Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

American Bureau for Medical Aid to China gift. The American
Bureau for Medical Aid to China has established a collection of its
papers with an initial gift of approximately 45,000 pieces of cor¬
respondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, membership and fi¬
nancial records, photographs, posters and printed materials. The
papers document the work of rhe Bureau, which was founded in
1937 to aid Chinese medical and public health services by provid¬
ing fellowship programs for faculty members and technical as¬
sistance in the form of books, laborarory equipmenr and other
educational materials. Of particular interest in the collection are
the approximately 6,000 photographs of Chinese medical colleges,
hospitals, laboratories and personnel.

Anshen gift. An important group of more than 6,300 letters has
been presented by Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen for addition to the
collection of her literary papers which she established in 1977.
The correspondence from leading conrcmporary writers, philos¬
ophers and scienrists relates primarily to books being written or
planned for the several series of publications edited by Dr. Anshen.
Included are lengthy files of correspondence with James B. Con-
ant, E. AT Forster, Erich Fromra, Paul Goodman, Karl Jaspers,
Hans Kiing, iMarshall McLuhan, Andre Alalraux, Jacques Mari-
tain, Alargaret Alead, Sir Herbert Read, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul
Tillich and Harold C. Urey.

Auerbach gift. An attractive autograph manuscript in French on
geometry has been donated by A'lr. Bart Auerbach. Dating from
the eighteenth century and owned at the time by one Ludovic
Lemaire, the text, comprising a course of instruction in geometry,
is neatly written in ink on 160 pp. and is illustrated with diagrams
throughout, several in color.

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