In February the law books were moved to. Boalt Hall, and within ten days in May and June the remaining portion of the library (200,000 volumes) was installed in the splendid building which is to be its permanent home. A detailed description of the removal, written by Mr. Leupp, was published in the September, 1911, Library Journal.

The year closed with a valuable gift by Mrs. James L. de Fremery of over 500 volumes-most 17th and 18th century books of Dutch history, numismatics, and heraldry.

In this brief summary obviously it is possible to enumerate only the strikingly important accessions. Single works of considerable value, like the facsimile of the Devonshire Shakespeare, the Avifauna of Laysan, the Bishop Jade Catalogue, the J. Pierpont Morgan Catalogues, have come to us at intervals. It takes all sizes of stones to build a library. Many a widow's mite, many a poor author's firstling, has been given, with the same affectionate regard as may characterize a large bequest.

At first the library was chiefly used for reference only, but the privileges of circulation were extended after 1882 to students as well as to instructors.

With regard to expenditures for books it can be truly said that from the beginning the effort has been to provide a library for the use of scholars primarily. Periodical sets, publications of learned societies, and books of permanent worth, have been carefully chosen, in preference to the merely interesting books of the hour, for which we can afford to wait until some later day's tide may bring them drifting to our shore.

The growth of the library is indicated by the following table:

From 1886 onward there have been student assistants in addition to the regular appointees by the Board of Regents.

Prior to 1908 books received from exchange institutions are entered in the gift column.

It is interesting to note that nearly one-third of the library has acumulated by gift and exchange.

DEDICATION OF THE DOE LIBRARY BUILDING

ADDRESS OF THE LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JOSEPH C. ROWELL

As we look backward from the height of present achievement, down the long vista of years, the beginnings of the University appear very small. It was a university only in name. Yet although merely a handful of teachers and students was visible, we perceive they were inspired with energy and enthusiasm ;-while the courses of study were few, they were taught intensively;-and while the treasury was light of dollars, there was a wealth of aspiration, courage and hope.

Thus the good seed was sown in a favorable season; the vigorous young plant was tenderly and wisely nurtured; and it proved to be not an exotic, soon to fade, but a hardy perennial, from which many a rich harvest already has been garnered.

The fortunes of the library inseparably followed those of the University. Up under the eaves of Brayton Hall (Oakland) were arranged some few hundreds of books on history, literature and philosophy, together with well thumbed classics, and dust lay deep on theological and scientific treatises of honorably ancient dates.

How the aspect of the place brightened when in 1871 a large gift of modern books arrived, brilliant in gilded calf, fresh from the publishers! Then students abandoned the chess table and climbed upward to consult the eighth edition of the Britannica, to open dainty volumes of the poets,

to lay the foundations of an essay on Emerson, or to spend an indolent, happy hour over Bulwer or Thackeray.

In 1873 Berkeley became a seat of learning. The handsome book-cases of the library in South Hall were at once comfortably filled, as in that same significant year were added the Pioche French library, the Francis Lieber politico-economic collection and a host of new books bought with the first legislative appropriation for that purpose.

Mark well the later sequence of events. Our quarters rapidly became so scant that in 1876 Henry Douglass Bacon was inspired to offer $25,000 toward the erection of a separate library edifice. The State of California in 1878 added $25,000 to this gift, and the Bacon building was completed in 1881, just in time to house the books acquired by the first endowment bequeathed in 1879 by Michael Reese.

A score of years followed, lean and fat, until the full capacity of the Bacon building became a definitely ascertained quantity. Books filled all available space from cellar to roof-tree; readers sought in vain for a seat or a quiet

corner.

In 1899 a new President was installed. From his first appearance he urgently voiced the utter inadequacy of the library, books and building alike, to meet the requirements of a true university. The response to his appeals was immediate, generous and continued. The famine of books was partially abated.

In 1902 an extension to the building was constructed to afford a temporary relief. In 1903 the revised Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan was adopted and this most appropriate spot on the campus thereby was designated for the permanent library site.

In 1904 a good man passed away. His munificent bequest has provided an ample and suitable building upon that site.

Verily, from even this brief retrospect it would seem that the mighty hand of a kind Providence repeatedly has been outstretched in our behalf.

The library was not formed in a day. The mortar of its deep-lying foundations was moistened with the sweat of early builders. The sturdy frame was lifted laboriously. Every stone was carefully and securely fitted. In the dull, overcast morning hours, through the hot sunshine of midday, and in the balmy moments of eventide the walls slowly rose until tile and finial now crown all-a climax of architectural skill, massive, dignified, and chastely beautiful with the austere charm of a nun's sweet face.

The giver has been gathered to his fathers. The benign countenance of Charles Franklin Doe is seen no more in the walks of men. But in the centuries as they slowly lapse, and so long unto the bounds of time as this white temple may stand, his name shall be held in grateful remembrance.

Embosomed in the heart in Infinite Love his spiritual gaze may not discern the memorial we here dedicate and consecrate; the feeble accents of a human voice may not reach the ear attuned to celestial harmonies; but the gratitude of generations-present and to come, more potent and pervasive than the electric fluid, should be felt. For love is the single bond between earth and heaven.

ADDRESS OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, HERBERT PUTNAM

My privilege of utterance this morning has already been a large one. But I welcome the opportunity to deliver a particular greeting and compliment from the authority which I represent; and as that authority is the National Government, concerned with the "general welfare," I do not know what broader compliment I could pay than to indicate what this occasion signifies to it.

Its interest in it is fourfold:

It is itself an investigator. Its numerous scientific bureaus, whose ultimate aim is to promote industry and the arts, find it necessary to devote a large portion of their energies to the establishment of general principles. They