22 Report of the President 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONAL 



INSTITUTIONS IN THE DIFFUSION 



OF SCIENCE 



Since 1896, when Professor Franz Boas was simultaneously 

 appointed to Columbia University and to the scientific staff of 

 the American Museum, this institution has been cooperating 

 with Columbia in anthropology, as a result of which Columbia 

 has taken a leading place in the training of anthropologists in 

 this country. Similar important results have been obtained 

 through cooperation in vertebrate palaeontology and zoology. 



On another side, the Museum is now offering to cooperate 

 with other great scientific institutions in the United States for 

 the wider diffusion of science among the people. 



There has probably never been a time in the history of our 

 republic when the wide diffusion of a knowledge of the laws of 

 nature among the people was more important and pressing than 

 at present. To the pure science of zoology, geology and an- 

 thropology of its early days, the Museum is now adding many 

 of the applications of science to public welfare in chemistry, 

 mining, public health, eugenics and food supply, to meet the 

 constantly increasing demand for knowledge on these subjects. 

 To the dissemination of the ideas and great scientific discov- 

 eries of Linnaeus, Darwin, Louis Agassiz, Leidy, Cope and 

 Marsh, we are adding the practical influence of the discoveries 

 of Pasteur and Ross in disease, of Sargent in forestry, of Gal- 

 ton and Mendel in heredity. In the Darwin Hall a child can 

 learn the principles of racial improvement and eugenics, in a 

 simple and beautiful manner. 



The cooperation of the Museum has recently been tendered 

 to the Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation* in the form of a 

 proposed arrangement whereby the Museum may translate to 



* The charter object of this corporation is "to" promote the advancement and 

 diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States, 

 by aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific re- 

 search, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as 

 shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." By Act of the Legislature 

 on June 9, 191 1. 



