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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



Van Nest, Mrs. A. R., New York, gift to Peabody 

 Iloino for Aged Women, $5,000. 



Vanderbilt. Cornelius, and wife, Xew York, 

 gift to the Church of St. Bartholomew, improved 

 real estate, valued at $60,000. 



Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa. See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN. 



Vose, Mrs. Josiah, Boston, bequests made avail- 

 able by the death of her daughter, to the Massachu- 

 setts Genera] Hospital, McLean Asylum, Home for 

 Aged and Indigent Females, and Home for Aged 

 Men, each $30,000 ; the Children's Mission, $20,000; 

 Institute of Technology, $25,000; New England 

 Hospital for Women and Children, $25,000; Mu- 

 seum of Fine Arts, $25,000; Children's Friends 

 Society, $20,000; Farm School, Female Orphan 

 Asylum, and Eye and Ear Infirmary, each $15,000; 

 Seamen's Aid Society, Industrial Aid Society, Be- 

 nevolent Fraternity of Churches, Institution for 

 the Blind, Barnard Memorial, Provident Associa- 

 tion, Christian Union, and Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals, each $"10,000; Temporary 

 Home for the Destitute, $15.000 ; Home for Colored 

 Women, $5,000 ; and to the Institute of Technology 

 and the Museum of Fine Arts, the residue of an 

 estate of about $400,000 in equal part s. 



Wales, George W. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN-. 



Walker, Mrs. Abigail, Concord, N. H.. bequest 

 for an annual course of free lectures, $30,000. 



Walker, Joseph, Portland, Me., bequest to the 

 library of Bowdoin College, $8,000. 



Walworth, Miss Anne, Cleveland. Ohio, gift to 

 Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church, $100.000. 



Washburil, Rev. Alfred, Boston, bequests to 

 the Diocesan Board of Missions of Massachusetts 

 and the Episcopal City Mission of Boston, each 

 $5,000. 



Weeks, I)e Witt C., New York, bequests to the 

 Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, the Methodist Dea- 

 conesses' Home and Training School, the Women's 

 Foreign Missionary Society, St. Christopher's Home, 

 the New York City Church Extension and Mission- 

 ary Society ; and Mott Avenue Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, each $5,000; and any residue to the Meth- 

 odist University, Washington, D. C. 



Wheeler, Mrs. Charles J., Providence, R. L, be- 

 quests to missionary, educational, and charitable or- 

 ganizations, $65,000. 



Wheeler, Mrs. Mary B., New York, bequests to 

 the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian 

 Church, $10,000 ; Hampton Normal and Agricul- 

 tural College, $5,000; Society for Relief of Half- 

 Orphan and Destitute Children, $5,000 ; and mis- 

 sionary, Bible, and tract societies an aggregate of 

 $21.000. 



Whitcomb, Maria R., Fitchburg, Mass., bequest 

 to the city for the relief of the poor and needy not 

 in the poorhouse, $13,000. 



White, Mrs. Joseph M., New York, gift to the 

 Children's Aid Society of New York city, $25,000. 



White, Alfred T.', Brooklyn. N. Y., gift to the 

 cit v, a clock tower and office building for Wallabout 

 Market, cost $12,800. 



Whiting, Prof. Harold. Cambridge, Mass., be- 

 quests to Harvard University for a fellowship in 

 physics, $20.000; and the University of California, 

 for the physical department. $20.000. 



Wild, Joseph, Brooklyn. N. Y.. bequests to the 

 Brooklyn Baptist Church Extension Society, $10,- 

 000; Baptist Home for the Aged. $10,000; New 

 York Baptist Union for Ministerial Kducation at 

 Rochester, $10.000; orphanage to be founded by 

 the Long Island Baptist Association, $10,000; Green- 

 wood Baptist Church, $10,000, and its poor, $3,000 ; 

 American Baptist Bible and Publication Society, 

 $5.000; American Baptist Home Mission Society, 

 $5,000; American Baptist Missionary Society, $5,- 



000 : Brooklyn Home for Incurables, $5,000; Carson 

 Normal College, Massey Creek, Tenn., $5,000: Nor- 

 wegian Hospital, Brooklyn. $2,500; Brooklyn Hos- 

 pital for Consumptives, $2,500; West End" Baptist 

 Church, Brooklyn, $1,000; and the Howard Colored 

 Orphan Asylum", Brooklyn, $1,000. 



Williams, Dr. Edward H., Philadelphia. Pa., 

 gift to the University of Vermont, equipment 

 ($60.000) of the science building presented by him. 



Williams, Mrs. George H., Baltimore, M'd., gift 

 to Johns Hopkins University, the library and col- 

 lection of minerals made by her late husband, Pro- 

 fessor of Geology in the university. 



Winants, Mrs. Amanda. Bergen Point, N. J., gift 

 to Rutgers College, $10,000. 



Wyekoff. Edward G.. gift to Cornell University, 

 a practice building for its navy : cost. sS,()00. 



Wynian, Thomas T., Boston, bequests to 20 in- 

 stitutions, each $20,000; to Massachusetts General 

 Hospital, Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, 

 and Boston City Hospital, his residuary estate in 

 equal shares; total value of bequests, over $500,- 



000. Contested. 



Yale University. New Haven, gifts from friends, 

 6.000 volumes relating to Scandinavia, with 19,000 

 dissertations of the Universities of Upsala. Lund, 

 and Abo; and the library of the late Count Paul 

 livant, containing 5,100 bound and 500 unbound 

 volumes and 16,000 dissertations relating to the 

 Crusaders. 



Yerkes, Charles L., Chicago, 111., gift to Chicago 

 University, an astronomical observatory at Lake 

 Geneva, Wis., equipped with a telescope having the 

 largest lens in the world; total cost, about $500,000. 

 The lens was finished in October, 1896, and repre- 

 sents a cost of $100,000, the glass plates alone hav- 

 ing cost $40,000 in Paris. 



Zabriskie, Mr. and Mrs. N. Lansing, Aurora, 

 N. Y., gift to Auburn Theological Seminary, 

 $5,000. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, a mon- 

 archy in western Europe, formed by the union of 

 the British Kingdom, composed of the Kingdoms 

 of England and Scotland and the Principality of 

 Wales, with the Kingdom of Ireland, holding su- 

 preme dominion over the Empire of India and de- 

 pendencies and colonies of various kinds self-gov- 

 erning colonies, colonies administered by the Crown, 

 and protectorates under native rule the whole con- 

 stituting the British Empire. The reigning sover- 

 eign is the Queen-Empress Victoria, born May 24, 

 1810, daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, who was 

 the fourth son of George III, of England. The 

 heir apparent is Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 

 born Nov. 9, 1841, whose son. George, Duke of York, 

 the only surviving male offspring of his marriage 

 with Alexandra, Princess of Denmark, is next in 

 succession. 



The power to legislate for the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, and except so far as 

 is delegated to local legislative authorities for the 

 whole British Empire, is vested in the British Par- 

 liament, consisting of a House of Lords and a House 

 of Commons. Members of the House of Lords are 

 royal princes, spiritual lords, who are the metro- 

 politans of ancient sees of the English Church, 

 hereditary peers of England, of Great Britain, and 

 of the United Kingdom, law lords and other life 

 peers created by the sovereign, and representatives 

 elected from the Scotch and the Irish peerages. 

 There were altogether 571 peers on the roll of Parlia- 

 ment in 1895. Of the existing hereditary peerages 

 about two thirds have been created since the begin- 

 ning of the nineteenth century. and only 16 dale back 

 four hundred years. The House of Commons con- 

 sists of 670 members, of whom 253 represent English 

 counties with 2,820,374 electors. 237 are chosen by 



