282 Institutes, Museums, Libraries 



The publications are most of them scientific ( mycological, pharmaceutical, botani- 

 cal, entomological) but they include also a "reproduction series" begun in 1900 (nine 

 nos. by 1931, reproducing older works), a number of botanical bibliographies and 

 books on the history of pharmacy. 



Caswell A. Mayo: The Lloyd library and its makers (Bull. no. 28 of the Lloyd 

 Library, 72 p., ill., 1928), Mrs. Corinne Miller Simons: Lloyd Library and 

 Museum. A history of its resources. (Special libraries p. 481-86, Dec. 1943). 



— Cleveland, Ohio — 



Museum of historical and cultural medicine (11,000 Euclid Avenue): 



This museum is owned by the Cleveland Medical Library Association. It was 

 initiated by D. P. Allen and developed by H. Dittrick, as described by himself in 

 Bull. Hist. Med. (1940, 8, 1214-45). 



— DoYLESTOWN ( near Philadelphia ) , Pennsylvania — 



1916: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society: 



The Society was organized in 1880 and incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1885. 

 The main collections were gathered by one of its charter members, Henry Chapman 

 Mercer (1856-1930; Isis 14, 424). He presented the existing building in 1916, 

 and additions were made to it in 1933 and 1936. 



The objects exhibited are chiefly tools and utensils of every kind, age and prov- 

 enance; added to them are other objects of archaeological interest illustrating the 

 life of the people using those tools. 



There are other historical and folkloric societies and museums in Pennsylvania, 

 which evoke the hfe and activities of the old "Dutch" (German) settlers: the 

 Schwenkfelder Historical Library at Pennsburg, the Pennsylvania State Museum 

 at Harrisburg, the Berks County Historical Society at Reading, the Hershey Museum 

 at Hershey, the Landis Valley Museum at Lancaster. The last-named one boasts 

 a large collection of Lancaster Rifles (the Pennsylvania German rifles). The other 

 museums contain many tools and instruments similar to those of the Mercer Museum, 

 but less numerous and generally restricted to the local varieties. 



A description of all of those museums was published by the Pennsylvania Ger- 

 man Folklore Society (vol. 7, 1942), with many illustrations. 



The Mercer Museum has published many books and papers explaining some parts 

 of the collections, e.g., H. C. Mercer: Ancient carpenter tools (1929; Isis 18, 400), 

 Light and fire making (1898), Tools of the nation maker (1897); Rudolf P. Hom- 

 mel: China at work (1937; Isis 31, 219). 



There are small guides for visitors, e.g., subject 1, Food (4 p., 1921), subject 2, 

 Tools (4 p., 1923). 



Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) Memorial services (40 p., ill., Doyles- 

 tovra, 1930). 



— Kansas City, Kansas — 



Department of medical history: 



Includes a small collection of medico-historical objects founded by Logan 

 Clendening (1884-1945), autlior of popular books on medicine and the history of 

 medicine. Bull. Hist. Med. (1940, 8, 742-48). 



— Madison, Wisconsin — 



1941 : American Institute for the History of pharmacy: 



The institute was founded on 22 Jan. 1941, but its organization had been pre- 

 pared many years before by the teaching and collecting of Dr. Edward Kremers 

 (1865-1941), the building up of the pharmaceutical section of the Library of the 

 University of Wisconsin (that section is very rich, not second even to the Lloyd 

 Library), the collections of Dr. Richtmann, and other collections preserved within 

 the Museum of the Wisconsin Historical Society. 



The organizer and director of the Institute is Dr. George Urdang, who collabo- 



