To the Editor:— The year 1898 will be known in the annals of medicine by an epoch-making event. In that year Libraries , a bi-monthly publication devoted to the interests of medical libraries, first saw the light of day in the city of Denver. For several years it made its irregular and spasmodic appearance and closed its career in a blaze of glory A.D. 1902. Its circulation reached the astounding number of 120. What it lacked in numbers it made up in quality. Among its admirers, subscribers and contributors it counted the foremost librarians of the day—Dana, Fletcher, Chenley, Billings, Grace Bryant, Fisher, Parsons, Dudley, Beer, Aheren, Putnam, Bowker, Meyers, Utley, Bowen, Noyes, Crunden, Chase, Dewey, Merrill, and the medical luminaries—Osler, Chadwick, Keen, Da Costa, Musser, Simmons, Edward Jackson, Hare, Horatio Wood, Solis-Cohen, Hutchinson, Gould, Dock, Senn, Bonney, Solly, Shattuck, Bayard Holmes, Jacobi, Wilson, Sewall, Eskridge and many other makers and