On Tuesday, October 4, the Harvard Business School entertained as its guest Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, the first man to introduce American department store methods into England. Mr. Selfridge has just deposited with the Business School Library a part of his collection of the original account books of a branch of the Medici family, covering the period from 1377 to 1597. He is a member of The Business Historical Society, and long before its foundation he was carrying on the sort of research that is the principal object of this organization. His interest is in the biographies of famous business men of the past, the Fuggers and the Medici in particular.

There has recently come into the possession of the Society a valuable collection of books and pamphlets — some 200 items in all — that has been gathered together, and presented to the Society by Mr. Joseph P. Day, the well-known New York real-estate man.

If one were to calculate the value of the brown sugar alone that is consumed annually in East Boston, it would come to many times $3500.

The Library has recently acquired a fairly complete set, from volume 5 on, of the London Economist. There is probably only one that is complete in the United States, and the Harvard Business Library is very fortunate in having a set that compares favorably with any of the others to be found in this country.