THOMAS G. APPLETON'S WILL.

The will of the late Thomas G. Appleton, '31, a classmate of Wendell Phillips, and a prominent literary gentleman of Boston, has been made public. Among the bequests are several to Harvard. A portrait of Samuel Appleton, and the testator's piece of statuary, "The Lion's Head," are left to the president and fellows of Harvard college ; and $5,000 for the astronomical observatory at Harvard college. In a remote contingency the sum of $100,000 will be divided among several institutions, one of which is Harvard. The whole estate is valued at several hundred thousand dollars, and Harvard is one of the four residuary legatees.