THE COLLEGE LIBRARY ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, Ph.D., LL.D., CHAIRMAN, and Professor of History. GEORGE FOOT MOORE, A.M., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Professor of the History of Religion. GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE, A.B., LL.D., Litt.D., Professor of English Literature. CHARLES HOMER HASKINS, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of History and Political Science. THEODORE LYMAN, Ph.D., Professor of Physics. CHESTER NOYES GREENOUGH, Ph.D., Professor of English, and Acting Dean of Harvard College. THOMAS BARBOUR, Ph.D., Curator of Oceanica. Secretary of the Library Council KENNETH BALLARD MURDOCK, A.B. Librarian WILLIAM COOLIDGE LANE, A.B., LIBRARIAN, and Keeper of the University Records. The names of the other Officers of the Library are given on pages 31-32. The College Library is for the use of the whole University. All students who have given bonds may take out books, three volumes at a time, and may keep them one month. Officers of the University have direct access to the shelves, and students engaged in advanced work, upon recommendation by their instructors, are allowed access to those parts of the collection with which they are occupied. All students have the direct use of about 42,000 volumes in the several reading rooms. Of these 5,700 are miscellaneous reference books, 14,000 are American and British government documents shelved in the stack immediately adjoining the General Reading Room, about 3,000 are in the Farnsworth Room, about 11,000 are books withdrawn from time to time from general circulation at the request of instructors and "reserved" on shelves in the General Reading Room for use in connection with the courses of instruction, and about 8,000 are permanently shelved in the Lower Reading Room, which is designed to serve the needs of students in the larger courses in History, Government, and Economics. In addition to the above are the books in the Special Libraries on the third floor of the building. The Farnsworth Room, on the first floor immediately at the right of the entrance, contains a collection of books for general reading, accessible to all members of the University, but intended especially for undergraduates who wish to read for pleasure. A number of Special Libraries are administered more or less closely in connection with the College Library and in some degree through the staff of that Library. Fourteen of these are in the Widener Library, the others are in departmental, museum or laboratory buildings where they are most accessible to those for whose service they are provided. Some are for the use of students in advanced courses (classics, Child Memorial, French, etc.); others are designed to serve the needs of large elementary classes for which a considerable number of copies of the most used books are required (history, economics, etc.). A complete list of these special libraries follows: • When these figures were compiled, in the Summer of 1919, the Engineering Library was in process of reorganization, and the new figures for it could not be given. The Library contains, in the spring of 1920, about 2300 volumes. In term-time the Library is open week days from 8.45 A.M. to 10 P.M. The Delivery Department is open from 9 A.M. to 5.30 P.M., but the Public Card Catalogue, which is placed in the Delivery Room, and the Bibliographical Reference Room, which is entered from it, are accessible in the evening through the Reading Room. On holidays the Delivery Desk is closed, but the General Reading Room and the Farnsworth Room are open as usual, except on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, when the whole Library is closed. On Sundays the General Reading Room and the Farnsworth Room are open from 1 to 10 P.M. During the summer vacation, the library is open on week-days from 9 A.M. to 5.30 P.M., except on Saturdays, when it closes at 1 P.M. On the Fourth of July and on Labor Day the whole Library is closed throughout the day. The use of the Library, including the privilege of borrowing books, is sometimes granted, under special regulations, to persons not connected with the University. Blanks for making application for such use may be had of the Librarian. More specific information in regard to the Library, its history and collec tions, will be found in a handbook issued in October, 1915, entitled "The Library of Harvard University; descriptive and historical notes. By A. C. Potter." The Librarian has the custody of the Archives of the University, as well as of the University Collection, which includes printed material of all sorts illustrating the history of the College and University. THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Officers ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, A.B., LL.B., LL.D., Ph.D., PRESIDENT. WILLIAM HENRY PICKERING, S.B., Assistant Professor of Astronomy. WILLARD PEABODY GERRISH, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. EDWARD SKINNER KING, A.M., Assistant Professor of Astronomy. The ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, established by means of a subscription initiated in 1843, was founded for the purpose of scientific research in all departments of Astronomy. To fulfil this purpose, it has been equipped with instruments of the first class and with a library of fifty thousand works (of which about two-thirds are pamphlets), principally relating to astronomical subjects. All of its expenses are met by funds donated for that special purpose, no appropriations being made from the funds of the University. The collection of astronomical photographs, consisting of over two hundred and forty thousand glass plates, contains the only existing history of the stellar universe for the last thirty years. A permanent record is thus furnished of the unknown, as well as of the known, results of cosmical importance. In cooperation with the BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY, founded by the late A. Lawrence Rotch, meteorological observations have been maintained for the last thirty years, and the results published in the ANNALS OF THE OBSERVATORY. The Kiel and Harvard Observatories were formerly selected as the centres for the prompt announcement of astronomical discoveries. This arrangement was broken by the great war. In connection with the formation of the new Union Astronomique Internationale, which met at Brussels, Belgium, in July, 1919, a Bureau Central International des Télégrammes Astronomiques was established. This Observatory has now been officially designated by it as the Central Station in America for the transmission of astronomical telegrams to and from Europe. Thirty assistants are engaged in the work of the Observatory. The results obtained are published in a series of ANNALS, and now fill more than eighty quarto volumes. Besides numerous smaller instruments, the principal tele scopes, some of which are kept at work throughout every clear night, are the 24-inch reflector, 15-inch and 12-inch refractors for visual work, 8-inch meridian circle, and 16-inch Metcalf and 8-inch photographic telescopes, at Cambridge; at the Arequipa Station are the 24-inch Bruce, 13-inch Boyden, 10-inch Metcalf and 8-inch Bache telescopes; at the Mandeville Station in Jamaica is the 11-inch Draper telescope. Instruction in Astronomy is not given at the Observatory, either by lectures or recitations. Facilities are freely offered to astronomers for making use of the library, buildings, grounds, instruments and photographs of the Observatory, so far as this can be done without interfering with regular work. Similar opportunities are sometimes offered to students specially devoting themselves to the study of Astronomy. Such students may apply for admission to the Director, with whom the fees for the privileges offered may be agreed upon. In some cases, a part or the whole of the fees may be remitted in consideration of services rendered in computation or other work. BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY ALEXANDER MCADIE, A.M., S.M., DIRECTOR, and Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Meteorology. LEWIS ALEXANDER WELLS, Chief Observer. The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, located on the summit of Great Blue Hill in the Metropolitan Park Reservation of Boston, was founded by the late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch in 1884. Regular observations, begun on February 1, 1885, have been continued without interruption for thirtyfive years and constitute a unique series in the history of American climatology. The equipment consists of standard European and American makes of barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and wind instruments, to which are added sunshine recorders and instruments for recording night cloudiness. The results of the observations made with these instruments, together with the more important researches made in exploring the upper air, have been published in various volumes of the Harvard Observatory Annals. The library contains 8,042 bound volumes and 15,474 pamphlets dealing chiefly with aerography, and some rare copies of early publications in meteorology. There are two secondary stations, one at the base of the hill and the other in the Neponset valley, both supplied with self-registering instruments, the records of which are used to advantage in studies of the circulation of the lower air. The purpose of the Observatory," in the words of its founder, "is mainly research, free from prescribed duties and independent of outside control." |