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  8 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  President. 
  

  

  The 
  Museum 
  has 
  received 
  testimonials 
  of 
  appreciation 
  and 
  

   sympathy 
  from 
  scientific 
  institutions 
  and 
  associations 
  both 
  at 
  

   home 
  and 
  abroad, 
  including 
  especially 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  Scientific 
  Staff 
  of 
  The 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History. 
  

  

  New 
  York 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences. 
  

  

  Audubon 
  Society 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  American 
  Ethnological 
  Society. 
  

  

  Linnaean 
  Society 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  Peary 
  Arctic 
  Club. 
  

  

  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C. 
  

  

  Field 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  Chicago, 
  111. 
  

  

  Carnegie 
  Museum, 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Institute, 
  

   Pittsburgh, 
  Penn. 
  

  

  Senckenbergische 
  Naturforschende 
  Gesellschaft, 
  Frankfurt 
  

   a/Main, 
  Germany. 
  

  

  Universidad 
  de 
  la 
  Habana, 
  Cuba. 
  

  

  These 
  have 
  been 
  appropriately 
  printed 
  and 
  distributed 
  to 
  

   learned 
  bodies 
  at 
  home 
  and 
  abroad 
  and 
  to 
  patrons 
  and 
  friends 
  

   of 
  the 
  Museum. 
  The 
  following 
  passages 
  are 
  from 
  an 
  appre- 
  

   ciation 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Jesup's 
  services, 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  leading 
  

   American 
  scientific 
  journal, 
  Science: 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  without 
  reserve 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Jesup 
  was 
  as 
  full 
  

   of 
  enthusiasm 
  for, 
  and 
  faith 
  in, 
  the 
  cause 
  of 
  pure 
  research 
  as 
  

   he 
  was 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  popular 
  education. 
  During 
  1907, 
  the 
  last 
  

   year 
  of 
  his 
  administration, 
  and 
  with 
  his 
  sanction, 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   spent 
  at 
  least 
  $80,000 
  for 
  strictly 
  scientific 
  work. 
  It 
  is 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  to 
  make 
  this 
  statement 
  because 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  ac- 
  

   tivities 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  of 
  pure 
  science 
  is 
  not 
  so 
  

   widely 
  known 
  as 
  it 
  should 
  be. 
  

  

  Two 
  years 
  ago 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  invited 
  Mr. 
  

   Jesup 
  to 
  celebrate 
  the 
  twenty-fifth 
  anniversary 
  of 
  his 
  presi- 
  

   dency 
  of 
  the 
  institution. 
  A 
  loving 
  cup 
  beautifully 
  designed 
  in 
  

   gold 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  him, 
  with 
  inscriptions 
  and 
  symbols 
  in 
  

   allusion 
  to 
  those 
  branches 
  of 
  science 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  taken 
  

   special 
  interest. 
  On 
  one 
  face 
  of 
  the 
  cup 
  reference 
  was 
  made 
  

   to 
  the 
  forestry 
  of 
  North 
  America; 
  on 
  another, 
  his 
  interest 
  in 
  

   vertebrate 
  paleontology 
  was 
  indicated 
  and 
  his 
  gift 
  of 
  the 
  Cope 
  

   Collection 
  of 
  fishes, 
  amphibians 
  and 
  reptiles 
  was 
  mentioned; 
  

   on 
  the 
  third 
  face 
  was 
  a 
  design 
  symbolizing 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  