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PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 
50 STATE STREET, BOSTON 
5 UNIVERSITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE 
Cambridge, April 16, 1910 
Dear Mr. Fernald: 
I am trying to investigate the actual disposition of the in¬ 
come of the Botanical Department Fund about which you spoke to the Presi¬ 
dent this morning. Last spring Professor Jeffrey was told that instead 
of having Jin addition to fees^ 1 one-eighth of the income of the Botanical 
Department Fund and $150 from the departmental appropriation of $200, 
he should have in one lump sum an appropriation of $1000. I suppose, 
however, that the one-eighth of the Botanical Department Fund income 
was to be applied as far as it went toward the appropriation of $1000. 
On inquiry of the Bursar's office I am informed that it was 
Professor Goodale's habit, as Director of the Botanic Garden, to write 
a letter once a year doling out the income of the Botanical Department 
Fund to specified persons. The portions I suppose were always determined 
in accordance with the vote of the Corporation on June 29, 1903. In the 
current year the Bursar has received no such instructions from the Di¬ 
rector of the Botanic Garden, or anybody else, and I am not perfectly 
clear as to whether the other participants in the income of the Fund 
have been provided for. At any rate there is obviously no meeting of 
minds on this subject between the Department, the Comptroller, the Bur¬ 
sar, and myself. If a conference on this subject will remedy the situa¬ 
tion, I am at your service 
Very truly yours, 
Professor M. L. Fernald 
