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mals and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, each 

 the reversion of $25,000; and to the Presbyterian, 

 Mount Sinai, Flower, and- St. Vincent's hospitals, 

 Home for Incurables, St. John's Guild, and the 

 Children's Aid Society, in equal parts, the re- 

 version of his residuary estate, estimated at over 

 $1,000,000. 



Toner, James L., Pennsylvania, bequest to the 

 Benedictine Society of the Catholic Church in 

 America, for a manual-training institute, 100 

 acres of land and about $185,000. 



Tousey, Mary Beach, New York, bequests to 

 Trinity College, Hartford, $20,000; Society of St. 

 John's, St. Clement's Church, trustees of Dioce- 

 san Convention of New York, and Protestant 

 Episcopal Society for the Increase of the Minis- 

 try, each $10,000; cemetery trustees of Newtown, 

 Conn., Protestant Episcopal Orphan Home and 

 Asylum, New York, St. Luke's Home for Indi- 

 gent Christian Females, Home for Old Men and 

 Aged Couples, Society for Relief of the Destitute 

 Blind, Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society 

 for Seamen, Church Mission to Deaf-mutes, Home 

 of Preservation, St. Agnes's Home, Protestant 

 Episcopal Missionary Society, and St. Mary's 

 Free Hospital for Children, each $5,000 ; New York 

 Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, $2,500; 

 and Protestant Episcopal Domestic and Foreign 

 Missionary Society, amount not specified. 



Townsend, Charles J., class of 79, gift to the 

 University of Rochester, for endowment of schol- 

 arship in political science, $5,000. 



Trowbridge, Mrs. Ezekiel H., and her son, 

 E. Hayes Trowbridge, New Haven, gift to the 

 New Haven Hospital to complete a maternity 

 department, $10,000. 



Trowbridge, Rutherford B., New Haven, gift 

 to the Yale Art School, $10,000. 



Tuck, Edward, New York, gift to Dartmouth 

 College, to be applied exclusively to instruction, 

 $300,000. 



Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 

 Tuskegee, Ala., gift from woman friend in Ohio, 

 name withheld, $25,000. 



Tuttle, Catharine M., Columbus, Ohio, gifts 

 to Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., for needy stu- 

 dents, $20,000; to Vassar College, for a Stedman 

 scholarship, $10,000. 



Underbill, Daniel, Jericho, Long Island, N. Y., 

 bequest to Swarthmore College, $5,000. 



Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., gift from 

 friend, name withheld, funds for a Young Men's 

 Christian Association building. 



United States Naval Academy, gift from 

 Park Benjamin, Robert M. Thompson, and Ed- 

 ward J. Berwind, a collection of 1,400 books, many 

 of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eight- 

 eenth centuries, and including almost every origi- 

 nal treatise on the science of electricity ever pub- 

 lished. Fifteen years were spent in gathering the 

 collection, and a large number of them could not 

 be duplicated. 



Vanderbilt, Mrs. Alice G., New York, gift to 

 the police pension fund, $5,000. 



Vanderbilt, Cornelius, New York, gifts to en- 

 dowment of the National Academy of Design, 

 $10,000, and to the New York Zoological Society, 

 $5,000; also bequests to St. Bartholomew's Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church, for new parish build- 

 ing, $200,000, and for parish missionary work, 

 $400,000; Young Men's Christian Association of 

 New York, for its work among railroad em- 

 ployees, $100,000; Yale University, $100,000; St. 

 Luke's Hospital, the Domestic and Foreign Mis- 

 sionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, and Vanderbilt University, each $50,- 

 000; Redwood Library at Newport, R. I., New- 



port Hospital, Christian Home for Intemper- 

 ate Men in New York, Working Girls' Society, 

 Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, Society 

 of St. Johnland, and the Protestant 'Episcopal 

 Society for Seamen, each $10,000- in all, $1,020,- 

 000; also to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 Turner's painting of the Grand Canal, Venice, 

 valued at $100,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Vanderbilt, William K., New York, gift to 

 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., funds for 

 new dormitory, to cost $100,000. 



Van Nostrand, Mrs. S. A., New York city, 

 bequests to Yale University for the Sheffield Sci- 

 entific School, $25,000, and the General Seminary 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $5,000. 



Van Pelt, Albert S., New Brunswick, N. J., 

 bequest to the Board of Foreign Missions of the 

 Reformed Church of America, $10,000. 



Vassar Alumnae Association, gift to the col- 

 lege for an infirmary, $40,000. 



Vassar College, gift from friend, name with- 

 held, one half of amount needed for a biological 

 laboratory, conditioned on securing remainder, 

 $25,000. 



Voorhees, Ralph, Clinton, N. J., gifts to the 

 American Bible Society, $10,000; Board of For- 

 eign Missions of the Reformed Church, $10,000; 

 and Clinton Board of Education, $5,000. 



Walker, Andrew, Kennebunk, Me., bequests, 

 to the Kennebunk Public Library, $10,000, and to 

 eight churches there and in Kennebunkport, each 

 $1,000. 



Wallace, Rodney, Fitchburg, Mass., gift to 

 the Public Library, which he gave the city, 

 $10,000. 



Walters, Henry, Baltimore, gift to the city 

 for public bath houses, $45,000. 



Warren, Charles F., Manchester, N. H., be- 

 quests to fraternal, educational, and charitable 

 organizations, an aggregate of $12,000. 



Warren, Henry C., Cambridge, Mass., be- 

 quests to Harvard University, real estate and 

 securities valued at nearly $1,000,000. 



Warren, Nathan B., Troy, N. Y., bequest to 

 Trinity College, $10,000. 



Webb, William Henry, New York, bequests 

 to Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, 

 founded by him, securities to insure its main- 

 tenance (value not specified), all his paintings, 

 busts, books, prints, and manuscripts relating 

 to shipbuilding, and his residuary estate; and the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings Flo- 

 rinde and Columbus unveiling America to the Rest 

 of the World and the statue Venus. See OBITU- 

 ARIES, AMERICAN. 



Weber, Frederick E., Boston, bequest to At- 

 lanta University, $5,000. 



Weis, Julius, New Orleans, gift to the Truro 

 Infirmary, for a new building for aged and in- 

 firm beneficiaries, $25,000. 



Wellesley College, gifts from former students 

 toward canceling the debt and creating an en- 

 dowment fund, $30,000. 



West, George, and wife, Ballston Spa, N. Y., 

 subscription to endowment fund of the Round 

 Lake Institute, $26,250. 



Wetherell, Mrs. Hester N., Worcester, Mass., 

 bequests to the Worcester Children's Friend So- 

 ciety, $20,000 ; Washburn Home for Aged Women, 

 Home for Aged Men, Temporary Home and Day 

 Nursery, Worcester Art Museum, and Worcester 

 Employment Society, each $10,000; Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Natural History 

 Society, and Society for Supporting District 

 Nurses, each $5,000; Worcester Boys' Club, 

 $8,000; and four other institutions, $9,000 in 

 all, $102,000. 



