[42] ANNUAL REPORT Special Funds The principal of the Special Funds of The New-York Historical Society now totals $1,047,581.89, the income of which is not applied to general expenses, but used only for certain purposes according to the express wish or provisions of the various donors, and may be briefly enumerated as follows: PRINCIPAL Abbott-Lenox Fund—1948,1949,1950, and 1955, from the sales of the Society's Egyptian collections assembled principally by Dr. Henry Abbott, and of the James Lenox Assyrian bas-reliefs and Carthaginian stele, to. be used for the purchase of accessions $ 110,000.00 George Abeel Fund—1922, for the care of Abeel family portraits 500.00 Beekman Relics Fund—1911, gift of Gerard Beekman for the care of the Beekman relics 1,000.00 Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Fund—1950, bequest—articles to be exhibited by the Society at least once in each successive five years—funds unrestricted 15,000.00 Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Memorial Fund—1961, bequest of Rey Hutchings Belknap for the care of the Belknap collection and the acquisition and addition to said collection of portraits of members of families already represented therein. The said collection to be exhibited as a whole to the public at least once in every two years .* 20,000.00 Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund—1967, for the upkeep of heirlooms given to the Society by the settlor during her lifetime . . 5»000-00 Edward C. Delafield Fund—1954, gift in 1945 with accruals, to be used for publishing or adding to the Society's Livingston and Delafield manuscripts, or for such other purposes as the Board of Trustees may deem appropriate 10,000.00 John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund—1858, consisting of 1,000 shares of which 850 have been sold, realizing $27,700, and increased by bequest in 1908 by $23,750, to defray, as far as possible, the expense of publishing the Collections of the Society 51,450.00 Asher B. Durand MemorO&Fund—1936, bequest of Nora Durand Woodman, for the care of the Society's Durand paintings . . . 5>000,00 Louis Durr Gallery Fund—1882, for the purchase of pictures and the care of the Durr Gallery collection 8,000.00 Charles S. Fairchild Fund—1928, gift of his wife, for the care of relics and portraits donated by her 1,000.00 Foster-Jarvis Fund—1950, from the sale of the Society's Pre- Columbian and Plains Indians collections, for the purchase of accessions 24,117.23