414 Miscellaneous Inielligence. 
VY. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 
1. Additional Gifts to Science from George Peabody, Hsq.—Since the 
notice of Mr. Peabody’s recent donations to science, which appeared in 
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$2,000,000 for the promotion of education in the South and Southwest. 
This munificent gift was accompanied by the following letter to the 
Trustees of the fund :— 
To Hon. Robert ©. Winthrop, of Massachusetts; Hon, Hamilton Fish, of 
New York; Right Rev. Charles P, McIlvaine, of Ohio; General U. 8. 
Grant, of the United States Army; Admiral David G. Farragut, of the 
United States Navy ; Hon. William C. Rives, of Virginia; Hon. John H 
Clifford, of Massachusetts; Hon. William Aiken, of South Carolina; 
William M. Evarts, Esq., of New York; Hon. William A. Graham, of 
North Carolina; Charles Macalester, of Pennsylvania; George W. 
Riggs, Esq., of Washington; Samuel Wetmore, Esq., of New York; 
Edward A. Bradford, Esq., of Louisiana; George N. Eaton, Esq., of 
Maryland; and George Peabody Russell, Esq., of Massachusetts. 
GuntLEmEN: I beg to address you on a subject which occupied my 
But to make her prosperity more than superficial, her moral and intel- 
development should keep pace with her material growth; and in 
years preclude them from making, by unaided effort, such advances in 
education, and such progress in the diffusion of knowledge among all 
classes, as every lover of his country must earnestly desire. 
I feel most deeply, therefore, that it is the duty and privilege of the 
more favored and w i i ist th 
less fortunate; and, with the wish to discharge so far as I may be able 
my own responsibility in this matter, as well as to gratify my desire to 
aid those to whom I am ne 
