LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!

Volunteers continue to sort through a group of documents, letters, and cards that found their way to the Bullis Room recently. And this week they found a birth announcement.  There is no year indicated, so we can't determine when this blessed event occurred. However, the parents were obviously very proud of the new addition to their family.

Inside, the card reads:

"My name is Dorothy Josephine

I'm the new Boss at

The Knapps

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Knapp

are my new parents

I arrived on July 16th

My weight is 9 pounds

Come and See Me!"

(And you can "Come and See" the original card in the Bullis Room. Please stop by sometime.)

POSTCARDS

If you're  one of those people who remember when you could mail a postcard for one penny, then you'll need to take a look at the display case outside the Bullis Room.

(And even if you can't remember back that far, we think you'll enjoy spending a few minutes at the same place.)

The postcards displayed there were ones sent to Nettie Bullis from friends who were vacationing in: New York state; New York City; Boston, Massachusetts; and Canada. Most of them have very short messages, the "wish you were here" kind. All of them have beautiful photography on sturdy matte paper that seems to be just a cut above most contemporary postcards.

So please add "stop by MPL and look at Bullis postcard display" on your to-do list.  They are a reminder of what we miss out on today, with text messages and selfies.

GLACIERS

If you've been reading the almost-daily news headlines reminding us of the melting glaciers on our planet, you'll be interested in these two Bullis books by John Tyndall:

Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers

by John Tyndall  (1820-1893)

Published in New York, D. Appleton, 1874, c 1872

and

Hours of Exercise in the Alps

by John Tyndall (1820-1893)

Published in New York, D. Appleton, 1875

Tyndall was a 19th century physicist and professor of physics at the distinguished Royal Institute of Great Britain.  In addition to teaching, he did research and authored 18 books, 10 of which are in the Bullis Collection.

We urge you to stop by the Bullis Room and spend some time with these books. Both of them have numerous illustrations, and Hours of Exercise in the Alps has some very informative information on:

"Structure and Properties of Ice"

"Structure of Glaciers"

"Helmholtz on Ice and Glaciers"

"Observations of the Mer de Glace"

We'll have more on John Tyndall's books in our post next week.