Little over a year ago President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work.
Last week the directors started to get him the money, instituted a drive for $10,000,000 which would add an annual $500,000 to the Museum's...
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