Word: bodleian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...From a painting by Philip de Laszlo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford...
Since most university librarians feel that their needs are never very lavishly attended to, they must rely, for anything more than bare necessities, upon outside gifts. Oxford University has its Friends of the Bodleian Library, founded by the late Sir William Osier, who was curator of that most scholarly of English-speaking collegiate libraries. To Harvard has come $216,742 in gifts through its Friends of the Library, founded in 1925 by a group of alumni at a dinner in honor of the late Archibald Gary Coolidge, then Harvard librarian. The Friends of the Columbia Library, formed...
Pliny records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
...representatives of the Bodleian Library and four other libraries at Oxford arrived in Cambridge this morning to spend three days at Harvard as the guests of President Lowell and the Masters of Lowell and Dunster Houses, it was announced yesterday. Their purpose is to inspect the University Library and gather information which they will need in drawing up the plans of a new library at Oxford...