In addition to the investigations conducted in its own labora tories and hospital, expeditions are sent out for the purpose of studying diseases of man or animals under the natural conditions of their prevalence, or in order to ameliorate their ravages through methods which have been discovered in the course of investiga tions. Since the discovery of the often obscure causes of disease or the means of amelioration must frequently follow from a knowledge of pure science gained for its own sake, the pursuit of pure science subjects in fields related to medicine is one of the major activities of the Rockefeller Institute.
The organization of the Rockefeller Institute is divisible into a corporation which has general oversight and control of its activi ties, and a scientific staff which is directly charged with the re sponsibility of carrying on the scientific investigations. The cor poration in turn is made up of trustees who are charged with the maintenance and care of the endowment and property of the in stitute, and a board of scientific directors which appoints the scientific staff and approves the general policy of investigation pursued. The board of scientific directors is an external body, composed of medical and other scientific men, meeting quarterly, and informed of the character and progress of the various re searches under way or to be undertaken. The completed re searches of the institute are published in scientific journals or issued as monographs, and are periodically assembled into volumes of studies, which are issued to institutions of learning, libraries and scientific workers throughout the world. (S. F.)
The Spelman Fund of New York.—This fund was incor porated on Dec. 19, 1928, for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. The principal of the fund which amounts to $10,000.000 was appropriated by the trustees of the Laura Spelman Rocke feller Memorial at the time the memorial was consolidated with the Rockefeller Foundation. The trustees of the Spelman Fund have power to use the principal as well as the income to carry on its purposes. The charter of the fund provides that "the terri tory in which the operations of the Corporation are principally to be conducted is the United States of America, its possessions and dependencies, but the operations of the Corporation shall not be limited to such territory." The charter states that the Spelman Fund "is formed for exclu sively charitable, scientific and educational purposes, including the advancement and diffusion of knowledge concerning child life, the improvement of inter-racial relations, and co-operation with public agencies." (AR. W.) John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—In his public gifts—more than $6o,000,000 up to 1929—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has advanced his father's purpose to promote the well-being of mankind through out the world. Notable among these gifts have been : to the Northern Baptist Convention, $2,300,000; Bureau of Social Hygiene, $2,850,000; Brown university, $5oo,000; Inter-Church World Movement, $1,500,000; International House, where hun dreds of Columbia university students from many lands live har moniously together, $2,360,000; New York Public library, $3,500, 000; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, $500,000; Young Men's Christian Association International Committee, $1,500,000; Hampton Tuskegee Institute (for negroes), $2,500,000; Metro politan Museum of Art, $2,000,000; toward restoration of gardens of Versailles and the Cathedral of Reims, $2,500,000; toward restoration of the Imperial university of Tokyo, Japan, 4,000,000 yen ($1,540,000) ; International Education Board, $21,000,000, to advance scientific research and education and to promote agri cultural science and practice throughout the world; to the League of Nations library, $2,000,000; to erect and maintain an archae ological museum in Palestine, $2,000,000; to New York Botanical Gardens, $5oo,000; to colleges in the Near East, $450,000; to New York Zoological Society, $5oo,000; to aid the restoration and preservation of Williamsburg, Va., $5,000,000.