OSLER LIBRARY NEWSLETTER McGill University, , Canada No. 88-June 1998

H. : Training Building of the Allan the beneficiary of so much of his A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE Memorial Institute, the Stewart energy and attention, particularly in Biology Building, the Otto Maass the years following the completion of o visitor to the Osler Chemistry Building, the Roscoe Wing his term as Principal, the Library is, in a Library can avoid the of the Royal Victoria College, New sense, an extension of the energy and presence of Dr. H. Chancellor Day Hall, the University dedication to growth that marked the Rocke Robertson. It is Centre (familiarly known as the Robertson years. It, too, has Robertson’s literally written on the “William Shatner Building”).... and the name written on its walls-specifically, walls. Directly to the list goes on and on. Robertson not only on the walls of the H. Rocke Robertson right of the door into the McIntyre changed McGill’s outsides for ever, he Room, the major rare books facility of Medical Building is an elegant plaque also profoundly altered its inner life. the Library. That name, visible through recording the opening of the building His tenure as Principal saw enormous the glass separating the Room from the Francis Wing, can also be seen on the computer screen when a researcher looks up a historic work in the Osler Library. The location code is “Robertson.” As with McGill in general, so with the Osler Library in particular: Dr. Robertson transformed it, both outside

This issue of the Newsletter honours two people who passed away in the early months of this year, and who in their time with us gave exceptional service to the Osler Library. The lead article, by Dr. Faith Wallis, sketches in very personal colours the Library’s debt to Dr. H. Rocke Robertson, long- time Curator, benefactor, and founding President of the Friends of the Osler Library. June Schachter recounts the career and achievements of Cécile Desbarats, who began as Dr. Francis’ secre- tary, and ended, as Associate Osler Librarian, steering the Library almost single-handedly through its major move, and some very in 1965. It is only one of many such growth in the numbers of both staff profound changes. There is plenty tablets on campus, for no Principal of and students, as well as a fundamental of other news as well, about exhi- McGill presided over a building boom shift in the way the University was bitions, honours, and matters as extensive as that which Robertson both financed and governed. The directed in his eight years in office, McGill we have known for the past 35 Oslerian. We know Rocke and from 1962 to 1970. The Leacock years is the McGill Robertson built. Cécile would like it this way. Building, the residences at the top of The Osler Library is a kind of micro- University Street, the Research and cosm of Robertson’s McGill. Indeed, as and in. The engine driving this work of Medicine ‘36 made possible for the 2lst in the October Newsletter on Osler’s transformation was the Friends of the century what Osler's bequest made connection with the Oxford English Osler Library, which Dr. Robertson possible for the 20th: the acquisition of Dictionary, in which he documented organized in 1972, and over which he new resources for the history of medi- Osler’s activities as a Delegate of the presided until just a few years ago. In cine, and the provision of means for Oxford University Press during the recent times, we have all become very their scholarly use. period of the Dictionary’s production, accustomed to the idea that institutions I confess that in my early years in and examined the words in the of cultural value need “Friends”. the Library, I thought of Dr. Robertson Dictionary illustrated by citations from Friends of this or that worthy cause primarily as a kind of Santa Claus of Osler. These included medical terms now flood our mailboxes with appeals, cosmic proportions, who could by like “polynuclear” and “adrenaline”, as public sources of funding evaporate effortless magic produce gift-wrapped but also common words like “wash and the costs of maintaining and culti- endowments and spin his and Osler's linen” and “white.” That article remains vating these institutions grows. But in prestige into gold. It was only in 1989 one of my personal favourites, both for 1972, the Friends of the Osler Library that I discovered the inner springs of its content and for its meticulous was a “first” at McGill. Dr. Robertson this passion for the Library. In the research and unobtrusively elegant style. put at its disposal his energy, his pres- summer of that year, Dr. Robertson Over the years, Dr. Robertson gave tige, and above all, his formidable contacted me to inquire whether the the Library other precious volumes, network of connections. In the first Library would be interested in a set of and worked quietly and effectively to year, Robertson enrolled over one the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and secure us other, much needed, sources hundred Friends in the fledgling orga- d’Alembert. Of course, I leapt at the of funding. But he also gave of himself. nization, and within a few years, the offer; but I was also puzzled and His commanding common sense Friends were raising a very significant intrigued. How, and why, did Dr enlivened many meetings of the percentage of the annual income of the Robertson acquire an Encyclopédie? At Curators, and his acute awareness of Library. Dr. Robertson’s invitation, Wayne financial realities kept us alert to the It was in the name of the Friends LeBel and I drove to his beautiful necessity of investing as well as spend- that Robertson inaugurated the Francis Georgian farmhouse near Mountain, ing. But for me, speaking very person- Wing, including the rare books room , to retrieve the gift. The house ally, Dr. Robertson represented an ideal that now bears his name, in 1978. In his had a name - “Struan”, which means of scholarly integrity and personal address (Osler Library Newsletter 28, “hearth” in Scots Gaelic - and on the nobility that matched perfectly the June 1978), Dr. Robertson typically hearth when we arrived was a deli- Library he had done so much for. I diverted the spotlight away from cious lunch prepared by Mrs recall that at one luncheon following a himself to lavish thanks and praise on Robertson, served by a window look- Curators’ meeting, we were talking the many people who had contributed ing out on her breathtaking garden. over coffee and I let fall a remark about to the expansion project. Indeed, it was After lunch, Dr. Robertson toured us an absent third party which, I immedi- not until the following Curators’ meet- about the barns and the interior of the ately realized, was quite mean-spir- ing that the rare books room was offi- house. The last room we entered was ited. Dr. Robertson responded with a cially named in his honour. Therefore the library, where the Encyclopédie quiet expression of sympathy for the few outside the inner circle of the lived. To my intense surprise and object of my spite, and the sword of Library were aware at the time of how delight, I stood before the Bibliotheca shame went through me. The gesture much Dr. Robertson had done to make Robertsoniana, a collection both was typical: he would not connive in the Francis Wing a reality, quite apart comprehensive and wisely chosen of malice, but instead of reproaching me from fund-raising through the Friends. historical dictionaries. Dr. Robertson directly, he simply called upon my own His own contribution to the work was spoke about his early love affair with better feelings. The moment remains exceptional, in both the financial and dictionaries, and with language and its engraved in my memory as one of the the conceptual sense. But it was only history, as we opened volume after greatest moral lessons of my life - the beginning. volume. When I told him that I had doubly memorable for being so subtle When I first began working at the written my major research paper for and gentle. They say that large animals Osler Library in 1985, Dr. Robertson the Licentiate in Medieval Studies in are seldom fierce, and in my experi- was already occupied with his next Toronto on the Catholicon, a 13th ence, large men are very tender and major initiative: persuading his gradu- century Latin dictionary, Dr. Robertson kind. Physically, but in so many other ating class in Medicine of 1936 to direct hauled off the shelf a thick manuscript ways as well, Rocke Robertson was their 50th anniversary gift to the -his own scholarly notes on the history definitely a man of stature. Library. He was, as usual, successful, of dictionaries and turned to the chap- and at Homecoming in September ter on the Catholicon! So I knew what Harold Rocke Robertson, 1986, the Class of ‘36 presented to the the gift of the Encyclopédie to the Osler August 4,1912 -February 8,1998. Osler Library the generous endow- Library meant to him: he was giving us ment fund which its President, H. one of the jewels of a collection he had Rocke Robertson, had been instrumen- been building over a lifetime (Osler tal in building up over the years (Osler Library Newsletter 62, October 1989). Library Newsletter 53, October 1986). On my return to Montreal, I sent Dr. That endowment now pays for most of Robertson a copy of my Catholicon our purchases of rare and historic paper, and our correspondence on volumes, and finances the Osler dictionaries took off. In 1991, Dr. Library Fellowships. In this way, Robertson published a delightful essay

2 Cécile Desbarats continuity from Dr. Francis’ time to the Miss Wright’s father, Dr. Henry P. present, while supporting and encour- Wright, (d.1899), shared rooms with Miss Cécile Desbarats passed away, aging changes which have become William Osler when they were medical in her 91st year, on March 9th, 1998. She very necessary, Miss Desbarats has students at McGill. Marion and her had served in the Osler Library first as made the unique contribution of widowed mother moved to Oxford in secretary, then as Secretary-Librarian, preserving the best of tradition while 1915, and the friendship between the and finally as Associate Osler Librarian. making the most of progress”. On that two families continued. Later, Marion Cécile Desbarats began her long same occasion, “Dr. Bensley moved an returned to Canada, and offered in the career in the Osler Library in the expression of appreciation on behalf of 1950s to work as a volunteer in the autumn of 1942 when she was the Curators to Miss Cécile Desbarats Osler Library. In that capacity, she appointed part-time secretary to Dr. for her devoted service to the Osler worked with Cécile. W.W. Francis. the first Osler Cécile Desbarats played a Librarian. At that time they unique part in the history constituted the entire staff. A of the Osler Library. The decade later she was working Board of Curators of the full-time, and in 1956 she Osler Library, and the became Secretary-Librarian Dr. present staff members, Lloyd G. Stevenson, who had remembering this with been Assistant Librarian 1954- gratitude, extend their 1956, was appointed Dean of sincere sympathy to Miss Medicine in 1956, and with Dr. Desbarats’ family. Francis ill, Cécile was running the Library almost single- handedly at times. When the Library was dismantled and removed from the Strathcona Building to be reconstructed in the McIntyre Building in 1965(1), it was she who coped with the daily problems and made all the necessary deci- sions, with the encouragement and support of Dr. Wilder Penfield, (the Honorary Osler Librarian) and Dr. William Feindel (Honorary Associate Osler Librarian then, and Honorary Osler Librarian now). At the same time Cécile was in the midst of a complete recataloguing and reclassifica- tion project. She contrived to juggle all this without closing the Library to readers. On June lst, 1966 she became Associate Osler Librarian, and she retired in May 1968 after 26 years of service, during which period the collection had grown from 9,000 to 22,000 items. By the time of her retirement the staff had grown to 6, and the Department of the History of Medicine (now the Department of Social Studies of Medicine) had come into existence. Dr. Edward Bensley referred on one occasion to Cécile’s cheerful willing- ness to assume responsibilities far beyond those commensurate with her official rank. On April 5, 1967, at the annual meeting of the Board of and entertainment). She also worked Curators, Dr. Donald Bates spoke of with a volunteer who had had a close her services to the Osler Library, and association with the Osler family, Miss remarked that “in having provided Marion Gertrude Wright (1896.1987).

3 Eyes, Birds And Books On Display Fyfe, during a trip to Ceylon in 1933, Salerno, founded early in the Christian highlighted his travels. This album was era and a health resort since at least A recent exhibition entitled “Eyes, opened at several excellent photographs 200 B.C. Birds and Books, Casey Wood, 1856- of elephants working at a construction The publication L'ophtalmologie de 1942’: at the Osler Library, highlighted site. After introducing Dr. Wood, the Mokammad AI-Gkafiqui (Barcelona, a few of the thousands of books and exhibition divided into different cate- 1933), by Casey Wood’s friend, artifacts donated by this noted ophthal- gories: Arab ophthalmology and its ophthalmologist and collector, Dr. Max mologist, ornithologist and bibliophile, influence on European ophthalmology, Meyerhof, represents another example to the McGill Medical Library, the Osler Ayurvedic medicine, a small selection of Wood’s desire for a comprehensive Library of the History of Medicine and on Chinese medicine and finally, collection. This work is Meyerhof’s to the Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology ornithology. In all, we displayed 42 translation into French of the guide to and Ornithology. books and artifacts. ophthalmology by Al-Ghafiqi, the 12th Casey Wood’s research into ophthal- Arab medicine dominated the century pharmacologist from Cordoba, mology developed into an interest in the period from the 8th to the 12th southern Spain. history of ophthalmology, comparative centuries. Muslim, Jewish and Wood acquired a Latin version of ophthalmology, the study of the Christian scholars translated Greek the Venice 1489-90 printing of eyesight of birds, and a passion for works and introduced Europeans to Avicenna’s Canon, (the general and collecting books on these subjects. In the knowledge of the Greeks. ophthalmic writings of the Arab physi- 1917, after a successful career in ophthal- Ophthalmology was particulary cian Abu Ali lbn Sina, [Avicenna, mology, Casey Wood retired, and he and advanced in the Islamic world princi- d.1037]) which that indefatigable his wife Emma Shearer travelled exten- pally in response to blindness which collector Sir William Osler had failed to sively in British Guiana, India, Ceylon was a major affliction. Wayne LeBel obtain. Avicenna had produced his and the South Pacific, adding to and chose 14 works illustrating Arab Canon in response to the fact that broadening the range of his collections. ophthalmology and its influence on neither the Greeks nor the Arabs had During this time he also translated into Western medicine. published a comprehensive book on English many works of historical impor- When he could not acquire or afford medicine. Through its Latin translation tance on his favourite subject. a particularly rare work, Dr. Wood the work became available to Western In 1911 Wood presented a large would purchase a copy or arrange to European medical schools. It was in collection of rare books and journals on have a photographic copy made for use for hundreds of years and is the subject of diseases of the eye to presentation to McGill. He also regarded as one of the most significant McGill’s Medical Library. This collec- published his translations of many achievements of mediaeval Arab medicine. tion made McGill’s Medical Library the manuscripts. This is especially true of The next part of the exhibition foremost source for ophthalmology on the Tadhkirat, or “Book of memoranda displayed works in Catalan, German the continent. In 1919 he established for eye doctors”, by Ali ibn Isa, a cele- and English, largely translations of and endowed the Emma Shearer Wood brated Christian Arab oculist from Latin adaptations of earlier Arab stud- Library of Ornithology at McGill early 11th century Baghdad. His text- ies. John of Peckham (d. 1295), English University. He also persuaded his book was for many centuries the lead- physician and later Archbishop of friends Robert Roc Blacker, and his ing authority on the subject. It Canterbury, is regarded as being the wife Nellie Canfield, of Pasadena, describes 130 eye diseases, including first to describe concave glasses and as California, to endow a Library of several forms of trachoma and having written the foremost textbook Zoology at McGill, which Casey Wood ophthalmia, diseases known to physi- on optics in Britain, Perspectiva himself then developed. To the interest cians of that area since antiquity. We Communis. Our volume of another and commitment of these benefactors displayed a 19th century copy, Wood’s work by John of Peckham, De oculo we owe the present Blacker-Wood translation, published in 1936, and a morali, (Augsburg, c. 1476) bears traces Library of Biology 17th century manuscript commentary of having once been chained. We drew From the collecting institution’s bought for Casey Wood by his friend on a modern reproduction of Alcoati, point of view, one of Casey Wood’s the eminent ophthalmologist and libre de la figura del uyl..., to display a outstanding virtues was his detailed translator Max Meyerhof. Catalan text translated from Arabic by documentation of each book and arti- A photograph of a page of De Oculis Joan Jacme (d.1384) from a 12th fact. To open the display, we chose a by Benevenutus Grassus, translated century manuscript. The Spaniard photograph of Casey Wood from into Middle English, is an example of a Alcoati (although his name Al-Quti “Portraits of the Chairmen of the work regarded by Wood in the fore- may mean “the Goth”), wrote his text Ophthalmic Section, American word to his translation of 1929 as, “for describing the eye in Arabic sometime Medical Association, 1878-1917”, over five hundred years the most during the 12th century. It was then presented to Dr. Casey Wood popular ophthalmic manual of the translated into Catalan. We chose a (Chairman, 1898-99) by Dr. Derby of Middle Ages.” Benevenutus Grassus, plate from Wood’s modem reproduc- Boston. An album of photographs possibly a Jew from Jerusalem, was a tion showing the shape of the eyeball taken by the Woods’ niece, Marjorie professor at the medical school at and the nerves leading to it. In 1600, Hieronymus Fabricius ab on the Hindu scriptures, or Vedas. It we placed three very fragile publica- Acquapendente, anatomist and was introduced to Sri Lanka (known as tions dating from the 1920s, each surgeon from Padua, discovered the Ceylon in Casey Wood’s day) in about contained in blue cloth-bound boxes hue position of the lens directly behind 545 B.C. by an Indian rajah who closed with an ivory hook: the the iris. We displayed his Tractatus became the first king of Lanka, bring- Treatment of Disease with Astrological anatomicus, published in Oppenheim in ing with him the Hindu religion. A civi- Diagrams, a volume of an ancient (c.920 1613. A photographic copy of Eyn lization evolved (in Casey Wood’s view A.D.) work in Chinese on the practice newes hochnutzlichs Biichlin und second only to Egyptian civilization) of medicine, (Shanghai, 1924); On the Annthomi eynes auffgethonen Augs, which included public works, hospi- Anatomy, Physiology and Therapy of the anonymous, Strasburg, 1539, (a rare tals, dispensaries and other medical Human Subject, illustrated by numer- work), was made for Wood’s activities and in which religion was an ous diagrams, (published in 1922); and ophthalmic collection at McGill, when integral part of the treatment of disease. Diseases of the Eye, Seen Chan Yan, 2 he felt unable to purchase it. Ophtalmia In Sri Lanka, Casey Wood collected vols., illustrated, a copy of an ancient sive disquisitio hermitico-galenica...censurae, olas (Sinhalese book-manuscripts) in work written in Chinese about 100 Jacobus Schalling, Erffurdt, 1615, Sanskrit, Pali, and Sinhalese, dealing B.C., (printed at Shanghai, 1914). displayed the Latin text on the left with many subjects including medical Finally, we exhibited Chinese Materia hand page and German on the right. topics. He also amassed a collection of Medica, Animal Drugs, by Bernard E. Finally we showed Ophthalmodouleia, writing materials used in the produc- Read, published in the Peking Natural das ist, Augendienst, written by Georg tion of olas as well as containers for History Bulletin, 1931, a publication Bartisch, in Dresden, 1583. Bartisch medicines. Olas are composed of tough which drew on the Chinese Herbal, the (1535.1606) is considered to be the strips of palm leaves engraved on both Pen T’sao, dating from about 200 B.C. founder of modem ophthalmology Of sides with a sharp stylus. Each leaf is As a youth Casey Wood had been modest origin, he became the court inked over and wiped, leaving ink only interested in natural science, particu- oculist at Dresden. This is the first text- in the incised lines. They come in many larly in ornithology. Upon specializing book in the German language on sizes with a variety of decorated covers in ophthalmology, he began to examine ophthalmology and Bartisch probably including wood, silver, ivory and horn. the vision of animals and birds. He was employed a scribe to write it for him. A button secures a cord which is particularly intrigued by the vision of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt passed through holes holding the raptors, for example falcons, which sparked renewed interest in Egyptian leaves in place. Six olas were could spot their prey from a remark- antiquity. Invading troops, however, displayed, dating from the 16th.17th able distance and then seize it with fell victim to a variety of diseases century, borrowed from the Department accuracy. He hoped to find in the including serious eye diseases, which of Rare Books and Special Collections anatomy of the bird’s eye an element as inspired the publication of a medical at McGill which houses most of the yet undeveloped in the human eye. work, including ophthalmology, by collection. Three metal styli and a two- The exhibition contained a selection of Napoleon’s physician Pierre Assalini. bladed knife with two styli and a seal original drawings, including the artist We exhibited an English translation of were shown to demonstrate the tools A.W. Head’s original manuscript the French publication by Adam Neale, needed in the production of an ola. drawings of the fundi, to illustrate The British army physician, entitled Seven of a large collection of 13th-17th Fundus Oculi of Birds, written by Casey Observations on the Disease Called The century pill boxes made of wood, metal Wood, and published in Chicago in Plague, on the Dysentery, The Ophthalmy and horn were borrowed from the 1917. The illustrations are contained in of Egypt, and...Contagious Diseases, by P. Redpath Museum where they are on two scrapbooks and provide a record Assalini, M.D., one of the Chief permanent loan from the Osler Library. of Casey Wood’s studies of the ocular surgeons of the Consular Guards, New Of special interest were a pair of 17th structures of living and dead birds. York edition, 1806. Another by-product century Sinhalese eyeglasses with This material was loaned to the Osler of Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign was quartz lenses and shell frames as well Library by the Blacker-Wood Library of a renewed interest in Arab medicine, as as a wooden case. Biology, the library where Casey Wood seen in a French doctor’s work on Traditional Chinese medicine deposited his ornithological books and malignant fevers which we exhibited sought to restore health by balancing artifacts. From among the thousands of in Italian translation, J.F.X. Pugnet. the life forces, expressed in the notion books and the many images he Memorie sulle febbri maligne, e pestilen- of the yin and the yang. It was believed collected, we selected Coloured Plates of ziali de1 Levant..., Milan, 1804. The illus- that man was created along with the the Birds of Ceylon, and the original tration displayed is full of Egyptian universe and in its image, owing his water-colour drawing, for the illustra- imagery. The sky god Geb is impreg- health and life to the harmony of tion in that book, of the Yellow-eared nating the earth goddess Nut, who natural forces. The result of upsetting Bulbul, drawn by G.M. Henry, then gives birth to the first humans. this harmony was disease. As in described by W.E. Wait, part I, The scarab symbolizes fertility Ayurvedic medicine and in early (published by the Ceylon Government, Ayurvedic medicine is the indige- Christianity, healing was part of 1927. Casey Wood provided some nous system of medicine in India based philosophy and religion. In this section financial assistance for this publication).

5 We were able to choose for display CyberOsler? Bust of Sir William Osler one of many stunning water-colour drawings, a Common Lora, by Lady The Canadian Medical Association From time to time we are asked if we Elizabeth Gwillim (1763-1807). Lady is providing a new computer biblio- can supply a bust of Osler. Now we can Gwillim accompanied her husband graphic service to its members. OSLER tell our enquirers where they can during his service in India, and her (an acronym of OVID Search Link to find one. The Medical Illustrations paintings of native birds of India were Electronic Resources) will give CMA Department of the Indiana University forgotten until Casey Wood unearthed members free and unlimited access to School of Medicine has made one and 120 of her works in a shop in London. MedLine, HealthStar, CancerLit and is offering copies for sale. The specifi- The exhibition ends with a mounted AIDSLINE through OVID Web cations are as follows: Peregrine Falcon, donated by Casey Gateway. Doctors wishing to use the Wood to the Blacker-Wood Library. An service must register and obtain a pass- Height: 13 in. (without base) interest in falconry was the outcome of word. This can be done electronically Width: 9 in. Casey Wood’s study of the vision of at www.cma.ca/osler, by e-mail Depth: 8 in. birds, and he presented to the Blacker- ([email protected]) or by phone (800- Weight: 10 lbs. (hollow cast) Wood Library books, paintings, and 457-4205). Deidre Green, OSLER Cost: $2,000 (including base) specimens including a falconer’s outfit. Support Librarian (hey! don’t we have Material: Fortron bronze (cold After having published widely in all dibs on that title!) at CMA, will furnish cast bronze) his areas of interest, his last work was a search support and advice (800-663- translation of the mediaeval The Art of 7336 or [email protected]), Falconry, Being the De Arte Venandi cum and Marc Leblanc (800-457-4205 or Avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, [email protected]) will handle technical Oxford University Press, 1943. problems. We think the flesh-and- Pamela Miller blood Osler, ever a promoter of advanced bibliographic technology, would have loved his new cyber- Dr. Sourkes Honoured namesake. And indeed, if this trend continues, “WWW ” will soon stand for Dr. Theodore L. Sourkes, a long- World Wide Willy! standing member of our Board of Curators, and present Chair of its Standing Committee, recently received Osler’s Men and Books a signal honour in Haifa, Israel. A symposium on Parkinson’s Disease, Readers of the Newsletter will sponsored by the Technion and the remember that in the double issue Rappaport Institute for Medical 83/84, October 1996/February 1997, Science, was dedicated to Dr. Sourkes we described Mr. T.S.E. Cavanagh’s in recognition of his many contribu- gift to the Library of his Panorama of tions to the understanding of this Vesalius: a ‘lost’ design from Titian’s ailment. Held on May 10.13, the studio. symposium attracted over 80 partici- Mr. Cavanagh, a long-time Friend of pants from 9 countries. the Library, has now sent us the remaining copies of his 1987 reprint of Men and Books, by Sir William Osler, (collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, with an Introduction by Earl F. Nation, 1959). Mr. Cavanagh has kindly suggested that we sell these copies for For further information, please the benefit of the Library. They are apply to Craig Gosling, Director, attractively bound in blue and red. Medical Illustrations Department, Anyone interested in obtaining a copy School of Medicine, Indiana University, (at $25.00, postage included) is invited Emerson Hall 102, 545 Barhill Drive, to write to us. Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202-5124 U.S.A., tel no: (317) 274-4423. Friends of the Osler Library Cedric Garland Norman Shaftel Toby Gelfand Michael J. Shea The Library gratefully acknowl- Roger Ghys Theodor K. Shnitka edges the support it has received from John&Barbara Gilbert Seymour Siegal Friends, both old and new, who have H. William Gillen Kenneth C. Smith responded to the appeal for funds for Peter Gillet Ralph H. Speken the 1997-98 academic year. Over the Alan B. Gold Edward Sprague year, 229 Friends have given a total of David S. Goldbloom G.T. Tanselle approximately $40,984 and they are James Tait Goodrich William A. Taylor listed below. Most of the contributions Patricia Grant Marshall Trossman have come from Friends in Canada Rosemary Haddad Walter Van Emde Boas and the United States of America. Anthony J. Hall A.H. van Soest However, very welcome contributions George T. Harrell Arvid Vatle have also come from several other Campbell P. Howard Ronald E. Vlietstra continents. The appeal to the Friends David Hull H.D. Vos for the 1997-98 academic year concluded Robert Jackson George C. Walsh on May 31, 1998. Saul Jarcho Karin-Maria Waterhouse The appeal for the 1998-99 academic Orville N. Jones Jan Weryho year will be made in the October 1998 Guy E. Joron Benson R. Wilcox Newsletter. Harriet Joseph Richard J. Kahn Peter B. Kang Contributing Friends Ralph J. Kimmerly Robert C. Kimbrough J.A. Barondess Daniel M. Albert Edward L. Krawitt Ronald Bayne Michael Ashby Camilo Larrain J. Robert Bowen Gary Bacon Michael Lefson Rea Brown John F. Ball Michael J. Lepore Ronald Forbes Buchan Ronald Barr George W. Lilley Howard B. 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