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Curator and Dr. E. W. Gudger was appointed Bibliographer and Associate. With the approval of the 

 administration the Department of Ichthyology decided to continue the Bashford Dean Bibliography of Fishes 

 and to bring out supplementary sections from time to time. Dr. Dean left his invaluable library of ichthyology 

 on deposit in the department and in his will he bequeathed it to the Museum, together with a fund for its 

 maintenance. In 1925, with the approval of the President and Trustees, Dr. Dean's former office in the De- 

 partment of Ichthyology was formally designated "The Bashford Dean Research Room in Ichthyology" 

 and his library was installed there, as well as the card catalogue of the Bibliography of Fishes. The 

 room is also used for research work in ichthyology by visiting scientists, while various memorabilia of 

 Bashford Dean are also preserved there. 



During the years 1925 to 1928 the exhibits of recent fishes, which had been prepared under the curator- 

 ship of Dr. Dean, were made the nucleus of a new and greatly expanded exhibit which was installed in the 

 new hall, the basic plans for which Dr. Dean had prepared. On the evening of December 5, 1928, on the 

 occasion of the opening of this hall, the 1 rustees tendered a reception to Dr. and Mrs. Dean. Unfortunately 

 they could not be present in person on account of his illness, the seriousness of which was not yet realized, 

 but they were represented by his sister, Miss Harriet M. Dean, and by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McMillan 

 Welch. Here in this exhibit the Museum visitor may learn of the science of ichthyology in general and of 

 many of its special problems in embryology, etc., to the solution of which Dean made signal contributions. 



During the first half of the year 1929 the Department of Ichthyology devoted itself to the further 

 development of the exhibit of fossil fishes, which had been installed under the direction of Drs. Dean and 

 Hussakof. Special efforts were made to make this exhibit still more useful to graduate classes and to introduce 

 new featuresof interest to the public. On June 10, 1929. this exhibit, now named "The Bashford Dean Memorial 

 Exhibit of Fossil Fishes," was eloquently opened by President Henry Fairfield Osborn in the presence of Mrs. 

 Dean, Miss Harriet Dean, other members of the family, and many friends. Mr. Nichols spoke of Dr. Dean's 

 great work in bringing together and preparing for exhibition the collection of fossil fishes, and of Dr. Gregory's 

 studies which are carrying forward this line of Dr. Dean's work. Dr. Gudger next presented the Bibliography 

 of Fishes as one of Dr. Dean's great monuments, and told how the continuation card catalogue is keeping 

 this going. 



Miss Francesca La Monte, Assistant Curator of Fishes, then unveiled two bronze memorial bas- 

 relief tablets. One of these is of Professor J. S. Newberry, Doctor Dean's preceptor in palaeichthyology, whose 

 collection forms part of the exhibit. The other, of Dr. Dean, by John W. Hope, is shown in the accompany- 

 ing plate. 



At the Metrofolit.'^n Museum of Art 



The President and Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929 unanimously determined to 

 make one of the galleries of its armor collection a memorial to Bashford Dean and to exhibit therein the most 

 important part of his notable collection of armor. For this hall, the eminent sculptor, Daniel Chester French, 

 designed and presented a bronze tablet commemorating Dr. Dean's services to the Museum. 



The opening of the Bashford Dean Memorial Gallery took place on April 14, 1930, with a private view 

 for the members of the family of Dr. Dean and their friends, and for the Trustees and Members of the Mu- 

 seum. Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, representing the Trustees made a brief but eloquent address: 



I count it a privilege to speak here today in honor of the man to whose memory this hall is 

 dedicated — Bashford Dean. We were good friends and I came to know in him a sterling character. 

 That character had as its cornerstone one virtue which it is especially appropriate for us to re- 

 member amid the arms and armor he collected, and that was his insistence upon the truth, upon 

 exact knowledge, only reached after the most painstaking research. This same arduous research 

 and exhaustive study and devotion to his subject were the result of his early scientific training in 

 the field of biology in which, subsequently, he became an authority. As a master craftsman and 



