New-York tribune., 1896-05-03

GROWING AS THE CITY GROWS
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS GOOD
YEAR

INCREASE IN ITS ENDOWMENT FUND AND lis
corrr,~rroNs-MoRRIs X JEsUP's REPORT
Favorable financial statements begin the twenty
so,ar,b animal report Just issued by Morris X
Ias,n "a president Of the American Museum or
Natural History A deficiency OF s',Sss VI was paiu
NV a special subscription from the trustees thu'
enabling the Museum to begin the current year Tree
from debt The legacy Of $4,000 bequeathed 10 the
Museum bv Percy Rvington Pyne was paid by MS
executors and placed 10 the credit OF the perhia-
nent endowment fund. 1t has since been invested
Mrs Samuel Lawrence and Mrs. James r. SWORDS
also gave 81, 900 TO this fund in memory OF the la'e
Alexander |. Cotheal.
The enlargement of the building, the report says
was found necessary with the increase of the COL
lections In 1894 and 1895. The law authorizing the
city to erect an extension was signed by Governor
Morton on April T. 1896 The cost of the addition
must come within S3i4,%0
When the wing is finished, II Will be devoted
to the display the collections of the Department OF
Anthropology small space the upper floor
being set apart for the library.
The report adds: at Is clearly apparent that the
steadily increasing growth of the collections will de-
mand prompt action looking TO the erection OF an
addition. completing the east wing. recently erected
Reference is made to the daily attendance Of
visitors having increased, which Is attributed TO the
opening OF the new halls and the extension of the
series of free lectures to the public. The report
continues:
The expedition in Peru: under the direction of
Adolph f. Bandelier, has been eminently successful
and arrange nients have been made to continue his
work until the close of 1896. During the year ne
has to the Museum ninety cases of objects, eX-
cavated mainly 10y himself under his personal SUI
pervision. and has supplemented this material with
photographs, scale maps and charts descriptive oil
the localities explored by him
The expedition which dispatched to Honduras
by the Peabody Museum Of Cambridge, In co.
operation with this Museum, has fulned the an
tcipaions of the committee in charge, and The pro-
portion assigned to this Museum will yell salts
factory returns for its contribution and add many
important objects to our collections.
Rudolph Weber returned early in the autumn
from Sumatra. where he had been collecting for the
Museum with a fair degree of success. Such mate
rial as he brought with him rare and new 10 the
collections but many large specimens were LEFT IN
Sumatra TO await more favorable opportunity for
packing and shipment. Mr. Weber, however, ar
ranged for the continuation of the work unfinished
the time of his departure. and further accessions
may be expected during 1896
DR. Lumholtz has persevered in his researches
among the Indian tribes of the Sierra Madre Noun
tains, adding to the Information already gained
much that IS of deep interest TO the scientist. His
long experience in this field of exploration has served
him well in his Intercourse with the primitive peoples
he has met In the course of his Journey ana the
material received from him is highly commented by
the curator Of this department.
The Museum contributed N.4o0 for the relief Of the
Peary Arctic Expedition. Numerous specimens OF
mammals and birds We're obtained.