104 APPENDIX TO JOURNAL. 



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THE TYNDALL TRUST FOR THE PROMOTIOI^ OF SGiEIS^CE 

 IX THE UXITED STATES. 



Letter from Professor Tyndall to Professor Henry. 



Kew York, February 7, 1873. 



i\lY Dear Professor Henry: I liave made my "will" iu due form, 

 aud signed it iu the preseuee of witnesses. 



My desire aud iuteutiou in accepting the invitation of my friends 

 were, as you know, to hand over the proceeds to Chicago. But the re- 

 covery froui calamity is quick iu this country, so that Chicago not only 

 does not need my feeble aid, but would be willing of her abundance to 

 add to my wealth. 



]\Iy disbursements, as I told you, are heavy. Living I hjive found to 

 be exceedingly expensive iu the United States; hence the balance which 

 I am able to hand over to the board of trustees is not so large as I 

 uould wish it to be. It, however, amounts to a little more than thirteen 

 thousand dollars. 



I have bestowed some care on the accounts, and do not think I carry 

 home with me a single cent of American money. But I carry home 

 what is to me incomparably more precious, and that is the assured good- 

 will of the American people. 



The instruments that I take home with me I iutend to present to the 

 Royal Institution, where they will be turned to good account. My 

 hands will be then entirely clean, and no foreign element will mingle 

 with the bright memory of the time I spent here. 



Ever yours, faithfully, 



JOHX TYNDALL. 

 Professor Joseph Henry, 



Secretary Smithsonian Instiiiition, WasJiington, D. C. 



THE TRUST. 



I, John Tyndall, professor of natural philosophy iu the Royal Institu 

 tion of G-reat Britain, having, at the solicit^ition of my friends, lectured 

 iu various cities of the Uuited States, fiud the receipts and disburse- 

 ments on account of these lectures to be as follows : 



I. — Receipts. 



From Boston, for six lectures , $1, 500 00 



Froui Philadelphia, for six lectures 3, 000 00 



From Baltimore, for three lectures 1, 000 00 



