REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 5 
As a reason for making this bequest to the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion Mr. Poore in his will says: 
I make this gift not so much because of its amount as because I hope it will 
prove an example for other Americans to follow, by supporting and encouraging 
so wise and beneficent an institution as I believe the Smithsonian Institution 
to be, and yet it has been neglected and overlooked by American citizens. 
The affairs of this estate are being adjusted by the executor as 
rapidly as circumstances will permit. 
Reid bequest.—In 1903 the Institution was informed of a proposed 
bequest to the Institution from Mr. Addison T. Reid, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., to found a chair of biology in memory of the testator’s grand- 
father, Asher Tunis. The bequest was subject to the condition that 
the income was to be paid in three equal shares to certain named 
legatees until their death, when the principal of the estate (then 
estimated at $10,000), with accumulations, was to come to the Insti- 
tution. One of the beneficiaries having died, the trust created for 
her benefit, amounting to $4,795.91, was received by the Institution 
during the past year and deposited to the credit of the permanent 
fund in the United States Treasury. 
Loeb bequest.—By the will of Morris Loeb, of New York City, the 
Smithsonian Institution is made a residual legatee and is to receive 
a one-tenth share of the estate remaining upon the death of the 
testator’s wife. This legacy is to be used for the furtherance of 
knowledge in the exact sciences. 
Morris Loeb, chemist, was born at Cincinnati May 23, 1863, and 
died October 8, 1912. He graduated from Harvard University in 
1883 with the degree of A. B. and received the degree of Ph. D. from 
the University of Berlin in 1887 and Sc. D. from Union University 
in 1911. In 1891 he became professor of chemistry at the New York 
University. He was vice president of the American Chemical So- 
ciety, and a member of the German Chemical Society and other sci- 
entific bodies. 
Lucy Hunter Baird bequest—Miss Baird, daughter of the late 
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary of the Institution, died June 19, 
1913. Besides giving to the National Museum and the Smithsonian 
Institution certain books, manuscripts, and other articles, the will 
of Miss Baird provides that upon the release of any portion of 
the trust estate by the death of the person entitled to the income 
thereof, said trust estate shall be given “ to the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion in trust as a fund to be known as ‘the Spencer Fullerton Baird 
fund,’ the interest shall be devoted, under the direction of the 
Smithsonian Institution to the expenses in whole or in part of a 
scientific exploration and biological research or for the purchase of 
specimens of natural objects or archeological specimens.” 
