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He was elected director of the Brooklyn Institute in 1889 and 
tmmediately entered upon an active campaign for the develop- 
ment of the institute which proved remarkably successful. 
Appropriations were secured for handsome buildings, a large 
endowment fund was raised, thousands of members were added 
to the roll, and an educational system by means of exhibits, 
publications, and lectures scarcely equalled elsewhere was pro- 
vided for all classes of people at little or no expense to them 
Professor Hooper literally exhausted his wonderful energies in 
serving the institution he had thus developed, which was dearer 
to him than 
Professor oe also served the public as trustee of the 
Brooklyn Art Association, trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library, 
trustee of Antioch College, Ohio, director of the New England 
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Education. He was a fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, an officer in the American Bison 
Society, a member of the American Forestry Association, a 
member of the Committee on Lectures on History of Religion, 
a member of the National Geographic Society, a member of the 
Oriental Society, and a member of the Hamilton, University, 
Montauk, Unity, and Harvard Clubs. 
LATE SUMMER LECTURES, 1914 
Lectures will be delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Museum 
Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, at 
four o’clock, as follows 
Aug. I. a and Land-forming Sea-weeds,” by 
Dr. M. A.H 
Aug. 8. “ el Plants Found in the Vicinity of New York 
City,” by Dr. Wm. Mansfield. 
Aug.15. ‘‘Evergreen Trees and Shrubs,” by Mr. G. V. Nash. 
Aug. 22. ‘‘Woody Fungi and Their Injurious Effects on 
Trees,’ by Dr. W. A. Murrill. 
Aug. 29. “phe Trees of the Rocky Mountains,” by Dr. P. A. 
Rydberg. 
