Report of the President 1 7 



Subject Chairman 



Habitat Bird Groups, John L. Cadwalader 



African Exploration, John B. Trevor 

 Ethnology of the Southwest, Archer M. Huntington 



Antarctic Exploration, Archer M. Huntington 



Woods and Forestry, Gifford Pinchot 



Fishes and Marine Life, Cleveland H. Dodge 



Minerals and Mines, James Douglas 



Indians of the Plains, Archibald Rogers 



The Committees are composed partly of Trustees, partly 

 of other friends and patrons of the Museum, and partly of dis- 

 tinguished men of science attached to other institutions. It 

 will be observed that each Committee is devoting itself, in 

 consultation with the Director, to one or more of the exhibi- 

 tion halls of the future, so that the chairman"and other mem- 

 bers may have the pleasure and satisfaction of seeing some 

 definite results of their labors. 



MUSEUM EXTENSION 



The Museum has already entered upon a method of Museum 

 Extension on a scale which reaches almost the entire school 

 system of the City through the circulation of small traveling 

 museums. Within its walls there has been established a Chil- 

 dren s Room^ which promises to become a more important fea- 

 ture as time goes on and which deserves a special endowment 

 fund of $25,000. We have also made a beginning in reaching 

 the blind through our Museutn for the Blind, the first of its 

 kind to our knowledge.* 



The Trustees should now consider the advisability of 

 establishing Branch Miiseums in Manhattan and the Bro?ix, 

 which would hold the same relation to the parent Museum as 

 the Branch Libraries do to the New York Public Library. For 

 example, a Branch Museum might be placed on the east side 

 of the City, in the center of a population eager for educa- 

 tion and keenly appreciative both of the Branch Library and 

 of the free Lecture System. Such an institution should be 

 the gift of some special benefactor and philanthropist; it 

 should be amply endowed so as not to be a tax on the parent 



* This Museum has received a munificent endowment since December 31, 1909. 



