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were still in her office in the Museum. She admitted she was 
feeling oddly “lighthearted” and there were a few moments 
when she almost believed that she might get well enough 
to come back for a short time and do a little work. But 
when her new microscope at last arrived she sent it straight 
back to the Museum. At first she was well enough to get 
up and come out and wave goodby to me on the stair case, 
later she asked to be excused. The end came on January 
6, 1953. 
Her will was a model of careful consideration of the 
needy in the community and her family. Two of the larger 
bequests, of equal amounts, went to Radcliffe College, which 
had given her her education, and to the Museum, where 
she had been able to make use of it. With her usual reticence 
she had in the latter case succeeded in keeping her name 
hidden. The bequest was simply named the “Emerton 
Fund” in honor of the old arachnologist who had taught 
her to draw and encouraged her in her work. 
There were also two small bequests each of 500 dollars 
to the two Radcliffe Honor societies. In the case of Phi 
Beta Kappa the money helped to hasten the completion of 
the $10,000 Scholarship Fund which this old and fairly 
wealthy chapter had been working on, and her name was 
duly added to the Memorial Roll. In the case of the much 
younger, smaller, and anything but wealthy Chapter of 
Sigma Xi, the sum, with interest and smaller gifts added, 
was some years later voted to be used as the nucleus of a 
much needed loan for Radcliffe science students, and was 
named the “Elizabeth Bangs Bryant Loan Fund of Sigma 
Xi.” 
The following is the known list of her publications: 
Bibliography of Elizabeth Bangs Bryant 
1908 List of Araneina in Fauna of New England, 9. Occ. 
Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, pp. 1-105. 
1923 Report on the spiders collected by the Barbados- 
Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 
1918. Univ. Iowa Stud, in Nat. Hist., vol. 10, pp. 
10-16. 
