USE DURING 1959 OF SPECIAL FUNDS 

 CONTRIBUTED IN FORMER YEARS 



Edward E. Ayer Lecture Foundation 



Cost of Museum lecture series $ 4,087.55 



Subsidy to publication program 1,559.39 



Frederick and Abby Kettelle Babcock Fund 



Subsidy to publication program 1,434.13 



Mrs. T. B. Blackstone Fund 



Purchase of specimens 900.00 



Emily Crane Chadbourne Zoological Fund 



Purchase of specimens 539.20 



William J. and Joan A. Chalmers Trust Fund 



Purchase of specimens 50.00 



Mrs. Joan A. Chalmers Bequest Fund 



Purchase of specimens 436.40 



Scientific conferences 450.00 



Field trips 276.40 



Conover Game-Bird Fund 



Purchase of specimens 1,602.00 



Field trips 3,777.60 



Thomas J. Dee Fellowship Fund 



Fellowship grant to Alfredo Evangelista 1,215.00 



Group Insurance Fund* 



Group insurance costs 8,336.82 



Subsidy to Pension Fund 7,542.46 



N. W. Harris Public School Extension Fund 

 Preparation, care, and distribution of exhibits 



to schools of Chicago 28,212.78 



Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge 



Belgian Congo expedition 4,224.26 



The Johnson Foundation 



Research on waxy palms 2,721.00 



Library FuNDf 



Purchase of books and periodicals 3,521.19 



National Science Foundation 



Research subsidies (various) 20,699.47 



James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Public School and 

 Children's Lecture Fund 



Subsidy to public school and children's lecture program 33,216.35 



Donald Richards Fund 



Subsidy to crytogamic botanical research 1,996.20 



Maurice L. Richardson Paleontological Fund 



Field trip to Washakie Basin 1,488.28 



Karl P. Schmidt Fund 



Study grants 197.60 



DeWitt Van Evera Purchase Fund 



Purchase of ethnological portraits 4.700.00 



These funds have been used in accordance with the stipulations under which they 

 were accepted by the Museum. In addition, the income from more than $12,000,000 

 of contributed endowment funds was used in general Museum operation. 



* Established by Stanley Field 



t Established by Edward E. Ayer, Huntington W. Jackson, Arthur B. Jones, and 

 Julius and Augusta N. Rosenwald 



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