ANNUAL REPORT 2017 JULY 1, 2016 –JUNE 30, 2017 nature, and culture for a growing audience of young scientists and science teachers, as SCIENCE seeking trusted sources of information, well as honorary degrees on Cuban zoologist 4 education, and inspiration. In this complex Gilberto Silva Taboada and former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. time in which so many of our most pressing EDUCATION issues are science based, the Museum’s work Education programs engaged a variety 10 of advancing scientific research, preparing of audiences, ranging from documentary the next generation of scientists and film lovers enjoying the EXHIBITION science teachers, and improving the public Film Festival to families learning together 12 understanding of science is essential. in family science adventures, including

The annual report that follows details the in a partnership with the REPORT OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL many initiatives of the year that advanced Housing Authority; from curious adults in OFFICER our mission. We presented major exhibitions, conversation with pioneering scientists at 14 one of which explored the biodiversity and SciCafe to preschool naturalists and their culture of Cuba and another that showed caregivers exploring nature in the Science FINANCIAL and Nature Program; from computer how the latest technology is revealing the STATEMENTS coders who stayed up in an all-night “Hack secrets of mummies. In October, we joined 16 colleagues and officials in Columbus, Ohio, the Stacks” hackathon challenge using the Research Library’s data sets to serious to mark a historic partnership with COSI, BOARD OF science lovers who took a five-part course in the Center of Science and Industry, to TRUSTEES stem cell science. And far too much more to create two American Museum of Natural 18 detail here. History galleries in its facility, one a dinosaur exhibition and one dedicated to presenting As we look ahead to the Museum’s 150th COMMITTEES OF our special exhibitions. THE BOARD OF anniversary in 2019–20, we continue to find TRUSTEES new ways to express the Museum’s mission Field work took our scientists around the 20 and to fulfill our role in this complex time. FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN world, while others pursued molecular

and genomic research in our laboratories, We thank you for your interest and COMMITTEES OF THE MUSEUM, based on our world-renowned collections of involvement and invite you to stay PROJECT specimens and artifacts. These collections On January 11, 2017, the City and State representatives and agencies, rooted in its collections, imbued with with us for what will be an exciting and COMMITTEES, now exceed 34 million items, not counting community groups, and neighbors, and open technology, and informed by the ways transformative period for the Museum and AND ADVISORY American Museum of Natural digital astrophysics and genomic data. COUNCILS meetings for public questions and feedback. people learn, discover, and interact today, all those who love it. History unveiled preliminary 21 The designs were the product of substantial while also helping us better host and serve designs for the planned In the summer of 2016, the Museum research and creative work by architect some five million annual onsite visitors and signed a groundbreaking memorandum of Richard Gilder Center for GIFTS AND GRANTS Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and exhibit hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren understanding (MOU) with the National Science, Education, and Lewis W. Bernard 22 designer Ralph Appelbaum, working in close visiting in camp and class groups. Museum of Natural History in Havana, Cuba, Chairman Innovation, a new facility to association with the Museum’s scientific, formalizing what has been a longstanding The presentation of the Gilder Center PLANNED GIVING be built on the west side of education, exhibition, and operations staff. collaboration between scientists at the two designs was a milestone that anchored the 31 the Museum campus. institutions and extending our partnership The planned Gilder Center will be year’s ongoing work in science, education, to education and exhibition initiatives. The event was the culmination of many a spectacular, fully modern facility, and exhibition—work that seeks to find new, Ellen V. Futter CREDITS President months of planning and development, showcasing the Museum as an active, more effective ways to study the scientific The Museum conferred Ph.D. and Master 32 including numerous meetings with New York integrated place of science and education, issues of our time and to interpret science, of Arts in Teaching degrees on a new class

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EXPEDITIONS: Adding to Scientific Knowledge and Collections

Norway* Melanie J. Hopkins Peter M. Whiteley Canada Mark E. Siddall Canada Robert F. Rockwell Alaska George F. Barrowclough James M. Carpenter Martine Zilversmit Arizona Jeremy Frank, Jerome G. Rozen 5 Kaiya Provost Edward Myers continents Arkansas Paul Nascimbene Romania+ Mark A. Norell Mongolia Mark A. Norell, Michael J. Novacek California David A. Grimaldi Alexandra Buczek Florida Denton S. Ebel South Korea Laurel Kendall Georgia David Hurst Thomas China Jin Meng 28 Hawaii Eleanor Sterling Bermuda John S. Sparks Mary E. Blair Pakistan Lorenzo Prendini Lu Yao countries Marshall Islands* Jennifer Newell Montana Neil H. Landman Cuba George Amato Marshall Islands Eleanor Sterling Nevada Rae-Wynn Grant Mexico Kelly Speer Vietnam Mary E. Blair Mexico New Mexico Peter M. Whiteley, Ward C. Wheeler Charles S. Spencer Spencer Galen Belize Nancy B. Simmons New York Mark E. Siddall, Spencer Galen, Federico Lopez-Osorio Sudan Vincent Francigny 14 Peter Capainolo Panama Estefanía Rodríguez South Dakota Neil H. Landman Solomon Islands Cynthia Malone, Joe McCarter u.s. states Texas Neil H. Landman Colombia Alejandro Grajales Kaiya Provost Wyoming John J. Flynn, Z. Jack Tseng, Camille Grohe, Mark A. Norell Democratic Republic of Congo Melanie L.J. Stiassny Indonesia Susan L. Perkins Lucas R. Moreira Indonesia Laurel Kendall Peru John J. Flynn Anna Ragni Bali Laurel Kendall Peru Charles S. Spencer

Brazil John S. Sparks Brazil Mark E. Siddall Tahiti Eleanor Sterling Madagascar Christopher J. Raxworthy, Frank T. Burbrink, Arianna Kuhn Madagascar Rae Wynn-Grant

South Africa Lorenzo Prendini South Africa Frank T. Burbink, Arianna Kuhn SELECT EXPEDITIONS FROM FY2017

Argentina Felicity Arengo CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION PALEONTOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY RICHARD GILDER GRADUATE SCHOOL VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY PHYSICAL SCIENCES INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

+ Explore21 Expedition * Constantine S. Niarchos Expeditions

Invertebrate Zoology Total collections COLLECTIONS Vertebrate Zoology 23,340,068 per division 4,410,912 34,120,652 Earth and Planetary Sciences 156,042 specimens and artifacts

44,410 506 1,211 Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection (Frozen Tissue) Anthropology collection items added collection items loaned visiting scholars hosted 111,887 540,037 Paleontology 5,561,706

4 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 5 JANUARY 2017 RESEARCH more than HIGHLIGHTS: Island Life Drove Lemur Evolution Select Publications Across 426 2 18,000 Five Divisions James Herrera scientific publications previously unreported bat bird species estimated worldwide Gerstner Scholar, species identified in Haiti Postdoctoral Research Fellow

JANUARY 2017 JULY 2016 AUGUST 2016 SEPTEMBER 2016 FEBRUARY 2017 Dinosaur Eggs Were Fossil Reveals Ostrich Watch for Rare Respiration Makes River Rapids Boost Ancient Pueblos Traced Slow to Develop Relatives Once Lived Recurrent Nova Begins Camel Spiders Potent Species Diversity Descent Through in Predators Maternal Line Mark A. Norell Ashley Pagnotta Melanie L.J. Stiassny Macaulay Curator of Paleontology Sterling Nesbitt Postdoctoral Researcher Lorenzo Prendini Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Peter M. Whiteley Julia Clarke Curator Research Curator Curator Using CT scans and powerful Research Associates Adam Watson Postdoctoral Fellow microscopes to examine the teeth of fossilized dinosaur embryos, Museum Curator Mark A. Norell and colleagues OCTOBER 2016 MARCH 2017 have found that the incubation period for embryos was much longer than those

Detonating Common U.S. Snake Ant Mimicry Study Confirms Sharks’ of today’s avian species—sometimes White Dwarfs as Actually Three Evolved Many Ancient Ancestors as long as six months. During the Supernovae Different Species Times in Beetles Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, John G. Maisey this drawn-out development cycle may Saavik Ford Frank T. Burbrink Joseph Parker Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Barry McKernan Associate Curator Research Associate Research Curator have put dinosaurs at a disadvantage. Research Associates

OCTOBER 2016 DECEMBER 2016 MAY 2017 JUNE 2017

Fossil “Beardogs” Shed Jaguar Scat Analysis Aids Parasitic Beetle Salamander Southern California Backyard Astronomers Light on Evolution of Conservation Efforts Revealed in Symbiosis Stresses Climate Has Been Stable Discover Brown Dwarf Dogs and Their Relatives Amber Fossil Green Algae for 50,000 Years Claudia Wultsch Jacqueline Faherty Jack Tseng Research Scientist Joseph Parker John Burns Anna Holden Senior Scientist Research Associate George Amato Research Associate Postdoctoral Researcher Ph.D.-degree Candidate, Richard Gilder Graduate School Director, Sackler Institute for Eunsoo Kim Comparative Genomics Assistant Curator

DECEMBER 2016 DECEMBER 2016 JUNE 2017 Study Doubles Estimate of World Bird Species Climate Change Generated Tropical Birds Have Two “Hidden” Bat Researchers Pin Mixed Responses in Ice Age Joel L. Cracraft George F. Barrowclough More Genetic Species Revealed Down Ancient Vertebrates Lamont Curator Associate Curator Diversity Than in Haiti South American Temperate Species Mammal Frank T. Burbrink A new study of morphology and genetics suggests previous Angelo Soto-Centeno Associate Curator Brian T. Smith Research Associate Ross D.E. MacPhee research may have underestimated bird biodiversity by as much as Brian T. Smith Assistant Curator Nancy B. Simmons Curator half, not counting thousands of previously undescribed species that Assistant Curator Curator are hiding in plain sight.

6 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Richard Gilder Graduate School Commencement CURATORS AND DIRECTORS October 4, 2016

Michael J. Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science The 2016 commencement featured two John J. Flynn, Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School distinguished honorees, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., who oversaw the conferral of Scott A. Schaefer, Dean of Science for Collections, Exhibition, and Public Understanding of Science degrees at the first commencement ceremony in 2013 in his role as New York State Education DIVISION OF DIVISION OF DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY Commissioner, and Gilberto Silva Taboada, Cuban ANTHROPOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY Ross D.E. MacPhee biologist and curator emeritus at the Cuban National Museum of Natural History (Museo Laurel Kendall, Division Chair Mark A. Norell, Macaulay Curator, Nancy B. Simmons Division Chair Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, MNHN). Alex de Voogt Robert S. Voss Jennifer E. Newell John J. Flynn, Frick Curator DEPARTMENT OF ORNITHOLOGY Brian G. Richmond Melanie J. Hopkins (L) Museum Chairman Lewis W. Bernard, John B. King, Jr., George F. Barrowclough Gilberto Silva Taboada, and Museum President Ellen V. Futter. Charles S. Spencer Neil H. Landman Joel L. Cracraft, Lamont Curator, David Hurst Thomas John G. Maisey, Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Division Chair Peter M. Whiteley Research Curator Brian T. Smith Jin Meng DIVISION OF CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY Michael J. Novacek INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 2016 RICHARD GILDER GRADUATE SCHOOL GRADUATES

James M. Carpenter, DIVISION OF Ana Luz Porzecanski, Director Peter J. Solomon Family Curator, PHYSICAL SCIENCES Division Chair Eleanor Sterling, Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist DEPARTMENT OF ASTROPHYSICS Robert DeSalle PH.D. GRADUATES IN COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MASTER OF ARTS GRADUATES IN TEACHING David A. Grimaldi Mordecai-Mark Mac Low HAYDEN PLANETARIUM (EARTH SCIENCE) Cheryl Y. Hayashi, Rebecca Oppenheimer Neil deGrasse Tyson, Leon Hess Director of Comparative Stephanie Frances Loria Michael M. Shara Frederick P. Rose Director Biology Research “Systematics of the Scorpion Family Chaerilidae, Homology of Deisy Acevedo Maya Rebecca Pincus the Lateral Eyes of Scorpions, and Biogeography of South-East Eunsoo Kim DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND SACKLER INSTITUTE FOR Dejan Nada Boño v i c´ Gregory Harrison Salwen PLANETARY SCIENCES Asian Scorpions” Susan L. Perkins COMPARATIVE GENOMICS Rebecca Teresa Brosky Raghida M. Sharif Advisor: Lorenzo Prendini Lorenzo Prendini Denton S. Ebel, Division Chair George Amato, Director Hali Kristine Englert Samantha Kelly Swift Estefanía Rodríguez George E. Harlow Lauren Amelia Oliver Andrea Michelle Franco Susan Bullock Sylvester Edmond A. Mathez SOUTHWESTERN Jerome G. Rozen, Jr. “Continental Biogeography of the Hylarana Frog (Anura: RESEARCH STATION Arthur William Funk II Kin Y. Tsoi Mark E. Siddall James D. Webster Ranidae) Radiation, and In Situ Diversification in Australasia” Ward C. Wheeler Geoffrey Bender, Director Advisor: Christopher J. Raxworthy Sean Timothy Krepski Caitlin Tully DIVISION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY Vernon Meidlinger RESEARCH LIBRARY Akinobu Watanabe DEPARTMENT OF HERPETOLOGY Thomas Baione, “Variations on the Theme of Morphological Characterization, Harold Boeschenstein Director of Development and Evolution, Featuring CT Imaging, Geometric Christopher J. Raxworthy Library Services Morphometrics, Phylogenetics and Archosauria” Frank T. Burbrink Advisor: Mark A. Norell After six successful years, the Master of Arts in Teaching DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY Jonathan Foox program has 70 alumni Scott A. Schaefer “Phylogenomics and Analytical Workflows to Elucidate the teaching approximately 8,400 John S. Sparks Parasitic Evolution of Myxozoa” students in high-needs schools Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Advisor: Mark E. Siddall across New York State. NEW CURATOR Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Research Curator Cheryl Y. Hayashi Bernardo F. Santos Cheryl Y. Hayashi, who joined the Museum “Systematics, Morphological Evolution and Convergence in as Leon Hess Director of Comparative Cryptine Wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)” Biology Research in January 2017, is one of Advisor: James M. Carpenter the world’s top experts on spider silk.

8 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 9 EDUCATION

13th Annual Urban Advantage Science Expo

PROGRAM June 10, 2017 HIGHLIGHTS: 192,204 127,600 In fiscal year 2017, the pioneering science enrichment program—a Exploring Cutting-Edge Science, Celebrating partnership with seven other cultural institutions and the New York attendees at public programs drop-in visitors to the Discovery Room, City Department of Education—reached 830 teachers and 84,000 Cultures marking its highest visitation year on record students in 289 middle schools across all five boroughs. A new pilot program extended the experience to teachers in Grades 3–5 at 22 public elementary schools.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 OCTOBER 13– 16, 2016

Hayden Special Event: Sampling an Asteroid: Margaret Mead Film Festival: “Re-Frame” MARCH 29, 2017 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission In the spirit of Margaret Mead, the 40th annual Director of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart festival continued to push the boundaries of offered new visualizations highlighting how the visual anthropology and documentary film. Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction spacecraft OSIRIS-REx’s mapping of the asteroid The Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award went to Hosted by Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil Bennu will help scientists choose a location for Aleksandra Maciuszek for Casa Blanca; honorable deGrasse Tyson, the panel included (L to R): Hank Greely, director of the sampling surface material. The samples could mention was given to Jessie Deeter for A Center of Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University; Beth Shapiro, shed light on how our solar system formed and Revolution in Four Seasons. professor at University of California, Santa Cruz; Gregory Kaebnick, how life on Earth began. scholar and editor of the Hastings Center Report; George Church, professor at Harvard University and MIT; and Curator Ross D.E. MacPhee.

NOVEMBER 18–20, 2016 DECEMBER 30, 2016

Hackathon: Hack the Stacks with Kwanzaa 2016: Songs for the Soul BridgeUp: STEM MAY 13, 2017 Ruben Studdard headlined the Teams of computer programmers celebration, featuring Linda Humes, worked overnight in partnership master drummer Sanga of the Valley, Celebrate Culture! with the Museum’s Research Library LeeAnet Noble, youth drummers Los Sueños del Caribe: People, Land, and Place on a 24-hour challenge to develop William Diarra Humes and Jason The festival, held in conjunction with the special exhibition ¡Cuba! and hosted new tools for mining, visualizing, Simmons, and students from the Celia by WNET's Rafael Pi Roman, celebrated the natural and cultural diversity of the and increasing access to the library’s Cruz Bronx High School of Music. Caribbean with family-friendly activities and the premiere of new music and extensive collections. poetry co-developed by Grammy-winning Cuban-American jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera and students from Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music.

Celebrate Pacific Northwest Culture JUNE 30, 2017 October 2016–May 2017

SciCafe Special Event Eight months of programming for more than 5,000 visitors focused Zika: What You Need to Know on the dynamic, living cultures represented in the iconic Northwest Curator Susan L. Perkins, W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, Coast Hall. Museum volunteers led storytelling and activities for Catherine Spong, National Institutes of Health, and Jay K. Varma, young visitors to highlight the cultural traditions of Northwest Coast New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, peoples. In addition, Sean Young of the Haida Gwaii Museum in British discussed the plan for dealing with the threat of Zika virus. Columbia guided visitors on hall tours via a telepresence robot.

10 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 11 EXHIBITION

American Museum of Natural History Dinosaur Gallery at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) EXHIBITION in Columbus, Ohio HIGHLIGHTS: 4 11 Announced September 2016 Scientific Storytelling in A unique collaboration with a leading science center, this gallery features current Three Dimensions exhibitions opened onsite traveling exhibitions at 19 venues across 3 countries paleontological research from the American Museum of Natural History and spotlights the evolution of dinosaur biology. Highlights include a 40-foot-long T. rex skeleton and a 700-square-foot diorama of China's Liaoning Forest, one of the largest life-sized recreations of a prehistoric environment ever built. The American Museum of Natural History Dinosaur Gallery opened in November 2017. The adjacent American Museum of Natural History Special ¡CUBA! NOVEMBER 21, 2016 – AUGUST 13, 2017 Exhibition Gallery, featuring special exhibitions on a rotating basis, opened in March 2018 with Traveling the Silk Road. Co-curated by Ana Luz Porzecanski, director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, and Chris J. Raxworthy, curator in the Department of Herpetology. This bilingual exhibition explored the extraordinary biodiversity across Cuba’s remote forests, deep caves, expansive wetlands, and dazzling reefs through Three Masks of Bali: A Living Artistic Tradition immersive exhibits that were developed with October 13, 2016–May 7, 2017 colleagues at the Cuban National Museum of Natural Curated by Laurel Kendall, curator of Asian ethnology, Division of Anthropology. History (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, MNHN), as well as highlighted the Caribbean island Three recently acquired Balinese masks were displayed in conjunction nation’s culture, its people, and its history. with the 2016 Margaret Mead Film Festival, highlighting contemporary work from the South Pacific.

SAUROPODS AT THE MUSEUM FEBRUARY 17, 2017 Malagan Ceremonies of New Ireland June 2, 2017–May 7, 2018 Curated by a team led by Anthropology Research Associate Sergio Jarillo de la Curated by Mark A. Norell, Macaulay Curator of Paleontology. Torre and Columbia University’s Museum Anthropology students. This new permanent display in the Wallach Explorer App In June 2017, a new display featured items from the Museum’s remarkable Orientation Center about the Museum’s history malagan collection, focusing on the ongoing ritual practices in New of sauropod collecting includes fossils from the Launched Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, and the carved figures associated Museum’s Big Bone Room, including a Camarasaurus November 22, 2016 with them. tail and neck vertebrae, neck and skull fossils from the Inside You juvenile sauropod in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, Opened June 24, 2017 Part of an institution-wide and the pelvis of Diplodocus longus, which was among Co-curated by Susan L. Perkins and Robert DeSalle, curators in the Museum’s Division effort to redefine the Museum the Museum's first non-avian dinosaur fossils and of Invertebrate Zoology and the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. found by legendary dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown. experience for the digital age, Inspired by the popular Museum exhibition The Secret World Inside You, the updated Explorer app, this exhibition introduces visitors to the world of microbes and how they affect our health and well-being. developed with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, uses cutting-edge location- MUMMIES MARCH 20, 2017 –JANUARY 7, 2018 aware technology to let Digital Totem, Northwest Coast Hall visitors personalize their Co-curated at the Museum by David Hurst Thomas, Installed July 27, 2016 journey through the Museum’s curator of North American Archaeology in the Division Curated by Peter M. Whiteley, curator, Division of Anthropology. 45 permanent exhibition halls. of Anthropology, and John J. Flynn, Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals in the Division of Paleontology; developed by Featuring refined wayfinding, The Museum worked closely with Northwest Coast communities to The Field Museum, . create an interactive installation that brings contemporary voices and in-app ticket purchases, and Shedding new light on ancient mummies that have new interpretation into this historic hall via a touch-screen portal to the a wealth of new content, the been recently re-examined using 21st-century tools peoples, places, and sounds of the Pacific Northwest. The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter new Explorer lets visitors and technologies, this exhibition, co-curated by Curator October 7, 2017–May 28, 2018 select their interests, then of North American Archaeology David Hurst Thomas, This annual live exhibit invited visitors to mingle with up to 500 recommends exhibits based on and developed by The Field Museum, featured one of fluttering, iridescent butterflies among blooming tropical flowers and a visitor’s location. the largest collections of mummies housed in North lush green vegetation in 80-degree temperatures. America and provided an unparalleled glimpse into the lives and traditions of people from cultures of the past.

12 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 13 REPORT OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Fiscal year 2017 marked another year of solid financial performance and growth in the Unrestricted Operating Museum’s net assets. Revenues And Expenses

Due to continued strength in fundraising and attendance as well 3%3% as ongoing financial discipline, the Museum generated positive net unrestricted operating revenues of $113,312 in fiscal year 2017. This 9% 28% positive outcome was the net result after transfers of designated 16% contributions and other revenues to plant and long-term investments. Revenues

The Museum’s net assets increased by $141.0 million, from $896.8 16% 25% million to $1,037.8 million, during fiscal year 2017. Over the last five fiscal years, the Museum’s net assets increased by $355.4 million, or 52 percent, due to consistently strong Museum operations, continued 28% Visitor contributions and admissions strength in fundraising, endowment appreciation, restructuring of the 25% Contributions and grants* Museum’s long-term debt and reductions in the Museum’s liabilities 16% Endowment and related funds* 44% for postretirement health care. 16% Auxiliary activities scientific facilities. As in the past, the Museum debt, and borrowings on its lines of credit Marketable Equities 9% The City of New York funded its capital improvements from a remained at zero. Absolute return/hedged equity funds 34% UNRESTRICTED OPERATING RESULTS 3% Membership variety of sources, including the City of New Marketable fixed income 3% 3% Miscellaneous revenue and other fees York, State of New York, private donations, ENDOWMENT FUNDS During fiscal year 2017, the Museum’s annual unrestricted operating Marketable real assets 1% and the Museum’s endowment. revenues and support increased by $5.8 million, from $186.3 million to The return on the Museum’s endowment was 14% 4% Private investment partnerships 5% $192.1 million. Annual unrestricted operating expenses, together with +13.5 percent in fiscal year 2017, reflective 4% The Museum recognized a non-cash Cash equivalents 4% transfers, also increased by $5.8 million, from $186.2 million to $192.0 5% depreciation expense of $30.6 million during of strong worldwide equity markets. Net of million for the same period, resulting in net unrestricted operating Total 100% 38% fiscal year 2017, which exceeded the Museum’s planned withdrawals from the endowment revenue and support of $113,312 during fiscal year 2017. 9% $28.6 million investment and resulted in to provide funding for Museum operations Expenses THE IMPORTANCE OF The Museum continued to receive substantial operating and 8% a decrease of the value of the Museum’s and capital expenditures, as well as gifts and CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS

programmatic support from Trustees, other individuals, foundations, 9% physical plant of $2.0 million, from $408.3 pledge payments to the endowment, the 18% The Museum continued to benefit greatly and corporations, as well as the City of New York, the State of million to $406.3 million. market value of the endowment increased by from the extraordinary generosity of its New York, and the federal government. During fiscal year 2017, $67.5 million in fiscal year 2017, from $607.8 DEBT AND OTHER LIABILITIES private and public supporters. During fiscal contributions and grants used to fund Museum operations, including 38% Scientific research, education, and exhibition million to $675.3 million. 18% year 2017, the Museum raised a total of $165.7 a portion of net assets released from restrictions, totaled $48.1 million. Guardianship, maintenance, and operating costs The Museum’s liabilities decreased by $6.6 9% The Museum’s endowment asset allocation million in support of its operations, programs, Additionally, the Museum received unrestricted operating support Cost of goods sold and other expenses of auxiliary activities million during fiscal year 2017 from $406.6 is intended both to drive investment return capital improvements, and endowment—a from the City of New York, including funding for certain energy and 8% General and administrative million to $400.0 million. The decrease in and to provide protection in volatile markets. major endorsement of the importance pension costs, totaling $17.2 million. The City of New York also provided 9% Transfers to fund payment of debt service liabilities was largely attributable to a $10.7 5% capital support to the Museum (see “Capital Expenditures”). Fundraising and membership million decrease in the valuation of the The Museum’s endowment funds are invested and social impact of the Museum’s work 4% Communications Museum’s interest rate exchange liabilities by independent investment managers in in science, education, and exhibition. As a 5% CAPITAL EXPENDITURES Visitor services diversified equity and fixed income securities result, the Museum continued to balance its 4% Information technology related to its debt, reflecting higher interest In fiscal year 2017, the Museum invested $28.6 million to fund priority rates used to value these liabilities. During and are overseen by the Museum’s Investment operating budget, enhance its programmatic capital improvement projects to meet infrastructure and security * Includes a portion of net assets released from restrictions fiscal year 2017, the Museum made principal Committee. As of June 30, 2017, the Museum’s offerings, and make improvements to its needs as well as permanent exhibition hall renovations and new payments of $3.2 million on its long-term endowment was invested as follows: infrastructure and facilities.

14 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 15 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES—UNRESTRICTED

These statements are summarized for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2016, and excerpted from the audited financial statements. A complete set of the audited financial statements is available onamnh.org .

OPERATING REVENUE AND SUPPORT FY 2017 FY 2016

Investment return designated for operations $ 20,076,659 $ 19,844,004 Contributions and grants 29,297,376 30,568,006 Operating support from the City of New York 17,223,267 16,296,675 Visitors’ contributions and admissions 52,774,018 49,423,737 Membership fees 6,654,130 6,617,511 Auxiliary activities 29,873,157 27,305,113 Miscellaneous fees and other revenue 6,721,430 6,654,225 Net assets released from restrictions 29,464,998 29,635,855 Total operating revenue and support $ 192,085,035 $ 186,345,126

OPERATING EXPENSES

Scientific research $ 36,476,319 $ 35,728,689 Education 25,590,664 25,108,950 Exhibitions 9,682,347 7,470,584 Membership 2,325,340 2,324,771 Visitor services 8,840,958 8,709,788 Auxiliary activities 17,535,047 13,892,601 General and administrative 17,215,542 16,040,166 Fundraising 6,927,026 6,308,614 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Communications and digital media 8,220,921 9,170,041 Information technology 7,782,268 7,180,344 Guardianship, maintenance, and operating costs 34,538,901 32,962,798 Total Operating Expenses $ 175,135,333 $ 164,897,346 CONDENSED SUMMARY OF CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS Designated contributions and transfers to plant and long-term investments 16,836,390 21,333,506 OF FINANCIAL POSITION Operating revenue and support in excess of operating expenses, designated contributions, and transfers $ 113,312 $ 114,274 These statements are summarized for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2016, and excerpted from the audited financial statements. A complete set of the audited financial statements is available onamnh.org . NON-OPERATING REVENUE, SUPPORT, AND EXPENSES

ASSETS FY 2017 FY 2016 REVENUE AND SUPPORT FOR PLANT

Cash and other operating assets $ 174,097,093 $ 138,182,843 Contributions, grants, and miscellaneous revenue $ 3,253,415 $ 249,047 Contributions and grants receivable, net 172,744,177 140,755,918 Capital support from the City of New York 5,623,559 5,360,346 Long-term investments 684,690,104 616,135,884 Net assets released from restrictions 4,931,025 2,970,460 Plant and equipment, net 406,313,589 408,317,384 Transfer from long-term investments and operations to plant 21,562,757 18,788,597 Total assets $ 1,437,844,963 $ 1,303,392,029 PLANT EXPENSES

LIABILITIES Interest and related expenses $ 10,110,796 $ 9,745,314 Change in value of interest rate exchange and cap agreements (10,660,151) 12,641,987 Accounts payable and other liabilities $ 125,356,183 $ 128,795,865 Depreciation and amortization 30,758,464 31,416,247 Bonds and loans payable 274,685,723 277,842,710 Plant expenses not capitalized 760,689 401,987 Total liabilities $ 400,041,906 $ 406,638,575 LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS AND OTHER NET ASSETS Contributions and bequests $ 1,131,648 $ 2,161,930 $ 290,252,438 $ 274,516,865 Unrestricted Investment return in excess of amounts designated for operations and plant 8,457,035 (28,816,907) 514,297,865 419,914,942 Temporarily restricted Net assets released from restrictions 11,168,527 10,771,513 233,252,754 202,321,647 Permanently restricted Transfers from plant and operations to long-term investments and other, net (4,726,367) 2,544,908 Total net assets $ 1,037,803,057 $ 896,753,454 Pension-related activities and other (4,809,540) (3,070,894) Total liabilities and net assets $ 1,437,844,963 $ 1,303,392,029 Change in unrestricted net assets $ 15,735,573 $ (43,132,261)

16 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES As of June 30, 2017

Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman Ellen V. Futter, President EX-OFFICIO HONORARY TRUSTEES TRUSTEES

Hon. Bill de Blasio Roger C. Altman Elbridge T. Gerry, Jr. Irma Milstein TRUSTEES Mayor of the City of New York Philip F. Anschutz Earl G. Graves Morris W. Offit

Hon. Melissa Mark-Viverito Jackie Bezos Marlene Hess Charles H. Mott William S. Beinecke David A. Hamburg Jeremiah P. Ostriker Speaker of the Council of the Scott L. Bok Richard E. Jaffe Valerie S. Peltier City of New York Stephanie Bell-Rose Richard A. Jalkut Richard D. Parsons Tom Brokaw Helene L. Kaplan Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Hon. Scott M. Stringer Melinda Blinken Harry P. Kamen Kathleen I. Powers Comptroller of the City of Christopher C. Davis Katheryn P. Kempner Virginia Hearst Randt Daniel Brodsky Deborah C. Kessler Alan Rappaport New York Vivian H. Donnelley Richard S. LeFrak Shaiza Rizavi Raymond G. Chambers Frederick A. Klingenstein Richard L. Revesz Hon. Gale A. Brewer Donald K. Clifford, Jr. David H. Komansky Richard Robinson Nancy B. Fessenden John Lykouretzos Theodore Roosevelt IV President of the Borough of Tina Fey Linda R. Macaulay Frank V. Sica Steven A. Denning Karen J. Lauder Jonathan F. P. Rose Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Victor Marrero Anne Sidamon-Eristoff, Hon. Mitchell J. Silver L.F. Boker Doyle Shelly B. Lazarus Janet Ross Chairwoman Emerita Commissioner of the Richard Gilder Theodore A. Mathas Fiona Druckenmiller Ilene Sackler Lefcourt Ralph L. Schlosstein Department of Parks and Laura Baudo Sillerman Joseph H. Gleberman Raymond J. McGuire Recreation John L. Eastman William M. Lewis, Jr. Mary C. Solomon Anna Deavere Smith Robert G. Goelet, Rebekah Mercer Hon. Tom Finkelpearl Hughlyn F. Fierce Thomas E. Lovejoy Constance Spahn Chairman Emeritus Peter J. Solomon Lorne Michaels Commissioner of the Emily H. Fisher Shirley M. Malcom Rosalind P. Walter Sibyl R. Golden Christine A. Varney Department of Cultural Affairs Roberto A. Mignone Tom Freston Norman S. Matthews Judy H. Weston Hon. Carmen Fariña David S. Gottesman Kenneth L. Wallach Victor F. Ganzi Eugene R. McGrath Edward O. Wilson Alexandra Mondre Chancellor of the New York Peggy Hamburg Edwin H. Morgens Tamsen Ann Ziff City Department of Education Helene D. Gayle Edward H. Meyer

18 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 19 COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES As of June 30, 2017 COMMITTEES OF THE MUSEUM, PROJECT COMMITTEES,

AND ADVISORY COUNCILS As of June 30, 2017

AUDIT COMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE PLANNING TRUSTEES AND COMPENSATION Christine A. Varney, Chairman GOVERNANCE Christopher C. Davis, Chairman DEVELOPMENT EXHIBITION POLICY INVESTMENT CENTER FOR (CAMPAIGN) BIODIVERSITY AND Lewis W. Bernard Christopher C. Davis, Chairman Lewis W. Bernard Tom Brokaw, Chairman Roberto A. Mignone, Chairman CONSERVATION Peter J. Solomon, Chairman Lewis W. Bernard Nancy B. Fessenden Jackie Bezos Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman ADVISORY COUNCIL Lewis W. Bernard Lewis W. Bernard Lewis W. Bernard Richard E. Jaffe Nancy B. Fessenden Nancy B. Fessenden Tom Brokaw Scott Bok Ellen V. Futter Scott L. Bok Joseph H. Gleberman, Chairman John Lykouretzos Ellen V. Futter Ellen V. Futter Christopher C. Davis Tom Brokaw Richard S. LeFrak Ellen V. Futter John Alexander Charles H. Mott David S. Gottesman Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Ellen V. Futter Ellen V. Futter Lorne Michaels Joseph H. Gleberman Lewis W. Bernard Shaiza Rizavi Charles H. Mott David S. Gottesman Linda R. Macaulay Victor Marrero Virginia Hearst Randt John Lykouretzos Peggy Bewkes Theodore Roosevelt IV Theodore Roosevelt IV Linda R. Macaulay Allison Mignone Christine A. Varney Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Linda R. Macaulay Melinda Blinken Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Roberto A. Mignone Laura Baudo Sillerman Mary C. Solomon Alan Rappaport Scott L. Bok BUDGET AND FINANCE Christine A. Varney Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Peter J. Solomon EXECUTIVE Anna Deavere Smith Kenneth L. Wallach Roberta Denning Theodore A. Mathas, Chairman Laura Baudo Sillerman Rosalind P. Walter LIBRARY Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman EDUCATION POLICY Vivian H. Donnelley Lewis W. Bernard Christine A. Varney Ann Ziff Jackie Bezos OFFICERS Nancy B. Fessenden and Pamela S. Farkas Nancy B. Fessenden Laura Baudo Sillerman, Chairman David S. Gottesman, Tom Brokaw SCIENCE POLICY Nancy B. Fessenden Ellen V. Futter Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman Lewis W. Bernard RICHARD GILDER Co-Chairmen Christopher C. Davis GRADUATE SCHOOL Emily H. Fisher Marlene Hess Christopher C. Davis Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Chairman Jackie Bezos Lewis W. Bernard Vivian H. Donnelley Ellen V. Futter Richard E. Jaffe Ellen V. Futter Lewis W. Bernard Christopher C. Davis Vivian H. Donnelley, Chairman Ellen V. Futter Nancy B. Fessenden Paul E. Graf Linda R. Macaulay Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Scott L. Bok Vivian H. Donnelley Lewis W. Bernard Alexandra Mondre Ellen V. Futter Kathryn Hearst Roberto A. Mignone David S. Gottesman Tom Brokaw Nancy B. Fessenden Nancy B. Fessenden Constance Roosevelt Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Meg Hirschfeld Edwin H. Morgens Richard S. LeFrak Vivian H. Donnelley Ellen V. Futter Ellen V. Futter Theodore Roosevelt IV David S. Gottesman Richard E. Jaffe Charles H. Mott Linda R. Macaulay Nancy B. Fessenden Rebekah Mercer Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Marlene Hess Karen J. Lauder Theodore Roosevelt IV Theodore A. Mathas Ellen V. Futter Alexandra Mondre Laura Baudo Sillerman ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Richard S. LeFrak COMMITTEE Thomas E. Lovejoy Frank V. Sica Roberto A. Mignone Joseph H. Gleberman Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Linda R. Macaulay Edwin H. Morgens Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Robert G. Goelet Virginia Hearst Randt Nancy B. Fessenden, Chairman Theodore A. Mathas Valerie Ohrstrom BUILDING AND GROUNDS Christine A. Varney Peggy Hamburg Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Lewis W. Bernard Roberto A. Mignone Valerie S. Peltier Ellen V. Futter Valerie S. Peltier, Chairman Richard E. Jaffe Charles H. Mott Theodore Roosevelt IV Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Lewis W. Bernard Katheryn P. Kempner Valerie S. Peltier Ross Sandler Ellen V. Futter Linda R. Macaulay Charles Phillips, Jr. Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Richard S. LeFrak Roberto A. Mignone Theodore Roosevelt IV Marion Schwartz Katheryn P. Kempner Edwin H. Morgens Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Constance Spahn Victor Marrero Valerie S. Peltier Laura Baudo Sillerman Edward O. Wilson Alexandra Mondre Frank V. Sica Peter J. Solomon Peter J. Solomon Anne Sidamon-Eristoff SCIENTIFIC STAFF Christine A. Varney Kenneth L. Wallach Kenneth L. Wallach George Amato COLLECTIONS Robert DeSalle Linda R. Macaulay, Chairman Michael J. Novacek Lewis W. Bernard Susan L. Perkins Nancy B. Fessenden Ana Luz Porzecanski Ellen V. Futter Eleanor J. Sterling Peggy Hamburg Katheryn P. Kempner Rebekah Mercer Roberto A. Mignone Shaiza Rizavi Theodore Roosevelt IV

20 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 21 Citi Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Anderson Valerie and Wright Ohrstrom The Condé Nast Publications Arcus Foundation Penguin Random House GIFTS AND GRANTS Con Edison Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Pfizer Inc. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP AXA Equitable The Reiss Family Foundation Andrew Davis, Shelby Cullom Davis Penelope Ayers, The William P and Gertrude Restaurant Associates Charitable Fund Foundation Inc. Mr. Andrew Right Mr. Alec Baldwin PUBLIC FUNDERS New York Life Foundation Barbara and Ray Dalio The Derfner Foundation Ruth Magness Rollins The Bank of New York Mellon Valerie and Jeffrey Peltier, Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Denning, The Sage Jodie and John Eastman May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. Hans-Peter Biemann FEDERAL Foundation Foundation Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond S&P Global Robert Scully and Nancy Peretsman Victor F. and Patricia M. Ganzi Estate of Edwin F. Gamble Ms. Katherine Bleckman and Mr. John Bleckman Mr. and Mrs. Drew Saur Institute of Museum and Library Services Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation Google Inc. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Burke, Jr. Ralph Schlosstein, Schlosstein-Hartley National Aeronautics and Space Administration Robert F. Gossett, Jr. The Gingrich Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Burke Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts $500,000 TO $999,999 Anthony Gould Sibyl R. Golden* Capital One Bank Mr. Peter W. Schweitzer, The William P. and National Endowment for the Humanities Margaret Hess Chi and Michael Y. Chi Gertrude Foundation Inc. Anonymous (2) John & Amy Griffin Foundation Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. National Institutes of Health Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Accenture Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Hess Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Greenwall National Science Foundation Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Coleman III Aaron and Betty Lee Stern Foundation Chase Private Client The Marc Haas Foundation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Credit Suisse Mr. and Mrs. James Stern The Red Crane Foundation Helen Hays Department of Defense (DARPA) Kimberly and Greg Lippmann Mr. and Mrs. Peter Daneker Tiffany & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner, Jr. Hearst United States Fish and Wildlife Service Joella and John Lykouretzos Mr. and Mrs. George David UBS Estate of Flora P. Klein The Klein Family Foundation United States Department of Education Filomen M. D'Agostino Foundation Delta Air Lines Rosalind P. Walter Foundation Macaulay Family Foundation JetBlue Airways United States Department of Energy Linda R. and William E. Macaulay Ms. Neda DeMayo Wells Fargo The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Kazis Family United States Department of the Interior Melissa and Keith Meister Americas White & Case Anne and Charles H. Mott The Korein Foundation United States–Israel Binational Foundation MetLife Foundation Joe and Diana DiMenna Laura B. Whitman and Thomas C. Danziger The Pinkerton Foundation Evelyn H. Lauder Charitable Lead Trust Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Milstein, Paul and Irma Disney Conservation Fund Wildlife Conservation Society The Simons Foundation LionTree STATE Milstein Foundation Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc. Corrin Yep and Ned Solot Drs. Marilyn and James H. Simons Michael and Marjorie Loeb Alexandra and Greg Mondre The Lincoln Ellsworth Foundation Ziff Brothers Investments Empire State Development Peter and Susan Solomon Loews Corporation New York Life Insurance Company, Inc. The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Zilkha Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust Keryn and Ted Mathas Services Panthera Corporation Evercore Partners Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and Eric Zinterhofer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. McInerney New York State Assembly Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of New York Inc. Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC $250,000 TO $499,999 Jennifer Mercer New York State Council on the Arts Mr. Ronald O. Perelman and Dr. Anna Chapman Jeanne Donovan Fisher Morgan Stanley New York State Education Department Anonymous Christopher R. Redlich, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Fuhrman $10,000 TO $24,999 William T. Morris Foundation, Inc. New York State Department of Health Scott and Roxanne Bok, Bok Family Foundation Julian Robertson Nancy A. Garvey Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation Anonymous (5) Vivian H. Donnelley, Strachan Donnelley Family Daniel and Joanna S. Rose GoldenTree Asset Management, LP Daniel D. Adams and Dr. Manon Cox Charitable Lead Unitrust Peter G. Peterson and CITY Jack* and Susan Rudin, The Rudin Susanne and Paul Graf Allstate Insurance Company Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Henry Peterson Foundation Foundation, Inc. Sloan and David Greenspan Mayor of the City of New York Jill and Alan Rappaport The Annenberg Foundation The Ford Foundation Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Estate of Georgina M. Hecker Henry H. Arnhold, Arnhold Foundation Manhattan Borough President Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hearst III The Rice Family Foundation Frank V. Sica Peter C. Hein and Anne Farley New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Connie and Ted Roosevelt, Whalesback Foundation Messrs. William and Bayard Baker Lynette and Richard Jaffe, The Jaffe Family Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, The Howard Mr. Paul C. Hilal and Ms. Josefin Hilal Candace C. Barasch Council of the City of New York Foundation Phipps Foundation Janet C. Ross, J and AR Foundation HSBC Bank Richard S. LeFrak, The Richard S. and Karen LeFrak The Barker Welfare Foundation Laura Baudo Sillerman Frederick M. R. Smith*, The Fremarch Foundation Charitable Foundation, Inc. IBM Corporation Baron Capital Management Mary Solomon/GS Gives Hugoton Foundation TRUSTEES, INDIVIDUALS, The Ambrose Monell Foundation ING Financial Services LLC Mr. and Mrs. Carter Bays Peter and Susan Solomon Family Foundation Epstein Teicher Philanthropies FOUNDATIONS, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Morgens, The Wildwood John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Richard A. and Amelia Bernstein Tishman Speyer Foundation The Tiffany & Co. Foundation CORPORATIONS AND Johnson & Johnson BHP Billiton Judson B. Traphagen Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Tisch ORGANIZATIONS Dana Wallach Jones and Michael T. M. Jones Bloomingdale's Viacom Virginia Hearst Randt and Dana Randt Mr. and Mrs. Steven Tseng JPMorgan Chase BNP Paribas Marshall M. Weinberg Shaiza Rizavi and Jonathan Friedland Estate of Susan E. Watkins $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Annette Kade Charitable Trust Mr. Christopher Bray Josh and Judy Weston Family Foundation Anne and Bernard* Spitzer Tony and Nanar Yoseloff Charles Keene Foundation The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Anonymous Ann Ziff Ms. Marta J. Lawrence Family Foundation Bezos Family Foundation Daniel Ziff $100,000 TO $249,999 $50,000 TO $99,999 The Lehoczky Escobar Family Jennifer Bruder Lavin and Edward Lavin The Helen Gurley Brown Revocable Trust 100Kin10 Anonymous (2) Marshall P. and Rachael C. Levine Cahill Gordon & Reindel Dalio Ocean Initiative $25,000 TO $49,999 Amanda and Thomas Lister Canon U.S.A., Inc. Christopher C. Davis, Shelby Cullom Davis Roger Altman and Jurate Kazickas 21st Century Fox Charitable Fund Herbert C. Bernard*, The Fund In Memory of Altman Foundation Anonymous (4) Constance and David Littman Dr. Ronald Caplan and Ms. Aliza Avital-Caplan Nancy B. and Hart Fessenden Melida Liscano Philip F. Anschutz, The Anschutz Foundation Acacia Conservation Fund Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lober W. P. Carey Richard Gilder, Gilder Foundation, Inc. Jackie and Mike Bezos Bank of America Merrill Lynch Estate of Shepard L. Alexander Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Castagnello David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman, Bloomberg Mr. William S. Beinecke AllianceBernstein L.P. MetLife, Inc. Centerbridge Partners, L.P. The Gottesman Fund The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Estate of Louis H. Blumengarten American Airlines Alice and Lorne Michaels Ralph M. Cestone Foundation, Inc. Mr. Kenneth C. Griffin Carnegie Corporation of New York Tom and Meredith Brokaw, The Brokaw Family American Express Company Moody's Corporation Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Charles Hayden Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Carson Foundation American International Group, Inc. New York Times Company Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation

* Deceased

22 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 23 The Abby and David Cohen Family Foundation V. and L. Marx Foundation Mr. Michael K. Vlock Mr. and Mrs. Gary Goldring National Geographic Channel Ann Eden Woodward Foundation Theodore and Alice Cohn Mr. and Mrs. David E. Massengill W. R. Berkley Corporation The Kandell Fund Mr. James L. Nederlander and Mrs. Margo M. Laila Worrell and Michael Hulbert Colgate-Palmolive Company Diane and Adam E. Max The Walt Disney Company Boo Grace Nederlander Yext, Inc. Mrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. McGrath Estate of Eunice Weed Grant Thornton LLP Nicholson & Galloway, Inc. Michael and Marilyn Dee Mr. Richard McVey and Ms. Lara Spencer Peter and Mary Beth Weinberger Mses. Trish and Hannah Hamlin David Nolan $2,500 TO $4,999 Charina Foundation, Inc. Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Inc. Harbor Group International, LLC Ogilvy & Mather Douglas and Susanne Durst Anonymous (5) Miller Khoshkish Foundation Elizabeth H. Williams Mrs. Lindsay Hardie Mrs. Jennifer W. Oppenheimer* Estate of William B. Eddison Estate of Gene B. Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Eric Mindich Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks Ms. Jaime Harlock-Caiola Dr. David Orentreich Mr. and Mrs. Steven Einhorn Accor Hotels Mitsubishi International Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Winokur Mary W. Harriman Foundation Barbara Page and John Liu Elliott Management Company Eric Altmann Jim Moran & Associates, Inc. Yale University Mr. Kevin Harris Dr. Louis B. Pieper, Jr., DVM Niko Elmaleh Rita Antanir Posin and Hana Ohayon Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Moran The Donald and Barbara Zucker Foundation, Inc. Mr. Matthew Harvey Quebec-Labrador Foundation Emigrant Savings Bank Yoni Arbel and Leona Clague Ms. Samantha Regan Mr. and Mrs. Laurence J. Nath Mr. and Mrs. Carney Hawks Ernst & Young Arup Judith and Burton Resnick New Mountain Capital LLC $5,000 TO $9,999 Ms. Gillian Hearst Shaw and Mr. Christian Simonds Excursionist LLC Atlanta Fulton County Zoo, Inc. John R. Robinson and Barbara Robinson Family Newmark & Company Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hesse First Eagle Investment Management Foundation Anonymous (5) Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Roche Julia and Jamal Nusseibeh Ms. Malda Hibri and Mr. Robert Eisner Mr. and Mrs. David Foley Mr. Angelo Acconcia and Ms. Cristina Baldassarra Mr. Andrew Baker and Ms. Anne Baker The Rockefeller Group Oceanic Heritage Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Higgins Fundmental Advisors Altria Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Randall J. Barbato Susan and David Rockefeller Nancy and Morris W. Offit Mr. Douglas Hitchner and Ms. Larissa Martell Mr. Michael Gallagher American Ornithological Society Anne H. Bass Adrian Ross, Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet Milary Olson and Steven B. Cohen Aristeia Capital, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Hite The Howard Bayne Fund The Rudin Foundation, Inc. Herman Goldman Foundation Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Jody and John Arnhold Ms. Lillie Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Benabraham Jack and Anita Saltz Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Goldman and Mr. Stephen Kotran Susan Packie Jonathan Babkow and Maia Rubin David A. Hoffenberg/Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Madeleine Bennett Barbara Saltzman Perry and Donna Golkin Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Sheila and David Barrett Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes The Honorable Lucy Wilson Benson Elaine L. Saul Andrew S. Goodwin, Plymouth Hill Foundation Mr. William G. Pearcy Mary E. Benner Jennifer Huntley, The Jennifer Foundation Bezos Family Foundation Val and Min-Myn Schaffner Mr. and Mrs. James P. Gorman Orr Pitts Family Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boris Aurelia Ion Jason Biegel and Susan Buchner Estate of Edward D. Schmidt Carolyn Gould The Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation Reverend and Mrs. C. Frederick Buechner Ms. Annette L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert Biggar Mr. and Mrs. Ross E. Schulman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Greenberg PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Chanel Claudia and James Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Blau Ms. Elizabeth Schwarzman Greenlight Capital, Inc. Ms. Karen Pritzker Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Civale Ann Kaplan and Robert Fippinger Dr. and Mrs. M. Donald Blaufox The Seinfeld Family Guardian Life Insurance Company of America The Prospect Hill Foundation Coach Helene and Mark Kaplan William Kenneth Block Charlotte and Ottavio Serena di Lapigio Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Guffey Judy Rasmuson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Colbert Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kaufman Ms. Katie Boes and Mr. Richard Calacci Beth Kobliner Shaw and David E. Shaw Ms. Barbara Guss and Mr. David Kemp Estate of Mary Raymond Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz Suzanne M. Kavetas The Janet Stone Jones Foundation Shearman & Sterling Ms. Anne Hathaway Jonathan F. P. Rose, Lostand Foundation Conservation International The Anna-Maria and Stephen M. Kellen Foundation Lori R. Buchbinder and Raymond McDaniel Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff and Hunter Lewis Kyle Haug Mrs. Frederick P. Rose* Nancy C. and Bruce S. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Kisling Buro Happold Engineering Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Silverman Craig Hauser Ms. Alice Rosenwald Mr. and Mrs. Chris Coyne Mr. and Mrs. Adam Klein Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Butler Talbott and Carter Simonds Foundation Margarita and John Hennessy Family Foundation C. Jay Moorhead Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto Cruz, Jr. Eugene M. Lang Foundation Dr. Linda Carter Sony Corporation of America Dr. Tiffany Herlands and Mr. Ronny Barnea Leonard C. Sanford Trust The Dana Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cashin Ms. Denise Spillane and Ms. Marcia Williams Hitz Foundation Saturday Night Live Mr. and Mrs. Gordon J. Davis Mr. and Mrs. William Milton Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Chait Mr. Jeremy P Springhorn and Dr. Erin Springhorn HBO Sarah I. Schieffelin Residuary Trust Christopher Denicolo Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Linden Donald K. Clifford, Jr.* Anne Spychala Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Craig Huff Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Dinyar Devitre Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Lipman Mrs. David A. Cofrin Mrs. Philip A. Straus ITOCHU International Inc. Kimberly Kravis and Jonathan Schulhof Mr. Di Mondo Mr. and Mrs. George S. Loening Joan and Harvey Cohen Mrs. Anne Stringfield The Carl Jacobs Foundation Ms. Rosalind Seysses Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Droppa Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lourie Mr. Seth Cohen Sumitomo Corporation of America Karen Katen Shackman Associates International, Inc. Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation Tamara and Kevin MacMillan John Conklin Mr. Jeff Swiatek and Ms. Caroline Risman Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Shaye Mr. George Eberstadt and Ms. Cynthia Young Macy's Dr. Michelle Copeland and Dr. Jonathan Halperin Ms. Sandra Tamer Chester Kitchings Family Foundation Catherine and Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff Ms. Joan Egrie Ms. Pamela Manice Felipe A. Coronel Tata Consultancy Services Elysabeth Kleinhans Mr. and Mrs. Imran Siddiqui Estate of Margaret G. Eiseman Honorable Victor Marrero Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Mark and Leigh Teixeira KPMG Mr. Lawrence Silverstein Elephant Rock Foundation Marubeni America Corporation Melissa Thomas and David Koepp Drs. Lawrence and Eileen Cutler Richard P. Krasnow and Nancy Meyrich Sidney, Milton and Leoma Simon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. R. Bradford Evans Mr. and Mrs. Scott Maslin Mr. Kenan Thompson Genevieve Da Silva and L. Schellie Archbold Rob Schlein and Emily Kroenlein Mr. and Mrs. Ravi Sinha Event Network, Inc. Norman S. and Joanne B. Matthews Barbara and Donald Tober Ms. Shannon Danzy and Ms. Meaghan Danzy Latham & Watkins LLP Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Smith Cece and Richard Fabbro Dolly and Charles Mayer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Todd Mr. Justin Davda Damian Law John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Ms. Meryl Faulkner Friedrike Merck Turbonomic Davis Brody Bond, LLP Shelly B. Lazarus Constance G. Spahn Flyte Tyme-Addison Lee Group Mr. Seth Meyers Two Sigma Investments LLC Judy and Kim Davis Will and Mary Leland Dr. Neil Stahl and Dr. Jayne Raper The Frankfort Family Foundation Mr. Michael Mignone and Ms. Teena-Ann Sankoorikal Varnum De Rose Charitable Remainder Elisabeth de Picciotto The Leon Levy Foundation Ms. Frances G. Stein Ellen V. Futter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Millard Annuity Trust Mr. and Mrs. Paul del Balso Judy C. Lewent and Mark Shapiro Mr. Peter Stern and Mrs. Susan Abdalla-Stern The Gabelli Funds Millennium Pipeline Company LLC Venable LLP Mr. and Mrs. James Deutsch Mary D. Lindsay The Leila & Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust Heather and Robert Gallivan Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP Mr. Ernest M. Von Simson and Ms. Naomi O. Dr. Catherine Sybil Diefenbach and Dr. Michael Margaret Munzer Loeb and Daniel Loeb Dr. Ian M. Tattersall Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gelfand Mizuho Financial Group Seligman Alexander Diefenbach Grace, Sharon, and Alex Volckhausen Time Warner Inc. Britt-Louise Gilder Mr. Connor Monaghan and Ms. Kate Monaghan Holly Wallace Dr. Naomi Donnelley and Joe Butler Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. Mai, The Mai Family UNIPX Media LLC Mr. and Mrs. Ken Giuriceo Dr. Diana M. Moore Rolex Watch USA, Inc. Mr. W. L. Duffy Foundation The University of Queensland Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Gluck Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Moran Ms. Kristen Wiig Ralph and Laura Durso Foundation Frank Markus Dr. and Mrs. Roy P. Vagelos Katja Goldman and Michael W. Sonnenfeldt Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Morcos H. W. Wilson Foundation Exxon Mobil Corporation

* Deceased

24 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 25 Facebook, Inc. Ms. Debra Mayer and Mr. Joseph Frumkin Mr. Kyle L. Van Arsdale and Ms. Betty Wold Johnson Ms. Julia N. Brokaw John F. Eagan Mr. Robert G. Gutenstein Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Falcone Mr. Nicholas Maza Bernardette Vaskas Jennifer Brorsen and Richard DeMartini Ms. Karen Eckhoff Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Hagglund Ms. Randa Fayez and Dr. Kamal Aboul-Hosn Kathleen McCabe and W. Dana LaForge Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wallach Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brownstone Mr. and Mrs. John Eckstein Ms. Sachiko Hakeda Elaine Fein, The Fein Foundation Mr. Malcom McLain and Ms. Mary Maher Mary J. Wallach John H. Buckner Camille and Peter Ehrenberg Kathleen D. Hale Susan and Leonard Feinstein Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Rubin-Ladd Foundation Mr. Frank Burzik Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ehrenkranz Lynne and Harold Handler Martha Feltenstein The Janis and Alan Menken Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Westin Matthew Cantor Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Dora Barlaz and Noah Hanft Ferrero Belgium S.A. Edward and Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc. William E. Willis Mrs. Liesbeth Carballo and Mr. Federico Carballo Carol and Roger Einiger William F. and Ruth Ann Harnisch Pamela and David B. Ford Mr. and Mrs. William Michaelcheck Migs Woodside Robert B. Carey Mr. Richard Ellenbogen and Mrs. Maryann Pfeiffer Jon and Trace Harris Dr. and Mrs. David F. Frankel Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Miranda Mr. David Worthington and Dr. Julie Staggers Walter W. and Barbara I. Carey Lita and Walter Elvers Mrs. Linda Hartig Mrs. Henry Clay Frick II Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Morakis Ronald Zelazo and Ziona Zelazo Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carlock John and Deborah Evangelakos Mrs. Naima Hasan and Mr. Harold Ramdass Peter Hess Friedland David Shaw Neill Victoria Zoellner Mr. and Mrs. John Carlson Dr. Steve R. Fallek and Ms. Susan Saltztstein-Fallek Mr. Timothy Heaton Charles A. Fritz III Amy Neu and Daniel Neu Mr. Eli Casdin Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Feinberg Dr. and Mrs. George F. Heinrich Peter Gartland Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Neubauer $1,000 TO $2,499 Stephen P. Chang Ms. Christine F. Ferer Laura and Christopher J. Heintz Beverly and Herbert Chase Scott Geller The New York Community Trust Anonymous (8) Mr. and Mrs. Vince Ferraro Marian S. Heiskell Cathy Chernoff Tom and Marjorie Gilbert William S. Nye 1220 Exhibits Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Fink Mr. John C. Henry and Ms. Amy Henry Ms. Diane Chester Dr. Paul W. Glimcher and Dr. Barbara Knappmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Ned Offit Carol and Robert Abrahams Holley and Russell Flagg Ilene and Jerry Herz Mr. Edward Chin and Ms. Elizabeth Merrick Goldfarb & Fleece Mrs. William Oppenheim Mr. and Mrs. Ahmar Ahmad Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman Alexandra and Paul Herzan Ms. Lindsey Choudhry Eugene and Emily Grant Chips and Sarah Page Matt H. Ahrens and Erin Smith Ahrens Dr. and Mrs. John J. Flynn Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Higgins Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Clemente Ms. Rachel Green Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Pantzer Mr. David D. Alger Ellen L. Fogle Higgins, Quasebarth & Partners, LLC Ms. Mary Ann Cloyd William Green and Alyson Adler Mr. and Mrs. Kent R. Papsun Christine Allen Ms. Lindsay N. Forbes and Mr. Ali Dibadj Mr. William Himwich and Ms. Letitia Carlson James Cohen and Barbara Carey Ellen K. and Lawrence R. Gross Nina and Mike Patterson Mrs. Sandra Allen Fourth Wall Events CAPT Deborah Ann Hinkley, MC, USN Mr. and Mrs. Bertram J. Cohn Loomis J. Grossman, Jr. Dr. M. Lee Pearce Jose and Mary Alvarado B. Harrison Frankel Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hipkins Mrs. Marie H. Cole Agnes Gund Pfeifler Family Foundation Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Miss Elise D. Frick Mr. Donald J. Hobson Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Conboy Mr. Anuj Gupta PIMCO Karl Anderson and Marissa Shorenstein Mrs. Barbara J. Fried Mrs. Frank W. Hoch Mr. William J. Constantine and Ms. Margaret Matthew Haberling Brian Pitz and Brinlea Johnson Ben Appen and Leslie Chang Mr. Charles Fritsch and Ms. Cynthia Walpole Ms. Julia Hodder and Mr. David Hodder Wellington Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings Foundation Mr. Justin Pollack and Ms. Suzanne Reisman Vera Miller Aryeh Ms. Susan C. Frunzi and Mr. David Wachtel Constance M. Hoguet Mr. Brad Cooper and Ms. Kimberly Cooper Ms. Nell Hanlon Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Prince Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Asrelsky Suzanne Frye, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hollein Victoria Costa and Jacob Carl Zydney Michael and Sandy Hecht Mr. and Mrs. William F. Ramonas Mrs. Alyssa Au and Mrs. Kady Chang Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Furtsch Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Holodak Mr. Kenneth A. Cowin and Ms. Helen Cowin Stop & Stor Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Reynolds Kym Aughtry Chad Gallant and Barbara Becker Ms. Patrica Horotan Mr. and Mrs. Derek Cribbs The Hertz Corporation Mr. Dominic Ricci and Ms. Jennifer Stalec Ms. Borzou Azima Mr. and Mrs. Sean Gardner Dr. Leslie Howard Walt Crimm Associates Carolyn Hickman and John R. Campbell III David Rockefeller* Elizabeth P. Ball Mr. Phillipe Garinois Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hull Mr. Richard Crowell Mr. and Mrs. Dylan Hixon Drs. Valerie and John W. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Mrs. Jacqueline M. Garrett Ms. Yie-Hsin Hung Susan R. Cullman and John Kirby Hodgson Russ LLP Bryan and Aidan Rowley Mr. Justin Bartha Gary Zarr & Associates Mr. Jeff Hunter Mr. Patrick Daly and Ms. Katherine Sinding Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Howard Alfred and Ann Ruesch Dr. James G. Basker Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, Jr. Peter Hutchings and Martha Wolfgang Dale S. Dancis Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Russell Martin and Maryann Baumrind Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gewirtz Iowa State University of Science and Technology Mrs. Jennifer Danielson and Mr. Dryw Danielson Mr. and Mrs. Munib Islam Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Dr. Betty Baxter and Mr. Comer Cash Baxer Jordan Glaser and Hazel Weiser Peter Anthony Irwin Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danziger J.H. Electric of New York, Inc. Patricia E. Saigo, M.D. Reginald R. and Jameson A. Baxter Ms. Jill Glazer and Ms. Michelle Glazer Anita and Robert Jacobson Ms. Sarah Daubenspeck M. Elaine Johnston Ms. Nadia Samadani and Mr. Omar Kathwari Mr. and Mrs. Bob Baylis Ms. Susan F. Glazer Richard A. Jalkut Mr. and Mrs. Vickram David Max Kade Foundation, Inc. Ms. Robin Sandell Dr. Kathryn and Mr. Bruce Beal Mr. Peter Glusker and Ms. Dalia Gold Mr. and Mrs. Morton Janklow Mary G. Davis Richard I. Kandel Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Santella Mr. Joel S. Beam Michael and Anne B. Golden Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Jelisavcic Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Davis Kaplan, Inc. Mr. Michael Sarkozi and Mr. Ronald Shuma Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Beard Mr. Neil J. Goldmacher and Ms. Bari B. Goldmacher Dr. Barbara Jessen and Ms. Ann Jessen Elizabeth De Cuevas Mr. Dan Katzner and Ms. Claudia Zeldin Mr. and Mrs. Paul Segal Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Beattie Daniel and Libby Goldring Drs. Ramesh and Lajwanti Jhaveri Mr. David H. De Weese and Ms. Anne C. Heller The Honorable Thomas H. Kean Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shabsels Mrs. Arlene Goldstein Harry Jho Ms. Margaret Beller and Ms. Elizabeth Beller Jeffrey S. Dean, Ph.D. Helen Kimmel Anya C. M. Herz and Dr. Andrew Shiva Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Goodman Dr. Keith Johnson Stephanie Bell-Rose Mr. and Mrs. Cisco del Valle Ms. Emily J. Klopfer Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Singer Mr. Michael Gordon Thomas P. Jones Ms. Stephanie Belz Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Demko Mr. Christopher Kojima and Ms. Elizabeth Kojima Melissa A. Slaybaugh Ann and Melissa Gottlieb Mr. Arlin Jorge Elaine S. Bernstein and Erika Bernstein Kelble Christine Denham and Robert W. Stein Miss Vanessa Krauser Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smigel Ms. Susannah Gray and Mr. John Lyons Joseph Family Charitable Trust Ms. Michelle Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. DiBrizzi Mr. and Mrs. Beau Lescott Society of Systematic Biologists Estate of Lee A. Greenbaum Mr. Colin Jost Ms. Kathryn M. Berthold Michael DiBrizzi Mr. and Mrs. Scott Lessing Marc S. Solomon Kim and Jeff Greenberg Mr. George Jovanoski Judith L. Biggs Robert and Marti Dinerstein Betty and John Levin Dr. and Mrs. Peter Som David J. Greene Foundation, Inc. Joseph Kahn and Shannon Wu Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Blair Mr. and Mrs. Christopher DiOrio Hans Li and Jennifer Kouvant Mr. Carl R. Spadaro Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Greenfield Harry P. Kamen Peter and Sofia Blanchard Mr. John R. Donahue and Mr. Aaron Hobart Ethel Lipsitz The Goldie Anna Charitable Trust Gail Gregg Ms. Elizabeth Kantor Lauren Blum and C. William Merten Ms. Ceara Donnelley and Mr. Nathan Berry, Gaylord Arthur L. Loeb Mr. and Mrs. William C. Sterling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Bognacki and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Mr. Charles Griffis and Mrs. Megan Kelly Pat and Paul D. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James I. Magid Mr. and Mrs. William Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bovenizer III Ms. Margaret F. Donovan and Ms. Nancy Broderick Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Grinberg Mr. and Mrs. George Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin Suvretta Capital Management Victoria R. Boyt Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Boker Doyle Ms. Margaret Grise and Mr. Adam Silver Earle W. Kazis Jeffrey and Cynthia Manocherian Mr. Ahmir K. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brandman Mr. Brian Drake and Mrs. Diane Ash Drake Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Grove Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kean Lizzy and Bryce Markus United Airlines Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brandmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Dreyer Mrs. Patricia Gruber Laurie D. Kefalidis Marriott International The University of Michigan Catharine O. Broderick and Henry U. Harris III The Durst Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Gural Ms. Saundra Keinberger and Ms. Nina Keinberger

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26 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 27 Bicky and George Kellner Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Manheimer Ms. Grace M. Parr Charles V. Schaefer Mr. Bryan H. Tucker Mr. Robert Atwater Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Kendall Barbara Manocherian Parton/Bove Charitable Fund Rita and Joseph B. Scheller Mr. Andrew Turk Ms. Patricia Azeltine Mr. Erik Kenward Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Margolin Mr. Maurice Passy Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff U.S. Geological Survey Ms. Ashanda Balderas Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kerschner Ms. Isabelle Marino and Mr. Ryan Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Peek Mr. Rick Schulman and Ms. Debbie Schulman Mrs. Nenon Ujiki Mr. Frank M. Bamberger The Kerwin Family Tom Marshall and Kathy Keneally Penn State Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schwartz The University of Georgia Ms. Carolina Baron Mr. and Mrs. Raj M. Keswani Drs. Patrick and Linda Mastroianni Mr. Emmanuel Perez Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Schwartz USDA FS Southern Research Station-Athens Ms. Linda Barrett Dr. and Mrs. Hoshang J. Khambatta Mrs. Nina Matis and Mr. Alan Gosule Mr. Brett Perkins and Ms. Yvonne Perkins Mr. and Mrs. James Scott Utah State University Ms. Helen Baumhofer Mrs. Tracy Kimmel and Mr. James Florack Mr. and Mrs. Gary H. Matt Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Pittman Mr. Donald P. Seibert Ms. Diane G. VanWyck and Mr. Frank Repas Mr. David Baxter Patrick J. Knox MCar/Wilshire Limousine Ronnie Planalp Paul and Mary Seid Joyce P. and Diego R. Visceglia Foundation Ms. Fern Beckman Ms. Judy Koch and Ms. Barbara J. Eler Dr. Kevin McAuliffe and Dr. Katharine Frase Mr. and Mrs. Len Poliandro Mr. and Mrs. Salil Seshadri Mr. Markus Voorham and Ms. Vanessa Ms. Joan L. Benson Julie Kohn and Dan Swift Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCain Mr. and Mrs. Zachary O. Pomerantz Dr. Yelena Shafeyeva Hicks-Voorham The Honorable Lucy Wilson Benson Ms. Kristine Koren Ms. Paula McGuinness Mr. Arthur W. Porter Pamela and Mel Shaftel Maria T. 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Quinn Rochelle and Jesse Shereff Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weidman Mr. Peter Brizard Ms. Alexandra Milstein Dorothy and David Kroenlein John Rachwalski and Jessica Yau Ms. Holly Sherr Mrs. John L. Weinberg Mr. Kenneth A. Bronston Sandra C. and Lowell A. Mintz Mr. David Kuck Mr. and Mrs. Scott Radke Mr. Michael Shoemaker Mr. Earl. D. Weiner Mr. and Mrs. Michael Buckner Elizabeth Miracky, The Dwight Group Mr. and Mrs. Tomislav Kundic Mr. and Mrs. Paul Raether Ian Shrank and Alexandra W. Logue Mr. Jerry A. Weiss Mr. Sherman B. Carll Mr. David Mirkin and Ms. Karen Piacentini Elizabeth and Robert La Blanc Ms. Elisa Rapaport and Mr. William Schabio Marlys Silver Mrs. Edward Weisselberg Ms. Ann Chambers Ms. Barbara Mitchell and Mr.J Zachary Sullivan Estate of Ann M. Lacy Mr. and Mrs. Austin Ratner Boon Sim and Shiuan Wu Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Whalen Ms. Carolyn M. Chave and Ms. Chloe Hall Cynthia Mitchell and Joseph Mitchell Lambert Family Mr. and Mrs. William Rayner Ms. Zhanna Shulina Ms. Stephanie G. Wheeler Ms. Anita Child Mr. and Mrs. Vikram Mody Peter and Deborah Lamm Mr. Sean Redding Esther Simon Charitable Trust Robert W. and Donna T. Whiteford Ms. Winifred C. Chin Eben Moglen Joseph Laraia and Dr. Mary Motyl Mrs. Kristi Reilly and Mr. Sean Lee Mr. and Mrs. Gary Singer Mary Louise Whitmarsh Mr. Leon Choate, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Mogul The Larkin Family Mr. and Mrs. John M. Reiss Mr. and Mrs. John Slapp Dr. and Mrs. Wayne G. Whitmore Michael Jay Chusmir Dr. Barbara W. Monsanto and Dr. Enrique Monsanto The Robert J. Laskowski Foundation Ms. Fretta Reitzes Abigail Solomon and Jason Teuscher Ms. Sara Wiener Margaret Olstad Cleary Mr. and Mrs. William F. Morrill Ms. Karen J. Lauder Richard L. Revesz Vicki Rosen Solomon Jarvis and Coke Anne Wilcox Ms. Myrna Coffino Mr. Joseph C. Morris David B. 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Stoddard Mr. John P. Linderman and Dr. Trudy M. Burke Mr. Robert Ross Martin Zaretsky Mr. David A. Dorfman Partnership for NYC Alan and Katherine Stroock Fund Fritz and Lee Link Gail Ann Rothman Robert P. Zimmerman Mr. Christopher J. Durso Mrs. Norman D. Newell Guy Miller Struve and Marcia Mayo Hill Yen Liow and Eeling Lim Michael Tuch Foundation Ms. Beth Zubatkin Mr. Howard Einbinder and Mrs. Jo Ellen Loth Maria Niarchos and Stephané Gouaze Arlene Stuhl Mr. Steven Lipsitz Ms. Mary Rufrano Bloomberg Philanthropies Marvin W. Ellin Bruce Nicholas Mr. Kent Sublette Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Litwin* Mr. and Mrs. Troy Ruhanen Dr. Wally B. Elvers and Ms. Lita Elvers Dr. Michael Novacek and Dr. Maureen O'Leary Mr. John C. Sullivan Mr. Chien C. Liu Mr. Tomas Ruiz and Ms. Anne Ruiz Mrs. Eva Ezrovics Ms. Sandra Nudelman and Mr. Matt Parsons Dr. P. R. Sundaresan JESUP LEGACY CIRCLE Joe and Clare LoCicero Nina Rumbough Mary Ellen Fahs, PhD. Mr. and Mrs. David O'Brien Jeffrey Taback and Inanna Donnelley Mr. and Mrs. Craig Lombard Mrs. Allen D. Rushton Anonymous (36) Mr. Dennis R. Ferguson Mr. Nick Ogurtsov and Ms. Desi Eagan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tannenhauser Ms. Kate Lopez Ms. Patricia Ryan Mrs. Arlene Abrams Ms. Inge Fischer Oklahoma State University Ms. Nancy T. Taubenslag and Mr. Mauri Rosenthal Al Loris Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rylee Ms. Roberta Adelman and Mr. Fred Adelman Stuart Fischman, Esq. Ms. Joanne Omar Amy Taylor and Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Loshak Bonnie L. Sacerdote Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Allen Mr. Alan Fleischer and Ms. Martha S. Fleischer Oregon State University Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Telljohann Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Altman Mrs. Barbara L. Louis Jonathan Orser Mr. and Mrs. Robert Safron D'Vera Topol Ms. Stephanie Fogel Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Anderson Mr. Robert MacNeil Mr. Gregory E. Ostling and Ms. Angela Tu Ms. Courtney Sale Ross Alexander and Catherine Traykovski Mr. John French III Mr. William G. Magnussen Mr. Anthony M. Pagnotta and Ms. Margaret M. Ms. Nicole Salmasi Joseph and Joan Cullman Conservation Ms. Marcelle Arak Eli A. Friedman, M.D. Ms. Anita M. Majetich Pagnotta Mr. Joshua Sandbulte and Ms. Tracey Strauss Foundation, Inc. Dr. Rudolf G. Arndt Miss Mignon Ganne Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Malloy Nicole and Bruce Paisner Ms. Linda S. Sanford Ms. Cecily Trenka and Mr. Ron Trenka Ms. Robyn J. Asimov Mr. and Mrs. Brian Gill Dr. and Mrs. Roy S. Malpass Ms. Diona Park Dr. and Mrs. Carl Saphier Jean and Raymond Troubh Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Asrelsky Mr. Roland Ginzel

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28 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 29 Mr. William A. Glaser and Mrs. Gilberte Ms. Gretchen Marks Dr. Margaret Schottstaedt Vansintejan-Glaser Ms. Camille Mastri and Mr. John Plencner Mr. and Mrs. Eric Schraemli Mr. Richard Gordon Ms. Laura Bemben McCloskey and Mr. Ciaran Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schwartz Mr. Michael Goudket McCloskey Mrs. Lenore Scott Mrs. Anne Gouldsbury Mr. and Mrs. Robert McColaugh Mr. Richard Sheridan Mr. Peter H. Gregson Mr. Michael J. McCormick Mr. A. James Smith, Jr. and Ms. M. Kathryn Mr. Peter S. Grimes Mr. Charles McCown Eickhoff-Smith Ellen and Lawrence Gross Mr. and Mrs. Edward R H McDowell Mr. Ronny Soderstrom Ms. Margaret L. Hagen Ms. Ann S. McIntyre Mr. Peter J. Solomon Ms. Jeannette Hanby and Mr. David Bygott Mr. Charles W. Merrels Dr. Peter M. Som and Ms. Judy S. Som Mrs. Doris Hansmann Mr. and Mrs. Scott Messinger Ms. Ruth Ann Harnisch and Mr. Bill F. Harnisch Ann Breen Metcalfe Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sommer Ms. Anneliese Harstick Ms. Payne B. Middleton Mr. Mark M. Spradley Dr. and Mrs. Karl A. Hartman, Jr. Mr. Maceo W. Mitchell and Ms. Patricia J. Wynne Jeff Spychala Mr. Roderic Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mones Ms. Linda J. Starzman Mr. Gregory F. Hauser Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moore Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Steele Ms. Susan Heath Mr. Charles H. Mott Ms. Jennifer Stevens Mr. Walter G. Heid Ms. Mary Mugurdichian Mr. Mark L. Stevens Ms. Esther L. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mull Dr. and Mrs. Martin A. Stolbun Ms. Judith F. Hernstadt Miss Ellen J. Myers Mr. Karl J. Stone Mr. Kenneth Heuer Ms. Eileen Nemeroff Mr. Joseph M. Sweeney Mrs. Jennifer Higgins Dr. Stephanie Neuman and Mr. Herbert Neuman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Telljohann Mr. Matthew Higgins Mrs. Gillian W. Newell Mrs. Susan S. Hochenberg Ms. Diann Terry PLANNED GIVING Mr. Thomas K. O'Brien, Jr. Mr. Michael Irwin Mr. Robert F. Petrie and Ms. Valerie Thaler Mrs. Theresa Ornstein Ms. Margot Jacobs Mr. Jonathan Orser Mr. Christopher Theodor and Ms. Ronetta Blackburn Dr. Irma B. Jaffe Dr. Norman Osofsky and Mrs. Carol Falcetti Dr. William Thierfelder and Prof. Michael Aloi Ms. Marilyn Jaffe-Ruiz and Mr. Victor R. Ruiz Mr. Michael Pantuliano Mrs. Edwin Thorne Promote broader understanding of the natural WAYS TO GIVE: Mr. and Mrs. Anthony James Mr. Michael R. Passarella Ms. Irene Toovey Ms. Dorothy Johnsen world for generations to come! Ms. Maria M. Patterson Ms. Ellen M. Rosette and Mr. Salvatore Troiano —known as a —is the most common Mr. Mark W. Jordan and Ms. Cynthia Jordan • A Gift in Your Will Bequest Ms. Celia Paul and Mr. Stephen Rosen Mr. Craig S. Tunks and Mr. Tom Toynton Patricia S. Joseph By arranging a planned gift for the American way to plan a future gift. Ms. Eileen Pentel and Mr. Don Wade Dr. Gretchen Van Alstyne Ms. Helene L. 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Whitman can select the type of planned gift that best Janet Kozera Ms. Harriette Rubinstein Mr. Chester Widomski and Dr. Linda Widomski Stuart and Barbara Kreisberg suits your needs. • Charitable Lead Trusts can also be used to pass assets to children or Mr. Murray Sackson Mr. Peihua Ku Mr. Gabriel Wiesenthal grandchildren in a tax-advantaged way. Patricia E. Saigo, M.D. Mr. Russell Lee Dr. Adam S. Wilkins Ellen Salem, Ph.D. Ms. Diane Lefer Ms. Caroline Wilson • Real Estate or Business Interests, if properly planned, can make a Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Will E. Leland Ms. Betsy Yamazaki very tax-wise gift to support the Museum. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sanford, Jr. Ms. Jane A. Levenson Ms. Irene Zelnick Mr. William Savino Sir Julian Edmond Paul Lewison and Ms. Wendy Mr. and Mrs. Eric T. Zinn Lewison Mr. Patrick Schaar and Ms. Dorothy Gold Mary D. Lindsay Ms. Jane Scheiber Ms. Anita J. 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EXPLORER APP SAUROPODS AT THE MUSEUM INSIDE YOU HACKATHON: HACK THE STACKS WITH 2017 ISAAC ASIMOV MEMORIAL DEBATE: MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL: BRIDGEUP: STEM DE-EXTINCTION "RE-FRAME" Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Generous support for The Titanosaur exhibit has Inside You is made possible by the generosity of the been provided by the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Arthur Ross Foundation. This program is part of BridgeUp: STEM, an The late Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and The Margaret Mead Film Festival is made possible Foundation. ¡CUBA! Inside You is proudly supported by the Janssen initiative educating youth and the public about influential authors of our time, was a dear friend and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the cutting-edge computing in scientific research and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New ¡Cuba! was developed in collaboration with the Cuban Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. MUMMIES science communication. In his memory, the Hayden Planetarium is honored York State Legislature. National Museum of Natural History. to host the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate— Mummies was developed by The Field Museum, Chicago. THE BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY BridgeUP: STEM is generously supported by a grant from Major funding for ¡Cuba! has been provided by the Lila generously endowed by relatives, friends, and admirers KWANZAA 2016: SONGS FOR THE SOUL the Helen Gurley Brown Trust. Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund. The Museum gratefully acknowledges the Richard and Generous support for The Butterfly Conservatory has of Isaac Asimov and his work—bringing the finest . been provided by the Eileen P. Bernard Exhibition Fund. Kwanzaa 2016: Songs for the Soul is co-presented by Significant support for¡Cuba! has been provided by the Karen LeFrak Exhibition and Education Fund minds in the world to the Museum each year to debate SCICAFE SERIES Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group. Ford Foundation. Mummies is proudly supported by Chase Private Client. pressing questions on the frontier of scientific discovery. The SciCafe Series is proudly sponsored by Judy and The Kwanzaa marketplace is organized by the Generous support for ¡Cuba! has been provided by the Josh Weston. Harlem Arts Alliance. Dalio Ocean Initiative. CELEBRATE CULTURE! ¡Cuba! is proudly supported by JetBlue. SciCafe Special Event: “Zika: What You Need to Know,” Support for Celebrate Culture! programs, including the Special Thanks: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Paper Source, and The Secret World Inside You, and related activities Margaret Mead Film Festival: “Re-Frame;” Celebrate Westside Market NYC. are generously supported by the Science Education Pacific Northwest Culture; Kwanzaa 2016: Songs for the Partnership Award (SEPA) program of the National Soul; and Los Sueños del Caribe: People, Land, and Place LOS SUEÑOS DEL CARIBE (DREAMS OF THE CARIBBEAN): PEOPLE, LAND, Institutes of Health (NIH). is provided, in part, by the May and Samuel Rudin Family EXPEDITIONS EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS AND PLACE Special thanks to MicroCulture developers PETLab at Foundation, Inc.; the Sidney, Milton and Leoma Simon Parsons and Jane McDonough. Foundation; and the family of Frederick H. Leonhardt. Los Sueños del Caribe: People, Land, and Place is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. EXPLORE21 EXPEDITION TO ROMANIA RICHARD GILDER GRADUATE SCHOOL URBAN ADVANTAGE

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