_Albany._ Young Men's Association Library--Pruyn Branch Library. Gift
of building, furniture, and equipment, cost about $20,000, from
Mrs. William G. Rice, in memory of her father, the late Chancellor
J. V. L. Pruyn.
-- Gift of $525, from various persons.
_Angelica._ Free Library. Gift of $12,000, for a library building, from
Mrs. Frank Smith.
-- Gift of a building lot for a library building, value not stated,
from Frank S. Smith.
_Brooklyn._ The Brooklyn Library. Bequest from Mr. James A. H. Bell of
sixteen-seventy-fifths of his estate. This bequest is estimated to
be worth about $10,000. Mr. Bell also left the library 1523
volumes, collected since he gave his library of 10,425 volumes,
three years ago.
-- Long Island Historical Society. Gift of $6500. This amount was
raised by popular subscription, and is to be known as the "Storrs
Memorial Fund," the income to be devoted to the increase of the
library.
-- Bequest of $1000, the income to be expended in "the enlargement of
the department of ecclesiastical history," from Richard S. Storrs,
D.D., late President of the Society.
_Caldwell, Lake George._ Dewitt C. Hay Library Association. Bequest,
valued at about $13,300, consisting of 100 shares of Amer. Bank
Note Co. stock, 35 shares of C. M. and St. Paul R. R. stock, and
$2000 in Duluth and Iron Range R. R. stock, to be held in trust,
the income to be spent for new books, pictures, and objects of art,
from Mrs. Marietta C. Hay, of Tarrytown, N. Y. This library is
established in memory of the donor's husband.
_Catskill._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Cohoes._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for public library building,
from Andrew Carnegie.
_Gloversville._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for new library
building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city already appropriates $3000
for library maintenance.
_Greene._ Public Library. Gift of $30,000, for a public library
building, from William H. and James H. Moore, founders of the
Diamond Match Co., of Chicago.
_Hempstead, L. I._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public
library building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Homer._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000, for the erection of a public
library building, from George W. Phillips.
_Ithaca._ Cornell University. Gift of $12,000, as an endowment fund for
the Flower Veterinary Library, the income alone to be used for the
increase of the collection, from Mrs. Roswell P. Flower.
-- Gift of $1126, as a contribution toward printing the catalogue of
the Dante collection, from Willard Fiske.
-- Bequest, estimated at about $2000, from C. H. Howland, class of
1901. This is to form an endowment fund, the income to be used for
the purchase of works in the English language for a circulating
library for the use of students and officers of the university, and
is not payable until after the death of the testator's father, who
is still living.
-- Gift of $575, for the increase of the White Historical Library, from
the Hon. Andrew D. White.
-- Gift of 330 volumes, from the family of the late Prof. S. G.
Williams.
-- Gift of 300 volumes, from Theodore Stanton, class of '76.
_Johnstown._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and
appropriate $2500 yearly for maintenance.
_Middletown._ Thrall Library. Bequest of $31,500, with which a fine
library building has been erected, from Mrs. S. Marietta Thrall.
_Mount Vernon._ Public Library. Gift of $35,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_New Rochelle._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city must furnish site and a
yearly maintenance of $4000.
_New York City._ American Geographical Society. Gift of $4455 to
building fund, from various persons.
-- Am. Institute of Electrical Engineers. Gift of Latimer Clark
collection of electrical works, 6000 v., from Dr. S. S. Wheeler.
-- American Museum of Natural History. Gift of 4539 volumes, pamphlets,
etc., on Natural History, including 73 maps, of a value of not less
than $4200, from Gen. Egbert L. Viele.
-- Gift of 3166 volumes of Bibles, dictionaries, travels, cyclopædias,
etc., valued at $6500, from N. Y. Ecumenical Council.
-- Gift of 243 volumes and 33 pamphlets, handsomely bound and valued at
$2000, from Frederick A Constable.
-- Gift of 45 rare volumes on Mineralogy, valued at $250, from Ernest
Schernikow.
-- Association of the Bar. Gift of $10,000, received Jan. 1, 1901,
source not given.
-- Columbia University. Gift of $10,000, from "A Friend of the
University," for additions to the library.
-- Gift of $5000, from "A Friend of the University" (another friend),
for special purposes.
-- Gift of $2250, with which to complete the library's set of English
Parliamentary Papers, from the Hon. William S. Schermerhorn.
-- Gift of the "Garden Library" of 2279 volumes and 145 pamphlets,
consisting of works by Southern authors or bearing on Southern
history, from The New York Southern Society.
-- Deposit of the library of the Holland Society, consisting of books
and pamphlets, mostly in the Dutch language, many of which are
rare.
-- General Theological Seminary. Gift of 2700 volumes, a part of the
library of the Rev. B. I. Haight, D.D., from C. C. Haight, Esq.
-- Gift of 1000 volumes, a part of the library of the Rt. Rev. Horatio
Potter, D.D., from Prof. William B. Potter.
-- Gift of books, number not stated, to the value of $3850, from the
Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New
York.
-- Mechanics' Institute Library. (General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen.) Bequest of $5000, from estate of Charles P. Haughan.
-- New York Free Circulating Library. (New York Public Library.)
Bequest of $20,000, from Oswald Ottendorfer.
-- Bequest of $11,250, from Proudfit Estate. This library is now
absorbed by the New York Public Library--Astor, Lenox, and Tilden
Foundations.
-- New York University. Gift of over 1200 volumes, from the library of
the late Prof. Ezra Hall Gillett, D.D., from his two sons.
-- Public Library--Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Gift of
$5,200,000, for the erection of 65 branch library buildings, the
city to furnish the sites and guarantee the maintenance of the
libraries, from Andrew Carnegie.
-- Gift of 1304 volumes, from the Union League Club.
-- Gift of 738 volumes, from Hon. Robert P. Porter.
-- Gift of 592 volumes, from the Misses Ely.
-- Gift of 497 volumes, from Mrs. Gertrude King Schuyler.
-- Gift of 393 volumes, from estate of S. V. R. Townsend.
-- Gift of 343 volumes, from Dr. R. G. Wiener.
-- Gift of 287 volumes, from H. V. and H. W. Poor.
-- Gift of 280 volumes, from Edmond Bruwaert.
-- Gift of 923 groups of steel engravings, all "engravers' proofs,"
chiefly the works of the donor's father, from James D. Smillie.
-- Gift of a large and valuable collection of Japanese engravings and
chromo-xylographs, formed by Captain Brinkley, of the _Japan Mail_,
from Charles Stewart Smith.
-- New York Society Library. Bequest of $1000, from Maria B. Mount.
-- Bequest of $20,004.86, from Charles H. Contoit; during the previous
year $137,000 was paid to the library by this estate.
-- Union Theological Seminary. Gift of 559 volumes, from the library of
the late president, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, LL.D.
-- Gift of 519 volumes, from the library of the late Prof. Ezra Hall
Gillett, D.D., from his two sons.
-- Washington Heights Free Library. Gift of $1700 by Andrew Carnegie
towards completing sum required by conditional gift for new
building.
-- Young Men's Christian Association. Gift of $5000, to prepare
catalogue of circulating library, from Frederick E. Hyde.
_Newark._ Gift of a library building, costing nearly $25,000; also,
$1000 to send out travelling libraries in the neighborhood and the
salary of the librarian for a year, from Mr. Henry C. Rew, of
Evanston, Ill.
_Niagara Falls._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish a site and a
yearly maintenance of $7000.
_Oxford._ Public Library. Gift of a public library, from children of
the late Eli L. Corbin.
_Oyster Bay, L. I._ Public Library. Gift of $1000, towards a public
library building, by Andrew Carnegie. No conditions were attached
to this gift.
_Peekskill._ Public Library. Gift of the old Henry Ward Beecher
residence, fully equipped for a public library, from Dr. John
Newell Tilton.
_Port Jervis._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and
appropriate $3000 yearly maintenance.
-- Gift of plot of ground for library site, value not stated, from
Peter E. Farnum.
_Rochester._ Reynolds Library. Gift of 900 volumes of United States
public documents, from Hon. Charles S. Baker.
_St. George, S. I._ Arthur Winter Memorial Library of the Staten Island
Academy. Gift of $500, from Andrew Carnegie, without conditions.
_Schenectady._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city council had already
appropriated $5000 a year for library maintenance provisionally in
hope of securing a Carnegie gift. A site is under consideration, at
a probable cost of $14,000.
-- Gift of $15,000, with which to purchase a site for the new Carnegie
library, from the General Electric Company.
_Syracuse._ Public Library. Gift of $260,000, for a new library
building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and
guarantee $30,000 yearly for maintenance.
_Watertown._ Flower Memorial Library. Gift of $60,000, from Mrs. Emma
Flower Taylor, for a public library to commemorate her father, the
late Governor Roswell P. Flower.
_Yonkers._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.