MR ROCKEFELLER'S GIFTS

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 477, 14 July 1914, Page 7

MR ROCKEFELLER'S GIFTS

■ ♦ ■ TOTAL OF £36,150,000. Mr John D. Rockefeller, according to an announcement made to-day (says the New York correspondent of the * Daily Telegraph ' on April 1), has given £200,000 to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, to be added to the £1,800,000 with which the oil king has already endowed that institute. The latest gift will be used to organise and 'conduct a department for the study of animal diseases. This last benefaction of Mr Rockefeller increases the estimated total of liia gifts to science and education to about £36,150,000. Hitherto the Rockefeller Institute has confined it 3 investigations to studies of the fundamental problems of biological science, and to the field 1 of human diseases. In providing for the study of animal diseases, Mr Rockefeller believes that the human raci may incidentally be much benefited, because animal . and human diseases are closely related. From the economic standpoint Mr Rockefeller's gift will go far, it is believed, to minimise the great animal loss to Mm country entailed' by animal disease. Such losses, it is pointed out, discourage enterprise m animal husbandry, and consequently the cost of living is increased. One of the chief duties of the new department will be to investigate and endeavor to control epidemics amongst animals. Last year, it is estimated, an epidemic of hog cholera killoi £12,000,000 worth of swine m the NorthWest alone. The new department marks the first step by the Rockefeller Institute towards an important development of its scope.