Report of the Pj'esident 5 1 



Hudson Bay, British Columbia, Alaska, the Southwest and the 

 Philippines, and to the purchase of important collections and 

 specimens, including the Starr Collection of African Ethnol- 

 ogy, the Benedict Collection of Philippine Ethnology, the 

 Palawan Collection of Mammals and Birds, a collection of 

 mammals and birds from Nicaragua, a rare skeleton, with 

 skin, of the dinosaur Trachodon, the Modoc and Guffey mete- 

 orites, the Mexican Codex, and several objects from the Maori 

 of New Zealand. 



Trustees Special Funds Account. — Money given to the 

 Museum for specified purposes is carried in this account. 

 Often some patron, or group of patrons, will undertake the 

 support of a particular piece of work or will assist in acquir- 

 ing an important collection. Such contributions supplement 

 the General Account very materially. 



Usually the financial transaction relating to such a matter 

 will be found in the Special Funds Account. 



The following shows the total expenditures by the City 

 during the year 1909, as compared with the expenditures by 

 the Trustees from funds derived from all sources, together 

 with the increase of collections by direct gift the cost of which 

 does not pass through the Treasurer's books: 



Expenditures by the City $180,048.69 



Expenditures by the Trustees 208,031.51 



Trustees Permanent Endowment. — The Permanent 

 Endowment is the backbone of the steady development of the 

 Museum and it is for this reason that a larger endowment is 

 imperative. The only additions that have been made to this 

 fund during the year are the bequest of $10,000 of Mr. William 

 R. Sands, a Life Member of the Museum, and the two patron- 

 ships of $1,000 each of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. Thomas 

 DeWitt Cuyler. The fund will be further increased by the 

 bequest of $10,000 of Miss Phebe Anna Thorne, to which her 

 executors intend to add $15,000, and the bequest of $100,000 

 of Mr. D. O. Mills. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 

 May I, 1 9 10 President 



