The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
Yale Library Has
 1,983,338 Books
University Library Reports Over 6OOOO Volumes Added
 During the Past Year

graphed copy of The Book of Christopher Columbus" from the author, the French ambassador to the United States; the first two VOL umes of the Monument der An- tichita Christiana" edited by Giu- scope Wilpert, and published under the auspices of the PontificiIo Isti- tuto di Archeologia Cristiana, from John J. Raskob; several publica- tions of the Ikutoku Foundation, | through the courtesy of the Marquis Maeda; Felicien Leuridant's La Bibliotheque du Chateau de Beloeil." from Prince Albert de Ligne. the States; three editions of Ruskins "Harbours of England" with en- cravings by J. M. V. Turner, the privately printed Letter of William Blake" and the Catalogue of the R. B. Adam Library Relating to Dr Samuel Johnson and His Era" from Robert Borthwick Adam, M. A. Hon. 1880; several privately printed | books describing her collection. from Mrs Bella C. Landauer; Dry dens "All for Love-" printed by John Henry Nash, together with a facsimile of the 1878 edition, from William Andrews Clark, Jr: and eight of his own publications, for the most part issued in limited editions, from Douglas c. McMurtrie.
 Among the manuscripts received were three volumes of the Records of the Moral Society, and the Con- stitution and Bylaws and Record of Transactions of the Rhetorical Society of the Theological Depart ment in Yale College, from Morgan B. Brainard, B. A., 1900.
 The chief purchases with gift from Leonard c. Hanna, Jr, of the class of 1913, were Les Costumes Regionaux de la France" and the further volumes of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese Bronzes."
 From Francis P. Garvan. B. A., 1897, came the C. F. G. P. Schwerdt Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, Illus trated in a Catalogue of Books three volumes, and several other volumes dealing with hunting in general.
 A bequest of $1,OOO from George w. Baldwin, B. A., 1853. was re- ceived, and by request from Pro- lessor Theodore S. Woolsey $15,OO0 has been added to his fund for the purchase of books on international law. diplomatic history. and collec- tions of treaties. Startling w. Childs also added $110,O00 to his fund in memory of his father, Albert H. Childs, B. A., 1861. A fund of $1,OOO has also been established as a me- morial to Ganson Goodyear Depew, B. A., 1919, through his classmates. Hamilton Hadley and Barclay Rob- inson. Other library funds increased during the year through the endow- ment of 1926 were the Frank Alt schul fund, $425; Henry Belin, Jr, Memorial fund. $3,000; George Parmly Day fund, $1,620: J. Ben jamin Dimmick fund, $200; Els worth Eliot fund, $2,500; Marjorie Walter Goodhart fund, $1,010; John the Samuel Amos York fund. $500.
 The more important purchases of the year came, for the most part, from the library of the late John Camp Williams, which was sold at auction in November, 1929. These included the Holinshed Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Ireland" two volumes, London. 1877; and Sir John Harrington's translation of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," Lon- don, 1891. both purchased from the Child's fund.
 With the Altschul fund were bought Caesarius de Heisterbach 'Dialogus Miraculorum," Cologne, 14S1, and Vincent de Beauvais "Speculum Doctrinale," Strassburg, ca 1474; with the DeSilver fund, John Dalton "A New System of Chemical Philosophy" Manchester, 180S-1S10. and Lavoisier "Traite Elementaire de Chimie," Paris. 17S9; with the Childs fund, John Dome, Deaths Duell," London, 1632.
 A tribute to May Humphreys, of the university library staff, who died last year, is contained in Pro- lessor Keogh's report.
 "Mr May Humphreys, B. A.. 1890, head of the purchase department for many years, died on June 9. just before the fortieth reunion of his class" Professor Keogh says. "He joined the staff of the library in September, 1913, as an assistant in book buying. and became head of the department in 1919, with the rank of assistant professor. MT Humphreys was a good inguist; !; read Greek because he liked it. was widely read, and was particular ly interested in English and French history and literature. He had an inborn and cultivated feeling for rare books and good ones, and a knowledge of market values; and many of the finer additions to the library in the last ten years we owe to his watchful eye and his knowl- edge of the book trade. Personally he was quiet. retiring. even shy. He