RESOLUTIONS TO PROFESSOR BICKMORE ON 

 THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH 



BIRTHDAY 



AT the forty-fifth annual meeting of 

 the Board of Trustees of the 

 American Museum of Natural 

 History on February 2, 1914, the Trus- 

 tees requested the President and Sec- 

 retary to transmit to their colleague, 

 Professor Albert S. Bickmore, the fol- 

 lowing greeting on his seventy-fifth 

 birthday: 



The Trustees of the American Museum 

 of Natural History extend to their colleague, 

 Professor Albert S. Bickmore, their most 

 cordial greetings and heartiest congratula- 

 tions on his seventy-fifth birthday. 



There is a deeper significance in this action 

 of the Trustees than the conveyance of formal 

 greetings would imply, for they are mindful 

 of the debt of gratitude they in common with 

 all other citizens of New York owe to Pro- 

 fessor Bickmore for his services in initiating 

 the great plan of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. His enthusiasm and per- 

 sistent optimism were the principal factors 

 in arousing the interest of that splendid group 

 of men who actually created the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



To Professor Bickmore also belongs the 

 credit of conceiving the ideal plan of the rela- 

 tions between the Museum and the munici- 

 pality, which was adopted in the beginning 

 and has worked so admirably that no material 

 change has been necessary. 



His fostering care in the early da3rs of the 

 Museum and his influence in shaping its 

 policy, combined with his clear perception of 

 the scope of a Museum of Natural History, 

 were of inestimable value in developing an 

 institution of international reputation. His 

 devotion to the Museum has been mani- 

 fested in many ways and by countless ser- 

 vices from 1869 to the present time. His 

 enduring monument will be the creation of 

 the Department of Public Education in 

 1880. 



The Trustees recall with pleasure their long 

 personal association with Professor Bickmore 



and desire to express their great esteem and 

 high regard for him. 



(Signed) Cleveland H. Dodge 



Acting President 

 (Signed) Adrian Iselin, Jr. 



Secretary 



At a meeting held on February 10, 

 1914, the Faculty of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History unanimously 

 adopted the following message of con- 

 gratulation to Professor Albert S. Bick- 

 more upon the attainment of his seventy- 

 fifth birthday: 



Your associates on the scientific staff of the 

 American Museum of Natural History extend 

 to you their heartiest congratulations on the 

 completion of seventy-five years of a life, the 

 major portion of which has been devoted to 

 active and valued service to your fellow men. 



Born of sturdy New England stock, edu- 

 cated in part under the immortal Louis 

 Agassiz, fortunate in possessing fai'-sighted 

 prescience and boimdless enthusiasm, you 

 conceived the idea of a great general museum 

 of natural history to be located in the metrop- 

 olis of the western world, impressed it upon 

 the influential and public-spirited men of 

 New York City, secured its satisfactory 

 incorporation, and you have lived to see the 

 fruition of your plans beyond your fondest 

 original hopes. The child of your dreams has 

 become a mighty adult in your later years, and 

 the American Museum of Natural History 

 has grown into an institution which confers 

 honor upon the scientists who have the privi- 

 lege of being connected with it. 



We, your colleagues, wish you peace and 

 prosperity and the enjoyment of many addi- 

 tional years in our midst. 



(Signed) Frederic A. Lucas 



Director 

 (Signed) Edmund Otis Hovey 



Secretary 



