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Snow Miller, Dr. John Hendley Barnhart and Dr. H. D. House.
Help has been given unstintingly by the following librarians: Mr. John Parker, Peabody Institute, Baltimore; Dr. B. C. Steiner, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore; Mr. John Robinson, Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.; Mr. Robert F. Hayes, Jr., Maryland Historical Society; Mr. Julius H. Tuttle, Massachusetts Historical Society; Mr. William G. Stannard, Virginia Historical Society; Dr. John W. Far-low, Boston Medical Library; Mr. F. H. Chase, Reference Librarian, Boston Public Library; Mr. W. C. Lane, Harvard College Library; Mr. Herbert Putnam, Library of Congress; Mr. C. K. Bolton, Boston Athenaeum; Dr. Albert Allemann, Library of the Surgeon-General; Miss Minnie Wright Blogg, Johns Hopkins Hospital Library; Mrs. Laura E. Smith, New York Academy of Medicine; Mr. Harry M. Lydenberg, Reference Librarian, New York Public Library; Miss Marguerite E. Campbell, Custodian of Holmes Hall, Boston Medical Library; Miss Marcia C. Noyes, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; Mr. H. R. McIlvaine, Virginia State Library; Mrs. Ruth Lee Briscoe, University of Maryland; Miss J. L. Farnam, Secretary, and Mr. Frederick W. Ashley, Superintendent of Reading Room, Library of Congress; Miss Mary A. Day, Grey Herbarium, Harvard University; Mrs. R. M. Thompson, Boston Medical Library; Mr. Glover M. Allen, Boston Society of Natural History; Mrs. Austin Holden, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Mr. Charles Perry Fisher, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and Miss Jane Grey Rogers, Tulane University School of Medicine.
Now that our self-imposed task is over we trust we shall not be compelled to take comfort in Leslie Stephen's dictum "That great as is the difference between a good and a bad work of the kind, even a very defective performance is superior to none at all."
April 1, 1920. Howard A. Kelly.
