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Title: The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : Irving Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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step regarded by many as hostile to religion, andled to the withdrawal of certain financial support. Mr. Jesup was atfirst opposed to Sunday opening because of his religious convictions, buthis breadth of view is shown by the fact that, when the resolution in favorof Sunday opening was finally adopted by the Board of Trustees, he de-voted his energies to making the movement a success. This change tookeffect in August, 1892, with the result that more visitors, especiallyamong the laboring class, were attracted than ever before. The first step toward the artistic display of the collections ofzoology was taken in the engagement of Mrs. Mogridge, an Englishlady, from the British Museum, who introduced the first bird groupsand accessories. This opened the way for the perfected series ofHabitat groups in which the American Museum now leads the world. A new policy of exploration in the field was instituted in 1888 byan expedition for the fast-vanishing bison, supported by Messrs. Jesup (301
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JOSEPH H. CHOATE A POUNDER AND TRUSTEE MORRIS KETCHUM JESOT and Constable. This was the first step toward an exploring policywhich has now developed (as the history of the various departmentsshows in subsequent pages of this report) into the sending of expedi-tions to all regions of the world. In 1888 the economic importance of insect life was emphasized inthe appointment of Mr. Beutenmiiller as Curator of Entomology andin the beginning of a collection of economic entomology showing therelations of insect life to forestry. The naturalistic methods introducedin the bird, and mammal department were followed here with equalsuccess. In 1891 Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn was called from Princeton vertebrateas Curator of Mammalian Palaeontology, and the Museum entered on a P*i*°°°gy-new line of scientific development in the long history of the vertebratelife of the earth, in which it has now attained first rank. Mr. Jesupcontributed liberally to the purchase of three great collections

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