Reports were also received of recent gifts fo the University. The Kincheng Bank made a grant of ly $10,000 for the College of Agriculture and Forestry, which is being used for crop improvement at the Agricul-{ural station at Yenching University The China Foundation has made grant of $5,000 to the College of Agriculture and Forestry for completion of the studies in plant breeding trid disease control. The Municipal Government of Nanking has made grant of $3,000 for a building for the wool-weaving project of the Univer~ sity. Grants-in-ald of $28,737 are being pald during the year to the University by the Ministry of Eaucr-
The library has received a valuable gift fromthe National Central Library of 200 volumes of scientiAe works published by the Kiangnan Arsenal in the latter part of the last century; additional bocks are being purchased with the Income of the 4. E, Williams Memorial Fund; a supplement to the agricultural index 38 Published by the Library September which covers the period 1992-1034 and contains over 18,000 entries, University has been granted on absolute charter by the Univerity of the state of New York and Hanning to issue its own diplomas and degrees hereafter.
The University hospital has had 2 good record during the past year. The in-patient days for the year 1934- 35 were $0521; the out-patient calls 64,488. The bed occupancy was 87.58 per cent,
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