GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Boston (Mass.) University, gifts to endow- 

 ment, from the Board of Trustees, $50,000; from 

 outside friends, $150,000. 



Bowdoin College, gift from friends for centen- 

 nial fund, $50.000. 



Brage, William, Mauch Chunk, Pa., bequests 

 to Yale University for a Chair of Romance Lan- 

 guages and Literature, $75,000, and to aid deserv- 

 ing scholars, $5,000; St. Luke's Hospital, South 

 Bethlehem, Pa., $5,000; and Lafayette College, 

 12,500. 



Braidich, Adolph F., New York, bequests to 

 Charity Organization Society of New York, $25,- 

 000; and American Society for Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, $10,000. 



Brick, Mrs. Julia Elma Brewster, Brooklyn, 

 \. V.. Inquests to Brooklyn Children's Aid Soci- 

 etv, $9,000; Mariners' Family Asylum (Staten 

 Island), American Bible Society, Society for the 

 Aid of Friendless Women and Children (Brook- 

 lyn), and Brooklyn Industrial School Association 

 and Home for Destitute Children, each $5,000; 

 Brooklyn City Hospital, all her property in Ocean 

 County, New Jersey; and to Joseph K. Brick 

 Agricultural, Industrial, and Normal School, 

 Edgecombe County, North Carolina, her residuary 

 estate. 



Brigham, Peter Bent, Boston, Mass, (died in 

 1877), bequest to trustees, his entire estate, to be 

 held for twenty-five years and then applied to 

 hospital purposes in Boston. The trust expired 

 May 25, 1902, and the amount then available 

 was" $4,000,000. 



Bross, William, bequest to Lake Forest Uni- 

 versity, Chicago, funds for an annual lecture " on. 

 the connection, relation, and mutual bearing of 

 any practical science or the history of our race, 

 or the facts in any department of knowledge, with 

 and upon the Christian religion," and also for an 

 annual prize of $6,000 to the author of the best 

 book on that subject. 



Brown, Mrs. Natalie Bayard, Newport, R. I., 

 gift of a new building for Emanuel Church, cost 

 $80.000. 



Brown, Mrs. Susan Dod, Princeton, N. J., be- 

 quest to Princeton University, her estate valued 

 to $150,000. 



Brown University, gift from friends to secure 

 gift of $75,000 from John D. Rockefeller, $25,000. 



Bruce, Robert M., Greenwich, Conn., gift to 

 that city for an isolation hospital, 15 acres of 

 ground, with buildings. 



Bryn Mawr College, gift from friends to se- 

 cure gift of $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller, 

 $256,000. 



Bunzi, Mrs. Regine, New York, bequests to 

 Society for Ethical Culture, and Hebrew Orphan 

 Asylum, each $2,000; and Mount Sinai Hospital, 

 Montefiore Home, Home for Aged and Infirm 

 Hebrews, and German Hospital, each $1,000. 



Burke, John Masterson, New York, gift to 

 found a home for convalescents, $4,000,000. 



Butler, Mrs. Olive M., Portland, Me., gift to 

 Bowdoin College, for 4 scholarships, $10,000. 



Campbell, Felix, New York city, bequest for 

 a building fund for a Roman Catholic cathedral 

 in Brooklyn, $20,000. 



Carnegie, Andrew, New York, gifts to Cooper 

 Union, New York, $300,000; city of New Orleans 

 for a main library building 'and 3 branches, 

 250.000; Wooster (Ohio) University, toward 

 rebuilding the university $100,000; Stevens 

 Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., for 

 endowment of the Carnegie Laboratory of En- 

 gineering. $100,000; Clark University, toward 

 willing a bequest, $100.000; American Library 

 Association, to be used for the preparation 



and publishing of reading-lists, indexes, and 

 other bibliographical and literary work, $100,000; 

 Union College, to be devoted to the completion of. 

 Nott Memorial Hall, $40,000; Cincinnati Library 

 Board, for the erection of 6 new branch libraries, 

 $180,000; and for public libraries: Albany, N. Y,, 

 $175,000; Amsterdam, N. Y., $25,000; Athol, 

 Mass., $15,000; Atlantic, Iowa, $12,500; Baraboo, 

 Wis., $12,000; Beatrice, Neb., $20,000; Bedford, 

 Ind., $15,000; Benton Harbor, Mich., $15,000; 

 Bessemer, Pa., $30,000; Binghamton, N. Y., $75,- 

 000; Blue Island, 111., $15,000; Bozeman, Mont., 

 $15,000; Brazil, Ind., $20,000; Canastota, N. Y., 

 $10,000; Cedar Falls, Iowa, $15,000; Charlotte, 

 Mich., $10,000; Chicago Heights, 111., $10,000; 

 Chippewa Falls, Wis., $20,000; Columbus, Ind., 

 $15,000; Columbus, Ohio, $150,000; Danville. 

 Ind., $10,000; Denison, Iowa, $10,000; Denver, 

 Col., $200,000; Dillon, Mont., $7,500; Dover, N.H., 

 $30,000; Dubuque, Iowa, $60,000; Eldora, Iowa, 

 $10,000; El Paso, Tex., $35,000; Estherville, Iowa, 

 $10,000; Fond du Lac, Wis., $30,000; Fort Scott, 

 Kan., $18,000; Fremont, Neb., $15,000; Fulton, 

 N. Y., $15,000; Georgetown, Col., $10,000; Glovers- 

 ville, N. Y., $50,000; Grand Island, Neb., $20,000; 

 Greencastle, Ind., $15,000; Greensboro, Md., $15,- 

 000; Hampton, Iowa, $10,000; Huntington, 

 W. Va., $35,000; Iowa City, Iowa, $25,000; Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., $50,000; Johnstown, N. Y., $25,- 

 000; Kenton, Ohio, $17,500; Kingston, N. Y., 

 $20,000; Kokoma, Ind., $25,000; Lansing, Mich., 

 $35,000; Las Vegas, N. Mex., $10,000; Laurel, 

 Md., $10,000; Lawrence, Kan., $25,000; Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., $50,000; Little Falls, Minn., $10,000; 

 Littleton, N. H., $15,000; London, Ohio, $10,000; 

 Lorain, Ohio, $30,000; Louisville, Ky., $250,000; 

 Maquoketa, Iowa, $20,000; Marion, Ohio, $25,- 

 000; Marlboro, Mass., $30,000; Mclrose, Mass., 

 $25,000; Mitchell, S. Dak., $10,000; Monroe, Wis., 

 $20,000; Montclair, N. J., $40,000; Mount 

 Clemens, Mich., $25,000; New Albany, Ind., $35,- 

 000; New Brunswick, N. J., $50,000; Newman, 

 Ga., $10,000; Newport, Ohio., $6,500; Newton, 

 Iowa, $10,000; Newton, Kan., $10,000; Oskaloosa, 

 Iowa, $20,000; Ottawa, Kan., $15,000; Paris, 111., 

 $18,000; Peterboro, N. H., $5,000; Pomona, Cal., 

 $15,000; Port Huron, Mich., $40,000; Pueblo, 

 Col., $60,000; Redfield, S. -Dak., $10,000; Reno, 

 Nev., $15,000; St. Joseph, Mich., $15,000; Salina, 

 Kan., $15,000; San Bernardino, Cal., $15,000; 

 Santa Ana, Tex., $15,000; Santa Rosa, Cal., $20,- 

 000; Saratoga, N., Y., $30,000; Sheboygan, Wis., 

 $35,000; Shelbyville, Ind., $20,000; Southbridge, 

 Mass., $20,000; Sparta, Wis., $10,000; Tampa, 

 Fla., $25,000; Taunton, Mass., $60,000; Temple, 

 Tex., $10,000; Tipton, Ind., $10,000; Tipton, Iowa, 

 $10,000; Washington, Ohio, $12,000; Waterloo, 

 Iowa, $40,000; Watervliet, N. Y., $20,000; Wau- 

 kesha, Wis., $15,000; West Hoboken, N. J., $25,- 

 000; Wilmington, Ohio, $10,000; Worcester, 

 Mass., $15,000; Xenia, Ohio, $20,000; and Yank- 

 ton, S. Dak., $10,000. The library gifts were con- 

 ditional on the various cities and towns providing 

 the sites and agreeing to make annual appro- 

 priations for maintenance equal to 10 per cent, of 

 his respective gifts. This list excludes Mr. Car- 

 negie's gifts for library and other public purposes 

 mit side of Ihe United States. 



Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C., 

 ;i \\nnls by the, to Prof. W. O. Atwater, of Wesley- 

 an University, for the prosecution of inquiries 

 with the respiration calorimeter, $5,000; to its 

 Botanical Advisory Board, for the establishment 

 and maintenance for a year of a desert botanical 

 laboratory, $8,000; and to Yale University for 

 its experimental psychology laboratory, a sum 

 not specified. 



