1 8 Report of the President 



Statistics of Numbers Reached by the Museum 

 Extension System 



1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 



Board of Education 



Lectures 35,°68 43)386 28,402 43,549 40,067 52,855 48,119 



Lectures to School 



Children and Classes 



visiting the Museum 



for study 37.483 39.179 36,236 24,894 39,379 49,872 56,899 



Meetings of Scientific 



Societies and other 



Meetings and Lec- 

 tures 11,784 I 5,587 27,369 15,712 18,649 28,384 33,357 



Total 84,335 98,152 92,007 84,155 98,095 131,111 138,375 



Attendance in Exhi- 

 bition Halls 453,559 945,43° 747, x 34 528,997 626,046 715,852 728,288 



Total Attendance for 



all Purposes 537,894 *, 043,582 839,141 613,152 724,141 846,963 866,663 



Numbers reached by 

 Circulating Collec- 

 tions 725,000 575,8oi 922,512 839,089 1,253,435 1,275,890 1,378,599 



Grand Total 1,262,894 1,619,383 1,761,653 1,452,241 1,977,576 2,122,853 2,245,262 



The principal development for the welfare of the employes 



has been the establishment of the Pension System. At the 



„ ., Annual Meeting of the Trustees, Febru- 



Contributory t1 _ . . ? •. . . 



_ . _ ary 2, the joint committee, consisting of 



Pension System J °' . J , ■ • * 



a committee of employes appointed by 



the President and a committee of Trustees of which Felix M. 

 Warburg was Chairman, recommended a plan for the estab- 

 lishment of a pension system for the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The plan proposed was the result of a 

 careful study of the problems involved in which the commit- 

 tees had the counsel and advice of Lewis L. Delafield and 

 S. Herbert Wolfe, actuary. The Trustees adopted the plan 

 recommended, to take effect March 1, 1913. This pen- 

 sion plan is a mandatory contributory system in which the 

 employe contributes to the fund 3$ of his salary and the 

 Trustees provide an equal amount. It provides for pensions 

 and limited life insurance based on length of service and age. 

 The plan adopted has met with the nearly unanimous approval 

 of the employes, as is evidenced by the fact that 230 out of 

 242 eligible employes have become subscribers. The pension 

 fund is administered by a Board of Directors consisting of 

 four Trustees and three employes. The system as a whole is 

 working very satisfactorily and is being taken as a model by 

 several institutions. 



