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the Museum or are reached through the Museum extension 

 system. Employees who are adequately reimbursed for their 

 work give cheerful and attentive service. They join in the 

 esprit de corps which is now manifest throughout the entire 

 institution, namely, that all are working together to subserve 

 public welfare. It is very rare indeed that we receive any 

 criticism from visitors, perhaps not once a year. On the 

 other hand, we receive many testimonials of the pleasure 

 visitors have experienced in the courtesies shown to them. 

 This hospitable atmosphere extends throughout the entire in- 

 stitution, to young and old, to all classes and conditions. 



Now that the remuneration of our scientific and adminis- 

 trative staffs and of our employees has been placed on an ade- 

 quate basis, we must turn with renewed energy to providing 

 adequate space for the exhibition of our long accumulated col- 

 lections and for the truly educational arrangement of all our 

 exhibition halls. This great work will be accomplished, we 

 trust, through united effort and good will on the part of the 

 Board of Trustees and of the City and State governments dur- 

 ing the coming fifty-third year of the life of the Museum. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



President. 



