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At the Annual Meeting of the Trustees of The American 

 Museum of Natural History, held on the ninth day of Febru- 

 ary. 1903, the President announced the death of their late 

 associate, Mr. Abram Stevens Hewitt, and feelingly referred 

 to the able and valuable service given by the deceased in the 

 upbuilding and development of the Museum, while a Trustee, 

 during a period of twenty-nine years. The following minute 

 offered by the President, was unanimously adopted, and the 

 Secretary was directed to present a copy to the family of the 

 deceased. 



The Trustees of The American Museum of Natural History, at this their 

 first meeting after the death of their beloved associate and member, Abram 

 Stevens Hewitt, affectionately place the following minute upon their 

 records : 



" Mr. Hewitt became a member of this Board in the year 1874, when the 

 Museum occupied the Arsenal Building in Central Park. He was identified 

 with the selection of the Building site on Manhattan Square. He witnessed 

 the laying of the corner-stone, and he has shared with us the responsibilities 

 incidental to the growth of the institution to its present proportions. For 

 more than a quarter of a century, and almost to the time of his death, January 

 eighteenth, our deliberations have felt his encouraging influence. He has 

 been a generous contributor, a loyal patron, a wise counselor and a sympa- 

 thetic colleague. But in our sense of his loss to the American Museum, we 

 do not forget his larger interests, defined by him as the ' welfare of his fellow- 

 citizens.' Of comprehensive knowledge and broad experience, his mind was 



