University of Virginia Library

Section F. Physics.

The collection in physics at the University of Virginia numbers
3,715 volumes, which include the Handbuch der Physik, the
Handbuch der Experimental Physik, full runs of a number of
periodicals, and the current receipt of twenty-two physics journals.
The most notable contribution of this collection to purposes of
research is in the Lomb Collection on Optics. This comprises 819
volumes and several thousand pamphlets, a number of which would
be difficult to duplicate.

The library at the Coast Artillery School contains 2,193

volumes in physics, the fields of special interest being electricity,
heat, and optics. At the State Library there is a
general collection of approximately 1,300 volumes. The College
of William and Mary, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and
Washington and Lee University all have from 750 to 800 volumes
in the subject of physics.