CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| John Lowell, Jr., and His Free Lectures | [1] |
| Stephen Girard and His College for Orphans | [29] |
| Andrew Carnegie and His Libraries | [58] |
| Thomas Holloway; His Sanatorium and College | [89] |
| Charles Pratt and His Institute | [108] |
| Thomas Guy and His Hospital | [128] |
| Sophia Smith and Her College for Women | [153] |
| James Lick and His Telescope | [173] |
| Leland Stanford and His University | [201] |
| Captain Thomas Coram and His Foundling Asylum | [234] |
| Henry Shaw and His Botanical Garden | [247] |
| James Smithson and the Smithsonian Institution | [258] |
| Pratt, Lenox, Mary Macrae Stuart, Newberry, Crerar, Astor, Reynolds and their Libraries | [264] |
| Frederick H. Rindge and His Gifts | [283] |
| Anthony J. Drexel and His Institute | [285] |
| Philip D. Armour and His Institute | [291] |
| Leonard Case and His School of Applied Science | [297] |
| Asa Packer and Lehigh University | [301] |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University | [306] |
| Baron Maurice de Hirsch | [312] |
| Isaac Rich and Boston University | [315] |
| Daniel B. Fayerweather and Others | [318] |
| Catharine Lorillard Wolfe | [323] |
| Mary Elizabeth Garrett | [326] |
| Mrs. Anna Ottendorfer | [328] |
| Daniel P. Stone and Valeria G. Stone | [331] |
| Samuel Williston | [332] |
| John F. Slater and Daniel Hand | [336] |
| George T. Angell | [347] |
| William W. Corcoran | [351] |
| John D. Rockefeller and Chicago University | [357] |