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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. 



The permanent committee presented the following statement : 



EodgMns fund.—K third allotment of $5,000 was made from the 

 income of this fund for the purpose of continuing the work of the 

 Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory. 



Poore hequest. — Mr. John J. Pickman, executor of the estate of 

 George W. Poore, was given an indemnity bond to guarantee him 

 from loss, and he thereupon paid to the Institution the sum of 

 $24,534.92, the net proceeds of the estate, exclusive of certain parcels 

 of land, which are estimated to have a value of $10,000. 



The Addison T. Reid hequest was made for the purpose of found- 

 ing a chair in biology as a memorial to the testator's grandfather, 

 Asher Tunis, subject to the condition that the income be paid in 

 three shares to certain enumerated beneficiaries until their death, 

 when the principal of the estate, with accumulations, was to come to 

 the Institution. As previously reported, one of the beneficiaries 

 died in 1913, and the amount of her share, $4,795.91, was duly re- 

 ceived by the Institution. A second beneficiary died during the 

 summer of 1915, and her share, amounting to $4,698.59, was also 

 received. 



Rhees hequest. — Mr. William Jones Ehees, chief clerk of the In- 

 stitution for nearly 40 years, died March 18, 1907, bequeathing to 

 the Institution the sum of $500. This bequest has been received and 

 will be allowed to increase by the addition of its earnings to the 

 principal until a sufficient sum shall have been realized to make 

 possible the provision of a suitable work of some kind to serve as a 

 memorial to this able and faithful official. 



Chamberlain hequests. — The board was informed at a previous 

 meeting that Dr. Leander T. Chamberlain had made two bequests to 

 the Institution, each to be known as " the Frances Lea Chamberlain 

 Fund." 



The first bequest was $25,000, the income of which was to be used 

 " for promoting the increase and the scientific value and usefulness 

 of the collection of gems and gem material known as the ' Isaac Lea 

 Collection' in the department of minerals in the United States 

 National Museum." 



The second bequest was $10,000, the income to be used " for pro- 

 moting the scientific value and usefulness of the collection of mol- 

 lusks known as the ' Isaac Lea Collection,' " also in the National 

 Museum. This second bequest has been received. 



Sanford hequest. — A bequest of $1,020 has been received by the 

 Institution imder the will of Mrs. Helen B. Sanford for the purpose 

 of founding "the George H. Sanford fund," as a memorial to her 

 husband. The income of this fund is to be used for the increase and 



