C. U. C. p. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



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F ROM THE LIBRAR Y. 



Though great honors give human Hfe 

 its distinction, the httle kindnesses and 

 courtesies of daily Hving contribute most 

 to its comfort and happiness. So, while 

 an unendowed college library cannot do 

 without great and important gifts of 

 money and treasure to give it a reputa- 

 tion and make it useful to a large and 

 ever increasing body of students and re- 

 search workers, it must rely largely upon 

 the little gifts, which are bestowed with 

 quick responsiveness to its daily de- 

 mands, if it is to maintain a successful and 

 honored career. 



Fortunately, the C. of P. librar\- is not 

 unblessed by friends who can, and will, 

 bestow the large gifts upon occasion ; 

 and it is also happy to a degree m the 

 possession of those who play admirably 

 the role of "good genii" in the further- 

 ance of our daily plans. So it becomes a 

 matter of not much concern, whether we 

 wish a few duplicate numbeis of the 

 pharmaceutical journals to garnish the 

 reading-room tables, or whether we plan 

 some day to so stock the library with the 

 current periodical literature from all over 

 the w orld, that no one shall come in and 

 ask in vain for a pharmaceutical journal 

 printed in any language ; for we feel sure 

 that there will be plenty to meet us half 

 way with the requisite means, if we but 

 go half way ourselves with the effort. 



And so, for this issue of the Journal, 

 I believe the alumni and the students will 

 be interested in getting the following 

 note from the library as to how the 

 "wheels go round" in its daily life: 



If there is any gap that needs to be 

 filled in the botanical files, we naturally 

 turn to Dean Rusby, who has a wonder- 



ful faculty for keeping a missing num- 

 ber in mind through all the hurry of his 

 multifold engagements. By Professor 

 G. C. Diekman the library is supplied 

 with the Zeitschrift fiir angewandte 

 Chemie, the Columbia Alumni News, 

 and a duplicate copy of the Journal of 

 the Society of Chemical Industry for the 

 reading-room tables, to which he is the 

 largest contributor. Professor H. V. 

 Arny furnishes the American Journal of 

 Pharmacy. The Journal of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry is the gift or Dr. 

 A. H. Elliott. 



The three publications of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society are contributed 

 bv Mr. Milton Falk. Mr. C. A. Mayo 

 sees that the Bulletins of the Health 

 Department are sent to the library 

 regularly. 



In this connection we are reminded of 

 the packages of duplicates sent in by Dr. 

 H. H. Schafer, when, recently, we were 

 getting the books off for the bindery, be- 

 cause these supplied in the very nick of 

 time the two numbers which we lacked 

 to make our sets complete. That, cer- 

 tainly, presented some resemblances to 

 the "fairy god-mother" or "good genius" 

 act. 



For our reading-table duplicates we 

 are indebted to the kindness and courtesy 

 of Dean Rusby, Professors Arny, Diek- 

 man, Mansfield and Wimmer, and also 

 of the editors of the Bulletin of Phar- 

 macy, the National Druggist, the Prac- 

 tical Druggist and the Southern Phar- 

 maceutical Journal, who have been or 

 are sending us an extra copy every 

 month. 



Adelaide Rudolph, 

 Ass't Librarian. 



