MUENSTERBERG LIBRARY GIVEN

The valuable library on psychological subjects which the late Professor Hugo Muensterberg had built up during his lifetime was presented to the University yesterday through C. H. Reisinger '12. Mr. Reisinger represented a committee of friends of Professor Muensterberg. The donors comprised Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, Jacob H. Schiff, Rudolph Erbsloeh, Count von Bernstorff, Adolph Pavenstedt, Karl Neumond, George Ehret, Jr., Rudolph Pagenstecher, Herman A. Metz, Fritz Achelis, August Hecksher; Henry Goldman, Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer, Jacob Hasslacher, E. D. Adams, Anton Eilers, of New York City; August A. Busch and E. A. Faust, of St. Louis, Mo.; Fritz von Frantzius and Harry Rubens, of Chicago, Ill.; Carl E. Schmidt, of Detroit, Mich.; A. Troestel, of Milwaukee, Wis.; J. Schmidlapp, of Cincinnati, Ohio; the German University League and the German Society of Boston. The trustees of the committee are G. S. Viereck and C. H. Reisinger '12, of New York City.

The library consists of about 10,000 books, reprints, pamphlets, manuscripts, charts and other papers. The 3,000 books in the collection contain all the latest and most valuable works on experimental and applied psychology It includes such material of practical value as books on the application of psychology to advertising, to merchandising, to education and to the moving picture.

The library was purchased by the donors from the Muensterberg estate and was presented to the University as a memorial to Professor Muensterberg, who devoted much time and energy during his years at the University to the development of the library on psychology.