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of New York County. Originally established by the Dutch in 1650,
the Court was renamed the "Mayor's C'ourt" when New Amster¬
dam became New York in 1664. As developed by the English con¬
querors, its primary concern was with civil litigation, having in
this respect a close relationship with the ancient Lord Mayor's
court of London, which was established in the middle ages to
provide justice for businessmen .speedily and at lowest cost, in
contrast to the tedious and expensive processes ofthe central courts.

Shackleton bequest. For nearly thtee decades Miss Clara F.verett
Shackleton (a.b., 1914 b, a.m., 1915) worked diligently toward
compiling a bibliography of children's literature, traveling widely
to intetview librarians and collectors in this and other countries.
Miss Shackleton's interests included not merely literary works for
juveniles, but textbooks and works for moral training as well. She
amassed a tremendous amount of data, much of w hich she catcfully
transcribed to finished typescript with ultimate publication as her
objective. At the time of her death in December this work remained
unfinished.

Through the generous thoughtfulness of her niece, Mrs. Floyd H.
Oonk of Ithaca, New York, Miss Shackleton's notes and type¬
scripts have been given to the Columbia Libraries. Whether the
wotk which was so lovingly carried on can ever be completed
is doubtful, but nevertheless the great wealth of data will be of
immense value to future scholars who share Miss Shackleton's
 

Warren gift. In 1912, as a bequest of Professor George N. Olcott,
C'olumbia University received an extensive collection of epigraph-
ieal specimens, including a remarkable assortment of classical coins.
The Olcott Collection is the special responsibility of the Depart¬
ment of Greek and Latin.

Y'cry recently Mrs. Emma Brescia Warren, a doctoral candidate
in the Department of Italian who is currently lecturing at Hunter
College, presented a set of plaster-of-paris squeezes, obverse and