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when I recall their work with me on the journey to the Pole, I speak with definite knowledge 

 when I say to the Aluseiun and its friends that it has placed the execution of the work in 

 good hands and that the work will be done and well done. 



In the following brief memorial sketches the American Museum ex- 

 presses its sorrow through the words of its president, Henry Fairfield Osborn 

 and its curator of geology, Edmund Otis Hovey; and Yale University 

 through those of its Silliman professor of geology, Herbert E. Gregory. 



THE MEMORY OF GEORGE BORUP AN INSPIRING CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF 

 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 



The staff of the Museum has never sustained so sudden and so sorrowful 

 a blow as that which came with the death of young George Borup. Only 

 three weeks before at the great meeting held in the Museum lecture hall, a 

 distinguished company had assembled to celebrate the achievement of the 

 two Poles and to bid Godspeed to the new expedition to the North. All 

 was propitious, yet at the time it was certainly in the minds and hearts of 

 all that some dread disaster of the North might prevent the return of one 

 or both of these young explorers. Such is often the price which man must 

 pay for the new knowledge that is given to the world and which both 

 these young men were ready to pay. But no one dreamt of disaster near 

 at home. 



Now all the plans for geographic work and for this expedition, which 

 are the result of months of preparation, must again be considered under 

 these suddenly changed conditions. 



The only consolation which can be extended to those of his friends 

 who are suffering most is that it is given to few men to achieve so much, 

 to give so rich a promise, and to be loved and mourned by so many as young 

 George Borup. We shall always cherish his memory and life in the 

 Museum as one of the brief but inspiring chapters of our history. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 



President of the Anvirlcan Museum oj Ntilural History 



GEORGE BORUP — A BRIEF BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCH 



George Borup, assistant curator in the department of geology and 

 invertebrate palaeontology, met death late in the afternoon of April 28, 

 1912, near Crescent Beach, Connecticut, from accidental drowning through 

 the capsizing of a canoe. He was with his friend, Sanuiel W. Case of 

 Norwich, Connecticut, who also was lost. 



