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It was proposed that after her death the income from this trust be 

 used to pay the expenses of two American students in chemistry and 

 physics at the Sorbonne." 



Madame Curie took with her from America not merely the tangible 

 and substantial evidence of the esteem of the American people, to 

 which reference has been made, but their good-will and affection, 

 which will follow her all the days of her life, which we hope may be 

 many. 



Since the first part of the present volume of the Annals was sent 

 to press, death has removed two well-known members of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, both of whom served on the 

 Committee upon the Museum. 



On April 8. 1920, Dr. John Alfred Brashear passed away after a 

 long and distinguished life of usefulness. He served as a member of 

 the Committee on the Museum from 1897 to 1901. 



On April 10, 1921, Mr. Henry Kirke Porter, who had been a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Library and of the 

 Institute from the beginning, having been one of Mr. Carnegie's 

 original appointees, died in the eighty-first year of his age. He was 

 appointed a member of the Committee on the Museum in 1920, but 

 never attended a meeting, being prevented from so doing by his resi- 

 dence in Washington, D. C. 



Both of these eminent gentlemen rendered distinguished service to 

 the Institute, and their names will always be held in grateful remem- 

 brance. 



On November 22, 1920, Miss Mary Jane Stribling, the oldest mem- 

 ber of the staff of the Museum in point of actual service, died after 

 a lingering illness. She belonged to an old and distinguished family 

 of Virginians, and had received in her early life an excellent educa- 

 tion. Compelled by adversity to make her own livelihood, she be- 

 came a stenographer and for a long period was in the employment of 

 one of the leading firms of music-dealers in Richmond, Va. On the 

 occasion of a visit to Pittsburgh, where she had friends, they induced 

 her to endeavor to secure employment in Pittsburgh, and accordingly 

 she applied to Mr. C. C. Mellor, then the chairman of the Committee 



