Two Large Gifts to University

Two large gifts have been made to the University lately. One is an anonymous donation of $50,000 for the establishment of the James C. Melvin Fund for tropical medicine. Its income is to be applied for the furtherance of preventive medicine, if that phase of medical research should be taken up at the University Medical School.

The other bequest is the residuary estate of Horace Fletcher, the expert dietician. The income is to be used to "foster knowledge of healthful nutrition." The will also provided for an annual award to be known as the "Horace Fletcher Prize" for the best thesis on the subject "special uses of circumvallate papillae and the saliva of the mouth in regulating physiological economy and nutrition."