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Nothing further developed at subsequent hearings and the budget as 

 finally adopted was identical with the tentative budget, so far as our ap- 

 propriation was concerned. 1 



Museum Staff and Employees 



Alexander Forsyth, janitor, resigned his position in July, 1917, and 

 Samuel Craig was appointed in his place. Craig resigned in October and 

 Michael Ward was appointed in his place. Francis Forsyth, museum guard, 

 resigned his position in December and Daniel Cary was appointed in his 

 place. All of these employees resigned in order to accept better paying 

 positions in connection with war industries. Cary resigned in April, 1918, 

 in order to enlist in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, thus earning a service 

 star for the Museum, and Edward J. Burns was appointed in his place. 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves continued his services as curator up to the end- 

 of the year 1917 although the fund raised by subscription for the payment 

 of his salary was exhausted by the end of September, and for the follow- 

 ing three months he gave his services gratuitously. 



The November and December schedules of lectures for school children 

 were arranged by him and every detail necessary for their success received 

 his personal attention and care. He also arranged an interesting exhibit 

 of various kinds of birdhouses and examples of food supplies for the 

 winter feeding of birds, and performed considerable expert curatorial 

 work for the Museum. 



It may be recalled that in December, 1916, the director, as secretary of 

 the Association, asked the Association for authority to issue an appeal 

 for subscriptions to a fund for the payment of Mr. Cleaves' salary, at 

 least for a portion of the year 1917, the city having declined to make any 

 appropriation for the purpose. The authority was given, the appeal issued, 

 and $989 raised in sums ranging from $2 to $100. The list of subscribers 

 to this fund is as follows : Mrs. John F. Archbold, Samuel P. Avery, 

 William L. Bailey, Mrs. Charles P. Benedict, Samuel R. Brick, Edward 

 C. Bridgman, Nathaniel L. Britton, Edward W. Brown, Elmer Butler, 

 Daniel Campbell, James W. Clawson, Maunsell S. Crosby, Miss Bessie E. 

 Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, William T. Davis, Dr. Louis A. Dreyfus, 

 Mrs. Louis A. Dreyfus, Mrs. Helen Finch, Miss Ruth B. Fisher, Henry J. 

 Fuller, OHver P. Geoffroy, Abel J. Grout, Daniel S. Hage, John D. Hage, 

 Mrs. Henry W. Harden, Paul Heine, Anton W. Hoffmeyer, Mrs. Anton 

 W. Hoffmeyer, Dr. Arthur Hollick, Mrs. Anna M. King, Mrs. Wilhelm 

 Knauth, Mrs. Ethel L. Kraft. Russell H. Loines, William H. Mitchill, 

 Capt. Francis D. Murphy, Mrs. Andrew J. Newbury, Miss Helen M. 

 Oakley, Miss Agnes L. Pollard, Mrs. Susan L Porter,' Baldwin S. Prentiss, 

 John Rader, Anton L. Schwab, William I. Seaman, C. Sidney Shepard, 

 Alanson Skinner, Mrs. Edmund A. Stirn, Mrs. Louis A. Stirn, George 

 W. Tuttle, Frank J. E. Weatherdon, William Y. Wemple, William P. 



1 See City Record, Nov. 13, 1917, p. 7535. 



