THE RUTHERFORD TROWBRIDGE

MEMORIAL PUBLICATION

FUND

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THE present volume is the first work published on the Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established in May, 1920, through a gift to Yale University by his widow in memory of Rutherford Trowbridge, Esq., of New Haven, who died December 18, 1918, and who in 1899 had established the Thomas Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Lectureship Fund in the School of the Fine Arts at Yale. It was in a series of lectures delivered on this Foundation that the material comprised in this volume was first given to the public. By the establishment of the Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund, the University has been enabled to make available for a much wider audience the work growing out of lectures given at Yale through the generosity of one who sought always to render service to the community in which he lived; and, through its university, to the world.