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Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois

benefited in this manner. Several of the most important of the recent gifts of machinery to the University have been received by the College of Engineering. Among these may be mentioned a set of four axles and four pairs of supporting wheels valued at $2,700 for the new Locomotive Testing Laboratory, given in 1912 by the Midvale Steel Company of Philadelphia;14 an automatic controller for electric motors, by the Electric Controller and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio; 15 and a six-hundred horse power vertical triple-expansion engine for the Engineering Museum, donated in 1915 by the Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago.16 The R. T. Crane Company of Chicago presented to the department of mechanical engineering in 1916 a complete exhibit of sectional valves, steam taps, etc., the value of which was estimated at $500. The Babcock and Wilcox Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, presented to the same department in 1916 a test drill for experimental purposes, of an estimated value of $150.17 Books, singly and in the form of entire libraries, have been donated to the University at frequent intervals. Among the most important gifts of this character are the following: The Palmer Chemistry Library of about 360 volumes and 450 pamphlets, the library of the late Professor Arthur William Palmer of the University, was presented to the University in 1904 by Mrs. Anna Shattuck Palmer. The Karsten Collection, principally of French and German Philology and Literature, the library of the late Professor Gustaf E. Karsten of the University, was presented by Mrs. Eleanor G. Karsten in 1908. The B'nai B'rith Library of Jewish Literature was established in 1912 in consequence of a gift of $500 for this purpose by District Number 6 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and is supported by a gift of fifty dollars annually from the same source. The D, C. Greene Collection, consisting of 219 volumes of books and newspapers relating to Japan, a part of the library of Rev. D. C. Greene, of Japan, was presented to

"Bept,, Univ. of III., 1914, p. 146 "Rept., Univ. of HI., 1914, p. 175 "Sept., Univ. of HL, 1916, p. 879 "Ibid., p. 939