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made by the Carnegie Institution at Washington 

 for the continuance of the work. The terms 

 involved in the first proposition did not meet 

 with his approval, as it would have seriously and 

 unnecessarily cramped the work. The next year 

 (1904) a new proposition w^as made by the 

 Carnegie Institution which gave him freedom, 

 except that semiannual statements be made 

 ($10,000 annually as long as agreeable to both 

 parties) ; with serious misgivings he accepted 

 the trust, and for five years worked under this 

 arrangement. It being a difficult proposition to 

 properly graft a branch of the young Carnegie 

 Institution onto an established institution of 

 more than thirty years' existence the expenses 

 necessary to renew and extend the work and 

 make arrangements for the preservation of the 

 scientific data were large. And from the first he 

 found it necessary each year to use an average of 

 nine to twelve hundred dollars per annum more 

 than the amount set aside for this purpose, the 

 amount of labor and money expenditures re- 

 quired in producing these new creations being 

 something astounding to anyone when first 

 acquainted with the facts. The additional funds 

 for continuing these experiments were obtained 

 from the occasional sale of novelties, as before. 

 At the end of five years this arrangement could 



