io Report of the President. 



Board of Trustees. — Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn 

 was made a member of the Board of Trustees and elected 

 Second Vice-President at the annual meeting held in Feb- 

 ruary, 1 90 1. 



Membership. — During the past year the Museum gained 

 155 new annual subscribers; the loss by death and resigna- 

 tion was 46, leaving a net gain of 109 in this grade of mem- 

 bership. Mrs. C. P. Huntington, Mrs. Frederick F. Thomp- 

 son, Miss Susan Dwight Bliss and Messrs. John L. Cadwalader, 

 George S. Bowdoin, Archer M. Huntington, George Foster 

 Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, John 

 D. Rockefeller, Jr., Jacob H. Schiff, John Taylor Terry, Jf. , 

 and Rev. Roderick Terry, D.D., were elected "Patrons." 



Mr. William Lanman Bull and General Egbert L. Viele, 

 U. S. A., were elected "Fellows," and the following-named 

 persons were elected "Life Members": Mrs. Joseph M. 

 White, Miss Georgette T. A. Collier and Messrs. George 

 Foster Peabody, Alfred R. Whitney, John B. McDonald, Silas 

 D. Webb, Jacob Rubino, Thomas C. Bushnell, David L. 

 Bruce-Brown, W. R. Peters, George Blumenthal, L. G. Wood- 

 house, W. H. Perkins, Louis Haupt, M.D., and V. H. Jack- 

 son, M.D., D.D.S. 



It is with much regret that I record the decease of George 

 T. Bliss, Francis O. Matthiessen and Andrew Ellicott Douglass, 

 of the list of Patrons, and J. H. Dunham, Horace Gray, 

 Samuel B. Schieffelin and Loomis L. White, Life Members. 



Thirty-five annual contributors, whose names are recorded 

 at the close of the list of Annual Members, have died during 

 the year. 



Transportation. — I acknowledge with many thanks the 

 valuable assistance received from several railroad companies 

 in granting transportation to the persons engaged in the various 

 expeditions sent into the field by the Museum. For these 

 courtesies we are indebted to the following corporations : 

 The Wabash and Missouri Pacific systems, Southern Pacific 

 Company and connecting steamship lines, the Atchison, 



