CONTENTS 



Membership and Endowment 3 



Form of Gift or Bequest 3 



Board of Trustees 10 



Committees and Officers 11 



Scientific Staff 12 



Report of the President 15 



General Progress 16 



Cooperation with Colleges and Universities 17 



The Public Schools 17 



The Blind 17 



Attendance 17 



Statistics of Numbers Reached by the Museum Extension System . 18 



Contributory Pension System 18 



Chinese Collections 19 



Oceanography 19 



Growth of the Library 20 



Publication 21 



Report of the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition 21 



Exploration in 1913 22 



Crocker Land Expedition 22 



Borden Expedition 23 



Antarctic Birds and Mammals 23 



North America , 23 



Albertan Dinosaurs 24 



Ethnology of Plains Indians 24 



Primitive Peoples of the Southwest 24 



Atlantic Shore Life , 25 



South America 25 



Andean Bird Life . 25 



Europe 26 



Africa 26 



The Congo Expedition 26 



Preparation of African Collections 27 



Jesup Fund 27 



North Pacific Memoirs 28 



Building, Equipment and Maintenance 28 



Suspension of Building 28 



Equipment and Casing 29 



Inventory of Property 30 



Summary of Expenditures by Departments for 1913 30 



Hospitalities to Societies and Organizations 31 



Important Gifts 32 



Membership and Staff 34 



Report of the Director (General Administration) 36 



General Considerations 36 



Building Operations and Alterations 37 



Exhibits 38 



Printing and Labeling 3g 



Summary of Printing 40 



Registration and Cataloguing , 40 



Attendance 41 



Care of Building 42 



Exchanges 42 



Reports of the Departments 43 



Public Education — Department of Public Education 43 



Museum Extension Work to the Schools 44 



Statistics Relating to the Circulating Collections 44 



Circulating Public Health Collections 45 



