus far expended $190,000 on African exploration, research and publication. Unrivaled collections of reptiles, birds and mammals are in storage awaitAfrican ing the construction of the African Hall, as the Exploration and Research result of the courageous and untiring field work of a succession of explorers, namely, Roosevelt, Tjäder, Akeley, Rainsford, Barnes, Rainey, Lang and Chapin. The two last named have rendered monumental service to African natural history in bringing out the most complete and the most perfectly preserved collection which has ever come from Africa, with precise field notes and 9,500 photographs. The results are being issued in a series of twelve volumes entitled The Zoology of the Belgian Congo. To these volumes, not only our own but other eminent scientists of the country are contributing, notably Director W. J. Holland, of the Carnegie Museum, Professor William Morton Wheeler of Harvard University, and Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The first two Congo volumes were recently presented to the King of the Belgians

following his visit to the Museum. A duplicate collection is being sent to the great Congo Museum at Tervueren, Belgium, according to the agreement of the Museum with the Belgian Government.

Asiatic
Exploration

Through the successive journeys of one of our own explorers, Mr. Roy C. Andrews, in Japan, Korea, the Provinces of Yunnan, Fukien, Shansi, and in Mongolia, aided by the Rev. Harry R. Caldwell, we have made a notable beginning in the collections representing the eastern mountain, plain and desert life of Asia. We have secured about one-half of the materials necessary to fill the ASIATIC HALL of the proposed Southeast Wing. We still require examples of the life of tropical Asia and Indo-Malaya. All together we have expended $35,000 in Asiatic exploration and publication up to the present time.

Popular
Publications

Popular scientific works are carrying the riches of the Museum to readers all over the world. The series of popular volumes by Peary, Stefánsson, MacMillan, Roosevelt, Chapman, Miller, Wissler, Andrews and Lutz constitute a library of standard reference on Arctic exploration, on African, Asiatic and South American travel, and on the ancient and recent history of the primitive races of Europe and of North America:

Peary, Robert E.,

Northward Over the Great Ice, 1898

The North Pole, 1910

Secrets of Polar Travel, 1917

Stefánsson, Vilhjalmur,

My Life with the Eskimo, 1913

MacMillan, Donald B.,

Four Years in the White North, 1918

Roosevelt, Theodore,

Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914

Chapman, Frank M.,

Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 1908

Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America,

1912

The Travels of Birds, 1916

Our Winter Birds, 1918

Miller, Leo E.,

In the Wilds of South America, 1918

Wissler, Clark,

North American Indians of the Plains, 1912
The American Indian, 1917

Andrews, Roy C.,

Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera, 1916
Camps and Trails in China, 1918

Lutz, Frank E.,

Field Book of Insects, 1918

Again aided by the Jesup Fund, Professor Osborn has produced three popular volumes which have become of standard reference:

The Age of Mammals, 1910

Men of the Old Stone Age, 1915

The Origin and Evolution of Life, 1917

Works of this kind are drawn upon by writers of textbooks for schools and colleges, in all parts of the world.

For publication as well as for the enrichment of the collections and the preparation of exhibitions, the total sum of $1,412,839.32 has been expended, since Mr. Jesup's decease in 1908, from the income from the Morris K. Jesup Fund, which by the terms of the will is devoted to purely scientific purposes.

GENERAL AND SCIENTIFIC ENDOWMENT

The total general and scientific endowment on December 31, 1919, amounted to $8,117,986.07. If the munificent bequests which have been made to the Museum during the last few years are realized, our total endowment will amount to $10,337,986.07. The present status of these bequests is as

Bequests
Pending

Settlement

follows:

BEQUEST OF AMOS F. ENO: Under the will of Amos F. Eno, the Museum is to receive $250,000. The will is being contested, and the case is pending in the courts.

BEQUEST OF CHARLES E. RHINELANDER: The Museum's interest is 2% of the residuary estate. The Museum's prospective share is $8,000 and possibly an additional $12,000 from a trust fund contingent upon the death of Rhinelander Waldo without descendants. Charles E. Rhinelander died on December 7, 1915.

BEQUEST OF HELEN C. JUILLIARD: The Museum's interest in this estate is $50,000, which was held in trust by Mr. A. D. Juilliard during his life. The Museum has received (in 1919) income amounting to $2,050 on this bequest, this being the interest since April 25, 1919, the date of Mr. Juilliard's death.

BEQUEST OF JAMES GAUNT: The Museum is entitled to one-half of the residuary estate, subject to life estate of Thomas T. Gaunt. The Museum's share is $15,000 plus one-half the proceeds from certain real property in Idaho of uncertain value.

BEQUEST OF EMIL WOLFF: The Museum is to receive fifty shares of the Preferred Stock of the Einstein-Wolff Company. Notice has been filed with the federal authorities of the intention of the Museum to accept this bequest.

BEQUEST OF LUDWIG DREYFUSS: The Museum is to receive $10,000 from this estate. The Assistant Secretary has filed notice of the Museum's intention to accept this bequest.

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