16 The Academy of Natural Sciences 



ment of his intention, announced that they would pay $120 per 

 annum toward the expenses of publication and $480 per annum for 

 the assistance of poor young men desiring to study natural history. 

 The sums named were regularly paid until February, 1872, when 

 $10,000 in bonds were transferred to the Academy. Mrs. Clara J. 

 Moore, in 1888, added $5,000 to the fund and, in 1893, she gave 

 $5,000 for the assistance of young women similarly inclined. Sixty- 

 nine men and four women have been assisted by the endowment, 

 some of them attaining dignified positions as teachers, geologists, 

 biologists and authors. 



The same year the Academy lost the services of the Treasurer, 

 George W. Carpenter, who had served in that capacity most dis- 

 creetly for thirty-four years. He was ever generous in his 

 encouragement of young naturalists, Mr. Thomas Meehan, for 

 example, being always warm in his acknowledgement of indebtedness 

 to him. 



The Academy entered on its second half century under the 

 brightest prospects and with a most gratifying record of honor- 

 able achievements. The year 1862 was made notable by the work 

 of illustrious veterans who were still active, and by what there was 

 reason to expect from their successors. But few of the great collec- 

 tions which have since come into prominence were in existence. The 

 Smithsonian Institution was then rather a distributing agency than 

 a storehouse of scientific material. The United States Government 

 had not become, through the Agricultural Department, the National 

 Museum, the Fish Commission and the Geological Surveys, one of 

 the largest publishing concerns in the world, and a formidable rival 

 in the publication of scientific matter, so that the work of Gill, 

 Meek, Hayden, Coues, Stimpson, Kennicott, Yarrow and others in 

 Washington and elsewhere, was issued promptly and accurately in 

 the pages of the Proceedings and Journal. 



Leidy had suspended for a time his delightful field and lab- 

 oratory notes and was pursuing his paleontological studies in a 

 little dark and dusty room on the first floor of the museum. These 

 he continued until driven out of the field by the wrangling of Cope 

 and Marsh, when his microscopic studies were carried on more 

 comfortably at home. 



John Cassin 11 had held for years such undisputed sway over the 



11 John Cassin, by Witmer Stone. Cassinia I, pp. 1-7. 



