MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP 
Summary of Mr. Jesup's Gifts to the Museum Gifts. 
Collection of North American Woods and Forestry, 1884-1908. 
Collection of Building Stones, 1886. 
Portraits of Audubon and of von Humboldt. 
Anthropological Collection from southern Mexico, 1894. 
Materials from the Peary Arctic Expeditions, 1896-1908. 
Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1903. 
Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1899-1908. 
Anthropological Collection from Colombia and Costa Rica, 1899. 
Anthropological Collection from the Plains Indians, 1899. 
Cope Collection of North American Fossil Vertebrates, 1902. 
Robinson Collection of Prehistoric Copper Implements, 1902. 
Anthropological Collection from the Philippine Islands, 1905. 
Japanese Reception Room, 1905. 
Series of ten marble portraits in the Foyer, 1906. 
Egyptian Fayum Expedition, 1906-1907. 
Anthropological Collection from Amazonas, 1907. 
Robley Collection of Maori Heads, 1907. 
Altogether Mr. Jesup contributed upward of $450,000 to the 
Museum, and in his will he left a bequest of $1,000,000. 
The material development of the Museum ; the growth of its build- Growth 
ings from one wing to the magnitude shown in the present report; the institution, 
increase of its maintenance by the City from $10,000 a year to $160,- 
000 a year; the increase of its endowment fund from $55,000 to $1,047,- 
750; the increase of its annual attendance from 250,000, in 1884, to 
537,000 in 1907; the extension of the influence and example of the 
Museum to every part of the country, were the results of the continuous 
effort of the President and of the generous cooperation of several of 
the Trustees. 
The conscientious administration of public funds is notably illus- 
trated in the economic construction of the Museum itself. The build- 
ing, up to the close of Mr. Jesup's administration, cost the City $4,838,- 
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