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of Dr. J. M. Da Costa ; $250,000, from Mrs. Thomas McKean, for the 
law school building. 
University of the South, $50,000, from George W. Quintard, of New York. 
University of Topeka (proposed), about $250,000, by the will of Mrs. Eliza 
Chrisman. 
Vanderbilt University, $250,000, by the will of the late Mary J. Furman. 
Washington University, property yielding from $120,000 to $130,000 à 
year, from Samuel Cupples and Robert S. Brookings. 
Washington and Lee University, $3000, by the will of Mrs. Juliet S. Bush- 
ford, for a scholarship. 
Wellesley College, about $100,000, by the will of Captain George S. Towle ; 
$109,000, by subscription ; $100,000, from John D. Rockefeller. 
Yale University, $1000, from Professor G. J. Brush; $2500, from an 
anonymous donor; $5000, from Mrs. Isaac H. Bradley, for lectures ; 
$700, by the will of Dr. James Campbell, for the senior prize ; $1000, 
from Mrs. H. F. English, for prize fund in art school; $1000, from 
ex-President Dwight, for the art school ; $30,000, from W. E. Dodge. 
It is difficult to say how much of the bicentennial fund, amounting to 
over $1,000,000, is to be counted as the gifts of the year 1900. 
Yankton College, $50,000, from Dr. D. K. Pearson. 
York, Pa., $50,000, from Andrew Carnegie, for a public library. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Dr. D. Anisito, professor of botany and zoólogy in the medical school at 
Asuncion, Paraguay. — Dr. George H. Ashley, professor of natural history 
in the College of Charleston, S. C. — Charles E. Banker, assistant in 
normal histology, Columbia University. — W. Bergt, professor extraordinary 
of geology in the Breslau Technical School. — Dr. R. H. Chittenden, pro- 
fessor of physiology in the medical school of Yale University. — Dr. E. B. 
Copeland, professor of botany in the University of West Virginia. — Dr. 
A. S. Eakle, instructor in petrology in the University of California. — Dr. 
Paul Eisler, professor extraordinary of anatomy at the University of Halle. 
— Dr. E. Ficalbi of. Messina, director of the zoólogical collections of the 
University of Padua. — Carlton P. Flint, assistant in anatomy in Columbia 
University. — William E. Ford, instructor in mineralogy in Yale University. 
— Dr. B. T. Galloway, custodian of the grounds of the United States — 
ment of Agriculture. — Dr. Gasparini, professor of anatomy in the medical 
school at Asuncion, Paraguay. — L. C. Glen, professor of geology at Vander- 
bilt University, Nashville, Tenn.— Dr. A. W. Grabau, lecturer in geology 
in Tufts College. — Dr. Lawrence E. Griffin, instructor in zoblogy. in - 
Western Reserve University. — Dr. Joseph B. Grzybowski, docent for 
paleontology in the University of Cracow. — Dr. G. Gürich, professor o 
geology and mineralogy in the University at Breslau. — Dr. R. Hesse, 
