To the Subscribers to the Ellen H. Richards Research Fund: 



To you as one of those who have kindly helped in raising 

 this memorial fund, the oonimittee take great pleasure in report- 

 ing the success of the plan. The sum of |15,000 has been coa- 

 tributed and is to be paid to the Massachusetts la^titute of 

 Technology to be held by it and known as the Sllen a. Richards 

 Research ffuni. The incom?. of this fund is to be le/otel to the 

 promotion of research in sanitary chemistry, the branjh of 

 science to whose development Mrs. Richards so greatly contrib- 

 uted. It is understood that the income will be utilized by the 

 Institute for the award of fellowships to advanced stjdents com- 

 petent to pursue this line of research, and for the employment 

 of research assistants, and in such other ways as will best pro- 

 mote investigations in the field in question. 



laithfally yours, 



for the Committee, 



George Wigglesworth, 

 Treasurer. 



