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and the case were delivered to Madame Curie at the White House on 

 the afternoon of May 20, 1921, by the President of the United States, 

 and the precious receptacle with its more precious contents is now 

 safely in Paris. 



Madame Curie received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at 

 the University of Pittsburgh in the presence of a gathering of more 

 than twenty-five hundred persons assembled in the Soldiers' and 

 Sailors' Memorial Hall. The pleasant duty of presenting her for the 

 degree devolved upon the Director of the Carnegie Museum. After 

 this ceremony Madame Curie, accompanied by her daughters, met the 

 members of the Reception Committee in the foyer of the Hall of 

 Music at the Carnegie Institute, and later took her place upon the 

 platform, where she was introduced to those who were unable to 

 clasp her hand. An interesting incident was the presentation to her 

 on the platform of a souvenir of her visit to Pittsburgh, given to her 

 by the Polish women of western Pennsylvania, and handed to her by 

 a young Polish girl in national costume, who was attended by a party 

 of other young ladies similarly attired. 



Madame Curie, of course, visited the great establishment where the 

 gram of radium which she had received had been made, and she was 

 the recipient of such social attentions as the condition of her health 

 and the brief limits of her stay made possible. She and her daughters 

 and the party accompanying them were the guests during their visit 

 of Mrs. Henry R. Rea in her beautiful home on Sewickley Heights. 



Madame Curie on her return to France carried back with her not 

 only the gram of radium presented by the womerj of America, but 

 $22,000 worth of mesothorium and other valuable ores, bringing her 

 precious package up to the value of $162,000. 



In a letter to the writer of these lines received from ]\Irs. Marie M. 

 Meloney. to whom the credit of the whole enterprise is due, Mrs. 

 Meloney says: "In addition to this she had in cash from awards of 

 scientific societies in this country $6,884.51. There is $52,000 left in 

 the Equitable Trust Company. We are holding this pending the com- 

 pletion of the fund suggested by a prominent American gentleman, 

 who offered to collect $50,000 for the equipment for Madame Curie's 

 laboratory, if the women on the Executive Committee desired to estab- 

 lish an American trust with the money remaining in the bank, which 

 would provide Madame Curie with an income as long as she lives. 



