FELTON COLLECTION DONATED

The Business Historical Society announced yesterday that the Felton collection of 2500 books and pamphlets, many of them rare government publications, had been presented to it. The Historical Society will store its books in the Harvard Business School. Library when it is completed so that the Felton collection will be available for business students.

The compilation of industrial literature was made by the late Samuel Morse Felton '34, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad and a brother of C. C. Felton '27, a former president of Harvard. Samuel Felton was a national figure, during the Civil War and through his acquaintance with President Lincoln and his services to the government was enabled to amass documents, books, and pamphlets of great value to the student of early American industrial development.