Research Work of Museum 29 



In the year 1919 the Museum was an auxiliary nature sup- 

 ply center, in books and in lecture, photographic, nature- 

 study and research materials to the following: 



LIST OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL 



INSTITUTIONS UTILIZING THE RESOURCES OF 



THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



1919 



Public Schools 4*3 



Parochial Schools 18 



Industrial Schools 15 



Private Schools 23 



Colleges and Universities 109 



Medical Schools, Colleges and Hospitals 66 



Schools of Art and Design 4 



Libraries 15 



Miscellaneous Educational Institutions and Organizations.. 117 



780 



If our institution were not primarily educational, but 

 solely concerned in pure exploration, research and publica- 

 tion like the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 Scientific ton, or in medical and philanthropic work and 

 MuJeum research like the Rockefeller Foundation, it 

 might well point with satisfaction to the great 

 results which are being accomplished with the Jesup En- 

 dowment Fund ; it might continue to expand in the direction 

 of pure research and exploration, leaving the purposes of 

 our Charter of 1869 along the lines of public education 

 unfulfilled. In our opinion such a one-sided development 

 would be a step backward: it would be a betrayal of the pur- 

 poses which Mr. Jesup had in mind, and which he manifested 

 throughout his entire career as President, as well as those of 

 Mrs. Russell Sage. 



Pure scientific research of the highest order, conducted 

 by experts who were leaders in their respective fields, was 

 Mr. Jesup's constant aim and should be our constant en- 

 deavor in administering his trust. He brought to the 

 Museum leaders in Mammalogy, in Anthropology, in In- 

 vertebrate and Vertebrate Palaeontology, and through them 

 junior leaders have been trained in the Museum, in field 

 exploration, and in the pure science courses of Columbia 



