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the Class of 19 16 to fill the vacancy due to the resignation of 

 Mr. William Rockefeller. 



Mr. Henry C. Frick was elected to succeed Mr. George S. 

 Bowdoin in the Class of 1918. 



It is also gratifying to report that Mr. Archer M. Hunting- 

 ton, who felt compelled to resign from the Board in 1912, was 

 again able to take up service on the Board and was elected a 

 Trustee in the Class of 1918. 



The Scientific Staff as well as the Board of Trustees has 



suffered historic loss in the death of Professor Albert S. 



Bickmore. Until ill health compelled him to retire in 



1904, Professor Bickmore was an active member of the 



Department of Public Education. From that time until his 



death he served as Curator Emeritus. 



Death has also taken from our midst one of the younger 

 members of the Staff, Mr. John A. Grossbeck, Assistant in the 

 Department of Invertebrate Zoology. Mr. Grossbeck, although 

 only thirty-one years of age, had achieved an enviable reputa- 

 tion in Entomolgy and had become a valuable and competent 

 member of the Staff. 



On September 12, 1914, Mr. Frank E. Watson was appoined 

 Assistant in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, to the 

 vacancy due to the death of Mr. Grossbeck. 



Mrs. Agnes L. Vaughan, who had served as an Assistant in 

 the Department of Education since November 1, 1906, resigned 

 from the Staff in June, and Miss Ann E. Thomas, a graduate 

 of Brown University, was appointed on August 1 to this vacancy. 



In the Department of Public Health, Mr. David Greenberg 

 resigned to accept a position in the State Department of Public 

 Health, and Mr. Sidney D. Kramer was appointed to this 

 vacancy. 



The following promotions were made in the Scientific Staff: 



Louis Hussakof, Ph.D., from Associate Curator of Fishes 

 to Curator of Ichthyology. 



William K. Gregory, Ph.D., from Assistant Curator to 

 Associate in Palaeontology. 



Pliny E. Goddard, Ph.D., from Associate Curator to Cura- 

 tor of Ethnology. 



