Perhaps the fullest collection of material on the Suez Canal in the United States has been given to the Business School Library and the Society by the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, through the agency of Mr. George Edgar Bonnet, Directeur General Adjoint of the Company. The bulk of the collection consists of annual reports of the Company, from 1860 to 1870, and from 1872 to 1928; the reports of the Engineer in Chief to the Commission Consultative Internationale des Travaux; and the documentary record of the canal, with M. de Lesseps' personal comments, in the Lettres, Journal et Documents, covering the period between 1854 and 1869, the dates of the first step toward the enterprise and the opening of the canal, and the reports of the International Commission, the Dutch Commission, and the English Meetings, and other papers published under the title Percement de L'Isthme de Suez.

An officer of the Society has presented the organization with an unusual gift, a white oak bas-relief of the famous clipper ship Flying Cloud.

Advertising, like many other features of business, has come fully into its own in the twentieth century. Again like many other fields of business enterprise, it is as old as competitive industry. A sketch of its history up to 1874, is given by Henry Sampson in his History of Advertising.

One of the small items of interest which has come to the Society consists of three papers, dated in the fall and winter of 1841, relating to a ball given in Boston for the Prince de. Joinville. The Prince was the third son of Louis-Philippe, the “bourgeois king” of France, who came to the throne when the revolution of 1830 had deposed the reactionary Charles X.