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The Standing Committee of Council ou By-Laws presented the 

 following which was ordered to be printed : — 



REPORT ON THE JESSUP FUND. 



At a business meeting of the Academy, March 27, 18(>0, the fol- 

 lowing letter was read and referred to a special committee, of which 

 Messrs. William S. Vaux, Joseph Leidy, Isaac Lea, Robert Bridges 

 and Joseph Jeanes were the members : 



Philadelphia, March 6, 1860. 



Isaac Lea, Esq., President of the Academy of Natural Scieiices 

 of Philadelphia: 



Dear Sir: — The undersigned, children of the late Augustus E. 

 Jessup, believing that it was his intention to leave a sum of money 

 to the Academy of Natural Sciences, for the purposes stated below, 

 and desiring to carry out what we have cause to think were his 

 intentions, propose to pay to the Academy the sum of one hundred 

 and twenty dollars per annum, to be applied to its publication fund ; 

 and the further sum of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum 

 to be used for the support of one or more deserving poor young man 

 or men who may desire to devote the whole of his or their time and 

 energies to the study of the natural sciences. 



The above sums we propose to pay as long as we feel our circum- 

 stances to be such as will warrant our doing so, and we look forward 

 to investing in trust, at some not distant time, the principal of the 

 sums named for the purpose of creating a perpetual fund for the 



above named uses. 



A. D. Jessup, 



E. A. Jessup, 



Clara J. Moore. 



At a meeting of the Academy for business April 24, 1860, " the 

 committee on the communication of Mr. A. D. Jessup, Mr. E. A. 

 Jessup and Mrs. Clara J. jNIoore, presented a report accepting the 

 trust, recommending that the President and Curators be constituted 

 a perpetual committee under the direction of the Academy to carry 

 out the intentions of the late Augustus E. Jessup as expressed in 

 said communication ; and that a copy of the publications of the 

 Academy be presented to each of the above named children of the 

 late Mr. Jessup, beginning with the volumes now in progress, which 

 report was adopted and the committee discharged." 



At the annual meeting of the Academy, Dec. 25, 1860, the com- 

 mittee on the Jessup Fund reported, July 1, that the first payment 



