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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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Dr. W. D. Matthew, Mr. Barnum Brown, Mr. Walter Granger,Mr. J. W. Gidley, Dr. L. Hussakof, Mr. Charles Earle, and Mr. W. K.Gregory of the Museum Staff, and Dr. F. B. Loomis, Dr. J. H. McGregor,Dr. E. C. Case, Mr. Earl Douglass, and Dr. W. J. Sinclair. CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OFVERTEBRATE PALiEONTOIiOGY GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE Francis R. Appleton, Edward Henry Harriman, Frederic E. Church, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, James M. Constable, Theodore A. Havemeyer, John Daniel Crimmins, Randolph Huntington, Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, Adrian Iselin, William Earl Dodge, Arthur Curtiss James, George Jay Gould, Daniel Willis James, (83) HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM Morris Ketchum Jesup, William Henry Osborn, Mrs. Morris Ketchum Jesup, Mrs. William Henry Osborn, James Robert Keene, Percy Rivington Pyne, Charles Lanier, Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, John Pierpont Morgan, Frank Knight Sturgis, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Collins Whitney. (84)
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05O05 o ooS3 iz;o <O »< H O s ANTHROPOLOGY THE Department of Anthropology was formed in 1873. It re-ceived a fresh impetus through the appointment of ProfessorF. W. Putnam as Curator in 1895. Its collections increasedso rapidly—by purchase and donation alike—that until the west wingwas ready, the question of exhibition and storage room was a mostserious problem. Miscellaneous archaeological material, especially Indian implements,had been received from the very beginning of the Museums history,but the first accession of importance was a collection of rare imple- „ ^ ^ Porto Rican ments made by the aborigines of Porto Rico, purchased and presented Collection,by the Trustees in 1873. The following year the E. H. Davis Arch^eo- f*^^ ^ . ° ^ E. H. Davis logical Collection, containing many typical and rare forms of pre- Collection,historic workmanship from the mounds of Ohio, was purchased. »i.80o. The collection of rare antiquities gathered by Hon. E. G. Squier Squierduring

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