60 IN AND OUT OF ITHACA. 



Descending again from the tower, and leaving the 

 building by the main entrance, the visitor should turn 

 to the right and enter the south wing by the door lead- 

 ing to the University Library. On the left of the hall- 

 way a door opens into the large Geological lecture room, 

 fitted with maps and charts, and a fine collection of 

 rocks and minerals for illustrative purposes. A stair- 

 case leads to the Laboratory of Geology and Paleon- 

 tology, which occupies the entire second floor of this 

 wing. On the right an entrance, protected by heavy 

 doors of iron, gives access to the main library. This 

 occupies a room one hundred feet long by fifty wide, 

 and twenty feet high, filling the entire ground floor of 

 the central portion of the building. The books are 

 arranged in alcoves, of which there are eleven on each 

 side of the room. The central space is occupied partly 

 by rows of tables and chairs for readers, and partly by 

 cases in which rare books and manuscripts are exhibited. 



The Library at present consists of about sixty thous- 

 and volumes, and sixteen thousand pamphlets. It was 

 started in 1868 by the purchase in Europe of some five 

 thousand volumes. To this have since been added a num- 

 ber of private libraries, including the Goldwin Smith His- 

 torical Library, presented to the University in 1869, and 

 a collection of Russian Folklore, presented by the Hon. 

 Eugene Schuyler, in 1884. Between three and five 

 thousand volumes are added every year by purchase. 



The library contains not a few treasures in the way 

 of rare and beautiful specimens of the book-makers' art. 

 Among them are a government copy of the Napoleon 





