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addition, and when a similar extension has been made to the 

 west wing, the south front of the Museum will be completed.* 



The preparation of the charter draft for the greater city 

 afforded the means of revising and condensing a number of 

 statutes affecting the Museum, enacted from time to time since 

 its incorporation. In the completed draft these laws have been 

 brought under their appropriate titles, and state explicitly the 

 relations of the Museum with the city. 



Exchanges of Duplicate Material. — The Ethnological 

 Museum at Copenhagen, Denmark ; the National Museum of 

 Rio Janeiro, Brazil ; the National Museum at Buenos Ayres, and 

 the National Museum at Washington, D. C, have established 

 relations with us for interchange of duplicate material. These 

 connections will be of advantage chiefly for the exchange of 

 ethnological material. 



Membership. — General Louis Palma di Cesnola was elected a 

 Patron early in the year, and the following persons were also 

 elected Life Members : Mrs. William H. Bradford, Miss Laura P. 

 Halsted, Miss Margaret Jacobi, Miss Laura Jacobi, Messrs. 

 Albert Delafield, Frederick E. Hyde, Jacob Meyer, George C. 

 Rand and Albert Smith. 



Permanent Endowment Fund. — A bequest of one hundred 

 dollars was paid by the executors of the late James Cruikshank, 

 and Mrs. William H. Bradford gave one thousand dollars in 

 memory of her son George Dexter Bradford, deceased ; Miss 

 Margaret Jacobi, Miss Laura Jacobi, Miss Laura P. Halsted, and 

 Messrs. George C. Rand and Jacob Meyer each contributed one 

 hundred dollars. These sums were invested in securities for the 

 Permanent Endowment Fund. 



The thanks of the Trustees are due to the Presidents of the 

 Erie Railroad Company, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company 

 and branches, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 



* The terms of Chapter 235, Laws of 1895, and of Chapter 175 of the Laws of 1896, appear 

 on pages 32, 33. 



