Gifts Accepted by Corporation

At a recent meeting of the Corporation the Treasurer reported the receipt, through Mr. Charles C. Jackson, Treasurer of the John Homans Memorial Fund, of $50,000 to establish the John Homans Professorship in Surgery, and of an additional sum for the erection of a tablet in one of the Medical School Buildings. The offer of this gift was accepted at a meeting of the Corporation last spring.

Three other gifts and bequests were also reported at the same meeting: A gift of $10,000 from Mr. J. H. Schiff for the Semitic Museum, a bequest of $2,000 from the late E. A. W. Harlow '41 and a gift of $1,200 from the Harvard Medical Alumni Association.