UNIVERSITY RECEIVES MANY GIFTS FOR RESTRICTED USE

Under the will of the late Mrs. William J. Wright, Harvard has been left over $23,000 to be known as the William J. and Georgianna B. Wright Fund, the income to be used for medical research and the advancement of the medical and surgical sciences.

Two other large bequests totalling nearly $14,000 have been made by the late Dr. James Ewing Mears of Philadelphia, one being for the maintenance of a scholarship in medicine, and the other for the work of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University.

It is also announced that Jonathan B. Hayward '97, of New York City, has given more than $12,000 to Harvard University for the use Harvard Law School in the promoting of the teaching of Patent Law. Edwin F. Atkins '03 of Boston has given $12,000 for tropical research in economic botany. Over $2000 has been given by the Harvard Dental Alumni Association to establish the Eugene Hanes Smith Scholarship in the Dental School named in honor of Dean Smith of the school, who has completed his 25th year of service.

Among the other recent gifts to the University are several made to the Fogg Museum. Mrs. Henry H. Sherman has given $6000 for the purchase of the "Dwarf," a picture by Goya, and a number of other benefactors have given the museum sums totalling over $7000.