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Excerpt from Carnegie Institution of Washington: Year Book No. 37; July 1, 1937-June 30, 1938; With Administrative Reports Through December 9, 1938 Sec. 5. That the said corporation may take and hold any additional donations, grants, devises, or bequests which may be made in further sup port oi the purposes of the said corporation, and may include in the ex penses thereof the personal expenses which the trustees may incur in attending meetings or otherwise in carrying out the business of the trust, but the services of the trustees as such shall be gratuitous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.