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Courts Martial Proceedings. .A 142-volume set ot the decisions of the
Boards of Review in courts martial proceedings, complete for the
period 1929-1951, has been deposited in the Law Library by the
Judge Advocate General of the Army. This is a most important
addition, for although the procedural content has been largely super¬
seded by the recent adoption of a uniform Code of Military Justice,
the compilation contains matter that is indispensable as a source
for research in substantive military law, but which is not ordinarily
—if at all—to be found except in Army libraries. This set was
formerly a surplus set at Governor's Island and was about to be
returned to Washington. The Law Librarian, Mr. Miles Price,
requested that the set remain in rhe New York area for research
purposes, and accordingly the Judge Advocate General has allowed
ir to be deposited with the Navy R.O.T.C. at C'olumbia, w hich in
turn has deposited it in the Law Library.

Dodge gift. Within a few days of each other, but from opposite sides
of the continent, two original letters written by Alexander Hamil¬
ton were presented toC'olumbia. On November 21 Mr. ,A. Winslow
Dodge of Wenham, Massachusetts, presented a letter from Hamil¬
ton to Judge David Sewall of Maine, dated November 13, 1 790.
Professor Syrett of Columbia's Alexander Hamilron project was
especially delighted with it, because the text was unknown to him.
The other Hamilton letter is noted below under Hepburn gift.

Donovan gift. General William J. Donovan (.\.ii., 1905, ll.b.'
1908) has presented his large collection (3,236 items) in the fields
of intelligence and espionage, the history of warfare, biography
and autobiography, the social sciences, communism, and tclated
subjects.

Engel gift. Ot recent years Mr. and A4rs. Solton I'ngcl (1916 c.)
have made many magnificent gifts to the C'olumbia 1 .ibraries. Some
of their gifts have been acknowledged in these pages as having been
made "by a member of the Class of 1916," in accordance with the