Annual Report 2001-2002 - Cambridge University Library ...

27A new survey of thecoast of Africa fromSenegal and CapeVerde to Cape St.Ann ... By WilliamWoodville andothers, published byRobert Sayer, ontwo sheets (London1972). Purchasedby the Friends ofthe Library.Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, 1878-8. In addition tothese purchases, the panel made substantialcontributions to the purchase of Ercole Silva, Dell’artedei giardini inglesi (Milan 1801); and to a collection ofautograph writings on music and autograph musicalmanuscripts by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, comprisingeighteen volumes of musical lecture notes on diversesubjects, c.1837-1854 and undated, together with 16autograph transcriptions and arrangements of works byother composers used by Bishop to illustrate hislectures, three editions of Bishop’s own compositions(‘The Aethiop’, ‘The Barber of Seville’ and ‘Zuma, orThe Tree of Health’), a volume of concert and lectureprogrammes signed and annotated by Bishop, and aposter for a concert given in Yarmouth on 3 April 1834.For individual donations of books and other items,the Committee is grateful to Mr A.J.C. Bainton;Dr A. Birrell; Professor C.N.L. Brooke; Professor T.V.Buttrey; Mr J. Chidley; Mr B.J. Ford; Dr V. Fortunati,Dr R. Monticelli and Dr M. Ascari; Mr J.F. Fuggles;Mr I. Kidman; Ms M. Moore; Dr P. Searby; Mr M.Vorberg; Mr J.D. Wells; Mrs J. Winterkorn; andMr P. Woudhuysen. The Committee thanks allFriends, in particular life members, who have madecontributions in excess of the basic subscription.ActivitiesThe year 2001-2002 saw a busy programme of activities.Friends were invited to attend two private receptionsto mark the openings of Library exhibitions: in October2001 Sir Patrick Moore opened the exhibition ‘Footprintsof the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work’ with a short butcharacteristic speech, and in April 2002 the exhibition onthe theme of colour printing, ‘Beauty and the Book’,which drew heavily on the collection transferred to theLibrary by the Friends’ Patron Member Mr NormanWaddleton, was opened by Bamber Gascoigne.There was a varied set of speaker meetings. InOctober 2001 a talk titled ‘Shakespeare in the Houseof Art: the tragedies, in pictures’ was given by JohnHarvey of Emmanuel College. On Guy Fawkes’Night the Friends were delighted to welcome backa former Secretary, Dr Mark Nicholls, who spokeon ‘What Gunpowder Plot was: the facts and fictionsof treason’, concluding in time for those who sowished to enjoy the fireworks on Jesus Green.Following the Annual General Meeting Dr MiloKeynes gave an illustrated talk on ‘The iconographyof Sir Isaac Newton: ad vivam portraits andposthumous busts’. In January 2002 Dominic Marner,a Research Assistant in the Department of Manuscripts