i o Report of the President. 



Membership. — Messrs. A. D. Juilliard and H. O. Havemeyer 

 became "Patrons"; and Messrs. Samuel R. Betts, Frederick 

 Billings, Banyer Clarkson, Henry H. Cook, Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 Carl Eickemeyer, James B. M. Grosvenor, Bernard G. Gunther, 

 Wm. F. Havemeyer, Arthur Curtiss James, Joseph Loth, John 

 G. Moore, Francis Lynde Stetson, Miss Matilda W. Bruce, and 

 Mrs. Wm. M. Macy, Jr., were elected " Life Members." 



We have lost by death during the year Dr. Wm. Pepper, H. J. 

 Jewett, and John A. C. Gray, " Patrons " ; and Robert G. 

 Remsen, and George Garr, " Life Members." A list of the 

 deceased annual contributors is incorporated at the close of the 

 report. 



It became my sad duty to announce at the Annual Meeting of 

 the Trustees the death of our esteemed associate, Daniel Jackson 

 Steward. 



Mr. Steward was one of the incorporators of the Museum, and 

 for twenty-nine years had served the interests of the Institution 

 with enthusiasm and fidelity in all that tended to promote its 

 educational and scientific advancement. He lived to see its 

 remarkable growth and the wide extent of its influence. 



The large and important collection of shells made by him and 

 donated to the Museum, and which bears his name, is now on 

 exhibition in the upper hall of the main building. 



Accessions. — The numerous accessions received during the 

 year are recorded in detail in the later pages of the report. 



The Museum is indebted to the Duke of Loubat for donations 

 to the Department of Anthropology, and the Library. He has de- 

 frayed the expense of making casts from the great monoliths and 

 sculptures of Quirigia, Santa Lucia, and other places in Guatemala; 

 from Copan in Honduras ; and from many of the sculptures in 

 Mexico ; he has provided the means for the continuance of this 

 work to such an extent that the Museum will receive a full series 

 of the casts from the Peabody Museum moulds. He has also 

 presented many large photographs of various sculptures and 

 hieroglyphic slabs in Central America, and given copies of the 

 Codex Vaticanus and Codex Borgiano, which he has had 

 reproduced. 



By the gifts of the Duke of Loubat, through Museum expedi- 

 tions, and by the purchase of specimens the Museum now offers 



