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It may be interesting- to note by the way, that this plan of Dr. Shippen's was 

 adopted with some modifications on April nth. 1777, and he himself was unani- 

 mously elected "Director-General of all the Military Hospitals for the Armies of 

 the United States." 



Gifts to the Library have seemed to be much to the fore during" the last month. 

 Mr. Mayo has informed us of another interesting historical piece that he proposes 

 to give us for our walls. It is a steel engraving of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, secretary 

 of the Royal Society, 1677-79, who was probably the first to observe sex in plants, 

 and after whom the plant Grewia was named by Linnaeus. 



Dean Rusby has greatly extended the gift list on the botanical side by pre- 

 senting a most valuable set of thirty plates, many of these new drawings, for a 

 new edition of "Quinologie de Mutis," by Triana. He obtained these at Bogota 

 on his recent South American trip. 



Ur. H. H. Schaefer has again contributed of his purchases from old-book 

 shops two interesting volumes ; one. the first American edition of Brande's "Man- 

 ual of Chemistry." 1821 : the other, a delightfully illustrated "Chemistry of the 

 Arts," an industrial chemistry, which was based on Gray's Operative Chemist and 

 published by Arthur L. Porter of the University of Vermont in 1830. 



Dr. Otto Hensel, of the C. of P. class of 1895, sauntered in one day and left 

 eight books on the Library tables. Some of these were especially useful in replac- 

 ing imperfect and less well bound volumes in the periodical files, and were, there- 

 fore, especially appreciated by the librarians. 



Dr. A. R. BHss, Jr., C. of P. class of 1907 and of 1908, has presented the 

 Library with the revised edition of his "Qualitative Chemical Analysis for Students 

 of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Science," 1918. We are graieful to Dr. 

 Bliss for his never-failing remembrance. 



EVENING CLASSES DINNER 



The fourth annual dinner and reunion of the student members, past and 

 present, who have organized the "Students Society for the Advancement of 

 Science" was held in Greenwich Village on the evening of May 23rd. 

 After the following "hooverized menu " 



Olives Saucisson 



Clams 



Potage Ledoyen 



Filet de Bass Vert' Pre 



Pommes au Beurre 



Carre d'Agneau Parisienne 



Haricots Verts 



Poussin grille sur Canape 



Salade Melangee 



Mousse a la Fraise 



Petits Fours 



Cafe 



