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FOREWORD 



Museum leaders, soon manifested itself on every side. With the un- 

 expressed Latin motto of his life, Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, he in- 

 troduced one reform after another. During the thirteen-year period of 

 his administration he devoted himself especially to the rearrangement 

 of an exhibition of the great collection of the primates, lemurs, monkeys 

 and apes, but above all to the Synoptic Mammal Hall of the classifica- 

 tion, habits and outstanding characters of representatives of various 

 orders of mammals. Here, with the aid of William King Gregory and the 

 occasional suggestion of the present writer, he built his most enduring 

 monument, for no one will ever find it necessary or advisable to sub- 

 stantially alter his beautiful and expressive arrangement of the Mammalia 

 and of their characteristic organs. It is a matter of historic justice, 

 therefore, for our Trustees to name this synoptic exhibition Lucas Hall 

 and to associate it perpetually with the name of a man of fine personal 

 character, of quaint and persuasive charm, representative of the finest 

 principles and endowments of the New England character. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



Castle Rock, 

 Garrison-on-Hudson, 

 December 30, 1982. 



