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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

REPORT OF THE

LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30

1930

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UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1930

THE SEAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Form of gift or bequest to the Library of Congress iv

List of officers v

Report of the Librarian 1

Report of the superintendent of building and disbursing

officer 319

Appendix la. Appropriations and expenditures (tables). 333

lb. Appropriation act, 1930-31 335

II. Report of the Division of Chinese Litera-
ture 341

III. The Act of Congress creating the Library

of Congress Trust Fund Board 391

IV. Legislation affecting the Library 395

V. Festival of Chamber Music 399

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Library of Congress. Exterior view Frontispiece

East Front showing proposed addition Facing page vi

Plat of Library grounds with squares 760 and 761 . Facing page vi

Plan of the cellar Facing page vi

Plan of the basement Facing page vi

Plan of the first or main floor Facing page vi

Plan of the second floor Facing page vi

Plan of the attic Facing page vi

Plan of top decks Facing page vi

Plan of decks next below top decks Facing page vi

Music:

Johannes Brahms — Serenade (Op. 58, No. 8) -Facing page 195

Hans Neusiedler — Lute tablature, Nuremberg, 1536

Facing page 196

FORM OF GIFT OR BEQUEST TO THE LIBRARY

OF CONGRESS

A. Of material:

To the United States of America, to be placed in the
Library of Congress and administered therein by the authori-
ties thereof.

B. Of endowments:

By an act approved March 3, 1925 (see Appendix III to
this report), Congress has created a "Library of Congress
Trust Fund Board," which is a quasi corporation empowered
to receive gifts or bequests of personal property of which the
income is to be applicable to the benefit of the Library, its
collections, or its service.

Endowments for this purpose may therefore hereafter be
made direct to this board.

C. Of money for immediate application :

Such gifts may be made directly to the Librarian, who,
under section 4 of the above-mentioned act, has authority to
accept them, deposit them with the Treasurer of the United
States, and apply them to the purposes specified.

Note. — All gifts or bequests to or for the benefit of the
Library . . . and the income therefrom, are to be exempt
from all Federal taxes.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD

Ex officio :

Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman,
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Chairman of Joint Committee on the

Library.
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, Secretary.

Appointive:

John Barton Payne, Esq., Washington, D. C. (Term expires

April, 1933.)
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Washington, D. C. (Term expires April.

1935.)

LIST OF OFFICERS

LIBRARIANS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE LIBRARY

1802-1S07 — John Beckle.v, Clerk of the House of Representatives
and Librarian.

1807-1815 — Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives and Librarian.

1815-1829— George Watterston.

1829-1861— John Silva Meehan.

1861-1864— John G. Stephenson.

1864-1897 (June 30) — Ainsworth Rand Spofford.

1897 (July 1) -January 17, 1899— John Russell Young.

1899 (April 5)— Herbert Putnam.

LIBRARY STAFF

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

Herbert Putnam — Librarian of Congress.

Frederick William Ashley — Chief Assistant Librarian.

Allen Richards Boyd — Executive Assistant.

Jessica Louise Farnum — Secretary.

divisions

Reading Rooms — Martin Arnold Roberts, superintendent. Charles
Washington Coleman, David Chambers Mearns, chief assistants.
Representatives' reading room — Hugh Alexander Morrison,
George Heron Milne, custodians. Library station at the Capi-
tol — Harold S. Lincoln, custodian. Service for the blind —
Maude G. Nichols, in charge.

Rare Book Room — V. Valta Parma, custodian.

Division of Accessions — Linn R. Blanchard, chief.

Division of Aeronautics — Albert Francis Zahm, chief.

Division of Bibliography .

Binding Division — Arthur R. Kimball, in charge.

Card Division— Charles Harris Hastings, chief.

Catalogue Division^— James B. Childs, chief.

Catalogue, Classification, and Bibliography — Charles -Martel, con-
sultant.

Classification Division — Clarence W. Perley, chief.

Division of Documents — Henry Furst, chief.

Division of Fine Arts— Leicester B. Holland, chief; Elizabeth
Robins Pennell, honorary curator, Pennell-Whistler collections.

Legislative Reference — Herman H. B. Meyer, director.

Mail and Delivery — Samuel M. Croft, in charge.

Division of Manuscripts — J. Franklin Jameson, chief.

Division of Maps — Lawrence Martin, chief.

vi List of Officers

Division of Music — Carl Engel, chief.

Division of Periodicals — Henry S. Parsons, chief.

Division of Chinese Literature— Arthur W. Hummel, chief.

Division of Semitic Literature— Israel Schapiro, chief.

Division of Slavic Literature — Nicholas R. Rodionoff, acting chief.

Smithsonian Division — Frederick E. Brasch, chief; William Lee

Corbin, custodian (office at Smithsonian Institution).
Law Library— John T. Vance, jr., law librarian.
European Representative — Worthington C. Ford.

CONSULTANTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

Consultant in Church History — William H. Allison.
Consultant in Classical Literature — Harold North Fowler.
Consultant in Economics — Victor Selden Clark.
Consultant in English Literature (part year) — Mark A. De Wolfe

Howe.
Consultant in European History — Henry Eldridge Bourne.
Consultant in Hispanic Literature — Senor Don Juan Riano y

Gayangos.
Consultant in Philosophy — William Alexander Hammond.
Consultant in Science — Harry Walter Tyler.
Consultant in Sociology — Joseph Mayer.
Project A — Worthington C. Ford, director of the European

mission.
Project B — Ernest C. Richardson, general director; Ernest

Kletsch, curator of Union Catalogue.
Project C — Seymour de Ricci, compiler and editor; William J.

Wilson, executive secretary.
Honorary Consultant in Military History — Brig. Gen. John

McAuley Palmer (U. S. A., retired).
Honorary Consultant in Geography — Albert Perry Brigham.
Honorary Consultant in Geography— Ray Hughes Whitbeck.
Honorary Consultant in Chinese History and Culture — Kiang

Kang-hu.
Honorary Consultant in Paleography— Elias Avery Lowe (Oxford) .

William Lincoln Brown— Acting Register of Copyrights.

LIBRARY BUILDING AND GROUNDS

William C. Bond — Superintendent.
Charles E. Ray — Chief engineer.
Damon Warren Harding — Electrician.
G. N. Courtade — Captain of the guard.

DISBURSING OFFICE — LIBRARY AND BOTANIC GARDEN

Wade H. Rabbitt — Disbursing officer.

LIBRARY BRANCH, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

Printing — James H. Heslet, foreman.
Binding — George Erler, foreman.

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REPORT

THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C, December 1, 1930.

Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith my report as
Librarian of Congress for the year ending June 30, 1930.
That portion of it which deals with the care of the physi-
cal establishment (excepting such matters as now come
within the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol)
appears in the joint statement of the superintendent of
the building, William C. Bond, and the disbursing officer,
Wade H. Rabbitt, beginning at page 319, submitting the
usual analysis of expenditures, including also receipts
and expenditures from trust funds. The report of the
Acting Register of Copyrights is published separately.

As usual, the particulars of our operations must be dis-
tributed under the several divisions conducting them.
These introductory pages are therefore limited to a men-
tion of those especially notable.

In any such mention the legislation affecting us is of Legislation.
first concern. That of the past session was remarkable.

1. The regular appropriation act (effective July 1)
carried several increases of signal importance; among
them, the addition of 26 positions (including 10 high-
grade cataloguers, rounding out the group of 30 requested
two years ago) ; $7,810 additional for piece and hour
work in the card division ; $23,500 additional for printing
and binding; and $75,000 for the purchase of books, in-
cluding $50,000 specifically for law books. Under the
Architect of the Capitol they included also $10,000 for

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the preparation of plans for the annex and incidental
changes in the main building.

A regrettable omission was any specific provision
($11,000 was asked) for the normal increase of salaries
within the grades; but we hope this will be remedied
next year. [Note. — In regarding the total of our annual
budget, now normally over two and a quarter million,
it must be borne in mind that over a half million is off-
set by receipts from copyright fees and sales of cards —
covered into the Treasury.]
coiiins bui. 2. A quite independent measure (the so-called Col-

lins bill, H. R. 12696, see appendix) authorized an ap-
propriation of $1,500,000 for the acquisition of the Voll-
behr collection of fifteenth century books (incunabula),
comprising 3,000 items plus a copy on vellum of the
Gutenberg 42-line Bible known as the St. Blasius-St.
Paul copy. And the final deficiency appropriation act
carried the actual appropriation. Both acts became law
on the last day of the session.

3. An act (H. R. 8372, approved June 13, see appen-
dix) authorized the actual construction (on the site al-
ready authorized and appropriated for) of our Annex
building, at a total cost of $6,500,000.

Measures which did not reach final enactment were (1)
an appropriation (struck out in final conference) of
$50,000 for the publication of the continuation to date
of the Scott and Beaman Index to Federal Legislation;
and (2) authorizing an appropriation of $100,000 per
annum for the production under our direction of addi-
tional books in embossed type for the use of the blind.
[This latter measure was not initiated or submitted by
the Library itself.]

Taken as a whole the legislation of the session carries
a remarkable assurance for the future, not merely in the
specific resources which it provides, but in the evident
disposition of Congress toward it, an acceptance by
Congress of its appropriate destiny as not merely a col-
lection of material for purposes purely utilitarian, but
an embodiment, so far as may now be possible, of influ-
ences for the promotion of culture.

Report of tlie Librarian of Congress 3

GIFTS AND ENDOWMENTS

The most substantial addition to our resources bv Guggenheim fund

J Aeronautics.

donation effective during the year was the grant from
(he Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics,
briefly noted in my report for last year. That grant,
comprising in all the sum of $140,000, was in part an
endowment, in part a gift " for immediate application."
The endowment consisted of a fund of $75,000 for the
establishment and maintenance of a " Chair of aero-
nautics"; the gift of $51,000 directly applicable to the
acquisition of material, and of $14,000 to cover personal
services pending suitable provision through appropria-
tions, which it was understood would be asked for after
a period had demonstrated the utility of the undertaking.
An experience of a year had been assumed to be requisite.
No such delay proved necessary. The grant becoming
available in November, an expert in the subject — Prof.
Albert F. Zahm — uniquely equipped for the " chair," was
promptly secured ; four collections of material (including
one, the Tissandier, especially rich and distinguished)
were acquired by purchase, and by March 1 had joined
our own existing collection and. the Langley, transferred
to us from the Smithsonian. Also, the announced pres-
ence with us of a specialist of wide repute with such re-
sources at his command, had at once induced numerous
demands for strikingly important and useful service.

By the middle of the session, therefore, the division,
with the finest of existing collections, and an expert serv-
ice, was fully functioning and had demonstrated its
utility. Instead of delaying the request for a govern-
mental provision, I therefore submitted it at once to
Congress in the form of a supplemental estimate, calling
for a stipend of (Grade 4, professional) $3,800 (to be
complemented by the income, $3,750, from the endow-
ment) for the chief of the division, and one of $2,600 for a
chief assistant to him. Both were granted in the appro-
priation act effective July 1 (1930), and the first report
of the division appears below.

Except for the endowment which constituted part of
the Guggenheim grant and that of the Beethoven Asso-
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elation (Sonneck Memorial), the subjoined list represents
in every item a gift (of money) " for immediate appli-
cation." It includes continued installments of the gifts
by Mr. Rockefeller, jr., under his " pledges " for Projects
A and B, and also installments of the two grants by the
General Education Board for Projects C and D, de-
scribed in my last report. Also, for completeness, install-
ments from the endowment by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague

Coolidge.

To the items in aid of the " Folk Song Project " (Ar-
chive of American Folk Song) should now be added one
of $1,300 voted by the Council of Learned Societies and
received since July 1.

An "Archive " with a different field is prospected in the
grant from the Carnegie Corporation of $5,000 for the
preliminaries to a collection here of photographs and
photographic negatives of early American architecture.
The project for it is explained in the report of the chief
of the division of fine arts, as follows :

Prompted by the interest aroused by the exhibition of Mr.
Wigmore's photographs of Virginia churches and that of Mrs.
Devore's photographs (executed for her by Miss Frances John-
ston) of Old Fredericksburg, and by Miss Johnston's deposit with
us of her photographic negatives, the idea was conceived of
establishing at the Library of Congress a national repository for
photographic negatives of early American architecture, to preserve
and make available to students of history and others pictorial rec-
ords of our rapidly disappearing ancestral homes.

Indorsed by the American Institute of Architects and
by various other bodies to which it has been communi-
cated, the project has received enthusiastic approval,
which will, we hope, take effect in the cooperative effort
necessary to an adequate result. The grant from the
Carnegie Corporation enables a start to be made by the
assemblage and organization of the existing sources and
material, and also to commission Miss Johnston for some
further work in the southern field.

All such items not " continuations " are more particu-
larly explained under folloAving sections of the report
[accessions, manuscripts, maps, music, fine arts].

Report of the Librarian of Congress 5

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GIFT FUND

(Gifts of money received during the period July 1, 1929, to June

30, 1930)

Atherton, Percy Lee : For purchase of Schumann manu-
script (part payment) $50.00

Beethoven Association: For enrichment of music col-
lection 1, 000. 00

Carnegie Corporation of New York:

For Folk Song Project 2,500.00

For collection of photographs of early American

architecture 2, 500. 00

Also on July 1, 1930 2,500.00

Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague:
For music —

From Northern Trust Co $23,812.87

From Carl Engel (honorarium re-
turned) 3,200.00

27,012.87

Friends of Music: For acquisition of material for music

collection 1, 000. 00

General Education Board:

For Project C, Union Catalogue 10,000.00

For Project D, the Consultants 15, 000. 00

Guggenheim Fund, Daniel : For promotion of aero-
nautics (material and interim service) 65,000.00

Mellon, A. W. : For purchase of collection of Chinese

manuscript maps 12, 500. 00

Miller, Mary S. : For folk-song project 250. 00

Parker, Annie C. B. : For folk-song project 1, 000. 00

Pfeiffer, G. A. : For transportation charges on books —

gift of Mr. Pfeiffer 25.00

Rockefeller, Jr., John v D. :

For Project A — Acquisition of source
material on American History —

Year 1928-29 $10,000.00

Year 1929-30 90,000.00

100, 000. 00

For Project B — Enlargement of the

bibliographic apparatus —

Year 1928-29 5,000.00

Year 1929-30 45,000.00

50, 000. 00

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ENDOWMENTS

The endowments now held by the Library of Congress
Trust Fund Board consist of the following:

(All bonds except where the original gift consisted of stocks or

other securities)

Face
values

The James B. Wilbur fund 1 for the acquisition of service-
able reproductions of manuscript source material on
American history in European archives. Received in
August, 1925, stocks now yielding $7,000, later in-
creased by sale of subscription rights, now yielding
$2,200 additional $144,000

The Richard Rogers Bowker fund for bibliographic
service. Received in January, 1926, now yielding an-
nually about $590, of which six-sevenths is paid to the
donor or his wife during the lifetime of either 10, 000

The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge fund, 2 for music. Re-
ceived in November, 1926, miscellaneous stocks, bonds,
and notes, since increased through reinvestments, yield-
ing annually about $8,500 134,875

The William Evarts Benjamin fund for a " Chair of
American History." Received in April, 1927, yielding
annually about $3,250 32, 500

The Carnegie Corporation of New York fund for a
" Chair of Fine Arts." Received in April, 1927, now
yielding annually about $3,733 82,400

The Archer M. Huntington fund for the acquisition of
Hispanic literature. Received November, 1927, present
annual yield. $4,200 105.000

The Archer M. Huntington fund for a consultant in His-
panic literature. Received Apr. 25, 1928, now yielding
annually $2,475 49,500

The Beethoven Association fund (Sonneck Memorial)
" to the aid and advancement of musical research."
(Received in September, 1929; present annual yield
$500 10, 000

The Daniel Guggenheim fund for a " Chair of Aero-
nautics." Received in November, 1929, at present yield-
ing annually $3,750 75,000

1 Another endowment of $100,000 from Mr. Wilbur for a " Chair " is
not included because not yet in hand.

2 In addition to the above fund Mrs. Coolidge has assigned to the Library,
in the interest of its Music Division, the entire net income (approximately
$24,000 annually) from a fund of $400,000, held in trust by the Northern
Trust Co. of Chicago for her benefit under the terms of the will of her
father.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 7

The face value of the securities in the several funds is,
in the aggregate, $643,275, estimated to have a present
market value of $765,000.

Not included in the above list, because not yet in hand, ^'exw v. BaMne.
is an endowment of touching significance provided under
the will of a member of our staff, whose death on May
10 caused great sorrow among us. This was Alexis
Babine, chief of our Slavic division since 1927, but dur-
ing a prior period of eight years (1902-1910) a valued
member of our catalogue and classification force. His
will, dated the day before his death, after specifying a
bequest of $500 to his stepmother in Russia, leaves the
entire residue of his estate to the Library of Congress
Trust Fund Board, " for the use of the division of Slavic
literature in the increase of its collections in Russian folk-
lore, Russian literature, Russian political and social his-
tory, and the history of Russian fine arts." It designates
" the Librarian of Congress " as executor.

In amount the estate is of course inconsiderable, and
depleted by the expenses of his final illness. But the
spirit and intent of the bequest have a value incalculable.

A minute upon Mr. Babine's career, attainments, and
characteristics appears below.

The death on June 11, 1930, of Mr. Henry C. Folger Bmw c. Foiger.
lamentably deprives of his personal presence and atten-
tion the project (the Shakespeare Memorial Library)
adjacent to us, to the planning and construction of which
his final years were devoted. His will, however, dated
March 10, 1927, makes a provision for the memorial,
which, while, as was anticipated, it vests the trust in a
private corporation, contains a contingent specification
which evidences a confidence in our Trust Fund Board
deserving quotation. The provision is as follows :

Sixth. In case the said trustees of Amherst College, or their
successors, shall fail or refuse to accept the trust herein created,
or shall fail to comply with any of the several clauses or any of
the conditions or provisions of the foregoing fifth paragraph
hereof, or if said Amherst College and said board of trustees
should cease to exist, then and in that event the bequests and
devises herein made to said trustees shall be revoked, forfeited,
and terminated and the property bequeathed and devised and
held by them hereunder shall be assigned, transferred, and vest
in the trustees of the University of Chicago, and their successors

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as such trustees, who shall thereupon hold same under the same
trusts, conditions, and provisions as if they had been originally
designated herein as trustees of said property, except that in
such case any of the income herein provided to be taken out, paid,
or used for the benefit of Amherst College shall be taken out,
paid, or used for the benefit of said University of Chicago ; and if
said trustees of the University of Chicago, or their successors,
shall fail or refuse to accept the trust herein created, or shall
fail to comply with any of the several clauses or any of the con-
ditions or provisions of the foregoing fifth paragraph hereof, or
if said University of Chicago and said board of trustees should
cease to exist, then and in that event the bequests and devises
herein made to said trustees shall be revoked, forfeited, and
terminated and the property bequeathed and devised and held
by them hereunder shall be assigned and transferred and vest in
the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board with the same powers
and subject to the same conditions as if they had originally been
named herein as trustees, and upon the further condition that
they keep the said library intact in a separate library building,
as a distinct and separate part of the Congressional Library
under the name of " Folger Shakespeare Memorial," and that the
income herein bequeathed for the use of said colleges, or either
of them, shall be used as the residue of the income for the upkeep
and additions to said library.

The trust has been accepted by the trustees of Amherst
College. The principal fund vested in it will be not
less than $10,000,000, exclusive of the cost of the build-
ing, at this date nearing completion.

Mr. Folger's providence for the future of the institu-
tion — in the consideration of which his wife, who sur-
vives him, was intimate — extended also to the selection
of an administrator for it. That the man selected,
William Adams Slade, proved to be an accomplished
veteran of our own staff has been gratifying and assur-
ing. The selection has been adopted by the trustees of
Amherst.

BUILDING

The fiscal year witnessed the conclusion of the construc-
tion extending the three upper levels of the northeast
bookstack over the east and southeast stacks. The re-
sultant increase in the accommodation includes (1) on
the top level (A), with natural light, 26 additional
" study rooms," and a large central area in part occupied

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by a collection of reference books for ready use of the
investigators on these levels as a whole; also a large
"conference" room; (2) on the level next below (B),
also with natural light, 60 desks, and in the central area,
shelving; on the third below (C), shelving for 33,000
volumes; and on the fourth (D), which was the level of
the former " sorting room," space for upward of a
hundred of our own workers engaged upon the develop-
ment of the Union Catalogue and other bibliographic
apparatus. This fourth level is dependent upon artificial
light and ventilation ; but with the modern, " daylight,"
incandescent lamps, a copious forced ventilation, and the
ample head room (14 feet) provided over the working
spaces, the conditions are tolerable; and in the summer
season even superior to those previously assigned.

The accommodations on the second level (B) have per-
mitted the concentration there of the main staff of the
legislative reference division, including the section for-
merly located in the map division and the group engaged
upon the State Law Index, incidentally relieving of their
presence the map division and the Chinese, and per-
mitting more suitable provision for the administrative
staff concerned with the latter.

The present assignment of so much of the added fa-
cilities, including certain of the study rooms, to the use
of our own staff necessarily limits the amount of them
available for the special investigators from without, for
whose ultimate benefit particularly they were designed.
Upon the completion of the annex building, however,
much more of the space can be released to their use.

The plans reproduced in this report indicate the " lay-
out " of these levels. They include also preliminary
sketch plans of the incidental modifications proposed of
a section of the east front of our present building, en-
abling it to meet the tunnel (from the annex) halfway
and also, most fortunately, (1) amplifying the spaces for
our mail and shipping division, with a suitable garage
adjacent; (2) providing spacious accommodation for our
developing " Bibliographic apparatus," including the
Union Catalogue; and (3) notably, providing an ample

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" treasure room " for our rare book collection, where the
rarities acquired by, or intrusted to, us may be housed in
dignity and security and consulted under suitable quiet
and seclusion.

The prospectively adequate provision for our general
bibliographic apparatus does not in itself solve the prob-
lem of the public catalogue of our own collection, which
is now occupying one-fourth of the area of the main
reading room and can not there be extended further
without fatally inconvenient intrusion upon the reading
desks. A solution may have to be sought in a subdivision
of it, with the relegation of the subject portion to a space
cleared in the adjacent east stack.

INCREASE OF THE COLLECTIONS

iiy gift- It will be noticed that numerous of the gifts of money

were applicable to the enrichment of our collections.
This was, of course, true of the large sum ($100,000) in-
trusted to us by Mr. Rockefeller for the acquisition of
reproductions of source material in American history
(Project A), and of $51,000 of the $140,000 constituting
the grant from the Guggenheim fund, the former of
which has during the year increased our manuscript col-
lection by nearly a half million additional facsimiles,
and the latter brought under our roof the finest aggre-
gate of the literature of aeronautics existing in any single
institution. Secretary Mellon's gift of $12,500 (the sec-
ond from him in the interest of our Orientalia) has se-
cured to us permanently the uniquely interesting Hummel
collection of Chinese manuscript maps, the ownership of
which we had urgently desired. The gifts of the Bee-
thoven Association ($1,000, now an annual contribution),
of the Friends of Music ($1,000, the second in its series),
and of Mr. Percy Atherton have brought to our music
division items of rarity and distinction; and the contri-
butions to our " folk-song project " have added funda-
mental material to our " archives " of American folk

song.

The direct gifts of material have also been numerous.
For a list of them (incomplete but representative) I must

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refer particularly to the sections of the report under
"Accessions," " Manuscripts," " Maps," " Music," and the
" Fine Arts." The accessions by gift to the manuscript
division, always impressive, have included during the
past year a brilliant item in the first " fair copy " of
Jefferson's draft of a constitution for his State of Vir-
ginia (the gift of Mr. William Evarts Benjamin) ; addi-
tional manuscript Orientalia, informing and charming,
from Mr. Kirkor Minassian; the Jeannette Connor Thur-
ber collection relating to Florida; and numerous groups
of family papers of concern to the historian, among them
the Bromwell. Shippen, Knox, Breckenriclge, Brecken-
ridge Long, and Elihu Root. The large group embodying
the business records of the Cooper-Hewitt organizations,
and dating back to Peter Cooper, has important data for
our economic history. The Alexander Hamilton papers,
placed with us by the present Alexander Hamilton and
his brother (Pierpont M.), though merely a deposit, will
be accessible for study. They comprise no less than 479
pieces of extraordinary interest. A large collection of
autographs formed by Capt. F. L. Pleadwell (U. S. N.,
retired) was also deposited. The collection of roto-
graphs (of medieval and early modern manuscripts)
deposited by the Modern Language Association has been
increased to 144.

To the music division the outstanding gift of material
during the year was that by Mr. Templeton Strong (now
residing in Geneva) of manuscript scores, etc., of his own
compositions, and many of those of Edward MacDowell,
together with much correspondence relating to the latter.
The division of fine arts has been benefited by the gift
of over 80 etched copper plates produced by the late
E. K. K. Wetherill, of Philadelphia, painter, etcher, and
former pupil of Whistler; by the gift by Mr. F. M.
Wigmore of the collection of photographs of Parish
churches originally deposited by him for exhibit; by the
deposit by Miss Frances B. Johnston of her large col-
lection of photographic plates and prints, the accumula-
tion of many years of her notable achievements in
photography ; and by the gift from Mrs. E. Crane Chad-
bourne, of Washington (a purchase by her in our behalf),

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Purchases.

Vollbehr
collection.

of a large collection of Japanese woodblock and other
prints, recording the impressions made upon the Japa-
nese by the Occident in their early contacts, beginning
with Commodore Perry.

The Chief of the map division exults in certain rarities
within the field of cartography disclosed in transfers to
us from other establishments of the Government.

Among the miscellanea received by gift I would call
special attention to the very much appreciated group —
books, autographs, and " association " pieces — presented
by Mrs. Robert Barrett Browning, interesting in them-
selves, and especially valued for the kindly interest
which induced them.

In spite of the inadequacy of the appropriation for
purchase (now, happily, to be partially remedied) there
have been feasible a few purchases en bloc, duly noted
under "Accessions," among them one of a collection of
nearly 3,000 French plays, and a large private library
(comprising 28,000 items) in the field of Portuguese
literature.

The outstanding acquisition of the year (effected,
however, just after its close) was that of the (Otto H. F.)
Vollbehr collection of fifteenth century books (3,000 mis-
cellaneous items, together with a copy on vellum — one of
the three perfect copies existing — of the Gutenberg
forty-two-line Bible).

The history of this acquisition is singular and notable.
The main collection, gathered by Doctor Vollbehr after
the war and when conditions were peculiarly favorable,
had for several years been in this country, having been
brought here by him for exhibit at the Eucharistic Con-
gress in Chicago. For the Gutenberg Bible he had with
the Benedictine Monastery at St. Paul, in Carinthia, a
contract of purchase entered into in 1926. Doctor Voll-
behr — not by vocation a dealer in books, but a retired
scientist, who, after an accident, had been exhorted to
take up " collecting " as a diversion — had ambitions for
the collection quite apart from considerations of profit
to himself, although, like other collectors, a profit to him-
self through a sale of it was a warrantable expectation.

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He desired to see it remain in this country, the perma-
nent possession of some research library, and preferably
the Library of Congress. As time elapsed this latter
disposition of it became almost an obsession with him,
accentuated by his gift to us of two special collections
(one of printers' marks, one of woodcuts) of great scope
and practical value.

Representing as it did the investment of practically
his entire fortune, the collection of incunabula could not
be tendered as a gift. He conceived the idea, however,
that some American citizen might contribute one-half
the commercial value of it (which he then without the
Bible reckoned at $3,000,000) ; in which case he professed
willingness to forego the remaining half.

For nearly two years, assisted by admirers of the collec-
tion, he sought such a citizen. By last autumn the quest
had failed, and the collection was to return to Europe
to be auctioned off. On December 3, 1929, however, Rep-
resentative Collins, of Mississippi, introduced in Con-
gress a bill for the acquisition of it through special
appropriation, describing it, however, as consisting of
4,500 items (for he included 1,500 upon which Doctor
Vollbehr had merely an option) plus the vellum copy of
the Gutenberg, for which Doctor Vollbehr was under
contract to pay a sum which, including interest, services,
and export duty, would exceed $300,000.

Incidentally, the bill proposed that when placed in the
Library the collection should be known as the Herbert
Putnam Collection of Incunabula.

Quite irrespective of the embarrassing compliment to
me which I regarded as but a friendly gesture on the
part of a legislator warmly interested in the Library),
such a proposal caused me consternation. I feared its
effect not merely upon my general repute with Congress
for moderation but upon recommendations then pending,
including the regular appropriation bills, and a bill to
authorize an expenditure of over $6,000,000 for the con-
struction of the Annex. I felt, therefore, obliged not
merely to abstain from any advocacy of the measure but
to keep entirely aloof from the discussion upon it, save

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to recognize the extraordinary interest of the material,
to agree that the possession of it by the Library would
greatly enhance its prestige and abilities, and to concede
that the acquisition of it by Congress upon its own
initiative would greatly impress the world of culture,
and would favorably influence many a collector of rarities
to choose the Library as the donee or legatee of them.
This attitude I preserved until the passage of the bill by
the House.

Mr. Collins persisted, and speedily brought to the sup-
port of his bill not merely a considerable interest among
his colleagues but a " public opinion " expressed in the
press and in numerous letters, not merely from people
with passion for the rare and curious but from citizens
at large whose sentiment and emotion seemed to be
stirred by the prospect that our Congress might by its
enactment demonstrate a sensibility to " things cultural "
with which neither it nor our country is habitually
credited.

The volume and intensity of this opinion was increased
by a speech of Mr. Collins in the House on February 7,
of which copies were widely diffused. On March 10 a
hearing upon the bill was given by the Committee on
the Library (to which it had been referred) at which
numerous librarians, bibliographers, and other experts
testified to the significance of the collection and of in-
cunabula in general, and expressed enthusiasm for the
acquisition. On June 4 the bill (revised, simplified, and
omitting the reference to myself) was reported, but with-
out recommendation, and with a statement carefully
balanced between appreciation of the merits of the col-
lection and the perils in prospect through the initiation
of what seemed a new policy in the expenditure of Gov-
ernment funds for projects purely " cultural." On June
9 the bill was, upon motion of the leader of the Republi-
can majority (Representative Tilson). called up under
suspension of the rules, and passed, with only incidental
comment. On June 16 I appeared before the Senate com-
mittee in definite support of it, explaining my own earlier
hesitations, a portion of which had been quieted by the

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enactment of the appropriation bill, and (on June 9) of
the bill to provide for our annex building; and submit-
ting my opinion that the failure of the Collins bill, espe-
cially if ascribed to the indifference of the Library Com-
mitte and the Librarian, would be a calamity.

On June 18 the committee reported on the bill with a
favoring recommendation. On June 24 it was passed by
unanimous consent.

Owing to the legislative congestion it was not, how-
ever, actually approved by the President until the final
day of the session, July 3, on which day also the final
deficiency bill became law, carrying the requisite appro
priation.

The 3,000 items constituting the main collection being
already in this country were susceptible of prompt de-
livery to us, subject only to release of certain claims
against Doctor Vollbehr which constituted a lien upon
them. By July 15 all were cleared and under our roof,
awaiting onlv the check of them with his catalogues,
already in our possession. The Gutenberg Bible was
still at the Monastery of St. Paul (in Austria) awaiting
payment by Doctor Vollbehr of the final installments of
the purchase price ($250,000) which, with interest since
1926, the export duty ($25,000). and certain other
charges amounted then to approximately $325,000. A
month later, with the aid (rendered through the Ameri-
can Legation at Vienna) of advances by the Library
upon its own transaction with him, Doctor Vollbehr was
enabled to free the three volumes from any further claim
of the monastery, and on August 16 delivered them to
the American minister, who accepted them in our behalf,
later forwarding them by a special courier to our em-
bassy in Paris whence in turn a special courier delivered
them to me on the deck of the Leviathan at Cherbourg.

By the 3d of September they also were safely within
the walls of the Library at Washington.

A comprehensive exhibit of the collection as a whole
will naturally be arranged for as early as practicable
this fall.

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THE SERVICE

division of Our regular organization has been expanded by the

Aerovautics " ^^ ^^

Albert f. Zahm. creation of a new division, that of aeronautics, occasioned
by the grant (already described) from the Guggenheim
fund. The addition to our existing collection of the
Langley collection, transferred to us from the Smithso-
nian, and the purchase of four other groups, one of out-
standing distinction, equipped us almost immediately
with a large resource in the way of subject matter. As
represented to the Guggenheim trustees, however, the es-
sential complement to this was an expert who might
further develop and interpret this. We were fortunate
indeed in securing, with equal promptness, such an ex-
pert, uniquely equipped for the position — Dr. Albert F.
Zahm. A graduate of Notre Dame, with advanced de-
grees from Johns Hopkins and Cornell; teacher of
mathematics and mechanics at Notre Dame and the
Catholic University, recipient of two medals (the Laetare
and the Mendel) for distinguished achievement in
science, for two years director of research at the Curtiss-
Wright works, director for 13 years of the aero-
dynamical laboratory of the Navy Department, the
author of a treatise on aviation, well-known to the vari-
ous interests concerned with the advance of the science
and promotion of the art as an authority on the subject,
his education, experience, and repute were exactly to our
purpose. His enthusiasm in the actual service, and every
quality that he has shown in it have proved equally so.
And under him this new division became immediately
alive, and has within less than a year developed a notable
activity.

The consultants. The year has been the first of the several intended as a
" demonstration period " under the grant by the General
Education Board for a group of specialist-advisers (con-
sultants) auxiliary to our regular staff. It has been so
successful that in every element save one the demonstra-
tion may be said to be complete. It has been so (1) in
the character and abilities of the men whom the service
has attracted, (2) in the interest which the actual service
has had for them, (3) in the benefit of it to the Library

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itself, and (4) in appreciation of it by the public who
have experienced it.. The respect in which the demonstra-
tion is incomplete is in a volume and range of benefit to
the public, such as may be expected when the service has
become fully known. With only a half dozen fields of
learning represented, wide advertisement of it would
have been injudicious, as leading to expectations from it
which could not be met. The only remedy is, therefore,
an amplification of the group to a dimension (of, say,
15) which will reasonably cover all the fields. And we
are naturally impatient for the endowment ($750,000)
which will enable this.

Meantime, of illustration (of the benefit to the public,
as well as to the Library) the year has furnished ample.
And the scholars associated in it are, I think, unanimous
in their satisfaction with the experience and their con-
fidence in the utility of the idea itself.

The list of them for the present season lacks two, Prof.
Alfred C. Lane, of Tufts (science), and Prof. Charles
S. Lane, Hartford Theological School, retired (church
history), who were with us for portions of last year. It
includes, however, in their places, Prof. Harry W. Tyler,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retired [in sci-
ence], and Prof. William H. Allison, Colgate, retired [in
church history] ; and it adds Prof. Joseph Mayer, Tufts,
in sociology. The others (Doctor Fowler, classical litera-
ture; Doctor Bourne, European history; Doctor Ham-
mond, philosophy ; Doctor Clark, economics ; and Doctor
Howe, current English and American literature) con-
tinue, the two last named for portions of the year. With
them, of course, Senor Riaho (Spanish literature).

For counsel in our operations, including response to honorary
the inquiring public, we have also now the privilege of CoNSCLTANTS -
drawing upon certain other specialists resident or so-
journing in Washington, who, though without any for-
mal relation with our organization, have expressed will-
ingness to be referred to in any emergency when their
particular, specialized knowledge may prove helpful.
For the present year we may exercise this privilege with
Brig. Gen. John McAuley Palmer (U. S. A., retired) in

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Henry Furst.

Charles Mattel.

military history; Profs. Albert Perry Brigham (Colgate r
retired) and Kay Hughes Whitbeck (University of Wis-
consin) in geography; Dr. Kiang Kang-hu (McGill Uni-
versity) in Chinese history and culture; and Dr. E. A.
Lowe (Oxford) in palaeography.

Among the accessions to the regular staff, the most
notable of the new year has been that of Dr. Henry
Furst, who recently has joined us, with a present assign-
ment to the conduct of our division of documents (see
infra). He comes to us directly from the Paterno Li-
bra^ at the Casa Italiana, Columbia University, of
which since March, 1929, he had been librarian. His gen-
eral attainments for our purpose include the results of
advanced studies at the Universities of Yale, Oxford,
Padua, and Rome, supplementing preparatory courses in
Geneva and Berlin; and an intimate familiarity with the
history, literature, institutions, and affairs of Italy.

The present assignment of Doctor Furst to the division
of documents (where, however, his equipment and pre-
vious relations should prove especially serviceable in con-
nection with certain groups of material needing solicita-
tion) is incident to a change within the service which
became effective on the 15th of September — the relinquish-
ment by Mr. Martel of all administrative duties in con-
nection with the catalogue division and the assumption
of them by Mr. James B. Childs, transferred for the
purpose from the division of documents.

Mr. Martel had reached the age for optional retire-
ment. His complete retirement would, however, have
involved the deprivation to us of the remarkable biblio-
graphic and technical knowledge and experience in which
he has no superior in any American library. In reliev-
ing him of administrative duties we still retain the bene-
fit of him as expert adviser and consultant in all the
more difficult problems of technique (in cataloguing and
classification) and in the highest ranges of bibliography
and reference work.

In taking over the administration of the catalogue
division (for which, as an ultimate successor to Mr.
Martel he has from the first been in prospect), Mr. Childs

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is reverting to the problems of technique with which, as
chief classifier of the John Crerar Library, he was asso-
ciated before coming to us.

No year now passes without some loss to our organiza- the losses:
tion which can not be compensated. One such I have **«* r. Bow™,
already adverted to in the death on May 10 of Alexis V.
Babine, chief of our Slavic division since 1927, but prior
to that for eight years (1902-1910) a valued member of
our catalogue division.

A native of Russia, Mr. Babine had his higher educa-
tion in this country, was graduated (in 1892) at Cornell,
and received there also a master's degree in the arts.
His first library training also was there, as an assistant
in the university library (1890^1896) . From 1896 to 1898
he was librarian of the University of Indiana, from
1898 to 1901 associate librarian at Leland Stanford.

His early service to us was in 1910 interrupted by his
desire to return to Russia to devote himself there to
teaching and writing — the latter with the particular
purpose (which he effected in a textbook) of acquainting
Russian students with the history of the United States.
It was while thus at his home near Moscow that he
personally concluded with Mr. G. V. Yudin the acquisi-
tion in our behalf of the great Yudin collection and
took charge of the packing and shipment of it from
Krasnoiarsk (Siberia), where four years previously he
had at my request inspected it.

Caught in Russia by the war and the ensuing revolu-
tion, he with difficulty secured an exit. On succeeding,
he was invited to resume work at the Library of Cornell
where he remained until I had an opportunity for him in
our own service, briefly in our accessions division, and
later, most appropriately, as chief of our Slavic division.

Scholarly, methodic, industrious, punctilious, and
versed in the necessary technique; familiar also with
administration, and liking it, his professional qualifica-
tions for the post were in that field very unusual. And
they were complemented by personal qualities which won
great respect, and among his intimates warm affection.
A peculiar uprightness of mind, character, and bearing,
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Emma A. Runner.

Anna C. Pinnock.

Retirements.

II'. F. Koenig.

gave him distinction and inspired confidence and liking.
With it a sensitive modesty and a loyalty always to be
relied upon, and of which the final evidence was in the
dispositions of his will, already quoted.

The death, exactly two months later of Miss Emma A.
Runner, took from us another graduate of Cornell whose
loss will be a serious handicap. An expert in those two
most technical branches of library science — cataloguing
and classification — she for 21 years (1900-1921) headed
the proof-reading section of our catalogue division, and,
after an interim spent at Ithaca as the head of their
catalogue department, served for five years (1925-1930)
as a senior classifier in our classification division, one of
those serious, scrupulous, scholarly workers who to the
public are anonymous, but whose service we within the
administration recognize to be vital.

And as an example of devoted and loyal service, with
personal traits winning every regard. I must note an-
other instance within a different set of relations, that of
Miss Anna C. Pinnock, whose death last winter after a
long and painful illness greatly distressed her associates
within the office of our secretary and every other em-
ployee whom her cheerful, patient, and willing person-
ality had had opportunity to affect.

There have also within the year been several cases of
voluntary retirement, mentioned under the division in
which they occurred. The most conspicuous have been
those of Dr. Walter F. Koenig and of Mr. Thorvald
Solberg.

Doctor Koenig's was after a service with us of nearly
30 years, occupied throughout with the work of the
catalogue and classification divisions. His technique for
such work had a scholarly background very unusual and
a linguistic equipment quite extraordinary, covering
thoroughly English, German, French, Latin, and Greek,
and in varying degrees Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
Dutch, and the Slavic and Scandinavian tongues. He
was, indeed, a philologist of veiy considerable range and
competence; and in addition to the exact learning which
went into the very structure of our catalogue, he person-
ally constructed the elaborate schedules of classification

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for our Class P-PA (Language and Literature) which,
iu a monograph of 447 pages, will stand as an impressive
monument to him. There is no possibility of replacing
his combination of learning and technique.

The retirement on April 22 (his seventy-eighth birth- ™°rvaidSoiber .
day) of Thorvald Solberg brought to a close a public
service which had aggregated 46 years, the last 33 of
them in an office quite unique, that of Register of Copy-
rights. For a description of it, of the character and
responsibilities of the office, of the qualities Mr. Solberg
brought to it, and of his achievements in it, there is no
adequate opportunity within the necessary limitations of
this report. All are, however, familiar, as was his per-
sonality, to the interests concerned with the protection
of literary property, and intimately known to the group
most influential in it, both here and abroad.

His preparation for the task had been rather through
the initiative of his own tastes than academic. Deter-
mined to devote himself to books in some useful rela-
tion, he became in his early years a dealer in them. But
the commercial side not particularly appealing to him,
he accepted a position on the staff of the Library of
Congress (while it was still at the Capitol), and held it
for 13 years (1876-1889), withdrawing, however, for a
period of employment with the Boston Book Co., largely
as its European representative. Overwork then occa-
sioned a breakdown, from which he recuperated through
a sojourn of three j'ears in the Balearic Isles, an experi-
ence inducing an interest in the islands which has always
continued, and led to the compilation of his comprehen-
sive bibliography of them.

In 1897 the position of Register of Copyrights was
created and he was appointed to it. the first and thus
far the only incumbent of that post. Consideration of
him for it had been actuated by a proved interest in the
subject evidenced by a bibliography of it issued in 188G
and by attendance at the international conferences at
Barcelona in 1893 and at Antwerp in 1894.

Until the creation of the office of register, with a dis-
tinct staff under him, operations concerning copyright

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were merely incidental to the function of the Librarian
and such assistants as he might detail. When Mr. Sol-
berg took the office the first tasks confronting him were,
therefore, to devise and put into immediate operation an
adequate system of financial accounting for the fees re-
ceived ; to invent routine methods of handling expedi-
tiously the incoming flood of material, that in the suc-
ceeding years has amounted to more than 7,000,000 ar-
ticles; and to organize, train, and develop a staff of
assistants. To this he applied himself with indefatigable
industry and tireless devotion. The volume of work done
is apparent on noting that the fees received, applied, and
turned over to the Treasury from the day he took office
until he retired have amounted to $3,988,119.20, the
number of registrations made 4,116,560, and the staff has
increased from a bare dozen to over 100 in number. As
against its routine expense (excluding the cost of the
Copyright Bulletin) the office has been self-supporting,
and in addition a surplus in excess of $600,000 has been
added to the Government's miscellaneous receipts.

Incidentally he labored incessantly for two major gen-
eral objects, (1) the improvement of our copyright law,
and (2) the extension and definition of our international
relations in all that involves the recognition and protec-
tion of literary property. The conferences and hearings
that preceded the general revision of our own law enacted
in 1909 were arranged for by him, and he served through-
out as the practical executive and recorder of them.
Every effort — and the efforts have been varied and per-
sistent — toward reciprocity in our international relations
in the field of copyright, has had his sympathetic in-
terest, and, within his convictions of the feasible, his
active support. His final two years were largely con-
cerned with the effort, still pending, to bring the United
States into the Union of Berne.

Protection for authors and their publishers involving
often retrenchment of the public domain (of art and lit-
erature), extension of it naturally encounters resistance
from the interests benefiting in the use of such material
without compensation, to its creators. The development

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of mechanical devices for such use has intensified this re-
sistance, which during Mr. Solberg's incumbency became
obstinate, and the ensuing controversies at times very
fierce.

His own relation with them was most fortunate, his
knowledge of the history of copyright, his familiarity
with the law and the procedure in every jurisdiction, but,
more than all, his obvious conscientiousness, and his
transparent candor, veracity, and integrity, won the re-
spect even of those annoyed because he could not support
their pretensions.

Ke retires, therefore, with an assurance of general
esteem as well as a record of achievement which should
constitute a gratifying annuity for the period of leisure
now in prospect.

THE SPECIAL PROJECTS

As regards Project A (reproduction of source material
for American History) and Project C (Union Catalogue
of Classical and Medieval Manuscripts), the program of
the year is reviewed in the report of Doctor Jameson
(manuscripts) infra. As to Project D (the consultants)
I have already commented.

Project B (development of our union catalogues) in-
volves so many details highly technical and whose sig-
nificance is apparent only to the expert in such apparatus,
that the extensive report of them submitted to me seems
inappropriate for publication. What are quite intelli-
gible, however, are (1) the policies pursued, (2) the
groups dealt with, and (3) the figures indicating the
actual amplification of the records during the year and
the present dimension of them. And these are sum-
marized in the abstract given.

Under Project A will be noted a gratifying improve-
ment in the prospect in Spain consisting of (1) speedier
treatment of our applications for permits, and (2) exemp-
tion (by a decree recently issued) from the oppressive
requirement that of every film made a duplicate should
be deposited with the archive. Operations in the other
countries have proceeded at the normal maximum within

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the resources of the fund, with completion of the work
in certain areas.

THE " DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS "

The report of the card division is " featured " by the
announcement that the application of the decimal classi-
fication numbers to our printed catalogue cards is now
actually under way. The importance ascribed to this
project will be apparent only to those who realize the
service to libraries that it carries. To a library possessing
a book catalogued by us the card already furnished a full
"catalogue entry," i. e.. author, title, imprint, etc., and
the subjects treated. It noted also the classification of
that book under our own system of classification. But
the indication of this was in the symbols (notation) used
by us. The addition of the decimal classification num-
bers represents a conversion of these into the correspond-
ing notation of the decimal system. It thus enables the
thousands of libraries using that system to attach those
numbers without any effort on their part.

Kecognized from the outset as a desideratum, this proj-
ect has now been made feasible by the creation of a fund
of $9,000 per annum, of which $8,000 has been subscribed
bjr libraries which will be the beneficiaries, and the re-
maining $1,000 has been made up by the American Li-
brary Association and the Library of Congress.

FINANCE

The following table exhibits the appropriations and
expenditures of the Library proper, the Copyright Office,
and the custody and maintenance of the Library Building
for the fiscal year, and the appropriations for the preced-
ing fiscal year and the year now current. Included also
are the appropriations for the mechanical and structural
operations, repairs, and equipment of the building and
grounds, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the
Capitol :

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Object of appropriations

Library and Copyright Office:
Salaries •—

General service

Special service

Sunday service 2

Distribution of card in-
dexes 3

Legislative reference serv-
ice.

Index to State legislation 5

Increase of Library 6

Vollbehr Collection of Incu-
nabula..

Contingent expenses 7

Printing and binding s

Appropria-
tions, 1929

$689, 665. 00

3, 000. 00

15.000.00

144. 012. 57

69, 390. 00
224, 940. 00

32, 500. 00
108, 000. 00

Appropria-
tions, 1930

$722, 345. 00

3, 000. 00

15,000.00

151, 153. 14

70, 950. 00
228, 740. 00

33, 280. 00
108, 000. 00

10, 518. 85
341,935.39

13, 032. 60
356, 901. 35

Total Library and Copy-
right Office 1,638,961.81 1,702,402.09

Expendi-
tures, 1930

Appropria-
tions, 1931

$722,082.47 j $777,045.00

2,944.61 I 3,000.00

14, 832. 75 18, 000. 00

150, 973. 38

.70,418.10

-.228, 632. 50

33, 280. 00

108, 000. 00

13,020.78
356, 901. 35

1, 701, 085. 94

Library Building:

Care and maintenance (sal-
aries) '

Sunday service

142. 847. 00
4,120.00

148, 247. 00
4, 700. 00

145, 460. 31
4, 686. 20

157, 240. 00

70, 950. 00
231, 880. 00

38, 280. 00
180, 000. 00

1,500,000.00

13, 000. 00

379, 500. 00

3, 368, 895. 00

148, 247. 00
4, 700. 00

i Appropriation includes amounts withdrawn for retirement fund: For 1929, $39,121.15:
for 1930, $41,105.84; for 1931, amount not yet determined. Also expenditures, 1930, include
retirement deductions. Appropriations for 1929 include amounts appropriated under
the second deficiency act, fiscal year 1929 (Welch Act), as follows: General service,
$56,400; distribution of card indexes, $10,340; legislative reference service, $4,180; Copy-
right Office, $15,500.

2 No deduction for*retirement fund.

3 Appropriation includes credits on account of sales of card indexes to governmental
institutions: For 1929, $2,175.18 credited and $7.39 yet to be credited; for 1930, $1,268.35
credited and $834.79 yet to be credited. Expenditures, 1930 ($150, 973. 38), offset by sub-
scriptions covered into the Treasury ($230,427.84).

* Expenditures, 1930 ($228,632.50), offset by fees covered into the Treasury ($327,629.90).

5 Appropriation for 1929 includes $2,500 appropriated under the second deficiency act,
fiscal year 1929 (Welch Act). Expenditures, 1930, include outstanding indebtedness.

6 Any unexpended balance for purchase of books will be available for the succeeding
year. Appropriations do not include $2,500 to be expended by the marshal of the Su-
preme Court for new books of reference for that body. Expenditures, 1930, include
outstanding indebtedness.

7 Appropriation includes credits on account of sale of photoduplications to govern-
mental institutions: For 1929, $18.85; for 1930, $32.60. Expenditures, 1930, include out-
standing indebtedness.

» Appropriation includes credits on account of sale of card indexes to governmental
institutions: For 1029, $932.22 credited and $3.17 yet to be credited; for 1930, $543.58
credited and $357.77 yet to be credited. Appropriation for 1929 includes $5,000 appropri-
ated under the second deficiency act, fiscal year 1929, for printing and binding the indexes
and digests of State legislation. Expenditures, 1930, include outstanding indebtedness.

• Appropriation includes amounts withdrawn for retirement fund: For 1929, $4,866.70;
for 1930, $5,089.84; for 1931, amount not yet determined. Also expenditures, 1929, include
retirement deductions. Appropriation for 1929 includes $18,285 appropriated under the
second deficiency act, fiscal year 1929 (Welch Act).

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Object of appropriations

Appropria-
tions, 1929

Appropria-
tions, 1930

Expendi-
tures, 1930

Appropria-
tions, 1931

Library Building— Continued.
Special and temporary service.
Custody and maintenance 10 -.

$500. 00
8, 900. 00

$500. 00
7, 000. 00

$126. 00
6, 879. 21

$500. 00
8, 900. 00

Total Library Building

156, 367. 00

160, 447. 00

157, 151. 72

162, 347. 00

Expenses Trust Fund Board .

500.00

500. 00

Total, Library of Congress,
exclusive of Architect of
the Capitol

1, 795, 828. 81

1, 863, 349. 09

1, 858, 237. 66

3 531 742 00

Mechanical and structural opera-
tions, repairs and equipment
(under the Architect of the
Capitol) :
Building and grounds-
Salaries "

42, 860. 00

1, 500. 00

45, 000. 00

14, 000. 00

45, 280. 00
1, 500. 00

45. 092. 92
1 490 51

45, 280. 00
1 000 00

Trees, shrubs, etc

Repairs and supplies 12

Furniture I3

21, 000. 00 20, 787. 51
24,000.00 23,671.67

387, 000. 00 375, 130. 89
600, 000. 00 42. 004. 64

58, 000. 00
42 500 00

Alteration to east and
southeast stacks u .

Acquisition of a site for addi-
tional buildings for the Li-
brary of Congress "

Care, maintenance and repair
of property now on the site
to be acquired for the annex
building...

10, 000. 00
10, 000. 00

Preliminary plans, models,
and estimates in connection
with the annex building,
tunnel, and addition to
Library Building

•

Total building and grounds-

103, 360. 00

1, 078, 780. 00

508, 187. 14

166, 780. 00

Grand total

1, 899, 188. 81

2, 942, 129. 09

2, 366, 424. 80

3, 698,522. 00

Bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard
(interest account) ls

3, 873. 52

4, 673. 52

5, 473. 52

io Appropriations, 1929 and 1931, include $1,900 for uniforms for guards.

11 Appropriation for 1931, increased $2,420 by the Legislative Pay Act, 1929.

» Appropriation, 1929, includes $12,000 for new sewer lines and $15,000 for ventiliation

of outside curtains. Appropriation, 1930, includes $1,500 for mastic or cement floor for

music division cellar and $1,500 for repairs to motor-generator sets. Appropriation, 1931,

includes $25,000 for copper roof, dome, and skylight repairs, and $15,000 for reconstruction

of hot-water heaters.

13 Appropriation, 1930, includes $10,000 for steel card catalogue cases and trays for card
division. Appropriation 1931, includes $28,500 for completion of shelving for northeast
stack.

" The unexpended balance in the 1930 appropriation will be available for the fiscal year
1931.

" Appropriations include balance from preceding year in addition to appropriation
of $800.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 27

The appropriations for 1929-30 varied from those in
the preceding year in the following particulars :

Library Building and Grounds (under the jurisdiction of the
Architect of the Capitol). — Appropriation for necessary expendi-
tures for the Library Building decreased from $45,000 to $21,000.
and appropriation for furniture, etc., increased from $14,000 to
$24,000.

The following additional items included :

" For the acquisition of a site for additional buildings for the
Library of Congress, as authorized in the act approved May 21,
1928 (45 Stat, p. 622). $600,000.

" Toward carrying out the provisions of the act entitled 'An act
to authorize the construction of new conservatories and other
necessary buildings for the United States Botanic Garden,' ap-
proved March 1, 1927 (44 Stat. pt. 2, p. 1262), $300,000, and in
addition thereto the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval
of the Joint Committee on the Library, is authorized to enter
into a contract or contracts for such purposes for not to exceed
$576,39S."

*****

Salaries — Library proper. — Appropriation increased from
$089,665 to $722,345, and the item made to read: "For the
Librarian, chief assistant librarian, and other personal services."

Copyright Office. — Appropriation increased from $224,940 to
$228,740, and the item made to read : " For the Register of Copy-
right, assistant register, and other personal services."

Legislative reference service. — Appropriation increased from
$69,390 to $70,950.

Card indexes. — Appropriation increased from $141,830 to
$149,050, including appropriation for employees engaged on piece-
work and work by the day or hour, increased from $30,200 to
$36,300.

Index to State legislation. — Appropriation increased from
$32,500 to $33,2S0, and the item made to read :

" * * * printing and binding incident to the work of com-
pilation, stationery, and incidentals, $33,280, together with the un-
expended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the
fiscal year 1929 : Provided, That so much of the act approved
February 10, 1927, as requires the Librarian to biennially report
to Congress an index and digest of State legislation is repealed,
and the Librarian of Congress is directed to have such indexes
and digests printed and bound for official distribution only."

Printing and binding. — Appropriation increased from $336,000
(not including appropriation of $5,000 in the second deficiency act,
fiscal year 1929, for printing and binding the indexes and digests
of State legislation) to $356,000.

Contingent expenses. — Appropriation increased from $10,500 to
$13,000.

28 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Library Building. — Appropriation for salaries increased iron,
$142,847 to $148,247, and the item made to read : " Salaries :
For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal
services."

The appropriation for extra services for the opening of the
Library Building on Sundays and on legal holidays increased
from $4,120 to $4,700.

The appropriation for custody and maintenance of the Library
Building decreased from $8,900 to $7,000.

The appropriations for 1930-31 varied from those in
the preceding year in the following particulars :

Library Building and Grounds (under the jurisdiction of the
Architect of the Capitol). — Appropriation for salaries increased
from $42,860 to $15,280, and the item made to read :

" For chief engineer and all personal services, under the classifi-
cation act of 1923, as amended by the act of May 28, 1928 (U. S. C,
Supp. Ill, title 5, see. 673), and the 'Legislative pay act of 1929'
(46 Stat. 38)."

Appropriation for trees, shrubs, etc., decreased from $1,500 to

$1,000.

Appropriation fur necessary expenditures for Library Building
increased from $21,000 to $58,000.

The following item made to read :

"The appropriation ' Bookstacks, Library Building, 1929 and
1030,' contained in the legislative appropriation act approved
February 28, 1929, is hereby continued and made available for
the same purposes for the fiscal year 1931."

Appropriation for furniture increased from $24,000 to $42,500.

The following additional items included :

" To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the care,
maintenance, and repairs for rental or use by the Library of
Congress of all buildings or other structures as may be acquired
on the site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress
in square 761 and part of 760, and to raze such buildings in said
area as may be requested by the Joint Committee on the Library,
and to provide for all necessary personal and other services and
material of all kinds necessary to carry out the provisions of
sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the
acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the
Library of Congress, ami for other purposes,' approved May
21, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 622), $10,000, to be immediately available.

" To enable the Architect of the Capitol to procure preliminary
plans, models, and estimates of cost for a building or buildings,
including connections to the Library of Congress, and personal
and other services, to be located upon the site authorized in the
act entitled 'An act to provide for the acquisition of certain
property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress,

Report of the Librarian of Congress 29

and for other purposes.' approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 622).
without reference to section 35 of the act approved June 25, 1910 ;
$10,000, to be immediately available."

S|C ¥ *F ; "I* <■■

Salaries — Library proper. — Appropriation increased from
$722,345 to $777,015.

$231,880.

Card indexes. — Appropriation increased from $149,050 to
$157,240, including appropriation for employees engaged on piece-
work and work by the day or hour, increased from $36,300 to
$44,110.

Index to State legislation. — Appropriation increased from
$33,2S0 to $3S,2S0, and the item made to read :

" * * * and for printing and binding the indexes and digests
of State legislation for official distribution only, and other printing
and binding incident to the work of compilation, stationery, and
incidentals."

Sunday opening. — Appropriation increased from $15,000 to
$18,000.

Increase of the Library. — Appropriation for books increased
from $105,000 to $130,000. and appropriation for law books in-
creased from $3,000 to $50,000.

Printing and binding. — Appropriation for miscellaneous print-
ing and binding increased from $196,000 to $207,000. Appropria-
tion for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of
the Copyright Office increased from $45,000 to $50,000. Appro-
priation for the printing of catalogue cards increased from
*1 15,000 to $122,500.

Contingent expenses. — Item made to read :

"For miscellaneous and contingent expenses * * * $9,000.

" For paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous supplies necessary for
the operation of the photoduplicating machines of the Library and
the making of photoduplicate prints. $4,000."

Library building. — Appropriation for custody and maintenance
of the Library building increased from $7,000 to $8,900.

The following additional item included in the second deficiency
act, fiscal year 1030:

•• Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula : For the purpose of acquir-
ing for the Library of Congress the collection of "fifteenth century
books known as the Vollbehr collection of incunabula and com-
prising three thousand items, together with the copy on vellum of
the Gutenberg forty-two-line Bible, known as the Saint Blasius
Saint Paul copy, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1931, $1,500,000."

■

Report of the Librarian of Congress

coptright
Office :
Receipts and
expenses.

The Report of the Register of Copyrights appears
this year as a separate publication.

The principal statistics of the business done during
the year are as follows :

Fees received and applied, fiscal year 1929-30

Registrations for published works (at $2) $278,694.00

Registrations for unpublished works (at $1) 24,277.00

Registrations (at $1), photographs, no certificates 3,231.00

Registrations (at $1), renewals 5,937.00

For copies of record 1,613.00

For assignments and copies of same 12, 222. 00

For notices of user 728. 00

For indexing transfers of proprietorship 206. 90

For searches 721. 00

Total 327, 629. 90

Total number of registrations 172, 792

Total communications received, including parcels but

excluding deposits noted above 209, 515

Total communications sent out (including letters

written) 260, 417

The fees from copyrights are covered into the Treasury
and not applied directly to the maintenance of the Copy-
right Office. They form a regular revenue of the Govern-
ment, however, and a net revenue over the direct expenses
of the office, as appears from the comparison following:

RECEIPTS

Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1929-30 as

above $327, 629. 90

EXPENSES

Salaries, including retirement fund, as

stated $228, 632. 50

Stationery and sundries 1,357.72

229, 990. 22

Net cash earnings 97,639.68

Report of the Librarian of Congress 31

The above statement includes all disbursements except
the cost of furniture, of printing, and of binding, but
only cash receipts. In addition to cash fees, the copy-
right business brings each year to the Government, in
articles deposited, property to the value of many thou-
sands of dollars. During the past fiscal year 275,214
such articles were received. The value of those drawn
up into the collections of the Library far exceeded the
amount of net cash earnings.

On the 7th day of July, 1930, when the report of the ^mTuZZIs.
Copyright Office was submitted, the remittances received
up to the third mail of the day had been recorded. The
account books of the bookkeeping division were balanced
for June 30, the financial statements were prepared for
the Treasury Department, and all earned fees to June 30,
inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. For the
entries covered by the above-applied fees, 1,256 certifi-
cates remained to be written, 5,919 articles to be indexed
and catalogued, and 5,193 records to be completed.

The total unfinished business for the full 33 years from
July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1930, amounts to but $2,201.37,
against a total completed business for the same period of
$4,052,426.10.

During the past 33 years the business done by the office

was as follows:

Total number of entries 4,150,973

Total number of articles deposited (about) 7,153,266

Total amount of fees received and applied $4, 052, 426. 10 .

Total expenditure for service ■- $3,358,492.66

Net receipts above expenses for service $693, 933. 44

During the 60 years since the copyright work became
a business of the Library of Congress the total number of
entries has been 5,031,829.

Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the copy- Elimination
right act of 1909, 33,699 volumes have been transferred deposits.
to the Library from the deposits in the Copyright Office
during the fiscal year, 9,798 books have been deposited
in governmental libraries in the District of Columbia,
and 88,455 articles have been returned to copyright
claimants.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

CATALOGUE OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES

The Catalogue of Copyright Entries has always been
printed and published to make up calendar-year volumes
for the different classes of works catalogued. For the
calendar year 1929 all parts of the catalogue have been
printed except the annual indexes for Part I, Books,
group 1, and Part III, Music.

ACCESSIONS, PRINTED MATERIAL a

(From the report of the chief of the division of accessions,

Mr. Blanchakd)

Contents of the Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets
1929, and June so, made in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the

1930

Library, inclusive of the law library, at the close of the
past two fiscal years were as follows :

Description

Contents of the Library

1929

1930

Gain

Printed books and pamphlets.
Manuscripts (a numerical
statement not feasible)

3, 907, 304

4, 103, 936

196, 632

Maps and views °

b l, 117,211

1, 045, 481

494, 991

1, 161, 478

1, 062, 194

498, 715

44, 267

Music (volumes and pieces) _ _
Prints (pieces).

16,713
3 724

Description

Printed books and pamphlets

Manuscripts (a numerical statement

not feasible)

Maps and views a

Music (volumes and pieces)

Prints (pieces)

Net accessions

1929

180, 802

48, 369

11,968

c 25, 929

1930

196, 632

44, 267

16, 713

3,724

3 For manuscripts, maps, and music see under those headings, infra.
For prints see fine arts, infra.

" Including deposits.

* A deposit of 32 maps baeams a gift in 1930, thus changing the total previously
given for 1929.

« Including 20,398 wood engravings presented by Dr. and Mme. Otto H. F. Vollbehr,
of Berlin, Germany.

Division of Accessions

The accessions ot books and pamphlets during the past Accessions.

,,.,-, .» , , »„ Books and pum-

two years, in detail, classified by source, Ave re as ioIIoavs : phiets, by

" ■■ snurrpx

How acquired

By purchase (Government appropriation)

By purchase (Huntington fund)

By purchase (Guggenheim fund)

By gift (from individuals and other unofficial

sources)

By transfer from United States Government

libraries

From the Public Printer by virtue of law

From the American Printing House for the

Blind (volumes and pieces of music)

By international exchange (from foreign

governments)

Gifts from the United States Government in

all its branches

Gifts from State governments

Gifts from local governments

Gifts from official corporations and associa-
tions

By copyright

From Smithsonian Institution:

Regular deposit

Langley Aeronautical Library deposit

By exchange (piece for piece)

By priced exchange

Library of Congress publications specially
bound (Librarian's reports and Monthly

check-lists of State publications)

Gain of volumes by separation in binding and
by binding of books and periodicals un-
counted in their present form

Total added — books, pamphlets, and
pieces

DEDUCTIONS

By consolidations in binding

By transfer of duplicates to other United

States Government libraries

Duplicates sent in exchange

1929

1 48, 788
1,485

20, 505

15, 837
7,738

193

29, 152

1,802

14, 902

3,525

519
2 25, 672

16, 032

4,563
1,048

10, 284

202, 111

4,078

3,401
13, 830

Total deductions.
Net accessions

21, 309

180, 802

1930

38, 222
1,675
4, 105

20, 409

17, 867
6, 129

601

36, 342

3, 159

14, 711

1,762

171
3 27, 970

17, 632

2, 115

3,295

153

9,879

206, 249

2,704

2,063

4,850

9,617

196, 632

1 Including the Wang Family Library (22,078 volumes) and the Toinet Collection of
French Literature (2,518 volumes).
- Including 1,018 volumes added to the reserve collections.
3 Including (i30 volumes added to the reserve collections.

34 Report of the Librarian of Congress

bequest: i n t i ie w m f t h e j ate jy[ r Allan Davis, of Pittsburgh,

estate of. Pa., his executors were directed to present copies of 11

of his manuscript plays to the Library of Congress. Five
of them have never been published.

C,FTS: A complete and detailed list of the gifts that have come

to the Library this year would be impressive and would
doubtless serve a useful purpose for future reference,
but owing to limitations of space we must content our-
selves with a comparatively brief statement. Books and
pamphlets received by gift during the year from indi-
viduals and other unofficial sources totaled 20,409, as com-
pared with 20,505 received last year. Following our
usual practice, we have selected a few of these gifts for
special mention, but it is obvious that any selection that
is made must be more or less arbitrary, and that many
gifts of equal or even more importance must of necessity
be omitted.

With a few exceptions, notable gifts of manuscripts,
maps, music, and prints are not mentioned here, but will
be found described in detail in the reports of the several
divisions directly concerned with their care.

Bibles. The recent appropriation by Congress of $1,500,000 for

the purchase of the Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula,
which includes a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, has re-
ceived such publicity that it has resulted in a deluge of
offers of Bibles from all parts of the United States and
from other countries. These Bibles are usually for sale
at exorbitant prices, as their owners seldom have any
idea of book values, but have been misled by the extrava-
gant statements that have appeared in the press from
time to time. Our reply is invariably to the effect that
the Library of Congress is rarely in the market for the
purchase of Bibles, but always welcomes them as gifts.
Among those that have been received by gift this year
were an edition of Luther's translation of the Bible
(Niirnberg, Im verlag der Johann Andrea Endterischen
handlung, 1765) from Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of this city;
another edition of Luther's translation (Nurnberg, In
verlegung der Johann Andrea Endterischen handlung,
1770) from Mr. Kirkor Minassian, of New York City; a

Division of Accessions 35

copy of the Devotional Family Bible, edited by Rev.
Alexander Fletcher (New York, Virtue and Yorston,
n. d.), from Miss Theo H. Twichell, of Brookline, Mass.;
and a noncopyrighted, expurgated edition (Philadelphia,
Co-operative Bible Publishers, 1929) from Mr. Frank R.
Chandler, of Chicago, 111.

In preparing an exhibition of the " Fifty well-made Fifty weii-made

1 J . books of 1929-30.

books of 1929-30," selected by the American Institute
of Graphic Arts, the superintendent of the reading room
discovered that five of the works were not in the collec-
tions of the Library. Requests for gift copies brought
the three volumes mentioned below : " Log of the auxili-
ary schooner yacht Northern Light, commanded by John
Borden . . . Borden-Field Museum Alaska-Arctic expe-
dition, 1927," Chicago, privately printed, 1929 (from the
author, Lieut. Commander John Borden, U. S. N. R. F.,
resigned, of Chicago) ; " Franklin Evans: or, The inebri-
ate ... by Walter Whitman," New York, Random
house, 1929 (from the publisher); "The day of
doom . . . with other poems, by Michael Wigglesworth,
ed., with an introduction by Kenneth B. Murdock . . ."
New York, The Spiral press, 1929 (from the publisher).
The fourth work was later deposited for copyright as a
result of our request, and the publisher of the fifth gra-
ciously offered to lend us one of his two remaining copies
for exhibition purposes.

Two copies of "Addresses of Abraham Lincoln," Kings- Miniature books.
port, Tenn., Kingsport press, 1929, a miniature book
(thirteen-sixteenths of an inch high), were presented to
the Library by the Kingsport Press, Inc., of Kingsport,
Tenn. The books were printed and bound by students in
the training division of the press.

Following a visit to the Library and an examination of
our miniature books, Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Walcott, of
New York City, sent us two volumes to add to our col-
lection, "Bible history," Boston, D. Hale, 1814 (2i/ 8
inches), and "History of the Bible," Lansingburgh
[N. Y.], W. Disturnell, 1825 (2^ inches).

Upon a visit to the Library in December, Mr. Edward Edward Dean

t rv it* • Adams.

Dean Adams, of New York City, expressed his apprecia-
15860—30 4

36 Report of the Librarian of Congress

tion of the care that is being taken of the books in the
rare book collection, his interest centering on our
original edition of Martin Waldseemiiller's " Cosmo-
graphiae Introdvctio." Long a student of everything
connected with Waldseemuller and his maps, Mr. Adams
was prompted to send us a copy of " The first delineation
of the New World and the first use of the name America
on a printed map ... by Henry N. Stevens," London,
Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1928, for use as a refer-
ence work in the Rare Book Room.
George he. From Mr. George H. H. Allen, of New Bedford, Mass.,

Allen and Mrs. ° ' '

Frederick p. and his sister, Mrs. Frederick P. Forster, of Boston,

Forst&r. . 7

Mass., we have received a typewritten copy of the unpub-
lished journal of their grandfather, Capt. Edmund Gard-
ner. Captain Gardner was born in Nantucket in 1784.
At the age of 16 he went on his first whaling voyage
and followed the sea for many years, most of the time
being engaged in whaling. The journal is the product
of his declining years and recounts many of his inter-
esting and unusual experiences as a whaler, besides in-
cluding comments on matters of local interest in New
Bedford following his retirement from active service.
He died in 1875.

Hono iC f a Arts edera ~ Twelve current works on art and artists were pre-
sented bv the American Federation of Arts, Washington.
D. C.

American mstori- As in past years, we have received from the editorial

cal Review. . . . . .

offices of the American Historical RevieAY, of this city,
many miscellaneous volumes and pamphlets that aid
materially in rounding out our collections. Gifts from
this source during the year amounted to 136 volumes, 153
pamphlets, and 373 numbers.
Mrs. August To Mrs. August Belmont, of New York City, we are

Belmont. te . J '

indebted for a copy of a genealogical work entitled, " The
Belmont-Belmonte family, a record of four hundred
years ... by Richard J. H. Gottheil," New York, pri-
vately printed, 1917. One of a limited edition of 100
copies.
nirth control Through Mrs. Margaret Sanger, director of the Birth

/"" Iq-n \C(i I Tip RPCLTCiL

Bureau. Control Clinical Research Bureau, of New York City, we

Division of Accessions 37

received a collection of 34 volumes (8 different titles) on
birth control.

Mr. A. Bruce Black, of Bloomsburg, Pa., presented a. Bruce stack.
typewritten manuscripts of two of his works, an unpub-
lished drama, "'Shakespeare's first love" and an essa}'
"Parallelisms among Gray and others."

Although the various gifts of Miss Henrietta E. Brom- Miss Henrietta

j> -r\ /~i i • i i i in i i E - Bromwell.

well, ot Denver, Colo., will be accorded more extended
treatment in the report of the chief of the division of
manuscripts, infra* at least brief mention should be made
here of her gift of 24 volumes of the " Bromwell Papers."
The collection comprises manuscripts, printed documents,
etc., by or relating to her father, Hon. Henry Pelham
Holmes Bromwell, United States Representative from
Illinois, 1865-1869, and other members of the Bromwell
family. It covers the period from 1815 to 1929, although
by far the greater number of pieces fall between the years
1840 and 1900. Miss Bromwell compiled a painstakingly
detailed index to the collection and had the volumes
specially bound for the Library of Congress. In sending
them to us she wrote : " I miss a great many things which
were among these papers years ago, but we have moved
several times. I asked some one once why these things
had been saved so long, and the reply was, ' Because some-
body loved them.' : As part of the permanent collections
of the National Library these remaining papers will be
secure and will be readily accessible to historians, as they
could not be while still in private hands.

A gift of signal interest was that of Mrs. Robert Bar- *f rs - Robert

fe & Barrett

rett Browning, daughter-in-law of Robert Browning, the Browning.
English poet, comprising books, autographs, autograph
letters, photographs and mementos. Of the 28 books, 8
are first editions of Robert Browning, one bears an in-
scription by Browning, and another was at one time in his
personal library. Special mention should be made of an
extra-illustrated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's
"Transformation," 1860. The autographs, autograph
letters, photographs and mementos will be known as
'• The Robert Browning Collection " and are described

38 Report of the Librarian of Congress

more at length in the report of the chief of the division
of manuscripts, infra.

institution of The ^ ne spirit of cooperation that exists between the

Washington. various libraries of the District of Columbia and the
Library of Congress is strikingly illustrated by the gifts
that come to us each year from the Carnegie Institution
of Washington. Eight hundred and twenty-five volumes,
1,455 pamphlets, 437 numbers, and 6 maps have been
received from this institution during the year.

v.c.charies. From Mr. V. C. Charles, of New York City, we re-
ceived a copy of the following reprint : " The directory
of Hackensack (Bergen County, N. J.) A full and
complete compilation of the names of residents of the
town. 1879 [reprinted 1929]." No. 13 of 37 copies
privately printed.

wiiiiam Andrews For several years in succession we have received

Clark, jr. *

Christmas greetings from Mr. William Andrews Clark,
jr., of Los Angeles, Calif., in the form of double editions
of some well-known work, one a facsimile reproduction,
usually of the first edition, and the other a reprint of
some other edition of the same work. John Dryden's
"All for love " was selected by Mr. Clark this year for
reproduction: "All for love; or, The world well lost, a
tragedy by John Dryden . . ." San Francisco, printed
for William Andrews Clark, jr., by John Henry Nash,
1929. No. 17 of a limited edition of 250 copies printed
for private distribution. This reprint follows the text of
the 1883 edition, edited by Sir Walter Scott and revised
by George Saintsbury. It was accompanied by a fac-
simile reproduction of the first edition : "All for love ; or.
The world well lost, a tragedy as it is acted at the
Theatre-Royal, and written in imitation of Shakespeare's
stile, by John Dryden, servant to His Majesty . . ." In
the Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Henry Her-
ringman, at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the
New-Exchange, 1678. [Printed in facsimile for William
Andrews Clark, jr., by John Henry Nash, San Francisco,
1929.] No. 17 of a limited edition of 250 copies.

Division of Accessions 39

To the Confederation Nationale des Associations Agri- ^tnautes
coles, of Paris, France, we are indebted for 11 volumes A /g™™£° ns
of the "Compte rendu des travaux " of the Congres de
l'Agriculture Francaise, covering the period from 1919
to 1929.

Miss Mary Corliss, of Providence, R. L, sent us a Miss Mary

J ' Corliss.

copy of '* The life and work of George H. Corliss. Pre-
pared and privately printed for Mary Corliss by the
American Historical Society, Inc.," New York, 1930.

Five volumes, especially notable because of their fine Miss 4 Zic 5 **'■

. . . Craighead.

engravings, were given to the Library by Miss Alice W.
Craighead, of this city.

In addition to her "rift of an extensive collection of Miss Elizabeth

. . Curtis.

manuscripts (see report of the chief of the division of
manuscripts, infra) Miss Elizabeth Curtis, of New York
City, gave us a group of 99 United States documents
dating from 1791 to 1853. At the same time she deposited
with us three volumes of early Senate journals.

Following the liquidation of the fund we received from Daniel Guggen-

& ^ heim Fund for

the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion oi the Promotion of

00 Aeronautics, Inc.

Aeronautics, Inc., certain material relating to aero-
nautics, comprising 71 volumes, 232 pamphlets, and 373
issues of periodicals, besides a still undetermined number
of manuscripts and blue prints.

A complete set of the addresses delivered before the Democratic

T • tit 1 t i r~\i 1 c -r-ki • i Tii- Women's Lunch-

Democratic Women s Luncheon Club or Philadelphia, eonciub.
Pa. (44 pamphlets), was presented to the Library by the
club through its president, Miss Ellen Gowen Hood.

To Mrs. Harrison G. Dyar, of this city, we are in- Mrs. Harrison g.
debted for a collection of volumes, pamphlets, manu-
scripts, and photographs used by her husband in compil-
ing his " Preliminary genealogy of the Dyar family,"
1903, and including many letters relating to this family
written subsequent to the publication of the genealogy.

A collection of Chilean, Cuban, and Mexican docu- Bon. ciarence g.

1 ' Galston.

ments and laws came to us as a gift from Hon. Clarence
G. Galston, of Brooklyn, N. Y. It comprised 51 volumes,
21 pamphlets, and 209 numbers.

A small collection of philosophical works (11 titles) D J^ illiam
was received from Dr. William Gates, of Baltimore, Md.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

William J.
Gregory.

Edward S.
Harkness.

George J. Hecht.

Emanuel Hertz.

Dr. Mark Antony
De Wolfe Howe.

Lieut. Col.
Frederic Louis
Huidekoper.

All but three were publications of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, six of them being photostatic
reproductions of the originals.

Among several volumes added to our growing collec-
tion of early American textbooks was a copy of " The
Child's new play-thing, being a spelling-book, intended
to make the learning to read a diversion instead of a
task, consisting of a new-invented alphabet for chil-
dren ... ," Philadelphia, printed by W. Dunlap, 1703.
This was presented by Mr. William J. Gregory, of
Westminster, Colo.

At least brief mention should be made here of the
manuscripts on Mexican and Peruvian history received
from Mr. Edward S. Harkness, of New York City, sup-
plementing his gift of last year. The new collection con-
sists of 114 letters and documents, 91 being of Peruvian
origin and 23 of Mexican, the dates ranging from 1531
to 1608, although one is dated 1040. They are described
more completely in the report of the chief of the division
of manuscripts, infra.

From Mr. George J. Hecht, of New York City, we re-
ceived a gift file, nearly complete, of the bulletins for
cartoonists issued by the Bureau of Cartoons of the
United States Committee on Public Information during
the European war.

Mr. Emanuel Hertz, of New York City, has at various
times during the year sent us miscellaneous collections,
totaling 45 volumes, 174 pamphlets, and 49 numbers, in
addition to numerous newspaper clippings relating to
Abraham Lincoln. Of special interest were 42 pamphlets
(17 different titles) of his own works on Lincoln and a
file of the yearbooks of the Grand Street Boys' Associa-
tion, Inc., of New York City, for the years 1925 to
1930, inclusive.

Included among other gifts to the Library from Dr.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, of Boston, Mass., were
four out-of-print sermons by his father, the late Right
Rev. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe.

An exhaustive manuscript genealogy of the Sorrel
family with certified copies of original documents, parish

Division of Accessions 41

registers, town records, etc, has been presented by the
compiler. Lieut. Col. Frederic Louis Huidekoper, of
Gstaad, Switzerland: "The genealogy of the Sorrel
family of Dauphine. France, since A. D. 1403, together
with data in respect to the American branch and the
descent from that branch of Stuart Elliott Huidekoper
. . . and Frederic Fitz-James Christie Huidekoper
. . . Comp. by Frederic Louis Huidekoper . . .
Gstaad, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, December, 1928,
to February, 1930."

From the Institute of Pacific Relations we have re- institute of

Pacific Relations.

reived, through Mr. E. C. Carter, secretary of the Ameri-
can Council of the Institute, a complete set of the " Con-
ference documents " of the Kyoto conference, one of only
four sets thus prepared. The 26 composite volumes and
3 unbound numbers comprising the set include 124 inde-
pendent volumes, pamphlets, papers, and numbers, either
(1) published by the various branches of the Institute
of Pacific Relations. (2) prepared for the third general
session of the Institute at Kyoto, Japan, October 28
to November 9, 1929, or. finally, (3) publications recom-
mended for study in connection with the Kyoto
conference.

Mr. Charles Francis Jenkins, of Philadelphia, Pa.. Charles Francis
sent us a copy of his " Garden stones and other rhymes
. . ." Philadelphia, privately printed, 1929. No. 44 of
75 copies.

From Miss Frances B. Johnston, of this city, the Miss Frances u.

' Johnston.

Library received a copy of " The poems of Oliver Gold-
smith, ed. by Robert Aris Willmott; with illustrations
by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys, printed in colors
from wood blocks." London, George Routledge and Co.,
1859.

An edition of Mihalv Vorosmarty's " Csongor es tiinde, um».tivia

J J e Kadar.

szinjatek ot felvonasban v [1930], was presented to the
Library by Mine. Livia Kadar. It is of a limited edition
(No. 16 of 50 copies) and is specially notable for its
illustrations which were drawn by Mine. Kadar.

His Highness Prince Youssouf Kamal, of Cairo, Egypt, Prince Y OUS souf
lias added to his gifts of previous years by sending us a

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Fred M . Kirby.

Mrs. Addams S.
McAllister.

Mrs. Alice C.
McDaniel.

Newton
Mackintosh.

Douglas C.
McMurtrie.

Prof. Ezra K.
Maxfield.

ft. F. de Mello.

copy of his facsimile reproduction of a manuscript trans-
lation into Arabic of Ptolemy's Geography.

From Mr. Fred M. Kirby, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., we
received a de luxe edition of " Cowboy stuff, poems by
F. W. Lafrentz . . . Introduction by John Wesley
Hill . . . Publisher's foreword by Geo. Haven Putnam
. . . Illustrations by Henry Ziegler," New York, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1927. This is a "presentation copy of
the Lincoln memorial edition," with original etchings
by Henry Ziegler. Only 12 copies of this edition were
printed, each of which has been signed by the author,
the illustrator, and the publishers.

We welcomed a gift from Mrs. Addams S. McAllister,
of this city, of 33 issues of American newspapers pub-
lished between the years 1814 and 1849, both inclusive.

Through the interest of Mrs. Alice C. McDaniel, of
Henderson, Ky., w T e were privileged to receive two docu-
ments not hitherto in the collections of the Library.
These gifts were both broadsides, dated August 2, 1813,
and March 4, 1815, respectively, and addressed " to the
citizens of the fifth congressional district of Kentucky,"
by Samuel Hopkins, United States Representative from
Kentucky, 1813-1815.

A collection of newspapers issued in London during
the great strike organized by the General Council of the
Trades Union Congress in May, 1926, was a gift of
unusual interest from Mr. Newton Mackintosh, of
Eoxbury, Mass.

As in past years, Mr. Douglas C. McMurtrie, of
Chicago, 111., has continued to send us complimentary
copies of many of his own works on typography and the
history of printing.

A carbon copy of the typewritten manuscript of a
thesis, "Quakerism and English literature, 1650-1750,
by Ezra Kempton Maxfield," has been bound and pre-
sented to the Library by the author, Prof. Ezra K.
Maxfield, Washington and Jefferson College, Washing-
ton, Pa. This is one of only two copies made.

Mr. R. F. de Mello, of this city, gave us a collection of
33 volumes, 2 pamphlets, and 17 numbers, principally
recent works in Portuguese.

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Through the liberality of Hon. Andrew W. Mellon, of g°*V Andrew w -

° J _ Mellon.

this city, chairman of the Library of Congress Trust
Fund Board, we have acquired a collection of 38 rare
Chinese maps and atlases. These were purchased, with
special funds provided for the purpose by Mr. Mellon,
from Mr. Arthur W. Hummel, chief of our division of
Chinese literature, who had gathered them together dur-
ing a residence of 13 years in China. They had been
on deposit in the Library of Congress since 1927. For a
more detailed description see the report of the chief of
the division of maps, infra.

Mr. H. L. Mencken, of Baltimore, Md., has from time u- L - Mencken.
to time sent us miscellaneous collections of material, in-
eluding many fugitive pamphlets that ordinarily would
not have been brought to our attention. His gifts
throughout the year totaled 269 pieces.

Through the courtesy of Mr. W. A. Miller, of Los w - A - unier.
Angeles, Calif., we have received a copy of " The Miller
case in the Government Printing Office, 1903." This is
a compilation, in scrapbook form, of letters, documents,
pamphlets, original manuscripts, etc., relating to the trial
and expulsion of Mr. W. A. Miller, the donor, from the
Bookbinders' Union, his subsequent removal from his
position as assistant foreman of the binding division of
the Government Printing Office, his appeal to the Civil
Service Commission, and his final reinstatement in the
Government Printing Office b}' Executive order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The period covered is mainly from 1900
to 1906 although there are some papers as late as 1928.
No other copy of this compilation has been prepared.

We heartily appreciated a series of gifts from Mr. Kirkormnassian.
Kirkor Minassian, of New York City, as additional evi-
dences of his kindly interest in the collections of the
Library. These gifts included books, manuscripts, and
art objects, a few of which are noted here briefly : A col-
lection of 34 volumes, principally French translations
and original texts of classical authors; 91 miscellaneous
volumes in French, Latin, and English, published be-
tween the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and includ-
ing a copy of " Le Temple des Muses," Amsterdam, 1733 ;

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Dr. Richard
Moldenke.

Mrs. Daniel
Murray.

National Ameri-
cana Society.

Hon. Alfred K.
Nippert.

a group of 15 Mohammedan manuscripts, 11 of which
are in Arabic; two Mohammedan talismans, one a Per-
sian Nashki manuscript written in red ink on snake skin
and the other a brass bowl, profusely engraved; a Per-
sian Koran case, of iron, with embossed and perforated
inscriptions; two Turkish firmans; two Greek religious
paintings in oil obtained from a monastery in Asia Minor.

His interest in last year's report of the Librarian of
Congress prompted Dr. Kichard Moldenke, of Watchung,
N. J., to send us a typewritten copy of his work: "The
inside history of Germany's appeal to President Hard-
ing to mediate in the reparations questions." This was
written in 1922 concerning events occurring in March,
April, and May. 1921.

In 192(3 we received by bequest from the late Mr.

Daniel Murray,
colored authors.

an extensive collection of books bv
Mr. Murray, an enthusiastic collector
of such books, had been connected with the service of the
Library for many years. During the past year 48 vol-
umes and pamphlets were presented to the Library by
his widow as an addition to the Murray collection.

Through the courtesy of the National Americana
Society, of New York City, we have received the first
five volumes of "Colonial families of America, issued
under the editorial supervision of Ruth Lawrence," New
York, National Americana Society [1928-29]. Later
volumes in the series will be sent to us upon publication.
A work of signal importance to students of the history
of surgery was presented to the Library by Hon. Alfred
K. Nippert. of Cincinnati, Ohio, through the interest of
Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, its previous owner. This was
a rare fourteenth-century manuscript of the " Chirurgia
Magna " of Bruno of Longoburgo. The author of this
famous thirteenth-century work, although born in Cala-
bria, was the founder of a remarkable school of North
Italian surgeons, and it was while he was practicing in
Padua in 1252 that he finished the " Chirurgia Magna "
which he had begun at the request of his patron and
friend, Andrew, of Vicenza. Although in the prologue
Bruno refers to his work as a compilation from the writ-

Division of Accessions 45

ings of Galen, Avicenna, Almansor, and others, it is
much more than a compilation. This manuscript proves,
for instance, that surgeons were experimenting with
anesthetics as early as the middle of the thirteenth cen-
tury, and that by making use of opium and mandragora
they were being notably successful in producing insensi-
bility to pain.

A collection of geological w T orks by Dr. R. A. F. R. a .f. Penrose,
Penrose, jr., of Philadelphia. Pa. (6 volumes and 19
pamphlets), came to us from the author.

A copy of the Hebrew translation of the Koran by Israel Perutein.
Herrmann Reckendorf (Leipzig, in commission bei Wolf-
gang Gerhard, 1857) was presented to the Library by Mr.
Israel Perlstein, of New York City.

Upon learning that the Japaninstitut, of Berlin, Ger- a.A.Pfeiffer.
many, was planning to reprint the original edition of
Philipp Franz von Siebold's "Nippon," Mr. G. A.
Pfeiffer, of New T York City, placed a gift subscription
with the publishers for one set of this important work for
the Library of Congress. Four volumes have already
been received and the fifth and last volume is to be pub-
lished this year. ". . . Nippon. Archiv zur beschrei-
bung von Japan: vollstandiger neudruck der urausgabe
zur erinnerung an Philipp Franz von Siebolds erstes
wirken in Japan, 1823-1830. In zwei text und zwei
tafelbiinden, dazu ein neuer erganzungs und index band
von dr. F. M. Trautz. Hrsg. vom Japaninstitut, Berlin,"
Berlin [etc.], Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, a, g., 1930. 5 v.
No. 119 of 300 sets.

A gift of special significance to the Library of Congress Jf»j Louis f.
was received from Mrs. Louis F. Post, of this city. This
was a bas-relief portrait, by Richard Fox George, of John
Russell Young, Librarian of Congress, 1897-1899.

From the President of the United States we have ™ e £;^ en * of
received, through Prof. Ephraim D. Adams, of Stanford states -
University, Calif., an autographed copy of the following
work translated jointly by the President and Mrs.
Hoover: " Georgius Agricola De re metallica, tr. from
the 1st Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical introduction,
annotations, and appendices ... by Herbert Clark

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Reni Puaux.

William Edwin
Iiudge.

Samuel Russell.

Ricardo Salas
Edwards.

Edward Sch uster.

Clinton Scollard.

Dennis C. Shea.

London, The

Hoover . . . and Lou Henry Hoover .
Mining magazine, 1912.

Through the interest and courtesy of M. Rene Puaux,
of Paris, France, we were privileged to receive gift copies
of certain works of his (3 volumes and 22 pamphlets)
that had not previously been represented in our
collections.

We have received from Mr. William Edwin Rudge, of
New York City, a de luxe edition, with hand-colored
illustrations, of " Rural sports, together with The birth
of the squire and The hound and the huntsman, by John
Gay . . . Pictures by Gordon Ross, with an introduction
by Owen Culbertson," New York, William Edwin Rudge,
1930. No. 00 of 225 numbered copies.

Mr. Samuel Russell, of this city, brought together a
collection of 25 papers, documents, etc., of which he is the
author, either in whole or in part, and had them specially
bound for the Library of Congress. The binder's title
reads : " Papers in contemporary politics, by Samuel
Russell."

Senor Ricardo Salas Edwards, of Santiago, Chile, pre-
sented a copy of his work on the Chilean civil war of
1891 : " . . . Balmaceda y el parlamentarismo en Chile ;
un estudio de psicologia politica chilena . . ." Santiago

litografia

umverso,

de Chile, Sociedad " Imprenta v
1911-25. 2 v.

Gifts of Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, and
Italian laws, codes, documents, etc., were received during
the year from Mr. Edward Schuster, of New York City.
These totaled 66 volumes and 3 pamphlets.

An autographed collection of eight rare, out-of-print,
and noncopyrighted works by Mr. Clinton Scollard, the
poet, of Kent, Conn., came to us as a gift from the
author.

Mr. Dennis C. Shea, of this city, gave us a copy of
the following work : " Onomasticon goedelicum locorum
et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae. An index, with identi-
fications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes, by
Edmund Hogan . . ." Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co.,
limited [etc., etc.], 1910.

Division of Accession® 47

From Mr. Neil E. Stevens, of this city, we have re- Neil E - stevens -
ceived a collection of 33 pamphlets on plant industry,
all of which were written either wholly or in part by
the donor.

A collection of 13 volumes and portfolios relating to Alexander b.

Trowbridge.

the fine arts was received from Mr. Alexander B. Trow-
bridge, of this city.

"Makers of history" is the cover-title of a collection united states

' „ . Patriotic Society.

of facsimile reproductions, in portfolio, of letters, in-
dorsements, and other documents, designed to show the
progress that has been made by the United States Patri-
otic Society since 1899. This was presented by the
society, an organization having its headquarters in New
York City. Accompanying the portfolio was a group of
pamphlets : " Makers of history," " Supplement No. 1.
Makers of history," and 33 copies of a pamphlet bearing
the title "The Constitution of the United States of
America and what it contains." These 33 pamphlets
are identical, except that each one, with two exceptions,
bears the portrait of a different person, all of whom in-
dorse the work of the society.

We appreciated the gift from Lieut. Comdr. William {#"(• commander

- 1 x ~ William K. van-

K. Vanderbilt, U. S. N. R., of New York City, of a dfMu,u.8.
copy of his work: "Taking one's own ship around the
world, a journal descriptive of scenes and incidents, to-
gether with observations from the log book, recorded on
the voyage around the world, October 25, 1928, to May
16, 1929, of the yacht Ara, commanded by the author,
William K. Vanderbilt," New York, privately printed
[by William Edwin Rudge], 1929. No. 56 of 500 copies.

Mr. Nathan Van Patten, of Stanford University, Calif., gg£ Van
sent us a copy of "Bliss Carman, 1861-192*0, by Julian
Hawthorne," Palo Alto, Calif., 1929. No. 7 of 20 copies.

Through Mrs. Harry Lee Rust, of this city, president ZonaimmoHai
of the Wakefield National Memorial Association, we have AssociaHon -
received from the association a small collection of mis-
cellaneous material, all relating in some way to Wake-
field, the birthplace of George Washington.

The Washington Cathedral offices, through Canon W. Was ^ 9t ? n ^ m

° . Cathedral Offices.

L. De Vries, chancellor of Washington and secretary

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Frank S.
Zappulla.

Gifts from pub-
lishers.

Genealogies.

of the chapter, presented a sumptuously printed and
bound copy of " The Book of common prayer and ad-
ministration of the sacraments and other rites and cere-
monies of the church, according to the use of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Together with the Psalter and Psalms of David," New
York, printed for the committee [by the DeVinne Press],
1893.

Numerous gifts have come to us again this year from
Mr. Frank S. Zappulla, of this city, and from Mrs. Zap-
pulla. These totaled 602 pieces and were very miscel-
laneous in nature, comprising books, pamphlets, manu-
scripts, broadsides, maps, music, photographs, medal-
lions, badges, medals, etc.

Gifts from publishers, including gifts of various im-
ported books and other noncopyrighted books, numbered,
during the year, 208 volumes, pamphlets, and miscel-
laneous items. These books came to us. as in past years,
on the basis of the printing of catalogue cards. For each
of these books donated a catalogue card is printed for
use in our regular catalogues and in the catalogues of
the many subscribing libraries using our printed-card
service.

Comparatively few genealogies were purchased during
the past year so that it is gratifying to be able to report
a large number received by gift, among them being
histories of the following families: Abell, Aikin (Eakin),
Allen, Audley, Ballinger, Barns, Beal (Beale, Beall,
Beals), Beckner, Bell, Belmont, Blanchard, Boone, Bos-
worth, Boydstun, Bracken, Bradford, Breed, Brosius,
Burnham, Burnley, Byrnes, Carrell, Clements, Cluysenaar,
Collier, Darby, Davis, Downer, Dunn, Dyar, Earle,
Eaton, Fish, Fleming, Flower, Forney, Frink, Gomez,
Gordon, Grabau, Grant, Gray, Griffith, Gustin, Hamill,
Hamilton. Hart, Hatch, Hayden, Henry, Highland, Holt,
Howard. Hubbard, Hunt, Huntley. Jennings, Kelley,
Kemmerer, Kennedy. Lewis, Long, McCalla, McComb.
McCurdy, McDaniel, Magruder, Maxwell, Mays, Miller.
Moncreiff, Moor, Morris, Nelson, Ninde, North, Nutting,
Osborn, Owen, Owens, Pattison, Patton, Payne, Peabody.

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Penrose, Peterson, Pierce, Poole, Price, Reynolds, Russell,
Saxe, Scott, Selby, Shedd, Shockey, Showalter, Shryock,
Simpson, Smiley, Smith, Sorrel, Spach, Stout, Sturgis,
Taylor, Tilton, Van Horn, Van Rensselaer, Wenrich,
West, White, Wiard, Wolff, Wynne, Younglove, Zearley.

A total of 33 deposits, containing a large number of Db
separate pieces, was accepted during the year, as com-
pared with 13 accepted during the preceding year. Many
of them have been used to good advantage for exhibition
purposes. Among those of special interest were :

(a) The original manuscript of John Howard Payne's
Home Sweet Home, with two additional unpublished
verses, deposited by Mr. Leander McCormick-Goodhart,
of the British Embass}^.

(b) The original autograph manuscript of Lewis
Carroll's [pseud.] Alice in Wonderland, illustrated with
pen and ink drawings by the author, and two copies of
the very rare first edition published in July, 1865, one of
which was Carroll's own copy, interleaved with original
pencil drawings by Sir John Tenniel. Accompanying
them was a pamphlet by Carroll, entitled, " Who will
riddle me the how and the why? " and six letters which
lie wrote to Mrs. Reginald Hargreaves, the real "Alice,"
for whom the now famous story was written in 1862.
These were all deposited by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach for
their owner, Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, of Moorestown,
X. J., and were on exhibition in the Library from Oc-
tober to February. To facilitate the study of the manu-
script of Alice in Wonderland it was photographed, each
photographed page being mounted under glass on wing
frames.

(c) A Greek papyrus written in 75 A. D., together
with its printed transcription and translation, deposited
by the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor,
Mich.

(d) A collection of the original papers of Phineas P.
Quimby, 18 letters addressed to him by Mrs. Mary Baker
Patterson (afterwards Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy) and two
letters from her husband, Doctor Patterson to Mr.
Quimby. These were deposited by Mrs. Elizabeth Q.

POSITS.

50 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Pineo, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Mrs. George Quimby and
Mrs. H. H. Hollingshead, both of Belfast, Me.

(e) Original papers of Alexander Hamilton, once
Secretary of the Treasury, deposited by Alexander Ham-
ilton and Pierpont M. Hamilton, both of New York City.

(/) A group of 216 scrolls illustrating Chinese theatri-
cal, equipment, such as costumes, masks, musical instru-
ments, etc., drawn and illuminated by Prof. Chi Jushan.
These were deposited for the owner by Mr. Philip Fugh,
of the American office of Yenching University, in New
York City, and are now on exhibition.
purchases. The routine purchases of the year needed for the cur^

rent operations of the Library call for little comment.
We have not been represented at important auction sales
as in previous years, nor have we been able to check
secondhand catalogues as liberally as in the past ; yet the
year's net accessions of books and pamphlets, 196,632 in
number, is the largest in the history of the Library, and
the generous appropriation of $180,000 for the " increase
of the Library " for the new year beginning July 1, 1930,
is an indication that Congress recognizes the Library's
imperative needs and that there is little danger in the
future of a diminution of its influence through lack of
funds for the purchase of books. The appropriation act
approved June 6, 1930, increased the general book appro-
priation, exclusive of that for law books, from $105,000
to $130,000; and the appropriation for the purchase of
books and periodicals for the law library was increased
from $3,000 to $50,000, a total net increase of $72,000
over the appropriation for the year just ended. The
annual book appropriation of $3,000 for the law library
has long been so inadequate that it has been necessary to
levy each year upon the general book appropriation for
the purchase of law books. Now that the law library has
an amount to spend more in keeping with its importance
in the library field, several thousand dollars from the gen-
eral book appropriation are thus released for other pur-
poses, to be added to the increase of $25,000 recently pro-
vided by Congress.

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When, in addition to providing $180,000 for the in- voiibehr coiuc-
crease of the Library for the current year, the House and nabuia™™'
Senate voted unanimously to set aside $1,500,000 for the
purchase of the Voiibehr collection of 3,000 incunabula,
including a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, it was strikingly
demonstrated that Congress earnestly desires to make its
Librarv one of the greatest reference libraries in the
world and a center for scholarly research. Twice before
has Congress passed special enactments authorizing the
purchase of private libraries, once in 1815 when it appro-
priated $23,950 for the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's
private library of nearly 6,500 volumes, and again in
1867 when the remarkable collection of Americana gath-
ered together by Peter Force, a collection numbering ap-
proximately 60,000 pieces, was acquired for $100,000.
The acquisition of the Voiibehr collection was based on a
bill introduced in the House by Representative Ross A.
Collins, of Mississippi, the history of which is recorded
in the introductory pages of this report.

THE GUTENBERG BIBLE

This copy — one of the three perfect copies on vellum
surviving — was first known to scholars when it was dis-
covered in the Benedictine abbey of Saint Blasius, in the
Black Forest. Following the French Revolution, the
friars, fearing the danger of looting at the hands of the
French army that had come over the Rhine, are said to
have transferred the Bible, with other treasures, to the
Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. This
abbey, in turn, becoming unsafe, the friars retired in
1807 to the abbey of Spital am Pyhrn in Upper Austria
to which the} 7 had been invited by Francis II. From
there they moved in 1809 to the monastery of St. Paul in
Carinthia, which had been prepared for their reception
by order of the Emperor Francis. Here they brought
their Bible, where it has remained until the present time.
But here again danger threatening, the treasures of the
monastery were kept in hiding, scholars being unaware
of the whereabouts of the Bible that had once been in
the library at Saint Blasius. It was not until 1900 that

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it was rediscovered by the outside world. In 1926 the
present abbot of St. Paul, needing funds for the restora-
tion of the monastery, reluctantly sold his order's cher-
ished book to Doctor Vollbehr, who placed himself under
contract to pay $250,000 for it, with the understanding
that it was to be guarded for him in the monastery until
he could decide upon the disposition of his entire collec-
tion. With the addition of the interest charges for four
years, the export duty ($25,000) and other items, the total
sum actually paid by him was over $370,000.

With the exception of the Gutenberg Bible the 3,000
volumes were delivered to the Library in July, 1930.
Shortly afterwards Doctor Vollbehr left for Europe,
where he proceeded to the monastery of St. Paul to make
arrangements for the formal transfer of the Bible first
to himself and then in turn to the Library of Congress.

At the time this report is being written the collection
is being checked and a detailed description of its treas-
ures must of necessity be delayed. This acquisition has
placed the Library of Congress in the front rank among
American libraries as an owner of incunabula, since there
is only one other collection in the United States, that of
the Henry E. Huntington Library, of San Marino, Calif.,
that exceeds it either in distinction or in number of
volumes. In 1929 a rough estimate showed that 40 per
cent of the titles in the Vollbehr collection were appar-
ently not represented in the United States by a single
copy.
other incunabula Ordinarily the acquisition of six incunabula would be
worthy of more than casual mention but this year they
are quite overshadowed by the purchase of the Vollbehr
collection. Through the general appropriaton, however,
we were able to secure a copy of the " Sermones," of Pope
Leo I (Impresso in Firenze a di. xxi. di maggio
MCCCCLXXXV) Ham * 10016; a copy of " Tractatus
de emptione et venditione et de omnibus contractibus in
genere," Milan, Pietro Antonio Castelliono, 1492, Dec. 3,
by Fabianus de Giocchis, de Monte Sancti Savini, Hain
11602, Panzer 387 (v. 2) ; a copy of "Arithmetica geo-
metria et musica Boetii," Venetijs, Impressum Boetij
opus p Joanez i Gregoriu de gregorijs fratres, 1492, die.

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18. Augusti, Uain *33S1 (a portion of a larger work),
and an edition of " Ioannis Crisostomi de compunctione
cordis [with other tracts]," Hain SOU- Although this
bears no indication of publisher or date, Proctor doubt-
fully assigns it to Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, of Venice.
It is so seldom that we receive incunabula on exchange that
we gratefully record here two titles acquired on priced
exchange from the Boston Medical Library. These were
Guido de Monte Rocherii's " Manipulus curatorum," n.
p., n. d. and a copy of Domenico Cavalca's " Trattato
de.lla pazienza overo Medicina di cuore," Firenze, Fran-
cesco Bonacorsi, 1490, Hain 4800, Pellechet 3453.

On October 29, 1929, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund Guggenheim
for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc., made a special
grant to the Library of $140,000. Of this sum $51,000 was
set aside for the acquisition of material. As the first pur-
chase from this fund we were fortunate in being able to
secure from Maggs Bros., of London, a combined group
of four important aeronautical libraries, totaling 4,099
volumes and pamphlets. These four collections will be
found described at length in the report of the chief of
the division of aeronautics, infra.

The Huntington fund provides for the purchase of Huntington
books relating only to Spanish, Portuguese, and South fund '
American arts, crafts, literature, and history which have
been published not more than 10 years previous to the
date of purchase. Established by Mr. Archer M. Hunt-
ington, of New York City, it became available on Febru-
ary 15, 1928, although the first order was not placed until
the next month. The mere statement that for the period
from March 16, 1928, to June 30, 1930, we have purchased
3,112 titles, representing 3,580 volumes, at a total cost of
$7,224.26, gives little idea of the labor involved in secur-
ing these titles. Orders were placed for 998 additional
titles that came within the scope of the fund but which,
for one reason or another, were never filled. The limita-
tions as to subject matter and date of publication are
such that the work can not be handled as mere routine.
One assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Philbrick, devotes her
entire time to the acquisition of material on this fund,

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Collection of
French plays.

Portuguese
collection.

checking second-hand catalogues, publishers' catalogues,
and bibliographical lists, searching our own catalogues
to avoid the purchase of duplicates, placing and follow-
ing up orders, filing, etc. Correspondence with dealers
in Spanish-speaking countries is conducted by her in
Spanish.

Complementing the Toinet collection of seventeenth-
century French literature, purchased in 1929, we have
this year secured an extensive collection of French plays,
largely in first editions. It contains 2,823 separate titles,
of which 2,779 are plays published and produced in
France from 1789 to the present day, the remainder be-
ing miscellaneous works. Nearly half of the plays were
published before 1860. The collection comprises 491
physical volumes and 1,242 pamphlets.

In November, 1927, we purchased a collection of books
and manuscripts on Portugal, nearly all of which came
from the private library of a Portuguese collector. It
comprised 1,555 volumes, 344 pamphlets, 117 composite
volumes of manuscripts, and 5 broadsides. This year we
were fortunate in being able to secure the main collection
from which the smaller group purchased in 1927 was
drawn. The final checking of this recent acquisition has
not yet been completed but it is estimated that it contains
nearly 28,500 items, of which 14,000 are in Portuguese,
6,000 in French, and the rest in Latin, Spanish, German,
Italian, and English. Only 12,000 volumes of the collec-
tion are included in this year's statistics.

It is a very miscellaneous collection showing that it
belonged to a man of wide interests. In the field of lit-
erature there is an outstanding group of books devoted to
Luiz de Camoes. Besides hundreds of editions of Camoes
and still further hundreds of books about him there is
an interesting series of 77 composite volumes devoted to
the tricentenary of his death. They include printed ac-
counts of celebrations and memorials held in various
countries, poems written in his honor, critical estimates
of his writings, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, pic-
tures, circulars, programs, and curios, besides a certain
number of editions of Camoes' works, most of which are

Division of Accession^ 55

duplicated elsewhere in the collection. Each of the 77
volumes has a special printed title-page and there is also
a printed catalogue describing the contents of 64 of the
volumes.

Next in importance is probably the large and well-
selected group on the natural sciences, with special em-
phasis given to works on entomology. Here will be found
many European serials and periodicals, together with
numerous reprints from these sources.

The miscellaneous nature of the collecton will be
shown by mentioning a few other subjects that are more
or less well represented: Almanacs, art and reproduc-
tions of art, Braziliana, Cervantes, classics, European lit-
erature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inter-
national law, legal documents and literature, numis-
matics. There are many manuscripts, originals and
copies, both bound and unbound. The collection is also
notable for the number of limited and autographed edi-
tions that it contains, including some remarkable speci-
mens of fine printing and binding.

The important collection of botanical works and dis- Dissertations by

■ T • n , . , , . , Linnaeus and

sertations by .Linnaeus and his successors, already in the his successors.
possession of the Library, was greatly strengthened by
the addition of 70 titles. In this group 21 titles were by
Linnaeus, 3 by his son, 41 by Elias Magnus Fries, 4 by
Adam Afzelius, and 1 by Carl Peter Thunberg.

A special effort is made each year to add to our rapidly Documents.
growing collection of official gazettes. Among those pur-
chased this year were files of the official gazettes of
Syria (" El Acima," 1919-1927, 9 v.) and of Denmark
(" Statstidende," Apr. 1, 1904-Mar. 31, 1919, 15 v.,
together with a somewhat incomplete file covering the
period from April, 1924, to December, 1928, both inclu-
sive). Two other important sets of Danish documents
acquired were the " Collegialtidende," 1798-1840, and the
" Ny Collegialtidende," 1841-1848, the two series together
comprising 51 volumes.

The purchase of an extensive group of Russian docu-
ments brought to the Library some unusual titles. Chief
among these was a collection of the documents and

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protocols of the General Session of the Russian State
Council, in 195 volumes and covering the period from
1893 to 1906, inclusive. This is an exceptionally rare
item and is possibly unique. The Russian State Council
was a consultative institution in matters of legislation,
one of the four administrative boards, or councils, of the
Russian Empire, and its published documents were issued
in small editions for members only, which accounts for
their rarity. This particular set was brought together
by one of the most prominent members of the state
council for his private library. A single volume con-
taining the secret instructions and circulars of the Cen-
tral Department of Police of Russia is also of great inter-
est. The instructions cover the period from 1902 to 1907,
inclusive.

Law. From the same dealer who supplied the Russian docu-

ments mentioned above we secured a group of laws of
the Russian Empire, supplementing the collection pur-
chased in 1928. About 150 of the titles were new to the
Library, including several that applied specifically to the
Russian Provinces.

Brief mention should also be made of the purchase of
a collection of Rhode Island acts and resolves from 1747
to date, together with a smaller lot of Rhode Island
public laws, covering the period from 1798 to date.

Transcripts, The photostat is used so extensively for the reproduc-

photostatic

prints, facsimile tion of books, newspapers, maps, and manuscripts that

reproductions. . ,

only a few of the accessions ot the year can be noted.

The New York Historical Society Library has begun an
ambitious project to reproduce its file of Game's " New-
York Mercury " by means of the photostat. The society
has a copy of every known issue, either in the original or
in photostat, for the period from 1752 to 1783, both in-
clusive, and plans to extend the work of reproduction
over a period of several years. As subscriptions to the
series were invited, the Library of Congress has agreed to
take a complete set.

Our subscription to the "Americana series" (repro-
ductions of early imprints) issued by the Massachusetts
Historical Societv brought us 24 new titles, making a

Division of Accessions 57

total of 259 received.' As the society plans to discontinue
this series, arrangements were made whereby the Library
of Congress purchased the negatives of " unused " Ameri-
cana, a total of 5,402 photostat negatives, forming a rich
collection of material almost wholly unknown to bibliog-
raphers. All of the originals are printed works — royal
decrees and proclamations, broadsides, books and pam-
phlets — found largely in Spanish archives, although a
considerable number of the reproductions were obtained
from originals in England and France.

In an endeavor to make the Library of Congress a
great repository of facsimile reproductions, a program
has been begun which will provide for the systematic
acquisition of facsimiles of complete manuscript texts,
codices, etc. Dr. E. A. Lowe, of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, research associate of the Carnegie Institution,
who is engaged in a palaeographical project in Europe,
has been commissioned by the Library for a 5-year period
to purchase for us any such existing facsimiles as may
seem desirable for the use of American scholars. He will
also arrange for the reproduction of certain complete
manuscripts in European libraries and archives that have
not hitherto been reproduced. As a guide in the task of
selection, the division of accessions has prepared and
forwarded to him a card catalogue of facsimiles of manu-
script texts already in the Library of Congress.

In the spring and summer of 1929 Dr. E. C. Richard- cooperative

1 c Book-Buying

son, general director of Project B, and Mr. Ernest experiment car-

70 j , K1ED Out By

Kletsch, curator of the union catalogue, made a trip Proje c t b -
abroad for the purpose of carrying out a cooperative
book-buying experiment. The first object of the trip was
naturally to secure books for the Library of Congress,
but seven university libraries had previously agreed to
absorb the books not needed by the Library of Congress,
and other libraries have since expressed an interest.
England, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy were in-
cluded in the itinerary where visits were made to many
obscure second-hand dealers and small antique shops with
establishments too small to issue catalogues. All books
secured were shipped directly to the Library of Congress.

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Upon their arrival Project B assumed the responsibility
of organizing the collections, making a card for each
item. The division of accessions then searched the vari-
ous catalogues to determine the needs of the Library of
Congress. It was found that 4,794 volumes were either
not in the Library or were needed as second copies or
replacements, and these were purchased, together with
an undetermined number of manuscripts, at a total cost
of only $3,822.92. While the great majority bear imprint
dates later than the seventeenth century there are 3 incu-
nabula, 298 volumes published in the sixteenth century,
and 270 volumes of the seventeenth century.

The books had been purchased by Doctor Kichardson
with private funds and were sold by him at cost. The
titles not acquired by the Library of Congress remain the
private property of Doctor Richardson, who plans to list
them and offer them for sale to other libraries.
coopkration During the year the division of accessions has co-

b!™ r operated with Project B in carrying out a plan to make

uncatalogued books readily available. This plan, in force
in other libraries but inaugurated here by Dr. E. C.
Richardson, is applied at present only to large collections
where the final cataloguing must of necessity be delayed.
In typing order cards, for instance, for the Portuguese
collection of nearly 28,500 volumes, the division of acces-
sions is making a carbon copy of each card. This carbon
copy is placed in the book which is then routed to the
classification division and from there directly to Project
B instead of to the catalogue division. In Project B the
book is classed in YA (signifying an uncatalogued book)
and is given an arbitrary running number in that class,
for purposes of shelving. The card, which has received
the same number, is filed in the union catalogue, thus
making all uncatalogued books that have been treated in
this way quickly accessible with a minimum of labor.
the cooperative The cooperative clearing house established by the
of the H.wy sE H. W. Wilson Co., of New York City, for the interchang-
ing of periodical duplicates is past the experimental stage
and has been most favorably received. In the priced
catalogue issued in June 1930, more than 250 American

Division of Accessions 59

and Canadian libraries listed the important sets of
duplicates in their periodical collections and offered them
for sale through the H. W. Wilson Co. In each case the
selling library receives the full purchase price, less 25
per cent, from the Wilson Co., payable either in cash or
as credit to be applied toward the purchase of Wilson
publications. The Library of Congress listed its own
extensive collection of periodical duplicates, but owing to
an unfortunate misunderstanding its holdings were not
included in the printed list issued in June. We have
already secured so many periodicals from other libraries
through the cooperative clearing house that it is to be
hoped that future editions of the list will be published
and that the decision will be made to extend the enter-
prise to include book duplicates.

• Taking into consideration only the nondocumentary exchanges.
duplicates administered by the division of accessions
the Library sent out 4,850 volumes of duplicates on ex-
change and received 3,448 in return during the year just
ended.

Exchange relations were established with the Hawaiian
Historical Society, of Honolulu, when we received a col-
lection of 27 volumes and 133 pamphlets from that insti-
tution. With a few exceptions the entire collection is in
Hawaiian, most of the books being textbooks and
religious pamphlets, although there are a few documents.

Since we make it a general practice to exchange our
duplicates only with other institutions, it is a coincidence
that three of the most important transactions of the year
were with individuals. Mr. Fred Lockley, of Portland,
Oreg., sent us a copy of a rare western map, on priced
exchange : " Map of the Nez Perces and Salmon River
gold mines in Washington Territory; comp. from the
most recent surveys by Daniel W. Lowell & Co.," San
Francisco, printed by Whitton, Waters & Co., 1862.
This map brought $760 at an American auction sale in
1922. From Mr. Rudolf Dolge, of Caracas, Venezuela,
we received 100 early Venezuelan documents (pamphlets
and broadsides), also on priced exchange. Upon a visit
to Washington a few months ago Mr. B. George Ulizio,

60 Report of the Librarian of Congress

of Atlantic City, N. J., discovered that the Library of
Congress did not have a single copy of a book with a
fore-edge painting. Upon returning to his home he at
once sent us three such volumes from his personal
library for exhibition purposes. But as he felt that the
National Library should have examples of the fore-edge
art in its permanent collections he decided to present the
volumes to the Library. As a partial return for this
courtesy we were privileged to send him certain volumes
of American first editions from our duplicate collections.
tbansfers. During the year 17,867 volumes and pamphlets were

transferred to the Library of Congress from other United
States Government libraries, while these same libraries
selected only 2,063 volumes from our duplicates. A num-
ber of important transfers have been received. One
notable accession was a collection of 1,429 hydrographic
charts, largely British and Canadian, transferred from
the United States Hydrographic Office. This helped ma-
terially to fill some of the many gaps in our chart col-
lection. In November and December 2,268 bound volumes
of original House of Kepresentatives documents were
transferred to the Library from the file room of the
House Office Building. Except for a few scattered
volumes of earlier dates these documents covered the
period from the Forty-third Congress, second session, to
the Fiftieth Congress, second session, both inclusive. A
collection of works in Esperanto (30 volumes, 35 pam-
phlets, and 271 numbers of periodicals) was received by
transfer from the Public Library of the District of Co-
lumbia. In the group of periodicals special mention
should be made of a file of " Orienta Azio," covering the
period from November, 1913, to February, 1916 (Vol.
3-v. 5, no. 4). Published in Tokyo in Esperanto this
periodical is printed in Japanese style with many colored
illustrations, the text of the earlier numbers being
autographed.

Most notable of all, however, was the transfer from the
Army War College Library of a set of the original folio
edition of "The birds of America from original draw-
ings by John James Audubon," London, published for

Division of Manuscripts 61

the author, 1827-1838, 4 v. This was already repre-
sented in the collections of the Library, but was wel-
comed as a second set. The plates were accompanied by
two different editions of the text : " Ornithological biog-
raphy ... by John James Audubon . . ." Philadelphia,
E. L. Carey, and A. Hart [etc., etc.] 1832-1838. 4 v..
and " The birds of America from drawings made in
the United States and their Territories by John James
Audubon ..." New York, published by J. J. Audubon ;
Philadelphia, J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. 7 v. [Im-
prints of v. 6-7 vary.]

A total of 27,970 copyright books was added to the copyright im-
permanent collections of the Library during the year, as
compared with 25,672 last year. All second copies and
all copyright transfers are recorded in the division of
accessions.

Only 8,473 volumes of our surplus copyrighted books copyright

j, -, i ^ i-i ■ » i -r*k« TRANSFERS.

were transferred to the Government libraries of the Dis-
trict of Columbia this year, as compared with 11,538
volumes last year. This was due largely to the fact that
several libraries were not as active as in past years in
sending representatives to the Library to select these
books. The largest number (2,382 volumes) went to the
Public Library of the District. In addition to these
transfers we sent 2,567 volumes of copyright deposits to
four different libraries on exchange, of which 1,201
volumes were current deposits and 1,366 were old city
directories which were sent to the American Antiquarian
Society Library, Worcester, Mass. The volumes chosen
by the beneficiary libraries are not included in our statis-
tical statements because they had never been considered
as a part of the permanent collections.

DIVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS

(From the report of the chief, Doctor Jameson)

The main matter of report from the division is always,
and naturally, that of accessions. The Library has many
friends who take pleasure in increasing its store of manu-
script materials for the use of the historical student, or
who find legitimate satisfaction in the knowledge that

Mexico.

62 Report of the Librarian of Congress

an ancestor's papers placed in the Library and accessible
to the many writers who resort to it are sure to have
their substance, and therewith the ancestor's rightful
fame, worked into the fabric of the national history.
Besides gifts that come thus, either spontaneously or
through efforts made by the division, the Library is able
to a limited extent to make purchases of manuscripts.
Its means do not allow it to compete with rich collectors
for those manuscripts which, on account of rarity as auto-
graphs, are sold for high and constantly increasing prices
in the auction room or other market. Its scale of values
must be a different one, based on prospects of actual
usefulness to historians. Moreover, it would be impossi-
ble in the field of medieval European or oriental manu-
scripts for a public institution entering that field in the
twentieth century, without very ample special funds, to
succeed in making a collection of significant importance,
comparable in any way to the great European collections,
formed in earlier and easier times. Gifts of material
of that sort will always be welcomed ; facsimiles have
their useful part; but in the main our division of manu-
scripts must expect to be confined, not by deliberate
intention but by actual circumstance, to manuscript ma-
terial for American history. The description of acces-
sions naturally begins with these. It is perforce confined
to mention of the most significant of them.

For a portion of American history prior in general to
that of the United States, an exceptionally valuable gift
has been made by Mr. G. R. G. Conway, of Mexico City,
president of the Mexican Tramways Co. and of the
Mexican Light & Power Co. Long interested in the his-
tory of the Inquisition in Mexico, and especially in that
of its dealings with British subjects, Mr. Conway has
had copies made in duplicate of the documents relative
to sixteenth-century Britons in the " Inquisicion " section
of the Archivo General y Publico in Mexico City and
in the Archivo de Indias in Seville. His duplicate set,
bound in 45 volumes, he has generously presented to the
Library, to be available after a season to historical in-
vestigators. Similar material relating to the later opera-

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tions of the Inquisition in New Mexico has been obtained
from the same deposit in Mexico by Prof. France Scholes,
of the University of New Mexico, in continuation of the
procedure mentioned in the last annual report, this year's
addition amounting to some 2,000 pages. Other portions
of the archives of the Inquisition, relating specifically to
Texas, have been provided in transcript through the care-
ful services of Prof. Charles W. Hackett, of the Uni-
versity of Texas. Through his agency have also been
obtained materials of much value for the history of Texas
in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the
whole amount procured through his means being nearly
3,500 typewritten pages.

Mention was made in the last report of a plan for Admiralty court

... -it-i i -Hi records.

assembling in the Library, by photostat copying, all that
has remained to the present time of the records of those
vice admiralty courts which sat in the different colonies
before the Revolution, namely, those preserved at Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. The two vol-
umes preserved at Philadelphia were then spoken of
as already reproduced. The photostats of the three New
York volumes arrived soon after. Those of the court
held at Boston, volumes preserved in the office of the
clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County,
have also now been procured through the kind offices
of the clerk of that court, Mr. John F. Cronin.

The late Mrs. Washington E. Connor ( Jeannette colonial Florida.
Thurber Connor) was one of the principal founders of
the Florida State Historical Society and one of its most
productive workers, author or editor of several of the
scholarly volumes for which it has already become noted.
She had accumulated much valuable material, mostly
transcripts and photostats from Spain, for the continua-
tion of her volumes, particularly her Colonial Records of
Spanish Florida, of which the society intends further
publication. Meantime Mr. Connor has deposited in the
Library for future though not immediate use by other
scholars the rich store of documentary material which
she had brought together. It comprises several thousand
pages of record, and has been most gratefully received.

64 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Mr. John C. Long, of Bethlehem, Pa., has generously
presented the Library with an elaborate inventory of that
important portion of the War Office archives in the
British Public Kecord Office known as W. O. 34.

Mr. George Simpson Eddy, of New York, has pre-
sented his reproductions in print of Benjamin Franklin's
account books, 1728-1747, two ledgers and a journal.
Revolution. One of the most valuable gifts which the Library has

ever received for its division of manuscripts came through
the munificence of Mr. William Evarts Benjamin, who
has presented the original manuscript of Jefferson's first
" fair copy " of his draft of a constitution for his State
of Virginia. It will be remembered that, when the Vir-
ginia convention of Ma}', 1776, was making its bill of
rights and constitution, Jefferson was absent in Phila-
delphia, in attendance upon the Continental Congress.
His suggestions were, however, sought. The draft which
he carefully prepared arrived at Williamsburg too late
for the most effective use, the convention having nearly
completed its work. Use was made, however, of his pre-
amble, by combining it with the bill of rights already
formulated. Thus it happens that the document now
given, besides its interesting relation to the constitution
of the foremost of the Revolutionary States, is in part
one of the direct sources of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, for the taking of its phrases into the Virginia
Bill of Rights gave wide publicity and acceptance to
language and doctrines that we find more fully dis-
played in the Declaration.

For this reason a special exhibition centering around
the precious manuscript of Mr. Benjamin has been ar-
ranged in the upper hall of the Library, near the shrine
in which the Declaration is installed, consisting of docu-
ments or photostats of the documents, nearly all possessed
by the Library in the papers of the Continental Congress,
which show the genesis of the Declaration, from the reso-
lution of the Virginia Convention instructing its dele-
gates to the Continental Congress to advocate independ-
ence, through the Virginia Bill of Rights and Constitu-
tion in their various stages of development, Richard

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Henrv Lee's resolution of June 7, and the vote of Con-
gress of July 2, to the completed and engrossed Declara-
tion. The exhibition, placed in order before this present
Fourth of July, has attracted much attention and is cer-
tainly impressive and instructive.

One of the most notable deposits of Revolutionary
material which the Library has received in recent years
is due to the liberality and public spirit of Dr. and Mrs.
Lloyd P. Shippen, of Washington, who have transferred
to its custody eight stout volumes of ancestral papers of
the Shippen family, including a volume of letters of
Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson to Thomas
Lee Shippen, Lee's nephew, and five volumes of corre-
spondence of Thomas Lee Shippen and his wife and sister,
1777-1797. The collection contains much valuable mate-
rial for the history of the Revolution.

An auction sale embracing a considerable number of
papers of Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental
Congress, and of his family connections, enabled the
Library to acquire several manuscripts of much value to
the history of Congress, receipts for the printing of its
journals, more than 30 letters from or to Thomson, and
as many more, miscellaneous, from public characters of a
later time.

Another group of Thomson papers (21) from the same
sale was presented by Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Xew York.

A Louisiana contemporary of the Revolution, Ray-
mundo Du Breuil, commandant at Manchac, is commem-
orated in a typewritten manuscript by Miss Irene A.
Wright, of Seville, which she has presented to the
Library, and which, consisting largely of documents from
the Archives of the Indies, brings a welcome addition to
our sources for the history of that period in the
Southwest.

The Seventy-first Congress, in its session just closing,
passed an act, approved February 21, 1930, authorizing
the preparation, under the auspices of the George Wash-
ington Bicentennial Commission, of a new and more com-
plete edition of the writings of George Washington, to
replace the old editions by Sparks and Ford, long since

Presidents:
'Washington.

(36 Report of the Librarian of Congress

out of print. Suitable appropriations were made, and
the work has begun, under the editorial care of Dr. John
C. Fitzpatrick, formerly assistant chief of the division of
manuscripts, with an advisory committee of which the
present chief is chairman. The principal basis of the
work will necessarily be the Washington collection in the
Library of Congress, and space for its prosecution has
been assigned in the division of manuscripts. To facili-
tate the work, and at the same time to amplify our Wash-
ington collection for the general purposes of the historical
students of Washington and his times, the division in the
previous year undertook a systematic effort to procure
photostats of additional letters of Washington preserved
in other collections, public and private. This effort has
been continued with good effect during the past year.
Photostats of Washington letters to the extent of 990
sheets have been obtained, representing more than 500
letters. While not a few of these are already repre-
sented in the Washington collection by drafts or letter-
book copies, even in these cases it is an advantage to the
editor, or to the historian, to have the exact text of the
letter actually sent.

Of the 990 sheets of such photostats, 584 were obtained
through the kindness of the New York Public Library,
271 through that of the Maryland Historical Society, 67
from the Virginia Historical Society, 36 from the Con-
necticut Historical Society, and lesser numbers from the
similar societies in Maine, Rhode Island, and New Jer-
sey, from the North Carolina Historical Commission, and
from generous individuals.

Jefferson. Besides the precious Jefferson document mentioned

above as given by Mr. William Evarts Benjamin, the
Library has received as a gift from Mr. H. A. Gushing, of
New York, a legal opinion written by Jefferson in 1771
concerning the will of John Chichester.

Madison. An accession of considerable value and of peculiar in-

terest is a brief autobiography of James Madison, hitherto
unknown, prepared by him to aid the writer of a bio-
graphical sketch for some such collection as those of
Delaplaine or Herring and Longacre.

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While the correspondence of a " mistress of the White Van Buren -
House " is not precisely presidential, its proper place may
be not far from the seats of the mighty, and it may
often be found more interesting than the graver letters
of that mansion's chief occupant. In the large corre-
spondence of the Singleton family of South Carolina,
acquired during the year, the most interesting element is
the letters of Angelica Singleton, who, marrying Maj.
Abraham Van Buren, presided over her father-in-law's
household during the last two years of his term of office
as President. Her letters, 40 or 50 in number, written to
her mother and sisters, from the midst of Washington
society before her marriage, from the White House, and
later from Kinderhook and elsewhere, are those of a lively
and intelligent young woman, and comprise much that
is entertaining. The collection also includes some letters
of George McDuffie, who had married an elder sister;
some of Senator and Mrs. W. C. Preston, under whose
wing Angelica Singleton first came to Washington ; and
several of a relative (Robert M. Deveaux) who attended
the University of Virginia as a student in its first years.
The correspondence is mostly of the years from 1825
to 1850.

Mr. Willis Houston, of Norfolk, Va., and Miss L. Lincoln.
Houston, of Washington, have presented a letter of
President Lincoln, January 5, 1863, addressed to two
members of the Society of Friends in Iowa.

Col. W. G. Moore, private secretary to President Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, kept shorthand notes of conversations
that took place in his presence, of remarks of the Presi-
dent, and of some events that immediately affected the
White House. The series is preserved with the Johnson
papers. A portion of it, which had been transcribed in
long-hand by Colonel Moore, was printed in 1913 in the
American Historical Review, Volume XIX, pages 98-
132. The remainder has been a closed book till the pres-
ent year. Now, in view of an increased interest in the
history of President Johnson, it has been transcribed in
typewritten text, and proves, as was expected, to cast
much light on Johnson's relations with his Cabinet and

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Report of the Librarian of Congress

Cleveland.

Benjamin Har-
rison.

Wilson.

Cabinet Offi-
cers:

Hamilton.

with Congress, on his views of policy and on most of the
chief transactions of his period of administration. It
runs in date from July 8, 1866, to February 2, 1869, with
a few entries made in the ensuing year.

By the kindness of Mrs. Spencer S. Wood and six other
heirs of the late Mrs. Daniel Manning, widow of Presi-
dent Cleveland's first Secretary of the Treasury, the
Library has received a gift of papers which include some
40 letters of Cleveland to Manning, together with other
portions of the Secretary's correspondence. Mrs. Man-
ning herself was a personage of importance and influence,
occupying such positions as that of president general of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, and such
portions of her own correspondence as are embraced in
the gift have a distinct historical value. It also includes
a small number of early papers of the Livingston family,
of which she was a descendant.

Mr. Frank B. Taylor, of Fort Wayne, Ind., whose
father, Judge Robert S. Taylor, was one of the chief
political supporters and friends of President Benjamin
Harrison in his State, has presented the Library with a
collection of some 40 valuable letters of Harrison to his
father. A set of eight letters of Harrison to Cyrus C.
Hines has been deposited in the Library by Mrs. Fletcher
S. Hines, of Ludlow, Vt., and Galveston, Tex.

The Rev. Dr. William E. Brooks, of Morgantown,
W. Va., having in the course of certain literary work
received many letters from distinguished men conveying
information or impressions concerning President Wilson,
kindly permitted the Library to take photostat copies of
some 17 of these.

In connection with the presidential series, which now
embraces the extant manuscript collections of all but a
few of the Presidents, mention may properly be made at
this point of 19 volumes, transferred from the White
House, of records of receptions held there from 1891 to
1913.

A deposit of extraordinary value has been made by
Messrs. Alexander and Pierpont M. Hamilton, who have
sent to the Library as a deposit their remarkable coll en-

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tion of papers of Alexander Hamilton and his family,
numbering as many as 479, and in many cases having the
highest degree of historical interest. There are in the
collection 149 letters and documents of Secretary Hamil-
ton himself — letters sent or drafts — 32 of Mrs. Hamilton
(Elizabeth Schuyler), 27 of Philip Schuyler, 23 of
George Washington to Hamilton or to Schuyler, a dozen
from Hamilton's sons, and lesser numbers from con-
spicuous public men of the time, such as William Jackson,
Henry and John Laurens, John Francis Mercer, James
Monroe, F. A. C. Muhlenberg, and David Koss. The
letters of General Hamilton range from 1769 to 1804.
The existing Hamilton collection in the Librarv fills 109
volumes. The present deposit increases and fortifies it
greatly, and in a manner most welcome.

Copies of a considerable portion of the papers of Dr. McHenr "-
James McHenry, Secretary of War under Washington
and Adams, were obtained in 1927 by the kindness of
their owner, Mrs. C. Morton Stewart, of Baltimore.
Three ladies possessing another large portion, Mrs. Gay-
lord Lee Clark, of Stevenson, Md., Mrs. James Bruce, of
New York, and Mrs. W. McHenry Keyser, of Eccleston,
Md., have this year, with similar liberality, permitted the
reproducing by photostat of the letters and documents
which had descended to them. The accession is a large
one, numbering more than 800 sheets, and is of great
historical value, including many letters of Washington,
Adams, Hamilton, Pickering, the Pinckney brothers,
William Vans Murray, and many other Federalist leaders.

Capt. Thomas Jefferson Clay, of Lexington, Ky., has Cla v-
added to the large collection of the papers of Henry
Clay six documents of much dramatic interest, five of
them being the essential letters or records connected with
Clay's duel of January, 1809, with Humphrey Marshall.

Through the hands of Miss Grace Lee N'ute, curator Mei ^ s -
of manuscripts to the Minnesota Historical Society, that
society has presented to the Library a letter book which
Return Jonathan Meigs kept as Postmaster General from
December 22, 1820, to April, 1821.

70 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Taney. Roger B. Taney is of course chiefly remembered as

Chief Justice of the United States, but his political serv-
ice as Attorney General in Jackson's Cabinet, 1831-1833,
and Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-34, is recalled by a
very interesting document in his handwriting, evidently
unknown to his biographers, which has been acquired
during the past year. It is a bound volume of 132 pages,
presenting a detailed narrative and explanation of all his
actions with respect to the United States Bank and the
" removal of the deposits," written by him 15 or 16 years
after those transactions.

caihoun. One of the political supporters in South Carolina with

whom Calhoun corresponded most freely was Henry
William Conner. The latter's granddaughter, Mrs.
George H. Moffett, of Charleston (Mary Conner Mof-
lett), has been so good as to permit photostats of 45
letters to be taken for the Library; letters of the period
1843-1850, of much political importance, written by Cal-
houn, or, in a few cases, by other political leaders in
South Carolina.

Ewmg. Hon. Thomas Ewing, of New York, has continued his

gifts of interesting materials from the correspondence of
his grandfather, Secretary and Senator Thomas Ewing
(Secretary of the Treasury in 1841, of the Interior 1849-
50), by presenting an additional volume of the letters
received by him, of dates in the first three quarters of
1859, embracing many letters of William T. Sherman and
other important public characters.

usher. Mrs. Wesley Taylor, a descendant, has supplied a type-

written copy of a letter which John P. Usher, Secretary
of the Interior in President Lincoln's Cabinet, wrote to
his wife on April 16, 1865, concerning the assassination
and death of the President.

Root - While it can not be expected that the papers of living

statesmen or collections so recent in origin that large
parts of their contents relate to persons still living or
to controversies still active shall be thrown open at
present to examination by all comers, there is every-
thing to be said in favor of the practice, which the
Library constantly encourages, of securing such collec-

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tions against loss or destruction or dispersion by making
early gift of them to the Library under whatever re-
strictions as to use shall seem appropriate, or by deposit-
ing them here under revocable arrangements with similar
restrictions. Hon. Elihu Root, whose career of public
service has been so long, so varied, and so exemplary,
has once more, in this particular, set a fine example of
public spirit by sending to the Library, in 15 large boxes,
the papers accumulated during that distinguished career.
Here they will be safely preserved and methodically ar-
ranged and will be of incalculable value to all future
historians of the period from 1898 to 1930. It is earnestly
to be hoped that many other public men may be moved
by Mr. Root's example to make similar provision, imme-
diate or testamentary, for the preservation of their papers
in this national repository in the interest both of history
and of their own position in its record.

It was recorded in last year's report that similar Knox.
action had been taken by the representatives of Secretary
Bryan and Secretary Lansing. During the year just
past Mrs. James R. Tindle, daughter of Philander C.
Knox, Attorney General 1901-1904, Senator 1904-1909,
1917-1921, and Secretary of State 1909-1913, has pre-
sented to the Library the papers remaining from his
various periods of public service, a treasury of historical
material, comprising a dozen file boxes of letters and
documents ; 10 volumes of letter books, notes, and memo-
randa; 11 volumes and 2 boxes of newspaper clippings;
and several hundred speeches and other pamphlets.

Hon. Harry S. New, Senator from Indiana 1917-1923, New -
Postmaster General 1923-1929, has given the Library 27
letters from the files of his correspondence addressed
to him by ten or a dozen of the foremost public men of
his time.

Mainly in order to relieve space in the House Office
Building, a great mass of manuscript journals, records,
reports, and other documents, 2,268 volumes in all, has
been transferred to the Library from that building. It
continues, from the second session of the Forty-third Con-
gress to the end of the Fiftieth, the series of such mate-

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Other public
men.

Muhlenberg.

C. Pinckney.

Izard.

J. Randolph.

rial already thus transferred, embracing also certain
portions, previously omitted, of the papers of earlier
Congresses.

The record of papers of public men not of Cabinet
position, but nearly all of whom served in Congress, may
properly begin, in chronological order, with Frederick
A. C. Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, Speaker of the
House of Representatives in the First and Third Con-
gresses. In 1771-1774, while minister of Lutheran
churches in the Tulpehocken region, Mr. Muhlenberg
kept in German a diary which is now in the possession
of Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading, at the back of
which is copied a long letter to his brother, John Peter
Gabriel Muhlenberg (afterwards major general and Con-
gressman), written late in 1775 or early in 1776, arguing
at length respecting the Revolutionary cause. A typed
translation of this curious document has been presented
by Mr. David M. Gregg, of Reading, a descendant.

Another single letter, brief but of great importance to
the student of the ki Pinckney plan," has been given in
photostat by Mr. George A. Spiegelberg, of New York —
a letter of Charles Pinckney to Mathew Carey, August
10, 1788, in which he declares that he has no copy of that
plan.

Another South Carolina magnate of the same period,
though of opposite political faith, was Senator Ralph
Izard (died 1804), after whose death his widow, born
Alice DeLancey, kept court in Philadelphia for many
years and corresponded actively with her daughter, Mrs.
Gabriel Manigault, of Charleston. An extensive Izard
collection, purchased during the year, contains a mod-
erate number of letters of the Senator, mostly concerning
business of his plantations, and a mass of nearly 300 let-
ters interchanged by the two ladies in the period from
1804 and 1814, gossiping on all the social and political
events that came within the view in Philadelphia and
Charleston, respectively, of two ladies so well placed for
observation.

A sift of much value and interest from Mrs. Mark
Antony DeWolfe Howe, of Boston and Washington, con-

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sisted in 20 letters of John Randolph of Roanoke to
the Federalist Congressman, Josiah Quincy, afterwards
president of Harvard College, written in 1812-1815, with
one in 1826. A special portion of their interest lies in
the evidence they give of a cordial friendship, not with-
out other examples in our history, subsisting between
colleagues in Congress diametrically opposed in politi-
cal principles as well as widely different in personal char-
acter. There have also come, by way of deposit, from
Misses Carter B. and Augusta F. Conrad, of Washing-
ton, 15 letters of about the same period, mostly ad-
dressed by Randolph to Thomas Marsh Forman.

In its annual report for 1913 the American Historical Bayard.
Association was permitted, by the kindness of the late
Richard H. Bayard and Miss Ellen Howard Bayard, of
Baltimore, to print large portions of the correspondence
and journals of the first Senator James A. Bayard, of
Delaware, casting much light on the history of the Fed-
eralist Party and of the Ghent negotiations, and reveal-
ing character, talents, and wisdom of a high order. Miss
Bayard has now generously presented to the Library the
whole mass of her great-grandfather's papers, and with
them the valuable papers of her grandfather, Senator
Richard H. Bayard, who represented Delaware in the
Senate from 1836 to 1839 and from 1841 to 1845.

Mr. William Henry Harrison has presented a group Mason.
of a dozen papers, 1761-1831, relating to the family of
Thomson Mason and the Potomac Canal.

Mrs. A. Stockton Gaither, of Baltimore, has deposited d. r. wuiiams.
in the Library the journal kept by David R. Williams
as Governor of South Carolina, 1814-1816, and other
papers of the same statesman, 1793-1795.

The Library is indebted to Prof. St. George L. Sioussat, vuff Green.
of the University of Pennsylvania, for the transmission
of further gifts of papers of Gen. Duff Green, being
nearly 300 letters, almost wholly of 1842 and 1843, which
had come to him from descendants. Dr. Duff Green
Maynard, superintendent of the Presbyterian Hospital in
New York, has kindly supplemented the gifts made by
other descendants by presenting 30 letters and documents,
relating mostly to General Green's foreign missions.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Albert Smith.

Poussin.

Colfax.

Julian.

Bynum.

Albert Smith, of Maine, Member of Congress, 1839-
1841, and before that for eight years United States
marshal for the district of Maine, was appointed to run
the northeast boundary between the United States and
New Brunswick and Canada. Mrs. Albert F. Bigelow,
of Boston, has given the Library an interesting collection
of his papers, 44 pieces in number, mostly relating to that
episode and including letters from Daniel Webster, Sec-
retary of State, and from Col. J. B. B. Estcourt, British
commissioner for the same demarcation of boundary.

An interesting relic of the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-
seventh Congresses is an autograph album kept by
Thomas Burr Osborne, Member of Congress from Con-
necticut, containing the signatures of a great many of his
colleagues. It was presented by Mrs. Thomas Burr Os-
borne, of New Haven.

Though not an American public man, Maj. Guillaume
Tell Poussin had for a brief period a conspicuous place
on the American stage as envoy sent to Washington in
1848 by the provisional government of the second French
Republic, and discharged by the American Government in
1849. An opportunity which occurred for purchasing a
small collection of correspondence preserved by him from
that period and the years immediately ensuing brought to
the Library nearly 50 letters from various Americans of
prominence, of which the most interesting Avere those of
Ambrose Dudley Mann, Assistant Secretary of State
from 1855 to 1856, and later an envoy of the Confederate
States in Europe.

A purchase at an auction sale included some 22 letters
addressed to Schuyler Colfax (Speaker, afterwards Vice
President), mostly of the years from 1858 to 1868.

Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, of Indianapolis, has supple-
mented her benefactions of previous years by an addi-
tional consignment of letters from the correspondence of
her father, Representative George W. Julian, including a
long letter on Canadian relations by his father-in-law,
Joshua R. Giddings.

Mr. Dixon H. Bynum, also of Indianapolis, has added
to the gift made by him last year from the papers of

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Eepresentative William D. Bynum a typewritten copy of
the proceedings of the conference held in that city on
August 7, 1896, by the national committee of the " Sound
money democracy," a body of letters, and a letter book of
1896-1898, illustrative of the same discussions.

Miss Elizabeth Curtis, of New York and Newtown, Curtis -
Conn., sister of the late William Edmond Curtis, Assist-
ant Secretary of the Treasury from 1893 to 1897, has
given the Library, along with a useful collection of pam-
phlets and newspaper clippings, six boxes of his manu-
scripts, mostly letters and documents of the period from
1889 to 1900, important materials for the history of the
national finances during those years.

Twenty-seven packages of papers of the late Joseph Choate -
H. Choate, eminent lawyer and ambassador to Great
Britain, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings have
been placed in the Library on deposit by Miss Mabel
Choate, of New York.

Two large wooden boxes of papers of the late Moor- storey -
field Storey, Boston lawyer and independent, were de-
posited by Mr. Richard Storey, of that city.

By the kindness of Mrs. James Mitchel and Mrs. Wil- mteheL
Ham Brown Meloney, of New York, the Library has been
presented with a large collection of the papers of the
late John Purroy Mitchel, mayor of New York from 1914
to 1917.

The late Mrs. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (died Breckinrid ^ e -
19:25) was an influential leader in the woman-suffrage
movement throughout the earlier }ears of the twentieth
century. By gift from Mr. Desha Breckinridge, of Lex-
ington. Ky., made through Miss Sophonisba Preston
Breckinridge, of the University of Chicago (to both of
whom the Library has been greatly indebted for its re-
markable Breckinridge collection), the Library has come
into possession of a collection of Mrs. M. M. Breckin-
ridge's papers, filling more than 45 filing boxes, and of
much value for the study of that movement.

Hon. Breckinridge Long, Third Assistant Secretary of Lon *>'
State in President Wilson's administration, has given
the Library a long series of letters and documents of
his public life, especially of his service in the depart-

Military.
Cincinnati.

76 Report of the Librarian of Congress

raent named — a valuable aid toward later understanding
of the period of the World War. He has also deposited
in the Library his correspondence with President Wilson.

Among military papers acquired during the year very
much the foremost place belongs to the rich collection
deposited in the Library by the officers of the Society of
the Cincinnati, the whole body of the earlier archives of
that honored society. The documents and letters of date
prior to 1812 alone number more than 400. There are
11 letters of General Washington, president of the society,
and 80 pieces relating to Major L'Enfant. The papers
of the years immediately after the Revolution which re-
late to the French members, companions in arms in the
war for independence, are especially interesting.
civil war. ]\j r> Montgomery Meigs, of Keokuk, Iowa, has given

a diary, mostly in shorthand, kept by Capt. (later Maj.
Gen.) Montgomery C. Meigs, United States Army, from
May, 1853, to the end of the year 1857, in two volumes.

A fortunate chance brought to the Library by purchase
the first letter book of the first Confederate Secretary
of War, Leroy P. Walker, kept by him from the first
day of his service at Montgomery, February 21, 1861,
to September 15 of the same year.

From Mrs. William Cabell Bruce, of Baltimore, there
has come a miscellany of 25 letters, orders, reports, or
telegrams of the Civil War period, written by Maj. W. M.
Este, of Ohio, or b}^ Gens. D. N. Couch, John A. Dix,
E. O. C. Ord, or others.

Of letters from lesser officers or from the rank and
file, two small groups have been obtained; a diary, May
6, 1861-December 16, 1862, and other papers of Lieut.
Isaac M. Sowers, of the Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
including a broadside issue of the Vicksburg Daily Citi-
zen of July 2-4, 1863, all given by Mrs. Gertrude Sowers
McCalmont, of Boston; and by purchase a small body of
war letters of Pvt. George O. Jewett, of the Seventeenth
Massachusetts Volunteers.

Another purchase, supplementing one made from an-
other source in the preceding year, has brought 234 let-
ters and documents of Gen. Daniel Sickles, some of them

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of the period of the Civil War, but most of them belong-
ing to the years from 1869 to 1873.

A group of naval documents purchased in France, of NavaL
the period of the war for American independence, in-
cluded Captain Destouches's orders for attack on the
region of the Penobscot, four documents from him re-
specting the British fleet in 1781, and a letter of Count
Louis de Barras (1784) respecting the Society of the
Cincinnati.

A valuable gift from Mr. Thomas Macdonough Russell,
of Middletown, Conn., was that of the letter book kept
from July 3, 1815, to the middle of October, 1825, by the
famous Commodore Thomas Macdonough.

By transfer from the Division of Maps the Division of
Manuscripts has acquired the log of the schooner Yar-
mouth, 1767-68, and has increased its store of material
respecting Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer, of Stonington,
and his associates in Antarctic navigation by the addi-
tion of logs of the Hero, 1820-21, 1821-1823; the Pen-
guin, 1829-1833 ; and the Southerner, 1841-1843.

Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, United States
Navy, retired, has made an important contribution to
the division's naval material by giving a manuscript of
15 pages found among the papers left by Commodore
John Rodgers, probably of date about 1809, and bearing
the significant title, "Directions for using the Night
Signals."

From Commander Leander McCormick-Goodhart, of
the British Embassy, was received a typewritten copy of
a long letter written from on board the Monitor, March
14, 1862, by Lieut. Samuel Dana Greene, and describing
the recent battle with the Merrimac {Virginia).

In a field allied to that of maritime affairs a large
collection has been acquired of the papers of Prof. Lewis
M. Haupt, who, while professor of engineering in the
University of Pennsylvania, was for a long period occu-
pied with the making of surveys, estimates, and reports
toward the construction of a Nicaraguan Canal. His
papers and letters will be valuable material for the his-
tory of that project.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

World War.

Economic.

Cooper- Hewitt.

At the beginning of the participation of the United
States in the World War a group of the more experienced
members of the American Historical Association formed
an organization called the National Board for Historical
Service, organized to perform for the Government what
ever services historians as such could render in war time
or whatever such services the Government might request.
Opportunities for such work presented themselves in
greater number and variety than had been foreseen. A
history of the board's activities by Dr. W. G. Leland, its
secretary, is printed in the association's annual report
for 1919, Volume I, pages 161-189. Its papers, weeded of
superfluities and carefully classified, have been presented
to the Library.

Much light is cast on the relations of the Virginia
planter with the London merchant, in the days just before
the Revolution, by a series of accounts of the estate of
Maurice Griffith, of London. With them were acquired
the accounts, 1781-82, of the privateer Hannah.

The Division of Manuscripts naturally gives eager
welcome to any materials illustrating that vanished sys-
tem of economic management which was embodied in
the old-time, antebellum southern plantation. A valued
specimen, acquired during the year, was the letter book,
1791-1805, of Lieut. Col. John Chesnut, of South Caro-
lina. Also from South Carolina was obtained a miscel-
lany of 20 papers relating to sales of slaves, tax returns,
wills, and the like, some belonging to the late eighteenth
century, others of various dates from 1832 to 1864.

By the generosity of Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt, of
New York and Ringwood, N. J., the Library has come
into possession of a rich and voluminous collection of
papers of the Cooper-Hewitt business organizations, in-
cluding correspondence, bills, receipts, and other busi-
ness memoranda of Peter Cooper, from the time when
he was manufacturing and wholesaling glue, oil, and
similar products in New York in the forties of the nine-
teenth century, and subsequent letters and accounts of
enterprises in which he and his son-in-law, Abram S.
Hewitt, were interested, including the Trenton Iron

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Works and various furnaces and mines. This collection
from Eingwood runs to the first years of the present
century, and abounds in data respecting prices and
industrial and trade conditions.

With economic material may be classed, though also
concerned with religion and the antislavery cause, the
autobiography, 1781-1866, of Eev. John Keep, pastor in
Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio, and financial agent
of Oberlin College, presented in typewritten copy by
Miss Helen Keep, of Detroit; and, in part, the account
books and papers, in 23 thin volumes, of Henry Brough-
ton Bromwell (died 1867), of Maryland and Illinois, and
of his son Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (1823-
1903), of Illinois and Colorado, Member of Congress
1865-1869, papers which have, however, considerable
political value, presented by Miss Henrietta E. Brom-
well, of Denver; and the letter book and other papers
relating to the building of the Imperial Mexican Eail-
way, 1865-66, preserved by the late Capt. Andrew Tal-
cott, United States Army engineer, and presented by his
granddaughters, through Miss Mary G. Talcott, of
Eichmond, Va.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson has continued his valued gifts Ne ^ ro -
of materials written by or concerning American negroes,
collected in the course of his work as director of the
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History;
he has presented four boxes of papers, comprising many
letters of negroes of the earlier period, 1855-1914, and
various special collections of letters illustrating the great
northward migrations of negroes in the decade from the
opening of the World War, 1914-1923.

Allied in interest is the journal kept on the west coast
of Africa, at Foura Bay, from April 21 to September 21,
1821, by Eev. Daniel Coker, an agent of the Colonization
Society.

A photostat of the register, 1798-1918, of William and Bel W
Mary Parish, in St. Marys County, Md., has been se-
cured through the kindness of the Eev. E. B. Stevenson,
of Grayton.

Financial accounts of the Shaker community in the
Miami Valley, Ohio, for some 20 of the 50 years from

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1797 to 1848, have been presented by Dr. Emmons R.
Booth, of Cincinnati.

A collection of peculiar interest has come to the Library
through the kindness of Mrs. Elizabeth Q. Pineo, of
Elizabeth, N. J., granddaughter of the late Dr. Phineas
P. Quimby, of Portland, Me. It embraces a package of
original manuscripts of Doctor Quimby, 11 manuscript
books, 18 letters written to him by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy
(then Mrs. Patterson), and 2 letters of Doctor Patterson.
Literary. jyf r Leander McCormick-Goodhart, of the British

Embassy, has conferred a great favor on the Library, and
on all who visit its exhibition halls, by depositing here a
manuscript of extreme interest, an autograph copy of
" Home, Sweet Home," written by John Howard Payne
in September, 1829 — only half a dozen years after its
first production — in which the author, writing out the
original verses for Mrs. Joshua Bates, the wife of an
American banker resident in London, adds two graceful
and touching stanzas specially addressed to her.

Mrs. Robert Barrett Browning, of Washington, widow
of the poet's son, has given to the Library, along with
invaluable mementos and various Italian photographs,
a most interesting album containing 98 letters and
autograph signatures of persons famous in the literary,
political, or social world in Robert Browning's time,
and 115 other letters and autographs of similar quality.

In 1912 the late James Ford Rhodes delivered at Ox-
ford a course of lectures on the American Civil War,
afterwards printed as a book. The original manuscript
of these lectures, interesting as showing Mr. Rhodes's
literary methods, has been given to the Library by Mr.
Byrne Hackett, of New York.

Of educational interest is a group of five letters, writ-
ten in 1827-28, to his mother and sisters by John J.
Coleman, of Huntsville, Ala., while a student at the once-
celebrated law school at Litchfield, Conn. These have
been deposited by Mrs. Isabel B. Coleman, of West Hart-
ford, Conn.

Much the largest portion of any annual report from
the Division of Manuscripts must, for reasons mentioned

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at the beginning of the present report, relate to manu-
scripts of American history. It is therefore not inappro-
priate to give a later position to the recital of European
and oriental manuscripts, though earlier in date, which
have been received during the year.

The library of the University of Michigan has kindly Ancient.
deposited in the Library of Congress a specimen of
ancient writing on papyrus obtained by it from Egypt,
namely, a contract for division of property, executed in
A. D. 75 by one Bacchias.

Mr. Kirkor Minassian, whose striking benefactions to oriental.
the Library in the preceding year were gratefully re-
corded in the Librarian's last report, has continued them
by further gifts of varied character. One is a copy of
the first surah of the Koran, written on snake skin in a
fine Persian hand. Another consists of two imperial
Turkish firmans, of date not yet determined, concerning
real estate of a lady named Salah. Still another is a
family tree, 10 feet long, exhibiting the descent of Shahab-
ud-Din, one of the Mohammedan sultans in India, from
the founder of his dynasty, Quth-ud-Din Timur Kurkan.

The secretary of the Polish consulate in Detroit, Mr. PoUsh.
Czeslaw Linda Lipaczynski, has presented an indenture
on parchment, signed by King John Casimir, of Poland,
August 1, 1659, with the royal seal attached.

Through the good offices of Dr. Ernest C. Richardson French.
there were obtained in France three volumes containing
the compositions in prose and verse and the correspond-
ence of A. Lamothe, who from 1771 to 1788 practised as
an avocat before the Parlement of Bordeaux.

A great store of information on the history of Ber- Bermuda.
muda comes to the Library through the purchase of the
collections made during a long series of years by the
island- antiquary, Mr. Winslow M. Bell. They comprise
21 volumes of extracts, 1784-1824, from the Bermuda
newspapers in the Bermuda Public Library, a large col-
lection of notes taken from the colonial court records,
1704-1718, 1720-1749, 1755-1764, acts of 1690-1735 in
manuscript and of 1704—1788 in print, and many miscel-
laneous documents.

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Capt. F. L. Pleadwell, United States Navy, retired,
has deposited in the Library his large collection of auto-
graphs, consisting of nine volumes of mounted manu-
scripts of persons of international distinction, literary
or musical or other, and one volume of autograph letters
of American authors, the whole accompanied by a full
index.

Broadsides. Among the broadsides acquired during the year some

that may be specially mentioned are : " To the Inhabitants
of New York and all the British Colonies," New York,
April 20, 1775, news just received from Europe ; three of
William Smith, of South Carolina, 1788, viz, "Letter
to the Electors of the Parish of St. Bartholomew," "A
Dose for the Doctor," and " Letter to the Citizens of
Charleston District " ; two addresses to the citizens of
the fifth congressional district in Kentucky, 1813 and
1815, by their Representative in Congress, Samuel Hop-
kins, of the sort by which southern Congressmen in that
period were wont at the end of the session to render to
their constituents an account of their stewardship; and
one of the " Coffin Handbills " circulated by the oppo-
nents of Jackson, Washington, D. C. Mr. John R. Norris,
of Indianapolis, and Mr. Joseph L. Norris, of the staff
of the division, have given it a collection of 72 pieces —
broadsides, handbills, and the like — illustrating the vari-
ous types of such printed matter put forth in political
campaigns in Indiana, 1925-1929.

Association 9 ™ 96 ^ ne collection of rotographic reproductions of medieval
or early modern manuscripts (or in a few cases rare early
printed books), which has been made under the direction
of the Modern Language Association of America, for the
use of students of the vernacular literatures of Europe,
has increased in number during the year from 116 to 144,
and the borrowing and use of them by the method of
inter-library loans has increased correspondingly. A new
set of circulars, printed by the association and listing the
rotographs, with the reference numbers of the original
manuscripts and the like details, will before long be avail-
able. The nature of last year's acquisitions may be briefly
a nd partially indicated as follows : Four manuscripts of

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the Perceval romance, viz, Bibl. Nat. 1450, Bibl. Nat.
Nouv. Acq. 6614, Clermont-Ferrand 248, and Bern 354;
one of Ogier de Danemarche, Bibl. Mimic. Tours 938;
three of Berinus, viz, Bibl. Nat. 777 and 15097, and
Arsenal 3343 ; seven manuscripts containing, along with
other matter, various versions, Middle High German and
Latin, of the abbot Williram's commentary In Cantica
Canticorum, viz, Brit. Mus. Harl. 3014, Vatican 5096,
and Pal. 73, Maihingen III. deutsch I, Munich Germ.
10, 40, 77, Wolfenbiittel Gud. 131, Bamberg IV. 22, Vi-
enna 1147, 2686, 12847, Berlin Theol. Lat. quarto 140;
three manuscripts of the Homilarium of Paulus Diaconus,
viz, Munich 4533 and 4534 and Karlsruhe Augiensis
XIX, XXIX; " De Contemptu Mundi," Brit. Mus. Koyal
7 d XVII ; a Spanish Bible translated from the Hebrew,
Escorial I. j. 4; "La Grande Historia de la Conquista
de Ultramar," Madrid Bibl. Nac. 2454 and J. 1, and Bibl.
del Palacio; seven additional French plays of the seven-
teenth century, from rare print; and four early English
printed pieces, viz, "A Certayne Tragedie entitled Free-
wyl," "The Second Mayden's Tragedy," "The Parlia-
ment of Love," and " The Historie of the Damnable Life
and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus."

During some eight months of the year the division Handbook.
had, by an arrangement made between the Library of
Congress and that of Stanford University, the great ad-
vantage of the presence of Mr. Philip L. MacLean, ref-
erence librarian to the Hoover War Library at Palo Alto,
aiding here as a volunteer assistant. While some of his
time was given to assisting in other directions, most of it
was spent in preparing copy, in excellent fashion, toward
a new edition of the " Handbook of Manuscripts in the
Library of Congress." That manual, dated 1918, records
no materials acquired since the latter part of 1917, and
the edition is now practically exhausted. Since that date
mam' thousands of manuscripts have each year been
added to the collections, and a new edition including
them is emphatically a desideratum. Mr. MacLean was
able before his departure to prepare the necessary state-
ments concerning all the acquisitions of 1917 and 1918.
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Harkness col-
lection.

Virginia Com-
pany.

Journals of the
Continental Con
gress.

The continuance of the work through the remaining dec-
ade of accessions must wait for the presence of an ampler
staff.

Work on the early Spanish manuscripts from Mexico
and Peru, presented last year by Mr. Edward S. Hark-
ness, and described on pages 45 and 46 of the Librarian's
last annual report, has consisted in the effort of Miss
Stella R. Clemence, specialist assigned to this work, to
complete the cataloguing and calendaring of this ma-
terial and to prepare for publication some signal portion
of it. For the latter purpose it has been resolved to
make a preliminary volume of those documents from
Peru that come from Francisco Pizarro and his kinsmen
or Almagro or relate to their adventures and conquests
and mutual struggles. The transcription of these docu-
ments is now nearly completed.

In 1904 the Library published, in two handsome quarto
volumes, the " Records of the Virginia Company," 1619-
1624, from the company's manuscript preserved in Vir-
ginia by Thomas Jefferson and his predecessors. The
edition was prepared, with high scholarship, by Miss
Susan M. Kingsbury, professor in Bryn Mawr College.
Miss Kingsbury has since prepared for publication a
series of more than 300 documents of the years 1606-1624,
the years of the company's existence, which with great
industry and resourcefulness she has gathered together
from a wide variety of sources. A volume of these
auxiliary documents, edited by her, to be called Volume
III of the " Records of the Virginia Company," has been
set up at the Government Printing Office, and galley
proofs of the whole of it have been read.

The work of Dr. John C. Fitzpatrick in preparing the
remaining volumes of the Library's edition of the Jour-
nals of the Continental Congress, under the arrangement
described on page 67 of last year's report, has brought to
completion the material for the years 1785 and 1786 and
part of the year 1787. The two volumes of the Journal
for 1785 are expected to be sent to the printer early in the
new fiscal year.

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In addition to the cataloguing of the current acces- Cataloguing.
sions, which is all the regular cataloguer can do, a spe-
cial effort has been made, through a temporary assistant,
to advance further the cataloguing of the Washington
manuscripts. The printed calendars cover the leading
classes of material prior in date to 1784. The opportu-
nity to proceed further came late in the year, but it is
hoped that by September, when that present opportu-
nity ends, the cataloguing of the Washington collection
will have been extended from the end of the war and
the return of Washington to Mount Vernon in 1783 till
after the beginning of his Presidency in March, 1789.

The repair shop, conducted under the authoritv of the ? epai f a " d hind '

A L ' J tng of manu-

Public Printer, has maintained its high reputation for scri P ts -
efficient work. The total number of manuscripts repaired
or otherwise dealt with is reported as 63,595, the total
number of photostats trimmed as 157,860, and 9,785 roto-
graph sheets procured by the Modern Language Associa-
tion of America were mounted for binding. The number
of books made up and delivered for binding was 201,
while 110 others were made ready for binding though
not yet delivered to the bindery. The staff of the divi-
sion has made a special effort to complete into one chrono-
logical order the arrangement of the great collection of
Cleveland papers, and has completed it nearly to the end
of 1886. The materials thus arranged for years preced-
ing 1886 have been mounted and prepared for binding.
They will make at least 80 volumes. The whole collec-
tion will make at least four hundred. In the presidential
series this is, in natural order, the next collection to be
bound.

The division is increasingly resorted to by historical Ulull" 16 col ~
scholars in pursuit of the most varied inquiries. Evi-
dently its position as the principal repository of manu-
script materials for American history is becoming more
widely known and more fully appreciated. At times the
space available for readers is severely taxed. Large use
is made of the transcripts and photostats of materials
in European archives, especially the British, and among
them, during the past year, especially the diplomatic

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Correspondence.

Reproductions
from foreign
archives.

materials and those obtained from the offices of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. These reproductions can, under suitable condi-
tions, be sent for the use of scholars to other libraries
under the usual procedure for interlibrary loans. Much
such lending has occurred during the past year.

The correspondence of the division continues to in-
crease. The members of its staff take pleasure in answer-
ing inquiries. If these are such as will require an amount
of time which in justice to other claims they can not thus
devote, inquirers are referred to qualified searchers, not
members of the staff, whose time is available at reason-
able rates. Much of the correspondence of the division
is concerned with the furnishing of copies, usually by
photostat, of papers in its custody. In such cases it is
customary to furnish estimates of cost to the inquirer,
and the practice of the Library requires payment to
accompany any order thereupon given.

Unquestionably the most important, and by far the
largest, addition to the resources of this division of the
Library during the past year has been the mass of repro-
ductions of materials for American history in foreign
archives and libraries which has been received as the
result of operations conducted at the charge of the great
fund contributed for that purpose by Mr. John D. Rocke-
feller, jr. The 5-year period for which that grant was
made began with the beginning of September, 1927. Its
second fiscal year, therefore, ended on August 31, 1929,
and operations in Europe during it were fully covered
by the special report made at its termination by Prof.
Samuel F. Bemis, who for the first two years had had
charge of this European historical mission — a report re-
produced on pages 75-96 of the Librarian's annual re-
port of 1929. The third fiscal year of the grant began
on September 1, 1929, and ends on August 31, 1930. For
a detailed report respecting work in Europe under the
grant during this third year, from Dr. Worthington C.
Ford, who at its beginning entered upon the service as
its representative in Europe, see pages 95-106. A less
formal statement of results accomplished and materials

Division of Manuscripts §7

received between July 1, 1929, and July 1, 1930, may
properly be included in the present report.

Of the typewritten transcripts received from the
archives of Mexico, through the supervising care of
Professors Hackett and Scholes, in continuation of series
previously initiated by them, mention has already been
made. Apart from these, the year's receipts have been
either photostats, as in the case of those obtained from
Austria and Mexico, most of those from Great Britain,
and part of those from France and Germany, or photo-
graphic films, as in the case of the major portion of the
German acquisitions, half of the French, and all of those
coming from Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and, with
a very few exceptions, Italy. The films are of the same
general type as those used for moving pictures, but are
not inflammable. Those coming from Great Britain and
France have been accompanied by enlarged prints, of the
size of the original manuscripts. Of the others, enlarge-
ments are being gradually made at the Library.

The reproductions received during the 12 months
amount to 115,445 pages from Great Britain, 104,424
from Germany, 80,517 from France, 73,665 from Spain,
48,796 from Austria, 44,702 from Italy, 43,468 from the
Netherlands, 21,894 from Sweden, 13,298 from Mexico,
2,542 from Norway, and 2,759 from elsewhere. Thus,
the Library and the American historical scholar are in-
debted to Mr. Rockefeller and to the enterprise and or-
ganizing ability of Professor Bemis and the continuing
activity and vigilance of Doctor Ford for the impressive
total of 551,510 pages of added material, nearly every
page of which would otherwise have been inaccessible
except at the expense of travel to and in Europe. Grate-
ful acknowledgment for these acquisitions should also be
made to Miss Ruth A. Fisher, Prof. G. A. Rein, Mr. Abel
Doysie, and Dr. Roscoe R. Hill, principal research assist-
ants in Great Britain, Germany, France, and Spain,
respectively; to Dr. Kurt Bihl, Rev. Paul C. Perrotta,
O. P., Mr. L. C. Suttorp, and Mr. Birger Beckman, who,
respectively, had charge of the work in Austria, Italy,
the Netherlands, and Sweden; and in America to Miss

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Maysie S. MacSporran, conductor of the operations in

Canada, and to Prof. France Scholes, of those in Mexico.

From Great Qf f-} ie material received from the Public Record Office

Britain,

in London, the most important, perhaps, has been the
continuation to 1850 of the correspondence (and in-
cisures) of the British ministers in Washington with
the foreign secretaries in London, invaluable for the
study of our diplomatic relations with their country.
Further volumes of the series of Colonial Office papers,
called "Plantations General," have also been received,
and of the papers relating to West Florida. In order that
students of American colonial history may have the
means of studying broadly the whole colonial empire of
Great Britain in the period before the Revolution, an
effort is to be made to secure photostats of the more
essential documents and correspondence in the Colonial
Office papers relating to the West Indian colonies. Of
these, a number of volumes for Barbados and Dominica
have already arrived.

From the British Museum those photostats have ar-
rived which complete our reproductions of material for
American history among the manuscripts of that institu-
tion, with the exception of the manuscript maps, and the
earlier installments of the latter have been received. A
large accession from the manuscripts of the House of
Lords has completed the American material from that
collection to the year 1859. Of the American correspond-
ence of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, a large portion has for some years been
in the Library in the form of handwritten transcripts.
The remainder, and especially the part which was un-
arranged and inaccessible when Andrews and Daven-
port's Guide was published, has now been added in the
form of films. In anticipation of early demands upon
this material, these films were given an early place in
the program for enlargements in the Library, and the
resulting prints have been much called upon, along with
those of similar character which came from the archives
of the ancient organization known as Doctor Bray's As-
sociates. Other photostats have come from the Bodleian

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Library at Oxford, the Huntorian Library at Glasgow,
Archbishop Marsh's Library and that of Trinity College
in Dublin. The 4,000 sheets of correspondence of Gen.
Thomas Gage, spoken of in the last report, have been
received ; meantime, however, the originals of all that
correspondence have been transferred from England to
the William L. Clements Library at Ann Arbor.

From France many reproductions, too various to be Prorn France
briefly described, have come from the Bibliotheque Natio-
nale, and lesser quantities from the Mazarine, the Biblio-
theque Ste. Genevieve, and certain provincial libraries.
From the Archives Nationales an especially large amount
has come from the section known as the Archives de la
Marine, illustrative of naval relations with France dur-
ing the war of independence and some subsequent years.
From the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
the portions received of " Correspondance Politique.
Ktats-Unis," bring our accessions to the end of that war,
while what has come from " Correspondance Politique.
Etats-Unis, Supplement," brings them to 1797, with scat-
tering accessions to as late a date as 1816. A bemnnintr
has meantime been made with the series "Memoires et
Documents, Amerique," from which we have the papers
from 1712 to 1755.

The films which Doctor Hill has sent from Spain From Spain.
mostly represent progress along the two lines chiefly
signalized in last year's report. Those from Madrid,
mainly from the Archivo Historico Nacional. but sup-
plemented from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, cover the diplomatic correspondence between
Spain and the United States to the early years of the
nineteenth century. Those from the Archive of the
Indies in Seville bring down to the end of the eighteenth
century the correspondence of the Spanish governors of
Louisiana and Florida Avith the captain general of Cuba,
the supervising authorities in Spain, and other officials.
Just before the end of the year Doctor Hill succeeded
in obtaining modifications of official regulations which
give much greater freedom to the Library's work in
Spanish archives and permit the reproduction of papers

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From the Neth
erlands.

on the diplomatic relations between Spain and the United
States to a considerably later date than had hitherto been
promised. An additional achievement, with the sympa-
thetic support of the Spanish authorities, has been re-
lease from the burdensome exaction of a duplicate of
every film, to be retained in the archives. Doctor Hill
thus, in retiring at the end of August from the Library's
service in Spain, ends his two years not only with a record
of notable accomplishment but with a final success that
will greatlv facilitate the work of his successors.

The Dutch material received has carried down to 1879
and 1882, respectively, the correspondence with Wash-
ington preserved in the archives of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and that from the archives of the
Netherlands Legation in America. Journals and corre-
spondence of the Dutch factory at Desima for the years
1854-1860, the early years of American intercourse with
Japan, have also been received, and films of several hun-
dred maps.
From Germany. The photostats received from the Preussisches Gehei-
mes Staatsarchiv in Berlin, voluminous in quantity, have
been of four sorts: Military papers from the Heeresar-
chiv for the period 1776-1789; papers illustrating the
history of diplomatic relations between Prussia and the
United States, both in the period of tentative relations
with Frederick the Great, 1775-1786, and in the later
years of established intercourse, for which the facsimiles
received run to 1857 ; papers from Prussian consulates in
America, 1802-1877; and Foreign Office correspondence
respecting Mexico and the Emperor Maximilian, 1861-
1867. Other accessions from Germany include several
thousand facsimiles relating to the Hessian and other
German auxiliary troops in the Revolutionary War (e. g.,
Riedesel papers), from the archives at Marburg and
Wolfenbuttel. The Senatsakten of Bremen and Liibeck
have supplied still other American material, as have also
the records at Hamburg of German emigration to the
United States, and the archives of Oldenburg.

The archival reproductions received from the Scandi-
navian countries were those described on pages 90 and
91 of the annual report of the Librarian for 1929.

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The receipts from Austria have embraced the Amer- From Awstria -
ican correspondence of the Foreign Office from 1819 to
1867, and such portions of its correspondence with Spain,
1770-1823, as concerned the United States. The most
interesting of the acquisitions from Vienna, however,
have come from the Maximilianarchiv, archives of the
Emperor Maximilian, only recently thrown open to ex-
amination by historians. All portions bearing on his
Mexican career and its relations to the United States
have, it is understood, been reproduced with substantial
completeness.

In Italy, operations were at various times during the From Italy -
year conducted in four cities, of which the chief was, of
course, Rome. With Professor Fish's Guide as a basis,
many facsimiles were made from documents concerning
America in the Archivio Segreto at the Vatican, in the
" Nunziature " of Spain, Flanders, France, England, and
Portugal, and in the " Nunziatura di Pace " of 1709-1712.
The Barberini collection in the Vatican library was also
drawn upon. The American papers in the archives of
the Congregation of the Propaganda are so completely
represented by the photostats collected by Professor Guil-
day, at the Catholic University of America, in Washing-
ton, that it has been deemed unnecessary to duplicate this
work for the Library of Congress.

The films received from Naples are those described in
Doctor Bemis's special report of last year, as made in
the concluding portion of that year, in the Archivio di
Stato. They cover the diplomatic relations, 1847-1860,
between the United States and the former Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies. Those from the Archivio di Stato at
Turin, on the other hand, and from that at Venice, con-
sist mainly of reports of various dates from 1746 to 1786,
but especially of the period of the American Revolution,
in which the diplomatic representatives of the King of
Sardinia or the Venetian Republic transmitted from
foreign courts such information as they acquired con-
cerning American affairs.

With the closing of the third year of operations under
Mr. Rockefeller's grant (Project A) it is understood
that this photographic work has virtually come to its

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end in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy,
and most places in Germany, and that during the re-
maining two years attention will, with minor exceptions,
be concentrated on England, France, and Spain.
From Canada. On this side of the Atlantic the Library has undertaken
work of this character in two countries, Canada and
Mexico. In both, though some preliminaries were ar-
ranged in the second 3 7 ear of the grant, continuous work
began in September, 1929, at the commencement of the
third year. In both the work has been confined to the
capital city. In Ottawa the governmental authorities
readily gave all desired permissions and the director of
the Public Archives of Canada, Dr. Arthur G. Doughty,
C. M. G., deputy minister, has facilitated Miss Mac-
Sporran's work in every way, even to the extent of fitting
up in the basement of his building a special atelier for
the operation of the film-making machine.

Apparently the most useful to historical scholars of
the United States among the rich stores of the Ottawa
archives are, first, the correspondence exchanged from
1791 to recent times between the British minister in Phila-
delphia and Washington and the governors general, lieu-
tenant governors, and commanders of the forces, in Lower
Canada, Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, and, later, the Dominion of
Canada; secondly, the documents for the history of the
War of 1812; thirdly, perhaps, the papers relating to
the Indians in the American Northwest. It is the first
of these that has constituted the field of work thus far.
Inasmuch as this correspondence with the British envoys
to the United States is to a large extent scattered in
volumes which mainly consist of matter having little
or no interest for the student of United States historv,
the operations in Ottawa have not consisted, as in most
instances in Europe, in the consecutive photographic re-
production of whole volumes. The letters, gathered from
wherever they may be found, will be assembled into
chronological series for each of the Canadian govern-
ments involved, and will not be transmitted to Wash-
ington until these series are completed. More than 4,500

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sheets have thus far been photographed (filmed) and en-
larged. The largest number of letters are concerned with
international difficulties arising from the Canadian re-
bellion of 1837, the northeastern boundary question, the
Civil War in the United States, and extradition. Mean-
time, by an arrangement in the nature of exchange,
effected some time before the inception of Project A, the
photostat operator of the Public Archives of Canada has
continued a line of work which provides the Library of
Congress with photostats of muster rolls of loyalist regi-
ments of the Revolutionary War — those of the last year
relating to DeLancey's brigade.

In Mexico the work of this first year has been confined From Mexico -
to the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A far
richer store of historical material is in the Archivo Gen-
eral 3^ Publico, especially as regards the histoiy of indi-
vidual American States — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
and California — but large amounts of material from that
archive have already been copied for the Library of
Congress and for libraries in those States, and it has
seemed rational in the present endeavor, taking into view
the actual uses to which Mexican material is likely to be
put in the Library of Congress, to give the first place to
what concerns the mutual relations between the two
Republics. A peculiar obligation in this direction rests
on a national library placed in the capital city to which
the student comes to consult, on the history of those rela-
tions, the archives of the Departments of State and
War. Accordingly Professor Scholes, whose work for
the Library was confined to the one year 1929-30, has
addressed himself to the archives of the Ministry of
Foreign Relations. The work there being nearly fin-
ished, his successor, already chosen, Mr. Robert S. Cham-
berlain, will be expected to devote himself, so far as
official permissions may make it possible, to the docu-
ments for United States relations preserved in the Min-
istry of War and Marine.

In the Ministry of Foreign Relations a reclassification
of the archives, begun before Mr. Scholes's arrival and
still in progress, has made it impossible for him to pro-

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ceed in so systematic an order that the resulting mass of
photostats can be described in a few phrases. It may
suffice to say that by the notable liberality and kindness
of the officials in charge and by his own patience and
resourcefulness he has been enabled to secure reproduc-
tions of nearly all the papers in that archive which the
student of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the
United States will need to examine, from the beginning
of the movement for Mexican independence to as late a
date as could reasonably be looked for. Grateful ac-
knowledgment is made of the sympathy and helpfulness
of Sefior Manuel Sierra, chief of the diplomatic depart-
ment in the Ministry of Foreign Kelations, and of Senor
Augustin Hernandez, chief of the archives of that min-
istry, and of the aid in the preliminary making of ar-
rangements afforded with cordial interest by his excel-
lency, Dwight W. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico.
Similar acknowledgment for similar kindness is made to
his excellency, William Phillips, late minister to Canada.
Photostat copies of any of the Library's photostats, or
enlargements from its films, can be obtained at prescribed
rates. Requests for them or for interlibrary loan of
photostats or enlargements will be facilitated by observ-
ing the fact that these reproductions are kept in the
same order in which the originals are kept, and are
marked with the same reference numbers or other desijr-
nations which the originals bear in the archives or
libraries where those originals are preserved. While it
is not practicable to put forth in print any really satis-
factory guide to the collection until the project has been
completed, a descriptive inventory list and a journal of
the accessions have been prepared and will be kept cur-
rently as means by which, it is hoped, the needs of inves-
tigators may in the meantime be measurably satisfied.

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PROJECT A ACQUISITION OF SOURCE MATERIAL FOR AMERICAN

HISTORY IN EUROPEAN ARCHIVES

(From the report of the director of the European mission of the
Library of Congress, Doctor Ford)

In succession to Prof. Samuel F. Bemis, my prede-
cessor in office, I present a report on the operations of the
historical mission for the fiscal year September 1, 1929, to
August 31, 1930. Through his well-directed efforts the
production of photographic prints had reached a maxi-
mum, and could not have been pushed further without
exceeding the grant for the work. Nor could that full
rate of production have been, judiciously, much exceeded
in the past year. Not only would an attempt to do so
have proved too costly, but the material available, suit-
able to the purpose of the mission, could not have been
located, examined, listed, and prepared for the photog-
rapher on such a scale as to be economically performed.
After covering certain large subjects of homogeneous ma-
terial, such as diplomatic and consular papers, military
and naval records, the American documents must be
sought in broken files, in collections where only an occa-
sional paper can be found, in remote places, and in pri-
vate hands. That involves so much preliminary research
as to offer little temptation to engage in it at the expense
of known and far richer fields to be worked. It may be
said that finding the mission operating at full production
in many directions, it became the task of the director to
guide it in such a way as to measure the quality of matter
produced, to prevent waste in seeking further material
on lines promising little returns, and to watch for the
moment when it could be said that in certain countries
operations could be closed with advantage.

The first direction in which a reduction could be made Sweden.
was in Sweden, where Mr. Birger Beckman, the com-
petent research assistant, reported in August that
he had completed photographing the diplomatic dis-
patches from Washington to the year 1868. As the
year 1870 was the limit of time fixed by the officials
of Sweden for permitting copies to be made, it was
evident that the end of that series was in sight, and

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that after a second series (instructions to the Swedish
representative in Washington) had been taken, the
source would run dry. It remained to look further and
obtain a general idea of what was offered in other direc-
tions outside of the Riksarkiv. It was believed that occa-
sional letters of value could be discovered in collections
in the Royal Library, and Mr. Beckman was authorized
to make a survey to establish their existence and degree
of interest. It was an unworked field and no lists were
available, conditions making the labor one of difficulty
and discrimination. It was not thought desirable to
extend the examination to collections outside of Stock-
holm, and especially at the University of Upsala, as
Professor Stephenson, of the University of Minnesota,
had passed several months in that library. Following his
instructions, Mr. Beckman gave a careful examination to
the most promising sources and presented a report that
showed papers containing references to the United States,
but neither in quantity nor in contents did they offer
enough to make it profitable to undertake the reproduc-
tion at the present time when other sources were calling
for increased attention. Actual photographing ceased
in October, 192'9, and Mr. Beckman's report was filed
with the director in November, and is retained for future
action when a more general survey may have developed
sufficient to justify resuming operations. The total num-
ber of photographs made from September 1, 1929, to the
cessation of work in October was 8,396.
Netherlands At The Hague operations continued on the various

collections selected for reproduction until April, 1930,
when Mr. L. C. Suttorp, who represented the mission in
Holland, reported that he was nearing the end of avail-
able material. How wide a field he had covered is indi-
cated by an enumeration of the location of collections,
such as. in The Hague, the Algemeen Rijkarchief, the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Economisch Historisch Archief ,
and Departement van Buitenlandsche Zaken; the
Gemeentsarchief at Rotterdam, and the Gemeentsarchief
and Universiteitsbibliotheek at Amsterdam. Not only
were the diplomatic papers reproduced to the year 1870,

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but also those of consular and official commercial agents,
reports and records on emigration, trading and coloniz-
ing companies, and ships 1 journals, material of excellent
quality. A large number of manuscript maps were also
reproduced, the more valuable as Holland for a long
period of time excelled in the production of maps and
atlases. The mission recognizes to the full its obliga-
tions to Mr. Suttorp for his attention to its wishes and
needs. A word of commendation is also due to the pho-
tographers, Mr. G. J. Bokma and Miss E. Hoogendijk.
The number of prints made to the close of operating was
16,337.

In August, 1929, Rev. Paul C. Perrotta, O. P., was in
Venice, working in the Biblioteca Marciana and the itaiy.
Archivio di Stato. After completing his task in that
city he went to Turin, stopping at various places where
it was known that American material existed or where
some could be looked for because of suggestions obtained
from other sources. A tour of this nature, where the
photographer accompanied the investigator, made it
possible to obtain items which would otherwise have
been overlooked or which must have been postponed to
some future visit, because of the want of a photographer.
For example, an atlas of Visconte Maggiolo was found
in the Biblioteca Communale at Treviso; documents of
value were taken in Verona and Brescia; and at Milan,
in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, important maps were
taken. Every courtesy was offered in the various visits,
but some disappointments were also encountered. In
Milan, owing to the absence of Prince Trivulzio, it was
not possible to photograph the few maps wanted in the
privately owned Biblioteca Trivulziana. Arrived at
Turin the authorities of the Archivio di Stato gave all
necessary privileges, and a change of photographer per-
mitted a more rapid handling of the material. The cor-
respondence of the Piedmontese Government with its
ambassadors in France, Spain, and England during the
American Revolution alone furnished more than 20,000
pages.

After more than two months at Turin Doctor Perrotta
and his photographer, Caesar Gastaldi, proceeded to

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Bologna, where Signor Renardo Ambrosini, the present
owner of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, gave a cordial wel-
come and no little of his time in meeting the wants of
the mission. In contrast was the attitude of the authori-
ties at the University of Bologna, who by a rigid insist-
ence on regulations framed many years ago and by basing
their objections on the fact that the university library
was under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Public In-
struction and not the Minister of the Interior, under
whose general permission the mission was working, raised
so many obstacles to permitting anything to be photo-
graphed that Doctor Perrotta thought it wiser not to
press the point or await long delayed instructions from
Rome, and withdrew. It may be added that only in this
instance did the mission experience in Italy any annoy-
ance in obtaining what it desired. Passing to Florence
it was found that the director of the Archivio di Stato
had thoughtfully prepared the material Doctor Perrotta
had indicated, and the photographing was soon accom-
plished. There was not found, however, the diplomatic
correspondence between Tuscany and its representatives
in France, England, and Spain during the American
Revolution. That entire series of documents has dis-
appeared, but may at some time have been carried to
Austria. In Doctor Rostand, the librarian of the Biblio-
teca Mediceo-Laurenziana, was found a cultured and
obliging friend who gave freely of his time and
knowledge.

Returning to Rome, work was resumed on the Vatican
Archives, the authorities being much interested in the
work and helpful. The short day, from 8.30 a. m. to
noon, and the frequent feast or fast days prevented full
production. In three months' time the point was reached
when new material must be sought, and to obtain results
careful search must be made in virgin fields. So doubt-
ful was it that the product would justify the time and
expense that it was judged wiser to rest satisfied with
what had been done and leave what remained to a future
time, when the documents shall have been examined and
identified as fitting for Project A. Consequently, after

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doing what was necessary in the Vatican Library, the
Italian section of the mission was closed. In the months
from August to February the most valuable records and
known maps in Italy were seen and the essential items
photographed, an achievement of some moment, as in no
two places were conditions the same, and many embar-
rassments of a technical nature had to be overcome. The
short working days, the absence of artificial light, the
frequent interruptions of holidays, and the poor facili-
ties offered for developing the films, all tended to reduce
the rate of production. The results to the end of the
mission in Italy were 52,571 prints. It is high testimony
to Doctor Perrotta that so much was accomplished under
such circumstances. It should also be added that the
director has been assured that special facilities were
granted to Doctor Perrotta by the Vatican authorities
in recognition of the services given by the Library of
Congress on the cataloguing of the treasures of the
Vatican Library. It may confidently be asserted that the
mission in Italy has completed what it set out to do.
The thanks of the Library of Congress have been given
to the superior of the Dominican Order for so generously
permitting Doctor Perrotta to engage in this undertaking.

The situation in France remains unchanged, with an France.
abundance of good material and conditions favorable to
the operators wherever they are working. In the Min-
istiy of Foreign Affairs the series of diplomatic papers
have been continued, covering many subjects. The
earliest documents, dating from the early part of the
seventeenth century, apply to Canada, Santo Domingo,
and the trading companies with concessions in America.
Series concerning other West Indian islands, Louisiana,
and the general trade with the possessions of other na-
tions holding American colonies or plantations are of a
later date, but begin in the early years of the eighteenth
century. The military and naval correspondence during
the American Revolution and the official reports of the
disturbances produced by the French Revolution in Santo
Domingo are included. The series of dispatches from
the French representatives in the United States in the

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latter years of the eighteenth century has been continued
and has yielded a goodly number of letters from leading
Americans on political and commercial topics. The large
mass of records ought to be a means of obtaining a full
view of the French-American relations at a time when,
with many common interests, there arose misunderstand-
ings due to overzealous advocates of a policy of trade
restrictions or political propaganda. In the National Ar-
chives the papers of the marine continue to yield good
results. The French naval operations in all seas from
1780 to 1783 picture the efforts made by France in its
plans to make common cause with the late British colo-
nies in America and the cost of that endeavor. There
are also log books of voyages to America, accounts of
operations against certain fortified places, instructions
from the King to the naval commanders and their re-
ports to him of maneuvers, lists of prizes and prisoners
of war, and the like, such records as are usual in official
war records, with much related material of value. In
the Bibliotheque Nationale no less than 269 volumes have
yielded American documents, notably in the special col-
lections of Colbert, Clairambault, Joly de Fleury, and
Moreau, not to omit the great miscellaneous collections
entitled " Manuscrits Frangais," answering to the "Addi-
tional MSS." of the British Museum. It is with pleasure
that we note the many courtesies received from M.
Roland-Marcel, the late librarian of the Bibliotheque
Nationale, and the cordial assurances received from his
successor, M. Julien Cain. The same spirit has actu-
ated the working force of the library wherever they have
come into contact with the mission. The work in Paris
was ably conducted, as in the two preceding years, by
Mr. Abel Doysie. The total number of prints made dur-
ing the year in these various sources was 69,692.

In Great Britain operations have been confined to
London, and to the Public Record Office and the British
Museum. Conditions not to be foreseen compelled a sus-
pension of work in the British Museum from September,
1929, to March, 1930, and this greatly reduced the total
output of prints as compared with the previous year.
On the resumption of the work it was thought advisable

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to take up special subjects, which were in good part of
such a character as to be slow in the making. This was
especially true with a large number of maps, manuscript
and printed, each of which required special handling
and attention. More than 900 maps were thus taken and
22 volumes of the South Sea Co. papers. In the Public
Record Office the series of the Foreign Office papers w r as
continued and was carried from 1837 through 1850. This
completed the service of H. S. Fox, His Majesty's min-
ister to the United States, and included the services of
R. Pakenham, J. F. T. Crampton, and Sir Henry Bulwer,
and in part the service of Lord Ashburton. Fifty-seven
volumes were copied. In the Colonial Office series a good
number of volumes were taken : West Florida, 12 vol-
umes; Barbados, 21 volumes; Dominica, 7 volumes; and
Jamaica, 2 volumes. In the War Office series 15 volumes
of the papers of Sir JefFery Amherst were photographed.
In addition to these regular series occasional ventures
were made in other directions at the request of individual
inquirers, where it was recognized that through the mis-
sion the work could be better or more expeditiously done
than by other agencies. In the office of the Admiralty
were maps relating to the Great Lakes, and permission to
copy being readily granted, excellent photographs were
made by the hydrographic office in that department. The
firm of Francis Edwards, London, courteously permitted
the Library of Congress to photograph some manuscript
maps which had come into their possession. The rela-
tions between the British Museum and the mission have
continued to be most cordial and cooperative. Miss Ruth
A. Fisher superintended the work in London, with great
faithfulness and skill. The number of prints made by
the mission in England during the year was 30,246.

It is difficult to describe the operations of the mission Spain.
in Spain in terms which will give a due representation
of what was accomplished under difficulties. The use of
the documents in Spanish archives, wherever they might
be, was much restricted by a royal decree issued in Au-
gust, 1927, to meet a special situation, and the terms of
the decree were such as to oblige all officers in the various

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archives to a strict application of them. Not only was
the manner of applying for papers placed under rules
designed to limit investigation, but the privilege, of
photographing was even more restricted, and when
granted the condition of filing a duplicate print of what-
ever was taken was required. Though representing the
Library of Congress, a national institution, the mission
was placed under the same restrictions as an individual
investigator working on his own account. It was early
recognized that the conditions imposed by the decree
were too severe and general, not to be found in any other
country of Europe, and obstructive to historical research.
Representations were made by the mission of the bur-
densome nature of the regulations, representations which
received the support of historical associations in Spain
and elsewhere. Administrative difficulties to a repeal or
a modification of the decree were encountered and work
was pushed as far as was possible under such adverse
conditions. However large the output of prints, the
mission received only one-half the number produced. In
the summer of 1930 a series of events, not necessary to
detail, occurred in Spain which led to a reconsideration
of the situation produced by the decree. A commission
composed of officials and historians was appointed.
Among the statements laid before the commission was
one prepared by Doctor Eoscoe R. Hill, director of the
mission in Spain, specifying the disadvantages he suffered
in carrying out the purposes of the mission. As a direct
result of his representation a royal order was issued July
8, 1930, expressly freeing the mission from the require-
ment of depositing duplicate prints. The change will be
reflected in the production for the coming year. It is
believed that the concession will become of general
application.

Two photographers at Seville and one at Madrid were
occupied during the year. In the absence of reports
giving details of the nature of the documents taken no
lists can be given here. In Seville the larger number
of papers needed were in the series " Papeles de Cuba "
and the "Audiencias." The latter records touched on

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boundaries, history of Texas, New Mexico, and Cali-
fornia. In Madrid in the Archivo Historico Nacional,
Seccion de Estado, the diplomatic papers, correspondence
between the Spanish Government and its governors in
Louisiana and elsewhere, and documents on the Spanish
mission in France during the American Revolution con-
tributed much material of service. The number of prints
made in the year was, at Seville, 67,978; at Madrid,
43,880; or a total of 111,858. In August Mr. Hill retired
from the mission and returned to the United States.
The director of the mission takes pleasure in paying
tribute to his zeal and activity during his service. The
demands for patience and tactful relations under diffi-
culties were met and the favoring decree stands in his
name. Miss Elizabeth H. West, of Texas, has been ap-
pointed to the Seville position.

In Germany the distribution of research remains as Germany.
it was last year, with Dr. G. A. Rein as principal re-
search assistant and Dr. Paul Weidmann and Dr. G.
Smolka under his direction. The German Government
has installed a photostat in the Preussisches Geheimes
Archiv at Berlin-Dahlem and courteously offered to re-
produce for the mission on the same scale of production
as had been attained under the former system where the
mission employed its own photographer. The new ar-
rangement has proved mutually satisfactory, although
advantage could not be taken of the full offer. The
state papers of Germany naturally constitute the larger
part of what is taken in the Archiv, but occasional docu-
ments or volumes were sent in from other cities and
libraries. The total number of prints made at Berlin-
Dahlem was 46,040. At Hamburg the material has been
of a more miscellaneous character. The photographing
of emigration records has been continued and Doctor
Weidmann has made extensive search for new appropriate
material in the neighboring cities of Germany. Doctor
Smolka has prepared a minute of Moravian records avail-
able, especially of relations of their missions to America,
which may develop an interesting field for more careful
study. He is at present visiting the archives in the Rhine-

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land— Koln, Koblenz, Wiesbaden, Wied, and Mainz— to
select material from them. No general report has been
made by the representatives of the mission in Germany,
but the output at Hamburg was 67,498, making a total
for Germany of 113,538.
Austria. jy T Kurt Bihl, the representative of the mission in

Austria, was obliged to sever his connection with it tem-
porarily to complete his university studies. It was
deemed desirable to suspend operations in Austria for a
time rather than to attempt to supply his place with an
untried hand. More pressing demands for service were
made in other countries on the mission, and the interests
in Austria would not be unfavorably affected by the tem-
porary cessation. The suspension began in January,
1930, and continued to the end of the fiscal year. Work
will be resumed in October and under experienced direc-
tion. The photographing of the Maximilian papers, of
which Dr. Fritz Reinohl had special charge, was com-
pleted before the suspension. His studies on Maximilian
made him a capable guide in the selection from a large
mass of papers of what was desirable. The total number
of prints made before the suspension was 47,489.

The production in all sections of the mission was 450,-
127 prints, a figure a little larger than that of the previous
year and one which it is quite possible to regard as satis-
factory. In withdrawing from certain countries it is not
possible to increase the output in others, without a careful
consideration of means at hand. Accommodations for
operators and machines in public offices can not at will
be added to, nor can the preparation of material for the
photographer be pressed, as that part of the work de-
mands the service of persons employed by the archive or
library. Above all, to pass upon the quality of the prod-
uct, make good omissions or errors, and ship the result to
Washington, can easily become too heavy a task for those
engaged.

An outline such as has been given conveys an imperfect
idea of the extent and nature of the historical mission
under project A. The field had been prepared for such
an undertaking- — or, rather, adventure, for it was the
first plan of this scope that has been placed in action —

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by the guides issued by the Carnegie Institution. Thus
aided, the mission entered the field and how far and how
widely it has sought to cover the ground the report of
my predecessor in office, Professor Bemis, and this report
indicate. The experience gained has shown that the
guides were not exhaustive, and a more intensive exami-
nation of archives and other collections has developed
new possibilities yet to be tested. This is only natural,
as no public collection of documents is at complete rest
but gains constantly new material. It is the wish of the
mission to keep in touch with such accessions and to make
use of them where they apply to its purpose.

The interest shown in the undertaking by officials in
the countries where work was carried on has been more
than equaled by the interest of scholars who have learned
of the mission, studied its methods and machinery, and
seen the results. There can be no question that the nov-
elty of the plan attracted wide attention, not unmixed
with some doubt of its success; but the element of sur-
prise and doubt has given place, in the world of scholar-
ship, to one of confidence. It has spread a knowledge of
the Library of Congress and of its various activities
which has been useful and instructive, and that contact
can not but lead to closer relations in the future among
those interested in historical study and in enlarging the
sphere of libraries and archives in affording facilities to
the student. It is not probable that other countries will
imitate the mission — not for some time, at least. Great
Britain had early led the way by obtaining from Spain
and Venice copies of the diplomatic records for the Tudor
period of English history. That material was printed
and the closer examination of international relations
based upon those foreign documents modified the manner
of writing English history to its improvement.

The mere existence of an accumulation of records from
foreign archives in the Library of Congress will con-
stitute a center of study which must be supplemented by
visits to the foreign archives. Instead of discouraging
such visits, as has been feared by certain officials in the
European centers, it will encourage them and change
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better established intercourse in the future, in which the
searcher will make his first approaches to his subject in
Washington, and will then go abroad with his scheme
partly prepared. He will thus be saved the preliminary
weeks of general searching and mastering of methods
in new and strange surroundings, and will need only to
complete what he has begun, with a trained sense of what
he further requires for his purpose.

The director expresses his great obligations for the
many courtesies and valid assistance received wherever
the mission has been represented.

F-ROJECT C — UNION CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

The origin and scope of Project C were explained in
the annual report for 1929, page 74. In October of that
year the division of manuscripts took up the active admin-
istration of the enterprise. Mr. Seymour de Kicci, of
Paris, had been engaged as editor, Dr. William J. Wilson
as assistant editor. Office space in the building was pro-
vided. On previous visits to America Mr. de Ricci had
investigated several of the important collections and had
checked his results in Paris with the sales catalogues and
other records of the migrations of European manuscripts.
When he arrived in this country, therefore, in January of
1930 a very considerable portion of his work was done
and a small specimen had even been set up in print.
With headquarters at the Grolier Club, he worked until
April on the collections in and near New York City, de-
voting about half of his time to the J. Pierpont Morgan
Library, where he personally examined 759 manuscripts,
many of them of the highest importance. Meanwhile
Doctor Wilson had by circulars or otherwise corre-
sponded with 2,700 public or institutional libraries and
2,000 private collectors with a view to securing informa-
tion as to manuscript holdings. By this means some
3,512 manuscripts of the prescribed kind and period were
brought to light besides many papyri and 10,181 vellum
fragments. Of the fragments one collection inspected
by Mr. de Ricci contains 3,000, while another is reported
by mail to contain 6,000 or 8,000. In the printed cata-

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logue these can only be listed in blocks. It is too soon
for exact figures, but the total of European medieval
manuscripts in the United States and Canada may be
something like 5,000 codices, with several thousand
papyri and 15,000 vellum fragments. About 800 of these
items have already been described in print (aside from
dealers' catalogues), some very meagerly, some with
admirable completeness. These references, often to lit-
erature in unexpected places, are to be included in the
proposed catalogue. The New York Public Library, in
its Bulletin for May, 1930, has printed Mr. de Kicci's
description of its 138 pertinent items. He returns to this
country in the fall of 1930 to resume personal examina-
tion of the various collections.

PROJECT B — INCREASE OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS

(From the report of Mr. Ernest Kletsch, Curator of the Union

Catalogues)

The third year of operation of Project B reflects the
same steady growth as the year previous. The total
number of cards and locations produced and added dur-
ing the year is approximately the same (1,050,046 in 1930
against 1,103,327 in 1929).

The number of regularly contributing libraries has
risen to 62. This does not include contributors to the
Vergil list, the number of which is over 90, in addition
to those already contributing to Union Catalogues.

Contributions ranged from less than a hundred cards
per year per library to many thousands in the case of
libraries printing or otherwise reproducing cards. How-
ever, where the number is small, the quality often makes
up for the lack of quantity.

To get a true picture of the resources of Project B as
expanded during the past three years, it is necessary to
consider the supplementary sources of information of
Union Catalogues. Many of these are what might be
termed " by-products," partly or wholly the result of
activities in obtaining material for the primary group,
Union Catalogues proper.

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These auxiliary groups, taken as a whole, are respon-
sible for a further increase of approximately 900,000
additional entries, distributed over their respective
groups as follows : Nonlocated books, 643,750 items ; the
possible future subject catalogue, 203,000; while foreign
locations were increased by approximately 50,000.

Taking Union Catalogues in all its phases, there have
been incorporated either in the master Union Catalogue
or its auxiliaries, 9,895,256 cards and locations, as the
total resources of Project B.

Comparing identical groups, the growth of Union
Catalogues with all its auxiliary units for the 3-year
period, is as follows :

1928

1929

1930

Main record

4, 439, 335
1, 551, 575

5, 542, 662
2, 405, 408

6, 592 708

Auxiliary

3, 303, 548

TotaL. L

5, 990, 910

7, 948, 070

9, 895, 256

Increase of the same groups over the same period
shows :

1928

1929

1930

Main record, _ _

2, 479, 335

1, 103, 327

852, 713

1, 050, 046

Auxiliary.

897, 140

Total

1, 956, 040

1, 947, 186

The success of project B can be assured only by coop-
eration. The voluntary contributions by libraries show
a steady growth and promise to be a factor in the future
Union Catalogues. While it has been found that active
cooperation is more or less restricted to a comparatively
small number of large libraries rather than to a great
number of small ones, it is to be hoped that the latter
will respond in the near future. The circle of contribu-

Project B 109

tors is ever growing and it may be said that in no in-
stance where proper representation has been made, has
the appeal for cooperation been in vain. This was ex-
emplified particularly at the American Library Associa-
tion conference in Los Angeles and on subsequent visits
to western libraries, where very much interest was dis-
played in the workings of Union Catalogues and agree-
ments of contribution were entered into.

That satisfactory cooperation may in time be brought
about becomes the more probable when one analyzes the
result of a single appeal in connection with the bimillen-
iuni of the birth of Vergil.

In November, 1929, the chairman of the committee on
the celebration of the bimillenium issued a circular letter
to libraries asking for cooperation in furnishing entries
for a list on Vergil. During the year approximately
3.699 cards were received, representing Vergil entries,
some of full bibliographical value, others in somewhat
shorter title form, but usable, and a very small percentage
of doubtful value. This mirrors the attitude of the
library world at large toward cooperative undertakings.
A cross section of the contributions to Vergil shows the
same ratio as general contributions to Union Catalogues.
The list on Vergil is incorporated in the auxiliary activi-
ties of project B and remains forever a praiseworthy
example of cooperation.

The spread of cooperation is further exemplified by the
receipt of the first installment of printed cards from the
Vatican Library, with the assurance of all future cards
for Union Catalogues.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

It is a pleasure to report the conclusion of the gather-
ing of the source material. Every library having a spe-
cial collection has been approached with personal letters
citing the collections as known to us from different
sources, with the specific request to supply number, com-
parative strength of subject, presence of printed ma-
terial, lists, adherence to interlibrary loans, etc. With
some exceptions, answers have been received and trans-

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ferred to card record form. This may be termed the most
complete existing collection of facts about special collec-
tions in the libraries of the United States. In the pro-
cess of inventorying the information received, uniformity
of subject heading was achieved by the adoption of the
Library of Congress subject heading, with a correspond-
ing cross reference to the subject used. The file of this
voluminous material is kept in two alphabets, by subject
and by locality. All material descriptive or in any way
connected with special collections is contained in a
special file.

DIVISION OF DOCUMENTS
(From the report of the chief, Mr. Childs)

Documents:
Accessions.

During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, the acces-
sions to the Library, through the division of documents,
were as follows :

How acquired

Received by virtue of law

Gifts of the Government of the United States in all its

branches

Gifts of State governments

Gifts of foreign governments (international exchange)

Gifts of local governments

Gifts of corporations and associations

By transfer. -

Total received ...

By purchase, exchange, deposit, and transfer (counted in

accessions division)...

By binding periodicals >

Total handled

Maps and charts.

Volumes

2,701

1,186

3,565

13, 888

957

1,563

23, 916

2,092
1,878

27, 886

5,165

Pamphlets

3,428

1,973

11, 146

22, 454

805

115

2,213

42, 134

2,974

45, 108

Total

6,129

3,159
14,711
36, 342

1,762
171

3,776

66, 050

5,066
1,878

72, 994

5,165

1 A total of 8,039 volumes sent to the bindery; pamphlets bound into covers, 14,879.

Due principally to the greater effectiveness of interna-
tional exchange relationships, increased accessions are
most noticeable this year in foreign government publica-
tions. In two instances the special accessions mentioned
below under Finland and France have been received

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through efforts of the chief of the division while abroad
during the summer of 1929. In other instances impor-
tant material has been acquired by purchase. At the
same time, the use of this material is increasing. In one
case the parliamentary proceedings and documents of the
Commonwealth and States of Australia have been used as
the basis for an extended study of the relationship exist-
ing between Commonwealth and States.

The international exchange with Germany has func- international

i rv ■• i i i . t Exchange:

tioned very effectively during the past year in accordance Germany.
with the agreement between the Governments of the
United States of America and Germany, approved during
the early part of the year by both the Librarian of Con-
gress and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The English text to the agreement was printed as an ap-
pendix to a reprint of the previous annual report of the
division.

Through the assistance of the Keichstauschstelle in
Berlin, the German official exchange agency, considerable
progress has been made in enlarging and completing our
files of German official publications, and especially those
from some of the German States. The following acces-
sions are particularly worthy of mention :

Germany: Amtsblatt des Keichskommissars fur die
besetzten rheinischen Gebiete, 1920-1923, and the con-
tinuation, Bekanntmachungen des Prasidenten der
Iieichs-Vermogensverwaltung fur die besetzten rheini-
schen Gebiete, 1924-1925, both publications issued at
Coblenz.

Baden : Staatsanzeiger, complete from the first volume
in 1869 to the last issued in 1922; 1911-1922 are reprinted
from the " Karlsruher Zeitung." The Staatsanzeiger in-
cludes the government regulations and notices.

Bremen: Verhandlungen der bremischen Burgerschaft,
1851, 1861-61, 1867, 1877-1890, 1894, 1904-1925.

Mecklenburg-Schwerin : Grossherzoglich Mecklenburg-
Schwerinscher Staatskalender, 1853-1893, 1905-1906,
1916-1918; needed to complete our file 1852 to date. (In-
cludes regularly a second part under the title : Statistisch-
topographisches Jahrbuch.)

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Prussia : Koniglich preussischer Staatsanzeiger, July,
1851, to 1871 (lacking July-December, 1854 and 1864).
On May 4, 1871, when the German constitution went into
effect, the title became Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und
koniglich preussischer Staatsanzeiger.

Prussia : Finanzministerium. Centralblatt der Abga-
ben-, Gewerbe- und Handels-Gesetzgebung und Verwal-
tung, from the first volume in 1839 to 1912, and the con-
tinuation under the title Zentralblatt der preussischen
Verwaltung der Zolle und indirekten Steuern, 1914-1919.

From 15 Regierungsbezirke of Prussia, government
districts next in importance to the provinces, more or less
extensive files of Amtsblatter. Outstanding among these
are the "Amtsblatt der konialichen Reirierung zu Pots-
dam," from 1812 (the second volume) to 1904, with the
exception of 1817, 1821, 1823. 1883-1885; and the "Amts-
blatt fur die koniglichen Regierung zu Hannover," 1868-
L885 and 1910-1920. The Regierungsbezirk Hanover is
a part of the former Kingdom of Hanover which was
annexed to Prussia in 1866.
lndu >- With the Indian provincial governments of Assam,

Bihar and Orissa, Central Provinces and Berar, and
Punjab, an arrangement has been made for the exchange
of official publications, the government documents of
these four jurisdictions being supplied in return for par-
tial sets. Similar arrangements had previously been con-
cluded with the governments of Bombay, Burma, Mad-
ras, and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. The
tendency of the British Government in India to associate
an increasing number of Indians in all parts of the ad-
ministration and to develop gradually self-governing in-
stitutions make even these publications of the Indian
Provinces of considerable interest to the student of com-
parative government.

Equally of interest in connection with India is the
" Proceedings of the meetings of the chamber of princes
(Narendra mandal) held at New Delhi on the 12th Feb-
ruary, 1929, and following days," Calcutta, 1930, re-
ceived from the foreign and political department at
Simla. On behalf of the native Indian states, the cham-

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ber of princes was established in 1921 as a permanent
consultative body to discuss matters relating to affairs of
imperial or common concern. Prior to 1929 the proceed-
ings of the annual sessions were confidential and have
not been published.

From both the Nationalist Government of China and china.
from the provincial governments, publications have been
received regularly.

Since the Nationalist Government recognized the adhe-
sion of China to the conventions of 1886 and placed the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanking in charge of
the exchange, four consignments have been transmitted
through the Bureau of International Exchange at the
Academia Sinica in Shanghai. These consignments have
included the Nationalist Government Gazette, the Execu-
tive Yiian Gazette, the Judicial Yiian Gazette, the Agri-
culture and Mining Gazette, the Communications Gazette,
the Educational Gazette, the Finance Gazette, Gazette for
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gazette of Industry,
Commerce, and Labor, the Public Health Gazette, and
the Trade-Mark Gazette, all printed in Chinese.

With a considerable degree of success, requests for offi-
cial publications in Chinese, legislative, administrative,
and descriptive, have been addressed to the 18 Provinces
of China proper and to the northeastern provinces (Man-
churia). Among the provincial publications received the
following may be mentioned :

Hopei provincial government at Tientsin : Provincial gazette
beginning with No. 519 (January 1, 1930), and the compilation of
codes and regulations of Hopei, 5 volumes.

Hunan provincial government at Changsha : Provincial govern-
ment gazette, old series, Nos. 1-8 (March 10-April 2S, 1929), and
new series, Nos. 1-49.

Kiangsi provincial government at Nanchang : Provincial gazette
beginning with January, 1929.

Kiangsu provincial government at Chinkiang: Provincial gazette
and Kiangsu bulletins beginning with September, 1928.

Kwangtung provincial government at Canton : Addresses of
the governor, and the Kwangtung provincial annual, 1928.

Northeastern Provinces (Manchuria) government at Mukden:
Chang Hsiieh-Liang, the governor, through the political council,
asked the governments of the northeastern Provinces of Liaoling,
Kirin, Heilungkiang. and Jehol to send their public documents

Netherlands.

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directly to the Library of Congress. Liaoling sent the provincial
gazette; Kirin, the Provincial Atlas, published in 1927, and the
provincial rules and regulations, July, 1929; Heilung-kiang, Pro-
vincial gazette beginning with No. 318 (April 21, 1930), and
various periodicals from the bureaux of agriculture and forestry,
education, finance, and reconstruction.

Shensi provincial government at Sianfu, Provincial gazette
beginning with January, 1930.

The Dutch International Exchange Bureau (Ruil
bureau) established at the Royal Library in The Hague
in January, 1928, has had added to its duties the prepa-
ration of an annual catalogue 4 of the official publications
of the Netherlands, including not only the central gov-
ernment but the provinces and the colonies. The first
volume covers the year 1929. Not only has the bureau
been furnishing promptly one copy of all Dutch official
publications, but it has assisted considerably in com-
pleting files, and probably as agent for Dutch libraries
may be able to extend its activities to the exchange of
duplicates generally.

Public No. 53, Seventy-first Congress, authorizing and
directing the George Washington Bicentennial Commis-
sion " to prepare as a congressional memorial to George
Washington, a definitive edition of all his essential
writings, public and private (excluding the diaries)" to
consist of about 25 volumes, provides a distribution of 25
sets for the Library of Congress and " such number of
sets as may be necessary for foreign exchange." Similar
publications such as the " edizione nazionale " of the
" Scritti editi ed inediti di Giuseppe Mazzini," authorized
by the King of Italy in 1904, have occasionally been pre-
sented to the Library by foreign governments.
special acces- Aside from the usual course of the international ex-
S Franc'e: Ministry change, important source material on the fiscal develop-
ment of France was obtained through the assistance of
the French Ministry of Finance. Among the approxi-
mately 200 volumes received were the three following
series printed only for official distribution: (1) Lois et
reglements des douanes, 1815-1926; (2) Circulaires des
contributions indirectes, 1816-1928; and (3) Instructions

* Nederlandsche overheidsuitgaven.

Division of Documents 115

generates de l'enregistrement, des domaines et du timbre,
1919-1928. Under the order of March 27, 1815, the " Lois
et reglements des douanes " were first printed in order
to avoid the misunderstandings and errors arising from
the distribution of circulars in manuscript form. During
the 1850's and 1860's the direction generale des douanes
and the direction generale des contributions indirectes
were administered as one office. During that period laws
and regulations regarding both customs and indirect
taxes were issued in a single series. In addition to the
three above-mentioned series, various volumes were re-
ceived completing (a) the " Recueil des lois de finances "
from the first issue for the session of 1831 till 1920, when
it was discontinued; (b) the " Projet de loi . . . portant
fixation du Budget general de l'exercice " 1816 to date;
(c) the "Compte general de l'administration des
finances," 1817 to date; (d) the "Compte definitif des
depenses de l'exercice " for the Ministry of Finance, 1835
to date; and (e) the "Compte definitif des recettes de
l'exercice*. . . rendu par le Ministre des finances," 1841
to date. At the time of the Restoration in 1814, the Min-
istry of Finance absorbed the Ministry of the Treasury
and henceforth maintained its unity as the central finan-
cial administration of the French Government.

The French Ministry of Finance prints regularly a
summary of foreign financial legislation in its " Bulletin
de statistique et de legislation comparee," and is now re-
ceiving slip laws and session laws so that financial legis-
lation from the United States may be included in the
summary.

A collection of the proceedings and documents of the S%9-im'
Finnish Parliament, 1809-1913 (317 volumes) was re-
ceived from the Eduskunnan Kirjasto at Helsingfors.
Hie subsequent sessions, 1914 to date, are practically com-
pletely represented in the Library. In the main, the pro-
ceedings and documents, 1809-1913, may be itemized as
follows :

1. Ridderskapet och adeln (nobles). Protokoll, 1809.

2. Prestestandet or Pnppi.ssiiaty (clergy). Protokoll, 1S09,'
1863/64-1882; Poytakirjat, 1885-1905/6.

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3. Borgare-standet or Porvarissaaty (burghers). Protokoll,
1863/64-1905-6; Poytiikirjat, 1904/5, 1905/6.

4. Bondestandet or Talonpoikaissaaty (peasants). Poytakirjat,
1867-1905/6.

5. Landtdagen or Valtiop&ivat. Protokoll, 1907-1913; Poyta-
kirjat, 1907-1913.

6. Handlingar, 1872-1913; Asiakirjat, 1872-1913.

7. Register till Finlands standslandtdagens protokoll och hand-
lingar, 1809-1906. Helsingfors, 1915-1917. 2 vol. Also in Fin
nish, 2 vols.

After Finland had been detached from Sweden and
annexed to Kussia in 1809, the four estates were assembled
to approve the constitution, and during an autocratic
legime were not called together again for more than 50
years. Beginning with 1867, the estates met once every
five years, and beginning with 1885, once every three
years. The gradually increasing effort of the imperial
government to destroy the autonomy of Finland aroused
so much opposition that finally in 1905 the estates were
summoned to consider parliamentary reform on the basis
of universal and equal suffrage. In place of the estates,
a single-chambered parliament meeting annually was
established in 1907. During the period previous to the
World War the reformed parliament had an even more
intense struggle to maintain Finnish autonomy against
the oppression of the Imperial Russian Government.

Also of interest in connection with Finland are the
following publications received from the Government of
the Aland Islands:

(1) Beriittelse avgiven till Alands Landsting over forvaltnings-
perioden . . . av Lantradet i Lnndskapet Aland, Nos. 1-4,
1022/25-1928.

(2) Alands forfattningssamling. 1923-1928.

After the downfall of the Russian Government in 1917.
attempts were made to annex the Aland Islands to
Sweden. The islands were definitelv recognized as a
part of Finland by the Council of the League of Nations
June 24, 1921, and have an autonomous government under
Finnish law with Swedish as the official language instead
of both Finnish and Swedish as prevails elsewhere in
Finland.

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For Kussia previous to 1917, there have been several fjSifgjJS^
important accessions by purchase. Foremost among these C0V " n ' L
is a collection of all the documents and protocols of the
general session of the State Council (Obshchee Sobrani'e
Gosudarstvennago Sovieta), 1893-1906, assembled day
by day and bound in about 200 volumes, foolscap folio
size, by a prominent member of the council. In 1801 the
Russian State Council was created by Alexander I as the
supreme advisory body on legislative matters. The
council was composed of members of the royal family
and of high dignitaries. Its jurisdiction was as follows :
(1) legislation, (2) supreme administrative problems,
(3) financial affairs, budgets, (4) private laws concern-
ing the establishment of stock companies, etc., (5) appeals
to the Emperor against the decisions of the Senate, and
(6) extraordinary plenipotence in the absence of the
Emperor from the country. Ordinarily, the council
functioned through four departments: (a) laws, (b) civil
and military affairs, (c) state economy, and (d) indus-
try, science, and trade. Occasionally temporary depart-
ments or committees were established to consider special
problems, such as the Polish question, peasant land own-
ing, etc. The general sessions of the State Council were
confidential, and the numerous documents to be consid-
ered in these sessions were likewise printed in confidence
for the use of the members. As a whole, this collection
" Obshchee Sobrani'e Gosudarstvennago Sovieta " is
probably unique, and is of very great importance in .
illuminating the administrative and legislative system
of Russia during the period 1893-1906.

Likewise of interest in this connection is the " Steno-
graficheskie otchety " of the State Council, first to ninth
and twelfth sessions, 1906-1917. In 1906 the Duma was
established as a legislative body. At the same time the
council was reorganized to function as an upper house.
Half of the members of the council were now to be nomi-
nated by the Emperor and half to be elected by the
gentry, clergy, learned bodies, etc.

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Danes plan
organizations.

International
organizations.

At the same time the " Stenograficheskii otchet "of
the Duma was completed, with six volumes for the fourth
and final period.

For the Russian administrative departments previous
to 1917 the outstanding item is a volume containing con-
fidential circulars and instructions in both mimeographed
and printed form sent out by the department of police
in the Ministry of the Interior to a provincial gendarme
bureau during the period 1902-1907. The instructions
in great part touch upon various phases of political un-
rest in the Russian Empire, such as guarding troops from
contact with agitators, seizure of political criminals, dis-
closure of insurrectionary plans, smuggling of revolu-
tionary literature, weapons, etc.

During the liquidation of the Dawes plan organiza-
tions S. Parker Gilbert, the agent general for reparation
payments in Berlin, was authorized to present to the
Library a complete set of the transfer committee publica-
tions in mimeographed form. These consist chiefly of
studies and reports on economic subjects relating to Ger-
many, translations of newly enacted fiscal laws, analyses
of budgets, etc., and were issued for confidential use in
reparation matters. There are three series of the mimeo-
graphed publications, as follows: (1) Documents, No.
1-336; (2) Notes, No. 1-124; and (3) Credit and finan-
cial summaries, March 10, 1925, to April 19, 1930. In
addition to the mimeographed publications were included
the reports of the agent general for reparation payments,
first to fourth annuity years, and of the commissioners
and trustees, 5 first to fifth annuity years, dealing with
the execution of the experts' plan, and " The experts'
plan for reparation payments," a volume issued by the
Reparation Commission at Paris in 1926.

International organizations and their activities are
chronicled regularly in the " Quarterly bulletin of in-
formation on the work of international organizations,"
issued by the League of Nations, and an effort is being

5 Commissioner of the Reichsbank, commissioner for the German railways,
commissioner of controlled revenues, trustee for the German railway bonds,
and trustee for the German industrial debentures.

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made to secure their publications. Among the publica-
tions of international organizations received, the follow-
ing may be mentioned :

Association internationale des automobile-clubs reconnus, Paris :
The report of the fifth world motor transport congress.

Congres international des associations ofBcielles de propagande
touristique, The Hague : Reports of the international congress,
1925-1928.

Federation interalliee des anciens combattants, Paris : Reports
on the FIDAC conventions, 1926-1928.

Internacia centra komitato de la esperanto movado, Geneva :
Reports of the Esperanto Congress, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927.

International astronomical union, Cambridge, England : Transac-
t ions of the union, vol. 1-3, 1922-1928.

International bureau against alcoholism, Lausanne : Reports of
the international congress against alcoholism, 1921 and 1926, and
the International review against alcoholism, 1918-1929.

International congress of air navigation : Acts of the fourth
congress, Rome, 1927, from the Italian Ministry of Aeronautics.

International dental federation, Brussels : Compte-rendus of the
international dental congress, 1913, 1922-1928.

International federation of League of Nations societies, Brus-
sels : Bulletins, 1923-1929.

International scientific radio union, Brussels : Recueil des tra-
vaux for the general meeting of the union, Washington, 1927, and
Brussels, 1928.

International union against tuberculosis, Paris : Proceedings of
the international congress, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, and 1928.

Universal postal union : Documents of the London congress, 1929,
through the Division of International Mail Service of the United
States Post Office Department.

As a testimony of gratitude for the cooperation of the Boiy see.
Library of Congress, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
at Rome presented a selection of works issued by the
Holy See. Among the titles may be mentioned the
following :

Pii IX pontificis maximi Acta, Romae, 1854-1878. Parte se-
conda, 2 vols., relates to the Papal State.

Leonis XIII pontificis maximi Acta, Romae, Ex typographia
vaticana, 1881-1905, 23 vols. (A supplementary volume issued in
1893 includes conventions between the Holy See and civil powers.)

Regestum Clementis papae V ex Vaticanis archetypis sanctis-
simi domini nostri Leonis XIII pontificis maximi iussu et munifi-
centia nunc primum editum monachorum ordinis S. Benedict!.
[Annus primus-nonus.] Romae, Ex typographia vaticana, 1885-
1888, 7 vols.

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Storia della marina pontificia per il P. Alberto Guglielmntti.
Romae, typographia Vaticana, 1886-1S93, 10 vols.

Through the apostolic delegate in Washington, the
Vatican library presented by the kind disposition of the
holy father, a photo-typic edition of old pontifical bulls,
prepared by order of his holiness, Pius XI, entitled :
Pontificum romanorum diplomata papyracea quae super-
sunt in tabulariis Hispaniae Italiae Germaniae. Romae,
MCMXXIX.

With January, 1930, the Spanish Congreso de los
diputados was reestablished, and is issuing the second
series of the monthly "Boletin de legislacion y docu-
mentos parlamentarios extranjeros," which has been so
important in the past for its presentation of important
foreign legislation. Likewise very recent is the monthly
index, for the most part to material in official gazettes
and law collections issued by the League of Nations
library under the title : International treaties and legis-
lative measures. Although both tend to make our in-
creasing collections of official literature more effective,
there yet remains the fact that there is great need for a
publication making readily and promptly available, in
English, to scholars in political science and economics,
recent foreign constitutions, constitutional amendments,
important legislation, summaries of outstanding parlia-
mentary reports, and state papers.
other foreign Other interesting additions of foreign government

document acces- m ^ o o

sion*. publications may be mentioned as follows :

Algeeia. From the General Government of Algeria : Iconographie
historique de l'Alg^rie depuis le XVIe siecle jusqu'a 1871, par
Gabriel Esquer, administrates de la Bibliotheque Nationale
d'Alger. Paris, 1929. 3 vols. This historical iconography of
Algeria forms part of the archaeological and historical sec-
tion of the " Collection du centenaire de l'Algerie."

" La monnaie et le credit en Algerie depuis 1830, par P. Ernest-
Picard," and " Exploration zoologique de l'AlgSrie, par M. L.-G.
Seurat," were among the other volumes received of the " Collec-
tion du centenaire de l'Algerie."
Austria. From the library of the Bundesfinanzministerium, the
" Stenographische Protokolle der Delegation des Reichsrathes,''
from the first to thirty-fourth, thirty-seventh, forty-third, and
forty-seventh sessions (1868-1912), and the general-register,
1868-1904, needed to complete our files.

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Note about accessions for the other section of the joint par-
liament of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy is given below
under Hungary.

Bermuda. From the department of historical research of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, "Ancient journals of the
House of assembly of Bermuda from 1691 to 1785 . . . Printed
under a resolution of the legislature," 4 vols. Volumes 1-3
were printed at Bermuda in 1890 ; volume 4 at London in 1906.

Bolivia. From the Ministerio de Gobierno, " Nuevo digesto de
legislacion boliviana por Mario C. Araoz, diputado nacional."
La Paz, 1929, 3 vols. 27 cm.

Contains the laws and regulations of a general character
relating to the different branches of the Administration, 1825-
July, 1929.

Brazil. From the Bibliotheca Nacional de Rio de Janeiro two
collections (in all, nearly 200 volumes), including books by
Brazilian authors and by foreigners writing about Brazil.
These collections were assembled from the best of the Brazilian
output in order to contribute to the better understanding among
the peoples of the Americas. Among the works of history, s< i-
ence, and geographical description are included " O Descobri-
mento do Brasil," by Abreu; "Reminiscencias da fronteira," By
General Dyonisio Cerqueira, who had been chief of the commis-
sion to fix the boundaries of Brazil with Argentina, Paraguay,
and Uruguay ; " O Selvagem," by Couto de Magalhaes, one of
the best works descriptive of the native races ; "O Espiritu ibero
americano," by Saul de Navarro; two works by Manoel de
Oliveira Lima, " O Movimento da independencia de 1821-22,"
and " O Imperio brasileiro, 1822-1889."

China. From Prof. E. W. Kemmerer, president of the commis-
sion of financial experts, the " Project of law for the gradual
introduction of a gold-standard currency in China, together with
a report in support thereof, submitted to the Minister of Finance
by the commission of financial experts on November 11, 1929."

Denmark. Through purchase, the " Collegial-tidende for Dan-
mark," 1798-1840, and the " Ny collegial-tidende for Danmark,*'
1841-1848. The " Collegial-tidende " was started in 1798 to pub-
lish all sorts of information about the government, decrees,
rescripts, orders, and circulars issued by the collegiums and
other government departments, decisions in civil and criminal
cases, appointments to office, retirements, pardons, reports from
public authorities, etc. From 1798 to 1814 the "Collegial-
tidende " also included information concerning Norway. A. S.
0rsted, who played so considerable a part in the preparation
of the royal decrees, was editor, 1815-1S48, during the first part
of the period in collaboration with P. J. Monrad.

The Library has the continuations of the " Collegial-tidende,"
i. e., "Departmentstidende," 1848-1870, and " Ministerialti-
dende," 1871 to date.

122 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Also the official gazette of Denmark, " Statstidende " (witb
some deficiencies), from April 1, 1904 (the first number), to
1929, was purchased.

From K0benhavns Kommunebiblioteker, (1) Samling af bes-
temmelser vedr0rende K0benhavns kommune, 1914-1927, (2)
K0benhavns borgerrepraesentanters forhandlinger, 1909-10 to
1927-28, and other publications relative to the government of
the city of Copenhagen.
Dutch East Indies. Through Coert du Bois, American consul
general at Batavia, various brochures issued in connection with
the fourth Pacific Science Congress held at Batavia in the sum-
mer of 1929, the 1930 edition of the " Handbook of the Nether-
lands East Indies," 424 pp., and other publications issued by
the government of the Dutch East Indies.
France. From the following departments, the " Rapports du
Prefet et proces-verbaux des deliberations du Conseil general "
as indicated:

Aube: 1911-1928.
Mayenne: 1885-1928.
Meuse: 1913-1928.
Moselle: 1922^1929.
Seine et Oise : 1886-1928.
Seine Inferieure: 1905-1928.
Savoie: 1919-1928.
Vosges: 1914-1928.
These publications constitute source material for the study
of economic conditions in the French provinces. In particular,
the Moselle is of interest as showing the course of administra-
tion in one of the three departments into which Alsace-Lor-
raine was divided.
Great Britain. The set of " Votes of the House of Commons "
was extended by the purchase of volumes covering the period
1745-1775 (9th Pari., 5th session — 14th Pari., 1st session, with
exception of the 11th Pari., 1st session.) For the most part the
volumes seem to have been originally in possession of Sir
Joshua Van Neck, Member of Parliament for Dunwich, 1790-
1816. The " Votes " constitute a daily record of the proceed-
ings in the House of Commons, and apparently were first
authorized to be printed in 1681.
Hungary. Through the Quaestor of the Hungarian Upper House,
the debates, protocols, documents, and other publications of the
Delegation of the Hungarian Parliament, 1906-1918. e This
delegation, chosen from both houses of Parliament, was estab-
lished by the Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867, to meet an-
nually in conjunction with the Austrian Delegation, alternately

6 A kozosiigyek targyalas&ra a magyar orszaggyiiles altal kikuldott.
(1) Bizottsag naploja; (2) Bizottsag jegyzokonyvei ; (3) Bizottsag
iromanyai.

Division of Docvmients 123

in Vienna and Budapest, to vote money for the common pur-
poses of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and to control the
action of the Common Ministries in foreign affairs, military
and naval affairs, and finance.

Italy. The Ufficio degli Scambi Internazionali at the Ministry
of National Education, has rendered much special assistance
during the past year. In one instance our collection of the
Annuarios of the state universities was much extended and
completed. These publications contain many scientific and his-
torical contributions, which since 1901 are indexed in the
" Pubblicazioni edite dallo stato o col suo concorso ; Spoglio dei
periodici e delle opere collettive," issued by the office of the
Purveyor General of State.

Japan. From the Library of the Tokyo Imperial University the
publications issued since 1924 by the Historiographical Institute
of the University, being 30 volumes of the " Dai Nippon Shiryo "
(Historical data of Japan) and 16 volumes of "Dai Nippon
Komonjo " (Ancient documents of Japan).

Latvia. From the Bibliotheque d'Etat de Lettonie at Riga, vol.
34-37 (1886-1889), of the " Liflmndski'ia gubernskifa vledo-
mosti," the very scarce official gazette of the Province of
Livonia.

Malta. From Han. P. Scicluna, librarian of the Malta Public-
Library, "Valletta, his own private collection of the " Debates of
the Council of Government of Malta in the sessions of 1876-77
to 1898," Vol. I-XXII (with exception Vol. VII), completing
our file. The council of government of Malta was originally
constituted by letters patent of May 11, 1849. Previous to
November 22, 1876, the debates were not published officially but
only appeared in precis form in some of the local papers. Mr.
Scicluna is also assembling a set of the " Malta government
gazette," 1812-1904, for transmission to the Library of Con-
gress.

Mexico. The " Debates de las sesiones de la soberana Conven-
ci6n revolutionaria," 144, 243 pp., covering the sessions at
Aguascalientes, October 10, 1914-January 25, 1915, and at Cuer-
navaca, January 31-March 11, 1915, have been purchased.
Villa, Angeles, and Zapata were among the leaders of the move-
ment against Carranza. At their initiative, this revolutionary
convention composed of military delegates chosen by the army
commanders was convoked. The " Debates " were printed as
supplements to La Convencion, an official newspaper, and owing
to their publication in this form are scarcely ever found in
complete sets. The Convenci6n apparently continued its sessions
at Mexico City, March 21-April 21, 1915.

Persia. From the Library of the Madjlis (Parliament) the col-
lection in Persian of the laws approved by the Parliament dur-
ing the past fiix legislative periods, 3 vols.

124 Report of the Librarian of Congress

South Africa. From the Library of Parliament, Cape Town, the
" Staatscourant der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek," vols. 11, 12,
14 (1891-1894).

Syria. Through the American Consular Service in Syria was pur-
chased " El Acima, revue omcielle du gouvernement de l'Etat de
Syrie," vols. 1-9, February 1919-1927. The state of Syria was
created in the French mandated territory in January, 1925, by
the union of the two states of Damascus and Aleppo. Previous
to the union, " El Acima " was the official review of the state
of Damascus. The publication contains the decrees, regulations,
circulars, and announcements of the state administration, and is
printed in French and Arabic.

Through the American consul at Beirut " Bulletin ^conomique
trimestriel des pays sous Mandat frangais (Etat de Syrie, Re-
publique libanaise, iStat des Alaouites, Etat des Dj6bel-Druze)"
for the years 1925-1929.

Tunis. From the government of the Regency of Tunis the "Pro-
c&s-verbaux du Grand-conseil de la Tunisie," first to seventh
session (1922-1928). The Grand Conseil was established in
place of the conference consultative by decree of July 13, 1922
(19 kaada 1340), and is composed of two sections: (1) French
and (2) native. For the most part the annual sessions are
devoted to consideration of the budget, although the Govern-
ment can always submit financial, administrative, and economic
questions for deliberation. Discussion of all political or con-
stitutional resolutions is forbidden. The conference consulta-
tive was established in 1891 with the consent of the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an advisory body to the resi-
dent general in Tunis on agricultural, industrial, and commer-
cial questions and subsequently on new budget items. The
library has the " Proces-verbaux " of the 48 sessions of the
conference consultative, 1891-1921.

TJkrainia. From the State Publishing House, Kharkoff, " Wysty,"
the official gazette of the Ukrainian S. S. R., 1924-1928, and
numerous other publications issued in Ukrainia.

state documents. Among the state publications received, the reports
of special investigations as a preliminary to legislative
action seems particularly noticeable on such subjects as
the control of public utilities, reorganization of state gov-
ernment, tax reform, state education activities. As a
part of the movement toward the nation-wide prepara-
tion of statistics on law enforcement the attorney gen-
eral of Louisiana has made his first statistical report
under the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure, 1928.
In Ohio the State Library began the preparation of a

Division of Docwnents 125

regular check list of Ohio State publications with an
annual issue for 1929.

A further addition has been made to the " Votes and
Proceedings" of the Maryland House of Delegates
through the gift by Mrs. Aaron F. Anderson of the
volume for the June session, 1777, which has association
interest with Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

The accessions of municipal publications, although not £~ n/ d "'"-
so numerous this year, have included some of particular
interest, such as the annual reports of the East Bay mu-
nicipal utility district of California from the time of its
organization in 1924 to date. Our local government
documents were examined several times during the year
with a view to collecting data on law enforcement and
crime, even the reports of county boards of supervisors
vieldine: considerable material not to be found elsewhere.
There is a growing interest in municipal affairs, making
evident a decided need for a periodical check list of the
publications of American cities, counties, and local gov-
ernment districts.

The report of the division for 1928-29 was reprinted, Publications.
with the addition of the English text of the agreement
about the exchange of official publications between the
Governments of the United States of America and
Germany.

A revision of "An account of Government document
bibliography in the United States and elsewhere," issued
in 1927, is in process of printing.

" The Memorias of the Republics of Central America
and of the Antilles " is a new publication which has been
prepared for printing. It covers such material so far as
it exists in the Library of Congress and elsewhere in
Washington, outlining under each country the develop-
ment of the principal Government departments and giv-
ing titles carefully. This work should be continued to
cover the other countries of Latin America.

The circulation of the Monthly Check List of State
Publications is increasing, amounting at present to 1.445.

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Report of the Librarian of Congress

LAW LIBRARY

(From the report of the law librarian. Mr. Vance)

The following table sets forth the sources of accessions
dii ring the year:

Accessions:
Vollbehr collec-
tion.

How acquired

By copyright

By gift and transfer

By purchase

Through division of documents

Total

Total accessions

Total contents of law library • .

I'.i'js 2!)

Main
library

1,432

632

2,105

1,269

Confer-
ence
library

165
514

5,438

6,117
232, 260

679

1929-30

Main
library

2,114

558

2,499

1,606

6,777

Confer-
ence
library

102
349

451

7,228
239, 488

1 Exclusive of law material classified in the general library.

In that part of the report of the Librarian submitted
to the Congress last year, which related to the law library,
it was stated that it was a rare event for an incunabulum
to find its way to the law collections, and, therefore, some
little space was devoted to a bibliography of eight acces-
sions of Italian cradle printing. The report was hardly
published before a bill to purchase the Vollbehr collec-
tion was presented in the Congress, which resulted in the
acquisition of that famous collection of 3,000 incunabula.
More than 10 per cent of these cradle books are legal
titles. Many of the items are classed with the canon
law, as is true of all collections of incunabula — decretals,
papal bulls, canon law commentaries, etc., but a good
proportion embraces the ancient law codes, treatises and
compilations, including works of the old glossators,
which are essential to a library of Roman law.

It is impossible at this time to give an accurate esti-
mate of the number of legal works in the Vollbehr col-
lection. In the memorable address of Hon. Ross A. Col-
lins, of Mississippi, before the House of Representatives
on February 7, on the Vollbehr collection of incunabula.

Law Libra/;/ 127

he stated that among other subjects contained therein,
there were " more than 50 on law." Evidently he did not
intend to include works on canon law, for a casual look at
the catalogue arranged according to Hain numbers, shows
more than 300 legal incunabula, only 50 of which are
duplicated in the Library collections (33 in the Thacher
collection, and the remainder in the law "office"). As
there were already 150 items in the law library and in-
cluded within the Thacher collection, a total of approxi-
mately 450 titles is now available for study and research.
It is doubtful if any other law library in the United
States has so varied and numerous a collection of legal
incunabula at hand. Not only are many of them exces-
sively rare and not found in the American census of in-
cunabula, but there are a number which have not been
mentioned by any bibliographer. The following records
here given of the rarest items have been copied, together
with the notes, from the catalogue cards furnished by
Doctor Vollbehr with his collection, a few minor changes
being made upon comparison with Hain and the other
bibliographers :

Abbreviamentum Statutorum. (London), Richard Pynson, 1499.

Proctor 9795. Duff 376. Pierpont Morgan 758. Gesamt-

katalog der Wiegendrucke Vol. I, No. 4.

Andreae, Johannes. Additiones ad speculum judiciale Durantis.

(Argentorati, Georg Hussner und Joh. Beckenhaub, ca. 1473-

1475.)

Hain-Winship (2 Exemplare) 1083. Gesamtkatalog de'.'
Wiegendrucke 1683. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, p. 84. Voulliemo,
Berlin, 2196. Not in Proctor.

Extremely rare, like all products of Hussner's first press.
Especially remarkable as being one of the first products of
this press, probably published together or shortly after Duran-
dus' Speculum of 1473, the earliest book known of this press.
Winship 1083 : " Uniform with the Speculum and probably of
the same date, 1473."
Andreae, Johannes, Bonon. Lectura super arboribus consanguini-
ty tis affinitatis et cognationis spiritualis. Niirnberg, Friedr.
Creiissner, 1477.

Hain 1030. Proctor 2135. Pellechet 645. Brit. Mus. Cat.

II. 449. Schreiber V. 3279. Edition extremely rare. No copy

reported by Winship. Voullieme, Suppl. 2. 1799, 6.

Andreas de Spineto, archiepisc. Lugd. et Burdegalensis. Secunda

appellatio vel potius iustissima defensio venerabilium virorum,

128 Report of the Librarian of Congress

decani et capituli ecclesiae Parisiensis, etc. (Paris, A. Cail-
laut? ca. 1492?)
Unknown.
Ars Notariatus. (Milan, Zarotus? ca. 1480.)

Undescribed.
Baldus de XJoaldis, super feudis restauratum commentu. Papiae,
Leonnrdus de Gerlies, 1495.

Hain 2323. (Without having seen it.) Reichling VI, 83.
Voullieme, Berlin 3276. Not in Winship and Proctor.
Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Lectura super prima parte digesti novi.
Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1478.

Proctor 4117. Pellechet 1943, I. Voullieme (Supplement),
3669, 6. No copy in the Munich Staatsbibliothek ; that de-
scribed by Hain under 260S, Teil I, is a variation of this
edition. No copy in the British Museum.
Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Lectura super I. et II. Parte infortiati.
(Lyon, Joh. Silber, ca. 1489.)

Hain 2588. Voullieme, Berlin 4693. Not in Proctor, Win-
ship, Reichling, Copinger. Pellechet 1938 Vol. I, only a fac-
simile edition, and even of this only one copy in France.
Bonifacius VIII. Liber sextus decretalium. Constitutiones
dementis V papae. Cum commento Joh. Andreae. Basel,
Johann v. Amerbach & Joh. Froben, Dec. 1' 1500.

This is a very charming and attractive specimen of the
early art of printing. In consequence of the continual varia-
tion of the set and the distribution of ink colors, each page
gives a new and surprising sight of high artistical interest.
The beautiful wood cut represents the pope sitting at left hand
and offering to a scholar, kneeling before him, a book, out of
which goes an arabesque whose rounded tendrils form the
frames for five tiny illustrations of historical events. In the
background a crowd of clergymen. Below the woodcut a poem
of Sebastian Brant " ad lectorem."

Hain 3626. Proctor 7767. Brit. Mus. Cat. Ill, 793. Pelle-
chet 2763. Not in Voullieme. Schreiber V, 3530.
Bonifacius VIII. Presens huius sexti decretalium preclarum
opus. Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 1470.
Hain-Copinger, 3587. Proctor 90.
Capitulos hechos por el rey i la reyna nuestros sefiores. En los
quales contienen las cosas que han de guardar : complir los
gouernadores, etc. (Sevilla, Juan Pegnitzer & Magno Herbst,
1500.)

Haebler 117. Copinger II, 2452.
No other copy known of this edition.
Clemens V., Papa. Constitutiones cum apparatu Joannis Andreae.
Argentorati, Henricus Eggestein, ca. 1470.

Hain 5407. Copinger III, S, 255. Proctor 272, Type 2, 3.
Brit. Mus. Cat. I, S. 67.

Law Library 129

Constitutions fcts en la primera cort de Barcelona. (Barcelona,
Pedro Posa, 1481.)

Unknown to all bibliographers.
Constitutions fets en la segona cort de Barcelona. (Barcelona,
Pedro Michael, ca. 1493.)

Haebler, Bibliogr. Iberica II, 166. (Variant of I, 166.)
Geminiano, Joh. de. Secunda pars lecturae super VI. Decretalium.
Venetiis, Joh. de Colonia et Ioh. Mathen, 1477.
Ha in 7541.

The Buxheim copy and in unusually fresh state like most

Buxheim books. The remarkable feature of this copy is the

hand-painted armorial bookplate of Dr. Jo. Wessbach (XVth

century) pasted in the front cover; a very neatly drawn coat

of arms with decorative mantling and a " proboscides " — crest,

a pen drawing coloured blue and yellow.

Gratianus. Deeretu vnacu dni Johannis. Theutonici atuj addi-

tionibus Bartho. Brixien. Argentinae, Heinrich Eggestein, 1472.

Hain-Winship 78S4. Proctor 263. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, p. 68.

Impedimenta susceptionis ordinum. (Romae, Johannes Gensburg.

ca. 1474.)

Hain 9167. Reichling II, p. 196. Proctor 3503. Brit. Mus.
Cat. IV, p. 51. No copy in the libraries of Berlin.
Editio Princeps.
Innocentius VIII., Pont. Max. Regulae, ordinationes et constitu-
tiones Cancellarieae Apostolicae. (Romae, Eucharius Silber,
ca. 14S7.)

Unknown. Similar to Reichling 1546. Not in Hain, Proctor,
Copinger, Winship, Voullieme, Berlin or Brit. Mus. Cat.
Justinianus. Institutiones. (With a commentary.) Venice, Jaco-
bus Rubeus, 1478.

Hain-Copinger 9505. Proctor 4253. Brit. Mus. Cat. V, 217.
Justinianus. Codex libri IX. cum commentario. Mainz, Peter
Schoeffer, 26. January 1475.

Hain-Copinger 9598. Proctor 106. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, 31.
Voullieme, Berlin, 1531.

First edition of this important work on Roman law. It is
a splendid monument of early printing, beautifully illumi-
nated by hand and in a fine state of preservation.
Klagspiegel, Richteiiicher. Neu geteutscht Rechtbuch. Augsburg,
Peter Berger, 1488.

Hain 3728 (not seen). Voullieme, Berlin 320. Not in Proc-
tor, Brit. Mus. Cat. and Pellechet. According to Hain the 3d
ed. of the first German law book and of the highest rarity.
Lanfrancus de Oriano de Brixia. Repetitio de probationibus cum
aliis tractatibus. Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia et Wendel de
Spira, 1472.

Hain 9S87. Proctor 4047. B. M. Cat. V, 161. Not in Voul-
lieme, Berlin.

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Leyes del quaderno nueuo de las rentas delas alcavalas. Fecho
enla vega tie Granada. (Burgos, Friedrich Biel, 1491.)
Not in Haebler. Unknown to all bibliographers.
Leyes del Estilo. Burgos, Fadrique de Basilea, 30 de julio, 1498.
Haebler 351 (5).

Only two other copies known of this work (both being in
Spain) (2 leaves in facsimile).
Mattaselanus, Matthaeus. Singularia, dicta etiam notabilia.
Parma, Andreas Portilia (vers 14S0).
Hain 10900 (not seen).
Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque jure. (Coloniae, Nicolaus
Goetz, ca. 1475.)

Not in Hain, Gopinger, or Reichling. Proctor 1123. Voul-
lieme, Buchdruck Kolns, 812. No copy in British Museum or
in the Berlin libraries.
Modus servandus in executione seu presentacione gratiae expgeta-
tivae. Modus reservandi beneficia. Ac modus vacandi bene-
ficiorum adiuncto modo acceptandi. (Rome, Bartholomaeus
Guldinbeck, ca. 1482.)

Hain 11513, appears to be the only bibliographer of this
book.
Modus servandus in executione, etc., gratiae expectativae. (Rome,
Stephan Plannck, ca. 1484.)

Hain 11511. Not in Proctor. Lacking in Brit. Mus. Cat.
Voullieme, Berlin 3458. Not in Winship.
Nider, Joh., Ord. Praed. Tractatus de contractibus mercatorum.
(Coloniae, Ulricus Zell, ca. 1468.)

Hain-Copinger-Winship (1 copy) 11822. Proctor 844. Brit.

Mus. Cat. I, p. 185. Voullieme, Berlin 706. Koln 863.

Ordonnances (Les) faictes par le Roy nostre Sgre touchant le

fait de la iustice des pais de Languedoc leues publieez et en-

registreez en la court de la parlement de Tholose. (Toulouse,

1491. )

Copinger 4519.
Panormitanus, Nicolaus, de Tudeschis. Lectura super prima et
secunda parte libri I. Decretalium. Venice, Bernnrdinus Sta-
gninus de Tridino, 1487.

A very rare edition which we find recorded only by Reich-
ling, torn. II, 651, after a copy in the Bibl. Nat. Napolitana.
The title of the book is there wrongly given as " super II.
parte libri II." only. According to the first colophon on folio
6 " parte libri II " is included also ; this colophon appears to
have escaped the attention of the bibliographer of the Naples
Library.
Perusio, Angelus de. Repetitio I in suis ff. de liberis et posthumis.
Senis, Henricus de Harlem, 1494.

Hain 12633. Not cited by Proctor. No copy in the Brit.
Mus. Bditio Princeps.

Law Library 131

Petrus de TJnzola. Opus iudicaorum. Vicenza, Rigo de Ca. Zeno.
(Heriricus de Sancto Urso), 1487.

Hain-Copinger 16094. Proctor 7170.
Platea, Franciscus de, O. F. M. Opus restitutionum, usurarum et
excommunicationum. (Unknown Italian printing place, ca.
1485.)

Hain 13034. Proctor 7394. Voullieme 4630.
Radulphis, Riccardus de. Defensio curatorum contra eos, qui
privilegiatos se dicunt. Et priviligatorum seu mendicantiuui
contra Armachanum a magistru Rogerio Chonnoe (Conway).
Lyons, Johannes Trechsel, 1496.
Hain 13675. Proctor 8611.

A curious work written by an Englishman (d. 1360) fellow
of Balliol.
Repertorium de pravitate haereticorum. Valencia (privately
printed for the Inquisition on behalf of) Dr. Miguel Albert,
1494.

Hain 13875. Proctor 9500. Haebler 573.
Fine example of early Spanish printing and extremely rare,
as are all the productions of the Valencia press in the XVth
century. It is the manual of the Inquisition in the form
of an alphabetical dictionary. This copy wants as usual the
rare leaf D 3, missing out of most of the copies known, and
supposed to have been suppressed by order of the Inquisition
itself; also a 6.

The work contains 18 columns on tortures, 15 columns on
Jews, and 67 columns on heretics and heresies.
Rubricae juris civilis et canonici. (Rome, Stephan Plannck, be-
fore 1485.)

Unknown to bibliographers.

In addition to the Vollbehr incunabula, the following
item came to the law library through a separate purchase :

Giocchis, Fabianus de, de Monte Sancto Savino.

Tractatus cotractnu Celebris vtilis i copiosus. Et primo
de emptione i venditione. Postmodu de omnibus cotractibus
in genere. . . [Mediolani, Petrus Antonius Castellionus,
Dec. 3, 1492.]

Giocchis was an Italian jurist of the fifteenth century,
known also under the name de Monte-San-Savino, from
his birthplace. He was Avocatus Consistorialis under
Pope Julius II and author of several legal treatises,
among them this extensive work on vendors and pur-
chasers, which had no less than four editions and was
republished in Ziletti's great encyclopedia: Tractatus
universi iuris illustrium juris consultorum, Venice, 1584.
15860—30 10

132 Report of the Librarian of Congress

His son, Antonio, became cardinal, and Antonio's son,
Giovanni Maria Giocchi, became Pope as Julius III.
Other noteworthy accessions during the year were :

Castile:

Las Siete Partidas del Muy Noble Rey Don Alfonso el
Sabio, glosadas por el Lie. Gregorio Lopez. . . Madrid, Com-
pafiia General de Impresores y Libreros del Reino, 1843-44.
4 v.

This is the edition from which the late Samuel P. Scott, of
Ohio, made the translation into English which is being pub-
lished by the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar
Association and is now in page proof.
China:

Cheng Shu-te, A Study of Chinese law from the Han
Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. Shanghai, 1927. 2 v.

Official Gazette of the Legislative Yuan (monthly), no. 1
(Jan., 1929), to date (Nanking).

Code of Criminal Procedure. Nanking, 1929.

Civil Code (abridged ed.). Nanking, 1929.

Official Gazette of the Judicial Yuan (weekly), no. 1 (Jan.,
1929), to date (Nanking).

All of the above Chinese items have been received on
exchange with the exception of the first, which was purchased.
Cuba:

Laws, Regulations, Treaties. 1902-1905. 46 pamphlets.

The following accessions were purchased through the
cooperation of the Department of State:

flreece:

QopdkoyiK&p vbpuv kw5i£, two Iw. KapaicaTO 6vt]. "EkSo(7«4. 'Adrjvai,
1924.

Holvikt) diKoyo/jila birb lioav. KapaicaTa&VTt. 'Ev ' A0viai$, 1925.

'Eju7ropMcds vonos, inrd loiav. Kapa.naTa6.v7]. "EkSoo'is 7. "Ei> ' Adrjvais,
1929.

NewTfpoi &aTiKoi vop-ot, vird Iw. Z. TLapaK.aTo6.v7t. "E/cSocrij, 4. 'Ej<
Adi)vais, 1927.
Japan:

Compiled General Laws of Japan. Tokyo, 1929. 5 v.

Journal of the Legal Institute. Tokyo, v. 46, no. 1 (Jan.,
1929).

Daishin-in-Hanketsurei. (Report of the decisions of the
Supreme Court) to date.

Gyosei Saibansho Hanketsurei, or Decisions of the Adminis-
trative Court. (Tokyo) v. 40, no. 1 (Jan., 1929) to date.

Gaiko-Jiho (Revue Diplomatique). 1925 and continuations.
Bimonthly edition.

Hogaku-Ronso (Essays on Law). 1925 to date. Monthly.

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Japan — Continued.

Hogaku-Shimpo (Law News). 1925 to date. Monthly.

Hogaku-Shirin (Law Inquiry). 1925 to date. Monthly.

Hogakukyokai-Zasehi (Journal of the Law Association).
1925 to date.

Kokkuksgakkai-Zasshi (Journal of Political science associa-
tion). 1925 to date. Monthly.

Kokusaiho-Gaiko-Zasshi (Journal of International Law and
Diplomacy). 1925 to date.

All of the Japanese items were purchased, with exception
of the first, which was received through the Division of
Documents.
Rhode Island:

Acts and Resolves:

1750-51. March. 95-97 facsimile.

1754. June. 37-38 facsimile.

1758. October.

1760. February.
(May 1-May 2.)
June.

1761. February. 17-19 facsimile.
September. 46-47 facsimile.

1762. May. 117-118 facsimile.
August. 179-180 facsimile.

1763. February.
May.
August.
October.

1764. January.
February.
November. 83 facsimile.

1776. February.
March.

1786. August.

1787. October. 29-32 facsimile.
1795.

Public Laws:

Supplement to the Digest of 1798.

(By this purchase a complete set of originals of the Acts
and Resolves from 1765-1799 is now in our collection. )

Russia:

Of the 142 new titles purchased which represent important
legal material of the Russian Empire, 36 publications contain
laws which apply to the provinces now occupied by Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and Poland — countries for which
the Law Library possessed a total of hardly 150 titles. Of
this purchase the following works are considered especially
worthy of mention :

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Russia — Continued.

Alfavitnyi ukazatel' k svodu zakonov . . . izd. 1857-1904
gg. Moscow, 1906.

(Alphabetical index to the code of laws, 1857-1904.)

Auszug aus den seit der Unterwerfung Kurlands unter den
glorreichen Scepter Russlands bis zum jahr 1803 inch in dem
Kurlandischen gouvernement . . . Hrsg. von George F. Ne-
ander. Mitau, 1804.

Auszug aus den im jahr 1804- (1833) im kurlandischen
gouvernement zur allgemeinen nachachtung und wissenschaft
eroffneten allerhochsten manifesten, ukasen, publikationen
und andern verordnungen. Hrsg. von George F. Neander.
Mitau, 1805-1834. 8 vols.

Bunge, Friedrich Georg. Entwurf einer ordnung des
gerichtlichen verfahrens in civilrechtssachen fur Liv-, Est-
und Curland. Reval, 1864.

(Collection of 15 reports on questions of Finnish autonomy
and general laws, 1907-1910.)

An absolutely unique collection of secret archives. Several
have " Very secret " printed at top of title page. It would
have been impossible to obtain such material prior to the
Revolution.

Dfelo Beilisa. Steuograficheskii otchet. Kiev, 1913. 3
vols. (Beilis case. Stenographic report.)

Gesetzanzeiger oder alphabetisches real-register zum swod
der gesetze des Russischen Reichs . . . deutsch bearb. unci
hrsg. von Paul de la Croix. Mitau, 1836.

Nakaz En\ Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia
Samoderzhitsy Vserossilskiia dannyi kommissii o sochinenii
proeka novago ulozhenha. St. Petersburg, 1770.

(Instructions of Catherine II to the Commission on a proj-
ect for a new code of laws. In Russian, Latin, German, and
French. )

Nielsen, E. H. Handbuch zur kenntniss der polizengesetze
und anderer verordnungen fur . . . dem lande in Lief-und
Ehstland. Dorpat, 1794-1795. 2 vols, in 1.

Obozrienie istoricheskikh svfedienii o svodie zakonov. St.
Petersburg, 1833.

(Review of historical information about the code of laws.
An important review of the first edition of the code of laws
" Svod zakonov," which ran through many editions from 1832
to 1916. The Law Library has the first edition referred to in
this work.)

[Obriad i nakaz o ulozhenii. St. Petersburg, 1768.]
(Rules and instructions concerning the new code of laws,
by Catherine the Great. One of the earliest printed Russian

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Russia — Continued.

law books. Contemporaneous parchment binding, gold
stamped, very well preserved. Copy of Anis. Kniazev, Chief
Secretary of the Senate at that time.)

Obshchi'ni sobrani'ia gosudarstvennago sovieta. 195 vols.
(General minutes of the State Council, 1893-1906.)

Osobye ukazateli k svodu zakonov, izd. 1842. St. Peters-
burg, 1842.

( Special indexes to the code of laws, ed. of 1842. )
Completes Law Library set.

Petrazhitskii, L. I. Teor'iia prava i gosudarstva v svfazi s
teoriei nravstvennosti. St. Petersburg, 1909-1910. 2 vols.

(Theory of law and state in connection with the theory of
ethics.)

Vvedenie v izuchenie prava i pravstvennosti.

Emotsional'naia psikhologlia. St. Petersburg, 1905.

(Introduction to a study of law and ethics. Emotional
psychology. )

3d ed. 1908.

Postanovlenifa uchreditel'nago komiteta v Tsarstvie Pol'-
skom. Warsaw, 1865-70. 20 vols, in 21.

(Decisions of the Constituent Committee in Poland.)

Samson von Himmelstiern, Reinhold J. Institutionen des
Livlandischen prozesses. Riga, 1824. 2 vols.

Sbornik postanovlenii po ministerstvu narodnago prosvie-
shcheniia. St. Petersburg, 1864-1898, 1904. 15 vols.

(Collection of ordinances of the Ministry of education,
1802-95, 1900.)

Sbornik pravitel'stvennykh rasponazhenii po uchreditel-
nomu komitetu v Tsarstvfe Pol'skom (1864-69). Warsaw,
1867-1870.

(Collection of governmental orders concerning the Constitu-
ent Committee in Poland, 1864-69.)

Sbornik ukazov i postanovlenii Vremennago Pravitel'stva,
Vypusk no. 1. 27 Fev.-5 Mafa 1917 g. Petrograd, 1917.

(Collection of ukases and ordinances of the Provisional
Government. Part 1, Feb. 27-May 5, 1917.)

Laws of the Kerensky government. An important collec-
tion.

Schmidt, Oswald. Der ordentliche civilprocess nach liv-
liindischem landrecht. Dorpat, 1880.

Schwedisches land recht . . . Der Schweden, Gothen, Wen-
den, Finnen, Carelen, Lappen in den Nordtlanden, der Kajaner

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Russia — Continued.

und Ehsten in Lieffland konig iibersehen, confirmiret, und
anno 1608. publiciret. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1709.

Swedish laws applying to the Baltic states prior to the
Russian period.

Slovar' mridicheskoi ili svod Rossi'iskikh uzakonenn . . .
Moscow, 1788.

(Judicial dictionary, or code of Russian laws in alphabetical
order).

■ ed. of 1793. 5 vols.

These works were predecessors of both the Polnoe Sobranie
and the Svod Zakonov.

Sobranie postanovlen'ii Finliandskikh. St. Petersburg,
1900-09.

(Collection of regulations (in Russian) for Finland, 1808-
1859, with alphabetical and chronological indexes.)

A collection of the early laws of Finland that the Law
Library had been endeavoring to secure for several years.

Sobranie Rossiiskikh zakonov. St. Petersburg, 1825-1827.
22 vols.

(Collection of Russian laws, 1627-1825. Comp. by P.
Khavskii [v. 1-18] and I. Petrov [supplements 1-3]. Vol. 15
is lacking.)

This is the first general and official compilation of Russian
laws, and antedates the Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov by several
years. No other set is known in this country. The set is in
the original binding and is splendidly preserved. The Russian
letter "p" surmounted by a crown, is stamped on the verso
of each title page.

Sobranie uzakonenii Russkago gosudarstva. St. Peters-
burg, 1875.

(Collection of laws of the Russian Empire, [v. 1, 1649-
1676.] )

Laws omitted from the Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov. Only
this one volume was published.

Tagantsev, N. S. Ugolovnoe ulozheni'e 22 Marta 1903 . . .
Pod red. P. N. lAkobi. Riga, 1922.

(Criminal code of the famous criminologist, Tagantsev.)

Ukazatel' alfavitnyi k svodu zakonov Ross'iiskoi Imperii
St. Petersburg, 1834.

(Alphabetical index to the 1st edition [1832] of the Svod
Zakonov.)

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Russia — Continued.

Ukazatel' uzakonenii, otnosfashchikhsia do velikago knfa-
zhestva Finliandskago. St. Petersburg, 1903. 1 vol. in 2.

(Index to the laws of Finland: in Polnoe Sobrame Zako-
nov, 1808-1900; and in the Sobrame Uzakonenii, 1901-02.)

Ukazatel' vzaiinnykh ssylok v Svodie Zakonov. Petrograd,
1915.

(Index for reciprocal references to the Code of Laws.)

[Ulozheni'e Tsaria Aleksiefa Mikhailovicha. 1649.]
(Code of the Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich.) In old Slavic
type.

Ulozhenie Alekslela Mikhailovicha v lfeto ot sotvoreni'ia
mira 7156. St. Petersburg, 1796.

(Code of the Tsar Alekslei Mikhailovich of 1649. 9th ed.)

After many years of effort we have finally succeeded,
through the able assistance of our dealer in Russian books, in
completing our set of Sobrame uzakonenii i rasporfazhenii
pravitel'stva.

Among others, the following Soviet item was received :

Iodkovskii, A. Perechen' formal'no otmenennykh zakonov
. . . Soiuza S. S. R. i . . . R. S. F. S. R. Moscow, 1928.

(A list of formally revoked laws of the U. S. S. R. and
R. S. F. S. R. as of Jan. 1, 1928.

The following unusual items have been obtained by the
division of documents, through international exchange:

Albania:

Kodi civil. Vlore, 1928.
Bolivia:

Nuevo digesto de legislacion, por Mario C. Araoz, 1825-
1929. La Paz, 1929. 3 vols.
British North Borneo:

The Ordinances of the state of Borneo, 1881-1926. Singa-
pore, Malay publishing house, limited [1930] 1 vol.

Finland; (Aland) :

Alands forfattningssamling. 1923-28.
Kenya:

The laws of Kenya, containing the Ordinances of Kenya in
force on the 1st day of January, 1924. Rev. ed. Nairobi,
Gov't Press, 1926. 3 vols.

Rev. ed., 1928. 2 vols.

Subsidiary legislation (operation) rules and

regulations, 1928.

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Liberia :

Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia. 1848-1911.
By T. McCants-Stewart. 2 vols.
Persia:

General Collection of Laws, enacted by Parliament, lst-
6th Legislature. 1909-1928. Teheran. 3 vols. (In Persian.)
Sao Paulo, Brazil:

Collecgao das leis e decretos do estado de S. Paulo, 1891,
1893-1920, 1922-1929. 37 vols.

An achievement worthy of special mention is the pub-
lication of a compilation of lectures given at the George-
town University Law School by our colleague in charge
of the collection at the Capitol, Roland Williamson,
, which he has entitled " The Law Library in the Capitol,
Washington, D. C." Mr. Williamson has made a con-
tribution to the field of critical bibliography which is not
only a useful tool to the student and practicing lawyer,
but is very entertaining and informative reading for the
layman. One could hope that the success which his effort
has merited and already achieved — to judge from the
flattering reviews in the journals — will encourage him to
dedicate his pen still further to the history and to some
of the treasures of the law library. Mr. Williamson has
done so well with an average working library as a sub-
ject, one could be assured many interesting monographs
if he were to delve into the bibliographic rarities of the
law library of Congress at the main building, where most
of the law library is shelved.
fiitcan Library. As a testimonial of appreciation to the Library of Con-
gress in connection with the services rendered by Mr.
Martel in the organization of the cataloguing work in
the Vatican library, certain material covering various
subjects was presented by the Vatican, among which
were the following items on canonical law:

Acta et decreta sacrosancti oecvmenici Concilii vaticani in
qvatvor prioribvs sessionibvs. Romae, Impensis Pavlini Laz-
zarini, typographi Concilii vaticani, 1872.

Leonis XIII. pontificis maximi Acta. Romae, Typographia vati-
cana, 1881-1905. 23 vols.

Conventioues de rebus ecclesiasticis inter S. Sedem et civilem
potestatem initiae sub pontificatu Ssmi D. N. Leonis pp. XIII
usque ad diem 7 nov. 1893. Appendix ad Acta hactenus publicata

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[/. e. ad volumen XIII] eiusdem sumnii pontiflcis. Romae, ex
Typograpbia vaticana, 1893.

Pii IX Pontiflcis Maxirni acta. [Romae] Typographia vaticana
[1854-7S] pt. 1 (vols. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7) ; pt. 2 (vols. 1-2).

Statuti e regesti dell' Opera di Santa Maria di Orvieto. Rac-
colti e pubblieati nel sesto centenario dalla fondazione del Duomo
da Luigi Fumi, meinbro della Deputazione sopra l'opera stessa
a cura deU'Accademia storico-giuridica di Roma. Roma, Tipo-
grafia vaticana, 1891.

In January of this year another token of gratitude to
the Library of Congress was manifested by his holiness
Pius XI through the Washington apostolic delegate,
Monsignor P. Fumasoni Biondi, for the hospitality ac-
corded the representatives of the Vatican library while
sojourning in the Catalogue Division for the purpose of
studying Library of Congress methods of cataloguing,
which later were to be installed in their library. This
gift to the Library consisted of beautifully executed
reproductions of 15 of the earliest papal charters, of
which the originals are still extant in certain European
libraries and archives. They are preserved in a hand-
some portfolio with the arms of Pius XI on the front
cover in gilt, and are as follows :

Pontificvm romanorvm diplomata papyracea qvae svpersvnt in
tabvlariis Hispaniae, Italiae, Germaniae, pbototypiee expressa
ivssv Pii pp. XI, consilio et opera procvratorvm Bybliotbecae
apostolicae Vaticanae. Romae, apvd Bybliotbecam Vaticanam,
MDCCCCXXVIIII. 18 L, xv facsim. on 43 pi. 90y 2 X66 cm .

Contents. — I. Paschalis I pro ravennatensi ecclesia, a. 819.
II. Leonis IV pro eadem, ut creditur, ecclesia, a. 850. III. Stephani
V pro monasterio Neuenbeerse, a. 891. IV. Formosi pro gerun-
densi ecclesia, a. S92. V. Romani pro gerundensi item ecclesia,
a. 897. VI. Iobannis XIII ad episcopas Galliarum, a. 971. VII.
Iohannis XIII pro ausonensi ecclesia, a. 971. VIII. Iohannis
XIII ad Borellum, ut videtur, marchionem, a. 971. IX. Bene-
dicti VII pro ausonensi ecclesia, a. 97S. X. Gregorii V pro eadem,
a. 998. XI. Silvestri II pro urgellensi ecclesia, a. 1001. XII.
Silvestri II pro monasterio S. Cucuphatis, a. 1002. XIII. Iohannis
XVIII pro ecclesia aeserniensi, a. 1004. XIV. Iobannis XVIII
pro S. Cucuphatis monasterio, a. 1007. XV. Benedicti VIII pro
ecclesia hildeshemensi, a. 1020-1022.

While there is a general file in the Library of Congress
for all gifts which have been received, no classified or
chronological record has so far been made. It is our

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intention hereafter to have recorded in the law library,
as fully as is possible, all gifts of legal material received,
in order that subsequent reports may contain the names
of donors and publications presented. The following list
for the past fiscal year is, unfortunately, incomplete :

From the American Law Institute, 3400 Chestnut Street, Phila-
delphia, Pa. (eighth annual meeting, May 8, 9, and 10, 1930), 10
copies of each of the following :

Restatement of the Law of Agency. Tentative draft No. 5.

Explanatory Notes on Agency. Tentative draft No. 5.

Restatement of the Law of Conflict of Laws. Proposed final
draft No. 1.

Restatement of the Law of Contracts. Tentative draft No. 7.

Explanatory Notes on Contracts. Tentative draft No. 7.

Restatement of the Law of Contracts. Tentative draft No. 8.

Explanatory Notes on Section 332, Contracts. Tentative draft
No. 8.

Code of Criminal Procedure. Proposed final draft.

Restatement of the Law of Property. Tentative draft No. 2.

Explanatory Notes on Property. Tentative draft No. 2.

Restatement of the Law of Torts. Tentative draft No. 5.

Explanatory Notes on Torts. Tentative draft No. 5.

Restatement of the Law of Trusts. Tentative draft No. 1.

From Seiior Don Enrique Barba, La Plata, Argentine Republic:
Anuario Bibliografico (published by the Universidad Nacional de
la Plata), v. 1-3, 1926-1928.

From Margaret T. Barnes, Department of Justice, Washington.
D. C. : A list of United States district judges and judges of the
Supreme Court, District of Columbia, appointed since March
4, 1889.

From Dr. Lindell T. Bates, of New York City : A catalogue of
the donor's collection of foreign and international law, 1924.

From Sr. Pablo Campos Ortiz, attache d'affaires at the Mexican
Embassy: Ley de Industrias Minerales y su Reglamento. Mexico,
D. F.. 1926.

From J. R. Cook, secretary of the Law society, London, Eng-
land : Handbook of the Incorporated Law Society, 1924 edition.

Annual Reports of the Society : 1891, 1893-1900, 1902, 1904-1906,
1908-1929.

Annual Provincial Meeting Reports : 1887, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1895,
1897-1901, 1904-1906, 1908-1912, 1922-1929.

From Judge Clarence G. Galston, of Brooklyn : Vera, Robus-
tiano, Principios elementales de derecho internacional privado.
Santiago de Chile, 1902. Also a number of other works on Span-
ish-American law.

From Judge Thomas C. Hennings, St. Louis, Mo. : The Adminis-
tration of Criminal Justice in Missouri, by Raymond Moley. St.

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Louis, 1926 (2 copies) ; and Criminal Cases in the Courts of St.
Louis, by W. C. Jamison. St. Louis, 1927 (2 copies).

From Luther E. Hewitt, librarian of the Law Association of
Philadelphia: Writ of Error Coram Nobis, by Abraham L. Freed-
nian. Philadelphia, 1929.

From Hu Han Min, president of the Legislative Yuan, Nanking,
( 'hina : Two copies of Book I, containing the General Principles of
the Civil Code of the Republic of China, translated by Messrs.
Ching-Lin Hsia and James L. E. Chow.

From Floyd E. Huntley, editor in chief, West Publishing Co.,
St. Paul, Minn. : Rules for Admission to the Bar in the Several
States and Territories of the United States, in force April 1, 1930.
Seventeenth edition (20 copies).

From the Index Bureau, publication section, Department of
State : A copy of Acta Apostolicae Sedis, dated June 8, 1929, which
contains the official texts of the laws governing the city of the
Vatican.

From J. R. McManus, secretary of the Iowa State Bar Associa-
tion, Des Moines, Iowa : Proceedings of the Iowa State Bar Asso-
ciation, 1922-28 (inc.).

From Edward Maher, Chicago, 111. : A copy of the subject index
of the Chicago Law Institute.

From Miss Olive G. Ricker, executive secretary of the American
Bar Association, Chicago, 111. : Reports of the American Bar
Association, 1929 (4 copies).

From Robert M. Rieser, of Madison : A copy of the supplement
to brief of defendant, in the case of the State of Michigan against
the State of Wisconsin.

From Burton E. Stevenson, director of the American Library
in Paris : A copy of American Law ; a finding list of books on
this subject in public and private collections in Paris. Issued by
the American Library in Paris, 1929. This volume will be of
practical value to the lawyer practicing abroad, and of reference
value to law libraries generally.

From Edward Schuster, of New York City, many items of
Spanish American law, including the following:

Colombia : Codigo Civil, third edition, 1919 ; Codigo fiscal co-
lombiano, official edition, 1925; Codigo judicial, fifth edition, 1917.

Cuba : Codigo de Comercio, 1909 ; Roa, Arsenio y Santodomingo,
Domingo, Ensayo de hacienda publica, Habana, 1927.

Mexico : Minchen, Mauricio. Comparacion general de las cons-
tituciones de Mexico y los Estados Unidos del Norte. Tesis . . .
Mexico, 1923. Codigo de la renta federal del timbre. Editions of
1900, 1912, and 1914. Tarifa de la Ordenanza de aduanas —
Septiembre de 1905, Mexico, 1905. Constitucion Politica, 1901.
Codigo de Mineria, Patentes y Marcas, 1904. Nuevas Leyes del
Distrito y Territorios Federales, 1904. Codigo de Extrangeria.
1903. Codigo de Procedimientos Penales, 1902. Codigo de Pro-
cedimientos Civiles Federales, 1904.

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From Prof. Edwin M. Borchard, professor of law, Yale Uni-
versity : Government Liability in Tort, New Haven, 1925-28,
Parts 1-3, 5-7.

From Dr. Jacob ter Meulen, librarian of the Palace of Peace
at The Hague: Bibliographical List of Official and Unofficial Pub-
lications Concerning the Permanent Court of International Jus-
tice, The Hague, 1926 ; with supplements, 1927, 1928, and 1929.

From the Edward Thompson Co., Northport, N. Y. : Annual
Cumulative Supplements to McKinney's Consolidated Laws of
New York, and three new books, namely, the new Vehicle and
Traffic Law, the new Correction Law, and the General Corpora-
tion Law.

From Hon. U. S. Webb, attorney general of the State of
California : A copy of the brief of defendant in error in the case
of Whitney v. People of the State of California.

From Lawrence C. Wroth, the John Carter Brown Library,
Providence, R. I. : Acts of French Royal Administration Concern-
ing Canada, Guiana, the West Indies, and Louisiana prior to
1791, compiled by Mr. Wroth and Miss Gertrude L. Annan.

Appropriations. In the Library estimates for the fiscal year beginning
July, 1930, an item of $20,000 for the purchase of books
for the law library was carried. This was an increase
of $17,000, for since 1901 the annual appropriation for
the law library had been only $3,000. That increase
was more apparent than real, however, inasmuch as
various sums had been allotted from the general appro-
priation during those years to supply in a measure the
more important current material for the law library.
The totals expended during the last 10 years ranged from
$5,000 to $15,000, so that without a continuance of the
policy of using general appropriation funds for law pur-
chases the increase would have been only about $5,000.
using the maximum amount as the least that would
satisfy the current demands of a law library of this class.
It was indeed much less than was being expended by
more important law schools and bar libraries. Columbia,
Michigan, and Yale were spending from $25,000 to
$35,000 annually, and Harvard no less than $70,000. Kare
and out-of-print law works were being acquired so avidly
and extensively by the bar and university libraries,
with the larger means of their members and alumni and
liberal legislatures often at their disposal, that there was
danger that the law library of Congress and the Supreme
Court would have a permanent want list.

Law Libra/ 1/ 143

This situation so critical for the library of greatest
practical importance to the United States Government
came to the attention of Justices Stone and Brandeis, and
at the request of the Librarian they readily agreed to
appear before the subcommittee of the House Committee
on Appropriations in charge of the legislative establish-
ment appropriations bill for 1931 and make statements in
support of a substantial increase in the appropriations
for the law library.

At the formal invitation of the House Committee on
Appropriations, Justice Stone appeared on April 4. Jus-
tice Brandeis, unfortunately, was indisposed and could
not appear, but sent a message by Justice Stone to the
effect that he very cordially agreed with the former's
views, and would be glad to have him speak for him.

Justice Stone then proceeded to discuss the needs of a
law library culled from his rich and varied experience
as a lawyer and author, as dean of one of the great law
schools, as head of the Department of Justice, and as
a justice of the Supreme Court. *

The justice stressed first the importance of the law
library to the Government. " You have here in Wash-
ington," he stated, " greater demands for a law library
than in any other place. You have the Supreme Court
and the other courts of the District ; you have both Houses
of Congress; you have the Diplomatic Service. These
call for constant practical use of the law library. There-
fore, you ought to build it up for them."

This would appear to be sufficient reason for building
up the law library, but he did not rest with the utili-
tarian side of law books as he added, " I see increasingly
coming to this city various organizations created for pur-
poses of legal scholarship and research," citing the law
institute at Johns Hopkins, the American Law Institute,
etc. " They are typical," he said, " of many other insti-
tutions which will come to Washington in the future
which will require a really great law library."

And then to demonstrate the omnipresence of the law
he stated, ". . . there are other fields of historical, social,
and economic research which are not primarily legal at

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all, and yet have sooner or later to do with the law;
because all of the problems of past history, of social and
economic significance, ultimately find expression in the
law in some form or other." Like his learned associate,
Justice Holmes, he understands that the law as a special
branch of human knowledge " is more immediately con-
nected with all the highest interests of man than any
other which deals with practical affairs."

Summing up in a single sentence, Justice Stone re-
marked :

So I am very anxious to see Congress take hold of this thing
with the definite idea of building up a great collection which will
be of service to men interested in the law and to scholars for all
time.

It is doubtful if such authoritative and convincing tes-
timony has ever been presented to a parliamentary body
in a law library hearing. The Librarian had already
stressed the importance of the law library no less vigor-
ously when he testified as follows :

The law library is the library of the highest tribunal in the
world, besides being our law division. We ought to have as fine a
collection of law, every branch of the law, as exists anywhere. I
think no one would question that.

It is hardly necessary to add that the Subcommittee
of the House Committee on Appropriations recognized
the desperate needs of the law library and recommended
a substantial increase over the amount asked for in the
estimates, viz. $50,000. While this does not give us parity
with Harvard, it is a good start toward a long-delayed
recognition of the importance of the law library to the
Government, the bench and bar, and to scholars in gen-
eral. It is hoped that in the succeeding appropriations
the committee will take into account all the lean years of
the law library and double the appropriation. Nothing-
less can build up and maintain a law library adequate to
the demands of the richest and most industrious litigant
in the world — the United States Government.
Promotional The } aw library is primarily a circulating library

for Congress and the Supreme Court, which means that
a sufficient number of copies of each volume must be

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available so that there may always be one copy for the
intramural reader. The duplication of foreign material
is not generally necessary, but in Americana the scope
widens. Some years back a desideratum was established
with reference to session laws, statutes, and court reports.
It was considered that the law library should have:

(a) One copy of the laws of each session and statutes
to 1800; two copies from 1800 to 1820; three copies of
session laws from 1821 to 1875 and two copies of the
statutes; five sets of session laws from 1876 to date; two
sets of the statutes to date and at least four sets of current
statutes (including compilations, codes, and revisions).
(5) Court reports (courts of last resort) ; three sets
from 1800 to 1875 ; five sets from 1876 to date-
Lack of funds has prevented the law library from
carrying out such program in former years, but now its
completion will be our first concern.

While our collection of colonial laws is undoubtedly
a notable one, there are lacking many rare and important
items, a number of which have been offered to us for
private purchase or have been sold at auction within
recent years. As the national law library it should con-
tain as far as available every piece of legal Americana
in the original. Needless to state, such colonial items a^
may turn up will always be given preference in the ex-
penditure of the law appropriation (after the demands
for current material have been met).

The matter of next importance in the development of
the law library is to fill in the lacunae in the foreign
law collections. Because of our especial interest in Latin
America the law library must have the outstanding col-
lections in that field. Most of this Americana is scarce
because it is usually printed in small editions, which are
soon exhausted. The law library has very good working
collections for all the countries of Latin America, our
Mexican collection being fairly strong, but considerable
material is lacking in the State and Provincial material
of Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina.
This is also true of some of the western European
countries, e. g.. the German and Austrian State material
and the Swiss cantonal. Our early continental collections

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need considerable strengthening in the fields of Roman
customary and municipal law. It has been estimated that
it will take about 3,000 volumes of Roman law to place
our collection where it should be.

It will be our aim to devote special attention to the
domains of public and international law. Our collections
of constitutional, administrative, and public and private
international law are practically complete as far as
domestic imprints are concerned and excellent in foreign
publications, but, undoubtedly, a good many of the lat-
ter which should be on our shelves are not found there.
Administrative law is becoming increasingly important
in the United States, and the records of all administrative
tribunals and quasi judicial bodies in other countries
ought to be available to the student and researcher.
Indeed, the experience of all countries in juridical science
should be available in at least one depository in the
United States, and the private scholar, lawyer, or officer
of the Government would naturally expect to find all of
the material in the law library of Congress.

No plan for the development of the foreign law and
general jurisprudence would be complete without taking
into account a certain amount of time to be devoted to
the actual quest of the material in the foreign jurisdic-
tions. As one of my predecessors has well stated :

The decision as to what may be obtained wholly by gift, what
shall be bought, where it shall be sought, what agents offer, the
best facilities, and what prices shall be paid — these require not
merely a consideration of the collections in their country and
study of printed treatises, catalogues, and bibliographies, but per-
sonal inspection of the great collections abroad, examination of
the stock carried by dealers and of their facilities, and, where
possible, conference with specialists in the several departments of
jurisprudence who have that expert knowledge of the subject
which is a guide in the discrimination of material and which is
particularly necessary for the avoidance of obsolete literature in a
subject which includes so much of it.

Periodic scouting is absolutely essential to fill the
lacunae and maintain the contacts so necessary to a
prudent selection of current material. Doctor Borchard's
trip to South America in 1915 opened up sources and con-
tacts that have borne fruit many times over and above its

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actual cost. The same is true of the writer's personal
quest in Mexico of law material in 1924, which, had it not
been for the revolution, would have resulted in bringing
to the law library a Mexican law collection second to none.
As it was, after a stay in Mexico City of three months
spent in personal visits to the Government offices,
libraries, and bookstores, we secured more than 2,500 law
items and formed friendships for the Library, the value
of which can not be gaged by expense vouchers.

All personal inquiries of the Members of Congress Reference wot k.
relating to legislation or jurisprudence, as well as all in-
quiries through them from their constituents, are referred
directly to the law library. In addition to this service,
which involves considerable research work, reference re-
quests come from all parts of the United States and from
many foreign countries. Records are kept only of the
written inquiries, as naturally a great many come by
telephone from the Members. The records that are kept
of this service show that questions upon which reference
or reports may be desired are almost as varied and
numerous as the subject catalogue of the law library.
The average law library would likely be consulted merely
on questions of the common law, but in this law library
there is practically no conceivable legal question that may
not some day be looked up by a Member of Congress, the
bar of the Supreme Court, the executive departments, or
the Diplomatic Corps; and consequently the law library
must of necessity have not only a complete record of
American jurisprudence, but also good working collec-
tions of every legal system of the world, which mean the
legislation and court decisions of every country on the
globe and a reasonable number of their law treatises, dic-
tionaries, digests, society publications, periodicals, and
other legal literature. The law library is one field in
which the United States Government can not afford to
agree to have parity.

More than 300 memoranda were prepared during the
past year in response to reference requests. In glancing
through these inquiries one finds what the mind of
America is thinking about in terms of the law. These

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White House
Conference.

Personnel.

inquiries have come from 34 States of the Union and
also from various foreign countries, including Canada,
China, Cuba, Germany, The Hague, Italy, and Mexico.
These are in addition to the inquiries from the foreign
legations and embassies, who reciprocate always by ref-
erences, furnishing material and even translating when
a very difficult point may be referred to us. All is grist
that comes to the mill of the law library.

The law librarian was appointed in December, 1929,
a member of the Committee on Recreation and Physical
Education of the White House Conference on Child
Health and Protection, and assigned to work on the sub-
committee dealing with legislation. Through the en-
thusiastic cooperation of various members of the Library
staff, particularly in the law library, catalogue division,
and legislative reference sections, digests have been pre-
pared of the laws relating to recreation and physical
education of practically every civilized country in the
world. Copies of these digests will be mailed to the
respective countries for criticism before finally closing
the report. This work has already been of value to the
law library in disclosing material that is lacking, and it
is expected that many accessions will follow our re-
quests for criticism of the digests. The President's inter-
est in the matter will undoubtedly guarantee the fullest
cooperation on the part of the foreign ministries of
education.

We regretted to lose the services of Arthur M. Rhyn,
who came to the law library from the catalogue division
in July, 1929, and who resigned to accept a position in
the Department of Commerce at the beginning of the
fiscal year. Mr. Rhyn, a graduate of the Foreign Service
School of Georgetown University, left an unusually good
record at the law library.

On June 30, William H. Morse, assistant at the law
library in the Capitol, and formerly in charge of the
night service, retired from the roll of the Library after
more than 33 years of faithful service. A brief testi-
monial ceremony was held at the Capitol library in his
honor which was called to the attention of the House

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of Representatives, where his services were also lauded
by the Hon. Joseph L. Hooper, of Michigan, a member
of the Committee on the Library. The remarks of the
gentleman from Michigan were as follows:

To-day at the law library of the Capitol there entered upon
retirement a gentleman who for 33 years has faithfully and
loyally served his Government in the capacity of a law librarian,
Mr. William Henry Morse. It is a strange and very pleasant coin-
cidence that in this law library in the Capitol in which Mr. Morse
lias served for all these years his uncle, Samuel F. B. Morse,
the inventor of the telegraph, sent the first message across the
wires to Baltimore from Washington, " What hath God wrought ! "

To-day this venerable man, 84 years of age, retires from a long,
long service to his country. In these times of change, in this
strange new world in which we are living, we often wonder and
we often ask ourselves the question : Is there anything sure? Is
there anything fixed? Is there anything stable in this life we
are living to-day? And the answer inevitably comes back to us,
Yes ; there are still certain things as fixed and stable as the
north star. Among these are loyalty and fine and devoted service,
and this gentleman, Mr. Morse, has given such loyalty and such
devotion to his country.

May I call upon the Members who are here to-day to join me
in saying to this fine example of a splendid public man, " Well
done, good and faithful servant ! " [Applause.l

After the meeting of the Institute of International institute of inter-

° national Law.

Law at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., the law library was hon-
ored by a visit of the entire body of distinguished jurists.
Some of the members showed a special interest in the col-
lections by returning for a more leisurely inspection.
Among the latter were Profs. A. de Lapradelle, of the
Faculty of Law, Paris ; Francis Key, of Rumania, secre-
tary general of the European Danube Commission;
Eugene Audinet, Faculty of Law, Poitiers ; Karl Strupp,
professor of law, University of Frankf urt-am-Main ;
Rafael Altamira, professor of law, University of Madrid,
and member of the World Court ; and Serior Jose Maria
Yanguas, professor of law, University of Spain, and
president of the Asamblea of Spain.

Dr. Walther Simon, former president of the German
Supreme Court, paid us the honor of a call on the occa-
sion of his visit to America as guest of honor of the
American Bar Association at its meeting in Memphis.

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can n guUes d . Mexi ' Prof - George W. Stumberg's Guide to the Law and
Legal Literature of France, although somewhat delayed,
is at this writing in page proof, and will shortly issue
from the Government Printing Office.

The Mexican Legal Guide and Bibliography has also
been postponed on account of the pressure of other work
in the law library. Considerable progress has been made
on the bibliography, however, during the year. While
the writer was on a brief visit to the Harvard law library
in February, Prof. Gordon Ireland, of the Comparative
Law Institute, very kindly placed at our disposal a bib-
liography of Mexican law on manuscript cards, on whicli
he was working. The cards, numbering about 4,000, were
brought to the law library and a comparison was made
for the purpose of adding such titles as were not already
included in our bibliography.

Dr. Eldon R. James extended many courtesies on the
occasion of the said visit, for all of which the writer is
very grateful.

iiZuuw" iCOl °' ^ meeting of a small group of law professors and
historians was called by Prof. Evarts B. Greene, presi-
dent of the American Historical Association, at the Har-
vard Club of New York on January 18, for the purpose
of discussing the publication of materials illustrating the
development of American colonial law. It may be of
interest to relate that the genesis of this meeting, which
may prove to be the forerunner of an American Selden
Society, was founded on conversations held by Justice
Brandeis at his home with Professors Greene, Dixon R.
Fox, of Columbia University, this writer, and others,
concerning the lack of historical works on American legal
origins. The comment, voiced by Justice Brandeis, was
echoed by the writer in the annual report of 1928, and
actual work was begun in the law library at the sug-
gestion of the justice on a catalogue of American colonial
law, both of primary as well as secondary material. It
was felt by Justice Brandeis that once a tentative survey
of the material were available, it would be a compara-
tively simple matter to interest philanthropy in provid-

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ing the funds for the work of writing American legal
history.

The privilege being offered the writer in the winter of
1929 of contributing to the volume of essays offered to
Herbert Putnam, the Librarian of Congress, on the occa-
sion of the thirtieth anniversary in that office, a short
article was prepared, which was intended to be prefatory
to a bibliography of American colonial courts. Owing
to the length of the bibliography, however, it was not
possible to have it included, and the mere introduction
was published under the title "American Legal History —
a Challenge." Shortly thereafter the very excellent
Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American His-
tory (1600-1800) in the city of New York, by Profs
Evarts B. Greene and Richard B. Morris, appeared from
the Columbia University press, and the publication of
the bibliography on colonial courts became unnecessary.
In the meantime, however, enough interest had been
aroused through Justice Brandeis's informal discussions
to bring the matter to the attention of the executive coun-
cil of the American Historical Association, which agreed
to set aside a small fund for the preparation of a demon-
stration volume or volumes, and the aforesaid meeting
was called to consider a plan for publication. The dis-
cussion there developed two schools of thought, viz, those
who considered that select documents should be brought
out immediately, after the manner of the Selden Society
publications, and those who preferred that a compre-
hensive survey be first made of the material. A com-
mittee was finally appointed to formulate a specific proj-
ect, and it was suggested that a conference on legal his-
tory might be arranged as part of the program of the
American Historical Association . at its convention in
Boston in December, and that the American Association
of Law Schools might meet at the same place and time
with a cooperative program. It is hoped that at any fur-
ther meetings concerning this important project the full
cooperation of the bar may be sought, numbering, as it
does and always has, among its members some of our

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ablest and most scholarly legal historians. Maitland, the
great master, said that " a thorough training in modern
law is almost indispensable for anyone who wishes to do
good work on legal history." 6

Now that Congress has shown its interest in the law
library in such a substantial manner by increasing the
appropriation for the purchase of books $50,000, it is
hoped that philanthropists may feel encouraged to do
something for law comparable with the development tak-
ing place in some of the divisions of the Library. The
law schools and their libraries seem to be rather favored
objects of philanthropy in these days when the law is
being subjected to more acid tests than any other science.
Rarely has the Government been the beneficiary of gifts
for utilitarian purposes. The ties of university life are
necessary as a foundation for a bequest like that of the
late W. W. Cook to his alma mater, the University of
Michigan Law School. It is doubtful if such stupendous
trusts, with their many and complicated conditions, would
be accepted by the Congress. Nevertheless in the crea-
tion of the Trust Fund Board it has expressed its willing-
ness to receive gifts and bequests on behalf of the Library
for any purposes consonant with the functions of a na-
tional library, and there are many interpretative projects
in the law outside the realm of the purely practical
which could be developed successfully with establishment
of several moderate trusts. One in particular that has
been suggested is the completion of a bibliography of
American statute law, which the foremost authority on
that subject would be willing to undertake, if a reason-
able honorarium and sufficient clerical assistance were
supplied. Other needs, including chairs and consultants
for the law library, have been stressed in former reports.
Surely, it is not too much to expect that philanthropy
will sooner or later recognize the larger function of
the law library in the field of scholarly research, as visual-
ized so clearly by Justice Stone, and ask to have a share
in such work.

o Collected Papers, Vol. I, p. 493.

Division of Maps

153

DIVISION OF MAPS

(From the report of the chief, Col. Lawbence Martin)

In January, 1930, the several repositories of maps in ^"Tc b e 7 of 'Lce»-
the District of Columbia contained about 5,000,000 maps sions -
and 10,000 atlases. All these collections are growing.
Table A, below, gives the number of our accessions for
each of the fiscal years 1928-29 and 1929-30, and specifies
the manner in which they were acquired. Table B indi-
cates the approximate number of printed maps, manu-
script maps, views, atlases, and books and pamphlets in
the division of maps.

Table A. — Sources of accessions, July 1, 1929, to June 30, 1930,
compared with those of the previous fiscal year

1928-29

1929-30

Map sheets:

Gift

291

6,266

11,947

12, 929

2,211

656

16,

344

Exchange __ _

456

Transfer. _. __

946

448

Purchase

575

Other sources __

Deposit _

464
867

Total map sheets .

34, 386

27,

100

Manuscript maps:

Gift

111

1 38

Exchange _ __ __

Transfer

Purchase...

Deposit. _._

Total manuscript maps

186

Views:

Gift . .

6
12

Exchange..

Transfer _. _ ..

1 Certain deposits of previous years are now added as gifts.

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Table A. — Sources of accessions, July 1, 1929, to June 80, 1930,
compared tvith those of the previous fiscal year — Continued

1928-29

1929-30

Views — Continued.

Purchase.. _ _ _ .

40
16

Other sources _ _ __

Total views. _. __

111

Atlases:

Gift

16
38

101

1 15

Exchange

Transfer _

Purchase . _

Other sources _

Deposit __ _ _

Total atlases

235

13?,

Grand total of accessions (except dupli-
cates) _ _ _

918

308

1 Certain deposits of previous years are now added as gifts.

Table B. — Approximate number of maps, atlases, etc., in the

Library of Congress

1928-29

Description

Maps and
views

Map sheets

Duplicate map sheets (not

counted above)

Manuscript maps

Views

Duplicate views (not counted

above)

Atlases

Duplicate atlases (not counted

above) -

Books in the division of maps..
Pamphlets in the division of

maps

i 661, 062

451, 005

i 1,649

2.255

1,240

Total of maps and views. 1, 117, 211
Total of atlases, books,
etc.—

Atlases,

books,

etc.

i 6, 892

1,922
2,747

1,136

1929-30

Maps and
views

A tlases,

books,

etc.

688, 162

i 468, 082
1,695
2,285

1,254 .

7.024

i 1, 949

2,806

1,150

12, 697

U, 161,478

'12,929

Gain

Maps

and

views

X tlases,

books,

etc.

27, 100

17,077
46
30

132

27
59

44, 267

232

Grand total of contents of the division of maps 1,174,107

1 Deducting duplicates exchanged or transferred and deposits now added as t-'ifis.

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The outstanding maps and atlases, received bv the Noteworthy

, . . .j, r-i accessions.

division of maps of the Library of Congress during the
last fiscal year as gifts, deposits, exchanges, transfers, or
purchases, are commented upon in a general way upon
subsequent pages of this report. In the near future an
annotated list of all the noteworthy maps, charts, views,
and atlases acquired last year by the division of maps
of the Library of Congress is to be published separately
as a small pamphlet-

The Library of Congress is under deep obligations to Gifts ami de-
Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for a"'"' 4
princely gift of 38 Chinese maps and atlases. Thirty-
one of these items are manuscript and seven are printed
from wood engravings. Certain of them are the only
known copies. There are six atlases, five of which are
manuscript. Two of the atlases date back to the Ming
Period — that is, to the years between 1368 and 1644 A. D. —
and four maps or atlases to the seventeenth century.
One of the rolled maps is 80 feet long. Another, which
is 60 feet long, depicts about 100 miles of the mountain
highway in southern Shensi between Sian, its capital,
and Ch'eng-tu in Szechuan. It represents in detail the
district cities, market towns, villages, yamens, temples,
inns, courier stations, monuments, rivers, rapids, cliffs,
and caves along the route; and, although made in the
early part of the nineteenth century, it resembles the
modern automobile strip map. Other maps show levees
for flood control along the Yellow River, details of mili-
tary campaigns, place names and provincial boundaries
which belong to ancient history, and the growth of
knowledge of European countries by the Chinese.

Certain of the maps of this collection are executed in
color on silk. Many of them represent a high type of
Chinese art. Another copy of one of the printed maps
was recently offered for sale by a dealer in The Nether-
lands for $1,000. The collection was made by Mr. Arthur
W. Hummel and was briefly referred to in the annual
reports of the Librarian of Congress for 1927-28, pages
91-92, and for 1928-29, page 136. The individual atlases
and maps will be described in the next issue of Note-
worthy Maps. By adding this generous gift to the Chi-

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nese, Japanese, and Korean maps which we had before,
Mr. Mellon has placed the Library of Congress at least
abreast of all institutions and collections outside China in
the wealth and variety of its oriental maps.

We are greatly indebted to Mr. A. P. Loper, of Ston-
ington, Conn., and to his sister for adding to the deposit
of Palmer papers the manuscript logbooks of the schooner
Yarmouth in 1767, the sloop Hero in 1821, the schooner
Penguin in 1829-33, the ship Garrick in 1840, and the
ship Southerner in 1841-44, as well as several hundred
letters and accounts relating to the maritime business and
Antarctic explorations of Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer,
his brother, Capt. Alexander Palmer, and various mem-
bers of the Fanning family.

Prof. "William Morris Davis, of Palo Alto, Calif., pro-
fessor emeritus of geology at Harvard University, has
sent the Library of Congress the original drawings of 14
of his block diagrams, 7 of which were reproduced in the
Scientific Monthly for May and June, 1930, in an article
dealing with " Physiographic Contrasts, East and West,"
and an equal number in a description of the Peacock
Range, Ariz., published in the Bulletin of the Geological
Society of America for 1930.

Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers, of Washington,
presented a collection of 92 maps from the " Portolano
de la America Setentrional," published in 1818 by the
Spanish Direccion de Hidrografia. These maps came
from the papers of Admiral John Rodgers, the father
of the donor.

Dr. Lucius L. Hubbard, of Houghton, Mich., gave us
13 editions of his map of Moosehead Lake and northern
Maine, together Avith a painstaking bibliography of all
the editions of his map.

In addition to the magnificent gift by Mr. George
Robert Graham Conway, of the Mexican Light & Power
Co., of voluminous transcripts regarding Englishmen in
the inquisition in Mexico, referred to elsewhere in this
report, he presented to the division of maps photostat
copies of two manuscript sketch maps of Japan and the
northern Philippines, which appear to have been made

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by Don Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco about 1608, as well
as a rare printed map of San Francisco Bay in 1781.

Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks, of Washington, has added 711
maps and 68 pamphlets to her deposit at the Library of
Congress.

Mr. Francis D. Shoemaker, of Washington, gave us a
copy of D. Griffing Johnson's " New Illustrated & Em-
bellished County Map of the Republics of North America
with the Adjacent Islands & Countries", published at
New York in 1858.

Mr. G. J. Carter, superintendent of schools at Avoca,
N. Y., presented an 8-inch terrestrial globe made by the
A. H. Andrews Co., of Chicago, about 1876.

Mr. William Smith Mason, of Evanston, 111., gave us
a photostat copy of a letter from Benjamin Franklin to
Cadwallader Colden, dated September 13, 1744, and deal-
ing with the visit to Philadelphia of Dr. John Mitchell,
of Virginia, the maker of the great map of the British
and French dominions in North America.

We are indebted to the Filson Club, of Louisville, Ky.,
for a blue-print copy of an original map of Kentucky
made by Robert Johnson in 1782.

The Roosevelt Memorial Association, at 28 East Twen-
tieth Street, New York, supplied us with a fine photo-
graph of Theodore Roosevelt standing beside a large ter-
restrial globe in the White House in February, 1903.

The Yale University Press presented us with the orig-
inals of 10 maps of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lics, which were printed in recent publications, and with
an atlas of New Haven, Conn.

The number of gifts increased from 317 maps, atlases,
and views in 1928-29 to 362 in 1929-30. Other map.^,
atlases, and books presented to the Library of Congress
during the last fiscal year by generous donors include the
following :

From Mr. Albert Almon, of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, a facsimile
of a view of Louisburg in 1731.

From Mr. Copley Amory, of Washington, D. C, three maps of
the Peace River district, two of the types of soil in the Fort St.
John and Pouce Coupe districts, British Columbia, and a physical
and climatic map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

158 Report of the Librarian of Congress

From Mr. Frederick W. Ashley, of Washington, D. C, a map
of the city of New Bedford, Mass.

From Mr. Edward E. Berry, of Bordighiera, Italy, photographs
of a sixteenth century portolan chart of the world by Gabriel
Tatton, and an anonymous one of the South Atlantic Ocean.

From Mr. Millard Bowen, of Washington, D. C, a map showing
the St. Lawrence and New York ship canals.

From Mr. Frederick E. Brasch, of Washington, D. C, six maps,
including a plan of Leipzig, one of the Great Western Railway
of England, one of Leland Stanford University, and a geological
map of parts of Grand, Jackson, and Larimer Counties, Colo.

From Rev. Hahn Brooks, of Washington, D. C, a " Map of the
Planetary Man."

From Mr. Horace Brown, of Springfield, Vt., a map of Green-
wich, Conn., and one of Dartmouth College.

From Gen. William C. Brown, of Washington, D. C, photostats
of a map of the St. Mary Lake region in Montana and one of
the country between Big Creek and Salmon River in 1879.

From the Canadian National Railways, a map of the Canadian
Rockies, a pictorial map of Jaspsr National Park, and one of
Canadian National Railway lines.

From the Canadian Pacific Railway, a map showing its system
and connecting lines.

From the Carnegie Institution of Washington, seven maps,
including a geological map of part of South America, 1927, and
one of the ruins of Chichen-ItzU, Yucatan.

From the University of Chicago Press, six base maps of Africa,
Canada, Italy, and the world.

From Mr. Harry Pence, librarian of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
a photograph of a copy of Filson's map of Kentucky, 1784, as well
as a newspaper reproduction of the map.

From Mr. George Cluerg, of Mexico, D. F., nine maps and
views of parts of Mexico.

From the Columbia Planograph Co., of Washington, D. C, a
zoning map of the District of Columbia, and a map of Marion
County, S. C.

From Thomas Cook & Son, of New York, a map of central and
southern Europe.

From Hugh L. Cooper & Co., of New York, a perspective view
of the Dnieper River hydroelectric and navigation project in
process of construction at Kichkas in the Ukraine.

From the Denoyer-Geppert Co., of Chicago, the latest editions
of their American history atlas and European history atlas.

From Mr. C. G. Dickson, of Kensington, Md., a map ^f Maple-
wood, N. J.

From Col. Thomas J. Dickson, of Washington, D. C, a map of
World War battlefields.

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From Mr. G. Howard Dunnington, of Washington, D. 0., a
plan of Back Bay Beach, Md.

From Mr. Francis P. Farquhar, of San Francisco, Calif., a photo-
stat of a map of Mexico before 1856.

From Mrs. Littleton Fitzgerald, of Richmond, Va., four maps,
including one of the Amazon valley, two of the Huallaga and
Ucayali Rivers, and one of the United States in 1858.

From Mrs. Benjamin Grady, of Washington, D. C, a map of
the United States showing the Jefferson Davis National High-
way, 1926.

From the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation, an atlas of the
aerodromes, landing grounds, and seaplane stations in the Dutch
East Indies.

From the Hamburg-American Line, a map of main-traveled
routes in Europe.

From C. S. Hammond & Co., of New York, an "Air-Line Atlas
of the World."

From Mrs. William M. Hannay, of Washington, D. C, a map
of Europe during the World War.

From Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Cambridge, Mass., a photo-
stat of the manuscript plat of a survey of lands on the Potomac
River by George Washington in 1751, from the original in the
private collection of Mr. Walter Hunnewell, jr., of Wellesley,
Mass.

From Mrs. Julia Duke Henning, of Louisville, Ky., a photo-
graph of a rare old portrait of John Filson.

From Mr. George F. Herber, of New Orleans, La., three maps,
including one showing the State highway system of Louisiana
and one of the city of New Orleans.

From W. H. Hessick & Sons, of Washington, D. C, a zoning map
of the District of Columbia.

From Mr. Samuel Hill, of Seattle, Wash., a map of the proposed
highway from the State of Washington through British Columbia
and Yukon Territory to Alaska.

From Mr. Channing Howard, of Boston, Mass., a modern map
of " Winthrop — Anciently Pullin Point " in 1624.

From the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, a
map of the world showing telephone and telegraph systems.

From Mr. W. L. Jenks, of Port Huron, Mich., photostats of
three manuscript maps of St. Marys River, part of Lake Huron,
and the St. Clair River, made to accompany the report of Samuel
Hawkins in 1817, from the originals in the Department of State.

From Mr. Stockton W. Jones, of Washington, D. C, a map of
the western theater of war in Europe and one of Philadelphia.

From Prof. Louis C. Karpinski, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a photo-
stat of a manuscript map of parts of York and Cumberland
Counties, Me., made by Osgood Carleton before 1800.

From Dr. Alfred C. Lane, of Cambridge, Mass., a map of New
England, showing isobases.

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From McCormick & Co., of Baltimore, Md., a pictorial map of
the world showing the countries from which various spices are
exported.

From Mr. John V. A. MacMurray, former American minister to
China, a modern Chinese map of Peking.

From Mr. Thomas F. Madigan, of New York, photostats of two
manuscript survey plats by George Washington, one of which is
dated April 5, 1750.

From Mr. H. L. Mencken, of Baltimore, Md., a map of the
associated gas and electric system in eastern United States, one
of Bavaria, and one of Vienna. Austria.

From Mr. J. H. H. Muirhead, of New York, a pictorial map of
the United States, by Miss Pfliederer, showing features of the
development of music.

From the National Highways Association of New York, three
highway maps of the United States.

From Mr. W. J. Newman, of Dalton, Wis., a bird's-eye view of
Lake Dalton, Wis.

From the New York Public Library, a photostat of the Thackara
and Vallance map of Washington, 1792, from Lear's " Observa-
tions on the River Potomac."

From Mr. R. S. Ould, of Washington, D. C, seven maps, includ-
ing road maps of Pennsylvania and Virginia and telephone and
telegraph lines in Europe.

From the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, a " Broadcasting
Map of Europe," and one showing the telephone and telegraph
systems of the world.

From Mr. David E. Roberts, of Baltimore, Md., a modern map
showing Wolfe's Quebec campaign of 1759.

From Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, of Philadelphia, a photostat of
a previously unknown edition of Filson's map of Kentucky, 1784.

From the Royal Print & Lithograph Co. (Ltd.), of Halifax,
Nova Scotia, a plan of the city of Halifax.

From Mrs. Joseph B. Seth, of Easton, Md., parts 3 to 14 of
H. S. Tanner's " Universal Atlas," 1833-36.

From Mr. Eyler N. Simpson, of Mexico, D. F., six maps of
oil-producing areas in Mexico.

From Mr. Guy-Harold Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, his map show-
ing the German-born population in Wisconsin in 1905.

From Rev. Francis B. Steck, O. F. M., of Quincy, 111., a photo-
stat of Shea's facsimile of Father Marquette's map of the Mis-
sissippi.

From Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, of New York, separate copies
of two of the maps published in his " Friendly Arctic," showing
his own routes of exploration in the Arctic Archipelago north of
the Dominion of Canada.

From Mr. Frank L. Stickney, of Washington, D. C, 16 maps and
an atlas, including 12 maps drawn by the donor as a schoolboy.

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From Mr. Lee S. Stopple, of San Francisco, Calif., a photostat
of a map of Mexico before 1856.

From Mr. Philip A. H. Terrell, of Washington, D. C, a nine-
teenth century plan of Tokyo.

From the Edgar Tobin Aerial Surveys, of San Antonio, Tex.,
a photographic copy of their aerial surveys of parts of Texas.

From the United Railway & Electric Co., of Baltimore, Md., a
pictorial map of Baltimore.

From Mr. Bentley Warren, of Boston, Mass., a map showing
the watershed of the Connecticut River, bearing upon a case be-
tween the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of
Connecticut in the Supreme Court of the United States.

From Mr. Alexander Weddell, of Richmond, Va., a photograph
of Virginia Farrer's map of Virginia, 1671, drawn over a fire-
place.

From Mr. Francis M. Wigmore, of Washington, D. C, four
modern maps of Morocco, and a catalogue of the maps issued by
the Moroccan Service Gtiographique.

From Mrs. Leonard Wood, of New York, 20 sheets of a touring
map of France, and 12 maps of occupied areas on the western
front, 1918.

From Mr. Frank S. Zappulla, of Washington, D. C, four maps,
including one of Argentina in 1888, one of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad lines, and one of Japan, Korea, and Manchuria in 1904.

The Library of Congress received 2,458 maps and 9 Exchanges.
atlases by exchange with one or another of the individ-
uals or institutions mentioned below. In lieu of these we
have supplied, thus far, 20 of our duplicate maps, 18 of
our duplicate atlases, and various books and pamphlets.

Mr. Montagu Hankin of Millington, N. J., exchanged
a manuscript map of a square in the District of Columbia
made about 1800, and two manuscript letters, signed by
Daniel Carroll and Upton Scott, for one of our duplicate
maps of New England in 1771.

Mr. Fred Lockley, of Portland, Oreg., supplied us, on
exchange, with a " Map of the Nez Perces and Salmon
River Gold Mines in Washington Territory," published
at San Francisco by Whitton, Waters & Co. in 1862. A
copy of this map was sold at auction a few years ago
for $760.

Prof. Louis C. Karpinski, of Ann Arbor, Mich., fur-
nished a manuscript map by Osgood Carleton, which was
probably made between 1790 and 1800, and which is en-
titled " Map of Lands Province of Main ", copied from

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the surveys of Ballard and Perham. It covers portions of
the counties of York and Cumberland in the State of
Maine.

The American Geographical Society of New York,
supplied five large-scale maps of portions of Mexico, as
well as a map of railways in Poland, in exchange for
photostats of a map of Volusia County, Fla., and one of
Santa Barbara County, Calif.

To the Cleveland Public Library we sent on exchange
seven atlases of counties in Ohio.

The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
took six of our duplicate atlases of counties in Ohio.

To the library of the University of Chicago we sent a
modern ethnographic map of Hungary.

The Clements Library, at Ann Arbor, Mich., supplied
us on exchange with photostat copies of a manuscript
map of Bucks County, Pa., by Cadwallader Evans and
of a printed "Plan of the Attack of Fort Sulivan the
Key of Charles Town in South Carolina on the 28th of
June 1776." This second map was printed at Philadel-
phia, and no other copy has been identified.

The Huntington Library at San Marino, Calif., fur-
nished a photostat of its manuscript copy of Filson's map
of Kentucky in exchange for a photostat copy of a similar
map in the Library of Congress. Photostats of a printed
edition of Filson's map of 1784 were also exchanged.

From the Army and Navy Club of Washington we re-
ceived a large-scale map of Switzerland.

The Bureau of Railway Economics sent us a map of
Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts, showing the profile
of the Boston & Maine Railway tunnel.

The Maine State Library at Augusta has intrusted us
with several hundred maps from its duplicates. These
are in process of assortment with a view to exchange.

Upon the basis of these exchanges other libraries and
individuals may see that the Library of Congress will
welcome correspondence regarding exchanges from their

duplicates.

On international exchange we received the following
from foreign governments: From the Forest Map Office

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of India, 387 maps; from the Surveyor General of India,
iiTi> maps; from the Ministry of Education of Burma.
129 maps and 1 atlas; from the Ordnance Survey of
Great Britain, 371 maps; from the Geological Survey of
Great Britain, 126 maps; from the several States of Ger-
many, 23G maps ; from the Ordnance Survey of the Irish
Free State, 229 maps; from the Military Geographical In-
stitute of Poland, 130 maps; from the Military Topo-
graphical Institute of Czechoslovakia, 63 maps; from the
Peposito Geograftco e Historico of Spain, 59 maps ; from
the General Staff of Greece, 33 maps; as well as large-
scale maps and charts from other countries too numerous
to mention.

Upon the authority of the provisions of the act of Tra » 8 f e rs.
February 25, 1903, several executive departments and
establishments continued to sort out maps and atlases
no longer needed for their use and to make transfers to
the Library of Congress.

The Office of the Chief of Engineers in the War De-
partment transferred 165 maps and 3 atlases. Two of the
maps transferred were copies of Madison's map of Vir-
ginia, referred to below. The others included detailed
surveys of the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Fox, Yellowstone, and White Rivers.

The United States Military Academy at West Point
sent us blue-print copies of 16 manuscript Confederate
maps which were made under the direction of Gen.
Jeremy F. Gilmer and Maj. Albert H. Campbell during
the Civil War.

The Hydrographer of the Navy transferred to the
Library of Congress 1,429 hydrographic charts, as fol-
lows : 1,360 British, 50 Canadian, 14 French, 3 Japanese
charts, and one each from the surveys of Germany and
The Netherlands. This transfer constitutes a notable
acquisition, because it includes many charts which are
entirely out of print and difficult to obtain.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey transferred to us 72
French and 49 Japanese charts, as well as 8 maps pub-
lished by the Istituto GeograpMco Militare of Italy.

The Department of State supplied a recent map of the
Republic of Haiti.

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The United States National Museum transferred two
Chinese maps of Port Arthur and Manchuria.

From the United States Post Office Department we
received a manuscript sketch of the region around Joynes-
ville, Va.

The United States Geological Survey transferred 29
maps and 3 atlases, including 1 of India and 2 of the
boundaries between the United States, Canada, and
Mexico.

The United States Bureau of Mines sent us 9 maps,
including 6 of parts of Argentina, and 3 of explorations
in the Dutch East Indies.

The United States Bureau of Eeclamation sent us a
Russian map of Asia Minor and one of Turkestan.

Our collection of cadastral maps from the General
Land Office in the Department of the Interior was en-
riched by the transfer of 2,114 township plats.

The Public Library of the District of Columbia trans-
ferred 13 topographic maps of Patagonia and one of
Turkey in Europe.

By transfer from the Toner collection in the Library
of Congress the Division of Maps received two atlases
and five maps. One of the atlases is an annotated and
extra-illustrated copy of Herman Moll's "Atlas Manuele,"
published at London in 1709. The maps include a Con-
federate imprint in the form of a " Map of the Seat of
War," published at Macon, Ga., by J. W. Burke, scale 1
inch to about 13 miles.

The most important of these transfers from the Toner
collection is a manuscript map of part of the District of
Columbia, erroneously labeled "Unfinished plat of Mt.
Vernon estate." It may have been made at the request
of George Washington by Peter Charles L'Enfant.

This map, which is without title, author, date, or scale,
is 41% inches wide and 26% inches high. It shows the
shoreline and the drainage before they were modified by
man and indicates by hachures the topographic features
of the site of the portion of the city of Washington
south of Florida Avenue. Ten of the original houses in
the present District of Columbia are shown, nine of them
by small red squares. The locations of these houses

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appear to be indicated with more precision than on any
other maps that have been preserved. No names are
given, but the houses appear to be those of Robert Peter,
an unnamed neighbor, John Davidson, a resident of the
present LeDroit Park, Benjamin Oden, an unnamed
neighbor, Daniel Carroll, William Young, the Widow
Wheeler, and the Widow Young.

The map also shows that the northernmost of the two
Bladensburg roads entered the city at Florida Avenue
and Seventh Street NW. Florida Avenue is not shown
as a street, but a tinted line at or close to its site indi-
cates that this was to be the outer limit of the Federal
Capital. The portion of this line from Rock Creek to
the Reedy Branch of Goose or Tiber Creek at Seventh
Street NW., follows the Bladensburg Road.

A system of streets, squares, and circles is drawn upon
the map, but no names are given. The streets are shown
by single dotted lines. The legend lettered upon the map
reads as follows: "All the Lines coloured red, are fin-
ished and those coloured yellow are intended to be com-
pleated this Season." The map is drawn upon Whatman
paper, whose watermarks demonstrate that it was made
between 1770 and 1794.

It is not likely that the map was made by Andrew
Ellicott, since he was engaged from February to August,

1791, and for some time thereafter, in surveying and
marking the outer limits of the District of Columbia.
Ellicott gave L'Enfant " kindly assistance," however,
perhaps including the outlining of the Potomac water
front and of Rock Creek and the Tiber. Ellicott's map
of the city proper, published by Thackara & Vallance in

1792, was evidently based in important part upon this
manuscript map. This might be the map which L'Enfant
directed Benjamin Ellicott to make some time between
December 25, 1791, and February 17, 1792, in order to
"delineate on paper all the work, which had been done
in the city " (Records Columbia Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1899,
p. 144; Elizabeth S. Kite's "L'Enfant and Washington,"
Baltimore. 1929, pp. 103, 140). It appears more likely
however, from the use of dotted lines on this map for

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streets and the reference to the " map of dotted lines " in
the letter from L'Enfant to President Washington dated
Georgetown, August 19, 1791, that this map was made in
the summer of 1791 by or under the direction of
L'Enfant. In this letter L'Enfant refers to what he was
doing as being in response to the President's direction.
He then says :

"The inspection of the anexed map of dotted lines being suf-
ficiently explanatory of the progress made in the work will I hope
leave you satisfied how much more has been done than may
have been expected from hands less desirous of meeting your
applause . . ." (Records Columbia Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1899, p. 38.)

Moreover the map displays certain features which are
said to be characteristic of L'Enfant's plans at this time.
The streets and avenues which radiate from the Capitol
and the White House are focused upon the front and
back entrances of these buildings rather than upon the
centers of the edifices. Some of the streets which come
into squares in the city reach the squares at one corner
and depart from them at the corner diagonally opposite.

The map suggests that in August, 1791, the only circu-
lar park that was planned was Thomas Circle at Four-
teenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The rectan-
gular parks shown are 12 in number. They are located
on the sites of the present Patent Office, of the Public
Library, of Judiciary Square, of the Pennsylvania Ave-
nue market and part of the Mall to the south, of Farragut
Square, and of McPherson Square. Parks which were
not laid out were planned at Pennsylvania Avenue be-
tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets NW., at Con-
necticut Avenue between M and N Streets, at three points
on New York Avenue, between Twelfth and Thirteenth
Streets, at Eleventh Street, and at Fifth Street, respec-
tively, and on C Street NW, between New Jersey Avenue
and First Street. The map also shows that it was
L'Enfant's intention to extend Judiciary Square north-
ward to H Street.

The streets and avenues which had been laid out prior to the
making of this map were Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol
to Rock Creek, Massachusetts Avenue from New Jersey Avenue to
Sixteenth Street, Sixteenth Street from the White House to

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Florida Avenue, New Jersey Avenue from K Street to the Ana-
costia River, Delaware Avenue from K Street to Washington
Barracks, Virginia Avenue from the Anacostia River to the site
of the Washington Monument, Maryland Avenue from the Capitol
to Washington Channel. New York Avenue from the Naval Hos-
pital to Florida Avenue, Louisiana Avenue from the site of the
Washington Monument to Judiciary Square, North Capitol Street
from the Capitol to V Street, South Capitol Street from the
Capitol to Anacostia River, East Capitol Street from the Capitol
to Fifteenth Street NE., West Capitol Street from the Capitol
to the site of the Washington Monument, Eleventh Street, Ninth
Street, Eighth Street, and Seventh Street from Florida Avenue
to Washington Channel, Fifteenth Street from K Street to the
Tidal Basin, Seventeenth Street from K Street to B Street NW.,
Eighteenth Street from M Street to B Street NW., Twenty-fourth
Street from Rock Creek to I Street, Eighteenth Street from
Florida Avenue to New Hampshire Avenue, G Street from New
Jersey Avenue to the Potomac River, F Street from Delaware
Avenue to the Potomac River, and K Street from Florida Avenue
to Rock Creek.

One of the most important features of this map is that
it shows Massachusetts Avenue as an essentially straight
line, lacking the angle in the eastern part near the pres-
ent Union Station, which is shown upon the familiar
L'Enfant Plan of 1791, and reaching the neighborhood
of Eock Creek farther north than on the L'Enfant Plan.
Accordingly, since L'Enfant seems either to have made
the manuscript map which the Library of Congress has
now identified, or to have caused it to be made, he must be
credited with initiating certain of the major changes in
the L'Enfant Plan which have occasionally been at-
tributed to Andrew Ellicott or some other of L'Enfant 's
successors.

The division of manuscripts in the Library of Con-
gress transferred a manuscript atlas of 122 maps show r -
ing the transactions of the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia with Eobert Peter in and about 1791. This
atlas includes a general map and large-scale plats of the
squares in Washington in the districts known as "Mexico"
and " Mount Pleasant." It is of great importance in con-
nection with questions of ownership of real estate in the
District of Columbia.

The division of Chinese literature transferred to the
division of maps an atlas of Korea and its prefectures

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and districts and a folding atlas of the Yellow River in
six provinces of China.

The Smithsonian division transferred a map showing
Indian tribes in North America about 1600, two maps of
Germany indicating the distribution of cattle, and two
maps of parts of Mexico.

The catalogue division transferred a large photostat
copy of the Sebastian Cabot world map, the original of
which is in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris.

From the division of fine arts we received a plan of
the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, Tex.

Another instructive demonstration was given this year
of the saving to the Federal Government through the
transfers provided for in the act of February 25, 1903.
The transfers from the Corps of Engineers included
printed copies of two of the rarest American maps.
These were the first and second editions of Bishop James
Madison's " Map of Virginia Formed from Actual Sur-
veys, and the Latest as well as most accurate observa-
tions ", scale 1 inch to 7 miles. The first edition appeared
in 1807 and the second some time before 1818, and per-
haps before 1812. There is no copy of the first edition
in the State of Virginia, not even at the College of Wil-
liam and Mary, whose first president made the map.
There were previously known to be copies of the first
edition in the libraries of Harvard University and of the
Western Reserve Historical Society, and of the second
edition in the Handley Library, Winchester, Va., in the
library of the Western Reserve Historical Society, in the
Library of Congress, and in the private library of Dr.
A. S. W. Rosenbach, of Philadelphia.

The amounts which copies of one or the other of the
first two editions of Madison's map have fetched in recent
years indicate the thoroughly irrational basis of present
map prices. A copy was offered in Virginia a few years
ago for $700, but was not sold. One was sold two years
ago for $475 and another just like it for 50 cents. Two
copies were sold last year for $25 apiece.

The number of other maps received by virtue of law
increased this year, the copyrighted maps being 16,448 in
number, as compared with 12,929 last year.

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Under the Rockefeller fund for the acquisition of Jj&^^r-
source material for American history we continued to chased -
receive copies of maps in foreign archives.

In accordance with the requests of two correspondents
we secured from the Archivo General de Indias at Seville
photostat copies of two manuscript plans of the " Pre-
sidio de Nuestra Sehora del Pilar de los Adays en la
frontera de los Texas," made in 1721. A similar map
of this presidio, thought to have been made about 1768,
is to be reproduced from the original in the British
Museum.

Among the manuscript maps which have been photo-
statted for us under this grant are 32 Revolutionary War
maps and plans of parts of New York and Canada from
the papers of Gen. F. A. von Riedesel, the originals of
which are in the Landeshauptarchiv at Wolfenbiittel,
Germany.

From the Vatican at Rome we received reduced photo-
graphs of a fifteenth century mappamundi of Cardinal
Stefano Borgia, five wall maps made in 1576 by Ignazio
Danti, a map of the world made in 1528 by Girolamo
Verrazzano, the Diego Ribera world map of 1529, a
seventeenth century terrestrial globe by Blaeu, and two
portolan charts of the Mediterranean countries. The
Danti maps include one of New Spain, one of Greenland,
one of America, one of China, and one of the world in
hemispheres.

In the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana at Venice we
photographed a 1459 mappamundi by Fra Mauro, and
in the BibJiotheqwe Nationale at Paris Brion de la Tour's
" Carte du Theatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les
Americains," published at Paris in 1777.

We also received, under Project A, photographic copies
of the Agnese atlas of 10 maps and 4 plates in the royal
library at Dresden, of the Agnese atlas of 12 maps and
5 plates in the grand ducal library at Gotha, of the Ag-
nese atlas in the library of Trinity College at Dublin,
of the Agnese atlas, dated Venice, 1564, in the British
Museum, and of the Agnese atlas of 29 maps and 7

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plates, dated September 1, 1553, in the Museo Civico at
Venice.

A certain number of maps from foreign archives have
been photographed on films, from which enlargements are
to be made. These include the following :

From the Palazzo Ducale at Venice 10 wall maps sho-vv -
ing the North Atlantic coast, Greenland and Iceland,
India and the Malay Peninsula, China and the Philip-
pines, the Pacific and California, Europe, the Glacial Sea
and Greenland, the northwest coast of Africa, and the
Western Hemisphere; from the Biblioteca Nazionale
Martian® at Venice an Agnese atlas of 1554 and another
of 1545, a Sideri atlas of 1563, and 2 ancient maps of
the world; from the Museo Civico at Venice one film of
25 maps; from the Archivio di Stato at Venice 2 old
maps of Forli, Italy, and 2 of Poland by Zalta; from
the Biblioteca Civica Queriniana at Brescia 13 manu-
script maps; from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana at Milan
9 maps made by Maggiolo in 1524, an Agnese atlas made
about 1530, 29 maps from Pigafetta's Geography, 31
portolan charts, and 27 maps from a Ptolemy of 1410;
from the Archivio di Stato at Turin 18 maps of the early
colonization period; from the Biblioteca Communale at
Treviso 10 Maggiolo maps; from the Algenneem, Rijks-
archief of The Netherlands 330 maps relating to North
and South America, especially to the Dutch colonial
possessions.

The generous attitude of American libraries, institu-
tions, and individuals toward the Library of Congress
in permitting us to acquire photostat copies of rare or
unique maps in their collections which are of interest
to investigators outside their local communities, is illus-
trated by the following cases:

The Maine Historical Society at Portland did us the
great favor of permitting the photostatting of 150 manu-
script maps in its collection. These include maps of por-
tions of the State of Maine which date back to the early
part of the eighteenth century and an important group
of international boundary maps. Some of these are
maps of parts of Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota.

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Col. John Bigelow, of Washington, allowed us to have
prints from his negatives of 19 sketch maps from the
Strozzi manuscripts in the Biblioteea Nasionale Centrale
at Florence, Italy.

Dr. E. L. Stevenson, of Yonkers, N. Y., courteously
permitted us to make positive prints from his negatives
of the Ptolemy Codex Escurialensis, a magnificent text
of the Geography in 177 pages with 25 maps.

The Clements Library, at Ann Arbor, Mich., supplied
us with copies of two charts from William Norman's
American Pilot, published in 1803, and showing parts of
the coasts of Newfoundland and the islands of Cape
Breton and Sable, and the coast from Wood Island to
Good Harbour.

From the New York Historical Society we received
138 additional maps made by Robert Erskine for George
Washington between 1778 and 1780 and showing roads
in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl-
vania.

Mr. Montagu Hankin, of Millington, N. J., permitted
us to make photostat copies of a manuscript plan of lands
involved in a boundary suit in 1748 on the Mount Vernon
estate, eight sheets of depositions accompanying this
plan, and a printed map of Mason and Dixon's line which
was published about 1755.

From Francis Edwards (Ltd.), of London, we acquired
photographic copies of a portolan chart of the world
made about 1616, and a map of the eastern coast of North
America made by Joel Gascoyne in 1678.

From the LTnited States Military Academy, at West
Point, we received a photostat of an annotated copy of
Major Villefranche's map of West Point made about
1780, which was presented to the Academy by James H.
Castle in 1852.

The department of public works of New York State
permitted us to photostat a large manuscript map of the
Hudson River between Troy and Hudson, as surveyed by
John Randel in 1820.

Mr. Horace Brown, of Springfield, Vt, allowed us to
photostat a manuscript plat of the town of Grafton and

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one of Guilford in Vermont, laid off in 1761, as well as
a map of " . . . MacKenzie's Track from Montreal to
Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the North Sea in 1789,
& to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793."

Count Francois Pulaski, of Paris, gave us the privilege
of photostatting his photograph of a French manuscript
map of the siege of Savannah in 1779, from the original
in the Depot de la Marine at Paris.

From Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, N. H., we
received a photograph of a manuscript order in council
of George III in 1737, appointing a committee to assem-
ble at Hampton, N. H., to adjust the boundaries between
the provinces of New Hampshire and of Massachusetts
Bay.

Mrs. Julia Duke Henning, of Louisville, Ky., permit-
ted us to copy her facsimile of Filson's map of Kentucky
in 1784.

Mr. Francis P. Farquhar, of San Francisco, allowed us
to have photostat copies of Vaugondy's map of Califor-
nia in 1772, Colton's map of California in 1859, and a
map of the Mono Lake district in 1879.

Through the courtesy of Mr. W. W. Husband, Assist-
ant Secretary of Labor, we secured a photostat copy of a
manuscript map of the world in hemispheres, made by
Permelia Fenton in 1824.

The University of Chicago libraries permitted us to
have a photostat of a manuscript copy of Filson's map
and a printed facsimile of the last American edition.

Judge Samuel M. Wilson, of Lexington, Ky., allowed
us to photostat a manuscript map of Kentucky entitled "A
General Map of the New Settlement railed Transilvania ",
dated November, 1776, and a manuscript map of the
battle of Tehoopecan on March 27, 1814.

From Amherst College we received photostats from
manuscripts of a plan of a new fort built by General
Amherst at Crown Point in 1759, a very early and crudely
drawn map of the eastern part of North America, and a
map of Canada drawn in 1815 by Daniel Left from the
survev of P. F. Tardieu.

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Dr. W. R. Jillson, State geologist of Kentucky, allowed
us to photostat his unique printed copy of the first issue
of Filson's map of Kentucky in 1784.

Mr. A. T. Witbeck, of Shreveport, La., was good enough
to let us photostat a manuscript map of the environs of
Shreveport and its defenses in 1864.

The Ohio State Archasological and Historical Society
at Columbus permitted us to make a photostat copy of
its first issue of Mitchell's Map of the British and French
Dominions in North America.

The Office of the Chief of Engineers in the War De-
partment allowed us to photostat a large-scale manu-
script map entitled " Survey of Reconnaissance of South-
ern Entrance to Green Bay," made by Capt. H. Stans-
bury in 1841 ; 18 maps of the coast of Louisiana ; a manu-
script map of the entrance to Little Sodus Bay, N. Y., in
1853; as well as 10 maps of the Michigan and Illinois
Canal, made in 1830-31 by W. B. Guion and F. Harri-
son, jr. The maps extend westward from Lake Michigan
to a point beyond Ottawa, 111. One of these maps shows
the whole site of Chicago from Lake Michigan to the
Desplaines River, on the scale of 1 mile to 4 inches, and
gives the depths of water in the Chicago River and at its
mouth. The only buildings which then existed were
those of Fort Dearborn, Lawton's old trading house, and
the establishments of J. Kinzie, J. Miller, and Doctor
Wolcott. Another map, scale 1 inch to 50 yards, shows
the site of the portion of Chicago at the mouth of the
Chicago River in the greatest detail. It appears to have
been made by F. Harrison, jr., on February 24, 1830, and
is signed by William Howard. It represents the Chicago
water front before man had modified it in any way, indi-
cates plans proposed a century ago for harbor improve-
ment at the mouth of the river, and locates the buildings
belonging to Fort Dearborn, to Doctor Wolcott, and to
Mr. Bailey.

We have identified in the division of manuscripts of
the Library of Congress and photostatted Major Ander-
son's map of Fort Sumter in 1861; and one on the reverse
of a telegraph blank of New York City showing the city

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stations of the American Telegraph Co. during the Civil
War ; a manuscript map of part of the District of Colum-
bia about 1835 from the Sessf ord record books ; a map of
the world showing the telegraph lines in operation, under
contract, and contemplated in 1855, from the Samuel
F. B. Morse papers; a blue print of Filson's map of Ken-
tucky, 1784, from the Roosevelt papers; a map of the
Harpers Ferry region; two of the battlefield of Shiloh
in 1862; and one of the region south and west of Savan-
nah, Ga., from the Stanton papers.
other pur- The Library was fortunate in securing from a dealer in

Italy a copy of the map described below.

It is a German edition of Lewis Evans' " Map of
Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, And the Three Dela-
ware Counties ", published at Frankfort am Main in
1750. No other copy of this map is known to have been
• preserved. Its precise title is as follows : " Speciel Land
Charte von Pensilvanien, Neu Jersey, Neu York und von
denen drey Land-Schafften an dem Delaware Fl." The
German edition of Evans has additional interest as a
Franklin item, since the legends upon it include one
which mentions Benjamin Franklin as book printer and
royal postmaster at Philadelphia.

By great good fortune we were able to secure from a
dealer in England a copy of the third American edition
of Evans' map. It was printed at Philadelphia some
time between 1752 and 1755 and shows a number of
roads and villages in New Jersey which are not on the
1752 edition. The only other copy so far identified is
in the Huntington Library. Last year we acquired an
unique copy of the second edition of this map.

It is gratifying to observe that, although a dealer in
England has printed 3 editions of a work describing 20
issues of one or the other of Lewis Evans' maps, the
Library of Congress has 4 maps by Evans which are not
in any way referred to in this work.

Still another noteworthy accession of the last fiscal
year was a printed copy of the rare second English
edition of Dr. John Mitchell's map, published between
1755 and 1775. At least three English issues precede this
one.

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Through the courtesy of Mr. Otis G. Hammond, direc-
tor of the New Hampshire Historical Society at Concord,
we secured 90 printed maps of various dates and degrees
of rarity from the duplicates in that institution. Mr.
Hammond was most generous in recommending that
these maps be sold to us at a purely nominal price.
Many of them are maps of States other than New
Hampshire.

The colored wall map indicative of the debt of the special exhibits.
United States to Spain through exploration, coloniza-
tion, and the introduction of Spanish culture between
1492 and 1800, which was part of the exhibit of the
Library of Congress in the Ibero- Americana Exposition
at Seville, was awarded a diploma of honor by the Span-
ish Government in May, 1930. It is understood that the
American commissioner at Seville, in response to re-
quests, has supplied photographic copies of this map to
a number of Spanish libraries, historical societies, and
persons interested in the history of Spain.

The Library of Congress presented a copy of this map
to the University of Habana in February, 1930, upon the
occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the found-
ing of this Cuban university. The speech of presenta-
tion was delivered by Prof. Albert Perry Brigham, our
honorary consultant in geography.

A special exhibit of maritime maps was made on Feb-
ruary 26, 1930, when 48 lieutenants in the Navy, who are
graduate students in the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, were brought to the Library of Congress
by Dean Charles H. Hill, of George Washington Univer-
sity. The chief of the division of maps addressed these
naval officers briefly on problems connected with the
cession of territory to the United States by Spain in 1898.

Upon the occasion of the visit on October 23, 1929, of
125 members of the International Institute of Law, we
exhibited maps showing the activities of the Permanent
Court of International Justice at The Hague and of the
League of Nations at Geneva, as well as the distribution
of legal systems throughout the world, and the branches
of Federal, State, and city government in the United
States.

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Publications.

Service to the
public.

Through the courtesy of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Co. we were able to exhibit a 24-inch German
relief globe by Paul Rath, of Leipzig.

The division prepared during the year other exhibits
of maps showing such things as the situation between
Bolivia and Paraguay in the Chaco, the way globe gores
are printed, the new discoveries in Antarctica, the eco-
nomic resources of the world, the principal mineral re-
sources of the Southern States, airway systems in the
United States, the physical divisions of the United
States, the time zones throughout the world, and the rail-
way situation in northern China in connection with the
Russo-Chinese controversy of the summer of 1929.

The division published a pamphlet entitled " Note-
worthy Maps, No. 3, Accessions for the Fiscal Year end-
ing June 30, 1928," which is sold at cost by the Super-
intendent of Documents at the Government Printing
Office, and prepared for publication No. 4 in the same
series.

More than 13,606 maps and atlases were supplied to
the public in the reading room of the division of maps
during the last fiscal year. The number last year was
only 10,342.

In addition, the staff of the division wrote 1,359 letters
and memoranda, including replies to 492 major inquiries
on geographical and cartographic problems ; last year we
wrote 1,236 letters and memoranda. Our correspondents
wrote from 44 of the 48 States of the United States, and
from the Philippine Islands and 15 foreign countries.
Many of these inquiries involved geographical research
extending over several days.

Four hundred and eighty-three of our maps were
photostatted or photographed for use by Members of the
Senate and the House of Representatives, by several
executive departments and independent bureaus, by
libraries outside the District of Columbia, by authors of
books and articles, by litigants in the courts, etc.

Six hundred and thirty-two maps were loaned to
Government bureaus for use in compiling new maps or in
dealing with geographical problems.

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More than 44,000 maps and 153 atlases were received
and incorporated in the Division of Maps during the last
fiscal year. The map mounter of the division handled
53,974 map sheets, if we include his duplicate handling of
the same sheet and of older maps in process of repair.
He mounted 563 maps in 2,755 sheets, took the sticks or
jackets off 702 maps, dissected or otherwise prepared for
filing 40,096 map sheets, and placed 5,512 maps in manila
folders, aside from assorting, flattening, or folding 4,909
other map sheets or charts. Other members of the staff
of the division subsequently handled nearly all of these
maps in connection with the processes of titling, classify-
ing, and filing these accessions of the current year, and
of replacing worn-out manila folders for older maps.

The staff of the division was able to catalogue only
433 of the maps received during the fiscal year. In all,
1,285 typewritten catalogue cards were made in the di-
vision, exclusive of copy for printed atlas cards. One
hundred and sixty atlases were catalogued during the
year. We now have on hand, ready for printing, 1,396
card entries for a fifth volume of the " List of Geograph-
ical Atlases in the Library of Congress."

At the request of the chairman of the Committee on ^»orc*«?
Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Repre-
sentatives the chief of the division of maps supplied a
number of maps relating to Hispanic American immigra-
tion and testified regarding the geographical problems
presented by H. R. 8530, H. R. 8523, H. R. 12382, and
other bills considered by the second session of the Seventy-
first Congress. The United States Geological Survey
and the graphic section, military intelligence division.
General Staff, United States Army, collaborated with
the division of maps of the Library of Congress in pre-
paring several new maps for this committee of Congress.

The division of maps supplied to Members of Congress,
upon request, the relevant maps and geographical in-
formation bearing upon various other legislative matters.
To 65 Senators and Representatives we loaned some 600
maps showing Alaska, Baltimore, Florida, Long Island,
New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Okla-

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homa, counties of Pennsylvania, the Philippine Islands,
Tennessee, Texas, highways of Virginia, the Olympic
Peninsula of Washington, counties of Wisconsin, the
Mississippi flood district, and the highways in the United
States, as well as geological and hydrographic maps of
the United States and maps and atlases of the Revolu-
tionary and Civil Wars. We also supplied Members
of Congress with maps and atlases of Canada, Mexico,
South America, Poland, Russia, Europe, and Japan, and
various modern gazetteers and historical, political, and
physical maps and atlases of the world, to say nothing
of many books on map projections.

Under the provisions of the act of February 21, 1930,
to enable the George Washington Bicentennial Commis-
sion to carry out and give effect to certain approved
plans, a George Washington atlas is to be compiled and
printed, and a map showing places which Washington
visited or in which he lived is to be issued. The chief
of the division of maps in the Library of Congress has
been requested by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart and the
members of the commission to serve as chairman of a
committee of geographers and historians who are making
plans for these two publications.

In connection with the consideration of Senate Reso-
lution 224, Seventy-first Congress, second session, a pro-
vision to instruct the Senate Committee on Public Lands
to assemble the boundary treaties, maps, plats, and his-
torical data bearing upon the question whether the so-
called Hunter's Island, a tract of approximately 1,000,000
acres on the Minnesota-Ontario boundary, belongs to the
United States or to Canada, the division of maps sup-
plied a substantial number of pertinent maps to a member
of the United States Senate.

We furnished a Member of the House of Representa-
tives with several maps showing roads, trails, and ferries
across the Ohio River in 1818-1820 in Breckinridge
County, Ky., and the adjacent portion of the State of
Indiana. To another Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives we sent a map showing President Hoover's
new proposal for the further development of the water-

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ways of the Mississippi and its tributaries. On behalf
of still another Representative we worked over our volu-
minous collection of maps of the Battle of Yorktown and
supplied photostats to the State conservation and de-
velopment commission of Virginia. A Member of Con-
gress from Oklahoma drew upon us for maps showing
routes of Army expeditions in that State.

Members of Congress were also supplied with informa-
tion and maps concerning the oil industry in Wyoming,
the islands on the California coast, the length of the inter-
national boundary of the United States as a whole and
of various sections of it, seaports in South America, the
States included in the Northwest Territory, and, upon
request, with suggestions concerning the purchase of
various maps and atlases.

At the wish of the Department of Justice, the division Special services
supplied a number of detailed maps of portions of the
District of Columbia for use as exhibits in the case of
The United States of America versus The Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal Co., et al. The chief of the division also
testified with respect to these maps before the examiner
in chancery in this case.

In response to the desire of the Department of State,
the chief of the division of maps carried on studies
respecting geographical problems in connection with the
Pm Alone case, with the problem of the Guatemala-
Honduras boundary, and with plans for the Pan Ameri-
can Institute of Geography and History. The work last
named resulted in the production of a report of 106 type-
written pages in collaboration with Prof. George B.
Winton, of Vanderbilt University, and Dr. William
Bowie, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

At the request of Baron Marc de Villiers, of Paris,
transmitted through the Department of State, we ob-
tained detailed information from correspondents in Texas
concerning certain rivers in that State. This informa-
tion was sought for use in studying the problem of the
routes traversed by La Salle.

At the instance of the State geologist of Kentucky, Dr.
Willard Rouse Jillson, the chief of the division of maps,
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prepared a brief statement respecting John Filson's map
of Kentucky. This was published as an appendix to the
facsimile reproduction of Filson's work on " The Dis-
covery, Settlement, and present State of Kentucky ; ',
which appeared originally at Wilmington, Del., in 1784,
and was reproduced at Louisville, Ky., in 1929 as Publi-
cation No. 35 of the Filson Club. As an outcome of the
drawing up of this statement regarding Filson's map,
the division of maps secured facsimile or photostat copies
of 26 versions of this map of various dates from 1784 to
1929.

On behalf of Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer,
National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the
division of maps investigated the present whereabouts of
a small painting by Benjamin H. Latrobe, showing the
White House in 1816 immediately after it was burned by
the British.

The secretary of legation of one of the Latin American
countries carried on studies of pertinent maps in the
Library of Congress bearing upon a boundary contro-
versy involving his own country and one of its neighbors.

The staff of the division of maps read proof of the
publication entitled " Manhattan Maps," which is being
brought out by the New York Public Library. It is
based in part on P. Lee Phillips' unpublished list of
maps of New York City in the Library of Congress, as
well as upon the maps in the several collections in that
city.

At the request of the United States Geological Survey,
the chief of the division of maps revised the statement
regarding Mitchell's map in Bulletin 689, which is in
process of being reprinted.

The Bureau of the Census used many of our maps in
laying out enumeration districts and determining the
legal basis of certain county boundaries.

On behalf of the director of the geographical and
climatologica! service of Mexico, we selected a number of
modern maps of Yucatan for use in the compilation of a
new map of that region.

The office of the attorney general of the State of New
York sent a special investigator here to study our maps

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of part of Long Island. He selected a substantial
number, which were certified for use in a pending suit.

We searched out several early maps showing dams on
the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry for use by a firm
of attorneys in Philadelphia.

A representative of the Pennsylvania State Highway
Department came here to find early maps of certain por-
tions of that State which show roads. The original posi-
tions and widths of roads have an important relation to
the acquisition of 'and for the construction and improve-
ment of highways to-clay.

Miss Laura A. Carter drew upon us for materials and
advice in the compilation of a series of maps which are
to be published by the Carnegie Institution of Wash-
ington as illustrations in a book by her father, the late
Gen. William H. Carter.

The chief of the division served the Federal Govern-
ment, without pay and in addition to his regular library
work, in each of the consulting capacities which are speci-
fied in previous annual reports.

In December, 1929, he presented at Columbus, Ohio, as
president of the Association of American Geographers,
a paper on the Michigan-Wisconsin boundary case in the
Supreme Court of the United States, 1923-1926. This
paper was repeated, by invitation, at a special meeting of
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in April, 1930,
at Madison, Wis. On July 26, 1929, he lectured at the
summer school of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., on
geographical resources of the Federal Government in
Washington. At the request of the Division of Geology
and Geography of the National Research Council he
served as the chairman of its nominating committee.

During the summer of 1929 the chief of the division of FMd W0Tk .
maps visited Mr. A. P. Loper, of Stonington, Conn.,
whose collection of maritime records is referred to else-
where in this report; the John Carter Brown Library at
Providence, R. I.; the libraries of the American Anti-
quarian Society and' of Clark University at Worcester,
Mass. ; the library of the University of New Hampshire

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at Dover; and the Portsmouth Athenaeum, the public
library, and the historical society at Portsmouth, N. H.

He spent some time in the map room of the Maine His-
torical Society at Portland and in the archives of the
State library at Augusta, Me. He visited the Bangor
Public Library and the Penobscot County Historical So-
ciety at Bangor; the libraries of Bowdoin College at
Brunswick; the University of Maine at Orono; Bates
College at Lewiston; and Colby College at Waterville;
as well as the establishments of various dealers at Bath,
Rockland, Portland, Kennebunk, Thomaston, Bangor,
and Yarmouth, Me., and Portsmouth, N. H.

At Concord, N. H., he visited the library of the New
Hampshire Historical Society, the State library, the
office of the secretary of state, and the New Hampshire
Highway Commission.

On August 17, 1929, he participated in the opening of
the Map House of Mr. Horace Brown, of Springfield, Vt.,
who has erected, for his excellent private collection of
maps of Vermont and other parts of New England, one
of the few edifices in the world devoted exclusively to
the preservation and study of maps.

In September, 1929, under appointment by the Presi-
dent of the United States as delegate to the first general
assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography
and History, he visited Mexico, D. F., and the several
map repositories and libraries there, stopping en route to
see the map collection in the public library at St. Louis,
Mo. At the request of the Secretary of State, the chief
of the division of maps served as chairman of the delega-
tion of the United States. Important contacts were es-
tablished with delegates of 16 Hispanic American coun-
tries and with Mexican officials.

In December, 1929, and January, 1930, he studied the
map collections of the State library, the Ohio State Uni-
versity, the State geological survey, and the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society at Columbus, as
well as those of the Cleveland Public Library and the
Western Reserve Historical Society at Cleveland, Ohio.

In April, 1930, h'e enlarged his acquaintance with the
map collections of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural

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History Survey, the State university, and the State his-
torical society at Madison, Wis. ; of Mr. William Smith
Mason at Evanston, 111.; and of the Newberry Library
at Chicago.

Geographers and geologists were interested to see that, consultants in

P. . . ' geography ana

as was announced in December, 1929, by the chief of geology.
the division of maps at the annual meetings of the Asso-
ciation of American Geographers and of the Geological
Society of America, the Library of Congress had added
to the corps of specialists associated with its service for
part of the year 1930 two consultants in science whose
specialties were geography and geology.

The geologist and the geographer who, for part of the
past year, were associated with the Library of Congress
as consultants were Prof. Alfred C. Lane, of Tufts Col-
lege, Mass., who came within the group provided by a
grant of the General Education Board, and Prof. Albert
Perry Brigham, of Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y.,
whose service, like that of the honorary consultant in
bibliography and research, was honorary in the sense
that he contributed his time.

The presence of a representative of science in the group
of consultants provided by the grant from the General
Education Board was natural and desirable. The choice
of geology as the first natural science to be represented
was more than gratifying.

As the grant from the General Education Board was
for the purpose of demonstrating the utility of a service
which, to be fully effective, will require both a permanent
provision and a corps of at least 15 consultants, it is en-
couraging to observe that the service was frequently re-
sorted to during the last fiscal year by specialists in
geology and geography from various parts of the United
States.

It is a pleasure to be able to announce that Professor
Brigham will return to the Library of Congress next
autumn as honorary consultant in geography, and that
Prof. R. H. Whitbeck, of the University of Wisconsin,
will come here in February, 1931, as honorary consultant
in Hispanic American geography.

DIVISION OF MUSIC

(From the report of the chief, Mr. Engel)

Accessions to the music division for the fiscal year ending June

80, 1980

Copy-
right

Music (M) _.

Literature (ML).
Theory (MT)....

8,933
548
718

Total J 10,199

Gift

928

1,092

182

Pur-
chase

2,202

3,000

608

3,704

Ex-
change

Trans-
fer

154
77
12

243

Other

232

271

Total

i 13,092

2 2, 598

3 1,023

16,713

1 Includes 973 second copies.

2 Includes 299 second copies.

3 Includes 94 second copies and 334 books proper.

Contents of the music division at the close of the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1930
Music :

Contents on June 30, 1929, volumes and

pieces 964, 835

Accessions during the past year 13, 092

Total j. 977, 927

Less —

Returns to copyright claimants 12

Exchanges 43

Broken Victor records 3

Total on June 30, 1930 977, 869

Literature :

Contents on June 30, 1929, volumes and

pieces 50, 665

Accessions during the past year 2, 598

Total 53, 263

Less —

Transfers 1

Exchange 1

Total on June 30, 1930_

53, 261

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Theory :

Contents on June 30, 1929, volumes and

pieces 29, 895

Accessions during the past year 1,023

Total on June 30, 1930 30,918

Grand total, volumes, pieces, etc 1, 062, 04S

?e r nu% an the°coi The total number of accessions to the music division
lection. .£ 0Y faQ past fiscal year is by 4,745 items larger than that

for the previous year. This represents an increase of more
than 40 per cent, which requires a word of explanation,
lest it appear as a boast. The increase is due chiefly to
the size of one important purchase — that of the Zeuner-
Newland collection — and to a gratifying influx of gifts.
A reasonable curb on copyright deposits at the source
continues. Quality remains a consideration superior to
mere quantity.

The year's additions in typewritten catalogue cards
made in the division for current material and arrears,
exclusive of shelf-list cards, amount to 27,525, or 2,341
more than the previous year. They represent 9,740 vol-
umes and pieces catalogued, or 1,648 more than the year
before. The number of volumes for which the catalogue
division prepared printed cards was 642, or 83 less than
the year before. The total of typewritten and printed
cards added to the catalogue is 33,229, or an increase of
3,238. This includes the 6,109 typewritten cards that
were added to the reference catalogue of articles in music
journals and periodicals, of which the division now re-
ceives more than 150 domestic and foreign ones. There
were added to the division's " union catalogue " 540
printed cards, prepared by the New York Public Library.
service of the The division has rendered its usual share in the

Library's " information service " in response to requests
ranging from the simplest to queries that transcend the
bounds of mortal knowledge. When trained scholars call
on the resources of the collection and the resourcefulness
of the staff the test of both is the more adequate. The
. expressions of satisfaction that occasionally reach the
division from such scholars are reassuring testimonials.
Here are two examples from among many; a student of

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so uncommon a subject as Byzantine neumes and Arme-
nian liturgical music, familiar with the pertinent mate-
rial available abroad and with the accommodations
offered by European libraries, writes:

It is impossible for me to recall any period of time which has
been spent more profitably and more pleasantly than those weeks
in the music division. .The entire staff seemed so cordial and so
willing to assist me.

Another and frequent visitor to the music division

writes to the chief:

I really love to work at the Library of Congress, because every-
thing is made so comfortable and convenient for one. I can't be
thankful enough to you for starting me there so delightfully two
years ago.

For the interest of the visiting public several exhibits Exhibits.
of music were arranged during the year ; they comprised
recent accessions of older and notable publications; mis-
cellaneous holograph music and letters by famous com-
posers; samples of musical notation, manuscript and
printed, ranging from the tenth century to the present;
holograph and printed compositions of Dr. William
Mason, pioneer American composer and pedagogue, mark-
ing the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.

In April the Friends of Music in the Library of Con- T ' ie ? ri :' n '\ s °f

r J Music in the

gress gave to the music division their second annual con- Library of

° t ~ Congress.

tribution of $1,000. Several rarities have been acquired
with this fund. They comprise a beautiful manuscript
Antiphonarium of German origin, probably compiled
in Cologne ca. 1400; a copy of Hans Neusiedler's very
scarce lute tablature (part 1), printed in Nuremberg,
1536; and a unique holograph of W. A. Mozart, consist-
ing of the complete fifth minuet of Kochel No. 461, and
the first eight measures of the incomplete and unpub-
lished sixth minuet, once the property of C. A. Andre in
Frankfurt, and later in the possession of Clara Schu-
mann and her heirs. These three items are more fully
described on pages 190, 195, and 194, respectively, of this
report.

The second annual meeting of the society took place
May 21, 1930, at the residence of Hon. Richard S.

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Aldrich, Washington, D. C, under the chairmanship of
Hon. Nicholas Longworth, president of the society. The
minutes of the meeting were again printed and sent
to all the members; copies of the minutes may be ob-
tained from the secretary, Miss Grace Dunham Guest,
1261 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.

The society now has 274 resident, and 380 nonresident
members, with 7 life members (5 resident, 2 nonresident) ;
the nonresident membership is distributed over 27 States
and 5 foreign countries, namely, England, France, Switz-
erland, Canada, and China.
Jlfts ' • Among the year's gifts to the music division are the

following :

From the Beethoven Association of New York City,
a further grant of $1,000 for the purchase of rare
manuscripts and early editions of the great masters,
voted at the society's annual meeting, May 3, 1930.

From Ernest Bloch, Esq., San Francisco, additions to
his " conditional gift " of personal documents, and the
deposit of some of his recent holograph scores ("Helve-
tia " — sketches, 2-piano arrangements, and orchestra
score).

From Frederick Shepherd Converse, Esq., Boston,
Mass., the holograph vocal score of his opera " The Sac-
rifice," and the holograph orchestra scores of his two
symphonic poems, " Ormazd " and " Endymion's Narra-
tive."

From Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, as additions to
her previous gifts of manuscripts, several holograph
scores and dedication copies of works by contemporary
composers, including Herbert Bedford, Domenico Brescia,
Frank Bridge, Manuel de Falla, Henry Holden Huss,
Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Albert Roussel, Gustav Strube,
Theodor Szanto, etc. ; in addition to these, the Library
has received further deposits of Mrs. Coolidge's extended
correspondence with prominent musicians the world over.

From Miss Rebekah Crawford, New York City, her
annual contribution of carefully prepared scrapbooks
containing much unusual and helpful information.

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From Mrs. W. A. Croffut, Washington, D. C, the holo-
graph libretto of her late husband's comic opera
" Deseret," which Avas set to music by Dudley Buck
(1839-1909), and "presented for the first time on any
stage by the Dudley Buck Opera Co.." at Haveiiy's Four-
teenth Street Theater, on Monday evening, October 11,
1880.

From the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., a selection
of over 30 holograph compositions by contemporary
American composers, including George W. Chadwick,
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Harvey Worthington Loomis,
Samuel Gardner, and others.

From Alexander Glazounov, Esq., Leningrad, Russia,
a holograph album leaf with an excerpt from a string
quartet and a signed photograph.

From Ernest Hutcheson, Esq., New York City, the
holograph copy of his transcription for the pianoforte of
the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's music for "A Midsum-
mer Night's Dream," dated " Berlin, February, 1913."

From the late William Bruce King, Washington, D. C,
a collection formed by his wife, the late Edith B. King,
of about 500 pieces of music and books on music, chiefly
works by classic masters and chamber music.

From Cyril Scott, Esq., London, England, the holo-
graph score of his " Fantasia for viola and pianoforte,"
dedicated to Lionel Tertis.

From Templeton Strong, Esq., the American composer
who for a number of years has resided in Geneva,
Switzerland, a selection of his more important works, in
holograph scores and printed copies, together with sev-
eral holographs of his friend, the late Edward Mac-
Dowell, and a voluminous collection of letters from Mac-
Dowell and Mrs. MacDowell to Mr. Strong. There at-
taches a peculiar significance to the " homecoming " of
these scores and papers to our National Library. The
holograph scores of Mr. Strong include those of his
dramatic cantata "Asmund," the symphonic poem, " Fin-
sterniss " (Op. 13), the " Poeme symphonique (Une vie
d'artiste)," the symphony " Sintram " (Op. 50), a trio
for two violins and viola, and several others of his larger

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works. Among the holographs of Edward MacDowell
are a cadenza to the D minor piano concerto of Mozart,
the concert-etude (Op. 36), the first modern suite for the
piano (Op. 10), the six songs "From an old garden "'
(Op. 26), the first sketches for the orchestra score of
"Hamlet and Ophelia" (Op. 22), and the full score of
the overture to " Parisina," after Byron. Though incom-
plete, this brief enumeration will suffice to show how
important — and how generous — is this gift of Mr. Tem-
pleton Strong.

From Alexander Tansman, Esq., Paris, France, the
holograph of his second mazurka for piano.

From Howard van Sinderen, Esq., Tuxedo Park, N. Y ,
a collection of over 30 holograph compositions for the
piano by the late Dr. William Mason (1829-1908), the
donor's father-in-law. These manuscripts date from the
early fifties, when Mason studied under Moscheles and
Liszt in Germany, to an " Ecossaise " written on June 8,
1903, as a contribution to a " Souvenir magazine " sold
at the Orange Memorial Hospital Fair.

From the RCA- Victor Co., Camden, N. J., a magnifi-
cent radio-electrola and 309 records and 25 record albums
from among the company's releases during the last 12
months.

From the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago.
Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New
York City, Portland (Oreg.), St. Louis, Seattle, and
Syracuse (N. Y.), their program books of the last sea-
son; and from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in addi-
tion to the programs of the last season, 10 volumes of
earlier seasons (between 1893 and 1908), filling gaps in
the Library's set of this important publication containing
the excellent program notes of Mr. Philip Hale.
t-uRCHASEs: This year's addition to the Library's collection of

medieval musical manuscripts, purchased with part of
the money given by the Friends of Music in the Library
of Congress, is an antiphonarium of German origin,
probably compiled in Cologne ca. 1400. The codex, writ-
ten on vellum and consisting of 303 leaves, IS 1 /* by 14 cm.,
contains the liturgical texts and melodies for the second
half of the church year, the Proper of the Season begin-

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ning with the Vigils of Easter, the Proper of Saints with
the Festival of St. George (April 23). The text, in
Gothic characters, black and red, is in two columns and
is ornamented with numerous Gothic and Roman initials.
delicately executed, in red and blue. Musical notation
fills approximately half the manuscript, the liturgical
melodies being written in the Gothic choral-notation
on a 4-line staff with red F- and yellow C-lines. The
greater part of the manuscript is the work of a single
hand. The codex includes texts and melodies for no less
than 39 saints' days and other festivals of the Calendar
of Saints, among them several festivals primarily asso-
ciated with Cologne and celebrated there with more than
usual solemnity, as, for instance, those of St. Gereon of
the Theban Legion (October 10), St. Ursula and the
11,000 Virgins (October 21), and St. Severinus, Bishop
of Cologne (October 23). Other local saints and church
dignitaries commemorated or mentioned are the martyrs
St. Maurinus the Abbot (June 10) and St. Albinus
(June 22), and the bishops St. Agilolfus (July 9), St.
Maternus (September 13), St. Evergislus (October 24),
St. Bruno, and Volcmar. At the beginning of the manu-
script are bound four paper leaves devoted to an elemen-
tary treatise on plain song, the separate sections headed
" De tonis," " De finali clave," and " Octo toni psalm-
oruin," and a discussion of solmisation in the form of a
catechism, beginning "Quid est cantus?" These addi-
tions appear to be in a sixteenth century hand ; the same
writer is responsible for occasional marginalia in the
body of the codex. The parchment binding is probably
of the same period. The antiphonarium was at one time
in the collection of Dr. Werner Wolffheim, of Berlin, and
is described as No. 32 in the catalogue of the second half
of his library.

An acquisition which will appeal to students interested ^^"^f ca '
in musical notation and liturgical history is that of a
group of 19 Greek manuscripts on paper, containing texts
and melodies for the services of the Eastern Church.
Two items of the group belong to the eighteenth century,
the remainder to the nineteenth; 5 specimens are com-
plete, 1 is unfinished, and 13 are fragments or incom-

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plete manuscripts of varying interest and extent. Cer-
tain duplications among the later specimens afford
material for comparative study. The most noteworthy
piece in the collection is the first of the earlier manu-
scripts, a fragment of 44 leaves (signatures 7 to 12), 20
bv 15 cm. The Greek text is written in black, with faded
red initials and rubrication; the melodies are in Byzan-
tine neumes, the note signs in black, the hypostases
(characters indicating rhythm, dynamics, tempo, and ex-
pression) in red. The musical notation employed illus-
trates one of the last stages in the development of the
Byzantine neumes, the late Byzantine (or Cucuzelian)
notation. The manuscript contains the Liturgy of St.
Chrysostom (f. 5-8), the Liturgy of the Presanctified
(f. 18 v -19 v ), and the Liturgy of"st. Basil (f. 20-21 v ) ;
musical settings of the Cherubicon (the eastern equivalent
of the Roman offertory) and the Koinonika (hymns sung
during the communion), with propers for certain festivals
of the dominical calendar ; the funeral offices for the laity
and for monks; the 11 Heothina (troparia sung at Lauds)
of Emperor Leo (f. 39-44), etc., etc. Most of the com-
posers represented flourished during the fourteenth,
fifteenth, or sixteenth centuries ; among them are the fol-
lowing: Agallianus, Anthimus, Argyropoulus, Manuel
Chrysaphes, Agathon and Xenus Corones, Demetrius
Raidestinus, Gerasimus, Joannes of Damascus (676-756),
Joannes Glykys, Joannes Kladas, Marcus Hieromona-
chus, Nicephorus Ethicus, Andreas Sigerus (fl. eighteenth
century), and Theodolus. The second eighteenth-century
manuscript (39 leaves, 20 by 15 cm.), dated 1778-1783, is
without music; it contains the orders of service for the
festivals of St. John the Divine (May 8 and September
26). On f. 36 v - and 37 there is a description of the
monastery and church on Mount Sinai. The nineteenth
century manuscripts are without exception in the modern
Greek notation, as introduced by Chrysanthus in 1821
and still employed by the Eastern Church in its printed
service books. Most of the characters of the older nota-
tion are utilized, in some cases with a change in meaning.
Perhaps the most interesting of the later manuscripts is

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the Doxastarion of Jacobus Protopsaltes, or the Precentor
(d. 1789), as revised by Churmuzius (d. 1840), associated
with Chrysanthus in his reform of the Greek church
music. The manuscript consists of 280 leaves, 23 by 16
cm. The initials are in red and gold. The first section
of the volume (f. l-196 v ) contains the Proper of Saints
for the entire year ; there follow propers for the festivals
of the Triodion (Lent) and the Pentecostarion, etc. The
manuscript is in all probability a copy from the 2-volume
edition printed in 1859. Among the other nineteenth-
century manuscripts are five anthologies for the Vesper
services, or for those of Vespers and Lauds (one is a copy
of the first volume of the anthology published by Chur-
muzius iii 1824) , a copy of the Kalophonic Hirmologion,
and a fragment of a Sticherarion, beginning with the
Festival of St. Simeon Stylites (September 1) and break-
ing off with that of St. Catherine (November 25).

Together with last year's acquisition of the so-called
Hirmologion of John of Damascus, and a twelfth-century
hirmologion acquired several years ago, these Greek
liturgical manuscripts form a comprehensive beginning
in the collection of material which is attracting greater
interest among musical scholars.

The following list records a few of the miscellaneous Miscellaneous

... . . , . ,, P . , manuscripts.

foreign manuscripts acquired m the course or the year :

Missa de Requiem quattuor voeibus auctore Joanne a Cruce [Gio-
vanni Croee] clodiense. Anno Domini 1598. The score, with
basso continuo, in early 19th (?) century ms. From the collec-
tion of Carl Borromaus von Miltitz (17S0-1S45).

Concerto pour le clavecin ou piano forte avec accompagnement de
deux violons, 2 hautbois. 2 cors, viole et basse, composee par L.
Kozeluch. Manheim et Munich, Gotz [1785?]. The parts for
pfte. and orchestra in contemporary ms. B-flat major.

Sinfonia di [Franz Christoph] Neubauer. The parts for flute, 2
oboes, 2 horus, and strings in contemporary ms. F major.

Constantii Porte cremonensis Introitus primi toni in Festis Pluri-
morum Martyrum, a fr. Francisco Antonio Valotti min : con:
harmoncis numeris explicatus. Patavij, pridie kalendas oeto-
bris 1730. The score, with the basso continuo added by Vallotti,
in early 19th (?) century ms. There are eight introits for five
voices, the Introitus primi toni being followed by introits in
the second to eighth modes, dated Padua, August 1730 to July
1735. From the Miltitz collection.

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Fliesset tone geriihrter saiten. A sacred cantata for solo voices,
chorus, and orchestra, by [Christian Ehregott?] Weinlig. The
full score, with the vocal and instrumental parts, in contempo-
rary ms. Not listed by Held under Christian Ehregott or
Christian Theodor Weinlig.

Holographs The number of important holographs purchased in the

course of the year is not large; opportunities for such
purchases are getting fewer and the prices are mounting.
Four holographs that were acquired and are deserving of
particular mention all belonged, at some time or other, to
Clara Schumann. They consist of the following:

W. A. Mozart : A single sheet of 12-line oblong octavo
paper; containing the score of the entire fifth minuet,
from the set of five (Kochel 461), composed in Vienna in
1784 (for 2 violins, bass, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 bassoons),
and the first 8 measures of an incomplete and unpublished
sixth minuet. This holograph was once in the possession
of the Andre (Offenbach, Frankfurt) family; C. A.
Andre, in January, 1864, offered it as one of the prizes in
a lottery organized for the relief of " the oppressed
Schleswig-Holstein " ; the holograph still reposes in the
red cover, with gilt lettering, which Andre had made for
the lottery.

Robert Schumann : A single sheet of very strong 10-
line oblong quarto paper; containing sketches and more
or less extended fragments of various compositions;
among the longest is the "Landler," Op. 124 (Album
Leaves), No. 7, which is marked "20 October" and
"(1837)," whereas the thematic catalogue of Schumann's
works gives the year of composition as 1836 ; another one
of the longer pieces is the " Knight of the Hobbyhorse "
from the " Scenes of Childhood," Op. 15. The sheet,
with 17 fragments in all, served Schumann apparently as
a " shorthand " record of themes that flowed from his
pen with rapidity and that he proposed to develop later.
Johannes Brahms: Two double sheets of 9-line oblong
quarto paper; one containing the holograph of the song
" Herbstgef iihl " (3 pages), Op. 48, No. 7; the other that
of "Abenddammerung," Op. 49, No. 5 (4 pages). Both
songs were written in Vienna and are dated at the end
" den 6ten Mai 67 " — which was the day before Brahms'

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thirty-fourth birthday. This date is of interest, since
Friedlaender, in his book on Brahms' songs (English
edition, 1928), still writes about " Herbstgef uhl " that
" the time and place of composition are unknown " ; and
about "Abenddammerung " he says " date of composition
doubtful (1868?)." Apparently the songs — both of a
rather melancholy character — were composed at the same
time, but were assigned by Brahms to different groups of
songs. These holographs, with the exception of a few
minor details, correspond exactly with the published
versions. This, however, does not apply to the fourth
page of the double sheet containing " Herbstgef uhl," on
which is written the last part (30 measures) of the song
" Serenade," Op. 58, No. 8 ; the holograph ending differs
here radically from that of the published version; the
piano postlude has nine measures instead of five, and
closes in minor on a high chord with a fermata instead
of in major on a low, short chord. But the differences
extend further back and show that the song underwent
a thorough revision between the time it was composed
and the date of its publication, a fact apparently not
known to Friedlaender (who says of the song that " the
whole is a composition which occupies an exceptional
place among Brahms' songs"), nor revealed by Man-
dyczewski in the twenty-fourth volume (1926) of the
" Complete Edition " of Brahms. The texts of all three
of the songs are by Count Schack (1815-1894), whose
" Poems " were published in 1867. These are the only
ones of Schack's poems that Brahms set to music.

To the lists of the printed and manuscript tablatures Tabiatwes.
given in the reports for 1928 and 1929, the following
items, acquired during the past year, should be added :

1536 Hans Newsidler.

Ein newgeordent kiinstlich lautenbuch ; Erster tbeyl ;
Nurmberg, bey Joban Petreio.
1657 Jacinto Petti.

Guitar tablature. (Manuscript collection of dances and
Italian canzonets.)
1666 Du Buisson.

Suites, etc., for tbe viola da garaba. (Manuscript, partly
in tablature.)
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The first of these three items, purchased with funds
presented by the Friends of Music in the Library of
Congress, is a particularly welcome accession, in that it
will help to round out the Library's collection of German
lute tablatures, alread}^ comprising those of Judenkiinig
(1523), Kargel (1586), and the examples in tablature in-
cluded in Martin Agricola's " Musica instrumental
deudsch " (1530) and the Luscinius " Musurgia " (1536).
The German lute tablature, the most complicated and un-
wieldy of the various systems of notation devised for
that instrument, was abandoned by German lutenists in
favor of the French tablature at the close of the sixteenth
century; specimens of the German notation, whether
printed or manuscript, are consequently rarities of the
first order. That the younger Neusiedler was not rep-
resented in the remarkable collection of tablatures for-
merly in the possession of Doctor Wolffheim should be a
sufficient indication of the extreme scarcity of his works.
The " Lautenbuch " of 1536 is at once Neusiedler's earliest
production and the first music book issued from the
presses of Johann Petrejus, a pioneer among Nuremberg
music printers. The Library has secured only the first
part of the " Lautenbuch," a book of instructions for be-
ginners; the second part, also published in 1536 and de-
signed for more advanced students, is well nigh unob-
tainable, Eitner recording only two copies, both imper-
fect. The first pages of the " Lautenbuch " are devoted
to an explanation of the tablature, tuning, and technique,
and are illustrated by a folding diagram of the finger-
board. The practical part of the work, consisting of 78
pieces for study, progressively arranged, fills the larger
section of the volume. There are specimens of pure in-
strumental music; preludes (Preambel) and dances (Hof-
tanze and " Welsche " Tanze) ; more numerous are the
arranged part songs, after originals by the Flemish mas-
ters Alexander Agricola and Josquin de Pres, and by
Dietrich, Grefinger, Hofhaimer, Isaac, Senfl, Stoltzer,
and other German composers of the period. On blank
pages at the end of the Library's copy, a contemporary
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"• Salltarelo del wassa mezo " and " Nun gruess dich got
meyn Truserlein."

The Italian guitar tablature listed under the year
1657 is a manuscript of 46 leaves, 22 by 13^2 cm. The
canceled signature of Jacinto Petti, of Radicondoli (a
small village near Siena, in Tuscany), appears on the
cover; below it is that of Mariana Pelori, presumably a
later owner of the collection. Petti's signature is re-
peated on folio 2 V -. The volume contains a rich assort-
ment of dance pieces (gagliarde, balli di Mantova, ciac-
cone, passacagli, romanesche, spagnoletti, etc.), together
with accompaniments for, or arrangements of, five Ital-
ian canzonets. On folio 20 v - is the date " a di 21 lulio
1657." The notation employed is in part stenographic

(the so-called " estilo italiano," utilizing both capitals
and small letters, with and without rhythmic signs), in
part a combination of the stenographic system and the
conventional Italian tablature with its 5-line staff. At
the beginning of the manuscript are directions for timing
and an explanation of the " alphabet," at the end a brief
note on mensural notation. The Petti collection is the
first manuscript guitar tablature to come to the Library.
The Du Buisson manuscript (1666), containing only
seven pages in tablature, and hence of secondary interest
to the student of notation, is in certain other respects the
most interesting item of the three. The miniature
volume consists of 90 leaves, 15*4 by 10 cm. Four suites
for the viola da gamba by Du Buisson occupy folios 2-22.
They are written in the usual notation, with bass- and
alto-clefs ; each suite consists of five movements — prelude,
allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. A prelude
for viola da gamba, also by Du Buisson, follows on folios
22 v -25; it is written in French viol tablature and de-
velops the thematic material of the prelude from the
third suite (f. 12 v ). At the end of the volume is a
scheme for tuning the viol (in tablature), followed by a
series of rules for bowing and fingering. Detailed di-
rections for finding Du Buisson's Paris lodgings " in the
rue Fort-1'Eveque near the quay of the Vallee de Misere "

(quartier St. Opportune) are noted inside the front

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cover ; on folio 1 is the date " le premier jour de septem-
bre 1666." Musical lexicographers have neglected the
violist Du Buisson ; he is mentioned, however, by
Grillet, Van der Straeten, and Vidal, as a gambist of the
royal chamber music under Louis XIV. La Laurencie,
in an article on the Forqueray family, refers to pieces for
the viol by Du Buisson, published in 1674. Brenet, in
her study of early French concert life, quotes a con-
temporary account of a concert which must have taken
place early in 1680 at which Du Buisson, with the
violists Ronsin and Pierrot, performed a trio for three
bass viols, " fort extraordinaire, et le premier qu'on
eust jamais fait de cette sorte." The " Pieces de viole "
of the elder Forqueray include a chaconne entitled " La
Buisson " and named, perhaps, for the composer who
figures in the Library's manuscript. The violist Du
Buisson is probably not the same as the Du Buisson
(d. 1712) mentioned in Titon du Tillet's " Le Parnasse
francois" (1732) and by La Borde (1780) as a " f ameux
buveur," the " Orphee de nos jours," the composer of
seven books of "Airs serieux et a boire " (1686-92).
The Du Buisson manuscript also contains a group of
dance tunes for a treble instrument and a series of hunt-
ing calls and fanfares for horn or trumpet, a curious and
interesting document which* students of the history of
hunting music will not want to overlook. These sec-
tions have no apparent connection with the Du Buisson
suites for viola da gamba, and their discussion here
would lead too far.
y.runer-Newiand The Librarv was fortunate this year in being able to

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acquire, as a single purchase, the entire musical library
of William Augustine Newland (1813-1901), Philadel-
phia composer, organist, and choirmaster. The Newland
collection includes both American and European im-
prints, ranging, for the most part, from 1750 to 1850,
and a considerable number of manuscripts. Two thou-
sand one hundred and eighty-three items (including 366
second copies) have already been sorted, searched, and
accessioned ; this material is now being catalogued, and
it is estimated that the final total will be in the neigh-
borhood of 2,500 volumes and pieces. The purchase of

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the Newland collection is the largest en bloc purchase
of music undertaken by the Library since 1912, when no
less than 16,320 items were acquired in a single lot. In
view of the number and interest of its early American
imprints and manuscripts, it may well be regarded as one
of the most significant additions to the Library's music
collection in recent years.

William A. Newland, to whose industry and historical
interest the assembling and preserving of the collection
are due, was born in London November 2, 1813. Before
coming to the United States in 1832, he had been given
some instruction in singing and violin playing and had
determined on a musical career. Shortly after his arrival
in this country, Newland settled in Philadelphia, where
he began the study of the organ under Benjamin Cross
and Leopold Meignen and soon established connections
with other Catholic musicians of the city. In September,
1834, Newland was appointed organist of St. Michael's
in Philadelphia. On resigning as organist of St. John's
at Manayunk October 1, 1897, he could look back on more
than 60 years in the service of Catholic Church music. In
addition to his activities as organist and choirmaster,
Newland found time for composing, conducting, editing,
publishing, and teaching ; in 1845 he assisted at the first
performances of Fry's " Leonora," and in 1863 conducted
the Richings Opera Co. during its first season. As choir-
master and as editor Newland distinguished himself by
his lively interest in early American sacred music. He
revived the sacred compositions of Benjamin Carr (1769-
1831), founder of the Musical Fund Society, of Phila-
delphia, and one of the most influential figures in
American musical life during the first quarter of the
nineteenth century; choral works by Carr and Raynor
Taylor (1747-1825) were reprinted in Newland's "Col-
lection of sacred music " (1850), evidence that even at so
comparatively late a date the serious productions of our
early composers were still enjoying a certain favor. The
Newland holographs have not as yet been accessioned
and catalogued ; they include the original manuscripts of
many of his own compositions, published and unpub-
lished, as well as copies and arrangements, in his hand,

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of the works of his Philadelphia predecessors and con-
temporaries. A detailed biography of Newland, by
Francis X. Reuss, with a portrait and a list of his com-
positions and arrangements, appears in the Records of
the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
(vol. 13, 1902).

An important place among the manuscripts of the
Newland collection is that occupied by the holographs of
Charles (i. e., HeinrichChristoph) Zeuner, tenth president
of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, regarded
in his day as " one of the first organ players in the
country." Zeuner was born at Eisleben (Saxony), Sep-
tember 20, 1795. Several of his early compositions, writ-
ten before his departure for America, are dedicated to
residents of Erfurt, and it seems probable that Zeuner
himself spent some time there. His first publications,
dances and variations for the piano (1822?), bear an
Erfurt imprint. The date of Zeuner's arrival in this
country (generally given as 1824) is uncertain. By 1830,
however, he had established himself in Boston and had
already attained a certain prominence in the musical
life of the city. On September 24, 1830, he was elected
organist to the Handel and Haydn Society; two years
later honorary membership in the society was conferred
on him, and on May 28, 1838, he was made its president.
Charles C. Perkins, writing on the society's early history,
questions that President Zeuner felt at ease in his new
position or worked in harmony with the board, adding
that it would have been wiser if some other mode of
recognizing his signal services had been taken. On Feb-
ruary 7, 1839, Zeuner resigned his office at the board's
request, and, on being reelected organist later in the sea-
son, declined further connection with the society ; he left
Boston for Philadelphia, where he had accepted a church
position. " Zeuner's name stands identified with the his-
tory of music in Boston, for he has contributed mate-
rially towards elevating our style of church music by his
publications," writes H. T. Hach, commenting on
Zeuner's departure in a review of the season of 1839-40
in his Musical Magazine.

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Zeuner's most significant publications are : " Church
music, consisting of new and original anthems, motets
and chants " (1831) ; " The American harp, being a col-
lection of new and original church music " (1832; 2d ed.,
1844); "The ancient lyre" (1833), a volume of hymn
tunes, original and arranged; and "Organ voluntaries"
(1840). In addition to these productions, Zeuner pub-
lished a quantity of popular songs and piano pieces, and
contributed to Lowell Mason's " Lyra sacra " (1832) and
other similar collections. The Boston Pearl and Literary
Gazette printed no less than. 18 of his compositions dur-
ing the winter of 1835-36. His most ambitious work,
" The feast of tabernacles, an oratorio in two parts," the
words by the Rev. Henry Ware, jr., of Cambridge, is
said to have been composed in 1832, and was first per-
formed in its entirety by the Boston Academy of Music
at the Odeon, May 1, 1837. The choruses from "The
feast of tabernacles," without the recitatives, solos, en-
sembles, and instrumental accompaniments, were pub-
lished in Boston, in 1837, for the use of the chorus of the
academy. With the Zeuner holographs the Library has
acquired a complete vocal score of the oratorio, the
choruses clipped from the printed score, the remainder
in the hand of a copyist; and a complete set of the
orchestra parts, likewise in a copyist's hand.

In Philadelphia Zeuner served as organist at St.
Andrew's and at the Arch Street Presbyterian church,
but, disappointed by his failure to receive the recognition
that he must have regarded as his due, seems to have
lived in relative obscurity. A contemporary reports
that he exhibited a peculiarity of demeanor, indicating
at times slight aberration of mind, often amounting to
great depression of spirits and a singular aversion to
music. Some time after 1851 he removed from Phila-
delphia to Camden, N. J., where he shunned society,
preferring to be alone. He died by his own hand No-
vember 17, 1857. After Zeuner's death his library came
into Newland's possession. A short biography of the
composer is included in Frank J. Metcalf's American
Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music (1925).

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Zeuner was not previously represented in the Library's
collection of American manuscripts. The following list
of the more important items among the Zeuner holo-
graphs now acquired reveals him as a more serious, a
more versatile, and a more prolific composer than the
catalogue of his published works suggests.

CHORAL WORKS WITH ORCHESTRA

Missa (no. Ill in C minor). Dedicated to the Handel and Haydn
Society, Boston (North America). Full score, partly in the
composer's holograph. A relatively early work (written be-
tween 1824 and 1830). Not mentioned by Perkins and Dwight.

Praise ye the Lord! Fourth of July cantata, 1838. Full score.
Only the unaccompanied choruses of this and the two follow-
ing cantatas were published.

Psalm 97. [The Lord reigneth]. Full score.

The thunderstorm, a cantata; recitativo, aria and chorus. Full
score. The text of the recitative is from William Cullen
Bryant's "A forest hymn" (1825), that of the aria and chorus
is Mrs. Hemans's " The thunderstorm," from her " Hymns for
childhood" (1827).

WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA AND OTHER INSTRUMENTAL COMBINATIONS

American pot pourri. Parts for solo horn (or violin) and orches-
tra. The composition is based on popular melodies of the day.

Concert piece for clarinet and orchestra. Full score (unfinished).
The composition is based on popular melodies and introduces
" The last rose of summer " and " Garry Owen," with varia-
tions.

Organ concerto [no. 1]. Full score. (Organ concertos by Zeuner,
the solo part performed by the composer, were included in the
programs of the Handel and Haydn Society, November 21, 1830,
and May 11, 1834.)

Organ concerto (no. 2). Full score.

Pot pourri fur post horn. Full score.

Pot pourri pour le cor in mi (E). Full score (unfinished). Ac-
companiment for string trio. The composition is based on pop-
ular melodies and introduces "My lodging is on the cold
ground," " Bonnie Doon," and " Robin Adair."

Rondo polacca for horn in F and orchestra. Parts, partly in the
composer's holograph.

Rondo polacca pour le cor in Es. Score and parts.

Variations in A major for pianoforte and orchestra. Parts.

Variations on: [Home] sweet home. Parts for solo horn and
strings.

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FOR BAND

Governor Everett's quickstep. Full score. An arangement for
pianoforte was published in The Boston pearl December 26, 1835.

Masonic march in E-flat major. Full score. The composition
was announced by the American traveller (Boston) October 5.
1830, in the following paragraph : " Mr. Zeuner, whose new
Centennial March has received general commendation for its
elaborate composition and its rich and powerful harmony, has
composed a new march for the approaching ceremonies of lay-
ing the corner stone of the Masonic Temple in Tremont Street
[October 14, 1830]. It is entitled "The Grand Masonic March,"
and is said to be a production abounding with brilliant and
effective passages, and not less worthy of popular favor than
its predecessor. Mr. Zeuner is liberal in his exertions to en-
hance the interest of passing festivals, and we trust they will
not go unrewarded. The march is in the hands of the Brigade
Band, who will perform it on the above occasion, we have no
doubt, with credit to themselves and its accomplished author.
We hope our neutrality is not committed by thus acknowledging
merit and complimenting genius. We don't know that there is
any more masonry than antimasonry in music." An arrange-
ment for pianoforte was published in 1832 as Cornerstone
March, by C. Bradlee, Boston.

Springfield march (a quickstep), composed for the celebration of
the two hundredth anniversary of Springfield, Mass. [May 25,
1836], dedicated to the Springfield Musical Society. Full score.

FOR THE ORGAN

Fantasias and fugues. 22 manuscripts, containing 19 different
fantasias, etc., and 18 fugues.

Organ voluntaries. Part 1. Incomplete manuscript of " 165
interludes and short preludes, in which are introduced all the
various keys used in modern church music," published as part 1
of Zeuner's organ voluntaries, by Parker & Ditson, Boston.
Several unpublished numbers are included.

Variations (thema, hymn: Brattle street). Followed by a second
series of variations on the original hymn tune " Righini."

FOR THE PIANOFORTE

Introduction and variations on the national anthem Hail

Columbia.
Variationen fiir das piano forte fiber das thema Wer ein liebchen

hat gefunden, etc. Two copies, one dated 1824. Theme from

Mozart's Die entfiihrung aus dem serail.
Variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano. Two copies, one for

pianoforte 2 hands, the other for violin and pianoforte.
Variations on the American national song: Yankee doodle.

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SONGS AND DUETS

(Dates in parentheses following the title of a composition refer
to its first appearance on the programs of the Handel and Haydn
Society.)

Hushed is the voice of Judah's mirth ; aria for alto or basso.
Organ or pianoforte accompaniment. (April 28, 1833.)

Sechs lieder von Theodor Korner in musik gesetzt. Pianoforte
accompaniment.

O all ye nations, praise the Lord; duetto (tenor and soprano).
Organ or pianoforte accompaniment. (May 17, 1835.)

O cease, my wandering soul; a sacred cavatina. Organ or piano-
forte accompaniment. (May 11, 1834.)

O happy is the man ; a sacred canzone for tenor. Full score.
Orchestra accompaniment. Published with organ accompani-
ment in The American harp.

Praise ye Jehovah's name; aria sacra (organo obbligato). Two
copies. (June 1, 1834.)

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous ; aria di tenore p : accomp :
d'organo solo. (Sketch.) (March 2, 1834.)

The swift declining day; a canzonetta (sacred). Organ or piano-
forte accompaniment. (June 1, 1834.)

There is an hour of peaceful rest ; treble duetto. Organ accom-
paniment. (April 20, 1834.)

Wallhaide ; eine ballade von Theodor Korner. Pianoforte accom-
paniment.

Among the many other Zeuner holographs is a miscel-
laneous collection of hymns and anthems, original and
arranged, the manuscript consisting of 177 pages,
written between 1824 and 1830; only a small part of its
contents has been published. Another manuscript worthy
of special mention is a collection of the composer's first
exercises in thorough bass, dated Eisleben, September 15,
1807. In addition to the holographs of Zeuner's own
works there are many copies and arrangements, in his
hand, of compositions by Beethoven, Callcott, Crotch,
Haydn, F. A. Hiller, Mozart, Paer, Rossini, Oliver Shaw,
and others, including the full score of an arrangement of
" Washington's march " for band. Of unusual interest
are the full scores of a number of Zeuner's arrangements
for the Handel and Haydn Society. Vocal scores of most
of the shorter selections in the society's early repertory
were published in the four volumes of its " Collection of
sacred music" (1821-1832). These selections were actu-

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ally performed with orchestra, however, and during his
10 years of association with the society, Zeuner arranged
accompaniments for a number of them. The Library has
acquired his scores of six such arrangements, together
with his accompaniments for four excerpts from Neu-
komm's oratorio "David," as first performed by the
society February 22, 1835.

There remains for consideration a number of miscel-
laneous manuscripts, American and European. Easily
the most interesting item among the former is a collec-
tion of original compositions and arrangements for the
piano or harpsichord, once a part of the library of
Benjamin Carr. The manuscript consists of 40 leaves
and is in Carr's holograph from folio 5 to the end. The
composers represented are Corelli, Edelmann, Handel,
Paradies, and Domenico Scarlatti. The volume also
contains a harpsichord duet (perhaps an original compo-
sition by Carr) and a " Medley overture," based on songs
and dance tunes popular in this country during the seven-
teen-nineties and doubtless arranged by Carr himself.
Among the melodies introduced are La belle Catherine,
The yellow-haired laddie, Ma chere amie (Hook), My
friend and pitcher (from Shield's "The poor soldier"),
" Haydn's minuet," and The new German Spa dance.
Carr was previously represented in the Library's collec-
tion of American holographs by a single manuscript in
a copyist's hand, with autograph title and dedication.
Mention may also be made of a group of six American
manuscripts (ca. 1795-ca. 1865), containing popular
songs and dance tunes arranged for the violin or flute.

A few of the more interesting European manuscripts
in the Zeuner-Newland collection are listed on page 193
of this report among other foreign manuscripts acquired
during the year.

The Zeuner-Newland collection contains no less than
1,000 "Americana," including 83 items published before
1820. The first place among the earlier publications must
be accorded to certain previously unknown piano sonatas
by James Hewitt (1770-1827), in his day the most dis-
tinguished musician in New York City, leader of the Old

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American Co.'s orchestra, composer, concert manager, and
publisher. This find is a particularly fortunate one, for.
though a fair number of Hewitt's minor compositions
have been preserved, there has been until now little trace
of his more ambitious work. The two Hewitt publica-
tions acquired by the Library are his " Three sonatas for
the piano forte . . . dedicated to Miss Semple . . . Op. 5.
New York, printed for the author, and sold at Carr's
Musical Repository, William Street, and at Gilfert &
Co.'s Musical Magazine, Broadway" (1796?) and his
" The 4th of July; a grand military sonata for the piano
forte, composed in honor of that glorious day and dedi-
cated to Mdlle. Sansay . . . New York, printed and sold
at J. Hewitt's Musical Repository, No. 59 Maiden Lane,
and at D. Bowen's Columbian Museum, Boston " (ca.
1805). Apparently neither publication was known to
Sonneck when he compiled his Bibliography of Early
.-,< < -ular American Music (1905). Of almost equal interest
is a copy of Benjamin Carr's "Masses, vespers, litanies,
hymns, psalms, anthems, and motetts. Compiled, se-
lected, and arranged for the use of the Catholic churches
in the United States," the second collection of Catholic
church music published in this country. Metcalf, in his
American Psalmody (1917), mentions only the copy of
the first edition (1805) in the library of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. The Library of Congress copy,
which lacks the title-page and preliminary matter, corre-
sponds closely to the copy of the " new edition with an
appendix " (after 1810), not recorded by Metcalf, in the
library of the American Catholic Historical Society of
Philadelphia. The 6-page appendix (pp. 127-132) in the
Library of Congress copy is apparently unique. The
volume contains reprints of compositions by Arne,
Arnold, Barbandt, Blake, Byrd, Greene, Handel, Jom-
melli, Kent, Kozeluh, Madan, Paxton, Pleyel, Purcell,
and Webbe, with original contributions by the Americans
Carr, Schetky, and Taylor. The Library's copy is doubt-
less that used by Newland in compiling the " Collection
of sacred music " already referred to. Another American
rarity is a copy of Bacon's edition of Beethoven's sonata

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for piano four hands, Op. 6 (ca. 1815), previously re-
garded as the first American publication of a Beethoven
composition. Dr. Otto Kinkeldey first called attention
to it in his essay " Beginnings of Beethoven in America '
(in The Musical Quarter!)/, April, 1927), reproducing the
title-page in facsimile after the copy in the library of the
New York Historical Society, then believed to be unique,
and expressing surprise that Bacon should have risked
publishing an entire Beethoven composition so early.
Bacon, however, had already introduced Beethoven to
Philadelphia music lovers in a slightly earlier publica-
tion, of which there is a copy in the Zeuner-Newland
collection, " Twenty four sonatas for the piano forte, or
Elegant extracts from Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Stei-
belt, Kozeluch, Pleyel, and other esteemed authors, with
preludes by N. B. Challoner," also issued ca. 1815. That
the publication of the " Twenty four sonatas " preceded
that of Beethoven's Op. 6 is indicated by the difference in
the publisher's plate numbers (91 and 98). The two
Beethoven " sonatas " included in the earlier publication
are no. 1 of the " 12 Contretanze " and no. 4 of the " 7
Landlerische Tanze." Until further discoveries are
made Bacon's ''Twenty four sonatas " will have to stand
as the first American publication to contain compositions
by Beethoven. Other early American imprints deserving
special mention are 21 complete numbers and 3 incomplete
numbers (including 2 duplicates) from vol. 2, 3, and 4
of Carr's "Musical journal" (1800-1803), with an
" Index to the 2d vol. of the Musical journal, Vocal sec-
tion," an " Index to the 3d vol. of the Musical journal,
Instrumental section," and a " List of subscribers " ; and
a copy of " Hail, Columbia," as published by Carr in
1798, in what Sonneck, on p. 189 of his Miscellaneous
Studies in the History of Music (1921), has called the
second issue of the first edition. This copy of "Hail.
Columbia," appears to be earlier than any of the others
in the Library; Washington's (?) portrait, pasted into
the caption-title of this edition, has unfortunately been
removed.

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The 666 European imprints in the Zeuner-Newland
collection include 165 items published before 1800, be-
ginning with the first edition of C. P. E. Bach's " Prus-
sian sonatas" (1743). There is an exceptionally fine
collection of the works of the Viennese masters in first
and early editions, including the extremely rare first
edition of Beethoven's Op. 1 with the list of subscribers
(1795). Some of the more noteworthy issues are listed
on pages 210 and 215 of this report material obtained
from other sources.
neck flute book. I n addition to the American manuscripts acquired
through the Zeuner-Newland purchase, an American
manuscript with popular tunes for the flute has been
obtained from another source. The volume consists of
23 plus 158 pages, 21% by 17 cm., and is bound in sheep-
skin. The title-page and pages 2 and 3 of the first sec-
tion are lacking; the title has left its impression on
the verso of the flyleaf, however, and read : " Henry
Beck's Flute book." The 300 tunes contained in the
manuscript, as well as the instructions, " lessons," and
" dictionary ,: which precede them (this preliminary
matter apparently from an English source, Bland's
" Compleat instructor for the German flute"), are me-
ticulously copied in formal script and are the work of i
single writer. At the end of the volume is a carelessly
compiled index (10 pp.) in another hand. A third hand
is responsible for the following penciled note on the
flyleaf : " Copyed by Henry Beck in the year 1786." This
date is perhaps that at which the copying was begun;
the inclusion of several tunes which are not known to
have been current until after 1790 suggests that the note
does not apply to the volume as a whole. Should it
eventually be established that the tunes in question are
actually earlier than has hitherto been suspected, Beck's
versions will acquire a new importance, and the date
" 1786 " will become more plausible. For the most part,
the tunes are for a single flute, unaccompanied, though
there are several pieces with continuo and a number of
duets. The greater part of the contents is drawn, of
course, from English sources. There are the inevitable

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English songs by Arne and Hook; airs from Shield's
"The poor soldier " (a favorite with George Washington
and the most successful of the popular English operas
produced in this country during the post-Revolutionary
period) and from several of its most formidable rivals,
Arnold's "The castle of Andalusia," Dibdin's "The
quaker," Shield's " Rosina," and the pasticcio " Love in
a village " ; ballad-opera tunes, such as the Bath medley,
the Black joke, The lass of Patie's mill, and Ye nymphs
and swains; and numerous specimens of British military
music, including marches named for British generals
actively engaged in the War of the Revolution — Gen-
erals Knyphausen, O'Hara, and Philipps. Such pieces
as the "March in The deserter" (Monsigny), "Maggie
Lawder with variations," and the perennial " Fisher's
Minuet " are seldom lacking in the collections of tunes
which accompany the contemporary English tutors for
the fife, flute, or violin. Handel is represented by airs
from "Ariadne" (Arianna) and the Water music, the
March from "Judas Maccabaeus.'' the Dead march from
"Saul," and "Handel's Clarinet." Beck has included
two slightly different versions of the extremely popular
English tune " Successful campaign," the first (p. 13)
under its proper title, the second (p. 151) headed
" Susan's favourite " and named, perhaps, for his wife or
sister, or for some one of his acquaintances. A French
tune which enjoyed a considerable vogue in this country
is the ballad "How imperfect is expression' 1 (D'une
maniere imparfaite) ; aside from its appearance in Beck's
album it occurs in the " Twenty four American country
dances as danced by the British during their winter quar-
ters at Philadelphia, New York & Charles Town " (1785),
in Alexander Reinagle's " Collection of favorite songs "
(1789), and in the "Bellamy Band book" (1799), de-
scribed in the report for 1927. Among the genuinely
American pieces are Clifton Springs, Emerick's Federal
march, Genl. Washington's march, Genl. Wayne's march,
the Georgia Grenadiers march, Liberty boys, the Penn-
sylvania quick march, the Philadelphia march, the Presi-
dent's march, and Stoney Point. A curiosity is the tune

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headed " Smile, America," adapted from Arne's " Rule,
Britannia ! ,: The compiler of the collection may perhaps
be identified with the " Henry Beck, merchant, 30 Race
[or Sassafras] st.," who figures in the Philadelphia di-
rectories from 1797 until 1817. "Henry Beck's Flute
book " is the most extensive collection of its kind that
the Library has thus far succeeded in acquiring; it
should prove an invaluable index to the music popular
in this country during the last decades of the eighteenth
century.
Early imprints. Only the most important of the earlier imprints are
listed here.

Melodiae Prvdentianae et in Virgilivm magna ex parte nvper
natae, & per Nicolaum Fabrum typographum expressae. Lip-
siae, 1533, mense Aprili. This collection, intended for use at
the Thomasschule in Leipzig, contains 20 Latin odes set to
music for four voices, some anonymous, the others by Lucas
Hordisch and Sebastian Forster, Leipzig amateurs, and is the
first publication of its kind to include musical settings of
Vergil.

Ein newgeordent kiinstlich lautenbuch / in zwen theyl getheylt.
Der erst fur die anfahenden schuler . . . Getruckt zu Nurm-
berg bey Johan Petreio / durch angebung vnd verlegung /
Hansen Newsidler lutinisten / biirtig vo Pressburck jetzt
burger zu Nurmberg. Anno tausent funff hundert vn sechs
vnd dreyssig. Privilege (dated Vienna, May 15, 1535), preface,
and index. A full description of this item appears on p. 190
of this report.

Der erste theil Geistlicher lieder / auff den choral oder gemeine
kirchen-melodey durchauss gerichtet / vnd mit funff stimmen
componiret / durch Iohannem Eccardum Mulhusinum, F. D. zu
Preussen / &c. musicum vnd vice capellmeistern . . . Konigs-
berg, G. Osterberger, 1597. Dedication, preface, complimentary
Latin verses, and index. The Erster theil contains 23 lieder " de
tempore & festis." An Ander theil was published in 1597 by
Osterberger. The five parts complete, the Altus in contempo-
rary ms.

Geistliche lieder auff gewohnliche preussische kirchen-melodeyen
durchauss gerichtet / und mit funff stimmen componiret durch
Johannem Eccardum Mulhusinum Thuringum vnd Johannem
Stobaeum Grudentinum Borusum, beyde chur : und fiirstliche
Brandeb: capellmeister in Preussen . . . Dantzigk, G. Rheten,
1634. An augmented edition of the Geistliche lieder of 1597,
published after Eccard's death and containing 102 composi-
tions, 59 by Eccard, 43 by Stobaeus. Complimentary verses,
in Latin and German, and index. Each part-book has its dis-

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tinctive preliminary matter, the Discantus including a brief
foreword by Stobaeus, the Bassus a " Vorrede des ehrwiirdigen
ministerii," dated " Konigsberg, am tage Bartholomaei. Anno
M.DC.XXXIV. [Aug. 24, 1634.] " From the library of Dr.
"Werner Wolffheim. The five parts complete.

Paraphrase des Pseavmes de David, en vers frangois, par Antoine
Godeav . . . Nouuellement mis en musique ou chant spirituel
. . . par Antoine Lardenois. [Geneve?] Imprime aux depens
de l'autheur, 1655. From the library of Raymond Toinet.

Lps Psaumes en vers frangois, retouchez sur l'ancienne version, par
M. V. Conrart . . . Paris, A. Cellier, 1679. The melodies are
those of the Genevan Psalter. From the library of Raymond
Toinet.

. . . Messa, Salmi, e Responsori per li defonti a otto voci pieni,
di Gio. Paolo Colonna, maestro di capella in S. Petronio di
Bologna, e principe della Accademia de filarmonici. Opera
sesta . . . Bologna, G. Monti, 1685. Dedication and index. The
ten parts complete.

... II secondo libro de Salmi breui a otto voci, con vno 6 due
organi se piace, con il Tedeum ... da Gio. Paolo Colonna . . .
Opera settima. Bologna, G. Monti, 1686. Dedication and index.
The ten parts complete. Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-95), a
pupil of Abbatini and Benevoli in Rome, and in turn the teacher
of Giovanni Bononcini, was a native and resident of Bologna
and one of the founders of its celebrated Accademia filar-
monica. Riemann calls him " one of the most important of
the seventeenth-century Italian composers of church music."
This year's purchases, and others made within the last few
years, have brought to the Library an unusually large collection
of Colonna's work, comprising his Op. 4 (1682), Op. 6 (1685),
Op. 7 (1686), Op. 8 (16S7), and Op. 12 (1694), all complete
and in the original editions.

. . . Salmi concertati a'tre voci con violini & beneplacito, del padre
Francesco Antonio Vrio, mastro di capella nella Chiesa dei
Frari di Venetia. Opera seconda . . . Bologna, M. Siluani, 1697.
The parts for Canto, Alto, Basso, Violino primo, and Violino
secondo, lacking the Organo and the Violine o tiorba. Dedica-
tion and index. Urio is best remembered in connection with a
Te Deum, formerly ascribed to him and utilized by Handel in
several of his major works. Modern critics have weakened
Urio's claim to the composition and tend to regard it as Han-
del's own work. Eitner mentions only one copy* of Urio's Op. 2,
that at the Liceo musicale, Bologna.

Pieces de viole, composees par Mr. Marais, ordinaire de la musique
de la chambre du roy. Livre second. Amsterdam, E. Roger
& M. C. Le Cene [172-?]. The basso continuo pai't only; the
Library has the viol part of Marais's Livre II in the original
edition (Paris, 1701), as well as the parts of his Livre I (Paris,
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1686-89) and a modern transcript of his Livre IV (Paris, 1717),
in score.

Sei sonate per cembalo che all'Augusta Maesta di Federico II,
re di Prussia, d. d. d. 1'autore Carlo Filippo Emanuele Bach,
musico di camera di S : M. Norimberga, B : Schmid [1743]. Dedi-
cation. The first edition of the so-called " Prussian sonatas,"
Philipp Emanuel's first published compositions in sonata form.
Wotquenne no. 48. Following the Verzeichnis des musikalischen
nachlasses, Bitter, and Barclay Squire, 1743 is given as the year
of publication; Wotquenne (following Forkel's Musikalischer
almanach for 17S2?) prefers 1742.

'L Endimione. Serenata. Del signore abbate Pietro IMetastasio
Romano. La musica del signore D. Nicolao Sabatini Napolitano.
Si come fu pubblicamente rappresentata, in sostegno d'una
carita, dalle dame e da i cavalieri che costituiscono l'Accademia
di musica in Dubblino, l'anno 1758. Dubblino, G. Sleater, 1758.
The libretto, Italian and English text on opposite pages. The
names of the amateur performers ara noted in the margins ;
among them is that of Lady Caroline Russell (1743-1811),
later duchess of Marlborough. The Dublin Academy of music,
founded in 1757 by Lord Mornington and Kane O'Hara, held its
concerts at Fishamble street Music hall. Dr. Grattan Flood
writes that " all the performers were amateurs, ladies and gen-
tlemen of the first rank, and the Academy can claim the credit
for having been the first to introduce ladies into the chorus."
The Academy's brief existence ended in 1765.

Journal hebdomadaire, ou Recueil d'airs choisis dans les operas
comiques . . . avec accompagnement de violon et basse chiffree
pour le clavecin . . . [Ve vol.] Paris, La Chevardiere ; etc.
[1786], Engraved title-page, " Moreau in. et fecit 1786." The
volume includes excerpts from operas by Philidor, Monsigny,
Gossec, Gretry, and others. The Library also has the volumes
of the Journal hebdomadaire for 1764 (a reissue?), 1767, and
1780.

[Italian songs.] Binder's title. A collection of 14 Italian arias
and " favorite songs " in full and skeleton score, issued by
various London publishers between 1768 and about 1785. On
the first page the autograph of Benjamin Carr. The com-
posers represented are J. C. Bach (an aria from his Artaxerxes
and "The favourite songs in the opera Carattaco [no. II] "),
Giordani (7),^rluck, Gretry (''The favourite songs in the opera
Zemira e Azore"), Rauzzini, Sacchini, and Storace.

[Periodical Italian songs, no. 1-37. London, J. Bland, 1773?-
87?] With two exceptions the numbers are in full score. Num-
bers 1-11 are paged consecutively ; the series-title, "A periodical
Italian song. no. . . .," begins with no. 18. The volume lacks
numbers 29 and 31 ; no. 3 is incomplete. On the first page the
autograph of Benjamin Carr. Tbe composers represented are

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Alessandri, Anfossi (3), Bianchi (2), Borghi, Cimarosa (2),
Colla, Kalkbrenner. Mengozzi, Misliweczek, Naumann (4), Pai-
siello (3), Piccinni (2), Prati. Rauzzini, Sacchini (2), Sarti
(6), Tozzi. and anonym! (2). In many respects the scries
parallels the French Journal d'ariettes italiennes (Paris. Bail-
l(>ux. 1779- ). and a number of arias appear to have been
published in both collections at about the same time. Only one
of the 35 numbers acquired by the Library is to be found in the
British Museum catalogue.

Musikalische unterhaltungen. Erstes quartal, von Neujahr bis
Ostern 1775. Leipzig, A. F. Bohine [1775]. A miscellaneous
collection of songs and pfte. pieces. The song tests are, without
exception, from Carl Wilhelni Banner's Lyrische bluhmeulese
(Leipzig, 1774-78). The foreword, signed " Der verf asser " and
dated '"Leipzig, den ersten januar. 1775," throws no light on the
identity of the anonymous compiler. There is a temptation,
however, to suspect that Johann Adam Hiller may have been
responsible for the publication. Not only is the collection very
similar to Killer's Wochentlicher musikalischer zeitvertreib
(Leipzig, 1759-60), also published anonymously, but Ramler,
in the preface, to the first five books of his anthology (1774),
expresses the hope that Hiller will set at least a part of its
contents to music. " Vielleicht wird der vortreffliche komponist
[Hiller], der Weissens komische oper [Der teufel ist los] und
viele seiner lieder in musik gesetzt hat, diese arbeit liber sich
nehmen, und entweder alle diese stiicke mit melodien versehen,
oder diejenigen wahlen, die den gesang am liebsten annehmen."
Neither Eitner nor Friedlaender mentions the Musikalische
unterhaltungen ; there is, however, a copy in the British
Museum.

Solfeges d'ltalie avec la basse chiffree, composes par Leo, Durante,
Scarlatti, Hasse, Porpora, Mazzoni, Caffaro, David Perez, &c. . . .
recueillis par les Srs. Levesque & Beche, ordinaires de la
musique de Sa Majeste. [3. ed.] Paris, Cousineau ; etc.
[17S0?]. With a catalogue of Cousineau's publications. The
following announcement of this edition appeared in the Esprit
des journaux for Jan. 17S0: "Get ouvrage [est] le plus complet
& le meilleur qui existe en ce genre . . . Dans cette nouvelle
edition les auteurs ont rectifie toutes les fautes qui s'etoient
gliss6es dans celle de 1772 ; ils ont substitue de nouveaux mor-
ceaux a ceux qui avoient paru trop anciens, & out gradue les
legons dans un ordre plus naturel. L'ouvrage est compose de
300 planches & de 226 legons." Not mentioned by Eitner, who
describes only the 4th edition.

VI fugen von Hendel [!] fur componisten, organisten und lieb-
haber der hohern musik. Darmstadt, 1787. A reprint i>f the
Six fugues for the organ or harpsichord (Loudon, Walsh, 1735).
Not mentioned by Eitner.

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Le tout ensemble pour le forte-piano ou clavecin, avec accom-
pagnemens ... no. l[-36]. Londres, J. Bland [17897-93?]
A periodical publication containing duos, trios, etc., both original
compositions and arrangements. Tbe parts for pfte. (2 vol.),
and violin (or flute) and violoncello, etc. (1 vol. each). Vol. 3
of the pfte. part (no. 25-36) is lacking. The collection contains
an early edition of the Mozart pfte. trio in G major (Kochel
496) and three Haydn trios for pfte., flute and violoncello, Op.
59 (Pohl h, 11-13). The title of the first of the Haydn
trios includes the following " advertisement " : " This & the two
following trios were wrote at the particular request of the pub-
lisher when he was with Mr. Haydn in Novr. last [1789], at
which time he settled a connection with him . . . they are abso-
lute property and enter'd as such; J. Bland thinks this suf-
ficient notice to other publishers not to pirate the same." The
trios no. 1 and 2 were first published in Oct. 1790 by Artaria,
Vienna, as Op. 63 and 62. Artaria's edition of no. 3 did not
appear until Sept. 1792 ; of this trio Bland's edition is probably
the first. In addition to the Mozart and Haydn trios there are
compositions by Brooks, Edelmann, Forster (3), Hoffmeister,
Kozeluh (3), Krifft (3), Lentz (3), Pleyel (15), and Sterkel.
Only three of the 36 numbers acquired by the Library are to be
found in the British Museum catalogue.

Bland's Collection of sonatas, lessons, overtures, capricios, di-
vertimentos, &c, &c, for the harpsichord or piano forte without
accompts., by the most esteem'd composers ... [v. 2 and 3;
no. 13-36]. London, J. Bland [1791-92]. A periodical publi-
cation, begun Jan. 1790, "each no. containing 10 pages ... &
published the 1st day of every month," the contents " selected
from works already published in books of a high price or from
ms. by Haydn, Kozeluch, Hoffmeister, Mozart, Vanhall, &c,
&c." Commenting on the collection in the Neues lexikon, Gerber
writes, " It is in this fashion that music publishers revenge
themselves on those composers who engrave and publish their
own works." The collection includes very early editions of three
pfte. compositions by Haydn: the Sonata in C major (Gesamt-
ausgabe no. 48), announced as "the first sonata that has been
printed since his [Haydn's] arrival in England " ; the Andante
and variations in C major (Pohl k, 5), " the 2d sonata [ !] pub-
lish'd since Mr. Haydn's arrival in England " ; and the Sonata
in C major described by de Wyzewa and de Saint-Foix in their
article Une sonate oublige de Joseph Haydn (in the S. I. M. for
Jan. 15, 1910). No edition of the last-mentioned work prior to
ca. 1806 was known to de Wyzewa and de Saint-Foix. Another
interesting number in the collection is an " Overture, in which
is introduced 'La Theodore,'" by Francis Linley (1774-1800),
an English composer resident in Boston from about 1795 until
1799 or 1800. With the two bound volumes of Bland's Collec-

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tion of sonatas the Library has acquired copies of 8 single num-
bers from volumes 1 to 5 (1790-94). Not listed in the British
Museum catalogue.

Der konigssohn aus Ithaka ; eine grosse oper, von herrn Hoff-
meister. Jm clavierauszuge. Braunschweig, in dem Musikali-
schen magazin auf der huhe [179-]. Publ. no. 88.

Kataille de Maringo ; piece militaire et historique pour le forte
piano avec accompagnemt. de violon et basse . . . par B.
Viguerie. Oeuv. S e . Paris, chez l'auteur [1800]. Publ. no.
S6. The pfte. part only. Engraved title-page. " Ecrit par
Ribiere," reproduced in Grand-Carteret's Les litres illustres.
The composition became a great favorite in this country ; by
1820 it had been issued by at least eight American publishers.

Concert pour le pianoforte avec accompagnement . . . par W. A.
Mozart, no. 1 [3, 4, 6 to 8. 16, 17, and 20]. Leipsic, Breitkopf
et Hiirtel [1800-05]. (Oeuvres de W. A. Mozart.) The parts
for pfte. and orchestra. Published as Series 3 of Mozart's
Oeuvres completes.

As a result of the purchase of the Zeuner-Newland col- eduLl^ e<
lection and the Sonneck library, this year's list of addi-
tions to the special collection of first and early editions
of the works of the great composers is unusually full.
To facilitate identification brief titles of the following
Haydn items are given :

Concert pour le clavecin avec l'accompagnenient de deux violons,
alto & basso, deux hautbois et deux cors de chasse . . . Libro
I [-II]. Berlin, J. J. Hummel; etc. Pohl i, 3 and 2. The parts
for pfte. and orchestra complete. Libro I is without pub-
lisher's number ; Libro II, with the publisher's number 916, was
issued ca. 1795.

Trois sonates pour le clavecin ou piano forte avec un violon &
violoncel . . . Oeuvre XXV. Berlin, J. J. Hummel ; etc. [1786?]
Publ. no. 60S. Pohl h, 3, 2, and 4. The parts complete.

Tre sonate per il clavicembalo o forte piano con un violino e
violoncello . . . Opera 78. Vienna, Artaria comp. [1797].
Publ. no. 705. Artaria-Botstiber no. 92. The parts complete.

Sonate pour le clavecin ou piano-forte avec accompagn?ment d'un
violon et violoncelle . . . Oeuvre 79. Vienna, Artaria comp.
[1797]. Publ. no. 720. Artaria-Botstiber no. 93. The parts
complete.

Sonate pour le piano-forte . . . Oeuvre 99. Bonn, N. Simrock
[1801?] Publ. no. 112. Gesamtausgabe no. 52.

Die worte des Erlosers am Kreuze in musik gesetzt ... In par-
tituiv Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel [1801].

Die jahrszeiten . . . Im clavierauszuge, mit woglassung der chore,
vom musikdirektor Hiller in Altona. Braunschweig, im
Musikalischen magazine auf der hohe [1802?] Publ. no. 408.

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Pieces favorites de l'oratoire : La creation, arrangees pour le
piano-forte avec violon ad libitum. Offenbach a/M, J. Andre
[1802?] Publ. no. 1666. The parts. Early lithograph.

The following first and early editions of Mozart have
been added to the collection :

Kochel 459 (the parts for pfte., 1st and 2nd violins, and 2nd oboe
only, Andre, 684) ; Kochel 497 (Artaria, 108, a reissue) ; Kochel
614, arranged for pfte. 2 hands by Charles Hunt (Hilscher,
110) ; the Requiem, Kochel 626, in vocal score (Andre, 1549) :
" Trois sonates pour le forte-piano accompagnees d'un violon,"
Kochel 376, 296, and 377 (Magasin de musique, 252).

Other early editions of Haydn and Mozart are in-
cluded in Bland's "Le tout ensemble" (1789?-93?) and
vols. 2 and 3 of his " Collection of sonatas" (1791-92),
listed on page 214 of this report.

A total of 25 first and early editions of Beethoven has
been obtained :

Op. 1 (Artaria, no publisher's number, with the list of sub-
scribers) ; Op. 2 (Magazin de musique, 90) ; Op. 2, no. 1-3
separately (Simrock, 75) ; Op. 11 (Hummel, 1300) ; Op. 15
(the parts for pfte. and orchestra complete, Simrock, 187) ;
Op. 17 (Hummel, 1302) ; Op. 19 (the parts for pfte. and or-
chestra complete, Hoffmeister, 65) ; Op. 23 (Simrock, 226) ;
Op. 30, no. 2 (Simrock, 339) ; Op. 30, no. 3 (Cappi, 1115) ; Op. 48
(Simrock, 368) ; the " Fidelio " overture, Op. 72b, arranged for
pfte. 2 hands. Artaria, 2327) ; Op. 92, arranged for pfte. 2 hands
(Steiner, 2567, a reissue) ; Op. 102, no. 1 and 2 (Artaria, 2579
and SO) ; Op. 107, no. 1 and 2 (Simrock, 1748) ; the rondo in
G major for violin and pfte. (the pfte. part only, Simrock,
5S1) ; the 12 Variations for violoncello and pfte. on a theme
from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" (the violin and pfte. parts
only, Simrock, 384) ; the 9 Variations on Paisiello's " Quant'e
pin hello" (Simrock, 32) ; the 6 Variations on Paisiello's " Nel
cor piii non mi sento " (Simrock, 33); the 12 Variations on
Haibel's " Menuet a la Vigano " (Simrock, 35) ; the 5 Varia-
tions on Arne's "Rule, Britannia" (Simrock, 241) ; " Der wach-
telschlag" (Kunst- und industrie-comptoir, 381).

The publisher's number 241 on Simrock's edition of the
" Rule, Britannia r variations is probably a misprint ;
v, ere it correct, this edition would have appeared in 1802,
or two years before the " first " edition published in
Vienna at the Bureau d'arts et d'industrie. In addition
to the Beethoven items listed above, a number of second

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copies have been acquired ; several of these are earlier
impressions than the copies already in the Library.
Among other additions to this class the following may be
named :

Weber (5) ; Schubert ("The Erlking," Op. 1, Cappi, without pub-
lisher's number) ; Loewe (1), Wagner (G) ; Liszt (1) ; Brahms
(19).

The year's additions to the collection of dramatic music Fuii scores of
in full score are listed below ; manuscripts are distin- °'
guished from published scores by the abbreviation " ms."

J. F. Agricola, II tempio d'Amore (festa teatrale ; ca. 1755; ms.,
ex libris Otto Jahn) ; J. C. Bach, Carattaco (favorite songs no.
2, 1786); P. Cornelius, Der barbier von Bagdad (1905), Der
Cid (1905), and Gunlod (1906); A. C. Destouches, Callirhoe
(2nd ed. ; 1713); L'eveutail de Jeanne (ballet by Auric, De-
lannoy, Ferroud, Ibert, Roland Manuel, Milhaud, Poulenc,
Ravel, Roussel, and Florent Schmitt, 1929) ; M. de Falla, El
amor brujo (ballet) and El retablo de maese Pedro (miniature
scores, 1924) ; U. Giordano, II re (1929) ; A. E. M. Gretry,
Zemira e Azore (favorite songs; 1779?) ; P. Hindemith, Neues
vom tage (1929) ; G. Hue, Riquet a la houppe (1930) ; J. Ibert,
Angelique (1929) ; L. Janacek, Kala Kabanova (1922) ; C. Le-
vade, La peau de chagrin (1929) ; M. Lothar, Tyll (1929) ; V.
Martin y Soler, II burbero di buon cuore (1787? ms.) ; D. Mil-
haud, Actualites ("musique pour film"; 1929) : W. A. Mozart,
II don Giovanni (1871) ; G. Paisiello, L'Antigono (ca. 1785;
ms.) ; A. Piechler, Der weisse pfau (1930) ; A. Salieri, Talisman
(ca. 1789; ms.)

ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG

Since September, when Mr. R. W. Gordon, in charge
of the archive of American folk song, returned from field
work in Georgia, his work has been largely confined to
assembling and sorting the materials already collected
and making them more accessible for research workers.

Ample quarters have been assigned in the Library,
located on the top floor of the southwest pavilion. Here,
in addition to the materials owned by the archive, have
been temporarily placed Mr. Gordon's own collectanea,
including manuscripts and phonographic recordings, and
these are now available under proper restrictions for the
use of serious workers. Desk space has been provided for

218 Report of the Librarian of Congress

4 workers, and about 500 volumes dealing with folk song
have been assembled with the help of the division of
music from its duplicate collection.

Various bibliographies now under way may be grouped
as follows :

Cards

1. Bibliography of printed books on folk song in general— 3, 700

2. Bibliography of articles in periodicals and journals 1, 100

3. List of commercial phonograph recordings of folk songs__ 1, 800

4. List of texts or references to folk songs in various

newspapers 1, 500

5. List of paper songsters owned by the Library 500

6. Special list of copyright entries of interest to the student

of folk song 2,000

The items in the lists mentioned are nonduplicating.
In addition to these are 10,000 analytical entries which
bring the present total to 20,600 cards.

Among the most interesting recent acquisitions is a copy
of a valuable unpublished collection of folk songs from
Kentucky, made through the courtesy of the compiler,
Miss Mary Newcomb, of New Hope, Ky. This copy con-
tains 403 photostatic sheets made from her unpublished
manuscript Songs My Mother Sang, and includes the
texts of 210 songs with 101 tunes. Miss Newcomb's col-
lection is the largest and most varied of any yet reported
from this district. It is unique in that it comprises a
group of songs traditional in a single family and taken
down from the lips of a single singer. Its scholarly
value is further enhanced by the fact that it is particu-
larly strong in the lesser known fields of American folk
song and contains a large number of texts unrecorded by
ether collectors.

Requests for aid during the past year have been con-
stant and varied. Although many of these have con-
cerned popular music rather than folk song in its stricter
meaning, assistance has been furnished as far as facilities
have permitted. A number of requests have been re-
ferred to the archive from the division of music. The
archive has given advice to learned societies in the matter
of grants requested for various folk-song projects; has
advised students seeking advanced degrees ; has aided the

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Charleston Society for the Preservation of the Spiritual
in checking its collection with texts already printed ; and
is now engaged in assembling, through the aid of contem-
porary manuscripts and songsters, the popular music of
the period of Washington for use in the coming bicen-
tennial celebration of 1932.

For the present the salary of the archivist and certain
incidental expenses are paid, not from the Library's
appropriation, but out of a fund (still far from as ample
as the work requires) generously provided by outsiders.

ELIZABETH SPRAGUE COOLIDGE FOUNDATION

Under the provisions of the Elizabeth Sprague Cool-
idge Foundation, the following concerts and lectures
were given in the auditorium of the Library :

1929. October 7-9. Fourth Festival of Chamber Music.

October 7, at S.45 p. m. Barrere Ensemble of Wind Instru-
ments; Harold Bauer and Arthur Loesser, pianists.
October 8, at 11.15 a. m. Marion Kirby and John J. Niles,

singers; chamber orchestra conducted by Nathaniel

Shilkret.
October 8, at 4 p. m. Roth String Quartet of Budapest,

assisted by Egon Kornstein, violist, and Victor de Gomez.

violoncellist.
October 9, at 11.15 a. m. Harold Bauer, pianist ; Gabriel

Leonoff, tenor; Gordon String Quartet of Chicago.
October 9, at S.45 p. m. Chamber orchestra conducted by

Leopold Stokowski ; Lynnwood Farnam, organist.

(For detailed programs of the festival see Appendix:
V, pages 399-403.)
October 30, at 4.45 p. m. Founder's Day Concert. Lener

String Quartet of Budapest.
December G, at S.30 p. m. Aguilar Lute Quartet of Madrid.
1!)30. .January 11, at 4.30 p. m. Lecture by Dr. Charles Sanford

Terry, Aberdeen University, Scotland, on The Cantatas

of Bach.
January IS, at 4.30 p. m. Cleveland String Quartet;

Arthur Loesser, assisting pianist.
February 7, at 4.45 p. m. Hans Kindler, violoncellist.
February 17, at 4.45 p. m. Stradivarius String Quartet of

New York.
February 25, at 4.45 p. m. Liege String Quartet of Belgium.
-March 5, at 4.45 p. m. Udebrando Pizzetti, pianist; Adolfo

Betti, violinist ; Alfred Wallenstein, violoncellist ; Olga

Averino, soprano.

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1930. April 28, at 4.45 p. m. Lecture by Hubert J. Foss, London,
England, on Modern English Composers.

Under the provisions of the Coolidge Foundation five
half-hour recitals of chamber music were broadcast from
station WJZ, of the National Broadcasting Co., in New
York City :

1930. March 23. Elshuco Trio (Brahms — Trio in C major, Op. 87).
March 30. London String Quartet (Beethoven — Quartet, Op.

18, no. 2).
April 6. Compinsky Trio (Arensky — Trio in D minor, Op.

32).
April 13. Musical Art String Quartet (Schubert — Quartet

"Death and the Maiden").
May IS. Nathaniel Shilkret, clarinetist, and string quartet

(Mozart — Clarinet Quintet, K. 581).

A concert by the Compinsky Trio was tendered by the
Library to the Westchester County Center, White Plains,
N. Y., on April 12, 1930, on the occasion of the formal
opening of the new chamber music hall.

Outside of the foundation's work, the following con-
certs, under the auspices of the Friends of Music in
the Library of Congress, have been given in the audi-
torium of the Library :

1929. December 11. Russian Church Choir of New York, con-

ducted by Andreev Salama.

1930. March 19. Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta, con-

ducted by Fabien Sevitzky.

In October, 1929, a limited edition of Charles Martin
Loeffler's Canticum Fratris Solis (Canticle of the Sun),
sot for voice and chamber orchestra to the hymn by St.
Francis of Assisi, in a modern Italian version by Gino
Perera, was published under the provisions of the
Coolidge Foundation by the Library of Congress. Full
orchestra scores and parts have been distributed as gifts
to the leading libraries, conservatories, and symphony
orchestras cf the United States and Europe.

Periodical Division 221

PERIODICAL DIVISION

(From the report of the chief, Mr. Parsons)

The number of current periodicals received by the ^tMcs
periodical division during the past }^ear (separate files)
was 9,424 (8,880 in 1929), which includes 6,391 different
titles. Among these are 1,927 journals received from the
Copyright Office. The journals deposited by the Smith-
sonian Institution and until last year included in these
figures are now accessioned almost entirely in the Smith-
sonian division of the Library and are not counted here.
This change in method accounts for the apparent decline
in number of files given above. Official documentary
series and almanacs, annual reports, yearbooks, and other
material of the kind, which are received in other divi-
sions of the Library, are not counted in these statistics.

The whole number of periodicals received in the pe-
riodical division (separate items) was 139,923 (last year
139,813).

Xew titles added during the year number 1,462 and
include 529 by copyright, 798 by gift, and 135 by sub-
scription. Those received through the Smithsonian
Institution are no longer accessioned in the periodical
division.

The number of newspapers received at the close of the
fiscal year was 901 (last year 892), of which 751 are pub-
lished in the United States and 150 in foreign countries.
Of the newspapers published in the United States 548
are dailies and 203 weeklies. Of the newspapers pub-
lished in foreign countries 121 are dailies and 29 are
weeklies.

The Library now receives second files of 179 American
papers, which are used for binding. Of these, 141 are the
gift of their publishers, and 38 come through copyright
deposit. This wise generosity of the newspaper pub-
lishers is most gratifying, since the original files are in
such constant use that they become worn and unfit for
permanent preservation. The number of newspapers re-
tained for binding is as follows: American, 213; foreign,
138; total, 351.

ls:

Research work

222 Report of the Librarian of Congress

ic'e a tor S eade l rs erv ' The material served to readers in the periodical read-
ing room included 18,742 unbound periodicals, 14,132 un-
bound newspapers, and 28,193 bound newspaper volumes,
a total of 61,067 items (last year 51,233). The outgoing
charges number 13,397 (last year 11,417). Notices of
overdue charges have been sent at regular intervals, 1,182
in all, and have expedited the return of copies.

Noteworthy increases in the service rendered by the
division have occurred during the year. The charges for
material sent to Congressmen, Government departments,
etc., increased 17 per cent, and the material served to
readers in the periodical reading room increased 19 per
cent. In the same period the memoranda for use in
correspondence increased 24 per cent.

Our files are in constant use by those engaged in serious
investigation and research. Part of this work is for
other Government departments, and the rest is by stu-
dents and compilers outside the Government service.
Both groups anticipate publishing the results of their
efforts.

Among these research students have been representa-
tives from the American University, Butler University,
Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh), Catho-
lic University, Clark University, Columbia University,
Duke University, Gallaudet College, George Washing-
ton University, Georgetown University, Harvard Uni-
versity, Johns Hopkins University, North Carolina Col-
lege for Women, Ohio State University, Princeton Uni ■
versity, Sweet Briar College, University of California,
University of Chicago, University of Maryland, Univer-
sity of Missouri, University of North Carolina, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, University of South Carolina, Uni-
versity of Virginia, Wheaton College, Yale University.
The researches include economic, literary, historical, and
other subjects. During the past year some of these have
been biographies of Calvin Coolidge, Edmund Ruffin,
Edward King, August Belmont. William Gibbs McAdoo,
and Baron Von Steuben ; a study of corporation contri-
butions to charitable work; public opinion on the Russo-
Japanese War; history of early American theaters;

Periodical Division 223

American sentiment toward Japan, 1904-1924; adver-
tisements of radio loud speakers; World War origins;
country library service in rural schools; American pri-
vateers in South American revolutions; history of edu-
cation in Maryland ; oratory of Lloyd George ; beginning
of Government intervention in the British coal industry ;
desertion in the Confederate Army; Jewish restoration;
trade-unions in the South; Smith case; unjust conven-
tions of the criminal courts; collection of Anne Royal's
writing; types of market news in old newspapers; para-
chute jumps ; tin and copper in Rhodesia ; French public
opinion toward United States' rejection of the treaty of
Versailles; market averages on New York Stock Ex-
change; Garfield's assassination; American attitude
toward Catholic emancipation, 1828-1830; literary as-
pects of eighteenth century periodicals; Alaskan In-
dians ; folk songs ; commonwealth banking and the relief
of the western debtor, 1819-1929; negro in Congress;
United Mine Workers; Virginia newspapers in 1796;
Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston trip; history of Norfolk,
Va.; Cape Argus; packing and livestock industry; his-
torical study of prices received by producers of farm
products in Virginia, 1801-1927; news items before
1800; study of unemployment; history of China; Sun-
day newspapers having women's sections; French news-
papers in Louisiana; industrial housing; foreign invest
ment in Mexico; Cagle case; aviation advertising; style
in magazine publication; Confederate colony in Brazil;
disfranchisement of the negro in the South; Oregon
boundary negotiation, 1841-1846; Virginia race horses;
Washington newspapers in the Jackson administrations.

The practice of securing photostat reproductions from JJgjjJf? rrprn '
(he files of early newspapers to enrich collections in the
States where the papers were published but where they
are no longer to be found, was continued this year by the
Georgia Historical Society library, the Louisiana State
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and
the Michigan Historical Commission.

Through correspondence suggesting that publishers ''^"J^'""" 1
from time to time replace the current issues of their pub-
lications with bound sets, a total of 131 publishers have

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signified their acceptance of the suggestion, and this year
351 bound volumes have been received (last year 277
volumes) including 135 different titles.

BINDING AND TRANSFER
Record of volumes bound

Periodicals:

Full binding

Check binding..
Gaylord binders.

Total

1927-28

4, 669
121

1928-29

4,555

531

1, 109

Newspapers :

Full binding

Check binding. _
Gaylord binders.

4,790

6, 195

2,626
119
352

2,279
45

Total.
In all.

3,097

7,887

2,324

8,519

1929-30

4,397
232
643

5,272

2, 177
16

2, 193

7, 465

Count of volumes awaiting binding

Periodicals collated

Newspapers collated. _
Uncollated (estimated)

Total

1927-28 1928-29 1929-30

4,426
1,265

4,641
1,069

9, 500 9, 196

15, 191 14, 906

4,408

552

9,841

14, 801

This large arrearage is a handicap not only to the
periodical division but to the Library as a whole. The
unbound files are much less useable and, moreover, are
constantly subject to deterioration and actual loss of
copies. An appreciable reduction in the amount wait-
ing to be bound can only be shown by increasing the
binding. The division has at all times had more col-

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lated volumes waiting than the branch bindery could
take.

One hundred and forty-two sets of periodicals have
been transferred to other Government institutions as
follows :

Army Medical library (Surgeon General's library) 49

Bureau of Standards library 9

Department of Agriculture library 53

Department of Commerce library 1

Department of Labor library 2

Geological Survey library 2

Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia 15

Office of Education library 1

Patent Office library 7

State Department library 3

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Duplicate and other material not desired by the acces-
sions division for possible exchange is regularly sent to
the library of St. Elizabeths Hospital under an arrange-
ment approved in December, 1925.

A new edition of the Check List of American Eight- fjJSSJSJ 1 Eight
eenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress is e ^ew S papersT V
under preparation. There have been many additions to
this collection since the publication of the list in 1912 and
full bibliographic notes have also been compiled.

The rag-paper editions of newspapers and periodicals f^ paper edl '
received number 13 titles: The New York Times; The
Chicago Tribune ; The United States Daily, Washington,
D. C. ; Forward, of New York; Hanover, N. H., Gazette;
Labor, of Washington, D. C. ; Detroit News; Weymouth,
Mass., Gazette and Transcript; The Unionist-Gazette
of Somerville, N. J.; American Mercury; Journal of
Economic and Business History; and The New Age
Magazine.

The importance of encouraging such editions printed on
lasting paper for permanent preservation has led to the
adoption of the policy of adding to our binding lists all
the American rag-paper editions received.

During the year 135 subscriptions to periodicals were subscriptions.
placed; 40 subscriptions were canceled, and 39 others
ceased publication.

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Notable acces-
sions.

English news-
papers during
the general
strike, May h
to 12, 1926.

The following are cited as illustrative of accessions far
too numerous to be listed in detail :

The Alaska Times, Sitka. [Photostat reproduction.] April 23,
1869-May 14, 1871. Except: May 14, 1869, Feb. 26, July 9, 16,
30-Sept. 6, Nov. 13, 20, 1870, Jan. 1, Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 26-May 7,
1871.

The Covent-Garden Journal Extraordinary. By Sir Alexander
Drawcansir, Knt. Censor of Great Britain. Numb. 1, Monday,
January 20, 1752. [London, Printed by J. Sharp, near Temple-
Bar.] [Photostat reproduction.]

This is a parody on Henry Fielding's Covent-Garden
Journal and was apparently written by Bonnell Thorn-
ton. The only known copy is in the Yale University
library from which this photostat was made.

This collection of 70 newspaper issues and temporary
news sheets published during the days of the English
general strike largely supplements the Library's already
considerable files of the same material. This collection
originally belonged to Maj. and Mrs. G. D. Hazzledine,
of Hampton Wick, Middlesex, England, and is the gift
of Newton Mackintosh, Esq.. of Boston, Mass. It con-
tains copies of the British Gazette, British Worker,
Daily Mail, Daily Express, Times, Morning Post, Daily
Chronicle, Westminster Gazette, Evening Standard,
Evening News, Wireless News, and many others.

Impartial Observer and Washington Advertiser, Washington, D. C.,
June 12, 19, 26, July 3, 17, 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, Sept. 5, 14, Oct.
1, 1795. [Photostat reproduction.]

This weekly was established May 22, 1795, by Thomas
Wilson " at the corner of 4!/2 & P Streets, Greenleaf-
Point," and continued until his death February 22, 179G.
It was the earliest newspaper published within the lim-
its of the old city of Washington, although a few George-
town papers antedate it. This file of photostat repro-
ductions has b