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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES HELP SCIENCE. The millionaires of America (says “Engineering”) have in many instances given"princely donations to scientific institutions. Mr. Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institute of Washington with an endowment of £2,000,000, to which lie added later £2,400,000. This institution has eleven large* departments of research, besides many minor ones. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller provided £40,000 a year for the institute which bear,i his name -and u devoted to medical research. By 1907 the endowments reached a total' cif £700,000 for land and buildings and equipment, and a fund of £2.100.000 for maintenance. In addition, £200,000 has been given for a department, of animal pathology, and £ I GO. COO for a pension fund, besides other sums.