Report of the President $7 



Collections in The American Museum of Natural History: 

 Part I, The North American Indian Collections, Their Use in 

 Elementary English, History and Geography and in High 

 School History and Economics." 



The most important event of the year was the entertainment 

 of the members of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and Affiliated Societies from December 26 to 

 30. President Osborn, as Chairman of the Local Committee, 

 appointed the following as members of the Honorary Reception 

 Committee of the City of New York, in connection with the 

 meetings: His Honor John Purroy'Mitchel, Elmer Ellsworth 

 Brown, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph H. 

 Choate, R. Fulton Cutting, Cleveland H. Dodge, Henry C. 

 Frick, James B. Ford, A. Barton Hepburn, George G. Heye, 

 Archer M. Huntington, Walter B. James, V. Everit Macy, 

 Emerson McMillin, Sidney Edward Mezes, Mrs. Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn, M. I. Pupin, Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Willard 

 D. Straight, Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, Frederic C. 

 Walcott and Henry Fairfield Osborn. A general reception 

 was given on Tuesday evening, December 26, and copies of the 

 "Guide to the Nature Treasures of New York City" were 

 given to the guests. At the meetings many important scientific 

 papers were presented. A special exhibition of "Chemical Pre- 

 paredness" was arranged on the fourth floor by the New York 

 Sections of the American Chemical Society, the American 

 Electrochemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry 

 and by the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. A special exhibit 

 illustrating the life and work of Louis Pasteur was also ar- 

 ranged for the meetings. 



Several special exhibitions have been held in the West As- 

 sembly Hall during the year : Paintings of arctic and antarctic 

 scenes by F. W. Stokes ; water colors of birds by H. 

 ExWWtions ^' ^ en ^ ow > paintings of Alaskan scenery by Rob- 

 ert Van Vorst Sewell ; paintings of Alaskan scenery 

 by Leonard M. Davis ; under-water landscapes of the coral 

 lagoons of Tahiti and of the west coast of Scotland and moun- 

 tain and desert scenes of California and Washington by Zarh 

 H. Pritchard ; paintings of India by the late Andre Champol- 



