The American Museum Journal 



Vol. II. 



MARCH, 190: 



No. 3. 



I HE Annual Meeting of the Trustees of the Museum 

 was held on Monday evening, February 10. The 

 report of the Treasurer showed that there had 

 been disbursed for maintenance, $147,773.75, 

 which was $17,773.75 more than had been ap- 

 propriated for this institution by the City. The deficit, how- 

 ever, had been met by the contributions of the Trustees, which 

 enabled the Museum to begin the current year free of debt. The 

 subscriptions for the increase and improvement of the collections 

 and for publication amounted to $141,452.13, of which $37,500 

 was received from the Trustees and $11,500 was derived from 

 gifts made by numerous other contributors. The remainder of 

 the sum total was in the nature of funds subscribed for ex- 

 peditions in the field, for specific branches of the Museum's 

 work and for the purchase of special collections. 



The expeditions maintained during 1901 were the Jesup 

 North Pacific expedition; the Hyde expeditions in the south- 

 western States and in Mexico, supported by Messrs. B. T. Babbitt 

 Hyde and F. E. Hyde, jr. ; expeditions for archaeological re- 

 search in the Delaware Valley, supported by Dr. Frederick E. 

 Hyde ; the Mexican expedition under the patronage of the Duke 

 of Loubat; an expedition in the Far East for the collection of 

 material illustrating the life and customs of the Chinese ; an ex- 

 pedition throughout the western States in search of specimens 

 for the formation of series showing the evolution of the horse, 

 the cost of which was met by Mr. William C. Whitney; the 

 Andrew J. Stone expedition to the Northwest for the purpose of 

 obtaining specimens of the large game animals of the continent ; 

 expeditions from the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 

 to Wyoming, Colorado and other parts of the West for fossil 



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