[2] During his forty year tenure as University Librarian, the number of volumes in the Yale Library increased from 44,500 to 475,000.

He was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was married on August 19, 1867 in Berlin to Julia, daughter of Dr. Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor of sacred literature at Yale, and sister of Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor of mathematical physics at Yale.

[1] Van Name, the last of Yale's pre-Civil War scholars, died in New Haven[3] and was buried in Grove Street Cemetery.

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