EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT believe will appeal to their sympathy. Shortly after the recent great conflagration in San Francisco, the Association of the Bar of New York City, in sympathy with their brethren of the Bar Association of San Francisco, offered assistance in the form of a large cash donation for reestablishing the library of the San Fran cisco Bar Association. The trustees of the latter association at a meeting subsequently held decided that, having their library partly covered by insurance, they did not feel justified in accepting the cash donation so generously offered by the New York Association, but would be glad to receive and preserve, as a memorial of the kindly feeling displayed, a copy of such reports, codes, and statutes of the state of New York as might be available. The New York Association thereupon shipped to the San Francisco Association a substantially complete set of New York books, reports, statutes, codes, digests, encyclo paedias, and text-books, comprising about four teen hundred volumes. This donation has been appropriately labeled so as to show the source from which it was received. The bar associations of some other cities have indi cated a desire to furnish, as a like memorial, sets of their respective state reports and statutes. Using these donations as a nucleus, the San Francisco Bar Association has already commenced the rehabilitation of its library. The collection of law books belonging to this association and destroyed by the fire consisted of more than twelve thousand volumes. The developments of the libraries of the smaller bar associations of the country have in a measure solved one of the great problems of modern practice resulting from the tremen
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dous increase of printed decisions. We ob serve with pleasure that a concerted effort is now to be made to guide the development of these very important institutions. Pursuant to a call in which twenty-four law libraries joined, there was formed at the con ference of the American Library Association at Narragansett Pier, June 29 to July 6, 1906, the "American Association of Law Libraries." The purpose of this new organization is to develop and increase the usefulness and effi ciency of the law libraries of the United States and Canada. Those interested, to all of whom the mem bership is open, are invited to assist in the work by sending their names and addresses to the secretary-treasurer. It is proposed to hold meetings each year at the same time and place as the conferences of the American Library Association. Printed circulars outlining the program for the coming year will be issued shortly and fonvarded to any address, upon application. The officers are: President, A. J. Small, Iowa State Law Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Vice-President, Andrew H. Mettee, Library Company of the Baltimore Bar. Secretary-Treasurer, Franklin O. Poole, Association of the Bar, 42 West 44th St., New York City. Executive Committee: President, ex-officio. Vice-President, ex officio. Secretary-Treasurer, ex-officio. Frank E. Gilbert. G. E. Wire. Frederick W. Schenk.
