TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT ise 
persons. Biographies, books of music, daguerreotypes, paintings, 
engravings, pianos, china busts, medals, autographs, and other 
relics were forwarded for the exhibition from Massachusetts, 
California, and other states. On October 6, the one hundredth 
anniversary of her birth, exercises were held in the building and 
presided over by Dr. Johannes Hoving, Chairman of the Com- 
‘mittee. Cablegrams to and from King Gustaf of Sweden were 
read, addresses were made by Mr. W. A. F. Ekengren, Swedish 
Minister to the United States, Mr. Madison Grant as Chairman 
of the Executive Committee of the Zoological Society, and Di- 
rector Townsend of the Aquarium; and excellent singing was 
rendered by the Swedish Singing Society Svea. 
A marble bust of Jenny Lind, slightly larger than life size, 
which it had been rumored would be presented to the Aquarium 
by the city on the day of the exercises, did not arrive, but was 
presented by the Centennial Celebration Committee in January. 
The only inscription it bears are the characters on the back, 
“W.v. Hoyer, Roma, F. 1848,” and it has been an exceedingly 
difficult matter to gain any knowledge of the sculptor or as to 
where and under what circumstances the bust was made. 
Jenny Lind, we are told, was never in Rome, and one account 
says that von Hoyer merely sent the bust to Rome to be done in 
marble. She brought the bust to America, but never carried it 
back to Europe, having given it to the lady with whom she lived 
on Staten Island. It was eventually sold and found its way to an 
art shop in New York, where the attention of the Committee was 
called to it. 
About the sculptor practically nothing is known. Walton’s 
Gallery of Sculpture contains an engraving of his statue of 
Psyche, which was the property of Queen Victoria, and a brief 
biographical notice in German states that he was a theological 
student at Rome and made numerous statues of idealistic sub- 
jects. He died in Dresden in 1873. 
An examination of over sixty books on sculpture and Ger- 
man biography, revealed but two that mention von Hoyer, one 
stating that his name was Wilhelm, the other that it was Wolf. 
Even the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, a work of German 
biography in sixty volumes, contains no reference to this sculptor, 
and it is significantly sad that a man who could do work that was 
prized by Queen Victoria should be so little known to fame. 
