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On the first floor is the division of medicine (20, 21), with a special 

 room named after Dr. N. Senn, professor of surger^^ in Rush Medical 

 College in Chicago, who, three days after the library moved into its new 

 building, promised a great part of his medical books, on the ground 

 that it was a fireproof structure, and wlio also did much afterwards for 

 the Newberry Library. He has also bought and presented the library 

 of E. du Bois-Roymond, comprising 10,200 volumes and pamphlets, « 

 and that of Surg. W. 15. Baum, of Gottingen. The Senn collection 

 by itself embraces 23,400 numbers. The division of medicine com- 

 prised in May, 1001, ,33,972 books and 27,583 pami)hlcts, among which 

 were 459 periodicals. It will therefore compare with the largest 

 medical libraries in New York and Philadelphia. The medical library 

 of the United States Army Medical Museum in Washington has 

 352,000 books and pamphlets and contains 1,500 medical journals. 

 The nucleus of the medical portion of the Newberry Library was 

 formed by a stock of 17,000 volumes and pamphlets, which had been 

 deposited b}' 4 medical societies of Chicago in the public library, and 

 were transferred from thence in 1890. There is besides this, in the 

 first story, bibliography (39), which is represented best; office rooms 

 (31, 34, 38), and a nuiseum (24). This museum held in May, 1901, 153 

 manuscripts,* 315 incunabula, 212 volumes, specimens of artistic book 

 bindings, 53 various other book bindings, 96 illustrated manuscripts 

 from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, 113 Aldines, 97 Elzevirs, 

 27 Estiennes, Giuntas, etc., 150 Americana in first and rare editions, 

 autograph copies and editions de luxe, '" and 213 various volumes for 

 showing methods of illustration and of modern typograpli}' — all pro- 

 vided with descriptive labels. The collection of fine bindings extends 

 from Maioli (1549) and the Groliers (1550-15(35) to the Frenchmen 

 Bouzonnet-Trautz and the Englishman Bedford, and others (nineteenth 

 century). From the sixteenth century there are 25 examples, from the 



«I found in this, papers from my own pen, which I hud sent to liim, my former 

 teacher, out of respect. 



^ The oldest is a Greek manuscript of the evangelists, from the twelfth century, 

 that E. J. Goodspeed has described in the American Journal of TJieologij, 1899. 



<^ American history has been espei-ially kept in view in the Newberry Lil)rary from 

 the beginning, and in 1S95 it came into the possession of a collection of 5,000 volumes 

 relating to the earliest times, which had been collected l)y one of the trustees, E. E. 

 Ayer. At ])resent a thorough descriptive catalogue is being prepared of the entire 

 7,000 works of rare Americana, which contain a great deal on the North American 

 Indians, and also rare, early maps of the American Continent. On this catalogue 

 there are working, at the expense of Mr. Ayer, about 10 specialists of rank in the 

 United States, the library, itself, however, assuming the conduct of the matter and 

 the bibliographical arrangement of the entire material. It has also drawn up a com- 

 prehensive sclu^me for tlie coworkers, by which they proceed according to common 

 points of view. This \ei-y comprehensive critical catalogue ju'omises to be a work 

 of eminent bibliographic significance. It is fortunate in obtaining the special support 

 of the gentlemen lueutioned. 

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