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LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 
 V 
 
 DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL 
 NOTES 
 
 THIRD EDITION 
 
THE LIBRARY OF 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL 
 NOTES 
 
 BY 
 
 ALFRED CLAGHORN JOTTER 
 
 ASSISTANT LIBBAKIAN 
 
 THIRD EDITION 
 
 mvm 
 
 CAMBEIDGE 
 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
 
 1915 
 
 E.V. 
 
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 PRINTED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE 
 BICHABD MANNING HODGES FUND 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Prefatoht Note 7 
 
 Genebai. Statement op Organization 9 
 
 The Statutes . " . 11 
 
 History of the Library 13 
 
 The Haret Elkins Widener Memorial Bitilding ... 32 
 
 Summary of the Number op Volumes . . .... 35 
 
 The College Library — Classipication op Books ... 37 
 
 Notes on Special Collections in the College Library . 40 
 
 Notes on the Departmental Libraries 98 
 
 List op Book Funds 112 
 
 List of Funds fob General Purposes 118 
 
 Gifts and Bequests 120 
 
 Bibliography 156 
 
 List of Officers of the Library 168 
 
PREFATORY NOTE 
 
 The first edition of these Notes appeared in 1903, as 
 No. 55 of the Bibliographical Contributions of the 
 Library of Harvard University. At that time the 
 College Library, including the Special Libraries, con- 
 tained 435,258 volumes, and the University Library 
 comprised a total of 607,214 volumes. In the following 
 eight years the College Library had increased to 625,- 
 494 volumes, a gain of forty-three per cent, and the 
 University Library had grown to a total of 980,275 
 volumes, a gain of over sixty per cent. As much of 
 this growth had been in the line of special collections, a 
 new edition of the Notes was issued as Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 60. In the preparation of this second 
 edition the compiler had the able assistance of Mr. 
 Edgar H. Wells, then secretary of the Library Council. 
 In the four years since then the increase in the College 
 Library has been 127,000 volumes and in the University 
 Library 201,000 volumes, or about twenty per cent 
 each. The College Library now contains over 753,000 
 volumes, and the University Library 1,181,500. In 
 the twelve years since the first edition was published 
 the additions to the College Library have averaged 
 26,500 volumes a year and to the whole University 
 Library over 47,000. 
 
THE LIBRARY OF HARVARD 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 GENERAL STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION 
 
 The Library of Harvard University consists of all the collec- 
 tions of books in the possession of the University. It is com- 
 posed of the central collection, known as the Harvard College 
 Library, now located in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial 
 Building, and of eleven Departmental Libraries : namely, the 
 Andover-Harvard Theological Library, the Arnold Arbore- 
 tum (in Jamaica Plain), the Astronomical Observatory, the 
 Blue HiU Meteorological Observatory (in Readville), the 
 Bussey Institution (in Jamaica Plain), the Dental School (in 
 Boston), the Gray Herbarium, the Law School, the Medical 
 School (in Boston), the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
 and the Peabody Museum. It is to be noted that the first of 
 these differs in its status from the others, in that it is the 
 result of the affiliation of the Andover Theological Seminary 
 and the Harvard Divinity School; the books, which for prac- 
 tical working purposes are merged into one joint library, 
 remain the property of whichever institution purchased or 
 acquired them; the librarian is appointed by the trustees 
 of the Seminary and confirmed by the Corporation of the 
 University. Considered as a part of the College Library 
 are thirty-eight Special Libraries for various branches of 
 study; some of these are in separate rooms in the Widener 
 Building and others are located in various laboratories, 
 museums, or department buildings. At the head of the Uni- 
 versity Library is the Director, who is, ex officio, chairman of 
 the Council of the College Library and member of the admin- 
 istrative committees of the Departmerital Libraries. The 
 
10 LIBBABT OP HAKVAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 general control and oversight of the College Library is vested 
 in a Library Council, consisting of the chairman and six other 
 persons. Its duties are to make rules for the administration of 
 the Library, to apportion the fuitds applicable to the purchase 
 of books, and to determine questions of general poHcy. The 
 Departmental Libraries are under the control of the schools 
 or institutions to which they belong, some of them having 
 special administrative committees. The College Library 
 and most of the Departmental Libraries have librarians to 
 whom are left the immediate administration and care. 
 Several of the Special Libraries have their own librarians, 
 while others are in charge of some professor or assistant. 
 There is also a librarian in charge of the Widener Collection. 
 The size of these various collections that thus form the 
 Library of Harvard University is given in the tables on 
 pages 35-39; their character is indicated in the Notes that 
 follow. 
 
STATUTES RELATING TO THE LIBEABY 11 
 
 STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY RELATING 
 TO THE LIBRARY 
 
 18. University Library. The University Library con- 
 sists of all the collections of books in the possession of the 
 University. The Director of the University Library is ap- 
 pointed during pleasure by the Corporation with the consent 
 of the Overseers. He shall be, ex officio, Chairman of the 
 Council of the College Library; shall visit and inspect the 
 Law, Medical, and other departmental libraries, and be ex 
 officio a member of their administrative committees, and their 
 librarians shall annually make a report to him. Librarians 
 and Assistant Librarians are appointed by the Corporation 
 with the consent of the Overseers, without express limita- 
 tion of term of service; they are under the same liability of 
 removal as other officers of instruction and administration. 
 
 The general control and oversight of the Law and Medical 
 libraries are committed to the Faculties of those schools 
 respectively, to be administered in each case by a committee 
 of the Faculty; the Faculty or committee making rules for 
 the administration of the Library and directing the purchase 
 of books to the extent of the funds applicable to that purpose. 
 
 19. College Library. The central collection, known as 
 the Harvard College Library, is for the use of the whole Uni- 
 versity. With it are included for administrative purposes the 
 special libraries. Its privileges are also granted, under special 
 regulations, to persons not connected with the University. 
 The general control and oversight are committed to a council 
 consisting of a Chairman and six other persons, appointed 
 annually by the Corporation with the consent of the Over- 
 seers. Any vacancy occurring in the Council is filled in the 
 same manner for the unexpired portion of the term. It is the 
 duty of the Council to make rules for the administration of 
 the College Library and to apportion the funds applicable to 
 
12 LIBRARY OF HARVARD tHSTIVERSITY 
 
 the purchase of books. Subject to the direction of the Chair- 
 man of the Council, the Librarian has the care and custody 
 of the College Library, superintending its internal adminis- 
 tration, enforcing the rules, and conducting the correspond- 
 ence. 
 
HISTOEY OF THE LIBBAET 13 
 
 HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 
 
 The Library of Harvard College dates from 1638, two 
 years after the foundation of the College. In that year 
 "The Reverend M' John Harvard sometimes Minister of 
 Gods Word at Charlstown, by his last Will & Testament gave 
 towards the erecting the'abovs^ School or CoUedge, th' one 
 Moiety or halfe parte of his Estate," and all his books. This 
 young minister, who had come to America but Uttle over a 
 year before, died on the 14th of September, 1638, in his 
 thirty-first year. He had brought with him to the new 
 country a library of some three hundred and seventy vol- 
 umes. A Hst of these books, which is found in College Book, 
 No. 1, and was reprinted in Bibliographical Contribution, 
 No. 27, shows that perhaps three-quarters of them were 
 theological treatises that would have scarcely more than an 
 antiquarian interest to-day. There was much Biblical com- 
 mentary, a goodly array of Puritan sermons, and, it is inter- 
 esting to note, the works of several Jesuit authors were in- 
 cluded. Among English books that are still well known were 
 Bacon's Essays, Chapman's Homer, and Quarles's Poems. 
 
 The first College building, probably near the site of the 
 present Grays Hall, was begun in 1638 but was not com- 
 pleted until 1643. A year or so before it was finished John 
 Harvard's books were placed in it. Other gifts of books fol- 
 lowed and the new Library began to grow steadily. In 1667 
 the first " library keeper," Mr. Solomon Stoddard, was ap- 
 pointed, and a formal code of rules defining the duties of the 
 librarian and regulating the use of the books was adopted 
 (see Bibliographical Contribution, No. 52, p. 43). Mean- 
 while the old building had been falling into decay, and in 
 1676 the library was removed to the first Harvard Hall, then 
 partly completed. Daniel Gookin, the third librarian, had 
 charge of transferring the books, and it is recorded that the 
 Corporation paid him " 50' in Satisfaction for his paines in 
 
14 LIBRABY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 removing the library to the new CoUedge & placeing them." 
 Here, installed in a good-sized room on the second floor of the 
 middle section, the Library remained for nearly a century. 
 For its increase it had to depend almost entirely on gifts, 
 and, according to present-day standards, its growth was slow. 
 In 1723, when the first printed catalogue was issued, it con- 
 tained about 3,000 volumes, and forty years later it still had 
 only about 5,000. Yet during all this period it was recog- 
 nized as the most important library in the country. 
 
 Some of the gifts that helped to buUd up this collection 
 are noted below (pp. 120-122). Among the more important 
 were the library of John Lighfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the 
 University of Cambridge (mostly of Oriental Uterature); 
 that of Theophilus Gale, an English dissenting minister and 
 author of note in his day, whose books, received in 1678, long 
 constituted more than half the Library; and the numerous 
 gifts of members of the HoUis family. The Library was in 
 those days mainly theological, and its critics sometimes com- 
 plained of the lack of modern books. Thomas HoUis, of 
 London, the first of the benefactors of the name, saw this 
 deficiency and with characteristic generosity proceeded to 
 remedy it with his gifts of books; his two brothers, his 
 nephew, his grand-nephew, and the latter' s heir, Thomas 
 Brand HoUis, continued to give books and money to the 
 College throughout the eighteenth century. Most of the 
 members of this family, although none of them seem to have 
 visited the College in which they took so real and helpful an 
 interest, not only gave liberally for its needs, but, as their 
 . letters show, aided it with advice and criticism. For ex- 
 ample, in 1725, the first Thomas HoUis wrote: " Your 
 library is reckond here to be Ul managed, by the account I 
 have of some that know it, you want seats to sett and read, 
 and chains to your yaUuable books like our Bodleian library, 
 or Sion College in London, you know their methods, wch are 
 approved, but do not imitate them, you let your books be 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBKARY 15 
 
 taken at pleasure home to Mens houses, and many are lost, 
 your (boyish) Students -take them to their chambers, and 
 teare out pictures & maps to adorne their Walls, such things 
 are not good; if you want roome for modern books, it is easy 
 to remove the less useful! into a more remote place, but do not 
 sell any, they are devoted. Your goodness will excuse me, if 
 I hint to you what I think faulty, if you are convinced my 
 hints are just, your own prudence will rectify what is amiss, 
 as far as you can." Many of the books given by Thomas 
 HoUis, of Lincoln's Inn, are made interesting by the inscrip- 
 tions that he wrote on the flyleaves and by their emblematic 
 bindings. 
 
 But the Library thus slowly gathered was not destined to 
 last. On a stormy night in January, 1764, Harvard Hall was 
 burned to the ground, and all but two or three hundred of the 
 books that had been accumulating for one hundred and 
 twenty-five years were destroyed. Of John Harvard's own 
 books only one was saved, John Downham's " Christian 
 Warfare against the Deuill World and Flesh." An account 
 of the fire that appeared in the Massachusetts Gazette for 
 February 2, 1764, gives the following description of the 
 Library: "It contained, — The Holy Scriptures in almost 
 all languages, with the most valuable Expositors and Com- 
 mentators, ancient and modern: — The whole library of the 
 late learned Dr. Lightfoot, ... — The library of the late 
 eminent Dr. Theophilus Gale: — All the Fathers, Greek and 
 Latin, in their best editions : — ... Sermons of the most 
 celebrated English divines, both of the established national 
 church and Protestant dissenters: ... . — A vast number of 
 philological tracts, containing the rudiments of almost all 
 languages, ancient and modern : — The Hebrew, Greek, and 
 Roman antiquities: — The Greek and Roman Classics, pre- 
 sented by the late excellent and catholic-spirited Bishop 
 Berkeley: — A large collection of History and biographical 
 tracts, ancient and modern: — Dissertations on various 
 
16 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 political subjects: — The Transactions of the Royal Society, 
 Academy of Science in France, Acta Eruditorum, ... — A 
 collection of the most approved Medical Authors, ... — A 
 few ancient and valuable Manuscripts in different languages." 
 It is worth noting that in this detailed account of the Library 
 there is no mention of any polite literature. 
 
 Great as was this loss, it was in a measure soon made up by 
 friends of the College: donations of money or books came 
 from over 270 sources. A list of these donors is given in 
 Quincy's " History of Harvard University," vol. ii, pp. 484- 
 496; it is in part reprinted below (pp. 122, 123). The General 
 Court voted to erect a new building out of the public funds, 
 and in 1766 another Harvard Hall, which is the one still 
 standing, was completed and the resuscitated Library placed 
 in it. Fourteen years later a writer in the Massachusetts 
 Magazine for June, 1790, thus describes the Harvard Library : 
 " Over the Chapel, on the second floor, is the Library, con- 
 taining thirteen thousand books, disposed in ten alcoves, in 
 each of which is a window, and over the windows inscriptions 
 to perpetuate the names of the benefactors. . . . The floor 
 of the library is covered with a rich carpet, and the walls are 
 ornamented with various paintings and prints." For this 
 " rich carpet," the same writer adds, the College was " in- 
 debted to the munificence of his excellency Governor Han- 
 cock." But before this account was written the Library had 
 suffered one more migration. In the early part of the Revolu- 
 tion, the College buildings being occupied by the continental 
 troops, it was thought necessary to remove the books to a 
 place of greater safety. On June 15, 1775, the Provincial 
 Congress voted " that the Library apparatus and other valu- 
 ables of Harvard College be removed as soon as may be to the 
 town of Andover." Two days later, while the battle of 
 Bunker Hill was being fought, Samuel Phillips, Jr., wrote in 
 his diary, " Amid all the terrors of battle I was so busily en- 
 gaged in Harvard Library that I never even heard of the 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 17 
 
 engagement (I mean the siege) until it was completed." 
 Under a subsequent vote of the Congress some of the books 
 were removed to other towns, and in the fall many of them 
 were carried to Concord, where the College was temporarily 
 established. It was not until May, 1778, that a committee of 
 the Overseers was able to report that all the books had been 
 returned to Cambridge. 
 
 With the opening of the nineteenth century there seems to 
 have begun that steady increase of the number of books in 
 the Library that stiU continues in a fairly regular geometrical 
 ratio. About every twenty years for over a century the 
 Library has doubled in size. For the earlier years figures are 
 not always to be obtained; but the following table, giving the 
 size of the Library at such dates as the figures happen to be 
 available, shows that this rate of increase has been main- 
 tained with at least approximate regularity. Since the 
 growth has never fallen below this ratio and has several 
 times been well above it, the total increase in the last seventy- 
 five years has been much larger than the normal result of this 
 ratio would be. In fact, if we take the figures for 1841 as a 
 basis and double them every twenty years, the result in 1921 
 would be nearly twenty thousand less than the number of 
 volumes in the Library to-day. 
 
 Year No. Vols. Year No. Vols. 
 
 1790 13,000 1885 225,000 
 
 1830 30,000 1895 334,000 
 
 1841 41,000 1905 461,000 
 
 1863 100,000 1915 675,000 
 
 1873 134,000 
 
 A printed catalogue, prepared in 1790 by the librarian, 
 Isaac Smith, who was a loyalist but a few years returned 
 from his exile, shows that at this time about a quarter of the 
 books were theological. But, on the other hand, the names 
 of Shakespeare, Milton, Ben. Johnson [sic.], the Tatler, the 
 Spectator, Racine, Rabelais, and Cervantes indicate that 
 
18 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 polite literature was no longer whoUy neglected. Twenty- 
 five years later the Library had outgrown its quarters, but. 
 the completion of University Hall in 1815 enabled the 
 College to give for library purposes the whole of the second 
 floor of Harvard Hall. This relief came none too soon, for 
 within three years the Library received one of the most im- 
 portant and valuable gifts that has ever come to it. This 
 was the library of American history of Christoph Daniel 
 Ebeling, — a professor and librarian at Hamburg and a 
 historian of note, — presented by Israel Thorndike, a Boston 
 merchant. This collection, containing 3,200 volumes and 
 10,000 maps, was purchased for the college by Mr. Thorndike 
 at the price of $6,500; but it would be hard to estimate its 
 value to-day, for in it were some of the rarest items of 
 Americana. Its collection of early American newspapers 
 alone is almost unrivalled and could not be duplicated at 
 many times the cost of his whole library. 
 
 In 1831, when the librarian, Benjamin Peirce, issued the 
 third catalogue of the Library (and the last to be printed), he 
 stated that the Library was so crowded that " many of the 
 Ijooks . . . have been excluded from their proper places by 
 the want of room." A few years later the Corporation, after 
 vainly petitioning the General Court for a grant for the 
 erection of an adequate and fire-proof building for a Ubrary, 
 finally voted to use a part of the unrestricted bequest of 
 Christopher Gore for this purpose. The corner-stone of Gore 
 Hall was laid on April 25, 1838, and the building, which cost 
 $70,000, was occupied by the Library in August, 1841. Its 
 architect was Richard Bond, and in exterior design it followed 
 the lines of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. President 
 Quincy thus described the new Library: "This building 
 presents a very pure specimen of the Gothic style of the four- 
 teenth century in its form and proportions. . . . The appear- 
 ance of the whole [interior] is imposing. The books are to be 
 placed in alcoves, which are formed by partitions running 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBRABY 19 
 
 from the columns to the walls of the building, somewhat in 
 the form of chapels in the aisles of many of the Catholic 
 churches." It was confidently predicted at the time that the 
 new building would suffice for the Library's accumulations 
 until the end of the century; yet hardly thirty years had 
 passed before it was again overcrowded, besides being pro- 
 nounced unsafe and unfitted for modern library purposes. 
 In 1877 a large wing was added to the east of the original 
 building at a cost of about $90,000, the sum being drawn 
 from the free funds of the College. This addition, planned 
 to accommodate some 235,000 volumes, is of special interest 
 in that it was the first example of a modern library book- 
 stack. This was supposed to be large enough to hold the 
 Library for many years, but in the next decade the accessions 
 of books increased unexpectedly and at the end of a dozen 
 years we find the librarian, Justin Winsor, declaring in his 
 Report for 1889, " There is need for more room for books. . . . 
 There is not enough reading-room accommodation. . . . The 
 delivery-room is not sufficient." It was six years before 
 \ there was any answer to these complaints, often reiterated. 
 Then, in 1895, the interior of the old Gore Hall was torn out, a 
 three-story stack, sufficient to hold 240,000 volumes, was 
 erected in the lower part, and above it was placed a reading- 
 room with seats for 218 readers. This reading-room, while 
 fairly sufficient in size and well lighted, was barren and strictly 
 utilitarian in appearance. Electric lights were introduced into 
 the building, and for the first time in its history the College 
 Library could be opened not only in the evening but after 
 half-past three or four o'clock on a dark winter afternoon. 
 But the history of over-crowded shelves soon repeated itself. 
 Only five years later the librarian, William C. Lane, said in 
 his Report (1900) : " The experience of the past year brings 
 home more forcibly than ever before the pressing need of a 
 larger and better building for the Library." After seven 
 years a partial relief was found in the erection of a two-story 
 
20 LIBBART OF HAEVAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 addition on the north side of the east stack. While this did 
 not give much space for book storage, it did provide needed 
 rooms for the enlarged staff of the Library, a room for the 
 safe keeping of rare books, a map room, and a single semi- 
 nary room for the use of advanced courses in history. The 
 stacks, however, became more and more crowded, and it 
 was necessary each year to remove thousands of books to 
 the cellars and basements of various College buildings. By 
 1912 there were some 70,000 volumes thus in exile. The 
 conditions were such that practically for every new book 
 added to the Library an old one had to be carried away. 
 The Corporation had in 1911 appointed, for the second 
 time, a committee to study the needs of the Library, and 
 this committee drew up a report that included architects' 
 sketch-plans for a new building. But the two million dollars 
 estimated as the lowest cost of an adequate building were 
 not easily to be found, and the report and plans could only 
 be placed on file. In an unexpectedly short time, however, 
 these plans and the suggestions of the conmiittee became of 
 immediate practical value. 
 
 Among the passengers on the Steamship " Titanic," lost at 
 sea on April 14, 1912, was Harry Elkins Widener, a graduate 
 of Harvard in the Class of 1907. A book-lover and a book- 
 collector of rare acumen, he had gathered a library of some 
 three thousand volumes of rare books. These he left to his 
 mother, Mrs. George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, with the 
 request that she give them to Harvard when the Library 
 should have a safe building suitable to contain them. It was 
 only too obvious that Gore Hall did not meet this condition; 
 it was inadequate in size, inconvenient, and far from fire- 
 proof. Mrs. Widener generously offered to give to Harvard 
 a new library building that should meet all the requirements 
 of a great university library. This building,^ given in memory 
 
 ' A description of the Widener building is given below, pp. 32-34, and 
 an account of the Widener books will be found on pp. 94-97. 
 
HISTOHY OF THE LIBRAKY 21 
 
 of her son, was to be known as the Harry Elkins Widener 
 Memorial Library. Inasmuch as part of it was to cover the 
 site of Gore Hall, it was necessary to remove all the books 
 from the old building and to find places where they could not 
 only be stored but be used during the period of construc- 
 tion of the new Ubrary. About two-thirds of the books were 
 taken to Randall Hall (until then used as a students' dining- 
 hall), where a stack capable of holding nearly 400,000 volumes 
 was constructed, and where room was found for the delivery- 
 desk, for a small reading-room, for the library staff (in the old 
 serving-room and scullery), and for administrative offices. 
 Some 90,000 volumes were placed on vacant shelving in the 
 Andover-Harvard Theological Library, and the remainder 
 were scattered in smaller groups wherever room could be 
 found for them, — in Emerson, Robinson, and Lawrence 
 Halls, in the University Museums, and in the Fogg Art 
 Museum. The upper floor of Massachusetts Hall was con- 
 verted into a reading-room, while the lower floor served to 
 accommodate the United States and British documents and 
 was used as a reading-room by students in American history. 
 Although it was the middle of August when it was decided 
 to tear down Gore Hall, yet when the term opened on Sep- 
 tember 23 the new reading-room was ready. The moving 
 of the books was naturally a longer undertaking; but, by the 
 first week in December, Gore Hall was finally emptied and 
 turned over to the contractors for demolition, after more than 
 seventy years of usefulness as the home of the Library. 
 
 For nearly three years the Library occupied these tem- 
 porary quarters, but with less inconvenience and interruption 
 to its work than was anticipated. At last, on Commencement 
 Day, June 24, 1915, the new building was dedicated and 
 formally presented to the College by Mrs. Widener. Within 
 a few hours of that ceremony the removal of the books into 
 their new home was begun, and in the course of the summer 
 the task was completed. 
 
xSi! LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Since it was first installed in Gore Hall the Library has seen 
 many internal changes. The number of its books has multi- 
 plied sixteen-fold; the sources of this great growth are indi- 
 cated in the lists of funds and gifts printed below (pp. 112 ff .) . 
 In all this time its ever increasing collections have been made 
 more and more accessible and useful to students. In 1841 
 the only catalogues were the printed Catalogue of 1830 and 
 its Supplement of 1834, and a large blank book in which were 
 entered the titles of accessions. About 1848 these later 
 titles were cut out and pasted on cards, arranged alpha- 
 betically; subsequent accessions were recorded directly on 
 cards, and thus was formed one of the first examples of a 
 card catalogue. But it was apparently considered something 
 official and too sacred for common use, for the pubHc could 
 consult it only through the medium of the librarian or his 
 assistant. In 1861 Ezra Abbot, assistant librarian (1856-72), 
 started a public card catalogue divided into two parts, 
 " Index of Authors " and " Index of Subjects." The latter 
 was an ingeniously devised and carefully worked-out classed 
 catalogue, — the principal classes of knowledge being ar- 
 ranged alphabetically, with numerous branches and sections 
 under each class, likewise in alphabetical order. These 
 catalogues, with the addition of the titles of the thousands of 
 accessions and with occasional revision and minor changes, 
 served many generations of students. But the increasing 
 number of headings and subheadings in the subject catalogue 
 made it more and more difficult to use and expensive to keep 
 up. In the last few years much has been done to simplify and 
 improve it; and finally, in the present summer (1915), it has 
 been given up entirely as a separate catalogue. The cards of 
 its various sections have been distributed alphabetically 
 under their appropriate headings among the author entries, 
 thus making one catalogue in place of two. Since this form, 
 which is commonly called a " dictionary catalogue," is the 
 one in general use in most American libraries, it is probable 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 23 
 
 that it will be more easily understood by frequenters of the 
 Library. One other important change has been made in the 
 public catalogue in recent years. The titles had been entered 
 on small cards (2X5 inches), whereas nearly all American 
 libraries used a standard card of 3X5 inches. The growing 
 spirit of cooperation among libraries, whereby it is easy for 
 Harvard to obtain for many of its books cards already pre- 
 pared by the Library of Congress or the John Crerar Library, 
 for example, made it desirable that the card of standard size 
 be adopted. In February, 1911, the long task of making 
 the change to the larger card was begun. Wherever it was 
 possible cards from other libraries were substituted for the 
 old small cards; other cards were copied by typewriter on 
 the standard size; and at the same time a start was made 
 in printing such parts of the catalogue as could not be ob- 
 tained from other libraries. The cards thus printed are 
 sold to certain other institutions, the cost of them being 
 partly met in this way. At the end of four and a half years 
 about a million cards have been replaced by these methods. 
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Library 
 had but one fund, — £500 left in 1774 by Thomas Holhs, of 
 Lincoln's Inn, and $3,000 bequeathed in 1801 by Samuel 
 Shapleigh, who had been librarian from 1793 to 1800. The 
 income of this money was to " be sacredly appropriated to the 
 purchase of such modern publications as the Corporation, 
 Professors, and Tutors should judge most proper to improve 
 the students in polite literature; the books to be deposited 
 in the library of the University, and to consist of poetry and 
 prose, but neither in Greek nor Latin." For over forty years 
 no additions were made to these sums; but since then there 
 has been a constant increase in the number and size of the in- 
 vested funds, until to-day they amount to about $1,100,000, 
 while a portion of the income of several other funds is likewise 
 assigned to the use of the Library by vote of the Corporation. 
 About half the income of these funds is available for adminis- 
 
24 LIBBARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 trative purposes; but the cost of running the Library, out- 
 side of the purchase of books, is so much greater than the 
 interest of tjje funds that each year there is a deficiency of 
 between thirty and forty thousand dollars to be made up 
 from the unrestricted income of the College. With the re- 
 moval into the new and larger building this deficit will be 
 considerably increased. 
 
 These funds, a list of which is given below (pp. 112-119), are 
 for a wide variety of purposes. Some are entirely unre- 
 stricted and can be used either for books or for administra- 
 tive expenses. Of the book funds, while some of the largest 
 are general and may be devoted to the purchase of any book 
 approved by the library authorities, others are designated for 
 books in some special field. Thus the Sever and Minot funds 
 were both bequeathed simply for the purchase of books; 
 while the Salisbury fund, given by Stephen Salisbury in 1858, 
 was left to buy Greek and Latin books or works illustrating 
 or explaining such books; the Taylor fund is for English 
 literature, the Parkman fund for Canadian history, and 
 the Strobel fund for books on Siam. The income appli- 
 cable to the purchase of books is now about $25,000 a year, 
 and for the last fifteen years it has averaged about $22,000. 
 Yet, had the Library been obliged to depend for its growth 
 entirely on the income from its funds, it would never have 
 reached its present size and importance. Naturally, a large 
 and valuable part of its resources is the result of gifts and 
 bequests of libraries or collections of books. These range from 
 the original bequest of John Harvard in 1638 and the gift 
 from Sir Kenelm Digby in 1655 to the bequest of the Widener 
 books and the gift of the Fearing angling collection in 
 1915. 
 
 But there have also been many gifts of money, — some 
 annual, some occasional, some for general purposes, and 
 some to take advantage of a special opportunity in the 
 book market. Among the earlier examples of this generosity 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 25 
 
 on the part of graduates of the College and other friends of the 
 Library were the gift in 1823 by Samuel Atkins Eliot, of the 
 Class of 1817, of the Warden library of American history, pur- 
 chased at a cost of $5,000; and the gift of $5,000 a year for five 
 years from 1859 to 1864 from William Gray, of the Class of 
 1829. With one exception, this gift from Mr. Gray is the 
 largest ever received for the immediate purchase of books 
 from a single benefactor. It came, too, at an opportune time; 
 for the Library's deficiencies were beginning to be felt as never 
 before, and it was a period of comparatively low prices for 
 books. But, apart from a few very exceptional gifts, it is only 
 in recent years that these donations of money for imme- 
 diate use have become both frequent and important in their 
 influence on the Library's growth. In the fifteen years of the 
 present century it has bought books to the value of nearly 
 haK a million dollars, over twenty-eight per cent of this 
 amount coming from such gifts (the actual figures in even 
 dollars are, from "funds $328,141, from gifts $130,800). 
 Like the funds, these gifts are for varied objects. A few 
 are unrestricted, but most of them are for books on some 
 definite subject or country. A number of them have been 
 continued annually for a series of years, such as the gifts 
 from Mr. Harold J. Coolidge, '92, for books on China, from 
 Mr. Walter W. Naumburg, '89, for Shakespeare, and from 
 Mr. William Phillips, '00, for London. These and similar gifts, 
 of which a list will be found on pages 143-145 below, have 
 often served to build up really significant collections on their 
 special subjects. It is from such gifts, whether annual or 
 occasional, that the most interesting growth of the Library in 
 recent years has come. The income from the general funds 
 barely suffices for the acquisition of the books and periodicals 
 necessary for carrying on the regular work of the College. 
 For bibUographical rarities and for the building up of special 
 collections the Library is dependent on the generosity of its 
 friends. 
 
26 LIBRAEY OF HAKVAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 An account of the College Library would be incomplete 
 without some notice of the various men who have been its 
 librarians. From the appointment of the first one, Solomon 
 Stoddard, in 1667, until the present time there have been 
 sixty-three. Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century 
 most of these served for only about two years each, usually 
 while studying for the ministry. With their short terms of 
 office and with the scanty means at their command, few of 
 them had any permanent influence on the history of the 
 Library. Except for the printed catalogues that several of 
 them issued, there is little record of what they did. Joshua 
 Gee prepared the first of these catalogues in 1723, — a 
 small quarto volume of 106 pages; and it is also probable 
 that he was responsible for the arrangement of the books on 
 the shelves, which is described in some detail in the preface 
 to this catalogue. In 1773 James Winthrop issued a select 
 catalogue of the books in more frequent use, and in 1790 
 Isaac Smith prepared the third printed catalogue, which was 
 a volume of 366 pages. But although most of these early 
 librarians had little chance to do more than " keep the 
 Library duly swept, & the books clean & orderly in their 
 places " (Library Laws of 1667), yet many of them became 
 well known in their later lives. Among those whose names 
 are still remembered, at least by students of New_ England 
 history, were Samuel Sewall (librarian in 1674), later chief 
 justice and one of the world's great diarists; Josiah Willard 
 (1702-03), secretary of the Province of Massachusetts for 
 forty years; Edward Holyoke (1709-12), president of the 
 College from 1737 to 1769; Stephen Sewall (1726-28), long a 
 judge and chief justice of Massachusetts; Mather Byles 
 (1755-57), minister of Christ Church in Boston and rector 
 in St. John, N. B. 
 
 But it was not until well into the nineteenth century that 
 Harvard had any librarians who may be said to have made 
 librarianship their profession. The first of these was Joseph 
 
HISTORY QT THE LIBBAEY 27 
 
 Green Cogswell, afterwards the organizer and first superin- 
 tendent of the Astor Library. Although he remained at 
 Harvard only two years (1821-23), he did much toward 
 re-arranging and classifying the Library. In 1831 Thaddeus 
 William Harris began his long service as librarian. His main 
 interests were scientific and in his special field of entomology 
 he had few equals. He was a hard and constant worker, 
 and for twenty-five years, it is said, was absent from the 
 Library for scarcely a day. He was succeeded in 1856 by 
 John Langdon Sibley, who had been assistant librarian 
 since 1841. Mr. Sibley, still well recalled by at least the 
 older graduates, continued in active service until in 1877 
 failing eyesight forced him to resign. It was a period of great 
 growth and expansion in the Library. Mr. Sibley himself 
 pointed with pride to the fact that during the time he was 
 connected with it the number of volumes rose from 41,000 
 to 164,000 and the funds from $5,000 to $170,000. For a 
 large part of this growth he was directly responsible, for he 
 never ceased in his efforts to obtain gifts of books or money. 
 " I acquired," he said, " the name of being a sturdy beggar." 
 Popular tradition pictures Sibley as the zealous custodian of 
 the Library, anxious only to accumulate books and to pre- 
 serve them unharmed by the profane touch of a reader's 
 hand. But this is an unjust view of him. While he was in- 
 clined to emphasize this side of a librarian's duties, and had 
 but little sympathy for the desultory reader and no toleration 
 for the slightest abuse of the Library's rules and privileges, 
 yet to any one, student or stranger, doing serious work he 
 freely granted access to the alcoves and was ever ready with 
 his own aid and advice. 
 
 The next librarian was Justin Winsor, who for ten years 
 had been at the head of the Boston Public library. An able 
 administrator and a good organizer, he did much for the 
 general development of the Library toward a greater useful- 
 ness. " The mere accumulation of books," he said in his 
 
£8 LIBHAHY OP HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 first Report, " is not in itself sufficient: a great library 
 should be a workshop as well as a repository." He intro- 
 duced many new methods of work and more businesslike 
 records, but above all he endeavored in every way to increase 
 the actual use of the Library. A re-classification of the 
 books, a greatly enlarged use of the system of " reserved 
 books," a revision of the card catalogue, with the introduc- 
 tion of guide-cards and an index, and a new system of ac- 
 counts for the expenditures, — these are some of his many 
 practical innovations. For many years president of the 
 American Library Association, he was everywhere recognized 
 as a pioneer and leader in his profession. His work as a 
 writer and historian is too well known to need mention 
 here. Mr. Winsor died in 1897 and was succeeded the next 
 year by Mr. William Coolidge Lane, the present librarian. 
 One other officer of the Library, though he was never libra- 
 rian, should be mentioned here. Thomas J. Kiernan entered 
 the service of the Library in 1855, and until his death fifty- 
 nine years later remained ever faithful to his task. In 
 constant contact with undergraduates and visiting scholars 
 for many generations, whom he was always not only willing 
 but able to help, probably no one connected with the college . 
 was so well known and so warmly remembered as he. 
 
 La 1903 the Corporation created a new office in the Lib- 
 rary, or, rather, extended the functions of an office already 
 created. For many years there had been an honorary 
 curator of coins. This year there were established curator- 
 ships in three different fields, — Italian History of the Nine- 
 teenth Century, Modern English Literature, and South 
 American History and Literature; and since then curators 
 have been appointed for a dozen other subjects. These 
 honorary officers, each an exprt in his own field, aid, as 
 freely as their time and inclination permit, in the selection 
 and arrangement of the books in their subjects, and many 
 of them have also given liberally both of books and of 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBBABY 29 
 
 money, or have been the means of procuring such gifts from 
 others. 
 
 Thus far this account has dealt solely with the College Lib- 
 rary; but the University Library, as shown in the general 
 statement above (page 9), consists of various other collec- 
 tions of books. In connection with the different schools and 
 scientific establishments of the University there have, not 
 unnaturally, grown up a number of separate Departmental 
 Libraries, each devoted more or less consistently to its special 
 subject. There are eleven of these, ranging from the Law 
 School Library, estabUshed in 1817, to the library of the 
 Blue Hill Observatory, which became a part of the Uni- 
 versity in 1913. An account of each of them is given below 
 (pp. 98-111). Until 1880 these libraries were practically 
 independent. In that year the Corporation voted that all 
 books for any department (except the Law School) should be 
 purchased through the librarian of the University and should 
 be catalogued at the College Library. By this system it was 
 hoped to make simpler and more economical the purchase and 
 cataloguing of books, to avoid unnecessary duplication of 
 material, to provide in the College Library a complete cata- 
 logue of the bibliographical resources of the University, — 
 in short, as far as possible to unite these scattered Ubraries. 
 This system, while undoubtedly correct in theory, proved 
 after many years of experience to be unsuccessful. The 
 comparatively rapid expansion of some of the Departmental 
 Libraries, each with its own special staff, on the one hand, 
 and, on the other, the crowded condition of Gore Hall and the 
 inadequate staff of the College Library, made it more practi- 
 cable that each library should buy its own books. In passing 
 a vote granting such permission, January 30, 1911, the Cor- 
 poration added the direction that a record of all books ac- 
 quired by any Department should be sent to the College 
 Library. Meanwhile, as these libraries grew larger and more 
 important, other questions arose in regard to their manage- 
 
so LIBBARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 ment. In many instances not only occasional volumes but 
 whole collections on certain subjects were duplicated in one 
 or another of them. Many of the Departmental Libraries 
 had books or collections that would be of more general 
 usefulness in the College Library, and the College Library 
 had many books more appropriate to certain Departmental 
 Libraries. To avoid this oftentimes unnecessary duplication, 
 and to effect transfers of books to the particular hbraries 
 where they will prove the most useful, is no easy problem. 
 Partly to aid in the solution of such questions, partly to 
 bring the various libraries of the University under one con- 
 trol, and in general to simpUfy and unify the whole library 
 system, the Corporation in 1910 created the office of Director 
 of the University Library. 
 
 Besides the Departmental Libraries, there is another group 
 known as the Special Libraries. There are thirty-eight of 
 these and, for administrative purposes at least, they are 
 considered a part of the College Library, through which their 
 books are bought and catalogued. About a dozen of them are 
 in special rooms in the Widener Memorial Building; the rest 
 are located in laboratories, museums, or department build- 
 ings. These Special Libraries may be roughly divided into 
 four groups: first, the scientific libraries, as Chemistry, 
 Botany, etc., which consist in the main of reference and 
 standard works on their subjects, only in part duplicating 
 books in the central Library and for direct use in connection 
 with scientific research; second, the libraries of such depart- 
 ments of the College as have buildings of their own (like 
 Philosophy, Music, Architecture) and have found useful 
 more or less comprehensive collections of books connected 
 with their work, — to a large extent duplicates of books 
 in the College Library; third, the libraries of certain depart- 
 ments, as English, French, German, or Mathematics, where 
 are gathered collections of standard books and reference 
 works that the student can readily consult, and where he can 
 
HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 31 
 
 have a quiet place for study or reading; and, fourth, the lib- 
 raries maintained for the use of the large undergraduate 
 courses in History and Economics, which often provide many 
 copies of the books most used in those courses. These 
 Special Libraries, which were at first designated as Class- 
 room and Laboratory Libraries, are of comparatively recent 
 origin. They are not noticed in the librarian's Reports until 
 1887, when they were said to contain about 2,000 volumes; 
 to-day they have a total of nearly 80,000 volumes. 
 
32 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 THE BUILDING OF THE HARRY ELKINS 
 WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 The corner-stone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial 
 Library was laid on June 16, 1913. The ceremonies were brief 
 and simple, consisting of singing by a chorus, short addresses 
 by President Lowell, Professor A. C. Coolidge, Director of 
 the University Library, and Judge F. J. Swayze, president of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa, and then the formal laying of the 
 corner-stone by the donor, Mrs. George D. Widener, of 
 Philadelphia. Two years later, on Commencement Day, 
 June 24, 1915, the dedication of the then completed building 
 took place. The ceremonies on this occasion consisted of the 
 presentation by Mrs. Widener to President Lowell of the key 
 to the building, the unveiling of the portrait of Harry Elkins 
 Widener, remarks by President Lowell, an address by Henjy 
 Cabot Lodge, and a prayer and benediction by Bishop 
 Lawrence. 
 
 The architect was Mr. Horace Trumbauer, of Philadelphia, 
 and the general contractors were George F. Payne and Com- 
 pany, also of Philadelphia. The building, of brick and lime- 
 stone, is in the Georgian style of architecture, and is practi- 
 cally of fire-proof construction throughout. It is in the form 
 of a hollow square, measuring about 200 by 250 feet on the 
 outside. The inner courtyard is traversed by a central sec- 
 tion devoted to the Widener Memorial Rooms, a Ught-court 
 of about 28 by 110 feet being left on each side. Three sides 
 of the building are mainly occupied by the book-stacks; the 
 remaining (north) side contains the Reading-Room, various 
 administrative offices, etc. The building faces the north; a 
 broad flight of steps, surmounted by a colonnade of twelve 
 massive columns, leads to the main entrance. The entrance 
 hall, fifty feet long and thirty-six wide, is lined with Botticino 
 marble, with a double row of columns of veined statuary 
 
WIDENEK MEMORIAL BUILDING 33 
 
 marble. To the right a corridor leads to the Director's office 
 and to the room for the Library Council. Back of this is 
 the Treasure Room, devoted to the safe keeping of the 
 Library's rarest books and specially fitted with locked metal 
 bookcases. In front and immediately to the right of the 
 entrance is another large room that is eventually to be used 
 for a select library of standard books that shall be accessible 
 to all comers without formality. A corridor to the left leads 
 to the Librarian's office and to the rooms of the Order 
 and Catalogue departments. In the latter is contained the 
 official catalogue of the Library. 
 
 From the entrance hall stairs lead directly to the Widener 
 Memorial Rooms. The first of these rooms is a reception 
 hall finished in white Alabama marble. The second, or 
 inner room, finished in carved English oak, contains Harry 
 Widener's library. At the landing in front of the Widener 
 Rooms the main stairway divides and leads on each side to 
 the second floor. Here, occupying the whole front of the 
 building, is the main Reading-Room. This room, together 
 with the Periodical Room adjoining it at the west end, has 
 seats for 292 readers. At the east end, opening both from 
 the hall and from the Reading-Room, is the Delivery Room. 
 In this room the public card catalogue is placed. 
 
 On the third floor, which rests on top of the stacks, are 
 thirty-four rooms used for some of the Special Libraries, for 
 seminary rooms, and for studies. There is also a large room 
 for the Library's collection of maps. Among the Special 
 Libraries accommodated here are the Child Memorial, the 
 Lowell Memorial, the French, German, and Sanskrit, the 
 Mathematical, and those of the Business School and the 
 Bureau of Municipal Research. The collection of theatrical 
 material recently presented to the Library by Robert Gould 
 Shaw, of Boston, is placed in two rooms on this floor. 
 
 On the ground floor, on the west side, is a special reading- 
 room for elementary work in connection with the courses in 
 
34 LIBBARY OF HABVAKD TJNIVEBSITY 
 
 History and Economics. This has a separate entrance and 
 provides seats for 166 readers. The rest of this floor is used 
 for various working purposes. Below this is a basement, 
 which at present serves mainly to accommodate the ma- 
 chinery necessary to run the building, but will eventually 
 provide storage space for many thousand volumes. 
 
 The book-stacks, which run round three sides of the build- 
 ing, comprise ten floors, but for the present the two lower 
 floors are not to be used and are therefore not equipped with 
 shelving. The capacity of the stacks as at present shelved 
 is about 1,433,000 volumes; with closer shelving and the 
 addition of the two lower floors the total capacity should be 
 about 2,200,000 volumes. Besides this, there is room for 
 several hundred thousand volumes in other parts of the 
 building. A distinguishing characteristic of the stacks is 
 the series of reading-stalls along the sides of the principal 
 floors. There are three hundred of these stalls. In addition 
 to this provision for the comfort of students, there are over 
 sixty small rooms that can be used as private studies for 
 professors or visiting scholars. 
 
NUMBER OF VOLUMES 35 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
 
 Summary of the Number of Volumes 
 
 Volumes Pamphlets 
 C0L1.EQE LiBRABY (Main Collection) 675,050 433,000 
 
 Special Librabies: 
 
 In the Widener Building Volumes 
 
 Bureau of Municipal Research 2,635 
 
 Business School 3,091 
 
 Child Memorial 5,545 
 
 Classics 5,253 
 
 Economics 1,960 
 
 French 2,648 
 
 German 1,598 
 
 Graduate Economics 212 
 
 History , 7,325 
 
 Lowell Memorial 1,677 
 
 Mathematics 1,277 
 
 Sanskrit 1,076 
 
 Statistical Laboratory 247 
 
 Outside the Widener Building 
 
 Education, Lawrence Hall 7,934 
 
 Physiological Laboratory, Lawrence Hall 93 
 
 Chemical Laboratory, BoylsUm Hall 4,725 
 
 Physical Laboratory, Jefferson Hall 710 
 
 Botanical Laboratory, Museum 1,929 
 
 Geological Laboratory, Museum 250 
 
 Mineralogical Laboratory, Museum 1,266 
 
 Physical Geography Laboratory, Museum 297 
 
 Zoological Laboratory, Museum 434 
 
 Students' Palaeontological Laboratory, Museum 9 
 
 Plant Physiological Lab., Botanical Garden .... 268 
 
 Astronomical Laboratory 94 
 
 Philosophy, Emerson Hall 6,223 
 
 Social Ethics, Emerson Hall 4,727 
 
 Semitic, Semitic Museum 2,087 
 
 Germanic Museum 61 
 
 Carried forward 64,641 
 
36 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Volumes 
 
 Brought forward 64,641 
 
 M inin g and Metallurgy, Roteh Laboratory 528 
 
 EngineeTing, Pierce Hall 9,822 
 
 Music, Music Building 2,171 
 
 Fine Arts, Fogg Museum 1,405 
 
 Architecture, Robinson Hall 1,945 
 
 Landscape Architecture, Robinson Hall ,. 1,699 
 
 Preachers' Library, Wadsworlh Home 186 
 
 Phillips Brooks House Library 500 
 
 Forestry, Bussey Institution 132 
 
 Total, Special Libraries 83,029 
 
 Deduct for books on deposit from the Central 
 Library 4,827 78,202 
 
 Total, College Library 753,252 
 
 DePABTMENTAL LibRABIES: Volumes Pamphlets 
 
 Andover-Harvard Theological Library 106,780 50,944 
 
 Arnold Arboretum (Jamaica Plain) 30,320 7,143 
 
 Astronomical Observatory 14,586 34,818 
 
 Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Readville) .... 7,914 15,067 
 
 Bussey Institution (Jamaica Plain) 3,204 16,067 
 
 Dental School (Boston) 2,228 10,000 
 
 Gray Herbarium 15,953 10,672 
 
 Law School 161,734 21,989 
 
 Medical School (Boston) 27,000 46,067 
 
 Museum of Comparative Zoology 52,336 49,219 
 
 Peabody Museum 6,328 6,439 
 
 Total, Departmental Libraries 428,383 268,358 
 
 Grand total 1,181,635 701,358 
 
 Total number of volumes and pamphlets in 
 
 the University Library 1,882,993 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF BOOKS 
 
 37 
 
 THE COLLEGE LIBRARY 
 
 The Classification of the Books on the Shelves 
 
 Showing the Aerangement of the Library and 
 
 THE Number of Volumes in Each Class 
 
 Floor 1 Volumes 
 
 Bibliography 7,469 
 
 Bibliography, periodicals . . . 3,932 
 
 Literary history 1,294 
 
 French literature 17,756 
 
 French history 22,209 
 
 Italian history 9,647 
 
 Italian literatvu'e 6,150 
 
 Dante 3,098 
 
 Romance languages 699 
 
 Portuguese history and liter- 
 ature 1,283 
 
 Spanish history 3,119 
 
 Spanish literature 3,433 
 
 Spanish periodicals 534 
 
 Spanish-American history . . 6,374 
 Spanish-American literature 
 
 and periodicals 1,075 
 
 Spanish-American documents 695 
 
 Floors 
 
 Celtic 838 
 
 English literature 30,974 
 
 British history 22,401 
 
 German literature 10,347 
 
 Judeo-German literature . . . 1,511 
 
 German history 18,658 
 
 Austrian history 3,498 
 
 Church history 17,634 
 
 Bibles 320 
 
 Floors 
 
 Economics 23,432 
 
 Sociology 8,576 
 
 Music 7,371 
 
 Volumes 
 
 Sports and games 946 
 
 Geography 5,174 
 
 General history 4,511 
 
 Government 1,659 
 
 International law 1,867 
 
 War 2,159 
 
 Swiss history 1,763 
 
 Netherlands, history 2,970 
 
 Netherlands, literature 563 
 
 Netherlands, periodicals .... 694 
 
 Scandinavian history 2,419 
 
 Scandinavian literature 3,091 
 
 Scandinavian periodicals . . . 925 
 
 Slavic history and literature . 9,485 
 
 Ottoman history 4,072 
 
 Crusades 1,041 
 
 Asia 1,493 
 
 India 3,127 
 
 Indie literature 2,098 
 
 China 2,117 
 
 Japan 1,213 
 
 Africa 3,976 
 
 Oceania 1,539 
 
 Floor i 
 Periodicals, American and 
 
 English (part) 3,849 
 
 American literature 9,009 
 
 United States history 39,436 
 
 Canadian history and litera- 
 ture 3,476 
 
 Philosophy 13,694 
 
 Beligions 1,110 
 
 Learned societies 8,920 
 
38 
 
 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Volumes 
 
 British documents 7,588 
 
 United States documents . . . 6,094 
 
 Floors 
 
 Fine arts 10,874 
 
 Landscape architecture .... 1,128 
 
 Archaeology 9,586 
 
 Egypt 721 
 
 Ancient history 6,417 
 
 Classical philology 3,706 
 
 Philological periodicals 3,777 
 
 Greek authors 12,487 
 
 Modem Greek 1,617 
 
 Latin authors 11,009 
 
 Modem Latin 1,433 
 
 Oriental literatvire 2,106 
 
 Semitic literature 1,848 
 
 Ural-Altaic literatures 203 
 
 Language 15,285 
 
 Scientific serials 18,011 
 
 Folklore 13,329 
 
 Proverbs 449 
 
 Emblems 259 
 
 FhorS 
 
 Economic periodicals 5,399 
 
 Education 7,199 
 
 Education periodicals 1,799 
 
 Education reports 8,296 
 
 Education text-books 3,202 
 
 Theatre 2,626 
 
 Science 643 
 
 Astronomy 1,723 
 
 Physical geography 778 
 
 Mathematics 5,420 
 
 Physics 2,904 
 
 Chemistry 2,876 
 
 Engineering 3,023 
 
 Technology 1,327 
 
 Navigation 643 
 
 Natural history 1,658 
 
 Volumes 
 
 Zoology 2.844 
 
 Botany 2.085 
 
 Forestry 712 
 
 Geology 2,129 
 
 Anthropology 417 
 
 Medicine 791 
 
 Encyclopedias 1,091 
 
 Floor A 
 
 Periodicals, English and 
 
 American ~ 6,638 
 
 Periodicals, French 3,328 
 
 Periodicals, German 1,601 
 
 Periodicals, Italian 739 
 
 State documents 5,388 
 
 Canadian documents 1,317 
 
 French documents 1,005 
 
 Floor B 
 
 Tracts and Ebeling collection 1,173 
 
 Directories 1,172 
 
 Registers 1,347 
 
 Unclassified books 22,493 
 
 Harvard University collec- 
 tion 6,274 
 
 Pamphlets, estimated at 
 
 433,000 
 
 Newspapers 4,224 
 
 Widener Room 
 
 Widener collection 3,220 
 
 Treasure Room 
 
 Angling (Fearing collection) 11,696 
 
 Angling (Bartlett collection) 1,086 
 
 Aldine collection 239 
 
 Longfellow collection 691 
 
 Thomas Carlyle collection. . 470 
 
 Herbert collection 173 
 
 Incunabula 825 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF BOOKS 
 
 Volumes 
 
 Norton collection 734 
 
 Sumner collection SSI 
 
 MSS 1,035 
 
 MSS. (Sparks collection) ... 343 
 
 Miscellaneous 319 
 
 Also rare[books selected from 
 other groups. 
 
 Volumea 
 
 Reading Room, Map Room, etc. 
 
 Reference books 8,959 
 
 Atlases, etc 1,253 
 
 Maps 29,850 sheets 
 
 Librarian's Room 121 
 
 Collection of theatrical mate- 
 rial. 
 
40 LIBRARY OF HARVARD TJNTVEBSITY 
 
 NOTES ON SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN THE 
 COLLEGE LIBRARY 
 
 American History 
 
 The collection relating to the history, biography, genealogy, 
 and geography of the United States numbers about 51,000 
 volumes. It includes 6,094 volumes of United States docu- 
 ments, and 5,388 volumes of state and city documents. In 
 addition to this there are several thousand volumes of 
 American periodicals and newspapers that are not included 
 in the count above, although they might well be considered 
 as part of a collection of American history. The basis of the 
 collection was the library of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a 
 professor and librarian at Hamburg and a writer of histori- 
 cal and geographical works of authority in their day, and 
 that of David B. Warden, for many years United States 
 consul at Paris. The former library, numbering over 3,200 
 volumes, was given to Harvard in 1818 by Colonel Israel 
 Thomdike, of Boston, and the latter, numbering 1,200 vol- 
 umes, was the gift of Samuel A. Eliot in 1823. In 1830 the 
 Corporation supplemented these two libraries by the pur- 
 chase of a collection formed by Obadiah Rich, the London 
 bookseller, an accumulation including many of the early and 
 rare volumes commonly classed as " Americana," together 
 with tracts of the Revolutionary period. The early ecclesi- 
 astical history of America, particularly of New England (in- 
 cluding controversial works, tracts, and sermons), is well 
 represented, but is not included in the enumeration above. 
 The section on the discovery, early exploration, and geo- 
 graphical development of America, largely built up by Justin 
 Winsor, was further increased by books bequeathed by 
 Francis Parkman in 1894. There is also a collection of 
 many of the books written by travellers in the United States 
 in the nineteenth century. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 41 
 
 For several years past special attention has been given to 
 books on the western United States. The purchases on this 
 subject form a special collection in memory of the late Charles 
 Elliott Perkins, of Burlington, Iowa. It was established by 
 his daughter, Mrs. William Hooper, of Manchester, Mass., and 
 is maintained by a fund given by her; it has also been in- 
 creased by gifts from other sources and by the activities of 
 the Harvard Commission on Western History. In 1914 the 
 library of E. H. Peirce, of Salt Lake City, consisting of books 
 on Utah and Mormonism, was purchased with a special gift 
 and added to the Perkins collection. Mr. Peirce's library, one 
 of the best collections on Mormonism in existence, comprised 
 nearly 2,500 volumes, which included a large number of the 
 publications of the Mormon church and most of the periodi- 
 cals that it has issued from early in its history. More 
 recently a collection formed by Mr. W. C. Breckenridge, of 
 St. Louis, and devoted to the history of Missouri has been 
 acquired. In addition to these two special topics in western 
 history, the Library is also strong in western travels and in 
 the county histories of the western states. * 
 
 The section of United States documents numbers over 
 6,000 volumes, exclusive of duplicates. The College Library 
 has a collection of 328 volumes of the proceedings and de- 
 bates of the constitutional conventions of the various states, 
 and this is supplemented by a similar collection in the Law 
 School Library. There are also many of the early colonial 
 legislative documents, including sonie of the rare volumes of 
 colonial laws; but otherwise no special attempt has been 
 made, except in the case of Massachusetts, to collect the 
 official documents of the several states. There are, however, 
 fairly full sets of reports of the state boards or commissions 
 on railroads, labor, banks, insurance, education, and health. 
 Reference should here be made to the large collection of 
 colonial and state laws in the Law School Library. 
 
42 LIBRAKT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 The number of early American imprints is large, but, as no 
 separate classification has been made of them either on the 
 shelves or in the catalogue, it is impossible even to estimate 
 their number. There are many eariy editions of the works of 
 such writers as Cotton and Increase Mather, including several 
 of the greatest rarity. The collection of early American news- 
 papers is also extensive. A large number of those printed in 
 the various colonies were received with the Ebeling library. 
 
 The books and tracts illustrating the history of American 
 slavery number about 1,100 volumes, a large part of them 
 being made up of many pamphlets bound together. In the 
 catalogue under " Slavery " there are over 3,300 titles. The 
 collection is largely the result of gifts from Charles Sumner 
 and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 
 
 American Literature 
 
 In American Hterature the Library has over 9,700 volumes. 
 Many of the works of the writers of the colonial period are 
 naturally classed with history and theology, or are contained 
 in tract volumes, and thus are not included in the count 
 above. The collection is strong in eighteenth-century au- 
 thors, and has a fair proportion of the poets, novehsts, and 
 playwrights of the early nineteenth century. It also contains 
 many first editions of such writers as Lowell, Longfellow, 
 Emerson, Holmes, Bryant, and Whittier. Among earlier 
 authors well represented may be mentioned James Kirke 
 Paulding and William Gilmore Simms. The Widener collec- 
 tion includes first editions and presentation copies of many 
 noted American authors. The extensive collection of the 
 minor American poetry of the nineteenth century is mainly 
 due to gifts and bequests of Longfellow and Lowell and to 
 gifts from Colonel Higginson and the Longfellow family. A 
 series of American annuals, or gift-books, published mainly 
 in the first half of the nineteenth century, comprises over 
 150 volumes. 
 
special collections 43 
 
 Ancient Histoet 
 
 The collection on Ancient history (6,417 volumes) in- 
 cludes both the classical and other early civilizations of 
 related interests. While it is strongest in the history of 
 Greece and Rome, special mention may be made of the 
 material on Assyrian and Babylonian history. To this have 
 been added the books on the archaeology and fine arts of 
 these two countries, and, in fact, everything else relating to 
 them except the purely linguistic. 
 
 Angling 
 
 In 1915 the Hon. Daniel B. Fearing, of Newport, gave to 
 the Library his books on angling, fishing, fisheries, and fish 
 culture. This great collection, one of the largest ever formed 
 on the subject, numbers over 11,500 volumes, besides many 
 pamphlets, and contains books in twenty different languages. 
 The foundation stone of any angling library is naturally 
 Izaak Walton's " Compleat Angler." Of the first five editions 
 of this, all of them of great rarity, there are in the collection 
 two copies of the first, 1653, two of the second, 1655, three of 
 the third, 1661, three of the fourth, 1668, and four of the 
 fifth, 1676. Over one hundred and seventy editions of the 
 " Compleat Angler " have been published; of these the Fear- 
 ing collection contains more than one hundred and sixty, 
 ranging in size from the " thumb edition," measuring only 
 2X 1 M inches, to the " Lea and Dove " edition in two large 
 folio volumes. Several of the editions have been extended 
 by the insertion of extra-illustrations, consisting of portraits, 
 engravings, colored views, and many original drawings in 
 pen-and-iuk and in colors. In other editions are inserted 
 inscriptions or autograph letters by their editors. Of one 
 little edition, published in London in 1826 by Septimus 
 Prowett, no other copy has ever been discovered. There are 
 examples of several other works of Walton, including a 
 
44 LIBRARY OF HAHVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 presentation copy of his "Life of Dr. Sanderson," with cor- 
 rections in his own hand. There are also autograph docu- 
 ments by him, and the original probate copy of his will. 
 
 The collection contains many early books relating to ang- 
 ling or fishing, and among them several manuscripts. Of the 
 latter the earliest are fourteenth-century copies of Glanville's 
 " De Proprietatibus Rerum " and of the " Ruralium Com- 
 modorum " of Crescentius. Of early printed books there are 
 fifteen incunabula, and many books of the sixteenth century. 
 The earliest of these is a copy of the first edition of Crescen- 
 tius, printed at Augsburg in 1471 ;, one of the most interesting 
 is undoubtedly the " Treaty se on the Art of Fysshing with 
 an Angle," an excerpt from the " Book of St. Albans," attri- 
 buted to the probably mythical Dame Juliana Berners, 
 printed by Wynken de Worde at Westminster in 1496, and 
 the first English book to treat of angling. Since fishing is 
 mentioned in Magna Charta, the collection has a copy of that 
 document, and a very interesting one. It is of the edition 
 published in 1556, and is a copy formerly belonging to Mary, 
 Queen of Scots. All the other writers on angling, both in 
 English and in many foreign languages, are well represented; 
 of the later works many copies have autograph inscriptions 
 by their authors. In addition to the books relating directly 
 to the art of fishing, there are in the Fearing hbrary a great 
 many works that in one way or another illustrate the subject 
 of angling: thus, there are rare and early editions of some of 
 the English poets; there are hundreds of books of travel; 
 and there is a long series of angling novels. The collection 
 includes not only sets of the most important periodicals on 
 angling and allied subjects, but several interesting series of 
 articles excerpted from the principal American and English 
 magazines. 
 
 On the subjects of fish, fisheries, and fish culture there are 
 many works, including scientific treatises and government 
 publications and laws in various languages. There is also a 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 45 
 
 series of over one hundred scrap-books, each devoted to a 
 single kind of fish. There are even many books on the 
 cookery of fish, among them another series of scrap-books, 
 over fifty in number, each volume containing receipts for 
 cooking one kind of fish. The collection is strong on whaling 
 and the whale-fishery. Besides many hundred printed books, 
 there are a number of manuscripts, including log-books of 
 early whalers and numerous whaling prints and engravings. 
 The collection also contains several thousand illustrations 
 on the general subjects of angling, fishes, and fishing. These 
 comprise not only engravings and prints, and even picture 
 post-cards, but many original drawings. Among the latter 
 the most valuable is probably the series of 246 colored draw- 
 ings of Chinese fish done on rice paper by a native artist. 
 
 By the terms of the gift the Fearing collection is to be kept 
 together and a catalogue of it is to be printed. 
 
 The Library had previously owned a smaller collection of 
 books on angling, fishes, and fish culture, numbering 1,014 
 volumes and 269 pamphlets, which was presented in 1892 by 
 the late John Bartlett, of Cambridge. It is catalogued in 
 Bibliographical Contribution, No. 51. 
 
 Aechaeologt 
 
 The Library has nearly ten thousand volumes on Archae- 
 ology, not including many publications, such as the transac- 
 tions and proceedings of various British, French, and German 
 societies, largely archaeological in character, which have been 
 placed with local history. There is a special collection of 
 about two hundred volumes on the relics of Christ and the 
 Christian martyrs, most of them received in the library of 
 Count Paul Riant; and another collection of some nine 
 hundred volumes and pamphlets on the catacombs and Chris- 
 tian antiquities of Rome and Italy, largely the gift of the 
 late John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence. 
 
46 libhabt of harvard university 
 
 Belgium 
 
 The collection of books relating to Belgium (nearly 1,650 
 volumes) includes full sets of the " Chroniques Beiges," 
 " Antwerpsch Archievenblad," and other historical series and 
 periodicals, and also a group of about 150 volumes and 
 pamphlets relating to Antwerp. 
 
 Bibles 
 
 The collection of Bibles includes most of the series of 
 English versions, as well as the more important German 
 and French translations. There are also in the Library some 
 valuable eariy editions, the oldest being that printed by A. 
 Rusch of Strassburg about 1480. Among other important 
 editions may be mentioned the Complutensian Polyglott, 
 1514-17, the Bible printed by Whitchurch in 1550, the Biblia 
 Maxima, in 19 folio volumes, 1660, and Ehot's Indian Testa- 
 ment, 1661, and Indian Bible, 1663 and 1685. The collec- 
 tion of translations of either the whole Bible or parts of it into 
 languages other than English was increased in 1910 by gifts of 
 several hundred volumes from the American Bible Society, 
 the Massachusetts Bible Society, and the British and Foreign 
 Bible Society. The Andover-Harvard Theological Library 
 has also many editions of the Bible, and is especially strong in 
 editions of the Greek New Testament. 
 
 Bibliography 
 
 In Bibliography the Library has a large working collection, 
 comprising the chief bibliographies and bibliographical peri- 
 odicals in all the principal languages. The collection, as it is 
 classified on the shelves, comprises 12,700 volumes (includ- 
 ing 3,932 volumes of periodicals and society publications and 
 1,294 volumes of general literary history). In addition to 
 this, a large part of the 6,490 volumes in the cataloguing and 
 
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 reference rooms are bibliographical. It is further to be noted 
 that all special and local bibliographies, of which the Library 
 has a very large number, are classified with their own subjects, 
 so that the total resources in this field are much greater than 
 the figures noted above would indicate. Particular attention 
 has been given to procuring catalogues of incunabula and 
 manuscripts in European libraries. Large numbers of book- 
 sellers' catalogues, classified by subjects, add to the biblio- 
 graphic resources of the Library. The history of printing is 
 fairly well covered. 
 
 Botany 
 
 No attempt has been made to build up the collection on 
 Botany (which contains only about two thousand volumes), 
 as there are several other botanical libraries in the University. 
 Those of the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, and 
 the Bussey Institution are described below (pp. 101-104). 
 There is a special library (1,809 volumes) in the Botanical 
 Laboratory in the University Museum, and another (268 vol- 
 umes) in the Laboratory of Plant Physiology in the Botanic 
 Garden. 
 
 British History 
 
 The collection on British history (about 30,000 volumes) 
 forms the third largest single division in the arrangement of 
 the Library; it is exceeded in numbers only by the groups 
 on United States history and English literature. While the 
 collection is uneven and perhaps no greater than should be 
 expected in so large a Library, a few special features may be 
 mentioned. 
 
 The set of British parliamentary papers is practically com- 
 plete from 1810, and (including reprinted papers of the 
 eighteenth century and a complete set of the Journals of the 
 Lords and Commons) numbers over 7,600 volumes. There 
 are, in addition, complete sets of the Rolls and Chronicle 
 
48 LIBKAKY OF HAEVARD UNIVEBSITT 
 
 series and other publications of the Record Office, and also 
 fiill sets of the works issued by the principal historical socie- 
 ties, such as the Royal Historical Society, the Camden 
 Society, the Chetham Society, the Harleian Society, the 
 Surtees Society, etc. 
 
 The collection of poUtical and historical tracts and pam- 
 phlets, ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth 
 century, is extensive, including over 8,000 items. By far 
 the greater part of these were purchased from a London 
 bookseller in 1912-1913, by means of several special gifts. 
 Among them were included many broadsides and early news- 
 papers. A few years earlier the Library acquired, partly 
 by gifts from Mrs. Louis Bettmann, of Cincinnati, collections 
 of pamphlets dealing with English political affairs from about 
 1760 until about 1825, formed by George Pitt, Lord Rivers, 
 and by Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Another collec- 
 tion of some 400 pamphlets, mainly in Dutch, relates to Eng- 
 lish affairs in 1689, to the accession of William III, and to the 
 relations between England and the Netherlands from 1662 to 
 1672. 
 
 A collection of books on Oliver Cromwell and his time was 
 received by bequest from Thomas Carlyle in 1883 (see p. 128 
 below). The field of English memoirs and biography is fairly 
 well covered, and it is to be noted that much biographical 
 material is classed with EngHsh literature. The subject of 
 British military and regimental history is also well repre- 
 sented. 
 
 The foundation of the collection of 3,500 volumes on local 
 history and topography was laid by Professor Charles Gross, 
 an authority in this field.' This section includes sets of the 
 publications of the principal county societies, and of many of 
 the smaller local historical and archaeological associations. 
 The books on London number over one thousand, many of 
 
 ' See Bibliographical Contribution, No. 43 : A Classified List of Books 
 relating to British Municipal History, by Charies Gross, 1891. 
 
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 them having been bought with annual gifts from Mr. William 
 Phillips, Class of 1900. 
 
 The books on Scotland comprise about 1,800 volumes, and 
 include a special collection of 165 volumes dealing with Mary, 
 Queen of Scots. 
 
 Business Administration 
 
 The Special Library of the Graduate School of Business 
 Administration, established in 1908, comprises a collection of 
 about 3,100 books and many pamphlets relating to business 
 organization and administration; and many other works on 
 these subjects are classed with the economic books in the 
 main Library. Its larger collections on railroad organization 
 and operation, accounting, and scientific management are 
 supplemented by rapidly growing collections on marketing 
 (including advertising and store management), banking, in- 
 surance, foreign and domestic trade methods, printing and 
 publishing, public utilities, and cbrporation management 
 and finance. 
 
 In addition to the collection of books and pamphlets, a file 
 of the financial reports of the principal industrial and public- 
 utility corporations of the country is maintained. Two 
 hundred and twenty-five trade and business periodicals, 
 including several from South America and Europe, are on 
 file currently. Of several of these — as the " Iron Age," the 
 " Commercial and Financial Chronicle," " System," " Prin- 
 ters' Ink," and the " Engineering and Mining Journal " and 
 of other trade papers — the files are complete from the 
 earliest issues. 
 
 A section for business archives, comprising the confidentila 
 records and original documents pertaining to the conduct of 
 various businesses, has been started. 
 
 The collections of this library are located in Rooms H and 
 I on the third floor of the Widener Building and in the section 
 of the stack immediately below. The library is under the 
 direction of Walter M. Stone. 
 
50 library of harvard university 
 
 Canada 
 
 The nucleus of the collection of over 4,600 volumes on 
 Canadian history and geography is the six hundred and fifty 
 volumes from among those left to the Library in 1893 by the 
 historian, Francis Parkman, and deahng particularly with the 
 period of the French dominion in Canada. The collection 
 contains first editions of the works of Champlain, Le Clercq, 
 Joutel, and Hennepin, as well as of most of the other early 
 French explorers, besides a considerable amount of contem- 
 porary material on the various French and Indian wars. The 
 set of original editions of " Jesuit Relations " cover all but 
 three of the forty years during which they were published. 
 
 In 1908 a surplus from the fund raised for the monument 
 to Francis Parkman remaining in the hands of the trustees 
 was transferred to the Library, and now forms the Francis 
 Parkman Memorial Fund for Canadian History. 
 
 During the past year or two an efiPort has been made to 
 collect the French, and to a smaller extent the English, 
 Hterature of Canada. 
 
 The Carlyle Collection 
 
 Thomas Carlyle by his will left to the Library the books he 
 had used in writing on Cromwell and Frederick the Great. 
 The collection was not large, ■ — ■ less than five hundred vol- 
 umes, — and Carlyle himself in a letter to Ralph Waldo 
 Emerson, written a dozen years before his death, speaks of his 
 intention of " Testifying my gratitude to New England . . . 
 by bequeathing to it my poor Falstaff Regiment, latterly two Fal- 
 staff Regiments of Books, those I purchased and used in writing 
 Cromwell, and ditto those on Friedrich the Great." But the 
 interest in this collection, thus disparagingly described by its 
 owner, lies not so much in the books themselves, or in the 
 mere fact that they belonged to Carlyl^ and bear his auto- 
 graph, as because in many of them he has written marginal 
 
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 notes. Many of these notes, sometimes relating to the book 
 as a whole, sometimes to a certain passage, are characteristi- 
 cally caustic. Some years after Carlyle's death Mrs. Alex- 
 ander Carlyle sent to Harvard a few more volumes from his 
 library.' 
 
 Celtic 
 
 The collection of Celtic literature contains 838 volumes. 
 In addition to this there is much Celtic material to be found 
 in other classifications; as, for example, some 935 volumes in 
 Irish history, 220 in linguistics, and 150 volumes of the 
 Ossianic poems. The Library possesses a large part of the 
 most important publications relating to Celtic philology and 
 the older periods of Celtic literature, including sets of nearly 
 aU the learned periodicals and society publications and 
 facsimiles of early Irish manuscripts. It also contains a score 
 or more of interesting modern Irish manuscripts, among 
 them a copy of the " Tribal Book of the O'Byrnes." 
 
 Chemistry 
 
 In Chemistry the College Library has a small collection 
 (2,876 volumes), supplemented by the special library of the 
 Chemical Laboratory in Boylston Hall. This contains 3,400 
 volumes, in addition to 1,321 volumes temporarily trans- 
 ferred from the main Library. It has sets of the more im- 
 portant periodicals devoted to chemistry, many German 
 dissertations, and a selection of current treatises on chemical 
 subjects. Many of the books were bought with a gift of 
 $1,000 received in 1903 from Mr. Edward MalUnckrodt, of 
 St. Louis. The increase of the collection is provided for by 
 the income of a fund of $3,500 given in 1906 by the Class of 
 1881. It also contains many books presented by the late 
 Professor Wolcott Gibbs and by Mrs. C. H. Sanger. 
 
 ' For a catalogue of the Carlyle collection, see Bibliographical Contri- 
 bution, No. 26, and the University Bulletin, No. 52. 
 
52 LIBRABY OF HAKVABD UNIVERSITY 
 
 China 
 
 The collection of books relating to China numbers about 
 2,117 volumes. Special attention has been given to obtaining 
 early works, historical and geographical, and translations, 
 into English, French, or German, of Chinese literary works. 
 The collection includes 114 volumes relating to the contro- 
 versy between the Jesuit and Dominican missionaries at the 
 beg inni ng of the eighteenth century. There is little material 
 in Chinese. 
 
 Church History 
 
 The collection on Church history (17,634 volumes) in- 
 cludes, besides ecclesiastical history, the collected works of 
 church writers whether historical or not; but it is to be noted 
 that the church history of separate countries and localities is 
 classified with local history. The same is true of a large mass 
 of mediaeval church history, especially cartularies and similar 
 documents, and of much biographical material. The collec- 
 tion itself contains most of the great ecclesiastical and 
 patristic collections, and the church fathers are well repre- 
 sented in all their more important editions. Much material 
 for the history of the monastic orders is comprised in the 
 group, and the collection on liturgies and ritualism is exten- 
 sive. The most important ecclesiastical periodicals are nearly 
 all included. The increase of the collection is insured by the 
 fund bequeathed by John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence, for 
 " books relating to the Church of England and churches in 
 communion with her, the Roman and Greek Churches, and 
 the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, es- 
 pecially as regards ritualism; . . . also books relating to 
 Christian archaeology." The subject of canon law is well 
 represented in the Law School Library. 
 
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 Classical Liteeatuke and Antiquities 
 
 The collection of Classics and classical philology, of about 
 30,000 volumes, is supplemented by many works included 
 under Art and Archaeology. Certain authors are parti- 
 cularly well represented; such, for example, are Aeschylus 
 (556 volumes), Aesop (125 volumes), Aristophanes (558 
 volumes), Aristotle (772 volumes), Boethius (135 volumes), 
 Caesar (302 volumes), Cicero (1,667 volumes), Homer 
 (1,366 volumes), Horace (795 volumes), Persius (757 vol- 
 umes and pamphlets), Plato (789 volumes), Plautus (575 
 volumes), Terence (338 volumes), Theocritus (135 volumes), 
 and Virgil (790 volumes). 
 
 The Library has practically all the chief critical editions of 
 the Greek and Latin classical authors, together with the 
 principal commentaries. The income from the Constantius 
 and SaUsbury funds provides for liberal additions in this 
 field. 
 
 The Weld Memorial collection, which consists of the 
 library of the late Richard Ashhurst Bowie, of Philadelphia, 
 presented in 1908 by Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, of Brook- 
 line, added several thousand volumes to the classical section 
 of the Library. It included a number of editiones principes of 
 classical authors and a large number of other editions of the 
 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; it also contained numerous 
 early translations into English and French. 
 
 The Persius collection formed by Morris H. Morgan, late 
 professor of Classical Philology, was presented by him to the 
 Library shortly before his death in 1910. This gift comprised 
 some 295 editions, 213 translations, and about 125 commen- 
 taries and criticisms. It is listed in Professor Morgan's " Bib- 
 liography of Persius " (Bibliographical Contribution, No. 
 58). Several rare editions of Persius have been added to the 
 collection by the Hon. Daniel B. Fearing, of Newport. 
 
54 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 The collection of works relating to the private life of the 
 Greeks and Romans is also extensive. The number of pro- 
 grammes and dissertations of the German universities on 
 classical subjects is very large. There are a few classical 
 manuscripts, mainly of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 
 and facsimiles of classical manuscripts have been provided 
 whenever obtainable. 
 
 The collection on Roman Law (950 volumes) is supple- 
 mented by books on the same subject in the library of the 
 Law School. 
 
 The special reading-room of the Classical Department (on 
 the third floor of the Widener Building) contains over 5,000 
 volumes of the best editions of the Greek and Latin authors, 
 with various commentaries, and works in philology, archae- 
 ology, and history, most of them duplicates of books in the 
 main Library. The only special collections of note that it 
 contains are those formed by the late Professor F. D. Allen 
 on Homer and Hesiod. 
 
 Cbtjsades 
 
 The collection on the Crusades, the crusading knights, and 
 the Latin kingdoms of Jerusalem, Constantinople, and 
 Greece is largely based on books received in the Riant library. 
 It numbers over 1,000 volumes. 
 
 Dissertations 
 
 The Library annually receives by exchange the doctors' 
 dissertations of the principal German universities and of a 
 few others. At present the following universities send 
 all or a large part of their dissertations: Basle, Berlin, 
 Bonn, Breslau, Erlangen, Freiburg, Giessen, Gottingen, 
 Greifswald, Groningen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Kiel, 
 Konigsberg, Leipzig, Marburg, Munchen Universitat, Miin- 
 chen K. Tech. Hochschule, Munster, Paris, Rostock, St. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 55 
 
 Petersburg, Strassburg, Tiibingen, Upsala, Utrecht, Wiirz- 
 burg. In this way there are annually received from twelve to 
 fifteen hundred dissertations. Most of those in law, chem- 
 istry, medicine, and a few other sciences are sent to the 
 departmental or special libraries; the others are classified on 
 the shelves, and if considered of suflacient importance are fully 
 catalogued. A large number of earlier dissertations, especially 
 in classical philology and in English literature, have been 
 bought from time to time. 
 
 Dutch History 
 
 A large part of the collection on Dutch history (1,350 vol- 
 umes, not including historical periodicals) was bought from 
 anonymous gifts received in 1905 and later years for the foun- 
 dation of the John Lothrop Motley Collection on Dutch His- 
 tory. It includes sets of some of the most important historical 
 periodicals and society publications, and a certain amount of 
 local history. Two of the most valuable single items are sets 
 of the Notulen, or Reports, of the Staten of Zealand, in 172 
 volumes, extending with some breaks from 1587 to 1807, and 
 of the Nederlandsche Jaerboeken and Neue Nederlandsche 
 Jaerboeken, in 121 volumes (1747-98). The latter is a gift 
 from Mr. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, of Washington, who has 
 made other important contributions to the collection. There 
 is also a special group of over 400 volumes on the Dutch 
 East Indies. It includes a number of volumes of travel in 
 Java, Sumatra, and New Guinea, in various European 
 languages, the most valuable part being a collection of 
 seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century books in Dutch 
 and French. 
 
 Dutch Literature 
 
 The collection of Dutch literature (about 1,200 volumes) 
 includes a complete set of De Gids, and also sets of several 
 other literary periodicals. There is a small collection of 
 
56 LIBEAEY OF HAEVAED imiVEESITY 
 
 plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; although 
 only numbering about thirty items, it includes several ex- 
 amples of moralities and other early plays produced by the 
 various Chambers of Rhetoric. 
 
 Economics 
 
 In Economics the Library has a good general collection 
 numbering 28,500 volumes, including 5,400 volumes of peri- 
 odicals. Mention may be made of a small but important 
 group of about 550 volumes of English economic literature of 
 the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (prior to 1776). 
 The files of American labor periodicals have been made fairly 
 complete. (See also in these Notes the headings Business Ad- 
 ministration and Sociology.) The Department of Economics 
 maintains three special libraries, namely: the Economics 
 library (in the Widener Building, ground floor), which is 
 designed to provide additional copies of all the books most 
 used in the larger courses in economics, and contains about 
 2,000 volumes; the Graduate Economics library (Widener 
 Building, third floor), containing 212 volumes for the use of 
 advanced students; and the Statistical Laboratory (also on 
 the third floor of the Widener Building), containing 247 
 volumes intended for students taking the special courses on 
 the subject of statistics. 
 
 Education 
 
 The Education collection (17,295 volumes, besides many 
 thousand pamphlets) includes works on both the theory and 
 the history of the subject. Special attention has been paid to 
 the history of universities. The series of reports and cata- 
 logues of American colleges is extensive, and there are fairly 
 full sets of the annual reports of the boards of education of the 
 various states and of some of the larger cities. In addition 
 to these there is a collection of over 3,000 text-books, 
 
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 some of them of an early date. The Division of Education 
 also has a special library in Lawrence Hall, containing nearly 
 8,000 volumes and many pamphlets. Besides the standard 
 works in pedagogical literature it has a large collection of 
 recent text-books, mainly the gifts of the publishers. 
 
 English Litekatube 
 
 In English literature there are over 31,000 volumes. 
 
 The Chaucer collection numbers about 440 volumes. Of 
 the early editions it contains the foUos of 1526 (the Huth- 
 Widener copy), 1538, 1542, 1560, 1598, 1602, and 1624. It 
 also has the facsimile of the first edition, and a veUum copy 
 of the Kelmscott Press edition, the latter a gift of Mr. Henry 
 Arthur Jones, of London. 
 
 The Shakespeare collection contains over 3,000 volumes. 
 The Library has most of the important modern editions, in- 
 cluding the facsimiles of the folios and quartos, and is fairly 
 strong in Shakespeariana. Among the books bequeathed by 
 Harry Elkins Widener were a set of the four folios, a copy of 
 the "Poems" of 1640, and the quartos of "The Whole 
 Contention" (1634) and "The Two Noble Kinsmen" 
 (1634). Besides the numerous editions of the works, the 
 separate plays, and the poems and sonnets, there are the 
 principal biographies, commentaries, and critical works, and 
 a section of 140 volumes devoted to the Bacon-Shakespeare 
 question. Gifts from Mr. Walter W. Naumburg, '89, of New 
 York, have in recent years added many items of Shakes- 
 peariana. Here, for convenience, may be noted a large 
 number of the privately printed books and pamphlets issued 
 by J. O. Halliwell-PhiUipps, and also his edition of Shakes- 
 peare in 16 folio volumes.^ 
 
 Of the other English dramatists there is a large collection 
 of the separate quarto plays, principally of the Restoration 
 
 ' Bibliographical Contribution, No. 10, indicates those in the Library 
 in 1881, but over one hundred titles have been added since then. 
 
58 LIBKABT OF HAEVAED UNIVERSITY 
 
 period, including over 700 published before 1700. This 
 collection is especially strong in the plays of Dryden and 
 Shirley; of Dryden there are over 87 editions published before 
 1700, and there are first editions of all his plays except two; 
 there are 39 contemporary editions of Shirley's plays. 
 
 Of the publications issued by the English and Scottish 
 printing clubs, such as the Roxburghe, the Bannatyne, the 
 Abbotsford, the Maitland, and the Spalding, there are nearly 
 full sets. There are also complete sets of the publications of 
 the principal English literary societies, such as the Chaucer, 
 the Spenser, the Shakespeare, the New Shakespeare, and the 
 Early English Text societies. Most of the limited and pri- 
 vately printed editions of English authors issued by Alexander 
 B. Grosart have been acquired from time to time. 
 
 The collection of the works of George Herbert and of works 
 relating to him, gathered by Professor George Herbert Palmer, 
 was given to the Library by Professor Palmer in 1912. It 
 numbers 158 volumes and is catalogued in Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 59. Besides a practically complete series 
 of the editions of Herbert, including copies of the principal 
 manuscripts of his poems, the collection contains the works of 
 the brothers and other friends of George Herbert and various 
 books relating to him. 
 
 A collection of the works of John Donne was received with 
 the Norton books in 1905. It is especially strong in early 
 editions of the poems, and also includes several manuscript 
 copies which give valuable variant readings. Additions have 
 been made from time to time from the income of the Norton 
 fund. The collection now numbers 82 volumes. 
 
 There are original editions of most of the important English 
 authors of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; 
 among them may be noted Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund 
 Spenser, Michael Drayton, William Drummond of Haw- 
 thornden, Robert Burton, Francis Quarles, and George 
 Wither. In the Widener collection are to be found many rare 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 59 
 
 editions of various writers of this period, including a number 
 of books which are either unique or of which only one or two 
 other copies are known to exist. 
 
 The books by and about John Milton number 500 volumes. 
 The collection includes over one hundred volumes of Mil- 
 toniana bequeathed in 1885 by George Ticknor, the first 
 Smith professor of the French and Spanish languages. 
 
 The author perhaps more completely represented than any 
 other is Alexander Pope. In 1910 an anonymous gift enabled 
 the Library to acquire the Pope collection gathered by Mr. 
 Marshall C. Lefferts, of New York. Mr. Lefferts had been 
 collecting for years, with a view to issuing a complete bib- 
 liography of Pope, and the collection included much biblio- 
 graphical material prepared by him. It contained nearly 
 500 volumes, of which 82 were Popeana. Since it was received 
 numerous additions have been made either from special gifts 
 or from library funds. In the Widener collection there are 
 some unpublished letters of Pope. 
 
 The period of English Kterature most thoroughly de- 
 veloped in the Library is that between 1660 and 1780. It has 
 not only first and other early editions of all the chief writers 
 of this period, but a large number of the works of the lesser 
 known authors. It has, for example, first editions of most of 
 the novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett, and a great 
 many early editions of the writings of Defoe and Swift. There 
 are also sets of the original issues of the Tatler, the Specta- 
 tor, Swift's " Examiner," Defoe's " Mercurius Politicus," and 
 several minor papers of the same character. The recent pur- 
 chase of three lots of folio and quarto poetical tracts added 
 about 1,200 items to the collection of this period. Among 
 eighteenth-century authors particularly well represented may 
 be named Addison (100 volumes), Mrs. Behn (39 volumes), 
 Chatterton (45 volumes), Defoe (290 volumes), Dryden (350 
 volumes). Gray (130 volumes). Settle (45 volumes), Steele 
 (90 volumes), and Swift (over 400 volumes). 
 
60 LIBBABY OF HABVAED UNIVERSITY 
 
 Of English authors of the nineteenth century, the collection 
 of the works of Byron is especially complete; it includes most 
 of the first editions and a large number of other early editions, 
 and now numbers about 550 volumes. The collections of 
 Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, the Brownings, 
 Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontes, George Meredith, and 
 Symonds, are fairly complete and contain all the first editions 
 of some of them and some of all of them. Their completeness 
 is largely due to the Widener bequest, although the Norton 
 collection also contained many rare first editions of several of 
 these authors, while others have been bought from time to 
 time, mainly from special gifts. The remarkable collection of 
 the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, bequeathed by Harry 
 Elkins Widener, is referred to below, on page 96. Of minor 
 nineteenth-century authors, mention may be made of an 
 unusually complete collection of the writings of William Lisle 
 Bowles. There is also a set of the original issues of the Oxford 
 Newdigate Prize Poems, complete from 1822. 
 
 The section on English hterature is supplemented by the 
 Child Memorial Library of 1,600 volumes, in a special room 
 on the third floor of the Widener Building. It is a library of 
 standard Enghsh hterature, founded in 1897 in memory of 
 Professor Child and mainly bought from the income of the 
 Francis James Child Memorial Fund. It has received many 
 valuable gifts of books; those from the late F. J. Furnival, of 
 London, and from Mr. Albert Matthews, of Boston, may be 
 specially mentioned. The greater part of the income of the 
 Child Memorial Fund, about $570 a year, is now used for the 
 purchase of rare books in English literature or in folk-lore, 
 which for greater convenience are placed in the regular classi- 
 fications in the main Library. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 61 
 
 European History 
 
 The collections on European history include over one 
 hundred thousand volumes, not counting much material 
 classified with Church history. Fuller descriptions of the 
 several collections making up this total are given in these 
 Notes under the names of the various countries; but the 
 combined strength of all the collections is worth noting. 
 Attention has been directed especially toward gathering all 
 printed source material. X^e Library's resources in this 
 field may in part be indicated by the fact that, of the 2,197 
 titles in the " Union List of Collections on European History 
 in American Libraries," published in 1912 by Dr. E. C. 
 Richardson, it has nearly 2,000. Of those lacking, perhaps 
 a third are represented by other editions; and, on the other 
 hand, it possesses a very large number of works of the same 
 character that were omitted from the " List." 
 
 Fine Arts 
 
 The collection on Fine Arts (11,874 volumes) is general in 
 its make-up, consisting of the principal standard works, 
 histories of art and biographies of artists, reproductions of the 
 works of various masters, technical treatises, architectural 
 works, etc. (See also in these Notes the headings Archae- 
 ology and Numismatics.) It is further supplemented by 
 three special libraries. The library of the Fine Arts Depart- 
 ment, in the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, contains 
 1,400 volumes. Besides the books, which are mainly illus- 
 trated works with plates, and works of reference, the Mu- 
 seum contains two large collections of engravings, — the 
 Gray collection, bequeathed to the University by, Francis 
 Galley Gray, LL.D., and the Randall collection, bequeathed 
 by John Witt Randall, M.D., containing together about 
 30,000 prints. It has also a collection of over 45,000 photo- 
 graphs of works of art of all epochs and countries, including 
 
62 LIBHABY OP HABVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 architecture, sculpture, and painting, and to this additions 
 are constantly made. The Architectural Library, in Nelson 
 Robinson Jr. Hall, contains 1,900 volumes. Most of the 
 books have been purchased from the Architectural Equip- 
 ment Fund given by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson, of New 
 York. There is also in Robinson Hall a separate special 
 library for Landscape Architecture, containing nearly 1,700 
 volumes. 
 
 FoLK-LoRE 
 
 The collection of Folk-Lore and mediaeval romances (about 
 13,350 volumes) is perhaps the largest in existence. In this 
 class are included legends, superstitions, magic, early legends 
 and tales of popular origin, and mediaeval romances. My- 
 thology proper, being placed elsewhere in the scheme of 
 classification, is not included. Much folk-lore material, 
 illustrative of the manners and customs, superstitions and 
 beliefs, of various nations is also to be found in the numerous 
 books of travel and in works on manners and customs, scat- 
 tered on the shelves under the various countries. The col- 
 lection was buUt up mainly through the unremitting efforts 
 of the late Professor Child, who based upon it his " English 
 and Scottish Popular Ballads." In this branch of the sub- 
 ject it is remarkably rich, including not only hundred of 
 broadside ballads and practically all the printed collections, 
 but manuscript copies of all the important collections of 
 popular ballads in the British Museum that have not been 
 printed, and of several other unpublished collections. The 
 English and American broadside ballads are catalogued in 
 Bibliographical Contribution, No. 56. The manuscript 
 material used by Bishop Percy in preparing his " Reliques 
 of Early English Poetry " was acquired by the Library some 
 years ago. There is also a copy in manuscript of the great 
 collection of French popular ballads (with music) which was 
 made by a commission appointed by Napoleon III. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 63 
 
 One of the noteworthy features of this section is the large 
 collection of English chap-books, of which the Library has 
 over three thousand examples. They are catalogued in Bib- 
 liographical Contribution, No. 56; but since this catalogue 
 was printed many hundred items have been 'added. Many of 
 the chap-books are contained in a collection, bound in 55 
 volumes, said to have been formed by James and Sir Alex- 
 ander Boswell, and acquired from the Medlicott library in 
 1878. There is another smaller collection in three volumes 
 made by James Boswell, with an autograph note by him in 
 one of the volumes; this was bought in 1902. The Library 
 has probably over two hundred American chap-books. Other 
 languages are represented also, the most notable collections 
 being one of about 350 in Swedish, bought in 1895; a lot of 
 about 150 in Spanish and Catalan; one of 150 in Dutch, 
 besides 74 Dutch broadsides; and one of 87 in ItaKan. 
 
 While the general collection is naturally strongest in 
 English folk-lore, that of other countries has not been neg- 
 lected. Mention should in particular be made of the German, 
 Slavic, and Scandinavian portions. 
 
 The section of mediaeval romances, numbering about 
 2,357 volumes, is strong both in early and critical editions 
 and in commentaries on the romances of the several groups. 
 
 The section on alchemy contains 280 volumes, including 
 many of the early treatises on the subject. That on witch- 
 craft contains 605 volumes; in it are many rare early books 
 and tracts and reports of separate cases and trials. 
 
 Closely connected with folk-lore is a collection on proverbs, 
 emblems, and the Dance of Death, given in 1893 by Mr. John 
 Bartlett, of Cambridge. The section on proverbs, largely 
 increased by later purchases, includes about 450 volumes in 
 many languages. 
 
64 LIBKAEY OF HAByAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 French History 
 
 The French history collection (over 23,000 volumes) is one 
 of the most important in the Library. It is especially strong 
 in mediaeval history, and the number of cartularies is note- 
 worthy. The Law School Library has a large collection of 
 " Coutumes." The collection of books and pamphlets relat- 
 ing to Jeanne d'Arc, formed by the late Judge Francis C. 
 Lowell, of Boston, was left by him to the Library in 1911. It 
 included about five hundred titles, and additions have since 
 been made to it from the fund given in his memory. In 
 forming the collection of French history, special attention has 
 been paid to local history; the series of publications of 
 local historical societies includes over one hundred sets. 
 Among official publications there are full sets of the Docu- 
 ments Inidits, of the Moniteur and Journal Officiel, from 1789 
 to date; a nearly complete set of the Archives Parlementaires, 
 and a set (in 515 volumes) of the Inventaires Sommaires des 
 Archives DSpartementales de la France. (Of this last set, many 
 of the volumes being pubUshed by the local archivists, it is 
 particularly difficult to procure anything like a complete 
 series.) The collections on the Revolution and the Com- 
 mune each contain not only books and pamphlets, but many 
 contemporary newspapers and broadsides; the collection on 
 the Commune is particularly strong in material of this kind. 
 The subject of French military history has recently been in- 
 creased by the purchase of a number of regimental histories. 
 A collection of books and pamphlets on the Dreyfus affair 
 contains over 200 titles. There is a considerable number of 
 memoirs, in which French history is particularly rich. Of the 
 books on Paris, numbering over 1,000 volumes, many were 
 bought with annual gifts from Mr. Lawrence S. Butler, '98. 
 
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 Fbench Liteeatube 
 
 The division of French literature contains 17,750 volumes, 
 not counting 3,328 volumes of French periodicals of a literary 
 or miscellaneous character. From a gift received in 1907 in 
 memory of Arthur Sturgis Dixey, '02, there were bought a 
 number of early and rare editions of many French writers, — 
 among others, of Desportes, Pascal, and Ronsard. A portion 
 of this gift was used to form a special collection devoted to 
 Rousseau, now numbering 646 volumes and including first 
 editions of nearly all his works. The collection of the French 
 drama since the beginning of the last century is fairly com- 
 plete, and the work of the poets of the later nineteenth cen- 
 tury is at least well represented. Portions of the library of 
 the late Professor Ferdinand Bdcher were presented to the 
 Library in 1903 by Mr. James Hazen Hyde, '98. These com- 
 prise the collections on MoUere, numbering 931 volumes and 
 855 pamphlets; on Montaigne, 246 volumes and 95 pam- 
 phlets; and editions of the French dramatists contemporary 
 with MoUere, numbering 332 volumes and 24 pamphlets. 
 The Moliere collection, which with the additions that have 
 been made since the B6cher collection was received now 
 numbers over 2,000 volumes, is especially rich and contains 
 many of the early editions of the works, translations into 
 various languages, and much biographical and critical 
 material. A catalogue was printed as Bibliographical Con- 
 tribution, No. 57. 
 
 There is a special French Department library in a room on 
 the third floor of the Widener Building. It consists of 2,648 
 volumes of standard French Kterature, with the principal 
 reference books. 
 
5b libeaey of harvard university 
 
 German History 
 
 The collection on German history now numbers 18,658 
 volumes. The greater part is the gift of Professor Archibald 
 Gary CooHdge, and is called the HohenzoUern collection in 
 honor of the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to Harvard on 
 March 6, 1902. Its nucleus was 2,700 volumes selected from 
 the library of Professor Konrad von Maurer, of Munich. To 
 this were added such books on German history as the Library 
 already possessed, except the Thomas Carlyle collection on 
 Frederick the Great, which was kept separate (see p. 50).- 
 The collection as a whole has greatly increased in the last 
 dozen years. Many of the books were bought by a special 
 representative of the Library who spent over a year in Ger- 
 many collecting them. 
 
 The collection is partictilarly strong in complete sets of 
 historical periodicals and in the various general and local 
 Urkundenbiicher, so numerous in the field of German history; 
 in fact, only a few minor and unimportant sets of these pub- 
 lications are needed to make this part of the collection 
 practically complete. The sets of periodicals alone exceed 
 one hundred. 
 
 Besides these sets, the collection comprises a large amount 
 of carefully classified material relating to German, especially 
 Bavarian, local history. This has been derived chiefly from 
 the Von Maurer library and the Pfister library, bought in 
 Munich in 1906. Noteworthy also are the pamphlets and 
 newspapers relating to the Revolution of 1848, which include 
 a number of contemporary broadsides and placards, — for 
 example, the famous proclamation of Frederick William IV, 
 "An meine lieben Berliner." The German government has 
 presented to the HohenzoUern collection a complete set of the 
 stenographic reports of the debates of the Imperial Diet, and 
 the Prussian and other local governments of Germany have 
 added more or less complete sets of the reports of the various 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 67 
 
 local assemblies. The HohenzoUern collection also possesses 
 interesting manuscript material relating to the Bavarian 
 diets of the sixteenth century, the Peasants' War, and eco- 
 nomic surveys of Bavaria of the sixteenth century; also six 
 large volumes of original decrees and placards of the Palati- 
 nate for the years 1682 to 1803, for which there is a manu- 
 script index. 
 
 While it is true that almost any German provincial library 
 has more material relating to its own province, and while 
 many German libraries are richer in manuscripts relating to 
 German history, few libraries, even in Germany, have so 
 large and comprehensive a collection on German history as 
 that in the Harvard College Library. 
 
 German Literature 
 
 The German literature collection (10,347 volumes, besides 
 1,600 volumes of German periodicals mainly literary in 
 character) has few special features of note. The Goethe 
 collection of over 1,000 volumes includes 39 volumes pre- 
 sented by Goethe himself in 1819,' and half a dozen rare 
 early editions of Faust bequeathed by Francis BuUard, of 
 Boston, in 1913. It is supplemented by a collection of por- 
 traits of Goethe and illustrations of Faust, some three 
 hundred in number, in the library of the Germanic Museum, 
 the gift of Miss E. E. P. Holland, of Concord. The field of 
 modern German drama is now fairly complete, having been 
 built up by gifts from Mr. E. S. Dresel, '87, of Boston. 
 
 The German Department has also a special library of 
 1,600 volumes in a room on the third floor of the Widener 
 Building, which forms a good working collection for students 
 in German literature and philology. 
 
 ' For an account of this gift, see the Qoethe Jahrbuch, 1904, xxv. 3-37. 
 
68 libbaky of hakvakd univebsitt 
 
 Government 
 
 In so far as the books on Government relate to a particular 
 country they are classified with the books on that country. 
 Of general works on the history and theory of government 
 the Library has a collection of about 1,700 volumes. This is 
 supplemented by many books on the subject in the Law 
 School Library, and also, for the branch of municipal govern- 
 ment, by the Ubrary of the Bureau of Municipal Research. 
 This Ubrary, which is located on the third floor of the Widener 
 Building and contains about 2,300 volumes, has endeavored 
 to bring together documentary data relating to the organi- 
 zation and activities of the leading cities of Europe and 
 America, such as charters, ordinances, statistical publications, 
 and reports. 
 
 Haevabd College 
 
 The collection relating to Harvard College, naturally large, 
 is divided into two classes : (1) the archives, consisting mainly 
 of the original manuscript records, letters, and other official 
 papers of the College, from an early date to recent times; 
 and (2) printed matter and manuscripts of a less official 
 nature. In the first class, which contains 890 bound volumes 
 besides "many separate manuscripts, there is much material of 
 historical value. The earliest volumes of the Corporation 
 records will soon appear in print in a volume of the " Collec- 
 tions " of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Notes on 
 some of the earlier records by Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis 
 were issued as Bibliographical Contributions, Nos. 27 and 50. 
 Among the miscellaneous manuscripts kept with the archives 
 are papers and letters of Presidents Dunster, Leverett, and 
 Quincy, and of Professor George Ticknor, the journals of 
 Presidents Wads worth and Leverett, and the diary of Tutor 
 Flynt. The second class is much larger, including 6,274 
 volumes and many pamphlets. It consists of official publica- 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 69 
 
 tions (reports, catalogues, admission requirements, examina- 
 tion papers, programmes, circulars, etc.) issued by the 
 University and its various departments; miscellaneous 
 historical and descriptive matter, — books, pamphlets, and 
 photographs; biography of oflScers and graduates, including 
 the class reports, lives, and photographs; theses submitted 
 for degrees; prize essays; lectures on various foundations 
 (Dudleian, Noble, etc.) ; matter relating to student life and 
 societies; fiction and poetry descriptive of college life; books 
 written by officers; periodicals published by departments and 
 students; plans of buildings, etc., etc. In short, an attempt 
 has been made to collect matter covering the whole field of 
 university activity. The series of Commencement Theses 
 and Quaestiones, Triennial Catalogues, and early broad- 
 side programmes, etc., has recently been made as complete as 
 possible by procuring photographic copies of unique issues 
 preserved elsewhere. Special mention should be made of a 
 collection of photographs and other prints illustrating the 
 history and topography of the College. There is also a collec- 
 tion of portraits, photographic or engraved, of officers and 
 graduates of the University. 
 
 Holt Land 
 
 The history and geography of the Holy Land in mediaeval 
 and modern times forms by far the most notable part of the 
 classification called, for convenience, Asia, which includes 
 only general works and certain specific countries but recently 
 classified. (The larger divisions of Asia, as China, Japan, and 
 India, have separate classifications.) Based on the books 
 received in the library of Count Paul Riant, of Paris, it is 
 well provided with accounts of mediaeval pilgrimages, and 
 forms with its 900 volumes a comprehensive collection on the 
 subject. It is further supplemented by the collection on the 
 crusades (see p. 54 above). 
 
70 libbaey of haevabd university 
 
 Inchnabttla 
 
 Of Incunabula the College Library possesses nearly one 
 thousand examples. One hundred of these were received in 
 the Riant collection in 1899 and are mainly on subjects relat- 
 ing to the Ottoman Empire, the crusades, or the Holy Land; 
 a number of others were comprised in the Sumner bequest 
 (1874) ; forty were among Professor Norton's books received 
 in 1905; twenty were included in Professor Morgan's Persius 
 collection; fifteen were received with the Fearing collection in 
 1915; several are in the Dante collection; many others have 
 been acquired from time to time either by gift or by purchase; 
 and over four hundred were received in 1908 as part of the 
 Weld Memorial gift of the library of Richard Ashhurst Bowie 
 (see pp. 53, 136), and are mainly early editions of the classics 
 and of the church fathers. Later gifts from Mrs. Edward D. 
 Brandegee, of Brookline, received in 1911-12, have added 
 a number of incunabula of the classics to the Weld Memorial 
 collection. The earliest specimen in the Library is probably 
 St. Thomas Aquinas's " Summa de Articulis Fidei," printed 
 at Mainz about 1460 and attributed to Gutenberg. An im- 
 portant English incunabulum lately received is a perfect copy 
 of Caxton's " Royal Book " (1487 ?) in the Harry Elkins 
 Widener collection. Altogether the work of some two hundred 
 and thirty of the fifteenth-century printers is represented. 
 The Library also owns a very large number of books printed 
 in the early part of the sixteenth century, including a long 
 series of Aldines. The greater part of the incunabula have 
 been brought together into one collection. These have been 
 arranged in the order of Proctor's List atid his numbers have 
 been used as shelf-marks. 
 
 Several of the Departmental Libraries also possess a 
 number of incunabula. The most important collection is that 
 in the Law School, which has 44 examples, including books 
 from the presses of Pynson, Wynken de Worde, and Rood; 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 71 
 
 many of these came in the Dunn collection (see p. 105). In 
 the libraries of the Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Her- 
 barium are to be found fifteen or twenty incunabula of a 
 botanical interest. The Andover-Harvard and the Astro- 
 nomical libra,ries each have a few fifteenth-century books. 
 
 India 
 
 The collection on India and Indo-China (3,127 volumes) is 
 largely in English, although there are some works in French 
 and German. Notable in it are the many memoirs and bio- 
 graphies of British officers, both civilian and military, who 
 have served in India. Most of the books on Burma, 125 vol- 
 umes, came as gifts from Assistant Professor John Hays 
 Gardiner, or were bought from the fund given in his memory. 
 
 The volumes on Siam, now numbering 100, are most of 
 them either gifts from Edward H. Strobel, '77, late general 
 adviser to the king of Siam, or purchases from the fund given 
 in his memory by the king, various members of the royal 
 family, and other friends of Mr. Strobel living in Bangkok. 
 The income of this fund will provide amply for the building up 
 of a valuable Siamese collection. 
 
 Indic Litebatube 
 
 The Library's collection of Indic literature (2,100 vol- 
 umes) may fairly be described as important, including texts 
 and translations of all the principal Sanskrit and other Indic 
 authors, and the principal periodical and society pubhcations. 
 Its formation is due mainly to gifts and bequests from George 
 W. and Henry W. Wales, of Boston, and to gifts from the late 
 Henry C. Warren, '79, Fitzedward Hall, '46, and Professor 
 C. R. Lanman. The collection is supplemented by the special 
 Sanskrit Library, in charge of Professor C. K.. Lanman, in a 
 separate room in the Widener Building. This contains about 
 1,000 printed volumes and nearly 1,500 manuscripts of Brah- 
 
72 LIBBABY OF HAEVABD UNIVERSITY 
 
 manical, Jaina, and Buddhist works in Sanskrit, Pakrit, 
 and Pali respectively. Many of these books came from 
 the same benefactors who helped to build up the Sanskrit 
 collection in the main Library. 
 
 Italian History 
 
 The collection on Itahan history (9,700 volumes) includes 
 many of the long series pubhshed either by the government or 
 by historical societies, such as " Archivio Storico Italiano," 
 " Miscellanea di Storia Italiana," " Historiae Patriae Monu- 
 menta," " Societa Ligure di Storia Patria," " Archivio 
 Veneto," " Diarii di Marino Sanuto," etc. Mr. H. N. Gay 
 (A.M., 1896), curator of Itahan history of the nineteenth cen- 
 tury, has given many books toward forming a collection on 
 the political history of Italy from 1815 to 1870; it now con- 
 tains over 2,300 volumes, besides many hundred pamphlets. 
 The books relating to Sicily include over 360 volumes. Re- 
 cent purchases and gifts have very materially increased the 
 collection of local Italian history. Noteworthy in this field is 
 the large number of Statuti of the various towns and cities, 
 consisting of 356 volumes. The two cities on which the col- 
 lections are especially strong are Florence and Venice, both 
 these having been largely formed through special gifts from 
 the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., and the late Francis 
 Skinner. 
 
 Italian Literature 
 
 Except for the Dante and Tasso groups, the collection 
 on Italian literature (about 10,000 volumes) is not especially 
 notable. The collection of books by and relating to Dante 
 numbers 3,100 ;volumes. In 1884 Professor Charles Eliot 
 Norton gave the larger part of his valuable Dante collection 
 to the Library, and since that time the Dante Society has 
 made an annual appropriation for the purchase of books in 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 73 
 
 this department. In 1896 the Dante collection formed \>y 
 Professor George Ticknor was given to the Library. Gifts 
 from Mr. Alain C. White, '02, of New York, have added a 
 number of early editions and commentaries. Although with- 
 out much manuscript material, the collection possesses most 
 of the important printed editions, including several incu- 
 nabula.^ 
 
 The Tasso collection, received in the Riant library in 1899, 
 contained many editions of the " Jerusalem Delivered," to- 
 gether with lives and commentaries. Other editions of the 
 " Jerusalem," and also editions of Tasso 's various other 
 works, have since been bought, till the collection now numbers 
 over 500 volumes. 
 
 Linguistics 
 
 The collection on Linguistics has over 19,000 volumes, 
 including 3,775 of philological periodicals. In 1866 Joseph 
 E. Worcester gave all the dictionaries and glossaries used by 
 him in the preparation of his EngUsh Dictionary that were 
 not already in the Library. Effort has been made to secure 
 dictionaries and grammars of all the lesser known languages. 
 In the Malay-Polynesian group there are 527 volumes", in- 
 cluding 74 on the Hawaiian language; and on the various 
 African languages and dialects there are 536 volumes. The 
 division of Polynesian languages is supplemented by the 
 collection in the Ubrary of the Museum of Comparative 
 Zoology. 
 
 In American linguistics may be mentioned the manuscript 
 of the Abenaki Dictionary of Sebastian Rasle (see Biblio- 
 graphical Contribution, No. 22, p. 86); the manuscripts re- 
 
 ' See Bibliographical Contribution, No. 34: The Dante Collections in 
 the Harvard College and Boston Public Libraries, by William C. Lane, 1890. 
 The Harvard collection of Dante material has more than doubled since this 
 catalogue was printed. The annual accessions have been listed in the 
 Reports ot the Dante Society. 
 
74 LIBEAET OF HABVARD UNIVEESITT 
 
 lating to the study of the Delaware and other aboriginal 
 languages of the Indians living in the present Middle states, 
 given by David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary, in 1850 
 (see Bibliographical Contribution, No. 22, pp. 86-88, and the 
 enumeration in J. C. PiUing's " Algonquian Languages," 
 Washington, 1891); and a copy of Eliot's Indian Grammar, 
 1666. The Montt library, received in 1909, and the Schuller 
 library, received in 1915, both contain some rare books on 
 South American linguistics. The library of the Peabody 
 Museum also has much material on American languages. 
 The collection of Bibles supplements this division by furnish- 
 ing texts in many languages and dialects. 
 
 Japan 
 
 The collection of books on Japan numbers 1,213 volumes. 
 Many of the books were bought from gifts in memory of John 
 C. Bancroft, '54. Of special importance is a collection of 109 
 early volumes mainly by Jesuit missionaries to Japan; the 
 greater part of it was formed by John C. Brevoort, of New 
 York, and was bought in 1909 from the American Anti- 
 quarian Society. The number of works in Japanese, both 
 historical and literary, has lately been increased by gifts, and 
 by purchases under the direction of Professor Anesaki, visiting 
 professor from the University of Tokyo. Important among 
 these is a copy of the " Daiz5kyo," the collection of the 
 Chinese and Japanese " Tripitaka," or Buddhist scriptures, 
 in 420 volumes. 
 
 Judeo-Gekman 
 
 The Library has a collection of Judeo-German (Yiddish) 
 books consisting of 450 volumes and 1,600 pamphlets, given 
 in 1898 by Assistant Professor Leo Wiener and Messrs. 
 Morris and James Loeb, of New York, and including books 
 printed both in Europe and in America. 
 
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 Manuscripts 
 
 In its Manuscript department the Library contains several 
 valuable collections and many interesting and important 
 single manuscripts. Only a summary of the collections can 
 be given here, together with a brief mention of a few of the 
 more notable single manuscripts. , 
 
 Latin manuscripts have come to the library from three 
 main sources — the collections of Charles Sumner, Professor 
 Norton, and Count Paul Riant. Many of those separately 
 acquired were formerly the property of Sir Thomas Phillips, 
 of Cheltenham, England. The Library catalogue lists 150 
 Latin manuscripts, of which 91 are miscellaneous works 
 of the sixteenth century or later. Of the remaining 59 the 
 earliest are Eadmer's Vita Anselmi, Priscian, and Opuscula 
 of St. Jerome, all of the twelfth century. The last-named 
 volume contains, besides St. Jerome, the famous mediaeval 
 hymn " Alpha et O, Magne Deus," sometimes attributed to 
 Abelard. This book is one of the few that ascribe it rightly 
 to Hilbert of Tours; its readings, also, class it with the best 
 family of the manuscripts of the work. Among the thirteenth- 
 century books is a Latin Aristotle (Politics, Rhetoric, and 
 Magna Moralia) containing a note by Paulus Victorius; it 
 was brought from Florence by Edward Everett in 1819. The 
 fourteenth century is represented by nine manuscripts, in- 
 cluding a " Historia de Preliis Alexandri," the logical works 
 of Boethius, Valerius Maximus, and Guido delle Colonne, 
 besides ecclesiastical works. Among the fifteenth-century 
 books there are manuscripts of mediaeval and ecclesiastical 
 writers like St. Bernard, Walter Burley, Giacopo da Vora- 
 gine, Jacques de Vitry, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and of the 
 following classical authors: Cicero (De Officiis), Cornificius, 
 Horace (Odes — Leonardo Aretino's copy, which passed from 
 him to Torquemada), Juvenal, Lucan, Nepos, Ovid, Palla- 
 dius, Plautus (owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford), 
 
76 LIBBABY OP HAKVAED UNIVEBSITY 
 
 Seneca, Tacitus, Terence, Tibullus. There are two Dante 
 manuscripts, and specimens of humanistic translations by 
 Leonardo Aretino, Rinucci, Guarino da Verona, and others. 
 Distinctly the important feature of the collection is half a 
 dozen service-books (Officium B. V. M., etc.), formerly 
 Charles Sumner's, with exquisite illuminations and pictures; 
 in the interest of art, these deserve an elaborate publication 
 with facsimiles. 
 
 The Greek manuscripts are few, numbering only eight, but, 
 curiously, not one is so late as the fourteenth century. There 
 are six leaves from an Evangelary of the tenth century, a very 
 beautifully written Psalter of the eleventh century, an 
 Evangelary of the twelfth, two Evangelaries and a Psalter 
 of the thirteenth, and, also from the thirteenth, manuscripts of 
 Michael Glycas and Gregory of Nazianzus. 
 
 Jared Sparks, president of the College, left to the Library 
 his collection of manuscripts — mainly copies, but including 
 some originals, such as the papers of Governor Bernard, one of 
 the royal governors of Massachusetts. A calendar of them, 
 and of other minor collections of papers relating to American 
 history, constitutes No. 22 of the Bibliographical Contribu- 
 tions. The most considerable collection of original manu- 
 scripts in this field possessed by the Library comprises the 
 papers of Arthur Lee, which were left to it in 1827. Two 
 other parts of the same collection were given at the same time 
 to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and 
 the library of the University of Virginia. There is a calendar 
 of the portion in Harvard College Library in No. 8 of the 
 Bibliographical Contributions. The manuscripts and printed 
 material used by the historian William Hickling Prescott in 
 the preparation of his " Ferdinand and Isabella " were given 
 by him to the Library. 
 
 Two manuscripts of historical interest, received as a gift 
 from Mrs. C. I. Rice, Grange Erin, Douglas, County Cork, 
 Ireland, are the journals of Lieut. Henry Hamilton, British 
 
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 governor of Detroit from 1774 and later governor of Ber- 
 muda and Antigua. One is the contemporary account of his 
 expedition from Detroit to Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), 
 which he captured in 1778; the other is a volume of his 
 reminiscences, written in 1792. 
 
 A collection of letters and business papers formed by the 
 Bourn family of Barnstable, Mass., was presented in 1896 by 
 Judge Joseph M. Day. In 1910 there was received by be- 
 quest of John Harvey Treat a collection of letters, bills, and 
 other business papers of Merlino de St. Pry, a French mer- 
 chant living in Boston from 1778 to 1783. In 1912 Judge 
 Peter T. Barlow, '79, of New York, deposited in the Library 
 the manuscripts, consisting of letters and documents, of Joel 
 Barlow, author of " The Columbiad." In the same year 
 Miss Mary H. Dennie, of Boston, gave a collection of corre- 
 spondence, original manuscripts, and other documents of 
 Joseph Dennie (1768-1812), a writer of some distinction in his 
 day. 
 
 The Riant library contains 100 manuscripts, relating for 
 the most part to the subjects of that collection. A full list 
 is included in the printed catalogue of the Riant library. 
 
 An interesting English manuscript of Lydgate, written by 
 John Shirley about 1450, was bought from the Medlicott 
 library (see an article on it in " Studies in Philology and 
 Literature," vol. v). Another Lydgate manuscript, his 
 " Troy Book," also of the fifteenth century, was bought in 
 1904 with Child Memorial money. 
 
 In 1902-03 Professor Norton, the literary executor of 
 James Russell LoweU, placed in the Library the collection of 
 letters written to LoweU that remained in his hands, together 
 with the manuscripts of several of Lowell's lectures and the 
 correspondence in regard to some of his publications. Among 
 the Lowell manuscripts are included a series of letters from 
 Edgar AUan Poe, and also the manuscripts of many of the 
 contributions to the North American Review during Lowell's 
 editorship. 
 
78 LIBBAEY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 The Norton collection contains a few early manuscripts. 
 Some of them are noted on pp. 82-83 below. In 1914 a collec- 
 tion of autograph letters left by Dr. Rupert Norton, '88, of 
 Baltimore, was given to the Library by his widow. This col- 
 lection was started by his grandfather. Professor Andrews 
 Norton, of the Class of 1804, and continued by his father, 
 Professor Charles Eliot Norton, '46, while Dr. Norton himself 
 had made many additions to it. It includes letters from 
 many noted men both in America and in Europe. 
 
 'The Library has also a few manuscripts by Longfellow, 
 Holmes, Hawthorne, and other American authors. A collec- 
 tion of manuscripts (in five volumes and three portfolios) of 
 the poetical works of Bayard Taylor, including his transla- 
 tion of Faust, was given by Mrs. Taylor in 1894. 
 
 Among the single modern manuscripts may be mentioned 
 a note-book in which the poems of Shelley were written either 
 by his own hand or by his wife's. This volume was given to 
 the Library by Mr. Edward A. Silsbee, and is described, with 
 a facsimile of the poem " To a Skylark," in Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 35. Another Shelley manuscript, be- 
 queathed by Mr. Silsbee in 1902, is a small volume written by 
 the poet in 1816-17 and containing these poems: " Mari- 
 anne's Dream," " Verses written on receiving a Celandine," 
 and " To Constantine." A valuable manuscript, received in 
 the Norton library, is Thomas Gray's copy of Linnseus's 
 " Sy sterna Naturae," with numerous notes and pen-and-ink 
 drawings. Professor Norton published an account of this 
 book under the title, " The Poet Gray as a NaturaUst " 
 (Boston, 1903). In 1892 Mr. LesUe Stephen presented to the 
 Library the original manuscript of Thackeray's " Round- 
 about Papers." It is the copy as prepared for the printer, 
 and consists of 154 leaves. Corrected proof-sheets of the 
 " Roundabout Papers " are in the Widener collection. 
 
 A number of other interesting modern manuscripts were 
 received with Harry Elkins Widener's books. Among them 
 
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 may be mentioned poems, letters, or original manuscripts by 
 such authors as Burns, Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, 
 Swinburne, Browning, Meredith, and Stevenson. Scattered 
 through the numerous extra-illustrated books of the Widener 
 collection will also be found many letters and documents of 
 great literary interest. 
 
 In 1915 Mrs. James T. Fields, of Boston, bequeathed to 
 the Library a number of valuable original manuscripts; they 
 include Hawthorne's " House of the Seven Gables," Lowell's 
 " Biglow Papers," Emerson's " Titmouse," Holmes's " Guar- 
 dian Angel," and Dickens's " Uncommercial Traveller." 
 One other single manuscript recently received should be 
 noted; this is the original copy of the hymn " America," 
 written by Samuel Francis Smith, '29, and presented to the 
 Library by his children in 1914. 
 
 Maps 
 
 The collection of Maps numbers about 29,850 sheets, — 
 the basis of the collection being that formed by Professor 
 EbeUng of Hamburg, which came to the Library with his col- 
 lection of Americana in 1818. It has been added to from 
 time to time, particularly so as to complete the cartographical 
 publications of the United States government and the ord- 
 nance and geological surveys of the principal European coun- 
 tries. Of bound maps and atlases there are about 1,200 
 volumes, including such facsimile collections as those of 
 Santarem, Nordenskiold, etc., and many of the printed edi- 
 tions of the early geographers, Ptolemy, Mela, Wytfliet, 
 Miinster, Mercator, Ortelius, etc. In maps illustrating the 
 historical geography of America the collection is strong, and 
 it contains many early maps of great rarity. 
 
80 library of harvard university 
 
 Mathematics 
 
 The Mathematical collection consists of 6,875 volumes, 
 including 1,455 volumes of periodicals and publications of 
 mathematical societies. The series of collected editions of the 
 works of leading mathematicians is practically complete. 
 The collection is supplemented by the adjoining section. 
 Astronomy (3,000 volumes, including 1,300 volumes of 
 periodicals and transactions). 
 
 The collection is further supplemented by the special 
 library of the Division of Mathematics (Widener Building, 
 third floor). This consists of 1,183 volumes, and contains, 
 besides reference works and general treatises, the collected 
 editions of the chief mathematicians. 
 
 Mediaeval Literature 
 
 In addition to the Mediaeval romances (see p. 62), there 
 is a strong collection of general mediaeval literature, both 
 prose and poetry, in the principal languages of Europe. The 
 Latin writers of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance, who 
 have been well represented, especially since the receipt of the 
 Bowie library in 1908, have been brought together as a special 
 collection comprising 1,433 volumes. This is supplemented 
 by many books in the Church History collection (see p. 52), 
 while mediaeval Latin writings oh special topics have usually 
 been classified with those topics. Also, the writings of Ger- 
 man, Italian, Spanish, and French mediaeval authors are to 
 be found with the early Uterature of the countries in question. 
 
 Music 
 
 The Library's Musical collection (7,371 volumes) includes 
 the collected works of the most prominent composers, as well 
 as full scores of all Wagner's operas and of a number of other 
 important operas. It possesses also the original manuscript 
 
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 scores of most of the works of the late Professor J. K. Paine. 
 Besides musical scores and compositions, classical and mod- 
 ern, it has a fair proportion of treatises, criticisms, musical 
 biographies, etc. A series of 224 manuscripts volumes, pre- 
 sented by the Massachusetts Historical Society, contains the 
 words of over 1,500 Italian operas, sacred dramas, and can- 
 tatas. There is also a good collection of English ballad operas 
 of the eighteenth century, most of which have been given by 
 Mr. Ernest L. Gay, '97, of Boston. There is a fair collection 
 of hymnology, supplemented by that in the Andover-Harvard 
 Theological Library; and much material on church music will 
 be found classified under Liturgies in the section on Church 
 History. An account of the classification of the musical 
 works is printed in the Library Journal for January, 1902. 
 
 In the Music Building there is a special musical library of 
 2,171 volumes. It forms a good working collection of orches- 
 tral scores, of music for the voice and for the pianoforte, and 
 of modern books on musical subjects. 
 
 NoBTH Africa 
 
 On the history and description of North Africa the Library 
 has noteworthy collections. On Morocco there are 475 
 volumes, and on Algeria there are 450 volumes. A com- 
 parison with Playfair's Bibliographies shows that, while far 
 from complete, the collections on both these countries are 
 remarkably strong. On Tripoh and Tunis there are respec- 
 tively but 72. and 120 volumes; but it is to be observed that 
 the printed hterature on these two countries is much less 
 extensive than that on Morocco and Algeria. 
 
 The Noeton Collection 
 
 Through the timely and generous action of a number of 
 Professor Charles Eliot Norton's friends, the Library acquired 
 in 1905 the more valuable part of his library, some of the 
 
82 LIBBABY OF HAEVAED UNIVEESITT 
 
 rarer books (about 600 volumes) being transferred imme- 
 diately or at intervals as Professor Norton chose to part with 
 them, and the remainder passing into the Library's possession 
 after his death. Altogether several thousand volumes were 
 received, of which the more precious, about 700, have been 
 kept together as a memorial. Professor Norton's own 
 description of his books is as follows: 
 
 " The moderate distinction of my library . . . largely 
 consisted in its containing a considerable number of book's of 
 special interest. Most of these fall into two classes, — one 
 that of early typography, and of early wood-cut engraving, 
 mostly Italian; the other that of books with interesting 
 associations from having belonged to or from containing the 
 autographs of eminent men, or from being the gift of their 
 authors, or from being first editions. Some rare Americana, 
 and some scarce works on the Fine Arts, especially on Archi- 
 tecture, formed two minor classes." 
 
 The collection contains volumes which have formerly 
 belonged to Ben Jonson, Sir Henry Wotton, Isaac Casaubon, 
 Pietro Bembo, Martin Luther, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, 
 William Wordsworth, Thomas Campbell, Leigh Hunt, 
 Charles and Mary Lamb, John Sterling, Sainte Beuve, 
 Increase Mather, Jeremy Belknap, and George Washington; 
 volumes received as gifts from Ruskin, D. G. Rossetti (a 
 copy of " The Germ "), Clough, Carlyle, Dickens, Matthew 
 Arnold, Cardinal Manning, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, and 
 others; some American and English books of great rarity, 
 such as the Boston edition (1693) of Mather's " Wonders of 
 the Invisible World " (of which not more than one or two 
 other copies are known), Wordsworth's " Evening Walk," 
 1793, Shelley's " Adonais," 1820; several rare editions of the 
 Hypnerotomachia; a remarkable collection of early editions 
 of John Donne, with manuscripts of his poems; about forty 
 incunabula; many Aldine editions of classic authors; early 
 
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 editions of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio; and a number 
 of manuscripts, including church-service books, three manu- 
 scripts of Boethius, and texts of Leonardo Aretino, " St. 
 Augustine's " De Caritate," Peter Lombard's " Sententiae," 
 Lucan's " Pharsalia," and Cicero's " Tusculanae Quaes- 
 tiones." 
 
 The income of the Norton fund, amounting to about $450 a 
 year, is used for adding appropriate books to the collection. 
 
 Numismatics 
 
 The collection of Numismatics (1,227 volumes) includes 
 nearly aU the principal numismatic periodicals in English, 
 French, German, and Italian, and most of the more important 
 works giving reproductions of ancient and mediaeval coins. 
 Many of the sets of periodicals have been presented by the 
 curator of the collection, Mr. Harold Wilmerding Bell, '07, of 
 Cambridge. The Library also has a small collection of coins 
 and medals. Among the latter is a series of medals that have 
 been struck in honor of Harvard graduates. 
 
 Oceania 
 
 The collection of books on Australia and the islands of the 
 Pacific Ocean, though numbering only 1,539 volumes, con- 
 tains some rare early works and many of the more important 
 modern books. It is supplemented by many volumes of 
 voyages classified with general geography. The strongest 
 single group is that on the Hawaiian Islands (275 volumes), 
 and the increase of this group is provided for by a fund of one 
 thousand dollars given by Mr. William R. Castle, of Hono- 
 lulu. There are also many early Hawaiian imprints, some of 
 them of great rarity; and files of Hawaiian newspapers and 
 periodicals. 
 
84 library of harvabd university 
 
 Oriental Literatures 
 
 The group of Oriental literatures, numbering 2,106 vol- 
 umes as now classified, includes Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, 
 Armenian, and Georgian. Of the other oriental literatures, 
 Japanese and Chinese are arranged with the books on those 
 countries, while Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, etc., will no doubt 
 eventually be transferred to the Andover-Harvard Theologi- 
 cal Library. This also is likely to be the case with rabbinical 
 and other mediaeval Hebrew literatures. The largest single 
 count for any of these groups is that of Arabic, 800 volumes. 
 This .includes some works recently transferred from the 
 Semitic Library and the Andover-Harvard Library. In 
 addition to this the Library has many Arabic books which are 
 classified according to their subjects. Mention may be made 
 of a group of from thirty to forty Georgian books, almost aU 
 from the collection of the Rev. A. Palmieri, formerly of the 
 Vatican Library. Some of these books, which deal with the 
 history and theology of the Georgian church, are classified 
 with the collection on Church History. 
 
 The Semitic Library, situated in the Semitic Museum, con- 
 tains about 2,000 volumes. These books, unlike those in 
 most of the special Ubraries, are supplementary to, rather 
 than dupUcates of, the corresponding collection in the main 
 Library. 
 
 The Ottoman Empire 
 
 The collection of books on the Ottoman Empire is one of 
 the best on this subject ever brought together. In it are 
 included many books from the library of the late Count Paul 
 Riant, of the French Academy, presented in 1900 by Mr. 
 J. R. Coolidge, of Boston, and Professor A. C. Coolidge. These 
 are fuUy described in the printed catalogue of the library of 
 Count Riant (Paris, 1899, 2 vols., 8°), and an account of 
 the Riant library by A. L. P. Dennis will be found in the 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 85 
 
 Library Journal for December, 1903, pages 817-820. The 
 collection also includes 445 volumes from the library of M. 
 Charks Schefer, of Paris, given in 1899 by Mr. J. R. Coolidge. 
 Extensive additions have been made to the books received in 
 these two libraries, and the collection now numbers over 
 4,000 volumes and many pamphlets. It includes numerous 
 manuscripts and incunabula and other early printed books; 
 among the manuscripts is the original unpublished Latin 
 text of Cantemir's " History of the Ottoman Empire." Its 
 greatest strength is perhaps in the number of contemporary 
 pamphlets, in Latin, German, French, and Italian, descrip- 
 tive of events in the various wars against the Turks. For 
 example, on the battle of Lepanto (1571) there are one hun- 
 dred and eighty titles, including a series of more than eighty 
 Italian poems on the battle; and on the siege of Vienna 
 (1683) there are over a hundred volumes or pamphlets. 
 
 Pamphlets 
 
 The Library has a large collection of Pamphlets and tracts, 
 both American and English. It may be noted here that the 
 definition of a pamphlet is uncertain and unsatisfactory. At 
 Harvard any unbound work of under one hundred pages is a 
 pamphlet; if over a hundred pages it is a volume, whether 
 bound or not; a leaflet of a few pages, if bound, is a volume; 
 and a dozen or more pamphlets bound together count as only 
 one volume. Under these conditions any attempt to esti- 
 mate the number of pamphlets in the Library is useless and 
 misleading. There is, however, a large mass of pamphlet 
 material (estimated as over 400,000 pieces) that is still un- 
 bound and in part uncatalogued, but arranged in alphabetical 
 order. Most of the more important paimphlets have been 
 bound either singly or in tract volumes and catalogued. There 
 are very many early American sermons, especially for funerals 
 and other special occasions, — such as thanksgiving, fast-day. 
 
86 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 and election sermons. The number of American political 
 pamphlets, both early and late, is also large. The greater 
 part of the pamphlet collection, except the unbound portion, 
 is classified on the shelves with other books; but there is a 
 special collection of 1,173 bound tract volumes, containing 
 perhaps 10,000 pamphlets mainly of the eighteenth and first 
 quarter of the nineteenth centuries, that is kept together. An 
 important collection of EngUsh poHtical and historical tracts, 
 recently received, is noted above on page 84. 
 
 Periodicals and Learned Societies 
 
 The total number of bound volumes of Periodicals cannot 
 be given with any exactness, since a great part of them are 
 classed with their special subjects, but the figure must exceed 
 70,000. Among these are over 18,000 classed as general 
 according to their language or country, 18,000 classed as 
 scientific, 4,000 as bibhographical, 5,400 as economic, 3,800 
 as philological, 2,200 as geographical, and 1,800 as educa- 
 tional. The Library has most of the sets of English and 
 American periodicals indexed in Poole, and a fair number of 
 early American periodicals. The eighteenth-century English 
 periodicals of the type of the Spectator have been mentioned 
 above under English Literature. The College Library receives 
 currently over 2,000 periodicals. 
 
 The Library is also strong in the pubUcations of learned 
 societies, general, scientific, and historical. The first two 
 groups, numbering nearly 10,000 volumes, are supplemented 
 by sets in the various Departmental Libraries. 
 
 In the recent development of the collections on European 
 history an especial effort has been made to secure sets of the 
 pubUcations of local and national historical societies and of 
 historical periodicals. 
 
special collections 87 
 
 Philosophy 
 
 The collection on Philosophy has not been developed in any 
 special line. It numbers 13,700 volumes and is supplemented 
 by the special library of the Philosophical Department in 
 Emerson HaU (Dr. Benjamin Rand, Librarian). This 
 library of 5,179 volumes was established in 1905, largely 
 by gifts from Mr. Reginald C. Robbins, '92, of Boston, and 
 contains a careful selection of books in the history of phil- 
 osophy, in systematic philosophy, logic, ethics, aesthetics, 
 the philosophy of religion, psychology, and eugenics. For the 
 most part it consists of standard works dupHcating those in 
 the College Library, but in addition it has a special collection 
 of the works of Schelling, given by Professor Josiah Royce, 
 and also a collection of manuscripts of Hegel. 
 
 Portugal 
 
 The collection on Portuguese history (nearly 1,300 vol- 
 umes) is mainly of recent growth. It is strong in the publica- 
 tions of learned societies and in periodicals. Among the 
 latter may be mentioned a complete file of the " Gazeta de 
 Lisb6a," beginning in 1715. 
 
 Scandinavian History and Literature 
 
 The collection of Scandinavian history and Kterature now 
 numbers 6,500 volumes. Perhaps the most valuable portion 
 of it was received in 1904 as part of the Kbrary of Professor 
 Konrad von Maurer of Munich. From this source the col- 
 lection received over 2,000 volumes and as many more 
 pamphlets. The Von Maurer library was especially strong 
 on the historical side, containiug many rare early works and 
 also an important collection relating to Greenland and Ice- 
 land. Its accumulation of Sagas and Eddas was also large, 
 so that, with what the Library already had, this subject is now 
 
88 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 unusually complete. On the literary side the Library is well 
 provided with the older Norse and other Scandinavian Utera- 
 ture and mythology; and gifts received several years ago 
 from Mrs. Enul C. Hammer, of Boston, and from the Viking 
 Club of Boston, did much toward bringing together a fair 
 collection of modern Scandinavian writers. More recent gifts 
 from Mr. John A. Gade, '96, of New York, are serving to fill 
 out some of the gaps in the historical field. 
 
 Slavic History and Literature 
 
 The Slavic collection, covering the literature, history, and 
 geography of the Slavic nations, numbers at present 9,485 
 volumes. Its basis is a gift made in 1895 by Professor A. C. 
 Coolidge, comprising nearly all of the works in Harrassowitz's 
 catalogue. No. 202; since that date it has received large 
 additions. In literature the principal Russian and other 
 Slavic authors are represented both in the original and in 
 translations into other European languages when obtainable. 
 In history, while there is some material in the original, the 
 main strength of the collection lies in works in English, 
 French, and German, and in this direction it is fairly com- 
 plete. The books relating to Poland deserve special mention. 
 A group of works on Nihihsm, most of them given by Mr. 
 Ivan Panin and Mr. Coolidge, numbers about a hundred 
 volumes. In 1907 a collection of the publications of the 
 Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia, consisting of 162 
 volumes and pamphlets, was received as a gift from Mr. 
 N. V. Tchaikovsky. 
 
 A collection of books in Slovak, containing 123 volumes 
 and 1,567 paniphlets, gathered in Southern Europe by 
 Assistant Professor Leo Wiener, and said to be at that time 
 equal if not superior to any in existence, was received in 
 1901 as a gift of Professor Coolidge. It comprises the library 
 of the Slovak author, Lombardini, of SoUein, with additions 
 from other sources. 
 
special collections 89 
 
 Sociology 
 
 In Sociology the Library has a general collection of about 
 8,000 volumes, but no one branch of the subject has been 
 specially built up. This collection is supplemented and in 
 part duplicated by the special library of Social Ethics in 
 Emerson Hall, which contains 4,710 volumes, together with 
 many reports, pamphlets, and periodical publications. These 
 books deal with social problems and with policies for social 
 improvement, and constitute a working library for students 
 in the courses of social ethics. The collection was first pro- 
 moted by a gift from Mrs. Glendower Evans, of Boston, but 
 has been greatly increased and is installed in a special reading- 
 room through the generosity of Mr. Alfred T. White, of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. There are several special collections within 
 this library, including works on the alcohol problem pur- 
 chased from a fund given by the Committee of Fifty, a 
 collection of reports of communist societies of America con- 
 tributed by those societies, together with large numbers of 
 works on housing, immigration, social insurance, cooperative 
 movements, and alUed subjects, purchased or received as 
 gifts from various sources. 
 
 South America 
 
 The collection of works on the history and geography of 
 South America numbers over 7,000 volumes. Here, as in other 
 branches of Americana in the Library, the early works on the 
 discovery, exploration, and conquest are well represented. 
 Many of these rarer volumes were secured with the Ebeling 
 library or in the Prescott bequest, but the greater part of the 
 collection has been acquired within the last decade. In 1909 
 Professor Coohdge and Mr. C. L. Hay, '08, of Washington, 
 presented to the Library the private collection of the late 
 Luis Montt, of Santiago, Chile. Senor Montt was long the 
 
90 LIBKARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 librarian of the Biblioteca Nacional, and his own hbrary was 
 particularly rich in broadsides, newspapers, and periodicals, 
 as well as in books and pamphlets on the politics of his 
 country during the past century. 
 
 In 1913 the Library united with several other institutions to 
 send a representative to South America. Through him it 
 made extensive purchases in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Para- 
 quay, with the result that it is now strong for these countries 
 as well as for Chile. It has also about 700 volumes of official 
 documents. The Chilean part of this collection is the largest, 
 being made up mainly by means of annual gifts from the 
 BibUoteca Nacional in Santiago. 
 
 The Law School Library is well provided with South 
 American legal and official material. It has a large collection 
 of the voluminous publications ehcited by the frequent 
 boundary disputes, and contains complete files of the laws of 
 the various countries. 
 
 Spanish-American Literature 
 
 With the growth of the South American collection there 
 has been developed also a group of Spanish-American litera- 
 ture, which to-day amounts to 700 volumes and as many 
 more volumes of periodicals. Most of these were received 
 with the Montt and the other libraries purchased en bloc. 
 The greatest strength probably hes in Chilean literature, 
 -especially poetry, though Venezuela, BoKvia, and Paraguay 
 are also well represented. 
 
 Spanish History and Literature 
 
 The collection of Spanish history includes about 3,500 
 volumes. It is strong in historical periodicals and in the 
 official publications of documentary material. Spanish local 
 history has been especially developed, and there is a good 
 series of " fueros," or statutes, of various places. A consider- 
 
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 able number of poKtical pamphlets and broadsides have also 
 been gathered. 
 
 In literature the Spanish collection, containing about 3,700 
 volumes, is a general one, without any specially marked 
 features. In modern critical material on Lope de Vega and 
 Cervantes it is fairly complete. The modern novelists are 
 are also well represented, and there is a collection of over 
 3,500 plays by the dramatists of the latter part of the nine- 
 teenth century. (This long series of plays is not included in 
 the enumeration above.) 
 
 The Sumner Collection 
 
 Charles Sumner, United States senator from Massachu- 
 setts, bequeathed to the Library his books and autographs; 
 the more notable of them are described in Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 6. The collection, which consisted of 
 3,750 volumes, was a general one, but embraced, besides 
 standard works in history and literature, many books of great 
 bibUographical interest, and many others valuable because 
 of their bindings or their personal associations. It also con- 
 tained a number of early manuscripts, including several 
 illuminated missals, besides 'two or three collections of rare 
 and interesting autographs. Milton, Bunyan, Swift, Dry- 
 den, Addison, Pope, Byron, Coleridge; Queen Elizabeth, 
 Henry VIII; Charles V, Louis XIV, Henry of Navarre; 
 Richelieu, Mazarin, Mirabeau, Voltaire, are some of the 
 names that are found in books or albums of this collection. 
 During his Kfetime Mr. Sumner had also been a frequent and 
 generous giver of books and pamphlets. For many years the 
 books of his bequest were kept together in a special collection; 
 but now, in order to make them more generally useful, the 
 larger number have been inserted in their proper places in 
 the classifications, those of especial bibliographical or asso- 
 ciational interest, together with the manuscripts and auto- 
 
92 LIBEAEY OF HAKVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 graphs, being retained in the Treasure Room as a " Sumner 
 Collection." Mr. Sumner's letter-books, containing (in 177 
 volumes) the letters received by him from 1830 to 1874, 
 were given to the Library in 1898 by Mr. Edward Lillie 
 Pierce. 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 The collection on the history of Switzerland, now number- 
 ing about 1,800 volumes, is mainly the result of frequent 
 gifts from the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., of the Class 
 of 1900, and of purchases made from the income of the fund 
 bequeathed by him. In it are included most of the important 
 historical periodicals and society publications, both general 
 and local, issued in the country. The history of the various 
 cantons and principal towns is also represented; for example, 
 there are 81 volumes on the city and canton of Geneva. 
 There is also a group of works, consisting of about 50 volumes, 
 on the history of the Grisons. 
 
 Theatre 
 
 The foundation of the collection on the Theatre (now over 
 2,600 volumes ^ was the library formed by the late Robert 
 W. Lowe, of London, received in 1903 as a gift from Mr. 
 John Drew, of New York. This library, which consisted of 
 about 800 volumes, was especially strong in material for the 
 history of the stage in Great Britain. Later gifts from Mr. 
 Winthrop Ames, '95, Mr. Frank E. Chase, '76, and Mr. John 
 Craig, of Boston, have not only added to English theatrical 
 history much important material, but have helped to build 
 up the American, French, and German sides of the subject. 
 It should be noted that this collection is restricted to works on 
 the theatre, including biography of actors, and on dramatic 
 
 ' The books and playbills in the collection lately given by Mr. R. G. 
 Shaw are not included in this count. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 93 
 
 art; and that plays, together with the lives of their authors 
 and specific literary criticism, are classified with the litera- 
 ture of the different countries. 
 
 The Library's resources on the history of the theatre were 
 enormously increased in the summer of 1915 by the gift of 
 the great collection formed by Robert Gould Shaw, '69, of 
 Boston. Through Mr. Shaw's generosity there is now acces- 
 sible to students a collection of theatrical material that is 
 almost without rival. It consists of over a thousand books, 
 scores of thousands of playbills, tens of thousands of por- 
 traints — etchings, prints, or photographs — of actors and 
 actresses, and several thousand autograph letters of theatrical 
 interest. Among the books, which include some of the rarest 
 items of theatrical literature, are a number of extra-illustrated 
 volumes. Only a few of these can be noted here: there is a 
 copy of the work edited by Brander Matthews and Laurence 
 Hutton on the " Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and 
 the United States," which, originally in five volumes,has been 
 extended by Mr. Shaw to eighty volumes by the insertion of 
 thousands of playbills and portraits; there is the well-known 
 copy of Ireland's " Hecords of the New York Stage," in forty- 
 nine volumes, extra-illustrated by Augustin Daly; there are 
 the "Reminiscences" of Macready, extended from two to six 
 volumes, and the life of Kemble extended from two to eight 
 volumes; there is the " History of Vauxhall Gardens," with 
 over twelve hundred portraits, views, playbills, and letters, 
 and the " History of Bartholomew Fair," in niae volumes, 
 similarly illustrated. The collection of playbills is so large 
 and comprehensive that through it the student can trace the 
 career of almost any famous actor, the history of a particular 
 theatre, or the stage history of a play. As an example of 
 what the collection can do toward illustrating the history of 
 the stage in a single city, there may be cited the two exhibi- 
 tions of prints and playbills relating to the Boston stage from 
 1791 to 1850 given by the Club of Odd VolumeSj in Boston. 
 
94 LIBRARY OF HARVARD TJNIVERSITT 
 
 The four hundred and fifty items in these exhibitions were 
 drawn entirely from Mr. Shaw's collection, and yet they 
 formed but a limited selection of his material illustrative of 
 the subject.' Among the miscellaneous playbills are many of 
 special historical interest, such as those giving the first per- 
 formances of celebrated actors, the first nights of famous 
 plays, a copy of the original and authentic bill at Ford's 
 Theatre iu Washington on the night when Lincoln was shot, 
 and an example of a Bartholomew Fair bill that is supposed 
 to be the earliest EngKsh playbill extant. There are few 
 actors and' actresses of prominence of whom there are not 
 portraits. The series of pictures of Garrick, of Edmund 
 Kean, and of Sir Henry Irving are almost complete. There 
 is also a probably unequalled mass of material on the Booths 
 and the Wallacks. Nor has the more modern period been 
 neglected, for the collection contains thousands of playbills 
 and portraits relating to such living actors and actresses as 
 John Drew, William Henry Crane, Maude Adams, Mrs. 
 Fiske, George Arliss, Sam Bernard, May Irwin, Ada Rehan, 
 Julia Marlowe, and dozens of others. 
 
 While before the receipt of this gift the Library had little 
 material of this kind, mention may be made here of an un- 
 published manuscript life of Garrick by the late librarian, 
 Justin Winsor, supplemented by miscellaneous memoranda 
 gathered by Mr. Winsor; and of a collection of 219 portraits 
 of Garrick presented by subscription in 1900. The Widener 
 collection also contains several extra-illustrated theatrical 
 biographies. 
 
 The Widener Collection 
 
 The books left to Harvard by Harry Elkins Widener and 
 formally presented to the Library by his mother at the dedi- 
 cation of the Widener Memorial Library on Commencement 
 
 ' See the printed catalogues of these exhibitions issued by the Club of Odd 
 Volumes in 1914 and 1915. 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 95 
 
 Day, 1915, number only 3,220 Volumes. But it is a collection 
 in which quality, not quantity, counts. The books in this 
 library are either in themselves each intrinsically valuable, or 
 they are important as rounding out the collection on some 
 special author or some special subject. Harry Widener was 
 only twenty-seven years of age, but he was a book-lover and 
 collector with a taste and judgment far from immature. Yet 
 his library shows that he had worked along several fairly 
 distinct lines. What the most distinctive feature of his col- 
 lection would have been had his Ufe been spared longer, it is 
 hard to say. His latest purchases had been in the field of the 
 rarities of early English literature, and perhaps that would 
 have been his ultimate goal. As it stands to-day his library 
 shows four lines of collecting : English literature, association 
 books and authors' manuscripts, extra-illustrated books, and 
 color-prints and illustrations. 
 
 In English literature there are many rare volumes from the 
 fifteenth to the nineteenth century. The earliest of these is 
 Caxton's "Royal Book, or Book for a King," printed by 
 Caxton probably in 1488. There are also three books printed 
 by Caxton's successor, Wynkyn de Worde; the Pynson edi- 
 tion of Chaucer, 1526; and the four folios of Shakespeare. 
 Most important in this early field of English literature are 
 some of the books bought at the Hoe and the Huth sales, — 
 several of them presumedly unique, and some of which but 
 two or three other copies are known to exist. With these, 
 both to the bibliographer and to the scholar comes the 
 greatest gain to the resources of the Harvard Library. But 
 the treasures of the collection of English literature do not 
 stop with this early period. For the eighteenth century, for 
 example, there are such things as a complete and uncut copy 
 of the original edition of the Spectator, immaculate copies 
 of the first editions of " Robinson Crusoe," " Clarissa Har- 
 lowe," and " Moll Flanders," and a copy of the Kilmarnock 
 edition of Burns. For the nineteenth century there are long 
 
96 LIBRABY OP HARVARD UNIVEKSITT 
 
 series of the first editions sf Keats, Shelley, Thackeray, 
 Dickens, Browning, Tennyson, Meredith, the Brontes, Swin- 
 burne, and Stevenson. The Stevenson collection is said to 
 be one of the best ever formed of his writings; a special 
 catalogue of it was printed after Mr. Widener's death. 
 
 The second group in the collection consists of association 
 books and manuscripts. Among the former may be men- 
 tioned a copy of the Bible published by Edward Whitchurch 
 in 1550, commonly known to bibliographers as the " King 
 Edward VI Bible," — and this particular copy is one that 
 bears the king's crest on the sides; copies of Sir Philip Sid- 
 ney's " Arcadia " and Samuel Daniel's " Delia," both of 
 which once belonged to the Countess of Pembroke; a copy 
 of Chapman's translation of Homer's " Batrachomyoma- 
 chia," with a presentation inscription of seventeen lines in 
 Chapman's autograph; and a copy of " Purchas his PU- 
 grimes," with a presentation inscription by the author. 
 Nearly all the nineteenth-century authors, both English and 
 American, that appear in the collection are represented by at 
 least one and more often by several presentation copies of 
 their books. Moreover, of most of them there are original 
 manuscripts, of ten. of great interest. Among these may be 
 noted Burns 's " Ode in Commemoration of American Inde- 
 pendence," and other poems; Tennyson's " Charge of the 
 Light Brigade," and his less familiar " Charge of the Heavy 
 Brigade"; many letters by Dickens; letters and original 
 unpublished drawings by Thackeray; and manuscripts by 
 Swinburne, Meredith, and Stevenson. 
 
 There are a number of interesting extra-illustrated vol- 
 umes; and these are of unusual importance, for they con- 
 tain not only portraits and views but numerous broadsides, 
 playbills, and even entire pamphlets illustrative of the 
 text. While most of them are dramatic, as the lives of Nell 
 Gwyn, Edmund Kean, and Peg Woffington, there are several 
 in other fields, such as Timbs's " London Clubs " and Pepys's 
 " Diary." 
 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 97 
 
 Mr. Widener was always much interested in the subject of 
 book illustration, especially in color-plate books, and he 
 gathered many examples of these. Following these lines, he 
 had collected a remarkable series of prints, and also many 
 original drawings, by such men as Cruikshank, Heath, Row- 
 landson, and Woodward. His Cruikshank collection is 
 almost complete, and includes the famous collection of 
 Cruikshankiana made by Captain R. J. H. Douglas. 
 
98 LIBRARY OF HARVARD TTNIVERSITT 
 
 NOTES ON THE DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 
 
 Andover-Harvard Theological Library. (Rev. Owen H. 
 Gates, Librarian.) 106,780 volumes and 50,944 pamphlets. 
 In order to carry out the terms of the aflSliation of Andover 
 Theological Seminary with Harvard Uiiiversity, the theo- 
 logical libraries of the two institutions were in 1911 united, 
 " for all working purposes," as the Andover-Harvard Theo- 
 logical Library. 
 
 It is located in the building of Andover Seminary, occupied 
 in 1911; and officers and students of the University and affil- 
 iated schools have full privileges in its use. It is admin- 
 istered by a Council representing the two institutions, — the 
 Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School, — and the expense 
 of maintenance is shared equally. Ownership of the books 
 remains with the institution by which they were bought or 
 to which they were given. 
 
 Although since this affiliation the books have not only been 
 brought together in one building but are being placed together 
 in the shelf classification, it is still convenient to describe the 
 separate characteristics of each library. 
 
 1. Divinity School. The New Testament department 
 is especially important, containing as it does the most valu- 
 able portions of the libraries of two former professors in the 
 School, Ezra Abbot and Joseph Henry Thayer, and also many 
 volumes transferred to it from the College Library. It has 
 about 250 editions of the Greek Testament. It is particu- 
 larly strong in the literature of Unitarianism and the liberal 
 movement of theology in America. A collection of the .works 
 of Joseph Priestley, in which are included 94 titles of his 
 theological writings, deserves separate mention. 
 
 The Divinity School Library has received a number of gifts 
 and bequests; the following list gives the more important of 
 them. 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 99 
 
 From the librarlea of Volumes Pamphlets 
 
 1854. Rev. Francis Parkman . . . 685 
 
 1866. Prof. G. C. F. LUcke of Gettingen, 
 
 more than 4,000 
 
 1864. Prof. Convers Francis, about 2,300 
 
 1878. Rev. R. M. Hodges 312 2,171 
 
 1886. Prof . Ezra Abbot 3,834 781 
 
 1890. Rev. H. W. Foote 568 1,466 
 
 1891. Prof. F. H. Hedge . ... 668 
 
 1891. President Thomas Hill . 222 314 
 
 1893. Prof. A. P. Peabody 768 
 
 1902. Prof. J. H. Thayer 1,407 1,063 
 
 1905. Prof. C. C. Everett 475 134 
 
 This library was founded about 1826. For about sixty 
 years it was housed in rooms in Divinity Hall. In 1887 a 
 special library building was erected next to the HaU, and 
 there the library remained until it was moved in 1911 to 
 the building of Andover Theological Seminary. In view of 
 the recent decision to transfer from the College Library cer- 
 tain classes of theological books to the Andover-Harvard 
 Library, and from the latter certain other classes of books 
 more appropriate to the general collection, it is interesting to 
 note that as long ago as 1880 nearly a thousand non-theologi- 
 cal books were transferred from the Divinity School to the 
 College Library, and that in 1897 the College Library trans- 
 ferred to the Divinity Library 700 volumes in New Testament 
 criticism. 
 
 2. Andover Theological Seminary. This library has 
 been carefully collected, during one hundred years of its 
 existence, by the regular purchase of the most important 
 current books, and of earlier works as far as possible. At the 
 outset it was favored by the active interest of Moses Stuart, 
 professor of Biblical literature, 1810-1848, who was influen- 
 tial in introducing German critical methods into this country. 
 It has from the beginning been strong in Old Testament 
 literature, patristics, and theology — systematic, apologetic, 
 
100 LIBRABY OF HAHVAED UNIVERSITY 
 
 and practical. Valuable acquisitions have been obtained 
 from the libraries of former professors and by the gifts of 
 friends of the Seminary; notable among these was the be- 
 quest, in 1847, of 1,250 volumes, the theological portion of 
 the Ubrary of the Rev. John Codman, D.D., of Dorchester, 
 besides gifts from Samuel T. Armstrong, of Boston, and a 
 collection of 8,000 pamphlets from the Rev. W. B. Sprague, 
 of Albany. From time to time also various gifts of money 
 have added to the resources of, the hbrary. About fifty 
 years ago the Seminary purchased the library of the late 
 Dr. C. W. Niedner, distinguished as an ecclesiastical historian 
 and as a professor in the University of Berlin. It consisted 
 of about 7,000 titles, and included many rare and curious 
 books. Mention may also be made of a collection of im- 
 portant and interesting manuscript records and correspon- 
 dence relating to early missionary movements. 
 
 The Andover Theological Library dates from the founda- 
 tion of the Seminary, at Andover, Mass., in 1807. For 
 many years it occupied a hall in the chapel, which was buUt 
 in 1818. In 1866 it was removed to Brechin Hall, which was 
 erected for its accommodation by the gift of Messrs. John 
 Smith, Peter Smith, and John Dove, of Andover. Upon the 
 removal of the Seminary to Cambridge, in 1911, the Library 
 was installed in a wing of the new building. 
 
 3. In addition to the union of the two Ubraries as already 
 described, a plan of exchange by deposit has recently become 
 operative, looking toward the fuller concentration of books of 
 theological character in the Theological Library. According 
 to this plan, books now in the College Library relating to 
 certain subjects that are within the scope of purchase of the 
 Theological Library will be deposited there, if such transfer 
 is consistent with the interests of the College Library. About 
 1,000 such volumes have already been thus deposited. On 
 the other hand, certain books in the Theological Library will 
 be transferred to the College Library, as being of more 
 interest and value in the general collection. 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 101 
 
 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain. (Professor C. S. 
 Sargent, Director.) 30,320 volumes and 7,143 pamphlets. 
 This library is mainly devoted to books relating to dendrol- 
 ogy> general descriptive botany, and the cultivation of trees. 
 Special effort has been made to obtain complete sets of 
 periodicals in all languages relating to these subjects. It also 
 contains many books of travel in which appear descriptions 
 of trees and of general features of vegetation. Attention has 
 been given to gathering books relative to the history and 
 cultivation of trees and shrubs valued for special products, 
 like tea, coffee, cocoa, oranges, olives, and the mulberry. 
 There are many rare early works, including several incuna- 
 bula. The collection of the works of Linnaeus, over 300 vol- 
 umes, is probably the largest in this country. 
 
 The library was begun by Professor Sargent about 1874; 
 in 1892 he presented his collection of books, then numbering 
 about 6,000 volumes, to the Arboretum, and he has since 
 added largely to the collection. Other gifts of books or money 
 have been received from Charles James Sprague, Francis 
 Skinner, Francis Skinner, Jr., and Mrs. Sarah Choate Sears. 
 In 1910 the library was re-classified, and in 1914 the first 
 volume of its catalogue appeared. This volume comprises 
 serial publications and author and title entries; a second 
 volume, in which the books will be arranged according to 
 subjects, is in preparation. The Arboretum has also pub- 
 lished " The Bradley Bibliography," containing the titles 
 of printed books, and of airticles in any way relating to 
 woody plants to be found in periodicals or other serial publi- 
 cations issued in many languages before the end of the last 
 century. Of this work, which has been edited by Mr. Alfred 
 Rehder of the Arboretum staff, four of the projected five 
 volumes have appeared. 
 
 Astronomical Observatory. (Professor E. C. Picker- 
 ing, Director.) 14,586 volumes and 34,818 pamphlets on 
 astronomical and meteorological subjects. The collection of 
 
102 LIBBAEY OP HABVARD XTNIVEESITY 
 
 earlier publications is particularly large, owing to the early 
 establishment of the Observatory. Funds are available for 
 the purchase of new works as desired, and numerous publica- 
 tions are received in exchange for the Annals of the Observa- 
 tory. The meteorological collection forms an important 
 section of the library. Classes of publications which are 
 particularly well represented are : annals of astronomical and 
 meteorological observatories; treatises on celestial mechanics 
 and mechanical optics; catalogues of star places; periodicals 
 on astronomical and allied subjects; ephemerides and nauti- 
 cal almanacs; geodetic works; and astrophysical publications. 
 The Observatory also maintains a library in its station at 
 Arequipa, Peru. 
 
 In 1846 the Observatory, which had been established seven 
 years before, was transferred from the house on the corner of 
 Quincy and Harvard Streets to its present location between 
 Garden Street and Concord Avenue. The new building con- 
 tained an excellent room for the small Hbrary then in the 
 possession of the Observatory, but this has since proved en- 
 tirely inadequate for the large number of books and pam- 
 phlets received by gift and purchase. These now occupy 
 almost all the rooms in the original building, which, being of 
 wood, is in continual danger of destruction by fire. A fire- 
 proof building is greatly needed, as the collection is one of 
 the finest of the kind in the country. 
 
 Blue Hill Meteoeological Obsebvatobt, Readville. 
 (Professor Alexander McAdie, Director.) 7,914 volumes and 
 15,067 pamphlets. The collection is devoted to works on 
 meteorology, climatology, and aerodynamics. It was built up 
 by the late Abbott Lawrence Rotch, founder of the Observa- 
 tory. Besides important modern treatises and sets of peri- 
 odicals and weather reports, there are many early works, 
 valuable as illustrative of the history of the subject. In 
 1913 the Observatory, which until then had been maintained 
 by Professor Rotch, became under the provisions of his will 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 103 
 
 a constituent part of the University. This library is probably 
 the best collection of meteorological books, journals, reprints, 
 maps, and climatological records in the United States, outside 
 of the city of Washington. 
 
 BussEY Institution, Jamaica Plain. (Professor W. M. 
 Wheeler, in charge.) 3,204 volumes and 16,067 pamphlets. 
 This library is devoted mainly to works on agriculture, and to 
 subjects that now form the special field of instruction at the 
 Bussey Institution, — economic entomology, animal heredity, 
 experimental plant morphology, and forestry. 
 
 The library dates from the foundation of the Institution 
 in 1871. It received at the start various gifts of books and 
 money from Mr. Francis H. Appleton, '69 ; and in 1878 James 
 W. Harris, secretary to the University, bequeathed to it his 
 agricultural library. Four years ago it was re-arranged and 
 many of the out-of-date books and other volumes not needed 
 for the active work of the Institution were discarded. 
 
 Dental School, Longwood Avenue, Boston. ( 
 
 , Librarian.) 2,228 volumes and over 
 
 10,000 pamphlets. This hbrary is mainly for reference; but 
 students in the Dental School have free access'to the hbrary 
 of the Boston Medical Library Association, which has a large 
 and very complete collection of dental literature and includes 
 the libraries of the American Academy of Dental Science and 
 the Massachusetts Dental Society. 
 
 The Dental School was founded in 1867, but its library was 
 not started until many years afterwards, and, since its in- 
 crease has depended entirely on gifts of books and money 
 from alumni of the school, its growth has been comparatively 
 slow. Many of the gifts have been obtained through the 
 efforts of Dr. Waldo E. Boardman, who was librarian from 
 1897 to 1915. The largest donation, received in 1908 from 
 Dr. Charles D. Cook, of Brooklyn, consisted of nearly five 
 hundred volumes of dental books. In 1909 the library was 
 moved to the new building of the Dental School. 
 
104 LIBRAKY OF HAEVABD UNIVEBSITT 
 
 Gbat Hekbakitjm. (Professor B. L. Robinson, Curator; 
 Mary A. Day, Librarian.) 15,953 volumes and 10,67^ pam- 
 phlets. The nucleus of this collection was Professor Asa 
 Gray's private botanical library of some 1,600 volumes and 
 about the same number of pamphlets, which was presented 
 by him to the Herbarium in 1864. The same year John 
 Amory Lowell, Esq., also gave his botanical Ubraiy of 350 
 volumes, including many works of great rarity and value. 
 From these beginnings the collection has been steadily in- 
 creased by gift, exchange, and purchase. 
 
 The fields most thoroughly covered by the Herbarium 
 library are the classification, gross morphology, and geo- 
 graphic distribution of the flowering plants, ferns, and fern- 
 allies; and in these branches the collection, embracing floras, 
 monographs, periodicals, and plant icones, possesses a high 
 degree of completeness and provides ample reference litera- 
 ture for the most advanced research. The library contains 
 also numerous works upon the following coUateral subjects: 
 (1) the anatomy, physiology, teratology, ecology, genetics, 
 and economic uses of the higher plants; (2) the classification 
 and structure 'of the bryophytes and thallophytes; (3) botani- 
 cal history, bibliography, and statistics; (4) vegetable 
 pharmacy, horticulture, forestry, and agriculture. 
 
 Through the gift of. Mrs. Asa Gray, the library possesses a 
 valuable and carefully arranged collection of more than 1,100 
 autograph manuscripts of distinguished botanists, ranging in 
 date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, many of 
 the autographs being accompanied by portrait engravings and 
 photographs. 
 
 In addition to the usual author catalogue, the hbrary 
 has complete sets of several valuable card catalogues re- 
 lating to botany. One of these, edited by the Librarian, is 
 an index of new genera, species, and varieties of Americau 
 plants. This index, the most extensive and important of its 
 kind, appears in quarterly issues, and already contains 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 105 
 
 126,850 cards. The duplicate sets are sold to a number of 
 scientific libraries in Europe and America. 
 
 In 1912, through the liberality of Dr. George G. Kennedy, 
 of Milton, a Harvard graduate of the Class of '64, the wing of 
 the Herbarium building in which the library is kept was 
 entirely rebuilt, much enlarged, and fully refurnished. The 
 admirable quarters thus available for the library afford a 
 very high degree of safety from fire, and offer many con- 
 veniences which greatly facilitate the work of the staff and 
 of visitors. 
 
 The Law School. (Edward B. Adams, Librarian.) 
 161,734 volumes and 21,989 pamphlets. The library is very 
 nearly complete in the reports of the various courts of the 
 United States and of Great Britain and her colonies, and in 
 the laws passed from the beginning by their several legisla- 
 tures. It also contains a collection of the laws and reports of 
 the states of continental Europe and of South America. With 
 the laws and reports are the important legal periodicals, the 
 better legal treatises, and the books that show what has been 
 learned and believed in each civilized country touching the 
 origin, growth, and content of the law. The aim has been 
 and is to provide, in this library, apparatus as nearly perfect 
 as may be for the study of the law as it is. Such apparatus 
 includes provision for the study of the law as it has been, in 
 all times and places. 
 
 Three recent acquisitions of importance illustrate fairly the 
 growth and ambitions of the library. In 1911 it purchased as 
 a whole the well-known collection of books on international 
 law made by the Marquis de Olivart (his catalogue was said 
 in well-informed quarters to be the best bibliography of the 
 subject in existence) ; in 1913 it bought, again as a whole, the 
 collection of early manuscripts and law books printed in 
 England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made by the 
 late George Dunn, the last possible great private collector of 
 his kind. By the addition of this purchase to its earlier pos- 
 
106 LIBRAEY OF HABVABD UNIVERSITY 
 
 sessions the School became very strong in the documents of 
 the common law, now containing, for example, perhaps twice 
 as many Year Books as the British Museum, its nearest 
 competitor. In 1913-14 it sent an agent throughout South 
 America to buy on the spot the laws, decisions, and doctrinal 
 legal writings of the countries visited. By this means it was 
 able to acquire complete, or nearly complete, collections of 
 the le^slation, repcwts of the courts, and works of the great 
 legal writers of all the South American repubUcs. 
 
 An understanding of the history of the law implies a knowl- 
 edge of the lives and personalities of great lawyers, and of the 
 incidents of great legal contests. It has always been the aim 
 of the Law Library to gather accounts of the lives of the 
 masters of the law of whatever age or country, and, when 
 possible, to secure their portraits. Its collection of trials is 
 very large. 
 
 The Law Library dates from about the foundation of 
 the School in 1817, but for years its growth was very slow. 
 In 1846 it was said to contain about 12,000 volumes; twenty- 
 four years later, in 1870, it possessed only 15,000, and perhaps 
 one-fifth of these were dupUcate text-books for students' use. 
 With the coming of Professor LangdeU to the School as dean 
 in 1870 and the appointment two years later of John H. 
 Arnold as librarian, a new era in the history of the library 
 began. It was thoroughly reorganized and the appropriations 
 for the purchase of books were largely increased. By 1891 
 it had grown to about 25,000 volumes; ten years later, to 
 62,500; another ten years saw it nearly doubled in size to 
 120,600; and an average increase of about ten thousand 
 volumes a year in the last four years has brought its present 
 numbers up to 161,700. The library was in the second Col- 
 lege House until 1832, when it was removed to Dane Hall, for 
 over fifty years the home of the Law School. In 1883 it was 
 placed in the new Austin Hall, which, it was then supposed, 
 would be ample to house it for at least another fifty years; but 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 107 
 
 before half that period had passed it had become necessary 
 to store more than a third of the books. In 1908 the library 
 was installed in Langdell Hall, then just completed. The 
 School still maintains a library for students in Austin Hall. 
 Several catalogues have been printed, which will be found 
 noted in the Bibliography on page 156, below. 
 
 The Law Library has received comparatively few notable 
 gifts, almost all of its books having been purchased from the 
 income of the School. It has had occasional bequests of the 
 whole or part of the law collections of several of its graduates, 
 and two years ago a generous subscription from its friends 
 enabled it to secure the George Dunn collection. The income 
 of the Book Fund of 1882 (capital $47,000) and of the Library 
 Fund of 1898 (capital $100,000) is available for book pur- 
 chases. Duriag the current year a bequest of $20,000 from 
 John L. Cadwalader, of New York, increased the book funds 
 of the library; but the funds for more than half of the neces- 
 sary purchases, as well as for the expenses of administration, 
 must still come from the residue of necessarily fluctuating 
 tuition fees. 
 
 Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston. (Elliott P. 
 Joslin, M.D., Librarian.) The Medical School Library con- 
 tains 27,000 volumes, 46,000 pamphlets, and receives cur- 
 rently 263 periodicals. It is divided into four parts: the 
 central library, in the Administration Building, which is a 
 union of the libraries of pharmacology, surgery, hygiene, 
 comparative pathology, and the students' library, all of 
 which were distinct and separate collections until a little 
 over a year ago; the Anatomical library, in Building B, 
 which includes the collection on embryology, formed by Pro- 
 fessor Charles S. Minot; the Bowditch library, in Build- 
 ing C, composed chiefly of works on physiology, chemistry, 
 and physiological chemistry; and the library in Building D, 
 containing the greater part of the collections of bacteriology 
 and pathology. 
 
108 lilBKAHY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 The library was founded in 1819, when the Medical faculty 
 conveyed to the Corporation the library of the Massachusetts 
 Medical College, which had been collected chiefly from their 
 own resources. For many years, however, it remained of 
 comparatively slight importance. Indeed, in 1884 many of 
 its books were transferred to the Boston Medical Library 
 Association, and the School depended almost entirely on that 
 collection for its library needs. In 1905 the hbrary consisted 
 of only about 2,500 volumes. With the removal of the 
 School to its new buildings the next year it was thought de- 
 sirable to reorganize the library, and since then its growth 
 has been rapid. Many medical books have been transferred 
 to it from several other parts of the University Library. 
 Among the books thus transferred was a special collection of 
 books and pamphlets on " Monsters," formed by the late 
 William McMichael Woodworth, of Cambridge. 
 
 Students also have free access to the Boston Medical 
 Library, situated within a mile of the School, and containing 
 about 83,000 volumes and 57,000 pamphlets, besides the 
 650 periodicals currently received. 
 
 Museum of Comparative Zoology. (Samuel Henshaw, 
 Director.) 52,336 volumes and 49,219 pamphlets. The 
 Museum was incorporated in 1859, and during its early years 
 was dependent for library faciUties upon the private resources 
 of its founder, Louis Agassiz, and upon those of his corps of 
 workers. Originally the scope of the library covered the en- 
 tire field of natural history; since 1900, however, this field has 
 been limited, with the exception of bibliographic works, to 
 zoology and geology. The hbrary is, directly or indirectly, 
 largely the gift of Alexander Agassiz, and its development has 
 been governed to a considerable degree by the demands of 
 investigators upon the Museum collections. During its 
 early years the growth of the library was not infrequently due 
 to the generosity of friends, a notable instance being the 
 accession in 1860-61 of the library of L. G. de Koninck of 
 
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES 109 
 
 Liege. This library of over 3,000 titles, the result of more 
 Ijian twenty-five years accumulation, though chiefly palae- 
 ontological, contains many geological and not a few zoological 
 books. The de Koninck library, with the annual accessions 
 (mainly the gift of Louis and Alexander Agassiz), gave the 
 Museum library at the death of Louis Agassiz in 1873 about 
 12,000 volumes. Arranged with the Museum books, though 
 not included in its enumeration, are several hundred volumes 
 and pamphlets, the property of the College Library. These 
 volumes, deposited by vote of the Library Council, include 
 some serials, geological books, and pamphlets. 
 
 Collectively the Museum library is rich in serials, in the 
 pubUcations of learned institutions (these last received very 
 largely in return for the publications of the Museum), and 
 especially in the reports and memoirs of the results of expedi- 
 tions and voyages. In zoology it contains important series of 
 systematic and morphologic works of a general nature, and 
 particularly such as deal exclusively with the less specialized 
 groups of vertebrates and invertebrates ; in the former 
 the Museum library is supplemented by the large private 
 libraries of its curators, Samuel Garman and Thomas 
 Barbour. 
 
 The private library of Christoph Zimmermann, purchased 
 in 1869, consisting of 200 pamphlets and nearly 300 volumes, 
 formed the nucleus of the entomological library, which was 
 very materially increased in 1879 by the accession of the 
 private library of H. A. Hagen (see Bibliographical Contri- 
 bution, No. 11). These sources, with recent purchases 
 largely from the income of the Willard Peale Hunnewell 
 Memorial Fund, give the entomological library a practically 
 complete set of serials and most of the important works of the 
 early authors. 
 
 The investigations of Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman, 
 and L. F. de Pourtales have made the library exceptionally 
 strong in echinoderms and coelenterates, and the recent 
 
110 LIBEAEY OF HABVABD UNTVEESITT 
 
 Bequest of W. McM. Woodworth includes a notable series of 
 works relating to worms. 
 
 In geology, the publications of surveys, both national and 
 state, are well represented, and their continuance and increase 
 are assured from the income of the Maria Whitney and James 
 Lyman Whitney funds. Works of a general geologic char- 
 acter from the de Koninck and Agassiz accessions were very 
 largely increased by the Josiah Dwight Whitney library, which 
 became the property of the Museum in 1881. In late years 
 Professor W. M. Davis has contributed many geological 
 serials and books. 
 
 The library contains a remarkable series of zoological 
 drawings on wood, the work of Alexander Agassiz for a 
 projected book of his father; an exceptionally valuable series 
 of drawings, holographic letters, account-books, and journals 
 of Alexander Wilson and John J. Audubon (the gift of John 
 E. Thayer); many manuscripts and drawings including the 
 work of former and present members of the Museum staff; 
 and a collection of several thousand portraits and autograph 
 letters of zoologists and geologists. 
 
 The Peabody Museum, Anthropological Section of the 
 University Museum. (Professor F. W. Putnam, Honorary 
 Director; Assistant Professor Roland B. Dixon, Librarian.) 
 6,328 volumes and 6,439 pamphlets. The library is confined 
 to the literature relating to anthropology and archaeology, 
 and has concentrated its attention chiefly upon serials and 
 the publications of ethnological museums in all parts of the 
 world. Of these it now contains 243 different series. In 
 addition the library is especially strong in works relating to 
 Central America and Mexico; the most important volumes 
 in its possession, indeed, are undoubtedly the series of photo- 
 graphic reproductions of manuscripts and very rare works 
 dealing with the languages and peoples of these two coun- 
 tries. The collection, already amounting to 131 octavo and 
 33 quarto volumes, will ultimately contain about 50,000 
 
DEPABTMENTAL LIBRARIES 111 
 
 pages. This, together with the other manuscript and printed 
 material in the Museum, forms (with the exception of one in 
 private hands) the largest collection on this subject anywhere 
 in the world. The photographic reproductions are the gift of 
 Mr. C. P. Bowditch, through the courtesy of Mr. WiUiam M. 
 Gates of Port Loma, California. On Mexico and New Mexico 
 the library received from the estate of Mrs. Mary Hemenway 
 232 volumes and 395 pamphlets, including many of the works 
 of the Jesuit Fathers and copies of 347 old Spanish manu- 
 scripts transcribed by Bandeher and bound in thirteen 
 volumes; also a valuable original Mexican manuscript on 
 agave paper, dated 1531. Among other noteworthy features 
 of the hbrary are a set of the volumes entitled " The North 
 American Indian," issued by Curtis, and a special collection 
 of several hundred volumes on the native peoples of the 
 Pacific Islands. 
 
 The beginnings of the Ubrary go back to the foundation of 
 the Peabody Museum in 1866. It has grown almost entirely 
 by exchange of the Museum's pubHcations and by gift. 
 
112 LIBRABT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIST OF BOOK FUNDS i 
 
 1774. HoLLis. Legacy of £500 by Thomas HoUis, of Lincoln's Inn, 
 "for purchasing books". $2,422 
 
 1801. Shapleigh. Legacy of land, etc., amounting in value to $3,000 by 
 Samuel Shapleigh, Ubrarian, 1793-1800, for the purchase of modem books in 
 polite literature, poetry and prose, but in neither Greek nor Latin $3,949 
 
 1844. Haven. Legacy of $3,000 by Horace Appleton Haven, for the pur- 
 chase of books in astronomy and mathematics, to be " selected by the Perkins 
 Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics, and by the Hollis Professor of 
 Mathematics and Natural Philosophy for the time being " . $3,121 
 
 1858. Sausbubt. Gift of $5,000 from Stephen Salisbury, " for the pur- 
 chase of books in the Greek and Latin Languages, and in other languages 
 illustrating Greek and Latin books " . . $5,260 
 
 1858. Wabd. Legacy of $5,000 by Thomas Wren Ward, " for the pur- 
 chase of books " $5,250 
 
 1859. Subscription. A subscription of $6,167 for the purchase of books, 
 increased by later subscriptions and accumulation of interest . . $10,501 
 
 1860. Mart Osgood. Legacy of $6,000 by Mary Osgood, for the " piu-- 
 chase of such books as shall be most needed for the College Library '' $6,962 
 
 1861. BowDiTCH. Legacy of $2,000 by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, 
 " for the purchase of books " $2,104 
 
 1863. Lane. Gift of $5,000 from Frederick Atheam Lane, for "the pur- 
 chase of books " $5,261 
 
 1864. Hatwaed. Legacy of $5,000 by George Hayward, for " the pur- 
 chase of books of modern science and literature " $5,244 
 
 1870. MiNOT. Legacy of $60,000 by Charles Minot, for " the piurchase 
 of new books '' $60,028 
 
 1871. Faehar. Legacy of $5,000 by Eliza Farrar, for " the purchase of 
 books in the department of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Natural Phil- 
 osophy" $6,253 
 
 1871. Homer. Legacy of $2,000 by Sidney Homer, for "the purchase of 
 works on Political Economy " $2,102 
 
 1 The figures given at the right are the amounts of the funds (omitting cents) as they 
 stand on the Treasurer's books, July 1, 1915, except in the case of funds only partly 
 available for the Library, when the amounts as stated are based on a capitalization of the 
 income thus available. The list includes funds for the Special Libraries, but not those 
 for Departmental Libraries. 
 
BOOK FUNDS 113 
 
 1873. Ltjct Obgood. Legacy' of $6,000 by Lucy Osgood, for the " pur- 
 chase of such books as shall be most needed for the College Library" $7,081 
 
 1875. Denny. Gift of $3,000 from the children of Mrs. Harriet J. G. 
 Denny at her request, for " the purchase of books for the public library of the 
 College" $5,255 
 
 1875. SmainEE. Residuary legacy of $36,315.51 by Charles Sumner, for 
 "the purchase of books relating to Politics and the Fine Arts" . . $37,345 
 
 1875. Tucker. Gifts of $5,000 from Mrs. Nancy D. Cole of Salem in 
 memory of Ichabod Tucker, " for the purchase of books "... $5,000 
 
 1875. Waieer. Legacy of $15,000 by James Walker, for " the purchase 
 of books for the General Library of the University, preference being given to 
 works in the intellectual and moral sciences "... . . . $15,602 
 
 1878. Sever. Legacy of $20,000 by Mrs. Anne E. P. Sever, widow of 
 Col. James Warren Sever, for " the purchase of books" $20,000 
 
 1880. Bright. One-half the income of the legacy ($50,000) of Jonathan 
 Brown Bright, of Waltham, Mass., for the purchase of " books for the College 
 Library" $25,000 
 
 1881. John Amort Lowell. Legacy of $20,000 by John Amory Lowell. 
 Of the income three-quarters is spent for books and one-quarter must be 
 added to the principal . . ... $30,220 
 
 1884. Chatjnct Wright. Gift of $500 in memory of Chauncy Wright, 
 " the income to be devoted to the encouragement of the study of mathe- 
 matics." Since 1893 the income has been applied to the support of the 
 Mathematical Department Library '. . . $500 
 
 1885. Hates. Legacy of $10,000 by Francis Brown Hayes, for " the pur- 
 chase of books " . $10,000 
 
 . 1885. Jabvis. Legacy of $500 by Almira Jarvis, " the interest of which 
 is to be appropriated to the use of the Library." Since 1903 it has been used 
 for books .... 
 
 1885. Trbadwell. Residuary legacy of Professor Daniel Treadwell, " for 
 the use of the College Library." One-half the income has been used for 
 books since 1904 $5,962 
 
 1886. CoNSTANTius. Residuary legacy of $25,892.26 by Professor E. A. 
 Sophocles, one-haU the income of which is to be used for " the purchase of 
 Greek and Latin books (meaning hereby the ancient classics), or of Arabic 
 books, or of books illustrating, or explaining, such Greek, Latin, or Arabic 
 books" $12,946 
 
114 LIBKABY OF HARVARD tDSflVEBSITT 
 
 1887. Price Greenlbaf. $1,000 of the income from the legacy of E. 
 Price Greenleaf is at present used for books. (For details of the fmid, see 
 below under Funds for General Purposes.) Approximately $20,000 
 
 1890. SoHiBR. Gift of $6,500 from Waldo Higginson in memory of 
 George Brimmer Sohier, the annual income thereof in excess of $250 to " be 
 expended for books for the Library." Approximately . $2,000 
 
 1891. WoLCOTT. Gift of $10,000 from Roger Wolcott in memory of his 
 father, J. Himtington Wolcott, for " the purchase of books of permanent 
 value for the University Library, the preference in selection to be given to 
 works in the departments of History, Political Economy, and Sociology." Li- 
 creased in 1901 by a bequest of $10,000 under the will of Roger Wolcott 
 
 $20,000 
 
 1892. CoNANT. Legacy of $27,700 by Edwin Conant, for " the benefit 
 and increase of the College Library." The Corporation by a vote of May 28, 
 1892, appropriated one-fourth of the income for books and three-fourths for 
 the general purposes of the Library. Approximately $6,925 
 
 1892. Sales. Legacy of $3,916.67 by Francis Sales for " the purchase of 
 books in the Spanish language, or for books illustrative of Spanish history and 
 literature". . . . . . . ... $3,916 
 
 1896. ToRRET. Legacy of $1,000 by Miss Elizabeth Torrey, " to be used 
 for the purchase of books for the library of the Historical Department" $1,000 
 
 1897. Child Memorial. Gifts in memory of Francis James Child, " the 
 interest to be expended in the purchase of books and manuscripts for the 
 study of English. . . . The choice of these books or manuscripts shall be 
 made by the Department of English." For some years the income was used 
 in establishing and building up the Child Memorial Library; at present it is 
 mainly expended for rare books in English literature and folk-lore for the 
 College Library . . .... $11,224 
 
 1899. Class op 1851. Gift from the Class of 1851 of its class fund 
 amounting to $507.80, and of $500 from Professor Charles F. Dunbar. 
 By the terms of the gift these funds were to accumulate until they amounted 
 to $1,000 each, and the income was thereafter to be used tor the College 
 Library. . $2,650 
 
 1899. Tayloh. Gift of $5,000 from Mrs. Jessie Taylor Philips, in 
 memory of her brother, Kenneth Matheson Taylor, for the purchase of books 
 in the department of English literature .... . . $5,000 
 
 1903. Seakle. Legacy by Mrs. Mary R. Searle in memory of her son, 
 Eugene N. Aston, '74. The fund is not restricted, but by vote of the Corpora- 
 tion the income is used for the purchase of books for the Fogg Museum of 
 Fine Arts . . . .... $1,865 
 
BOOK FUNDS 115 
 
 , 1903. WAtES. Legacy of $6,000 by Heniy W. Wales, " the residue of 
 income not exceeding three hundred dollars annually to apply from year to 
 year to the purchase of books connected with that department [Sanskrit] 
 and to be deposited in and form a part of the Ubrary of said College." 
 
 Approximately . . . . $6,000 
 
 1904. BooTT. Legacy of $10,000 by Francis Boott, for an annual prize 
 of one hundred dollars for the best composition in concerted vocal music and 
 for the performance of the successful essay, the remainder of the income to be 
 used for the purchase of music and books of musical literature. 
 
 1904. Hale. Gift of $5,000 from Ex)bert Sever Hale and Richard Weldon 
 Hale, " to be known as the George Silsbee and Ellen Sever Hale Fund, the 
 income only to be expended either in the purchase of books for the Library or 
 in publication of the results of study and research in any department of the 
 University, including RaddiSe College." The income has been devoted from 
 time to time to both the purposes mentioned ... . . $5,000 
 
 1905. Class of 1846. Gift from the Class of its class fund, the income 
 to be paid to the class treasurer on demand, and if not called for to be 
 added to the principal. On the death of the last surviving member of the 
 class the fund is to be added to the Child Memorial Fund. In 1915 the 
 sum of $800 from current income was given to the Library for special pur- 
 chases $16,648 
 
 1905. NoBTON. A subscription from the friends of Charles Eliot Norton 
 for the purchase of books to be added to the Norton collection in the College 
 Library $8,954 
 
 1906. Class of 1881. Gift from the Class on its twenty-fifth anni- 
 versary. " The income shall be expended for books for the library of the 
 Division of Chemistry . . . the money to be spent under the direction of 
 the Director of the Chemical Laboratory " $3,500 
 
 1907. Castle. Gift of $1,000 from William E. Castle, the income to be 
 used, first, for books on the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, and, second, for 
 additions to the English department of the Library . . $1,000 
 
 1908. Francis Pabkman. Gift from the Parkman Memorial Conunittee, 
 " the income only of which is to be used for the purchase of books relating to 
 Canada for the College Library, to build up a Parkman Memorial Collection 
 relating to Canadian history " . . . $5,925 
 
 1909. George F. Parkman. Legacy of $25,000 by George Francis Park- 
 man, for the purchase of books for the College Library . $25,000 
 
 1909. James Mills Peibce. Legacy of $500 by James Mills Peirce, of 
 the Class of 1853, tutor or professor of mathematics from 1854 to 1906, for 
 the purchase of books for the Mathematical Department. " I make this gift 
 
116 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 in memory of my grandfather, Benjamin Peirce, of the Class of 1801, librarian 
 and first historian of Harvard University, of my father, Benjamin Peirce, of 
 the Class of 1829, tutor or professor in Harvard University from the year 
 1831 to the year 1880, and of my deeply lamented brother, Benjamin Mills 
 
 Peirce, of the Class of 1865, who died in 1870 " $500 
 
 1909. Stbobel (Class of 1877) . Gift from the Class of 1877 in memory of 
 Edward Henry Strobel, the income to be used for the purchase " of works 
 relating to world-politics and such kindred topics as the expansion of terri- 
 tory, colonization, the settlement of differences between nations, and other 
 cognate subjects, but not necessarily works on international law. Works on 
 problems of the Far East should receive first consideration " . . . $2,754 
 
 1909. Steobbl (Siam). Gifts from the King of Siam, the Crown Prince, 
 other princes and Siamese officials, and friends residing In Siam, in memory of 
 Edward Henry Strobel, the income to be used for the purchase of books on 
 Siam . . . . $1,942 
 
 1910. CooLiDQE and Hat. Gifts from Prof essor Archibald Cary Coolidge 
 and Clarence Leonard Hay, for the purchase of books relating to South 
 America . . . . $5,000 
 
 1910. Cutting. Legacy of $12,500 by WiUiam Bayard Cutting, Jr., the 
 income to be used " for the purchase of books on modem European history, 
 and the history of the countries of Northern Africa, preference being given to 
 books on the history of France, Switzerland, or Italy, and to the history of 
 Morocco, Algiers, or Egypt" $12,500 
 
 1910. Gross. Gifts in memory of Charles Gross from his friends and 
 pupils, the income to be used for the pmchase of books in English history and 
 institutions $1,686 
 
 1910. Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment op Volunteeb Intantry. 
 Gift of $600 to form a fund for the purchase of books on military history, 
 preference being given to books dealing with the American Civil War, 1861- 
 65; to accumulate to $1,000 $861 
 
 1910. Welsh. Gifts in memory of Julian Palmer Welsh, the income to be 
 used for the purchase of books in English and American literature $3,000 
 
 1911. Lodge — Sticknet. Gifts for a memorial fund to George Cabot 
 Lodge and Joseph Trumbull Stickney, the income to be " used to purchase 
 rare and choice works of English and French poetry " $3,372 
 
 1911. Francis Cabot Lowell. . Gift of $10,000 from Mrs. Frauds C. 
 Lowell in memory of her husband. Judge Francis C. Lowell, the income to be 
 used to supplement his collection of works on Joan of Arc (given by him to the 
 College Library) by the purchase of books of historical value on countries and 
 periods more or less closely relating thereto $10,000 
 
BOOK FUNDS 117 
 
 1911. Tebat. Legacy by John Harvey Treat of the residue of his estate, 
 " the income whereof to be used for the benefit of the Library for the purchase 
 of books relating to the Church of England and other churches in communion 
 with her, the Roman and Greek Churches, and the Episcopal Church in the 
 United States of America, especially as regards ritual matters of the same 
 general character as the collection presented to them in 1888; also books 
 relating to Christian archaeology. ... If the funds are more than sufiScient 
 for the purpose designated, they may be used for other departments at the 
 directionof the Librarian" $41,309 
 
 1912. Cutler. Legacy of $1,000 by Samuel Newton Cutler, " the in- 
 come of which shall be used for the purchase of books for the College 
 Library" $1,005 
 
 1912. Perkins Memorial. Gifts from Mrs. William Hooper, of Man- 
 chester, in memory of her father, Charles EUiott Perkins, for the purchase of 
 books on the history of the western part of the United States. Approxi- 
 mately $20,000 
 
 1913. Gardiner. Gifts in memory of John Hayes Gardiner, " the in- 
 come to be spent for books of permanent value, preference being given to 
 books on Burma, the history and art of war, the history and Uterature of 
 England in the seventeenth century, and the history and literature of New 
 England and Pennsylvania " $2,080 
 
 1913. Hall. Legacy of $10,000 by Edward Henry Hall, " for the unre- 
 stricted use of the Library Department." By vote of the Corporation the 
 income is to be used for the purchase of books for the Library . $10,000 
 
 1913. King. Gift from Mrs. Isabella G. King in memory of Horatio 
 King; " the income shall be used for the purchase of books in the department 
 of government and administration, or, it at any time books on those subjects 
 are not needed, for books on scientific subjects." Only a part of this fund is 
 at present available $10,000 
 
 1913. KiTTRBDGE. Gifts to«stablish a " Kittredge Anniversary Fund " 
 in honor of Professor George Lyman Kittredge and in commemoration of the 
 twenty-fifth year of his teaching in Harvard College, the income of which 
 shall be devoted to the purchase of such books for the College Library as 
 ProfessotKittredge may suggest or, if he is at any time unable to direct the 
 expenditiure, to the purchase of such books as he would approve . $4,262 ' 
 
 1913. Revere Family Memorial. Legacy of $20,237 by Augustus L. 
 Revere, the income to be " applied to the purchase of books, plaster casts or 
 such other works of art as may be considered advisable for the purposes 
 of the School of Architecture; or, such income may be applied ... in the 
 assistance of needy students in the School of Architecture "... $20,000 
 
118 LIBKABT OF HARVAED TJNIVEBSITY 
 
 1915. Geeman. Gift from the German Department and the Overseers 
 Committee to visit the German Department, " the income to be expended 
 for the purchase of books, maps, and other material that may be needed for 
 the purposes of instruction in German " $2,719 
 
 LIST OF FUNDS FOR GENERAL PURPOSES 
 
 1873. Savage. Legacy of $40,000 by James Savage; three-fourths of 
 the net income, after deducting a scholarship of $300, is for the present used 
 for the Library, the remainder for the Astronomical Observatory. Approxi- 
 mately . . $26,500 
 
 1878. Hodges. Gift of $5,000 (with a provision for accmnulation) from 
 the Rev. Richard Manning Hodges. Since 1902 the income of the portion of 
 this fund which is subject to appropriation at the President's discretion is 
 applied to the publication of the Bibliographical Contributions. Approxi- 
 mately . $7,683 
 
 1879. AusTEsr. Legacy of $7,806 by Rev. Daniel Austin, "to be used for 
 some good college purpose or purposes at the discretion of the College govern- 
 ment" . . $7,806 
 
 1883. Weight. Legacy of $100,000 by Eben Wright. Mr. T. Jefferson 
 Coolidge, exercising the authority given to him of determining the uses to 
 which the President and Fellows should apply this bequest, directed that the 
 income " be applied to meet the expenses of administration and service in 
 the College Library'' . $100,000 
 
 1885. Treadwell. Residuary legacy by Professor Daniel Treadwell. 
 The income of one-half of the principal (total $11,925) is used for administra- 
 tive expenses by vote of the Corporation, Oct. 31, 1904 . . $5,962 
 
 1886. CoNSTANTiTjs. Residuary legacy of $25,892.26 by Professor E. A. 
 Sophocles, one-half the income to be used for " the Catalogue Department of 
 the General Library " $12,946 
 
 1887. Price Gbeenleaf. Residuary legacy of $711,563.77 by E. Price 
 Greenleaf . After deducting $3,000 annually for scholarships, one-half the net 
 income is to be " applied to the maintenance and support of the Library - . . 
 by the purchase of books, the preservation and repair thereof, the expenses of 
 delivering them from and receiving them into the Library, and^f making, 
 preparing, and printing catalogues of said Library. . . . No part of such 
 income and profit, or of the principal, of said Trust Fund, shall be used or 
 appropriated to the repair of any buildings occupied by or intended to be 
 occupied by the said Library, or to the erection of any such building." 
 $1,000 of the income of this fund is used for the pm-chase of books (see 
 above, p. 114). Approximately $333,000 
 
BOOK FUNDS 119 
 
 1892. CoNANT. LegMy of $27,700 by Edwin Conant, " for the benefit 
 and increase of the College Library." By vote of the Corporation three- 
 fourths of the income is used at present for the general purposes of the 
 Library $20,775 
 
 1898. Pierce. Legacy of $50,000 and the income of a portion (now 
 amounting to $52,399) of the residuary legacy by Henry Lillie Pierce. 
 This legacy was granted to the Library by vote of the Corporation. Until 
 1910 part of the income was used for the purchase of books. Approxi- 
 mately $102,399 
 
 1907. Sausbubt. Legacy of $5,120 by Stephen Salisbiury, for the " Har- 
 vard College Library " ... . $5,120 
 
 1913. Anonymous. An anonymous gift. " The donor, without desiring 
 to place a legal restriction on the use of the income, would be pleased if the 
 President and Fellows should employ that income for library purposes, 
 either expenses or book purchases "....... ... $25,000 
 
120 LIBHAKT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 
 I. Before 1764 ' 
 
 1638 
 
 John Harvard, bequest of about 370 volumes. A list from College Book, 
 No. I, is printed in Bibliographical Contribution, No. 27, p. 10. Only one 
 of these books is now in existence. 
 
 1642 
 
 " The magistrates gave from their libraries books to the value of £200." 
 
 1666 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby, 27 books, valued at £60. A list of these, also taken from 
 College Book, No. I, is printed in BibUographical Contribution, No. 27, 
 p. 13. 
 
 1668 
 
 Thomas Graves, mathematical books. 
 
 Ralph Freck, " Biblia Polyglotta." 
 
 John Freck, books valued at £10. 
 
 Gov. John Winthrop, 40 volumes, valued at £20. A list, from College 
 
 Book, No. I, is given in " Life and Letters of John Winthrop," p. 438. 
 Sir Richard Daniel, Kt., many books. 
 
 1660 
 Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, of Rowley, bequest of part of his library. 
 
 1675 
 
 John Lightfoot, D.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 
 bequest of his whole library, containing " the Targums, Tahnuds, Rab- 
 bins, Polyglot, and other valuable tracts relative to Oriental literature." 
 
 1678 
 
 Joseph Brown, bequest of books valued at £50. 
 
 Theophilus Gale, bequest of his library, which for many years formed more 
 than half the College Library. See the Donation Book, vol. i, p. 19. 
 
 1 All except between two and three hundred volumes of the books acquired before this 
 date were destroyed in the fire of 1764. This list is taken from Quincy's History, with some 
 slight.omissions , 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 121 
 
 1682 
 
 Sir John Maynard, eight chests of books valued at £400. 
 
 Other gifts in the seventeenth century were 20 volumes from Sir Richard 
 Bellingham (see list, from College Book, No. I, in Bibliographical Con- 
 tribution, No. 27, p. 14), and 35 volumes from Peter Bulkley (see the 
 same, p. 13). 
 
 1716 
 
 General Nicholson, " Stanhope's Paraphrase," 4 vols.; and other books. 
 
 1722 
 
 Thomas Hollis, of London, merchant, " an elegant edition of Milton's 
 Poetical Works." (See note, p. 124 below.) 
 
 1724 
 
 Samuel Gerrish, books valued at £lO. 
 Thomas Hollis, two large packets of valuable books. 
 John Hollis, his brother, books valued at £64. 
 Rev. Joseph Hussey, a valuable donation of books. 
 
 Dr. Isaac Watts, a number of books. He also sent all his own works as they 
 came out. 
 
 1726 
 
 John Guyse, D.D., his own works and several other volumes. 
 
 Thomas Hollis, many valuable books. 
 
 John Lloyd, of London, works of Grsevius and Gronovius, 28 vols., folio. 
 
 1726 
 
 Thomas Hollis, a box of books. 
 
 Dr. Richard Mead, Thuanus's History, 5 vols., folio. 
 
 1727 
 
 Rev. Thomas Cotton, £100 for books. 
 
 1733 
 
 Bishop Berkeley, a collection of books, mainly Greek and Latin classics. 
 Thomas Hollis (son of Nathaniel), a valuable collection of books. 
 
 1734 
 
 Nathaniel Hollis (brother of the first Thomas), a box of books. 
 
 1736 
 Rev. Samuel Mather, Dr. Franckius's Works. 
 
122 LIBBABT OF HAKVABD TIMVEESITT 
 
 1743 
 
 Chambers Russell, Esq., of Concord, Chambers's Cyclopaedia.' 
 
 1744 
 Hon. Andrew Oliver, a large folio Bible. 
 
 1748 
 Society for Propagation of the Gospel, large donation of valuable books. 
 
 1752 
 
 William James, Esq., of Jamaica, medical books valued at £25. 
 
 1757 
 
 Sir Henry Frankland, Bart., several books. 
 
 1758-1759 
 
 Thomas HoUis, of Lincoln's Inn, Milton's Prose Works, 2 vols., 4to; and 
 44 volumes of tracts. 
 
 1761 
 Lieut.-Gov. Dummer, bequest for books, £50 sterling.^ 
 
 1763 
 Benjamin Dolbear, a number of medical works. 
 
 1764 
 Thomas Hollis, 64 volumes of valuable books, cvuiously bound.^ 
 Other donors of books in the eighteenth century, mentioned in Flynt's List 
 of Benefactors, but without any dates, are Cotton Mather, Rev. Richard 
 Baxter, Rev. Benjamin Colman, Joseph Hill, Rev. Increase Mather, Henry 
 Newman, Esq., Thomas Bannister, Mr. HoUister of London, P. duCane, 
 Esq., Benjamin Avery, LL.D., John Jekyll, Esq., and Hugh Hall, Esq. 
 
 II. To REPAIR THE LoSS OF THE LiBEART IN 1764 
 
 The numerous gifts of books and money that came to the College for the 
 restoration of the Library after its destruction by fire in 1764 are noticed in 
 the Donation Book, vol. i., pp. 71 and following. A full list of the donors, 
 
 1 A manuscript note in this book states that it was given " for the use of the professor of 
 mathematics," and a later note says it was ** transferred to the College Library by the Hollis 
 Professor of Mathematics " in 1846; for over one hundred years it was apparently in the 
 custody of the successive Hollis professors of mathematics, until the late Joseph Lovering 
 placed it in the Library. 
 
 2 The books from this donation, not being unpacked at the time of the fire, were saved 
 from the general destruction of the Library. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 123 
 
 273 in number, with the amounts of their gifts, is printed in Quiney's " His- 
 tory of Harvard University," vol. ii., pp. 484-i96. Only a summary of the 
 more important gifts is given here. 
 Governor Francis Bernard, more than 300 volumes, together with £10.10. 
 
 and £18.9. collected under his authority. 
 Robert Drummond, Archbishop of York, a generous donation. 
 Edinburgh Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge, 25 volumes and 
 
 other books to the value of £10. 12. 11. 
 William Greenleaf, of Boston, books to the value of £20, and £10.10. in 
 
 money. 
 John Hancock, of Boston, subscription in fulfilment of the signified intention 
 
 of his uncle, Thomas Hancock, £600; and an additional gift of £54.4. 
 
 With this money 1,098 volumes were bought. 
 Thomas Hollis, of Lincoln's Inn, subscription for the purghase of books, 
 
 £200; and 41 cases of books sent between Jan. 1765 and Oct. 1770. 
 Timothy Hollis, of London, £20. 
 Thomas Hubbard, treasiirer of the College, £50. 
 Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson, a number of books, and £10. 
 A. Kincaid, king's printer, Edinburgh, 43 volumes. 
 Jasper Mauduit, of London, books and £60. 
 Province of New Hampshire. At the recommendation of Gov. Benning 
 
 Wentworth the General Assembly voted £300 with which, under the care 
 
 of the Rev. East Apthorp, 743 volumes were bought. 
 Thomas Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury, a generous donation. 
 Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, books valued at 
 
 £30. 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, books and £100. 
 Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England, £300, with which 
 
 1,101 volumes were bought by Jasper Mauduit, Esq. 
 Barlow Trecothick, alderman, of London, books and £30. 
 Rev. George Whitefield, of London, a collection of books, and his influence in 
 
 procuring a large number of valuable books from several parts of Great 
 
 Britain. 
 Thomas Wibird, of New Hampshire, £50. 
 
 III. Fkom 1765 TO 18401 
 1765 
 Rev. Joseph Sewall, many books valued at £20 sterling. 
 
 1771 
 Benjamin Franklin, many valuable books. 
 
 1 This list is abridged from Quiney's History, ii. S88-530, S69-S8S. 
 
124 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 1774 
 The General Coiirt, many valuable books in the Hebrew and Portuguese 
 languages. 
 
 1778 
 The General Court, many books from sequestered libraries of the Royalists. 
 
 1779 
 Hon. Theodore Atkinson, of New Hampshire, £100 for the piu'chase of books 
 most useful in the study of the civil, statute, and commercial law of 
 England. 
 
 1780-1808 
 
 Granville Sharp, of London, many valuable books. 
 
 1786-1800 
 John Erskine, of Edinburgh, many volumes annually. 
 
 1787-1791 
 John Gardner, three donations of a number of scarce and valuable books, 
 medals, and coins. 
 
 1788 
 J. P. Brissot de Warville, books in French. 
 
 1789 
 John Adams, " Arts et Metiers," 18 volimies. 
 
 1797 
 John Quincy Adams, French books, 166 volumes. 
 
 1801 
 Ward Nicholas Boylston, many books, largely medical. 
 
 1804 
 Thomas Brand Hollis, of London, bequest of £100, " to be laid out in Greek 
 and Latin classics "; also frequent gifts of books during his lifetime.* 
 
 1 The gifts from the members of the Hollis family deserve more than the brief mention io 
 these lists. The first Thomas Hollis, of London, merchant, gave many books as noted above 
 between 1722 and 1726, and also gave to the College nearly £5,000 for the two professorships 
 and for the scholarships which still bear his name. Hb brothers, John and Nathaniel, both made 
 generous gifts of books, and their sons, Timothy and Thomas, gave books and money. The 
 third Thomas, son of the second Thomas and heir of the first, generally distinguished from the 
 others of the same name as " of Lincoln's Inn," began bb donations to the Library in 1758 and 
 continued them until his death in 1774. He gave many hundred volumes, carefully selected, 
 most of them handsomely bound, and often with interesting inscriptions in his own handi Hia 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 125 
 
 1811 
 John Quincy Adams, Russian books, 13 volumes. 
 
 1816-1817 
 
 David Sears, of Boston, 141 volumes of " French literary works elegantly 
 boimd." 
 
 1818 
 
 Israel Thorndike, the library of Professor C. D. Ebelihg, of Hamburg, 3,200 
 volvunes and 10,000 maps, purchased at a cost of $6,300. (See p. 40 
 above.) 
 
 1819 
 
 J. W. von Goethe, 39 volumes of his own works. 
 
 1820 
 
 J. W. Buxton, London, 42 volumes, including 28 Aldines and " other old 
 
 and valuable and rare editions of several classics." 
 Thomas Pabner, London, a graduate of the dass of 1761, bequest of nearly 
 
 1,200 volumes. 
 Francis Vergnies, works on botany and the Greek poets. 
 
 1823 
 
 Samuel A. Eliot, the library of American history formed by David B. War- 
 den, American consul at Paris, consisting of 1,200 volmnes and many 
 maps, purchased at a cost of $5,000. 
 
 1826 
 William Breed, of Boston, bequest of $2,000; used for the purchase of books. 
 
 1826 
 
 William Havard Eliot, a set of the "Description de I'Egypte," 23 volumes, 
 folio, costing $1,000. 
 
 1827 
 
 Richard Henry Lee, gift of the Arthur Lee Mss. (See Bibliographical Con- 
 tribution, No. 8.) 
 
 letters which accompanied the gifts show a keen interest in the welfare and management of 
 the Library. During his lifetime his gifts exceeded £1,400 in value and at his death he be- 
 queathed the sum of £500 for the purchase of books. This bequest was the first library fund; 
 from its income for one hundred and forty years the Library has purchased many thousand 
 books. His heir was Thomas Brand Hollis, who gave many books to the Library and at his 
 death left it £100, as noted above. 
 
126 LIBBAHY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 1830-1874 
 
 Charles Sumner, constant gifts, aggregating 1,300 volumes and from 15,000 
 to 20,000 pamphlets. (See also his bequest under 1874, below.) 
 
 1831 
 
 Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, bequest of 306 volumes. 
 
 1836 
 
 John Andrews, of Newburyport, 138 volumes. 
 
 1840 
 John J. Appleton, of Cambridge, about 200 books and pamphlets, many of 
 them rare. 
 
 IV. Since 1840 ^ 
 
 1842 
 
 A subscription amounting to $21,000 was raised for the purchase of modem 
 works. This stmi, which was known at the Donation fund, was expended 
 in the course of eight or nine years. 
 
 1844 
 
 William Prescott, of Boston, bequest of $3,000, used for the purchase of old 
 books in American history. 
 
 1846 
 
 Obadiah Rich, of London, a large collection of tracts and pamphlets, mainly 
 
 relating to America. 
 Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston, a large number of early pamphlets bound in 96 
 
 tract volumes. 
 
 1862 
 
 Subscription of $1,100 raised by Professor Child for the improvement of the 
 department of English poetry. 
 
 1863 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Farrar, the library of her husband. Professor John Farrar. 
 
 1864 
 
 Atherton Blight, of Newport, $250, with which 220 volumes were bought. 
 
 ^ This list of later gifts is necessarily far from complete; absence of full records in the earlier 
 years and lack of space in later years account for the omission of many donations. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 127 
 
 1866 
 
 James Brown, of Watertown, bequest of $5,000; used for the purchase of 
 
 books on natural history. 
 Henry Ware Wales, of Boston, bequest of 1,500 volumes of Greek, Latin, 
 
 Italian, German, and Oriental literature, " the best editions and in fine 
 
 bindings." 
 
 1868-1860 
 
 Emil C. Hammer, Danish consul in Boston, a number of volumes in the 
 Esquimaux language. 
 
 1869 
 
 Thomas Lee, of Boston, $350 for books in religion and philosophy; 249 
 
 volumes were bought with this gift. 
 William Hickling Prescott, bequest of 282 books and 5 volumes of Mss., 
 
 used by him in the preparation of his " Ferdinand and Isabella." 
 
 1869-1864 
 
 William Gray, of Boston, gift of $5,000 a year for five years, for the purchase 
 of books. 
 
 1860 
 
 Clarke Gayton Pickman, of Boston, bequest of his library of about 3,000 
 volumes, mostly standard works in English Uterature. 
 
 1861 
 Mrs. Eliza Farrar, gift of 166 volumes of scientific works. 
 James Russell Lowell, of Cambridge, gift of 194 volumes. 
 
 1862 
 
 Josiah Quincy Loring, of Boston, bequest of 228 volumes. 
 
 1864 
 
 Professor Convers Francis, bequest of 600 volumes and 100 pamphlets. 
 
 1866 
 William P. G. Bartlett, of Cambridge, gift, in his memory, of 135 volumes of 
 mathematical works. 
 
 1866 
 
 Joseph E. Worcester, of Cambridge, bequest of 255 volumes of works used by 
 him in making his " Dictionary of the English Language." 
 
 Jared Sparks, President of Harvard College, bequest of his collection of mss. 
 (See p. 76 above, and Bibliographical Contribution, No. 22.) 
 
128 LIBHAKT OF HARVARD tTNIVERSITT 
 
 1868 
 John WUson, of Cambridge, bequest of 225 volumes and 47 pamphlets, 
 mainly theological. 
 
 1873 
 
 James Savage, of Boston, bequest of 53 volumes. 
 
 1874 
 
 Charles Sumner, bequest of his library of 3,750 volumes. (See p. 91 above, 
 and Bibliographical Contribution, No. 6.) 
 
 Sewall Tappan, of Boston, gift of 125 volumes in German from the library of 
 his son, William Rollins Tappan. 
 
 1875 
 
 James Walker, President of Harvard College, bequest of his library of 2,400 
 volumes and 300 pamphlets. President Walker had also dining his life- 
 time given a large number of books. 
 
 1878 
 
 William G. Medlicott, of Longmeadow, Mass., 400 volumes from his library 
 pin-chased with the Minot fund; mainly rare works in English literature. 
 
 1879 
 
 Martyn Paine, M.D., of New York, bequest of his library, containing 3,097 
 
 volumes and 115 pamphlets, in memory of his son, Robert Troup Paine. 
 Charles Pickering, of Boston, bequest of 252 volumes and 75 pamphlets. 
 Eugene Schuyler, of Birmingham, England, gift of 161 volumes. 
 
 1881 
 
 Edward M. Barringer, M.D., of New York, bequest of his library to the 
 Medical School; the non-medical books, numbering about 600 volumes, 
 were bought for the College Library with the Minot fund; mainly stand- 
 ard works in good bindings. 
 
 1883 
 
 Thomas Carlyle, of London, bequest of 418 volumes. (See p. 50 above, and 
 Bibliographical Contribution, No. 26.) 
 
 Joseph J. Cooke, of Providence, bequest of the right to bid in, at the auction- 
 sale of his library, books to the value of $5,000. Under this provision the 
 Library received 898 volumes and 16 pamphlets, many of them rare 
 works in fine bindings. 
 
 1884-1896 
 
 The family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, gifts from his library, made at 
 various times, and numbering about 2,000 volumes and 1,600 pamphlets; 
 largely composed of American poetry, and including many works presented 
 to Longfellow by their authors. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 129 
 
 1886 
 Heirs of President C. C. Felton, gift of 1,385 volumes and 818 pamphlets 
 
 from his library. 
 Col. Henry Lee, of Boston, 338 volumes and 325 pamphlets. 
 James Russell Lowell, 688 volumes and 113 pamphlets, collected during his 
 
 residence abroad as United States minister in Madrid and Loudon. (See 
 
 also under 1891, below.) 
 Heirs of George Ticknor, of Boston, 108 volumes; Milton and Miltoniana. 
 
 1886 
 
 Class of 1879, gift of $665, for books for the Political Economy library. The 
 class has made later gifts for the same purpose. 
 
 Gift of $1,000, in memory of Glendower Evans, of Boston, of the Class of 
 1879, for books for the United States History library. 
 
 Horace Howard Furness, Jr., of Philadelphia, gift of $250 for books. 
 
 Estate of Bobert Waterston, gift of $1,000 for books. This was used for the 
 purchase of rare Americana, which were bought from time to time as 
 opportunities occurred; the interest meanwhile was allowed to accumu- 
 late. When the last of the money was spent, in 1912, there had been 
 acquired by means of this gift books to the value of over $1,500. 
 
 1887 
 
 George Eastwood, of Saxonville, Mass., bequest of 249 volumes and 129 
 pamphlets. 
 
 Edward A. Silsbee, of Boston, gift of a note-book containing some poems in 
 the handwriting of P. B. Shelley and Mrs. Shelley. For a full account of 
 this volume, see G. E. Woodberry's " Notes " in Bibliographical Contri- 
 bution, No. 35. 
 
 Professor E. A. Sophocles, of Cambridge, bequest of 211 volumes and 129 
 pamphlets. (See also above, under Book Funds, 1886.) 
 
 1888 
 John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence, gift of 1,020 volumes and 2,223 pamphlets, 
 
 mainly relating to ritualism and doctrinal theology. (See Bibliographical 
 
 Contribution, No. 36.) 
 
 1889 
 John Chandler Bancroft Davis, of Washington, a collection in 43 volumes of 
 
 the documents of the Tribunal of Arbitration, held at Geneva, 1871-72. 
 Mrs. Glendower Evans, of Boston, gift of $500 for books for the library of 
 
 Social Questions. 
 Charles Dudley March, of Greenland, N. H., bequest of his library of 1,206 
 
 volumes and 234 pamphlets. 
 
130 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Denman W. Boss, of Cambridge, gift of 331 volumes and 47 pamphlets, 
 mainly relating to early German history and institutions. 
 
 Subscription, through Carleton Hunneman, of Boston, of $195 for books for 
 the library of the German department. 
 
 Henry Villard, of New York, gift of $500 for books for the library of the 
 German department. 
 
 1890 
 
 Captain George W. Batchelder, of the Class of 1859, bequest of 353 volumes 
 and 428 pamphlets. 
 
 Estate of Professor E. W. Gmney, of Cambridge, a part of his library, con- 
 sisting of 1,981 volumes. (See also below, under 1891, 1898, 1902, and 
 1907.) 
 
 Mrs. Anna Louisa Moring, of Cambridge, bequest of 1,182 volumes, mainly 
 from the library of Professor Charles Beck. 
 
 Estate of George P. Sanger, of Cambridge, gift of 153 volumes. 
 
 1891 
 
 Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, of London, gift of 45 volumes from the library of 
 Thomas Carlyle. (See p. 61 above.) 
 
 Estate of Professor E. W. Gurney, of Cambridge, gift of 1,995 volumes and 
 1,661 pamphlets from his library. 
 
 Henderson Inches Hill, of Cambridge, gift, in his memory, of 67 volumes of 
 standard English works, well bound. 
 
 James Bussell Lowell, of Cambridge, bequest of 827 volumes and 539 pam- 
 phlets from his library. Under the terms of his will, the Library was 
 entitled to any book in his library a copy of which it did not already own. 
 During his life Lowell had also ^ven many hundred volumes and pam- 
 phlets. A portion of his library was purchased by subscription in 1900 
 and forms the main part of the Lowell Memorial Library of Bomance 
 Literature. 
 
 Jacob H. SchifF, of New York, gift of $1,000 for books for the Semitic library. 
 Mr. Schifl has since made many other gifts for the same purpose. 
 
 Subscription of $6,400 for books for the Classical library. 
 
 1892 
 John Bartlett, of Cambridge, 1,014 volumes and 269 pamphlets relating to 
 angling, fishes, and fisheries. (See p. 45 above, and Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 51.) 
 
 1893 
 John Bartlett, of Cambridge, 264 volumes and 22 pamphlets, relating to 
 
 proverbs, emblems, and the Dance of Death. 
 Estate of Professor A. P. Peabody, of Cambridge, gift of 628 volumes and 
 1,261 pamphlets from his library. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 131 
 
 1893-1896 
 
 Subscriptions toward providing an addition to the library building, collected 
 by a committee of undergraduates, $19,640. 
 
 1894 
 
 Francis Parkman, of Brookline, bequest of 2,502 volumes, 2,000 pamphlets, 
 and 102 maps from his library. 
 
 1896 
 
 Archibald Cary Coolidge, of Cambridge, gift of 2,071 volumes, 344 pam- 
 phlets, and 42 maps relating to Slavic history and literature, and compris- 
 ing all the books, not already owned by the Library, in Harrassowitz's 
 catalogue. No. 202. 
 
 1896 
 
 Theodore W. Koch, of Ithaca, N. Y., 128 volumes and 42 pamphlets on 
 Dante. 
 
 Professor J. K. Paine, of Cambridge, 183 volumes and 76 pamphlets, mainly 
 music. 
 
 Ivan Panin, of Grafton, 45 volumes and 116 pamphlets, relating to Russian 
 Nihilism. 
 
 The heirs of George Ticknor, of Boston, 176 volumes and 20 pamphlets on 
 Dante. 
 
 1897 
 
 Estate of James M. Ballard, of Boston, gift of 348 volumes from his library. 
 
 Eliza Appleton and Charlotte Maria Haven, of Portsmouth, N. H., 199 
 volumes. 
 
 The family of Edward L. Pierce, the letter-books and commonplace-book of 
 Charles Sumner, 177 volumes. 
 
 Estate of George Morey Richardson, of Berkeley, Cal., gift of 419 volumes 
 and 91 pamphlets, mainly classical. 
 
 Miss Maria Whitney, of Cambridge, 70 volumes of music from the library of 
 Professor J. D. Whitney. 
 
 1898 
 
 Estate of Professor E. W. Gvuney, a part of his library, consisting of 2,000 
 volumes. 
 
 Morris and James Loeb, of New York, a collection of Judeo-German books 
 printed in America, numbering 125 volumes and 562 pamphlets. 
 
 Miss Maria Whitney, of Cambridge, a further gift of music from the library 
 of Professor J. D. Whitney, 131 volumes. 
 
 Leo Wiener, of Cambridge, a collection of Judeo-German books printed in 
 Europe, consisting of 325 volimies and over 1,100 pamphlets. 
 
132 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 1899 
 
 J. Randolph Coolidge, of Boston, gift of 445 volumes relating to the Ottoman 
 empire, purchased at the auction sale of the library of M. Charles Schefer, 
 of Paris. 
 
 J. Randolph Coolidge and Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge, gift of $7,i850 
 toward the purchase of the library of Count Paul Riant. (The total cost 
 of the library was $10,735; to make up this sum Mr. J. Harvey Treat 
 contributed $800, the Library (from the Pierce fund) $2,010, the Divinity 
 School library $600, and certain class-room Ubraries, $75.) The collection 
 contained 7,649 volumes and 1,162 pamphlets. Its special features are 
 mentioned above, pp. 54, 77, 84. 
 
 Fitzedward Hall, of Marlesford, England, gift of 387 volumes and 66 pam- 
 phlets, most of them Oriental. 
 
 Oliver B. Henshaw, of Cambridge, bequest of his library (mainly philosophi- 
 cal), 150 volumes. 
 
 Thornton K. Lothrop, of Boston, a collection of the original issues of the 
 Oxford Newdigate Prize Poems, 1822 to 1890. 
 
 Mrs. George A. Schmitt, gift of 253 volumes from the library of her husband, 
 formerly instructor in German in Harvard College. 
 
 The executors of Edward Ray Thompson, of Troy, N. Y., gift of his library 
 of 1,928 volumes; mainly standard English and French authors, in the 
 best editions and fine bindings. 
 "John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence, gift of $800 to pay for the theological por- 
 tion of the Riant library. 
 
 Viking Club, of Boston, 154 volumes of Norwegian literature. 
 
 Justin Winsor, late Ubrarian of Harvard College, bequest of 255 volumes 
 from his library. 
 
 1900 
 
 The J. C. Ayer Company, of Lowell, gift of the library of Alphonse Marsigny, 
 549 volumes and 48 pamphlets. 
 
 Mrs. John E. Hudson, of Boston, 300 volumes from the library of her hus- 
 band. (See also below, under 1914.) 
 
 Henry C. Warren, of Cambridge, bequest of his Ubrary, 230 volumes and 116 
 pamphlets. (Also 300 volumes to the Sanskrit class-room library.) 
 
 1901 
 
 Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge, gift of a collection of Slovak books num- 
 bering 123 volumes and 1,567 pamphlets, gathered in Southern Europe by • 
 Assistant Professor Leo Wiener. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 133 
 
 1902 
 
 Estate of Professor E. W. Gurney, a part of his library, consisting of 
 1,288 volumes. 
 
 Mrs. C. I. Rice, of Douglas, County Cork, Ireland, gifts of MS. journals and 
 letters of Governor Henry Hamilton. 
 
 Edward A. Silsbee, of Boston, bequest of a small note-book of 88 pages, con- 
 taining poems written by P. B. Shelley in 1816-1817, part of them in 
 Shelley's handwriting. 
 
 Subscription of over $1,300, collected by Edgar A. Wells, of Boston, for the 
 purchase of English literature of the period from 1660 to 1780. 
 
 1903 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ira Atkinson, of Wakefield, gift of the library of their son, 
 
 Roger Trowbridge Atkinson, of the Class of 1894, 273 volumes. 
 Mrs. Louis Bettmann, of Cincinnati, gift of $300 in memory of her son, 
 
 Milton Bettmann, of the Class of 1897. (See also below, under 1912.) 
 John Drew, of New York, gift of $1,000 for the purchase of the dramatic 
 
 library of Robert W. Lowe, of London, consisting of 789 volumes and 47 
 
 pamphlets. 
 Harry Nelson Gay, of Rome, 53 volimies and 240 pamphlets relating to the 
 
 political history of Italy from 1814 to 1871. 
 
 Since 1903 Mr. Gay has been a constant contributor to the Harvard 
 Library, and his successive gifts of books and pamphlets relating to the 
 Italian Risorgimento are of great value. Mr. Gay has also spent to 
 excellent advantage the small Library appropriations for books on this 
 subject. 
 Henry S. Hunnewell, of Wellesley, gift of $100 for the purchase of books in 
 
 Enghsh literature. 
 Jaities Hazen Hyde, of New York, gift of a portion of the library of the late 
 
 Professor Ferdinand Bdcher, comprising works of Moliere and books 
 
 relating to him (936 volumes and 855 pamphlets); works of Montaigne 
 
 and books relating to "him (246 volumes and 91 pamphlets); French 
 
 dramatists contemporary with Moliere (352 volumes). (For the Moliere 
 
 books, see Bibliographical Contribution, No. 57.) 
 George von L. Meyer, then American ambassador to Italy, 286 volumes 
 
 and 85 pamphlets relating to the political history of Italy from 1814 to 
 
 1871. 
 Professor Charles Eliot Norton, literary executor of James Russell Lowell, 
 
 gift of a large collection of letters received by Mr. Lowell from his many 
 
 correspondents and a number of manuscripts of articles contributed to 
 
 the North American Review dming his editorship. 
 
134 LIBKAKY OF HAKVAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Subscription amounting to $393, collected by Assistant Professor John Hays 
 Gardiner, for the purchase of early editions of the Bible, especially the 
 several English versions. 
 
 Subscription of $435 for the fiurt,her purchase of English literature of the 
 period from 1660 to 1780. 
 
 1903-1905 
 
 William Amory Gardner, of Groton, three annual gifts of $10,000 each toward 
 the erection of a new library building. With the consent of the donor, 
 $24,240 of these gifts were used to pay part of the cost of the addition to the 
 East stack' in 1908. 
 
 1904 
 
 Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge, of Cambridge, gift of the library of 
 Konrad von Maurer, of Munich. The Scandinavian portion of this collec- 
 tion added 2,660 volumes and 2,911 pamphlets to the Library. The Von 
 Maurer library also contributed nearly 3,000 volumes to the Hohenzollern 
 collection of German history. 
 
 For an extended account of the Von Maurer library, see the librarian's 
 report in Report of the President and Treasurer, 1903-04, pp. 214-216; 
 for the Hohenzollern collection, see above, p. 66. 
 
 Assbtant Professor A. C. Coolidge, of Cambridge, and Dr. Hiram Bingham, 
 of New Haven, Conn., curator of South American history, gift of $185 for 
 books on South America. 
 
 James Hazen Hyde, of New York, gift of $900 for cataloguing and binding 
 the books on Moli^re from Professor Bocher's library. 
 
 Professor Charles Eliot Norton, gift of a fiui:her instalment of the James 
 Russell Lowell manuscripts, including the printer's copy of a nmnber of 
 contributions to the North American Review during Lowell's editorship. 
 
 Herbert M. Sears, of Boston, gift of $100 for books in Englbh literature. 
 
 Francis Skinner, of Boston, gift of $500 for books on Venice. 
 
 1906 
 
 John S. Ames, of North Easton, gift of $100 for the purchase of books from 
 
 the Rowfant library. 
 Winthrop Ames, of North Easton, gift of $500 tor the purchase of books on 
 
 the theatre and dramatic art. 
 Mrs. John C. Bancroft, of Boston, gift of $250 for the purchase of books on 
 
 Japan. 
 Francis S. Blake, of Boston, gift of $250 for the purchase of English literature. 
 Imperial German Government, gift of the Stenographische Berichte of the 
 
 German Reichsrath from 1867 to 1904, 225 volumes. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 135 
 
 In addition, the Library received in 1905, and in most cases has con- 
 tinued to receive, the current volumes of the proceedings or documents 
 of the several Prussian provinces — Saxony, Brandenburg, Hanover, 
 Westphalia, Pomerania, East and West Prussia, Hessen-Nassau, 
 Schleswig-Holstein, Posen, Silesia, and Wiesbaden. 
 The library of Professor Charles Eliot Norton was purchased (for $16,000) 
 
 by a subscription among his friends. About 600 of the more precious books 
 
 were received at the Library in May; the rest were received after his death 
 
 in 1908. 
 
 For a more detailed statement of the collection as a whole, see above, 
 pp. 81-83. 
 George F. Pfeiffer, of Watertown, gift of 200 volumes and 100 pamphlets 
 
 from his library, many of the volumes being early folios. 
 Francis Skinner, of Boston, gift of $600 for the purchase of books on Venice 
 
 and Northern Italy. 
 
 1906-1907 
 
 Subscriptions toward an addition to the East stack, collected by the Com- 
 mittee to Visit the Library, $16,000. 
 
 1906 
 
 Anonymous gift of $1,000 to form the Motley collection of Dutch history. 
 Subsequent gifts have been received from the same soiurce, making a total 
 of $1,558. 
 Imperial Austrian Government, through the Hon. Bellamy Storer, then 
 American ambassador in Vienna, gift of 169 volumes of the records and 
 documents of the Austrian Eeichsrath from 1873 to date. 
 Mrs. Martin Brimmer, of Boston, bequest of 24 rare books from the library of 
 ■ the late Martin Br imm er, of Boston. 
 
 For a further reference to this valuable acquisition, see University 
 Gazette, Nov. 16, 1906. 
 Alexander Cochrane, of Boston, gift of $1,250 for the purchase of books in 
 
 Scottish history and literature. 
 Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, gift of $5,500 for the purchase of books in 
 English literature and history. 
 
 For a further statement in regard to the purchases from this gift, see 
 University Gazette, Feb. 15, 1907, p. 92; March 22, 1907, p. 115. 
 Gift of a complete set of the original issues of the Spectator, from Pro- 
 fessor G. L. Kittredge, Ernest B. Dane, W. R. Castle, Jr., of Boston, C. G. 
 Osborne and H. E. Widener, of Philadelphia, and the Child Memorial 
 Library fund. 
 
136 LIBRAKT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Japanese Ministry of War, through Baron Chokichi Kikkawa, '83, of Tokyo, 
 
 gift of 838 sheets of maps published by the Japanese General Staff. 
 Henry Arthur Jones, of London, gift of a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, 
 
 printed on vellum (one of thirteen copies so printed). 
 Reginald C. Robbins, of Boston, gift of $4,000 for books for the Philosophical 
 
 library. Mr. Robbins has made later gifts for the same purpose. 
 Rear-Admiral John G. Walker, U. S. N., bequest of a collection of works 
 relating to the Panama Canal and to other great canals. 
 
 The major portion of the collection was made for Hon. William Cameron 
 Forbes, who presented it to Admiral Walker on the understanding that 
 the books, with any accessions, should go to the Library on Admiral 
 Walker's death. 
 Enrique de C. Zanetti, of New York, gift of $150 for books on Cuba. 
 
 1907 
 
 Joseph H. Clark, of Boston, over 170 volimies of recent French, Italian, and 
 
 Spanish fiction, and $124 for the binding of them. Mr. Clark has made 
 
 many similar gifts since then. 
 Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge, of Cambridge, gift of $1,000 for books in 
 
 French history. 
 Gift of the Paul Revere engraving of Harvard College, from F. R. Appleton, 
 
 of New York, James B. Ayer, Ezra H. Baker, Henry W. Cxmningham, 
 
 William Endicott, Jr., and GrenviUe H. Norcross, of Boston, and Frederick 
 
 L. Gay, of Brookline. 
 Estate of Professor E. W. Gumey, a final instalment from his library, 
 
 242 volumes. (The total mmiber of volumes received from this source is 
 
 7,750.) 
 Subscription of $250, collected by Dr. Roger B. Merriman, of Cambridge, for 
 
 the purchase of books in English history. 
 N. V. Tchaikovsky, of St. Petersburg, gift of 162 volumes and pamphlets, 
 
 being everything published by the Socialist-Revolutionary party of Russia 
 
 from 1902 to date. 
 
 1908 
 Miss Hester Bancroft, of Boston (now Mrs. R. L. Adlercron, of London), gift 
 
 of $500 for books on Japan. 
 Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, of Brookline, gift of the library of the late 
 
 Richard Ashhurst Bowie, of Philadelphia, in memory of her grandfather, 
 
 William Fletcher Weld, of Boston. This library contained over 11,800 
 
 volumes, including 433 incunabula and about 3,600 editions of the Greek 
 
 and Latin classics, not in the Library. 
 This is the largest single gift of books ever received by the Library. For 
 further reference to it, see above, pp. 53 and 70, and the Harvard 
 Bulletin for Nov. 25, 1908, p. 6. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 137 
 
 The family and friends of the late Arthur S. Dixey, of Boston, gift of $1,500 
 for the purchase of books in French literature as a memorial to him. 
 By the terms of the gift the money was to be spent in five years, and cur- 
 rent fiction and drama and works of a grammatical or philological nature 
 were to be excluded. With this money the Library has acquired many 
 valuable editions of French classics, and a large number of works relating 
 to Rousseau. 
 Ernest L. Gay and Warren F. Gay, of Boston, gift of about 300 volumes from 
 the library of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Gay, of Boston. This 
 collection included many valuable illustrated works and some treatises on 
 numismatics. 
 
 1909 
 
 Thomas Barbour, of Brookline, gift of $100 for books on Oceania. 
 National Library of Chile, gift of 1,200 volumes and pamphlets, chiefly docu- 
 ments and other government publications, to supplement the acquisitions 
 from the Montt collection. 
 Professor A. C. Coolidge and Clarence L. Hay, of Washington, gift of about 
 4,000 volumes from the library of Louis Montt, librarian of the National 
 Library of Chile. 
 
 This collection is especially rich in works on Chilean history and politics, 
 and on Peru and the Argentine Kepublic. Professor Coolidge was one 
 of the delegates to the Pan-American Scientific Congress, held at San- 
 tiago de Chile in December, 1908, and Mr. Hay was secretary of the 
 American delegation. Their gift was made in commemoration of this 
 Congress, as the book-plate, especially designed for the books, sets 
 forth. 
 The French Republic, through the French ambassador in Washington (Mr. 
 
 J. J. Jusserand), gift of 58 volumes of the " Archives Parlementaires." 
 Mrs. Mary Jane Lockwood, of Boston, gift of the Philip Case Lockwood 
 
 memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs. 
 James Loeb, of New York, gift of about 400 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets 
 
 from Professor Furtwangler's library of classical archaeology. 
 Alfred Mitchell, of New Loudon, Conn., one volume of 17 early New England 
 tracts and sermons, all of great rarity, and 16 volumes of early Americana. 
 For a further description, see University Gazette, Sept. 25, 1908, p. 4. 
 John B. Stetson, Jr., of Philadelphia, gift of $500 for books on linguistics. 
 This gift was made to the Peabody Museum, but the books purchased 
 from it are deposited in the College Library. 
 Charles D. Tenney, Chinese secretary of the American Legation in Pekin, 
 270 volumes of works in Chinese, including a long series of treaties and 
 treaty regulations. 
 
138 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence, bequest of 140 volumes and 126 pamphlets. 
 
 Enrique de C. Zanetti, of New York, gift of $130 for the purchase of a com- 
 plete set of the " Kevista de Cuba," 1877-1884, and its continuation, the 
 " Revista Cubana," 1885-1894, 37 volumes in all. 
 
 1910 
 
 Gordon Abbott, of Boston, gift of $150 for French literature. 
 
 Mrs. R. L. Adlercron, of London (formerly Miss Hester Bancroft, of Boston), 
 gift of $600 for books on Japan. 
 
 Anonymous gift of about 500 volumes by and about Alexander Pope, col- 
 lected by Marshall C. LefEerts, of Brooklyn. 
 
 This is one of the most complete Pope collections which has ever been 
 brought together. It contains, for instance, 22 editions of " The Essay 
 on Man," and 26 editions of " The Dimciad." 
 
 Anonymous gift of $100, spent in the purchase of collections and miscellanies 
 of English poetry. 
 
 Anonymous gift of $500, through Professor George H. Chase, of Cambridge, 
 for books on the fine arts. 
 
 British and Foreign Bible Society, London, gift of a collection of Bibles and 
 parts of the Bible, in 279 volumes and pamphlets. 
 
 Professor A. C. Coolidge, collection of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and 
 broadsides, numbering 2,340 pieces in all, relating to the French Revolu- 
 tion and French Commune. 
 
 The Harvard Crimson, gift of $500 for the purchase of duplicate volumes used 
 in the larger courses of instruction, in memory of Fabian Fall, of the Class 
 of 1910, formerly president of the Crimson. 
 
 Henry W. Cunningham, gift of $100 for books in English literature. 
 
 Daniel B. Fearing, of Newport, R. I., gift of various editions of Persius to 
 continue the Morgan collection. 
 
 F. J. Furnivall, of London, gift of a fifteenth-century ms. of Fr^re Lorenz's 
 " Somme des Vices et des Vertus." 
 
 Estate of Professor James B. Greenough, of Cambridge, 1,027 volumes and 
 400 pamphlets. 
 
 Estate of Professor Charles Gross, of Cambridge, 600 volumes and 522 pam- 
 phlets. 
 
 Professor Morris H. Morgan, of Cambridge, gift of his Persius collection, 
 comprising about 295 editions and 213 translations of the poet, besides 
 about 125 critical papers and illustrative works. (See Bibliographical 
 Contribution, No. 58.) 
 
 James Ford Rhodes, of Boston, gift of $300 for books on the history of the 
 Southern states. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 139 
 
 Henry Stephens, formerly of Waters, Mich., now living in Zalaegerszeg, Hun- 
 gary, gift of $550 for the purchase of the " Codex Diplomaticus Hungariae 
 Ecclesiasticus ac Civilis," edited by G. Fejer (40 volumes). 
 
 From the oflBcers of the Association of the Twentieth Massachusetts Regi- 
 ment of Volunteer Infantry, through Colonel Charles L. Peirson, of Boston, 
 $861.35. Of this amount, $500 was set aside towards the formation of a 
 permanent fund, the balance to be spent from time to time in buying books 
 on military history and the art of war. 
 
 Graham Wallas, of London, 9 volumes, 87 pamphlets, and a collection of 
 posters, circulars, etc., relating to the British general election of 1910. 
 
 1911 
 
 Anonymous gift of $1,000 for new cases for the catalogue. 
 
 Anonymous gift of 97 broadsides containing proclamations of the Paris 
 Commune. 
 
 Robert Bacon, New York, $100 for books in English literature. 
 
 Mrs. Edward Bell, of New York, gift of several valuable works on numis- 
 matics. 
 
 Harold W. Bell, of Cambridge, gift of a complete set of the Numismatic 
 Chronicle, and of other works on numismatics. 
 
 Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, of Brookline, gift of $750 for incunabula to be 
 added to the Weld Memorial collection. 
 
 William R. Castle, Jr., of Boston, gift of $90 for books by and about Alex- 
 ander Pope. 
 
 Alexander Cochrane, of Boston, gift of $1,000 for the purchase of books. 
 
 J. Randolph Coolidge, of Boston, gift of $100 for a set of " The Bradley 
 Bibliography," published by the Arnold Arboretum. 
 
 William Bayard Cutting, Jr., of New York, bequest of his library of over 
 1,000 volumes. (See also the Cutting fvmd, p. 116 above.) 
 
 William Endicott, Jr., of Boston, gift of $1,500 for the purchase of books. 
 
 Charles Jackson, of Boston, gift of $2,000 for books in English literature and 
 history. 
 
 Francis Cabot Lowell, of Boston, bequest of his collection of books on Joan 
 of Arc, consisting of 438 volumes and 68 pamphlets. (See also p. 64 
 above.) 
 
 Edward Percy Merritt, of Boston, $100 for books in English literature. 
 
 The Spanish Government, through Count Romanones, president of the 
 Chamber of Deputies, gift of 382 volumes, being the " Actos '' of the Casti- 
 lian Cortes, 1559-1598, and of the Spanish Cortes from 1812 to date. 
 
 James A. Stillman, of New York, $100 for books in English literature. 
 
 Horace E. Ware, of Boston, gift of $100 for books m comparative philology. 
 
 George Wigglesworth, of Boston, $100 for books in English hterature. 
 
 Lucius Wilmerding, of New York, $150 for books in English.literature. 
 
140 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 1912 
 
 Robert Bacon, of Boston, gift of $1,060 for a set of the " Inventaires Som- 
 
 maires des Archives D^partementales de la France." 
 Mrs. Louis Bettmann, of Cincinnati, a fiurther gift of $100, in memory of her 
 
 son, Milton Bettmann, of the Class of 1897. 
 Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, of Brookline, gift of $600 for incunabula to be 
 
 added to the Weld Memorial collection. 
 Alexander Cochrane, of Boston, gift of $1,000 for books in English literature. 
 Ernest B. Dane, of Boston, gift of $1,000 for books in English literature. 
 Tracy Dows, of New York, gift of $100 for editions of Defoe. 
 William Endicott, Jr., of Boston, gift of $1,500 for the purchase of books. 
 Edward N. Feimo, Jr., of Boston, gift of $100 for books in English literature. 
 Estate of Rev. Edward H. Hall, of Cambridge, gift of 120 volumes of rare 
 
 and early editions and other books. (See also the fund bequeathed by him, 
 
 p. 117 above.) 
 Estate of Thomas Hall, of Cambridge, instructor in English, gift of his library, 
 
 consisting of about 600 volumes, mainly in English literature. 
 Professor Henry W. Haynes, of Boston, bequest of 123 volumes, besides 
 
 other books selected from his library, for the library of the Classical depart- 
 ment. 
 Estate of James E. Hunnewell, of Boston, gift of 640 pamphlets. 
 John S. Lawrence, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, gift of 80 volumes of classical 
 
 authors. 
 Professor George Herbert Palmer, of Cambridge, gift of a collection of books 
 
 by and relating to George Herbert, 158 volumes. (See Bibliographical 
 
 Contribution, No. 59.) 
 William Phillips, of Boston, gift of $400 for editions of Defoe. 
 Francis Skinner, of Dedham, gift of $200 for English plays. 
 Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, gift of a 
 
 memorial tablet for the Louisburg cross. 
 
 1913 
 
 Francis R. Appleton, of New York, gift of $125 for a collection of English 
 
 tracts. 
 Charles P. Bowditch, of Boston, gift of a copy of Kingsborough's "Antiquities 
 
 of Mexico," with colored plates. 
 Francis Bullard, of Boston, bequest of six rare early editions of Goethe's 
 
 " Faust." 
 Joseph H. Choate, of New York, gift of $100 for a collection of English tracts. 
 Alexander Cochrane, of Boston, gift of $500 for a collection of English tracts. 
 Arthur M. Comey, of Chester, Pa., gift of 175 volumes of British colonial 
 
 reports. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 141 
 
 Jeremiah Curtin, of Boston, bequest of his library of 1,435 volumes and 562 
 pamphlets, containing many works in Russian, Polish, and Gaelic. 
 
 Miss Mary H. Dennie, of Boston, gift of a collection of letters and other 
 manuscripts of Joseph Dennie (1768-1812). 
 
 Division of Modern Languages, gift of $145 for books in modem literature. 
 
 William Endicott, Jr., of Boston, gift of $1,500 for the purchase of books. 
 
 Mrs. James T. Fields, of Boston, gift of 80 volumes, many of them presenta- 
 tion copies from the authors. 
 
 Leland Harrison, of Bogotd, gift of $200 for a set of the Official Gazette of 
 Colombia. 
 
 Gardiner M. Lane, of Boston, gift of $500 for a collection of English tracts. 
 
 John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., of New York, gift of $1,000 for a collection of 
 English tracts. 
 
 Miss Grace Norton, of Cambridge, gift of her " Lexique de la Langue de 
 Montaigne," — a typewritten manuscript bound in five folio volumes. 
 
 Constantine Papamichalopoulos, of Brookline, gift of 132 volumes and many 
 pamphlets in modem Greek. 
 
 William Phillips, of Boston, gift of $1,000 for a collection of English tracts. 
 
 Miss Mary P. Quincy and John W. Quincy, of Litchfield, Conn., gift in 
 memory of their father, John Williams Quincy, of New York, of a set of the 
 " Collections " of the New York Historical Society. 
 
 Hendrik Willem Van Loon, of Washington, gift of a set of the Nederlandsche 
 Jaerboeken and the Neue Nederlandsche Jaerboeken (1747-1798), in 121 
 volumes, 
 
 Horace E. Ware, of Boston, gift of $100 for books in constitutional govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Alain C. White, of New York, gift of 252 volumes, including many incuna- 
 bula and other early printed works. 
 
 Mrs. John H. Wright, of Cambridge, gift of 400 volumes from the library of 
 Professor John H. Wright. 
 
 1914 
 
 Anonymous gift of $1,000, either for books or for administrative expenses. 
 
 Anonymous gift of $6,000 for the purchase of the Mormon collection formed 
 by Mr. E. H. Peirce, of Salt Lake City. (See p. 41 above.) 
 
 Anonymous gift of $276.25 for the increase of the Motley collection of Dutch 
 history. 
 
 Robert Bacon, of New York, gift of $1,000 for a collection of English histori- 
 cal tracts. 
 
 Alfred Bowditch, of Boston, gift of a copy of John Eliot's Indian Grammar 
 (1666). 
 
 I. Tucker Burr,, of Boston, gift of $200 for books on South America. 
 
142 LIBRAET OF HABVAED UNIVERSITY 
 
 Association " Concordia " of Tokyo, through Professor Anesaki, gift of a set 
 of the " Daizokyo," the collection of the Chinese and Japanese " Trip- 
 itaka," or Buddhist scriptures, in 420 volumes. 
 
 Pu-yiin Chang, of Chefoo, China, gift of 126 volumes of Chinese works. 
 
 Division of Modem Languages, gift of $250 for the purchase of modem 
 literature. 
 
 Edward B. Drew, of Cambridge, gift of a set of the North China Herald. 
 
 Estate of Professor William Watson Goodwin, gift of 819 volumes and 363 
 pamphlets from his library. 
 
 Frederick R. Halsey, of New York, gift of $330 for early editions of Dryden. 
 
 MisS Mary E. Haven, of Boston, gift of over 2,100 volumes of standard 
 literature from the libraries of her father, Franklin Haven, and her brother, 
 Franklin Haven, Jr., of Boston. 
 
 William G. Hosea, of Cincinnati, gift of a collection of fifty letters to be 
 added to the Perkins collection of Western history. 
 
 Mrs. John E. Hudson, of Boston, gift of 171 volumes of rare and handsomely 
 bound books from the library of her husband. 
 
 Luther S. Livingston, of Cambridge, 160 volmnes and 53 pamphlets, mainly 
 of bibliographical works. 
 
 Mrs. Rupert Norton, of Baltimore, gift of a collection of autograph letters, 
 formed in part by Dr. Rupert Norton, in part by his grandfather. Pro- 
 fessor Andrews Norton, and in part by his father. Professor Charles Eliot 
 Norton. 
 
 Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, of Boston, bequest of the library of over 
 6,000 volumes and 1,700 pamphlets formed by her mother, Mrs. Mary 
 Lowell Putnam, wife of Samuel E. Putnam and sister of James RusseU 
 Lowell. This library contained books in some twenty different languages, 
 including many in Hungarian and Polish. 
 
 Samuel S. Shaw, of Boston, letters and manuscripts from the papers of his 
 father. Judge Lemuel Shaw, of the Class of 1800. 
 
 Subscription of $660 for Japanese works bought through the aid of Professor 
 Anesaki, of Tokyo. 
 
 Miss Grace W. Treadwell, of Portsmouth, N. H., gift of 72 volumes from the 
 library of Willard Q. Phillips, '55, formerly of Cambridge. At the same 
 time there were transferred to the Library some of the papers of Mr. 
 Phillips's father. Judge Willard Phillips, of the Class of 1810, that had been 
 previously given to the Massachusetts Historical Society. 
 
 1916 
 
 Anonymous gift of $1,007.46, as a final payment on the Mormon collection 
 
 formed by Mr. E. H. Peirce, of Salt Lake City. 
 Edward D. Bettens, of New York, gift of ten volumes privately printed in 
 
 memory of his mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, and of his brother, Thomas 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 143 
 
 Simms Bettens, of the Class of 1874, — all handsomely bound and con- 
 tained in a special case. 
 
 Class of 1846, gift of $800 from the income of the class fund, for the purchase 
 of English poetical tracts. 
 
 Department of Economics, gift of $350 for the purchase of books in econo- 
 mics. 
 
 Daniel B. Fearing, of Newport, R. I., gift of his angling collection of over 
 11,500 volumes and more than 1,000 pamphlets. (See pp. 43-45 above.) 
 
 Mrs. James T. Fields, of Boston, bequest of a number of authors' manu- 
 scripts and association books of great value and interest. (A few of these 
 are noted on p. 79 above.) 
 
 Frederick L. Gay, of Brookline, gift of $100 for a collection of English his- 
 torical tracts. 
 
 Edwin V. Morgan, United States ambassador to Brazil, gift of $1,000 for a 
 collection of books on Paraguay. 
 
 Estate of Charles S. Peirce, of Milford, Pa., his unpublished manuscripts 
 and his library of 1,256 volumes, mainly of philosophical works. (Paid 
 for in part by special gifts and library fimds.) 
 
 Robert Gould Shaw, of Boston, gift of his collection of theatrical material, 
 consisting of playbills, portraits, autograph letters, and books. (See 
 pp. 93-94 above.) 
 
 Hendrik Willem Van Loon, of Washington, gift of 255 volumes on Dutch 
 history. 
 
 Harry EUdns Widener, of Philadelphia, bequest of his library of rare books, 
 containing 3,220 volumes. (See pp. 94-97 above.) 
 
 Mrs. George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, gift of the Harry Elkius Widener 
 Memorial Library Building, together with a fund for the maintenance of 
 the Widener Memorial Rooms. 
 
 William McMichael Woodworth, of Cambridge, bequest of a part of his 
 library, consisting of 1,236 volumes and 696 pamphlets. Other parts of his 
 library Mr. Woodworth left to the University Museum. Of these, some 
 works of medical interest, including his collection on monstrosities, have 
 been transferred to the hbraiy of the Medical School. 
 
 V. Donors who have made Serial Gifts ' 
 
 Anonymous, $150 for books on Oceanic linguistics. 
 
 Francis R. Appleton, of New York, $575 for books in English literature. 
 
 1 Since 1900 the Libiary has been fortunate in receiving from time to time a aeries of gifts, 
 usually annual, of varying amoimts and for different subjects. Thus, Mr. H, J. Coolidge*s 
 contribution, now totalling $750, represents fourteen annual gifts of $dO each, and that of Mr. 
 William Phillips is made up of nine separate gifts of $100 each. In this way a considerable 
 number of special collections have been built up. 
 
144 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Lawrence S. Butler, of New York, $400 for books on Paris. 
 
 Committee to visit the Department of Economics, $1,245 for the purchase of 
 
 books in economics. 
 Harold J. Coolidge, of Boston, $750 for books relating to China and the 
 
 Chinese. 
 John Craig, of Boston, $1,000 for books on the history of the English theatre. 
 James F. Curtis, of Boston, $300 for books relating to the history of the 
 
 Western and Southern states. 
 Lady Sybil Cutting, of Florence, $200 for books on Florence and other cities 
 
 of Northern Italy. 
 William Bayard Cutting, Jr., of New _York, $520 for books on Florence, its 
 
 history and art, on Switzerland, and on Napoleon. 
 In addition, Mr. Cutting gave over 500 volumes on the history and 
 institutions of Switzerland which he ordered directly from dealers and 
 presented to the Library. For a further description of the Swiss collec- 
 tion, see above, p. 92. 
 The Dante Society, of Cambridge, gifts of from $50 to $150 each, made nearly 
 
 every year since 1881 and totalling about $2,500, for the purchase of Dante 
 
 literature. 
 James L. Derby, of New York, $100 for books on the Philippines. 
 Division of Modern Languages of Harvard College, $220 for books in modem 
 
 literature. 
 Ellis L. Dresel, of Boston, $500 for German dramatic literature. 
 English Department of Harvard College, $1,103 for English poetry and 
 
 plays. 
 Mrs. Emil C. Hammer, of Boston, $1,500 for the purchase of Scandinavian 
 
 books and for concerts of Scandinavian music. 
 Mrs. William Hooper, of Manchester, $5,000 for the pm-chase of books on 
 
 Western history in memory of Charles Elliott Perkins. 
 For an account of the Perkins Memorial collection, see above, p. 41. 
 Professor George L. Kittredge, of Cambridge, $373 for books on the history 
 
 of witchcraft, besides frequent contributions of books. 
 John S. Lawrence, of Boston, $60 for biographies of successful men. 
 James Loeb, of New York, $1,100 for the purchase and binding of labor 
 
 periodicals. 
 Mrs. Daniel Merriman, of Boston, and Roger B. Merriman, of Cambridge, 
 
 $100 for books in Spanish history. 
 Edwin Stanton Mullins, of Hyannisport, $550 for books on folk-lore. 
 Walter W. Naumburg, of New York, $900 for books on Shakespeare. 
 Mrs. George A. Nickerson, of Dedham (now Hon. Mrs. H. L. A. Hood, of 
 
 London), $1,000 for books on folk-lore, and also an engraved book-plate for 
 
 these books. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 145 
 
 William Phillips, of Boston, $900 for books on London. 
 
 Evan Randolph, of Philadelphia, $300 for the purchase of books. 
 
 Saturday Club, of Boston, $4,300 for the purchase of books. 
 
 Horace B. Stanton, of Boston, $175 tor books on Moli&re. 
 
 Frank G. Thomson, of Philadelphia, $600 for books in English literature. 
 
 John Harvey Treat, of Lawrence, $1,400 for books relating to the catacombs 
 
 and early Christian antiquities. (See also his bequest, p. 117 above.) 
 Lucius C. Tuckerman, of New York, $150 for books on Mexico. 
 Alain C. White, of New York, $1,000 for books on Dante, and for certain 
 
 other books at the discretion of the librarian. 
 
 VI. Other Donors since 1840 ^ 
 
 Francis Ellingwood Abbot of Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. Edward Abbott of Cambridge. 
 
 Charles F. Adams of Boston. 
 
 Nelson W. Aldrich, of Warwick, R. I., senator from Rhode Island. 
 
 Louis Allard of Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. Joseph H. Allen of Cambridge. 
 
 Rudolph Altrocchi of Cambridge. 
 
 American Bible Society of New York. 
 
 A. Piatt Andrew of Washington. 
 
 Professor Masahara Anesald of Tokyo. 
 
 William Sumner Appleton, Jr., of Boston. 
 
 Henryk Arctowski of Brussels, of the scientific staff of the Belgian Antarctic 
 
 Expedition of 1897-1899. 
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentine Republic (1904). 
 National Library, Argentine Republic. 
 Howard P. Arnold of Pasadena. 
 Grand Duchy of Baden (1906). 
 Ezra H. Baker of Boston. 
 Professor George P. Baker of Cambridge. 
 Edwin S. Balch of Philadelphia. 
 Thomas W. Balch of Philadelphia. 
 Senor Don Manuel V. Ballivian, of La Paz, Bolivia. 
 Howard M. Ballou of Honolulu. 
 Estate of Professor George A. Bartlett of Cambridge. 
 Oric Bates of Boston. 
 
 1 In this list are induded some of the names that occur most frequently on the Library's list 
 of accessions for the last seventy years. While the single gifts here summarDy recorded have 
 usually been small, the aggregate of the gifts of some of these benefactors has reached thou- 
 sands of volumes. It should be added that, while an attempt has been made to have the list 
 fairly full, it is necessarily far from complete. 
 
146 LIBBABT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Walter C. Baylies of Boston. 
 
 Harold W. Bell of Cambridge. 
 
 Josiah H. Benton of Boston. 
 
 Hiram Bingham of New Haven. 
 
 William K. Bixby of St. Louis. 
 
 Professor Ferdinand Bocher of Cambridge. 
 
 Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
 
 Boston Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Sir John Bourinot, K.C.M.G., of Toronto, Canada. 
 
 Many documents issued by the Canadian government. 
 
 Alfred Bowditch of Boston. 
 
 Charles P. Bowditch of Boston. 
 
 Professor Francis Bowen of Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. C. D. Bradlee of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Renward Brandstetter of Luzem. 
 
 Frederick E. Branch of Leland Stanford University. 
 
 Walter M. Briggs of Dedham. 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Dr. Francis H. Brown of Boston. 
 
 Bureau of Railway Economics of Washington. 
 
 Government of Burma. 
 
 Mrs. Mabel Lowell Burnett of Cambridge. 
 
 I. Tucker Burr of Boston. 
 
 Philip Cabot of Boston. 
 
 Canada, Commission of Conservation. 
 
 Canada, Geological Survey. 
 
 Government of Canada. 
 
 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 
 
 William R. Castle of Honolulu. 
 
 William R. Castle, Jr., of Boston. 
 
 Cercle Franjais of Harvard University. 
 
 Charles Lyon Chandler. 
 
 Horace P. Chandler of Jamaica Plain. 
 
 Fu-yUn Chang of Cambridge. 
 
 Frank E. Chase of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Chase has from time to time sent the Library much valuable 
 theatrical literature. 
 
 Professor Francis James Child of Cambridge. 
 
 Niunerous gifts extending over a long series of years; many of them of 
 great value and interest, especially in folk-lore. Since Professor Child's 
 death, in 1896, his family has given many books, pamphlets, and manu- 
 scripts to the Library. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 147 
 
 National Library of Chile. 
 
 Joseph Green Cogswell of New York, formerly librarian of Harvard College. 
 
 Robert J. Collier of New York. 
 
 Arthur M. Comey, of Chester, Pa. 
 
 Professor Archibald Gary Goolidge of Cambridge. 
 
 In addition to the large gifts mentioned in List IV above, Mr. Coolidge 
 has given a great number of valuable books relating to Russia, Poland, 
 and other Slavic countries, to the Ottoman empire, to China, India, 
 Germany, France, Morocco, and South America. 
 
 Mrs. J. Randolph Coolidge of Boston. 
 
 Many English translations of Russian novels. 
 
 Professor Julian L. Coolidge of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Henri Cordier of Paris. 
 
 Henry W. Cunningham of Boston. 
 
 Mrs. Greeley S. Curtis of Boston. 
 
 Bronson M. Cutting of New York. 
 
 Miss E. E. Dana of Cambridge. 
 
 Andrew McFarland Davis of Cambridge. 
 
 Horace Davis of San Francisco. 
 
 Professor William M. Davis of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor G. V. N. Dearborn of Cambridge. 
 
 Frederic A. Delano of Chicago. 
 
 Henry G. Denny of Boston. 
 
 For many years after his graduation in the Class of 1852, Mr. Denny was 
 one of the most constant benefactors of the Library, giving hundreds of 
 valuable books. 
 
 James Lloyd Derby of New York. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Dixey of Boston. 
 
 Mrs. John A. Dodd of Cambridge. 
 
 George B. Dorr of Boston. 
 
 Edward B. Drew of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Charles F. Dunbar of Cambridge. 
 
 Hon. George Duncan of Boston. 
 
 George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia. 
 
 President Charles W. EUot of Cambridge. 
 
 Samuel Atkins Eliot of Boston, treasurer of Harvard CoUqge. 
 
 Howard Elliott of Boston. 
 
 Dr. Edward W. Emerson of Concord. 
 
 Professor Ephraim Emerton of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor C. C. Everett of Cambridge. 
 
 Edward Everett of Boston. 
 
 Mrs. E. F. Everett of Cambridge. 
 
148 LIBBAKY OF HAKVARD TTNIVERSITT 
 
 William Everett of Quincy. 
 
 President C. C. Felton of Cambridge. 
 
 Mrs. James T. Fields of Boston. 
 
 Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston. 
 Books published by them. 
 
 Robert F. Foerster of Cambridge. 
 
 William Cameron Forbes. 
 
 Worthington C. Ford of Cambridge. 
 
 Samuel French of New York. 
 
 Ministry of Public Instruction of the French Republic (1909). 
 
 Senate of the French Republic, through Mr. J. J. Jusserand, French ambas- 
 sador in Washington, gift of the " Anuales du S6nat." 
 
 WilUam C. Gannett of Rochester. 
 
 Miss Henrietta Gardiner of Cambridge. 
 
 Assistant Professor J. H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, Me. 
 
 William Amory Gardner of Groton. 
 
 Alejandro Garland, consul general of Peru in New York. 
 
 Professor Edwin F. Gay of Cambridge. 
 
 Ernest L. Gay of Boston. 
 
 Frederick L. Gay of Brookline. 
 
 H. Nelson Gay of Rome. 
 
 Professor James Geddes, Jr., of Boston University. 
 
 His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor. 
 
 Professor Wolcott Gibbs of Newport. 
 
 Professor C. H. Grandgent of Cambridge. 
 
 William H. Gratwick of Buffalo. 
 
 Francis C. Gray of Boston. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Abbott Green of Boston. 
 
 For over fifty years Dr. Green has annually sent to the Library many 
 hundreds of books and pamphlets. 11,000 volumes and 36,000 pamphlets 
 would be a moderate estimate of the total of his gifts. 
 
 Ferris Greenslet of Cambridge. 
 
 Grolier Club of New York. 
 
 Biblioteca Municipal of Guayaquil, Ecuador. 
 
 Hague, Permanent Court of Arbitration. 
 
 Asaph Hall of Washington. 
 
 James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, of Brighton, England. 
 
 Beginning in 1849, Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps for many years gave his 
 valuable privately printed works. 
 
 Professor Paul H. Hanus of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Albert BushneU Hart of Cambridge. 
 
 Harvard Advocate. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 149 
 
 Harvard Commission on Western History. 
 
 Hawaiian Branch of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions. 
 
 Mrs. Gustavus Hay of Boston. 
 
 WUliam A. Hervey of Brooklyn. 
 
 Henry L. Higginson of Boston. 
 
 Thomas Wentworth Higginson of Cambridge. 
 
 Many gifts, beginning in 1841; especially books and pamphlets relating 
 to American slavery, and the works of American poets. 
 
 D. J. Hile of London. 
 George S. Hillard of Boston. 
 Mrs. Edwin A. Hills of Boston. 
 
 George F. Hoar of Worcester, senator from Massachusetts. 
 
 Almon D. Hodges, Jr., of Boxbury. 
 
 Professor A. W. Hodgman, of Colmnbus, O. 
 
 Mrs. William Hooper of Manchester-by-the-Sea. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hoppin of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Eben N. Horsford of Cambridge. 
 
 Houghton, Miffin & Co., of Boston. 
 
 E. O. Hovey of New York. 
 
 Assistant Professor W. G. Howard of Cambridge. 
 
 WiUiam Dean Howells of New York. 
 
 Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York. 
 
 Miss Henrietta W. Hubbard of New York. 
 
 Leon Huhner of New York. 
 
 Hollis H. Hunnewell, Jr., of Wellesley. 
 
 Archer M. Himtington of New York. 
 
 Mr. Huntington for a number of years has presented to the Library 
 
 facsimile reproductions of rare books in his library or in the library of 
 
 the Hispanic Society of America. 
 Rev. F. D. Huntington of Cambridge. 
 Miss Catharine I. Ireland of Cambridge. 
 Adrian Iselin of New York. 
 Italy, Miaistero deUa Pubblica Istruzione. 
 Professor William James of Cambridge. 
 Imperial Geological Survey of Japan. 
 Lee Jenkins of Salem. 
 Robert D. Jenks of Philadelphia. 
 Publication Conunittee of the Jodo Sect. 
 
 (Through K. Yabuki of Cambridge.) 
 Henry Arthur Jones of London. 
 Mrs. Jerome Jones of Brookline. 
 
150 LIBRAEY OF HAHVABD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Professor A. E. Kennelly of Cambridge. 
 
 Henry T. Kidder of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor G. L. Kittredge of Cambridge. 
 
 Eev. George P. Knapp, of Harpoot, Turkey. 
 
 Professor George M. Lane of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Charles R. Lanman of Cambridge. 
 
 Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, of Trinity College, Cambridge, England. 
 
 Laval University, Quebec, Canada. 
 
 John S. Lawrence, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
 
 Col. Henry Lee of Brookline. 
 
 George B. Leighton of Boston. 
 
 Geheimer Justizrath Carl Robert Lessing of Berlin. 
 
 Dr. Winslow Lewis of Boston. 
 
 Library of Congress. 
 
 George C. Little of Paris. 
 
 George Livermore of Cambridge. 
 
 Luther S. Livingston of Cambridge. 
 
 Warren A. Locke of Cambridge. 
 
 Heiuy Cabot Lodge of Nahant, senator from Massachusetts. 
 
 Royal Society of London. 
 
 Hemy Wadsworth Longfellow of Cambridge. 
 
 Dr. Morris Longstreth of Cambridge. 
 
 Family of Professor Joseph Levering of Cambridge. 
 
 President A. Lawrence Lowell of Cambridge. 
 
 James Russell Lowell of Cambridge. 
 
 Mr. Lowell made frequent gifts besides those mentioned above in 
 
 List IV. 
 Arthiu- T. Lyman of Boston. 
 Theodore Lyman of Boston. 
 Miss Louisa Lane McCrady, of Charleston, S. C. 
 Heniy S. Mackintosh, of Keene, N. H. 
 Francis McLennan, E. C, of Montreal. 
 Malcolm McLeod of London. 
 
 James McMillan of Detroit, senator from Michigan. 
 Library of Manchester University. 
 Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. 
 Massachusetts Bible Society. 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 Massachusetts Historical Society. 
 State Library of Massachusetts. 
 Albert Matthews of Boston. 
 Rev. John Joseph May of Dorchester. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 151 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Merriman of Boston. 
 
 Assistant Professor B. B. Merriman of Cambridge. 
 
 Percival Merritt of Boston. 
 
 Michigan State Library. 
 
 Charles K. Mills of Philadelphia. 
 
 Prince of Monaco. 
 
 Charles Monchicourt, French resident general in Tmiis. 
 
 Charles Moore of Detroit. 
 
 Charles S. Moore of Cambridge. 
 
 Edwin V. Morgan of Aurora, N. Y., minister to Korea, to Cuba, to Uruguay 
 and Paraguay, to Portugal, and ambassador to Brazil. 
 
 J. Pierpont Morgan of New York. 
 
 Mr. Morgan presented to the Library, from time to time, beautifully 
 bound copies of the catalogues of his various collections. 
 
 J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., of New York. 
 
 Professor W. B. Munro of Boston. 
 
 James Munroe & Co. of Boston. 
 
 David Murray, of Glasgow, Scotland. 
 
 Denys P. Myers of Cambridge. 
 
 National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. 
 
 Professor W. A. NeUson of Cambridge. 
 
 New England Society in the City of New York. 
 
 New York Public Library. 
 
 New York State Library. 
 
 Mrs. Edgar H. Nichols of Cambridge. 
 
 William W. Nolen of Cambridge. 
 
 Grenville H. Norcross'of Boston. 
 
 Professor Andrews Norton of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Cambridge. 
 
 Miss Grace Norton of Cambridge. 
 
 Miss Sara Norton of Cambridge. 
 
 James Atkins Noyes of Cambridge. 
 
 Henri Omont of Paris. 
 
 Thomas B. Osborne of New Haven. 
 
 Professor William F. Osgood of Cambridge. 
 
 Dr. E. O. Otis of Boston. 
 
 Mrs. John K. Paine of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor John K. Paine of Cambridge. 
 
 John G. Palfrey of Boston. 
 
 The Misses Palfrey of Cambridge. 
 
 Professor George H. Palmer of Cambridge. 
 
 Listitute of Paraguay. 
 
152 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris. 
 Sir Gilbert Parker of London. 
 Professor Andrew P. Peabody of Cambridge. 
 Professor Francis G. Peabody of Cambridge. 
 William G. Peckham of New York. 
 Professor B. O. Peirce of Cambridge. 
 State Library of Pennsylvania. 
 Albert T. Perkins of St. Louis. 
 
 Rt. B.ev. William Stevens Perry, of Davenport, Iowa, bishop of Iowa. 
 Professor William L. Phelps of Yale University. 
 Professor Edward C. Pickering of Cambridge. 
 Landtag of the Province of Posen. 
 Miss Mary Pratt of Boston. 
 
 Ministry of Spiritual, Educational, and Medical Affairs of Prussia. 
 Miss Elizabeth C. Putnam of Boston. 
 George Putnam of Cambridge. 
 Quarterly Journal of Economics. 
 Mrs. Albert Remick of New York. 
 Mrs. F. L. W. Richardson of Charles River. 
 David Rines of Cambridge. 
 Professor William Z. Ripley of Newton Centre. 
 John Ritchie of Boston. 
 Professor F. N. Robinson of Cambridge. 
 Dr. J. A. Rodriguez Garcia of Havana. 
 William J. RoUe of Cambridge. 
 Professor James H. Ropes of Cambridge. 
 Denman W. Ross of Cambridge. 
 
 Imperial Russian Government, through Hon. George von L. Meyer, of Bos- 
 ton, American ambassador to Russia. 
 Franklin B. Sanborn of Concord. 
 Charles R. Sanger of Cambridge. 
 William C. Sanger, of Sangerfield, N. Y. 
 Kingdom of Saxony. 
 
 Landtag of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. 
 Professor W. H. Schofield of Cambridge. 
 Edwin P. Seaver of Waban. 
 George C. Shattuck of Boston. 
 Samuel S. Shaw of Boston. 
 Edward M. Shepard of New York. 
 Aw. Francesco di Silvestri-Falconieri of Rome. 
 Small, Maynard & Co., of Cambridge. 
 Mrs. Charles C. Smith of Boston. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 153 
 
 Frank Smith of Dedham. 
 
 Alban G. Snyder, American consul general in Buenos Aires, A. B. 
 
 Commission on the Geological Map of Spain. 
 
 Geographical and Statistical Institute of Spain. 
 
 Ministry of Public Instruction and Pine Arts in Spain. 
 
 Professor O. M. W. Sprague of Cambridge. 
 
 Misses John Austin Stevens of Newport. 
 
 Joseph T. Stickney of New York. 
 
 Frederick W. Story of Baltimore. 
 
 William E. Story of Baltimore. 
 
 Charles Stunner of Boston, senator from Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Sumner was during his lifetime a constant donor of books and pam- 
 phlets to the Library; see also his bequest, under 1874, in List IV above. 
 Joseph S. Swaim of Cambridge. 
 Lindsay Swift of Boston. 
 James V. Tabor, of Hodgdon, Me. 
 Miss Mary A. Tappan of Boston. 
 Professor F. W. Taussig of Cambridge. 
 Mrs. Walter M. Taussig, of Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Alexander Whedock Thayer, American consul at Trieste. 
 John E. Thayer of Lancaster. 
 William B. Thayer of Cambridge. 
 Ticknor & Fields of Boston. 
 
 Gifts of most of the books published by them. 
 Tokyo University, College of Literature or Historiographical Institute. 
 Professor Henry Warren Torrey of Cambridge. 
 Paget Toynbee, of Bumham, Bucks., England. 
 Professor Alfred M. Tozzer of Cambridge. 
 Professor Frederick J. Turner of Cambridge. 
 United States Government. 
 University of Aberdeen. 
 
 " " Basle. 
 
 " " Berlin. 
 
 " " Bonn. 
 
 " '• Breslau. 
 
 " " Erlangen. 
 
 " " Freiburg. 
 
 " " Giessen. 
 
 " " Gottingen. 
 
 " " Greifswald. 
 
 " ® Groningen. 
 
 « « Halle. 
 
154 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 University of Heidelberg. 
 
 u 
 
 " Jena. 
 
 a 
 
 " Kiel. 
 
 u 
 
 " Kenigsberg. 
 
 a 
 
 " Leipzig. 
 
 u 
 
 '■ Lille. 
 
 u 
 
 " Marburg. 
 
 it 
 
 " Mlinchen. 
 
 a 
 
 " Miinster. 
 
 ti 
 
 " Paris. 
 
 a 
 
 " Petrograd. 
 
 u 
 
 " Eostock. 
 
 a 
 
 " Strassburg. 
 
 a 
 
 " Tubingen. 
 
 « " Upsala. 
 
 " " Utrecht. 
 
 " " WUrzburg. 
 
 From the above universities the Library receives each year many 
 
 hundred dissertations and theses. 
 Hendrik Willem Van Loon of Washington. 
 Mrs. Charles Walcott of Cambridge. 
 George W. Wales of Boston. 
 Horace E. Ware of Boston. 
 
 Estate of Professor Samuel M. Warren of Cambridge. 
 Charles G. Washburn of Worcester. 
 Francis M. Weld of Boston. 
 Edgar H. Wells of Boston. 
 Professor Barrett Wendell of Boston. 
 John S. West, of Tiverton, R. I. 
 Landtag of the Province of Westphalia. 
 Alain C. White of New York. 
 Dr. James C. White of Boston. 
 Professor Leo Wiener of Cambridge. 
 Landtag of the Province of Wiesbaden. 
 Charles S. Wilson, of Bangor, Me. 
 Henry Wilson of Natick, senator from Massachusetts, and vice president of 
 
 the United States. 
 George Parker Winship of Providence and Cambridge. 
 Edward Winslow of Jamaica Plain. 
 Beekman Winthrop of New York. 
 Robert C. Winthrop of Brookline. 
 Robert Withington, of Bloomington, Ind. 
 
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 155 
 
 Professor George E. Woodbeny of Beverly. 
 C. J. H. Woodbury of Lynn. 
 Miss Mary Woodman of Cambridge. 
 William Woodward of New York. 
 Professor C. H. C. Wright of Cambridge. 
 Yale Peruvian Expedition. 
 JJrYale University Library. 
 
156 LIBBARY OF HARVABD UNIVEBSITY 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Catalogues 
 
 Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Collegij Harvardini quod est 
 Cantabrigise in Nova Anglia. Bostoni Nov-Anglorum: Typis B. 
 Green, Academise Typographi. mdccxxiii. sm. 4°. pp. [2], ii, 102. 
 
 Continuatio Supplement! Catalogi librorum Bibliothecae Collegij 
 Harvardini quod est Cantabrigiae in Nova Anglia. [Boston: 1725.] 
 sm. 4°. pp. 107-116. 
 
 No title-page: the colophon is " Boatoni Nov-Anglorum: Typis B. GreeUp Academiffi 
 Typographi, mdccxxv." There is no copy of this Supplement in the College Library, but the 
 Massachusetts Historical Society has one. 
 
 Catalogus librorum in BibUotheca Cantabrigiensi selectus, 
 frequentiorem in usum Harvardinatiun, qui gradu Baccalaurei in 
 Artibus nondum stmt donati. Bostonise: Nov. Ang. Typis Edes & 
 GiU. M,Dcc,txxin. 8°. pp. 27. 
 
 Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianse Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum. 
 Bostoniae: Typis Thomae et Johannis Fleet, mdccxc. 8°. pp. [4], 
 iv, 358. 
 
 Catalogue of books whicli may be taken from the Library of Har- 
 vard University by members of the freshman class. Cambridge: 
 printed for the University. 1814. 12°. pp. 12. 
 
 This title is taken from the catalogue of the Bureau of Education in Washington;^ there is no 
 copy of the pamphlet in the Harvard College Library. 
 
 Catalogue of the library of the Law School of Harvard University. 
 Cambridge: Hilliard&Metcalf. 1826. 8°. pp.25. 
 
 A catalogue of the Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts. . . . Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf and company. 
 1830. 3 vols. 8°. pp. xvii, 952; [1], xii, 223. 
 
 Volumes 1 and II are paged continuously. Volume IH is a " Systematic index.'' 
 
 A catalogue of the maps and charts in the Library of Harvard 
 University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. . . . Cambridge: E. W. 
 Metcalf and company. 1831. 8°. pp. viii, 224. 
 
 A catalogue of the Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts. . . . First supplement. Cambridge: Charles Fol- 
 som. 1834. 8°. pp. [4], 260. 
 
 A catalogue of the law library of Harvard University in Cam- 
 bridge, Massachusetts. . . . Cambridge: Charles Folsom. 1834. 
 8°. pp. viii, 80. 
 
 Supplement to the catalogue of the law library of Harvard Uni- 
 versity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. . . . Cambridge: Charles 
 Folsom. 1835. 8°. pp. [iv], 16. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 157 
 
 A catalogue of the law library of Harvard University in Cam- 
 bridge, Massachusetts. . . . Second edition. Cambridge: Folsom, 
 Wells, and Thurston. 1841. 8°. pp. xii, 228. 
 
 A catalogue of the law Ubrary of Harvard University in Cam- 
 bridge, Massachusetts. . . . Fourth edition. Cambridge: Metcalf 
 and company. 1846. 8°. pp. 354. 
 
 Catalogue of the Ubrary of the Law School of Harvard University. 
 Cambridge: the Law School. 1909. 2 vols. 8°. 
 
 This catalogue contains only the books on the English and American common law. 
 
 Catalogue of the Ubrary of the Arnold Arboretum; compiled 
 imder the direction of C. S. Sargent by Ethelyn M. Tucker. Vol- 
 ume I: Serial pubUcations — Authors and titles. Cambridge: 
 Cosmos Press. 1914. f°. (Arnold Arboretum, pubUcation no. 6.) 
 
 A second volume, in which the books will be arranged according to subjects, is in 
 preparation. 
 
 Catalogues of the Wideneb Collection 
 
 A catalogue of some of the more important books, manuscripts, 
 and drawings in the Ubrary of Harry EUdns Widener. Philadelphia : 
 privately printed, mdccccx. 4°. pp. [8], 233. facsims. 102 
 copies printed. 
 
 A catalogue of the books and manuscripts of Robert Louis Steven- 
 son in the Ubrary of the late Harry Elkins Widener, with a memoir 
 by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia: privately printed. 1913.. 
 4°. pp. xi, 266. facsims. 150 copies printed. 
 
 A complete catalogue of the Widener Collection is being prepared for the press by Dr. A. 
 S. W. Rosenbach and George Parker Winship. It will extend to several volumes. 
 
 Bulletins and Bibliographical Contributions 
 
 Library of Harvard University. BuUetiu of more important 
 accessions, with bibliographical contributions, vol. i; — continued 
 as Harvard University buUetin, vols. u-vu. Edited by Justin 
 Winsor. Cambridge: issued by the Ubrary of Harvard University. 
 1879-94. 8°. 
 
 Vol. i. nos. 1-13. Mar. 1878 to Sept. 1879, 
 
 " ii. " 14-23. Jan. 1880 to Oct. 1888, 
 
 " iii. " M-89. Jan. 1883 to Oct. 1884 
 
 " iv. " 30-37. Jan. 1885 to May, 1887, 
 
 " V. " 38-44. Oct. 1887 to Oct. 1889, 
 
 " vi. " 45-52. Jan. 1890 to May, 1892. 
 
 " vii. " 58-58. Oct. 1892 to May, 1894. 
 
158 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 The titles of the numbers also vary: — Bulletin, nos. 1-5; — Library bulletin, nos. 6-17; — 
 Harvard University bulletin, nos. 18-58. 
 
 No more published. Since the discontinuance of the Bulletin the titles of many of the 
 books received have been printed for the card catalogue; copies of the final galley proof have 
 been struck off under the heading " Harvard University Library Accessions," nos. l-SOSS, and 
 have been sent to a few large libraries, besides being posted in this Library. None have been 
 printed since June, 1910. 
 
 The early numbers of the Bulletin contained numerous bibliographical notes; and most of 
 the Bibliographical Contributions appeared in it in serial form, a few pages at a time. 
 
 Library of Harvard University, Bibliograpbical contributions. 
 Edited by Justin Winsor. Nos. 1-60. Cambridge. 1878-1911. 
 8°. 
 
 Down to 1894 these publications were in moat instances first printed a few pages at a time 
 in the Bulletin. Beginning with No. d3 they are edited by William Coolidge Lane. 
 
 VOL. I 
 
 1. Edwabd S. Holden. Index-catalogue of books and memoirs on the 
 transits of Mercury. 1878. 
 
 2. Justin Winsoe. Shakespeare's Poems: a bibliography of the earlier 
 editions. 1879. 
 
 3. Chakles Eliot Norton. List of the principal books relating to the life 
 and works of Michelangelo, with notes. 1879. 
 
 4. Justin Winsok. Pietas et Gratulatio: an inquiry into the authorship 
 of the several pieces. 1879. 
 
 5. List of Appakatds available for scientific researches involving acciurate 
 measurements, and contained in different American laboratories. 1879. 
 
 6. The Coli.ection of Books and Autographs bequeathed to Harvard 
 College Library by the honorable Charles Sumner. 1879. 
 
 7. William C. Lane. The Dante collections in the Harvard College and 
 Boston Public libraries. Pt. I. 1885. 
 
 8. Calendar of the Arthur Lee manuscripts in the Library of Harvard 
 University. 1882. 
 
 9. George Lincoln Goodale. The floras of different countries. 1879. 
 
 10. Justin Winsor. HalliweUiana: a bibliography of the publications of 
 James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1881. 
 
 11. Samuel H. Scudder. The entomological libraries of the United States. 
 1880. 
 
 12. List op the Publications of Harvard University and its ofiBcers, 1870- 
 1880. 1881. 
 
 13. Samuel H. Scudder. A bibliography of fossil insects. 1882. 
 
 14. WiLUAM H. Tillinghast. Notes on the historical hydrography of the 
 Handkerchief Shoal in the Bahamas. 1881. 
 
BIBLIOGEAPHT 159 
 
 16. JosiAH DwiQHT Whitney. List of American authors in geology and 
 palseontology. 188i8. 
 
 16. RicHAKD Buss. Classified index to the maps in Petermann's Geo- 
 graphische mittheilungen, 1865-1881. 1884. 
 
 17. RicHABD Bliss. Classified index to the maps in the Royal Geographical 
 Society's publications, 1830-1883. 1886. 
 
 18. Justin Winsob. A bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography. 1884. 
 
 19. Justin Winbob. The Kohl collection of maps relating to America. 
 1886. 
 
 20. WiLUAM C. Lane. Index to recent reference lists, 1884-1886. 1885. 
 
 VOL. II 
 
 21. A List of the Publications of Harvard University and its oflScers, 
 with the chief publications on the University, 1880-1885. 1886. 
 
 22. Justin Winsoe. Calendar of the Sparks manuscripts in Harvard Col- 
 lege Library, with an appendix showing other manuscripts. 1889. 
 
 23. William H. TiiiiNGHAST. A list of the publications of Harvard Uni- 
 versity and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1885-1886. 1887. 
 
 24. William C. Lane. Index to recent reference lists, 1885-1886. 1887. 
 
 25. William G. Faklow and William Tbeleabe. A list of works on North 
 American fungi. 1887. 
 
 26. William C. Lane. The Carlyle collection: a catalogue of books on 
 Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great bequeathed by Thomas 
 Carlyle to Harvard College Library. 1888. 
 
 27. Andkew McP. Davis. A few notes concerning the records of Harvard 
 CoUege. 1888. 
 
 28. William H. Tillinqhast. Fourth list of publications of Harvard Uni- 
 versity and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1886-1887. 1888. 
 
 29. William C. Lane. Index to recent reference lists. No. UI, 1887. 
 1888. 
 
 30. Shelley's Skylakk, a facsimile of the original manuscript, with a note 
 on other manuscripts of Shelley, in Harvard College Library. 1888. 
 
 31. William G. Fablow. A supplemental list of works on North American 
 fungi. 1888. 
 
 32. Heney C. Badger. Mathematical theses of jvuiior and senior classes, 
 1782-1839. 1888. 
 
 33. William H. Tillinghast. Fifth list of publications of Harvard Uni- 
 versity and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1887-1888. 1889. 
 
160 LIBBABY OF HAKVAKD UNIVERSITY 
 
 34. WnxiAM C. Lane. The Dante collections in the Harvard College and 
 
 Boston Public libraries. 1890. 
 S5. Geohgb E. Woodberet. Notes on the MS. volume of Shelley's poems 
 
 in the Library of Harvard College. 1889. 
 
 36. WiLUAM C. Lane. Catalogue of a collection of works on ritualism and 
 doctrinal theology presented by John Harvey Treat. 1889. 
 
 37. Pkane Weitenkampp. A bibliography of Wilham Hogarth. 1890. 
 
 VOL. Ill 
 
 38. William H. Tillinghabt. Sixth list of the publications of Harvard 
 University and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1888-1889.- 1890. 
 
 39. Alfred C. Potteb. A bibliography of Beaumont and Fletcher. 1890. 
 
 40. William C. Lane. Index to recent reference lists. No. IV, 1890. 
 1891. 
 
 41. William H. Tillinghast. Seventh list of the pubUcations of Harvard 
 University and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1889-1890. 1891. 
 
 42. William H. Tilunghast. The orators and poets of Phi Beta Kappa, 
 Alpha of Massachusetts. 1891. 
 
 43. Charles Gross. A classified list of books relating to British municipal 
 history. 1891. 
 
 44. William H. Tilunghast. Eighth list of the publications of Harvard 
 University and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1890-1891. 1892. 
 
 45. William C. Lane and Charles K. Bolton. Notes on special collec- 
 tions in American libraries. 1892. 
 
 46. The Class op 1828, with a bibliography of the publications of its mem- 
 bers. 1892. 
 
 47. WiLiiAM H. TiLLiNQHAST. Ninth list of the publications of Harvard 
 University and its officers, with the chief publications on the University, 
 1891-1892. 1893. 
 
 48. Stephen B. Weeks. A bibliography of the historical literature of North 
 Carolina. 1895. 
 
 49. Morris Hickt Morgan. A bibliography of Persius. 1893. 
 
 50. Andrew McF. Davis. An analysis of the early records of Harvard 
 College, 1636-1750. 1895. 
 
 51. LotnsE R. Albee. The Bartlett collection: a list of books on angling, 
 fishes, and fish culture, in Harvard College Library. 1896. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 161 
 
 VOL. IV 
 
 Si. Alitied C. Potter and Chahles K. Bolton. The librarians of Har- 
 vard College, 1667-1877. 1897. 
 
 53. WiiiUAM Gakrott Brown. A list of portraits in the various buildings 
 of Harvard University. 1898. 
 
 64. WiLUAM F. YusT. A bibliography of Justin Winsor. 1902. 
 
 56. Alfred C. Potter. Descriptive and historical notes on the Library of 
 Harvard University. 1903. 
 
 66. Catalogite of English and American chap-books and broadside bal- 
 lads in Harvard College Library. 1905. 
 
 57. T. Franklin Ctjrrier and Ernest L. Gat. Catalogue of the Moliere 
 collection in the Harvard College Library acquired chiefly from the 
 library of the late Ferdinand B6cher, A.M., professor of modem lan- 
 guages. 1906. 
 
 68. Morris H. Morgan. A bibliography of Persius, including the cata- 
 logue of a collection made by him and by Daniel B. Fearing. 1909. 
 
 VOL. V 
 
 59. George Herbert Palmer. A Herbert bibliography: being a catalogue 
 of a collection of books relating to George Herbert gathered by George 
 Herbert Palmer. 1910. 
 
 60. Alfred C. Potter and Edgar H. Wells. Descriptive and historical 
 notes on the Library of Harvard University. Second edition. 1911. 
 
 ^ Reports 
 
 Reports of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College, 
 appointed to visit the Library. Boston: 1850-77. 8°. 
 
 These Reports, which are usually accompanied by the Annual Report of the librarian, were 
 issued for the following years: 1850, 18S3-S4, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1877-78. 
 The titles vary slightly from year to year. The Report for 1863 (pp. 86) contained an import- 
 ant " Statement respecting the new catalogues of the College Library," by Ezra Abbot. 
 
 Report of the committee of the Association of the Alumni of Har- 
 vard College, appointed to take into consideration the state of the 
 College Library in accordance with a vote of the Association passed 
 at the annual meeting, July 16, 1857. Cambridge: 1858. 8°. 
 pp. 44. 
 
 Includes statements by several professors and by the librarian and assistant librarian indi- 
 cating the deficiencies of the library in various departments. Mr. Sibley's statement was 
 reprmted separately under the title: " Letter from the Librarian of Harvard College to the 
 Committee," Cambridge, 1859, 8°, pp. 8. 
 
162 LIBBABY OF HAEVABD UNIVEBSITY 
 
 Annual report of the librarian of Harvard University, read 15 
 July, 1864, to the Committee of the Overseers appointed to visit the 
 Library. Cambridge: 1865. 8°. pp. 40. 
 
 Mr. Sibley's annual Reports, besides appearing in the Reports of the Overseers' Com- 
 mittees as noted above, were often printed in full in the Boston papers: see the Atlas, 26 Feb. 
 18S7; Advertiser, 9 Feb. 1868; Cambridge Chronicle, 17 July, 18fi8; Advertiser, 1 Feb. 1859; 
 Advertiser, 2 Feb. 1860. 
 
 Proceedings of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College in rela- 
 tion to the College Library, 1866-67. Boston: 1867. 8°. pp. 
 12. 
 
 First — twentieth report of Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard 
 University, 1878-1897. [Cambridge: 1879-98.] 8°. 
 
 Reprinted from the Annual Reports of the president of Harvard College. An analysis of 
 these Reports is given in BibUographical Contribution, no. 54, p. 14. 
 
 First — twelfth report of Wilham Coolidge Lane, librarian of 
 Harvard University, 1898-1909. [Cambridge: 1899-1910.] 8°. 
 
 Reprinted from the Annual Reports of the president of Harvard College. The tenth and 
 eleventh Reports, as reprinted, contain select Ibts of recent accessions, and the twelfth Report 
 other additional matter not included in the president's Report. 
 
 Report of Archibald Cary Coolidge, chairman of the Library 
 Council of Harvard University, including the thirteenth report of 
 William Coolidge Lane, librarian, 1910. Reprinted, with additions, 
 from the Report of the President of Harvard University for 1909- 
 10. [Cambridge: 1911.] 8°. pp. 23. 
 
 Report of Archibald Cary Coolidge, director of the University 
 Library, including the fourteenth-seventeenth report of WiUiam 
 Coolidge Lane, librarian, 1911-14. Reprinted, with additions, 
 from the Reports of the President of Harvard University for 1910- 
 11 — 1913-14. [Cambridge: 1912-15.] 8°. 
 
 Harvard University. Report of a committee appointed by the 
 President and Fellows of Harvard College to study the future needs 
 of the College Library. Presented March 31, 1902. [Cambridge: 
 1902.] 8°. pp. 22. 
 
 Report of the committee to visit the Library. [Cambridge: 1903.] 
 8°. pp. 727-730. 
 
 A report on the need of a new building, signed Herbert Putnam, chairman. May, 1903. 
 
 Special reports addressed to the committee appointed by the 
 Overseers of Harvard College to visit the Library. I. By the libra- 
 rian of the University. U. By members of the Council of the 
 Library. [Cambridge:] January, 1906. 8°. pp. 15. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 163 
 
 Report of the committee to visit the Library. [1906-11.] 8°. 
 
 Four reports, signed by Francis R. Appleton, chairman, were printed: May 9, 1906, pp. 
 923-924; May 8, 1907, pp. 977-978; May IS, 1909, pp. 1183-1186; May 11, 1910, p. 113; 
 May 10, 1911, pp. 98-110. The last contains an Architects' Report, with sketch plans for a 
 new building. 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Plan for the arrangement of the catalogue of the University 
 Library [by Andrews Norton]. [Cambridge:] 1817. Broadside. 
 
 Catalogue of books to be sold by public auction, at Francis 
 Amory's auction room, Boston . . . December 20, 1815. [Boston: 
 1815.] 8°. pp. 16. 
 
 " The following books being surplus copies of works in the Library of Harvard University.'' 
 
 Catalogue of duplicates in the Library of Harvard University for 
 sale. [Cambridge: 1824.] 8°. pp. [1], 31. 
 
 Brief description of the catalogues of the Library of Harvard 
 College. Cambridge: printed at the Library. 1867. 8°. pp. 7. 
 
 Catalogue of the bound historical manuscripts collected by Jared 
 Sparks, and now deposited in the Library of Harvard University. 
 Cambridge: 1871. 8°. pp. 20. 
 
 A list of serial publications now taken in the principal hbraries of 
 Boston and Cambridge. [Edited by Justin Winsor.] 1st edition, 
 Dec. 1878. Cambridge: press of John Wilson and Son. 1878. 8°. 
 pp. 30. 
 
 a later edition of this was published by the Boston Public Library in 1897 under the follow- 
 ing title: A list of periodicals, newspapers, transactions, and other serial publications cur- 
 rently received in the principal libraries of Boston and vicinity, Boston, 1897, 8°, pp. [6], 143. 
 
 Scudder, Samuel H. Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, 
 including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physi- 
 cal, and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. Cambridge: Library 
 of Harvard University. 1879. 8°. pp. xii, 358. (Special publi- 
 cations, I.) 
 
 Lidex to the subject catalogue of the Harvard College Library. 
 [Compiled by William Coohdge Lane.] Cambridge: 1886-91. 
 8°. pp. iv, 165. (Special publications, H.) 
 
 The same. Supplement: Additions and corrections, 1891-1900. 
 Cambridge: 1900. 8°. pp.31. (Special publications, HL) 
 
 Supplements to the Index to the Subject Catalogue have been issued as follows: the first 
 appeared as an appendix to the original Index (1891); second list (1892) appeared in the Har- 
 vard University Bulletin, October, 1892; third list (1893) issued separately; fourth list (1896) 
 issued separately; fifth list (1900, the supplement noted above as Special Publication, 
 IID included all the previous lists since the original Index; six'th list (1903), issued separately, , 
 began a new series of additional subject headings; seventh list (1907) issued separately. 
 
164 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 An index guide to the shelf classification of the Harvard College 
 Library. Cambridge: published by the University. 1905. 8°. 
 pp. 43. (Special pubUcations, IV.) 
 
 Publications Relating to the Library* 
 
 An account of the fire at Harvard-College in Cambridge; with the 
 loss sustained thereby. Broadside. Boston: printed by K. & S. 
 Draper. 1764. 
 
 This account was reprinted, with some slight changes, in the Massachusetts Gazette, Feb. 2, 
 1764, and was again issued as a broadside. This second issue bears the heading, " From the 
 Massachusetts-Gazette, Thursday, February % 1764." It is in smaller type and on a smaller 
 sheet than the first issue. 
 
 Adams, Edward B. The Harvard Law School library. (Harvard 
 alumni bulletin, Nov. 11, 1915. xvii, 112-115.) 
 
 Arnold, James Himes. The Harvard law library. (Harvard 
 graduates' magazine, Dec. 1907. xvi. 230-241. Illustr.) 
 
 Beale, Joseph Henry. How Mr. Arnold collected the law lib- 
 rary. (Harvard graduates' magazine, Sept. 1913. xxii. 38^1.) 
 
 Bolton, Charles Knowles. Harvard University Library. (New 
 England magazine, Dec. 1893. n.s., ix, 433-449. Illustr.) 
 
 Also reprinted separately. 
 
 Bruce, H. Addington. The Treasure room. (Outlook, 1909. 
 pp. 711-721. Illustr.) 
 
 An account of the rare books in the Library. 
 
 Coolidge, Archibald Gary. Tlie Harvard College Library. (Har- 
 vard graduates' magazine, Sept. 1915. xxiv, 23-31. Illustr,) 
 
 Cutter, Charles A. Harvard College Library. (North American 
 review, Oct. 1868. cvii, 568-593.) 
 
 The new catalogue of Harvard College Library. (The same^ 
 
 Jan. 1869. cviii, 96-129.) 
 
 Dennis, Alfred L. P. Special collections in American libraries: 
 the oriental collection of Count Paul Riant now in the Library of 
 
 1 No attempt has been made to include here a complete list of magazine articles relating to the 
 Library; only the more important articles illustrating its history and growth have been noted. 
 A few more references will be found in Poole's Index, and a much fuller list is given in the type- 
 written bibliography of periodical articles relating to Harvard prepared in 1894 by Mr. T. 
 Frank Brownell of the University Club in New York, a copy of which is in the College Library. 
 A number of articles on the Library and its collections have appeared in the Boston newspapers 
 of recent years, but they are not noted here. Several short articles and notes on the Library 
 that have appeared from time to time in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin have also been omitted 
 from the list. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 165 
 
 Harvard University. (Library journal, Dec. 1903. xxviii, 817- 
 820.) 
 
 Description of the colleges at Cambridge. (Massachusetts maga- 
 zine, June, 1790. ii, 324-327.) 
 
 Eliot, Charles William. The enlargement of Gore HaU. (Har- 
 vard monthly, Nov. 1890. xi, 43-47.) 
 
 Emerton, Ephraim. A blot on the 'scutcheon. (Harvard gradu- 
 ates' magazine, June, 1899. vii, 509-512.) 
 
 On the needs of a new building and a plan for a temporary addition to the present building. 
 
 Fiske, John. A librarian's work. (Atlantic monthly, Oct. 1876. 
 xxxviii, 480-491.) 
 
 Reprinted in his " Darwinism and othei Essays." 
 
 Harvard alumni bulletin. Widener Memorial Library number, 
 June 16, 1915. (vol. xvii, no. 36. Illustr.) 
 
 This contains the following articles on the Library: Editorial comment, pp. 665-666; The 
 Widener collection of books, by George Parker Winship, pp. 668-670; The "Widener Memorial, 
 by William Coolidge Lane, pp. 670-677; The history and organization of the College Library, 
 by Archibald Gary Coolidge, pp. 677-680; Special collections in the College Library, by Alfred 
 Claghorn Potter, pp. 680-683. Parts of Mr. Lane's article were reprinted, with different 
 illustrations, in Architecture and Building, Aug. 1915, vol. xlvii, no. 8, pp. 295-301. 
 
 Harvard illustrated. Widener Library issue, June, 1915. (vol. 
 xvi, no. 9. Illtistr.) 
 
 This contains: The history of the College Library, by William Coolidge Lane. pp. 407-414; 
 Harry Elkins Widener, '07, p. 415; The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, pp. 417-419. 
 
 Heald, David. The Library's four homes. (Harvard graduates' 
 magazine, March, 1913. xxi, 413-419. Illtistr.) 
 
 Hill, George Birkbeck. [The Library.] (Harvard College by an 
 Oxonian, 1894. pp. 285-296.) 
 
 Koopman, Harry Lyman. The Library's crying need. (Harvard 
 graduates' magazine, Dec. 1911. xx, 235-237.) 
 
 Lane, WiUiam Coolidge. The catalogue of the Harvard College 
 Library. (American Library Association, Papers and proceedings of 
 the 24th annual meeting, 1902. pp. 187-190.) 
 
 Justin Winsor's administration of the Harvard Library, 
 
 1877-1897. (Harvard graduates' magazine, Dec. 1897. vi, 182- 
 188.) 
 
 Plain facts about the Library. (^The same, Dec. 1899. 
 
 viii, 168-176.) 
 
 Alao reprinted separately. 
 
166 LIBEAEY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Lane, William Coolidge. The Widener Memorial Library. (Har- 
 vard graduates' magazine, Jmie, 1913. xad, 613-616.) 
 
 The new Harvard Library. (Library journal. May, 1913. 
 
 xxxviii, 267-270. Illustr.) 
 
 The Widener Memorial Library of Harvard College. (The 
 
 same. May, 1915. xl, 325-328. Illustr.) 
 
 Library of Harvard University. (General repository and review, 
 1813. iv, 400-402.) 
 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot. Two commencement addresses. Cam- 
 bridge: 1915. 16°. 
 
 " Address at the presentation of the Widener Memorial Library to Harvard University, 
 June 24, 1915 " (pp. 27-^4). 
 
 Mascarene, M. [Letter to her husband, John Mascarene, describ- 
 ing the burning of Harvard HaU in 1764.] (Harvard register. May, 
 1881. iii, 294-297.) 
 
 Notes on the Library. (Harvard graduates' magazine, i, 112, 274, 
 405,588; ii, 112,394; iii, 221; iv, 103, 438, 605 ; v. 96, 221, 408, 563; 
 vi, 248, 383; vii, 244, 432; viii, 230, 533; ix, 372, 534; x, 267, 401; 
 xi, 396; xii, 23, 249; xiii, 436; xiv, 258, 287; xv, 271, 290, 433; xvi, 
 60, 295, 315; xvii, 283, 299; xviii, 374, 667, 692; xx, 204, 396, 398; 
 xxi, 242; xxii, 609.) 
 
 Potter, Alfred Claghorn. The College Library. (Harvard illus- 
 trated magazine, March, 1903. iv, 105-112. Illustr.) 
 
 Potter, Alfred Claghorn, and Bolton, Charles Knowles. The 
 Ubrarians of Harvard CoUege (1667-1877). Cambridge: 1897. 8°. 
 pp. 47. (Bibliographical contribution. No. 52.) 
 
 Preston, Howard W. The Arboretum library. (Harvard alumni 
 buUetin, Feb. 24, 1915. xvii, 378-379.) 
 
 Quincy, Josiah. Considerations relative to the Library of Har- 
 • vard University, respectfully submitted to the legislature of Massa- 
 chusetts. Cambridge: 1833. 8°. pp. 16. 
 
 History of Harvard University. Boston: 1840. 2 vols. 
 
 8°. 
 
 Contains numerous references to the Library, including a list of donors of books, 1638-1S40. 
 
 Rosenbach, A. S. W. Treasures in the Widener collection. (Har- 
 vard graduates' magazine, June, 1913. xxi, 788-794.) 
 
 Sibley, John Langdon. Address on the Harvard College Library 
 before the American Library Association, 1879. (Library journal, 
 July-Aug. 1879. iv, 305-308.) 
 
 Gore Hall and the College Library. (Harvard book, 1875. 
 
 i, 112-121.) 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 167 
 
 Smith, Kate V. A glance into the " Sumner alcove," Harvard 
 Library. (Scribner's monthly, March; 1879. xvii, 732-736.) 
 
 United States, Bureau of Education. Public hbraries in the 
 United States of America. 1876. pp. 21-26, 78-89, 540-541. 
 
 The University Library. Cambridge: 1832. 8°. pp. 3. 
 
 A letter addressed to the graduates, and signed " A Graduate." 
 
 Ware, Henry. The Harvard College Library. (Harvard register, 
 Sept., Oct. 1880. ii, 185, 201-204.) 
 
 Warren, Charles. History of the Harvard Law School and of 
 early legal education in America. N. Y. 1908. 3 vols. 8°. 
 
 Chapters xviii, xxii, xxviii, xl, and xlvii relate to the histoiy and development of the Law 
 School Library. 
 
168 
 
 LIBBAKY OF HAKVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY 
 
 DiEECTOE OF THE UnIVEKSITT LibRAEY 
 
 1910- Archibald Cabt Cooudge 
 
 Librarians ^ 
 1667-1672 (?) Solomon Stoddard. 
 
 1674. 
 
 1674-1676. 
 1676-1679. 
 1679-1681. 
 1681-1690. 
 1690-1693. 
 1693-1697. 
 1697-1701. 
 1701. 
 
 1701-1703. 
 1703-1706. 
 1706-1707. 
 1707-1709. 
 1709-1712. 
 1712-1713. 
 1713-1714. 
 1714-1718. 
 1718-1720. 
 1720-1721. 
 1721-1722. 
 1722-1723. 
 1723-1726. 
 1726-1728. 
 1728-1729. 
 1729-1730. 
 1730-1734. 
 1734-1735. 
 1735-1737. 
 1737. 
 
 1737-1741. 
 1741-1742. 
 1742-1743. 
 1743-1748. 
 ^ For biographical sketches of 
 
 Samuel Sewall. 
 Daniel Gookin. 
 Daniel AUin. 
 Daniel Gookin. 
 John Cotton. 
 Henry Newman. 
 Ebenezer Pemberton. 
 Nathaniel Saltonstall. 
 Anthony Stoddard. 
 Josiah WiUard. 
 John Whiting. 
 John Gore. 
 Nathaniel Gookin. 
 Edward Holyoke. 
 Thomas Robie. 
 John Denison. 
 John Rogers. 
 WiUiam Welsteed. 
 William Cooke. 
 Joshua Gee. 
 Mitchel Sewall. 
 John Hancock. 
 Stephen Sewall. 
 Joseph Champney. 
 Joseph Pynchon. 
 Henry Gibbs. 
 Samuel CooUdge. 
 James Diman. 
 Samuel Cooke. 
 Thomas Marsh. 
 Belcher Hancock. 
 Benjamin Prat. 
 Matthew Cushing. 
 
 the librariana, see Bibliographical Contribution, No. fiS. 
 
LIST OF OFFICERS 169 
 
 1748-1750. 
 
 Oliver Peabody. 
 
 1751. 
 
 Perez Marsh. 
 
 1751-1753. 
 
 Stephen Badger. 
 
 1753-1755. 
 
 John Rand. 
 
 1755-1757. 
 
 Mather Byles. 
 
 1757-1758. 
 
 EUzur Holyoke. 
 
 1758-1760. 
 
 Edward Brooks. 
 
 1760-1762. 
 
 Samuel Deane. 
 
 1762-1763. 
 
 Stephen Sewall. 
 
 1763-1767. 
 
 Andrew Eliot. 
 
 1767-1768. 
 
 Jonathan Moore. 
 
 1768. 
 
 Nathaniel Ward. 
 
 1768-1769. 
 
 Caleb Prentice. 
 
 1769-1772. 
 
 William Mayhew. 
 
 1772-1787. 
 
 James Winthrop. 
 
 1787-1791. 
 
 Isaac Smith. 
 
 1791-1793. 
 
 Thaddeus Mason Harris. 
 
 1793-1800. 
 
 Samuel Shapleigh. 
 
 1800-1805. 
 
 Sidney Willard. 
 
 1805-1808. 
 
 Peter Nourse. 
 
 1808-1811. 
 
 Samuel Cooper Thacher. 
 
 1811-1813. 
 
 John Lovejoy Abbot. 
 
 1813-1821. 
 
 Andrews Norton 
 
 1821-1823. 
 
 Joseph Green Cogswell. 
 
 1823-1826. 
 
 Charles Folsom. 
 
 1826-1831. 
 
 Benjamin Peirce. 
 
 1831-1856. 
 
 Thaddeus William Harris. 
 
 1856-1877. 
 
 John Langdon Sibley. 
 
 1877-1897. 
 
 Justin Winsor. 
 
 1898- 
 
 William Coolidge Lane. 
 
 AssisTANT Librarians 
 
 1825-1826. 
 
 John T/angdon Sibley. 
 
 1841-1856. 
 
 John Langdon Sibley. 
 
 1856-1872. 
 
 Ezra Abbot. 
 
 1872-1879. 
 
 John Fiske. 
 
 1879-1882. 
 
 Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 
 
 1887-1913. 
 
 WilUam Hopkins Tillinghast. 
 
 1887-1893. 
 
 William Coolidge Lane. 
 
 1904- 
 
 Alfred Claghorn Potter. 
 
 1913- 
 
 Thomas Franklin Currier. 
 
 1915- 
 
 Walter Benjamin Briggs. 
 
170 
 
 LIBKAKY OF HAEVABD UNIVERSITY 
 
 LiBBAKIANS OF THE HabRT ElkINS WiDENER 
 
 Collection 
 
 1914. Luther Samuel Livingston. 
 
 1915- George Parker Winship. 
 
 Curators 
 
 1885-1898. John Humphreys Storer, Coins. 
 
 1898- Malcolm Storer, Coins. 
 
 1903- Hiram Bingham, Soiith American History and Litera- 
 
 ture. 
 
 1903- Harry Nelson Gay, Italian History of the Nineteenth 
 
 Century. 
 
 1903-1913. Edgar Huidekoper Wells, Modem English Literature. 
 
 1905-1907. Chester Noyes Greenough, American Literature. 
 
 1905-1906. Walter Liehtenstein, Hohenzollem Collection of German 
 History. 
 
 1905-1915. George Parker Winship, Mexican History. 
 
 1908- Thomas Barbour, Oceania. 
 
 1908-1910. WUIiam Bayard Cutting, Napoleonic Literature. 
 
 1908- Walter Liehtenstein, Hohenzollern Collection of German 
 
 History. 
 
 1910- Edward Kennard Rand, Manuscripts. 
 
 1910- Frederick Adams Woods, Portuguese History. 
 
 1911- Oric Bates, Works on North Africa. 
 
 1911- Harold Wilmerding Bell, Numismatic Literature. 
 
 1914- Charles Rockwell Lanman, Indie Manuscripts. 
 
 1914- Frederick Lewis Gay, British and American Historical 
 
 Tracts. 
 
 1915- Robert Gould Shaw, Theatre Collection.