GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

In the treasurer's statement for 1898-99 which will soon be issued, C. F. Adams 2d '88 makes the following report of the gifts, which have been made to the University from August 1, 1898, to July 31, 1899.

The gifts to form new funds or to increase old ones were:

$1,000. Miss Eliz. R. Swift. One-third of bequest for establishing the Swift Scholarship.

$10,000. Mrs. Jessie Taylor Philips. One-half of the sum for the John Thomson Taylor scholarship, and the other half for the Keneth Matheson Taylor Fund, for the purchase of books for the Library.

$8,000. Mrs. Mary Ann P. Weld. Part of bequest of $10,000 for Christopher M. Weld Scholarship.

$425,000. Edward Austin. The amount of his bequest of $500,000, the income to be paid to needy meritorious students.

$8,500. Edward Austin. The amount of his bequest of $10,000 for the Bacteriological Laboratory in Medical School.

$155,668.67. Anonymous. For establishing the professorship of Hygiene in the Undergraduate Department of Harvard College.

$92,025. Mrs. Caroline Croft. The amount of her bequest of $100,000 for prosecuting researches for the cure of cancer and similar diseases.

$30,000. Henry Lee Pierce. On account of his unrestricted residuary bequest.

$5,000. T. Jefferson Coolidge. To establish a fund for debating prizes.

$6,000. Alexander W. Thayer. Part of his bequest of $30,000 for assisting needy men at Harvard in their efforts to obtain an education.

$1,000. Wm. W. Goodwin. For additional endowment of the Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship.

$10,000. John Lowell. For endowment of George Emerson Lowell Scholarships.

$3,000. Julian W. Mach. To establish the James Barr Ames Fund, from the income of which a prize for an essay or book on a legal subject will be occasionally awarded.

$5,000. Jacob Wendell. For a fund, the income of which will be distributed annually in prizes to the best students.

$4,950. Andrew Bigelow. The amount of his unrestricted bequest of $5,000.

$3,000. Mrs. Susan B. Lyman. Part of her bequest of $5,000 for establishing a fund, the income of which is to be distributed to "poor but intelligent" students of the College.

$5,000. Mrs. Chas. Wheeler. Towards a fund for helping poor students, as a memorial to her son, Stuart Wadsworth Wheeler.

$1,000. Mrs. Arthur Blake. To be added to the Surgical Laboratory Fund.

$143,901.77. Henry C. Warren. $15,000 to the endowment of Harvard Oriental Series, $10,000 to the Dental School, $10,000 to the Peabody Museum for carrying on explorations, and $108,901.77 for benefit of Indo-Iranian or Sanskrit Department.

$100,000. Anonymous. For the endowment of architectural building which is also to be built with money provided by the same giver.

$507.30. Class of 1851. To be allowed to accumulate to $1,000, the income there-after to be used for the Library.

$500.00. Anonymous. To be allowed to accumulate to $1,000 and then merged in the Fund of the Class of 1851.

$3,384.71. Class of 1868. For a free bed in the Harvard Infirmary to be named after the class.

$15,000. Buckminster Brown. Part of his bequest of $40,000, for establishing the John B. and Buckminster Brown Professorship of Orthopedic Surgery.

$353.12. Buckminster Brown. Accumulated income on bequest.

$287,233.70. Calvin Ellis. Most of the income of this sum to be used for the increase of the salaries of certain professors in the Medical School.

$30,936. Ninety Donors. For the Asa Gray Memorial Fund. The largest gift, amounting to $10,000, was made by Mrs. Warren B. Potter.

$2,000. Two Donors. For School of Comparative Medicine.

$13,000. Seven Donors. For the Arnold Arboretum Fund.

$12,000. Josiah Stickney. Through Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which held the sum for thirty years under an indenture, after which time it had to paid over to Harvard, to be used in the Lawrence Scientific School, or in connection with botany or horticulture.

Total. $1,383,460.77.

The gifts for immediate use were:

$50,000. James Stillman. Towards the cost of the land and building for an infirmary.

$20,000. Harvard Club of New York. Towards building a new boat house.

$600. Mrs. C. M. Barnard. Sixteenth yearly payment for the Warren H. Cudworth scholarships.

$2,300. Edward W. Hooper. To pay for the legal expenses relating to Mr. Edward Austin's will.

$5,050. Two Donors. Towards the erection and endowment of Philipps Brooks House.

$150. Joseph B. Warner. Unrestricted.

$350. Anonymous. Ricardo Fellowship for 1898-99.

$200. T. Jefferson Coolidge. Debating prizes, awarded in spring of 1899.

$38.24. Wm. W. Goodwin. To be added to the income of the Chas. Haven Goodwin Scholarship Fund.

$200. John Lowell. The fourteenth payment towards the support of two Scholarships, to be known as the Geo. Emerson Lowell Scholarships.

$1,112.78. Three Donors. For the account of Scholarship and Beneficiary money.

$150. Julian W. Mach. Towards the Ames Prize of $500.

$3,000. Eliot C. Lee. For arranging specimens of fossil plants in the Botanic Museum.

$2,000. Anonymous. Towards the equipment of the laboratories at the Botanic Garden.

$4,000. Two Donors. For Botanic Garden. $2,500. Edwin F. Atkins. For the study of the improvement of sugar cane and other tropical plants. $2,000 for a fellowship for 1899-1900, and $500 for preparation of a catalogue on sugar cane culture.

$1,000. Miss Marian C. Jackson. Salary of the instructor in the History and Art of Teaching, for 1898-99.

$250. Nathaniel C. Nash. To be spent by Professor White for the advancement of the Greek Department.

$200. Anonymous. For Department of Political Economy.

$100. Morris and James Loeb. For the purchase of works printed in America in the Judaes-German dialect.

$300. Seven Donors. For assisting in the publication of the transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

$541.68. Archibald Cary Coolidge. For purchase of Russian books, and books in Slavic history.

$3,000. J. Randolph Coolidge. For purchase of books on Turkey and Eastern Questions.

$2,088.60. Society for Promoting Theological Education. For library of Divinity School.

$600. Harvard Law School Association. For lectures on "Changes in the English Law during the 19th Century."

$200. Two Donors. For surgical laboratory.

$140. H. Price Collier. Repayment of scholarship received by him when in Divinity School.

$1,000. Anonymous. Equipment of the Laboratory of Hygiene.

$900. Three Donors. For increasing certain salaries in the Medical School.

$900. Two Donors. Bacteriological Laboratory.

$150. Walter G. Chase. For increase of Embryological collection.

$2,000. Miss Lucy Ellis. For assistance in the Departments of Physiology and Pathological Bacteriology at the Medical School for year ending July 31, 1899.

$3,500. Henry F. Sears. Pathological Department library.

$543. Thirty-four Donors. For the Free Clinic for Animals.

$5,000. E. D. Morgan. To establish the Pathological Department of the School of Veterinary Medicine on a permanent footing.

$9,999.96. Mrs. Henry Draper. To be expended by the Director of the Observatory in the research of photographing stellar spectra.

$2,500. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. To be expended at the Arnold Arboretum for increasing the knowledge on trees.

$1,728.64. Sixteen donors. For a Germanic Museum.

$15,000. Three donors. For the construction fund for the completion of the Arnold Arboretum.

$16,270. Eighty-eight donors. For additions to the Semitic collections.

$1,592.34. Ten donors. For Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology.

$100. Department of English. Purchase of books for Child Memorial Library.

$113.66. Seven small gifts for various purposes.

The total amount of these gifts for immediate use is $161,368.90, which, when added to the $1,383,460.77 for capital account, makes a grand total of $1,544,829.67