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, 
WilHam Earl Dodge, 2d, D. Jackson Steward, 
Oilman A. Drew, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 
Auguste Forel, W. M. ^Mieeler, 
Edward H. Harriman, R. P. Whitfield, 
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 
Csrcy 
Zoology. His time was so fully occupied with administrative work Bumpus, 
as Assistant to the President that he could devote very little time to fg^'^J^JIggj'^ 
the development of this Department. Accordingly, in 1902, Dr. 
William Morton WTieeler succeeded him as Curator of the Department, 
Dr. Bumpus having been appointed Director of the Museum. 
Dr. ^^^leeler served until 1908, when he resigned, having been wiiiiam 
appointed to the Professorship of Economic Entomology in Harvard 
University. The Museum at this time made him Honorary Curator Ph.o. 
of Social Insects, and as such he will continue to be identified with the Honorary ' 
work. Dr. Wheeler was elected a Patron of the Museum in 1908 in 
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 ^^""^p^""^ 
known as a writer and investigator and for several years has held the 1909- 
Chair of Zodlogy at Barnard College. 
Mr. Louis Pope Gratacap has had charge of the moUusca since Louis Pope 
1880. In 1901 he was appointed Curator of Mineralogy, in charge ^ 
also of Conchology, and in 1901 Curator of the latter also. His a^m.^' 
present title in this Department is Curator of Mollusca. 
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