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eludes the treaties made with the principal rribes. Many famous
Indians and Americans were parties to the agreements.

Friedtuan gifts. Mr. Harry G. Friedman (ph.d., 1908) has pre¬
sented nine rare and u.scful printed books, and a collection of 123
early French manuscript documents and volumes. The latter
group comprises records, accounts, transacticms, and the like, all
being of a business or legal nature, and they range in date from
1504 to 1826. The printed works include three early editions of
classical writings (Cicero, De Philosophia, 1523; Cicero, Epis-
tolarum ad T. Poiuponiuin, 1589; and Plato, Opera, 1590); three
works by 15th and i6th century writers (Hieronymus Cagnolus,
Commentarium De Regulis Jttris, 1562; Pius II, Epistole et Varii,
1518; and Erasmus, Adagionim Chiliades, 1559); and the useful
Lexicon Pentaglotton, 1653. Most of the above works are in their
original bindings, with decorative blind tooling of the period.

Mr. Friedman's gift includes two later works. One of these is
Egede's Reisebeskrii'else til Oster-Gronlands Opdagelse, 1789,
with a number of interesting folded plates. The other is Sir AValter
Scott's rare pamphlet. Religious Discourses, 1828.

Gerig bequest. The late Professor John L. Gerig collected widely
to form a personal library in the fields of his interest—romance
literarure, philology, languages, and general literature. By the
terms of his will these materials, numbering more than 3700 books
and serials, have come to the Columbia Libraries.

Frimison gift. Miss Ruth Ci. Frumson has generously presented a
collection of books, periodicals, and manuscripts from the library
of the late Louis Alexander Freedman. The manuscripts include
prose and poetry by Mr. Freedman, as well as his correspondence
with various well-known personages, including Cieorge San-
tayana and Bernard Berenson.

Haverlin gift. Original manuscripts, correspondence and related