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 residents who would be willing to place them in their local libraries. The thought has been to provide as far as possible for a general working collection, meeting the wants of the high school or college student, rather than of the research worker. In accordance with this plan, a few of the best or most easily obtainable books on the various phases of the history and description of the Pacific Northwest have been chosen, based upon experience at the reference desk. Wherever a modern edition was available, especially one with notes, that has been given in preference to the original edition, and books in print have been selected wherever possible. If only an original edition of an important work was available, an effort has been made to give the range of prices at which the book has been offered for sale within the last few years. Prices given without note have been taken from the 1922 publishers' trade lists. With the changing conditions, however, none of the prices can be considered more than approximately correct. The annotations have been designed to show the scope of the book rather than to be critical in character.

The writings and research of Dr., professor of anatomy in the University of Oregon Medical School, are an excellent example of the professional approach to history that has been referred to in an earlier part of this chapter. He was born in Sweden on March 13, 1886, and came to the United States at the age of five. He was graduated in 1910 from McMinnville College, and received his master's degree in 1914 and his doctor's degree in 1918 from Northwestern University. He taught on the faculties of Linfield College, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, before coming to the University of Oregon Medical School, where in addition to notable contributions in research in his technical field, he has stimulated a productive interest in regional medical history. The group of advanced medical students he has organized to discuss and study it in a medical history club is unique among writing and among history organizations. He is the author of "An Outline History of Medicine in the Pacific Northwest", 1932; and The Development of Medical Education in the Pacific Northwest, n. d.