The late Lucius J. Knowles bequeathed $5,000 to Doane College,
Nebraska, and $10,000 to Carlton College, Minnesota.

A professorship at Williams College, in honor of Dr. Mark Hopkins,
has been provided for by subscriptions amounting to $25,000.

The New York University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of the
late Augustus Schell, and the New York Historical Society $5,000.

Mrs. Louisa L. Vought, besides other gifts to the Protestant
Episcopal Church, left $10,000 for work among the colored people
South, and $1,000 for the Indians.

Harvard College is to receive $5,000 for the astronomical observatory
connected with that institution, from the estate of the late Thomas
G. Appleton.

The Yale Corporation has voted to accept $50,000 from the Frederick
Marquand fund for a chapel for the use of the College Young Men's
Christian Association.

Knox College is to receive about $60,000 from the estate of the late
H. H. Hitchcock, of Galesburg, Ill.

Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, bequeathed $50,000 for a German
teachers' seminary in Milwaukee.

Hon. John R. Bodwell, of Hallowell, Me., gives $1,000 toward the new
building for Industrial School for Girls in that city.

_Persons desirous to help where help is most needed, to help where it
will do most to promote national prosperity and true religion, may
well consider the question of endowments for the educational
institutions of the A. M. A._

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GENERAL NOTES

AFRICA.

--The two brothers Denhardt, already known by their previous
explorations, are preparing an expedition to the Dana, which they
will reascend to reach Kenia.

--The Universities' Mission has constructed for the eastern side of
Nyassa a steamer which will bear the name of _Charles Janson_, a
missionary recently deceased.

--Messrs. Taylor and Jacques, missionaries at Saint Louis, have made
in the Oualo, inhabited by emigrants and the Wolofs mussulmen, a
journey of exploration with a view to the extension of their field of
activity.

--The French Consul at Tangier has interdicted his French subjects,
and the mussulmen placed under his protection, from buying, selling
or possessing the slaves of the Maroe. His example has been followed
by the representatives of other powers.

--General Bacouch, a great proprietor in Tunis, encourages, in a
domain of many thousands of acres, the cultivation of a plant
imported from Java, which may replace