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spending a year in Italy, where he obtained much 

 information as to the remarkable progress of 

 modern Italy. Illustrated. 



March 3: "The Birds of Mexico." By Mr. 

 Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. With motion pictures of 

 roseate spoon-bills, man-'o-war birds and white 

 ibises. 



March 10: "From the Amazon to the Orinoco. 

 The Five Guianas." By Mrs. Harriet Chalmers 

 Adams. With motion pictures. 



March 17: "Travels and Experiences in 

 Mexico." By Mr. John Birkinbine, Ex-Piesident 

 of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

 Illustrated. 



March 24 : " The Shrines of Greece ; Olympia. 

 Delphi, Eleusis, Athens, Mycense, Tiryns. Epi- 

 dauros and the Island of Crete." By Miss Marion 

 Cock. Illustrated. 



March 31: "The Romance and Grandeur of 

 Spain." By Dr. Charles Upson Clark, of Yale 

 University. Illustrated. 



April 7 : It is hoped that former Vioe-Presiden^ 

 Charles W. Fairbanks will be able to address the 

 Society on this date on some subject connected 

 with his recent journey around the world. 



April 14 : " The Fiords and Fisheries of Nor- 

 way." By Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Com- 

 missioner of the Bureau of Fisheries. With mo- 

 tion pictures. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND MR. 

 ROCKEFELLER 



At the convocation of the University of 

 Chicago on December 20, the following letter 

 from Mr. John D. Eockefeller to the president 

 and trustees was read : 



I have this day caused to be set aside for the 

 University of Chicago, from the funds of the 

 General Education Board, which are subject to my 

 disposition, income-bearing securities of the pres- 

 ent market value of approximately ten million dol- 

 lars, the same to be delivered to the university in 

 ten equal annual instalments beginning Jan. 1, 

 1911, each instalment to bear income to the uni- 

 versity from the date of such delivery only. In a 

 separate letter of even date my wishes regarding 

 the investment and uses of the fund are more 

 specifically expressed. 



It is far better that the university be supported 

 and enlarged by the gifts of many than by those of 

 a single donor. This I have recognized from the 

 beginning and, accordingly, have sought to assist 

 you in enlisting the interest ajid securing the con- 



tributions of many others, at times by making my 

 own gifts conditional on the gifts of others, and 

 at times by aiding you by means ot unconditional 

 gifts to make the university as widely useful, 

 worthy and attractive as possible. Most heartily 

 do I recognize and rejoice in the generous 

 response of the citizens of Chicago and the West. 



Their contributions to the resources of the uni- 

 versity have been, I believe, more than seven mil- 

 lion dollars. It might, perhaps, be diificult to 

 find a parallel to generosity so large and so widely 

 distributed as this, exercised in behalf of an insti- 

 tution so recently founded. I desire to express 

 my appreciation also of the extraordinary wisdom 

 and fidelity w'hieh you as president and trustees 

 have shown in conducting the afi'airs of the uni- 

 versity. 



In the multitude of students so quickly gathered, 

 in the high character of the institution, in the 

 variety and extent of original research, in the 

 valuable contributions to human knowledge, in 

 the uplifting influence of the university as a whole 

 upon education throughout the West, my highest 

 hopes have been far exceeded. It is these con- 

 siderations, with others, that move me to sum up 

 in a single and final gift, distributing its payment 

 over a period of many years to come, such further 

 contributions as 1 have purposed to make to the 

 university. 



The sum I now give is intended to make provi- 

 sion, with such gifts as may reasonably be ex- 

 pected from others, for such added buildings, 

 equipment and endowment as the department thus 

 far established will need. This gift completes the 

 task which I have set before myself. The found- 

 ing and support of new departments or the devel- 

 opment of the varied and alluring field of applied 

 science, including medicine, I leave to the wisdom 

 of the trustees, as funds may be furnished for 

 these purposes by other friends of the university. 



In making an end of my gifts to the university, 

 as I now do, and in withdrawing from the board 

 of trustees, my personal representatives, whoje 

 resignations I enclose, I am acting on an early 

 and permanent conviction that this great institu- 

 tion, being the property ot the people, should be 

 controlled, conducted and supported by the peo- 

 ple in whose generous efforts for its upbuilding I 

 have been permitted simply to cooperate; and I 

 could wish to consecrate anew to the great cause 

 of education, the funds which I have given, if that 

 were possible; to present the institution a second 

 time, in so far as I have aided in founding it, to 

 the people of Chicago and the West; and to 



