Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — $2,600,000 to Aid Science. [ARTICLE]
$2,600,000 to Aid Science.
Supplementing his previous gifts of $1,200,000 to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by another donation of $2,600,000, John D. Rockefeller Insures the permanency and efficient equipment of tbe Institution. The entire endowment will provide a yearly income of something over SIOO,OOO. In notifying the directors of dlls last gift Mr. Rockefeller express* ed hit gratification with the results accomplished by the Institute since its open* lng in 1901. He told the officials that they were at liberty to use the Income in any manner they eaw fit to promote the work and offered no suggestion as to how it might best be employed.
