Selected Recent Acquisitions

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

AIDS and Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Through the generosity of the Iowa Site of the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center, Hardin Library received a grant for $2,000 towards the purchase of library materials related to AIDS and HIV disease. Both books and videotapes were purchased with these funds.

Bell, John. The Principles of Surgery. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1801-1804. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Benedetti, Alessandro. Historia Corporis Humani Sive Anatomia. Venice, 1502. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Christison, Sir Robert. A Treatise on Poisons. Edinburgh, 1829. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Everaerts, Anthony. Novus et Genuinus Hominis Brutique Animalis Exortus. Middleburg, 1661. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Gales, Jean Chrysanthe. Memoire et Rapports sur les Fumigations Sulfureuses. Paris, 1816. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Hardin Library Browsing Room. The local student chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the medical honorary society, donated approximately $400 for the purchase of materials for the Hardin Library Browsing Room. AOA worked with Hardin Library staff several years ago in developing the Browsing Room as a public service project. The Browsing Room holds a collection of materials which places the practice of the health sciences in the broader perspective of our human and social environment.

Hayem, Georges. Du Sang et de ses Alterations Anatomiques. Paris, 1889. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

International rural and environmental health. As part of a grant from Pioneer Hi-bred International which has supported the creation of The University of Iowa's Center for International Rural and Environmental Health, $6,000 per year is being provided for the purchase of library materials. This year's funds were spent on journal subscriptions, back-volumes of journals, books, and audiovisuals on this interdisciplinary area.

Ketham, Joannes de. Wundartznei. Strassburg, 1530. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Laguna, Andres. Methodus Cognoscendi, Extirpandique Excrescentes in Vesicae Collo Carunculas. Rome, 1551. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Lister, Joseph, Baron. Der Lister'sche Verband; mit Bewilligung des Verfassers. Leipzig, 1875. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Marcellus, Empiricus. De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, ac Rationalibus Liber. Basel, 1536. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Prochaska, Georg. Disquisitio Anatomico-physiologica Organismi Corporis Humani Eiusque Processus Vitalis. Vienna, 1812. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Smith, Hugh. Essays Physiological and Practical, on the Nature and Circulation of the Blood and the Effects and Uses of Blood-letting. London, 1761. Gift of John Martin, M.D.

Main Library

Bunyan, John. The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded (Boston, 1806) bound with A Faithful Account of the Life of John Bunyan. Boston, 1806. Gift of Alan F. January.

Catholic theology. Approximately 200 titles, consisting mostly of works of pre-Vatican II theology. Gift of John Boyle.

English and American Literature. Over eighty volumes by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Galsworthy, Kate Greenaway, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Philip Massinger, Sir Walter Scott, Edmund Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Tennyson, John Updike, and Angus Wilson. Gift of Charlotte M. Smith.

Geddes, Michael. The Church-History of Ethiopia. London: Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 1696. Gift of Kenneth J. Oberembt.

Gonzalez Martin, Antonio. Twelve prints showing scenes from the Restaurante Botin in Madrid, Spain, a 300 year old restaurant. Gift of Lewis E. January, M.D.

Graphic Antiquarian. Volumes 1-4. Gift of Warren A. Boyd, Jr.

Iowa National Organization for Women. Subject files, newsletters, correspondence, and other records covering the years from 1976 to 1989. Gift of Iowa NOW.

Lobo, Jeronymo, Relation Historique D'Abissinie. Paris: Coustelier & Guerin, 1728. Gift of Kenneth J. Oberembt.

Mahfuz, Najib, Palace of Desire, The Cairo Trilogy II. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lome M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1991. Signed by the author. Gift of Kenneth J. Oberembt.

Michaels, Leigh. Forty-three books by an Iowa author of contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. Gift of Leigh Michaels.

Ohio. Commissioner of Railroads & Telegraphs. Railroad Map of Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: Published by the State, 1888. Gift of Alan F. January.

Patrons of Husbandry. Iowa State Grange. Journal of Proceedings, 1989 and 1990, and Roster, 1990 and 1991. Gift of Gene Edelen.

Smith, Christina. Striking Beauty, Celebrating Wonder. Daly City, California: Kabir, 1990. Printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press in an edition of 225 copies of which this is No. 122. Gift of Christina Smith.

Tristan Tzara. De Nos Oiseaux: Poemes. Illustrated by Jean Arp. Paris: Editions Kra, 1929. Gift of Ann Morgan in memory of Frank Seiberling.

Wertz, Harvey William. Papers, 1917-1988, of an American journalist including articles, correspondence, clippings, diaries, photographs, and other papers, some of which involve Wertz's service in the 168th Regiment of U.S. Infantry during World War I. Gift of Alta Wertz.

Williamson, John P. An English-Dakota Dictionary. New York: American Tract Society, 1908. Gift of Bo Lawrence in memory of Frank S. Hanlin.

Wortman, Allen. Correspondence and subject files of a newspaper editor of Malvern, Iowa. Gift of Allen Wortman.

Young Adult Fiction. A large collection of individual titles and series from such authors as Horatio Alger, Victor Appleton (Tom Swift series), Charles Amory Beach (The Air Service Boys series), Hal Borland, Edward S. Ellis, G.A. Henry, Agnes Danforth Hewes, Jane Stewart (The Camp Fire Girls series), and Arthur M. Winfield (The Rover Boys series). Gift of Mrs. Frances Frymoyer.

Rita Benton Music Library

Journals. In response to a call for donors to "adopt" Music Library journals that might otherwise fall victim to the budget difficulties, two people responded with generous checks that will underwrite several journals for the next three years. The Music Library wishes to thank Professor Emeritus Himie Voxman, former Director of the School of Music, and Dr. Arthur Benton, Professor Emeritus of Psychology/Neurology, for their support.

Recording Studios. Professor Lowell Cross, Head of the Recording Studio in the School of Music, has given to the Music Library a copy of each compact disc that the Studio has engineered and produced during the past two years, the most recent being a disc of works by the late Professor of Music William Hibbard.