TREASURE ROOM COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATE COLLEGE HISTORY.

There is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library a collection of books, views and manuscripts connected with the early history of the University. The most notable of this collection is the Burgess view of Harvard College issued in 1726, of which there is only one other copy extant. This is the earliest view of the College published. The engraving is nearly obliterated, but a later print, made from the other copy which is in the same case, enables one to fill in the gaps in the original.

Next to the Burgess view is the almost equally rare engraving of the College by Paul Revere, published in 1767. This engraving, from which the familiar print of the early College was made, is in a far better state of preservation.

Increase Mather's Bible Preserved.

In another case, among a collection of manuscripts, is a letter from Benjamin Franklin expressing his concern at the Harvard fire of 1764. The Bible of President Increase Mather and a religious book, believed to be the only volume belonging to John Harvard which survived the fire of 1764, are also preserved. The collection is in a new set of cabinets recently given, together, with some furniture, by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to the Treasure Room. The exhibition will be on view for several months.