VI Bashford Dean Memorial Voluyne 



unless a well-planned, well-supported and continued effort should be made to organize, 

 classify, record, study, interpret, reproduce and publish the results of these studies in 

 a series of papers based on these materials. 



Some measure of the deep and abiding impress of Dean's character and achievements 

 is afforded by the record of activities undertaken in his honor and memory by his col- 

 leagues and former students during the fourteen years since his decease. 



First, the Bashford Dean Memorial Committee was organized on January 18, 1929. 

 The first formal meeting of the committee was attended by President Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn, Director George H. Sherwood, Dr. William K. Gregory (Curator of the Depart' 

 ment of Fishes), Mr. John T. Nichols, Dr. E. W. Gudger, Dr. Bertram G. Smith, Miss 

 Francesca La Monte, and Mr. Alexander McMillan Welch representing Doctor Dean's 

 family. Dr. Gregory was elected permanent chairman and the following subcommittees 

 were appointed : 



Subcommittee on Memorial Exhibit: Doctor Gregory, Miss La Monte, Doctor 

 Sherwood. 



Subcommittee on Memorial Tablet: President Osborn, Mr. Nichols, Mr. Welch, 

 Miss La Monte. 



Subcommittee on Memorial Publications: Dr. Gudger (Editor), Drs. Gregory, Smith, 

 and Leroy Conel, and ex ojficio, Mr. Hawthorne Daniel (Curator of Publications). 



Subcommittee on Finances: Cleveland E. Dodge, Evelina B. Perkins, Alexander M. 

 Welch, Francesca La Monte (Treasurer). 



Next, the Bashford Dean Memorial Exhibit of Fossil Fishes in the American Museum 

 of Natural History was planned, installed and dedicated to his memory on June 10, 1929. 

 This exhibit sets forth many of the choicest fossil fishes which had been collected by 

 Dean himself and by his teacher and predecessor. Professor John Strong Newberry of 

 Columbia University, whose famous collection Dean had secured for the Museum. 

 Portrait plaques of both Dean and Newberry were installed on either side of the entrance 

 to the exhibit, together with their field notebooks and sketches. President Osborn, 

 Dean's colleague both at Columbia University and in the American Museum, welcomed 

 the guests and spoke on Dean's life work. Dr. Gudger reported on the plans for the 

 publication of a Memorial to Dr. Dean. 



About the same time the Bashford Dean Research Room in the Museum was set 

 apart for research in ichthyology and for the reception and care of his ichthyological 

 library, which he had left to the Museum together with a fund for its maintenance. 



In response to letters sent out by the Subcommittee on Finance, contributions came 

 in from Dr. Dean's colleagues, friends and former students in America and Europe. After 

 paying the sculptor, the companies which cast the plaques, and all accessory expenses, 

 a considerable sum of money was left. This, it was determined, should be applied to the 

 publication of a Bashford Dean Memorial. 



At first it was planned merely to issue an Atlas of Dean's collection of colored 

 drawings of embryological and kindred material with appropriate legends. But it was 



