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able on the death of her daughters, the fund from the sale of her real estate, valued at $142,000.

Devlin, Mrs. Sarah Ferris, Boston, Mass., bequests to the Catholic University in Washington, D. C., $50,000; and to 4 Catholic charities in Boston, each $5,000.

Dodge, William Earl, New York, gifts to Columbia University, Earl Hall, for a students' building, cost $125,000; and New York Chamber of Commerce, a marble statue of John Jay, cost about $12,000.

Dougherty, Andrew, New York, bequest to the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., for general expenses, $5,000.

Dugan, Francis, New York, bequest to the Church of St. John the Evangelist, $7,000; the Church of St. Paul the Apostle for charities, $2,000; and to the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, $1,000.

Duke, James B., New York city, gift to Trinity College, Durham, N. C., a new library building, $10,000 for the purchase of books, and funds for the establishment of chairs in German, Romance Languages, Political Economy, and Applied Mathematics.

Duke, William W., New York city, gift to Trinity College, Durham, N. C., a dormitory.

Dun, Robert Graham, New York, bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25 paintings, 8 of which are valued at $126,000.

Eager, Almeron, Evansville, Wis., bequest to the town for a library, $10,000.

Eaker, Mrs. Mary B., Dayton, Ohio, bequest to Young Men's Christian Association of that city, for a new building, her homestead, worth $100,000. The association becomes a residuary legatee; total bequest, $150,000.

Edgecombe, Sarah, Bath, Me., bequests to Bates College, $20,000; Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, $10,000; Bangor Theological School, Good-Will Farm for Boys at Fairfield, Me., Maine Central Hospital, and Woman's Christian Association at Lewiston, each $5,000; city of Bath for fuel for the poor, $500; and to Tuskegee Institute, the residue of the estate.

Edwards, Jacob, Boston, Mass., gift for library building, with site, at Southbridge, Mass., $50,000.

Elkins, William L., Philadelphia, gift for a home for orphan daughters of Masons, ground and fund for buildings, total value, $1,000,000.

Fairbanks, Jacob H., Fitchburg, Mass., bequests to Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., a legacy estimated at $200,000 to $400,000; and the town of Ashburnham for a town hall, $40,000. Farnsworth, George, Chicago, gift to the city of Oconto, Wis., for a library, $15,000.

Farr, George W., Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to the Ministerial Relief Association of the Presbyterian Church, $10,000; Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, each $5,000; French Benevolent Society, $1,000; and Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the residue of the estate. Flannagan, Patrick, Perth Amboy, N. J., bequest to St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, N. J., $7,000.

Florence Crittenton Mission, New York city, gift from a friend for the establishing of a similar home in a western city, $15,000.

Floyd-Jones, DeLancey, Massapequa, L. I., bequests to Grace Church, Oyster Bay, L. I., $2,000; Massapequa, for a school library, $1,500; St. Mary's School, Garden City, for a botany prize, $1,000; and the Association of Graduates of West Point and the Aztec Club, each $500.

Ford, Paul Leicester, New York, bequest to the New York Public Library, on the death of his brother, Worthington C. Ford, his entire library. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN.

Frick, Henry C., Pittsburg, gift to Wooster (Ohio) University for new building fund, $35,000. Friendly Aid Settlement House, New York city, gifts from friends to pay debt, $47,000; name changed to Warren Goddard House.

Frisbie, Louise, New York, bequest to Vassar College, $12,000.

Fuller-Gould Syndicate, Baltimore, Md., gift to Johns Hopkins University, toward endowment fund, $15,000.

Gates, John W., Chicago, Ill., gift to Rural Home and School for Boys, for a site for the school, $10,000.

Gayley, James, first vice-president, United States Steel Corporation, gift to Lafayette College, a laboratory for chemistry and metallurgy.

George Junior Republic, New York, gift from a woman in Georgia, name withheld, for the Freeville Settlement, $18,000.

Gladding, Thomas S., New York, gift to the Army Department of the Young Men's Christian Association at Fort Hancock, N. J., for a new building, $15,000.

Glover, Joseph B., Boston, Mass., bequests to 50 charitable organizations or institutions, all local except Hampton Normal and Agricultural School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, $237,000; and for benevolent purposes, the reversion of $100,000 more.

Good-Will Farm School, Fairfield, Mass., gift from a New York friend toward a fund for a manual training-school, $15,000.

Gould, Helen Miller, New York, gifts to Mount Holyoke College for a chair of Biblical Literature, $40,000; the War Department Young Men's Christian Association, for a building for soldiers at Fort Monroe, $15,000; Irvington (N. Y.) Public Library, for furnishings, $10,000; Mount Holyoke College for Northfield Girls, two scholarships; and Irvington and Tarrytown (N.Y.), a club house for the benefit of the poor, $9,500.

Grace Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N. J., joint gift from a New York woman and her 2 sons, a club house, cost from $50,000 to $60,000.

Grant, Julia Dent, Washington, D. C., bequest, in unsigned codicil, which her executors promised to carry out, to the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “the ancient gold lacquered cabinet presented to me by the Empress of Japan and said to be over one thousand years old; also the bronze and gold vases presented to me by the Mikado; also the toilet set of solid gold presented to me by the King of Siam; also the silver and gold stand and gold set presented to me by the second King of Siam; also the silver perfume case in the form of an Indian temple presented to me; and also such other souvenirs given me in my trip around the world with my late husband, Gen. U. S. Grant, as my executors may think of such value or interest as to be a desirable part of the collection in said museum, if any souvenirs there be."

Greenleaf, Mary Longfellow (sister of Henry W. Longfellow), Cambridge, Mass., bequests to the trustees of donations, Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, $25,000; and to other benevolent institutions. $55,000.

Grier, James H., Warrington, Pa., bequests to Hahnemann Medical Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital, each $10,000; and Presbyterian Orphanage and Old Man's Home, each $5,000.

Guggenheim, Daniel and Simon, New York, joint gift to Jewish Theological Seminary, $50,000.

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Guggenheim, William, New York, gift to United Hebrew Charities, toward endowment fund, $50,000. He also pledged $10,000 for each $50,000 given on or before Jan. 1, 1903.

Guiteau, F. W., New York, gift to the Irvington (N. Y.) Public Library, for books, $10,000. Haggin, Mrs. James Ben Ali, New York city, gift to the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, Ky., conditional on Ashland Seminary being always at Versailles, funds for the Margaret Hall; and to restore the seminary dormitory, at least $20,000.

Hall, Francis, Elmira, N. Y., bequests to Ellington, Conn., for a public library, $30,000; Elmira College, $8,000; Orphans' Home in Elmira, Elmira Young Men's Christian Association, the Anchorage, and the Arnot Ogden Hospital, for free beds, each $5,000; Elmira Industrial Association and Home for the Aged, each $2,000; and Steele Memorial Library, for books, $1,500.

Halls, William, Jr., and wife, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift for completion of the Seney Hospital there, $125,000.

Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., gift from alumni, for a new Hall of Commons, $50,000.

Harkness, Albert, Professor of Greek, Brown University, gift to the university, for a scholarship at the American School in Athens, $5,500.

Harvard University, gift from a friend for the astronomical department, half to be used in extending the Astronomical Library Building and contents and half in making researches for the benefit of science, $20,000.

Hatch, Mrs. Walter, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Yale University, to found a lectureship in the ology, $5,000.

Havemeyer, Henry O., New York, gifts to Bryn Mawr College, $20,000; to South Beach School District for a new school, seven acres of land; and the First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, Conn., $10,000, supplementing a gift of nearly the entire cost of parsonage ($20,000) and church edifice.

Hay, John, and wife, Washington, D. C., joint gift to Westminster School, Simsbury Conn., a memorial chapel, cost $10,000.

Hearst, Mrs. Phoebe A., San Francisco, gifts to the University of California, a mining building,cost $500,000; and for maintenance of the Department of Anthropology, a pledge of $50,000 per annum. Hearst, William R., New York, gift to the University of California, the equipment for an outof-door amphitheater, cost $40,000.

Hebrew Benevolent Society, Baltimore, gifts from friends, to aid needy Jews of that city, $20,000.

Hennessy, John, Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa (died in 1900), bequest paid in 1902 to the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., for 3 scholarships, $17,000.

Herter, Christian A., and wife, New York city, gift to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., for a lectureship in the Medical Department, $25,000.

Herzstein, Dr. Max, San Francisco, gift to the University of California, to equip physiological laboratory. $8,000.

Hoagland, Mrs. Caroline C., New York, gift to St. Bartholomew's Parish, a new clinic build

ing.

Hobart, Mrs. Jennie T., widow of Vice-President Hobart, Paterson, N. J., to the Children's Day Nursery of that city, ground and a building, cost $25,000.

Hoe, Mrs. Richard M., Irvington, N. Y., gift to Westchester Temporary Home at White Plains, a new school building.

Hoey, Michael J., New York, bequests to Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society, Home for the Aged, and Home for Children, Staten Island, each $500; Female Orphan Asylum, St. Vincent de Paul Society, pastors of the Churches of the Annunciation and of SS. Peter and Paul, for the poor of their parishes, and St. Catherine's Hospital, each $200; Catholic University at Washington, $100; and to the foregoing beneficiaries, his residuary estate.

Hoffman, Eugene Augustus, Dean of General Theological Seminary, New York, bequests to that institution, $100,000; Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to form a permanent fund, and New York Historical Society, each $50,000; Fund for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen and of Aged, Infirm, and Disabled Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Protestant Episcopal Public School, each $25,000; American Museum of Natural History, the Strecker collection of butterflies, valued at $20,000; and Clergymen's Retiring Fund Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $10,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN.

Hoge, William L., bequest to J. Hood Wright Hospital, $5,000.

Hogg, J. Renwick, gift to Lafayette College, Brainerd Hall (Young Men's Christian Association building), cost, $35,000.

Holden, Mrs. E. B., New York, gift to Thousand Island Park Association, a public library, cost from $10,000 to $15,000.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., gift from a friend for its endowment fund, $30,000.

Hopkins, Robert E., Tarrytown, N. Y., bequests to Home for Old Ladies, and Onondaga County Orphan Asylum, each $9,629.

Hubbard, Gen. Thomas H., New York, gifts to Albany Law School for a chair of Legal Ethics, $10,000; to Bowdoin College, a grand-stand for the Whittier Athletic Field; and with his wife to the same college, the Hubbard Library Building, cost between $300,000 and $350,000.

Humphrey, Alexander C., New York, gift to All Angels' Episcopal Church, an equipped summer home near Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Hunter, Mrs. Frances A., New York, bequests to American Bible Society, Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, each $5,000.

Huntington, Mrs. Collis P., New York, gifts to Harvard University for a Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology, $250,000; General Memorial Hospital for Treatment of Cancer and allied diseases, $100,000; Hampton (Va.) Institute, a new library building; Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, an academy building; and the Children's Industrial Home, New Brunswick, N. J., $5,000.

Hutchinson, Alexander C., president of the Morgan Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company. New Orleans, bequests to three charitable institutions in New Orleans, each $20,000; and to the Medical Department of Tulane University, his residuary estate of $1,000,000. Mr. Hutchinson's death revealed a philanthropic mystery of long standing, he having made frequent and large contributions to local charities

in the form of "In the name of Josephine," now shown to have been his deceased wife.

Huyler, John S., New York, gift to Syracuse University, to promote the work of its Christian Associations, $15,000.

Hyde, Mrs. Henry B., New York, gift to Saratoga Hospital, a full equipment of sun-parlors. Ickelheimer, Henry R., New York, gift to Mount Sinai Hospital, an electrical ambulance. Inness, George, New York, gift to the Artists' Fund Society, for aiding old, destitute, and sick painters, $5,000.

Jackson, Huntington W., Chicago, bequests to 6 local institutions, each $1,000.

Jaffray, Robert, New York, bequests to Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Board of Church Erection of the Presbyterian Church, Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, and Presbytery of New York, each $2,000; and New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Working Women's Protective Union, each $1,000.

Jarvie, James N., Bloomfield, N. J., gift to the city, a library, cost $100,000; and for its endowment, $50,000.

Jencks, Francis M. See WYMAN, WILLIAM. Jennings, Frederick B., New York, gift to Williams College, 150 shares of United States Steel Corporation stock.

Jesup, Morris K., President of New York Chamber of Commerce, gift to that body, a marble statue of De Witt Clinton, cost about $12,000; gifts to Princeton University for the library fund, $10,000; and to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for endowment funds, each $25,000.

Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, Boston, Mass., gift to Bowdoin College, a memorial window.

Jewish Residents in the United States, gifts of 25 cents each on Shekel Day, to promote the Zionist movement in Palestine, aggregating $28,000.

Johns Hopkins University, gift from friends for endowment of new university buildings, $1,000,000.

Johnson Iron Works, Elyria and Lorain, Ohio, gift to the Young Men's Christian Associations, for the use of their employees, a fully equipped building.

Jones, Frank, Portsmouth, N. H., bequest to the public library, $5,000.

Keene, James R., New York, gifts for relief of the poor of the city, $2,500; to Charity Organization Society, and United Hebrew Charities Society, each $10,000.

Kelly, Howard A., M. D., Professor of Gyrecology in Johns Hopkins University, gift to Johns Hopkins Hospital for extension of the gynecological ward, $10,000.

Kennedy, John S., New York, gift to New York Chamber of Commerce, a marble statue of Alexander Hamilton, cost about $12,000.

Keyser, William. See WYMAN, WILLIAM. King, Miss Mary Rhinelander, Great Neck, L. I., gift to All Saints' Church, a pulpit, choir and clergy stalls, reredos, rood-screen, and other furnishings of the chancel.

King's Daughters, St. Christopher Chapter, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., gift to St. Christopher's Home, $5,000.

Landreth, Eliza G., Philadelphia, bequests to charitable and religious institutions, an estate of $47,000.

Laudy, Louis H., New York city, gift to · Cooper Union for three scholarships, $7,440.

Lee, Mrs. Susan P., New York, bequest to Washington and Lee University, $30,000. Leese, Mrs. S. P., New York, bequests to Central University of Kentucky, $25,000; and Leese Institute of Jackson, Ky., $15,000.

Lent, Mrs. Sarah E., Peekskill, N. Y., bequests to Helping Hand Association (Peekskill Hospital), and First Presbyterian Church, Peekskill, each $5,000; Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, $2,000; Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, $1,500; and American Seaman's Friend Society, Presbyterian Home for Aged Women, and Colored Home and Hospital, New York city, each $1,000.

Lewisohn, Adolph, New York, gift to Hebrew Technical School for Girls, toward a building-fund, $75,000.

Lewisohn, Leonard, New York, nine children of, joint gift to Jewish Theological Seminary, $50,000; and to the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, $125,000. The children also agreed to give $100,000 each to charity in memory of their father.

Lincoln Memorial University, Cumberland Gap, Tenn., gifts from friends for endowment, $200,000.

Lindesmith, Rev. E. W. J., Cleveland, Ohio, gift to the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., for a scholarship, $5,000.

Lines, Augustus E., New Haven, bequests available on the death of his widow, to Yale Law School, $50,000; Church of the Redeemer, $20,000; Organized Charities, New Haven Colony Historical Society, City Missionary Society, and Welcome Hall, each $5,000; and St. Francis and New Haven Orphan Asylums, each $2,000.

Littlefield, George L., Pawtucket, R. I., gift to Brown University, available on the death of his widow, for a Professorship of American History and a General Fund, his estate, valued at $500,000.

Loeser, Frederick, and wife, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, a trust fund of $10,000.

Lord, Benjamin, New York, bequests to the Reformed Episcopal Church, available on the death of his daughter, for the Sustentation Fund, $17,000; the Theological Seminary, $16,000; the Female Guardian Society, $12,000; to several church homes, each, from $1,000 to $2,000.

Low, Julia Ann, New York, bequests to House of the Holy Comforter, Free Church Home for Incurables, House of Mercy, St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females, Church Mission to Deaf-Mutes, and St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, each $1,000.

McClary, William, Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to Grand Masonic Lodge to establish a perpetual fund for support of a home for orphan children of Free Masons, $30,000; and Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of Free Masons, for support of the Home for Aged Masons in that city, $20,000.

McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Harold, Chicago, Ill., gift to Memorial Institute of Infectious Diseases, for endowment, $1,000,000.

McCormick, Mrs. N. F., Chicago, Ill., gift to University of Wooster (Ohio), toward replacing the burned buildings, $15,000.

McCormick Theological Seminary, gift from a friend, for a fellowship in New Testament Greek, $30,000.

McDonnell, E. L., Muskegon, Mich., bequest to establish a home for indigent old women at Fairmount, Ind., $60,000.

McKay, Gordon, Newport, R. I., gift for a manual training-school for colored children, the Tower Hill House, South Kingston.

McKee, John, Philadelphia, Pa., bequests for the constructing and endowing of an institution in Philadelphia for education of white and colored male orphans, to be known as McKee College, and to McKee City, N. J., for a Catholic church, rectory, and convent, his residuary estate of $2,000,000.

McMillan, James, Detroit, Mich., bequests to Grace Hospital, $60,000; and Home of the Friendless, Woman's Hospital, and Foundlings' Home, Children's Free Hospital Association, and Little Sisters of the Poor, each $1,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN.

Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York city, gift from a friend, name withheld, toward a new building on a new site, $50,000.

Mary Katharine, Mother, formerly Miss Mary Katharine Drexel, of Philadelphia, gift for instruction of Indian and negro children, a large school building at Cascade, S. Dak.

Masten, Charles H., M. D., Nyack, N. Y., bequests to Nyack Hospital, $20,000; and the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Piermont and Palisades, $2,500.

Maxwell, Henry W., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to Long Island College Hospital and the Brooklyn Industrial School Association and Home for Destitute Children, each $20,000; Brooklyn Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Brooklyn Union for Christian Work, Second Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, American Unitarian Society of Boston, Children's Aid Society, Brooklyn Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Meadville (Pa.) Unitarian Seminary, Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, and Greenwood Cemetery Association, each $5,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Maxwell, J. Rogers, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Long Island College Hospital, for a new building, $400,000.

Merchants' Club, Baltimore, Md., gift to Johns Hopkins University, toward endowment fund, $50,000.

Messiah Women's Branch Alliance, New York city, gift from the Church of the Messiah, New York city, for home missionary work, $20,'000.

Methodist Episcopal Church in New York city, friends of, gifts for the Worn-out Preachers' fund, $70,000.

Mills, Darius O., New York city, gift to University of California, for the Department of Philosophy, $50,000, and for an astronomical expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, $24,000.

Morgan, Henry A., gift to Wells College, for a new building, $50,000.

Morgan, William R., Hartford, Conn., bequests to South Baptist Church, and Old People's Home, each the income of about $52,000; and Masonic Home at Wallingford, the income of about $36,000.

Morris, Mrs. Georgia E., New York city, bequest to the building fund of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, made available in 1902 by the death of her sister, $200,000.

Morse, Charles W., New York, gift to the city of Bath, Me., a high-school building, to cost from $50,000 to $75,000.

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, New York city (died April 2, 1872), bequests made available by the death of his widow (Nov. 14, 1901) and the division of his estate (September, 1902), to Home for the Friendless, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., $3,000; Princeton University for scholarships, $2,000; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., $1,000; Old Ladies' Home, Poughkeepsie,

$1,000; University of the City of New York, for annual medal for scholarship, $1,000; his trustees, for medal to encourage geographical research, $1,000; and the National Museum, Washington, D. C., all his orders, decorations, etc.

Newberry, Mrs. Helen H., New Haven, Conn., gift to Yale University, an organ for Woolsey Hall, cost $30,000.

New Haven County (Conn.) Anti-Tuberculosis Association, gifts from members and friends, funds for modern hospital for the treatment of consumptives.

Newton Theological Seminary, gift from friends to secure gift of $150,000 from John D. Rockefeller, $150,000.

New York Kindergarten Association, gift from a friend, for endowment fund, $40,000. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., gift from a friend, a school of technology.

Norwegian Residents, New York city, gifts for the erection of a new Norwegian hospital there, aggregating $140,000.

Oberlin College, Ohio, gift from friend in New England, name withheld, for new endowment fund, $50,000. The same donor gave a similar sum to the previous fund.

Ogden, Joseph W., New York, gift of a new Presbyterian Church building, in Chatham, N. J.

Oliver, Henry W., Pittsburg, Pa., gift to Lafayette College, the Oliver library. O'Neill, Matthew, Buffalo, N. Y., bequest to Hobart College, $30,000.

O'Rourke, John F., New York city, gift to Cooper Union, for two scholarships, $5,000.

Palmer, Francis A., New York city, bequests to Palmer Christian College, Iowa, $30,000; Elon College, North Carolina, $30,000; Union Christian College, Indiana, $30,000; Hamilton College, $5,000; Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, $5,000; Westchester County Temporary Home for Destitute Children, $5,000; Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm, $5,000; the Presbyterian Hospital, New York city, $5,000; the Presbyterian Church, Bedford, N. Y., $1,000; and the Francis Asbury Palmer fund, the residue of his estate ($500,000). See OBITUARIES, AMER

ICAN.

Palmer, Mrs. L. M., bequests to the hospital of the University of Michigan for a ward for children, $20,000, and for its endowment, $15,000.

Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, New York city, gifts from friends, to extinguish debt, $27,000.

Parker, Cortlandt, Newark, N. J., gift to the city of Perth Amboy, N. J., the old Parker homestead there, built in 1719, for a site for a Carnegie library.

Parsons, John E., New York, gift to St. Helen Episcopal Church, a new parish building, cost $5,000.

Patton, Thomas R., treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania, gift to that body for the relief of widows of Master Masons, $42,624, making with his previous gifts a fund of $100,000.

Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, Chicago, Ill., gift to Whitman College at Walla Walla, Wash., $50,000, making his total gifts to the college, $250,000; Illinois College, Jacksonville, $50,000; Fargo (N. Dak.) College, $50,000; and Fairmount College, Wichita, Kan., $25,000.

Pennsylvania, University of, gift from a friend, for the building fund of the medical laboratories, $10,000; and from other friends, the entire amount for the new gymnasium, to cost $500,000.

Perkins, George W., New York, gift to Buffalo Young Men's Christian Association, for a new home, $25,000.

Phipps, Henry, Philadelphia, Pa., gift to the city, a clinic for the treatment of poor consumptives; and to the Educational Alliance of New York, $10,000.

Phipps, Laurence C., Denver, Col., gift to the State of Colorado, a thoroughly equipped hospital for tuberculous patients, cost over $250,000.

Pitts, William, Taunton, Mass., bequest for Protestant Episcopal mission work in the South, $32,000.

Plainfield, N. J., citizens of, gifts for a Muhlenberg Hospital there, $125,000; corner-stone laid Dec. 6, 1902.

Pope, A. A., Cleveland, Ohio., gift to Western Reserve University, $100,000.

Post-Graduate Hospital, New York, gifts from a friend, conditional on the payment of its debt, $100,000; and from two other friends for payment on debt, $35,000.

Potter, Mrs. Henry Codman, New York city, gifts to the Pro-Cathedral District of New York city a club-house, cost $55,000; and to Grace Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N. J., a club-house, cost $65,000.

Power, John J., Worcester, Mass., bequests to the Association of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, land, the convent and orphanage; and to Holy Cross College, his library.

Pratt, Mrs. Mary Morris, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. Mary Shaw Thompson, Allegheny, Pa., joint gift to Vassar College, a chapel.

Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, gifts from friends for a William Henry Green chair of Semitic Languages, $100,000.

Princeton University, gifts from students and alumni, for a new gymnasium, $250,000; from friends for endowment of the Old Testament Professorship, $100,000; and from the classes of 1901 and 1902, for special purposes, $60,000.

Proctor, Ellen O., Brookline, Mass., bequests to Harvard Medical School, to promote the study of chronic diseases, $50,000; and American Board of Foreign Missions, for medical work, $10,000.

Proctor, Harley T., Williamstown, Mass., gift to the town, conditional on the raising of $50,000 more for improvement of the roads, $10,000.

Proctor, Redfield, United States Senator from Vermont, gift to the Young Men's Christian Association for the use of his employees at Proctor, Vt., a thoroughly equipped building of marble. Protestant Episcopal Church, members of, names withheld, gifts to start a fund for the erection of a cathedral in Manila (to cost $1,000,000), $200,000.

Purrington, George H., Jr., Mattapoisett, Mass.. gift to that town for a library, $10,000.

Radcliffe College, Alumnæ of, gifts for a college building, to be a memorial of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, $100,000.

Rankine, William B., Niagara Falls, N. Y., gift for a parish house for St. Peter's Church, Geneva, N. Y., $22,000.

Rathbone, Caroline S., New York, bequests for founding and maintaining home for aged and infirm persons, at Evansville, Ind., ground and money, aggregating $70,000; to the General Clergy Fund, $8,430; Domestic and Foreign Mission Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $7,375; St. Ann's Deaf-Mute Church, $1,100; and Church Mission Society for Deaf-Mutes, $520.

Read, Lucy Richmond, Boston, bequests to charitable institutions in Boston, Bedford, and Wellesley, a total of $35,000.

Reid, Daniel R., New York city, gift to the United Presbyterian Congregation of Richmond,. Ind., a new church edifice, cost with ground, $100,000.

Reyburn, Mrs. Rebecca, Baltimore, Md., bequest to the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., for general expenses, $20,000. Rhinelander, Miss Serena, New York city, gift to Church of the Ascension, $50,000.

Rice, William Marsh, New York, bequest to Rice Institute of Houston, Tex., the bulk of his estate of $8,000,000.

Riley, Mrs. Crossman, New York, bequest to Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, the bulk of her property, valued at $4,000,000.

Ripley, Edward Payson, president of the Santa Fé Railroad Company, gift to the Young Men's Christian Association of Topeka, Kan., for a new building, conditioned on the association securing the site and $10,000, $20,000.

Roberts, Mrs. Charles, Philadelphia, Pa., gift to Haverford College, a new assembly hall, cost $50,000; and the same institution, her husband's large collection of autographs.

Robertson, Thomas D., Rockford, Ill., bequests to Rockford College, Beloit College, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, each $5,000; Rockford Hospital Association, Chicago Theological Seminary, Congregational Home Missionary Society of New York, and American Missionary Association, each $3,000; and American Sunday-School Union, American Bible Society, and Congregational Church Building Society, each $1,000.

Robinson, James F., Rock Island, Ill., bequests to Northwestern University, about $200,000; and the American University at Washington, a considerable but undetermined part of his propertv.

Rockefeller, John D., New York, gifts, to the University of Chicago, for real estate, $1,000,000; and as his regular Christmas offering, $1,000,000; General Education Board, to promote education in the South, $1,000,000; Harvard University, for a new medical school, $1,000,000; Teachers' College, New York, as a thank-offering, $500,000; Bryn Mawr College and Cornell University, each $250,000; Rochester Theological Seminary, $200,000; and a duplication of gifts made to the Seminary by Jan. 1, 1902, which amounted to $100,000; Newton Theological Seminary, $150,000; Wellesley College for a heating and ventilating plant, $150,000; Adelphi College, $125,000; Barnard College, $250,000; Brown University, $75,000; Olivet Baptist Church, $15,000. The educational gifts. were conditional on specified amounts being otherwise raised during 1902, which was done.

Rogers, Henry H., New York, gifts for a home for orphan children adopted by the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, the old Morris Mansion, Morris Heights, valued at over $150,000; and to the Unitarian Church in Fairhaven, a set of chimes.

Rogers, Jacob S., Paterson, N. J., bequest to Metropolitan Museum of Art, his residuary estate, estimated at $5.547,922.60.

Root, Anna H., Orange, N. J., bequests to the Society of the New Jerusalem, of Orange, $5,000; Orange Memorial Hospital, Orange TrainingSchool for Nurses, Orphan Home Society of East Orange, Bureau of Associated Charities, House of the Good Shepherd, and the Woman's Club of Orange, each $500; and the Society of the New Jerusalem, the income of her residuary estate.

Russell, Charles Hazen, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Wells College, memorial windows.

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