CONTENTS 



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Founders : . . 1 



Membership 3 



Membership Fees 3 



Privileges of Members 3 



Form of Gift or Bequest 4 



Endowment Fund 4 



Building Fund 4 



Gifts and Bequests Exempt from Taxation 4 



Board of Trustees s 



Committees of the Board of Trustees 6 



Administrative Officers of the Museum 7 



Scientific Staff 8 



Report of the President 17 



The Coming Fifty Years 17 



Museum Going Backward 18 



New York Has a Unique Educational Plant 19 



Educational Facilities of New York 19 



A Separate School Tax Necessary 20 



Cost of Education 20 



Repeal of Tax on Education 21 



Separate Tax for Education 21 



Nature-Education by the American Museum — 



Discovery Reaches the School Mind 22 



Popularization of Science 22 



Art and Industrial Eife of the City 23 



Industrial Art Exhibition 23 



Untruthful Arrangement of Collections 24 



Confusion Through Congestion 24 



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