FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 



To the Trustees a?id Members of The American Museum of 

 Natural History, and to the Municipal Authorities of the 

 City of New York: 



The President has the honor to submit herewith his eighth 

 annual report, setting forth the development of the Museum 

 during the year 1914, and including the special reports of the 

 Director and of the Officers of the various scientific depart- 

 ments of the Museum and of the Board of Trustees. 



It is with a deep sense of loss that we record the death on 

 August 12, 1914, of Albert Smith Bickmore, a member of the 

 Board of Trustees since 1885. Professor Bickmore was so 

 intimately identified with the origin and early development of 

 the American Museum, beginning with the movement during 

 the year 1868, that to him, above all others, rightly belongs the 

 title of "Father of the Museum." Inspired by his great 

 teacher, Louis Agassiz, it was his optimism and enthusiasm 

 which, through the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, brought 

 together the notable group of men who founded the Museum. 

 After many years devoted to the raising of funds, to organiza- 

 tion and to administration, he instituted the Department of 

 Public Education, to which he applied his chief energies until 

 his retirement in 1904. In 191 1 Professor Bickmore jointly 

 with Mrs. Bickmore presented his entire scientific library and 

 unique collection of lantern slides. His name will ever be 

 cherished and honored. 



The Museum lost a great benefactor and a devoted friend 

 in the death of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup on June 17, 1914. After 

 the decease of her husband in the year 1908, Mrs. Jesup's in- 

 terest in the Museum deepened, and she witnessed with great 

 pride and pleasure the carrying out of many lines of develop- 

 ment which had been instituted by Mr. Jesup. Her princely 

 bequest of the Morris K. Jesup Fund of $5,000,000 is the 



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