一　历史沿革美国柏克莱加州大学(University of California,Berkeley)东亚图书馆的古籍收藏起始于1896年1。当年,英国人傅兰雅(John Fryer,1839—1928)受聘出任柏克莱加州大学首任阿加西东方语言文学讲座教授。他将自己的2000余册中文图书存放在校园里,供该系师生使用,为该校最早的中文藏书。这其中大多是明清刊本,最重要的藏品是他在上海江南制造局主持翻译的一百余种西文科技著作,为中国近代科技史的珍贵资料。傅兰雅于1861年离开英格兰来到中国传教。他为上 A history of the University of California Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley) East Asian Library of ancient books collection began in 1896 1. That year, British Fryer (John Fryer, 1839-1928) was hired as Berkeley University of California professor Agassi Oriental language and literature professor. He will own more than 2000 volumes of Chinese books stored on the campus for faculty and students to use, as the school’s first Chinese collection of books. Most of them were printed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The most important collection was a collection of more than one hundred Western literary works that he presided over and translated at the Shanghai Jiangnan Bureau of Manufacturing, which is a valuable piece of information on the history of science and technology in modern China. Fu Lanya left England in 1861 to come to China for missionary work. He is up