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Important Gift for Gray Herbarium

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By the will of Mrs. Sarah E. Potter of Boston, for some years a helpful member of the Committee to Visit the Gray Herbarium, the University received in June, 1907, a bequest of $50,000 to be used and applied in connection with the Gray Herbarium, and to be called the Sarah E. Potter Endowment Fund. As one of a number of residuary legatees, the University has subsequently received from the executors, Hon. James R. Dunbar and Mr. George R. White '36 (also a member of the Visiting Committee), an addition to this endowment, consisting of cash and securities of an estimated value of $130,000.

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