The sum of $500,000 for the purpose of preparing a Dictionary of American Biography, modelled after European works of like nature, has been donated by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York “Times”.
The donation was made to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies. The Council, which is a federation of a number of American societies for higher learning, has assumed responsibility for publication of this work. A series of at least twenty volumes, containing about seven hundred and fifty pages each, will be issued. The first volume will appear within the next four years, the remainder will follow at the rate of three volumes a year. The editorial work will be done in Washington.
The committee in charge of the publication consists of J. F. Jameson, chairman; John H. Finley, Frederic L. Paxson, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Carl Van Doren and Charles Warren. They will choose the permanent editor-in-chief.
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