BENEFACTIONS.
The late Thomas M. Reed, of Bath, Me., bequeathed $3,000 to Bangor Theological Seminary.
Mr. Reed, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the Hampton N. and A. Institute.
Mr. Ahok has given £10,000 towards the Methodist College in Fuh Chou.
Sir Erasmus Miller has given £10,000 to endow a pathological chair at an institution in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Yale College is to receive $50,000 for a laboratory from Messrs. Thomas and Henry Sloan, in honor of their father, William Sloan.
Thomas McGraw, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has given $50,000 for the endowment of the President’s chair at Amherst College.
Mr. Holloway, of England, has conveyed to the trustees of the Enghaman Institution, for the higher education of women, £400,000 for endowment purposes.
Iowa College has received $1,500 to be known as the Ellingwood Scholarship Fund for the education of ministers.
Hackettstown Seminary, N.J., has received $15,000 from Mr. Geo. I. Seney, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for the liquidation of its debt of $36,000, which is now entirely provided for. The property of the institution cost $175,000.
Mr. John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., has given $1,000,000 to a Board of Trustees, the income of which is to be applied for the education of the recently emancipated race in America.
We are happy to report that our appeals for endowment for Talladega College have met with additional responses since the statement given in our February number. One friend has given $5,000 towards the endowment of the President’s Chair, and another has pledged $5,000 for the Theological Department.