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  6 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  President. 
  

  

  Capital, 
  with 
  the 
  various 
  City 
  authorities 
  and 
  particularly 
  in 
  

   conferences 
  with 
  the 
  Mayor 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  

   Park 
  Board. 
  For 
  many 
  years 
  he 
  visited 
  the 
  Museum 
  several 
  

   days 
  each 
  week, 
  and 
  to 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years 
  attended 
  to 
  

   all 
  the 
  details 
  of 
  administration. 
  

  

  This 
  brief 
  review 
  of 
  his 
  official 
  connection 
  with 
  us 
  gives 
  

   little 
  idea 
  of 
  the 
  real 
  character 
  and 
  magnitude 
  of 
  his 
  services; 
  

   to 
  attempt 
  to 
  record 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  his 
  administration 
  would 
  be 
  

   to 
  write 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  institution 
  since 
  1881, 
  when 
  his 
  

   name 
  first 
  appears 
  as 
  President. 
  

  

  Of 
  all 
  the 
  many 
  centers 
  of 
  his 
  activities 
  for 
  public 
  good 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  was 
  most 
  constantly 
  in 
  his 
  mind, 
  closest 
  to 
  his 
  

   heart 
  and 
  the 
  recipient 
  of 
  his 
  most 
  generous 
  gifts. 
  Succeed- 
  

   ing 
  Mr. 
  John 
  David 
  Wolfe 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Robert 
  L. 
  Stuart, 
  he 
  

   assumed 
  the 
  presidency 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  the 
  

   first 
  impulse 
  and 
  enthusiasm 
  of 
  its 
  establishment 
  had 
  slackened 
  

   somewhat 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  evident 
  that 
  some 
  one 
  must 
  assume 
  the 
  

   chief 
  care 
  and 
  responsibility 
  of 
  leadership, 
  financial, 
  adminis- 
  

   trative 
  and 
  constructive. 
  

  

  His 
  first 
  annual 
  report 
  announced 
  his 
  determination 
  to 
  

   establish 
  a 
  collection 
  showing 
  both 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  and 
  the 
  

   economic 
  features 
  of 
  the 
  woods 
  and 
  trees 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

   In 
  1897 
  he 
  established 
  the 
  Jesup 
  North 
  Pacific 
  Expedition, 
  to 
  

   maintain 
  explorations 
  in 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  Alaska 
  and 
  Siberia 
  

   and 
  to 
  publish 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  these 
  explorations, 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  

   which 
  was 
  to 
  determine, 
  if 
  possible, 
  the 
  migrations 
  of 
  the 
  

   human 
  races 
  between 
  the 
  new 
  and 
  old 
  worlds. 
  He 
  also 
  

   maintained 
  expeditions 
  extending 
  over 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  several 
  

   years 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  collecting 
  important 
  data 
  regarding 
  

   the 
  vanishing 
  tribes 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  Indians. 
  He 
  sup- 
  

   ported 
  the 
  Lumholtz 
  expedition 
  to 
  northern 
  Mexico 
  (1890). 
  

   In 
  1895 
  he 
  subscribed 
  to 
  the 
  Cope 
  Collection 
  of 
  North 
  

   American 
  fossil 
  mammals, 
  and 
  in 
  1902 
  he 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  the 
  Cope 
  Collection 
  of 
  fossil 
  amphibians, 
  reptiles 
  and 
  

   fishes. 
  From 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  he 
  contributed 
  large 
  sums 
  for 
  the 
  

   development 
  of 
  the 
  mineral 
  collections. 
  His 
  lesser 
  gifts 
  are 
  

   too 
  numerous 
  to 
  mention, 
  but 
  we 
  may 
  single 
  out 
  among 
  the 
  

   more 
  recent 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  and 
  Rio 
  Negro 
  ethnological 
  and 
  

   zoological 
  collections. 
  One 
  of 
  his 
  most 
  beautiful 
  and 
  charac- 
  

   teristic 
  gifts 
  was 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  marble 
  portraits 
  of 
  distinguished 
  

   American 
  men 
  of 
  science 
  (1906). 
  In 
  1904 
  he 
  especially 
  urged 
  

   upon 
  the 
  Trustees 
  the 
  importance 
  of 
  raising 
  the 
  Permanent 
  

   Endowment 
  Fund 
  and 
  contributed 
  $200,000 
  therefor. 
  

  

  There 
  were 
  two 
  grandly 
  distinctive 
  features 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Jesup's 
  

   plans 
  and 
  of 
  his 
  administration. 
  

  

  