摘要：When the Medical Library Association met in New York, it was a great disappointment to us at the Rockefeller Institute to have only a condition of chaos to call a Library, and to show to those of you who were daring enough to mount scaffoldings and rickety stairs to come and see. With sublime optimism we tried to point out some of the best features of the promised building, but if your vision failed to grasp them it was at that time small wonder. Even our own imagination, stimulated by legions of architect's plans and blue-prints, failed utterly to visualize the edifice that now stands completed and complete.
