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C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Ft^O|V[ THE lilBt^A^V 



ADELAIDE RUDOLPH 

 Assistant Librarian 



A generous gift from Columbia Uni- 

 versity Library, during the first month 

 of the new fiscal year, has enabled this 

 library to complete its set of "/ahresber- 

 icht iiber die Fortschritte der Chemie und 

 verwandter Telle under e?- Wlssenschaften," 

 from its establishment, 1847, to 1910 

 inclusive. We hope this augurs well for 

 completing, during the rest of the year, 

 several more broken sets in the Library. 



The movement, which started last year, 

 for putting into usable shape all the 

 valuable sets of unbound periodicals be- 

 longing to the Library, is pushing vigor- 

 ously forward. Thirty-six volumes of 

 ^^The Pharmaceutical Era'' were sent to 

 the bindery during. July ; and the nine, 

 yet unbound, are ready to go when the 

 items, noted in the Book Exchange col- 

 umn, page 185, can be procured. Please 

 notice that we make a call, also, for miss- 

 ing parts of the '■'■Pharmaceutische Cen- 

 tralhalle,'" or, as it is spelled now, '^Phar- 

 mazeutlsche Zentralhalle," which we are 

 getting ready to bind. 



Mrs. Charlotte (Ransford) Gay, of the 

 class of 1898, ran in cheerily one day to 

 look up a point or two in anticipation of 

 the next A. Ph. A. meeting. 



The weather has been uncomfortable 

 and oppressive with heat most of the 



time ; but there has been mitigations — in 

 the shape of remembrances and visits 

 from the Alumni. Dr. R. Schleussner, of 

 the class of 1912, has very kindly con- 

 tributed a volume to the Library collec- 

 tion of U. S. Pharmacopoeias. Mr. E. B. 

 Ackerman, of the same class, inscribed 

 his name on the new "Visitors' Book," 

 taking advantage of the proffered 'cour- 

 teous attention to those desiring to do 

 their own research work.' See "In- 

 formation Bureau" of this issue, page 188, 

 item 6. 



Mr. Leo Roon, of 1910, came in to tell 

 us about his interesting and busy days 

 with original research work, presenting 

 the Library, at the same time, with a 

 complimentary copy of a reprint of his 

 paper on "The Physical Significance of 

 Emulsions." 



All these afforded welcome diversions, 

 especially Mr. Roon's enthusiasm for ori- 

 ginal research work, which is, so to 

 speak, infectious. We wish the Alumni, 

 one and all, had been in range of com- 

 munication at the time. 



By the way, a clipping from The Book 

 Review of the New York Times, of July 

 30th, lies on the Library desk, which we 

 think deserves the wider ( !) circulation 

 of the C. U. C. P. Alumni Journal: 



