NO. 12 CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT 21 



Doctor Walcott was very helpful in securing the endowment of the 

 National Academy and its National Research Council. He greatly 

 desired to obtain also a largely increased endowment for the Smith- 

 sonian. He sought many times to interest wealthy friends to assist 

 in this. Being unsuccessful, he proposed the establishment of a Society 

 to befriend the Institution, but this has not as yet been accomplished. 

 Two projects which are now in progress he actually initiated, and 

 himself by personal gift and bequest added all he could to the 

 endowment. 



Honored with the presidency of several of America's foremost 

 scientific societies, holding numerous honorary degrees and member- 

 ships in societies at home and abroad, and awarded many medals of 

 highest rank for his pre-eminence in paleontology and in administra- 

 tion, the Smithsonian Institution may well be proud of its fourth 

 Secretary, and the National Academy of its ninth President. 



COMMUNICATIONS FROM SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



Among many communications from scientific societies and indi- 

 viduals received on the occasion of the Memorial Meeting for the late 

 Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott. were the following : 



" Musee Royal de Histoire Naturelle de Belgique salutes the 

 glorious memory of Charles Doolittle Walcott." 



(Signed) Van Straeten. 



Director. 



" Vienna Academy of Sciences joins you in honoring the memory 

 of the great geologist Walcott, pioneer promoter of international 

 scientific cooperation." 



