TABLE 96.-Noteworthy gifts and bequests to schools, colleges, and other institutions of learning during the scholastic year 1883-87-Continued.

Post-office address.

Amount
of gift or
bequest.

Purpose of gift or bequest.

TABLE 96.-Noteworthy gifts and bequests to schools, colleges, and other institutions of learning during the scholastic year 1886-87-Continued.

Name of giver.

Post-office address.

Name of institution receiving.

CHAPTER XVI.

OBITUARY LIST OF NOTABLE EDUCATORS AND BENEFACTORS TO EDUCATION.

The list here presented contains such names among the dead of the year 1886-87, as were notable either for their connection with some form of educational labor or for their gifts and bequests to educational purposes. Of course the list is incomplete, or may be so considered; some names are omitted because no trustworthy information of the kind here given could be procured respecting them; and other names might have been included by the partiality of friends.

No attempt has been made to include some men of eminence whose work as educationists was merely incidental; for example, the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a lecturer for three years in the Yale Divinity School at New Haven; yet Mr. Beecher's name is not included.

These exclusions have been necessary in order to prevent the list from becoming too cumbrous for publication and too vague in design.

Usually facts respecting those included in the list, which relate to other interests or labors are passed over in silence.

A few names, omitted from the report for 1885-86, are included in this list.

AMERICAN.

ADAMS, James O., in Boscawen, N, H., February 7, 1887, aged sixty-eight years; superintendent of public schools in Manchester, N.,H., 1855-59 and 1861-67; secretary

of the New Hampshire State Board of Agriculture and editor of its valuable reports, 1870-87.

AIKEN, David Wyatt, in Cokesbury, S. C., April 6, 1887, aged fifty-nine years; professor of mathematics in South Carolina College, 1849-51; a prominent agriculturist; member of Congress, 1876-84, part of the time being chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor; an officer in the Confederate service during the civil

war.

ANDERSON, Luther W., in Quincy, Mass, June 13, 1887, aged sixty-six years; teacher and head master in the English High School in Boston, 1848–87.

ASHBURNER, William, in San Francisco, Cal., April 20, 1887, aged fifty-six years; professor of mining, 1874, and regent, 1880, of the University of California, and trustee of the newly endowed Leland Stanford, Jr., University; a well-known geologist and mining engineer.

AYRES, William O., A. M., M. D., in Brooklyn, April 30, 1887, aged sixty-nine years; a teacher, 1837-52; professor in Toland Medical College, San Francisco, and in the Yale Medical School.

BARTLETT, John Russell, at Providence, R. I., May 28, 1886, aged eighty years; one of the founders of the Providence Athenæum, and of the American Ethnological Society; historian, archæologist, and bibliographer; author of the well-known Dictionary of Americanisms.

BOLLINGSOFF, Catherine, in religious vows, Mother Euphemia, in Emmittsburg, Md., March 18, 1887, aged about sixty-seven years; for many years teacher in St. Joseph's Academy, and superior of the Sisters of Charity in this country. BUCKHAM, the Rev. James, at Burlington, Vt., October 22, 1886, aged nearly ninety-two years; taught many years at Ellington, Conn., and elsewhere.

CAMPBELL, John L., in Lexington, Va., February 2, 1886, aged sixty-six years; a notabie chemist and geologist; professor of those branches in Washington and Lee University from 1851 till his death.

CHAPIN, Mrs. Dorcas, at Springfield, Mass., November 14, 1886, aged eighty-five; a liberal giver in the cause of education, especially to the Springfield Public Library and to Amherst College.

CHASE, Pliny Earle, at Haverford, Pa., December 17, 1866, aged sixty-six; professor in Haverford College, 1871-86; vice-president of the American Philosophical Society, etc.