Further Mention

For 23 years William J. Bryant '25 has been collecting, with scholarly taste and acumen, books in more than a dozen languages about Spain and its culture, ancient and modern. The emphasis is on archaeology and history, but the collection includes bibliographies, travel guides, art books, early Spanish and Mallorcan imprints, volumes on numismatics and philosophy and on the Basques, Gypsies, Arabs, and Visigoths. Many of the treasures represent the only copies known in the United States.

Over the years, the entire collection of more than 3,000 volumes has been presented to Baker Library, which has recently issued a comprehensive 144-page catalog, handsomely printed and extensively illustrated, with a preface by Bryant. It can be obtained from the College Librarian for $8.50.

The October-November issue of MIT's Technology Review includes two articles by Dartmouth faculty members: "The Transition to Coal," by Roger F. Naill and Dennis L. Meadows, directors of research programs at the Thayer School, and John S. Miller, a former research associate; and "Weather Modification," by Third Century Professor of Environmental Studies Gordon J. MacDonald.

The role of coal in buying time until the development of such ultimate energy sources as solar energy, fusion, and geo-thermal power is the topic of the first. The second deals with past uses of weather in warfare and the urgency of an international treaty precluding further modification with possibly catastrophic results.