Edwards, George K:, Baltimore, Md., bequests to Princeton University, $55,000.

Edwards. Dr. George R., Princeton, N. J., bequests to Princeton University for a chair in American History or fellowships in American history, $50.000; to the same for specific purposes, $5,000; and to Presbyterian missions, $5,000.

Elder, Henry L., Atlantic City, N. J., bequest to Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa., the reversion of the greater part of an estate valued at $300,000. Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y., friends of, gifts toward endowment, $65,000.

Epworth League, New York District, Methodist Episcopal Church, gift to St. Christopher's Home, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., a hospital building.

Evans, Dr. Thomas Williams, Paris, France, bequest for founding a museum and institute in Philadelphia, Pa., all excepting $250,000 of an estate estimated at $8,000,000 to $12,000,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN, in this volume.

Farnham, Luther, Boston, Mass., bequests to Children's Hospital, American Bible Society, Congregational Home Missionary Society, Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, each $2,000; other institutions, $3,500.

Field, Mrs. John White, Albany, N. Y., bequests to the University of Pennsylvania, $80,000; American Home Missionary Society. $10,000; House of Mercy, Washington, D. C., $10,000; other institutions, $8,000; and residue of estate to University of Pennsylvania.

Field, Marshall, Chicago, Ill., gift to Kenwood Presbyterian Church, ground valued at $50,000, as site for a new church.

Field, Mrs. Mary Bradhurst, New York and Rome, Italy, bequest to St. Paul's American Protestant Episcopal Church in Rome, for support of aged women, $30,000.

Fiske, Mrs. Josiah M., New York city, gift to Barnard College for a memorial hall, $140,000. Fitzsimons, James, New York, bequests to four Roman Catholic institutions in New York, the reversion of $25.000.

Fleischmann, Charles, Cincinnati, Ohio, bequests to Associated Charities and Hebrew Relief Union, each $2,000; Jewish Home, $1,500; and Catholic, Protestant, and Colored Orphan Asylums and Jewish Hospital, each $1,000.

Flint, Harriet N., Wakefield, Mass., bequests to the town for a soldiers' monument, $10,000; to four Baptist missionary societies, each $5,000; to other institutions, $24,000; and to Baptist church at Wakefield and Newton Theological Institution, the residue of her estate after the payment of $53,000 in legacies.

Flower, Reese Wall, Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to University of Pennsylvania, 100 acres, two miles from the city, an astronomical observatory, and a telescope with an 18-inch lens.

Flower, Roswell P., New York city, gift to New York State Veterinary College, for a library, $5,000. Fosdick, Charles B., New York, bequests to Home for Indigent Christian Females and Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, each $2,000, and the Bethlehem Day Nursery, Training School for Nurses at Bellevue Hospital, Barnard College, the Sheltering Arms, Home for Incurables, and Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society, each $1,000.

Foster, John, Boston, Mass., bequests to the city for a statue of William Ellery Channing, $30,000; Young Men's Christian Union, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, each $10,000; the town of Warner, N. H., and the Congregational Society there, each $8.000; other institutions, each $5,000-in all, $121,000.

Frelinghuysen, Frederick, Newark, N. J., gift to Rutgers College, $5,000.

French, Mrs. J. H., Beloit, Wis., bequest to American Humane Educational Society, $10,000. Garcelon, Mrs. Catharine, Oakland, Cal. (died in 1891), bequests made available in 1897 by a decision of the United States Supreme Court, to the city of Oakland for a hospital, $600,000, and to Bowdoin (Me.) College, $400,000.

Garvey, Andrew Jeffries, formerly of New York city (died in London, England, April 5, 1897), bequests to 6 hospitals in New York city an aggregate of $75,000, and to 12 hospitals and 5 other institutions the income of a fund estimated at $300,000.

Ginter, Lewis, Richmond, Va., bequests to local charitable institutions, $120,000.

Glover, G. B., New York, bequest to the Smithsonian Institution a collection of Asiatic coins, consisting of 2,025 pieces, and representing the coinage of China from 770 B. c. to the present day; said to be the most complete in existence.

Goldenberg, Simon, New York, bequests to various Hebrew institutions, an aggregate of $37,000, and for the founding of some nonsectarian charitable or educational institution in New York, his residuary estate.

Goodrich, C. C., Newport, Vt., bequest for the establishment of a public library, his estate of $75,000.

Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah B., bequest to Wellesley College, $5,000.

Gould, Alice L., daughter of the late Prof. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, of Harvard University, gift to the National Academy of Sciences, $20,000. Gould, Miss Helen, New York, gift for the Memorial Temple at Chautauqua, N. Y., $5,000.

Gove, Ebenezer, North Hampton, N. H., bequests to missionary and educational institutions, a total of $10,500.

Grace, William R., Lillius G. Grace, and Joseph P. Grace, New York city, joint gift for founding a manual training school for young women, New York city, $200,000.

Graves, Nathan F., Syracuse, N. Y., bequests to Syracuse University, $10,000, and to the city for a home for indigent aged people, $400,000.

Gurley, Lewis E., Troy, N. Y., bequests to Baptist missionary societies, $13,000, besides liberal sums to six institutions.

Hall, Mrs. Angeline P., Saratoga, N. Y., gift to Judson Memorial Church, New York, $20,000.

Havemeyer, Mrs. Mary Louise, Stamford, Conn., bequests to institutions in New York and Stamford, $7,000.

Haven, Charlotte M., Portsmouth, N. H., bequests to Harvard University, $25,000; Dartmouth College, $6,000; Portsmouth Public Library, $6,000; other institutions, $17,000.

Haven, Eliza A., Portsmouth, N. H., sister of the preceding, bequests to Harvard University, $25,000; Dartmouth College, $9,000; other institutions, $14,000; and to the city for a public park, the family estate.

Hawley, Mrs. Mary R., Franklin County, Pa., bequests to charitable institutions in Baltimore and to the Congregational Home Missionary Society, the American Missionary Association, the Congregational Church Building Society, and Colorado College, $100,000.

Hayes, Francis B., Boston, Mass., bequests to Massachusetts Horticultural Society, $10,000, and his residuary estate of about $300,000.

Healy, A. Augustus, President of Brooklyn (N. Y.) Institute of Arts and Sciences, gift to the institute, Albano's marble statuary group "The Rebel Angels"; cost, $20,000.

Heinz, H. J., Pittsburg, Pa., gift to the University of Kansas City, $10,000, supplementing a previous gift of $50,000.

Hendrie, John W., South Beach, Conn., gift to Yale Law School, $15,000, making $50,000 in all. Herrmann, Mrs. Esther, New York, gift to Young Men's Hebrew Association, $10,000.

Higgins, Mrs. Elizabeth P., New York, bequests to Red Cross Society, King's Daughters, Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' Hospital, Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, Free Home for Destitute Girls, and Woman's Guild of New York, an aggregate of $246,000.

Hobart, Garret A., Vice-President of the United States. gift to Rutgers College, $5,000.

Hoffman, Rev. Charles Frederick, D. D., New York, bequests to St. Stephen's College, Annadale, N. Y., $50,000, the principal part of his large library, and his private communion service; parochial fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, four lots and the buildings thereon adjoining All Angels' Church for support of the church; and to All Angels' Church, a remission of all debts due him from it.

Holbrook, Sarah J., Quincy, Mass., bequests to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Congregational Home Missionary Society, Congregational Church Building Society, and American Missionary Association, each $10,000; Woman's Board of Missions, American Education Society, and Woman's Home Missionary Association, each $5,000; and other institutions, $6,000. Holmes. Samuel, Montclair, N. J., bequests to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American College and Education Society, American Missionary Association, and American Home Missionary Society, each $5,000, and Montclair Congregational Society for a church, two valuable tracts of land.

Hood, Mrs. Margaret E., Frederick, Md., gift to the Woman's College in that city, $20,000. Houghton, Elizabeth and Clements, Boston, Mass., gift to Wellesley College, a chapel.

Houghton, George H., D. D., New York, bequest to Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church around the Corner"), the reversion of $50,000.

Huntington, Collis P., New York city, gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a painting of George Washington by Charles Wilson Peale.

Hyde, Isaac P., Southbridge, Mass., bequests to the town of Stafford, Conn., available on the death of his widow, $60,000.

Ingraham, William I., Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Seney Hospital, $5,000.

Kelly, Eugene, New York, family of, gift to St. Vincent's Hospital, $20,000, supplementing his bequest of $30,000.

Kemp, Juliet Augusta, New York, bequests to Teachers' College, New York, and National Church of the New Jerusalem, Washington, D. C., each $10,000 Babies' Hospital, New York School of Applied Design for Women, and Calhoun Colored School, each $5,000; and the Teachers' College Kindergarten, her residuary estate.

Kennedy, John S., New York, gift to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leutze's painting "Washington crossing the Delaware," for which he paid $16,

100.

King, William Louis, Morristown, N. J., bequests to Morristown Library and Lyceum, $30,000, and Home for Destitute and Worthy Women and Girls and the Female Charitable Society, each $5,000.

Kingsley, Chester W., Cambridge, Mass., an equipped building for the Kingsley Scientific Academy, Worcester, Mass.

Lambert, Col., Joliet, Ill., gifts to the city for a library, $27,000, and to two hospitals, each $3,000.

Lampson, William, Le Roy, N. Y., bequests to Yale University for a commencement hall, $150,000, and, after payment of personal legacies aggregating $29,000, the residue of his estate valued at $1,500,000, for a fund to be applied to the endowment of professorships of Latin, Greek, and English Literature, each professor to have $4,000 per annum. Will contested and affirmed.

Lawrence, Charles F., New York, bequests to the town of Pepperell, Mass., for a public library and art gallery, $100,000 and all his pictures and

books.

Lee, Bridget, New York, bequests to Roman Catholic institutions. $6,000.

Leghorn, Isabella, New York, bequests to churches and societies in New York, Newburg, and New Windsor, $5,000.

Lehman, Emanuel, President of Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society of New York, gift for endowment of an industrial and provident fund for graduates, $100,000.

Lehman, Mayer, New York, bequests to Mount Sinai Hospital, $15,000: Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, $7,500; Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, $5,000; and to other institutions in New York and New Orleans, $21,000-in all, $48,500.

Levering, Joshua, Baltimore, Md., gift to South

ern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., for a gymnasium, $10,000.

Lichtenstein, Benjamin, New York, bequests to Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mount Sinai Hospital, Hebrew Technical Institute, and Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, each $2,500.

Little, Henry Stafford, Matawan, N. J., gift to First Presbyterian Church, a memorial fund of $5.000.

Lyman, Arthur T., Boston, Mass., gift to Radcliffe College, $5,000.

Lyman. Theodore, Brookline, Mass., bequests to Harvard University and Boston Asylum and Farm School, each $10,000.

McKim, Charles Follen, New York, gift to Metropolitan Museum of Art, the bronze group "Bacchante," by Frederick William MacMonnies; estimated value, $30,000.

Manson, Augustus D., Bangor, Me., bequests to Bangor Public Library, $10,000 and his private library; Children's Home and the Home for Aged Women in that city, Perkins Institute for the Blind, Boston, and Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute (Va.), each $5,000.

Marett Fund, in Connecticut. In 1897 the State abandoned the contest for this fund, and the Probate Court ordered its distribution as follows: Yale University, Connecticut State Hospital, New Haven, and the city of New Haven for its poor, each $20,000; and the New Haven Orphan Asylum, St. Francis Orphan Asylum, and the New Haven public library, each $10,000.

Marquand, Henry G., New York, gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a collection of bronzes dating from three or four centuries before the Christian era to the time of Caracalla, and containg one piece, the Goddess Cybele in her lion-drawn chariot, for which $28,000 was offered. The cost of the gift is estimated to be at least $50,000.

Marshall, Mrs. Ann, New York, bequests to five Presbyterian missions and institutions, each $3,000. Martin, Miss Sarah, Pittsfield, Mass., bequests to the Congregational Home Missionary Society, $5,000: Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute (Va.), Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pa.), and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, each $2,000; and Burrell School, Selma, Ala., $1,000.

Martin, Miss Winifrede, Baltimore, Md., bequests to Roman Catholic churches and charities in Maryland and California, an estate estimated at $500,000, of which $50,000 is for a home for old ladies in Baltimore and $16,666 to the Catholic University in Washington, D. C.

Mather, Roland, Hartford, Conn., bequests to Congregational Home Missionary Society of New York and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, each $15,000; and American Missionary Association and Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, each $10,000.

Milbank, Joseph, New York, gift to Teachers' College, New York, Milbank Hall; cost, $250,000; completed in 1897.

Milliken, Mrs. Richard, New Orleans, gift for a children's hospital in that city, $75,000.

Minturn, Mrs. John W., New York, gift for scarlet-fever and diphtheria patients, a hospital building and equipment; cost, $125,000.

Moen, Mrs. Philip L., Worcester, Mass., bequests to Hartford (Conn.) Theological Seminary, $10,000, and to many educational and religious societies, sums ranging from $2,000 to $100 each.

Monroe, Mrs. Virginia M., gift to Pequot Library Association, Southport, Conn. (building erected by her late husband), an investment of $30,000.

Moody, Dwight L., Northfield, Mass., gifts from

friends on his sixtieth birthday, $30,000, which he applied to the erection of a chapel for the Mount Vernon School for Boys.

Morgan, John Pierpont, New York city, gifts to New York Lying-in Hospital, for a new building, $1,000,000; Metropolitan Museum of Art, an altarpiece of silver repoussé and enamel, valued at $10,000.

Morgan, Mrs. Josephine Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, New Bedford, $5.000; three institutions in Philadelphia, each $1,000; and conditionally to four other institutions there, $9,000.

Morrill, Miss Mary G., Boston, Mass., bequests to Boston Museum of Fine Arts, $50,000; Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, $10,000; Children's Hospital, $20,000; and Massachusetts General Hospital, $70,000-the three last available on the death of her brother-in-law, and to the three foregoing institutions, her residuary estate.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., acquisition by purchase from an unrestricted sum of $100,000 in the bequest of Harvey D. Parker, the collection of 23,000 prints formed by the late Henry F. Sewall, of New York, appraised at $78,000.

New York University, New York city, gift to the public, a double drinking fountain on the new university grounds; cost, $10,000.

New York University, six friends of, through Prof. Prince, gift to the Semitic department, a valuable collection of ancient Babylonian tablets, discovered in 1895, comprising 204 pieces and including a very uncommon black baked-clay cylinder inscribed in old Babylonian characters, said to date as early as 3000 B. c.

Noble. Mrs. William D., Washington, D. C., gift to Harvard University to establish a course of religious lectures, $20,000.

Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., gift by purchase with funds from friends, 2,700 volumes, embracing standard and complete editions of nearly all the classical and romantic writers of Germany from the middle of the last century, several hundred volumes of the sixteenth century, and a manuscript by Eyb, written in the fifteenth century.

Noyes. Crosby S., Brunswick, Me., gift to Bowdoin College, $5.000.

Nutter, E. S., Concord, N. H., bequests to six institutions, each $1,000.

O'Donohue. Joseph J., New York, bequests to Roman Catholic charitable institutions, $8,250.

Otis Elevator Company, New York, gift to Columbia University, an elevator for the engineering building; cost, $25,000.

Paige, John C., Boston, Mass., bequests to Stockbridge Association, Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth College Hospital, Hanover, and Insurance Library Association, Boston, each $5,000; and to Boston Public Library his residuary estate of about $225,000.

Palma, Swante, Swedish vice-consul at Austin, Texas, gift to the University of Texas, a collection of 25,000 books, valued at $100,000.

Palmer, Francis A., New York, gift to Legrand College, Eldora, Iowa, $20,000, in consideration of which the name of the institution was changed to Palmer College.

Parker, James, Chicago, Ill., gift to U. S. Grant University, Chattanooga, Tenn., for a building fund, $100,000. The name of the institution was changed to Parker College.

Parsons, John E., New York city, gift to Trinity parish, Lenox, Mass., a parish house; cost, $30,000.

Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, M. D., Chicago, Ill., gifts to Colorado College on the raising of $150,000 by its friends, $50,000, and to Beloit (Wis.) College, a woman's dormitory; cost, $30,000.

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., gift from an anonymous friend, $6,000.

Pierce, Henry Lillie, Boston, Mass. (see obituary in " Annual Cyclopædia" for 1896). The settlement of this estate in 1897 indicated that the five residuary legatees would receive more than $700,000 each, in addition to the specific bequests to them of $50,000 each.

Plankington, Miss Elizabeth, Milwaukee, Wis., gift to Milwaukee Downer College, $5,000.

Pope, Albert A., Hartford, Conn., gift to New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Mass., a dispensary building with equipment. Pringle, Samuel M., New York city, bequest for a home for aged and indigent men, available on the death of his brother-in-law, $75,000; with his sister, Margaret P. Fenton, reversionary bequests for a home for respectable invalids and aged and indigent men in New York State, $200,000.

Pullman, George Mortimer, Chicago, Ill., bequests to thirteen local charitable institutions, each $10,000. He also directed his executors to set aside $1,200,000 for the founding, and endowment at Pullman, Ill., of a free school of manual training for the children of persons living and employed there.

Randall, Miss Belinda L., Roxbury, Mass., bequest to trustees for distribution to worthy institutions, a fund apportioned as follows: Foxcroft Club of Cambridge, $70,000; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $50,000; Children's Aid Society, $50,000; Hampton (Va.) Normal Institution. $25,000; Radcliffe College, Cambridge Prospect Union, and Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, each $20,000; Calhoun (Ga.) University, $10,000; and reserved for a probable trade school, $95,000.

Raymond, Mary Frances, New York, bequests to the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Brooklyn, $5,000; Elizabeth Home for Girls, New York, $5,000; and Carmelite sisterhood, New York, $3,000.

Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Esther, gift to University of Chicago, $225,000.

Rhinelander, Miss Serena, New York, gift to St. James's Protestant Episcopal parish, New York, ground and a group of buildings comprising a church edifice, rectory, and parish house; total value $500,000.

Richardson, Joseph, New York, bequest to Central Park Baptist Church, $17,500.

Roby, Warren C., Wayland, Mass., bequests to Wayland public library, ground and money for a building.

Rockefeller, John D., New York city, gifts to Vassar College, a fully equipped hall; cost, $100,000; to American Baptist Missionary Union and Baptist Home Missionary Society together, $250,000; to Vassar College library, nearly 3,000 volumes on Greek art and literature; to Mount Holyoke College, for a dormitory, $40,000.

Root, Elihu, New York city, gift to Hamilton College, a Hall of Science; cost, $31,000.

Scholle, Jacob, Orange, N. J., bequests to five Hebrew charitable institutions in New York and one in San Francisco, each $2,500.

Schultz, Carl H., New York, bequests to German Hospital and Dispensary and Schultz Benevolent Association, each $5,000.

Senff, Charles H., Long Island, N. Y., gift to Flushing Hospital, $10,000.

Sheldon, Judge B. R., Rockford, Ill., bequests to Williams College and Hampton Institute (Va.), each $100,000.

Shepherd, Mrs. Anne, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Vassar College, $8,000.

Sloan, Samuel, New York, gift to Rutgers College, $5,000.

Sloane, Mrs. Thomas C., New York, gift to Yale University, an installment of $160,000 of a special legacy of $200,000 left her by her first husband, on condition that the entire legacy should go to the university in case she remarried, which she did.

Smeltz, Mrs. George, Hampton, Va., gift to Richmond College, $5,000.

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth H., New York, bequests to two branches of Industrial School Association in Brooklyn, each $10,000.

Smith, E. D., Menesha, Wis., gift to the city for a park, land worth $25,000, and for a library, $25,000.

Snell, Robert, New York, gift to Rutgers College, $5,000.

South, George W., widow and daughter of, Philadelphia, Pa., gift to Pennsylvania Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Church of the Advocate, on Eighteenth and Diamond Streets, Philadelphia; cost, $1,000,000.

Stanford, Mrs. Leland, San Francisco, Cal., gift to the trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University, by deed to take effect at her death, her mansion in San Francisco, with all its furnishings, paintings, and other works of arts; value of ground and building, $250,000; of contents $750,000. She also signed a contract with a New York life insurance company by which her life was insured for the benefit of the university to the minimum amount of $1,000,000. Should she live and continue her annual payments for ten years, the university will receive $2,000,000 instead of $1,000,000 at her death.

Starr, Egbert, New York city, bequests to Middlebury College (Vermont), for a library building, $50,000; and to Presbyterian missions, $6,000.

Stevens, Mrs. Edwin A., Hoboken, N. J., gift to Stevens Institute, real estate of present value, $30,000.

Stokes, Rev. Ellwood H., D. D., President of Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, bequests to

Methodist institutions, $5,700, and the residue of his estate to the loan fund of the Methodist Church Extension Society and Ocean Grove Association.

Stranahan, Mrs. James S. T., Brooklyn. N. Y., gift to Noble Hospital, Westfield, Mass., $5,000. Strauss, Levi, San Francisco, Cal., gift to the regents of the University of California, a fund yielding more than $3,500 a year.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.. gifts from friends for a new Hall of Physics, $25,000. Talman, Miss Mary, New York city, bequests to institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church aggregating $141,000; she had previously erected the Church of the Beloved Disciple, a vestry house, rectory, and school, and endowed the church and school with $100,000.

Tammany Hall, Executive Council of, New York, gifts for the poor of New York city, $20,000; for relief of Cuban insurgents, $20,000.

Taylor, Frederick, New York, bequests to the Five Points House of Industry, New York Ladies' Home Missionary Society, Children's Aid Society, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, St. John's Guild, Working Girls' Vacation Society, Auxiliary Society of the Working Girls' Association, Society for befriending Working Girls, Free Home for Destitute Girls, and the Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless, an aggregate of $100,000.

Teachers' College, New York, gifts from three friends, each $25,000, and from others money to cancel a mortgage of $125,000.

Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, South Natick, Mass., and Trieste, Austria, bequest to Harvard University, $30,000.

Thayer, Edward C., Keene, N. H., gift to the city of Worcester, Mass., a home for nurses employed in the city hospital, cost, $35,000.

Thayer, Mrs. Nathaniel, Boston, Mass., bequests to Massachusetts General Hospital and Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, each $25,000; Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, New England Hospital for Women and Children, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston Lying-in Hospital, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, each $10,000; 12 institutions, each $5,000; and other charities, smaller sums-in all nearly $200,000.

Thorn, Mrs. Emily A., New York city, bequests to local charities. $8,000.

Thrall, Mrs. S. Maretta, Middletown, N. Y., bequests to the hospital built by her, $20,000, and to the city for a library, $30,000.

Thurston, Ellen, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to Hampton Institute, $10,000; Brooklyn Industrial Home, Brooklyn City Mission, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and American Missionary Society, each $5,000; and other institutions, $23,000.

Todd, William C., Atkinson, N. H., gift to the city of Boston, Mass., for purchase of newspapers, $50,000.

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, New York city, gift to St. Bartholomew's Home, presented to St. Bartholomew's Church by Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, an addition as large as the original building; cost, $250,000.

Vanderbilt, William K., New York city, a founder's gift to the New York Zoological Society, $5,000.

Van Nest, Mrs. Mary, New York city, bequests to Free Home for Destitute Girls and Ladies' Christian Union, each $5,000.

Van Nostrand, Mrs. Sarah, New York, bequests to Yale University for Sheffield Scientific School,

$25,000; General Theological Seminary of Protestant Episcopal Church, $5,000; and Holland Society of New York, $1,000.

Vihlein, Henry, Milwaukee, Wis., gift to National German Seminary in that city, $5,000.

Walker, Edward C. R., Roxbury, Mass., contingent bequests to Massachusetts institutions, an aggregate of more than $220,000.

Walker, Mrs. James, New York city, gift to New York Infirmary for Women and Children, $30,000.

Warren, Joseph D., Stamford, Conn., gifts to Universalist Convention, $5,000, and Universalist societies, $5,000.

Watson, Stephen, London, Ohio, bequest to Ohio Wesleyan University, $35,000.

Webb, Mrs. W. G., Salem, Mass., gift to Salem Hospital, $10,000.

Werner, Max, Germany (died in Los Angeles, Cal., 1897), bequest to Open-Air Fund of New York, available on the death of his mother, $50,000.

White, Charles, New York city, bequests to Ladies' Helping Hand Association of New York, $4,000, and Library Association of Brooklyn, Conn., $3,000.

Widener, Peter A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., gift to trustees of Free Library of Philadelphia, his magnificent city residence for a branch; estimated value, when equipped, $600,000. He also agreed to place in the branch library a gallery of choice specimens of purely American art, valued at $400,000. Mr. Widener, desiring to create an institution that will include a free art gallery, free museum of science and art, and a free library, also offered to bequeath to the city his art collection, estimated to be worth $750,000, on condition that the city provide a suitable fireproof building and keep it always free to the public. He also promised that the collections of his partner, W. L. Elkins, and John G. Johnson should be added to his own, making the total value of the art gifts nearly $1,500,000. The city made prompt provision for a building in West Philadelphia, and Mr. Widener, W. L. Elkins, Edwin H. Fitler, and Daniel Baugh subscribed $30,000 each toward its construction.

Wilder, Charles T., Wellesley, Mass., bequests to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Armenian Missionary Association, Robert College at Constantinople, Armenian School for Girls at Constantinople, Colorado College, Whitman College, and Carleton College, each $10,000; Amherst College, $15,000; the Mount Hermon School for Boys, at Northfield, $10,000; Kimball Academy, Meriden, N. H., and Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, N. H., each $5,000; and the residue of his estate for distribution among charitable, educational, and religious institutions.

Willard, Charles, Battle Creek, Mich., bequests for a library building for the local public schools, $40,000; for Young Men's Christian Association, $40,000; and to the Baptist College at Kalamazoo, $40.000.

Wilson, Mrs. Laura H., Lowell, Mass., bequests to John Street Congregational Church, $5,000; Worthen Street Baptist Church, $3,000; Lowell Young Men's Christian Association and Home for Young Women and Children, each $1,000; other institutions, $250.

Withers, Mrs. Sarah, Bloomington, Ill., bequest for a library in Nicholasville, Ky., $30,000.

Wood, Ambrose, New York, bequests to Women's Hospital, $10,000, and Allerton Wesleyan Chapel, Yorkshire, England, $15,000.

Wood, Thomas W., President of the National Academy of Design, gift to the city of Montpelier, Vt., an art gallery containing many famous paintings, friezes, and statuary. See BURGESS, JOHN W.