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Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man 

 Horticultural Society of New York 

 Inkowa Club 

 Joan of Arc Club 



Keramic Society of Greater New York 

 Linnaean Society of New York 



Massachusetts Normal Art Alumni Association, New York Chapter 

 Mission of French Scholars 

 New York Academy of Sciences 

 New York Bird and Tree Club 

 New York Entomological Society 

 New York Microscopical Society 

 New York Mineralogical Club 

 School Nature League 

 Torrey Botanical Club 



War Department — Local Board, Division No. 129, of the Provost 

 Marshal General's Office 



SPECIAL GIFTS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Acknowledgments of the many gifts received by the Museum 

 during the year 1918 will be found on pages 181 to 197, but 

 special mention may be made of the specimens received from 

 the New York Zoological Society. Other gifts are : Books and 

 an ethnological and archaeological collection from Nicaragua, 

 from Mr. Michael J. Clancy ; an ethnological collection, chiefly 

 from North America, from Dr. W. L. Hildburgh ; a set of of- 

 ficial photographs taken at the time of the visits of the British, 

 French, Italian, Russian and Japanese War Commissions to 

 New York, from Mr. Cass Gilbert ; a feather robe from Sitka, 

 Alaska, from Mrs. J. W. Haselhurst; a bronze bust of Dr. 

 Daniel Giraud Elliot, by Chester A. Beach, from Miss Margaret 

 Henderson Elliot; baskets from Alaska, gift of Mr. William 

 Sulzer; skeleton in the flesh, of trotting horse, "Lee Ax- 

 worthy," from H. K. Devereux; ethnological specimens from 

 the Zufii and Acoma, from Mrs. Elsie Clews Parsons; 388 

 negatives of John Burroughs and of Conservation of Wild 

 Life, 254 lantern slides, mostly colored, of John Burroughs 

 and of Conservation of Wild Life, and 1,830 feet of motion 

 picture film of John Burroughs, from Albert Houghton Pratt. 



We desire to make acknowledgment to Mr. Carll Tucker of 

 the War Trade Board, and to Mr. Byron R. Newton, Collector 

 of the Port, for expediting shipments for the Museum ; also to 

 Messrs. W. R. Grace and Company for courtesies extended in 

 connection with Dr. Chapman's journey to South America. 



