yo Report of the President 



WOODS AND FORESTRY* 



M. C. Dickerson, Curator 



Great satisfaction is felt in the work of Mr. Milton D. 

 Copulos during 1919 in reproduction from the life of sprays 

 of tree foliage, fruit and flowers. The work is unexcelled in 

 the perfection of accuracy and delicacy. The sprays are com- 

 parable with the glass flowers of Harvard in beauty and ac- 

 curacy, but surpass them in naturalness, a result of the dif- 

 ferent medium and the subtle appreciation of the creative artist. 

 Sprays especially deserving mention — the living material for 

 which was secured through the courtesy of friends of the 

 Museum — are blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata) from In- 

 diana, Mexican walnut {Juglans rupestris) from Arizona, and 

 western cherry laurel {Primus ilicifolia) from California. 

 The work on these combines the arts of sculptor and painter 

 in a result of artistic realism that deceives the most expert 

 scientific observer. 



Again, however, funds have not been available for the 

 mural paintings under discussion for the Woods and Forestry 

 Hall, or for the work so optimistically planned during a con- 

 siderable series of years to install group and case exhibits set- 

 ting forth the principles of forestry and forest conservation 

 and thus increase the Museum's practical educational value in 

 this line. Mr. Barrington Moore, Associate Curator for part 

 of the year preceding the outbreak of the war, found on his 

 return] from France at the war's close, that his time was too 

 fully occupied as editor of the Bulletin of the Ecological So- 

 ciety of America and with private silvicultural research to con- 

 tinue full-time connection with the Museum. He has, there- 

 fore, served as Research Associate for 1919. Fortunately, it 

 is true that the hall as it stands, while having only a fraction 

 of educational value commensurate with its opportunity in the 

 heart of New York City, does, nevertheless, a great work as 



Under the Department of Woods and Forestry (see also page 205). 



