Library of the Imperial Leopoldine-Caroline Academy of Natural Curiosities

to the extent original: "ctenus" that individual celebrated and famous associates of our Academy may see its inner condition, and I have added a special icon, placed before this index, depicting it. However, the things that remain to be said about the order and decoration of this Library, and other matters pertaining to this, will be treated in an exceptional section in the clear History of our Academy which I am currently preparing. The greatest part of it has already left the press, and it will certainly appear at the upcoming Leipzig spring book fair.

Furthermore, it is of great importance to me that the readers, especially those whom our common academic fellowship has joined to me, should not be ignorant of the reasons why I arranged for this index of our Library to be printed and published in its present form. I do not at all deny that I was most moved toward this undertaking by that very fifth statute law, which stands proposed in the Baierian letters original: "litteris BAIERIANIS" already communicated to the reader beforehand. For when I saw our library collection increased by more than a thousand volumes through the munificence of most of our colleagues, I deemed it my duty to fulfill what the illustrious Baierus Johann Jacob Baier, 1677–1735, physician and former president of the Academy had promised, and at the same time to demonstrate publicly that both the money and the books, with which our Academy has been gifted in the space of twenty-three years, have been honestly applied to the very uses for which they were intended.

In addition to this, I also have a very firm hope that it will certainly come to pass that these eternal monuments of present and former academic associates, by which their munificence and liberality are clearly declared, will be a weighty incentive for future associates, so that they do not lay aside the care of this laudable institution, and thus...