University of Virginia Library

Section G. Chemistry.

The collection in chemistry at the University of Virginia
comprises 7,565 volumes, of which about three-fifths are chemical
journals. Of the back sets of journals and of the sixty
varieties currently received, a considerable proportion is made
up of foreign publications. Among the comprehensive works are
those by Beilstein, Gmelin-Kraut, Heilbron, Mellor, and Richter.
The special fields of interest include drugs, food chemistry,
dyes, and bio-chemistry.

At Washington and Lee University there are approximately
3,250 volumes in chemistry. The collection includes a fair proportion
of serial publications; and among the monumental sets
are those by Beilstein, Gmelin-Kraut, Grignard, Heilbron, Mellor,
and Richter. There are no special fields of interest.

The libraries at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at
the University of Richmond both contain about 1,500 volumes in
chemistry, which include good runs of periodicals and several
of the monumental sets which have been issued in this subject.
At the Virginia Polytechnic Institute the special fields of
interest are agricultural, cellulose, and rayon chemistry.
Considerable emphasis has been given at the University of Richmond
to chemical history and to the biographies of chemists.

The Medical College of Virginia in Richmond has greatly
strengthened its material in medical sciences by acquiring
periodical material in general science and in most of the special
sciences. In chemistry, for example, this library contains runs
of twenty-six chemical journals which total 941 volumes.