HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Hermon 

 Carey 

 Bumpus, 

 Ph.D., Sc.D. 

 1901-1902. 



William 



Morton 



Wheeler, 



Ph.D. 



1902-1908. 



Honorary 



Curator, 



1908- 



Henry E. 

 Crampton, 

 A.B., Ph.D. 

 1909- 



Louis Pope 

 Gratacap, 

 Ph.B., A.B., 

 A.M. 

 1880- 



CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

 INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY: 



GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 



J. A. Britcher 

 Richard P. Dana 

 D. Bryson Delevan 

 William Earle Dodge, 2d 

 Gilman A. Drew 

 Auguste Forel 

 Edward H. Harriman 

 Morris K. Jesup 



M. M. Metcalf 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company 



Percy R. Pyne 



D. Jackson Steward 



U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 



W. M. Wheeler 



R. P. Whitfield 



SCIENTIFIC STAFF 



In 1901 Dr. H. C. Bumpus became Assistant to the President and 

 was also placed in immediate charge of the Department of Invertebrate 

 Zoology. His time was so fully occupied with administrative work 

 as Assistant to the President that he could devote very little time to 

 the development of this Department. Accordingly in 1902, Dr. 

 William Morton Wheeler succeeded him as Curator of the Department, 

 Dr. Bumpus having been appointed Director of the Museum. 



Dr. Wheeler served until 1908, when he resigned, having been 

 appointed to the Professorship of Economic Entomology in Harvard 

 University. The Museum at this time made him Honorary Curator 

 of Social Insects, and as such he will continue to be identified with the 

 work. Dr. Wheeler was elected a Patron of the Museum in 1908 in 

 recognition of his gift of his collection of formicidse. 



The present Curator of this Department is Dr. Henry E. Cramp- 

 ton, who assumed his work January 1, 1909. Dr. Crampton is well 

 known as a writer and investigator and for several years has held the 

 Chair of Zoology at Barnard College. 



Mr. Louis Pope Gratacap has had charge of the mollusca since 

 1880. In 1901 he was appointed Curator of Mineralogy, in charge 

 also of Conchology, and in 1901 Curator of the latter also. His 

 present title in this Department is Curator of Mollusca. 



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