UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
VOL, XXXV. NO. 36 ABUL 25,1S3*
SUPPORT OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PUBLIC FUNDS
OR STUDENT FEES
1817-1934
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ByWvuKto B. Shaw
1934
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR
Entered as second-class matter at the Post
Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Issued by the
University of Michigan, semi-weekly from March
to August, inclusive* and weekly from Septem-
ber to February, inclusive. «
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SUPPORT OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PUBLIC FUNDS
OR STUDENT FEES
1817-1934
By Wilfred B. Shaw
Director of Alumni "Relations

1934
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR
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THE SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PUBLIC FUNDS
OR STUDENT FEES
r,...,v 1817—1931*
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
January 23, 1934
To the President of the University:
Sir—I take great pleasure in submitting herewith a report on "The
Support of the University of Michigan from Sources Other Than Public
Funds or Student Fees, 1817-1931," prepared under the authorization of the
University Committee on Alumni Relations.
This study was originally intended to be a survey of gifts to the Univer-
sity, but the difficulty of deterniining in some cases just what items were to
be considered as gifts suggested the broader interpretation indicated by the
title. In general all gifts and other increments to the University which have
come at no cost to the state of Michigan, with the exception of student fees
and payments for services, have been included. It may be said, however,
that the totals in very large part represent items that may be considered as
gifts.
The period covered extends from 1817 through June 30, 1931. Every
effort has been made to list all items of one hundred dollars or more in value
which the University received during these one hundred and fourteen years.
I am well aware that there are discrepancies arising in part from the
different sources utilized in gathering these figures, and also from a possible
misinterpretation of certain records. Moreover, I have the feeling that there
may be some items of importance which have been overlooked for one reason
or another. For the sake of completeness and accuracy, therefore, I trust
that those who read this report will bring any additions and corrections they
may note to my attention.
Respectfully yours,
Wilfred B. Shaw
Director of Alumni Relations
I. HISTORICAL REVIEW
Most of the state institutions of higher education in America are supported
by public funds, sometimes through direct legislative appropriations and
sometimes through taxes levied for educational purposes. This method of
maintenance is now so generally recognized as one of the legitimate functions
of the state that it has become a real American contribution to educational
history. In addition, however, America has contributed likewise the concep-
tion of lavish private contributions to education. For the most part these
•Originally published as a supplement to The President's Report for 1932-1933. There have been
a. few slight changes in the figures since their first publication.
two methods of support have tended to be self-exclusive. The privately en-
dowed colleges and universities have received assistance from the state only
in exceptional cases; whereas in the case of the state-supported institutions
there has been evident a very general readiness to leave the responsibility for
any educational program, once it has been assumed, entirely to the common-
wealth.
Because of the number and extent of the benefactions received from
friends, particularly alumni, the University of Michigan occupies a unique
position in this respect. On June 30, 1931, the University's tangible assets in
round numbers were: lands, buildings, and equipment, $41,000,000; cash,
endowment and other funds, $17,000,000*; or a total present worth of over
$58,000,000. Of this amount $30,200,000 came from sources other than the
State, mostly by gift. Moreover, in addition to these gifts, now included in the
University's inventory of property and funds, $2,600,000 has been given, and
expended, over the past fifty years for scholarships, fellowships, and research
in different fields—a total of nearly $33,000,000, mostly in gifts. Of this huge
amount, over two-thirds, or $22,773,000, has come from alumni. Alumni
gifts represent, therefore, over 39 per cent of the property of the institution,
as recorded on June 30, 1931.
In view of this record, it seems worth while to endeavor to analyze
briefly the source and character of this support—to trace its origins in the
history of the State and University, to inquire why and how this stream of
gifts arose, the part played by alumni of the University in its development,
and finally to suggest the function it has served in the University's growth.
Michigan is popularly regarded as a university supported from its very
first days by the State. Certainly the idea of a state educational system
germinated before 1817, in early territorial days, and was later given effective
expression in the first constitution of 1835. There is real justification, there-
fore, for the conception of the University as a child of the State.
Nevertheless it must be recognized that financial maintenance on the
part of the State formed no part of the educational program which led to
the organization of the University at Ann Arbor in June, 1837, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the new constitution. Despite repeated appeals
from the early Regents, from President Tappan and other officers of the
University, no regular state support was forthcoming until the first mill tax
became finally effective in 1869. For the first thirty years of its existence
in Ann Arbor, the institution maintained itself as best it could, supported
by funds arising from the sale of the government lands set apart for the
purposes of higher education and from the slender fees paid by the students
of early days.
One notable exception, however, may be taken to this statement. While
it was the impression of the founders of the University that the income from
government lands would be more than ample to care for it, the first
Board of Regents was faced by the immediate necessity of securing
*This includes the funds comprising the bequest of the late W. W. Cook, which are not in the
custody of the University.
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funds to cover the erection of the required buildings, to maintain the
branches which had been established, and to pay the salaries of the first
faculty, since the lands which were eventually to afford support were as yet
unsold and, in some instances, not yet allocated.
To meet this crisis, the State loaned the University the sum of $100,000,
to be repaid from income arising through the sale of lands. Interest upon
this sum was paid by the University for some years, but by 1852 the whole
debt had been paid through the acceptance at par of depreciated State obli-
gations received in payment for University lands. The legality of this pro-
cedure was questioned, however, since it was held that a trust fund, created
by the United States Government, was thus illegally and improperly dimin-
ished. The matter dragged for many years; the State Treasurer was directed
in 1859 to pay interest on the whole amount received for the sale of Uni-
versity lands, and eventually the Legislature of 1877 directed that $100,000
should be added to the University fund on the books of the State. "This
made the loan finally a gift from the State, with the exception of the $6,000
annual interest which had been paid for some years by the Regents."*
Whether the University actually ever repaid this loan has been the sub-
ject of considerable controversy. The point now is of no practical importance,
being merely a problem of technical accountancy. The whole history of the
early financial relations of the University with the Government and the
State is so adequately treated in Dr. Price's report that it is hardly neces-
sary to recount the history again.
Dr. Price gives the income of the University in 1839 arising from the
sale of these lands as $9,433.13. The population of Michigan in 1840, how-
ever, was but 212,267, and the equalized valuation of all the taxable property
in the State was only $37,833,024. This would have given the University an
income of $22,700 at the rate of return from the mill tax in 1932. Support
of the University was therefore on a not ungenerous scale, in view of the
small number of students in the first years; especially when it is realized that
a dollar at that time was worth at least four times its present value in goods
and services.
Apparently it was recognized from the earliest days that a certain amount
of private support would be necessary if the University were to develop and
grow. While the first incarnation of the University, which took form in
Detroit in 1817 as the "Catholepistemiad, or University, of Michigania," was
only a precursor of the institution to come later in Ann Arbor, the corporate
history of the University dates from that first institution. More important
than its actual establishment, however, was the fact that the ideas behind
it crystallized even in territorial days the attitude of the people of Michigan
toward education, and made possible the eventual development of a state
system of education, with the University at the apex, as an essential item
in the whole state administrative program.
The gifts to the earlier institution in Detroit therefore are significant.
These included the sum of $5,000 subscribed in 1817 by citizens of Detroit.
♦Richard Rees Price, The Financial Support of the University of Michigan—Its Origin and
Development, "Harvard Bulletins in Education." VIII (1923), 33.
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While it is not certain whether all this amount was actually collected, some
of it apparently went toward the establishment of the academy and, it may
be assumed, the erection of the original building on Bates Street that housed
the little secondary school which developed from this original plan. To this
must be added a gift of 1,871 acres* by various Indian tribes, which even-
tually were sold for $5,888.40—certainly a significant contribution. The
proceeds were doubtless used for current expenses or merged in other funds
and properties held by the Trustees of the original University in Detroit.t
These two items, far from inconsiderable in view of the almost unbeliev-
able slenderness of the resources of the inhabitants of Michigan at that time,
we may assume were the first gifts to the University of Michigan.
When the University was established in Ann Arbor in 1837, measures
were taken to make the income available as soon as possible from the
sections of land set aside by the Government. The Legislature, however,
handled their disposal badly, in many cases reducing the price below their
actual value. Politicians saw more benefit in caring for the interests of the
squatters on these lands than the educational welfare of the commonwealth.
As a result, the sale of the lands proceeded slowly for many years, and it
was not until 1880 that they were all sold.
At the present time the state of Michigan pays the University interest
at 7 per cent on $548,384.40, which represents the sum received for these
lands—an annual income of $38,435.22. This sum, had it been available in
earlier years, would have been more than ample to care for the University's
every need. It is to be noted, moreover, that there is no specific fund in the
hands of the Treasurer of the State which may be represented as coming
directly from this source, though the income from an equivalent amount is
a perpetual obligation on the part of the Treasury of the State.
With the establishment of the University in Ann Arbor came another
gift—the forty acres of land comprising the present Campus, provided by
a corporation known as the Ann Arbor Land Company. The purpose un-
questionably was to enhance the value of local real estate, and this offer on
the part of Ann Arbor citizens was only one of several similar inducements
made by other Michigan cities. Estimated in terms of land values for the
period, this gift probably represented not more than $10,000, since the site
lay at some distance from the village of that period.
In its latest reports the University carries this original property at an
inventoried valuation of $160,000, though, on the basis of adjacent property
values, it might easily be held to be worth ten times that amount.! Since
the value of all this property, however, is created by the presence of the
University, any estimate must be in a sense fictitious. With this gift of land
*The original gift was 1,920 acres, 3 sections, but the situation of the land made the decreased
area more valuable.
tThe Trustees of the University in Detroit did not consider that the ownership of the property
on which the first University building stood passed to the Regents, and so did not turn it over
to them in 1838 with the other assets. The title was not settled until the Supreme Court decided
in 1856 (4 Mich. 212) that the Regents were the corporate successors of the Trustees. The lot,
known as the "Academy Lot," was sold by the Regents in 1865 for $22,010. For some years
this sum was reserved as a Library endowment, but later it was used in the construction of
University Hall.
JTenBrook, Andrew, American State Universities and the University of Michigan (1875), 280,
gives the value at $30,000 in 1873.
and the proceeds of the $100,000 loan from the State, the University was
enabled to open its doors to students in. 1841.
While the reports of the early Regents' meetings chronicle a few gifts
to the library and the scientific collections, it was not until 1854 that any
further considerable gift to the University was made. This took the form
of a fund raised by the citizens of Detroit for the erection of an observatory,
amounting altogether to $15,000 for buildings and equipment. In the same
year Ann Arbor raised a fund of $1,565 for the purchase of 1,200 books for
the library. Again in 1865 the citizens of Ann Arbor came to the Univer-
sity's aid with a fund of $10,000 for enlargement of the Medical Building,
while two years later, in 1867, a fund of $3,000 was raised for the enlarge-
ment of the Observatory. This was supplemented by an equal amount from
the citizens of Detroit whose original contribution made the Observatory
possible. The services of the University to the community were once more
recognized by Ann Arbor in 1875 when $4,000 was raised by the city as a
fund for a hospital. This proved only a beginning, for in 1889 the city again
gave $25,000 for hospital construction, followed by $17,500 ten years later
for the present South Hospital site, and $25,000 in 1913 for a contagious-
disease hospital. In all, the city of Ann Arbor has given $95,000 to the
University.
Meanwhile gifts were beginning to come from other sources. The first
recorded benefaction from an individual was a "valuable book"—really a set
of books (Brockhaus' Konversations Lexikon)—presented by Dr. Charles W.
Borup, Superintendent of the American Fur Company's trading post at La-
Point, Lake Superior. Three years later the presentation of an "ancient
Runic" book by one Alexandre DeVattinear* was recorded. In 1849 a collec-
tion of Mexican birds was presented by Dr. G. F. Turner, a surgeon in the
United States Army; and Alvah Bradish, who became Professor of Fine
Arts in 1852, gave the "Cabinet" of the University an "alligator and some
of the fish of the Caribbean Sea"; while Anthony Ten Eyck, United States
Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, a former secretary of the University,
reflected the current interest of the period in California by the gift of a
number of specimens of gold and quicksilver from California. These were
the first donations to the Museum. The following year a collection of shells
from the Sandwich Islands and California was also presented by Mr. Ten
Eyck. In 1853 a collection of "pure and spurious" drugs, valued at $300,
was presented by Schefilein & Co., New York.
The establishment of the Law School in 1859 was reflected in the gift
of a collection of law books by Judge Thomas M. Cooley. The first recorded
gifts to the art collections of the University also came in 1859 from Pro-
fessor Henry S. Frieze, who used an unexpended balance of his salary, after
paying a substitute, in the purchase of books, engravings, photographs, and
plaster and terra-cotta statues. Other gifts made at this time were a statue,
"The Landing of Columbus," by Randolph Rogers, a famous sculptor of the
period, whose youth had been spent in Ann Arbor, and a cast of the Laocoon
group, presented by the Class of 1859—the first recorded class memorial.
This was probably Alexandre Vattimare, a bookseller in New York.
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During the same year, 1859, came the first extensive gift to the museum,
in the form of a collection of "objects of natural history" collected during
a period of duty on the Pacific by Lieutenant W. P. Trowbridge, Instructor
in Mathematics in the University from 1856 to 1857. His collections were
deposited with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and, through his
interest in the University and the support of Joseph Henry, the distinguished
director of the Smithsonian, the Trowbridge Collection was sent to Ann
Arbor to form the first considerable nucleus for the University's scientific
collections.
Two gifts from Andrew D. White, Professor of History and later Pres-
ident of Cornell University, came the following year. The first was a collec-
tion of renaissance medallions named, in honor of the donor's father, the
Horace White Collection; the second comprised two paintings of the Campus
of the University in 1855, by Cropsey, giving the best impression we now
have of the general appearance of the University in early days.
The first recorded gifts by alumni of the University were included in a
series of donations reported by Professor S. H. Douglas in 1862, when Eber
Ward Owen, '60, gave a collection of iron ores, fluxes, and samples of manu-
factured iron, while A. C. Jewett, '62, gave a collection of minerals. From
this time on not a year passed that some gift to the University* was not
noted. Names of alumni figure more and more among the lists of donors,
though for many years, as might be expected, the largest and most interested
donors were public-spirited citizens of the State.
Among the early gifts which might be especially mentioned are repeated
increments to the museum from the Smithsonian Institution, largely the
result of the interest of Professor Henry; a replica of Randolph Rogers's
"Nydia" valued at $1,700, the funds for which were raised by a "Rogers
Art Association" first organized in 1859; a law library of 800 volumes given
by Richard Fletcher, a lawyer of Boston; a herbarium of 5,000 specimens
collected by Dr. Abram Sager, of the Medical faculty; a herbarium and
collection of insects, numbering altogether 22,500 items, bequeathed by G.
L. Ames of Niles; the library of Professor Rau of Heidelberg, consisting of
over 4,000 volumes, given by Philo Parsons of Detroit and known as the
"Parsons Library"; and the scientific collections made by Professor J. B.
Steere, '68, in South America and the Philippines.
The first endowment and trust gifts did not come until 1880. These
included a bequest by Mary Porter, once a student in Ann Arbor though
not registered in the University, who left a farm near Chillicothe in Ohio,
valued at the time at $2,000. Eventually this land was sold for $500 and
this sum, with accrued interest, was turned over to the fund devoted to the
construction of Barbour Gymnasium. The other gift took the form of
twenty-two lots in Detroit, given by Walter Crane, which were sold in 1902
to form the Walter Crane Fund, which now amounts to over $20,000.
These sums, as well as a number of other gifts, made during the first
forty years of the University's history, seem very slender indeed seen in the
perspective of more recent years with their enormous benefactions. Judged,
however, in their relation to the resources of the University and the State
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when made, they were by no means inconsiderable. Thus in the year 1845,
when the first class was graduated, the total income of the University was
no more than $10,000. Ten years later the expenses, as estimated by the
Treasurer, were $23,915.*
Even at this early date, therefore, the benefactions received by the Uni*
versity were far from negligible. Omitting the endowment slowly developing
through the sale of government lands, we have record of over $50,000 in
property or cash which came to the University through gifts prior to 1855
as follows:
1817 Original gift of $5,000, subscribed by Detroit citizens, presumably
for the erection of the first building in Detroit, included in the—
1817 "Academy Lot," sold in 1865 $22,010.00
1826-32 Proceeds from sale of Indian lands 5,888.40
1837 Original University campus given by Ann Arbor Land Company,
estimated 10,000.00
1854 Contributions by Detroit citizens, Detroit Observatory 16,500.00
1854 Contributions by Ann Arbor citizens toward library 1,565.00
$55,963.40
It is to be noted that some portion of the Indian lands fund may well be
included in the "Academy Lot" property which passed to the Regents of the
University in 1837 and was not sold until later. It is safe to assume that,
with a liberal deduction for any duplication, these gifts represent an actual
value of over $50,000. This sum includes the lot and building in Detroit
which came as the result of gifts to the Detroit institution from which the
proceeds were not realized until this property was sold in 1865.
This record shows conclusively that popular support, even in the Uni-
versity's earliest years, was a very important factor in its development. It
must be remembered that financial support in all the educational institutions
of that time was on a scale so small as to be almost inconceivable in the
present period of great educational expansion. Thus in 1855 the 288 students
paid the University approximately $2,900.00, or a little over $10.00 each,
according to the Financial Report. This included their room rent, as well as
"initiation fees." Board cost the students from $1.50 to $2.00 a week. If
the University's income was low, so were the student's expenses, and the
real value of the gifts made by the friends of the University in Detroit and
Ann Arbor can only be realized when these figures are considered.
It may easily be seen, therefore, that had the income of $38,435.22 from
the sale of State lands which the University now receives been available in
those early days, the Regents would have found themselves in an extremely
favorable financial position. As it was, the general reliance upon this un-
certain source of income prevented the early Legislatures from making ap-
propriations for the institution and left the University more or less to fend
for itself. The financial difficulties of the institution, however, did not
escape the attention of many citizens who recognized that the University
could not be dependent entirely upon the State. The very fact that outside
support was necessary tended to produce a certain generous disposition,
* University of Michigan Regents' Proceedings (1837-64) 619.
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shown not only in such gifts as the Observatory, made by friends of the
University in Detroit, but also in less conspicuous smaller benefactions.
Thus, almost from the first, despite the lack of assistance from the State,
the University became an institution of the people. A real sense of re-
sponsibility on their part was developed. In fact the type of support which
arose in these early days served to counteract an almost inevitable tendency
to let the commonwealth pay for everything, so far as higher education was
concerned; to assume that no obligation for the State's educational program
rested upon the individual. Although this parochial attitude is still discern-
ible, it is much more prevalent in institutions which from their very first
years have been entirely maintained by the State. The practice of private
support for the University of Michigan, well established in its early days,
has set up a tradition never broken, as the long list of gifts reveals.
It was fortunate that the early members of the Board of Regents were
vigorous personalities, leaders of popular opinion. Their duties as Regents
of the little institution might irk them,* but they gave the best service they
were able to give and devoted much time and thought to the financial prob-
lems involved.
Friends of the University and alumni were sedulously encouraged, and
many gifts were tLe eventual result of solicitation on the part of the Regents,
the President, and other officers of the institution. In fact, in the early reports
of the President one may find many references to the need of help from
individuals, as well as from the State. Thus President Tappan in 1854,
fifteen years before state support became effective, said, in concluding his
annual report, "What the University has thus far become, what it has thus
far accomplished, is to be attributed to the bounty of the General Govern-
ment and of individuals."f
Nine years later Dr. E. 0. Haven, in his first report as President, wrote:
"Many of the colleges in this country have received large accessions to
their capital within the last year, by liberal donations, and if the University
of Michigan would retain the honorable rank which it has so early gained,
and fully carry out the designs of its founders, it must not be left to depend
upon the first impulse given to it by the sale of the lands so wisely appro-
priated to its foundation, but must continue to grow with the growth and
strengthen with the strength of the State."* A few years later, in 1866, he
presented even more forcibly the need for private benefactions, "... we
cherish the hope that the State, which has really done so little by way of
contributing money, and so much by its wise watch-care over the institution,
will yet make creditable contributions towards its support; and that the
time is not far distant when, as in the case of many other American colleges,
liberal friends shall contribute largely for its improvement and support."!
The same arguments were made by Dr. Angell in many of his reports.
Thus, in his third report in 1874, he expressed the "hope that private munifi-
*See letter of Jonathan Kearsley, May 1, 1847, in Michigan History Magazine. XVIII
(1933), 83.
^Regents' Proceedings (1837-64), 599.
XRegents' Proceedings (1864-70), 62.
Vbid., 168.
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cence or the generosity of our Alumni will also enlarge our resources. . . .
We cannot but hope that private generosity will freely supplement what has
been done by the generosity of the State, and that the University with its
great and growing work may be no less a monument of the affection and
intelligent liberality of individuals than of the wise and noble spirit of the
State."*
These excerpts represent what had long been a settled policy of the Uni-
versity. At first expressions such as these represented for the most part the
wish rather than its fulfillment, but they undoubtedly helped to formulate
an attitude of mind which has borne abundant fruit in more recent years.
Although a glance over the list of benefactions in the following pages will
show few of major importance prior to the turn of the century, their variety
and character indicate that the seed sown in those early years was coming
to fruition. The remarkable series of gifts which have come to the Uni-
versity during the last twenty-five years must be taken as only a logical
result of a clearly expressed policy which began almost with the establish-
ment of the University.
Throughout the University's history—at least from the early years of
Dr. AngelTs administration, when the principle of state support became
firmly established—it was recognized that without a certain amount of
assistance from private sources the University could not properly fulfill its
destiny. Increasingly the University looked to the State to sustain its im-
mediate educational activities, the necessary classrooms and laboratories, the
salaries of its executive and teaching force, and the other items incident to
an expanding educational program. These, however, represented only the
bare bones of a properly supported institution of higher education. It came to
be acknowledged that there are certain refinements in educational and social
development in a large university which the State cannot be normally ex-
pected to supply—cultural facilities which have no immediate value in dollars
and cents, items not susceptible of evaluation for the practical-minded tax-
payer. Without the Union or the League, the Clements Library, the Lawyers
Club group, Hill Auditorium, or the women's dormitories the University
would be an infinitely poorer place spiritually and culturally.
This distinction between what the State could be expected to provide and
what might properly come through private gift was clearly stated by Pro-
fessor Henry S. Frieze when he was serving as Acting President just before
Dr. Angell came to the University. In his report for the year 1871 he said:
"If the University is to be kept up to its present rank, it must find some-
where in this community its Lawrences, and Sheffields, its Thayers, Mc-
Graws and Cornells." Elsewhere, after stressing the need of the University,
he asks, "How shall these great wants be met? How shall our financial basis
be enlarged? Are we to look wholly to the State? The Legislature has
promptly responded to our recent application for aid. It will undoubtedly
be magnanimous in its treatment of the University hereafter. But can we
fairly expect of the State alone that rapid accumulation of grants and en-
•Regents* Proceedings (1870-76), 400.
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dowments which will place us ... on an equal financial footing with the
wealthier universities and colleges."*
This conception was emphasized again and again by President Hutchins,
who said in 1909, in a speech before the alumni at Saginaw when he was
still Acting President: "In my judgment where the duty of education rests
with the State it does not follow that the State should bear the entire ex-
pense. Much money should come to the University through private gifts."t
It is perhaps not too much to say that this reiteration of the idea that
private benefactions are a necessary corollary to state support has been no
small factor in the ever-mounting total of benefactions the University has
received. Moreover it has served not only as a guaranty to the state ad-
ministration that the moneys appropriated by the people would be used for
legitimate educational purposes, but also as a promise to benefactors that
their gifts would be used directly for the cultural objectives they had in
mind.
In his statements on this subject there is no question but that President
Hutchins had benefactions from alumni in mind. The need for financial
support on the part of graduates was always stressed in his speeches before
alumni, giving a new and perhaps more direct expression to a point of view
which had been slowly maturing in the alumni body itself for many years.
The recent impressive gifts which have been received from alumni can be
taken as the logical result of long years of preparation in which the alumni
were familiarized with the problems of the University, its achievements and
requirements.
Nevertheless a distinct policy of financial support on the part of the
graduates of the University did not develop immediately. This is indicated
by the fact that during the first fifty years of the University's history few
gifts of great importance are recorded from alumni.! The reason may well
lie in the comparatively small number of graduates in the earlier years, and
also in the fact that they were largely teachers, clergymen, or professional
men with small incomes, even though they were, for the most part, leaders
in their communities. Thus it happened that the first large gifts came
very generally from those who were not alumni and were a reflection of
the pride of the citizens of Michigan in the institution, rather than of that
more intimate affection implied in the term "alumnus."
There was perhaps, too, a reluctance on the part of the authorities to
bring the organized alumni into a too active relationship with University
interests. The spirit existing between the early presidents and individual
graduates was friendly and cordial, and there was at least lip service to the
importance of a developing entente between the University and the alumni.
*Regentsf Proceedings (1870-76), 125, 126.
^Michigan Alumnus, XVI (November, 1909), 92. See also Earl D. Babst, '92, In Memoriam—
Harry Burns Hutchins, "University of Michigan Official Publication," XXXII, (September 27,
1930), 13.
$It is significant, however, that there were many alumni, among the early donors to the Uni-
versity Museums, named by Professor Alexander Winchell in his annual reports. Thus among
forty-seven donors for the one year, 1873, the names of nineteen alumni were given.
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The first alumni organization was effected at the time of the graduation
of the first class in 1845. There being only twelve graduates, the association
quite naturally included in its membership the alumni of other institutions
then living in Ann Arbor. Later three separate organizations developed, in
the Literary, Law, and Medical Departments. There is no question but that
these bodies kept alive the interest of many alumni in the University. They
met in the larger cities and were often addressed by President Angell and
other representatives of the University. But the very fact that there were
three alumni organizations, each preoccupied with only one division of the
institution, prevented the development of a more inclusive pride in the Uni-
versity.*
With the reorganization of the Alumni Association in 1897, when the old
departmental bodies were consolidated into one general association, and the
first full-time alumni secretary ever appointed in an American institution was
engaged, it was possible to give a more effective focus to alumni support for
the institution. Although there was no explicit statement of any program of
financial support for the University in the constitution of the new organiza-
tion, it was tacitly recognized that the stimulation of alumni benefactions
was a legitimate function. More important, however, than any open state-
ment of the need of such practical support was an implicit acknowl-
edgment of the desirability of building up through the Alumnus a close
relationship between the University and the graduate body, particularly in
developing definite measures to keep the alumni informed as to the Uni-
versity's progress, its accomplishments and needs.
The event has shown the wisdom of this policy. On many occasions the
alumni have risen to the aid of the University, not as a result of any solici-
tation on the part of University officers, but through their own perception
of particular needs. If this has been true of organized bodies of alumni,
contributing such impressive items in the University's equipment as Alumni
Memorial Hall, the Union, and the League, it has been equally true in the
case of individual alumni who have given buildings, libraries, and funds
amounting to many millions. Most of these gifts, again, have come not as
the result of any stimulation on the part of any one individual, but, in a
last analysis, because of the continuing interest of the alumni in the Uni-
versity and the cordial relations between the graduates and the institution,
developed and fostered alike by the University body—the Regents, the ex-
ecutive officers, and the faculties—and by the Alumni Association.
Many institutions, notably Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, have been
remarkably successful in the establishment of a system of continuing alumni
funds, to which individual alumni make annual contributions. Michigan
took the first steps some years ago to create a similar reservoir for alumni
benefactions. But the idea never became popular. The tradition of years
of individual giving was perhaps too strong. At any rate, the opportunity
*It was the old alumni association of the Literary College, however, that raised a fund, ^ now
amounting to $36,000, to provide a retirement allowance in 1887 for Professor G. P. Williams,
the first professor in the University.
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given alumni groups to select their own project, from among the many needs
of the University, has met with a far more sympathetic response. Perhaps
in future years the University's real need for funds for general purposes will
meet with a readier support on the part of many interested alumni.
The fact that two-fifths of the present property of the University, in
property and productive funds, has come from those who were once within
the University's walls as students, may be taken as evidence of the success
of Michigan's long-standing policy in her relations with the ever-growing
body of alumni.
II. SUMMARY
So far as they can be ascertained, these increments to the University of
Michigan, since its first establishment in 1817, amount to $32,834,562.77.
This sum represents funds, property, and equipment of various kinds; some
of it has been expended and some of it still remains in the possession of the
Regents in the form of endowments, real estate, buildings, etc. The valuations
which have been used are based on the best available official sources, and,
in the case of resources and funds unexpended at that time, they are stated
as of June 30, 1931. It must, however, be borne in mind that between 1931
and 1934 certain values have been greatly reduced. For example, the Cook
bequest, which was appraised in 1932 by the Deputy Tax Commissioner in
New York City at $8,711,116.00, would have to be listed at very much less
at the present time.
In the tabulation on the opposite page there are several features which
require further explanation.
In the first place, it should be said that, despite the most careful study
of University records and every effort to make the statement as complete
as possible, these totals in some cases can only be regarded as approxima-
tions. The records of the University in its early years were very incomplete,
with no systematic reports of many smaller gifts, or, if they were recorded,
no values were indicated. Occasionally items reported to the Board of
Regents as of a certain amount were found to be considerably larger (or
smaller in some cases) when the records of the Treasurer were consulted.
In many cases the aid of officers of the University most familiar with spe-
cial fields was enlisted to furnish valuations, while in others the University
inventories were consulted.
There are also occasional discrepancies in the figures given. Sometimes
they represent the value, as of the time of the contribution, and in other
places they represent the estimated value at the present time. For this
reason the figures given above can only be considered as an estimate prepared
as carefully as possible from data that are often faulty and inadequate. It is
hoped, however, that to a certain extent the undervaluations and the over-
valuations will cancel one another and that the total will give a fair picture
of the support which has come to the University from private individuals,
alumni and others, and from corporate bodies interested in the educational
program of the University. It may be said, moreover, that the major gifts
to the University, the figures for which are given in accordance with Uni-
versity records, comprise over 90 per cent of all the benefactions listed.
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TOTAL INCREMENTS FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PUBLIC FUNDS,
STUDENT FEES, AND FEES FOR SERVICES
September, 1817, to June 30, 1931
I. General Classification
GENERAL ALUMNI
Lands $ 1,065,665.85 $ 910,768.14
Buildings and Improvements 3,857,216.74 7,361,186.25
Equipment, General 398,729.91 925,293.25
Libraries (estimate) 322,185.85 1,362,818.58
Museums (estimate) 287,337.70 132,390.52
Musical collection 75,428.20
Art collections (estimate) 283,319.38 108,996.75
Permanent Funds:
Endowment and Trust 1,388,784.91 2,378,939.28
Library endowment 32,958.41 355,314.97
W. W. Cook endowment 8,711,116.00
Expendable Funds:
Current funds, fellowships, etc 632,282.51 195,592.00
Research funds 1,543,553.85 165,061.29
Library funds 73,499.38 16,123.05
Smaller and Unreported Gifts (estimate) 100,000.00 150,000.00
Total $10,060,962.69 $22,773,600.08
10,060,962.69
Grand Total $32,834,562.77
II. Classification as Pekmanent or Expendable
GENERAL
Represented by Present Property or Funds:
Lands $1,065,665.85
Buildings 3,857,216.74
Equipment 1,367,001.04
Permanent funds 1,421,743.32
Smaller gifts (less than $100) 100,000.00
$ 910,768.14
7,361,186.25
2,529,499.10
11,445,370.25
150,000.00
$7,811,626.95 $22,396,823.74
7,811,626.95
Total $30,208,450.69
Not Represented by Present Property:
Current funds, fellowships, etc $ 632,282.51 $ 195,592.00
Research funds 1,543,553.85 165,061.29
Library funds 73,499.38 16,123.05
$2,249,335.74 $ 376,776.34
2,249,335.74
Total
Grand Total
$ 2,626,112.08
$32,834,562.77
In general only items amounting to more than $100 are listed. An esti-
mate of $250,000 has been included for smaller gifts and items which were
not officially recorded. This may be assumed to be conservative. It will also
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be noted that few class memorials are listed separately. Many of them,
however, are included in the equipment of the various buildings, in the list
of permanent funds, and in the general estimates of gifts to the University's
art collections and libraries.
It should also be pointed out that in the items for lands and buildings
is included the extensive equipment which has come to the University as a
result of the careful management of the general athletic program on
the part of the Board in Control of Athletics, amounting to $3,327,097.49.
There are those who may hesitate to consider such items of equipment as
the new stadium, the field houses, and the University golf course as bene-
factions. Nevertheless they have become the property of the University of
Michigan at no expense to the State and may properly be considered as
coming to the University through the interest of the students and alumni,
although these items have not been considered as gifts specifically from
alumni.
A similar question arises in regard to the income of the Department of
Engineering Research, which has totaled something over a million dollars
since 1920. Since these funds have been given to the University for the
specific purpose of carrying on research and of developing educational pro-
grams, they might be considered in the same category as other gifts made for
similar purposes. It has been considered wise, however, to omit this item.
It is also to be noted that some of the items in the table above (page
15) do not represent, except to a very minor degree, any existing resources
of the University. These are: current funds, which represent in most cases
the gift of a single sum; continued current funds, which represent gifts made
annually over a period of years; research funds; continued research funds;
and current funds for the library. They all represent moneys received, and
expended, for the purposes for which they were deposited with the Treasurer
of the University. These form a total of $2,626,112.08, making the actual
value of gifts which are included among the present resources of the Uni-
versity $30,208,450.69, or slightly more than one-half of the University's
total assets.
As a corollary to the foregoing statement, it is desirable to show the assets
of the University on June 30, 1931. These are given in the following table:
ASSETS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, JUNE 30, 1931
Cash, accounts receivable and supplies inventory $ 2,691,997.47
Endowment, State Treasury (including original Federal Fund) 550,384.40
Lands 4,835,820.17
Buildings 24,469,634.86
Land improvements 1,448,485.12
Equipment 10,267,774.30
Investments, trust funds, etc 5,303,057.69
W. W. Cook Bequest 8,711,116.00
$58,278,270.01
Of this amount $49,567,154.01, or all but the last item, represents the
statement of the assets of the University in the Financial Report for the
Fiscal Year 1930-31. The bequest of the late W. W. Cook, '82, as an en-
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dowment for the legal research program of the University, is deposited in
New York and is not administered by the Regents, but by a Board of Trus-
tees set up by the terms of the benefaction. The first definite statement as
to the value of the securities comprising this endowment was made on
November 25, 1932, when it was placed at $8,711,116.00. This figure,
accordingly, has been used in this statement, making the present worth of
the University in lands, buildings, equipment, and funds and endowments
$58,278,270.01 on June 30, 1931.
III. ITEMIZED LISTS OF INCREMENTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
In some of the following lists, the source of the information regarding
particular items has been indicated. For convenience, the references have
been abbreviated as follows:
Abbreviations: Est.—Estimate. F.R.—Financial Report. Inv.—Inven-
tory. R.P.—Regents' Proceedings. P.R.—President's Report. T.R.—Treas-
urer's Report.
LANDS
In arriving at the values for the real estate held by the University, the
estimates have been made in accordance with either the University Inventory
or the Financial Report for 1931. Those familiar with University properties
will note what will seem to be undervaluations in some cases and overvalua-
tions in others. The University inventories have been made either upon the
basis of the value of the property at the time the gift was made or on its
estimated value when the University property was inventoried in 1913. These
values have been retained, despite subsequent fluctuations, since the Univer-
sity is not primarily interested in the present value of properties, most of
which acquire a certain part of their worth simply because they are proper-
ties of the University.
LANDS—GENERAL
GENERAL ALUMNI
1817 1,920 acres granted by Wyandotte and other Indian
tribes—merged in other property (TenBrook-
Hinsdale) $ 5,888.40
1837 Ann Arbor Land Co.: 40 acres, original campus
(F.R. '31) 160,000.00
1899 City of Ann Arbor: South Hospital site (F.R. '31) 17,500.00
1902 Dexter M. Ferry: 27 acres—Ferry Field (F.R. '31) 45,500.00
1904 Arthur Hill, '65: 80 acres, Saginaw Forestry Farm
(F.R.'31) $ 3,200.00
1906 Walter H. Nichols, '91, & Mrs. Nichols, '94: 27.5
acres for Arboretum (Inv.) 2,750.00
1907 George P. Burns: balance of 30 acres of Nichols
Arboretum (Inv.) 3,000.00
George P. Burns: 17 acres, boathouse site (F.R. '31) 1,000.00
1908 Charles & Mrs. Bogardus: 1,400 acres (R.P.'08;
P.R. '08, 348) 22,500.00
Women's League & Athletic Association: land for
Palmer Field including original gift, $3,000,
from T. W. Palmer, '49 (Inv.) 84,194.02
1910 R. P. Lamont, '91e: Observatory site addition—28
acres (F.R.'31) 15,704.00
1916 W. W. Cook, '82: Martha Cook Bldg. site (F.R. '31) 60,478.89
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1917 Detroit alumnae: Alumnae House site (R.P. '17;
Inv.) $ 9,360.00
C. F. Cook, '79, '82/: gift of dormitory site—later
Museum site (Inv.) 34,108.55
1918 H. H. Herbst, '72: real estate (Inv.; R.P.'18).. 72,000.00
1919 City of Ann Arbor: portions of Observatory and
Catherine Sts., Hospital site (Inv.) $ 9,000.00
1920 Michigan Union: site (F.R.'31) 92,500.00
1923 Anonymous donor: 120 acres, Missaukee County
(F.R. '31) 1,500.00
Michigan Department of Conservation: 240 acres,
Missaukee County (F.R. '31) 3,000.00
1925 Mrs. Annie W. Stinchfield: 315.75 acres of wood-
land (Inv.) 6,825.00
Ann Arbor Railroad: addition to land in Pittsfield
township (Inv.) 429.00
Unknown donor: future site for Observatory (Inv.) 3,025.00
1926 Board in Control of Student Publications: property
on Maynard St. (F.R.'31) 59,000.00
1929 University of Michigan Club of Detroit: land for
Mosher-Jordan Halls (Inv.) 56,805.00
R. P. Lamont, '91e: Washington Heights property
(F.R. >31) 25,292.68
School of Music: land (F.R. >$1) 29,700.00
Chase S. Osborn, hon. '11: Duck Island Preserve,
3,000 acres (F.R. '31) 379,375.00
1930 Edwin S. George: Edwin George Reserve, 1,250
acres (F.R.'31) 150,000.00
1931 Clark L. Ring: 160 acres, Saginaw County
(F.R. >31) 2,600.00
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., '92-'95: Publications Bldg.
site (F.R.'31) 16,000.00
Total, Lands—General $ 461,467.40 $ 910,768.14
LANDS—BOARD IN CONTROL OF ATHLETICS
1925 15.59 acres new stadium site (F.R. »31) $ 238,972.36
1926 2.7 acres Coliseum site (F.R. '31) 21,100.00
1928 112.52 acres Golf Course, with improvements
(F.R.'31) 344,126.09
Total, Lands—Board in Control of Athletics $ 604,198.45
Grand Total, Lands $1,065,665.85 $ 910,768.14
BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS
In assigning values to buildings which have come to the University,
the original cost, which forms the basis of value in the University Inventory,
has been taken wherever possible. In other cases where specific funds
have been given for the buildings, the total amount has been noted. Since
there is normally no prospect of sale of these buildings, the original valua-
tions have been retained and no consideration given to the cost of repro-
ducing the buildings at the present time. The references to the University
Financial Report of 1931 indicate the inventoried value. The references to
the Regents' Proceedings and the treasurers' reports usually refer to specific
sums contributed by donors.
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BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS—GENERAL
GENERAL ALUMNI
1817 Citizens of Detroit: fund for original Catholepis-
temiad (TenBrook-Hinsdale) $5,000 included in
fund from sale of property (see Funds for Cur-
rent Use, 1865, page 41)
1854 Citizens of Detroit: fund for Observatory (R.P.' 54) $ 6,500.00
1865 Citizens of Ann Arbor: fund for Medical Building
(R.P. '65) 10,000.00
1867 Citizens of Detroit: fund for enlargement of Ob-
servatory (R.P.'67) 3,000.00
Citizens of Ann Arbor: fund for enlarging Observ-
atory (RJV67) 3,000.00
1875 Citizens of Ann Arbor: fund for Hospital (R.P. '75) 4,000.00
1889 Citizens of Ann Arbor: fund for Hospital construc-
tion (R.P.'89) 25,000.00
1894 Joshua W. Waterman: fund for Gymnasium (R.P.
'94, 337) 20,000.00
Students and friends: fund for Gymnasium (R.P.
'94, 337) $ 6,095.03
Subscribers to fund for Gymnasium (R.P. '94,337) 22,705.00
1895 Charles Hebard, '79*»: contribution to Women's
Gymnasium (T.R. '95) 5,000.00
Various contributors: fund for Women's Gym-
nasium (T.R.'95; special report—W.B.S.) 10,707.33
1898 John Canfield: contribution to Women's Gym-
nasium (T.R. '98) 5,000.00
1902 Mrs. L. M. Palmer: fund for erection of Palmer
Ward (R.P. '02) 20,000.00
1910 Alumni Association: Alumni Memorial Hall (R.P.
»10) 140,000.00
Arthur Hill, '65: bequest for Auditorium (R.P. '10) 200,000.00
1913 City of Ann Arbor: funds for Contagious Hos-
pital (R.P.'13) 25,000.00
Newberry Estate: Helen Newberry Residence
(R.P. '13) 75,000.00
1916 Wm. W. Cook, '82: Martha Cook Bldg. (F.R. '31) 350,000.00
1917 Levi L. Barbour, '63, '65/: Betsy Barbour House
(F.R.'31) 173,139.82
Detroit alumnae: funds for Alumnae House (F.R.
'31) 16,000.00
1920 W. L. Clements, '82: Wm. L. Clements Library
bldg. (F.R.'31) 203,669.09
Michigan Union: Michigan Union bldg. (Inv.)... 1,225,000.00
Michigan Union: theater (F.R. '31) 8,000.00
1921 Pamela A. Noble: Adelia Cheever House (F.R.'31) 10,000.00
E. C. Goddard, '89, '91/ & three alumni: Adelia
Cheever Cottage (Letter 10/16/31—E.C.G.).. 2,315.00
1923 James Couzens: Couzens Hall (R.P. '23) 600,000.00
1924 Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson: Simpson Memorial
Institute (F.R.'31) 202,867.85
1925 W. W. Cook, '80, '82/: Lawyers Club (F.R.'31) 1,434,842.30
1927 Robert P. Lamont, '91e: Observatory bldg. &
dome, South Africa (F.R. '31) 57,817.19
1928 Various donors: material & concession in costs,
Architecture Bldg. (R.P. '28) 32,004.00
1929 School of Music: School of Music Bldg. (F.R.'31) 66,693.03
Women's League: Michigan League (F.R. '31) ... 800,000.00
1930 Anonymous donor: animal house, Museum (F.R.
'31) 3,547.82
1931 D. M. Ferry, Jr., '92-'95: University of Michigan
Press Bldg. (F.R. '31) 27,000.00
W. W. Cook, '80, '82J: Legal Research Bldg.
(F.R. '31) 1,600,830.59
W. W. Cook, '80, '82/: John P. Cook Bldg.
(F.R. '31) 550,769.90
W. W. Cook, '80, '82/: fund for completion of
Law Quadrangle (Estimated value of securities,
6/30/31) 550,000.00
Total, Buildings and Improvements—General $1,134,317.70 $7,361,186.25
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BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS—BOARD IN CONTROL OF ATHLETICS
_ GENERAL ALUMNI
1904 Ferry Field wall (F.R. '31) $ 9,500.00
1912 Dwelling & bams, tool house (F.R. '31) 2,500.00
Administration Bldg. (F.R.'31) 38,000.00
1914 Stands (F.R.'31) 100,000.00
1923 Yost Field House (F.R. '31) 563,168.01
1927 New Stadium (F.R.'31) 956,087.37
Women's Field House (F.R. '31) 139,354.90
1929 Intramural Sports Bldg. (F.R. '31) 743,213.60
Coliseum (F.R. '31) 103,618.58
Tennis courts, Palmer Field (F.R.'29) 14,973.68
1930 Grading & improvements, Palmer Field (Memo.,
Board in Control of Athletics) 52,482.90
Total, Buildings and Improvements—Board in Control of
Athletics $2,722,899.04
Grand Total, Buildings and Improvements $3,857,216.74 $7,361,186.25
EQUIPMENT
In this division is included all equipment given to the University not
mentioned in other sections of this report. In some cases the items have
been purchased through funds given specifically for the designated purpose,
but more often the article has been given directly and the valuation repre-
sents that reported in the Proceedings of the Regents or, since 1913, in
the University Inventory. Funds or gifts to the Library, to the art and
archaeological collections, and to the various museums are not included in
this statement, but are listed separately.
The list of gifts to the College of Engineering, which forms a separate
section, is the result of a very careful survey made under the direction of
Dean Emeritus M. E. Cooley. In general, only items representing a value
of $100 or over are given in this list.
EQUIPMENT—GENERAL
GENERAL ALUMNI
1854 Citizens of Detroit: fund for Observatory equip-
ment (H. N. Walker, $4,000) (P.R. '54, 598) $ 10,000.00
1883 E. C. Hegeler, J. J. Hagerman, '61, & A. D.
White: peal of 5 bells (Inv.) 1,667.00 $ 3,333.00
1891 Frederick Stearns: fund for Chemistry Laboratory
(R.P.'91) 500.00
1894 University Musical Society: Columbian organ 25,000.00
1896 Chicago alumni: oratory medals (Est.) 1,300 00
1899 Dr. C. B. G. de Nancrede: operating table and
sterilizer 100.00
1900 Women's League: contribution to Women's Gym-
nasium 500.00
1901 Farrand Organ Co.: Cecilian organ 250.00
Donation: chemical apparatus fund (R.P.'01, 725) 100.00
1904 Robert Douglas Sons: plants for forestry arboretum 200.00
1906 Alumni Club, Pittsburgh: scholarship 100.00
1910 R. P. Lamont, '91e: Observatory lathe and shaping
machine (Inv.) 1,250.00
Various donors: motor boat, Douglas Lake 150.00
1913 Estate, Truman Newberry: equipment, Helen New-
berry Residence 27,092.62
1914 Dr. C. B. G. de Nancrede: surgical instruments.. 1,000.00
J. E. Howell, '70: 4y2-inch telescope (Inv.) .... 300.00
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1916 W. W. Cook, '80, 'S21: equipment, Martha Cook
Bldg $ 50,000.00
F. H. Walter, '73 & C. M. Burton, '73: furniture
and rug, Alumni Memorial Hall (Est.) 500.00
Henry Kohankie & Sons: collection of trees, 250
items (Est.) $ 750.00
1917 L. L. Barbour, '63, '65/: equipment for Betsy
Barbour House 48,420.73
James A. McDonald, '76, '78/: Cecilian piano
player 125.00
Detroit Alumnae: funds for Alumnae House 7,673.03
1918 C. B. Grant, '59: curtain, Memorial Hall (T.R.) 150.00
1919 U.S. Government: 75 French cannon (Est.) 100.00
S. P. Langley, '086: small reflecting telescope &
diffraction grating 125.00
1920 C. Billington: metal cans for plant collection, &
1,000 plants 300.00
Michigan Union: equipment (Inv.) 250,000.00
1921 Pamela A. Noble: Adelia Cheever House equipment 6,286.54
Michigan State Highway Department: 5-ton truck
(Inv.) 1,000.00
1922 Dr. W. E. Upjohn, '75m: collection of peonies for
Botanical Garden (Est.) 5,000.00
1923 R. P. Lamont, '91e: refracting telescope (Various
treasurers' reports, 1908-26) 13,954.09
Henry Ford: truck, touring car, Museum 1,350.00
1924 Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bloomer: Dodge sedan (R.P.
'24, 159) 1,000.00
Graham Bros.: Graham truck, Near East research
(R.P. '25, 788) 1,500.00
Anonymous donor: x^ray diffraction apparatus... 3,500.00
Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson: furnishings, Simpson
Memorial Institute 35,606.96
1925 W. W. Cook, '80, '82/: equipment, Lawyers Club 300,087.08
Detroit Edison Co.: study of University heating
plant 50,000.00
1925-32 Various newspaper publishers: over fifty issues
of Michigan Journalist (Est.) 2,000.00 2,000.00
1926 M. G. Billingslea: wall clock for Health Service 100.00
Pathe Co.: 24 reels of film, North Africa, archae-
ological (Est.) 600.00
1927 School of Music: fund for repairs to organ 45,000.00
George G. Booth: equipment for Architecture Bldg.
(F.R. '27, '28) 10,193.75
Class of '24: lights for Angell Hall 1,375.00
Guggenheim Foundation: aeronautics equipment.. 28,004.62
1928 Gleason Tiebout Co.: Celestite lighting fixtures,
Architecture Bldg 250.00
Alexander Dow: lighting installation for new
Museum 4,000.00
W. P. Harris, Jr.: lights for museum approach . 110.00
Otto Hans, '01: 5 pairs, wrought-iron gates (Inv.) 3,000.00
Joseph T. Ryerson & Sons: difference in value of
lathe purchase 2,700.00
W. M. Welch Scientific Co.: hydrogen ion concen-
tration apparatus (Dept. of Zoology) 95.00
Various donors: funds for Architecture Bldg.
(R.P. '28, 572) 6,500.00 2,350.00
Various donors: equipment for Greenland Expedition 10,000.00
Robert R. McMath, '13e: material for telescope 662.50
Dow V. Baxter, '21: material for dendrology 600.00
Women's League: equipment for League Bldg. ... 200,082.63
Dodge Bros.: Victory Six sedan, Near East Expe-
dition (Inv.) 1,200.00
1929 E. H. Cress, W. E. Brown: stone bench, Museum 225.00
Acacia Fraternity: memorial bench (Inv.) 500.00
Henry Ford: Ford sedan (Mesopotamia research) 550.00
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1929 Jacob Volk Bldg. Material Co.: 4 carved stones
from Vanderbilt House (Inv.) ,. $ 300.00
1930 J. R. Monroe, '06/: Monroe calculating machines $ 7,327.25
Architecture alumni and friends: fund for Archi-
tecture Bldg 1,500.00
Edna Poe: 3 deer heads for School of Forestry
(Inv.) 150.00
Simon J. Murphy Co.: plaster model of the Penob-
scot Bldg., Detroit (Inv.) 400.00
1931 Architecture Alumni: plaster model of Fisher Bldg.
(Inv.) 1,000.00
Henry Ford: specially equipped truck for Near
East research (Inv.) 600.00
Alex L. Luria: four beds, Health Service 204.50
E. Finley Johnson, '90/: 2 mahogany tables (Inv.) 600.00
Emory W. Clark: fund for erecting entrance of
old First National Bank 100.00
W. W. Cook, '80, '82/: equipment for Lawyers Club 5,673.30
Total, Equipment—General $ 280,510.99 $ 909,713.61
EQUIPMENT—ENGINEERING COLLEGE
1876 Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.: model of stamp mill $ 1,500.00
1881 B. F. Sturtevant: 1 steel pressure blower 150.00
1883 Dean Steam Pump Co.: tools & machines 100.00
American Steam Gauge Co.: gauges, indicator, etc. 150.00
1884 Henry R. Worthington: 1 steam pump & a 1-inch
water meter 100.00
1885 Ingersoll Rock Drill Co.: rock drill 300.00
1886 Lansing Iron & Engine Works: set of castings &
forgings 400.00
1887 Defiance Machine Works: balancing machine .... 200.00
Middlebrook Elevator Mfg. Co.: steam pump ... 200.00
1889 Brush Electric Co.: dynamo & 10 lamps 1,000.00
1890 Lansing Iron & Engine Wks.: set of castings &
flywheel 200.00
Silsby Mfg. Co.: power pump 100.00
Battle Creek Machinery Co.: steam pump 100.00
W. W. Cummer: air brake apparatus 500.00
1891 M. W. Harrington, '68: Zollner photometer $ 150.00
Battle Creek Machinery Co.: steam pump 100.00
1893 Standard Electric Co.: 2 transformers 100.00
1894 Chicago Gas & Crude Oil Burner Mfg. Co.: burner
for fuel oil 300.00
1896 Buffalo Forge Co.: engine, fan, & heater 750.00
Carnegie Steel Co.: 650 lbs. steel test pieces 200.00
Union Steam Pump Co.: boiler feed pump 100.00
James Leffel & Co.: cascade water wheel 750.00
Buckeye Engine Co.: model of engine 100.00
1897 Nathan Mfg. Co.: locomotive monitor injector ... 100.00
1898 Charles F. Brush, '69: liquid air plant 1,090.64
1899 Fairbanks, Morse & Co.: automatic cement testers 250.00
Union Boiler Tube Cleaner Co.: boiler tube cleaner 1,500.00
1901 Tale, Jones & Co.: oil burner 200.00
1903 E. C. Atkins & Co.: set of saws & saw tools 100.00
Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Co.: telephone ap-
paratus 184.00
1904 Standard Oil Co.: 1 ton, paraffin wax 300.00
Washtenaw Light & Power Co.: installation of
electric line 200.00
Ft. Wayne Electric Co.: 2 transformers & 2 meters 125.00
Bion J. Arnold: a motor 500.00
Michigan Milling Co.: 2 water wheels 100.00
Fletcher Paper Co.: 1 condenser & 1 air pump... 200.00
Edison Illuminating Co.: steam & stoker engine.. 450.00
Edison Illuminating Co.: 2 dynamos 1,000.00
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1904
1905
1906
1908
1909
1910
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
H. H. Franklin Mfg. Co.: 4-cylinder auto engine $
Carnegie Steel Co.: rails & track fastenings for
naval tank
Russell Wheel & Foundry Co.: traveler for naval
tank
Edison Illuminating Co.: generator
Wickes Bros.: 7 h.p. Dake steam engine
Frank E. Kirby, hon. '08: steam cutter engine
Bardons & Oliver: castings, forgings, etc
National Acme Mfg. Co., Cleveland Automatic
Machine Co.: samples of work
L. S. Starrett Co.: tools
Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co.: tools
Michigan State Telephone Co.: apparatus
Blackmer Rotary Pump, Power & Mfg. Co.: 1
rotary high pressure pump
R. P. Lamont, '91e (drawings for refractor)
H. H. Franklin Mfg. Co.: auto engine
Olds Gas Power Co.: equipment
Heirs of Austin Burt: equatorial sextant
J. D. R. Lamson: rotary engine
National Ammonia Co.: 400 lbs. ammonia
Standard Oil Co.: Y* ton, paraffin wax
Automatic Electric Co.: telephone apparatus
Lloyd Construction Co.: pressure control
Chicago Screw Co.: 20,000 machine, cup, & set
screws
National Ammonia Co.: 400 lbs. ammonia
Allis-Chalmers Co.: 1 water turbine
Edison Illuminating Co.: 1 air pump, 1 stoker
engine
American Sewer Pipe Co.: samples, drawings, etc.
John H. Darling: set of maps & charts
Ford Motor Co.: engine
Hudson Motor Car Co.: motor
Studebaker Corporation: chassis
Michigan State Telephone Co.: 500-ft. cable, No. 20
Reo Motor Car Co.: 1915 chassis
Detroit Edison Co.: 6 old transformers
Eastern Michigan Edison Co.: 35 kw. alternator..
Paige Detroit Motor Car Co.: 4-cylinder engine, etc.
Edison Illuminating Co.: 37 meters, 5 transform-
ers, 5 starters, 1 dynamo, 4 circuit breakers, etc.
American Vulcanized Fibre Co.: sample board ...
Messrs. Wickes Bros.: blue-printing machine
Koehring Machine Co.: small concrete mixer ....
Alexander Dow, hon. '11: hydraulic testing flume..
Harry L. Coe, '08e: exhibit of shrapnel
A. Mansfield Dudley, '02e: 2 motors
American Broach & Machine Co.: broaching ma-
chine
Refinite Company: water softener
Worthington Pump & Machinery Co.: pump
American Steam Pump Co.: 2 pumps
Swenson Evaporator Co.: evaporators, pumps, etc.
Westinghouse Air Brake Co.: lOJ^" cross com-
pound air compressor with tank
M. S. Young: Dost motor
Buick Motor Co.: engine
Patrick W. Keating: French transit
Gramm-Bernsteen Motor Truck Co.: 2j4-ton truck
transmission
Wickes Bros.: electric blue-printing machine
Detroit Edison Co.: 30 kw. motor generator set
(Engineering Research)
Kerr Machinery Corp.: vacuum heating pump ...
Messrs. R. F. Becker, e'20-'21, & Milton Wigand:
flying boat
GENERAL
300.00
200.00
100.00
450.00
100.00
100.00
800.00
200.00
100.00
100.00
350.00
125.00
250.00
7,000.00
120.00
200.00
250.00
125.00
120.00
400.00
250.00
100.00
150.00
700.00
1,500.00
250.00
1,200.00
150.00
500.00
1,000.00
500.00
600.00
250.00
1,500.00
2,000.00
200.00
250.00
450.00
12,100.00
1,000.00
500.00
1,000.00
500.00
150.00
400.00
2,516.00
1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
200.00
1,000.00
100.00
100.00
2,500.00
300.00
1,500.00
5,000.00
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1923 American Tool & Machinery Co.: 10" laboratory
centrifugal . $ 150.00
American Steam Pump Co.: 2 vacuum pumps ... 600.00
Swenson Evaporator Co.: crystallizer $ 300.00
1924 Hupp Motor Car Co.: Hupp engine 150.00
Durant Motor Co.: chassis 850.00
H. H. Franklin Mfg. Co.: motor 450.00
A. L. Pearson: Bradford draft gear 200.00
Jordan Motor Car Co.: 6-cylinder motor ,. 600.00
R. S. Begg Nizer Corp.: refrigerating machine ... 125.00
Bryant Walter Co.: house heating boiler motor ... 450.00
Chevrolet Motor Co.: motor 225.00
Darling Valve & Mfg. Co.: 4" hydrant, 6" gate
valve, & wrenches 100.00
Agnes L. Fessenden: surveying instruments & books 200.00
1925 Detroit Electric Furnace Co.: arc-type electric
metal melting furnace (Engineering Research) .. 5,000.00
Gould & Eberhardt: 32" metal shaper 3,000.00
National Engineering Co.: 1 No. 0 sand mixer .. 450.00
Mueller Metals Co.: 1 wall case, mounted brass
forgings, etc 1,000.00
F. Raniville Co.: samples of leather belting 200.00
Norton Co.: 1 wall case, mounted crystalon &
alundum abrasive wheels, etc 200.00
Carborundum Co.: 2 wall boards, mounted carbo-
rundum & aloxite abrasive wheels 100.00
Gleason Works: 1 spiral-bevel Rear cutter 150.00
National Twist Drill & Tool Co.: 1 set, 8 steps
5/8" milled twist drills 100.00
Several corporations: tools, etc 300.00
General Motors Corp.: Chevrolet truck 975.00
Haynes Stellite Co.: 29 cutting tools 103.00
Arcade Mfg. Co.: 2 pattern plates, 12"xl4",
white metal 160.00
Union Twist & Drill Co.: 19 carbon & high-speed
steel cutting tools 100.00
Goddard & Goddard: 20 milling cutting tools ... 200.00
Pratt & Whitney Co.: 1 wall case, 56 cutters, etc. 350.00
Buick Motor Co.: cut-away chassis 1,000.00
American Radiator Co.: Ideal heating machine ... 800.00
Buick Motor Co.: 6-cylinder engine 440.00
Delco-Lite Co.: Frigidaire unit 275.00
S. K. F. Industries: ball & roller bearings 100.00
Kelvinator Corporation & Grand Rapids Refriger-
ator Co.: refrigerating units (Engineering Re-
search) 660.00
Cadillac Motor Car Co.: cut-out chassis 1,000.00
1926 Ford Motor Co.: Model T Ford motor 150.00
Hutto Engineering Co.: cylinder grinding equip-
ment , 250.00
Holley Carburetor Co.: molding machine 500.00
Goddard & Goddard: 40 high-speed, steel-milling
cutters 200.00
D. P. Brown Co.: belting 106.92
Ford Motor Co.: Johansson gauges 750.00
Western Electric Co.: display board 150.00
1927 M. Prussian Machine Co.: electrical instruments 650.00
Trane Co.: vacuum pump outfit 700.00
Ingersoll-Rand Co.: air compressor & equipment.. 350.00
Western Electric Co.: No. 00 automatic screw
machine 500.00
Hendey Machine Co.: 1 set wood patterns, etc... 100.00
Anonymous: oscillograph 2,760.00
L. S. Starrett Co.: 3 show cases of measuring
tools & instruments 600.00
H. R. Krueger & Co.: 1 multiple drill head 150.00
Willys-Overland, Inc.: a sectional chassis 1,000.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1927 Wilson Foundry & Machine Co.: sectional model
of gas engine (Engineering Research) $ 500.00
Hoover Steel Ball Co.: 2 cases, balls, bearings, etc. 750.00
Western Electric Co.: wall case showing transmitter
lugs 150.00
Western Electric Co.: No. 1 Brown & Sharpe
universal grinder 300.00
Wilson Foundry & Machine Co.: jolt, strip, squeeze
& molding machine (Engineering Research) ... 700.00
J. H. Williams Co.: forgings, tools, holders, photos,
etc 165.00
1928 American Broach & Machine Co.: 2-ton vertical
broach press 430.00
Detroit Edison Co.: motor generator set (Engi-
neering Research) 1,200.00
Swenson Evaporator Co. & Elliott Co.: vacuum
crystallizer & pump 7,500.00
Foster-Wheeler Corp.: exhibit board of super-
heaters & economizers 150.00
Domestic Stoker Co.: stoker 350.00
American Radiator Co.: heating boiler 250.00
1929 M. Prussian: machinery valued at 14,000.00
Grinnell Company of Providence: thermolier heat-
ing unit 300.00
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co.: radio receiving
set 400.00
Ford Motor Co.: 1 Fordson tractor, Model A
Engine (Inv.) 335.75
1930 Oxweld Acetylene Co.: oxygen-acetylene outfits .. 2,000.00
1931 Chrysler Corporation: cut-away chassis 1,000.00
Lunkenheimer Co.: 7 high-pressure valves 300.00
Various small gifts (1876-1931) totaling 4,718.25 $ 664.00
Total, Equipment—Engineering College $ 118,218.92 $ 15,579.64
Grand Total, Equipment $ 398,729.91 $ 925,293.25
LIBRARIES
The value of the gifts to the various University libraries can only be an
approximation. Many collections are given no value by donors, and such
values as are given in the University Inventory are for the most part esti-
mates. Moreover, many books have so risen in price that it is almost im-
possible to assign any value as of the time they were given. The opposite
is also true. This list of gifts has been prepared by the Library staff under
the direction of the Librarian, William W. Bishop.
In making the following estimate, however, a careful check has been
made of the total number of gifts to the libraries as set forth in the
librarians, reports since 1872. This shows that the Library had received, up
to June 30, 1931, 149,608 volumes, including 6,000 volumes received prior to
1872, but not including pamphlets and unbound material, maps, etc. This
is 21.76 per cent of the total, omitting the Law and Clements libraries. The
total value of the books in all the University libraries, except these two
libraries, as given in the University Inventory, is $1,787,466.71. Of this
amount 21.76 per cent equals $388,952.75, which is the sum of the estimates
given for the general and alumni gifts to the General Library.
A somewhat similar method has been followed in arriving at the pro-
portion of alumni gifts. Some 94,000 volumes, comprising the larger gifts,
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are listed in the following pages, and of these, two-thirds have come from
sources other than from graduates of the University. It has therefore been
assumed that this same proportion holds for the whole 149,608 volumes
given to the General Library and the 18,944 to the Law Library.
VARIOUS LIBRARIES
GENERAL ALUMNI
1841-1931 Various donors: gifts to University of Mich-
igan libraries $ 259,301.83 $ 129,650.92
1859-1931 Various donors: gifts to University of Mich-
igan Law Library 42,259.02 21,129.51
1920 W. L. Clements, '82: Library of American History
(Inv.) 1,212,038.15
1930 Chase S. Osborn: library at Duck Island 20,625.00
Total $ 322,185.85 $1,362,818.58
PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS
1841
1844
1854
1859
1865
1866
1869
1873
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
Dr. Charles W. Borup, LaPoint, 1888
Lake Superior: "valuable book"
(Brockhaus' "Konversation-Lexi-
kon")
Alexandre DeVattinear (Vatti- 1889
mare): "Ancient Runic" book
Citizens of Ann Arbor: 1,200 books
Thomas M. Cooley: law books
J. C. Watson, '57: books on as-
tronomy 1890
Henry Huntington: books on his-
tory
Richard Fletcher: law library, 800
vols. 1892
Macmillan & Co.: 135 vols.
Philo Parsons: library of Professor 1893
Rau of Heidelberg, 4,325 vols.,
5,000 pamphlets (later additions
included)
Grand Duke Alexis: 100 vols, on 1894
history of Russia
Robert Carter & Brothers, New
York: collection of books, 36 1896
vols.
G. S. Morris: 40 German books,
plays, etc.
James B. Angell: set of Chinese
classics, 28 vols.
James McMillan: Shakespeare li- 1897
brary
George C. McMahon: 45 vols. Tr.
and Proc, Royal Irish Academy
Dr. E. A. Richards: 67 vols.
J. J. Hagerman, '61: library of
political science, 2,500 vols.
Christian H. Buhl: 5,000 vols, on
law
American Philosophical Society:
Proceedings, 14 vols. 1899
James McMillan: Crosby Shakes- 1900
peare library: 298 vols.
Recent graduate: collection of Eng-
lish drama, 240 vols.
German citizens: 940 vols., Goethe
collection
Ellen B. Murphy: Murphy collec-
tion of 154 rare books, 50 old
maps
Mrs. Edward Dorsch: collection of
Dr. Dorsch, 1,676 vols.
George C. Mahon: 335 books
C. N. Jones: library of 121 vols.
Longmans Green: 160 vols.
E. L. Walter, '68: 60 vols.
C. M. Burton, '73: 85 vols.
Unknown friend: fund for 95 vols.
on philosophy
Mrs. H. S. Frieze: books from Dr.
Frieze's library (300)
James McMillan: Second Folio,
Shakespeare
C. M. Burton, '73: Stephens' Fac-
similes, 26 vols.
Various publishers: 200 vols.
(books by faculty)
Government of France: Documents
In6dits, 65 vols.
E. L. Walter, '68: Teubner Greek
texts: 96 vols.
C. L. Ford: 300 medical books
Mrs. G. S. Morris: Morris library,
1,340 vols., 155 pamphlets
C. M. Burton, '73: chronicles &
memorials of Great Britain &
Ireland, 81 vols.
Alpheus Felch: library, 3,500 vols.
James McMillan: Third Folio,
Shakespeare
D. M. Ferry: 105 vols, of early
Christian writers
James S. Scripps: 144 vols, of
Roman archaeology
British Government: reports of
Challenger expedition, 44 vols.
Orlando Barnes, '50: Description de
l'Egypte, 42 vols.
Estate of Judge Douglas, 727 vols.
Frederick K. Stearns, '73-76: col-
lection of musical books &
scores, 1,551 titles
H. C. Granger, '71: 216 vols, of
Early Church literature
Daughters of Professor Frieze: 123
vols, of library
Daughters of Dr. Dunster: 510
vols.
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1900 J. W. Bagley: book of the Fair
Bequest of E. L. Walter, '69:
library, 2,088 vols. plus.
Duke of Loubat: facsimiles, ancient
Mexican manuscript, 10 vols.
1901 Mrs. Rebecca Hench: library of
G. A. Hench, 1,712 vols.
James B. Angell: 369 vols.
Oliver H. Dean, '68-70/: 154 law
vols. (Est. H.M.B.)
1902 Government of France: 54 vols.,
learned societies, etc.
Wm. J. Howard, '84/: 80 vols, on
the Society of Friends
Gabriel Campbell, '65: Bible of
President Tappan
Children of T. M. Cooley: 42 vols.
of Professor Coolers library
H. P. Davock, '70: 287 vols.
Dr. Mary Cutler, '88m: Korean
books, Chinese atlas, 42 vols.
1903 Macmillan Co.: 350 vols, for
Rhetoric Library
1905 Michigan Life Underwriters So-
ciety: Proceedings of the Actu-
arial Society of Great Britain
Shirley W. Smith, '97, and Mrs.
Smith, '97: 133 vols.
Family of C. E. Greene: 260 vols.
1906 Dr. H. S. Jewett, '68, '70w: 189
medical books
Mrs. I. C. Russell: library of Pro-
fessor Russell, 872 vols, and 369
pamphlets
1907 West Publishing Co.: Century Di-
gest and supplement, 68 vols.
Frances Lawton: collection of as-
tronomical and mathematical
books, 38 vols.
Mary A. Dunstan: law books of
Thomas B. Dunstan, 200 vols.
Mrs. O. M. Poe: 173 vols, of
periodicals
1908 Mrs. W. D. Miller: dental books,
slides, and specimens of W. D.
Miller, '75, 264 vols.
E. Finley Johnson, '90/: reports of
. the Philippine Supreme Court
(Est. H.M.B.)
Mrs. George Y. Wisner: library of
George Y. Wisner, '65 (Engi-
neering Department)
1911 Richard Hudson: library, 1,200
books
Various publishers: 788 vols.
(textbooks)
Jo Labadie: library of Socialist
literature, 718 vols.
Nathan B. Hyde Estate: 302 vols.
1912 Dr. N. L. Obetz: 252 vols.
Heirs of Elisha Jones: 550 vols.,
Greek and Latin classics
1913 Lucy Salmon, '76: set of reports
of-the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission
1913-20 Cercle Francis: 344 vols.,
French plays & publications
1914 Dr. C. B. G. DeNancrede: medical
library of 500 vols.
1914 American Bible Society: 104 vols.,
Bibles
Dean C. Worcester, '89: Worcester
collection of manuscripts and
books pertaining to the Philip-
pines (R.P. '14, 1045-49) 600
vols., including pamphlets
1915 Thomas Spencer Jerome, '84: 2,000
vols., classical literature and
history
1916 Robert E. Bunker: 110 vols., New
York Reports
Ann Arbor Ladies' Library: 132
vols.
Michigan Chapter, Daughters of
War of 1812: bookplate
Washtenaw County Pioneer So-
ciety: 32 vols, early papers, 26
books
Bryant Walker, 76: library of C.
A. Davis for Museum and Li-
brary
1916-19 Heirs of James B. Angell: 233
vols, on international law
1917 Mrs. John O. Reed: 400 scientific
books, library of J. O. Reed
Kiefer family: manuscripts and
documents of Hermann Kiefer
1918 Sidney C. Eastman, '73: various
items for Library, 200 vols!
A. M. Todd: 21 vols. Encyclopedia,
or A Dictionary of Art & Science
Various publishers: 95 vols, for
Rhetoric Library
1918-28 Polonia Literary Circle: 80
vols. Polish literature
1919 C. C. Warden, '92, '95m: 136 vols.
1920 Bryant Walker, '76: 400 books
Mrs. M. L. D'Ooge: 658 vols.,
library of Greek literature of
Professor D'Ooge
H. B. Hutchins, '71: law library,
1,500 books
Detroit Public Library: 860 vols.,
Patent Office Specifications
Tappan Presbyterian Association:
6,400 vols., 1,500 pamphlets
Carrie Frieze: collections of music
1920-31 Netherlands: Rijks Geschied-
kundige Publication, 99 vols.
1921 A. Ziwet: library, 3,294 vols, and
1,541 pamphlets
Dramatic Fund of Romance De-
partment: 103 vols.
1922 Family of W. W. Beman: 1,427
vols., 503 pamphlets
A. M. Todd: 82 vols, natural his-
tory
C. B. Warren, '91 & S. Horiye,
'07: works on Japanese Legal
Code
A. A. Stanley: works on music,
scores
Estate of E. W. Pendleton, '72:
law library, 64 vols.
J. P. Morgan: photos of Coptic
manuscripts, 40 vols.
L. L. Hubbard: Gulliver's Trav-
els, Robinson Crusoe collection
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1922 (approximately 3,000 vols, in
"Imaginary Voyages Collection")
1923 L. L. Hubbard: collection of Rob-
insonades, 186 vols, (included in
total given above)
Roland Whitman, '97: set of Mich-
igan Session Laws
W. P. Lombard: physiology library,
600 vols, and 6,000 pamphlets
Worthington Ford: 1800 Edition,
Journal, Continental Congress
1924 Ross Wilkins: books for Chemistry
Library, 52 vols.
Thomas M. Spaulding, '02: set of
Hawaiian Session Laws (1862-
1880)
Estate of John S. Lawrence: li-
brary, 780 vols.
1925 Mrs. James H. Campbell: letters
and papers of Lucius Lyons
Dr. Maria Norris: papers of Ly-
man Decatur Norris
Robert B. Ripenbach: 600 vols.
Heirs of Henry Mayo: 85 law
books
Mrs. M. L. Burton: 67 vols., 55
pamphlets, from library of Presi-
dent Burton
H. C. Hoskier: 147 vols.
Mrs. E. D. Campbell: 185 vols.,
and collection of pamphlets,
library of Professor Campbell
Mrs. I. N. Demmon: 220 vols., 35
pamphlets, library of Professor
Demmon
Wm. S. Mason: 107 bound Revo-
lutionary pamphlets
Miss Elizabeth W. Dean: 500 vols.
L. L. Hubbard: Robinson Crusoe
library, 128 vols.
Carlos E. Porter: South American
journals and scientific pamphlets
Michigan Club of Peking, China:
508 vols, and maps
Mrs. L. R. Wagener: 149 vols.,
library of L. R. Wagener
1926 Wm. H. Hobbs: geological and
mineralogical library, 73 vols.,
1,638 pamphlets
Lewis S. Pilcher, '62, '66m: Vesa-
lius collection and medical li-
brary, 387 vols.
Dr. George Dock: 16 vols., early
history of vaccination
Mrs. Filibert Roth: forestry library
of Professor Roth
H. S. Jewett, '68: 23 vols., 288
pamphlets on mosses
Lemuel Famulener, '06m: books,
etc., Simpson Memorial Institute
Estate of L. L. Barbour, '63, '65/:
800 vols.
Evans Holbrook, '00/: 64 vols.,
law library (Est., H.M.B.)
1926-31 Thomas M. Spaulding, '02:
Stephen Spaulding memorial col-
lection, 700 vols.
1927 L. L. Hubbard: collection on men
and manners in America, 337
vols.
1927 Floyd R. Mecham: 500 vols, legal
history and jurisprudence
F. N. Scott, '84: library of 1,607
vols.
James F. Breakey, '94m: 213 vols.,
medical library of Dr. William
F. Breakey, '59
Fred W. Sanders: dramatic library,
341 vols., play bills, photos, etc.
(3,410 play bills, 3,604 pro-
grams, 495 photos)
H. C. Hoskier: 1,500 vols.
Cornelia Steketee Hulst, hon. '14:
23 Dutch imprints
Hispanic Society: 100 vols.
Mrs. C. J. Dregnan: 20 vols. Dutch
history
1928 W. C. Hollands: collection of 9
old Bibles
Dr. William Campbell: 13 vols.,
early American books
Caroline Monteith: diary of Rev.
John Monteith
Mrs. F. Wilson: 15 vols., 894
periodicals from library of Ho-
ratio N. Chute, '72
Miss Carrie Frieze: collection of
books and letters
Bequest Bradshaw H. Swales: orni-
thological library, 4,500 vols.
(Inv.)
Michigan Engineering Society: Pro-
ceedings, 1880-1926, 9 vols.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly: rare works
on ornithology
H. O. Westerveldt, '14, '16w: 53
vols.
A. S. Whitney, '85: educational
library, 764 vols.
K. W. Zimmerschied, '03: 153
vols., 210 periodicals
1929 Alexander Ziwet: 1,250 vols.
Walter S. Penfield, '00: 200 vols.
on international law
Lewis S. Pilcher, '62, '66m: books
on Harvey, 28 vols., in addition
to those listed under 1926
Victor Brown, '00: 160 vols.
David Hunter Miller: My Diary at
the Conference of Paris, 20 vols.
V. V. McNitt, '00-'02: Incunabula
(5), set of Haebler "German
Incunabula," and Haebler "Ital-
ian Incunabula"
Howard A. Kelly: 170 books, Fiinf-
stuck library on lichens
H. C. Hoskier: 44 vols, on Greek
New Testament and photos of
manuscript
Alexander W. Blain: two plates,
"Audubon's Birds of America"
(Museum)
V. H. Lane, '74e, '78J: 343 vols.,
law library
W. W. Cook, '82/: 1,500 vols., law
library
J. O. Murfin, '95, '96/: 350 vols.,
law library
F. M. Taylor: 264 vols.
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1929 L. L. Hubbard: 176 vols, of "imag- 1930 Otto T. Landman, '87m: 472 vols.
inary voyages" on ophthalmology
M. E. Cooley: 1,500 vols., trans- Estate of President H. C. Hutchins,
portation library '71: 237 vols.
Mrs. F. W. Kelsey: Professor Kel- Wm. C. Hollands and Burt St.
sty's library, 280 vols., 1,200 John: scores of Union Operas
pamphlets Max Winkler, Ph.D., '92: German
Orla B. Taylor, '86, '87/: Napole- library, 2,000 vols., 1,059 incor-
onic manuscripts and case porated in Library
LeRoy Crummer, '93: Coll. Relfgio 1931 Stuart Perry, '94, '96/: 275 books
Medici, etc., 297 vols. in Paleontology
MUSEUMS
The gifts to the various museums of the University can only be approxi-
mated, and the total values can only be taken as estimates. Many gifts to
the University's collections are recorded in the early Regents' Proceedings
which cannot now be identified, while some of the early gifts to the Herba-
rium were destroyed in 1913 by the fire in the South Wing of old University
Hall. In the case of the Zoological Museum, the University Inventory has
been utilized as a basis, and one-half this valuation has been considered as
a result of gifts. In his report on the Anthropological Museum, Dr. Carl
E. Guthe gives an approximate valuation of $125,000, which, excluding the
10 per cent acquired by purchase, leaves $112,500 as a valuation of the
gifts. Of this amount, 40 per cent has been considered as coming from
graduates of the University.
In the case of the Herbarium, an estimate furnished by Dr. E. B. Mains
has been accepted as a basis for valuations. Certain early gifts made to
this collection, notably the Douglas Houghton collection of 1865, the Sager
Herbarium of 1866, and the Ames Herbarium of 1869 are not included in
the present estimate; for these no value can be given. In the Paleontological
Museum a statement of acquisitions by Professor E. C. Case has been
followed, though many items received prior to 1900 are recorded in the
general statement of gifts to the Museum as given in the Regents Pro-
ceedings.
A list of the principal gifts to the different divisions of the Museum as
recorded by the Regents follows. It must be understood that these records
are very incomplete and that many considerable benefactions have never
been noted in the Regents' Proceedings.
THE MUSEUMS AND UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS
GENERAL ALUMNI
Various donors: Museum of Zoology (One-half of University
Inventory) $100,000.00 $ 74,573.02
Various donors: Museum of Anthropology (Statement by Dr.
C. E. Guthe, Director) 67,500.00 45,000.00
Various donors: University Herbarium (Statement by Pro-
fessor E. B. Mains, Director) 111,337.70 6,069.50
Various donors: Museum of Paleontology (Statement by
Professor E. C. Case, Director) 6,000.00 5,748.00
Museum of Mineralogy: (Statement by Assistant Professor
C. B. Slawson) 2,500.00 1,000.00
$287,337.70 $132,390.52
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MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY
Items Given in the Regents' Proceedings
1.859 W. P. Trowbridge, through Smith- 1893 Frederick Stearns: illustrations of
sonian Institution—Joseph Hen- Japanese fishes
ry, Director, scientific collection 1902 Harry McNeal, '82, '00m: collec-
(P.R. '59) tion of South American birds
1863 W. J. Beal, '59: zoological speci- and butterflies
mens 1911 E. M. Ledyard, '11-12: collection
1866 Wm. M. Reid, '57-59: 40 skins, * of Philippine entomology
Wisconsin birds 1913 Bradshaw H. Swales, '96/: 500
1869 C. Haynes, Toronto: case of 9 bird skins
mounted birds from Guatemala 1915 Bryant Walker, '76: collection of
Domingo F. Sarmiento, President owls
of Argentine Republic: mounted 1916 DeBoulinger, DeSpurrell: South
condor and armadillo American reptiles
1872 Lieutenant T. D. Baldwin: three Bryant Walker, '76: library of C.
skeletons of American buffalo A. Davis for Museum and Li-
1874 A. Winchell: case of scientific brary
charts 1917 Bradshaw H. Swales: 925 bird
1877 Professor S. A. Jones: 2 micro- skins
scopes and 12 volumes of Micro- Bryant Walker, '76: collection of
scopic Journal 600 birds
1879 R. A. Beal: one-half share in Beal- 1919 Paul S. Welch: collection of insects,
Steere collection of 60,000 zo- 1,200 species
ological specimens (valued at U.S. Fish Commission: 3,000 speci-
$4,500) mens
1880 R. A. Beal, J. B. Steere '76: collec- Michigan State Geol. and Biol.
tion from Amazon, 482 specimens Survey: 100,000 specimens
1881 Colonel W. P. Morris: wolverine Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Dr.
1883 James Hobson, J. W. Hobson: Marie Phesalix: reptiles and
zoological collection of 680 amphibians
items 1920 Harvard University: skeleton of
1889 Harold B. Wilson, '82, '86A: col- great auk
lection of several thousand 1930 Anonymous donor: fund for Mu-
beetles seum assistantship
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Letter from Dr. Carl E. Guthe, Director
July 28, 1933
After completely reviewing again all the museum records, with special reference to
outstanding gifts, I have the following report to make, which I hope will meet your
requirements more adequately than my previous one.
The total collections of the Museum of Anthropology are estimated as containing
about 75,000 specimens, with an approximate value of $125,000. About 10 per cent of
these were acquired by purchase. The remainder were obtained by museum expeditions,
exchanges, and by gift. The major part of the collections is the result of gifts to the
University from a large number of individual donors and institutions. Most of these are
small lots of material with little financial value. The museum collections are specialized
because of the policy of developing the collections by the project method. The two great
groups of materials comprise those from North America and those from the Orient.
The North American collections probably contain more than 50,000 specimens,
thanks to the generosity of hundreds of individual donors, and some forty institutions.
Most of the material can be classified under three general headings: (1) Michigan
archaeology; (2) Indian pottery fragments; (3) ethnobotanical material. The more
noteworthy gifts which have helped develop these collections are:
W. J. Boyce 759 stone implements from Michigan
M. R. Candler 153 archaeological specimens from Michigan
& Arkansas
Tom Charles 571 potsherds from New Mexico
Chester Clark, '19, A.M. '20 283 stone implements from the United States
♦David DePue 714 stone implements from Michigan
F. B. Felton 272 stone implements from Connecticut
M. R. Gilmore 500 ethnobotanical specimens
D. J. Haff, '84, '86/ 1 Zapotec incense burner from Mexico
Harry Hosack, '83£ 247 stone implements from Indiana
•This collection presented by G. F. Allmendinger, '78 and others.
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H. C. Moore 915 archaeological specimens from Michigan
J. G. Robertson 194 archaeological specimens from Michigan
L. P. Rowland 925 stone and silver specimens from the United
States
Walter L. Schmidt 481 stone implements from Michigan
Henry Stevens 54 unbroken pottery vessels from Arizona
George F. Will 602 potsherds and ethnobotanical material
N. F. Wing 718 archaeological specimens from Michigan
Smithsonian Institution Casts of implements and unbroken pottery
The Oriental collections contain approximately 15,000 objects, the majority of
which consist of the material gathered by me for the University in the Philippines.
The more noteworthy gifts to these collections are:
Beal-Steere Expedition 716 ethnological specimens from China and
Formosa
Chinese Government collection 1,000 ethnological specimens from China
F. W. Stevens & N. H. Stevens
collection 1,200 specimens from China
W. H. Hobbs 40 ethnological specimens from the South Seas
The remainder of the Museum collections comprise approximately 5,000 specimens
from South America, Africa, and Europe. In this group the more noteworthy gifts are:
Beal-Steere collections 607 anthropological specimens from South
America
H. F. Donner 108 stone implements from South Africa
H. S. Mallory 1,120 stone specimens from paleolithic Europe
H. W. Seton-Karr 95 stone implements from Europe, Asia, and
Africa
The completeness of the Museum library, which is a branch of the General Library,
is largely due to two gifts. The B. H. Swales Collection contains approximately 177
titles, and Frank Leverett has given more than 60 titles. Over 2,000 pamphlets have
been received from many sources, principally from the authors, although a large part
of the pamphlet collection was obtained from the Vignaud Collection, through the kind-
ness of the General Library.
I trust that this statement, together with the more detailed report sent you last
fall, will furnish the data you need.
Sincerely,
Carl E. Guthe, Director, Museum of Anthropology
Items Given in the Regents' Proceedings
1849 G. F. Turner, Surgeon, U.S.A.: 1892 Smithsonian Institute: 100 cast
Mexican collection prehistoric implements
1862 A. H. Redfield: war dress, Indian G. F. Allmendinger, '78, & others:
chief (R.P. '62, 1012) DePue Collection of Indian
1867 Smithsonian Institution: collection relics
from Pacific Islands & North- 1899 Leon J. Cole, '01: Alaskan totem
west, 12 items pole
1872 M. W. Harrington, '68: California 1922 Miriam L. Candler: stone & flint
& Alaskan collection, 350 items instruments
1885 Chinese Government: ethnological 1926 Frederic Stevens, '87/ & Mrs.
collection from expedition at Stevens: collection of Chinese
New Orleans art (P.R.'26)
UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM
Letter from Professor E. B. Mains, Director
July 6, 1932
According to your request, we have attempted to determine the gifts to the Univer-
sity Herbarium. Dr. Kanouse has spent considerable time going through back files, old
records, etc. We have found it impossible to obtain a complete record before 1926. The
following summarizes the information obtained:
Gifts from Alumni
Plants, 42,945 specimens, estimated value $ 4,294.50
Fellowships, support of expeditions, books, etc., estimated value 1,775.00
$ 6,069.50
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Gifts from Others
Plants, 91,562 specimens, estimated value $ 9,156.20
Gifts of library and botanical specimens (inventoried at $100,000), models,
paintings, photographs, funds for expeditions from Dr. H. A. Kelly.... 102,181.50
$111,337.70
Yours truly,
E. B. Mains, Director, University Herbarium
HERBARIUM
Items Given in the Regents' Proceedings
1865 Mrs. R. R. Richards: herbarium 1879 R. A. Beal: Beal-Steere collection,
of Douglass Houghton, 2,000 2,500 botanical specimens
specimens 1886 Joseph B. Whittier, '68-70: fungi
1866 Dr. A. Sager: herbarium, 1,555 collection
specimens 1903 Lewis Foote, '66g: 2,000 species,
1868 A. E. Foote, '67?»: 350 specimens pressed plants
from Lake Superior 1913 Mrs. Harroun, Mrs. Morgan: her-
1869 Estate of G. L. Ames, Niles: her- barium, Douglass Houghton, 7
barium and insects (17,500 & vols.
5,000 specimens) 1918 J. H. Ehlers, H. H. Bartlett:
A. Winchell: 151 species, European phanerogamic herbarium, 12,000
plants specimens
1870 J. T. Scovell: specimens—41 zo- 1920 C. Billington: metal cans for plant
ological, 350 botanical collection & 1,000 plants
1873 M. W. Harrington, '68: 2,000 1927 H. S. Yates: collection, 1,500 Su-
species of plants matran plants
1875 Heirs of Adams Jewett: herbarium Mrs. George Sudworth: herbarium
of 25,000 specimens of G. B. Sudworth '85
S. S. Garrigues: 3,000 specimens 1930 Howard A. Kelly: bookcase for
of German plants Herbarium (Inv.)
MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY
Letter from Professor E. C. Case, Director
June 16, 1933
Enclosed is a list of gifts to the Museum of Paleontology since 1909. The prices
I have placed upon them are, of course, uncertain and based on probable cost of collec-
tion, etc. They are all low rather than high.
Sincerely,
E. C. Case, Director, Museum of Paleontology
Major Gifts to the Museum of Paleontology
Reported by Professor E. C. Case
1909 Michigan State Geol. Survey: 12 boxes of fossils $ 1,500.00
1911 Mr. Vreeland: mastodon skeleton from Michigan 100.00
1914 Chase S. Osborn: fossil hippopotamus from Madagascar 200.00
Chase S. Osborn: fossil egg of Aepyornis maximus from Madagascar 350.00
1917 Michigan State Geol. Survey: collection of invertebrate fossils from
Northern Peninsula of Michigan 300.00
H. H. Hindshaw: collection, invertebrate fossils (about 10,000 speci-
mens) 1,000.00
1918 Detroit Museum of Art: collection of fossils (about 3,000 specimens)
from various localities 750.00
1923 A. F. Foerste: plaster casts of invertebrate fossils from Ontario, New
York, Minnesota (about 400 specimens) 200.00
1926 H. H. Hindshaw: several thousand specimens of fossil invertebrates
from Minnesota 300.00
W. H. Shideler: collection, invertebrate fossils from Ohio 100.00
Michigan Geol. Survey: collection, invertebrate fossils (about 20,000
specimens) • 1,000.00
R. C. Hussey for Michigan Geol. Survey: collection, Ordovician in-
vertebrate fossils from Michigan (about 4,000) 300.00
Zoology Museum (D.N.H.S.): about 500 invertebrate fossils from
North America and France 200.00
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1927 Albert L. Arey, '75e: about 250 specimens, invertebrate fossils from
Ontario, New York, Illinois, and Iowa (rare) $ 200.00
A. L. Arey, '7Se: several hundred specimens, invertebrate fossils from
New York 300 00
1929 Carl Erlanson: several hundred specimens, fossil plants from Green-
land 100.00
G. D. Wagner: 1 specimen, elephant, teeth, much of skeleton, from
Michigan 200.00
1930 L. B. Kellum: several hundred invertebrate fossils from San Carlos
Mountains, Mexico 100.00
W. A. Kelly: 34 types, invertebrate fossils from Grand Ledge, Mich-
igan 17000
C. A. Arnold: 90 fossil plant impressions from England and Wales.. 150 00
1931 S. H. Perry, '94, '961: about 5,000 specimens, invertebrate fossils,
some plants and fishes from North America and Europe 500.00
Smaller gifts (less than $100 in value) 3,728^00
Total $11,748.00
GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, AND MINERALOGY
Items Given in the Regents' Proceedings
1849 Anthony Ten Eyck (former Re- 1866 Smithsonian Institution: 1,386
gent) U.S. Commissioner to shells from West Indies
Sandwich Islands: gold and 1870 Dr. J. T. Scovell: 65 geological
quicksilver from Calif. First specimens from Colorado
gifts to Museum. 1871 Class of '71: 105 geological soeci-
1850 A. Ten Eyck: shells from Sand- mens
wich Islands, Calif. 1884 Scheffelein & Co., N.Y.: cabinet of
1853 Scheffelein & Co., N.Y.: specimens drug samples, 500 items
<«,. ^°J[,dI?gB , 1907 Estate of Carl L- Rominger: col-
1862 E. W. Owens, '60: iron ores, fluxes, lection of 1,500 mineral speci-
etc. mens
A. C. Jewett, '62: collection of 1913 Bryant Walker, 76: collection of
minerals (first recorded gifts by 9,000 shells
alumni) 1917 L. L. Hubbard: various specimens
W. D. Walbridge: crystallized cop- of native copper crystals, etc.
per, 225 lbs. L. L. Hubbard: 165 minerals, 132
1864 Smithsonian Institution: rocks and crystal models
shells 1918 Detroit Museum of Art: F. Stearns
1865 Joseph H. Woods, '61, M.S., '62: Collection of Mollusca, 1,300
collection of fossils specimens
Smithsonian Institution: 23 Mis- 1920 Bryant Walker, '76: large collec-
souri fossils tion of shells & 400 books
1866 W. J. Beal, ,59: marine inverte- 1922 Miriam L. Candler: mineralogical
brates from New England collection
C. C. Stevenson, Wm. Minto, '60e:
silver ore
MUSICAL COLLECTION
1900 Frederick Stearns musical instruments collection: (Inv.) $72,000.00
1903 Lyon & Healy: reproductions of famous musical instruments
1917-31 Smaller additions to memorial collection 825 70
1918 J. E. White: 1 piano 400.00
1920 Olin Johnson: 1 grand piano 500.00
M. A. Ives: 1 ancient Chinese musical instrument 250.00
1920-25 A. A. Stanley: various musical instruments 152.50
1922 C. A. Sink: piano-tuning instruments 200.00
1928 R. M. Wenley: 1 accordion 100.00
1930 Martha Agnew Wentworth: Broadwood piano 500.00
Mrs. S. J. Hoexter: piano 500.00
Total $75,428.20
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COLLECTIONS IN ART, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND ARCHITECTURE
GENERAL ALUMNI
1859 Randolph Rogers: statue—"Landing of Columbus"
(Est.) $ 150.00
H. S. Frieze: engravings, casts, photos (Farrand: 118) 800.00
Class of 1859: cast—"Laocoon"—first class gift (Est.) $ 100.00
1860 Andrew D. White: two paintings of the Campus by
Cropsey (Est.) 200.00
Andrew D. White: Horace White Collection of medal-
lions (Insurance value) 400.00
1862 Mrs. H. P. Tappan: framed engravings—Raphael car-
toons (Est.) 100.00
President H. P. Tappan: eleven framed engravings
(Est.) HO.OO
Rogers Art Association: Statue of Nydia (Farrand:
119) 1,700.00
1866 J. H. Burleson: collection of engravings
1869 Class of 1866: painting—"Immaculate Conception"
(Est.) 250.00
1870 Class of 1870: memorial—Statue of Franklin (Est.) ... 200.00
Randolph Rogers: statue of Ruth Gleaning (Est.) 1,000.00
1872 C. C. Trowbridge: medallion of Randolph Rogers by
Cushing (R.P. '72) , _
1873 Governor John J. Bagley: copies of 91 U.S. medals (Est.) 150.00
1878 Alvah Bradish: life-size medallion of President Tappan
(R.P. '78; Est.) • 100.00
1880 A. E. Richards: collection of coins, 1,473 items (Est.) 300.00
1884 Henry C. Lewis: Lewis Collection of paintings, 700,
sculpture, 35 (P.R. '84, 500) 200,000.00
1885 Randolph Rogers: 70 models and casts (Est.) 10,000.00
1886 Unknown alumnus: 1,500 engravings, Piranesi (Est.).. 1,500.00
1892 Randolph Rogers: casts of bronze doors of the Capitol at
Washington (Est.) 2,500.00
1896 Field Columbian Museum: murals by Gari Melchers
(Est. W.B.S., E. Lorch) 20,000.00
1897 Class of 1896: contribution to Arch of Trajan (Casts) .. 303.25
1899 William Lambert Dorr: 200 rare coins 100.00
1900 Various donors (Detroit): archaeological fund for Arch
of Trajan °32.51
T. Q. Fritsche, '58: collection of coins and paper money,
1,093 items (Est.) 500.00
Henry P. Glover: DeCriscio collection of inscriptions... 450.00
1904 Henry Smith Jewett, '68: collection of currency and ^^
stamps (Est.) „gnn 250.00
1906 Theodore W. Koch: stained glass for library 125.00
Unknown alumnus: 22 additions to DeCriscio collection,
well-head urns, inscriptions, etc 93.50
1907 A. M. Todd: cast of "Wrestlers" (Est.) 500.00
D. A. McLachlan, '79A: desk of President Tappan
(R.P. '07, 105)
1909 Arthur Hill, '65: bas-relief of President Angell 5,000.00
C. Dattari: collection of 3,280 ancient coins, items (Est.) 984.00
1910 C. L. Freer: opening exhibition, Alumni Memorial Hall
(Est.) 5,000.00
Richard Hudson, '71: portrait (Est.) 500.00
1912 D.A.R., Grand Rapids: copy by Niehaus—Great Seal of
Michigan (Est.) 250.00
Mrs. Arthur Hill: bronze memorial tablet to Arthur Hill
(Est.) 2,500.00
1914 Alumni committee: bas-relief of President Tappan (See
Funds for Current Use)
1915 Committee of Engineering Class of 1869: tablet to „-„«,*
DeVolson Wood 250.00
Richard Hudson, '71: portrait of I. N. Demmon (Est.) 500.00
1916 Friends and former students: portrait of V. C. Vaughan
by Gari Melchers 1*522"S2
1917 Walter S. Harsha, '71: collection of 924 coins 200.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1918 Chase S. Osborn, hon. '11: portrait by Gari Melchers... $ 3,500.00
1919 Sidney C. Eastman,'73: collection of coins, paper money $ 100.00
1921 Friends and former students: portrait of Thomas True-
blood 1,000.00
1922 Jean A. Wetmore, '81: 15 pictures
Richard H. Marr: 106 photographs of European buildings 100.00
1923 A. M. Todd: collection of paintings 7,500.00
Paul R. Gray, '90: 130 ancient vases 900.00
1924 Michigan State Millers' Assn., G. F. Allmendinger, 78:
Pompeiian mill and granary 250.00
1925 H. C. Hoskier: 5 Egyptian bronzes and statuettes (Est.) 100.00
1926 Miss Sara L. Gunn: portrait of Professor Moses Gunn.. 100.00
1927 Family of A. H. Lloyd: portrait of Dean Lloyd 500.00
1928 H. C. Hoskier: 82 ancient coins, art objects (Inv.) 1,705.00
D. H. N. Torrey: bronze bust of Pasteur by Dubois
(Inv.) 332.37
Michigan Club of Chicago: bronze bust of F. H. Yost.. 2,000.00
Ormond E. Hunt, *07e: painting by Lynn B. Hunt,
Museum of Zoology 400.00
Mrs. Frances J. Hubbard: paintings by Mary Hamilton
Frye (Inv.) 500.00
Students, University High School: statue and pictures
(Inv.) 242.50
H. C. Hoskier: collection of archaeological objects .... 1,120.00
1929 University of Michigan Club of Detroit: portrait of
R. M. Wenley (Inv.) 1,200.00
Students of the University High School: two pictures
(Inv.) 210.00
Various donors: paintings and batiks 158.00 50.00
Northwestern Terra Cotta Co.: two panels and buffalo
statuette 125.00
W. W. Cook, '82: three medieval tapestries and 34 prints
(Inv.) 57,000.00
Arthur Wollendorf: photographs of German buildings... 150.00
1930 Cass Gilbert: portrait bust 1,000.00
Colleagues of C. H. Kauffmann: plaque of Dr. Kauffmann 250.00
City of Rouen, France: fragments from the church of
St. Maclou (Inv.) 500.00
Estate of President H. B. Hutchins: loving cup and
cloissone vase for the President's house (Inv.) 275.00
Emory W. Clark: entrance to old First National Bank
of Detroit (Inv.) 2,500.00
Col. W. A. Starrett, '97e: Corinthian column and base
(Inv.) 2,500.00
Fred L. Smith: 2 columns, carved capitals (Inv.) 200.00
1931 Mary E. B. Markley, '92: portrait of Professor Markley 75.00
Mrs. Winkler '93 & Alexander Winkler: crayon portrait
of Professor Winkler 75.00
1932 Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Stair: two bronzes 400.00
Various portraits, paintings, tablets, etc., unlisted (Est.) 12,500.00 12,500.00
Gifts to the Law School: portraits, memorials, prints, etc.
(Est. by H. M. B.) 6,000.00 15,000.00
Total $283,319.38 $108,996.75
ENDOWMENT AND TRUST FUNDS
The University's permanent endowment and trust funds represent sums
which have been given as endowments, only the interest on which can be used
for the purpose stated. In the case of some of the student loan funds, however,
the total sum is available for loans unless they are indicated as endowments.
These funds are listed in the annual financial reports, together with a state-
ment as to their origin and purposes. In many cases, by reason of accumula-
tions of income, the amount given is larger than when the gift was made.
Certain funds are also included which are not on deposit with the Cashier
of the University.
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ENDOWMENT AND TRUST FUNDS
GENERAL ALUMNI
1880 Walter Crane, Detroit: 22 lots, "Reeder Farm,"
Detroit $ 20,719.28
1887 Alumni Association: Williams Professorship Fund $ 36,000.00
1894 Class of '94: scholarship fund 9,500.79
Levi L. Barbour, '65: lots on Woodward Ave.,
Detroit 82,170.41
1895 Clara H. Stranahan: Seth Harrison Scholarships.. 33,769.77
1896 E. C. Hegeler: fund for music hall—later scholar-
ship in music 4,216.68
Henry Phillips, Jr.: Phillips Scholarships 3,817.33
1897 Class of '97: memorial loan fund ..: 425.73
F. D. Bennett, '68-'69: scholarship fund 150.00
1898 Elizabeth H. Bates: fund for professorship 137,000.00
Class of '98: scholarship loan fund 580.18
Friends of Professor G. S. Morris: alumni loan fund 9,456.68
1899 Mrs. Catharine N. Kellogg: fund for women's pro-
fessorship 48,785.57
Students Lecture Association: loan fund 2,074.65
W. J. Bryan & others: Good Government Club prize
(Eventual value) 2,192.75
Class of 1899: law scholarship loan fund 44.77
1900 Charles J. Hunt, '46, & Mrs. Hunt: lands in
California 107.00
Hannah E. Davis, '94: fund for Hospital 2,054.05
George Wagner, '93, & Mrs. Wagner: Van Der Veer
Loan Fund 889.90
1901 Adah Z. Treadwell: fund for free bed 2,000.00
1903 Joseph Bradford Whittier, '72: Whittier Fellowship
in Botany 4,000.00
Love Maria Palmer: Palmer Memorial Free Bed
Fund 21,500.00
Class of '03: memorial loan fund 275.90
Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs,
Students Lecture Association: Alice F. Palmer
Scholarship Loan Fund (with later additions).. 9,013.26
1904 Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs:
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Supplementary Scholar-
ship Loan Fund (with later additions) 11,373.64
1905 Judge C. A. Kent: James B. Angell Fund 57,591.83
1906 American Association of University Women, Ann
Arbor Branch: loan fund 1,140.34
1909 John R. Webster, '76 & John P. Webster, '11:
scholarship loan fund 3,035.00
1910 Mary J. Furnum: fund for apparatus, Palmer Ward 1,000.00
Mrs. Florence C. Tuthill & friends: Benjamin Sayre
Tuthill Loan Fund 2,363.99
Emma J. Cole: fellowship in botany 21,000.00
1911 Mortar Board Society: scholarship loan fund 181.55
1912 James L. Babcock Bequest: fund for scholarship
in music 5,244.75
Lelia M. Coolidge, '97: fund for free bed 1,800.00
Friends of Anna M. Chandler, '74: scholarship
loan fund 2,074.43
1913 Mrs. Elise L. Braun: memorial fellowship to Carl
Braun, '10 10,100.00
Class of 1876: scholarship loan fund 488.26
Class of 1913/: memorial loan fund 370.74
1914 Class of '90i»: medical memorial loan fund 1,514.08
Class of '14: loan fund 977.46
Class of '14e: loan fund 450.28
Philadelphia Alumnae: loan fund 126.28
1915 Friends of Charles F. Adams: Charles F. Adams
Memorial Scholarship 1,300.00
Walter Gradle, '00: Mary Skeels Gradle Memorial
Bed Fund 1.000.00
Class of '15e: loan fund 269.83
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1915 Class of '15: loan fund
John F. Dodge: loan fund $
F. M. Hamilton, '69: F. M. Hamilton Loan Fund
Women of 1916 & 1923: Junior Girls' Play Loan
Fund
Mrs. Josephine P. McGowan: Joseph H. McGowan,
'61, Loan Fund
Unknown donor: scholarship
1916 Clara L. Avery: Newell & Nancy E. Avery Memorial
Richard Hudson, '71: fund for professorship
D.A.R. of Michigan: student emergency fund ....
Florence Huson, '85m: scholarship loan fund
New York Alumnae: Eliza W. Mosher Loan Fund
Wm. J. Olcott, '83: Harlow Olcott Scholarship ...
Wm. J. Olcott, '83: scholarship loan fund
Friends of Dr. R. B. Preble, '89, & Alice H. Preble,
'88: scholarship loan fund
1917 Levi L. Barbour, '63, '65/: Scholarship Fund for
Oriental Women
E. M. Walker: Fanny Ransom Marsh Scholarship
E. M. Walker: John P. Marsh Scholarship
F. J. Barrett: loan fund
Dr. & Mrs. George Caron: George C. Caron, '14,
Memorial Loan Fund
Class of '17e: loan fund
Edward C. Haney: loan fund
Parents & friends: Richard N. Hall Loan Fund ...
Senior Society: scholarship loan fund
Mary E. Turner: Jane Turner Memorial Loan Fund
Unknown alumnus: education loan fund
1918 Chicago Alumnae: scholarship
1919 Frances A. Lawton: fellowship
Frances A. Lawton: fund for Observatory publi-
cations
George H. Palmer: Alice Freeman Palmer Fellow-
ship
Olga Pickman Feinberg: Samuel M. Feinberg
Memorial Loan Fund
Ruth Gentry, '90: loan fund
Marilla Griswold: loan fund
Amanda A. Ransom: Charles A. Ransom Scholar-
ship Loan Fund
H. H. Servis, '08/: loan fund for law students
Thomas Spencer Jerome, '84: fund for lectureship,
Union Trust Co., Detroit (Est.)
1920 Henry Russel, '73: Henry Russel Endowment
Charles L. Freer: oriental research & publication
fund
Anna M. Hendee: medical experiment fund
George H. Benzenberg, '67: loan fund
E. C. Warriner, '91, & Mrs. Warriner: Memorial
Loan Fund to Paul Wheeler Warriner, '20
1921 Genevieve S. Hinsdale: E. C. Hinsdale, '48, Memo-
rial Scholarship
Abigail F. Prescott & Albert B. Prescott, '64:
scholarship in organic chemistry
Oratorical Association & others: Thomas C. True-
blood Fellowship
John E. Weeks, '81m: research scholarship in
ophthalmology
Mrs. George M. Sternberg: medal in preventative
medicine
Class of 1881: memorial loan fund
Detroit Alumnae Collegiate Sorosis Loan Fund...
Mrs. H. B. Earhart: loan fund
C. G. Parnall, '02, '04m, & James Lee: nurses' loan
fund 556.87
GENERAL
ALUMNI
£ 689.18
1,331.15
<
14,330.56
177.66
1,399.98
225.00
8,389.06
92,000.00
556.15
9,871.33
988.33
4,376.24
3,755.98
6,540.17
4,900.00
635,318.20
5,000.00
517.34
3,158.13
229.56
520.14
6,520.08
2,163.85
59.62
6,000.00
100.00
4,198.02
4,000.00
10,998.04
752.61
16,914.03
3,946.02
2,520.06
2,394.65
60,875.00
4,635.79
16,000.00
10,000.00
33,043.68
27,493.83
395.35
8,000.00
10,283.74
1,000.00
2,085.44
10,685.00
2,814.54
1,093.80
•38 —
1921 S.C.A. Chapter of the D.A.R.: Sarah Caswell
Angell Loan Fund $ 760.00
1922 Cornelius Donovan, 72e, hon. '12: scholarship fund $ 134,522.95
Alumnae House: loan fund 97.15
Adelia Cheever House: loan fund 58.85
Edna Muller Burch: loan fund 1,310.29
Charles B. Davis, 'Ole: J. B. & Mary H. Davis Trust 15,424.83
Helen Newberry Residence Association Loan Fund 405.99
H. H. Herbst, '81/: scholarship loan fund (See gift
of land) 25,169.45
Emma Lowrey: Henry R. Lowrey Loan Fund 7,250.68
1923 Veterans of World War: memorial loan fund 1,050.58
George C. Booth: traveling fellowship in architec-
ture 21,120.00
Frances E. Riggs: foundation (loan fund) 62,680.21
Agnes C. Weaver, '84, '87m: scholarship 4,724.50
Mrs. Edsel Ford: fund for women debaters (includ-
ing $400 gift to expendable funds) 8,400.00
Mr. & Mrs. Barney Krom: Eita Krom Memorial
Prize Fund 1,000.00
Charles Lathrop Pack: prize foundation 1,016.25
Chinese Students Club: loan fund 1,520.97
Minnie A. G. Dight, '84: Dr. M. A. G. Crawford
Educational Loan Fund 32,001.59
R. Spencer Bishop, '08: emergency fund for foreign
students 128.16
Mrs. Sophia Hirth: Ralph Smith Hirth, '10 Memo-
rial Scholarship loan Fund 1,504.16
Friends of Mrs. Lombard: Caroline Cook Lombard
Loan Fund 1,404.43
Sarah Drake Parker: Marian Sarah Parker, '95,
Loan Fund 726.22
1924 W. W. Cook, '82, royalties on book: Law Review
Fund 14,084.41
William J. Mayo, '83w: lectureship in surgery 5,735.47
George Herbert Palmer: Alice Freeman Palmer
Fellowship in History 28,205.59
D.A.R. of Michigan: memorial scholarship 5,000.00
G. B. Findley, '08/: '08 Law Memorial Prize 1,000.00
Mary E. Read: Jay J. Read, '78, Memorial Loan
Fund 5,620.63
Hindustan Club: emergency loan fund 301.00
India Society (Detroit): fund for Indian students 82.35
Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson: Simpson Memorial
Institute Endowment 250,468.97
1925 Anonymous donor: Margaret Lordan (Hospital)
Fund 350.00
Friends: Marion LeRoy Burton Memorial Endow-
ment 68,600.00 38,100.00
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association: Pres-
cott Memorial Scholarship Loan Fund 1,771.69
Madelon S. Stockwell Turner, '72: loan fund 13,427.25
Percy Taylor Cook: fund for scholarships 8,000.00
A. Walter Suiter, '68-69m: fund for medical
scholarship 6,000.00
. 1926 Mrs. S. H. Boal: R. C. Gemmell, '84, Memorial
Scholarship 10,000.00
Thomas M. Spaulding, '02: Stephen Spaulding, '27,
Scholarship 2,820.00
Levi L. Barbour, '63w, '65/: Eliot Street Lease
Fund 50,000.00
Charles G. Coit, '21: Charles W. Coit (Medical)
Loan Fund 772.28
Relations & friends: J. Sidney Kripke Loan Fund 233.17
Michigan Athletic Managers Club: loan fund.... 778.91
Class of 1926: insurance fund 1,000.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1927 Family & Collegiate Sorosis: Collegiate Sorosis
Scholarship Memorial to Maude Merritt Drake,
'93 $ 2,000.00
Homeopathic Hospital Guild: scholarship in Mich-
igan ethnology $ 1,013.61
Arthur Moehlman, '12: Rev. J. H. & Helene Moehl-
man Memorial, Research Fellowship in Education 3,223.80
Mrs. Cecil Chapman Harris: Jonathan Wister
Harris Fund 2,500.00
Friends: Charlotte A. Blagdon Memorial Trust
Fund 621.07
Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Brosseau: Brosseau Foundation 105,677.99
Carrie M. Palmer, '89: Emily M. Palmer Memorial
Fund (R.P. '27, 292-293) 19,562.55
Dwight B. Cheever, '91: Dr. Henry S. Cheever, '63,
Memorial Fund 1,224.11
Walter E. Emery, '07: Delia E. Emery Memorial
Fund 4,211.95
Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard: Henry M. Campbell
Memorial Prize Fund 4,000.00
1928 Class of '27erf: educational memorial research fund 376.04
F. C. Newcombe, '90: fellowship in botany 50,513.14
Mrs. Orlando B. Wheeler: Orlando B. Wheeler, '62,
Fellowship & Publication Fund in Astronomy .. 15,000.00
Charles Arza Denison: Denison Memorial Fund .. 15,000.00
W. H. Kilpatrick: Harold Stuart Kilpatrick, ,23e,
Memorial Fund 11,128.60
1929 Bequest of James Avery Hopwood, '05: Avery
Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prize Fund 321,762.29
Mary S. Mandelle: Simon Mandlebaum Scholarship 60,000.00
Thomas B. Bronson, '81: Bronson-Thomas German
Prize 1,000.00
Carrie J. Frieze: Henry Simmons Frieze Fund 4,000.00
Mildred Sheehan Scholarship in Aeronautics, Memo-
rial to Frank Sheehan, '17-19e 20,000.00
W. W. Cook, '82: Cook Foundation 117,000.00
Alice B. Martin: scholarship for Adelia Cheever
House 9,948.07
1930 University of Michigan Club of New York: Faculty
Salaries Endowment Fund 35,247.50
Ruth Aldrich Blake: John Blake Memorial Scholar-
ship 5,000.00
Chamber Music Society of Ann Arbor: scholarship
fund 1,950.00
Japanese Students Club: loan fund 220.00
Class of *30e: memorial fund 667.85
Members of Alpha Epsilon Phi: loan fund 100.00
Michigan Foresters Association: Filibert Roth Loan
Fund 165.00
Charles Lathrop Pack: George Willis Pack Forestry
Foundation 196,585.32
Lafayette Lyman Barber, '&$d: fund for dental
research 40,000.00
Friends of E. D. Campbell: memorial tablet & fund 390.25
Wm. H. Murphy, '82/: music loan fund 2,432.27
Wm. H. Murphy, '82/: music fund 51,118.06
Max Winkler, Ph.D. '92, bequest: loan fund 5,192.77
Income from loan funds: University General Loan
Fund 10,300.32
Fred M. Taylor: fellowship in economics 769.58
James Baird, '96: loan fund 1,000.80
Detroit Steel Products Co.: fellowships 1,530.00
Willard Pope, '886: Charles Ezra Greene Loan Fund 5,001.06
Anonymous donors: Pro Juventute Fund 500.64
University of Michigan Club of Central Ohio:
George W. Knight Fellowship in American
History 662.50
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1931 Friends of University: special fellowship in English $ 810.00
University of Michigan Club of Niagara Falls:
addition to student loan fund $ 91.47
James Baird, '96: James Baird Exploration Fund 5,000.00
James Baird, '96: Baird Fund 541.67
Jane E. Armstrong: The Misses Armstrong Scholar-
ship for Medical Students 10,000.00
G. Carl Huber & others: Alumnae Council Fellow-
ship Fund 539.00
Trustees of Alumni Fund: University of Michigan
Alumni Fund 5,556.36
University of Michigan Club of Detroit: endowment 1,750.00
Alumni Association: endowment fund 63,965.22
University of Michigan League: endowment and
investment (deposit account) 16,975.40
Detroit Association of University Women: Lucy
Elliott Memorial Fellowship 1,317.61
Charles H. Ditson: Oliver Ditson Endowment 100,000.00
Total $1,388,784.91 $2,378,939.28
PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUNDS FOR LIBRARY
1886 German citizens of Michigan: fund for books in
German literature $ 458.41
1894 Corydon L. Ford, LL.D., '81: fund for purchase
of books 20,000.00
Jean L. Coyl: fund for Col. Coyl collection 10,000.00
1911 Octavia W. Bates, '77, '96/: bequest, General
Library Book Fund $ 30,066.42
Octavia W. Bates, '77, '96J: bequest, Law Library
Fund 14,000.00
1920 Class of 1920: fund for purchase of books on
World War 1,000.00
1924 Silas Wright Dunning, '60: bequest, Library An-
nuitant Fund 222,494.76
Silas Wright Dunning, '60: bequest, Library Fund 83,049.62
1925 Friends of Professor E. D. Campbell: magazine
fund 400.00
1926 Thomas M. Spaulding, '02: Stephen Spaulding
Memorial Fund 1,000.00
Frank A. Manny, '93; A.M., '96: Mary Bloom
Manny Memorial Fund, Michigan League 509.00
1929 Mrs. Floyd R. Mechem: fund for Floyd R. Mechem
Library in Law School 2,500.00
1931 Helen Lovell Million, '87: Harriett Agnes Lovell
Memorial Fund, Michigan League Library .... 2,000.00
University of Michigan Club of Philadelphia: fund
for books in American history 795.17
Total $ 32,958.41 $ 355,314.97
FUNDS FOR CURRENT USE
In general, the funds reported in this list represent various gifts made in
one sum for specific purposes and deposited with the Treasurer prior to their
expenditure by the University for the purpose designated. In some cases these
funds might have been listed among gifts for equipment, but since they were
carried for a time upon the books of the Treasurer, they have been considered
as funds to be expended wholly for the purpose named.
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FUNDS FOR CURRENT USE
GENERAL ALUMNI
1865 Fund from sale of property in Detroit (originally
belonging to University of 1817) $ 22,010.00
1880 Bequest, Mary Porter: land valued at $2,000
(transferred to Women's Gym. Fund)
1889 Association of Western Alumnae: fellowship (P.R.
'88) 350.00
1892 Art Fund: various donors 292.32
1898 Friends of Professor Frieze: memorial $ 1,345.33
1900 Caroline Green Scott: James W. Scott Classical
Fellowship 500.00
1901 Pilgrim Publishing Co.: fellowship 300.00
International Club (Manila): fund for scholarship 5,000.00
1903 R. A. Alger: fund for medals 75.00
1904 Hamilton Carhartt: debating testimonial 150.00
Friend of University: classical fellowship 500.00
1905 Nathan Kaufman: prizes for oratorical contests.. 2,250.00
1906 Alumni Club of Pittsburgh: scholarship 100.00
1907 Peter White: fund for Arboretum 300.00
A. M. Todd: prize fund 500.00
1908 Nelson Field, '90: fund for prize in poetry 100.00
1909 Class of '09: fund for bronze doors, Memorial
Bldg 650.00
M. E. Farr, C. L. Freer, hon. '04: fund for purchase
of antiquities (R.P. '09, 440) 200.00
1910 Oliver Scholarship 100.00
Unknown donor: two fellowships, Biological Station 100.00
1911 Bryant Walker, '76: fund for Museum 100.00
Senior Pharmacy classes: Prescott Memorial 145.00
1912 Frank Hecker: transportation fellowship 500.00
1914 Alumni of University: fund for Tappan Memorial 6,321.30
Wm. G. Mather, classical fellowship 300.00
1915 W. R. Wooden, '79: C. C. Beach Scholarship .... 1,200.00
1916 Classical Club: publication fund 168.00
1918 E. D. Conger: fund for Health Service 100.00
1919 C. T. Johnston, '95e: fund for Camp Davis 200.00
Various donors: French Scholarship Fund 975.00
1920 National Steel Fabric Co.: fellowship 300.00
Student Committees, J. Hop and Sophomore Prom.:
Campus Theater Fund 242.67
Michigan Pulp & Paper Manufacturing Co.: fellow-
ship 110.24
1921 F. K. Stearns, '73-76: catalog of Stearns Collection 1,314.00
Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs: loan fund.. 425.00
1922 Board in Control of Student Publications: fellow-
ships in journalism 1,200.00
George E. Vincent: scholarship fund 250.00
H. B. Earhart Loan Fund 180.00
Friend of the University: fellowship fund 500.00
H. H. Servis, '08/: loan fund for law students 300.00
1923 Bradshaw H. Swales, '96/: fund for table, Research
Station, Canal Zone 300.00
Joseph Parish: Sarah Parish Fellowship 1,000.00
Chicago alumni: contribution to trip of Legislature
to Ann Arbor 2,274.18
A. H. Lloyd: special University fellowship 500.00
Unknown donor: special fund, Graduate School... 750.00
Class of 1923: memorial 2,631.78
Class of 1869: fund for moving class tree 1,051.00
Class of \922ed: fund 125.00
Class of 1923**: fund 150.00
Various donors: fund for expansion of Alumni
Association 7,500.00
1924 American Roentgen-Ray Association: VanZwalu-
wenberg Memorial Fund 3,188.46
1925 William L. Clements, '82/: fund for catalog of
Shelburne Papers 5,000.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1925 Reo Motor Car Co.: fellowship in highway transport $ 300.00
John W. Schnell: scholarship 250.00
H. H. Servis, '08/: addition to scholarship fund.. $ 500.00
1926 Thomas E. H. Black, '11, '14/: fund for testimonial.
$180 a year for five years 900.00
National Slag Association: fellowship in highway
engineering 350.00
Cecil Billington: fund for purchase of western plants 100.00
Mack Trucks, Inc.: fellowship in highway transpor-
tation 300.00
1927 Howard A. Kelly: fund for zoological monograph.. 300.00
American Petroleum Institute: fellowship in chem-
ical engineering 600.00
Mr. & Mrs. James Inglis: scholarship at Oxford.. 2,000.00
1928 Elizabeth Huntington, J. H. Mauck: fund for pur-
chase of Mesopotamian antiquities 350.00
Irwin Cy Huston, rf,00-,02: real estate fellowship 550.00
Anonymous donor: architectural model prize 100.00
Carnegie Corporation: development of fine arts... 100,000.00
Unknown donor: European economic history fellow-
ship 3,000.00
Howard A. Kelly: contribution toward Fink Her-
barium of Lichens 500.00
1929 Michigan Political Sf* * ociation: publication
fund 353.79
A. Ziwet: bequest .... 20,867.16
Class of 1928: contribution to Burton Memorial
Chimes 1,717.54
Bryant Walker, '76: 3cholarship 150.00
Carnegie Corporation: fund for study of alumni
education 2,500.00
1930 St. Andrew's Guild: St. Andrew's Fund 99.50
Detroit Steel Products Co.: Fellowship in Ventila-
tion (Engineering Research) 750.00
Detroit Steel Products Co.: Fellowship in Daylight-
ing (Engineering Research) 780.00
Timken Roller Bearing Co.: fellowship in physics
(Engineering Research) 800.00
1931 Earhart Foundation: scholarship and fellowship
fund in sociology 10,000.00
H. B. Earhart: fund for lectures in business ad-
ministration 150.00
Alumnae Council: fellowship 539.00
Anonymous donors: Pro Juventute Funds 600.00
M. W. Kellogg Co.: fellowship in chemical engi-
neering (Engineering Research) 1,000.00
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works: fellowship 500.00
J. B. Finley: aid fund 1,000.00
James Inglis: fund for students in psychiatry 1,000.00
Michigan Society of the Sons of American Revolu-
tion: fellowship in American history 600.00
Izaac Walton League: fellowships 4,800.00
Total $ 196,756.47 $ 35,674.80
CONTINUING CURRENT FUNDS
Continuing current funds represent gifts similar in object to funds foi
current use, differing only in that they have been continued over a period of
years. In many cases they represent gifts for scholarships and fellowships
which have reached a sometimes surprising total. They are based upon a
careful study of the treasurers' reports since 1890, when gifts of this sort
were first reported separately by the University Treasurer. Totals in all cases
represent the sum of the annual gifts as reported by the Treasurer, except
— 43 —
in one or two cases,
where special reports
particularly the Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series,
have been utilized.
CONTINUING CURRENT FUNDS
NAME OP DONOR
PURPOSE
YEARS
GENERAL
ALUMNI
Acme White Lead and
Fellowship
1912-25
$ 8,580.00
Color Works ($4,000,
Eng. Research)
Alumni Club of
Scholarship
1921-22
$ 750.00
Milwaukee
American Assn. on
Professorship
1916-18
900.00
Inter. Conciliation
American Gas Assn.
Fellowship in metal-
lurgy (Engineering
Research)
1929-31
3,550.00
American Institute of
Scholarship
1911-14
220.00
Architecture
American Red Cross
Scholarship
1921-22
900.00
(Detroit)
Ann Arbor Branch of
Fellowship
1906-19
964.33
Collegiate Alumnae
Anonymous donor
President's
Emergency fund
1922-23
635.00
Anonymous donor
Prize for advertising
competition
1914-17
1,850.00
Anonymous donor
University High
School Scholarship
1930-31
800.00
Association of
Fellowship (Engi-
1927-30
9,920.76
Natural Gasoline
neering Research)
Manufacturers
Baker & Co., Nelson
Fellowship
1901-03
1,500.00
Billington, Cecil &
University Her-
1927-28
225.00
100.00
Kauffmann, C.H.,
barium fund
Ph.D., '07
Board in Control of
Building fund &
1916-31
78,316.19
Student Publications
investment fund
Boyer, Joseph
Classical fellowship
1924-25
5,250.00
Boyer, Joseph
Transportation
fellowship
1912-13
2,500.00
Buhl, Theodore D.
Classical fellowship
1902-31
21,300.00
Burton Memorial
Chimes
1926-31
6,069.95
Chimes fund
Butzel, Henry/91/92 J
Fellowship in applied
sociology
1923-25
1,500.00
Buys, John
Real estate fellow-
ship
1928-30
1,500.00
Carnegie Corporation
Fellowship in library
science
1930-31
4,200.00
Chapin, Roy D.,
Fellowships in
1924-29
1,000.00
'99-'01 (hon. '22)
highway transport
Chapin, Roy D.
Fellowships in high-
1917-29
4,500.10
'99-'01 (hon. '22)
way engineering &
transportation
Class of 1926
Insurance fund
1927-28
1,190.58
Classical Club
Latin plays fund
1916-23
769.01
Colonial Dames
Elizabeth A. Rath-
bone Scholarship
1905-06
300.00
Couzens, James
Debating prize
1924-28
1,500.00
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NAME OF DONOR
PURPOSE
YEARS
GENERAL
ALUMNI
Detroit Steel Cast-
ings Co.
Detroit Real Estate
Fellowship
1916-17
$ 605.00
Board
Fellowships
1928-31
3,080.00
Detroit Copper and
Fellowship
1917-18
1,200.00
Brass Rolling Mills
Detroit Edison Co.
Fellowship
1916-18
2,000.00
Detroit Edison Co.
Fellowship in metal-
lurgy (Eng. Research)
1921-28
10,146.41
Detroit Edison Co.
Fellowship in high-
way engineering
1917-31
4,950.76
Detroit Edison Co.
Fellowship in person-
nel administration
(Eng. Research)
1928-31
3,000.00
DuPont de Nemours
Fellowship
1919-31
9,000.00
Co.
Earhart, H. B.
Foundation for
1930-31
12,012.09
Hospital School
Eckel, J. N.
Fund for Homeo-
pathic Museum
1883-87
200.00
Eisenstaedt, Solomon,
Architecture
1930-31
$ 200.00
71e, hon. '13
prize fund
Faculty-Alumni Law
Scholarship
1927-31
1,950.00
Ferry, D. M.
Fellowship
1899-1908
4,800.00
Ferry, D. M.
Debate prizes
1899-1900
300.00
Ford, Eleanor Clay
Debating prize
1924-28
450.00
Galens
Hospital Workshop
1928-31
3,493.44
Gray, John S.
Debating prize
1925-29
2,000.00
Gray, Paul, '90
Debating prize
1924-28
1,050.00
Griggs, Maitland F.
Scholarship
1922-24
2,000.00
Guggenheim Founda-
Chair of aeronautics
1927-29
50,000.00
Harris, Wm. P., Jr.
Fund for Museum
1927-31
2,829.78
Jones, Mrs. Elisha
Classical fellowship
1888-98
5,000.00
Kahn, Albert
Scholarships in
architecture
1911-14
220.00
King's Daughters
Funds for Hospital
1923-31
18,438.16
Kiwanis Club
Underprivileged
children
1925-31
9,497.27
Knutson, George H.,
Minnie Hubbard
1927-28
1,500.00
'08e & Smith, Frank
Smith Revolving
Hubbard, '93, '95/
Fund
Lamont, Robert P.,'91
Refractor fund
1908-13
13,954.09
Lamont, Robert P.,'91
Fund for visiting
astronomer
1916-17
1,600.00
Lloyds Register of
Scholarship
1923-30
9,000.00
Shipping
Manufacturing
Fellowship
1924-31
12,025.71
Methods Committee
Michigan Crippled
Hospital fund
1928-30
1,413.18
Children's Society
Michigan Gas Assn.
Fellowship
1901-31
23,610.00
Michigan High
Fund for prizes
1918-31
4,819.05
School Debating
League
Michigan Pulp &
Fellowship
1916-18
1,800.00
Paper Mfg. Co.
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NAME OF DONOR
PURPOSE
YEARS
GENERAL
ALUMNI
Michigan Real
Estate Assn.
Fellowship
1928-30
$ 1,250.00
Michigan Trust Co.
Scholarship prize
1928-29
1,000.00
Morris,Mrs.George S.
Fellowship in
philosophy
1906-15
3,325.00
National Aniline &
Chemical Company
Fellowship
1919-25
6,750.00
Newberry, Helen H.,
Classical fellowship
1905-09
1,400.00
New York Alumnae
Eliza Mosher Schol-
arship fund
1916-22
$ 594.00
Osborn, Chase S.,
hon. '11, &
Rackham, H. H.
Fellowship in
Creative Arts
1921-26
20,000.00
Parke, Davis & Go.
Fellowship
1896-1931
8,050.00
Pendleton, Mrs. E. W.
Classical fellowship
1924-29
11,520.00
Pendleton, Mrs. E. W,
Thomas Berry
Fellowship
1928-29
1,500.00
Philadelphia Alumni
Club
Scholarship
1915-16
100.00
Polish Welfare
Council
Professorship in
Polish Language and
Literature
1927-31
14,430.40
Presbyterian Church
Scholarship
1916-19
350.00
Presser, Theodore
Musical scholarship
1921-31
2,650.00
Ric Wil Co.
Heat transmission
fellowship
1920-21
900.00
Rosenwald, Julius
Menorah Prizes
1914-22
750.00
Saginaw Valley
Alumnae Association
Scholarship fund
1905-19
400.00
Schmidt, Carl
Fellowship (tanning)
1912-14
2,000.00
Simpson, Mrs.
Thomas H.
Contributions to
Simpson Institute
1928-31
5,266.71
Smith, Hinchman &
Grylls
Architectural
scholarship
1911-16,
595.00
1925
Stearns,Frederick,Co.
Pharmacy fellowship
1896-1919
11,815.18
Stearns, Frederick,
'73-'76
Fellowship in
music
1903-05
1,140.00
Strong, Henry
Educational
scholarships
1913-31
15,275.00
Swenson Evaporator
Co.
Fellowship
1923-29
2,600.00
United Fuel & Supply
Co.
Fellowship in high-
way transport
1925-26
600.00
Union Trust Co.
Scholarship prize
(Eng. Research)
1927-30
6,000.00
Upjohn, Wm. E., '75m
Fellowship in
pharmacy
1915,
1928-31
4,250.00
Upjohn, Wm. E., '75m
Fellowship in
pharmacology
1929-30
2,075.00
U.S. Pharmacopoeia
Fellowship
1929-30
1,040.74
U.S. Radiator Co.
Fellowship
1917-22
1,500.00
U.S. Rubber Planta-
tions Co.
Fellowship
1918-23
6,720.00
Various donors
American Academy
in Rome Fund
1894-1922
3,111.00
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NAME OF DONOR
PURPOSE
YEARS
GENERAL
ALUMNI
Various donors
Funds for American
School at Athens for
Classical Studies
(P.R. '83, 387;
Rept. of M. L.
D'Ooge, R.P. '03,
290)
1893-1903
$ 1,680.00
$ 2,500.00
Various donors:
Historical Series
1912-31
539.45
450.00
Michigan Studies
(Wm. L. Clements,
$450; R.P,'12,334)
Various donors:
Michigan Studies,
1911-21
1,256.76
900.00
D. M. Ferry, Jr. &
Latin and Greek
others, $900 (R.P.
'12, 334)
Various donors
Michigan Studies,
Humanistic Series
1904-31
53,172.92
7,805.51
Various donors
Fund for American
School for Classical
Studies at Athens
(T.R.)
1912-19
1,255.15
Various donors:
Graduate assistant-
1929-31
1,020.00
Cecil Billington &
ship in Herbarium
others
Various donors,
Special Latin Fund,
1900-13
969.56
200.00
1899 (F. H. Walker,
1899
'73, $200)
White, Peter
Classical fellowship
1906-09
1,200.00
White, Peter
Fellowships in
American history
1899-1907
4,000.00
White, Peter
Special fellowship
1908-09
600.00
Total
$435,526.04
$159,917.20
CURRENT FUNDS FOR RESEARCH
In considering funds given to the University for specific purposes, it has
seemed wise to make a general division between those designated for general
purposes and those designated as research funds. While it is difficult in some
cases to draw an exact line, care has been taken to ascertain the exact pur-
pose for which the money was given. Dean G. Carl Huber of the Graduate
School has been consulted as to the funds which might properly come under
this classification.
CURRENT FUNDS FOR RESEARCH
1899 U.S. Committee on Pharmacopoeia: fund for research $ 815.00
1900 U.S. Committee on Pharmacopoeia: fund for research 833.33
1904 Bryant Walker, '76, Peter White, hon. '00, & N. M.
Kaufman, '17/: expedition to Porcupine Mountains
of Isle Royale 150.00 $ 100.00
1905 Bryant Walker, '76 & Peter White, hon. '00: expedition
to Porcupine Mountains of Isle Royale 300.00 200.00
1907 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Iowa 400.00
1909 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to St. Joseph County,
Michigan 50.00
1910 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Mexico 300.00
W. B. Mershon: expedition to Charity Islands, Saginaw
Bay 200.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1911 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Texas and New
Mexico $ 250.00
1912 Bryant Walker, '76, W. W. Newcomb, '00w: expedi-
tion to Nevada 450.00
George Shiras, 3d: expedition to Whitefish Point,
Chippewa County, Michigan $ 300.00
1913 George Shiras, 3d: expedition to Whitefish Point,
Chippewa County, Michigan 200.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Colombia 1,000.00
1914 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to British Guinea 1,000.00
W. W. Newcomb, '00w: expedition to Davis Mountains,
Texas 150.00
Wm. E. Upjohn, '7Sm: research fellowship 1,000.00
1915 Ella I. Ford: research in pathology 1,000.00
Unknown donor: fund for elucidation of Caesar's Gallic
War 100.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Manistique County,
Michigan 534.00
1916 Alex Dow, hon. '11: fellowship in highway engineeering 750.00
Bryant Walker, '76, W. W. Newcomb, '00m: expedition
to Davis Mountains, Texas 1,100.00
George Shiras, 3d: expedition to Alger County, Michigan 250.00
Bradshaw H. Swales, '96/: expedition to North Carolina 170.00
1917 J. H. & E. B. Williamson, & Bryant Walker, '76:
expedition to Colombia 1,000.00 300.00
Bryant Walker, '76, George Shiras: expedition to
Berrien County, Michigan 250.00 300.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Hillsdale, Branch,
& Alcona counties, Michigan 400.00
1918 Otto Kirchner: fellowship in Government research 1,800.00
1919 U.S. Social Hygiene Board: research fund 6,000.00
Mary Beach Longyear: biblical research fund 10,000.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Olympic Mountains,
Washington 650.00
1920 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Colombia 1,000.00
Michigan Geological & Biological Survey Fund for
Field Work 2,200.00
Howard A. Kelly: fund for study of fungi 300.00
J. H. & E. B. Williamson, W. H. Ditzler, & Bryant
Walker, '76: expedition to Venezuela 2,500.00 900.00
H. A. Kelly & Cecil Billington: expedition to Wyoming 550.00
1921 Chase S. Osborn, hon. '11: geological expedition 5,000.00
J. H. & E. B. Williamson: expedition to Florida 350.00
J. H. & E. B. Williamson, & John Strohm: expedition
to the Upper Amazon 2,500.00
1922 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to California & Wash-
ington 450.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Curacao 900.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Tennessee 250.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Michigan locations 100.00
1923 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Panama 1,200.00
J. H. & E. B. Williamson: expedition to Mexico (ex-
penses of representative) 750.00
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research: insulin re-
search 10,000.00
Educational Research Council: study by Professor S.
A. Courtis 5,000.00
1924 E. M. Ledyard, '11-12: expedition to Utah 500.00
Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to Colom-
bia & Utah 400.00
Various Detroit donors: fund for investigation of metal
cutting (See Mfg. Methods Com. in Current Funds)
(Engineering Research) 19,500.00
R. P. Lamont, *91e: experiments on helicopter 500.06
Detroit Foundrymen's Association: research (Engineer-
ing Research) 650.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1924 National Research Council: research by Professor
Yoakum $ 5,400.00
Royal Baking Powder Co.: research fund 1,000.00
1925 Various donors: fund for Balloon Astronomical Expe-
dition 4,000.00
Various donors: fund for research in iron (Engineering
Research) 10,000.00
Timken Roller Bearing Co.: research in physics 7,000.00
Timken Roller Bearing Co.: research in noise reducing
(Engineering Research) 6,000.00
Kelvinator Corporation: refrigeration units research
fund (Engineering Research) 6,000.00
William J. Fargo: expedition to Florida 250.00
Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to Colo-
rado and New Mexico 350.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Kentucky $ 350.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Colorado 250.00
1926 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Pacific Coast 600.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Mexico 850.00
Wm. G. Fargo: expedition to Ontario 150.00
Wm. G. Fargo: expedition to Panama 350.00
Howard A. Marsh: Bright's disease research fund 500.00
Horace Rackham: fund for purchase of manuscripts
(Near East Research) 10,000.00
Archaeological Institute of America: fund for North
Africa research 1,550.00
Wm. H. Murphy, '82/: research fellowship in archae-
ology 1,000.00
1927 Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Kentucky, Indiana,
& Illinois 350.00
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: research fund in child
health 1,000.00
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: survey of Newton,
Massachusetts, Schools 1,500.00
City of Bloemfontain: contribution to expense of ex-
pedition 6,000.00
Henry G. Stevens & Paul Block: ethnological survey of
Michigan Indians 600.00
William G. Fargo: expedition to Florida 250.00
Bryant Walker, '76, & Wm. P. Harris, Jr.: expedition
to New Mexico 200.00 200.00
Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to New
Mexico 350.00
1928 William G. Fargo: expedition to Chisos Mountains,
Texas 750.00
Anonymous donor: prize for research in physics 100.00
G. D. Searle & Co.: bismuth research 500.00
Fellowship Corporation of Battle Creek: metabolism
research 3,000.00
Frederick F. Blicke, '16: American Pharmaceutical
Association research award 200.00
Wm. P. Harris, Jr.: fund for field work on mammals 300.00
Wm. Northrup: special research 900.00
Children's Health Essentials Research 1,000.00
1929 Quaker Oats Co.: research project 2,700.00
Alexander W. Blain: fund for Indian studies 125.00
American Medical Association: fund for research, Dr.
Gesell 250.00
General Education Board: fund for Advanced Human-
istics & Dictionary of Early Modern English 250,000.00
National Research Council: study of deer mice 350.00
Wm. P. Harris, Jr.: expedition to Utah 150.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Georgia, Florida,
and Cuba 450.00
1930 Fred Ingram, Jr.: research, pharmaceutical chemistry.. 150.00
Michigan Department of Conservation: research fund 16,000.00
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GENERAL ALUMNI
1930 Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to Arizona
and Mexico $ 300.00
Wm. P. Harris, Jr.: expedition to Arizona and Mexico 150.00
Bryant Walker, '76: expedition to Java and Japan $ 1,200.00
National Research Council: expedition to Brazil 1,000.00
Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to Yucatan 250.00
Indiana Department of Conservation: expedition in
Indiana 400.00
National Research Council: expedition to San Carlos
Mountains, Mexico 2,810.88
Parke, Davis & Co.: research assistantship 1,500.00
U. S. Government: meteorological fund 524.00
Carnegie Institution: fund for Greenland Expedition.. 5,000.00
H. B. Earhart: fund for Palestine Research 5,000.00
General Education Board: research in child education 95,000.00
Chemical Foundation: research fellowship in colloid
chemistry 3,000.00
National Research Council: expedition to Brazil (Prof.
James) 1,000.00
Fred Ingram, Jr.: research in pharmaceutical chemistry 150.00
Knapp Optical Co.: research fund in optics and physi-
ology 300.00
Michigan Department of Conservation: research fund.. 16,000.00
1931 National Research Council: investigation 350.00
American Council of Learned Societies: fund for Middle
English Dictionary (R.P. '31, 558) 11,000.00
Monsanto Chemical Works: research fellowship 800.00
General Education Board: elementary education schol-
arship 13,220.75
Wm. P. Harris, Jr.: expedition to San Carlos Moun-
tains, Mexico 300.00
Carnegie Institute at Washington: expedition to Guate-
mala 2,000.00
E. B. Williamson: expedition to Ozark Mountains 300.00
Total $567,728.96 $24,604.00
CONTINUING RESEARCH FUNDS
The differentiation between current funds and continuing funds applies
also to research funds. It should be observed that certain funds in this
section are still continuing; in those cases only the amount received up to
June 30, 1931, is included.
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CONTINUING RESEARCH FUNDS
NAME OF DONOR
FUND
YEARS
GENERAL
ALUMNI
American Medical
Research on
1926-30 $ 6,197.33
Association
tapeworm
American Petroleum
Research project No.
1927-29
5,750.00
Institute
27 (Eng. Research)
American Pharma-
Research award
1928-30
400.00
ceutical Association
Bureau of Business
Fund
1927-31
446.04
Research
Carnegie Institute
Fund for Research
Professorship in
Rome
1927-31
13,200.00
Ciba Company, The
Research in
pharmacology
1930-31
2,000.00
Children's Fund of
Dental research
1930-31
38,500.00
Michigan
Children's Fund of
Marquette clinic
5,000.00
Michigan
Committee on Re-
Research fund
1929-31
5,091.69
search in Syphilis
Commonwealth Fund
Research by Dr. S.
A. Courtis
1923-26
16,623.44
Commonwealth Fund
Research on tubercu-
losis by Dr. Kahn
1929-31
9,061.40
Cook, W.W.,'80,'82/
Contributions to Law
Review Fund
1925-31
$ 13,801.50
Cook, W. W., '80, '82J
Contributions to W.
W. Cook Foundation
1929-31
15,005.84
Detroit Edison Co.
Research on single
phase motors (En-
gineering Research)
1923
2,271.66
Digestive Ferments
Research in media
1929-31
4,623.60
Co.
Fellowship Corpora-
Nutrition research
1929-31
21,654.90
tion of Battle Creek
fund
Fellowship Corpora-
Bran research
1928-29
1,662.10
tion of Battle Creek
General Education
Fund for Advanced
1930-31
60,000.00
Board
Humanistics
General Education
Early Modern
1930-31
40,373.00
Board
English Dictionary
Various donors
Greenland Expedi-
tion Fund
1926-30
34,900.11
24,500.00
Lamont, Robert P.,
Salary Fund, South
1927-31
38,170.00
'91e
African Expedition
Lamont, Robert P.,
Research in engi-
1924-27
2,107.42
'91e
neering mechanics
Lamont, Robert P.,
Expense for
1925-30
13,858.50
'91e
expedition
League of Nations
Syphilis research
1929-30
11,058.37
Mack, Mark H.
Fund for research,
Dr. Newburgh
1926-28
3,000.00
++\\ \
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NAME OF DONOR
FUND
YEARS
GENERAL ALUMNI
Michigan State
Research fund
1921-31
$ 18,668.00
Dental Society
Michigan State
Research
1928-31
400.00
Pharmaceutical
Association
National Academy
Engineering research
1921-22
500.00
of Sciences
fund
National Research
Fellowship, infra-red
1928-29
3,600.00
Council
research
National Research
Drug addiction
1930-31
10,388.00
Council
research
National Research
Fund for study of
1930-31
700.00
Council
mammals
National Tubercu-
Fellowship in
1928-31
4,625.00
losis Association
social research
Newburgh, Harry, &
Bright's disease
1924-26
2,500.00
Freiburg, H. A.
research
Pack, Charles La-
Forestry Foundation
1930-31
12,016.57
throp
Parke, Davis & Co.
Research funds in
medicinal prepara-
tions
1927-30
9,119.60
Parke, Davis & Co.
Ventriculin fund
1930-31
10,311.97
Pease Laboratories—
Fund for research in
1924-25
1,500.00
Warthin & Weller
aluminum (Warthin)
Plotz, Ella Sachs,
Fund for study of
192S-26
8,145.4"
Foundation
nephritis (Psycho-
logical Research)
Rackham, Horace
Anthropological
research fund
(Philippines)
1923-29
33,688.50
Shiras, George
Funds for Museum
1912-13
300.00
Sporting Arms & Am-
Research
1930-31
5,350.00
munition Mfg. Inst.
Stearns,FrederiJck,Co.
Medicinal plant
investigation
1919-20
1,250.00
Stearns,Fredierick,Co\
Research
1928-31
1,500.00
Timken Roller Bear-
Fund for retrospec-
1929-31
7,443.62
ing Co.
tive clinical investi-
gation
Toledo and Cleve-
Funds for Mesopo-
1928-31
42,500.00
land museums
tamian Expedition
U.S. Government
Ordnance research
(Eng. Research)
1921-24
7,865.75
U.S. Government
Research Fund (Eng.
Research)
1922-23
3,034.34
Unknown donor
Cancer Research
Institute
1927-30
86,844.41
Various donors
Humanistic Research
Fund
1920-31
28,535.00 $ 26,864.03
Various donors
Funds for research
in Near East
1924-31
391,650.00 6,150.00
Walker, Bryant, '76
Marine Biological
Laboratory Fund
1900-27
1,575.00
Total
. $975,824.89 $140,457.29
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CURRENT FUNDS FOR LIBRARY
GENERAL ALUMNI
1872 Class of '72: memorial fund for Library (P.R.'72) $ 1,100.00
1885 Recent graduate: fund for books 500.00
1888 E. C. Hegeler: fund for purchase of books $ 275.00
1894 Christian.H. Buhl Library Fund (Law Library) 10,000.00
1897 James McMillan: purchase of books 100.00
1898 James McMillan: fund for books 150.00
Dexter M. Ferry: fund for Matthew Arnold Collection 100.00
1900 Dexter M. Ferry: contribution to fund for early Christian
literature 240.00
1903 W. C. McMillan: additions to Shakespeare Library 100.00
1903-06 James McMillan: Shakespeare Library Fund 400.00
1904 W. C. McMillan: fund for Shakespeare Library 100.00
1906-17 Mrs. George S. Morris: philosophical library 1,152.20
1906-24 Department of English: Ben Greet Book Fund 5,690.10
1908 Peter White: fund for Medical Library 1,000.00
1908-09 Henry C. Adams: book fund 1,850.00
1912-15 Charles B. Warren, '91: fund for purchase of diplo-
matic documents 300.00
1915 Borussen Gesellschaft: library fund 50.00
Sir Douglas Mawson: fund for Geological Library 145.49
1922-26 Jacob Steketee, '95/, & Mrs. Henry Hulst: fund for
Dutch literature and history 1,686.35
1923 Frank B. Williams: fund for books on city planning .. 500.00
1924 University Musical Society: library fund 626.11
Thomas M. Spalding, '02: fund for purchase of books.. 420.00
1925 Luman W. Goodenough, '96, '98/: fund for library 500.00
Anonymous donor: fund for library 500.00
W. L. Clements, '82: fund for Clements Library 5,000.00
1925-29 Various donors: funds for Transportation Library.
Donors:
John S. Worley $1,091.25
Henry S. Riggs & Worley 980.00
Hudson Motor Car Co 4,000.00
Reo Motor Car Co 3,000.00
Ford Motor Co 4,000.00
Motor Wheel Corp 500.00
General Motors Corp 1,000.00
Detroit Edison Co 2,500.00
Dodge Brothers 500.00
17,571.25
1926 La Sociedad Hispana Library Fund 100.00
W. P. Lombard: fund for books in physiology 500.00
Joseph F. Sabin: fund for purchase of manuscripts 500.00
1927 Wm. L. Clements, '82: library aid fund 416.70
1927-28 Floyd R. Mechem: book and binding fund (Law
Library) 600.00
1927-30 Walter F. Haass, '04/: Ernest W. Haass Library
Fund 4,700.00
1928 Charles Arza Denison: fund for purchase of books.... 10,000.00
W. W. Newcombe, '97-'00w: fund for works on Lepi-
doptera 1,000.00
William Wade Hinshaw: Mozart book fund 500.00
1929 W. P. Lombard: fund for physiological journals 1,300.00
1929-31 Carnegie Corporation: fund for Dental Library dem-
onstration 18,824.10
1930 Polonia Literary Circle: trust fund (R. P. May 9, 1930) 840.43
1931 English Department Dramatic fund: Engineering Li-
brary book fund 284.70
Total $73,499.38 $16,123.05