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SCIENCE 



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search and exhibition has already been collected 

 than we can properly display. Some of the most 

 striking habitat groups that should be at once in- 

 stalled must wait until more funds are provided 

 and in some cases until the time has come when 

 we can add to the building. 



It has been suggested that the academy should 

 extend its activities by assuming the management 

 of an aquarium. I think I speak for every mem- 

 ber when I say that the academy is ready to do 

 this. But even though there are those of our 

 citizens who may be willing to erect and equip the 

 necessary buildings the academy is not so circum- 

 stanced that it can provide the funds for mainte- 

 nance and operation. But its staff and its or- 

 ganization including the services of its director 

 of the museum, Dr. Evermann, an expert in mat- 

 ters relating to fishes and the fisheries, are ready 

 to help and will help. San Francisco should have 

 an aquarium filled with the life of the Pacific 

 Ocean and Of the streams discharging into the 

 ocean, second to no other aquarium in the world. 



The academy has asked you to be present to-day 

 at this dedication of the first unit of its museum 

 building in order that you may become better ac- 

 quainted with the academy's aims and purposes 

 and as a reminder to the public that the academy 

 is here to benefit and serve the whole community. 



It is appropriate that at this time attention be 

 called to the generous aid which the academy has 

 received in the past and to that which it is now 

 receiving in its plans for an enlarged field of use- 

 fulness. 



It should be remembered that the academy is in 

 Golden Gate Park with the consent of the people 

 of San Francisco, who have seen fit to increase 

 the academy's opportunity for service by permit- 

 ting the erection here of the necessary museum 

 buildings. This consent was given in 1910 and 

 ever since that time the plans have been under 

 consideration and in execution which are to-day 

 beginning to see fulfillment. 



By bequest of James Lick forty-one years ago, 

 the academy became the owner of the Market 

 Street property between Fourth and Fifth 

 Streets on which for many years a museum of 

 natural history was maintained. This property 

 now in use for business purposes is the academy 's 

 present main source of income. The Lick be- 

 quest is now carried on the books as an asset of 

 $802,000. 



In 1881 the academy received from Mr. Chas. 

 Crocker an endowment of $20,000, the income 

 from which is to be used in aid of scientific re- 

 search. 



Mr. John W. Hendrie in 1899 bequeathed to the 

 academy the sum of $10,000, the income from 

 which has been set apart for the publication 

 of scientific papers. 



The late Wm. Alvord bequeathed to the academy 

 the sum of $5,000, to be used in improving and 

 adding to its herbarium. 



During the last decade, while husbanding its re- 

 sources, and collecting the material which is now 

 assembled in the building being dedicated to-day, 

 the academy affairs have necessarily received but 

 little publicity and there has been but little op- 

 portunity for the public to become acquainted 

 with its activities; nevertheless, the academy has 

 been selected by many who have collected mate- 

 rial of scientific value as the proper institution to 

 preserve the same and make it available for the 

 public. Attention will be called to only a few re- 

 cent donations the announcement of which is ap- 

 propriate on this occasion. 



Our generous public-spirited fellow citizen, Wm. 

 M. Fitzhugh, has, by purchase and additions 

 thereto, preserved in its entirety the collection of 

 Indian baskets, ornaments, implements and re- 

 lated material made in their lifetime by the late 

 Professor and Mrs. T. S. C. Lowe, of Pasadena. 

 This collection of exceptional interest and magni- 

 tude, which would otherwise have been scattered 

 and would have lost value by piecemeal sale, is on 

 display in the academy museum as a loan and mer- 

 its your careful attention. 



The most important gift which the academy has 

 recently received is that of the Henry Hemphill 

 collection of marine, freshwater and land shells. 

 This magnificent collection, the making of which 

 engaged the attention of Mr. Hemphill during 

 practically all the years of his long and useful 

 life, and which contains between 60,000 and 70,000 

 specimens representing more than 12,000 species, 

 has been donated to the academy by Mrs. Char- 

 lotte Hosmer, daughter of Mr. Hemphill. The 

 academy feels grateful to Mrs. Hosmer for this 

 most generous gift. 



The installation of the bird-habitat groups which 

 are to-day being opened to your inspection and 

 which will contribute much to the education and 

 enjoyment of the public has been made possible by 

 the liberality of three other San Franciscans as 

 follows : 



Mr. Wm. H. Crocker has presented to the acad- 

 emy the Farallon Islands bird group. 



Mr. J. D. Grant has presented to the academy 

 the Sau Joaquin Valley bird group. 



