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132 SAMUEL E. BRING
Ministry of Public Instruction, undertook permanently to present certain
French publications to the University library, provided that library pledged
itself to remit such Swedish literature as it had at its disposal, to the
Bibliothéque St. Geneviéve, where the French Government had decided to
establish a central depot for Scandinavian literature. These exchange
relations thus negotiated by the French Government, acquired an extremely
important and significant augmentation in 1900, when a further promise of
uninterrupted continuation of all periodicals and serials, followed as result
of a presentation to the Bibliothéque S:te Geneviéve, of the great collection
of Swedish literature — mainly scientific — which had been shown at the
"World’s exhibition at Paris, with a view to illustrate the development and
result of the higher education in Sweden. As a token of appreciation, the
University library was entered on the lists of the French Ministry of Public
Instruction as perpetual recipient of all works, whether published at the
expense of the Ministry, or under its auspices. These French relations of
exchange have supplied and continue to supply the library with exceedingly
important and valuable works, which it otherwise would scarcely have had
possibilities to acquire.
Coincident with these French relations, the leading men within the
library occupied themselves in extending the exchange relations in other
directions, chiefly to the Universities and learned Societies of Russia and
the United States of America. These endeavours gave a very satisfactory
result when, thanks to the warm support of Claes Annerstedt, chief of the
library at that time, Dr. Aksel Andersson (chief librarian of the University
of Uppsala 1911—1918) was enabled from about 1890, to give more of his
working capacity and exceptional energy, to the development and working
up of the library’s exchange relations. By sacrificing his own time and by
personally negotiating with the leading men of a great number of foreign
institutions, learned societies and associations, which he visited during his
many foreign travels in the last decennaries before the World’s war, he
worked up the exchange relations of the University library, to such a height
as had never before been dreamed of. During the devastating period of
the World’s war these communications were maintained as well as possible,
in every direction. That a World’s war not only causes stagnation, but
even carries considerable retrogration in its train, is wholly obvious, and
reasons thereof require no further comment here. Since, however,
some-what normal conditions have once more been established in our part of
the world, the board of the library has concentrated its energy in recovering
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