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several years a special gallery was reserved for the display of the
prints. Later, after the company was merged with the Sun
Chemical Corporation, the plant headquarters were moved, and
the gallery facilities were discontinued. At Columbia the col¬
lection will augment notably the resources for study and research
in all phases of the graphic arts, and it will share a place with the
Typographic Library, the Book Arts collection, and the Epstean
Collection on the History of Photography.

Over the years, countless graphic arts students have been inspired
by the opportunity of visiting the paper museum that until re¬
cently was housed on the top floor of the building occupied by
the Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. There they were able to
watch Mr. Harrison Elliott, an official of the firm, carry through
all of the processes of manufacturing hand-made paper. They
listened while linen and cotton rags were being macerated into
pulp in a "beater." They saw the pulp aging in a vat, diluted with
water to the consistency of creamy soup, in which process all but
the basic cellular structure of the fibres is dissolved away. And
they watched Mr. Elliott dip a hand-mould into the vat, lift out a
thin layer of the ready pulp, shake it gently, and turn out a damp,
fully matted sheet that needed only to be sized, pressed and dried
to become a finished piece of fine hand-made paper, suitable for
use in the handsomest of books.

Recently Mr. EUiott presented his complete apparatus to the
University. Steps are now being taken to find a suitable place to
set up this equipment in working order, so that students and
visitors will again be able to watch the progressive steps in the
interesting and instructive process of paper-manufacture.

Mr. Max Nomad, well known as a writer on corporate forms of
government, left- and right-wing movements, and similar ques¬
tions that trouble a large part of our serious thinking during these
times, has deposited in the Columbia University Libraries his
entire file of clippings, excerpts, and the like, dealing with these