Part 18

_Lexington._ State College. Gift of $50,000, from President James K. Patterson.

LOUISIANA.

_New Orleans._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000 and a valuable collection of books, from Abram Holker.

MAINE.

_Bangor._ Public Library. Bequest of $18,347.26, towards the building fund, from A. D. Mason.

-- Gift of building site, costing $7500, from Nathan C. Ayer.

_Belfast._ Free Library. Gift of $3000, as a fund for the purchase of books on history and biography, in memory of Albert Boyd Otis, from Albert Crane.

_Brunswick._ Bowdoin College. The new library building, given by Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, of New York City, reported last year, at over $150,000, will cost over $200,000.

-- Bequest of $2000, from Captain John Clifford Brown, of Portland.

-- Gift of $1200, from an unknown donor, through a Boston friend.

_Fairfield._ Public Library. Gift of a library building, to cost between $8000 and $10,000, from E. J. Lawrence.

_Farmington._ Public Library Association. Gift of $10,000, for a public library building, from Hon. Isaac Cutler, of Boston, Mass.

_Lewiston._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

MARYLAND.

_Cumberland._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Hagerstown._ Washington County Free Library. Gift of $50,000 and accrued interest $1250, from B. F. Newcomer, of Baltimore, the town to furnish a site for building, which will cost about $25,000.

MASSACHUSETTS.

_Amherst._ Amherst College. Gift of $500, to form a fund for the purchase of Spanish books, from Hon. John S. Brayton, of Fall River, Mass.

_Bolton._ Parker Library. Devise of a dwelling house and one-half acre of land, on condition that within one year from the allowance of the will the town shall establish a free public library to be known as the Parker Library, from Louisa Parker.

_Boston._ Lang Memorial Library. Gift of a free public library of musical scores, founded by B. J. Lang, as a memorial to Ruth Burrage.

-- Public Library. Bequest of $4000, from Abram E. Cutter.

-- Gift of 599 volumes of text-books used in the public schools of Boston, from the Boston School Committee, in co-operation with the publishers.

-- Gift of 597 volumes, relating to music, scores, etc., from Allen A. Brown.

-- Gift of 576 volumes, relating to music, including operas, oratorios, collections of school and college song books, etc., from The Oliver Ditson Co.

_Cambridge._ Harvard University. Bequest of $10,000, to increase fund, already established by him, for purchase of works of history, political economy, and sociology, from ex-Governor Roger Wolcott.

-- Gift of $1250, for purchase of books relating to the history of the Ottoman Empire, from Prof. A. C. Coolidge.

-- Gift of $800, for the purchase of books on ecclesiastical history in the Riant Library, from J. Harvey Treat, of Lawrence.

-- Gift of $500, for purchase of books relating to Scandinavian subjects, from Mrs. Emil E. Hammer.

-- Bequest of 1920 volumes, mainly English and French literature, from Edward Ray Thompson, of Troy, N. Y.

-- Gift of 700 volumes from the library of James Russell Lowell, to form the Lowell Memorial Library for the use of the Romance Departments of the University, from various subscribers.

-- Gift of 549 volumes, the library of Alphonse Marsigny, from The J. C. Ayer Company, of Lowell.

-- Gift of 317 volumes, belonging to the library of her late husband, from Mrs. John E. Hudson.

-- Bequest of 250 volumes of Sanskrit and other Oriental works, from Henry C. Warren, Esq.

-- Public Library. Bequest of 550 volumes, consisting chiefly of Maine and New Hampshire local histories, genealogies, etc., from Cyrus Woodman.

-- Gift of a collection of art works, valued at about $500, from Nathaniel Cushing Nash.

_Clinton._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Conway._ Field Memorial Library. Gift of a library building to cost $100,000, as a memorial to the donor's father and mother, from Marshall Field, of Chicago. It will also be endowed by Mr. Field.

_Fairhaven._ Millicent Library. Gift of Fairhaven Waterworks, valued at from $100,000 to $125,000, and producing an annual income of about $8000, from Henry H. Rogers.

_Groveland._ Public Library. Bequest of $5000, from J. G. B. Adams.

_Hinsdale._ Public Library. Bequest of $5000, to be known as "Curtice fund," the income to be used for the purchase of books, from John W. Curtice, of Washington, D. C.

_Lynn._ Free Public Library. Gift of a library building, erected largely from the bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth Shute.

--Gift of large mural painting, by F. Luis Mora, from Joseph N. Smith.

-- Gift of copy in marble of the Venus of Milo, from Charles W. Bubier, of Providence, R. I.

-- Gift of a bronze bust of the late Charles J. Van Depoele, from his family.

_Malden._ Public Library. Gift of $125,000, to be known as the Elisha and Mary D. Converse Endowment Fund, from Hon. Elisha D. Converse. "The income from this fund will be 'used freely in any direction in which it may conduce to the welfare of the library.'"

_Milton._ Public Library. Bequest of $2000, from ex-Governor Roger Wolcott, of Boston, Mass.

_Newburyport._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for the purchase of books, from John Rand Spring, of San Francisco.

-- Bequest of $4500, from Stephen W. Marston, of Boston.

-- Bequest of $3000, from E. S. Moseley.

_North Adams._ Public Library. Gift of furnishings and decorations of children's room, value not stated, from William Arthur Gallup, as a memorial to his children.

_Petersham._ Public Library. Bequest of $12,000, from Lucy F. Willis.

_Plymouth._ Public Library. Gift of a new library building, to cost about $20,000, from the heirs of the late William G. Russell, of Boston, as a memorial to their father and mother.

_Salem._ Public Library. Bequest of $10,000, from Walter S. Dickson.

_Somerville._ Public Library. Gift of $4000, from Mrs. Harriet Minot Laughlin, in memory of her father, Isaac Pitman, the first librarian of the institution, the income to be used for the purchase of "works of art, illustrative, decorative, and otherwise."

_Springfield._ City Library. Bequest of about $70,000, from the estate of David Ames Wells, of Norwich, Conn., his son David Dwight Wells having died June 15, 1900, without issue. One-half of the income is to be expended for publications on economic, fiscal, or social subjects.

-- Gift of 450 volumes, from Miss Frances Fowler.

_Sunderland._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000, for a library and its equipment, from John L. Graves, of Boston.

_Swansea._ Public Library. Bequest of a library building, cost not stated, from Frank Shaw Stevens.

_Woburn._ Eunice Thompson Memorial Library. By his last will Jonathan Thompson, of Woburn, left a plot of ground and the residue of his estate for the erection and maintenance of a suitable building by the city, to be known by the above name. Value of bequest about $70,000.

_Worcester._ American Antiquarian Society. Gift of $3000, for a fund, the interest of which is to be expended for literature relating to the Civil War of 1861-65. This fund is in memory of Hon. John Davis, President of the Society from 1853-54, and was given by John C. B. Davis, of Washington, D. C., Horace Davis, of San Francisco, and Andrew McF. Davis, of Cambridge.

-- Clark University. Bequest of $150,000, from Jonas G. Clark, for the erection and maintenance of a library.

MICHIGAN.

_Albion._ Albion College. Gift of $10,000, to be devoted to a library building, as a memorial to the donor's daughter, Lottie T. Gassett, from Mrs. C. T. Gassett.

_Ann Arbor._ Ladies' Library Association. Bequest of $3000, from Mrs. L. M. Palmer.

-- University of Michigan. Gift of about 1600 volumes, belonging to the library of the late Prof. George A. Hench, from his mother, Mrs. Rebecca A. Hench. The greater number refer to Germanic philology.

_Delray._ Public Library. Gift of property, valued at $15,000, for a public library, from The Solvay Process Company, of that place.

_Detroit._ Public Library. Gift of $750,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

-- Gift of 477 volumes and 1932 pamphlets, from the heirs of the late Gov. John J. Bagley. "This collection was notable in being almost wholly available, useful, and valuable to the library."

-- Gift of 418 volumes and 1435 pamphlets, from Herbert Bowen, formerly a member of the Library Board. "All were of a historical character, mostly local and relating to Michigan, or institutions and localities in the state."

_Grand Rapids._ Public Library. Gift of $150,000, for the erection and furnishing of a library building, from Martin A. Ryerson, of Chicago, the city to provide site and maintenance. The offer was made Feb. 14, 1901, and was at once accepted by the Mayor.

_Iron Mountain._ Public Library. Gift of $15,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Ishpeming._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Jackson._ Public Library. Gift of $70,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city already appropriates $7000 yearly for library support.

_Marquette._ Public Library. Gift of $5000, toward a new library building, from an anonymous donor.

_Muskegon._ Hackley Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a new two-story stack room, from Charles Henry Hackley.

_Sault Ste. Marie._ Public Library. Gift of $30,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

MINNESOTA.

_Cloquet._ Public Library. Gift of a site for a library building, valued at $2500, from Cloquet Lumber Company.

_Duluth._ Carnegie Library. Gift of $25,000, for a new library building, in addition to a former gift of $50,000, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Mankato._ Public Library. Gift of $40,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Minneapolis._ Public Library. Gift of $60,000, for the erection of a branch library building, from ex-Governor J. S. Pillsbury.

_St. Cloud._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

-- Gift of $2000, towards the purchase of a site for the new Carnegie library building, from J. J. Hill, of St. Paul.

_St. Paul._ Public Library. Gift of $500, for purchase of children's books, from various friends of the library.

-- Gift of their library of 430 volumes, from St. Paul Teacher's Association.

-- Gift of 38 photographs of paintings, two pictures and a large cast of the Victory of Samothrace, from four donors.

_Sleepy Eye._ Dyckman Free Library. Gift of $8000, being the cost of the completed library building, from F. H. Dyckman.

MISSISSIPPI.

_Natchez._ Fisk Library Association. Gift of $25,000, from Mrs. Christian Schwartz, on condition that the Association raise an additional $10,000.

-- Gift of site, valued at $3000, and a library building, to cost $10,000, from Mrs. Christian Schwartz.

_Yazoo._ Public Library. Gift of a library building, to cost $25,000, as a memorial to the late Gen. B. S. Ricks, from his widow.

-- Gift of $1000, from Mrs. K. C. Gardner.

MISSOURI.

_De Soto._ Railroad Library. Gift of $1000, for a library for railroad employes, from Miss Helen Gould, of New York.

_Hannibal._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for the erection of a library building, to be known as the John H. Garth Public Library, from Mrs. John H. Garth and her daughter, Mrs. R. M. Goodlet.

_Jefferson City._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a new library building, from Andrew Carnegie, upon condition that the city secures a site and appropriates $3000 a year for the maintenance of the library.

_St. Joseph._ Free Library. Bequest of $20,000, from Jarvis Ford.

_St. Louis._ Public Library. Gift of $1,000,000, for public library buildings, from Andrew Carnegie, provided the city will contribute the site and appropriate $150,000 yearly for the support of the library.

-- Gift of $400,000, to lift incumbrance on block to be used for the new Carnegie Library, from four St. Louis citizens.

_South St. Joseph._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

NEBRASKA.

_Crete._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000, for a public library building, from T. H. Miller, provided the city furnish a site approved by the donor.

_Lincoln._ University of Nebraska. Bequest of 2000 volumes, of history, literature, and works on education, forming the library of the donor, from Simon Kerl, of Oakland, Neb. The books are never to be loaned outside the library rooms.

_South Omaha._ Public Library. Gift of $60,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

_Derry._ Benjamin Adams Memorial Library. Bequest of $10,000, for the erection of a town-hall and public library building, from Benjamin Adams.

_Hanover._ Dartmouth College. Bequest of $10,000, as a library fund for the Department of Philosophy, from Mrs. Susan A. Brown.

_Pittsfield._ Public Library. Gift of a library building, to be erected, value not stated, from Josiah Carpenter, of Manchester.

_Rindge._ Ingalls Memorial Library. Gift of $1000, as a fund, the interest to be used for the benefit of the library, from the Hon. Ezra S. Stearns.

NEW JERSEY.

_Jersey City._ Free Public Library. Gift of 819 volumes and 381 pamphlets, forming the medical library of the late Dr. S. W. Clark, from his widow.

_Montclair._ Public Library. Gift of $30,000, for public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Newark._ Free Public Library. Gifts of 1125 periodicals and pamphlets, from three persons.

_Perth Amboy._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city already appropriates $1200 yearly.

-- Gift of a site for a public library building, value not stated, from J. C. McCoy.

-- Gift of $1000, with which to purchase books when needed, from Adolph Lewisohn.

_Princeton._ Princeton University. Gift of $50,000, for library maintenance, from anonymous donor.

-- Gifts of cash aggregating at least $16,000, from various sources.

-- Gift of $5000, for library of Germanics, from the class of 1891.

-- Bequest of 2739 volumes and 860 pamphlets, from Prof. William Henry Green.

-- Gift of 1000 volumes, from the library of the late Dr. Samuel Miller, presented by Samuel Miller Breckinridge.

-- Gift of 310 volumes, from D. H. Smith, of New York.

-- Gift of 255 volumes, from Prof. Henry Van Dyke.

_Trenton._ Public Library. Gift of books, forming the Women's Christian Temperance Union Library, to the Public Library.

-- Gift of about 2500 volumes, comprising books in "A. L. A. catalog" not already in library, from Ferdinand W. Roebling, president of the board.

NEW MEXICO.

_Albuquerque._ Free Public Library. Gift of a two-story brick building, valued at $25,000, on condition that it be used forever as a public library and that $1000 additional be raised by the citizens, from J. S. Reynolds.

-- Gift of $2000, for the purchase of books, raised by popular subscription.

NEW YORK.

_Albany._ Young Men's Association Library--Pruyn Branch Library. Gift of building, furniture, and equipment, cost about $20,000, from Mrs. William G. Rice, in memory of her father, the late Chancellor J. V. L. Pruyn.

-- Gift of $525, from various persons.

_Angelica._ Free Library. Gift of $12,000, for a library building, from Mrs. Frank Smith.

-- Gift of a building lot for a library building, value not stated, from Frank S. Smith.

_Brooklyn._ The Brooklyn Library. Bequest from Mr. James A. H. Bell of sixteen-seventy-fifths of his estate. This bequest is estimated to be worth about $10,000. Mr. Bell also left the library 1523 volumes, collected since he gave his library of 10,425 volumes, three years ago.

-- Long Island Historical Society. Gift of $6500. This amount was raised by popular subscription, and is to be known as the "Storrs Memorial Fund," the income to be devoted to the increase of the library.

-- Bequest of $1000, the income to be expended in "the enlargement of the department of ecclesiastical history," from Richard S. Storrs, D.D., late President of the Society.

_Caldwell, Lake George._ Dewitt C. Hay Library Association. Bequest, valued at about $13,300, consisting of 100 shares of Amer. Bank Note Co. stock, 35 shares of C. M. and St. Paul R. R. stock, and $2000 in Duluth and Iron Range R. R. stock, to be held in trust, the income to be spent for new books, pictures, and objects of art, from Mrs. Marietta C. Hay, of Tarrytown, N. Y. This library is established in memory of the donor's husband.

_Catskill._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Cohoes._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Gloversville._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for new library building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city already appropriates $3000 for library maintenance. _Greene._ Public Library. Gift of $30,000, for a public library building, from William H. and James H. Moore, founders of the Diamond Match Co., of Chicago.

_Hempstead, L. I._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_Homer._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000, for the erection of a public library building, from George W. Phillips.

_Ithaca._ Cornell University. Gift of $12,000, as an endowment fund for the Flower Veterinary Library, the income alone to be used for the increase of the collection, from Mrs. Roswell P. Flower.

-- Gift of $1126, as a contribution toward printing the catalogue of the Dante collection, from Willard Fiske.

-- Bequest, estimated at about $2000, from C. H. Howland, class of 1901. This is to form an endowment fund, the income to be used for the purchase of works in the English language for a circulating library for the use of students and officers of the university, and is not payable until after the death of the testator's father, who is still living.

-- Gift of $575, for the increase of the White Historical Library, from the Hon. Andrew D. White.

-- Gift of 330 volumes, from the family of the late Prof. S. G. Williams.

-- Gift of 300 volumes, from Theodore Stanton, class of '76.

_Johnstown._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and appropriate $2500 yearly for maintenance.

_Middletown._ Thrall Library. Bequest of $31,500, with which a fine library building has been erected, from Mrs. S. Marietta Thrall.

_Mount Vernon._ Public Library. Gift of $35,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.

_New Rochelle._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city must furnish site and a yearly maintenance of $4000.

_New York City._ American Geographical Society. Gift of $4455 to building fund, from various persons.

-- Am. Institute of Electrical Engineers. Gift of Latimer Clark collection of electrical works, 6000 v., from Dr. S. S. Wheeler.

-- American Museum of Natural History. Gift of 4539 volumes, pamphlets, etc., on Natural History, including 73 maps, of a value of not less than $4200, from Gen. Egbert L. Viele.

-- Gift of 3166 volumes of Bibles, dictionaries, travels, cyclopædias, etc., valued at $6500, from N. Y. Ecumenical Council.

-- Gift of 243 volumes and 33 pamphlets, handsomely bound and valued at $2000, from Frederick A Constable.

-- Gift of 45 rare volumes on Mineralogy, valued at $250, from Ernest Schernikow.

-- Association of the Bar. Gift of $10,000, received Jan. 1, 1901, source not given.

-- Columbia University. Gift of $10,000, from "A Friend of the University," for additions to the library.

-- Gift of $5000, from "A Friend of the University" (another friend), for special purposes.

-- Gift of $2250, with which to complete the library's set of English Parliamentary Papers, from the Hon. William S. Schermerhorn.

-- Gift of the "Garden Library" of 2279 volumes and 145 pamphlets, consisting of works by Southern authors or bearing on Southern history, from The New York Southern Society.

-- Deposit of the library of the Holland Society, consisting of books and pamphlets, mostly in the Dutch language, many of which are rare.

-- General Theological Seminary. Gift of 2700 volumes, a part of the library of the Rev. B. I. Haight, D.D., from C. C. Haight, Esq.

-- Gift of 1000 volumes, a part of the library of the Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D., from Prof. William B. Potter.

-- Gift of books, number not stated, to the value of $3850, from the Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New York.

-- Mechanics' Institute Library. (General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen.) Bequest of $5000, from estate of Charles P. Haughan.

-- New York Free Circulating Library. (New York Public Library.) Bequest of $20,000, from Oswald Ottendorfer.

-- Bequest of $11,250, from Proudfit Estate. This library is now absorbed by the New York Public Library--Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

-- New York University. Gift of over 1200 volumes, from the library of the late Prof. Ezra Hall Gillett, D.D., from his two sons.

-- Public Library--Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Gift of $5,200,000, for the erection of 65 branch library buildings, the city to furnish the sites and guarantee the maintenance of the libraries, from Andrew Carnegie.

-- Gift of 1304 volumes, from the Union League Club.

-- Gift of 738 volumes, from Hon. Robert P. Porter.

-- Gift of 592 volumes, from the Misses Ely.

-- Gift of 497 volumes, from Mrs. Gertrude King Schuyler.

-- Gift of 393 volumes, from estate of S. V. R. Townsend.

-- Gift of 343 volumes, from Dr. R. G. Wiener.

-- Gift of 287 volumes, from H. V. and H. W. Poor.

-- Gift of 280 volumes, from Edmond Bruwaert.

-- Gift of 923 groups of steel engravings, all "engravers' proofs," chiefly the works of the donor's father, from James D. Smillie.

-- Gift of a large and valuable collection of Japanese engravings and chromo-xylographs, formed by Captain Brinkley, of the _Japan Mail_, from Charles Stewart Smith.

-- New York Society Library. Bequest of $1000, from Maria B. Mount.

-- Bequest of $20,004.86, from Charles H. Contoit; during the previous year $137,000 was paid to the library by this estate.