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AUXILIARY ENDOWMENTS 89
report its recommendations from time to time to the Board of Trustees and upon
the approval of the same the expenditure of appropriations shall follow the usual
practice of the University. The council shall call annually for requests for grants
from individual investigators, or groups of investigators, proposing to collaborate,
but not from departments of the University as such, nor from colleges. The
council shall have power to establish and from time to time modify the rules and
regulations governing its meetings and the details of appropriations. An annual
report of progress shall be made to the council by each investigator or group re
ceiving a grant. An annual report to the Board of Trustees shall be made by the
council and a copy thereof sent to the founder of the fund. A minimum of one
hundred copies of all publications of the results of the investigations shall be de
livered to the council for preservation in the University Library and distribution
under the direction of the council. A bound copy of such publications shall from
time to time be transmitted to the founder.
The members of the Heckscher Research Council in 1924-25 were
the President of the University and the Dean of the Graduate School ;
Messrs. Place and Westinghouse of the Board of Trustees; Emeritus
Professors E. L. Nichols and J. H. Comstock; and Professors J. Q.
Adams, Ernest Merritt, W. N. Barnard, and Carl Becker.
THE GOLDWIN SMITH LECTURESHIP
The Board of Trustees in 19 10 assigned a part of the income from
Professor Goldwin Smith's bequest to constitute a lectureship fund.
The bequest was made in these words : "All the rest and residue of my
estate I give, devise, and bequeath to Cornell University in the State
of New York, United States of America, absolutely to be used by the
Board of Trustees for the promotion especially of liberal studies,
Languages Ancient and Modern, Literature, Philosophy, History and
Political Science, for which provision has been made in the new Hall
which bears my name and to the building of which my wife has con
tributed. In confirming this bequest my desire is to show my attach
ment to the University in the foundation of which I had the honor of
taking part; to pay respect to the memory of Ezra Cornell; and to
show my attachment as an Englishman to the union of the two
branches of our race on this continent with each other, and with their
mother."
common The lectureship fund is one of several objects to
which the Board of Trustees, in accordance with the terms of the be
quest, have devoted the income of this generous gift. The fund
provides for a large number of occasional lectures by visiting scholars
in the course of the year.
The names of the Goldwin Smith Lecturers in 1924-25 and the titles of their
lectures are in the following list:
Professor Moritz J. Bonn of the Handelshochschule of Berlin: Present-day
problems in Germany.
Philip J. Baldensperger: Palestine, the land and the people.
The Right Hon. Herbert A. L. Fisher, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and
former Minister of Education in the British Cabinet: Use and misuse of uni
versities.
Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of
the'
American Museum of Natural History:
Bird islands of Peru.
The Rev. Alexander James Carlyle, Chaplain and Lecturer in University Col
lege, Oxford; Lecturer in Lincoln College and to the Society^of Non-Collegiate