BENEFACTIONS.
Mr. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, has given $1,000,000 for a public library in that city.
Col. C. G. Hammond has given $20,000 towards the Professorship Fund of Chicago Seminary.
A fund of $100,000 has been received by the Perkins Institute for the Blind—the same to be used in printing books for the blind.
Mr. J. H. Deane, of New York, offers to give $10,000 towards $50,000 for the library of Richmond College (Baptist), provided that $25,000 of the whole sum be raised south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and that $25,000 be invested, and its income be used for the replenishing of the library.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell has received a gift of $15,000 for Iowa College from John L. Blair, of Blairsville, N.J., a prominent railroad man.
The will of the late C. D. Talcott, of Talcottville, Conn., bequeaths $5,000 to be expended in building a free public library in that village.
Mr. James W. Scoville, of Chicago, in addition to his previous generous gifts to the Chicago Theological Seminary, has just paid over $10,000 for the endowment of the “Scoville Professorship of Elocution.”