_Conway._ Field Memorial Library. Gift of a library building to cost $100,000, as a memorial to the donor's father and mother, from Marshall Field, of Chicago. It will also be endowed by Mr. Field. _Fairhaven._ Millicent Library. Gift of Fairhaven Waterworks, valued at from $100,000 to $125,000, and producing an annual income of about $8000, from Henry H. Rogers. _Groveland._ Public Library. Bequest of $5000, from J. G. B. Adams. _Hinsdale._ Public Library. Bequest of $5000, to be known as "Curtice fund," the income to be used for the purchase of books, from John W. Curtice, of Washington, D. C. _Lynn._ Free Public Library. Gift of a library building, erected largely from the bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth Shute. --Gift of large mural painting, by F. Luis Mora, from Joseph N. Smith. -- Gift of copy in marble of the Venus of Milo, from Charles W. Bubier, of Providence, R. I. -- Gift of a bronze bust of the late Charles J. Van Depoele, from his family. _Malden._ Public Library. Gift of $125,000, to be known as the Elisha and Mary D. Converse Endowment Fund, from Hon. Elisha D. Converse. "The income from this fund will be 'used freely in any direction in which it may conduce to the welfare of the library.'" _Milton._ Public Library. Bequest of $2000, from ex-Governor Roger Wolcott, of Boston, Mass. _Newburyport._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for the purchase of books, from John Rand Spring, of San Francisco. -- Bequest of $4500, from Stephen W. Marston, of Boston. -- Bequest of $3000, from E. S. Moseley. _North Adams._ Public Library. Gift of furnishings and decorations of children's room, value not stated, from William Arthur Gallup, as a memorial to his children. _Petersham._ Public Library. Bequest of $12,000, from Lucy F. Willis. _Plymouth._ Public Library. Gift of a new library building, to cost about $20,000, from the heirs of the late William G. Russell, of Boston, as a memorial to their father and mother. _Salem._ Public Library. Bequest of $10,000, from Walter S. Dickson. _Somerville._ Public Library. Gift of $4000, from Mrs. Harriet Minot Laughlin, in memory of her father, Isaac Pitman, the first librarian of the institution, the income to be used for the purchase of "works of art, illustrative, decorative, and otherwise." _Springfield._ City Library. Bequest of about $70,000, from the estate of David Ames Wells, of Norwich, Conn., his son David Dwight Wells having died June 15, 1900, without issue. One-half of the income is to be expended for publications on economic, fiscal, or social subjects. -- Gift of 450 volumes, from Miss Frances Fowler. _Sunderland._ Public Library. Gift of $10,000, for a library and its equipment, from John L. Graves, of Boston.