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Forever the other half to be used for experiments. The object of this plan is 

 to provide a constantly increasing amount of money each year for experiments, 

 for these will each year become more difficult and recondite. 



I direct no part of the money shaU ever be used except for pushing forward 

 the bounds of physics and chemistry. 



I cannot foresee what will be the nature of the experiments, beyond those 

 stated, but their cost will constantly increase as time goes on and will require 

 the time of great and devoted experimenters. I desire that no part of the money 

 shaU ever be used for any other purpose than for the most difficult problems in 

 physics and chemistry, as these are what have most interested me, and to aid in 

 their solution. 



Plans are now being worked out to promote researches that will 

 carry out the wishes of the donor. 



Reid bequest. — ^The will of Addison T. Reid, who died in 1902, pro- 

 vided for the payment of the income upon the property to certain 

 persons, and upon their death for the payment of the principal of 

 the estate to the Smithsonian Institution to found a chair in biology 

 in memory of the testator's grandfather, Asher Tunis. During the 

 past year, the last of the beneficiaries, Harriet Reid, died, and the 

 Institution was notified that the sum of $5,010 would be added to 

 other funds already on hand under the Addison T. Reid bequest. 

 At the close of the year the funds had not actually been received at 

 the Institution. 



EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD WORK 



In spite of its greatly decreased resources, both governmental and 

 private, the Institution sent out or took part in 13 field expeditions 

 in the furtherance of its research program. The new solar observing 

 station on Mount St. Katherine, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, was occu- 

 pied and regular observations begun. Drs. Remington Kellogg 

 and C. Lewis Gazin searched the shore of Chesapeake Bay for the 

 fossil bones of extinct marine mammals. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 

 served as a member of the scientific staff of the 1933 Hancock expe- 

 dition to the Galapagos Islands. Capt. R. A. Bartlett continued his 

 scientific studies of the animal and plant life of the Arctic on behalf of 

 the Institution on the 1933 Norcross-Bartlett Arctic Expedition. 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith took every opportunity, as in former years, to 

 collect Siamese natural history material for the Institution. Dr. 

 Walter Hough investigated the remains of ancient Indian irrigation 

 canals in Arizona. Frank M. Setzler excavated Indian cave deposits 

 in southwestern Texas, and later conducted archeological studies of a 

 group of mounds near Marksville, La. Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., 

 excavated the remains of a small Indian village near Allan town, 

 Ariz., which had been built, occupied, and abandoned during the 

 ninth century. Dr. W. D. Strong represented the Institution on an 

 archeological expedition to a little-known region of Honduras. John 



