CONTENTS 



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Membership and Endowment 5 



Form of Gift or Bequest 5 



Board of Trustees 10 



Committees and Officers n 



Scientific Staff 12 



Report of the President 15 



Fiftieth Anniversary 16 



Contributions of the Museum and of the City during decade 1902-1911 18 



General Apportionment of Museum and City Funds 19 



Building Plans. 20 



Future Exhibition Halls 20 



Mural Work 23 



Jesup Fund 24 



Foreign Museums 25 



Important Gifts. 25 



Organization, Staff 26 



General Administration 28 



Changes in Building , 28 



New Exhibitions 29 



New Building Plans 30 



Registration and Cataloguing 30 



Field Work, Exploration 32 



Publications 32 



Statistics of Numbers Reached by Museum Extension System 33 



Hospitality to Scientific Societies 34 



Care of the Building. . 35 



Progress of the Departments 36 



Public Education — Department of Public Education 36 



Museum Extension to the Schools and Libraries 37 



Statistics Relating to the Circulating Collections 38 



Lectures to School Children 38 



General Lectures 38 



Children's Room 39 



Room for the Blind 39 



Photography 39 



Minerals — Department of Mineralogy 40 



Mammals and Birds — Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology. . 41 



Extinct Vertebrates — Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 44 



Existing Reptiles, Batrachians, Recent and Extinct Fishes — Depart- 

 ment of Ichthyology and Herpetology 46 



Existing Fishes 48 



Fossil Fishes 49 



Amphibians and Reptiles 50 



Study Collections 50 



Aquarium Exhibits 50 



