University of Virginia Library

CLASS B.

Donations for Permanent and Fixed
Endowments. Not Including the
Jefferson Million-Dollar Memorial
Fund.

               
1836. By will of Ex-President
Madison, for Library, 
$ 1,500 00 
1869-1881. By A. A. Low,
New York, for Library, 
1,000 00 
1869-1881. By W. M. Meigs,
Philadelphia, Pa., for Library, 
100 00 
1869-1881. By Robert Gordon,
New York, for Library, 
500 00 
1869. By Samuel Miller of
Campbell Co., Va., to endow
a department of scientific
and practical agriculture, 
100,000 00 
1869-1871. Gift of Thompson
Brown Scholarship, by
——; appointment by
donor's representative, 
1,500 00 
1876. By W. W. Corcoran,
Washington, D. C., to endow
the existing school of
Moral Philosophy, and
those of History and Literature, 
50,000 00 
1878. By W. W. Corcoran,
Washington, D. C., to endow
a new chair of Natural
History and Geology, 
50,000 00 

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1878-1881. By W. H. Vanderbilt
of New York, and
sundry liberal friends,
chiefly Alumni, to endow
Directorship of Observatory, 
76,000 00 
1883. By will of Douglas H.
Gordon of Baltimore, for
Library, 
5,000 00 
1883. By will of Isaac Cary,
Richmond, Va., to found a
scholarship for poor and deserving
young men, 
7,000 00 
1888. By will of Mrs. E. S.
Birely, Frederick, Md., to
endow a scholarship for
Maryland students, 
5,000 00 
1887-1888. By Archer Anderson,
Richmond, Va., to
found the John Y. Mason
Fellowship for Graduate
Students, 
7,000 00 
1892. By Mrs. Linden Kent,
Washington, D. C., to endow
the chair of English
Literature, 
60,000 00 
1897. By Hon. W. J. Bryan
of Nebraska, for permanent
investment; annual income
to be used in purchase of
Medal to be given to the
author of the best original
article on the "Theory of
Government," 
250 00 
1899. By George H. Byrd,
New York, to endow the
Alfred Henry Byrd Library, 
10,000 00 
1899. By Mrs. D'Arcy Paul,
for Library (special), 
500 00 
1903. By Mrs. Kate Cabell
Claiborne, Richmond, Va.,
to establish a scholarship
in the department of English
Literature, 
1,200 00 
1904. By Mrs. Sarah F.
Scott, through F. W. Scott,
Richmond, Va., for the
"John Waverly Scott Memorial
Laboratory" in connection
with the Engineering
Department, 
5,000 00 
$381 550 00