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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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multitude shut up in stone walls, to whom aredenied an acquaintance with the beauty of natural objects, orthe study of nature in its usual aspects and conditions, theadvantage of your Museum is, that it affords opportunity; andout of a great number who look on vaguely and experienceonly the healthful excitement of a natural curiosity, one hereand there may be found endowed with special aptitude andtastes. Perhaps some child of genius, whose susceptibili-ties and faculties once aroused and quickened, will repayin the field of discovery and science, through the force ofsome new law in its manifold applications, all your expendi-ture a hundredfold. Commercial values and purely scientific values meetoften on common ground; but their essential life belongsto opposite poles. To some it appears necessary to vindicatethe employment of large amounts of public money in suchan institution as that which you control from the chargeof extravagance; their ideas of value appear to be limited to (28)
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J. PIERPONT MORGAN A FOUNDER AND TRUSTEE MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP that which is exchangeable in the current coin of the market;but the highest results of character and life offer somethingwhich cannot be weighed in the balances of the merchant,be he ever so wise in his generation. This remarkable series of sentences contains the secret of Mr.Jesups administration which crowned it with success: his sympathywith the ideals of science, his dominant desire that they should bebrought within the comprehension of all classes of people, his firmconviction that truth values are higher than money values, his loveof the beautiful. It does not, of course, indicate the other qualitiesof character which enabled him to carry these ideals into effect, namely,his business instinct, his incessant energy of mind, his excellent judg-ment, his liberality. The Board of Trustees at the opening of his administration was Trustees,constituted as follows: Morris K, Jesup, James M. Constable, Robert L. Stuart, Willi

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