VALUABLE WORKS GIVEN TO GEOGRAPHY INSTITUTE

Rare accounts of voyages of exploration and discovery in America are included in a valuable library collection which has just been presented to the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The collection is stated by officials to be the most important single addition to the library since its foundation.

Numbering nearly 1,000 separate items, the collection was presented to the University by Mrs. Joseph Tuckerman Tower, of Millbrook, New York. It includes principally books, maps, and documents which were collected by her son, Joseph Tuckerman Tower, Jr. '21, who died in Mexico in 1931. Before his death Tower had planned to give his collection to the Institute.

One of the most unusual items in the Tower collection is the "Hudson's Bay Proclamation", issued in 1688 by King James the Second, restricting trade in the Hudson Bay area to members of the Hudson's Bay Company. Only three other copies are known to exist. These are at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Public Record Office in London, and the Harvard copy is the only known copy in America. The proclamation is in the form of a large folio broadside, printed in black letter.