Calendar: 1937-1938 Page 432

ANNUAL REPORT xix tions in the Fund not only provide sufficient income to bear the cost of this additional medal but have enabled the Council to increase the value of the awards in all Faculties by the addition in each case of prize of books of the value of £1 The Library The number of periodicals purchased 475 volumes shows slight increase on last year's figure 450 and the number of books acquired slight decline 113 258 books have been added by purchase and 437 650 by gift The importance of maintaining due proportion between books and periodicals upon which the University Grants Committee have laid emphasis has however been constantly before the Library Committee In so far as they suggest change of policy the figures are deceptive The number of periodicals has been fortuitously swollen by the fact that opportunities have occurred during the past year of filling up gaps in incomplete sets while the number of books acquired in 1934-35 included some very large benefactions Among the more notable gifts now to be recorded are the Hibbert Bequest of Law Books and valuable collection from the library of the late Professor Percy Dearmer including an important section of works on Art which has been presented by Mrs Dearmer The Hispanic Society of America have given to the College number of their past publications and have undertaken to send any of their publications which may become available in the future The value of this most generous gift to the Spanish section of the Library needs no elaboration This section has again been augmented by means of gift received through Professor Pastor and enriched by complete series of the works of Sefior Perez de Ayala lately Ambassador to the Court of St James's as gift from the author Mr Leonard Bower has presented to the Ronald Burrows Library an interesting MS volume dealing with Greece under Otto Last but not least must be mentioned the most valuable gift of the Ministry of Foreign Afiairs in Rio de Janeiro which has presented library of about 140 important books dealing with Brazilian subjects The number of volumes bound or repaired is very little below last year's total and though much yet remains to be done the strenuous efforts of the last few years to attack the arrears of binding is beginning to bear fruit The French Library no longer contains an unbound volume and special attention is now being directed to the History Library of which the defective volumes are being set aside for binding or repair The work of recataloguing continues The Imperial History Library has been recatalogued arnd classified and start has been made on the recataloguing of the main Library The English section has been dealt with and work upon the History section has made considerable progress The over-crowded state of the Library during term time and the lack a3