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Language, Signs, Meaning, Application:
The Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection
October 25, 2010 -- March 6, 2011
Ginkgo Reading Room & Grand Staircase Lobby
The Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection contains some 2,300 items on cryptography, the decipherment of
ancient languages, languages for the blind and deaf, memory and mnemonics, the philosophy of language, the history
of writing, signs and symbols, and more. Mr. Arnold was a chemical engineer educated at Washington University.