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funds, a secondary method of development has boon uaod which supplements the departmental method. Special appropriations l\a,vo boon made tor purchases which cut across tho main stream. Thus an appropriation for strengthening tho library collection of biographies was supplementary to all departmental growth. With the building of Lincoln Hall in 15)09, a new feature was developed which has given a marked impetus to the growth of special departments and subjects: the seminar and department library and librarian. In this building are housed six collections, selected from tho general library, each in charge of a librarian trained in tho special subject. At present these branch libraries contain deposits as follows: Education, philosophy and psychology, 15,500 volumes; classics, 23.000 volumes; modern languages, 27,000 volumes; English, 16,400 volumes; history and political science, 20,000 volumes; economics and sociology, 24,000 volumes. As might be expected, these departmental libraries, and the others on the campus, like architecture, chemistry and so on, which have a librarian in charge who is also a trained bibliographer, have boon making noticeable progress in building up collections and in starting to round out the libraries in these subjects. The architectural library reflects the personality of Professor N. O. Bicker, after whom it was formally named in January, 1917. Thruout the years by careful selection and buying* he has built up a fine working library of 4700 volumes, strong in general architecture and construction, as might be expected from the man, but well developed also in history, decoration and ornament, and painting and sculpture* Mathematics has similarly been developed by successive members of the faculty, till the 5610 volumes cover all the main journals and a good pro* portion of the literature. Law has its separate library, with 22,000 volumes. Here will be found the reports of Inst resort of all the states, statutes and session laws of all the states, all reports of the appellate courts, all the published case law of the United States, all the Canadian reports except Quebec and practically complete sets of the English and Irish reports. There is also a good collection of legal treatises, digests and citations. Chemistry, with 10,500 volumes of standard works and sets of periodicals, has been developed in all fields—organic and in-