124 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914, 
Poore bequest—The matters in relation to the settlement of the 
Poore estate, which have had the supervision of Mr. Choate, have 
progressed satisfactorily. 
A report on the financial condition of the estate to November 15, 
1913, has been submitted by the executor, Mr. John J. Pickman, who 
says that claims against the estate are being adjusted as rapidly as 
circumstances will permit. Your committee asks that the board 
refer the matter of final settlement to it with power to act. Mr. 
Pickman reports that the whole estate may ultimately amount to 
from $35,000 to $40,000. 
Under the terms of the bequest, this is to be allowed to increase to 
$250,000, the income of which will then become available for the 
purposes of the Institution. 
Research Corporation.—During the past year the corporation has 
established the Cottrell process in a number of plants in order to 
demonstrate its commercial practicability, and new plants are being 
installed as rapidly as the engineering force can do the work. 
Other patents have been offered to the corporation and are under 
consideration. One of these is for a concrete tie, which is now being 
thoroughly tested on one of the railways in southwestern California. 
Addison T. Reid bequest—In 1903 the board 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 grandfather, Asher Tunis. The bequest was subject to 
the condition that the income was to be paid in three equal shares 
to certain enumerated legatees until their death, when the prtn- 
cipal of the estate, with accumulations, was to come to the Institu- 
tion. At that time the estate was estimated to be worth $10,000. 
Recently the Institution has been informed of the death of one of 
the beneficiaries, and the trust created for her benefit, amounting to 
$4,795.91, has been paid to the Institution and deposited to the 
credit of the permanent fund in the United States Treasury. 
Will of Morris Loeb.—At the meeting of February 13, 1913, the 
board’s attention was called to an item in the will of Morris Loeb, 
of New York City, in which the 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 fur- 
therance of knowledge in the exact sciences. 
The Lucy Hunter Baird bequest—Miss Baird, daughter of 
Spencer Fullerton Baird, late secretary of the Institution, died 
June 19, 1913, making provision for the Institution and National 
Museum in the following items of her will: 
Fourth. * * * To the National Museum in the City of Washington, 
D. C., all articles deposited by my father, Spencer F. Baird, my mother, 
Mary H. C. Baird, or myself, in its keeping or that of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution with the exception of the specific bequests to the Smithsonian Institu- 
