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ber 27, 1917, the securities in question and the data essential for a 

 draft of a deed conveying the real estate. 



"Resolved, That in accepting from Mrs. E. H. Harriman her gift of the 

 Eugenics Record Office and the accompanying provision for its maintenance, 

 the Executive Conunittee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington desire 

 to record their admiration for the philanthropic discernment and the enlight- 

 ened liberality which have led her to found this altruistic enterprise, and to 

 express their sense of obligation to maintain and to pursue its researches under 

 the auspices of the Institution for the benefit alike of our contemporaries and 

 of our successors. 



"Resolved, That a fund to be called the Harriman Fund be and hereby 

 is established and that the United States Trust Company of New York be 

 requested to set apart in this fund the securities (aggregating $300,000, par 

 value) recently presented to the Institution by Mrs. E. H. Harriman as apart 

 of her gift of the Eugenics Record Office." 



Near the beginning of the present fiscal year, namely, Novem- 

 Death Losses ber 17, 1917, Dr. Franklin Paine Mall, Director 

 of the Year. ^f ^-^e Department of Embryology, died at Balti- 

 more, Maryland, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. 



Mall was born at Belle Plaine, Iowa, September 28, 1862. 

 His preparatory education was had in pubUc and private schools 

 and his first academic degree was obtained in the school of medi- 

 cine of the University of Michigan at the early age of 21 years. 

 He later pursued special courses of study at Heidelberg, Leipzig, 

 and Johns Hopkins Universities. After serving as instructor 

 in pathology at Johns Hopkins University and as professor of 

 anatomy successively in Clark University and in the University 

 of Chicago, he became professor of anatomy of the Johns Hop- 

 Idns Medical School in 1893. He held this position actively until 

 the end of 1912 and in an advisory capacity up to the time of his 

 death. 



In response to proposals submitted by Dr. Mall during the 

 year 1912, he was appointed Research Associate of the Institu- 

 tion March 15, 1913; and by resolution of the Trustees December 

 11, 1914, the Department of Embryology, under his direction, 

 was formally established. To this work he brought the resources 

 not only of a highly original and productive mind, but also his 

 remarkable collection of human embryos. Under the exacting 

 professional standards of his administration the work of this 

 department immediately assumed advanced rank, while the 



