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Title: Yale college, a sketch of its history, with notices of its several departments, instructors, and benefactors, together with some account of student life and amusements, by various authors
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Kingsley, William Lathrop, 1824-1896
Subjects: Yale University
Publisher: New York : Holt
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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go expressed my intention of making a donation to this distinguished institution, and, con-vinced as I am of the importance of the Natural Sciences, and of the increasing interest taken in their study,it now affords me great pleasure to aid in advancing these departments of knowledge. The rapid advance which Natural Science is now making renders it necessary to provide for the futurerequirements of such a Museum, as well as its present wants, and I trust that the portion of the funddesigned for this purpose will be found sufficient. On learning of your acceptance of this trust, and of the assent of the President and Fellows of YaleCollege to its conditions, I shall be prepared to pay over to you the sum I have named, and I may then havesome additional suggestions to make, in regard to the general management of the trust. Confident that, under your direction, this trust will be faithfully and successfully administered, I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, George Peabody.178
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PEABODY MUSEUM: NORTH WING PEABODY MUSEUM. iyg THE INSTRUMENT OF GIFT. I hereby give to James Dwight Dana, of New Haven, Connecticut ; James Dixon, of Hartford, Con-necticut ; Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, Massachusetts ; Benjamin Silliman, of New Haven, Connecticut ;George Jarvis Brush, of New Haven, Connecticut ; Othniel Charles Marsh, of New Haven, Connecticut ;and George Peabody Wetmore, of Newport, Rhode Island, on his attaining his majority, the sum of onehundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be by them or their successors held in trust, to found and maintain aMuseum of Natural History, especially of the departments of Zoology, Geology, and Mineralogy, in connec-tion with Yale College, in the city of New Haven, State of Connecticut. Of this sum I direct that my said trustees devote a part, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, tothe erection, upon land to be given for that purpose, free of cost or rental, by the President and Fellows ofYale College, in New Haven, of a fi

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