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Professor Pickering has announced an anonymous gift to the Observatory of $20,000, with no conditions attached as to its expenditure. It is proposed to use $10,000 immediately to erect an extension to the building in which the 115,000 valuable photographic negatives belonging to the Observatory are kept. The present building's accommodations have for a long time been insufficient for the housing of this collection of negatives which furnish a history of the entire stellar universe for the past twelve years and which is not duplicated anywhere in the world...
...Medical School is now assured by the announcement that Mrs. C.P. Huntington has given $250,000 to the fund for the erection, equipment, and endowment of the School, in memory of her late husband, Collis P. Huntington. This generous gift makes up the required balance of the sum needed and makes immediately available the gift of over $1,000,000 by J. Pierpont Morgan, and the $1,000,000 given by J.D. Rockefeller, as well as other smaller amounts that were pledged on the condition that the whole amount be raised...
...announcement of the gift is made in the two letters that follow...
GENTLEMEN:--We take great pleasure in forwarding the enclosed letter just received from Mrs. C.P. Huntington, offering $250,000 for the erection of a building to be called, in memory of her late husband, The Collis P. Huntington Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology. This generous gift, taken in connection with previous subscriptions already reported, more than completes the sum of $765,000 required to secure Mr. J.D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000 for the enlargement and endowment of the Harvard Medical School and thus insures the realization of our great project...
Besides the gift of Mrs. Huntington and those of Mr. J.D. Rockefeller and Mr. J.P. Morgan, the following subscriptions to the Medical School fund have been received...