Sheldon memorial foundation

The Sheldon Memorial Committee, organized some months ago under the chairmanship of T. Commerford Martin, to receive subscriptions toward a foundation in honor of the late Dr. Samuel Sheldon, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, has turned over to the treasurer of the Polytechnic Institute the sum of $15,018, the amount so far paid in by more than 1000 subscribers. There are still a few unpaid subscriptions and it is hoped that enough further pledges will be secured to raise the fund to at least $20,000. Although the sum raised is hardly sufficient to really endow a laboratory, the Corporation of the Polytechnic Institute has ordered that the Electrical Measurements Laboratory be known hereafter as the Samuel Sheldon Memorial Laboratory of Electrical Measurements, and its members have collected among themselves an additional $1000 for immediate improvements and the installation of a memorial tablet. In this manner, the entire fund raised by the committee will be invested in the form of a trust and the income used perpetually for the maintenance of the laboratory, which will thereby become one of the best laboratories of electrical measurements in the country.