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YALE was founded on a collection of books. This short survey of the collections of books, manuscripts, objects of art, natural history and anthropology which have come to Yale during the past two and a half centuries has been written to indicate their extent and variety, which are not generally known, even in New Haven. If the library is the heart of a university, the other collections are the basic food of research. It is therefore sad to see that the author finds it necessary to justify the existence of "what many consider a frill". The survey briefly describes the history and contents of the library and its specialized collections, the art gallery, the Peabody Museum and the Anthropology Museum. It has space to mention only by name many other valuable collections and the splendid researches which have resulted from their study. The illustrations include an interesting photograph of a restoration of the first Yale College library as it was in 1742, with the actual books presented by Newton, Halley, Bishop Berkeley and others on the shelves.
The Yale Collections
By Wilmarth S. Lewis. (Published on the Foundation established in Memory of Curtis Seaman Read of the Class of 1918 Yale College.) Pp. xv + 54 + 13 plates. (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946.) 11s. 6d. net.
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MATTHEWS, L. The Yale Collections. Nature 161, 79 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161079d0
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