The American Museum Journal 
MEMORIALS OF MEN OF SCIENCE. 
ATURDAY afternoon, December 29, the impressive 
unveiling ceremonies of the busts which have been 
installed in the foyer representing ten of the men who 
have been foremost in the advancement of science in 
America were held in the large auditorium. After 
singing the national anthem “ America,’ Doctor Her- 
mon C. Bumpus, Director of the Museum, acting for Mr. Morris K.. 
Jesup, President, presented the busts to the ‘Trustees. After the gift 
had been accepted by the Hon. Joseph H. Choate on behalf of the 
board, memorial addresses were delivered in accordance with the fol- 
lowing programme: 
Benjamin Franklin by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia; Alexan- 
der von Humboldt, by His Excellency Baron Speck von Sternburg, Ger- 
man Ambassador, (Read by Major T. von Kérner, Military Attaché of 
the Embassy); John James Audubon, by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief, 
U. S. Biological Survey, Washington, D. C.; John Torrey, by Dr. 
Nathaniel L. Britton, Director, New York Botanical Garden, New 
York City; Joseph Henry, by Dr. Robert 5. Woodward, President,. 
Carmegie Institution, Washington, D. C.; Louis Agassiz, a letter was. 
read from the Rey. Edward Everett Hale, an intimate personal friend 
of Professor Agassiz; James Dwight Dana, by Dr. Arthur Twining 
Hadley, President, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Spencer 
Fullerton Baird, by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau 
of Fisheries, Washington, D. C.; Joseph Leidy, by Dr. William Keith 
Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Edward Drinker 
Cope, by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Curator, Department of Verte-— 
brate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. 
The occasion was a notable event in the annals of the Museum and 
of American science in general. The auditorium was crowded to its. 
full capacity with members of the Museum and visiting scientists, and 
hundreds were turned away from the hall for lack of space for their 
accommodation. "The addresses were alive with interest and some of 
them were historic in value for their appreciation of great men of the 
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