370 APPENDICES 
THE JOSEPH HENRY FUND 
The “‘ Joseph Henry fund ” of $40,000 was contributed by “ Fairman Rogers, 
Joseph Patterson, George W. Childs, A. J. Drexel, F. A. Drexel, Charles H. 
Rogers, J. G. Fell, Isaac Lea, Asa Packer, John Welsh, William Blanchard, 
James Lenox, The Executors of the Estate of John C. Green, Mrs. John C. 
Green, Robert L. Stuart, Miss C. L. Wolfe, William Libbey, E. N. Dickerson, 
Cyrus W. Field, Thomas A. Scott, Wm. W. Corcoran, George P. Wetmore, 
Thomas H. Powers, J. S. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, I. V. Williamson, 
John W. Garrett, Charles S. Coxe, Cyrus H. McCormick, J. E. Caldwell, Wm. 
Weightman, Alex". Brown, Henry C. Gibson, J. Donald Cameron, Samuel M. 
Felton, Henry H. Houston, Nathaniel Thayer, John L. Cadwalader, and J. F. 
Navarro ”’— 
as an expression of the donors’ respect and esteem for Prof. Joseph Henry’s personal virtues, 
their sense of his life’s great devotion to science with its results of important discoveries, and 
of his constant labors to increase and diffuse knowledge and promote the welfare of mankind. 
This sum of $40,000 the contributors caused to be invested in certain securities, 
and to be deposited with and held by the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance of 
Lives and Granting Annuities in Trust, which company was required to collect 
the income thereon from time to time, and to pay over the same to Prof. Joseph 
Henry during his natural life, and after his death, to his wife and daughters, and 
after the death of the last survivor “‘ to deliver the said fund and the securities 
in which it shall then be invested to the National Academy of Sciences, to be 
thenceforward forever held in trust by the National Academy of Sciences under 
the name and title of ‘the Joseph Henry fund,’ the principal to be forever held 
intact and the income to be from time to time applied by the said National 
Academy of Sciences in its sole discretion to assist meritorious investigators 
especially in the direction of original research.” 
THE JOHN L. LECONTE FUND 
The will of Professor Le Conte contains the following clause: 
In case all my said children shall die before my said wife without lawful issue, then I 
direct the whole income to be paid to her during her natural life and upon her death or in 
case my said children shall all die after my said wife without lawful issue and intestate, the 
whole of my said Estate shall be distributed as follows: 
I give and bequeath unto * * * the National Academy of Sciences incorporated by 
Act of Congress of the United States of America the sum of Twenty-five thousand dollars 
($25,000) . 
THE MORRIS LOEB BEQUEST 
The will of Morris Loeb, signed January 11, 1912, contains the following 
clause: 
“SEVENTEENTH: I give and bequeath to the National Academy of Sciences in Wash- 
ington, in the District of Columbia, the sum of Two thousand five hundred Dollars as a 
contribution toward the Wolcott Gibbs Fund, founded in 1892.” 
