INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 



CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

 INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 



GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 



J. A. Britcher, M. M. Metcalf, 



Mrs. Richard P. Dana, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 



D. Bryson Delavan, Percy R. Pyne, 



William Earl Dodge, 2d, D. Jackson Steward, 



Gilman A. Drew, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 



Auguste Forel, W. M. Wheeler, 



Edward H. Harriman, R. P. WTiitfield, 



Morris K. Jesup. 



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 Hermon 

 Zoology. His time was so fully occupied with administrative work Bumpus, 

 as Assistant to the President that he could devote very little time to PhD -' ScD 



J . 1901-1902. 



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 William 

 appointed to the Professorship of Economic Entomology in Harvard Morton 

 University. The Museum at this time made him Honorary Curator Ph.D. 

 of Social Insects, and as such he will continue to be identified with the J 902-1908 - 



7 Honorary 



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

 recognition of his gift of his collection of formicidse. 



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

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



' J r A.B., Ph.D. 



known as a writer and investigator and for several years has held the 1909- 

 Chair of Zoology at Barnard College. 



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

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



Ph.B., A.B., 



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



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present title in this Department is Curator of Mollusca. 



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