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The subscription started in the spring of 1898 for the purchase of the late Professor James Russell Lowell's collection of books in the Romance Languages has finally reached the required amount and the books have been transferred to the Gore Hall Library.
The collection of photographs has been enlarged by the addition of 1307 prints, making the total number 27,370. They represent the German, Dutch, French and Italian schools of painting, the mediaeval and renaissance architecture of France, Germany and Italy and the architecture of Egypt and Arabia. Fourteen of the...
The following etchings and engravings have been purchased for the Gray collection: Statue of the Virgin by Antonio Canal; a portrait entitled, Philon the Jew, and a copy by J. Bretherton; the Virgin weeping over the dead body of Christ, by Marc-Antonio; and a portrait of Cardinal Bentivoglio, by...
For the Randall collection have been bought 283 prints after Turner, bound in five volumes and including many illustrations. Among the noted engravers represented by these prints are Allen, Brandard, Finden, Goodall, Armytage and Miller. A few books were added to the libraries of these collections.
The University has lately received from Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Boston, the sum of $500 "for the purchase of Scandinavian books or books relating to Scandinavia." As it is Mrs. Hammer's intention to present the same amount annually to the University for this purpose, there is good reason...