_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.