The New York University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of the late Augustus Schell, and the New York Historical Society $5,000.
Mrs. Louisa L. Vought, besides other gifts to the Protestant Episcopal Church, left $10,000 for work among the colored people South, and $1,000 for the Indians.
Harvard College is to receive $5,000 for the astronomical observatory connected with that institution, from the estate of the late Thomas G. Appleton.
The Yale Corporation has voted to accept $50,000 from the Frederick Marquand fund for a chapel for the use of the College Young Men's Christian Association.
Knox College is to receive about $60,000 from the estate of the late H. H. Hitchcock, of Galesburg, Ill.
Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, bequeathed $50,000 for a German teachers' seminary in Milwaukee.
Hon. John R. Bodwell, of Hallowell, Me., gives $1,000 toward the new building for Industrial School for Girls in that city.
Persons desirous to help where help is most needed, to help where it will do most to promote national prosperity and true religion, may well consider the question of endowments for the educational institutions of the A. M. A.