GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



The Museum received from the estate of the late Homer E. Sargent 

 200 shares of stock in the Kern County Land Co., to provide for the 

 maintenance of the American Indian collections that he presented 

 several years ago, and from the estate of the late Dr. Jesse R. Gerstley 

 $4,890.48. Generous gifts were received from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 

 Baker, $2,000; Arnold H. Maremont, $2,500; Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. 

 Sturtevant, $1,000; and DeWitt Van Evera, $3,300. The Johnson 

 Foundation added $3,000 to the S. C. Johnson Fund for our con- 

 tinuing study of waxy palms. 



Stanley Field, President of the Museum, gave an additional 

 $39,832 for endowment and $2,168 for current operating expenses. 

 Mrs. Stanley Field, a Benefactor of the Museum, added $15,000 to 

 the Sara Carroll Field Fund; Sterling Morton added $10,000 to the 

 Sterling Morton Endowment Fund; and Dr. Maurie L. Richardson 

 added $1,750 to the Maurice L. Richardson Paleontological Fund. 



Additions to other Special Funds were in the following amounts: 

 $962.50 from Miss Margaret Conover for the Conover Game-bird 

 Fund; $750 from C. Suydam Cutting for the C. Suydam Cutting 

 Fund; $200 from Dr. Clifford C. Gregg for the Commander Frank V. 

 Gregg Memorial Fund; $14,118.26 from the estate of the late Mrs. 

 Abby K. Babcock for the Frederick Reynolds and Abby Kettelle 

 Babcock Fund; and $639.60 from the estate of the late Stewart J. 

 Walpole for the Stewart J. Walpole Endowment Fund (for use of 

 Special Funds in 1959 see page 116). 



Herman Waldeck gave $235 and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ware gave 

 $500 for budget purposes. Blair Coursen gave $200 to assist in 

 ornithological research. Other gifts came from Hamilton Allport, 

 Edwin C. Austin, George A. Bates, William U. Bardwell, John 

 Borst, Jr., Peder A. Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley, 

 Mrs. Jerome Fallon, Calvin E. Fentriss, Joseph N. Field, Flexible 

 Steel Lacing Company, Brimson Grow, John Plain Foundation, 

 MAPI Foundation, Mrs. Langdon Pearce, Philip S. Rinaldo, Jr., 

 Melville N. and Mary F. Rothschild Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben M. 

 Schutz, and Edgar J. Uihlein, Jr. 



Contributors elected by the Board of Trustees are Mr. Herbert 

 Baker, Mrs. Herbert Baker, Captain A. W. F. Fuller, Dr. Jesse R. 

 Gerstley (posthumously), Arnold H. Maremont, George I. Qimby, 

 and Dr. Alan Solem (for roster of Contributors see page 127). Gifts 

 of materials received during the year are listed at the end of this 

 Report (see page 118) and under the heading "Accessions" in the re- 

 ports of the scientific departments (see pages 47, 54, 64, and 72). 



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