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xxxii Annual Report of the Delegacy Finance The Library started the session with substantial balance of £14 247 brought forward from 1970 to 1971 due partly to the receipt of supplementary grant too late in that session for it to be spent before the end of the financial year and partly to the halt in the ordering of books during the final months of that year when the time of the Library staff was taken up with the preparation for the move In the light of the enhanced financial resources available to the Library during this final year of the quinquennium 1967-72 it was found possible to continue the programme referred to in last year's report of making good deficiencies in the science libraries and to make additional allocations in the interest of new course in medieval and Renaissance Latin for books on contemporary English and German Literature on German late medieval and early Renaissance literature on Spanish and Latin American history on extra-European history on German law and on soil science The Library ended the session with small debit balance largely due to the unexpected increase in the cost of foreign books on order following the floating of sterling in June Purchases total of 012 volumes and 242 pamphlets or parts of periodi- cals was purchased during 1971-72 Standing orders were placed for 92 new periodicals 29 in the humanities 62 in the sciences and one general 17 new series of texts or monographs five in the humanities and 12 in the sciences and 11 major works in progress seven in the humanities and in the sciences Substantial sets of back volumes were purchased of periodicals in the humanities and in the sciences to which the Library had recently started to subscribe On the other hand the standing orders for scientific periodicals and historical series were discontinued 10 The outstanding purchase of the year made possible by special grant from the Delegacy was that of the library of the late Reverend Professor Edward Ratcliff who had held the chair of liturgical theology at King's from 1945 to 1947 before proceeding to Cambridge to occupy successively the Ely and Regius chairs of divinity The collection comprises some 300 titles in the field of liturgical studies including number of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works and represents an important addition to the not insignificant resources of