GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



The Museum received during the year generous gifts from the fol- 

 lowing donors for a number of its established Funds : Sterling Morton, 

 $15,000 for the Sterling Morton Endowment Fund; Miss Margaret 

 B. Conover, $863.75 for the Conover Game-bird Fund (established 

 by her brother, the late Boardman Conover, Trustee and Research 

 Associate — see page 22); C. Suydam Cutting (an Honorary Member 

 of the Museum), $750 for the C. Suydam Cutting Fund; Dr. Maurice 

 L. Richardson, $750 for the Maurice L. Richardson Paleontological 

 Fund; Mrs. Katherine Field Rodman and T. Clifford Rodman, 

 $250 each for the Stanley Field Endowment Fund; Mrs. Mary 

 Elizabeth Clyborne, $200 for the Harry Vearn and Mary Elizabeth 

 Clyborne Fund; and Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, $200 for the Commander 

 Frank V. Gregg Memorial Fund. 



Additions to other Special Funds were in the following amounts : 

 $7,476.96 from the estate of the late Stewart J. Walpole for the 

 Stewart J. Walpole Endowment Fund; $12,690 from the estate of 

 the late Miss Shirley Farr for the Shirley Farr Bequest Fund; and 

 $707.02 from the estate of the late Mrs. Abby K. Babcock for the 

 Frederick Reynolds and Abby Kettelle Babcock Fund (for use of 

 Special Funds in 1958 see page 116). 



Stanley Field, President of the Museum, gave an additional 

 $43,600 for endowment. During the year an additional $3,304.58 

 was received from Lester Armour, Joseph N. Field, William H. 

 Mitchell, John T. Pirie, Jr., and Robert Trier for the Fuller Collec- 

 tion Purchase Fund (see page 21), which was established in 1957 

 (see Annual Report 1957, page 29). Previous donors to the Fuller 

 Collection Purchase Fund included George A. Bates, Wm. McCor- 

 mick Blair, Walther Buchen, Walter J. Cummings, Joseph N. Field, 

 Marshall Field, Jr., Henry P. Isham, Hughston M. McBain, Wil- 

 liam H. Mitchell, Sterling Morton, Clarence B. Randall, John G. 

 Searle, Solomon A. Smith, Louis Ware, and John P. Wilson (see 

 illustration on facing page). 



DeWitt Van Evera gave $5,600 for the purchase of paintings 

 of Guatemala Indians, Sidney D. Gamble gave stock valued at 

 $2,548.26 to assist in the publication of A Bibliography of Birds 

 (by Reuben Myron Strong), Winston Elting and James R. Getz 

 each contributed $300 for an anthropological field trip to the coastal 

 region of Lake Superior, the Oriental Institute of the University 

 of Chicago gave $250 toward the publication of Prehistoric Men 

 (by Robert J. Braidwood), and Samuel Insull, Jr., gave $100 in 

 memory of the late Norman Field. Other gifts came from George A. 



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