GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM 



The Museum received a bequest of $12,500 from the estate of the 

 late Stewart J. Walpole, and the Stewart J. Walpole Endowment 

 Fund was established in his memory. Mrs. Stanley Field, a Bene- 

 factor of the Museum, added $21,500 to the Sara Carroll Field Fund. 

 Dr. Maurice L. Richardson added $1,250 to the Maurice L. Richard- 

 son Paleontological Fund; C. Suydam Cutting, an Honorary Member 

 of the Museum, added $750 to the C. Suydam Cutting Fund; Miss 

 Margaret Conover added $665 to the Conover Game-bird Fund (es- 

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

 Research Associate) ; and Harry Vearn Clyborne added $100 to the 

 Harry Vearn and Mary Elizabeth Clyborne Fund. The Museum re- 

 ceived $763.93 from the estate of the late Mrs. Abby K. Babcock and 

 $30.15 (for the Martin A. and Carrie Ryerson Fund) from the final 

 distribution of the William D wight Darrow Trust Fund. 



Stanley Field, President of the Museum, gave an additional 

 $30,327.50 for endowment. A grant of $5,000 was received from Eli 

 Lilly and Company, of Indianapolis, to assist in our program of 

 botanical publication; Mrs. Hermon Dunlap Smith gave $500 toward 

 a special publication on birds; and S. C. Johnson and Son, Incor- 

 ported, of Racine, Wisconsin, gave $4,000 for our continuing study 

 of waxy palms. To obtain the Captain A. W. F. Fuller Collection 

 of Ethnological Specimens from the Pacific Islands, a Purchase Fund 

 was established, which, during the year, received a total of $19,405 

 from the following donors: George A. Bates, Wm. McCormick Blair, 

 Walther Buchen, Walter J. Cummings, Joseph N. Field, Marshall 

 Field, Jr., Henry P. Isham, Hughston M. McBain, William H. 

 Mitchell, Sterling Morton, Clarence B. Randall, John G. Searle, 

 Solomon A. Smith, Louis Ware, and John P. Wilson. Gifts of secu- 

 rities were received from Joseph H. King to the value of $2,087.50 

 and from Gaylord Donnelley to the value of $528.13. 



The American Friends of China (Chicago) gave $2,082.18 as a 

 memorial to the late Dr. Berthold Laufer (see pages 43 and 74). 

 Additional gifts to the Commander Frank V. Gregg Memorial Fund 

 were received from Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, Dr. Paul S. Martin, and 

 Trustee Louis Ware. Other gifts of funds came from Hamilton All- 

 port, Adelbert Brown, Peder A. Christensen, Gaylord Donnelley, 

 Flexible Steel Lacing Company, Brimson Grow, William Heuer, 

 Edgar Heymann, John Plain Foundation, Hughston M. McBain, 

 National Society of Colonial Dames of America (Illinois), Mrs. 

 Langdon Pearse, John T. Pirie, Jr., Henry Pope, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 

 Reuben Schutz, Mrs. Margaret Brown Trimble, and James Willard. 



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