Last June the Harvard Corporation sent to Yale a gift of books which consisted principally of a translation from the Sanskrit of the Atharva Veda. The translation was made, shortly before his death, by the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale, and contained a text with critical and exegetical commentary. As the translation was incomplete at the time of the author's death, a large amount of work was necessary before it could be published. This task, including revision and editing, was undertaken by Charles R. Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, and a graduate of Yale. The necessary funds for the production of the translation, which contains about 900 pages, royal octavo, were furnished by a Harvard graduate, H. C. Warren '79, who also bequeathed to the University the land on which the Union now stands.

The Harvard Corporation sent a copy of the advance sheets to the Yale Corporation last June, as a bicentennial token of the unity of purpose and of work existing between the two universities. With these advance sheets went a beautifully bound complete set of the Harvard Oriental Series. The nature of the gift is expressed in the following dedication, written by M. H. Morgan '81:

Collegi Yalensis Praesidi Sociisque, hos libros, quos sua manu scriptos reliquit Professor ille Yalensis Guilelmus Dwight Whitney, a discipulo eius Carolo Rockwell Lanman, alumno Yalensi, professore in Coll. Harv editors, sumptibus alumni Harv., Henrici Clarke Warren, prelo subjects feriis A. post Coll. Yalense conditum CC. celebrandis D. D. L. L. Praeses Sociique Collegi Harvardiani.