Portland, Aug. 22, 1873.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York City, to-day elected a member, sympathizing with the purposes of our Association in the advancement of science, and seeing the new crop of young and industrious scientific investigators who are to form the future basis of this Association following in the footsteps of the veterans of science who founded it, and being aware of the financial difficulties which often beset the path of those noble men of science who labor more for truth than for profit's sake, wishes to place at the disposal of the Permanent Secretary the sum of one thousand dollars, to be used according to the directions of the Standing Committee, for the promotion and publication of siich original investigations by members of the Association as may be accepted by the said Standing Committee, to be published by means of this special donation.
[Signed] P. II. VAN DER WEYDE.
To the Standing Committee of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
