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century "Office of the Virgin for Italian Use" and a 13th-
centur)- religious text are especially notable. An extremely inter¬
esting English manuscript of the 17th century contains recipes
and antidotes against the evil effects of witchcraft. Mr. Friedman
has also presented more than 75 portrait prints of important his¬
torical and literary personages.

Friedman (William H.) gift. By gift from the late William H.
Friedman (E.E., 1907; A.M., 1909), the Engineering Library
has received a fine collection of original specifications, drawings,
and archival materials pertaining to the Queens Tunnel and the
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Both were constructed by the New
York City Tunnel Authority, of which Mr. Friedman was Com¬
missioner.

Gilkes gift. Miss Lillian B. Gilkes has presented a number of in¬
teresting items for inclusion in our collection of the manuscripts
and papers of Millen Brand (A.B., 1929; B.Lit., 1929). The gift
includes a typescript of Brand's "The Wrestling Bear", and a
dozen letters and postcards written by Brand to the donor from
1946 to 1953.

Ikeda gift. On June 23rd His Excellency Hayato Ikeda, Prime
Minister of Japan, at the close of a ceremony at which he was
made honorary Columbia University Doctor of Laws, announced
a gift to the East Asiatic Library of 324 volumes of Japanese-
language publications. Titles in the gift were selected from desid¬
erata lists compiled by the Library and transmitted to Japan by
Masahide Kanayama, Consul General of Japan in New York.

Kehl gift. Professor George L. Kehl has presented to the Colum¬
biana Collection eight scrapbooks formed by Henry Marion
Howe, Professor of Metallurgy at Columbia from 1897 to 1913.

KSdansha gift. Kodansha, a Tokyo publishing company estab¬
lished in 1909, has announced that it will present to the East Asi¬
atic Library the entire Nihon gendai bungaku zenshu [Collected