Three appointments of a new kind, to be known as honorary curatorships, have been made by the Corporation, in the University Library. The object of the new curatorships is to secure the interest and services of persons specially competent to advise the Library in regard to purchases in special fields. The appointments so far made are the following: H. N. Gay, Jr., '96, Curator of Italian History of the Nineteenth Century; H. Bingham, Curator of South American History and Literature; E. H. Wells '97, Curator of Modern English Literature. Mr. Gay is a non-resident member of the Graduate School and served the Library last year by buying large numbers of Italian books in Rome, with money provided by Ambassador G. von L. Meyer '79. In addition to this he supplemented Mr. Meyer's gift with many volumes and pamphlets from his own library. The Library is indebted to Mr. Wells for having collected from friends several hundred dollars to be used for the purchase of English literature of the eighteenth century.