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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE RELATIONS OF UNIV. LIBRARY OF UPPSALA 131
of Medicine and the Academy of Science. To these, are transmitted academic
dissertations and other academic publications of such nature as occurs
within the scope of the respective libraries and institutions. In exchange,
the University library receives publications and works published by these
libraries and institutions.
Quite early, however, the national relations had been extended to
universities beyond the boundaries of the country. Connections with the
University of Åbo were renewed after its conquest by the Russians in 1809.
Regulär exchange relations were established in the early part of the 19th
Century, with both the remaining Scandinavian Universities of Copenhagen
and Christiania and about the middle of the 19th Century connections were
made with the Dorpat University, founded when Esthonia belonged to
Sweden, and reestablished by the Russian authorities in 1802. During the
first half of the 19th Century, the foreign relations of the Uppsala library
were considerably expanded, thanks to the intelligent work achieved at the
time by the librarian J. H. Schröder. With a keen eye for the great
signi-ficance of literary exchange relations in the procuration of books for libraries,
he sought connections during his many foreign travels, with institutions and
learned societies. In this way, many valuable connections were made,
especially in the Scandinavian countries and England, which continue to
exist at the present day.
The University library of Uppsala had thus, ön its own, succeeded in
making considerable exchange relations before March 1859, when it became
member of the German »Akademischer Tauschverein», which was founded
1817 in Marburg with a view to introduce, promote and facilitate exchange
relations, partly between the German Universities reciprocally and partly
between these and the Universities of foreign countries. By entering the
»Akademischer Tauschverein», the University library came into contact with
about thirty universities mostly in Germany, but even also in Switzerland,
Belgium, and the Netherlands. The exchange relations of the University
library experienced an even more important augmentation than the previously
mentioned, during the latter part of the 19th Century, when Mons. Bréal,
inspecteur general de 1’Instruction publique, ön behalf of the French minister
of Public Instruction, proposed in the spring of 1882, the introduction of
exchange relations between eighteen French Universities and the University
of Uppsala, an invitation accepted with pleasure and gratitude ön the part
of Sweden. The agreement then decided upon, concerned almost exclusively
the exchange of academic dissertations. Some years later, the French
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