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The classes in the College Department have continued their praiseworthy
custom of presenting books to the Library on occasion of
their graduation, and have given as follows: The Class of 1888, 1
volume (additional to those already reported); the Class of 1890, 34
volumes; the Class of 1891, 21 volumes; and the Class of 1892, 25
volumes.
There have been added to the Krauth Library of Philosophy 16
volumes, to the B. B. Comegys, Jr., Library of Philosophy, 55 volumes,
and to the Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism 107
bound volumes and 57 pamphlets.
The Tobias Wagner Library has been increased 611 volumes.
The George Biddle Memorial Law Library has received accessions
to the'number of 3116 volumes, and contains at present 8418 books.
Conspicuous among the many gifts to the Library is the large and
valuable collection of books on Geology, Palaeontology and Natural
History, which belonged to Dr. Joseph Leidy, presented by Mrs.
Leidy.
Mrs. Charles A. Ashburner presented the geological library of her
husband, numbering 656 bound volumes, 867 unbound pamphlets and
periodicals, and no maps.
Mr. Francis Campbell Macauley gave 221 volumes, chiefly French,
Spanish, and Italian literature.
Mr. Brinton Coxe contributed 25 volumes of Sacrse Rotae Romanae
Decisiones, and other works of Canon Law.
The Rev. Frederic M. Bird presented the original manuscripts
of his father's, Dr. Robert Montgomery Bird's, novels, " Nick of the
Woods," " Calavar," and " Hawks of Hawk Hollow,"and a portion
of that of " Robin Day," as well as Dr. Bird's medical lectures.
The Rev. Dr. William H. Furness gave 44 volumes on Slavery.
From Mr. Richard Henry Bayard Bowie we received 229 volumes of
Chinese literature, and 194 books on other subjects, from the fine
library of his father, the late Richard Ashhurst Bowie.
From Mrs. Horace Binney Hare, 274 bound volumes and 130
unbound volumes and pamphlets, chiefly medical and chemical.
From Professor Alfred Stille, M.D., 371 bound volumes, and 118
unbound volumes and pamphlets, medical and miscellaneous.
From the family of Major-General George Gordon Meade, 325
bound and 232 unbound.miscellaneous books.
From Mr. Archibald R. Montgomery, 278 bound volumes, and 56
unbound books and pamphlets.