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years, the fact should be emphasized that it 

 is not so much the number of specimens which 

 have been received nor the amount of detail 

 work which has been accomplished which de- 

 termines the success or failure of an institu- 

 tion, but rather the impression which may 

 have been made upon the community in in- 

 citing to higher ideals of life, and the quality 

 of the contribution to the advancement of 

 science and education which has been made. 



Frank C. Bakeb, 

 Acting Secretary 



THE LLOYD LIBRARY AND MU8EVM 

 This institution is legally a stock company, 

 the stock being owned and the institution sup- 

 ported by Curtis G. and John Uri Lloyd, of 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. C. G. Lloyd has 

 erected the buildings and supports the botan- 

 ical section, and Professor John Uri Lloyd 

 supports the pharmaceutical department. The 

 buildings and contents are transferred to the 

 stock company, and funds are provided for its 

 continuance when the life work of its builders 

 is finished. It will never be sold, and will 

 always be a free and public institution for the 

 benefit of science. 



Building No. 1 was erected by C. G. Lloyd 

 in 1902, and was designed to contain both the 

 books and the specimens, the two upper floors 

 being devoted to the books and the lower floor 

 to the specimens. During the short time that 

 has intervened the library has increased so 

 rapidly that the building is inadequate for 

 its purposes, and during the past winter a new 

 building has been erected to be devoted ex- 

 clusively to the library. The old building, 

 now known as the Lloyd Museum, will con- 

 tain the herbarium and the mycological col- 

 lection. The herbarium of pressed plants is 

 estimated at about thirty thousand specimens, 

 chiefly obtained by exchange by C. G. Lloyd 

 during his earlier years. The mycological de- 

 partment contains many thousand dried 

 specimens of fungi, particularly of the Gastro- 

 mycetes, estimated at not less than five thou- 

 sand different collections. There are more 

 specimens of this family ten times over than 



in all the other museums of the world com- 

 bined. 



Building No. 2 was erected in the winter of 

 1907 and 1908. It is four stories, 22^ by 72 

 feet. It is devoted exclusively to botany and 

 pharmacy (with a section on eclectic medi- 

 ciiie), and contains a collection of books 

 among the largest on these subjects. The 

 volumes have not been counted, but some idea 

 of the number may be obtained from the fol- 

 lowing statistics : There are 6,253 linear feet 

 of shelving, and the books now occupy 2,600 

 linear feet of this space. As a shelf is found 

 to hold on the average 429 books to every 50 

 linear feet, the estimated number is 22,308 

 volumes. Cases have been placed in the upper 

 floor, but the other three floors have only wall 

 shelves, with provision made for floor cases in 

 future as the needs of the library may require. 

 When completely filled with shelving the 

 library has a capacity of 11,413 linear feet, 

 su£Bcient to shelve 98,000 volumes. If the col- 

 lection of books continues to increase as it 

 has in the past five or six years, the full 

 capacity of this library will be taken in the 

 next twenty years. The founders propose to 

 make the Lloyd Library in time a practically 

 complete library of its subjects. i 



LEHIGH UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVER- 

 SITY OF LIVERPOOL 



On July 3, the University of Liverjwol, 

 acting on behalf of Lehigh University, under 

 letters of attorney duly authorizing the act, 

 conferred on Horace Field Parshall, the well- 

 known electrical engineer, of London, the 

 honorary degree of master of science. Mr. 

 ParshaU is an American, a graduate of the 

 electrical course at Lehigh University of the 

 year '87. 



The letter of Vice Chancellor Dale, of the 

 University of Liverpool, to Dr. Henry S. 

 Drinker, president of Lehigh University, ac- 

 cepting this duty, is pleasing in its hearty 

 expression of international comity. He says : 



" The Council and Senate of this University 

 have agreed to act on the suggestions that you 

 make, and to confer formally on Mr. Parshall 

 the honorary degree that has been awarded to 

 him by the University over which you preside. 



