has seen the Museum develop into an institution of more than national 

 importance and of world-wide influence. During the first year of his 

 incumbency, Mr. Jesup donated the collection of North American 

 Woods and established the Bulletin, a medium for the publication of 

 the scientific work of the institution which is now in its twentieth 

 volume. 



Other features of the past twenty-three years have been the 

 establishment of the Department of Public Instruction in 1885 through 

 cooperation with the State ; the establishment of the Department of 

 Vertebrate Palaeontology in 1891 through Professor Henry F. Osborn; 

 extensive explorations among the ancient ruins of Peru and South 

 America, begun through the generosity of the late Mr. Henry Villard; 

 the presentation by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan of the Tiffany gem 

 collections and the Bement Mineral Collection; the provision by the 

 Duke of Loubat of the means for the collection and acquisition of 

 the archeeological series from Mexico and Central America, and the 

 inauguration of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. This period, 

 furthermore, has witnessed the erection by the City of the entire 

 imposing south fagade of the building as originally projected. 



E. O. HOVEY, 



Editor. 



