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711. The acquisitions figures for the sessions from 1925 to 1930 are
recorded in College and University Library Statistics 1919/20 to 1943/44
as published by the Princeton University Library in 1947. The figures
for the sessions from 1945 to 1950 are given in the tables entitled
University of Virginia Libraries, Size of Collections, which are issued
annually at the General Office of the Alderman Library.
712. The count by bibliographic units grew out of investigations and discussions
by two successive committees of the Association of Research
Libraries, the record running through the minutes of meetings during 1940
to 1950. By 1950 the Universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan
and Cornell, Northwestern, and Duke Universities were among those which
had adopted the new method of enumeration.
713. These items are taken from the 1950 table of Size of Collections.
Of the 1,553 film reels, 232 were of newspapers, 528 of manuscripts, and
793 of books, the last figure comprising 8,043 book titles.
714. See Section II, pages 21, 22, of this history.
715. Annual Library Report for 1929, p. 6.
716. It is difficult to separate state and gift appropriations in the 19251926
budget — which may be found in the folio volume of Visitors' Minutes
in the library vault. Combining the general and law library appropriations,
the total library appropriation for the session 1925-1926 was $21,170, of
which $10,704 apparently came from the State and $10,466 from endowment
income. In 1949-1950 the total appropriation was $311,432, of which
$267,062 came from the State and $44,370 from endowment income and gifts.
The comparisons in total appropriations would therefore be:-
But for the purchase of books, the total for the session 1925-1926 was
1925-1926
1949-1950
Increase
Total appropriations
$21,170
311,432
14.7 times
From State
10,704
267,062
24.9 times
From Gifts
10,466
44,370
4.2 times
$7,075, of which $3,796 seems to have come from the State and $3,279 from
endowment income. In 1949-1950 the total for books was $59,370, of which
$37,500 came from the State and $21,870 from endowment income and gifts.
The comparison in book appropriations would therefore be:-
Considering the salary appropriations separately, the comparison would be:-
1925-1926
1949-1950
Increase
Book appropriations
7,075
59,370
8.4 times
From State
3,796
37,500
9.9 times
From Gifts
3,279
21,870
6.7 times
| 1925-1926 | 1929-1950 | Increase | |
| Salary appropriations | 12,245 | $208,592 | 17 times |
The pertinent conclusions in connection with the text are that while in
these twenty-five years the general library appropriation was increasing
14.7 times and the salary appropriations were increasing 17 times, the
increase in the book appropriation was 8.4 times; and that while the overall
appropriation from the State was increasing 24.9 times, the book appropriation
from the State was increasing 9.9 times.
717. See pages 145 and 146, Section VI, of this history.
718. The last extension of hours, from 92 to 98, with closing on six evenings
at 11:00 o'clock, was put into effect in 1948.
719. The largest library group affected by the 1942 Personnel Act was the
clerical staff which had had a salary range from $840 to $1,200. The
latter figure became the minimum.
720. Automatic "cost of living" adjustments upward were put into effect as
follows:-
| Clerical Staff | Professional Staff |
| 1946 July | 1946 July |
| 1948 July | 1948 July |
| 1949 July | 1949 September |
| 1950 December | 1950 July |
| 1951 March | 1951 March |
| 1952 September | 1952 December |
721. Because of the second world war, the range in total resident enrollment
was from 1,175 to 5,119. The following record was supplied by the
Registrar's office. During 1944-1947 there were continuous sessions, and
the record gives the figures by semesters. The enrollments are the totals
for all departments.
| 1940-1941 | 2,992 |
| 1941-1942 | 2,599 |
| 1942-1943 | 2,170 |
| 1943-1944 | 1,733 |
| 1944, first semester | 1,345 |
| 1944, second semester | 1,335 |
| 1944-1945, first semester | 1,322 |
| 1944-1945, second semester | 1,175 |
| 1945-1946, first semester | 1,226 |
| 1945-1946, second semester | 1,942 |
| 1946, first semester | 2,733 |
| 1946, second semester | 2,168 |
| 1946-1947, first semester | 4,388 |
| 1946-1947, second semester | 4,342 |
| 1947-1948 | 5,119 |
| 1948-1949 | 5,082 |
| 1949-1950 | 4,964 |
722. For a discussion of support of research by the federal and state governments,
see pages 3-9 of President Darden's printed report to the Board of
Visitors for the session 1950-1951.
723. Careful search has so far not been able to locate this saying in any of
President Alderman's addresses or writings.
724. See page 132 of Section VI of this history.
725. See the tables of endowment and expendable funds which are supplementary
to these notes. The totals for books are as follows:
| 1825-1925 | 1925-1950 | |
| Endowment funds | $84,275.00 | $190,091.74 |
| Non-Endowment funds | 14,825.00 | 284,987.47 |
| Totals | 99,100.00 | 475,079.21 |
726. To the extensive gifts of books during 1925-1950 may be added over three
million manuscripts.
727, The specially designed bookplates include those for Alderman, the
Bibliographical Society, Byrd, Cabell, Far Places, Harbison-Neff, Hispanic-American,
Holmes, International Studies, Jabberwock, James F. Lincoln Arc
Welding Foundation, Lefevre, Luck, Mackay-Smith, Metcalf, Morton, Rushton,
Simpson, Sparrow, Stone, Taylor, Tunstall, and Wyllie.
728. Among the bookplates representing earlier gifts were those for Charles
Baskerville, Governor Holliday, Gaetano Lanz, Wilbur P. Morgan, Thomas
Randolph Price, and Barnard Shipp.
729. The books of President Alderman were presented by Mrs. Alderman. See
Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 3, December 1933, pp. 51, 52; Visitors' Minutes,
24 March 1933; also page 146, Section VI, of this history.
President Newcomb donated a large portion of his private library shortly
after his retirement.
Mrs. Charles William Kent in 1929 presented many of the books which
had been in the combined collections of her husband and of Professors
Gessner Harrison and Francis Henry Smith, and had been housed in the middle
pavilion on West Lawn. See Visitors' Minutes, 20 April 1929.
Books from the private libraries of John Barbee Minor and Raleigh
Colston Minor were presented by Mrs. Raleigh C. Minor and her son, Mr. C.
Venable Minor, in 1932. See Visitors' Minutes, 13 June 1932.
The gift by Mr. Collins Denny, Jr., of the extensive private library
of his father, Bishop Collins Denny, has extended over a number of years.
Correspondence concerning the books started in 1943, the books began to
arrive in 1944, and consignments were still being received in 1951.
A selection from the books of Walter Hines Page was presented to the
Library in 1948 by his daughter, Katharine Page Loring (Mrs. C. C. Loring),
and his two sons, Arthur Wilson Page and Frank Copeland Page.
730. The Elizabeth Cocke Coles Fund of $50,000 (reduced by tax to $47,616)
was bequeathed in 1938 by Walter Derossett Coles. See Alumni News, vol.
27, no. 5, February 1939, pp. 85, 86 and Visitors' Minutes, 21 January
1939.
An endowment fund for books to be purchased in memory of Dean John
Calvin Metcalf was being raised in 1949-1950, and had by the end of that
session reached the amount of $1,398.50.
In memory of the late Urban Joseph Peters Rushton, the members of his
family in 1950 established a fund for the purchase of books, especially
in the subject of literary criticism, the initial amount being $1,000.
See Visitors' Minutes, 14 July 1950.
731. The quotation is from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", pages 40
and 41 of The Cause: Poems of the War, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1917.
In the International Studies Collection there were forty-four
memorials, eight being endowments. The list follows:
Berkeley, William Noland, Jr.
Clemons, Henry Jenkins
Ellett, Henry Guerrant, Jr.
Green, Thomas Jefferson
Hamm, James Douglas
Morton, William Wylie
Scott, John
Young, Thomas Taggert
International Studies Fund, Endowment Memorials
Acree, John White
Allen, Geroe Cox
Breed, William Henry
Broome, Roger Grenville Brooke
Connelly, Sam Roth, Jr.
Curry, Charles, II
Dayton, Donald Kuykendall
Deputy, Louis James
Eisner, Jacques Rodney
Fleming, Carl, Jr.
Fowlkes, Paschal Dupuy
Goodwin, William Archer Rutherford, Jr.
Hannabass, James Wilbur, Jr.
Harbison, Clinton McClarty, Jr.
Hardy, John Gardiner, Jr.
Harris, John Daniel
Hover, Thomas Strode
Leonard, Edward Madison
McGuire, James Mercer Garnett
Mattes, Merwin Bogen
Mead, Frank Roberts, Jr.
Miller, John Henry
Motley, James Coleman, Jr.
Neff, John Henry, Jr.
Nottingham, Severn Marcellus, Jr.
O'Donoghue, James Francis, Jr.
Palmer, James Meehan
Smith, Louis Amonson
Stafford, Richard Marshall
Straus, Raymond I., Jr.
Suhling, William Gerhard, III
Taylor, Quintard, Jr.
Triplett, Charles Hector III
Turner, Frank Edward
Wilde, Robert Michael
Wonson, Charles Fred
Non-Endowment Memorials
732. The McGregor Room, a memorial to Tracy W. McGregor, was opened in
1939 (Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 6, March 1939, p. 117 and no. 8, May 1939,
pp. 159-162, 169-172, and Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 14 February
1939). The opening of the Garnett Room, containing the home library of
Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, was coincident with the dedication in
1938, pp. 138, 139). There was an informal opening of the still unfurnished
Taylor Room, containing the collection of American fiction
gathered by Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor, in June 1950.
733. The little collection of college books used by Robert Carter Berkeley
at the University of Virginia between 1857 and 1861 was presented by his
daughter, Frances Berkeley Young (Mrs. Karl Young). Mrs. Young paid for
the bookcase in which the collection is contained.
734. The Cabell family library was presented to the University of Virginia
in 1949 by Hartwell Cabell.
735. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 7, April 1938, pp. 138, 139. See footnote
732.
736. See pages 24 to 29 of Section II of this history.
737. See pages 77, 78 of Section IV of this history.
738. See page 34 of Reports of the Deans and the Librarian to the President
of the University of Virginia 1949-1950 (mimeographed).
739. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 4, January 1947, pp. 2, 3.
740. Alumni News, vol. 31, no. 2, November 1942, p. 14.
741. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 9, June 1949, p. 4.
742. The establishment of a Harry Clemons Publication Fund was revealed in
May 1950 by the appearance of a facsimile of the Peter Jefferson-Joshua
Fry map of Virginia, 1751, published by the Princeton University Press
and accompanied with historical notes on Peter Jefferson by Dumas Malone
and a bibliographical memorandum by Coolie Verner.
743. John Calvin Doolan (1868-1947) was a graduate in 1890 of the University
of Virginia Department of Law and a leading lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky.
His map collection was presented to the University of Virginia by his
widow in 1948. See Board of Alderman Minutes, April 1948.
744. In the Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, special Alderman Library issue,
there is on page 221 a statement concerning Mr. McGregor's interest in
cosmography and early geography.
745. The University of Virginia Library was named a depository of the Army
Map Service in 1945. See Board of Aldermen Minutes for November and
December 1945 and January and February 1946.
746. In North Carolina there was a vigorous competitive campaign in manuscript
collecting being waged between Prof. William Kenneth Boyd of Duke
of North Carolina. Both of those collectors were openly making inroads
on privately held material in Virginia.
It is a bit of inside history that a scathing criticism of the
lethargy at the University of Virginia, made by Mr. Herbert Anthony Kellar,
Director of the McCormick Historical Association of Chicago, to a group
assembled in President Alderman's office in 1929, was the immediate stimulus
of the awakening that led to the Thornton broadside. It so happened
that the University Librarian had not been included in that group. But
Mr. Kellar and he had conferences together directly before and directly
after the meeting.
747. Copies of the Thornton broadside are on file in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Division of the Alderman Library.
748. William Mynn Thornton was then Professor of Applied Mathematics. He
retired from active teaching in 1931. He had been Chairman of the Faculty
from 1888 to 1896 and Dean of the Department of Engineering from 1904 to
1925. There is reference to his skilled pen on page 112 of Section V of
this history, in connection with the biographical sketch of James Biscoe
Baker.
749. The signatures were as follows:-
Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University.
Cyrus Harding Walker, Rector of the Board of Visitors.
William Mynn Thornton, Professor of Applied Mathematics.
Richard Heath Dabney, Professor of History.
John Calvin Metcalf, Dean of the Graduate School.
Harry Clemons, University Librarian.
750. See page 21 of Section II of this history.
751. See page 37 of Section III of this history.
752. This was monograph number five of the publications of the University
of Virginia Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. It was done
under the direction of Prof. Dumas Malone. The full title was Cappon,
Lester Jesse, Bibliography of Virginia History Since 1865, University,
Virginia, The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 1930.
753. Prof. Wilson Gee and the Librarian early in 1930 made application in
Washington to Dr. Waldo Gifford Leland, Director of the American Council
of Learned Societies, and Doctor Leland persuaded Dr. Frederick Paul
Keppel, then President of the Carnegie Corporation, to make the initial
grant of $5,000 for the archival project at the University of Virginia.
See Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 10, June-July 1930, p. 246.
754. For several years after 1930 Professor Gee generously carried Doctor
Cappon's salary on Institute funds. In 1936 Doctor Cappon's Virginia
Newspapers 1821-1935 was published on Institute funds both as Institute
Monograph number twenty-two and as Guide to Virginia Historical Materials,
part one. Doctor Cappon's monograph on the History of the Southern Iron
Industry was, if completed, to be an Institute Monograph.
755. This text is taken largely from "Lester J. Cappon: An Appreciation",
pages 3-8 of General Index to First Fifteen Annual Reports on Historical
Collections, University of Virginia Library, 1931-1945.
756. Doctor Cappon was Secretary of the Society of American Archivists from
1942 to 1950. In the American Association for State and Local History he
was made a Councilor in 1942 and was continuing as such in 1950.
757. Microphotography is a hundred years old. There are said to be examples
of miniature texts photographically reproduced dating from 1852; and there
was some use of the process during the Franco-Prussian War. But the
development into utilization for business and industry and libraries did
not get under way until the 1920's. The current encyclopaedias carry
articles on Microphotography.
758. Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 7, March-April 1931, pp. 151-154. This
article by Doctor Cappon on "Survey and Collection of Manuscripts in
Virginia" is illustrated by a photograph of the southeast wing of the
Rotunda buildings before the Virginia Collection was moved into it. The
article was reprinted as a supplement to The First Annual Report of the
Archivist.
759. The twenty-seven counties which were surveyed are given below, the
dates in parentheses being the dates of survey. The survey of Culpeper
County was made by Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill. The others were by Doctor
Cappon.
Albemarle (1930-31)
Amherst (1932-33)
Augusta (1931-32)
Botetourt (1931-32)
Brunswick (1933-34)
Charlotte (1932-33)
Culpeper (1934-35)
Cumberland (1932-33)
Essex (1930-31)
Fauquier (1932-33)
Frederick (1930-31)
Goochland (1931-32)
Halifax (1933-34)
Isle of Wight (1931-32)
Lancaster (1932-33)
Montgomery (1932-33)
Norfolk (1931-32)
Northampton (1930-31)
Orange (1931-32)
Pittsylvania (1930-31)
Russell (1933-34)
Stafford (1931-32)
Surry (1932-33)
Washington (1931-32)
Westmoreland (1932-33)
Wythe (1930-31)
York (1931-32)
760. See Sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia
Library, page 2.
761. Doctor Cappon was State Director for Virginia of the Historical Records
Survey for 1936-1937. The first volume for Virginia issued under the
national supervision was the inventory of the archives of Chesterfield
County, and this was published by the University of Virginia in August 1938.
762. The manual was issued by the Social Science Research Council in
October 1942 with the title "A Plan for the Collection and Preservation
of World War II Records."
763. Visitors' Minutes, 10 November and 29 December 1945.
764. Doctor Cappon received the B.A. degree in 1922 and the M.A. degree in
1923 from the University of Wisconsin; he received the M.A. degree in 1925
and the Ph.D. degree in 1928 from Harvard.
765. Francis Lewis Berkeley, Jr., received the B.S. degree in 1934 and the
M.A. degree in 1940 from the University of Virginia.
766. Beginning in December 1944 a series of gifts at Christmas time came
from Mr. Clifton Waller Barrett. The majority of the items were books,
but manuscripts were also included. References to that series are as
follows:-
First, 1944. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 5, February 1945, p. 2; no. 6,
March 1945, p. 6; Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1945.Second, 1945. Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1946.
Third, 1946. This gift included a number of literary manuscripts and
papers. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 5, February 1947, pp. 15, 18;
Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1947.Fourth, 1947. This included a letter from Jefferson to John Griscom
concerning the building of the University. Board of Aldermen
Minutes, January 1948.Fifth, 1948. Manuscript material was included with this gift. Board
of Aldermen Minutes, January 1949.Sixth, 1949. Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1950. Mr. Barrett
donated also $1,000 towards the purchase of the Peter Jefferson
Prayer Book and of a manuscript list of articles at Monticello.
Mr. William Andrews Clark presented both books and manuscripts which he
had purchased for the University of Virginia. The books included the presentation
copy to Lafayette of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.
The manuscripts included Jefferson's specifications for the university
buildings, Jefferson's diplomatic cipher codes, and a group of Jefferson-Cocke
letters.
Mr. William Sobrieski Hildreth presented in 1948 a group of letters
from Jefferson to General Samuel Smith. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 5,
February 1948, p. 15.
Mr. Robert Coleman Taylor in 1938 presented a group of Jefferson-Cabell
letters for which he paid $3,700. Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 5, February
1939, pp. 35, 36; no. 7, April 1939, pp. 137-139; Visitors' Minutes,
21 January 1939.
767. Mr. Robert Hill Carter in 1947 contributed $150 toward the purchase of
Virginia historical materials. Board of Aldermen Minutes, June 1947.
Col. Joseph M. Hartfield in 1938 joined with Messrs. T. Catesby Jones,
Cazenove Gardner Lee, John Powell, and Robert Coleman Taylor in a contribution
of funds for the purchase of various Jefferson letters. See Alumni
News, vol. 27, no. 3, December 1938, p. 5. In 1949 he donated $220. for
the purchase of a Jefferson letter to Samuel Taylor. Board of Aldermen
Minutes, December 1949.
Mr. T. Catesby Jones joined in the purchase recorded in Alumni News,
vol. 27, no. 3, December 1938, p. 5.
Mr. Cazenove Gardner Lee's contribution in that group action was a
set of fourteen letters written by French officials to Arthur Lee in 1777
and 1780. Mr. Lee also made several other money contributions for the purchase
of Lee family letters.
768. There were 2341 items in The Jefferson Papers of the University of
Virginia: A Calendar, compiled by Constance E. Thurlow & Francis L.
Berkeley, Jr., Charlottesville, University of Virginia Library, 1950.
769. An excellent and much more detailed statement is given by Mr.
Berkeley in his article "The University of Virginia Library" in Autograph
Collectors' Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, winter 1952, pp. 32-37.
770. See that same article by Mr. Berkeley, pages 35, 36.
771. From the effort to locate educational and philanthropic and church
records, for the proposed Guide to Virginia Historical Materials, there
resulted the transfer of a fair number to the Alderman Library. In some
cases, photostat or microfilm copies were made for this Library or for
some other Library in Virginia. Bibliographies of church records, wherever
located, were appended to the fourth, fifth, and seventh Annual Reports
of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library.
772. See supplement (compiled by Mr. Berkeley) to the eighth Annual Report
of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library.
773. The number "over three hundred" comes from a count of the families
listed in the indexes I to XV and XVI to XX of the Annual Reports on
Historical Collections.
774. The introduction to the Thirteenth Annual Report on Historical Collections
gives an exposition of the methods of handling manuscripts at the
University of Virginia Library.
775. Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library,
for the year 1939-40, pages 17, 18.
776. Eleventh Annual Report on Historical Collections, University of Virginia
Library, for the year 1940-41, pages 30, 31, under the heading Hungerford,
William Sumner (1854-1904).
777. The southeast wing was vacated by the School of Romance Languages in
1929 when that School moved to the Romance Pavilion on East Lawn. See
Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 7, March-April 1931, pp. 151-154.
778. Miss Harshbarger was a B.A. of Bridgewater College and an M.A. of the
University of Virginia.
779. For the McGregor Library see the main text which follows; also footnote
732. For the Stone collection see Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, Alderman
Library special issue, p. 215.
780. Copies of Mr. McGregor's will and of the indenture and deed of gift of
the McGregor Library are on file in the general office and in the office
of the Rare Book and Manuscript Division of the University of Virginia
Library. These are notable for clear statement of intention and for
avoidance of possibly crippling limitation in means of administration.
781. The address on Tracy W. McGregor which was given by Judge Hulbert on
the occasion of the dedication and opening of the McGregor Room on
14 April 1939 was printed in full in Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 8, pp.
160-162, 169-172, and was afterwards issued as a separate. A much briefer
sketch, abridged and adopted from Judge Hulbert's address, and approved
by him, serves as an introduction to a Description of the Tracy W.
McGregor Library, University of Virginia, which appeared as a folder in
1951. The quotation in the text is taken from the abridged form. The
fuller statement in the address is "a quiet, unassuming Christian gentleman,
with high spiritual attributes, a tower of civic strength, and one
who felt deeply his responsibilities to the community in which he lived."
782. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, Alderman Library special issue, pp. 220221.
783. The expenditures by the Trustees of McGregor Fund for furnishing the
McGregor Room, as recorded in the printed reports issued by the Fund,
were as follows:-
It is not clear whether the Salisbury portrait was a charge against the
1938-1939.
Furnishings of McGregor Room
$26,425.00
1938-1939.
Salisbury portrait
6,000.00
1940
Additional furnishings
315.00
1941
Additional furnishings
295.00
$33,035.00
Fund or a special gift.
784. The grand total of the contributions from the Trustees of McGregor
Fund to July 1950, including the Salisbury portrait, were as follows:-
| Annual grants from July 1938 to July 1950 | $90,000.00 |
| Binding Mather books, 1945 to 1948 | 4,000.00 |
| Furnishings for McGregor Room, 1938-1941 | 33,035.00 |
| Publications ($500 in 1942, $160 in 1949) | 660.00 |
| $127,695.00 |
785. See page 65 of Section IV of this history.
786. Alumni News, vol. 2, no. 5, February 1939, pp. 85, 86; Visitors'
Minutes, 21 January 1939. The bequest establishing the Coles Fund was
for $50,000.00. This was reduced by tax of $2,384.00 to an endowment of
$47,616.00.
787. The group became known as the "Fives Society." It began operations
before the second world war and was then composed of Mr. Wyllie, Professors
Abernethy, Cappon, and Mayo, and the Librarian. After the war the
group was composed of Mr. Wyllie, Curator of the McGregor Library and of
Rare Books, Professors Abernethy, Mayo, and Younger, Miss Savage,
Acquisitions Librarian, Mr. Berkeley, Curator of Manuscripts and University
Archivist, and the Librarian. Monthly meetings were held during the
summer, and to these there were invited Summer Quarter Professors of
American History.
788. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 2, November 1943, p. 7. This is an article
in appreciation by Dean Metcalf.
789. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 6, March 1944, p. 7; vol. 34, no. 9, June
1946, p. 7; vol. 37, no. 5, February 1949, p. 8. For a number of years
Mr. Parrish paid for a book a month on South America and later also on
Poland, to be selected and ordered at the Library. He also created an
endowment fund of $1,000 (in two contributions of $500 each) for the
purchase of books on Poland.
790. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 1, October 1947, p. 11; vol. 37, no. 5,
February 1949, pp. 8, 9.
791. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 9, June 1944, p. 7; vol. 37, no. 5. February
1949, p. 9.
792. The recommendation that started the fund and led to the School first
appeared in Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 3, December 1943, p. 2, in the form
of an editorial by Branch Spalding, the Editor of the Alumni News.
793. Alumni News, vol. 34, no. 2, November 1945, p. 7; no. 3, December 1945,
pp. 3, 18.
794. See page 157 Section VI, of this history.
795. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 3, December 1943, p. 12; Board of Aldermen
Minutes, 20 January 1943.
796. For Barnard Shipp's gift, see page 64 of Section IV of this history,
and footnote 263. For the gift from William Elliott Dold, see Alumni
News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 103.
797. Eighteen sessions of the School of Military Government were held at the
University of Virginia between 1942 and 1945. The commandants were, first,
Brigadier General Cornelius Wendell Wickersham and, second, Brigadier
General Edward Raynesford Warner McCabe.
The School of Geography began with the session 1946-1947, with Prof.
Sidman Parmelee Poole as its Chairman.
798. Dr. E. S. C. Handy is the President of Genethnics, Inc. The special
bookplate used for the Far Places Collection was the result of a prize
competition by students of the School of Fine Arts.
799. The grants from the General Education Board had been received as follows,
the total amount being $22,600:-
To Economics, in 1941, $5,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 15 February 1941); in
1943, $5,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 27 March 1943).
To Political Science, in 1937, $3,600 (Visitors' Minutes, 28 January
1938); in 1940, $3,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 24 April 1940).
To Rural Social Economics, during 1939-1940, $3,000; during 1940-1941,
$3,000.
800. Henry Harford Cumming, Jr., was Assistant Professor of Political
Science from 1939 to 1945. He died of infantile paralysis in Italy on
10 July 1945, being at that time Assistant Chief of Staff of the American
Fifth Army Base Section, with the rank of Colonel. (Alumni News, vol. 34,
his widow in 1949.
Bruce Williams was Professor of Political Science from 1920 to 1929.
He died in the summer of 1929. (Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 3, November
1929, pp. 60, 61)
801. William Franklin Willoughby was a graduate of John Hopkins University.
He had been Director of the Institute of Government Research from 1916 to
1932, and it was on retiring from that post that he made his gift to the
University of Virginia. (Visitor's Minutes, 24 March 1933.)
802. The Economics Books Fund amounted during the years 1929 to 1947 to a
total of $1,475.75. See Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 6, Feburary 1930, p. 32;
Visitors' Minutes, 17 March 1931. The record of the contributions by
sessions was as follows:
| 1929-30 | $258.50 | 1933-34 | $133.50 | 1940-41 | $41.50 |
| 1930-31 | 126.00 | 1934-35 | 67.10 | 1942-43 | 5.00 |
| 1931-32 | 357.56 | 1935-36 | 60.00 | 1946-47 | 50.00 |
| 1932-33 | 83.59 | 1939-40 | 23.00 | $1,475.75 |
803. See page 127 of Section VI of this history.
804. For the McKeldin Fund see page 123 of Section VI of this history and
footnote 595. See also Visitors' Minutes, 14 November 1925.
Professor Balz donated in 1950 an endowment fund of $1,000 for the
purchase of books in Philosophy. The income had not become available by
July 1950.
Albert Lefevre was Professor of Philosophy from 1905 until his death
on 18 December 1928. See Alumni News, vol. 17, no. 6, February 1929, p. 143;
vol. 18, no. 3, November 1929, pp. 60, 61.
805. See page of Section VI of this history.
806. Alumni News, vol. 39, no. 1, October 1950, p. 13. The total of the
Metcalf Fund was in 1952 reported as $1,390.50.
807. Visitors' Minutes, 9 June and 14 July 1950. The initial donation by
the members of the Rushton family was $1,000. There is a tribute to
Peters Rushton by Prof. Daniel Silas Norton in Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 4,
January 1950, p. 21.
808. The gift in memory of Asher Hinds was $100, and was given by Professor
Rushton in the session 1948-1949. In the article by Professor Norton
mentioned in the footnote above, Asher Hinds is described as "a brilliant
teacher of criticism on the Princeton Faculty who died young."
809. The gift in memory of Donald Randolph Reed was of $210, in two payments
made in 1945-1946 and in 1947-1948. In the article by Professor
Norton mentioned in footnote 807, Reed is described as "a student under
Peters Rushton... who was killed as a naval aviator." See Visitors'
Minutes, 21 May 1948.
810. The gift from Professor Johnson was of $100, and it was given in the
session of 1947-1948.
811. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 5, February 1947, p. 18. This is a statement
concerning the O. Henry Collection. Toward that fund Mr. Barrett
gave $100 in 1946-1947 and $250 in 1947-1948. For a general estimate of
Mr. Barrett's donations see Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 5, February 1945,
p. 2, and footnote 766.
812. See page 81 of Section IV of this history.
813. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 6 May 1942. A paper describing the origins
of the Sadleir-Black Collection was read before the University of Virginia
Bibliographical Society on 12 May 1949 by Mr. Robert Kerr Black, and was
later distributed by the Society in mimeographed form.
814. Mr. Linton Reynolds Massey bought and contributed several volumes to
the Sadleir-Black Collection. Mr. Massey has been President of the
University of Virginia Bibliographical Society and a generous supporter of
its publications.
815. See page 80 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 365.
816. Mr. Barrett's most important donations to the Poe collection came after
1950.
817. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 108.
818. See footnote 766.
819. Mr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss succeeded Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall as
Chairman of the Virginia State Library Board, and Ambassador Alexander
Wilbourne Weddell as President of the Virginia Historical Society. See
The Commonwealth, vol. 20, no. 3, March 1953, p. 20. He presented a number
of valuable books, including certain incunabula, to the University of
Virginia Library in 1950 and later. Alumni News, vol. 39, no. 2, November
1950, p. 11; Visitors' Minutes, 13 October and 10 November 1950.
820. Annual Library Report for 1933-1934, pp. 3, 4. A list of the
Christmas books, special editions printed by John Henry Nash, which were
presented by Mr. William Andrews Clark to the University of Virginia
Library is as follows:-
Shelley, Adonais, 1922.
Poe, Tmberlane and Other Poems, with an Appreciation by James
Southall Wilson, 1923.Wilde, Some Letters... to Alfred Douglas, 1924.
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, 1925.
Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1926.
Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1927.
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1928.
Dryden, All for Love, 1929.
Stevenson, Father Damien, 1930.
Gray, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, 1933.
821. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 10, July 1950, pp. 5, 15.
822. Dr. Henry Trautmann was a student at the University from 1912 to
1916, and a graduate of the Department of Medicine. He had been a
student assistant in the University Library, and in grateful memory
donated a score or more of volumes of the Limited Editions Club's publications.
823. This was a cooperative project of which Dr. William Warner Bishop
of the University of Michigan was one of the chief sponsors, the microfilming
being done by Edwards Brothers of Ann Arbor. The other thirteen
libraries which subscribed at the beginning were the Library of Congress,
the Boston, New York, and Toronto Public Libraries, and the Libraries of
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Rochester, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois,
Califronia, and Duke Universities. The project was later extended to
books printed before 1640, and it was still in progress in 1950, other
Libraries having joined the original fourteen. At the University of
Virginia gift funds have been used for many of the annual subscriptions,
but not all. See Annual Library Report for 1936-1937, page 2.
824. See page 145 of Section VI of this history.
825. Professors Fraser, Hill, Mellor, and Wood were additions to the Faculty
made possible by the Humanities Fund. After 1935 they were continued on
State funds. Professor Mellor died in 1941. Professor Carrier was
appointed to the Faculty in 1942.
826. Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 3, December 1939, p. 44.
827. A few of Professor Wilson's books came from him by gift, but the
majority were purchased by the Library about 1948.
828. Professor Faulkner's working library in Germanic languages was presented
by him after his retirement in 1944. There are bookplates both
for Professor Wilson's and for Professor Faulkner's books.
829. Visitors' Minutes, 13 December 1946.
830. See page 63 of Section IV of this history.
831. Annual Library Report for 1929, page 8.
832. Visitors' Minutes, 17 November 1931. The books from Professor Peters'
library were donated by his sons, Dr. Don Preston Peters of Lynchburg and
Mr. James White S. Peters of Washington.
833. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 8, May 1949, p. 10; Visitors' Minutes, 9
June 1950. By June 1950 the amount of the Montgomery Fund was reported as
$608.00, of which $500.00 was designated as endowment.
834. The fund for Professor Webb was raised in 1952, and was reported in
March 1953 to have reached the sum of $1,460.00. The income had of course
not yet become available.
835. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 7, March-April 1933, p. 152; vol. 32, no. 10,
July 1944, p. 7. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932.
836. Bruce, vol. I, pp. 35-44.
837. Bruce, vol. I, p. 242.
838. See pages 16-18 of Section II of this history.
839. Section twenty-nine contained material that would be used by a School
of English Literature. But no such School was established until 1882.
840. Bruce, vol. V, p. 152.
841. See page 81, Section IV of this history, and footnote 379.
842. Alumni News, vol. 16, no. 8, April 1928, p. 177; Visitors' Minutes,
25 April 1928.
843. Edmund Schureman Campbell became Professor of Art and Architecture
in 1927. He died in 1950.
844. Arthur Fickenscher became Professor of Music in 1920 and retired in 1941.
845. Fiske Kimball, the first Professor of Art and Architecture, 1919-1922,
started the collection of material on Jefferson as an Architect. Professor
Kimball's Thomas Jefferson Architect had been published in 1916.
846. See page of Section VI of this history, and footnote 741.
847. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 July 1948. A special university appropriation
of $7,500, approved by the Governor, was obtained for this purchase,
an equal amount being contributed by Mr. Alexander McKay Smith.
848. Downs, p. 159; Survey, pp. 41, 42.
849. See page 17 of Section II of this history. In the 1783 form of the
Bacon-Jefferson classification there were forty-six specific classes, in
the 1815 form forty-four, and in the 1825 form forty-two.
850. The student-librarian was of course William Wertenbaker. See page 17
of Section II and 92 and 93 of Section V of this history, and footnotes
79 through 83. The Professor of Mathematics was Thomas Hewett Key, and
the Professor of Medicine was Robley Dunglison.
851. Charles Fenton Mercer was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates
in the period of the founding of the University of Virginia. See Bruce,
vol. 1, pp. 86, 89, 90. His "Discourse on Popular Education" was
delivered at Princeton on 26 September 1826.
852. The three works in German were by Poelitz, Richter, and Voss. The
entries in the 1828 catalogue are here quoted, each entry being followed
The 1828 Richter copy survived the Rotunda fire and is still in the
University Library.
"Poelitz, on Education, German, Leipsic, 1824, 4 vols., 8°." (Page
99 of 1828 catalogue.) Poelitz, Karl Heinrich Ludwig. Practisches
Handbuch zur Statarischen und Cursorischen Erklarung der Teutschen
Classiker für Lehrer und Erzieher.
"Richter, (John Paul) on Education, Ger. Stuttgart, 1814, 3 vols., 12°."
Richter, Jean Paul. Lavana oder Erziehlehre.
"Voss, Essay on Education, German, Halle, 1799. 2 vols., 12°."
Voss, Christian Daniel. Versuch über die Erziehung für den Staat.
853. In the University Catalogue for the session of 1919-1920, page 105,
it is stated that Jefferson's proposal for instruction in Architecture was
the earliest in any American university.
854. Bruce, vol. 5, pp. 198-211.
855. See page 78 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 350.
856. Alfred William Erickson donated $3,000 altogether, $1,000 in 1922,
$1,000 in 1923, and $1,000 in 1926. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 16,
no. 3, July 1923, pp. 209, 219; Alumni News, vol. 11, no. 5, December 1922,
p. 109; Visitors' Minutes, 29 November 1922 and 27 April 1926.
857. The Bursar's annual reports record that the educational fraternity
Phi Delta Kappa donated $423 in 1940-1941 and $215 in 1941-1942, a total
of $638.
858. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 18 December 1940; 8 February 1941.
859. Dr. Reaumur Coleman Stearnes was Superintendent of Public Instruction
in Virginia from 1913 to 1918. He died in 1945.
860. Joseph Dupuy Eggleston was Virginia State Superintendent of Public
Instruction from 1906 to 1913, President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
from 1913 to 1919, and President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1919 to
1939. A doctoral dissertation on Doctor Eggleston as subject was accepted
from Edward Franklin Overton in 1943. Material for this was deposited
in the University of Virginia Library. Doctor Eggleston died in 1953.
861. See footnote 58.
862. The Law Faculty and Alumni developed and maintained the advantage of
separate appropriations for law books. The Visitors' Minutes demonstrate
this in the records of annual budgets. For example, the minutes for 29
June 1882 state book appropriations of $250 for the general library and
$250 for the law library. In the minutes for 13 October 1898 there is a
law library book appropriation of $525, in the minutes for 12 June 1900
a law library appropriation of $500, and in the minutes for 15 June 1904
a law library appropriation of $1,000, while in all three years there was
no appropriation for the general library aside from the income from
endowments — which did not reach $1,000 in those years.
863. See page 51 of Section III and page 84 of Section IV of this history.
864. The Law Library total of volumes reached 100,000 early in 1953.
865. Downs, p. 243.
866. See page 149 of Section VI of this history.
867. Donations by Herbert W. Burdow, begun in 1944-1945, had by 1950
amounted to $1,100.00. Visitors' Minutes, 9 June 1950.
868. The Dancy-Garth endowment fund began in 1935-1936, and by 1950 amounted
to $11,858.33.
869. The endowment fund donated by Thomas Carroll Smith in 1927 amounted to
$10,000. Visitors' Minutes, 22 April 1927; 2 November 1928.
870. The recorded alumni donations for law amounted to $5,559.08, as follows:
1943-1944, $2,142.08; 1944-1945, $2,182.00; 1946-1947, $1,235.00.
871. Visitors' Minutes, 10 September 1948. The amount of the James Gordon
Bohannon bequest was $1,000.
872. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 5, February 1939, p. 86; Visitors' Minutes,
21 January 1939. The amount of the Memorial Welfare Association grant
was $1,000.
873. Alumni News, vol. 29, no. 5, February 1941, p. 92. The amount of the
H. Dent Minor donation was $10,000.
874. See page 82 of Section IV of this history and footnote 382. The
donations from Minor Inn of Phi Delta Phi reached a total of $1,543.03
in 1937, the amounts being reported as follows:-
1923- $700.00
1926- 143.00
1930 - $200.00
1932 - 200.00
1934 - $250.00
1937 - 50.00
875, Visitors' Minutes, 9 July 1948. There were gifts from the Sigma Nu
Phi law fraternity of $100 for 1947-1948 and of $150 for 1948-1949.
876. There were contributions from Robert Coleman Taylor to the Law Library,
of $2,000 in 1939-1940 and of $370 in 1942-1943. These were apart from
his 1938-1939 contribution of $3,700 for the purchase of manuscripts.
See footnote 766.
877. Visitors' Minutes, 14 September 1942. It was agreed that balances
from the William H. White lectureship fund might be used to establish a
collection on Constitutional Law. The balances (those were war years)
were recorded as follows:
| 1942-43 | $3,617.87 | 1945-46 | $546.00 |
| 1943-44 | 592.00 | 1946-47 | 4.00 |
| 1944-45 | 571.00 | $5,330.87 |
878. Visitors' Minutes, 31 October 1930.
879. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 6, March 1950, p. 5. Mr. Field secured
for the Law Library a complete set of the Nevada Session Laws.
880. Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 6, March 1940, p. 103. The gift from
Colonel Hartfield consisted of 2,200 volumes, a complete set, of New York
case and statutory laws.
881. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 9, June 1948, p. 8. This was Mr. Lauck's
private law library of approximately 5,000 volumes, "rich in documents and
periodicals." Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 April 1948.
882. Visitors' Minutes, 13 June 1932. This gift from the law books of
J. B. and R. C. Minor came from Mrs. Raleigh Colston Minor and her son,
Mr. Charles Venable Minor.
883. Alumni News, vol. 34, no. 8, May 1946, p. 5; vol. 35, no. 5, Febnuary
1947, p. 14; Board of Aldermen Minutes, 1 May 1946. See page 78 of
Section IV of this history and footnote 351 for earlier notices of the
John Bassett Moore Collection on International Law.
884. Visitors' Minutes, 26 September 1941. These came on bequest from
Charles B. Samuels, an attorney of Front Royal, Virginia, and New York City.
885. Alumni News, vol. 15, no. 2, October 1926, p. 36; Visitors' Minutes,
5 November 1926.
886. Alumni News, vol. 30, no. 3, December 1941, p. 56. This gift included
three commissions, signed by Woodrow Wilson, appointing Justice McReynolds
to offices he had held.
887. Alumni News, vol. 29, no. 10, Midsummer 1941, p. 205. These were
donated by Judge Woolsey in honor of Mr. T. Catesby Jones, and included
items by Samuel Chase, Charles Lee, John Marshall, James Monroe, Edmund
Randolph, and George Wythe.
888. Graduate studies in law were first announced for the session of 19451946.
889. See page 59 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 245.
890. University Catalogue, session of 1925-1926, p. 297.
891. Annual Library Reports, for 1930, page 1; for 1931, page 10. The
Henle Collection was purchased in Leipzig. It was "especially rich in
journals and pamphlets."
892. Dr. William James Crittenden's medical books were presented by his
daughter, Mrs. Bess Crittenden Davis of Raccoon Ford, Virginia. She later
became Mrs. Bess Crittenden Johnson of Winston, Virginia.
893. John Staige Davis was Professor of the Practice of Medicine, a member
of the Medical Faculty from 1899 to his retirement in 1928. His medical
books were presented by his children.
894. James Carroll Flippen was a member of the University's Medical Faculty
from 1902 until his death in 1939. From 1924 to 1929 he was Dean of the
Department of Medicine.
895. William Hall Goodwin was a member of the University's Medical Faculty
from 1910 until his death in 1937.
896. Board of Visitors, 15 April 1932.
897. The medical books of Dr. Rudolf Weiser Holmes were presented by him
and by Mrs. Holmes (Maria Baxter Holmes) as memorials to their mothers,
Paula Weiser Holmes and Sarah Moore Baxter.
898. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 103. This gift was a
set of The Military Surgeon, of which General Kean had for a time been
editor.
899. David Russell Lyman had since 1903 been Medical Superintendent of the
Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, Wallingford, Connecticut.
900. Kenneth Fuller Maxcy was Professor of Public Health and Primitive
Medicine at the University of Virginia from 1929 to 1936.
901. Henry Bearden Mulholland has been a member of the Medical Faculty at
the University of Virginia since 1922.
902. John Henry Neff was a member of the University of Virginia Medical
Faculty from 1917 until his death in 1938.
903. Marshall John Payne was an alumnus of the University of Virginia and
a physician in Staunton, Virginia. His medical books were given by his
son.
904. Lawrence Thomas Royster was Professor of Pediatrics at the University
from 1923 to 1942. He presented his books on Pediatrics at the time of
his retirement; all his library came to the University of Virginia after
his death in 1953.
905. Visitors' Minutes, 15 April 1932.
906. Visitors' Minutes, 27 January 1940; 28 January 1942; 23 Secember 1944,
The amounts donated were $10,000 in 1940, $5,000 in 1942, $5,000 in 1944,
$9,157 in 1950 making a total of $29,157.00.
907. Visitors' Minutes, 27 January, 24 April 1940. The amounts donated
were $13,432.43 in 1940, $29,993.95 in 1944, and $16.56 in 1945, a total
of $43,443.14.
908. Visitors' Minutes, 10 March 1950.
909. From 1937 to 1950 the contributions of the general Medical Alumni
(entered in Bursar's reports as Alderman Medical) amounted to $9, 452.18.
The record by sessions was as follows:
| 1937-38 | 18.00 | 1941-42 | $1,676.05 | 1946-47 | $1,321.05 |
| 1938-39 | 184.00 | 1942-43 | 769.25 | 1947-48 | 100.95 |
| 1939-40 | 1,057.50 | 1943-44 | 1,363.00 | 1948-49 | 104.50 |
| 1940-41 | 1,369.38 | 1944-45 | 1,488.50 | $9,452,18 |
910. In the same period, 1937 to 1950, the contributions of the New York
Medical Alumni (not included in the amounts given in footnote 909) amounted
to $1,900.50, and were recorded by sessions as follows:
| 1937-38 | $66.00 | 1943-44 | $200.00 |
| 1938-39 | 128.50 | 1945-46 | 100.00 |
| 1939-40 | 600.00 | 1946-47 | 406.00 |
| 1940-41 | 260.00 | 1949-50 | 100.00 |
| 1941-42 | 40.00 | $1,900.50 |
See Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 2, November 1938, p. 34; Visitors' Minutes,
9 June 1950.
911. Miss Addie Cintra Cox contributed $1,000 in 1943-1944.
912. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 4 January 1939. Dr. W. Dan Haden contributed,
through Dr. D. C. Smith, the sum of $565 for the purchase for the Medical
Library of a set of twenty-three volumes bound in forty-one. The cost was
$540 plus $25 for transportation.
913. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 December 1949. The donations from Dr.
Francis Henry McGovern of Danville were $500 for 1944-1945 and $250 for
1949-1950.
914. Visitors' Minutes, 12 November 1948. The contribution from Dr.
Frederick Henry Wilke was of $200.
915. See page 83 of Section IV of this history. Downs, page 267, and
Survey, page 76, give the situation midway of this period.
916. See page 65 and 83 of Section IV of this history, Downs, page 264,
states that "The most notable astronomy library in the southern states
is at the University of Virginia." A detailed statement of the condition
of the astronomy collection in 1936-1937 is given in Survey, pages 73 and
74.
917. Alumni News, vol. 31, no. 9, June 1943, pp. 2, 3, 14; Visitors'
Minutes, 7 November 1934. Number seven of the University of Virginia
Bibliographical Series was a Catalogue of the Adolph Lomb Optical Library
at the University of Virginia, with Introduction by James P. C. Southall.
918. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 16 November 1938.
919. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 8, May 1945, p. 9; no. 9, June 1945, p. 7;
no. 10, July 1945, p. 8. The contributions to the fund for purchasing
additions to the Lomb Library were made by Lincoln Milton Poland, Anchor
Company. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, May Oil Burner Corporation,
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Richard Blackburn Tucker, Zenith
Optical Company. The amount contributed was $1,100.00
920. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 7, March-April 1933, pp. 152, 153; Faculty
Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932; Visitors' Minutes, 27 March
and 9 June 1943. A biographical sketch of Joseph Harvey Riley by Alexander
Wetmore was published in The Auk, vol. 60, January 1943. An unusually
full run of The Auk was among the books given by Mr. Riley, and a permanent
subscription for the University Library was after his death placed by one
of his sisters, Kathleen Maude Gage (Mrs. Charles Ellsworth Gage). By
his will, Joseph Harvey Riley's home at Falls Church and 8.312 acres of
surrounding real estate will eventually become the property of the University
of Virginia, the proceeds to be used as the nucleus of a fund to found
a School and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
921. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 10, July 1949, p. 9. For the Darwin collection
the cost was apparently $25,000, this contribution coming from an
anonymous donor.
922. The contribution from Mr. Welles was of $200, and was given in the
session of 1938-39.
923. The work at Blandy Farm started in 1927, at Mountain Lake in 1930, and
at the Seward Forest in 1941.
924. Beginning in the summer of 1948, Miss Marjorie Dunham Carver spent
several weeks each June and July in organizing the pamphlet collection at
Mountain Lake.
925. Alumni News, vol. 23, no. 4, January 1935, p. 91; Visitors' Minutes,
12 January 1935.
926. The figure 17,079 is from the 1950 table of Size of Collections.
927. The alumni contributions for Engineering from 1940 to 1949 amounted to
$1,864.34. The record was as follows:-
| 1940-41 | $4.34 | 1945-46 | $267.00 |
| 1942-43 | 162.50 | 1946-47 | 488.00 |
| 1943-44 | 194.00 | 1948-49 | 5.00 |
| 1944-45 | 743.50 | $1,864.34 |
928. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 10, July 1945, p. 8; Visitors' Minutes, 14
January 1949. There were two gifts, $2,500 in 1945 and $1,500 in 1949.
By agreement with the donor, a portion of each year's income is to be added
to the principal.
929. See page 81 of Section IV of this history.
930. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 7, April 1950, p. 5; Visitors' Minutes, 13.
October 1950.
931. The Streeter Collection became almost immediately useful in connection
925A. Bruce, vol. 4, pp. 63-69.
925B. Bruce, vol. 5, pp. 86-103.
925C. Abernethy, p. 41.
925D. Abernethy, p. 42; Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 9, June 1944, pp. 8, 9, 19.
925E. Doctor Quenzel held B.S. (1931) and M.A. (1933) degrees from the
University of West Virginia, a Ph.D. degree (1938) from the University of
Wisconsin, and a B.S. in Library Science (1940) from the University of
Illinois. At the end of the first session as a coordinate college, 19441945,
there was reported for Mary Washington College a total of 45,000
volumes; at the end of the 1949-1950 session the total was 80,016 volumes —
an extraordinary growth in five years. The figures are from Statistics
of Virginia Public Libraries issued yearly by the Extension Division of
the Virginia State Library.
with certain Southern Railway investigations conducted by Mr. Charles
W. Davison.
932. The text used on the bookplate was composed by Mr. Robert B. Tunstall
of the Alumni Board of Trustees.
933. To reach the number "a score or so" the following names (of donors
or of subjects) may be suggested: Barrett, Byrd, Coles, Glass, Hertz,
Ingram, Jefferson, T. Catesby Jones, Lomb, McGregor, Madison, McKay-Smith,
John Bassett Moore, Randolph, Sadleir-Black, Stettinius, Stone, Streeter,
Taylor, Victorius.
934. The most detailed record concerning the "Farmington Plan" is to be
found in the minutes from about 1942 of the Association of Research
Libraries. The immediate connection of the University of Virginia Library
is noted in Faculty Library Committee Minutes for 13 December 1944 and
31 January 1945.
935. The University of Virginia's sole assignment under the "Farmington
Plan" was the History of Poland.
936. See page 129 of Section VI of this history.
937. See page 131 of Section VI of this history.
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