Manuscript Acquisitions at Library.

The University Library has lately received, as a gift from Reverend Edward Everett Hale '39, a number of the personal papers of Elisha Parmele 1778, the founder of the Harvard and Yale chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa society. After graduating from Harvard, Parmele studied for a time at William and Mary College in Virginia, where the original chapter of the society had just been established. On his return to the north he brought charters for chapters to be established at Harvard and Yale. Among the papers are Parmele's will, notes on Chaldee grammar, and a Syriac oration delivered at a Harvard exhibition.

The library has received also from Mr. L. W. Jenkins '96, a number of manuscripts of lectures delivered at the University by Professor Samuel Williams 1761, Hollis Professor of Mathematics from 1780 to 1788. The collection includes lectures on magnetism, the astronomy of comets, change of climate in North America, and meteorological observations for the years 1790 and 1791.