HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 

 Louis Pope Mr. Louis Pope Gratacap has been associated with the Museum 



Gr&t&cflD 



Ph.B., a.'b.. sm ce 1876. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Mineralogy in 

 AM - 1880. This department was placed under Geology in 1882, and Mr. 



Gratacap became Assistant Curator of Geology. In 1901 he was made 

 Curator of Mineralogy, in charge also of Conchology, and in 1902 

 Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Conchology, which 

 office he still holds. 

 Edmund Otis Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey has been associated with the Museum 

 Ph.D 7 ' since January, 1894. He came at that time as an Assistant Cura- 



1894 ~ tor in the Department of Geology, Mineralogy, Conchology, and 



Marine Invertebrate Zoology, and in 1901 was appointed Associate 

 Curator of the Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontol- 

 ogy. Dr. Hovey conducted investigations at the volcanoes of Mt. 

 Pele* and La Soufriere for the Museum in 1902, 1903, and 1908, and 

 the published results of his research have been valuable contributions 

 to our knowledge of the phenomena. 



BENEFACTORS -DONORS OF SPECIMENS TO VALUE OF 

 $200 OR MORE— 1869-1909 



Beirut Protestant College, Delaware, Lackawanna and West- 

 Bod well Granite Company, ern Coal Company, 



H. Booth, Sidney Dillon, 



T. B. Brooks, D. Stuart Dodge, 



Calumet and Hecla Mines Com- William E. Dodge, 2d, 



pany, Mrs. William E. Dodge, 2d, 



Geological Survey of Canada, James Douglas, 



Central Pacific Railroad Company, State Geological Survey of Georgia , 



James M. Constable, William C. Greene, 



Copper Queen Consolidated Min- John P. Haines, 



ing Company, James Hall, 



E. Leonard Corning, Morris K. Jesup, 



Sir William Dawson, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, 



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