Recent Gifts to the Library

The Gore Hall library has recently received a number of interesting and valuable books on the history and antiquities of Scotland, purchased by means of money recently donated for the purpose by Mr. Alexander Cochrane of Boston. Among the collection are Scottish Market Crosses by J. W. Small, the Memorials of Montrose in two volumes, published by the Maitland Club of Edinburgh, a History of the Frasers of Lovat by Alexander Mackenzie, Epitaphs and Inscriptions of Scotland by Andrew Jervise and Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings in two volumes by John Kay of Edinburgh.

Another collection of several hundred volumes on philosophy has also been received for the library of the Department of Philosophy in Emerson Hall. This collection is the gift of R. c. Robbins '92 of Boston.