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reverse, of eighty coins of Syracuse, representing the complete
known issue of that city during its most interesting period, 530-
212 li.c. Included in the gift are squeezes of sixty-five representative
coins of thittcen other Sicilian cities of the classical period.

Wessells gijt. Miss Bessie Wcssells ot New burgh, N. Y., on learning
that Columbia University had acquired the John Jay Papers, pre¬
sented an autograph letter from Jay to one of her ancestors. Major
John Lvon, dated 8 July 1787. Included in her gift is a handsome
copy of The Life of John Jay, written by his son, William Jay, and
published in two volumes in 1833. Volume two of this copy bears
the autograph of Jay's grandson, the second John Jay, dated May
12th 1833, and the pencilled signature of .A. A. Lyon.

Wood gift. Professor Horace Elmer Wood II (a.m., 1923, ph.d.,
1928) of Rutgers University has presented a most unusual item in
a specially-bound copy of six lectures relating to mineralogy and
crystallography by Thomas Egleston, Jr. The lectures were pub¬
lished from 1866 to 1871 for use by students in the Columbia
College School of Mines, and these copies were formerly the
ptoperty of Samuel .Anthony Goldschmidt (e..vi., 187 1). The vol¬
ume contains (ioldschmidt's autograph and bookplate, and thus
combines the interests of two great C^olumbia personages.