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...University Library has recently received from D. B. Fearing '82 a large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection...