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benefaction of imusiial importance to the Museum. At the close of 

 the year the will was still in course of settlement, but its final execu- 

 tion is not expected to be much longer delayed. Its terms with ref- 

 erence to the Museum are as follows : 



" Seventh : I give and bequeath to the Smithsonian Institution in 

 the City of Washington and District of Columbia, the sum of twenty- 

 five thousand dollars ($25,000), in trust, the same to constitute a 

 permanent fund which shall be known as the ' Frances Lea Chamber- 

 lain Fund,' the income of said fund to be used under the direction of 

 the Secretary of the Board of Regents of said Institution, for pro- 

 moting the increase, and the scientific value and usefulness, of the 

 collection of gems and gem material, known as the ' Isaac Lea Col- 

 lection ' in the department of minerals in the United States National 

 Museum, the said collection having been chiefly collected and given 

 by me in honor of Dr. Isaac Lea and his only daughter, Frances Lea 

 Chamberlain. 



" Eighth : I give and bequeath to the Smithsonian Institution in 

 the City of Washington and District of Columbia, the further sum of 

 ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the same to constitute a permanent 

 fund which shall be known as the ' Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund,' 

 the income of said fund to be used, under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Regents of said Institution, for promoting the 

 scientific value and usefulness of the collection of mollusks, known 

 as the ' Isaac Lea Collection,' in the department of mollusks in the 

 said Smithsonian Institution." 



Another testament, executed during the year, in which the Museum 

 is made a beneficiary, is also of special interest in that it was made by 

 Miss Lucy Hunter Baird, daughter of Prof. Spencer Fullerton Baird, 

 the first assistant secretary in charge of the National Museum and 

 the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The death of 

 Miss Baird occurred in Philadelphia, where she had long resided, 

 on June 19, 1913. The articles in her will relating to the Museum 

 were as follows: 



" Fourth : * * * to the National Museum in the City of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, all articles deposited by my father, Spencer F. Baird, 

 my mother, Mary H. C. Baird, or mj'self, in its keeping or that of 

 the Smithsonian Institution with the exception of the specific be- 

 quests to the Smithsonian Institution contained in this Will. If 

 there be any China of which I have made no other disposition, of any 

 value to the Museum, I desire that it shall be placed therein. 



"To the Smithsonian Institution, the copies of my father's own 

 books containing his notes in his own handwriting, also the books by 

 Audubon or any other works on natural history, annotated in my 

 father's writing, to be kept forever in a case together. 



