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have visited every ocean and every continent. Such men 

 as Chapman, Cherrie, Stefansson, MacMillan, Akeley, 

 Andrews, Anthony, Lang, Chapin, Miller, Beck, Crampton, 

 Hovey, Brown, Granger, Wissler, Goddard, Lowie, Spinden, 

 Miner, Lutz, Wheeler. In the Museum archives are records 

 and note-books of precise observations from every part of 

 the North and many parts of the South American con- 

 tinent, from central and northern Africa, from eastern Asia 

 and from Korea and Japan. These note-books are supple- 

 mented by a collection of field photographs numbering 

 more than 25,000, also by the moving picture films of 

 explorers like Paul J. Rainey, James Barnes, Roy C. 

 Andrews and Donald B. MacMillan. 



When only a tithe of these riches is being displayed for 

 want of space and means of equipment, when men of 

 museum genius like Curator Bashford Dean are leaving the 

 Museum to seek an opportunity elsewhere, when sculptors 

 of the rank of Carl E. Akeley are held back six years for 

 the space of the AFRICAN HALL, Members and friends 

 must not receive the false impression, through the random 

 completion of an attractive exhibit or habitat group in this 

 or that part of the Museum, that the Museum as a whole 

 is progressing. 



To conclude this statement of the actual condition of 

 things, the most important thing for the Museum to-day is 

 an enlarged building and equipment. 



THE IDEAL NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING 



We believe that the southern half of the building and 



the Central Transverse Section, with a new LECTURE 



HALL of larger seating capacity, and two cen- 



Buildmg tra j Court Buildings, will make an ideal natural 



Needs 



history building for the coming fifty years. 



Such a completed Museum building corresponds with the 

 plan prepared and published by the President in 191 1. 1 



History, Plan and Scope of The American Museum of Natural History. 



