BEQUESTS EXCEED $100,000

Provision for the establishment of a "Henry Russell Shaw Fund" of $35,000 is made in the will of the late Grace R. Shaw who died last Sunday. The fund, which is to be used to give Harvard graduates a chance to travel abroad, but which is not based on scholarship qualifications, is to be largely increased if certain other bequests fail.

"While I recognize that great good is done by travelling fellowships intended to provide the means of study and research for young men who are preparing themselves for a scholar's career, I have in mind a different object, which is that of benefiting young men of worth, who, without necessarily having attained to the highest scholarship in college, have made good use of their opportunities and give promise of success in professional or business careers.

Gift from Mrs. Fleming.

By the will of Mrs. Williamina Paton Fleming the proceeds of a life insurance policy is left to the University for the benefit of the Astronomical Observatory. At the death of her son the donor's real estate will also revert to the University for the Observatory. Mrs. Fleming was connected with the Observatory for thirty years. She was born in Scotland in 1857 and taught at Dundee for several years. Since coming to this country she had been very active in astronomical work and was well known as the discoverer of several new stars. She was also the first to ascertain the approach of Halley's comet. Besides this work, Mrs. Fleming played a very important part at the Observatory, particularly in preparing material for the printing of the many annals which have been published.

Bequest from Mrs. Cooke.

By the will of the late Mrs. Mary Huntington Cooke two trusts are to be established consisting of real estate holdings in Boston and of $50,000 respectively, of which three-fourths is to go to the Corporation one year after the death of certain relatives. The trusts, upon coming to the University, are to form two permanent funds in memory of Josiah Parsons Cooke '48. The first is to be invested for 10 years, when the income will be used annually for the benefit of professors and instructors in Harvard, or for their widows and minor children. The income of the second fund is to be devoted to maintaining and increasing the mineralogical collection of the University.