COMMUNICATION 
from the 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has received the 
announcement of the death on the twenty-second of January, one 
thousand nine hundred and eight, of 
MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP 
one of the Founders of The American Museum of Natural History, 
and for the past twenty-seven years its President. 
The loss of one who has so acceptably, and for so many years, filled 
such varied positions of trust and honor will be deeply felt, and 
the Secretary begs leave to express to The American Museum of 
Natural History his own sincere regret and that of the institution. 
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