Gifts and Bequests to the University

The University has received, through Mr. E. H. Wells, the sum of $9,753.64, representing the subscriptions of sixty-two ladies and gentlemen towards a gift to the Medical School in memory of the late Charles Follen Folsom '62, lecturer in that school for many years and an Overseer from 1891 to 1903. It is the desire of the subscribers that there be established in the Medical School a Charles Follen Folsom Teaching Fellowship in Hygiene or in Mental and Nervous diseases, and that the incumbent receive the annual income from the fund, or such part of it as may be consistent with the standing rules of the corporation in such cases. Additional subscriptions have been made, amounting to $1,430, to be paid before January 1, 1909.

The following gifts and bequests have also been received.

From the Hon. Charlemagne tower '72, American Ambassador at Berlin, as a gift to the Frank J. Scott Collection of Busts of Julius Caesar, a cast of the antique bust of Julius Caesar in the Royal Museum at Berlin.

From the estate of the late E. M. Barringer the final payment of $4,758.86, on account of his bequest for the establishment of the Edward M. Barringer Scholarships in the Medical School.

A gift of $250 from Professor E. D. Peters, renewing for the year 1908-09 the Scholarship for the Department of Mining and Metallurgy in the Graduate School of Applied Science.

From Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson, of Brookline, a gift of $25,000 for the Building Fund of the Dental School.

From Mr. Isidor Straus, of New York, the sum of $1,000 for expenses connected with explorations in Palestine.

From Professor E. C. Pickering a gift of $1,000 for present use at the Observatory.