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...small bequests the property, amounting to about $200,000, is left in trust for the payment of annuities to eleven persons, old and young. At their death one-third of the property is then to be given to the presidents of Yale and Harvard Universities and to the Smithsonian Institution, for the establishment of scholarships for poor students; another third has been left to the laboring poor of England and Italy. Harvard's third of a third of this estate is too far removed into the dim future to warrant any great congratulations...
Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
...Professor Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...