Valuable gift to library

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Institute held May 18, reference was made to a valuable addition to the Library´s resources on the history of electricity which has been recently made, through the gift by Mr. Theodore N. Vail of 505 volumes, none of which was already in our collection. The books are chiefly French and German and include many which are now hard to obtain. The volumes presented to this Library have been selected from the Dering collection; which was purchased by Mr. Vail and presented to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the understanding that the duplicates were to be given to this Library.