Recent Gifts to the Library.

The University Library has lately received from the New England Company in London, a copy of the triennial catalogue of the College for 1721, the only known copy of this date, and one of the earliest that exists. It was discovered among the archives of the Company, and when the fact that it was unique was brought to the attention of the present governor and council, they very courteously voted to present it to the Library. It is a single sheet, 15 1-4 by 19 1-4 inches in size, this being the form in which the triennial catalogues of graduates were printed up to 1773. The earliest known catalogue of the College is that for 1674, a copy of which exists in the State Paper Office in London. Copies of the editions of 1682 and 1700 are owned by the Library, and a copy of that of 1715 was formerly in the possession of the Boston Athenaeum. The Library also owns the catalogues for 1727, 1730, 1733, 1736, 1745, 1748, 1751, 1758, and all that have been printed subsequently.

A careful copy has recently been made for the Memorial Society of a map of the College Yard and the adjacent parts of Cambridge, drawn in 1833 by the surveyor, Alexander Wadsworth, the original of which is preserved in the City Engineer's office at the City Hall. All the houses and house lots are shown, the names of the owners having been pencilled in by some contemporary hand. The map is therefore a valuable record of the topographical conditions in Cambridge seventy years ago, and the changes in streets, street names, and buildings since that time are interesting to follow. The Memorial Society has given the map to the College Library and it will be on exhibition for a few days in the smaller reading room of the Library.