24 Report of the President 



The Trustees of the Museum may also invite the cooperation 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation in support of its purely educa- 

 tional propaganda in the Department of Public 

 Rockefeller Health for a knowledge of the natural causes of 

 health and disease. There is a widespread impres- 

 sion, which rests upon no adequate evidence, that the Ameri- 

 can people are relatively well informed in matters of science. 

 As a matter of fact, inquiry would show that we are far behind 

 the people of Scandinavia, of Denmark, of Holland and espe- 

 cially of Germany in all these subjects. In our judgment, the 

 Museum on the Jesup foundation should prepare itself to 

 cooperate so far as possible with the great institutions which 

 have been founded for public enlightenment by men like An- 

 drew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller in the more rapid 

 diffusion of science, each institution taking the particular share 

 which it is best fitted to undertake. The Carnegie Institution 

 is preeminently devoted to pure research; the Rockefeller 

 Foundation is at present devoted largely to the practical appli- 

 cation of medical discovery, while the American Museum is 

 devoted primarily to visual education in all departments of 

 natural science, including the subjects which have more re- 

 cently come within its domain. 



As regards what is now being accomplished in the diffusion 

 of knowledge, the statistics of the Department of Public 

 Education, showing the number of institutions of different 

 grades now reached by our plan of cooperation, are very im- 

 pressive : 



INSTITUTIONS MAKING USE OF THE MUSEUM 

 COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS 



Public Schools 440 



Parochial Schools 8 



Private Schools 51 



Colleges and Universities 167 



Medical Schools 114 



Schools of Art and Design 8 



Libraries 14 



Other Educational Organizations and Institutions 148 



Total 950 



