THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



THE American Museum of Natural History was 

 founded * and incorporated in 1869 for the purpose 

 of establishing a Museum and Library of Natural 

 History; of encouraging and developing the study of Natu- 

 ral Science; of advancing the general knowledge of kin- 

 dred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular in- 

 struction. For eight years its home was in the Arsenal in 

 Central Park. The corner-stone of the present building in 

 Manhattan Square was laid in 1874 by President U. S. 

 Grant. 



The Museum is located at 77th Street and Central Park 

 West and can be reached by the Eighth or Ninth Avenue 

 surface cars, the Sixth or Ninth Avenue elevated to 81st 

 Street station, or by the subway to 72nd or 79th Street sta- 



* The following were the founders of the Museum: William 

 T. Blodgett, Joseph H. Choate, Robert Colgate, Charles A. Dana, 

 A. G. Phelps Dodge, Benjamin H. Field, William A. Haines, 

 Adrian Iselin, Morris K. Jesup, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry 

 Parish, Howard Potter, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin B. Sher- 

 man, D. Jackson Steward, Robert L. Stuart, John David Wolfe. 



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