Content Roundup – First Week – November 2015

Plate 1, “Gregor Mendel”, from Mendelizm ili teoriia skreshchevaniia. Moscow : Knigoizdatel’stvo studentov Moskovskago sel’skokhoziaistvennago instituta, 1914.
This two week report, covering the last week of October and the first week of November, brings a number of newly digitized and described materials to your attention. Some of the treasures in this double-dose of content include: a rare 1914 Russian work on Gregor Mendel and genetics; over 50 new issues of the I.C.B.U. journal; 46 issues of the rare Chambers’s London Journal; a new set of music from the Philadelphia Ceili Group; and a host of books from the Joseph McGarrity collection including a presentation copy of poems of Padraic Pearse, to Joseph McGarrity.
Catholica
Newspapers
I.C.B.U. Journal (56 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:428063]
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Fiction
The Brighton boys in transatlantic flight / by Lieutenant James R. Driscoll
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:432550]
Periodicals
Comfort (2 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:430138]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:430180]
Happy Days (1 issue added: title story “Trailing the Black Fox; or, Two boy traders from Winnipeg / by Jas. D. Montague”
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434386]
Joseph McGarrity Collection
Books
Fun o’ the forge : stories / by Brian O’Higgins
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:432987]
Poems of the Irish revolutionary brotherhood
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431586]
Suantraidhe agus goltraidhe / Pádraic mac Piarais
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431492]
Belfast newspapers : past and present / by A. Albert Campbell
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431560]
Clár Oireactais 1909
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431708]
Newspapers
An Ċraoḃ-ruaḋ : irisleaḃar Ċonnarṫa na Gaeḋilge ġá ċur amaċ ag muinntir na h-Árd-Sgoile Ultaiġe Béal-Feirsde : high-class literary and art magazine, devoted to the promotion of the Irish language, arts, and industries (volume 1 complete)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:432865]
The Shan Van Vocht (5 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:291027]

Selection from p. 656, “Lloyd’s Vegetable Worm Lozenges”, The Irish People, v. 1, no. 41, September 3, 1864
The Irish People (6 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:426929]
Mendel Collection
Mendelizm ili teoriia skreshchevaniia = “Mendelism or the theory of crossing” / E. A. Bogdanov.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:10949]
Pennsylvaniana

Front cover, Typescript Article: The Sciacchitani of Norristown (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania); Comments on MSS Records at HSP, 2011
Celeste A. Morello Collection (5 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:402253]
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Historic Papers

Front, Report, By: Mr. Downing on the Cost of 3 Stenographers for the Catholic Club’s Tenth Anniversary Banquet at Hotel Bellevue, January 29, 1887
Catholic Club of Philadelphia Records, 1871-1923 (4 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:428999]
Philadelphia Ceili Group
Events
“Skylark”, April 29, 1989 (19 sets added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431538]
Roman Catholic High School Alumni Association
4 items added
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:206082]
World
Periodicals
![Masthead, [385] p., Chambers's London Journal of History, Literature, Poetry, Biography, and Adventure, v. 2, no. 81, December 10, 1842](https://blog.library.villanova.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/chamb-300x140.jpg)
Masthead, [385] p., Chambers’s London Journal of History, Literature, Poetry, Biography, and Adventure, v. 2, no. 81, December 10, 1842
Chambers’s London Journal (46 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:429634]
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