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...Punch, Wit A. P. Herbert, literary M. P. for Oxford, wrote an article Mein Pamph, describing the Royal Air Force showering Berlin with "Bomphlets...
Pliny records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
During the year $12,189.26 was received for the purchase of books, besides numerous valuable gifts of collections and sets. The accessions for the year and the present extent of each department are shown in the following table: Volumes Present extent in LIBRARIES Added Volumes Pamph. College Library: Main collection, 29,568 706,459 457,800 38 special libraries, 5,507 83,563 -- -- -- Total, 35,075 790,022 457,800 Law School, 5,619 166,476 22,250 Theological, 1,302 108,082 53,955 Comp. Zoo., 1,123 53,459 50,393 Peabody, 622 6,950 6,803 Astron...