NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL ASSURED

The new Medical School is now assured by the announcement that Mrs. C.P. Huntington has given $250,000 to the fund for the erection, equipment, and endowment of the School, in memory of her late husband, Collis P. Huntington. This generous gift makes up the required balance of the sum needed and makes immediately available the gift of over $1,000,000 by J. Pierpont Morgan, and the $1,000,000 given by J.D. Rockefeller, as well as other smaller amounts that were pledged on the condition that the whole amount be raised.

The announcement of the gift is made in the two letters that follow:

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, Mass., March 7, 1902.

To the President and Fellows of Harvard College:

GENTLEMEN:--We take great pleasure in forwarding the enclosed letter just received from Mrs. C.P. Huntington, offering $250,000 for the erection of a building to be called, in memory of her late husband, The Collis P. Huntington Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology. This generous gift, taken in connection with previous subscriptions already reported, more than completes the sum of $765,000 required to secure Mr. J.D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000 for the enlargement and endowment of the Harvard Medical School and thus insures the realization of our great project.

Congratulating the University on this successful result of our efforts, we remain,

Yours very respectfully,

(Signed)J. COLLINS WARREN,   H.P. BOWDITCH.

2 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET, NEW YORK, March 6, 1902.

To the President and Fellows of Harvard University:

GENTLEMEN:--After careful consideration of the plans which have been recently submitted to me for the construction of new buildings for and the equipment and endowment of the Harvard Medical School, I am happy to say that I have reached the conclusion that the serious and important work which is to be done there in connection with pathology and bacteriology would have most strongly commended itself to the personal interest and the wise judgment of my deceased husband, who was always deeply interested in promoting opportunities for sincere and earnest work in the best fields of labor. I will therefore contribute the sum of $250,000 for the construction of the pathological and bacteriological laboratory, and should prefer that this amount should be paid from time to time as the construction of the building progresses and in such manner as my son Archer M. Huntington may approve.

It is my understanding that the laboratory is to be known as the "Collis P. Huntington Laboratory," and so designated by a suitable inscription upon the exterior of the building.

Trusting that this contribution will be of service in connection with the investigations, for the pursuit of which the staff of your Medical School is so notably qualified, and that such investigations, will prove to be of great and constantly increasing service in the important fields of inquiry upon pathological and bacteriological subjects which are now being explored and will ultimately contribute to the relief of all who suffer from bodily pain, illness or injury, I remain,

Yours very truly,

(Signed)  ARABELLA D. HUNTINGTON.

Besides the gift of Mrs. Huntington and those of Mr. J.D. Rockefeller and Mr. J.P. Morgan, the following subscriptions to the Medical School fund have been received:

Miss Mary S. Ames,  $ 5,000 Oliver Ames,  5,000 C.W. Amory,  10,000 Anonymous,  100 Anonymous,  10,000 C.F. Ayer,  50 Robert Bacon,  25,000 Francis Bartlett,  10,000 Franklin H. Beebe,  1,000 Mrs. S. Parkman Blake,  10,000 John L. Bremer,  10,000 Mrs. John L. Bremer,  5,000 Miss Sarah Bremer,  5,000 George P. Brigham,  100 Shepard Brooks,  1,000 Peter C. Brooks,  1,000 I.T. Burr,  1,000 Walter C. Cabot,  5,000 Mrs. Charles P. Cheney,  250 Mrs. E.S. Cheney,  1,000 W. Murray Crane,  5,000 George F. Fabyan,  25,000 Mrs. William H. Forbes,  5,000 Frederick Guild, Jr.,  50 Charles Head,  1,000 Augustus Hemenway,  15,000 Francis L. Higginson,  60,000 George Higginson,  10,000 Henry L. Higginson,  10,000 James J. Higginson,  10,000 John Hogg,  1,000 H.S. Howe,  1,000 H.H. Hunnewell,  12,500 Walter Hunnewell,  2,000 C.C. Jackson,  1,000 Eben D. Jordan,  5,000 Harris Kennedy,  100 David P. Kimball,  5,000 Gardiner M. Lane  1,000 Amory A. Lawrence,  1,000 Elliott C. Lee,  25,000 Joseph Lee,  5,000 Arthur T. Lyman,  5,000 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merriam,  2,000 G.H. Monks,  1,000 Mrs. Leopold Morse,  100 Parkinson and Burr,  1,000 F.H. Peabody,  1,000 Sumner B. Pearmain,  100 W.L. Richardson,  25,000 Stephen Salisbury,  1,000 Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Shattuck,  50,000 Mrs. G.H. Shaw,  1,000 David Sears,  25,000 Mrs. Knyvet W. Sears,  200 Miss Mabel Simpkins,  200 Francis Skinner,  5,000 W.D. Sohier,  1,000 John T. Spaulding,  10,000 W.S. Spaulding,  10,000 James Stillman,  100,000 Moorfield Storey,  500 Nathaniel Thayer,  25,000 Mrs. Charles Van Brunt,  100 James C. White,  625 Mrs. Henry Whitman,  250   $571,225