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cipal note are Thomas Birch's The Heads of Ulustrious Persons of
Great Britain, engraven by Mr. Houbraken, and Mr. Vertue, with
their Lives and Characters ... London, 1747; and Auguste Forel's
The Social World of the Ants compared with that of Man . . .
London & New York, [1928], translated by C. K. Ogden.

Benson- gift. Through the kindness of Reverend John M. Krumm,
Chaplain of the University, Mrs. H. C. Benson of Burlingame,
California, has presented an interesting letter from Sydney Smith,
Canon of St. Paul's, dated 26 February [1840].

Corey gift. Mrs. Lewis Corey has added a number of useful items
to the collection of books and manuscripts formed by her late
husband and recently presented by her to Columbia University.
The present gifts represent works that were used by Lewis Corey
in his study of Frances Wright, the notes and unfinished manu¬
script of which are in the previously-given collection.

Friedman gifts. The flow of gifts of useful and beautiful volumes
from the collection of Mr. Harry G. Friedman (Ph.D., 1908)
continues without abatement. Most recently have come three
16th-century Latin Bibles: one printed in Venice for Lucantonio
Giunta in 1519, with woodcut illustrations; one printed in Lyons
by Jacobus Mareschal in 1519 with attractive pictorial woodcut
initials; and a fine example printed in Lyons by Joannis Crispinus
in 1539, plentifully illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts.
Jacobus Lydius' Syntagma sacnuii de re militari . . . Dordrecht,
1698, with many engraved plates showing war machinery, forti¬
fications, types of armor, and the like, has also been received.

Hobart gift. Mrs. Alice Tisdale Hobart (Mrs. Earle T. Hobart)
has presented the manuscripts of three of her novels. The Cleft
Rock, The Peacock Sheds His Tail, and The Serpent Wreathed
Staff.