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Eskimo dresses and implements, and illustrates in the 

 most impressive manner the scenery in the land from 

 which those specimens come. 



A catalogue of each Department is in course of pre- 

 paration, which will render our collections of still 

 further practical utility. These additions and im- 

 provements have brought us an increased number of 

 visitors, who have thus manifested their interest in the 

 continued development of our institution. 



The Board of Estimate and Apportionment have 

 appropriated $35,000 for the improvement this year of 

 Manhattan Square. The Department of Public Parks 

 have been requested to join us in soliciting the 

 State Legislature to grant the means for making suit- 

 able entrances into Central Park at 81st and 77th Sts., 

 that our Museum may become properly accessible to 

 the thousands of visitors to the Park from our own 

 city, and from all parts of our land. A footpath is now 

 also imperatively needed, leading as directly as possible 

 from our Square to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



An indication of the great interest taken in the 

 Museum by its trustees, and of their high estimate of 

 the importance of its present and steadily manifested 

 increasing usefulness, is shown by the fact that they 

 alone have already contributed to the collections of the 

 Museum a sum of over $110,000, and now they most 

 respectfully appeal to the generous citizens of New 

 York, to aid in the effort to make our Metropolitan 

 City the centre of the highest scientific culture in our 

 land, and to join in adding new collections and new 

 departments to the admirable nucleus which has been 

 already secured. 



