Report of the President 6 1 



DECEASED MEMBERS AND CURATORS 



It is with a profound sense of our loss that we announce 



the death of the following Members and 



Curators during the year 19 10: 



Patrons 



Richard T. Wilson 



Fellows 



H. McK. Twombly 



Life Members 



John E. Alexandre Seth Barton French 



Curators 



Robert Parr Whitfield 



The following is the Minute which was adopted at the 



meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees 



on April 27, 1910: 



Resolved, That the Trustees record with deep sorrow the 

 death of 



Robert Parr Whitfield, 



Curator Emeritus of the Department of Geology and Inverte- 

 brate Palaeontology, who died on April 6, 1910. Professor 

 Whitfield was appointed Curator of Geology in 1877 and for 

 more than thirty-two years rendered to the Museum faithful 

 and efficient service. He was a recognized authority in his 

 chosen field of science, and for nearly half a century had no 

 superior in this country in the identification of fragmentary 

 invertebrate fossils. 



He was singularly devoted to the interests of the Museum 

 and with untiring energy labored to build up the collections 

 under his care. He was a strong advocate of a medium of 

 publication and it was largely through his influence that Presi- 

 dent Jesup established the Museum Bulletin in 1881, to which 

 Professor Whitfield was a frequent contributor. 



The Trustees extend to Professor Whitfield's family their 

 deepest sympathy and desire to record their esteem for one 

 who has been so intimately associated with the development of 

 this institution. 



