but carefully selected library of such books as are indispensable for 

 reference alike for student and for teacher. 



The President and Fellows are at present unable to do much more 

 than continue the small annual sum which they have hitherto appropriated 

 to the old laboratory for its current expenses, and, therefore, in order 

 to raise the funds required, we are obliged to ask aid from the friends 

 of the University, and from those interested in the development of this 

 comparatively new science, whose present is so full of interest and 

 whose future oT promise. 



This letter is sent to you as to one who will certainly be interested 

 in the facts we have stated, and in sympathy with our desire to see this 

 department placed upon a basis fitting the leading position of the 

 University and the importance of the field of work. Should you feel 

 inclined to make any contribution toward the amount needed, your doing 

 so would be most gratefully acknowledged by the Corporation of the 

 University, and by the Professor of the Department. 



(Visiting Committee of the H. U. Department of Philosophy.) 



