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V\. Bacon, Edward L. Ballard, Lemuel C Benedict, S. N. Bond, Leon 

 DuRAND Bonnet, Hilary R. Chambers, George L. Cheney, Harris D. 

 Colt, Charles S. Cook, Jennings S. Cox, Morgan Davis, B. Delin, 

 Samuel R. Dorrance, William Harris Douglas, Edward F. Eberstadt, 

 Ezra H. Fitch, Richard E. Follett, Aaron V. Frost, G. H. Gentzel, 

 Henry G. Gray, Kalman Haas, F. B. Hoffman, Clement S. Houghton, 

 Wilson S. Howell, A. C. Huidekoper, Walter Kerr, Roland F. 

 Knoedler, Reginald B. Lanier, J. Lawrence McKeever, G. H. Mid- 

 DLEBROOK, Martin H. Murphy, Hltgo Newman, John E. Nicholson, 

 William H. Parsons, T. H. Hoge Patterson, John J. Paul, John C. 

 Powers, James ^IcAlpine Pyle, William Rauch, Wallace Reid, 

 Sylvan E. Rosenthal, Arthur Sachs, H. J. Schwartz, Edmund Sey- 

 mour, W. HiNCKLE Smith, Enrico N. Stein, Theron G. Strong, Louis S. 

 Stroock, Edward Graham Taylor, William R. K. Taylor, Stephen 

 Dows Thaw, William Lyman LTnderwood, Reginald C. Vanderbilt, 

 Tertils Van Dyke, Carl Vietor, W. G. W^alker, J. McLean Walton, 

 and R. Thornton Wilson. 



At the regular meeting of the board of trustees on May 6, 1912 the 

 following patrons of the Museum were elected associate benefactors in 

 recognition of their generous contributions and continued activity in the 

 growth of the institution: George S. Bowdoin, Cleveland H. Dodge, Archer 

 M. Huntington, Arthur Curtiss James, Charles Lanier, Joseph F. Loubat, 

 J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., Henry Fairfield Osborn, Percy R. Pyne, William 

 Rockefeller, Jacob H. Schiff and Felix M. Warburg. 



The ]Museum was visited on April 9 by a committee from the Deutsches 

 Museum of Munich, consisting of Director Oskar von Miller and ten of his 

 associates. The committee was received by the president and director 

 of the American Museum and by Mr. Felix M. Warbiu'g of the board of 

 trustees, the last-named always a great admirer of the work of administra- 

 tion and exhibition as carried out in the Deutsches ^Museum. It is inspirit- 

 ing to the Museum that it was this American institution and its published 

 plans for future extension that were said to have been the determining 

 factors in deciding the Munich committee to visit the United States; and 

 also to hear now that this committee maintains after visiting the large 

 cities from the Coast to the Middle West that "of the works of man, they 

 saw nothing ecjual to the .Vmeriean Museum in New York City" — all of 

 which augments the institution's zeal to be worthy such distinction. 



The forty-third annual rcj)ort of the president of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, issued in February as a i)reliminary report to the trustees 

 and members of the institution and to the numicipal authorities of the city 

 of New York, was published in permanent form during the past month. 

 The volume is jjartic-ularly instructi\-e as to the Museum's administration 

 and support as well as in regard to its work in exploration, research, exhibi- 

 tion and education. 



