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benefaction of unusual importance to the Museum. At the close of 
the year the will was still in course of settlement, but its final execu- 
tion is not expected to be much longer delayed. Its terms with ref- 
erence to the Museum are as follows: 
“Seventh: I give and bequeath to the Smithsonian Institution in 
the City of Washington and District of Columbia, the sum of twenty- 
five thousand dollars ($25,000), in trust, the same to constitute a 
permanent fund which shall be known as the ‘ Frances Lea Chamber- 
lain Fund,’ the income of said fund to be used under the direction of 
the Secretary of the Board of Regents of said Institution, for pro- 
moting the increase, and the scientific value and usefulness, of the 
collection of gems and gem material, known as the ‘Isaac Lea Col- 
lection’ in the department of minerals in the United States National 
Museum, the said collection having been chiefly collected and given 
by me in honor of Dr. Isaac Lea and his only daughter, Frances Lea 
Chamberlain. 
“Kighth: I give and bequeath to the Smithsonian Institution in 
the City of Washington and District of Columbia, the further sum of 
ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the same to constitute a permanent 
fund which shall be known as the ‘ Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund,’ 
the income of said fund to be used, under the direction of the Secre- 
tary of the Board of Regents of said Institution, for promoting the 
scientific value and usefulness of the collection of mollusks, known 
as the ‘Isaac Lea Collection,’ in the department of mollusks in the 
said Smithsonian Institution.” ° 
Another testament, executed during the year, in which the Museum 
is made a beneficiary, is also of special interest in that it was made by 
Miss Lucy Hunter Baird, daughter of Prof. Spencer Fullerton Baird, 
the first assistant secretary in charge of the National Museum and 
the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The death of 
Miss Baird occurred in Philadelphia, where she had long resided, 
on June 19, 1918. The articles in her will relating to the Museum 
were as follows: 
“Fourth: * * * to the National Museum in the City of Wash- 
ington, 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 Institution with the exception of the specific be- 
quests to the Smithsonian Institution contained in this Will. If 
there be any China of which I have made no other disposition, of any 
value to the Museum, I desire that it shall be placed therein. 
“To the Smithsonian Institution, the copies of my father’s own 
books containing his notes in his own handwriting, also the books by 
Audubon or any other works on natural history, annotated in my 
father’s writing, to be kept forever in a case together. 
