of Estimate power to appropriate such sums as it might deem desirable 
for the maintenance of the American Museum and the Metropolitan 
Mien January 2T 
The President stated that addresses would be made at the Memorial Meet- 
ing to Professor Bickmore on January 29, 1915, by Mr. Choate, the 
President, Mr. Dodge, Mr. Gratacap and Dr. Finley. January 21 
Reélected Trustee in Class of 1919. February I 
The President stated that he had had conferences with Mr. de Forest, with 
Mr. William Church Osborn of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and 
with Mr. Choate, Counsel of the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, and that it had been decided to submit to the Legislature simulta- 
neously similar bills which would permit the Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment to use its discretion in providing further appropriations 
for maintenance. February I 
The Special Sub-Committee on Jesup Endowment reported that after corre- 
spondence with the Executor and after consulting the Museum’s Coun- 
sel, Mr. Choate, it was found that the American Museum of Natural 
History could not accept real estate in part payment of the Jesup 
Bequest. April 23 
A letter from Mr. Choate, dated April 26, 1915, was read, in which he ap- 
proved of accepting the proposition of the Executor of the Jesup 
Estate to pay over to the Museum on or before June 17, 1915, 50% of 
the Jesup Bequest. May 3 
Mr. Choate moved that the report of the Executive Committee (in regard 
to providing new buildings by private subscriptions ; transferring of the 
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