APPENDIX TO JOURNAL. 4H 



E. 



THE TYNDALL TRUST FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE 

 IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Letter from Professor Tyndall to Professor Henry. 



New York, February 7, 1873. 



My Dear Professor Henry: I have made my "will* in due form, 

 and signed it in the presence of witnesses. 



My desire and intention in accepting the invitation of my friends 

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

 covery from calamity is quick in 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. 



My disbursements, as I told you, are heavy. Living I have found to 

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

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

 could 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 intend 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. 



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Ever yours, faithfully, 



JOHN TYNDALL. 

 Professor Joseph Henry, 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



THE TRUST. 



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

 tion of Great Britain, having, at the solicitation of my friends, lectured 

 in various cities of the United States, find the receipts and disburse- 

 ments on account of these lectures to be as follows : 



I. — Receipts. 



From Boston, for six lectures $1, 500 00 



From Philadelphia, for six lectures 3, 000 00 



From Baltimore, for three lectures 1, 000 00 



