RSPOET" OF THE SECEETAUY. 5 



As a reason for making this bequest to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion Mr. Poore in his will says : 



I make this gift not so much because of its amount as because I hope it will 

 prove an example for other Americans to follow, by supporting and encouraging 

 so wise and beneficent an institution as I believe the Smithsonian Institution 

 to be, and yet it has been neglected and overlooked by American citizens. 



The affairs of this estate are being adjusted by the executor as 

 rapidly as circumstances will permit. 



Reid hequest. — In 1903 the Institution was informed of a proposed 

 bequest to the Institution from Mr. Addison T. Reid. of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., to found a chair of biology in memory of the testator's grand- 

 father, Asher Tunis. The bequest was subject to the condition that 

 the income was to be paid in three equal shares to certain named 

 legatees until their death, when the principal of the estate (then 

 estimated at $10,000), with accumulations, was to come to the Insti- 

 tution. One of the beneficiaries having died, the trust created for 

 her benefit, amounting to $4,795.91, was received by the Institution 

 during the past year and deposited to the credit of the permanent 

 fund in the United States Treasury. 



Loeh hequest. — By the will of Morris Loeb, of New York City, the 

 Smithsonian Institution is made a residual legatee and is to receive 

 a one-tenth share of the estate remaining upon the death of the 

 testator's wife. This legacy is to be used for the furtherance of 

 knowledge in the exact sciences. 



Morris Loeb, chemist, was born at Cincinnati May 23, 1863, and 

 died October 8, 1912. He graduated from Harvard University in 

 1883 with the degree of A. B. and received the degree of Ph. D. from 

 the University of Berlin in 1887 and Sc. D. from Union University 

 in 1911. In 1891 he became professor of chemistry at the New York 

 University. He was vice president of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, and a member of the German Chemical Society and other sci- 

 entific bodies. 



Lucy Hunter Baird hequest. — ^Miss Baird, daughter of the late 

 Spencer FuUerton Baird, Secretary of the Institution, died June 23, 

 1913. Besides giving to the National Museum and the Smithsonian 

 Institution certain books, manuscripts, and other articles, the will 

 of Miss Baird provides that upon the release of any portion of 

 the trust estate by the death of the person entitled to the income 

 thereof, said trust estate shall be given " to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion in trust as a fund to be known as ' the Spencer Fullerton Baird 

 fund,' the interest shall be devoted, under the direction of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to the expenses in whole or in part of a 

 scientific exploration and biological research or for the purchase of 

 specimens of natural objects or archaeological specimens." 



