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Sodalitas Amiconim Universitatis Reg. Hung. Francisco-Josephinae, 

 Szeged; and such universities as California, Harvard, Manchester, 

 Pavia, Pennsylvania, and Yale. Dissertations were received from 

 the Academy of Freiberg, the Universities of Basel, Berlin, Bern, 

 Bonn, Braunschweig, Breslau, Budapest, Cornell, Erlangen, Freiberg, 

 Giessen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Helsingfors, Jena, Johns Hop- 

 Idns, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Louvain, Lund, Marburg, Neuchatel, 

 Pennsylvania, Rostock, Strasbourg, Tubingen, Utrecht, and Zurich, 

 and technical schools at Berlin, Braunschweig, Delft, Dresden, 

 Karlsruhe, and Zurich. 



GIFTS 



There were many gifts, as usual, but only a few can be mentioned 

 here. From His Excellency, Eamon de Valera, President of the 

 Irish Free State, came a welcome copy of Hugh Lane and His Pic- 

 tures, by Thomas Bodkin, accompanied by a letter from the donor. 

 From Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland Preston came a copy of A True 

 Story of Some Eventful Years in Grandpa's Life, by Henry E. Per- 

 rine — a rare w^ork of botanical interest; from William K. Vanderbilt, 

 a copy of West Made East with the Loss of a Day, by the donor — a 

 worthy companion to other books previously presented by Mr. Van- 

 derbilt; from Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Brentano, a handsome 70- volume 

 set of Voltaire in the original; and from Mosho Kawabata, a collection 

 of Gyokusho's works, in 2 volumes. Other gifts were the Handbook 

 of Museums (6 copies), issued by the American Association of Mu- 

 seums, from the association; Reports, in 11 volumes, of the President's 

 Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, from the editors; 

 Archaeologia Orien talis, volume 2, from the Far Eastern Archaeo" 

 logical Society; The New Conquest of Central Asia, by Roy Chapman 

 Andrews, from the American Museum of Natural History; The Mon- 

 asteries of the Wadi 'n Natrun, Part II, by Hugh G. Evelyn W^hite- 

 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elephant, in 2 volumes, 

 by Etsujiro Sunamoto, from the author; An Introduction to Egyptian 

 Religion, by Alan W. Shorter, from the author; La Fayette, a Bibli- 

 ography, by Stuart W. Jackson, compiler, from William Edwin 

 Rudge; Selected Relics of Japanese Art, volumes 1-5, edited by S. 

 Tajima, from Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, who also gave the library 

 many other publications. From Mrs. Isabel Brackenridge Hendry 

 was received a collection of letters written by John Torrey, Asa Gray, 

 Charles Pickering, Capt. Charles Wilkes, and others to William D. 

 Brackenridge, botanist of the United States Exploring Expedition of 

 1838-42, which added substantially to the manuscript material on 

 the expedition already in the library. Still other gifts included 2,000 

 or more publications, chiefly on ethnology and archeology, which 

 had belonged to the late Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, former Chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, from Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Stabler; 



