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Black and white photograph of a hand-lettered statement from the MIT Women's Association, expressing their bereavement after Richard C. Maclaurin's death. The text of the statement reads,

"We the officers and members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's Association are profoundly grateful for the Divine Dispensation which enabled Dr. Maclaurin to carry his work so far in the comparatively short term of ten years...

As he believed in the adequate education of women for advanced scientific and professional work, our peculiar loss is very great... This is a small part of the greater loss to the Institute and to the Nation. As a wise and just adviser, an interested friend we shall miss him always...

We offer to his family, to the members of the Corporation, and to our fellow alumni our deepest sympathy in this grievous bereavement...

Susan Shins[?], Honorary President

Mrs. Charles Winthrop Sawyer, President

Hattie L. Gates, Recording Secretary"