ANNUAL REPORTS 99 
“He was my boyhood preceptor. I wish this memorial to take the form 
of a trust fund to be designated the John J. Crooke Fund, the income 
only to be used for the purchase of books pertaining to the natural 
sciences, to be added to the library of the Institute, each book so obtained 
to be suitably plated showing its accession through the income of this 
fund. 
“T ask if the Trustees will be willing to receive, hold, and administer 
such a fund? I have in mind at the present time an endowment for this 
purpose by Mrs. Britton and myself, to yield ninety dollars annually, in 
the form of two thousand dollars in four and one-half per cent. bonds of 
the City of New York. 
“Yours very truly, 
“July 23, 1919. “N. L. Britron.” 
On motion by Mr. Davis, duly seconded and carried, it was 
VorteD, that the Board of Trustees gratefully accept the offer of Doctor 
Britton, and will cooperate with him in administering the John J. Crooke 
Fund as suggested by him; and that the President be and is hereby au- 
thorized to accept for the Institute a deed of gift in such form as may be 
agreed upon between Doctor Britton and the President. 
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held October 4, 1919, Dr. 
Britton delivered to the President the certificate No. 2769v7 of the cor- 
porate stock of the City of New York for two thousand dollars ($2,000) 
payable in gold coin of the United States on November 1, 1957, with in- 
terest at 4% per cent. per annum from May 1, 1919, payable semi-annually 
on May 1 and November 1, together with memorandum of cost thereof. 
This stock is issued in the name of Staten Island Institute of Arts and 
Sciences; the certificate is dated September 29, 1919. This delivery was 
made in accordance with the deed of gift dated August 27, 1919, by Dr. 
Nathaniel Lord Britton and Mrs. Elizabeth Gertrude Britton cf the first: 
part and the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences of the second 
part, of which a copy is inserted in the minutes of the Board of Trustees, 
page 239, and pursuant to the action of the Board at a meeting held on July 
23, 1919, to constitute a trust fund to be held by the Institute, to be desig- 
nated as the John J. Crooke Fund, the income alone of the fund to be used 
for the purchase of books, pertaining to the natural sciences, to be added 
to the library of the aforesaid Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
each book so obtained to contain a suitable book plate showing its acces- 
sion through the income of the fund. 
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held December 6, ro10, the 
director submitted a list of books proposed to be purchased from the ac- 
‘rued income, which list was approved by the Board of Trustees, where- 
upon the first purchase under the operation of the John J. Crooke Fund 
was made. 
