Volume 1

Catalogue of books in the General Library and in the South Library at University College, London : with an appendix.

Date:
1879
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of books in the General Library and in the South Library at University College, London : with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    When that has been produced, there will be no catalogue left unprinted. Supply of books to the College Libraries is now maintained by donations from the British Museum and from the Learned Societies, of wliich a list is added to this Preface, by gifts also from many friends of the College, and by expenditure of about .£300 a year derived as follows : 1. The Eicardo Fund, founded on a donation in 1829 by subscribers to the Ricardo Lectures, to be devoted to the purchase and maintenance of a Library of Political Economy in the London University [now University College, London], to be called the Eicardo Library. 2. The Peene Pund, originating in a bequest by Dr. J. Peeue in 1853, the interest to be annually applied to the purchase of books, chiefly of foreign literature and science, to augment the Library. This bequest, yielding about £50 a year, was for many years the fund upon which the General Library chiefly depended for increase. 3. The Crabb-Eobinson Pund, established in 1858, part of wliich may be applied to the purchase of books, engravings, drawings, and works of art, which may advance the study of the Pine Arts in University College, and promote any of the Sciences connected therewith. 4. The Grant Fund, bequest of the late Professor Grant in 1875, the annual proceeds of which shall be devoted to maintaining and extending the Zoological and Zootomical departments of the Library. The rest of the money spent in purchasing books is derived from an annual grant by the Council. This printed catalogue, for which the Council and the Senate of the College heartily thank Mr. Samuel Sharpe, will substantially contribute to the right use of the Library funds. It will not only t^ll students what books are within reach; it will show also to those Avho have charge of or otherwise care for the College Libraries, where books are wanting that should be supplied, and thus help any endeavoui- towards making them a fair representation of the universe of thought. University College, London, 1879.