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...University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of about 8250,000 from Gen. Isaac J. Wistar to build and endow a museum of anatomy and biology. This museum will be in memory of Dr. Caspar Wistar, whose oldest living descendant will always be a member of the Board of Trustees...
...mineralogical department of the Peabody Museum at Yale has recently received a very important addition, through the gift of a large collection of meteorites by Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. English of New Haven. These specimens fell in Winnebago county, Iowa, on May 2, 1890, and are probably the largest collection from any single fall in the world. Nearly all are perfect specimens, being completely covered with a black, burnt coating due to their coming so rapidly through the atmosphere. Several show fractures, and others are thoroughly rounded and melted off. The collection is considered to be a very valuable...
...subscription, and (if the building is to be on college grounds as proposed) must be given over to the Corporation of Harvard College. It is the Corporation which must own and control the building. Moreover the nature of the building must be such as designated by the deed of gift, and the Corporation has no authority to devote it to purposes which in their judgment do not comply with the requirements of the deed of gift. Whoever raises the subscription and turns it over to the college must make the deed either unrestricted or else confined to one of practically...
Wesleyan has received a $5,000 gift towards its new gymnasium...
...University has also received from Mr. Sidney A. Kent, brother of Mr. A. E. Kent, who gave the Kent Laboratory to Yale, a gift of $750,000 for a chemical laboratory which will be the largest and best equipped in the country. Professor Ranson, of Johns Hopkins University is in Chicago assisting in drawing the plans. The Parker Club of Chicago contemplates erecting an Electrical laboratory on the campus...