Although the contents of the will of the late Dr. Alvan Talcott have not yet been publicly announced, nevertheless most of the specifications are known to interested parties. The amount of the estate is estimated at about eighty-five thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand goes to Yale for an endowment of a Greek professorship, the will providing for the immediate payment of that fund. He also leaves his entire medical library, which is very large and valuable, to the Yale Medical School.
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