Comments of Educators 



APPENDIX 1. 



COMMENTS OF EMINENT EDUCATORS ON THE EDUCATIONAL 

 WORK OF THE MUSEUM 



"I congratulate you on what you have done at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. I am speaking upon the advice of ex- 

 pert knowledge when I say that you have carried out an ideal of public 

 service in our great municipality that has nowhere else been at- 

 tained; . . . The service which you have rendered New York is 

 unique, and I hope that the city is going to make it possible for you 

 to be of still greater service to it." 



JOHN H. FINLEY, 

 President, The University of the State of New York 



"I am gratified to see that the Museum is indeed making educa- 

 tion and its problems a theme for research. I regard the usefulness 

 of an institution such as yours dependent in some measure upon the 

 contact it maintains with the world of education: especially with 

 that part which is represented by our colleges and universities." 



BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, 



President, University of California 



"I appreciate fully the splendid service the Museum has always 

 rendered and shall always be willing to recommend that its activities 

 receive adequate financial support." 



WILLIAM L. ETTINGER, 

 Superintendent of Schools, New York City 



"Of the educational value of the Museum's exhibits I was already 

 well aware and feel a debt of gratitude to its officers and the city that 

 supports it for the better understanding of nature on my own part and 

 on that of my family, which frequent visits to the Museum afforded 

 us during our residence in New York." 



ERNEST FOX NICHOLS, 



President, Dartmouth College 



"If ever the schools were in danger of claiming a monopoly of 

 education, such enterprises as this of yours must have awakened 

 them from their dreaming. I am sure it is good for all of us who are 



