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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo02amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The American Museum Journal Vol. II. MARCH, 190: No. 3.
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I HE Annual Meeting of the Trustees of the Museum was held on Monday evening, February 10. The report of the Treasurer showed that there had been disbursed for maintenance, $147,773.75, which was $17,773.75 more than had been ap- propriated for this institution by the City. The deficit, how- ever, had been met by the contributions of the Trustees, which enabled the Museum to begin the current year free of debt. The subscriptions for the increase and improvement of the collections and for publication amounted to $141,452.13, of which $37,500 was received from the Trustees and $11,500 was derived from gifts made by numerous other contributors. The remainder of the sum total was in the nature of funds subscribed for ex- peditions in the field, for specific branches of the Museum's work and for the purchase of special collections. The expeditions maintained during 1901 were the Jesup North Pacific expedition; the Hyde expeditions in the south- western States and in Mexico, supported by Messrs. B. T. Babbitt Hyde and F. E. Hyde, jr.; expeditions for archaeological re- search in the Delaware Valley, supported by Dr. Frederick E. Hyde; the Mexican expedition under the patronage of the Duke of Loubat; an expedition in the Far East for the collection of material illustrating the life and customs of the Chinese; an ex- pedition throughout the western States in search of specimens for the formation of series showing the evolution of the horse, the cost of which was met by Mr. William C. Whitney; the Andrew J. Stone expedition to the Northwest for the purpose of obtaining specimens of the large game animals of the continent; expeditions from the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology to Wyoming, Colorado and other parts of the West for fossil 23

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