ANHERSTBURG, a t. on the river Detroit, which empties lake St. Clair into lake Erie. It is one of the oldest settlements in upper Canada, being named from lord Amherst, who, by the capture of Montreal in 1760, completed what general Wolfe had begun at Quebec in 1759. It occupies the s.w. extremity of the province, the turning point of climate and character to the basin of the St. Lawrence, the spot where its waters, after haying gained southing, from the 50111 to the 42d parallel, suddenly assume a direc tion which carries them hack to their original latitude above the island of Anticosti. Pop. '71, 1936. A large business is done here in timber.
AMIIETtST COLLEGE, in Amherst, Hampshire co„ Mass., was founded. 1821, by Congregationalists. Its declared object was, pro Clerbsto et reclegia, the education of yomig men for ministerial and missionary labor. It holds funds which amount to nearly $100,000, whose income is distributed among indigent students who have the ministry In view. Its 12 college buildings have cost $300,000. Its laboratories, museums of science, archaeology, and art, and its library. contain, collections valued at about $150,000. The entire property uhder; its control is about $1,100,000„and its annual income from funds and fees is about $65,000. To its funds the state contributed $5'0,000; the remainder 1ms come from private munificence. The largest donations were $250,000 by
illiam J. Walker; $175,000 by Samuel A. Ilitchcock, mid $150,000 by Samuel Williston. The college church, a beautiful gothic edifice, was the gift of William A. Stearns, Jr., son of the late president. The library has 41,000 volumes. The notable collections are: the Hitchcock collection of ichnology; the Shepard collection of minerals and a remarkably full collection of meteorites; the Woods collection of geology: the Adams collection of conchology ; the collection of physical apparatus, much of it the work of professor E. S. Snell, during more than 50 years of continuous labor; the gallery of fine art; the Nineveh gallery; the museum of Indian relics. The Barrett gymnasimn, as managed, is a feature 'peculiar to the institution. All students join in its exercises, under the professional direction of the professor of hygiene and physical culture. The faculty numbers 25 persons; there arc 350 undergraduates, and 2546 alumni. The presidents have been, Zephania Swift Moore, V.D., 1821-23; Heman Humphrey, DJ). 1823-45; Edward Hitch cock, Dm., LLD.. 1845-54; William A. Stearns, 12.o., LL.D., 1854-76; Julius II. Seelye, Dm., LL.D., 1876, the present incumbent.