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by Philip Dippcl, Jr., of his father's journey in 1849 from Parral,
Mexico, to the California gold fields.

O'Brien gift. Professor Justin O'Brien has presented a copy of
Les Annees Vingt, les ecrivains Americains a Paris et leurs amis,
1920-1 <)^o, the catalogue of an exhibition held under the auspices
of the Centre Cultural Americain in Paris, 11 March to 25 April,
1959. This is an interesting catalogue of a most important aggre¬
gation of material, and it will serve a useful purpose in Special
Collections.

Plimpton gift. Mr. Francis T. P. Plimpton has presented several
useful and rare items for inclusion in the library established at
Columbia by his father, the late George A. Plimpton. Six works
comprise the present gift; Recueil de Tables Astronomiques,
Perpetuelles, et de la Table des Logarithmes des Sinus . . . Paris,
1764;L. Murray, English Gravnnar .. .York, 1795; Conversations
on Chymistry . . . Philadelphia, 1809 (with the signature of R. S.
Livingston on the title-page); Joseph Lancaster, Improvements
in Education . . . London, 1808; AA'illiam Oldys, The British
Librarian . . . London, 1738; and Joseph Young, A New Physical
System of Astronomy . . . New York, 1800 (with the signature
of Robt. S. Livingston on the title-page).

Stokes gift. Dr. J. G. Phelps Stokes (i\LD., 1896) has presented
his personal collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and cor¬
respondence in the fields of philosophy, religion, trade unions, the
Social Democratic League of America, Bolshevism, etc. The books
and pamphlets number more than 1500 volumes, and the manu¬
scripts, which represent the period 1885 to 1950, are contained in
 

Spanniernan gift. Mr. Ira Spanniernan has presented an apparently
unpublished manuscript memoir of Rufus Choate (1799-1859),