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THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
The income of an endowment fund of three hundred thousand dol
lars, the gift of the late Hon. Henry W. Sage, devoted to the purchase
of books and periodicals, provides for a large and constant increase
of the library, the average annual additions being now about twelve
thousand volumes. The number of periodicals and transactions, his
torical, literary, scientific and technical, currently received, is over
eight hundred, and of many of these complete sets are on the shelves.
Among
the more important special collections which from time to
time have been incorporated in the General Library may be men
tioned : The Anthon Library, of nearly seven thousand volumes,
consisting of the collection made by the late Professor Charles Anthon,
of Columbia College, in the ancient classical languages and literatures,
besides works in history and general literature ; The Bopp Library,
of about twenty-five hundred volumes, relating to the oriental lan
guages and literatures, and comparative philology, being the collec
tion of the late Professor Franz Bopp, of the University of Berlin ;
The Goedwin Smith Library, of thirty-five hundred volumes, com
prising chiefly historical works and editions of the English and
ancient classics, presented to the University in 1869 by Professor Goldwin
Smith, and increased during later years by the continued liberal
ity of the donor ; The Publications of the Patent Office of Great
Britain, about three thousand volumes, of great importance to the
student in technology and to scientific investigators ; The White
Architectural Library,
a collection of over twelve hundred
volumes relating to architecture and kindred branches of science,
given by ex-President White ; The KeeeEy Mathematical Library,
comprising eighteen hundred volumes and seven hundred tracts, pre
sented by the late Hon. William Kelley, of Rhinebeck ; The Cornell
Agricultural Library, bought by the late Hon. Ezra Cornell, chiefly
in 1868 ; The Sparks Library, being the library of Jared Sparks,
late president of Harvard University, of upwards of consisting five
thousand volumes and four thousand pamphlets, relating chiefly to
the history of America ; The May Collection, relating to the his
tory of slavery, and anti-slavery, the necleus of which was formed by
the gift of the library of the late Rev. Samuel J. May, of Syracuse ;
The Schuyler Collection of folk-lore, Russian history and litera
ture, presented by the late Hon. Eugene Schuyler in 1884 ; The
Rh^ETo-Romanic Collection, containing about one thousand vol
umes, presented by Willard Fiske in 1891 ; The President White
Historical Library, of about twenty thousand volumes (including
bound collections of pamphlets ) and some three thousand unbound
pamphlets, the gift of ex-President White, received in 1892, especially