The record-union., 1891-12-07
A HANDSOME PRESENT.
The Museum Association is Given the
Nucleus for q Library.


Nucleus for n Library.
Mrs. E. b. Crocker has presented to the
California Museum Association large
and very handsome Office desk complete
IN all its appointments and worth S75.
Also fine walnut library case worth S35.
On the shelves of the case and its draw
ers she has completely filled with 1913 vol
umes as the nucleus of Museum Asso-
citation Library. Many of the books are
very handsomely bound in Russia
leather, embossed Turkish morocco and
elaborately embellished. Others are in
muslin and sheep. OF the whole collec-
ton fully 150 are choice standard works.
in which are over 900 quarto steel plate
engravlngs of the finest order; the other
books are of lesser value, but desirable in
any library.
After this week members of the Mu-
scum Association viii be permitted to
draw these books for brief period, one
volume only to each member at time.
Members can at any time, however, ex-
anime and use the books in the gallery.
In connection with about fifty rare and
costly and very large art works of eX-
ceeding value already in the Art Gallery,
and valued at $500 to 500, the whole col
lection now numbers 243 volumes.
to is valued at $500. The list of the books
she has thus added are given below. The
cases and volumes have been placed in
the directors room, and are free to mem
berS and visitors to examine, but only
members can draw them. The books are:
The London Art Journal, Russian
leather and gold, from 1649 to 1872, q
vols; Catalogue of Art Exhibitions,
Dublin and Paris; Catalogue of Art in
the Universal Exhibition; Pictures and
Painters tF. Addison Richards); British
Schools OF Art, 2 vols; Art, Pictorial and
industrial; Contemporary Biography,
Pacific States, Turkish morocco and gold,
royal quartos; Natural History of New
York, 2lquarto volumes. geology, botany,
mlneralogy, flora, fauna, entomology
and kindred subjects; Universal Cata-
logue of Books on Art, 2 vols: Art
Treasures of Great Britain, royal
quartos, Russia and gold Leonardo Da
VincPs Treatise.on Painting; Handbook
of Painting (1talian schooD, vols;
Handbook of Painting German, Flem-
lsh and Dutch); Art Thoughts, J. J.
Jarvis; Art Hints, j. J. Jarvis; Lauzis'
History of Painting, 3 vols; Illustrated
Library, wonders of European art;
Taine's Art in the Netherlands; Museum
of Painting and Sculpture; Essays on
Art, Gothic; New American Cyclopedia;
The Dore Gallery, one massive royal
quarto in Turkish morocco and gold;
Cunningham'S Cabinet Gallery of Pict-
ures; Dictionary of Recent and Living
Painters; The Table-book of Art; The
Fine Arts, Quarterly Review, 2 vols;
Modern Painters, vols; Byrant's Die
tlonary of Painters and Engravers: His
torlc illustrations of the Bible, vols;
Catalogue of Paris Universal Exhibition;
Iuckerman's Book of Artists; Art Stud
les, j. j. Jarvis; History of Painting in
North Italy, 2 vols; History of Sacra-
mento County; Panorama of Oakland,
CAL, Photographic quarto; Panorama of
Portland, Or, Photographic quarto; The
Comic Blackstone; Biographies of Emf
nent Men, vols; Pennsylvania Dutch
and Other Essays; Paris under the Conn
Montgomery 2 vols; Life of Josiah
Quincy; Dibdin's Library Companion;
Electricity and Electric Telegraph; Dung
lison's Human Physiology; Watson's
Practice of Physic; American Farmers
Cyclopedia; McMahon's American Gar
dener; American Naturalist, vols; Cali
fornia Culturist, vols; Legislative Man
German; French-English Dictionary;
Microscopic Fungi; Natural History lin
FrenchI; Artistic sh-Breeding; The
Vinedressers' Manual: American Fruit
Culturist; New Gymnastics for Men,
Women and Children; British
Birds in Their Haunts; The Nat
ural Wealth of California; Cen
tennial Universal History; Washburne's
History of Paraguay, two volumes; Life
of the Marquis Of Worcester (Dirks);
Woods Natural History, three volumes;
History of the Great Republic; The Uni
verse; UnciviliZed Races of the World;
Bryant's United States History, four vol
umes; American Agriculture, 8 volumes;
Downing's Fruit aud Fruit Trees; The
Horticulturist; Downing's Horticultur-
list, five volumes; Micrographic Diction-
ary; The Genera of Mollusca, three vol
umes; Loudon's Encyclopedia of Agri-
Quaritche's Catalogue of Books, two vol
umes, and several bound files of jo urnals,
catalogues, reference works and reports