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First Gift to the New Foundation—A Rare Edition Printed 1614

E A R E pleased to report the first ceived by the Foundation, through the be told that he died in Chicago in 1923. gift to the University through the generosity of Mrs. Alice V. B. Clark. His parents lived at Allende, Mexico, a Foundation. Mr. John N . Chester T h e volume is doubly valuable in that village about one hundred miles northof Pittsburgh, ia prominent civil engiit was presented in 1896 to her husband, west of Laredo, Texas, and some neer of the Class of '91 and an enthuDean Thomas Arkle Clark, by the twenty-five miles from the border. His siastic bibliophile, father of E^equiel Aranda, ex-'93, as a father was a man of considerable imdonated to the wedding present. T h e volume, entitled portance in his district and his mother University on the 'Filosofia Moral" by D. Emanuel Tewas pure Castilian. occasion of his sauro, was translated into Spanish by It is our hope that other friends of Homecoming visit Don Gomez de la Rocha and published the University will be stimulated by the a r a r e first edition in 1715 Mrs. Clark is presenting this generosity of Mr. Chester and Mrs. of Sir Walter to the library through the Foundation. Clark to add to the rare book treasures Raleigh's "History F o r those of Aranda's period, it should already in the Library. of the World" published by W a l ter Burre of London, England, in 1614. A prominent J. N. Chester/91 bibliographical volUST what effect, if any, air conditionum a group of normal individuals under _ . ,- _ e entitled "A C1_ ing has on health is the information four different types of climate: b h o r t - l i t l e Catalog of books printed in being sought in a series of experiments 1. Cool dry atmosphere—temp 70-72, England, Scotland and Ireland, and of and tests being conducted this fall by humidity 30%. English books printed abroad 1475-1640," the College of Medicine of the Univer2. Cool moist atmosphere—temp. 70-72. locates only six other copies of this first sity of Illinois in cooperation with the humidity 60%. edition: The British Mu3. Hot dry atmosphere seum; Oxford; Cam—temp. 92-96, humidity bridge; Trinity College, 20%-30%. Dublin; Huntington Li4. H o t moist atmosphere b r a r y , P a s a d e n a ; and —temp. 92-96, humidity Chapin Library, Williams 60% upward. College. The work was "This study will concern one of three volumes proprimarily the efficiency of jected but the only one the circulation," he said. completed and was written "The elimination of heat is by Raleigh when a prisa major problem with the oner in London Tower. body. As soon as this is In no extant copy of made difficult, there is either of the two editions some form of circulatory of 1614 is the author's adjustment. It is obvious name given. However, the that climate No. 4 would authorship is thoroughly throw the maximal stress authenticated, the reason on the body. It is probable for the omission of Sir that the study of circulaWalter's name at the time tion alone will occupy our it was published being his attention for a long time. strained relations with "There are many funcJames I which resulted in tions that can be studied 1618 in his being beheaded under the same atmoson his return from an illpheric changes including fated expedition to South mental efficiency tests, apAmerica in search of petite and gastrointestinal gold. The volume is in behavior, and other bodily wonderful condition after functions. the 321 years of its existence. The original bind"We will, of course, be ing has been only slightly examining at the same repaired and the pages time patients with various and extra maps are percirculatory disorders," he fect and easily legible. said. "Patients with failT h e frontispiece shown in ing or decompensating the photographic reprohearts, with high blood duction was elaborately pressure, with cardiac neuengraved by Reinald Elroses, and toxic goiter, stracke which is explained will be profoundly influE S WIN D D ECTOR O F on the page opposite by ^°Jf '? 9?K o c hPP' t .h 1l !,?g t W s l a t e s t aTHEo nUNIVERSITY LIBRARY enced by atmospheric S dditi t0 the rare o ? t h e Libr^V °0l> ° d m book section some annonymous verses changes. by Ben Johnson. Of the "In some cases the attwo editions of 1614, the earlier supmospheric c h a n g e may American Society of Heating and Ventiplies a list of errata which are cormean a difference between life and lating Engineers. rected in the later. death. T h u s a patient with exopthalmic Because the University has, for several goiter may be eliminating 75% more This is not the first r a r e book preyears, been using an eight-bed ward in heat than a normal person of the same sented to the University by Mr. Chester its Research Hospital, in which there is size. As one sees him in the ward his as he is responsible for several others, complete control of atmospheric conskm is apt to be moist and if the day is including a first edition of "Lighthouse ditions for the study of hay fever and hot then he will be actively sweating. Illumination" by Thomas Stevenson, the pollen asthma, the laboratory was at At times the toxic goiter patient's father of Robert Louis Stevenson, this once ; available for the work just started. ability to eliminate heat breaks down Very boojc having been at one time in The research will cover not only the and his body temperature rises, values the library of the illustrious son. In his relation of air conditioning to health 105° or 106° F. being attained. It is own home library in Pittsburgh, Mr. of the normal individual but also what then customary to surround him with ice Chester has many rare first editions inthe factors set up by air conditioning bags or even pack him in crushed ice. cluding a Kate Greenway collection, provide in the treatment of certain "In heart cases the ability of the skin Napbleonana, rare Robert Louis Stevenphysical disorders. to eliminate heat is often impaired by son volumes, and a very complete collecDr. Robert W. Keeton, who is diaccumulations of edema. This throws the tion of Eugene Field. recting the study for the University, major portion of heat dissipation on the Another rare book has just been reexplains that it is proposed to study sweating mechanism and on the lungs."

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