-- Bequest of $20,004.86, from Charles H. Contoit; during the previous year $137,000 was paid to the library by this estate. -- Union Theological Seminary. Gift of 559 volumes, from the library of the late president, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, LL.D. -- Gift of 519 volumes, from the library of the late Prof. Ezra Hall Gillett, D.D., from his two sons. -- Washington Heights Free Library. Gift of $1700 by Andrew Carnegie towards completing sum required by conditional gift for new building. -- Young Men's Christian Association. Gift of $5000, to prepare catalogue of circulating library, from Frederick E. Hyde. _Newark._ Gift of a library building, costing nearly $25,000; also, $1000 to send out travelling libraries in the neighborhood and the salary of the librarian for a year, from Mr. Henry C. Rew, of Evanston, Ill. _Niagara Falls._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish a site and a yearly maintenance of $7000. _Oxford._ Public Library. Gift of a public library, from children of the late Eli L. Corbin. _Oyster Bay, L. I._ Public Library. Gift of $1000, towards a public library building, by Andrew Carnegie. No conditions were attached to this gift. _Peekskill._ Public Library. Gift of the old Henry Ward Beecher residence, fully equipped for a public library, from Dr. John Newell Tilton. _Port Jervis._ Public Library. Gift of $20,000, for public library building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and appropriate $3000 yearly maintenance. -- Gift of plot of ground for library site, value not stated, from Peter E. Farnum. _Rochester._ Reynolds Library. Gift of 900 volumes of United States public documents, from Hon. Charles S. Baker. _St. George, S. I._ Arthur Winter Memorial Library of the Staten Island Academy. Gift of $500, from Andrew Carnegie, without conditions. _Schenectady._ Public Library. Gift of $50,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie. The city council had already appropriated $5000 a year for library maintenance provisionally in hope of securing a Carnegie gift. A site is under consideration, at a probable cost of $14,000. -- Gift of $15,000, with which to purchase a site for the new Carnegie library, from the General Electric Company. _Syracuse._ Public Library. Gift of $260,000, for a new library building, from Andrew Carnegie, the city to furnish site and guarantee $30,000 yearly for maintenance. _Watertown._ Flower Memorial Library. Gift of $60,000, from Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, for a public library to commemorate her father, the late Governor Roswell P. Flower.