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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



brew Charities and the Association for the Im- 

 proved Instruction of Deaf-mutes, each $1,000. 



Marsh, Prof. Othniel Charles, bequests to the 

 National Academy of Sciences, $10,000; Yale Uni- 

 versity, his residence and grounds for a botanical 

 garden, and the remainder of his estate, estimated 

 at $150,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Marston, Stephen W., Boston, bequests to 

 the Newburyport Public Library, Perkins Insti- 

 tution for the Blind, Boston Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Association, and Home for Aged Men, each 

 $5,000; Sailors' Snug Harbor, at Quincy, $3,000; 

 and Roanoke College, Salem, Va., $2,000. 



Mather, Samuel, and wife, Cleveland, Ohio, 



fift to Western Reserve University for library, 

 12,000. 



Maxwell, Henry W., Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to 

 the Long Island College Hospital, $10,000. 



Mead, Elizabeth J., Stamford, Conn., gift to 

 Wesleyan University, subject to an annuity dur- 

 ing her life, $38,000.* 



Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor, gift 

 from the city, site for a new homoaopathic hos- 

 pital, purchased for $17,000. 



Middlesworth, Abram, Shelbyville, 111., gift 

 to the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, 

 his old home and 10 acres of ground, valued at 

 $10,000. 



Moen, Mrs. Philip, Worcester, Mass., bequest 

 paid to Hartford Theological Seminary, $10,000. 



Moody, Dwight Lyman, East Northfield, 

 Mass., gift from friends in the United States and 

 Great Britain, to commemorate his sixtieth birth- 

 day, a total of $310,000, with which a new chapel 

 at Mount Hermon was erected; dedicated Aug. 

 16. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Moore, James A., and w r ife, New York, gift 

 to Bethesda Episcopal Church, Saratoga, N. Y., 

 a rectory. 



Moran, Mary, Baltimore, Md., bequest to the 

 Catholic University of America, for a Celtic 

 chair, $10,000. 



Moravian Seminary for Women, Bethlehem, 

 Pa., gift from friends for endowment, $5,000. 



Morgan, John Pierpont, New York, gift to 

 the New York Public Library, a collection of 180 

 bound volumes and about 30,000 separate pieces 

 of manuscript, being the greater part of the Ford 

 collection, which he purchased early in the year. 

 The manuscripts include 237 letters of Andrew 

 Jackson, 97 of James Monroe, 1,280 letters to and 

 from Noah Webster, a large part of the corre- 

 spondence of Horace Greeley in 1850-75, many 

 letters of Robert Morris and William B. Lewis, 

 and valuable papers on American bibliography, 

 history, and biography. Also gift to the Society 

 of the Lying-in Hospital, property valued at 

 $350,000, supplementing his previous gift of 

 $1,000,000 for a new hospital building; and gift 

 to public library in Holyoke, Mass., $10,000. 



Morton, Levi P., New York, gift to endow- 

 ment of the National Academy of Design, $5,000. 



Mosely, Alexander, Boston, bequest to the 

 Boston Art Museum, property assessed at 



Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, 

 Mass., gift from friend, name withheld, for a 

 scholarship, $5,000. 



Munyon, James M., Philadelphia, gift for a 

 home and school for dependent girls, similar in 

 purpose to Girard College for boys, a tract of 

 30 acres near Fairmount Park, and funds for the 

 erection of buildings, planned to cost about 



Murphy, Edward, New Harmony, Ind., gift to 

 the Public Library, $42,000, supplementing a prior 

 gift of $30,000. 



Newcomer, Benjamin F., Baltimore, gift to 

 the Baltimore Hospital for Consumptives, $10,000. 



Newman, Bishop John P., bequest to Drew 

 Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., the re- 

 version of $50,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



New Orleans, Jesuit Community of, gifts 

 for college buildings, planned to cover an entire 

 square and to cost $1,000,000. 



New York Chamber of Commerce, gift to 

 Columbia University for a Waring municipal 

 fund, $10,000. The chamber also agreed to main- 

 tain a new lecture course on Commerce at an 

 expense of $15,000 per annum. 



New York University, New York, gifts from 

 friends for endowment of its School of Applied 

 Science, $200,000; a hall for its Young Men's 

 Christian Association; funds for a library of Ger- 

 man language and literature ; and for the woman's 

 law class an endowment of $12,000. 



Noyes, Nathaniel, Haverhill, Mass., bequests 

 to the Haverhill City Hospital, $20,000; and Old 

 Ladies' Home, Children's Aid Society, and Public 

 Library, each $10,000. 



Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, gift from 

 friend in Cleveland, a new chemical laboratory, 

 cost with ground, $60,000. 



O'Brien, John, New York, bequests to St. Vin- 

 cent's Hospital and the New York Foundling 

 Asylum, each $2,000; St. Joseph's Home for the 

 Aged, St. Vincent's Retreat, Harrison, N. Y., and 

 Providence Hospital, Buffalo, each, $1,000. 



O'Brien, Rev. Michael, Lowell, golden jubilee 

 gift to the Working Girls' Home, $29,800. 



Page, A. F., Raleigh, N. C., bequest to the 

 Methodist Orphanage there, his Academy of Music 

 property, valued at $20,000. 



Paine, Joseph P., M. D., Roxbury, Mass., be- 

 quests to the Medical School of the Boston Uni- 

 versity, all his medical books and his residuary 

 estate, the latter to aid worthy but poor students ; 

 the Homoeopathic Hospital, for a free bed, $5,000 ; 

 and Boston Highlands New Church Society, 

 $5,000. 



Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, M. D., Chicago, 

 gift to Berea College, on completion of a fund 

 of $150,000 from other sources, $50,000. He also 

 agreed to give another $50,000 when $150,000 

 should be secured from others. 



Pennington (N. J.) Seminary, friends of, 

 gifts for new administration building, $30,000. 



Pennsylvania, University of, Philadelphia, 

 Christmas gift from friend, name withheld, $250,- 

 000, of which $50,000 is to aid new dormitory con- 

 struction; also from friend, name withheld, for a 

 physical laboratory, $250,000; and from Class of 

 1879, for a Kendall scholarship, $5,000. 



Pepper, Mrs. Dr. William, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 gift to the University of Pennsylvania to extend 

 the work there of her late husband, $50,000. 



Perry, Edward Y., Hanover, Mass., bequest 

 to his executors, after payment of a few small 

 legacies, his personal and real estate, to be used 

 as a trust for assisting the worthy poor of Han- 

 over, Hanson, and Pembroke. The estate has 

 an estimated value of $1,000,000, and from its 

 income the executors must assist every worthy 

 person needing aid, regardless of sect, sex, or 

 color. Young men of moderate means desirous 

 of going to college are to be assisted to do so, 

 and no partiality or discrimination is to be shown 

 in distributing this income. 



Pevear, Henry A., Lynn, Mass., gift for the 

 benefit of orphan boys, those of Lynn and Shir- 

 ley to be preferred, a home and industrial school, 

 comprising his summer mansion in Shirley, with 

 additions and equipment, representing from $250,- 

 000 to $300,000. 



