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$340,874. The capital fund of the Foundation 

 on January 1, 1915, was $100,048,000. 



Appropriations amounting to $1,200,000, not 

 hitherto announced, have recently been made 

 by the Foundation. To the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch is given $1,000,000 

 for additional endowment needed in connec- 

 tion with the Department of Animal Pathol- 

 ogy, recently established near Princeton, 'N. J. 

 To the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, $25,000 goes for the cost of medical 

 research and such medical supplies and serv- 

 ices as the institute may appropriately furnish 

 at the seat of war in Europe. Most of this 

 appropriation will be used for the support of 

 the research and hospital work being conducted 

 by Dr. Alexis Carrel in France. The China 

 Medical Board receives $125,000 for the pur- 

 chase of additional property adjoining the 

 Union Medical College in Pekin for the pro- 

 motion of medical teaching in China. The 

 international committee of the Young Men's 

 Christian Association receives $50,000 in sup- 

 port of the work in the military prison camps 

 of Europe. 



The General Education Board, founded by 

 John D. Rockefeller " to promote education 

 within the ITnited States " without distinction 

 of race, sex or creed, will shortly issue its com- 

 plete annual report for the fiscal year 1914-15. 



The first installment of that report, made 

 public this week, shows that since its organi- 

 zation and up to June 30, 1915, the board had 

 appropriated directly $16,862,147.71. Of this 

 amount, $10,848,084.07 had been paid out, and 

 $6,014,063.64 was awaiting requisition. 



Up to that date the board had appropriated 

 its entire accumulated income with the excep- 

 tion of $198,992.35. 



The report shows the value of the board's re- 

 sources, supplied by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, 

 to be $33,958,848.40, of which $30,918,063.80 is 

 general endowment and $3,040,784.60 reserve 

 fund. 



The gross income from these funds for 1915 

 was $2,230,425.41. In addition, the Anna T. 

 Jeanes Fund, which is administered by the 

 board, yielded an income of $7,910.46. The 



administration of these funds is in the hands 

 of a board of trustees consisting of Frederick 

 T. Gates, chairman; Walter H. Page, John D. 

 Rockefeller, Jr., Albert Shaw, Wallace But- 

 trick, Starr J. Murphy, Edwin A. Alderman, 

 HoUis B. Frissell, Harry Pratt Judson, Charfes 

 W. Eliot, Andrew Carnegie, Edgar L. Marston, 

 Wickliffe Rose, Jerome D. Greene, Anson 

 Phelps Stokes, Abraham Flexner and George 

 E. Vincent. 



The General Education Board's appropria- 

 tions up to June 30, 1915, had been as follows : 



Universities and colleges for whites 



for endowment $11,672,460.16 



Medical schools 2,670,874.11 



Colleges and schools for whites, for 



current expenses 159,991.02 



Colleges and schools for negroes 811,781.13 



Southern Education Board 97,126.23 



Salaries and expenses professors of 



secondary education 275,580.01 



Salaries and expenses supervisors 



negro rural schools 84,320.57 



'Salaries and expenses rural school 



agents 70,645.77 



Farmers ' cooperative demonstration 



work in south 716,077.80 



Farmers ' cooperative demonstration 



work in Maine 45,173.67 



Farmers' cooperative demonstration 



work in New Hampshire 24,593.49 



Girls' canning and poultry clubs in 



south 113,751.52 



Girls' and boys' clubs in Maine 11,205.12 



Eural organization work 36,646.83 



Conferences 18,420.28 



Educational surveys 32,500.00 



Home Makers ' Club agents in south- 

 ern states (colored) 15,000.00 



Rural education 6,000.00 



$16,862,147.71 



CENTENNIAL OF THE COAST AND 

 GEODETIC SURVEY 



Exercises in celebration of the hundredth 

 anniversary of the establishment of the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey will be held 

 on Wednesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 6. 

 The program is as follows : 



