MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP. 
ORRIS KETCHUM JESUP, one of the incorporators of the 
American Museum of Natural History, a trustee since its 
organization, and president since February, 1881, died at his 
home on Madison Avenue, New York City, Wednesday, January 22, 
1908, in his seventy-eighth year. A most liberal and intelligent patron 
of science and of education in its broadest sense, the great loss to the 
city and nation due to his demise falls most heavily upon the Museum to 
which for nearly forty years he had devoted in the most direct and per- 
sonal manner the wonderful ability that made him successful along 
many and varied lines of activity and brought him well-merited honors 
at home and abroad. An account of Mr. Jesup’s life and of his long 
and efficient services to the Museum will appear in the form of a special 
memorial publication. 
