HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



1901 Bequest of Oswald Ottendorfer 25,000 .00 

 Bequest of Henry Villard 5,000 .00 



1902 Bequest of Joel Goldenberg 1,900.00 



1903 Bequest of Samuel D. Babcock . 4,762.50 

 Mrs. Emily H. Trevor 5,000 .00 



1904 Morris K. Jesup 200,000 .00 



J. Pierpont Morgan 300,000 .00 



George S. Bowdoin 5,000 .00 



H. O. Havemeyer 25,000 .00 



Frederick A. Constable 2,000 .00 



William Rockefeller 10,000 .00 



Percy R. Pyne, 2d 2,500 .00 



Bequest of Solomon Loeb 5,000 .00 



Charles Lanier 2,000 .00 



Matilda W. Bruce 10,000 .00 



1907 Mrs. Emily H. Trevor 10,000 .00 



Bequest of Benjamin P. Davis. . 25,000.00 



1908 Bequest of Morris K. Jesup .. .1,000,000.00 



1909 Bequest of William R. Sands.. 10,000.00 

 Bequest of Phebe Anna Thorne . 10,000 .00 



1910 Bequest of Darius Ogden Mills. 100,000 .00 



$2,122,757.75 



Adequate endowment is the most important advance that can be 

 made by the Museum at the present time. 



The Endowment Fund on January 31, 1910 (at the time of the 

 publication of this report), viz., $2,122,757.75, should now be in- 

 creased to $5,000,000 and within a few years to a larger amount. 



Comparison between our Endowment Fund (as invested in 1909) 

 and that of other similar institutions in this country is shown in the fol- 

 lowing table : 



Metropolitan Museum of Art $8,300,000 . 00 



Field Museum of Natural History 4,000,000.00 



American Museum of Natural History 2,195,645.00 



Carnegie Museum 1,000,000 . 00 



Museum of the Brooklyn Institute 86,000.00 



United States National Museum None 



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