94 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Henry Fairfield Osborn; first vice-president, Cleveland H. Dodge; second vice-presi- 

 dent, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; treasurer, Charles Lanier; secretary, Adrian Iselin, Jr. 

 who succeeds Archer M. Huntington. 



Mr. Frederick F. Brewster was elected as a new member of the board of trustees 

 and the following members of the board were reelected: Mr. Albert S. Bickmore, Mr. 

 Adrian Iselin, 1 Jr., Mr. Thomas deWitt Cuyler, Mr. Ogden Mills and Mr. Madison 

 Grant. 



The executive staff of the Museum was reappointed as follows: director, Frederic 

 A. Lucas; assistant secretary, George H. Sherwood; assistant treasurer, the United 

 States Trust Company of New York. 



The American Museum has adopted a pension plan which will go into effect 

 on March first. It is a departure in this country, the first instance recorded of a 

 museum of sciences originating a pension system for the benefit of its employees. 

 The idea was suggested to President Osborn by an investigation of the pension 

 plans in operation in Europe. The committee which acted in the matter included 

 the following trustees: Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Mr. Adrian Iselin, Jr., and Mr. 

 Anson W. Hard. 



In brief the plan is a contributory system, three per cent of the annual salaries 

 being paid to the fund by the employees and a like amount by the corporation. The 

 plan provides: 



1. Pensions — Six classes of pensions according to length of service and age, 

 the pensions varying from twenty-five to fifty per cent of the average salary 

 of the last three years. 



2. Health Insurance — Gratuity to the employee in case he is totally disabled 



through illness, or his position is abolished. 



3. Life Insurance — Gratuity to a beneficiary, in the event of the death of 

 the employee, and under certain conditions in the event of the death of a 

 pensioner. 



4. For the return of the employee's contribution with simple interest at three 

 per cent in case the employee leaves the service of the Museum before he is 

 eligible for a pension. 



At the annual meeting of the board of trustees, Mr. A. D. Juilliard was made 

 associate benefactor of the American Museum in recognition of his generous contri- 

 butions and continued activity in matters that tend toward the growth of the insti- 

 tution. 



The Jesup lectures on "Heredity and Sex" by Dr. Thomas H. Morgan, professor 

 of experimental zoology in Columbia University, began in the auditorium of the 

 American Museum, February 5 and will continue to be given on Wednesday evenings 

 until March 26. The subjects of the series are as follows: 

 February 5 — " The Evolution of Sex " 

 February 12 — " The Mechanism of Sex Determination " 



February 19 — " The Mendelian Principles of Heredity and their Bearing on Sex " 

 February 26 — " Secondary Sexual Characters and their Relation to Darwin's Theory 



of Sexual Selection " 

 March 5 — " The Effects of Castration and of Grafting on the Secondary Sexual 



Characters" 

 March 12 — " Parthenogenesis and Sex" 

 March 19 — " Inbreeding and Fertility " 

 March 26 — " Special Cases of Sex Inheritance " 



