Word: autograph
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
...York. Mr. Pyne's gift consists of a large number of autograph letters and documents, chiefly by famous graduates or relating to the college, but also including autographs of William of Orange and various documents executed by English kings. Mr. Morgan's gift includes various editions of the classics from the Aldine press including the very rare Princeps of Aristotle (1495-98) and the equally rare Princeps of Thucydides (1502) both in remarkably fine condition...
...Bowdoin College library has recently received from Hon. R. C. Winthrop of Boston, valuable autograph letters and documents of the Bowdoin family, relating to the foundation and early history of the college...
...charge of it for several years. It contains about 606 volumes, including encyclopedias and dictionaries of all kinds, and five sets of Roussean, Moliore and Voltaire. A the death of Professor Jacquinot in 1883, the library received many valuable books from him. Among other interesting things there is an autograph letter of Lamartine, given last year. But the library is in much need of gifts of books or money, by graduates or undergraduates...