32 Report of the President 



A small but increasing number of specialists are associating 

 themselves with the scientific work of the Museum as volun- 

 teers, that is, without salary but with the honorary 

 Research fa\ e f Research Associate awarded by the Trus- 

 tees. Among the first to be appointed was Dr. 

 George Bird Grinnell, who is an authority on American 

 ethnology, especially on the habits and customs of the Black- 

 foot Indians. In the anthropological department are also Dr. 

 J. Howard McGregor of Columbia University, who has made 

 important contributions to the reconstruction of racial types 

 of the Palaeolithic Age, and Mr. M. D. C. Crawford, an expert 

 in textiles, who has rendered distinct service to the Museum by 

 his researches on the textiles and designs of Peru and in 

 stimulating among the manufacturers the use of prehistoric 

 American art in the preparation of designs. This has created 

 a new and profitable industry. Another appointment was that 

 of Dr. Charles R. Eastman of Harvard University, who is as- 

 sociated with Professor W. K. Gregory of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, also of our scientific staff, in the preparation of a treatise 

 on vertebrate palaeontology. The last appointment to this rank 

 is that of Mr. Alessandro Fabbri as Research Associate in 

 Physiology, who is carrying on experiments in the micro- 

 photography of minute forms of organic life, in connection 

 with the Department of Physiology, which promise to be of 

 great scientific as well as of educational value. Mr. Fabbri 

 plans to extend his work to the minute organisms of the sea. 



BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT 



In December, 191 5, the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 

 ment rescinded the inactive balance of the construction fund 

 (CDP 3C) and reappropriated it as a case 



Case Construction construction and equipment fund (CDP iE). 

 and Equipment . , , « ■ 1 t i «■ 



It was estimated that this sum would be suf- 

 ficient to provide for the normal equipment needs for about 

 three years. Accordingly the Board of Estimate and Appor- 

 tionment was requested to release $35,580.43 of this fund for 

 case construction and equipment work for 191 6. Through this 



