Library Acquisition.

The Library has just received four cases of books as a gift from the J. C. Ayer Company of Lowell. These books formed the library of the late Professor Marsigny, a linguist who had been in their employ for about twenty-five years. Professor Marsigny, who was a Belgian, served as a Catholic priest, first in Antwerp and afterwards in England, and was at one time a reader in the Vatican. Soon after coming to the United States, in 1872, he left the priesthood and married. While he was employed by the Ayer Company his principal work was that of translating their almanac and other publications into foreign languages.

The collection contains many old and out of the way books in oriental and other foreign languages, but, as the cases have not yet been opened, nothing definite can be said of their contents at present.