States and Territories. TABLE XXI.-Statistical summary of benefactions, by States, for the year 1884-'85. Mississippi States and Territories. TABLE XXI.-Statistical summary of benefactions, by States, &c.-Continued. 1,340 Training schools for nurses.... Institutions for feeble-minded children Miscellaneous.... Total....... TABLE XXI.—Statistical summary of benefactions, by institutions, for the year 1884-'85. 140 20 20 10, 120 20, 610 The foregoing summary exhibits the total of donations and legacies by individuals in aid of education for the year ending June 30, 1885, so far as reported to this Office, and the classes of institutions that are the recipients of the benefactions. The total amount reported, viz, $9,314,081, exceeds the benefactions for any single year since 1873, when the total was $11,226,977. More than half the entire sum donated during Libraries and museums. Objects not specified. Grounds, buildings, furni ture, and apparatus. the present year is for the benefit of colleges and universities. Institutions for secondary instruction receive $1,629,213, the largest amount credited to them in any year. For full particulars concerning these benefactions, their sources, purposes, etc., the reader is referred to Table XXI of the Appendix. LIST OF HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES. This preliminary list of historical societies, compiled from two lists-one published by the Magazine of American History, August, 1884, the other by the Magazine of Western History, February, 1885, and both prepared by Gen. Charles W. Darling, corresponding secretary of the Oneida Historical Society, Utica, N. Y.-and from the incomplete files of this Office, is published with the hope that other historical societies and kindred organizations may become interested and supply such data as will enable the Office to give a much more complete and satisfactory list in a subsequent Report: |