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Inasmuch as the World War left the finest racial stocks in many 

 countries so depleted that there is danger of their extinction, and 

 inasmuch as our own race is threatened with submergence by 

 the influx of other races, it was felt by all present and especially 

 by our foreign guests that The American Museum of Natural 

 History had rendered a signal service in providing for the re- 

 ception and entertainment of the large number of distinguished 

 men and women who attended the Congress. 



Membership and Staff 



At the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees, on February 

 7, 1921, the Trustees elected Dr. Leonard C. Sanford to the 

 Board to fill the vacancy in the Class of 1921, due to the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. R. Fulton Cutting. Mr. A. Perry Osborn and Mr. 

 George F. Baker, Jr., were at the same meeting elected Trustees 

 in the Class of 1923 to fill vacancies due to the death of Mr. A. 

 D. Juilliard and Mr. Henry Clay Frick, and Mr. George D. 

 Pratt was elected to the Class of 1924 to fill the vacancy due to 

 the death of Mr. Joseph H. Choate. 



At the same meeting, the Trustees heeded the earnest request 

 of Mr. Adrian Iselin and reluctantly accepted his resignation 

 as Secretary, an office which he had held for the past eight 

 years. Mr. Percy R. Pyne was elected to this office. 



In the Administrative Staff, Mr. George H. Sherwood was 

 promoted from Assistant Secretary to the position of Executive 

 Secretary of the Board. 



The Trustees created a new department designated as Com- 

 parative Anatomy and appointed Doctor William K. Gregory to 

 the Curatorship. The Department of Invertebrate Zoology was 

 divided into two new departments, namely, the Department of 

 Lower Invertebrates with Associate Curator Roy W. Miner in 

 charge and the Department of Entomology, in charge of Curator 

 F. E. Lutz. The name of the Department of Anatomy and 

 Physiology was changed to the Department of Comparative 

 Physiology. 



The following promotions in the Staff were made : 



Dr. J. A. Allen was promoted from Curator to Honorary 

 Curator of the Department of Mammalogy. 



Dr. Henry E. Crampton was promoted from Curator of the 



