From Messrs. Evarts, Choate and Sherman of New York came a collection of 145 volumes and 10 pamphlets containing law books, law directories, codes, and documents of various states of the United States.

Mr. R. H. Lawrence of New York presented a collection of prints and bank note designs by American engravers, 368 in number.

Miscellaneous collections were received from the following: From Miss Blumenberg of New York, 114 volumes and 2 pamphlets, mainly German classics; from Brown Bros. & Co., 6 volumes and 430 pamphlets, comprising reports of railroads and private companies; from the Bureau of Municipal Research, 92 volumes and 246 pamphlets; from the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, 397 volumes of fraternity publications; from Mrs. Edmund Dwight of New York, a collection of works of fiction, history, biography, etc., 207 volumes and 2 pamphlets in all; from the "Engineering News," 34 volumes and 28 pamphlets of public documents; from the "New York Evening Post," Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexicon, in 16 volumes; from Mr. V. J. Kubanyi of New York, 15 volumes of French and Latin books; from Mr. James J. Murphy of New York a miscellaneous collection of 20 volumes and 13 pamphlets; from Mr. Hugh Rankin of New York, 10 volumes and 9 pamphlets; from Mr. Howard Townsend of New York, 132 volumes and 32 pamphlets, including reports, French novels, periodicals, etc.; and from Dr. Jonathan Wright of Pleasantville, N. Y., 14 volumes of French translations of Plato, Sophocles, and Aeschylus.

The following additions were received to our print collection: From Dr. Alexander Duane, a collection of 22 photographs of Spanish caravels and other ships exhibited at the Columbian Exposition; from Mr. Wm. Korn of New York, a box of material used for lithographic work; from Mrs. James H. Wright of Cambridge, Mass., 18 etchings and bookplates; and bookplates from Mr. Joseph Manuel Andreini of New York, and Miss Flora Gardiner Kling of Mt. Vernon, Ind.

The following authors presented the Library with copies of their works: Mr. Olivar Asselin of Montreal, Canada; Dr. W. Howard Berber of New York; Mr. John E. Barrett of Scranton, Pa.; Mr. Reginald Pelham Bolton of New York; Mr. Daniel Chauncey Brewer of Boston; Mr. Walter Lannoy Brind of Bergenfield, N. J.; Dr. Kenneth Bulkley of New York; Mr. J. E. Bullard of New York; Mr. John Malcolm Bulloch of London; Mr. Warwick Stevens Carpenter of New York; Mr. George Crouse Cook of New York; Mr. Morris Llewellyn Cooke of Philadelphia; Mr. L. J. Coppage of Crawfordsville, Ind.; Rev. W. J. Couper of Glasgow, Scotland; Mr. Joseph Foster of Portsmouth, N. H.; Mr. Thomas Shirley Graves of Durham, N. C.; Dr. J. Victor Haberman of New York; Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer of London; Rev. Albert Edwin Keigwin of New York; Miss Mabel McIlvaine of Chicago; Mr. Lewis Mayers of New York; Mr. Charles Christopher Mierow of Princeton, N. J.; Mr. W. A. Munn of St. John's, Newfoundland; Mr. David Murray of Glasgow, Scotland; Mr. John Myers O'Hara of New York; Mr. Max Radin of New York; Mr. M. C. Rolland of Vera Cruz, Mexico; Rev. Henry Martyn Saville of East Greenwich, R. I.; Mr. I. M. Rubinow of New York; Mr. George E. Shea of New York; Mr. William T. Skilling of San Diego, Cal.; Mr. R. A. C. Smith of New York; Mr. S. Reid Spencer of New York; Lieut.-Col. Louis W. Stotesbury of Albany, N. Y.; Mr. Willard Straight of New York; Mr. Edward Van Winkle of New York; Dr. Lucius Waterman of Hanover, N. H.; Mr. Barthinius L. Wick of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; and Mr. Robert Withington of Bloomington, Ind.

Additions to our collection of genealogical works were received from the following: Mr. William B. Aitken of New York; Mr. Frank D. Andrews of Vineland, N. J.; Mr. Onward Bates of Chicago; Mrs. Edward C. Chatfield of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. William A. Fox of Chicago; the Jewett Family of America, Inc., George A. Jewett, President, Des Moines, Ia.; Messrs. Martin & Allardyce of Philadelphia; and Dr. F. E. Weeks of Kipton, Ohio.

MR. ALEXANDER'S DEATH

JOHN W. ALEXANDER, the distinguished artist, died at his home

in this city, May 31. Mr. Alexander was elected a Trustee of the Library, Jan. 13, 1909. He was twice chosen Chairman of the Art Committee, and held that position at the time of his death. He served on the committee in charge of the opening exercises of the Central Building, and superintended the arrangement of the picture galleries in this building.

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ADDITIONS AND USE OF LIBRARY DURING MAY

URING the month of May there were received at the Library 29,848 volumes and 6,195 pamphlets. The total number of readers in the Central Building was 67,590. They consulted 189,297 volumes. Visitors to the building numbered 209,787.

ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS

A LIST OF REFERENCES TO MATERIAL IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY COMPILED BY WILLIAM B. BEHRENS, DIVISION OF TECHNOLOGY