The University library, including departmental collections, had a total (1936) of over 2,500,000 volumes and pamphlets. Besides gifts in the early years of the college, particular mention should be made of the Aldis collection of American belles lettres, the Elizabethan Club library of Shakespeare quartos and folios, the Henry R. Wagner collection of British and Irish economic and historical tracts, the William S. Mason collection of Ben jamin Franklin and the Ezra Stiles manuscript diaries and itiner aries. Other important collections are the Penniman library of education, the William A. Speck collection of Goetheana, the Albert S. Wheeler Roman law library, the Lowell Mason music library, the Frederick S. Dickson collection of Fielding's works, the Scandinavian library of Count Riant, the Curtius and Seymour libraries of classical literature, the Robert von Mohl library of political science, the Edward M. House collection of historical papers and the J. Sumner Smith Russian library. Among its rare volumes the library has a copy of the Gutenberg 42 line Bible.
The collections of the Gallery of Fine Arts include the Jarves collection of Italian primitives (13th to 17th centuries) ; the Trumbull collection of paintings and miniatures; the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard collection of Greek vases; objects discovered at Gerasa and Dura-Europos; the Mabel Brady Garvan collection of American arts and crafts; and the Achelis, Herr, and Callender collections of prints. The collections of the Peabody museum (1866) embrace the major fields of natural history.
The Yale university press was founded in 1908 for the publica tion of works having permanent interest and value. Since 1926 the Yale university press has published the Yale Review (1892), a national quarterly owned by the university. The university also publishes the American Journal of Science (1818), the oldest scientific publication in the United States, founded by Prof. Ben jamin Silliman. The publications which are under the direction of students are the Yale Law Journal; Yale Literary Magazine (founded in 1836), the first undergraduate publication in the country ; the Yale Daily News (1878), the oldest daily ; the Yale Record, a humorous monthly; and the Yale Scientific Magazine.
In 1936 there were 865 officers and instructors and 732 assist ants in instruction and administration. The students registered as candidates for degrees numbered 5,096; of this total 3,057 were undergraduates and 1,939 students in the graduate and pro fessional schools. There were also 397 students who were not en rolled as candidates for degrees or certificates. The buildings number about roo. Connecticut hall (1752), a four-storey brick building with gambrel roof, called South Middle college, is the only building remaining from the 18th century. The university funds on June 30, 1936, amounted to $99,993,785.21 ($21,181, 302.17 in 1918), exclusive of land and buildings valued at $70, 000,000 and of funds and property amounting to $1,082,488.30 held by the Sheffield trustees. The total income in 1935-36 was $6,769,371.46.
In 1936 there were 31,003 living degree holders and 11,906 non graduates, the majority resident in the North Atlantic division, but other sections of the country were well represented, as well as foreign countries. The division according to occupations shows a preponderance in the fields of law, education, medicine, ministry, engineering, banking, industry and commerce.