_Braddock_, _Duquesne_, and _Homestead_. Carnegie Libraries. Gift of
$1,000,000, from Andrew Carnegie. This amount has been placed in
trust with the Carnegie Company, of Pittsburg, the income of which
is to be devoted to maintaining the above libraries, founded by Mr.
Carnegie. It will be distributed from time to time, according to
the work done or needed.
_Carbondale._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Duquesne._ _See_ Braddock.
_Easton._ Lafayette College. The Van Wickle Memorial Library building,
erected at a cost of $30,000, from a legacy of Augustus S. Van
Wickle, of Hazleton. Pa.
-- Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library building, from
Andrew Carnegie. The gift was declined March 14, 1901, because of
maintenance requirement, and afterwards accepted (April 11) on
assurance that the site would be given to the city.
-- Gift of money to purchase a site for the building offered by Mr.
Carnegie, amount not stated, raised by popular subscription.
_Homestead._ _See_ Braddock.
_Huntingdon._ Gift of $20,000, for a public library building, from
Andrew Carnegie.
_Idlewood._ Chartiers Township Free Library. Gift of $1500, for the
purchase of books, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Newcastle._ Public Library. Gift of $30,000, for public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie. If the yearly maintenance is made
$4000 the gift will be raised to $40,000. Gift rejected, June 27,
1901.
_Philadelphia._ Academy of Natural Sciences. Bequest of about $500,000,
from Dr. Robert B. Lamborn. Though bequeathed to the academy, its
library will be benefited by the bequest.
-- Bequest of about $75,000, and a valuable collection of botanical
books and dried plants, from Charles E. Smith. The library will be
benefited by this bequest.
-- College of Physicians. Gifts and bequests amounting to $27,500
towards a "Library Endowment Fund," raised through the efforts of the
president of the college, Dr. W.W. Keen, within a period of eighteen
months, as follows:
Trustees of the William F. Jenks Memorial Fund, $7000.
Mr. William W. Frazier, $5000.
Estate of Esther F. Wistar, $5000.
Mrs. William T. Carter, $5000.
Dr. William W. Keen, $1000.
Charles C. Harrison, $1000.
J. Percy Keating, $1000.
Major Luther S. Bent, $1000.
John H. Converse, $1000.
George H. McFadden, $500.
-- Gift of 2466 volumes, from Dr. J. M. Da Costa.
-- Gift of 1500 volumes, from Dr. John Ashurst, Jr.
-- Gift of 272 volumes, from the daughters of the late Dr. William T.
Taylor.
-- The Franklin Institute. 844 volumes and 899 pamphlets, relating to
iron, coal, mining, railroads, and statistics, from the late
Charles E. Smith, at one time president of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Co.
-- Free Library. Bequest of 1215 volumes and 1806 unbound books,
pamphlets and magazines, through Stevenson Hockley Walsh, from Mrs.
Annie Hockley.
-- Gift of 464 volumes, for H. Josephine Widener Branch Library, from
Mr. P. A. B. Widener.
-- Gift of 245 volumes, from estate of George B. Roberts.
-- Gift of several volumes in embossed type for the blind, from Dr.
David D. Wood.
-- Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Gift of $5000, from Mrs. Mifflin
Wistar.
-- Gift of $2041, from Miss Ellen Waln.
-- Gift of $500, from Carl Edelheim.
-- Library Company of Philadelphia. Gift of 900 volumes, from the Hon.
Richard Vaux.
-- Gift of 406 volumes, from Henry Carey Baird, Esq.
-- University of Pennsylvania. Gift of $1750, to be spent in purchase
of philosophical books, from Class of 1889.
-- Gift of $615, for purchase of files of botanical periodicals, from
Robert B. Buist.
-- Gift of about 2500 volumes exceedingly valuable in works of Travels
and Archæology, from the heirs of Robert H. Lamborn, and the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
-- Gift of 1300 volumes, secured at Hunter sale, from contributions of
friends of the University.
_Phoenixville._ Public Library. Gift of $15,000, for public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Reading._ Public Library. Gift of $2000, for purchase of books, from
friends.
-- Gift of 681 volumes, from same source.
-- Gift of 356 volumes, forming his library, from Henry S. Comstock.
_Sharon._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.
_Washington._ Washington and Jefferson College. Gift of $10,000 (added
to the $50,000 given by her husband, William R. Thompson, for a new
library building), from Mrs. Mary Thow Thompson, of Pittsburg. The
building will cost $40,000, the balance, $20,000, will be held as a
book fund, the income only to be spent. Mr. Thompson's gift is
intended as a memorial to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Donaldson
Thompson.
-- Gift of $30,000, towards the erection and maintenance of a new
library building, from W. P. Thompson, making in all from Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson $60,000.
_Wilkinsburg._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for public library
building, from Andrew Carnegie.