56 C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL April, 1918 



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F=R07V^ THE L-IBRT^RV 



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ADELAIDE RUDOLPH 

 Assistant Librarian 



The 1917 periodicals on the subscription list of the library are now returning 

 from the bindery. There are nineteen of these reported on our accessions book 

 during the last month. No books have been added by purchase, but there has been 

 considerable activity among donors — possibly, on account of the spring house- 

 cleaning proclivities of us Americans. 



The "P. & S." w^ith a laudable attention to presenting a clean and shining 

 appearance at all times, is good enough to send in a contribution every few months 

 that helps to keep our files of periodical literature complete. We are indebted 

 especially to the librarian, Mr. A. L. Robert, for this courtesy. 



Mr. Caswell A. Mayo, the good chairman of the Library Committee of the 

 Board of Trustees, has also made a valuable contribution of the 1917 volume of 

 "Annates des falsifications et des fraudes" complete. 



Besides the volumes of the A. Ph. A. publications from Mr. James Foulke's 

 box of books that were reported last month as having been turned over to Pro- 

 fessor Hostmann's department, there are five volumes of non-duplicates that the 

 Library is glad to put on its own shelves, especially one of the earlier editions 

 of Coblentz's "Newer Remedies," which, as an interesting matter of College remi- 

 niscences, Dr. Arthur H. Elliott, only a week or two before he died, was inquiring 

 about and wishing he could find in our library. 



Two well-bound volumes of the "Kommentar zum Arzneihuch fiir Deutsche 

 Reich," 1895-96, by Hager and others, have come to the Library from the Charles 

 Holzhauer estate ; and seven volumes, bound in five, with a manuscript notebook, 

 have been transferred to our keeping from the old Neergaard pharmacy in Sixth 

 Avenue. To Mr. David Costelo, the present proprietor of the store, and Mr. R. A. 

 Konnerth, his assistant, thanks are due for zeal in rescuing these old landmarks 

 of pharmacy in New York from oblivion. Mr. Costelo has also found and is 

 going to give us about twenty of the early volumes of A. Ph. A. Proceedings, 

 which will make the Information Bureau set almost complete. More than that, 

 he offers to pay for any rebinding of the old Neergaard books that may be nec- 

 essary. 



The Danish books with the name of Wm. F. Neergaard written in an attrac- 

 tive foreign hand across the title pages look particularly interesting and excite 

 one's curiosity a bit about the personality of the original possessor. A portrait of 

 "William Neergaard, vice-president of the College, 1865-18/0," hangs in the 

 Trustees' Room, and the face has a remarkably kind and benevolent expression, 

 such as would, I think, inspire confidence at once. 



