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institution; it should enjoy a maintenance fund from the City 

 which would provide merely for its up-keep and administra- 

 tion, but not for its collections. The parent Museum could 

 contribute, without sacrifice, many admirable educational 

 exhibits from its duplicate series. Such a Branch, which 

 might well be established in cooperation with our sister 

 institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, would be a great 

 force in the Americanization of the newcomers of all lands 

 who are crowding to the east side of our City. 



I. ADMINISTRATION AND BUILDING 



Scientific Staff. — Several changes have been made in 

 the personnel of the scientific staff. Owing to advancing 

 years and failing health. Professor R. P. Whitfield has been 

 obliged to give up active work as Curator of Geology and 

 Invertebrate Palaeontology and has been retired as Curator 

 Emeritus. Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, Associate Curator of the 

 department since 1901, has been promoted to the curatorship. 



In the Department of Anthropology, Professor Marshall 

 H. Saville has resigned his position as Honorary Curator of 

 Mexican Archaeology and the staff has been strengthened by 

 the appointment of Dr. Pliny E. Goddard, formerly of the 

 University of California, as an Associate Curator, and of Dr. 

 Herbert J. Spinden, of Harvard University, as an Assistant 

 Curator. Mr. Harlan I. Smith, who has held an assistant 

 curatorship in the department for the past nine years, has 

 been made an Associate Curator. 



A Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology has been 

 established during the year, with Dr. Bashford Dean as its 

 head. The appointment of Dr. Dean is a nominal change, as 

 he has been a member of the scientific staff since 1903. 



Mr. Barnum Brown has been made Assistant Curator of 

 Fossil Reptiles and Mr. Walter Granger Assistant Curator of 

 Fossil Mammals. 



Recently the Trustees have created a Department of Public 

 Health, and through a cooperative arrangement with President 

 Finley of the College of the City of New York, the services 

 of Professor Charles-Edward Amory Winslow have been 



