making an effort to complete our sets. On completing the section of missions, Miss Pettee expects to continue the recataloguing of the Practical Theology. Liturgics and Church Law are already done. Next will come the large classes on the Church and the Sacraments, Pastoral Theology and Homiletics.

Among the extra activities of the staff I may mention the compilation of a Theological bibliography for the use of ministers and theological students, which will be published in the Bulletin. We have received suggestions for this list from members of the Faculty, but the bibliographical details have been supplied by Miss Turnbull. In addition we have collected some three hundred volumes to be sent to the training camps for our soldiers, cooperating in this effort with the American Library Association.

Acknowledgments.-Mrs. John Crosby Brown, a lifelong friend and benefactress of the Seminary, sent us her annual gift of two hundred dollars for the John Crosby Brown Special Fund, not long before she was attacked by the illness which ended her life. This fund has been of great value to the Library.

We receive some periodicals as gifts from the publishers, although the increased cost of publication makes this list a diminishing one.

Various publishers contribute their Sunday School helps to our Library of Religious and Moral Education.

By exchange we receive a large number of college, university and seminary catalogues.

The minutes of Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, Methodist (Methodist Episcopal, Southern Methodist and Methodist Protestant), Lutheran, Moravian, the Disciples, New Jerusalem, Protestant Episcopal and Reformed ecclesiastical bodies are sent us by their stated clerks and secretaries.

Missionary and charitable organizations send us their annual reports, and those churches which publish year books usually respond to our request for copies.

The following persons or societies have made gifts to the

Our Needs. The increasing prominence of the Library in educational life may be judged by the statement of the Librarian of Yale University to the effect that in the less than twenty years of his connection with that Library, more books have been added to it than in the more than two hundred years which preceded. The age is an age of books, and no institution can be progressive which does not keep up with the stream of human thought which proceeds from the press. What now presents itself to us as a practical problem is due to the fact that the Library building was not completely furnished when it was built. The stack consists of five floors, but the lowest was not provided with shelves. In the process of recataloguing the books, it is necessary to distribute the classes, so that each class will have some spare room for future accessions. This even distribution is not possible so long as one fifth of our space is useless

for lack of shelving. In fact, some of the classes are now overcrowding the sections assigned to them, and must be located in two different parts of the stack. But this defeats the very purpose of classification, which is to have books on the same subject located together. I hope very earnestly that the Board will see its way clear to provide shelving for this fifth level at once. Another year we shall also need additional drawers for the catalogue, since in the process of recataloguing we put in a good many more cards than we take out.

The present Library endowment was supposed to be sufficient for a long time to come. Events which we could not foresee have much increased our expenses. Salaries have risen; books, periodicals, bindings and supplies are higher in price by from ten to twenty-five per cent than they were four years ago. The Library income, however, is a fixed quantity. It will be evident that if we are to live up to the programme laid down when the present endowment was secured, we must have a substantial addition to our funds. This is the more clearly indicated when we consider that three new professors are now added to the Faculty, each one of which will have his own list of wants to be filled by the Library.

I have only to add that we have gratifying evidence that the Library is increasingly useful not only to our own immediate constituency but also to the large educational community in which we are now located. The efficiency and courtesy of the Library staff are generally acknowledged, and it shall be our endeavor to deserve the reputation which we have already acquired.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

HENRY PRESERVED SMITH,

Librarian.

WAR-WORK SERVICE

BY UNION ALUMNI

With the announcement of Commencement Exercises of Union Seminary in May, 1918, a card was enclosed to each alumnus on the mailing list, asking for information in regard to the particular form of service being rendered for the furtherance of the work of the Government in pursuit of its war-aims. Following is a list of the replies which came to hand. It is not supposed that the list is exhaustive; many probably thought that their service was too small to merit mention. In the cases of others already at the front, replies or verbal information has been furnished by friends. It has not always been possible to achieve complete accuracy in details, but the best has been done with the material in hand. Designation of fields and phases of work which are practically or actually identical, will be found to vary, because the wording varied in the replies received or in the sources of information available.

The list is a long one, and it has been thought well to preserve a record of those who in times of difficulty and stress, are contributing toward the ends which are dear to the hearts of all true Americans. It constitutes a roll of honor, and it honors not only the men themselves, but the institution which claims them as sons. CHARLES R. GILLETT,

General Secretary, Associated Alumni.

1866

James Gilbert Mason, D.D., Metuchen, N. J.-Chairman of FourMinute men of Metuchen, speaking one night each week.

1867

Alpheus Newell Andrus, D.D., New York, N. Y., 160 E. 91st St.While in exile in Constantinople, because of the war, was engaged in relief work under Red Cross auspices. Speaker in this country for the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee. Richard C. Morse, LL.D., Brooklyn, N. Y., 35 Sidney Place.-Consulting General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.; connected with the National War-Work Council; and at work in camp, Y. M. C. A. buildings.

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David James Burrell, D.D., New York, N. Y., Marble Collegiate Church.-Director of the War Savings Committee of New York State.