Mr. Langdon's gifts include bronze and marble busts and tablets, antique Italian can delabra, etc. Mr. Langdon was also the donor to the city and to the Buffalo Historical So ciety of the replica in bronze of the "David" by Michelangelo that adorns that part of Delaware Park facing the Buffalo Historical Society building; it is the only replica of this work in Amenca.
The museum includes the Dr. F. H. James coin and medal collection, valued at $15,000; the Dr. Joseph C. Greene collection of Egyp tian and Oriental articles, casts, etc.; the Cot tier, Scoville and other Indian collections; the Atkins Alaska collection; the Civil War and Lincoln collection of Julius E. Francis, founder of the Lincoln Birthday Association; the William A. Galpin collection of Washing ton and Lincoln portraits and engravings illus trating great events in American history; and many relics of the pioneer days in western New York and on the Great Lakes. Many articles formerly belonging to President Mil lard Fillmore are shown, as are relics of Lincoln, Grant and other Presidents and famous men. The Historical Society library (40,000 volumes) is a free reference library, chiefly devoted to American history. It in
cludes the special collection known as the Dr. John C. Lord library, owned by the city of Buffalo, but cared for by the Historical Society, and the private library of Mrs. Mil lard Fillmore. It is also rich in manuscript material relating to western New York and the Great Lakes.
The Society is active in historical publish ing, having issued 19 volumes-15 of them since 1902; some miscellaneous in character, others of national scope and interest. Among them are the works of Hon. Henry W. Hill, president of the Society since 1910, on New York State waterways, canals and allied topics; the