26 Report of the President 



Owing to the heavy tax on Professor Osborn's time, which 

 his administrative duties as President have entailed, he has 

 retired as Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Palaeon- 

 tology, after nineteen years of service, and has been appointed 

 Curator Emeritus. Dr. W. D. Matthew, Associate Curator, 

 has been promoted to the active Curatorship. 



In May, Dr. Bashford Dean offered his resignation as 

 Curator of the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology. 

 Dr. Louis Hussakof was promoted to the Associate Curatorship 

 of Fossil Fishes and Mr. John Treadwell Nichols to the 

 Assistant Curatorship of Recent Fishes. 



The Department of Public Health was organized last 

 September, with Professor Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 

 formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as 

 its head. 



In June, Mr. J. D. Figgins resigned from the preparation 

 staff to accept the Directorship of the Colorado Museum of 

 Natural History at Denver. Later, Mr. Albert E. Butler 

 resigned to accept a position in the preparation department of 

 the same Museum. 



In connection with the leave of absence of Director Bumpus 

 and of the resignation of Curator Dean, the Trustees at the 

 May meeting appointed a Committee to consider the present 

 system of internal administration of the Museum, as provided 

 for in the Rules and Regulations of 1902, and to suggest to 

 the Board such changes as might be deemed necessary. 



I. PROGRESS OF THE DEPARTMENTS 



PUBLIC EDUCATION 



George H. Sherwood, Curator 



Department of Public Education. — According to the 

 Articles of Incorporation of the Museum in 1869, one function 

 is to furnish popular instruction, and on the basis of this 

 charter the Museum entered into contractual relations with 

 the City. Not only have the Trustees met in full the letter 

 and spirit of this contract with the City, but in many ways, 



