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Not all of this acquisitive achievement is directly due to Dr. Ayres, though he set the pace and enjoyed special and unique opportunities, as when Joseph C. Thomas, of the New York Methodist Historical Society, left him more than 6000 volumes, and iq,ooo pamphlets, and Dr. Homer Eaton, publishing agent of the Methodist Book Concern at New York, gave him a free hand with the "Editor's Library," which had been built up to thousands of volumes in the course of a century, and for whicli which there was no longer space in the Book Con- cern Concern Building. Among several thousand items fro111 from this source Mr. Ayres took over several hundred bound vol- umes volumes of religious periodicals, British and American, raising the Drew collection in this field to the top rank in the United States, if not in the world. Librarian Ayres was called away to practise his magic in Garrett Biblical Institute in 1912...."