Phipps
HENRY, an American manufacturer and philanthropist. Born in Philadelphia in 1839; educated in the public schools of Allegheny City, Pa.
In the early years of his life he worked in stores in Pittsburgh and later became partner in a small iron mill. Some guished by a prismatic calyx, salveryears afterward he became associated shaped corolla, and unequal filaments . with Andrew Carnegie in the steel busi- The species are pretty numerous, mostly ness and built up an enormous fortune. perennial plants with simple leaves, and Interested in the fight on tuberculosis he mostly natives of North America. A donated the Phipps Institution with approximately a million dollars to the University of Pennsylvania. To Johns Hopkins University he gave a psychiatric clinic and endowment for maintenance. number of species are common in British flower-gardens.