During the year of 1917, the University has received by gift $2,271,900, according to a report recently published. This sum was in addition to the annual payment from the trustees under the will of Gordon McKay, but included the amount of $432,900, which was a part of the Endowment Fund of $10.000,000 to be raised for the University by the Alumni. This Endowment Fund campaign was postponed last spring and will not be resumed until after the close of the war.

The single gifts of $50,000 or more which were received during the past year are listed below: Anonymous gift for the general use of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, subject to life estates,  $200,000.00 Anonymous gift (precise purposes not yet specified).  387,942.00 Gift of Mrs. William H. Bliss for scholarships and instruction in Forestry,  50,000.00 Estate of Peter Paul Francis Degrand: French works and periodicals in the exact sciences,  75,000.00 Dr. Henry I. Dorr (subject

third by Professor Lord on "The Russian Situation," the fourth, scheduled for November 21 by Professor Wallace C. Sabine on "Aviation and the War," being unavoidably canceled. The next lecture was given by Professor Arthur D. Hill '94 on "What I Saw in France," the fifth by Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00 on "The French Front and the Red Cross," and the last, one by Dean Gay of the Graduate School of Business Administration on "War Prices.