508 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



tion Society, which was founded in Washington in 1888. The result 

 of the conferences which the society carried on was that in 1889 

 Rockefeller contributed 1600,000 as an endowment fund, the income 

 onh" of which could be used for current expenses, and under the con- 

 dition that within a year $400,000 should be given by other parties for 

 the purpose of purchasing land and erecting huildings thereon. This 

 condition was fuUHhnl in 1890, and in addition Marshall Field, of 

 Chicago, presented land for half of the site, the other half being 

 bought for $182,r)()(i, altogether three blocks, to which, in 1S91, a 

 fourth block was added, costing $160,000, and in 1898 a fifth and sixth 

 block, costing $310,000, toward which Mr. Field again contributed 

 $185,000 and Mr. Rockefeller the remainder. The cost of the land 

 aggregates, therefore, up to the present time, over $750,000. 



On September 10, 1890, the University of Chicago was incorporated 

 as such b}' the State of Illinois, its objects, as set forth, being to serve 

 for the higher education of both sexes on equal terms, its man- 

 agement being contided to a board of 21 trustees, two-thirds of whom, 

 as well as the president of the university, must l)e members of regu- 

 lar Baptist churches, the universit}'^ to have, however, a purely literary 

 and scientific character, and no professorship or place of any kind to 

 be dependent upon a religious test. A few days thereafter Mr. Rock- 

 efeller again gave, to be invested, $1,000,000, four-tifths of the pro- 

 ceeds to be used for the general purposes of instruction and one-fifth 

 for the theological faculty, and Prof. W. R. Harper was appointed 

 president. The latter accepted the ofiice on Jul}^ 1, 1891, and has ever 

 since been the active force of the whole enterprise, as in fact he had 

 been since 1888, constantly maintaining the view that it ought to be a 

 real universit}^ and not a nominal one, as are so many in the United 

 States. It was further arranged that the Theological Seminary of the 

 Baptist Union in Morgan Park, Chicago, estaldished since 1860, be 

 constituted the theological faculty of the university (divinity school) 

 under this condition, among others, that a dormitor}^ costing $100,000 

 should be erected for the accommodation, without charge, of the theo- 

 logical students, in consideration of which the acadeni}- of the univer- 

 sity should be established in the buildings at Morgan Park. With the 

 seminary the universit}' also obtained a theological library of 40.000 

 volumes, as previousl}^ mentioned. 



From January, 1891, to May, 1892, there were six bulletins pub- 

 lished on the plan of organization of the university which had been 

 previously submitted to the criticism of more than 50 American insti- 

 tutions for higher education. In 1891 the heirs of the first mayor of 

 Chicago, W. B. Ogden, endowed a faculty of natural sciences (Ogden 

 Scientific School) for physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and asti'on- 

 omy. This was under a provision of his will that prescribed that 70 

 per cent of his property should be devoted to charitable purposes. 



