Marilyn Peterson, Karl Bynoe, and Georgia Andrews with rare books, 1970s
Left to right: Marilyn Peterson (Institute Archives), Karl Bynoe (Humanities Librarian), and Georgia Andrews (Office of the Director of Libraries) stand at a service counter of the Hayden Library with a display of rare books donated by MIT alum Ironton A. Kelly III, 1970s.
Karl S. Bynoe was Associate Reference Librarian at the MIT Libraries, beginning in 1960. Prior to this appointment, he had served as first assistant in the language and literature section of New York City's Brooklyn Public Library.
About the Exhibit
Historiae Animalium, a volume of sixteenth century animal drawings by Karl von Gesner, was said to be "the first printed book to display portraits of dogs." You can see it on display in the Hayden Library first floor corridor with other rare books. They belong to a collection of fifteen books important for the development of scientific thought, including first editions by Sir Francis Bacon and Galileo Galilei; and also Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton. The collection was...given to MIT by I. Austin Kelly, III, Class of 1926.
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