Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGHMAN

Adams gift. Mr. Scott Adams (B.S., 1940) has presented a unique
specimen of the book-making arts, a congratulatory volume pre¬
sented to Mr. John A. McLean of the Government Printing Office
by various divisions of the GPO.

Arnaiid gifts. From time to time Dean Leopold Arnaud has pre¬
sented to the Avery Architectural Library items out of his per¬
sonal collection. They have usually come in small lots, so that
there has always been the danger that their importance may be
overlooked. In recent months Dean Arnaud has presented loi
books and pamphlets, 113 serials, and three packages of collected
student drawings. All of these items are of high usefulness and are
gratefully accepted into Avery Library.

Christy gift. Through the good offices of Mrs. iMary K. Dobbie
we have received from Mrs. Arthur Christy a very valuable col¬
lection of Thoreau materials (photostats, typescripts, and notes),
representing the late Professor Christy's research over many years.
One of the principal items in the collection is Professor Christy's
unpublished editing of Thoreau's Book of Facts, Extracts .Mostly
Upon Natural History, itself unpublished.

Class of ii)2j gift. One of the most notable Elizabethan manu¬
scripts to become available in recent decades is now the proud
possession of the Columbia University Libraries, the gift of the
Class of 1923. The manuscript is a translation of Aesop's "Fables"
{A Morali Fabletalke) by Arthur Golding, written about 1590.
Golding was one of many gifted Elizabethans who labored so
fruitfully to render into English the wealth of continental and

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