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Delaware valley at the expense of Dr. Fred- 

 erick E. Hyde, and the field work among the 

 vanishing tribes of the North American In- 

 dians, supported mainly through the contri- 

 butions of Mrs. C. P. Huntington and Archer 

 M. Huntington. 



The Jesup North Pacific Expedition has 

 yielded a large quantity of material. 



The Eastern Asiatic Eesearch expedition, 

 maintained through the assistance of a friend 

 of the iluseum, has added to the collections 

 a series of valuable and interesting objects 

 illustrating the culture of China. 



The expedition under Andrew J. Stone, 

 who has been collecting specimens of the 

 large fur-bearing animals in the far north, 

 has enriched the Museum collections with 

 many specimens of caribou, bear, deer and 

 sheep, which will be utilized in the prepara- 

 tion of groups of the animals, represented with 

 their natural environment. 



A large quantity of material has been re- 

 ceived from Commander Robert E. Peary, 

 through the Peaiy Arctic Club. 



The library of the Museum has received 

 many gifts of desirable works, the most note- 

 worthy being a gift of 287 volumes on conchol- 

 ogy, for which the Trustees are indebted to 

 Frederick A. Constable. 



President Jesup referred to the loss to the 

 Board in the death of Abram S. Hewitt, 

 who had been a Triistee since 1874. 



The officers for the year are : 



President — ^Morris K. Jesuji (Twenty-third 

 term) . 



First Vice-President — J. Pierpont Morgan. 



Second Vice-President — Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn. 



Treasurer — Charles Lanier. 



Director — ^Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus. 



Secretary-Assistant Treasurer — John H. Winser. 



THE ROCKEFELLER lySTITUTE FOR MEDI- 

 CAL RESEARCH* 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search was founded in 1901, by Mr. John D. 

 Rockefeller, who gave for this purpose the 

 sum of two hundred thousand dollars. The 



* A statement sent us; by the secretary of the 

 institute. Dr. L. Kniniett Holt. 



aims of the institute are the promotion of 

 medical research, with especial reference to 

 the prevention and treatment of disease. 



It was thought wise by the directors of the 

 institute not, at first, to concentrate the work 

 in anj' one locality, but to enlist the interest 

 and cooperation of such investigators through- 

 out the country as might be engaged in 

 promising researches or who might enter upon 

 new fields if suitable isecuniary assistance 

 could be afforded them. It was the convic- 

 tion of the directors that in this way it would 

 be possible not only to stimulate and foster 

 valuable contributions to science, but also to 

 secure important practical suggestions as to 

 the lines along which the institute might most 

 wisely develop. 



Among the large number of applications for 

 assistance in carrying on original studies 

 which relate to the cause, prevention and cure 

 of disease, and to the problems upon which 

 new knowledge on these subjects must be 

 based, over twenty have been selected. The 

 directors have secured counsel in these selec- 

 tions from the heads of departments or others 

 in the universities of Harvard, Tale, Johns 

 Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia, New York, 

 Chicago, Michigan, McGill, Wesleyan, Cali- 

 fornia and Western Reserve; and in many of 

 these institutions work has been prosecuted. 

 Two of the Rockefeller fellows have been 

 working in Europe. Some of the workers 

 under these Rockefeller Institute grants, 

 which vary in amount from two hundred to 

 fifteen hundred dollars, have completed and 

 published their investigations; some are still 

 engaged upon them. 



It is the purpose of the directors, from time 

 to time, to bring together in the form of vol- 

 umes of collected reprints, the results of these 

 researches which may be published in various 

 technical journals. An arrangement has been 

 effected by which the institute will assume the 

 publication of the Journal of Experimental 

 Medicine which will remain under the edi- 

 torial supervision of Dr. William H. Welch, 

 professor of pathology in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, and president of the board of di- 

 rectors of the institute. 



At the end of the first year of practical 



