Zeitschrift für allgemeine physiologie

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Single titles

Bible. Eliot's Indian Bible. Cambridge, 1685

Colles, Christopher. Survey of the roads of the United States. n. p. 1789. 86 maps

Description topographique de six cents mille acres de terres dans L'Amérique Septentrionale. Paris, 1792

Du Sommerard, A. Les arts au moyen âge. Paris, Hotel de Cluny, etc. 1834-46. IIV.

Great Britain. Historical manuscripts commission. Report. Lond. 1870-1913. 78v.

Jesuit relations

1637 (Le Jeune) Paris, Cramoisy, 1637

1691 (Le Clercq) Paris, Auroy, 1691

Morris, William.

24v.

Collected works. Lond. Longmans, 1910-15.

Theobald, F. V. Monograph of the culicidae or mosquitoes. Lond. British Museum, 1901-10. 4v. text and Iv. plates

Meserve's historical portraits. With the appearance of the index, constituting volume 28, the very valuable and interesting series of historical portraits from the collection of Frederick H. Meserve is completed. The series, of which only four copies have been printed, comprises, according to its introduction, nearly eight thousand photographic portraits, of the "carte-de-visite" size, chiefly contemporaries of Abraham Lincoln, though there are also many of a later period. The prints were made directly from negatives, the basis of the collection being those from the cameras of Matthew B. Brady, to whose galleries in New York and Washington came the people who were making history during and after the Civil War-presidents and their cabinets, members of Congress, visitors from the states, travelers, actors, clergymen and others of world renown. Each left with Brady one or more negatives which have never been "retouched," and which now become historical documents, "original sources."

These with many others, some being photographs of paintings and engravings, form this most interesting collection, to which the

index is a necessary key. There are representatives from all sorts of occupations, from the crowned heads of Europe to the "living skeleton" of Barnum's early circus.

The arrangement is alphabetic under several classes, there being three volumes of Authors, artists, journalists and editors; five of Statesmen, jurists and other public persons; thirteen of the Civil, military and naval officers of the Civil War; one each of Clergymen and of Foreign rulers, nobles and other celebrities; three of the Stage; and last of all, 108 Lincoln portraits, together with many others of his relatives, associates and friends, and of the scenes connected with his birth, life and assassination. There is in most cases only a name under each item, but many have also a single line to show the historical significance.

While the index is a fine piece of letter-press, it lacks some desirable features, such as references, in all cases instead of a few, to the later married names of noted women, and the analysis of all groups; for example Père Hyacinthe appears under his real name, Charles Loyson; Buffalo Bill under Cody only; while no note is made of Edith Kingdon's marriage to George Gould; and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward is entered under Phelps only. It would seem that such an unusual collection deserved the fullest treatment, particularly when there was no need to consider the question of expense.

In natural connection with this series another set is worthy of mention, namely, the photographic history of the Civil War, in ten volumes, published by the Review of Reviews Co. under the editorship of Francis Trevelyan Miller. This is the Brady-Gardner collection of field photographs of the Civil War, "with text by many special authorities." As Mr Meserve mentions the Review of Reviews set as having been used in identifying some portraits of Civil War officers, it would seem that the two together constitute a most remarkable collection covering that period.

Gifts. A summary of gifts to the Library since the fire is given below. For purposes of statistics no distinction is made between gifts and exchanges. Under the heading " Pamphlets" are included annual reports and all other unbound volumes not classed as serials. The material noted under the heading "Miscellaneous" consists almost entirely of library blanks and forms donated to form a reference collection for the Library School.

Specially to be noted among the many generous gifts of the year are the following:

From Franklin H. Hough, Romeyn B. Hough, Minnie M. Hough, Elida C. Hough and A. Lincoln Hough, the children of Franklin B. Hough, the historian of Lewis, Franklin and Jefferson counties, the Library received a most interesting and useful collection of books, pamphlets, clippings and manuscripts, brought together by their father during his lifetime. Doctor Hough's indefatigable vigilance and industry in collecting, and his conscientious preservation and classification of every manuscript and pamphlet that came into his hands relating to the science, education and history of New York State make this a most unusual deposit.

The printed matter, including 450 bound volumes and upwards of 5000 pamphlets, is an outright gift to the State of New York and forms an important addition to the Library's source material on early American education and New York local history.

The manuscripts, comprising 50 bound volumes and hundreds of separate documents, are deposited in the Library during the life of Doctor Hough's children, after which title passes to the State. In addition, the gift includes the manuscript, with a mass of related documentary material, of the Abstract of the Laws of the State of New York, a work which occupied much of Doctor Hough's time for over twenty years and which at the date of his death was ready for publication in six volumes. Further details regarding the manuscript material are given on pages 33-34 of this report.

A peculiar propriety and interest attach to these gifts, for Doctor Hough a half century ago was closely associated in his work with T. Romeyn Beck and David Murray, former secretaries of the Board of Regents, and was the author of the substantial "Statistical

and Historical Record of The University of the State of New York," published in 1885, the year of his death. In the proceedings of the University Convocation of that year appears a considerable account of Doctor Hough's exceedingly versatile and busy life, with a most impressive list of his writings, running to over 300 titles. Through the courtesy of Mr Marshall Clifford Lefferts of New York City, member of a family of book collectors, and with the permission of the present Mr J. Pierpont Morgan, the State Library was presented with a copy of the "Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Libraries of William Morris, Richard Barnett and the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan." This admirable example of modern bibliography and typography was printed by the Chiswick Press in four folio volumes, in 1906, under the personal supervision of the late Mr Morgan, who presented to the State Library a copy which was later consumed in the fire of 1911. It is a particularly gratifying courtesy which brings to the Library's new collections a second copy of this notable set.

From Mr William Church Osborne was received a valuable set of four volumes descriptive of the Hoentschel collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled: "Collections Georges Hoentschel; notices de André Pératé et Gaston Brière," Paris, 1908. There were also received from Mr E. J. Tompkins of Albany, 75 photographs and prints of old and new Albany; from the Utica Public Library 146 volumes of newspapers (including well-bound volumes of the New York Times, 1901-13, and the Albany Daily Argus, January 1841-June 1845); and from the Canadian Library of Parliament over 500 volumes of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan and Ohio documents missing from the Library's files.

The second district Public Service Commission deposited with the Library its noncurrent file of technical periodicals of the last 10 years.

Exchanges. The addition of 69 new names to the exchange mailing list brings the present total to 1388, still 1010 below the record for 1909, the last year before the fire for which we have statistics. Of these, 141 are for foreign institutions and 377 for registered libraries of New York State. The mailing list exists primarily for the distribution of publications of the University. The State Library is as yet only to a very limited extent a distributing agent for the documents of the State as a whole. By law.

it distributes on exchange account a certain number of copies of the session laws, court reports, the annual series of "Collected documents" and many special documents like the Messages of the Governor, the Sulzer Impeachment Proceedings, etc. Similarly, it may distribute, to the number of 50 copies, the department edition of the various state department reports to the Legislature.

During the year the order section has distributed 16,176 pieces, practically all on exchange account. Not included in these figures are the session laws distributed by the law library, and the bills and miscellaneous publications sent by the legislative reference section to other legislative reference libraries.

Duplicates. The duplicate collection of documents has received additions from other state departments, notably from the Board of Charities, the Board of Health and the Executive Chamber, which together have supplied about 2000 volumes and 9000 pamphlets. It has received large accessions also from the Education Department, which, for lack of storage space, was obliged to turn over all its stock of the Library's noncurrent publications. The number of documents of other state departments and of collected documents arranged and ready for use remains substantially unchanged from a year ago, when the collected documents were reported at 100,000 and the miscellaneous department publications at 25,000.

Serials and annuals. Under the term " serials" are included all. annuals, biennials etc. received regularly through purchase, the term "annuals" being thus limited to annuals and less frequent publications received by gift or exchange. On the serials list there are now 3445 titles (excluding documents, which are checked by the legislative reference section), of which 209 were added during the year by gift or exchange and 50 by purchase. Included in the total are 87 newspapers, 67 received by gift and 20 by purchase. Of the remaining 3358, 1497 are received by gift or exchange and 1861 by purchase.

On the annuals list, excluding documents and education annuals, there are 4020 titles, 274 more than in 1914. The education annuals, including documents, now number 5901.

The documents section receives currently 2801 annuals and 880 serials. The total number of annuals currently received in all departments is 12,722, and of serials 4325, making a total of 17,047 sequents of all classes.

Binding. The following comparative table indicates briefly the character of the binding during the last two fiscal years.