36 Report of the President 



The Board of Estimate and Apportionment has shown its 

 faith in the public educational work that the Museum is 

 doing by increasing the annual appropriation this year by 

 $95,140.00, practically an advance of 50% of the appropria- 

 tion for 1919. 



We need at the present moment $2,000 000 of additional, 

 general endoivment to meet the current costs of operation, 

 that is, to continue our public educational work in the exhibi- 

 tion halls, lecture halls, and exchange collections delivered to 

 the libraries and schools. 



MEMBERSHIP AND STAFF 



We regret to record that during the year two of our 

 colleagues have been removed by death, namely, Mr. Augustus 

 D. Juilliard, who died on April 25, 1919, after a 

 service of twenty-one years, and Mr. Henry 

 Clay Frick, who died on December 2, 1919, and who had been 

 a member of the Board since February 2, 1914. The Trustees 

 at a meeting of the Board, held on November 10, 1919, adopted 

 the following minute and ordered it suitably engrossed : 



The Board of Trustees of The American Museum 

 of Natural History desire to record their warm appre- 

 ciation of the many years of service of 



Augustus D. Juilliard 



which began with his election to the Board on May 9, 

 1898, and continued to the time of his death on April 

 25, 1919. 



His clear and sound judgment was manifested in 

 his work upon the Finance Committee (1903-1905), the 

 Auditing Committee (1908), and his ten years of serv- 

 ice on the Executive Committee (1909-1919). He gave 

 evidence of his wide interest in the Museum by gener- 

 ous annual contributions to its maintenance and to ex- 

 plorations in the Congo. In recent years he donated 

 the unique collection of Nazca Pottery, also a beautiful 

 series of Peruvian textiles, and he showed an especially 

 warm interest in the work that the Museum is doing in 

 industrial textile design. 



