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Report of the President. 



Annual Me?nbers. 



Andrews, Mrs. George P. 

 Baldwin, W. H., Jr. 

 Ballantine, Robert F. 

 Betts, Frederick H. 

 Blagden, George 

 Blumenstiel, Alexander 

 Blumenthal, August 

 Bogert, Henry A. 

 Byrne, John 

 Campbell, John 

 Castree, John W. 

 Church, Edward W. 

 Comstock, Albert 

 Currier, G. C. 

 Curtis, Charles B. 

 de Peyster, Elizabeth V. R. 

 Einstein, Edwin 

 Gibb, John 



Gray, Mrs. George Z. 

 Hargous, Robert L. 

 Hayes. R. Somers 



HlNTON, J. H. 



Hogan, Charles M. 



Holt, R. S- 



Josephi, Isaiah 



Ketchum, A. P. 



King, William W. 



Lathers, Miss Abby C. 



Lapham, S. V. 



LeRoy, Alfred 



Leslie, E. A. 



Lowell, Mrs. Chas. Russell 



Markley, T. W. 



Milmine, Geor6e 



Nelson, William 



Oechs, Anthony 



Parsons, W. H. 



Seton, William 



Van Brunt, C. H. 



Wallace, Lewis 



Wheelock, William A. 



Wilson. Washington 



Department of Public Instruction. — The ill health of 

 Professor Bickmore, who has faithfully and efficiently served 

 the Museum as the head of this department, has incapacitated 

 him for active work. The Trustees, however, were very reluc- 

 tant to lose his services, and, in order to lighten his duties as 

 much as possible, they appointed him Curator Emeritus, at the 

 same time expressing their hope that from time to time he 

 might be able to take his accustomed place upon the lecture 

 platform. 



During the year Professor Bickmore has given four lectures 

 to Members of the Museum and their invited friends, and free 

 lectures to the public on Washington's Birthday and Thanks- 

 giving Day. He has also generously placed his valuable 

 lantern slides at the disposal of the Curators for use in the 



