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His love of the beautiful led Mr. Morgan to take special interest in the 

 collections of minerals and gems. It is probable that he himself kept no 

 record of the whole number of his gifts, for he gave out of love for the institu- 

 tion and the pleasure of giving. It is interesting therefore, to enumerate for 

 the first time some of his chief donations which have been brought together 

 in the long record of forty-four years since the Museum was founded: 



Collection of gems and precious stones 



Bement collection of minerals 



Bement collection of meteorites 



The John Collins Warren collection, including the Warren 



Mastodon 

 Charles R. Knight's restorations of fossil vertebrates 

 Lenders collection of Indian costumes 

 Contribution to the third African expedition 

 Garces archaeological collection from Lake Titicaca 

 Contributions to the endowment 

 Contributions to the capital and maintenance fund 

 Mummy of the Chilean miner 

 Great boulder of jade from New Zealand 



It was through Mr. Morgan that the Museum came into possession 

 of the unique series of restorations of extinct animals executed by Charles 

 R. Knight, reproductions of which have found their way into most of the 

 natural history museums of the Old World. 



The Garces collection received from him comes from prehistoric sites on the 

 islands of Lake Titicaca, Peru, and Copacabana, Bolivia, numbering about 

 five hundred objects in gold, silver, copper and bronze, of beautiful design. 



The Lenders Plains Indian collection numbers more than twelve hundred 

 pieces and contains many old and rare examples of Indian costumes, beads 

 and quill work, shields, ornamented pipes and weapons. 



One of his most unique gifts is that of the ancient pre-Columbian miner, 

 known as the Chilean mummy, wonderfully preserved through the tissues 

 being impregnated with copper salts. 



On the occasion of his last visit to the Museum Mr. Morgan was delighted 

 with the rearrangement of the mineral collection in the great south hall, 

 and his very last gift to the Museum, a few months before his death, was an 

 especially exquisite collection of precious and semiprecious stones. 



It seems appropriate to the committee of the trustees appointed to 

 memorialize the great services of Mr. Morgan to the Museum to place an 

 artistic memorial of the donor in the halls which will always be especially 

 associated with his name, and to perpetuate his memory still further by 

 naming these halls " the Morgan Halls." 



