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

[1] p., I.C.B.U. Journal, v. 19, no. 321, November 15, 1889

I.C.B.U. Journal (56 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:428063]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover, The Brighton boys in transatlantic flight

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]

Selection from 8 p., Happy days : a paper for young and old, v. XXX, no. 766, June 19, 1909

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

Font cove, Fun o’ the forge

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]

[1] p., Suantraidhe agus goltraidhe

Suantraidhe agus goltraidhe / Pádraic mac Piarais
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431492]

p. 1, Belfast Newspapers

Belfast newspapers : past and present / by A. Albert Campbell
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431560]

Front cover, Clár Oireactais 1909.

Clár Oireactais 1909
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431708]

Newspapers

Front cover, An Ċraoḃ-ruaḋ

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]

[221] p., The Shan Van Vocht, v. I, no. 11, November 6, 1896

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

p. 318

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

Chambers’s London Journal (46 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:429634]

p. 99, “Types of Irish Costume”, from An Ċraoḃ-ruaḋ