30 Report of the President 



Gifts of Securities 



J. Pierpont Morgan $300,000.00 



Morris K. Jesup , 200,000.00 



C. P. Huntington . . 5,000.00 



George S. Bowdoin 5,000.00 $510,000.00 



Gifts of Cash 



Mrs. Mary L. Stuart $50,000.00 



Mrs. John B. Trevor .... 30,098.90 



Percy R. Pyne, 1st 25,000.00 



Darius Ogden Mills 25,000.00 



Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1st 25,000.00 



James M. Constable 25,000.00 



J. Pierpont Morgan 25,000.00 



Morris K. Jesup 25,000.00 



H. O. Havemeyer , 25,000.00 



Wm. E. Dodge, 2d 10,000.00 



Mrs. Martha T. Fiske 10,000.00 



William Rockefeller 10,000.00 



Phebe Anna Thorne ". 5,000.00 



Oswald Ottendorfer 5,000.00 



D. Willis James 5,000.00 



Wm. C. Schermerhorn 5,000.00 



Charles G. Landon 5,000.00 



Mrs. Anna B. Bliss 5,000.00 



Charles Lanier 4, 500.00 



Percy R. Pyne, 2d 2,500.00 



Frederick A. Constable 2,000.00 324,098.90 



Membership Fees 43, 500.00 



$1,184,811.30 



The Museum is indebted to friends for several important 

 gifts, which have materially enriched our collections. Among 

 r . f . these may be mentioned an especially fine series 



Contributions °^ text ^ es from lea, Peru, presented by Mr. A. 

 D. Juilliard ; an ethnological collection from 

 South Africa, provided through a gift "In Memory of Mrs. 

 Samuel Lawrence" ; a restoration of the extinct Dodo, presented 

 by Mr. Walter Winans; 604 birds and 50 mammals from Brazil, 

 the gift of the State of Para, through Dr. Emilie Snethlage, 

 Director of the Museu Goeldi at Para; 550 birds and 100 

 mammals, presented by Mr. Alfred M. Collins and Mr. Lee 

 Garnett Day; important additions to the collections of mam- 

 mals and birds, presented by the New York Zoological Society; 

 mold of a seventeen-foot devil-fish, presented by Mr. Russell 

 J. Coles; white rhinoceros, presented by Mr. John H. Prentice; 

 12,000 moths, presented by Mr. W. D. Kearfott; 12,000 insect 



