FIFTIETH
AXNL^AL REPORT
I90M902
TRUSTEES OF ,THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ON FEBRUARY i, 1902.
SOLOMON LINCOLN, President.
Term expires May i, 1906.
JOSIAH H. BENTON, JR. JAMES DeNORMANDIE.
Term expires May i, 1904. Term expires May i, 1905.
HENRY P. BOWDITCH. THOMAS DWIGHT.
Term expires May i, 1902. Term expires May i, 1903.
Librarian.
JAMES L. WHITNEY.
FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE TRUSTEES
Public Library
CITY OF BOSTON
I90I-I902.
BOSTON
MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE
1902
C O N T E N T S
Report of the Trustees .....
Report of the Librarian .....
Supplements to the Report of the Librarian :
A. Extract from the Report of the Chief of the Depart
meut of Documents aud Statistics
B. Extract from the Report of the Supervisor of
Branches and Stations ....
C. Deaths and Resignations ....
Report of the Examining Committee .
Appendixes :
I. Financial Statement .....
II. Extent of the Library by years
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments, includ.
ing Branches .....
IV. Classiiication : Central Library . . broadside
V. Classification : Branches ....
VI. Registration ..... broadside 85
VI L Circulation 87
VIII. Trustees for Fifty Years. — Librarians . . 89
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty Years . . 91
X. Library Service (April 18, 1902), including Sun
day and Evening Schedule .... 95
XI. Description of the Decorations by Edwin A
Abbey and John Elliott 104
XII. Givers and Gifts 109
XIII. Chronology of the Library . . . .153
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Map of Boston
showing branches and delivery stations
Public Library
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Q = OEUVEPY STATION
SOMERVILLE
LIBRARY SYSTEM, FEBRUARY 1, 1902.
Dep.\ktments.
Opened.
Volumes,
Jan. 31,
1902.
Home use,
Volumes,
1901- 19U2.
Ceutral Library, Copley sii. Established May 2, 18:4.. .
Mar. 11, 1895
635,.-)01
445,826
1 East Boston Branch 37 Meridian st
Jan. 28, 1871
12,623
73,261
May 1,1872
July, 1873
15,520
87,774
II Roxbury Branch, 46 Mlllmont .st
34,8.32
95,8i)3
29,527
58,338
43,054
*Jan., 1874
15,218
I Dorchester Branch, Arcadia, cor. Adams st
Jan. 25, 1875
17,107
63,793
t South End Branch, English High School Building,
Aug., 1877
Sept., 1877
*Jan. 6, 1880
13,415
88,020
13,607
57,449
t West Roxbury Branch, Centre, near Mt. Vernon sf —
5,028
27,879
t Wesi End Branch Cambridge cor. Tjynde st
Feb. 1 1896
12,514
137,713
.Station A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington st.
June 7, 1875
128
6,945
B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washington,
1,906
40,823
" D. Mattapan Reading Room, River, cor. Oak-
land st
Dec. 27, 1881
126
5,237
E. Neponset Delivery Station, 49 Walnut st
F. ait. Bowdoin Reading Room, Washington,
Jan 1 1883
S 581
Nov 1 1886
1 014
14,382
12,i)25
G. Allston Delivery Station, 14 Franklin st. ...
Mar. 11, 1889
" II. Ashmont Delivery Station, 4 Talbot ave
J. Dorchester Station Delivery Station, 157
Norfolk st
Julv 26 1890
10,158
Nov. 12, 1890
11,818
" K. Bird Street Deliverv Station, 6 Wayland st.
Jan. 22, 1892
6,918
L. Xorth Brighton Reading Room, 56 Mar-
ket St.... .
May 9, 1892
103
5,,542
M. Crescent Avenue Delivery Station, 1002
11,1.50
16,473
29,164
16,267
X. Mt. Pleasant Delivery Station, Dudley, cor.
Apr. 29, 1892
P. Broadway Exteu.sion Delivery Station, 13
Q. Upham's Corner Delivery Station, 7.i2 Dud-
R. Warren Street Delivery Station, 329 War-
S. Roxbury Crossing Deliverv Station, 1154
Tremont st ".
Jan. 18, ,1897
350
15,702
T. Boylston Delivery Station, Lamartine, cor.
Nov. 1,1897
Dec. 27, 1898
U. Ward Xine Deliverv Station, 62 Union
Park st
322
19,451
" W. Industrial School Delivery Station, 39
Nov. 3,1899
Jan. 5,1901
67
216
Y. Andrew Square Reading Room, John A.
Andrew School-house, Dorchester st
10,.503
Z. Orient Heights Reading Room, 1030 Benning.
June 25, 1901
756
Total
812,264
* As a branch.
t In buildings owned by the Citv, and exdusivelv devoted to library uses.
tin City buildings, in part devoted to other municipal uses.
§ Occupies rented rooms.
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CENTRAL LIBRARY, SECOND FLOOR.
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CENTRAL LIBRARY, SPECIAL LIBRARIES FLOOR.
To His Homor Patrick A. Collins,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston
present the following report of its condition for the year end-
ing January 31, 1902, being their fiftieth annual report.
During the year Mr. Solomon Lincoln was reappointed a
Trustee to serve for five years from May 1, 1901. The
Board was organized in May, 1901, by the election of Mr.
Lincoln as President and Dr. DeNormandie as Vice-President.
Miss Delia Jean Deery was reelected Clerk of the cor-
poration.
The financial condition of the Library for the year covered
by this report is briefly stated as follows :
Expenditures.
Salaries
Books and photographs
Periodicals .
Newspapers
General maintenance .
$183,525 12
39,417 78
6,437 63
1,739 01
97,110 36
S328,229 90
Receipts.
City appropriation
Income from trust funds
Miscellaneous sources, gifts, etc.,
including cash on deposit in
London ....
$302,000 00
18,548 67
7,681 23
$328,229 90
2 City Document No. 24.
The Trustees append to this report the reports of the
Librarian, of the Auditor and of the Examining Committee
of Citizens. To all these reference must be had for a
detailed account of the management of the Library. In
this report it is unnecessary to furnish more than a general
account of its affairs.
The history of the Library is, as usual, a history of large
expansion. There are now one hundred and seventeen
agencies of the Library. Last year there were eighty-seven.
These comprise the Central Library on Copley square, ten
branch libraries, twenty-one delivery stations, forty-four
schools (as against twenty-one at the time of the last report),
thirty-three engine houses, and eight city institutions. Not
merely have new stations been established, but the hours
during which many are kept open have been extended.
The cards of borrowers of books have increased from
61,340 on January 31, 1901, to 72,902 at the close of the
present year — a gain of 11,562. This increase indicates a
large growth in the use of the Library. This use the Trus-
tees endeavor to stimulate in various Avays. They have
continued the exhibitions of photographs, illustrative of some
subject of immediate popular interest, and have added many
photographs by purchase.
A series of lectures has been given on Monday evenings
in the Lecture Room of the Library by eminent gentlemen.
This year the subject of the series was " Methods of Munic-
ipal Administration." No compensation is paid to the lect-
urers, and the course occasions no expense to the Library
beyond what is merely incidental.
Requests for further expansions of the system are fre-
quently presented to the Trustees, and in many cases they are
meritorious. Some of the stations most recently established
deliver more books than the earlier ones, but the Trustees, in
their estimates of the needs of the Library, have never
included provision for the establishment of new stations, and
have left such provision to the liberality of the City Govern-
ment.
The need of a new building for the branch library at
Charlestown is often called to the attention of the Trustees.
They have made such arrangements in the rooms at present
occupied by the Charlestown Branch as relieve the immediate
pressure for more space, but although the sum of |i30,000
has been appropriated by the city to provide a new library
in this part of the city, the Trustees have not yet found a
situation which seems to them satisfactory.
Library Department. 3
The number of volumes added to the Library during the
year is 35,835. These were obtained partly by purchase,
partly by gift, and a few by exchange and from other
sources. The number of volumes in the Library at the close
of the year covered by this report was 812,264. The report
of the Librarian contains manj^ interesting details relating to
the character of the additions to the Library. The home use
of books taken from the Library during the year ending
January 31, 1902, is 1,483,513, being an increase over the
preceding year of 158,875.
The demand for Avorks of fiction is always very large
in any library of popular circulation, and in the selection of
books of this sort the Trustees have received not only the
assistance of the regular staff of the Library, but the valuable
gratuitous aid of an efficient committee of ladies and gentle-
men. The Trustees, however, are of opinion that most of
the books of this character now published have little perma-
nent or even temporary value, and have of late diminished
the purchase of such books until their value can be tested by
time.
The Examining Committee of Citizens for the year was
constituted as follows :
Samuel Wells, Chairman.,
Mrs. Mary E. Blake,
Secretary.,
Thomas M. Babson,
Rev. Carlos C. Carpenter,
John H. Colby,
Mrs. W. C. Collar,
Mrs. W. H. Dewart,
Rev. F. X. Dolau,
Rev. Charles F. Dole,
Mrs. Carl Dreyfus,
James W. Dunphy,
Mrs. Helena N. Gargan,
Bernard Jenney,
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett,
Rev. Robert J. Johnson,
William V. Kellen,
Solomon Lincoln,
Dr. William A. Morrison,
Johnson Morton,
William L. Parker,
George Putnam,
D. B. Updike,
Miss Maria E. Wood.
This committee was organized by the aj)pointment of
various sub-committees, and its members gave much attention
to the affairs of the Library. Their recommendations are
exhibited as an appendix to this report, and always receive
the careful consideration of the Trustees.
The decoration of the ceiling in the Elliott Room, painted
by ^Nlr. John Elliott, entitled " The Triumph of Time," was
completed and made public on the 17th of March, 1901.
4 City Document No. 24.
The removal of the gallery in this room and the new book-
cases which have been placed there have made this room one
of the attractive features of the Library.
During the year Mr. Edwin A. Abbey's series of panels
illustrating " The Quest and Achievement of the Holy
Grail " has been completed and placed in the Delivery
Room. These paintings constitute something much more
important than a beautiful decoration. Mr. Abbey has
given to them many years of faithful and interested labor,
and while he has thus added to his own fame the Library
has acquired a work of very high and permanent artistic
value.
The Department of Statistics and of Manuscripts and
Broadsides, recently established and in charge of Mr.
Worthington C. Ford, continues to justify the wisdom of its
establishment. It is much resorted to, and has received
important additions by purchase and exchange. Frequent
inquiries are addressed to it, and it has proved of great
service, especially to a country like our own, where new
questions of public economy constantly arise.
The publications of the Library have been continued
as heretofore established, and much interesting historical
matter has been published in the Monthly Bulletins. While
the Trustees are aware that publications by the Library are
of secondary importance to the purchase and distribution of
books, they yet find that such publications attract attention
to the Library, spread its fame, and are a distinct source of
valuable returns to it.
A considerable part of the expenditure of the Library and
of the work of the Library Staff is devoted to the extension
and completion of the catalogue. This expenditure and
labor are of prime importance and absolutely necessary in
order to render the contents of the Library available, but the
details of this service are too intricate to be treated in a
general report, and reference must be had to the special
reports hereto appended.
Gifts to the Library are numerous, largely of single works.
These are partially recounted in the Librarian's report. The
Trustees continue to hope that the Library may be the
continued object of large gifts and bequests. It is froin such
sources that it must derive the more valuable additions which
give to it a high and permanent rank.
We are approaching the completion of fifty years since the
opening of the Library. From modest beginnings it has
grown to be one of the great libraries of the world, and the
LiBKARY Department. 5
first great library provided by and for the people. It is a
credit to the intelligent liberahty of the city. The Trustees
have in contemplation some mode of signalizing the com-
pletion of the fifty years.
Solomon Lincoln,
President.
James De Normandie,
Vice President.
JosiAH H. Benton, Jr.
Henry P. Bowditch.
Thomas D wight.
May 16, 1902.
City Document No. 24.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees :
The report of the Librarian for the year ending January
31, 1902, is hereby submitted.
THE LIBRARY SYSTEM.
The Library system of agencies now comprises :
The Central Library on Copley square.
Ten branch libraries, with permanent collections of books.
Twenty-one delivery stations (of which ten are reading-
rooms), two service stations, and nine shop stations. A new
reading-room has been established during the past year, and
two stations changed to reading-rooms.
Of agencies receiving books on deposit there are fortj^-four
schools, as against twenty-one the preceding year (eighteen
supplied from the Central Library and twenty -six from the
branches); thirty-three engine-houses, as against twenty-nine
in 1900, and eight city institutions, as against six the
preceding year.
In all, there are one hundred and seventeen agencies, as
against eighty-seven a year ago.
FINANCE.
The receipts and payments of the Library for the year
may be found in the statement of the Auditor of the Library
(Appendix I. of this report).
The sum of $4,000 has been received as a legacy from the
Late Abram E. Cutter, of Charlestown. By the will the
Library is to receive his library of books, subject to a life
interest for his widow.
BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, AND GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION.
Changes, long desired, have been effected by which the
temperature of Bates Hall has been made satisfactory. The
thermometer, which at half past nine A.M. during the
winter, has hitherto registered from 58° to 64° Fahrenheit,
Library Department. 7
noAV stands at 70°, and, by means of the tlieimostat, is
kept fixed at a desired point. It is believed that this
improvement will be accompanied by a reduced consumption
of coal. The steam pipes in the inside gutters of the
building liaving worn out, have been replaced by stronger
brass tubing. The boilers have been reset in brick from
the foundation up. Needed repairs have been made upon
the piping connected with the radiators.
The ventilation of the Catalogue Room and other parts of
the Library has been improved.
The machinery of the Library (its engines, dynamos,
elevators, etc.) has run regularly and without any accident.
These receive official inspection at stated intervals.
Works of Art.
the elliott decoration.
The ceiling decoration by Mr. John Elliott, " The Triumph
of Time," was made public on March 17, 1901, in the
Elliott Room. The gallery of this room, which interfered
with a view of the picture, has been removed. New book-
cases have been built, to which the President John Adams
Library has been transferred. The room is now distinctly
attractive, and the decoration is seen to its full advantage.
THE ABBEY DECORATIONS.
The concluding portion of the Holy Grail series of decora-
tive panels, painted by Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, has been
received and put in place in the Delivery Room of the Library.
The ceiling has been elaborately treated, ornaments in lead, in
low relief, having been applied to the beams and painted
with a slight use of gold. The decoration has been kept
subordinate to Mr. Abbey's paintings, and the original
scheme of JSIessrs. McKira, Mead & White, the architects,
carried out, as in the Elliott Room, by Mr. H. M. Lawrence,
the contractors being the Lewis F. Perry & Whitney Company
of Boston.
Descriptions of these two decorations are printed in an
Appendix to this report.
The walls of the upper hall have been prepared for the
installation of a second part of the Sargent decorations.
Books Received.
The following record of the additions to the Library for
the past year is taken from the report of Miss Theodosia E.
Volumes.
Volumes.
Volumes.
13,741
9,437
23,178
6,804
221
7,025
436
—
436
2,317
434
2,751
2,445
—
2,445
8 City Docuivient No. 24.
Macurdy, Chief of the Ordering and Receiving Department.
These accessions, as distinguished from the number of books
which have actually reached the shelves, and excluding mere
transfers from one department to another, number 35,835
volumes, as against 37,179 in 1900, and 30,506 in 1899.
They are distributed as follows :
Central Librarj', Branches, Total
Added by purchase ....
Added by gift
Added by exchange ....
Added by periodicals, bound
Added by Statistical Department (gifts)
Total 25,743 10,092 35,835
The number of volumes in the Library, January 31,
1902, was 812,264.
Books bought for the Central Library :
City appropriation 11,924
Trust funds 1,817
13,741
Books bought for branches :
City appropriation 8,039
Special appropriation 491
Fellowes Athenaeum 907
9,437
23,178
The sum paid for books, periodicals and newspapers was
149,232.21, as against $44,575.20 for the preceding year.
This amount includes 1587.79 paid from a special appropria-
tion for Station P (Broadway Extension), and $1,050 paid
by the Fellowes Athen?eum for the Roxbury Branch. The
total is the largest sum ever spent in a single year by the
Library, and it has been enabled thereby to obtain many val-
uable books and manuscripts, in addition to the current
publications of popular interest.
The payments for 1901-2 have been as follows:
City money expended for books:
For the Central Library (including Deposit
Collection) $18,612 33
For branches 9,509 18
$28,121 51
Amount carried forward $28,121 51
Library Department. 9
Amount broug/it forward $28,121 51
City money expended for periodicals:
Central Library $4,731 08
Branches and stations 1,706 55
6,437 63
Total city money expended $o4,559 14
Trust funds expended for books . . . $10,809 66
Trust funds expended for newspapers . . 1,739 01
Total trust funds expended .... 12,548 67
In addition to these amounts purchases were
made from the follo\Ying special funds :
Numismatic fund $122 52
Hyams gift 108 60
Carnegie gift 113 86
Dunphy gift 12 22
Mrs. John A. Lewis gift 67 19
Hemenway gift 62 22
486 61
Station P (Broadway Extension), special appro-
priation $587 79
Fellowes Athenaeum 1,050 00
1,637 79
Total amount paid for books, periodicals and news-
papers, 1901-2 $49,232 21
The accessions of the year comprise a large number of
notable books and groups of books. Conspicuous among
these are: Illuminated manuscripts, Incunabula, American
colonial histories, including broadsides and manuscripts, old
Boston newspapers, English literature and drama, sixteenth
through the eighteenth centuries; Fine arts and Architecture,
Photographs, Works in sociology, natural history, American
poetry, forestry. Books in Polish and in modern Hebrew.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
Last year the attention of the Trustees was directed to the
fact that the Library possessed but few specimens of early
manuscripts illustrative of bookmaking before the invention
of printing, or before the printer and engraver had super-
seded the scribe and illuminator. Arrangements were made
with Mr. Sydney C. Cockerell of London, to obtain for the
Library a series of manuscripts which should exhibit as far
as possible the characteristic writing and illumination of the
time in which they were produced. The manuscripts thus
acquired comprise examples from the twelfth to the sixteenth
century, some thirty-five in all, of which a few are herewith
noted.
10 City Document No. 24.
Comestor, Petrus (Hystoria scolastica). Manuscript of
the twelfth century, on vellum, folio, written in Gothic
letters, with painted red capitals.
Bihlia Sacra Latina^ 461 folios. — Illuminated initial
letters ; the text rubricated throughout A French manu-
script on vellum of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth
century, from the library of William Morris. Mr. Cockerell
states that this manuscript was regarded by Mr. Morris with
especial affection on account of the extraordinary beauty of
the pen initials in it.
Latin Psalter, 155 folios, small folio. — An English manu-
script on vellum of the first half of the fifteenth century,
containing Calendar, Psalms, Canticles, Litany and Collects.
Histoire Universelle. — Cysensuit la genealogie de la Bible
qui monstre et dit combien chascun aage a dure depuis le
coinencement du monde iusques al advenemt Jim Crist . . .
avec les Papes Empereurs, Rois de Jerusalem depuis Godefroy
de Bouillon, Rois de France et Rois d'Angleteire jusque en
Ian MCCCIIII. This is a fifteenth century manuscript
vellum roll, thirty-nine feet long, with fifty-nine painted and
illuminated miniatures, illuminated capitals and marginal
decorations. From the Barrois Collection of the Earl of
Ashburnham.
INCUNABULA.
To the collection of incunabula in the Library ten books
printed in the latter part of the fifteenth century have been
added, one of which, Barberiis, P. de, Opusculum de vati-
ciniis Sibillarum, Colophon, Impressum Oppenheim, 1498 (?),
contains thirteen full-page woodcuts. Another is a folio
Bible, the first book printed at Wiirzburg, circa 1475.
COLONIAL HISTORY.
Among the American historical documents obtained are
Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, seventy-four in all,
covering with some exceptions the period from 1761 to 1796.
The broadsides include one sent out by the Committee of
Safet}^ July, 1775, beginning: "Gentlemen. In obedience
to the Order of Congress w^e have proportioned thirteen
thousand Coats on all the Towns and Districts . . ."; this
has attached a specimen of the cloth required ; a Thanksgiv-
ing Proclamation (Massachusetts Colony), 1749, and a Fast
Day Proclamation, 1776.
To the files of early Boston newspapers have been added
nearly 200 numbers of the Boston News-Letter, 1747-1768;
Library Department. 11
fifty numbers of the Massachusetts Gazette, 1772-4 ; twenty-
seven numbers of the Boston Pilot, 1812, and 218 numbers
of the Chronotype, 1847-1851. A copy of the Boston
Directory for 1798 has been obtained, which completes the
Library file from 1780-1901, with the exception of 1815.
Numerous New England Primers from 1758 on have been
secured.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
The collection of English dramatists has been increased by
fifty volumes, among them first editions of Thomas Southern's
Oroonolvo, 1696 : Sir William Davenant's Platonick lovers,
1636 : Lady Elizabeth Carew's (or Carey's) Tragedie of
Mariam, 1612 ; and Francis Kirkman's True . . . catalogue
of all the comedies, tragedies, . . . pastorals, masques and
interludes . . . yet printed and published till . . . 1671. Also
sixty volumes of sixteenth and seventeenth century writings,
notably Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 1612, 1622, first
editions, the two parts in one volume ; Dictys Cretensis, The
avncient historic and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the
warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans . . . wrytten
by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian . . . digested in
Latyn by . . . Guydo de Columpnis and . . . translated in to
Englyshe verse by John Lydgate Moncke of Burye . . . 1555 ;
Thomas Moffett's The silkwormes and their flies, 1599 ; and
William Langland's Vision of Pierce Plowman now fyrste
imprynted, Colophon, . . . 1550. Black letter. To the
Charlotte Harris Collection were also added one hundred
volumes, largely the writings of English theologians of the
seventeenth century, but including also other writers of an
earlier period. Of these perhaps the most interesting is
Melanchthon's Loci Prsecipvi theologici, Lipsiae, 1553. This
is said to have been Melanchthon's own copy, and to be
annotated in his handwriting.
FINE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE.
A few tj^ical accessions to the collection of Fiije Arts
and Architecture should be mentioned. The current acqui-
sitions have been unusually large and represent a careful
selection of material found in a mass of catalogues, pros-
pectuses and lists, and from books offered for examination.
They include Steinmann, Die sixtinische Kapelle, ^Nliinchen,
1901, of which the first part has appeared; Furtwangler and
Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, Miinchen, ] 900 ;
Gurlitt, Historische Stadtebilder, B. 1, 2, Berlin, 1901 ;
12 City Document No. 24.
Lessing, Die Gewebe-Sammlung des Koniglichen Gewerbe-
Museums, 1901 ; Sarre, Denkmiiler persischer Baukunst,
Berlin, 1901 ; and Nolhac, La Creation de Versailles, Paris,
1901.
NATURAL HISTORY.
The sale of the Milne-Edwards library in Paris, last
summer, gave an opportunity to secure a good collection of
works (many of them classics) on natural history. Among
them are the following: Audebert et Vieillot, Oiseaux dores,
ou a reflets mdtalliques, Paris, 1802, 2 vols., large folio,
colored plates; Dumeril et Bibron, Erpetologie generale,
Paris, 1834-54, 10 vols, and atlas of 102 plates; Lesson,
Histoire naturelle g^n^rale et particuliere des mammiferes et
des oiseaux decouverts depuis la mort de Buffon, Paris,
1834-36, 10 vols. ; Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle,
par Messieurs Audouin, Bourdon . . . et Bory de Saint-
Vincent, Paris, 1822-31, 16 vols, and atlas of colored plates.
AMERICAN POETRY.
To the Longfellow Memorial Collection, 130 volumes of
American poetry, published between 1800-1860, have been
added.
PARIS EXPOSITION LITERATURE.
In 1900 arrangements were made to collect the official
literature of the Paris Exposition, and also the publications
of all the congresses which assembled in Paris during that
time. About two hundred volumes were obtained by
purchase and a number by gift.
SPANISH. TICKNOR COLLECTION.
Numerous works have been obtained for the Ticknor
Library, including Francisco de Berganza, Antiguedades de
Espana, Madrid, 1719-21, 2 vols.; Cancionero general agora
nuevamete aiiadido, Toledo, . . . 1527. Also, Nunez de
Guzman, Hernan, Refranes, o proverbios en romance, Sala-
manca, 1555.
SERIALS.
The following sets of serials were added in 1901 : Archives
de pharmacodynamic, Paris, 1895-1901; Bijdragen tot de
natuurkundige wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 1826-32 (all
published) ; Bulletin de la Soci(5te de Thistoire de Paris et
de rile-de-France, 1874-1901 ; Journal of physiology, liOndon,
LiBKAijY Department. 13
vols. 1-17, completing the Library set; Korean repository,
Seoul, Korea, 1892-98 (all published); Monthly magazine,
London, 33 volumes, which filled gaps in the Library set
from 1796-1860.
Other purchases are as follows: Luthers Werke, Kriti-
sche Gesammtausgabe, 24 vols., Weimar, 1883-1901 (a few
volumes of this superb work are still to be published) ;
Prussia, Koniglich-preussisches statistisclies Bureau, Preus-
sische Statistik, 1861-98,59 vols.; Schriften des Vereins fiir
Socialpolitik, 1873-1901, 82 vols.; Homer, Ilias cum scholiis,
codex Venetus A, ^Marcianus 454 phototypice editus, Lugduni
Batavorum, 1901 (Codices Graeci et Latini photographice
depicti, duce Scatone De Vries. Vol. 6); Giacosa, Piero,
Magistri Salernitani nondum editi, catalogo ragionato della
esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel
1898, Torino, 1901, with manuscripts reproduced ; Zichy,
Jeno, Dritte asiatische Forschungsreise, Budapest, 1901 (2
vols, published).
A copy of the following has been received: The faerie
qveen : The shepheards calendar: together with the other
works of England's arch-poet Edm. Spenser. Collected into
one volume, and carefully corrected. (London.) Printed by
H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611. Bound by Broca in full
red morocco. This is properly the first collected edition of
Spenser's works.
With the income of the Dr. Samuel A. Green fund has
been obtained Benjamin Franklin's copy of The history of
the British Dominions in North America, London, 1773
(Anon.). This book was formerly owned by Josiah Quincy,
who purchased it out of Franklin's library. It has passages
marked by Franklin, indicating that he wrote them.
The Library has received also Stanford's London atlas of
universal geography, Folio edition, 2d issue, enlarged, Lon-
don, 1898, 100 maps.
At Dr. Henry P. Bowditch's suggestion, Drs. J. C. War-
ren, R. H. Fitz, and J. C. White recommended a list of books
for purchase suitable for collateral reading for medical stu-
dents. The Library has subscribed to the series of Yale
Bicentennial Publications ; to the Victoria History of the
counties of England ; to tbe Reports of the Princeton Uni-
versity expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-99; to the Massa-
chusetts Vital records, publications undertaken by the New
England Historic-Genealogical Society ; and to the proposed
reproduction of the Codex Venetus of Aristophanes by the
Archaeological Institute of America, and the English Society
for the promotion of Hellenic Studies. Admission has been
14 City Document No. 24.
granted to membership in the following societies : Alcuin
Club, London (for promoting the study of the history and
use of the Book of Common Prayer), Gesellschaft fiir
romanische Litteratur, Dresden (for the issue of critical
editions of unpublished and rare manuscripts) ; and the
Type Facsimile Society, Oxshott (for the reproduction of
rare types).
SPECIAL PURCHASES OF POPULAR BOOKS.
The new reading-room, at Orient Heights, has been sup-
plied with the usual equipment of books, consisting of about
800 volumes, including reference books on history, biography,
geography and popular natural histor}-, together with ency-
clopsedias and dictionaries. About a hundred volumes of
standard and current fiction were also bought for this reading-
room, and a few books on history and literature in the Italian
language. Eleven popular periodicals were also subscribed
for. The cost was $1,292.70. An expenditure of $443.57
has been made for lioslindale this year, to supplement the
collection of books bought in 1900. A collection of reference
books, which included Rolfe's edition of Shakespeare in forty
volumes, Lippincott's Dictionary of biography. Harper's Book
of facts. Rand and McNally's Atlas, etc., was bought for the
various stations. Unusually large purchases for the Charles-
town Branch have been made and brought up the outlay to
$1,535 for the year.
The current fiction added in 1901, 3,938 volumes, has
exceeded by 506 volumes the number added in 1900. The
total number of volumes of fiction added (including replace-
ments and additional cojoies) was 8,014, at a cost of $7,868.12,
as against 6,473 volumes bought in 1900 at a cost of $5,867.48.
The expenditure this year for fiction is about 28 per cent, of
the total city appropriation spent for books.
Besides printed books the followmg have been bought :
551 photographs. 25 plates.
22 maps. 53 manuscript bills, etc.
181 manuscripts. 12 documents, signed (revo-
22 manuscript volumes. lutionary period).
102 broadsides. 31 pieces of Continental cur-
618 newspapers. rency.
LiBKAKY Department. 15
AUCTION SALES.
Bids have been made at thirty-six auction sales. The
amount of money authorized was 83,959.25; tlie sura spent
was 82,784.65. The advantage of sending a Library repre-
sentative to important sales has been clearly shoAvn.
THE RECOMMENDATION OF BOOKS FOR PURCHASE.
The acknowledgments of the Librar}^ are due to tlie friends
who have suggested the titles of books for purchase. Mr.
Thomas S. Perry, who has lately returned from Japan, now
continues the aid which he has generously given for many
years.
The Fiction Committee have read 763 works of fiction,
including children's books, as against 683 the preceding year.
Of these, 422 were accepted by the Trustees, including twenty-
seven unfavorably reported on by the committee, and 335
were rejected, including 107 favorably reported on.
In addition to what has been done b}^ this committee, all
works of fiction are looked over by members of the Library
staff. Under these conditions it would seem wise for this
Library to grapple with such books as they are received, and
after a careful examination to select the best rather than to
defer action for a year, or three years, as has been suggested.
Care is taken when certain books are worn out to replace
them by those of enduring worth. As a result of this sifting,
the fiction read at this Library has improved in quality.
There were bought last year 3,938 copies of works of
current fiction, as against 3,191 in 1900, and 2,169 in 1899.
In 1901 the expense was |3,613 ; in 1900, 82,750 ; and in
1899, 81,861.
The Catalogue Department.
A long-desired change has been made in the Bates Hall
•card catalogue. New cases having been added, the entire
collection of cards has been shifted, and equipped with a
single rod, replacing the clumsy double rods heretofore used.
This change involved the trimming and punching of not less
than 1,200,000 cards, and their readjustment in the 2,100
cases of that catalogue. This laborious work has been done
by Mr. Rice, Mr. Brennan and Mr. Reardon, to whom an
especial acknowledgment is due.
In the report of Mr. Edward B. Hmit, Chief of the Cata-
logue Department, are the following tables :
59,745
33,988
61,817
38,521
23,352
15,996
20,111
7,329
5,508
23,867
17,341
23,898
11,641
4,104
10,774
10,202
9,948
6,724
16 City Document No. 24.
Number of volumes and parts catalogued or
recatalogued
Number of titles for the same
These totals include the following items
Number of new volumes and parts (Central
Library)
Number of titles for the same
Number of volumes and parts recatalogued .
Number of titles for the same
Number of serials added ....
Branch libraries :
Number of volumes catalogued
Number of titles for the same
For the Cooperative Index of scientific periodicals, 491
titles have been catalogued at this Library. From the other
co-workers 2,318 titles have been received.
For each book catalogued the titles are printed and the
proper headings inscribed. One set is needed for the Bates
Hall catalogue, a duplicate set for the Officers' catalogue,
and a triplicate set for such titles as are needed for the special
catalogues, such as those of the Fine Arts and Technical
Arts, the Statistical Department, the Music Library, and
Ticknor and Barton Libraries, as well as for the Bulletin and
other publications of the Library.
There have been printed, headings written for and filed
the past year 232,321 cards, as against 167,430 in 1900 and
153,500 in 1899. Of these 232,321 cards, 67,021 were
placed in tlie special libraries. In addition, 32,741 cards
have been written and sent to the branches. In 1901, there-
fore, 265,062 cards were placed in the catalogues as against
93,000 ten years ago, in the Boylston-street building. This
is an illustration of the development of the Library since it
was moved to Copley square.
The transfer of all the books not fiction from Stack IV. to
the other stacks, with the recataloguing necessary, has gone
on steadily. About two-thirds of the work is done.
An Italian Fiction List has been prepared by Miss Mary
H. Rollins. A Branch Finding List has also been prepared.
The subject of furnishing to the Catalogue Department
a steady and sufficient supply of printed cards is mentioned
in the report on the Printing Department.
Three lists are to be published: one of English fiction,
one of books for the young, and a consolidated list for the
branch libraries. In the preparation of these lists there has
Library Department. 17
been a cooperation between the Catalogue, Issue, Children's
and Branch departments.
This department has met with the loss of two of its mem-
bers, long in the service. Miss Carrie Burnell, who came to
the Library May 23, 1881, died on the 19th of August. Mrs.
Lillian F. Seaver, who had been here since January 25, 1888,
resigned July 27.
PUBLICATIONS.
From the report of Mr. Lindsay Swift, Editor of the pub-
lications of the Library, the following facts are gathered :
Publications for 1901-1902. Date of issue. Pages. Edition. Price.
Monthly Bulletins 1st of each month, 496 *5,000 Free.
Branch finding list No. 4 Sept. 1, 1901, 56 5,300 Free.
List for the young, 3d edition and
supplement. (Reprinted) Dec, 1901, 77 1,600 $.01
Annual list Jan. 1, 1902, 214 3,000 .05
Italian fiction list Oct., 1901, 27 1,600 .10
Rules and Regulations Oct., 1901, 16 4,000 Free.
Total, 886 pages edited and issued. Printed matter,
3,521,200 pages. Li 1899 there were printed 793 pages,
and in 1900, 821 — a gain of about 3^ per cent. This year
there has been a gain of 8 per cent, over 1900, and over 1899
of nearly 12 per cent.
In the Monthly Bulletins during the interval noted for the
year (March, 1901, to February, 1902) there have appeared,
in addition to the titles of new books, the following :
Lowell Lectures, programme of.
Lowell Lectures, selected titles in connection with, as fol-
lows :
Philosophical undertones of modern poetry, by Prof.
William Knight.
Bearing of modern discovery on the nebular theory, by
Sir Robert Ball.
Development of democracy in France and England, by
G. Lowes Dickinson, M.A.
Results of experimental psychology, by Prof. H. Miinster-
berg.
Control and development of tropical colonies, by Alleyne
Ireland, i.R.G.S.
Tragedy of human imperfection in Shakespeare, by Henry
A. Clapp.
Economic entomology, by Prof. L. O. Howard.
Academic freedom, by President A. T. Hadley.
* Editions of Monthly Bulletins, June-September inclusive, 4,000 copies.
18 City Document No. 24.
Institutions and political ideas of the Chinese, by Hon.
Chester Holcombe.
Journal of a survey in 1791, for a canal across Cape Cod, by
James Winthrop, from MS. in Library (conclusion).
Manuscript sermons of Thomas Starr King, calendar of.
Historical manuscripts from originals in the collections of the
Library :
Dr. Philip Doddridge to his wife (1747).
Minister's salary at Lebanon, Conn. (1758).
Petition on the Canadian fisheries (1772).
Bounds between Boston and Charlestown (1635).
Philip Mazzei to Thomas Jefferson (1780).
John Jay to Silas Deane (1780).
Same to Jeremiah Wadsworth (1789).
William Carmichael to Harrison (1781).
Boston Massacre (1770) : letters from Catherine Macau-
lay, W. Bollen, T. Pownall.
James Madison : draft of message on first United States
bank (1791); letter to Horatio Gates (1794); letter to
J. L. Cathcart (1802).
William Cocke to Governor Sevier (1796).
Low Colville to Selectmen of Boston (1752).
John Quincy Adams to William Plumer (1810).
Same to William Plumer, Jr. (1827).
Same to (1831).
John Adams to William Plmner (1812, 1814).
Mosquito shore : four letters from Lord North to the Gov-
ernor of Jamaica (1783).
Robert Smith to Thomas Jefferson (1803).
WilHam Eustis to Nicolas Gilman (1808). '
William Plumer to Nicolas Gilman (1808).
J. M. Berrien to Charles Harris (1810).
William Plumer to Salma Hale (1818).
William Eustis to Henry Dearborn (1808).
Jonathan Russell to Joel Barlow (1812).
S. L. Mitchell to H. W. Dearborn (1812).
J. A. Bayard to (1813).
W. H. Harrison: to General Meigs (1812) ; to Langdon
Cheeves (1819).
Governor George Ross to Col. James Burd and other officers
(1776).
Francis Lightfoot Lee to Governor of Maryland (1778).
William Whipple to Josiah Bartlett (1779).
Address of Massachusetts regiments to Major-General
Heath (1779).
A business custom in Boston (1719).
Library Department. 19
An Indian as property (1721).
The counterfeiting of Colonial Money (1735-39).
Oliver Wolcott to Tappang Reeve (1781).
Richard Henr}^ Lee to Arthur Lee (1781).
Robert Morris to John Nicholson (1785).
Deposition of John Marshall, Court of Chancery, Virginia
(1803).
Works of fiction in the Italian language. Author list.
Same. Title list.
There has been a steady and increasing demand for the
Bulletin, and but few copies remain on hand. The reprint-
ing of the Y List and Supplement serves only as a stop-gap
until such time as the projected Juvenile List (on a far more
comprehensive scale) can be offered for publication.
The Italian fiction catalogue, long contemplated and
needed, is a satisfactory adjunct to the card catalogue, and
fills a want which the latter cannot undertake to meet.
Great need is felt for another German fiction and another
French fiction catalogue.
Chief among recent contributions to our more scholarly
publications, I mention the rescripts from historical manu-
scripts furnished by Mr. Ford, from the various collections
of which he is custodian, and in particular from the Cham-
berlain collection, the riches of ^which are thus being
gradually opened to the use of the public in general and of
historical scholars in particular.
While one number of the ^Monthly Bulletin may seem to
contain no material of engrossing interest, the total amount
already printed, especially during the past year, is growing
large.
The latest issue of the Annual List was not only the largest
but the most effective of any of the five issues since the
publication was begun (January I, 1898). Of the edition
of 3,000 which appeared January 1, 1902, less than 300
remained in stock two months after that date, and the sales
are far ahead of last year. This is largely due to the
efficient interest shown by Mr. Ward (throughout the
general system), and by Mr. Blaisdell (in Bates Hall in the
day time and the Issue desk in the evening). It must
always be insisted that the objective point of our regular
publications is that class of citizens who for one reason or
another cannot avail themselves of the card catalogues.
This class, so far as it is possible to reach it, can only be
touched through the medium of personal influence at the
branches and other agencies.
20 City Document No. 24.
Shelf Department of the Central Library.
The additions to the shelves of the Central Library have
been :
Volumes.
General Collection, including Deposit Collec-
tion 18,078
Special Libraries . . . . . 2,136
Statistical Department . . . . 2,492
Total 22,706
The responsibility of sending out and receiving books
bound falls on this department. The number of volumes and
pamphlets sent by it to various binderies was 19,334.
New shelving having been added to the stacks, it has
been possible to rearrange the books and relieve the crowded
ranges, thus materially helping the work of the issue of
books.
The Binding of Books.
There has been no increase in the number of employees in
the bindery during the year.
The work done is as follows :
Volumes.
Books bound 13,035
Pamphlets bound ..... 3,085
Books repaired . . . . . . 5,031
Total 21,151
Library publications, etc., folded, stitched,
and trimmed ....'.
Maps, etc., mounted on cloth
Photographs and engravings mounted .
Miscellaneous work ....
Other miscellaneous work .
•9,800
913
2,233
3,012 pieces
792 hours
In addition to the above, in various Boston binderies 6,030
volumes have been rebound, and also 14,676 volumes of
popular books for the Fiction stack at the Central Library and
for the branches. Many thousand volumes have been
repaired by attendants at the Library.
The Printing Department.
The equipment of the Printing Department is as follows :
two linotypes, three presses and other machinery. There
Library Department. . 21
are five persons in the department, the chief and four assist-
ants. The work to be done is the printing of the foUow-
ing :
(1) The card catalogue. The number of cards printed
was :
Card Catalogue, Central Library :
Titles
Finished cards (not counting extras) .
25,156
167,430
31,305
232,321
Card Catalogues, Branches :
Titles
Cards (approximately)
616
30,800
768
39,400
1900-1
1901-2
10
13
316
220
13
2
313
231
940,000
964,800
959,824
646,453
741
774
37
23
(2) The bulletins, annual lists, and many special lists and
documents, as already mentioned in the report of the Editor
of the Library Publications.
(3) The circulars, forms and other miscellaneous printing
of the Library. The output for the year, as given in the
report of Mr. Francis W. Lee, chief of the department, has
been as follows :
Requisitions on hand, February 1
Received during the year
On band, January 31 .
Filled during the year .
Call slips ....
Stationery and blank forms
Signs .....
Blank books
As heretofore, the Printing Department is called upon to
do more work than is possible with the present equipment,
and accumulations for the Catalogue Department and other
departments must continue to pile up until the third, per-
fected linotype, for which the Library has long waited, is
secured, or some other method of relief found.
The department has suffered more than usual from sick-
ness and accidents. Through the resignation of Miss C. P.
Greeley the Library lost the services of a compositor of
singular ability and efficiency.
Registration.
The cards of borrowers now number 72,902, as against
61,340 on January 31, 1901, an increase of 11,562. The
adoption of two new measures accounts for much of this
gain ; first, the lowering of the age at which children are
allowed to have cards entitling them to the home use of
22 City Document No. 24.
books, from 12 to 10 years ; second, the visiting of the pub-
lic schools, where applications for cards have been taken in
great numbers.
Minute statistics, prepared by the head of this depart-
ment, are given in Appendix VI. Six new schools have been
given bonds of indemnity against loss or damage to books
lent to non-resident students. Fifty-two Boston schools
and colleges are now allowed to take books from the Library
for non-resident pupils.
Library Publications and Blanks.
Of the various publications of the Library, 82,996 copies
have been sent out from the Stock Department. Of the
many blank forms of the Library, 2,246,468 numbers were
issued, including 1,726,000 call slips.
Use of Books.
In Appendix VII. are found tables giving the home use of
books from each department of the Library. The sum is :
Home Use. 1899-1900. 1900-1901. 1901-1902.
Central Library (including Central
Library books issued througb
branches, stations, engine houses
and vacation schools; . . 430,987 431,657 445,826
Branches and stations .■ . . . . 820,554 893,071 1,037,687
Total 1,251,541 1,324,728 1,483,513
Only a partial account is kept of the books used within
the various libraries. The use in the Central Library build-
ing for the past year, as far as recorded, was 379,423 vol-
umes, as against 367,063 in the preceding year. No account
is kept of the use of books to be freely taken from the
shelves in Bates Hall or in other parts of the Library, or of
the use of magazines, newspapers and photographs.
Inter-Library Loans.
During the year 333 volumes have been lent to libraries
in Massachusetts, and 128 outside of the State, in all 461
volumes, as against 394 the preceding year. Seven volumes
were borrowed by the Library.
The Issue Department, Central Library.
Tlie use of books from the Central Library only has been
as follows :
LiHRARY Depahtment. 23
Issue for home use .... 324,547
Issue, Central Library, through Branch
division . \ . . . 121,279
Total of Home use 445,826
Recorded Hall use 379,423
Total Home and Hall use at Central Library . 825,249
as against 798,720 the preceding year.
Of the books issued, for home use, numbering 445,826,
only forty-four have not been returned to the Library ; of
the 379,423 volumes recorded as issued for use within the
building, only twenty-seven are missing ; text books make up
one half of these. This record does not include books
missing from the open shelves.
Miss Margaret D. McGuffey, the head of the department,
was granted a leave of absence for six months. The charge
of the Issue Department was assigned to Miss Mary C. Sher-
idan, who filled the position satisfactorily, and has since
been appointed the Fu'st Assistant.
Bates Hall.
The number of books consulted in Bates Hall has in-
creased by 12,360 volumes over the preceding year. This
increase is doubtless due in part to the improvement that has
been made in the heating of this portion of the Library. For
this change satisfaction has been expressed by readers as
well as by the officers of the Library. Discomfort, and even
sickness, had resulted from the former state of things.
Larger and more convenient desks have been placed in the
catalogue section of the room, and two clocks in carved
cases, one at each end of the hall.
The shelves of Bates Hall contain about 7,500 volumes of
works of reference, accessible to readers. Whenever a book
likely to be useful either for reference or for general reading
is added to the Library, one copy is now usually added to the
Bates Hall reference collection. The latest publications,
exclusive of fiction, are placed on open shelves near the cat-
alogue, and are used by many readers. They invite persons
who are disinclined to approach the Library through the great
card catalogue, and, it is thought, lessen the discouragement
that people feel in not being able to secure the book they
want.
It is the policy of the Library to throw open the shelves as
far as possible to readers. Unhappily, this freedom is abused
24 City Document No. 24.
by some, fur Mr. Bierstadt, in charge, states that during the
past year 106 volumes liave disappeared from the reference
collection and 101 from the screen, while from the children's
room adjoining 275 volumes are missing. The books stolen
are generally of small value. Signs have been placed in the
• Library calling attention to the fact that the mutilation of
books or their removal from the Library without permission is
a penal offence. One of these book thieves has recently
been brought to trial and found guilty. The practice of re-
serving books for use in the Library from one day to another
for the benefit of readers has fomid favor, and the number of
reserved books has increased considerably.
Aid has been given by this dej)artment in the recom-
mendation of books and in the looking up of titles before
purchase.
On Sundays and the two holidays when the Library is
open, 85,116 volumes have been used, both for home and
library circulation. The number of volumes used on a
single Sunday has approached 3,000. Large crowds of
visitors come on Sundays, especially since the new deco-
rations have been put in place.
The Special Libkaries.
The year has been a busy and successful one in the Special
Libraries. Dr. Cogswell of the Astor Library stated in the
year 1851 that in his opinion books on the fine arts were the
ones most often consulted in that institution. Judging from
observation, and from the report of Mr. Otto Fleischner, the
chief of this department, no books of higher worth are more
used in this Library.
The collections on the Special Libraries' floor have been
under the charge of Miss Grace A. Hitchcock and her assist-
ants.
During the year there were added, exclusive of periodi-
cals and maps :
Volumes.
To the Special Libraries' collection .... 1,216
The fine arts 2,091
The industrial arts ....... 436
There are in the Special Libraries 93,729 volumes, divided
as follows :
Fine arts. Music . . . . . 22,143
" " Periodicals . . . . 3,223
25,366
Library Department. 25
Industrial arts ......
'• '' Periodicals
Cabinet books, other than fine arts
Special Libraries .....
Maps, bound vols. .....
" sheets ......
" rolled ......
New cabinets and additional shelving hav
crowded condition of this department.
11,747
2,354
54,262
558
8,008
218
e relieved the
CATALOGUES.
The various divisions of the Card Catalogue, including the
fine arts, music, architecture, industrial arts, etc., formerly-
filed under separate alphabets, have been joined under one
alphabet, thus facilitating use. A similar change, although
less complete, has been made in the catalogues of the special
collections in the Ticknor-Barton room.
In order to have the whole subject of architecture entered
in the general Fine Arts Card Catalogue, the titles of the
printed catalogue on architecture are being pasted on cards.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
About 3,700 cards have been prepared for the combined
shelf and accession list of photographs :
Photographs bought last year by the Library (cost $136.64) 258
Photographs given . . . . . . . .814
Pictures added for the use of the branches and stations :
Process pictures . . . . .
Colored photographs ......
Allen's Cathedrals of the World ....
English cathedrals .......
The collection in the Library numbers :
Photographs ........
Colored photographs ......
Process pictures .......
THE ALLEN A. BROWN LIBRARY OF MUSIC.
There have been added to this collection since February,
1901, 189 volumes ; this makes a total of 8,833 volumes,
not including many which are still unbound and uncata-
. 309
. 315
. 129
. 52
14,044
315
5,747
26 City Document No. 24.
logued. The printing of the catalogue cards has progressed
rapidly; about 16,500 cards have been filed during the year.
Headings have been written on all the sets of cards repre-
senting music in the music room. The index to the periodi-
cals has been kept up, and indexes have been furnished for
volumes of magazine articles, newspaper clippings and pro-
grammes.
Numerous modern scores, especially of the French and
Russian schools, have been acquired for the collection. Of
the older scores added during the year, the following are
worthy of particular mention :
Arne, The musick in the Masque of Comus.
Auber, Les diamans de la couronne.
Bellini, I Puritani ; La Sonnambula.
David, Lalla Roukh.
Donizetti, Dom Sebastian; Don Pasquale ; La Favorita;
La Fille du Regiment ; Linda di Chamounix ; Lucrezia
Borgia.
Flotow, Marta.
Meyerbeer, II crociato in Egitto ; L'etoile du Nord.
Pergolesi, La servante maitresse.
Rossini, Cenerentola; Semiramide.
Sullivan, The golden legend.
Verdi, Un ballo in maschera.
EXHIBITIONS.
Through the year there have been exhibitions of photo-
graphs at the Central Library. The subjects represented
were as follows : Rome and Roman galleries, in connection
with a course of lectures given by J. Frederick Hopkins,
Director of Drawing, to the teachers in the public schools ;
Early Christian and Byzantine architecture ; Saracenic archi-
tecture; Romanesque architecture ; Cathedrals, English and
Continental; Renaissance architecture; Nineteenth century
architecture ; Portraits of children, in connection with the
Exhibition of Fair Children, in Copley Hall ; Florence ;
Paris and the Louvre ; Mosaics in old Italian churches ;
London and the National Gallery ; Germany and the German
galleries ; The Rocky mountains of British Columbia (pho-
tographed and lent to the Library by Mary M. Vaux, George
Vaux, Jr., and William S. Vaux, Jr., of Philadelphia) ; Parks
and gardens in Boston and vicinity, lent by the Boston and
Metropolitan Park Commissions, and books on arboriculture
lent by the Arnold Arboretum ; Travelling exhibit of the
Industrial Art Teachers' Association : examples of drawing
Library Department. 27
in the public schools, loaned by the Association ; Madrid and
the Prado ; Colored photographs of views in the United
States and Europe; Incunabula and manuscripts; Castles,
villas, and country seats of Europe ; Moorish architecture in
Granada, Seville and Cordova ; The Parthenon ; Colored
photographs of American and European views ; Reproduc-
tions of drawings of the Masters ; Examples of early print-
ing and illumination ; American mural decorations ; Italy ;
Madonnas ; Photographs illustrating the development of
religious architecture ; The Sella photographs of the Hima-
layan ^Mountains, lent by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
Exhibitions, changed monthly, have also been given at
the branches and stations.
LECTURES.
Lectures, illustrated by the stereopticon, have been given
in the Lecture Room of the Library.
Under the auspices of the Unity Art Club, the following
course has been given : Florence and Romola, by Rev.
Henry G. Spaulding ; Paris and the Louvre, by J. Frederick
Hopkins ; London, old and new, by C. Howard Walker ;
The Yellowstone National Park, by Arthur K. Peck ; Italy,
her people and her art, by Miss Anna Seaton Schmidt ; The
development of religious architecture, by C. Howard
Walker.
Other lectures have been given : Velasquez and Murillo,
by Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson ; Mosaics in old Italian
churches, by Miss Frances Emerson; Roman architecture, by
C. Howard Walker (under the auspices of the Pallas Club) ;
The development of the park system of Greater Boston, by
Sylvester Baxter.
The iNIassachusetts Library Club and other organizations
have held meetings in the Lecture Room.
The photograph room has been supplied with the necessary
apparatus for photographing books, engravings and maps.
VISITS OF CLASSES.
Visits have been made to the Special Libraries by schools
and clubs in classes, as follows :
Schools ..... 36 visits, 817 members
Of these 551 were members of the Evening Drawing
School, special class in design. ■ ■
28 City Document No. 24.
Clubs 58 visits, 440 members
Private classes . . . .90 visits, 1,030 members
To schools and clubs 226 portfolios of pictures have been
sent.
Documents and Statistics.
The Department of Documents and Statistics was not
established until some time after the removal of the Library
to Copley square. In the disposition of the rooms of the
new building no provision had been made for such a depart-
ment. It was forced, therefore, to put up with improvised
quarters, in a gallery which had been reserved for the future
overflow from another department, a place poorly lighted and
accessible only by devious routes. Plans are under con-
sideration for providing a room adequate to the needs of the
department.
The collection of books under the charge of Mr. Worth-
ington C. Ford now numbers 8,541 volumes, exclusive of
the United States documents (4,422) and the British Parlia-
mentary papers (6,928), which are in rooms near by.
Attention is invited to the details as to this department
as found on later pages of this report.
Manuscripts and Broadsides.
Many interesting manuscripts and broadsides have recently
been added to the Library. They are described in the follow-
ing repoi't of Mr. Worthington C. Ford, in charge of these
collections :
From every point of view the most valuable acquisition
during the last year was a contemporary copy of the Laws of
Plymouth Colony, made about 1671. It is a manuscript of
fifty-one folio leaves, in very good state of preservation, and
showing some variations from the version used by Mr. Shurt-
leff in his " Records." It was formerly in the possession of
Mr. Ellis Ames, who regarded it as the best piece in his col-
lections.
Second in interest is the original manuscript of the address
of John Quincy Adams to his constituents in 1842, a volume
of more than seventy pages, every line in the writing of the
ex-President, and with them the rough notes or outlines of
the paper.
A manuscript sermon by Edward Bass, the first Protestant-
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, was obtained from a Phil-
adelphia sale. It is a manuscript of thirty-six pages, and in
very good preservation. The endorsements show that it was
Library Department. 29
delivered on two important occasions: at Newbury, on
October 25, 1759, on the taking of Quebec: and again on
October 7, 1762, ''for the taking of the Havannah, w''' hap-
pened August 13th, almost two months preceding this day."
A number of old deeds and legal papers from Boston, Lex-
ington, Stoughton and other towns have been obtained, while
a dozen manuscript sermons, by Thomas Prince, Cotton
^Slather, Samuel Phillips and more modern divines, are of
personal as well as local interest.
Of local interest, also, are the many mercantile and -indi-
vidual accounts rendered, bills and receipts, of which the
Library now possesses a goodly number. Not only do these
slips, crudel}^ written and badly spelled, bring before us the
daily transactions of past times, butthey^ are rich in unusual
names of commodities, long since dropped from our language,
in price records, always of high value in economic investiga-
tion, and in commercial usage of the day with its credits,
book accounts, and manner of settlement, according to the
methods of direct barter. The experience of Massachusetts
in paper money was exceedingly suggestive, and in these
prices current the fluctuations in the value of the bills of
credit may be noted, and with some accuracy measured. This
is a collection to which special attention has been given, be-
cause it is a necessary adjunct to the Statistical Department
of the Library, and only awaits the patient investigator who
will reduce the many items into some order for throwing light
upon the economy of Massachusetts in the eighteenth cen-
tury.
Among other manuscripts relating to Boston may be noted
the inquest on the duel fought on Boston Common in 1728,
between Henry Phillips and Benjamin Woodbridge, with fatal
results to the latter; Rawson's copy of the Court Records of
1635 on the bounds between Boston and Charles Towne ; a
subscription paper for paving the Streat Called Prince
Streat, 1732 ; and two volumes and a number of letters re-
lating to the fire of 1762 are worthy of mention. Belong-
ing to a later period are letters regarding the Primary schools
and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
The policy of buying broadsides relating to Boston and
^Massachusetts has been continued, and with very good
results. These rare leaves, printed in small numbers and
widely distributed among the towns, were seldom preserved.
They were "published " by being read from the pulpits or by
being posted in some public place ; and having once served
their purpose were not as a rule filed among the town
records. The Library has now a very fair collection of the
30 City Document No. 24.
issues made during the Kevolution and during the War of
1812. The opportunities of obtaining colonial broadsides
are very infrequent, and such as have offered have not been
neglected. A number of local poems celebrating some
important event has also been obtained, as well as advertis-
ing sheets, and shipping papers bearing upon the trade
between Boston and the West Indies from 1787 to 1815.
Political caricatures — often the best reflection of public
opinion — have not been passed over, and the collection of
the Library is constantly being increased in these various
lines. Among the gifts should be noted a very good lot of
New Hampshire broadsides, presented by Mr. Herbert Small.
The Whitman collection has also been enriched by a large
number of newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating
to the poet.
It is not strange to find occasionally an even greater curi-
osity in a manuscript than was anticipated. The Library
purchased a manuscript copy of the first Directory of Mon-
treal, 1819, "An Alphabetical List of Merchants, Traders
and House Keepers residing in Montreal," with a descriptive
sketch of the town by Thomas Doige, By itself, the manu-
script would not possess any value, for it was made in
1890-92; but it contained 157 autographs and documents
of the people mentioned, bills, accounts and letters ; and
thirty-two views and woodcuts. These insertions made the
volume unique and interesting. Laid into the pages, but
not fastened in, was a letter purporting to be from the poet
Robert Burns to James Simpson, dated from Dumfries,
December 12, 1794. This is clearly one of the forgeries
that were placed upon the market some years since, and is
therefore only an eloquent example of the ingenuity of the
forger, who has given to the sheet (the only part of genuine
antiquity) every touch that could deceive the unwary.
A paper obtained in England contains in two places the
signature of John Driden, assumed to be the j)oet. The date
of the document is 1657-8. In 1659 was issued "Three
Poems upon the Death of his late Highness Oliver Lord
Protector," one of them being by John Dryden. In 1660
the " Astrea Redux " was printed with John Driden on the
title, and in the same year Howard's Poems contained a
commendatory Poem by John Driden, 1662, " To my Lord
Chancellor," was signed in the same manner. In spite of
this evidence one hesitates to assert that the signatures are
those of John Dryden, the poet, and must leave the question
to be decided when access may be had to undoubted ex-
amples of his writings.
Library Department, 31
Gifts have been made to the now very hirge collection on
the abolition movement in the United States W the Garrison
familv, Miss Weston and the ]Misses May. It is safe to assert
that the Library can show as strong collections, in print and
in mannscript, on the anti-slavery movement as any other
library in this country. The liberality of such leaders as
Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, and of others like
Col. Thomas WentAvorth Higginson and Messrs. Francis J.
Garrison and Wendell P. Garrison, have really made this
notable collection what it is — already large and still attract-
hig gifts.
The proper arrangement of tlie manuscripts is progressing,
but very slowly because of the difficulty in obtaining fit work-
men. The demand for really good work is increasing, and
the skilled inlayers are few in number and pressed by the
demands made upon them. It involves some risk to send
such records to other cities, but it is a risk that must be
accepted, as the matter will, otherwise, accumulate too rap-
idly and impede arrangement. It is only when a manuscript
is properly mended, mounted, and where possible bound, that
it may be shown to the public ; therefore the long period
between the purchase of the paper and its final location is an
embarrassing feature. The fact that the manuscript room is
at last in a condition of permanency and put out of reach of
any interruption by buildhig operations is a great relief, and
facilitates greatly the handling of these records. Some
mounting has been done, -some manuscripts have been bound,
and much indexing accomplished ; but the record is not what
could have been accomplished had workmen been obtainable
or the manuscript room free from architectural changes.
The number of cards made in cataloguing the Chamberlain
collection during the last year was 3,608, making a total of
6,85-1: cards.
The practice of printing in the Bulletin the more important
of the manuscripts, those possessing historical and local inter-
est, has been continued, and has been appreciated by the
public. It obviates the handling of the manuscripts, makes
known the location and contents of the paper, and excites
historical inquiry.
The Children's Department.
According to the report of Mrs. Gertrude P. Sheffield, in
charge of the Children's rooms at the Central Library, the
main features of the work continue the same, and the last
twelve months furnish additional evidence of its importance
32 City Document No. 24.
and of its needs. The number of books issued to applicants
has increased from 60,223 for the year previous, to 64,686
for the past year; the number issued from this department
to the branches has increased from 5,644 in 1900 to 10,511
in 1901.
One noticeable feature in connection with the issue to the
branches and stations is the large number of unsuccessful
applications for books. Personal applications in the Chil-
dren's room which are not successful cannot satisfactorily be
recorded, but a record has been kept of the slips sent in from
the branches on which no book could be supplied. Of such
slips, 21,998 have been returned during the year. As each
slip represents from one to five books, the number of
children's books asked for and not obtained may fairly be
stated as double that of the number of the slips. In
one month of the 2,417 slips, very nearly half of the
requests were for the twelve following books : Little
Women and Tattle Men, by IMiss Alcott; the Celtic, English
and Indian Fairy Tales, edited by Joseph Jacobs ; the Blue,
Green, Pink, Red and Yellow fairy books, arranged by
Andrew Lang; Mother Goose and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
These are the children's choice. They are without excep-
tion books of merit, and universally recognized as such.
These applications afford undoubted evidence of the spon-
taneous demand among the cliildren for thoroughly good
books, a demand which should be met and which the Library
cannot at present supply.
This subject becomes of special importance when the
inferior quality of the great mass of juvenile literature is
considered, which literature the Library now, to a great
extent, offers to those who actually apply for better things
which it is unable to supply. There is here no question of
forcing a superior book upon a child who desires to read an
inferior one, but rather whether the present book supply
does not in effect force an inferior book upon a child whose
preference would be for a better one.
This same problem perplexes other departments and
indeed confronts the whole Library. If it is true that a
large proportion of juvenile literature is not of a convinc-
ingly high character, and if it is evident, as it seems to be,
that children evince a peculiar fondness for a few exceed-
ingly good books, may it not be better to confine the selec-
tion of books for children, and of fiction for adults as well,
to those of undoubted merit, secure of continuous popularity,
and to buy such books in large quantities, excluding much
of an inferior grade? The proposition has been under con-
Library Department. 33
sideration of recommending the purchase of 500 copies at a
time of the Lang Fairy books, which undoubtedly would
find constant use.
Reference work with the cliildren has been carried on as
far as possible under existing conditions. The room lias
been in the hands of carpenters and painters for many weeks
during the busiest school months, occasioned by the placing
of the Elliott decoration. This work is finished and the
children have again entered into their especial domain.
It is gratifying to record that there are evidences of more
cordial cooperation with the Library on the part of the
schools. Classes have come here, accompanied by their
teachers, to learn the method of obtaining books. Mr.
Dimick of the Wells School and Mr. Norris of the Charles-
town High School have shown an especial interest in this
matter.
Exhibits of pictures have been continued during the year.
At the children's rooms in the branch libraries help is given
to those who greatly need it. To these libraries the reduc-
tion of the age limit and the welcome given have l)rought
crowds of young people and little children. To quote from
the annual report of Miss Walkley, in charge of the East
Boston Branch, "This influx of children brings home very
keenly to every worker at the branch the additional grave
responsibility which this involves. Many of these children
come from homes swarming with little ones, where they have
little or no training and practically no notion of taking care
of themselves or anything else. In some happy cases the
teachei-s are interested enough to advise them about their
books and to daily urge them to cleanliness and carefulness.
Otherwise, they are turned loose at the branches, and
although the will to help them is not lacking, the mere
routine of the issue and registration desks keeps every avail-
able worker occupied during the busy hours and crowds
out too largely the personal work with the children which
might be a help to them and eventually to the Library
itself."
Leave of absence for seven months was given by the
Trustees to Mrs. Sheffield. During her absence, from March
1 to October 1, Miss Alice M. Jordan had charge of the
room. Her supervision of the work was satisfactory, and
she was heartily sustained b}' the assistants in the depart-
ment. The card catalogue, upon which for more than three
years all the time which could be spared from regular duties
had been spent, has been finished and placed where it is
accessible to the public.
34 City Document No. 24.
The Patent Room.
According to the report of Mr. Frank C. Blaisdell, in
charge of the Newspaper and Patent Departments, the
Patent Room contains 8,914 volumes. Of these the British
patents number 5,421 volumes, the American 1,179, the Ger-
man 947, and the French 536. During the year 78,630
volumes have been consulted by visitors. These figures do
not represent the entire use of the room, for many persons
neglect to register either their names or the number of books
consulted.
The numerical list of German patents is nearing comple-
tion. When finished it will include these patents from 1877
to date.
In September, 1897, the sum of one thousand dollars was
sent to the Commissioner of Patents at Washington, to pay
for specifications and drawings of American patents issued
prior to July, 1869, which were lacking at the Library.
About sixty thousand, or nearly two-thirds of the numbers
needed, have already been received, of which a numerical
catalogue has been made.
Many books on patents have been transferred from the
stacks to the Patent Room, to find much use. An index of
patent indexes has been prepared, and may be consulted.
Periodicals.
Ninety-one new periodicals have been added to the Period-
cal Room during the year ; thirty-one have ceased publica-
tion.
A new periodical appears almost daily ; to resist subscrib-
ing to them requires heroic resolve and good judgment.
Only those are added which are of especial merit, such as
the American Journal of Anatomy, Bibliografia, Espanola,
and House and Garden, or such as are on subjects new to
the Library, such as the Automobile Magazine.
A new check book of periodicals has been prepared. The
serial publications currently received at the Library number
3,291.
Newspapers.
Three hundred and seventy-eight newspapers (including
duplicates) are to be found in the Newspaper Reading Room;
of these, 211 are American and 58 English. There are
representative newspapers of sixteen other nationalities,
which find constant readers.
Library Department. 35
The attendance in this room is counted at stated intervals ;
at these times during the past year it has not fallen below
one hundred persons at a given time, and has been as high
as 178. The hour for the largest attendance has been
five P.M.
Many of the volumes of newspapers have been bound
during the year, and the collection is in much better condition
than hitherto. A special card catalogue is in preparation.
Lectures.
The second course of lectures under the auspices of the
Trustees was given in March and April, 1901, in the Lecture
Room of the Library, on Methods of municipal administra-
tion. The speakers and subjects were as follows : Prof. A.
Lawrence Lowell, The Position of Permanent Officials in
English Municipal Government; George L. Fox, The London
County Council and its work; Prof. E. Emerton, Municipal
Experiments in Florence ; Prof. Kuno Francke, Public Life
in Mediaeval German Cities ; Prof. F, G. Peabody, Modern
City Government under the German Plan ; X. Henry Good-
nough, The Water Supply of Cities ; Prof. W. T. Sedgwick,
Sanitary Aspects of the Construction and Care of City
Streets ; George G. Crocker, Transportation in Cities.
A third course, on the Esthetic development of cities, will
begin March 10, 1902.
The Branch Libraries and Stations.
In the light of the development of the branch system of
the Boston Public Library, the following words, taken from
the annual report for the year 1859, seem prophetic:
"It may be, that in progress of time, this Institution will
become the parent of a circle of district libraries scattered about
the city, each with separate resources, and exchanging occasion-
ally their books. We cannot perhaps yet fully foresee the range
of benefits which this first central experiment may draw after it
for the community. It may perhaps, by means of branch libra-
ries, or otherwise, at some time, be practicable to increase the
popularity and usefulness of the Institution, in the direction
indicated to an extent now impossible."
The statement of the Supervisor of Branches and Stations,
w^hich is given on later pages of this volume, outlines the
continued activity of this department.
Of special interest is the advance made in the cooperation
between the Library and the public schools, many of which
36 City Document No. 24.
have for the first time availed themselves of the help offered.
The Superintendent of Schools and the committee appointed
have shown great interest in furthering this work. Forty-
four schools (seven high and thirty-seven grammar schools)
are now supplied with deposits of books, as against twenty-
one in 1900 and eleven in 1899. Applications for readers"
cards of the Library have been taken in practically all the
high and grammar schools of the city. Help is being given
to classes w^hich come to the Central Library and branches,
in the use of books and catalogues.
Li the view of the Supervisor of Branches, the work of
the Library ^vith the schools has these aims: 1. To serve
the schools as city institutions. 2. With the assistance
of the teachers, to cultivate in the pupils the habit of read-
ing at the time in their lives when they are best capable of
acquiring it. 3. To make the school children so familiar
with the Public Library that they' will be likely to use it
on leaving school, when the Library may be their only
educational opportunity.
The number of books given out for home use from the
branches, stations and other agencies, was 1,158,966 volumes,
as against 1,006,214 in the year 1900.
THE BRANCH LIBRARIES.
The time of closing the branches (except at Jamaica Plain
and West Roxbury) has been changed from eight to nine
P.M. The branches at Brighton, Dorchester and Roxbury
have been added to those which are open on Sundays.
The reclassification on a common scheme of the branches
as well as the stations is finished. There is a card catalogue
at every branch and station and a complete union catalogue
and shelf list, all with the same shelf-numbers. Printed lists
are issued yearly.
In the past two years five branch buildings have been put
in good repair.
All the branches have increased in use, the gain being
72,677 volumes, or 10.7 per cent. Pictures are sent once a
month for exhibition at the branches and stations.
THE STATIONS.
The home use of books from the stations of the Library
was 422,165 volumes, a gain of twenty-four per cent, on the
preceding year. The usefulness of the reading-rooms and
stations has been increased by reason of the addition of a
generous supply of reference books.
LiBEARY Department. 37
A new reading-room has been established at Orient
Heights, East Boston. In seven months 7,316 volumes had
been borrowed. The new reading-room at Roslindale gave
out 4-1,870 volumes, a number larger than that of any other
reading-room or even of the smaller branches. At the new
station at Andrew square, Dorchester street, 15,264 volumes
were taken for home use.
Examinations.
There have been three examinations held for the graded
service of the Library, namely: February 14, Grade E (45
applicants) ; June 15, Grade B (31 applicants); October 2,
Grade E (37 applicants).
Index to the Annual Reports. Chronology of the
Library.
This being the fiftieth report of the Library it is a fit time
to publish a Chronology of its history and an Index to the
Annual Reports. These are found in pages which follow.
James L. Whitney',
Librarian.
April 23, 1902.
ERRATUM FOR PAGE 37.
It is planned to issue the Index mentioned as a separate
publication, and not as a part of this report.
36 City Document No. 24.
have for the first time availed themselves of the help offered.
The Superintendent of Schools and the committee appointed
have shown great interest in furthering this work. Forty-
four schools (seven high and thirty-seven grammar schools)
are now supplied with deposits of books, as against twenty-
one in 1900 and eleven in 1899. Applications for readers'
cards of the Library have been taken in practicall}' all the
high and grammar schools of the city. Help is being given
to classes which come to the Central Library and branches,
in the use of books and catalogues.
In the view of the Supervisor of Branches, the work of
the Library with the schools has these aims : 1. To serve
the schools as cit}^ institutions. 2. With the assistance
of the teachers, to cultivate in the pupils the habit of read-
ing at the time in their lives when they are best capable of
acquiring it. 3. To make the school children so familiar
with the Public Library that they' will be likely to use it
on leaving school, when the Library may be their only
educational opportunity.
The number of books given out for home use from the
branches, stations and other agencies, was 1,158,966 volumes,
as against 1,006,214 in the year 1900.
THE BEANCH LIBRARIES.
The time of closing the branches (except at Jamaica Plain
and West Roxbury) has been changed from eight to nine
P.M. The branches at Brighton, Dorchester and Roxbury
have been added to those which are open on Sundays.
The reclassification on a common scheme of the branches
stations nas oeen luureaseu uy icaauu. wj.
generous supply of reference books.
LiBEARY Depaktmi:xt. 37
A new reading-room has been established at Orient
Heights, East Boston. In seven months 7,316 volumes had
been borrowed. The new reading-room at Roslindale gave
out 44,870 volumes, a number larger than that of any other
reading-room or even of the smaller branches. At the new
station at Andrew square, Dorchester street, 15,264 volumes
were taken for home use.
Examinations.
There have been three examinations held for the graded
service of the Library, namely : February 14, Grade E (45
applicants) ; June 15, Grade B (31 applicants); October 2,
Grade E (37 applicants).
Index to the Annual Reports. Chronology of the
Library.
This being the fiftieth report of the Library it is a fit time
to publish a Chronology of its history and an Index to the
Annual Reports. These are found in pages which follow.
James L. Whitney,
Librarian.
April 23, 1902.
City Document No. 24.
SUPPLEMENTS TO THE REPORT OF THE
LIBRARIAN.
(A.)
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE CHIEF
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DOCUMENTS
AND STATISTICS.
To the Librarian :
According to the figures furnished by the Shelf Depart-
ment, the growth of the Statistical Department from its
inception has been :
Year.
Accessious.
Transfer from
stacks.
Total.
1898 1899
343
2,039
2,253
1,937
343
1899-1900
*1,000
414
555
3,382
6,049
8,541
1900 1901
1901-1902
These figures do not include the two great series of United
States Documents (4,422) and British Parliamentary Papers
(6,928), both of which are in the charge of this department.
Of the accessions to the collection, 1,100 were classed as
political economy, 453 as social sciences, 104 as jurispru-
dence, and 100 as medical science (really vital statistics and
health reports). This leaves only 180 to be distributed
among the other nineteen classes recognized in the system of
the general library. Of the transfers, the larger part has
been from American history (tariff and banking pamphlets),
to the number of 110; political economy, 208; French
history, 74 (chiefly statistical), and transactions, 76 ; these
four classes accounting for 468 out of the total transfer of
555, or 84 per cent, of the total increase by transfer.
These figures for accessions are misleading, in that they
do not begin to convey a correct measure of what was
LiBEARY Department. 39
received and cared for in the Statistical Department. They
merely record what is retained permanently on its shelves,
and do not take notice of United States Government publi-
cations, periodical issues or issues in parts which are after-
wards made into volumes. It is difficult to make any exact
comparison in receipts and returns because of the time inter-
vening between the first receipt of the book by the Statistical
Department and its final return for location on the shelves.
This factor of thne has become of mcreasing importance,
and it must be admitted threatens to become a serious obstacle
in the activity of the department. There are always at least
a thousand pieces on the tables of this crowded gallery which
have been received, acknowledged, the continuation entry
made, a temporary slip prepared, and, where known, a loca-
cation number given. All the stages preliminary to cata-
loguing have been performed, and the matter is ready for the
catalogue entries. Here occurs the delay. Weeks, months,
and in some cases a full year, may pass before these volumes
reach the catalogue room ; they must then be catalogued,
labelled, bound (if necessary), and finally returned to this
department. When possible, calls for current matter are
answered by searching this mass of volumes " in process,"
and the risk of permittmg such volumes to circulate before the
property label has been inserted is incurred. Further, the fact
that the volumes are not on the shelves gives the impression
that they are not in the Library, which is not true. They
are merely not "available," a sufficient condemnation in
itself. Such annoying time-consuming expedients are neither
proper nor systematic, and through them the department
suffers in many ways.
The slow progress of transfers from the stacks to this
department is enforced by this congested condition of affairs,
and will continue while current accessions are sufficient to
monopolize the working force of the Catalogue and Shelf
Departments. This is to be regretted, as it indefinitely post-
pones the performance of what was an essential idea in
establishing this department — to collect in one place, and
classify l)y subject, the works included in that large class
described generall}^ as "sociological." As each transfer in-
volves the renumbering of the cards for the transferred
volume, it would be unreasonable to impose such a task
unnecessarily or at inconvenient times on the Catalogue
Department. Yet it should be done, and eventually must
be done ; and as long as it is deferred the collections in this
department must remain in an incomplete and to that extent
unsatisfactory state.
40 City Document No. 24.
It has been gratifying to note a steady increase in the serious
use of the collections of this department. It is impossible to
escape questions which are entirely outside of its proper func-
tions, and the consequent disappointment when the needed
replies are not obtained. " Some statistics of economics " is a
sufficiently general demand to puzzle even the most expert ;
and " statistics of foreigners in the United States since 1620 by
counties and cities " is a demand which would be difficult to
meet, especially as the question was asked in the afternoon of.
the day on which the essay upon the subject was to be read.
I have been asked to produce the original of a patent of
nobility granted by Edward II., and to direct the seeker
after something besides the truth, to the original papers filed
by some person in the United States in 1817 to establish a
claim to a vast English estate ! No very long experience in
this gallery is needed to develop the fact that some attention
ought to be paid to teaching the art of framing intelligent or
practicable questions. It is no small task to cross-examine
the questioner to determine what is wanted, and it is no
grateful labor to endeavor to prove that the information is
not to be had, because it is matter beyond the proper
province of statistical methods or available information.
The other side of this experience is a grateful relief, for
the earnest worker applies in such a way that the limitations
of his problem may be developed through his own investiga-
tions, the department pointing out the possible sources of
information and supplying the necessary books. It is on
this line that the usefulness of the department is to be
developed, and it is in this direction that its use is growing.
There is no legitimate means of advertising this phase of
library work, except by giving a reasonable assurance that
the raw material of investigation is within call. The growing
tendency of other institutions to use what is in this depart-
ment is a tribute to its richness and convenience, and an
indication of its future possibilities. Yet I would insist
upon one point. The department has been obliged to take
a backward step for want of space needed for its collections.
The whole idea of this department was based upon open
shelves, the nature of the collections in its keeping lending
itself to that arrangement. All works upon a certain subject
were to be brought into one view, where it would be easy to
consult them — labor, insurance, navigation, charity and com
merce. It is not possible to analyze these reports for the
general catalogue ; it must be the investigator who will delve
out of their pages the facts he needs ; and he will often need
whole series to enable him to obtain comjDarative facts, the
Library Department. 41
best of all sociological material. Every book removed from
the gallery into the stacks reduces the general usefulness of
the collections, because it withdiaws the book from the open
shelves. It would not be practicable to admit the general
public to the stacks ; that privilege can be extended to a few
under the best of conditions. It is therefore to be regretted
that such withdrawals have been imposed upon us by the
necessities of space.
It is a pleasure once more to acknowledge the many cour-
tesies extended to the department by state and city officials,
both at home and abroad. No request has been refused with-
out a good reason being given for the refusal, and in many
instances more was sent than was covered by the request.
The list of gifts recorded in the usual appendix to the report
of the Library is a long one, and will be the best witness of
this generous treatment. The receipts of current parlia-
mentary papers of importance have been continued and have
been much appreciated. All of the issues relating to the
contest in South Africa have come promptly, and such im-
portant reports as those on Municipal Trading, Shipping
Bounties, War Office Contracts and Companies Bills. The
German service of the same character has been larger than in
previous years, and has been timel}^ in giving the most recent
pamphlets on such questions as the canals of Germany, the
new tariff, and the commercial and industrial situation of the
empire. From France almost nothing but what was imme-
diately ordered has been sent, and it has not been possible to
establish an advance service similar to that for Germany and
Great Britain ; but it is expected that the beginnings may yet
be made. This weakness has in part been made good by
the courteous efforts of the officials of the French govern-
ment. Special attention has been given to commercial and
industrial questions, as the largest number of calls applies
to that side of economic activity. Reports of local chambers
of commerce and boards of trade and official inquiries into
the conditions of commerce and industry have been obtained
in large numbers, and the section of commerce is now one of
the largest in this department.
I expressed the hope in my report of last year that a gen-
eral system for giving information of the issues of state ad-
ministrative departments might be devised. Since that was
written the Library of Congress has begun to send out slips
of its accessions, and naturally these issues, state and local,
will thus be recorded. The introduction of tliis service, on a
scale commensurate with the subject and prompt record, is a
boon to all libraries, and deserves notice for its high utility.
42 City Document No. .24.
It only remains for the States to combine in such a way as to
have a central bureau and machinery similar to that of the
Bureau of International Exchanges for distributing their
issues, exchanging with one another and supplying the more
important libraries. It is only by such a plan of cooperation
that satisfactory results can be obtained. The present want
of system is costly, most wasteful, and inefficient to a degree.
It would require but little attention to introduce such a plan,
or in the meantime to extend the present distribution, so as to
include libraries containing a special department of docu-
ments, or having collections above a certain number, say
150,000 volumes.
Cooperation, however, has its limits. This Library was
approached by a sister institution with a proposition that it
should not purchase works on Internationa] Law, as a special
fund was in the possession of this second library for pur-
chasing works on that subject. A trial was made, but has
proved awkward and inconvenient. Not only was the pur-
chasing library a private institution, and therefore not open
to the public ; but the growing importance of the relations
of the United States with foreign powers has created a
marked increase in general interest on international problems,
legal, commercial and diplomatic. I therefore recommended a
discontinuance of this plan of cooperation, believing that it
was working contrary to the best interests of this Library.
In the first year of my holding this position I prepared a
card catalogue of the issues of United States government
documents, from 1789 to 1813, with an intention of bringing
it down to 1817 (the Fifteenth Congress), at which point
the Check List issued by the Superintendent of Public Docu-
ments took up the story. Learning that the Superintendent
was preparing a new edition of the Check List, and intended
to carry it back to 1789, I stopped work on my list, and later
offered what had been done to the Superintendent. The
offer was accepted, and the cards were sent to him. As his
agents are covering the collections in all the larger libraries
of the country, it was evident that his list would be far more
useful than any that could be prepared in this Library.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) Woethington C. Ford.
Library Department. 43
(B.)
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE SUPER-
VISOR OF. BRANCHES AND STATIONS.
To the Librarian :
The Branch System.
The addition of thirty agencies to the Branch system of
the Library implies a general and very considerable increase
of the activities of the Branch Department, but this increase
has not led to the employment of even one more regular
assistant in any division of the department. There has been
a slight additional expenditure for extra service in the case
of two or three branches.
The total circulation of the branches, stations, and other
agencies is 1,158,966 volumes as against 1,006,214 volumes
in the year 1900. The increase is fifteen per cent., and the
circulation of the department constitutes seventy-eight per
cent, of the total circulation of the Library.
Schools.
The result of the meeting of the Committee on Coopera-
tion, the appointment of which was mentioned in the last
report of this department, was a circular of instruction issued
by the Superintendent of Public Schools, in which he stated
the plans of the Library and requested masters and teachers
to aid. The statement proved very helpful. Progress in the
w^ork which was outlined in the circular may be summed up
as follows :
Forty-four schools — seven high and thirty-seven grammar
schools — are now supplied with deposits of books, as against
twenty-one in 1900, and eleven in 1899. For certain limited
uses these schools are stations of the Library. In some of
them only one grade is supplied, in others several grades.
The usual number of books at a grammar school is from fifty
to one hundred ; at a high school from one hundred to two
hundred. It would be desirable to have fifty books in each
room of a grammar school if the resources of the Library
Avarranted it. ^Methods have been simplified so that the
burden on the teacher is very light.
44 City Document No. 24.
Applications for cards have been taken in practically all
the grammar and high schools of the city. Approximately^
8,000 children have received cards for the first time.
Four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two books on
various subjects relating to school work have been reserved
for limited periods at the branches and stations on the re-
quest of teachers. Several hundred books have been bought
expressly for the use of the schools. Copies of the most de-
sirable books have been multiplied at the branches in order
that each school of a district might have one copy.
Portfolios of pictures have been sent as usual to the
schools.
Sets of the finding lists of the Library are now in all the
schools.
The vacation schools were supplied with books during the
summer.
At a recent meeting with the Committee on Cooperation
it was arranged that classes should come during school hours
to the Central Library and the branches for systematic in-
struction in the use of catalogues and books. The Super-
intendent of Public Schools has brought this plan, together
with other offers of the Library, to the attention of masters
in a recent circular. A beginning has been made, and the
result depends on the masters and teachers.
The enthusiasm and help of a large number of the teach-
ers with whom we have to deal deserve sincere thanks.
Nothing could be done without these teachers.
Bkanches.
The various new duties at the branches, together with the
greater use of books, have made large demands upon the
custodians and their assistants, but the work has been faith-
fully done, and the record in the annual reports of these
officers is a good one.
EXTENSION OF HOURS.
For years most of the branches closed at 8 P.M. except on
Saturday. In the interests of the public the hour of closing
was changed to 9 P.M. on December 30, except at Jamaica
Plain and West Roxbury, and at the West End Branch, where
the hour has always been 10 P.M., like that of the Central
Library. The change was not a simple matter, and has in-
volved a rearrangement of the service. The number of
required hours has been reduced, and on certain days in the
Library Department. 45
week employees serve from 1 to 9 P.M. instead of from
9 A.M to 6 P.M.
The experience of one month shows that a good number
of people use the branches between 8 and 9 P.M. It shows
also, what was foreseen, that the reduction of hours and
replacing morning by afternoon service make it harder to
accomplish the routine work. But it is probable that this
difficulty will adjust itself in time.
It has been the custom to close the branches, except West
End and certain reading-rooms, at 6 P.M. from June 1 to
September 15 ; but this year they were kept open as usual
until July 1.
The experiment of Sunday opening had proved so success-
ful at certain branches that it was extended to the Brighton,
Dorchester and Roxbury branches with satisfactory results.
BRANCH CLASSIFICATION AND FINDING LISTS.
With the practical completion of the reclassification at
Charlestown, and of the card catalogues at the other branches,
the work of reclassification ends, after having extended over
several years. All the branch collections now have the same
system of classification and the same call numbers. There
is a card catalogue at every branch, and a complete union
catalogue and union shelf list at the Central Library. There
is also an incomplete printed finding list. The fourth num-
ber of this list, containing accessions for more than four
years, was issued last September. Since the collections of
the branches have been tending towards uniformity for
several years, there are 6,000 or more important titles
common to all, and it will soon be possible to publish these
entire. The union catalogue and shelf list have been
examined, therefore, with a view to filling gaps in the
collections and preparing titles for the next list.
In the early part of the year the union catalogue received
a thorough revision, old and new records being compared and
verification made in case of disagreements.
INSTRUCTION OF EMPLOYEES.
A system of instruction of the branch employees has been
begun on which a fuller report will be made another year.
The instruction is by means of written questions and answers.
It is entirely practical, and designed solely to make the
employees of the branches more efficient in their special
duties.
46 City Document No. 24.
BBANCH WORK FOR SCHOOLS.
Much more of the work for schools is done through the
branches than a year ago. The number of schools which
they supply with deposits is twenty-six, as against ten in
January, 1901. The purpose has been to make each branch
a centre for a certain group of schools. The systematic
taking of applications for cards in the schools was a great
labor. The work will be repeated every year, but it can
never be so difficult again. It has already proved well worth
while. It has widened the constituency of the branches,
and those school children who are not drawing books now
are more likely to do so later on than if they had never been
invited. As one of the custodians says in her report : " This
little introduction seems to banish the timidity that many of
the children and not a few of the adults feel about coming.
The invitation of the library and the knowledge that there
will be a familiar face there give them courage." And no
better way could have been found of advertising, among
parents as well as pupils, the advantages which the branches
have to offer.
BRANCHES AS DISTRIBUTING CENTRES.
By the constantly extending use of the branches as cen-
tres for the distribution of books, the Library has made the
most of its resources. There are now thirty-seven stations,
schools and engine houses which are supplied directly by the
branches, and 5,426 books were sent out on deposit by them
during the past year. There are also five daily deliveries of
books on cards from branches to stations.
There were bought for the branches during the year 6,414
volumes of new books, as against 7,259 in 1900 and 4,447
in 1899. There were 2,272 replacements, as against 1,779
the year before. The supply of books has thus been liberal.
It includes some reference books bought to complete the
revision of the collections which was begun last year, and a
great many additional copies of children's classics for the use
of schools. Reference books were bought in some cases to
establish the separate children's reference library which has
been found so desirable at the branches. There were 2,187
volumes of current fiction bought, as against 1,940 in 1900.
The loss from open shelves is less than last year, but it is
still large. It was chiefly at Charlestown and East Boston,
Library Department. 47
and almost entirely from the children's shelves. It was found
necessary to take extreme measures to check this plundering.
Leaving out these two branches, the average loss for a branch
is thirty-six volumes, as against an average of forty-four vol-
umes for the same eight branches last year. West Roxbury
has lost one volume only ; Brighton, Dorchester, Roxbury
and West End have lost together 107 less than in 1900.
The problem is really one of children's shelves, and these
have been open at the branches for more than five j^ears,
My conclusion is that children over ten years of age should
generally be admitted to the shelves of juvenile books, so that
they may handle the books freely as they do now, but that
certain precautions should be taken in the shape of railings,
registration as they enter the room or enclosure, and special
observation by an attendant, or a policeman where one is
found necessary.
REPAIRS AND I]VIPROVEMENTS.
The East Boston Branch, which was in the worst con-
dition of all the branches, has been put in thorough repair in
cooperation with the Department of Public Buildings, and
almost entirely refurnished by the Library. The Jamaica
Plain Branch was also thoroughly renovated by the Depart-
ment of Public Buildings. Five branches have been put in
good condition within two years.
CIRCULATION.
The branches show a circulation of 745,730 volumes, a
gain of 72,677 volumes, or lOy'^per cent, over the circulation
for the year before. Every branch has gained, and most of
them largely. The average percentage of fiction issued, in-
cluding all juveniles, was 74 per cent., as against 75 per cent,
in 1900. But the issue from four branches, Brighton, South
End, West End, and West Roxbury has been properly classi-
fied this year, and is as follows : Percentage of juvenile
fiction, 23^§j5- per cent.; of adult fiction, 42^2^ per cent.;
total percentage of fiction, 66 per cent. ; percentage of
juvenile non-fiction, 12^3- per cent.; total percentage of
juveniles, 36 ^i^ per cent.
EXPENDITURES.
Notwithstanding the increased work they have done the
branches have cost little more than last year, $55,435.90 as
against ¥55,281.45 in 1900.
48 City Document No. 24.
Miss Martha N. Hobart, custodian of the Brighton Branch,
resigned September 1. Miss Hobart's administration of the
branch had been in the highest degree effective. Miss Belle
S. Hall was appointed to the custodianship from the Special
Libraries Department.
On December 5, the janitor of the Dorchester Branch,
Edward Davenport, died. Mr. Davenport had been a faith-
ful employee of the Library since 1875.
Stations.
The total circulation of the stations, schools, institutions
and engine houses is 422,165 volumes. This shows a gain
of 25 per cent, over the circulation of last year, which was
338,246. All the stations but two have increased in circu-
lation ; and the gain in some instances, as at Stations U
{Ward Nine) and W (Industrial School), has been very
marked.
The stations have cost $20,413.28 as against -^17,147.45
in 1900. The expenses of the Reading-rooms Y and Z, and
of Station B, which was enlarged to a reading-room at the
end of last year, swell this year's total.
SERVICE STATIONS.
One new station has been added this year, making a total
of twenty-one as against twenty a year ago. The new
station is Z, the Orient Heights reading-room at East
Boston. Its establishment was made possible by the addition
of |2,000 for this purpose to the yearly appropriation. The
remoteness of the district, which is more than two miles
north of the East Boston Branch, gave it a special claim,
though the population was not large. The reading-room
was opened on June 25, with about 1,000 volumes on the
shelves, of which over 700 had been bought for a permanent
collection. The circulation for seven months has been 7,316
volumes, and the attendance has often been more than
could be provided for.
The equipment of Stations N (Mt. Pleasant) and S (Rox-
bury Crossing) has become sufficient to entitle them to be
called reading-rooms, so that there are now ten reading-
rooms, as against seven a year ago.
There has been a general advance in usefulness on the part
of the reading-rooms during the past year. There are one
or more schools naturally in the jurisdiction of every reading-
Library Department. 49
room, but these schools have not always had close relations
with the station. The situation has improved this year, and
in the case of nearly every reading-room the Library^ is
sending books to the neighboring school, and there is a
friendly understanding between the teachers and the custo-
dian of the reading-room, so that the children -are constantly
sent for books, and to study their lessons there. The custo-
dians have also taken applications for cards in the schools
belonging to them. The reading-room cannot be a reservoir
of books, and the volumes to send to its school must come
from the Central Library or the nearest branch. But the
reading-room is the agency by which the books come, and in
most other respects it directly meets the wants of the chil-
dren of its one or more schools. Thus the reading-rooms
are becoming the subordinate centres of their districts, and
much credit for the result is due to the custodians, who have
worked faithfully with this end in view.
Besides an intelligent custodian, two things are necessary
to a properly equipped reading-room, space and books. In the
matter of space, no improvement has been possible this year.
Stations B (Roslindale) and S (Roxbury Crossing) are good
examples of what a reading-room should be in point of space,
and Station P (Broadway P^xtension) is the best example
possible of the crowded class.
But with regard to the second necessity, a good supply of
books, much progress has been made. At the beginning of
the year Stations N, S, U, and W had almost no reference
books, and the older reading-rooms had received no additions
to their collections since 1896. From thirty to one hundred
volumes of primary importance for reference have been added
to each service station. Books for general reading have also
been bought, and the number of additions for the year for
the twelve service stations is 2,348 volumes. The perma-
nent collections of these stations now number 7,372 volumes.
The deposits from the Central Library, upon which most
of the stations depend for miscellaneous reading, have been
systematically increased everj^where. The minimum number
of volumes in a deposit is now 300 and the maximum 500.
During the year the reclassification of the permanent col-
lections of the stations has been finished. A union catalogue
of these books has been made at the Central Librar}% which
for various reasons has been kept separate from the branch
catalogue. In every case also the books have been entered
on the records of the stations, so that all these volumes are
now for the first time properly classified, shelf-listed and
accessioned. Though card catalogues are not a necessity in
50 City Document No. 24.
the case of small collections of books on open shelves, yet
they now exist or are in process 'of making at most reading-
rooms.
The circulation of Station B (Roslindale) for its first
year of existence as a reading-room is 44,870 volumes.
This is much larger than that of any other reading-room, and
more than that of the Brighton and West Roxbury Branches,
though tlie station has less than 2,500 volumes. More books
would bring a larger use.
The circulation of Station Y at Andrew square, Dor-
chester street, at the end of its first year, is 15,264 volumes,
which shows a satisfactory use. It proves to be, however,
chiefly a children's station.
Early in the year Station D at Mattapan received thorough
repairs, including a new floor. Electric lights were installed
in the place of lamps.
Because of the great increase in the use of Station W
the directors of the Industrial School made provision for
its remaining open during the evening all summer, for the
first time.
SHOP STATIONS.
A few reference books have been placed at all the shop
stations.
Card catalogues or shelf lists of books on deposit have now
been completed for every shop station. There has been some
reorganization of methods at these stations with the purpose
of securing greater accuracy.
OTHER AGENCIES.
Books were sent, last summer, either from the Central
Library or the branches to twenty-one vacation schools or
play grounds. Four engines houses and two institutions,
The Men's Free Reading Room (formerly supplied), and the
Trinity Day Nursery have been added this year. The books
at the Day Nursery are for a club of mothers.
Central Library Activities.
deposit work.
•
The number of volumes sent on deposit from the Central
Library to the various agencies is 28,228, as against 25,500
in 1900, a gain of eleven per cent. The proportion of fiction
in the deposits sent out is forty-seven per cent., as against
forty-five per cent, in 1900, The net gain of the deposit
Library Department. 51
collection is 2,778 volumes; in 1900, 3,134 volumes; the
total number of volumes in tlie deposit collection is
16,4-45.
The increase in the* deposit collection has been large, but
not larger than is necessary for the supply of the growing
system. Of the 116 outlying agencies, eighty-one are
regularly supplied from the collection, and nearly all at
certain times. In the annual examination of the deposit
shelves every book was accounted for except one.
Attention is called to the fact that there is no more room
for the collection in the space assigned to the Branch
Department. Unless relief is given, it will not be long-
before no new books can be added.
THE DAILY ISSUE.
Duiing tlie year 111,432 volumes have been sent to the
branches and stations from the Central Library in the daily
issue on cards and slips, as against 104,988 volumes in
1900. The other statistics are as follows: Percentage of
unsuccessful cards, 45 per cent., as against 46 per cent, in
1900 ; percentage of fiction, in books issued, 80 per cent., as
against 81 per cent, a year ago ; percentage of fiction, in
unsuccessful applications, 79 per cent., while in 1900 it was
onl}^ 76 per cent., and in 1899, 72 per cent.
The above statistics are satisfactory with regard to the
number of books issued. A smaller percentage of fiction
issued and of unsuccessful applications is also to* be noted.
But the unremitting effort of the whole Branch Department
has been necessary to secure even these slight results. My
conclusions remain as before : There is an insistent demand
for fiction which the Library does not satisfy. The result
is useless labor in handling applications, and disappointment
and alienation on the part of the applicants. The remedy
seems to be more copies of the most popular books, balanced
by a smaller yearly total of titles ; or as an alternative, a
systematic refusal to add certain books at all. At present,
a book wdiich is advertised in the bulletins may exist in one
or two copies only, and yet be called for from thirty-one
branches and stations hundreds of times in a week with the
consequences described above. Certain books other than
fiction, such as Greek and Roman histories, might properly
have copies multiplied. A growing system of branches and
stations, with a daily wagon service widely advertised, would
seem to impl}^ logically an increasing supply of copies in the
Central reservoir.
62 City Document No. 24.
DISTRIBUTION OF PERIODICALS.
Periodicals to the number of 19,250, which have already-
done service in the Librar}^, have been distributed to City
institutions.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) Langdon L. Ward.
Library Department.
53
DEATHS AND RESIGNATIONS, 1901-1902.
Name.
Department.
Entered
Service.
Discontinued.
Leopold Helmann
Janitor
Sept. 12, 1900...
May 16,1900....
May 24, 1901....
June 30, 1898...
Jan. 25, 1888....
Resigned Feb. 10, 1901.
Resigned Mar. 25, 1901.
Resigned June 6, 1901.
Resigned July 5, 1901.
Resigned July 28, 1901.
Died Aug. 19, 1901.
Resigned Aug. 20, 1901.
Resigned Aug. 25, 1901.
Resigned Sept. 1,1901.
Resigned Sept. 1,1901.
Resigned Oct. 2, 1901.
Joseph P Riley
South End
Shelf
Mrs. Lilian F. Seaver. ..
Carrie K Burnell
Cataloo'ue
May 23, 1881....
March 22, 1895..
June 19, 1893...
Lucy I.Bertram
Marie Coolidge
Issue
Martha N Hobart
Brighton
Dec. 1 1896
Benjamin J. Batson, Jr.,
David L. Williams
Sept. 10, 1900. . .
June 8,1900....
Special litjrarles....
Arthur C Thomas
Janitor..
July 25, 1898....
Junes, 1898
Resigned Oct. 17, 1901.
Resigned Oct. 23, 1901.
Resigned Nov. 8, 1190.
Died Nov 16 1901
Benjamin Myers
Carrie P. Greeley
Mrs. Sarah Bowen
Station P
Aug. 17, 1896. . .
May, 1876
March 22, 1895..
Jan. 7, 1875
Bindery
Mary E.A.Ford
Edward Davenport
John Shaughnessy
Ferris Greenslet
Periodical
Resigned Dec. 1, 1901.
Nov 30 1898
Resigned Dec. 8, 1901.
Resigned Dec. 13, 1901.
Catalogue
Oct. 14, 1901....
Note. — William E.Ford, for thirty-two years janitor of the Boylston street build-
ing, died May 15, 1901.
Edward Ca'pen, librarian from 1852-1877, died October 20, 1901.
54 City Document No. 24.
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
FOR 1901-1902.
To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library :
Gentlemen, — The Examining Committee for the year 1901-
1902 met on May 17, 1901, and organized by the choice of
Samuel Wells as Chairman and Mrs. Mary E. Blake as Secretary.
The following sub-committees were appointed :
Administration.
AYilliam L. Parker, James W. Dunphy,
Mrs. AVilliam H, Dewart.
Books.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. John G. Blake,
Mrs. Wilham C. Collar, Rev. Charles F. Dole,
William V. Kellen, Johnson Morton.
Branches and lieio Modes of Distribution.
William L. Parker, Rev. Francis X. Dolan,
Mrs. Carl Dreyfus, Mrs. Thomas J. Gargan,
Bernard Jenney.
Catalogues, Bulletins and Finding Lists.
John H. Colby, Thomas M. Babson,
Dr. William A. Morrison, Rev. Robert F. Johnson.
Samuel Wells, Rev. Carlos C. Carpenter,
William L. Parker, George Putnam.
Printing and Binding.
D. B. I^pdike, John H. Colby,
Miss Maria E. Wood.
The sub-committees attended to the duties assigned to them
and made reports to the general committee.
The Committee on Administration considered the organization
and work of the Library and its branches as a whole, finding that
time and experience had enabled the Trustees to constantly im-
Library Department. 55
prove the system so that the comniittees had nothing to criticise ;
however, they " recommeud an increase in force in several depart-
ments, notably in that of the Branch Department ; also a liberal
appropriation for increasing the deposits of books at many of the
stations."
The Committee on Books suggest the "need of extra assistants in
the Cliildren's Reading-room during at least two hours of the after-
noon after school hours for the following reasons : ( 1 ) This
room is then apt to be crowded, especially in bad weather, and (2)
guidance in the choice of good reading is here, and here only,
possible. The parental function may be exercised and effort may
constantly be made to have each child read certain of the best
books before going on to elective reading and indiscriminate choice.
The children now recommend books to each other and the silliest
and least profitable stories are read out of their covers for lack of
knowledge of even the names of anything better ; there is a natural
preference for the easiest reading and the slightest intellectual
effort. This can only be counteracted by the affectionate care and
interest of instructed older people. The extra assistants might
be volunteers or might sometimes be drawn from the waiting hsts
of those who desire library positions. They would advise the
children and befriend them as far as possible. " Sometimes a half-
hour can be spent with a single child to the best possible purpose,"
as the most thoughtful of our special workers in this direction has
lately said, "but in the present condition of things, the room
crowded only at certain hours and the attendants being few, this
personal attention is not often possible." The committee also
recommend a still greater increase in the supply of standard books
for young people (or children's classics) . The best collections
of fairy tales, which stimulate the imagination, are just now in
astonishing demand, though not long ago it was claimed that
children cared for them no more. It appears from the records
kept of unsuccessful applications (ranging from one hundred in
June last to above three thousand in March), that beside the ad-
ditions already made, fifty extra copies of these "classics" for
the Children's Room and fifty for the stacks would not be too
large an increase. This committee also recommend further pur-
chases of French and German books of literary value and rank
in their own country.
They regard as very important the replenishing and careful
keeping up of the supply of Baedeker's and other guide books.
They do not see the use of any careful rebinding in this depart-
ment when new editions are obtainable.
They suggest the reprinting of a very useful Reader's Hand-
book, which can still be found at the desks for reference, but is
now out of print.
The committee are aware of the recent demand for large sums
for the multiplication of branch libraries and dehvery stations in
different parts of the city. At the same time there is cause for
regret that so small a proportion of the city's large appropriation
has been available for the purchase of books.
56 City Document No. 24.
The Committee on Branches find that the longer hours on week
days and the Sunday opening have done much good, and recom-
mend a still further extension in this respect. They urge greater
attention to ventilation and light, the introduction of electricity
where possible, and provision for increased room. They recom-
mend a larger appropriation for books, as in many stations the
meagre showing does not encourage attendance, also separate
rooms for children and the exclusion of those under twelve dur-
ing evening hours.
They find a need for small hand-carts to be used in the delivery
of books to the schools from the several branches.
They express their pleasure at the courtesy shown by the
Supervisor of Branches and Stations in permitting their attend-
ance at the meetings of custodians.
The Committee on Catalogues find that the suggestions made
last year by the Examining Committee were adopted and that
this department is being conducted in an eminently satisfactory
manner.
The Committee on Finance do not find it necessary to make
any recommendations. They commend the liberality in support-
ing the Library exhibited by the city government, and the pride
of the citizens of Boston in the possession of so great an instru-
ment of education.
The Committee on Printing and Binding report that the Print-
ing Department remains the same as last year, congratulate it on
the output of 30,000 cards in advance of what it was at the same
date one year ago, expecting to reach an advance of about 50,000
by January.
The committee are gratified to learn that the plan of these
cards has been adopted by the Library of Congress and several
other large institutions. They refer to the new style of machine
for this department and regret the delay in its completion,
suggesting meantime leasing a Hnotype in order to prevent a
congestion of work.
The introduction of a new machine will somewhat crowd the
printing room, but it is suggested that an iron gallery might be
put in this room for the storage of material not constantly in
use.
(Signed) Samuel Wells, Chairman.
Mary Elizabeth Blake, Secretary/.
APPENDIXES
I90I-I902.
LIST OF APPENDIXES.
PAGE.
I. Financial Statement ...... 59
II. Extent of the Library by Years . . .80
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments,
Including Branches . . . . .81
IV. Classification : Central Library , . broadside
V. Classification : Branches .... 84
VI. Registration ...... bi^oadside
VII. Circulation 87
VIII. Trustees for Fifty Years. Librarians . . 89
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty Years . . 91
X. Library Service (April 18, 1902), Including
Sunday and Evening Schedule ... 95
XI. Description of the Decorations by Edwin A.
Abbey and John Elliott . . . .104
XII. Givers and Gifts . . . . . .109
XIII. Chronology of the Library, 1852-1902 . . 153
Library Department. 59
APPENDIX I.
Finance.
Boston Public Library,
Auditing Department, February 1, 1902.*
To the Trustees:
Gentlemen, — The undersigned herewith presents a state-
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the Library Depart-
ment for the financial year beginning February 1, 1901, and
ending January 31, 1902, also a statement concerning the
trust and other funds, statements covering special appropri-
ations, and a statement of expenditures on account of the
branches for the twelve years ending 1901-1902.
Respectfully,
A. A. Nichols,
Auditor.
Receipts.
Appropriation. 1901-1902 . . $302,000 00
Lost books, sales of duplicates, etc., 1,952 29
Contribution for frame of Elliott
painting 900 00
Income from trust funds :
Balance from 1900-1901 . . ' $7,559 69
During the year .... 11,80396
$304,852 29
19,363 65
London accounts :
Balance in hands of J. S. Morgan
& Co., February 1, 1901 :
Trust funds income . 86,481. 05
City appropriation . 7,686 61
During the year . . 6,000 00
Interest . . . 215 79
S20.383 45
Balance in bands of Baring Bros.
& Co. . . . . . 72 75
20,456 20
Carried forward $344,672 14
60 City Document No. 24.
Brought forxmrd .
Gifts :
From J. W. Dunphy, unexpended
February 1, 1901 .
From Boston Numismatic Society,
unexpended February 1, 1901 .
From Elizabeth Lewis, unex-
pended, February 1, 1901
From Andrew Carnegie :
Unexpended, Febru-
ary 1, 1901 . . $13 86
During the year . 100 00
113 86
From Augustus Hemenway . . 62 22
From Godfrey Hyams . . . 108 60
Exchange account :
Lost books, sales of duplicates, etc. :
Balance from 1900-
1901 . . . $1,853 75
During the year . 236 73
•
$344,672
14
$12
22
127
63
119
56
544 09
$2,090 48
Less amount added to the appro-
priation .... 1,952 29
138
19
Interest on bank deposit
1,795
74
$347,150
16
Expenditures.
General Library accounts, including the cost of
maintaining branches :
Salaries :
General administration $144,749 43
Sunday and evening
force . . . 18,510 33
filfJC! .OCQ rja
Books :
City appro-
priation, $24,145 45*
City appro-
priation.
London
account, 4,076 06
Trust funds income, in-
cluding London ac-
count . . . 10,809 66
39,031 17
Carried forward . . .$202,290 93 $347,150 16
* Includes $100, Carnegie gift.
Library Department.
61
Brouf/htforirard .
$202,290
93
Newspapers :
Todd fund
1,739
01
Periodicals
6,437
63
Binding :
Salaries . . $15,274 16
Stock . . . 2,376 65
Equipment . . . 9 75
Contract work . . 8,250 27
41 /British patenlN OfltJ 97
IspenlicatiousJ " ^"" -«
26,177
10
Printing :
Salaries . . . $4,991 20
Stock . . . 2,247 54
Equipment . . . 256 80
Contract work . . 1,074 21
8,569
75
Furniture and fixtures
14,003
11
Gas
1,835
74
Electric lighting ....
2,399
83
Cleaning
6,237
71
Small supplies ....
2,612
94
Stationery .....
2,010
77
Rent of branches and reading-rooms
6,548
34
Fuel
10,260
75
Repairs
12,848
45
Freights and cartage
686
75
Transportation between Central
Library, branches and delivery
stations
3,827
32
Delivery stations, rent and services
4,127
28
Telephone service ....
229
58
Postage and telegrams
1,137
31
Typewriting .....
48
58
Travelling expenses . .
461
87
Grounds
23
55
Premium on surety bond
5
00
Remittance to J. S. Morgan & Co.,
London (Trust Funds Income)
6,000
00
Books : Boston Numis-
matic Society gift . $122 52
Books : J. W. Dunphy
gift ... 12 22
Books: Godfrey M.
Hyams gift . . 108 60
Books : Elizabeth Lewis
gift . . . 67 19
Books : Andrew Carnegie
gift ... 13 86
$347,150 16*
Carried f or tear d
$324 39 1320,519 30 $347,150 16
62 City Document No. 24.
Brought forward . $324 39 $320,519 30 $347,150 16
Books : Augustus Hemen-
wav gift . . . 62 22
386 61
Insurance on boilers . . . 135 00
Draping building, death of President
McKinley .... 329 32
Decorating ceilings, carpentry, etc.,
on account of installing paint-
ings :
Abbey painting . . $4,047 69
Elliott painting . . 1,757 00
Sargent painting . . 1,054 98
6,859 67
328,229 90
Balance $18,920 26
The balance is made up of the following items, viz. :
Cash in City Treasury :
Income from Trust funds ..... $5,595 63
Cash on deposit in London :
In hands of J. S. Morgan & Co. :
Trust funds . . $7,856 21
General funds . . 3,404 26
$11,260 47
In hands of Baring Bros. & Co. :
General funds.
Cash on deposit with New England
Trust Co. and on hand :
Unexpended of donations carried
to account of 1902-1903 :
Boston Numismatic Society .
Elizabeth Lewis ....
Exchange account : lost books .
Interest on bank deposits
11,333 22
$5 11
52 37
57 48
138 19
1,795 74
$18,920 26
Library Department.
63
GENERAL APPROPKIATIOX.
Comparative Statement for Fiscal Years ending January 31, 1900, 1901 and 1902.
1899-1900. 1900-1901. 1901-190
Salaries:
General administration —
Sunday and evening force.
Binding-
Salaries
Stock
Contract work
Equipment .
oks
Boot
Periodicals
Furniture and fixtures
Gas
Electric lighting
Supplies
Cleaning
Printing :
Equipment
Stock
Contract work
Stationery
Typewriting
Fuel
Rents
Repairs.,
Freights and cartage
Transportation between Central Library
and branches
Delivery stations
Travelling expenses
Postage and telegrams
Water rates
Telephone service
Miscellaneous expense
Advertising
Insurance
Grounds
Remittance to J. S. Morgan & Co., London
Decorating ceilings, carpentry, etc., on ac-
count of installing paintings
$133,886 00
18,543 37
13,213 02
1,715 99
2,752 46
.55 27
12,691 00
5,819 40
8,980 68
1,464 30
2,182 92
1,620 44
7,121 56
1,025 62
2,000 04
1,196 57
4,783 49
1,855 90
228 05
8,175 .54
5,620 00
5,354 68
802 88
3,568 23
4,025 24
443 28
1,914 80
348 67
675 27
2 40
6 75
2,028 57
$141,201 87
18,400 37
14,880 47
2,282 57
11,393 92
118 80
19,178 03
5,.i97 79
11,837 47
1,568 70
2,393 13
2,484 00
7,333 78
299 10
2,237 96
1,046 78
5,005 54
2,434 95
7 80
11,899 32
5,215 01
10,964 01
1,153 74
3,488 63
4,184 51
451 45
1,171 85
481 60
256 20
338 25
8 12
1,500 00
$144,749 43
18,510 33
15,274 16
2,376 65
8,250 27
9 75
24,145 45
6,437 63
14,0C3 11
1,835 74
2,399 83
2,612 94
6,237 71
256 80
2,247 54
1,074 21
4,991 20
2,010 77
48 58
10,260 75
6,548 34
12,848 45
3,827 32
4,127 28
461 87
1,137 31
229 58
834 32
$255,000 00
The cost of maintaining the branches makes part of the general items of the
several appropriations :
Cost of branches 1899-1900 !!!60,295 93
1900-1901 72,428 91
" " " 1901-1902 75,851 43
The amount expended for newspapers, books and binding (not included above)
paid from trust funds and city money in the hands of London bankers :
For 1899-1900 $6,604 35
" 1900-1901 7,827 78
" 1901-1902 9,122 98
The amount expended for books, newspapers and photographs (not included
above) paid from trust funds in the hands of City treasurer:
For 1889-1900 $8,270 66
" 1900-1901 10,287 70
" 1901-1902 7,768 02 '
64
City Document No. 24.
Special Appropriations.
Library building, Dartmouth street, balance of
appropriation February 1, 1901 . . . $76,827 94
Payments on account :
Mural painting, Edwin A. Abbey . . . 5,500 GO
Balance, February 1, 1902
$71,327 94
This balance will be required to settle outstanding contracts.
$4,821 81
Library building, furnishing, balance of city appro
priation February 1, 1902 ...
Branch library, Broadway Extension, improve-
ments, balance of appropriation February 1,
1901
Payments on account ......
$2,575 69
587 79
Balance transferred to other appropriations, $1,987 90
LONDON ACCOUNTS.
Balances
from
1900-1901.
Remittances
and Interest
1901-1902.
Total
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Expendi-
tures,
1901-1902.
Balances
to
1902-1903.
J. S. Morgan & Co,
J. S. Morgan & Co,
interest
£ s. d.
2,909 15 0
£ s. d.
1,229 10 21
r
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1,875 1 11
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2,308 9 6
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2,924 15
1,273 IC 5
4,198 11 6
1,875 1 11
2,323 9 6
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LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS.
BiGKLOw Fund. — This is a gift from the late John P. Bigelow of
Boston, in August, 1850, when Mayor of the City.
The income from this fund is to be approjiriated to the purchase of
books for the increase of the Library.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . S 1,000 00
Payable to the Chairman of the Committee on the Public Library for
the time being.
Bates Fund. — This is a gift from the late Joshua Bates of Lon-
don, in March, 1853.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
"The income only of this fund is to be, each and every year, ex-
pended in the purchase of such books of permanent value and authority
as may be found most needful and most useful." Payable to the Mayor
of the City for the time being.
BowDiTCH Fund. — This is the bequest of J. Ingersoll Bowditch
of Boston. Received January, 1S90.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for $10,000 00
The whole income in each and every year to be expended in the pur-
chase of books of permanent value and authority in mathematics and
astronomy.
Phillips Fund. — This is a gift from the late Jonathan Phillips
of Boston, in April, 1853.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
The interest on this fund is to be used exclusively for the purchase
of books for said Library.
Also a bequest in his will, dated September 20, 1849.
Invested in one City of Boston Six per cent. Bond, for . $20.000 00
The interest on this fund is to be annually devoted to the maintenance
of a Free Public Library.
Abbott Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of Abbott Law-
rence of Boston. Received May, 1860.
Invested in one City of Boston Six per cent. Bond, for . $10.000 00
The interest on this fund is to be exclusively appropriated for the
pvirchase of books for the said Library, having a permanent value.
Edward Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of Edward Laav-
RENCE of Charlestown. Received May, 1886. The following clause
from his will explains its purpose:
" To hold and apply the income, and so much of the principal as they
may choose, to the purchase of special books of reference to be kept
and used only at the Charlestown Branch of said Public Library."
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $500 00
Library Department. 69
Pierce Fund. — This is a gift from Henry L. Pierce, Mayor of the
City, November 29, 1873, and accepted by the City Council, December
27, 1873.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $5,000 00
Townsend Fund. — This is a gift from William Minot and William
Minot, .Ir., executors of the will of Mary P. Townsend, of Boston, at
whose disposal she left a certain portion of her estate in trust, for such
charitable and public institutions as tliey may think meritorious. Said
executors accordingly selected the Public Library of the City of Boston
as one of such institutions, and attached the following conditions to
the legacy: "The income only shall, in each and every year, be ex-
pended in the purchase of books for the use of the Library; each of
which books shall have been published in some one edition at least five
years at the time it may bo so purchased." Received April, 1879.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for . $4,000 00
Ticknor Bequest. — By the will of the late George Ticknor, of
Boston, he gave to the City of Boston, on the death of his wife, all his
books and manuscripts, in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, about
four thousand volumes, and also the sum of four thousand dollars.
After the receipt of said sum, the City is required to spend not less than
one thousand dollars in every five years during the twenty-five years
next succeeding {i.e., the income of four thousand dollars, at the rate
of five per cenf. per annum), in the purchase of books in the Spanish
and Portuguese languages and literature, five years old in some one edi-
tion. At the end of twenty-five years the income of said sum is to be
expended annually in the purchase of books of permanent value, either
in the Spanish or Portuguese language, or in such other languages as
may be deemed expedient by those having charge of the Library.
These books bequeathed or purchased are always to be freely accessible
for reference or study, but are not to be loaned for use outside of the
Library building. If these bequests are not accepted by the City, and
the trusts and conditions faithfully executed, tike books, manuscripts
and money are to be given to the President and Fellows of Harvard
College.
In order that the City might receive the immediate benefit of this
contribution, Anna Ticknor, widow of Mr. Ticknor, relinquished her
right to retain during her life the books and manuscripts, and placed
them under the control of the City, the City Council having previously
accepted the bequests in accordance with the terms and conditions of
said will, and the Trustees of the Public Library received said bequests
on behalf of the City, and made suitable arrangements for the care and
custody of the books and manuscripts. Received April, 1871.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $4,000 00
Franklin Club Fund. — This is a gift made in .June, 1863, by a
literary association of young men in Boston, who, at the dissolution of
the association, authorized its trustees, Thomas Minns, John J. French
and J. Franklin Reed, to dispose of the funds on hand in such a man-
ner as to them should seem judicious. They elected to bestow it on
the Public Library, attaching to it the following conditions: " In trust
that the income, but the income only, shall, year by year, be expended
in the purchase of books of permanent value for the use of the free
Public Library of the City, and as far as practicable, of such a character
as to be of special interest to young men." The Trustees expressed a
preference for books relative to Government and Political Economy.
Received June, 1863.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
70 City Document No. 24.
Treadwell Fund. — By the will of the late Daniel Treadwell of
Cambridge, late Rumford Professor in Harvard College, who died Feb-
ruary 27, 1872, he left the residue of his estate, after payment of debts,
legacies, etc., in trust to his executors, to hold during the life of his
wife for her benefit, and, after her decease, to divide the residue then
remaining in the hands of the trustees as therein provided, and convey
one-fifth part thereof to the Trustees of the Public Library in the City
of Boston.
The City Council have accepted said bequest, and authorized the
Trustees of the Public Library to receive the same, and to invest it in
the City of Boston Bonds, the income of which is to be expended by
said trustees, in such manner as they may deem for the best interests
of tlie Library.
Invested in the City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds, for . $!5,550 00
Invested in the City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bonds, for 1,400 00
Invested in 16 shares Boston & Albany R.R. Co. stock, par
value $100 each 1,600 00
Invested in 6 shares Boston & Providence R.R. Co. stock,
par value $100 each 600 00
Invested in 12 shares Fitchburg R.R. Co. stock, par value
$100 each 1,200 00
Invested in 1 share Vermont & Massachusetts R.R. Co.
stock, par value $100 each 100 00
$10,450 00
Charlotte Harris Fund. — Bequest of Charlotte Harris, late
of Boston, the object of which is stated in the following extract from
her will:
" I give to the Charlestown Public Library $10,000, to be invested
on interest, which interest is to be applied to the purchase of books
published before 1850. I also give to said Public Library my own pri-
vate library, and the' portrait of my grandfather, Richard Devens."
Bequest accepted by City Council, July 31, 1877.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
Thomas B. Harris Fund. — Bequest of Thomas B. Harris, late of
Charlestown, for the benefit of the Charlestown Public Library. Re-
ceived April, 1884.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
ScHOLFiELD FuND. — Bequest of Arthur Sciiolfield, who died in
New York, January 17, 1883. The interest to be paid to certain heirs
during their lives, and then to be used for the purchase of books of
permanent value. The last heir, Joseph Scholfield, died November 18,
1889, and by his will bequeathed to the City of Boston the sum of
$11,800, wliich represents the income of said fund, received by him up
to the time of his death, to be added to the fund given by his brother.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . .?!50,000 00
" " " " " " <■' . 11,800 00
$61,800 00
Green Fund. — Gifts from Dr. Samuel A. Green, of Boston, of
$2,000, the income of which is to be expended for the purchase of books
relating to American history.
Library Department. 71
Invested in one City of Boston Five per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
Four " " " . 500 00
'' " '> Three " " " . 500 00
§2,000 00
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund. — Gift of a citizen of
South Boston, the income of which is to be expended for the benefit of
the South Boston Branch Library. Received September, 1879.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $100 00
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund.— This is a gift from the
family of Charles Greely Loring, the income of which is to be expended
for the purchase of books for the West End Branch. Received January,
1896.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $500 00
Charles Mead Public Library Trust Fund. — Received from
the estate of Charles Mead, the amount of his legacy, to constitute the
"Charles Mead Public Library Trust Fund," for the promotion
of the objects of the Public Library, in such manner as the government
of said Library shall deem best, and so far as the government shall
deem consistent with the objects of the Library, to be used for the
benefit of the South Boston Branch Library. Received October, 1896.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $2,500 00
Artz Fund. — This is a gift made in November, 1896, by Miss Vic-
torine Thomas Artz of Chicago ; the income "to be employed in the
purchase of valuable rare editions of the writings, either in verse or
prose, of American and of foreign authors." These books are to be
known as the "Longfellow Memorial Collection."
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund. — This fund was received
from the members of the Papyrus Club, May, 1897. The income thereof
is to be expended for the purchase of books in memory of their late
member, John Boyle O'Reilly,
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund. — This is a gift made in
April, 1897, by the Association of Oflicers of the Twentieth Massachu-
setts Volunteer Infantry. It is to be used for the purchase of books
of a military and patriotic character, to be placed in the alcove appro-
priated as a Memorial of the Twentieth Regiment.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $5,000 00
Todd Fund. — This is a gift made in October, 1897, by William C.
Todd, of Atkinson, New Hampshire. The income is to be expended
annually in payment for such current newspapers of this and other
countries as the board of officers for the time being having charge of
the Public Library of the City of Boston shall purchase.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
72 City Document No. 24.
Brablee Fund. — A bequest of the Rev. Caleb Davis Bradlee,
D.D., of Boston, to the Boston Public Library. Received November,
1897.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for f 1,000 GO
Henry Sargent Codman Memorial Fund. — This is a contribu-
tion from the friends of the late Henry Sargent Codman, to be used
to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Codman by the purchase of books
upon landscape gardening. Received January, 1898.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for $2,800 00
Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1901 .... 54 41
$2,854 41
Ford Fund. — A bequest of Daniel Sharp Ford to the Public
Library of the City of Boston. Received June, 1900.
Invested in one City of Boston Three per cent. Bond, for . 86,000 00
Cutter Fund. — A bequest of Abram E. Cutter, the income of
which is to be expended for the purchase of books and for binding for
the Abram E. Cutter collection.
Invested in one City of Boston Three per cent. Bond, for . $4,000 00
Recapitulation of Puclic Library Trust Funds.
Schollield Fund $61,800 00
Bates Fund 50,000 00
Todd Fund 50,000 00
Phillips Fund 20,000 00
Treadwell Fund 10,487 69
Phillips Fund 10.000 00
Bov?ditch Fund 10,000 00
Charlotte Harris Fund 10,000 00
Abbott Lawrence Fund 10,000 00
Artz Fund 10,000 00
Ford Fund 6,000 00
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund 5,000 00
Pierce Fund 5,000 00
Townsend Fund 4,000 00
Ticknor Fund 4,000 00
Cutter Fund 4,000 00
Codman Memorial Fund 2,854 41
Charles Mead Fund 2,500 00
Green Fund 2,000 00
Bigelow Fund 1,000 00
Thomas B. Harris Fimd 1,000 00
Franklin Club Fund 1,000 00
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund 1,000 00
Bradlee Fund 1,000 00
Edward Lawrence Fund . . 500 00
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund 500 00
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund .... 100 00
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EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY BY^ YEARS.
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1897-98
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1864-65
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1881-82
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1898-99
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1865-66
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1882-83
422,116
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1866-67
136,080
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1883-84
438,594
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1900-1901
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1867-68
144,092
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1901-1902
812,264
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1868-69
152,796
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1885
460,993
VOLUMES IN LIBRARY^ AND BRANCHES, JANUARY^ 31, 1902,
ACCORDING TO LOCATION.
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Dorchester
East Boston
Jamaica Plain
South Boston
South End
603,155
32,346
635,501
22,432
12,400
34,832
15,218
29,527
17,107
12,623
13,607
15,520
13,415
West End
West Roxbury
Lower Mills (Station A)
Roslindale (Station B)
Mattapan (Station D)
Mt. Bowdoin (Station F)....
North Brighton (Station L) . .
Mt. Pleasant (Station N)
Broadway Ext. (Station P)..
Roxbury Crossing (Station S)
Ward Nine (Station U)
Industrial School (Station W)
Andrew Sq. (Station Y)
Orient Heights (Station Z). .
12,514
5,028
128
1,906
126
1,014
103
114
2,270
350
322
67
216
756
Library Department.
APPENDIX III.
81
NET INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
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Bates Hall ..
16,499
818
•20,493
loss 455
32,491
746
11,821
20,273
26,579
20,680
21,937
25,049
Lower Hall
20,482
I's 9,143
loss 542
I's 8,056
313
2,890
8,603
2,063
6,894
8,093
2,'224
Brighton branch
9S
23
292
107
1,217
276
I's 3,190
471
135
726
Charlestown branch —
•2-2
339
300
loss 16
I'S 112
398
2,095
l'sl3
I's 3,158
742
Dorchester branch
■209
134
358
loss 73
1,415
159
I's 1,402
514
585
595
Eiist Boston branch....
5
48
126
112
1,021
147
'Is 1,478
I'S 255
495
569
Jamaica Plain branch,
112
221
329
273
1,277
374
I's 1,286
29
467
615
1 North End branch....
84
15
63
I'S 1,861
Roxbury branch
loss 35-2
147
382
48
1,202
I'S 2,896
I's 1,628
I'S 4-24
I's 3-24
loss 250
Fellovres AthenEcum...
289
318
318
407
348
402
936
990
1,070
911
South Boston branch.. .
51
55
401
loss 289
1,509
loss 69
113
I's 440
I'S 118
1,166
South End branch
loss 67
26
276
138
1,435
308
I's 683
I's 588
I'S 505
599
West End branch
1,897
6,522
1,555
385
466
498
7-n
470
Vf. Roxburv branch
33
4
626
loss 8
185
169
199
414
93
Lower Mills reading-
85
3
loss 1
41
Rosliudale reading-
1,524
382
Ma 1 1 a p a n reading-
73
24
1
■'8
Mt. Bowdoin reading-
74
932
loss 30
16
loss 5
27
North Brighton read-
ing-room
Mt. Pleasant reading-
8
74
loss 7
1
lo^sl
•'8
114
Broadway Extension
•J 61
7->4
307
•'10
17-)
■'95
■^■->\
RoxbHry Crossing de-
213
loss 5
142
Ward Nine delivery
station
Ka
59
126
Industrial School de-
liverv station
67
Andrew Scjuare read-
ing-room
203
13
Orient Heights reading-
756
Total :
8,633
20,915
29,927
18,695
35,698
35,129
17,162
30,333
34,994
30,887
^Collection transferred to West End branch.
City Document No. 24.
PLACED ON THE SHELVES FEBRUAKY 1, 1901, TO JANUARY 31, 1902.
Placed on
the Shelves.
Condemned,
missing,
transferred.
Central Libi\iry
Central Library, Duplicate room ,
Brighton branch ,
Charlestown branch
Dorchester branch
East Boston branch
Jamaica Plain branch ,
Roxbury branch, city collection ,
Roxbiiry branch, Fellowes Athenreum
South Boston branch
South End branch
West End branch
West Roxbury branch
Lower Mills reading-room
Roslindale reading-room
Mattapan reading-room
Mt. Bowdoin reading-room
North Brighton reading-room
Mt. Pleasant reading-room
Broadway Extension reading-room —
Roxbury Crossing delivery station
Ward Nine delivery station
Industrial School delivery station
Andrew Square reading-room
Orient Heights reading-room
Total
25,485
2,508
871
1,384
881
1,087
1,058
1,631
773
835
530
41
398
29
52
2S
114
535
174
132
67
21
762
5,003
284
145
643
286
518
188
272
147
465
174
365
437
314
32
20,482
2,224
726
742
615
loss 250
911
1,166
40,221
9,334
APPENDIX IV.
CEKTRAL LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
■i
1858.
1861.
1806.
1809.
1871.
1873.
1876. 1877. 1 1830. 1889. | 1890. 1 1892. 1894. 1 1804. 1 1894. 1 1896. 1 1806. 1 139}. { 1 1898. { 1
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1,802
14,266
15,549
49,0-4
11,762
18,710
10,548
16,004
23,898
7,284
35,684
23,ff7:
7,345
23,366
17,668
22,236
7,665
8,067
20,089
-1
108
678
3,450
2,314
276
762
789
830
117
1,221
715
2.091
1
30
2
36
28
36
19
24
88
28
90
15
14
1,872
51,253
20,810
12,000
16,737
24,002
7,325
30,824
23,960
7,258
9,133
23,931
18,262
22,932
8,477
■249
77
1.387
68
3
15
322
5-S
327
1,423
1,181
6
2
31
1,210
61
462
22
21
67
20
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24
92
13
1,598
219
m
2,517
16,614
18,126
87,528
66,854
31,615
n.
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278
31
26
4.304
250
691
813
3,209
2,471
337
254
617
226
069
184
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1
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6,633
430
•
10
184
110
386
286
60
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1,137
3
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6,9
874
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1
688
28
4
22,196
13,061
IX
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XI
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>
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3
6,990
34,040
TransactlonB
3,523
1,359
170
130
684
381
a
36
130
17
89
16
•248
2
59
12
1
3
9
3
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25
101
t3,019
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*
108
20
5
1
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27,840
XXo
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^
331
8,518
6
30
1
129
14
3,236
401
8,831
12
33
268
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97
60
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138
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Shakes e r ""
3,236
30,122
8,421
2,608
3,639
33,771
32,346
11,602
Stack 4 and "Y"
648
4,089
33,771
XXVI
32,316
^WIII
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11,602
5-<2,832
26,909
3,756
6,076
540,910
6,788
13,809
2,048
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690
876
3,019
6,832
424
^^
730
1,237
6,001
436
4,637
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Class VIII. tocluilea also Belgium, the Netherlands.
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Class XIX. Includes meobanicB, military an
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City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX V.
CLASSIFICATION.
1 Branch Librabies.
As Reported by Custodians of Branches, January 31, 1902.
Reference books
Genealogy and heraldry
Biography
History
Fine arts, archaeology
Geography, travels
Language
Literature
Medicine, hygiene
Natural S(?ience
Philosophy, ethics, education. .
Religion, theology
Sociology
Law
Useful and industrial arts
Amusements, games, sports —
Fiction
Books for the young
Bound periodicals
Unclassilied
404
13
1,488
1,62;
8'
52!
297
1,393
1,387
1,43'
90
394
71
5,6;
1,719
1,11
1,3'
418
23
1,125
1,281
249
676
60
1,409
88
335
173
163
118
15
17
6'
4,00i
1,534
1,255
1,149
316
712
91
1,210
406
200
195
128
71
4,136
1
1,120
318
5
1,244
1,352
111
426
210
251
132
21
211
75
4,722
l,i
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1,4!
1,226
1,410
101
406
233
221
124
14
17
74
3,9!
1,560
825
532
10
1.240
1,201
129
1,242
2,310
134
25
122
II
105
76
10
11
19
1
24
7
243
1,236
53
49
Total 15,218 17,107
12,623 13,607 15,520 13,415 12,514 5,028 1,906 2,270
1 For the Chai'lestown and Roxbury liranches the figures c^f the re-classiflealion are not
yet completed.
APPENDIX VI.
REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Statistical Report, February 1, 1901, to January 31, 1902.
Central Library
Brighton Branch
Charlestown Branch....
Dorchester Branch
East Boston Branch —
Jamaica Plain Branch . .
Roxbury Brancli
South Boston Branch...
South End Branch
West End Branch
West Roxbury Branch .
Station A
CARDS ISSUED FEBRUARY 1, ISOl — JANUARY 31, 1902.
Re- Registrations.
2,31.'i
1,908
2,970
3,446
3,615
1,234
1,47
61,340 2,043
New Registrations.
7 2,8.16 648 3,852 8,410 4,780 8,l.i9 1,542 1,1
2,410 1,45B
4,745
1,234
3,511
3,407
707
2,700
5,699
1,383
4,316
6,704
1,640
5,124
3,291
892
2,399
5,278
1,575
3,703
1,306
321
985
Number of calls made by messenger verifying addresses, 7,030. Total number of persons attelnded to, 76,394.
Library Department.
85
CLASSIFICATION OF HOLDERS OF "LIVE CARDS
JANUARY 31, 1902.
By Sex and Occupation.
Classes.
Permanent
Residents.
iNon-
residents.
Males.
Over 21 years of age.
2.512
424
1,309
7,609
1,S45
462
1,298
724
489
1,282
8,873
483
160
192
Teachers
Business men
116
483
Under 21 years ofac/e.
Clerks
94
Office and errand boys
4
Pupils of Grammar schools .
11
Females.
Over 21 years of age.
Profeseional classes..
516
2,090
1,542
4,681
8,292
8,218
1,861
543
1,494
1,414
9,212
488
98
169
1,614
1*^1
Businesswomen
Married
Under 21 years of age.
Clerks
Errand girls
9
Unemployed
g->
Totals
67,661
5,241
1 Including persons' temporarily sojourning in Boston.
N.B.— Of the 2,530 teachers' cards issued prior to Feliruary 1,1902, 1,216 are live
cards; of these, 932 are held by permanent residents, in addition to their ordinary
cards (not included in permanent residents' column above), and 284 are held by non-
residents (which are included in non-residents' column above).
Of the 709 special privilege cards issued prior to February 1, 1902, 312 are live cards;
260 are held by permanent residents, and 62 are held by non-residents.
86
City Document No. 24.
By Wards.
Ward No.
c —
5
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1
Ward No.
6
|1
^6
1
1. .. .;
1,560
1,340
1,306
1,334
1,2S6
1,690
3,943
2,980
8,990
5,260
5,934
1,740
22,832
22,924
14,564
13,248
12,840
30,546
14,782
28,817
24,583
22,142
19,275
23,641
22,835
.0683
.0508
.0896
.1006
.1001
.0553
.1137
.1367
. 1212
.4060
.2728
.2510
.0761
14
2,195
1,980
2,210
2,350
2,206
2,290
4,106
4,318
2,836
2,906
3,544
2,916
21,453
19,700
20,017
25,038
22,401
27,178
32,556
23,868
25,610
23,637
27,126
19,279
1023
.1005
3
16
1104
4
17
0938
6
19
.0842
9
23
.1107
10
.1229
11
24 .
1306
12
Total
72,902
560,892
1299
Library Department.
87
APPENDIX VII.
CIRCULATION OF BOOKS.
Home Use Only.
Central Library:
A., direct
Total Circulation.
Home use.
1900-
1901
B., through branches
and stations
Brighton
Charleslown . . .
Dorchester
East Boston....
Jamaica Plain .
Roxbury
South Boston..
South End
West End
West Roxbury.
Station A
318,514
113,143
4-2,800
43,706
52,021
64,461
50,758
88,622
75,294
87,604
131,532
24,056
5,4-27
16,688
4,768
6,490
10.143
5,840
5,1-25
Carried forward.
3-24,547
121,279
73,261
57,449
95,853
87,774
88,020
137,713
27,879
6,945
40,b23
8,.58l
14,382
12,9-25
10,158
11,818
6,918
5,542
From Central
Lil)rary through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation, " B."
I900"
1901.
1,176,.S37 1,302,289 50,569 46,814
689
1,657
1,198
823
895
1,108
2,343
1,800
2,377
6,808
3.305
2,155
3,017
5,644
4,843
5,953
2,062
2,206
614
1,894
1,438
681
762
1,211
3,252
1,310
2,020
4,047
3,553
1,849
3,554
4,991
4,586
5,866
1,769
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
Branch Circulation
1900-
1901,
3 81
'1,150
1901-
1902.
See notes, pag-e 8S.
88
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX Vn. — Coticluded.
Brought forioard
Station M
N
P
Q
R
S
T
U
AV
Y
Z
Cottage Place
Deer Island
Guild St. Eliaabeth
House of Reformation . .
North Bennet street
Parental School
Schools
Back Bay P.O
City Almshouse
Engine houses
Gallop's Island
Vacation Schools, etc
Total 1,324,728 1,483,513
Total Circulation.
Home use.
1900-
1901.
1,176,837
9,454
12,083
26,449
16,669
18,398
14,382
11,199
17,039
4,516
1,393
1901-
1902.
1,302,289
11,150
16,473
29,164
16,267
18,081
15,702
12,866
19,451
9,153
10,.503
From Central
Library through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation " B."
1900-
1901
50,569
4,421
5,780
2,253
5,005
9,814
5,992
4,349
6,063
1901-
1902.
46,814
4,004
5,941
2,089
4,481
9,380
6,614
3,827
8,878
13,832
4,619
386
46
1300
1268
1 8,850
45
1715
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
Branch Circulation.
1900-
1901.
1901-
1902.
1 Number sent on deposit. Number used on premises not recorded.
- Included in Dorchester Branch circulation.
3 " " Brighton " "
* " " Roxbury " "
'' " " South Boston " "
Library Department.
89
APPENDIX VIII.
TRUSTEES FOR FIFTY Y'EARS.
The Hon. Edward Everett was President of the Board of
Trustees from 1852 to 18()4; George Ticknor, Esq., in 1865;
William ^V. Greenongb, Esq., from 1866 to April, 1888; from
May 7, 1888, to May 12, 1888, Prof. Henry W. Haynes ;
Samuel A. B. Abbott, Esq., May 12, 1888, to April 30, 1895;
Hon. F. O. Prince, October 8, 1895, to May 8, 1899; Hon.
Solomon Lincoln has served since May 12, 1899.
The Board for 1852 was a preliminary organization ; that for
1853 made what is called the first annual report. At first it con-
sisted of one alderman and one common councilman and five
citizens at large, until 1867, when a revised ordinance made it to
consist of one alderman, two common councilmen and six citizens
at large, two of whom retired, unless reelected, each year, while
the members from the City Council were elected yearly. In 1878
the organization of the Board was changed to include one alder-
man, one councilman and five citizens at large, as before 1867 ;
and in 1885, by the provisions of the amended city charter, the
representation of the City Government upon the Board, by an
alderman and a councilman, was abolished, leaving the Board as
at present, consisting of five citizens at large appointed by the
Mayor.
Citizens at large in small capitals.
Abbott, Samuel A. B., 1879-95.
Allen, James B., 1852-53.
Appletox, Thomas G., 1852-57.
Barnes, Joseph H., 1871-72.
Bexton, Josiah H., Jr., 1894-1901.
BiGELOw, Hon. John P., 1852-68.
BowDiTCH, Henry 1., M.D.,
1865-68.
BowDiTCH, Henry P., M.D., 1894-
1901.
Bradlee, John T., 1869-70.
Bradt, Herman D., 1872-73.
Braman, Jarvis D., 1868-69.
Braman, Jarvis D., 1869-72.
Brown, J. Coffin Jones, 1861-62.
Burditt, Charles A., 1873-76.
Carpenter, George O., 1870-71.
Carr, Samuel, 1895-96.
Chase, George B., 1876-85.
Clapp, William W., Jr., 1864-66.
Clark, John M., 1855-56.
Clark, John T., 1873-78.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D.,
1878-88.
Coe, Henry F., 1878.
Crane, Samuel D., 1860-61.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1873-75.
Dennie, George, 1858-60.
De Normandie, James, D.D.,
1895-1901.
Dickinson, M. F., Jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1863-64.
DwiGHT, Thomas, M.D., 1899-1901.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett, Hon. Edward, 1852-64.
Flynn, James J., 1883.
Frost, Oliver, 1854-55 ; 1856-58.
Frothingham, Richard, LL.D.,
1875-79.
Gaffield, Thomas, 1867-68.
Green, Samuel A., M.D., 1868-78.
Green ouGH, William W., 1856-88.
Guild, Curtis, 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris, William G., 1869-70.
90
City Document No. 24.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1858-59.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W.,
1880-95.
HiLLARD, Hon. George S., 1872-
75; 1876-77.
Howes, Osborne, Jr., 1877-78.
Ingalls, Melville E., 1870-71.
Jackson, Patrick T., 1864-65.
Jenkins, Edward J., 1885.
Keith, James M., 1868-70.
Kimball, David P., 1874-76.
Lawrence, James, 1852.
Lee, Hon. John H., 1884-85.
Lewis, Weston, 1867-68.
Lewis, Weston, 1868-79.
Lewis, Winslow, 1867.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, 1897-
1901.
Little, Samuel, 1871-73.
Messinger, George W., 1855.
Morse, Godfrey, 1883-84.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W., 1870-73.
Munroe, Abel B., 1854.
Newton, Jeremiah L., 1867-68.
Niles, Stephen R., 1870-71.
O'Brien, Hon. Hugh, 1879-82.
Pease, Frederick, 1872-73.
Perkins, William E., 1878-74.
Perry, Lyman, 1852.
Pierce, Phineas, 1888-94.
Plummer, Farnham, 1856-57.
Pope, Benjamin, 1876-77.
Pope, Richard, 1877-78.
Pratt, Charles E., 1880-82.
Prince, Hon. Frederick
O.,
Putnam, George, D.D., 1868-77.
Reed, Sampson, 1852-53.
Richards, William R., 1889-95.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860-61.
Sears, Phillip H., 1859-60.
Seaver, Hon. Benjamin, 1852.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey ISi., 1878-79.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B.,
1852-68.
Stebbins, Solomon B., 1882-83,
Story, Joseph, 1855-56 ; 1865-67.
Thomas, Benjamin F., LL.D.,
1877-78.
TiCKNOR, George, LL.D., 1852-66.
Tyler, John S., 1863-64; 1866-67.
Walker, Francis A., LL.D., 1896.
Warren, George W., 1852-54.
Washburn, Frederick L., 1857-58.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1868-70.
Whitmore, William H., 1882-83.
Whitmore, William H., 1885-88.
Whitney, Daniel H., 1862-63.
Whitten, Charles V., 1883-85.
Wilson, Elisha T., M.D., 1861-63.
Wilson, George, 1852.
WiNSoR, Justin, LL.D., 1867.
Wolcott, Hon. Roger, 1879.
Wright, Albert J., 1868-69.
LIBRARIANS.
1852 to date.
(From 1S58 to 1877 the chief executive officer was entitled Superintendent.)
Capen, Edward, Librarian, May 13, 1852-December 16, 1874.
Jewett, Charles C, Superintendent, 1858-January 9, 1868.
WiNSOR, Justin, LL.D., Superintendent, February 2.5, 1868-September
30, 1877.
Green, Samuel A., M.D., Trustee, Acting Librarian, October 1, 1877-
September 30, 1878.
Chamberlain, Mellen, LL.D., Librarian, October 1, 1878-September
30, 1890.
DwiGHT, Theodore F., Librarian, April 13, 1892-April 30, 1894.
Putnam, Herbert, Librarian, February 11, 1895-April 3, 1899.
Whitney, James L., Acting Librarian, March 31, 1899-December 21,
1899; Librarian, December 22, 1899.
Library Department.
91
APPENDIX IX.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR FIFTY YEARS.
The following have served on the Examining Committees for
the years given. The names in italics are those of Trustees who
have acted as chairmen of the various committees. The thirtj'-
fourth year was from May 1 to December 31, 1885, a period of
eight months, for which no Examining Committee was appointed.
Abbott, Hon. J. G., 1870.
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880, 1894.
Adams, Brooks. 1894.
Adams, Nehemiah. D.D., 1860.
Adams, Wm. T.. 1875.
Alger, Rev. Wm. R., 1870.
Allen, Hon. Charles, 1899.
Amory. Miss Anna S., 1890, 1891.
Andrew, Hon. John F., 1888.
Andrews, Augustus, 1892, 1893.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, 1854.
Apthorp, AVm. F., 1883, 1899, 1900.
Arnold. Howard P., 1881.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, G., 1877.
Babson, Thomas M., 1900, 1901.
Bailev, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball. Joshua D., 1861.
Bancroft, Robert H.. 1894.
Bangs. Edward, 1887.
Barnard, James M., 1866.
Barry, Rev. Richard J., 1895.
Bartiett, Sidnev. 1869.
Bates, Hon. John L., 1896, 1897.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Edward, D.D., 1854.
Bent, Samuel Arthur, 1890, 1891,
Bigelow, Jacob. M.D., 1857.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1856.
Blagden. George W.,D.D., 1856.
Blake, J. Bapst, M.D., 1897, 1898.
Blake, John G., M.D., 1883, 1891.
Blake. Mrs. Mary E., 1894, 1900,
1901.
Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P.. 1879, 1891.
Bowditch, Alfred. 1899, 1900.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1855.
Bowditch, Henry I., M. D.. 1865.
Bowditch, Henry P., M.D., 1881.
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll, LL.D.,
1855.
Bowman, Alfonso. 1867.
Bowne, Prof. Borden P., 1896, 1897.
Bradford, Charles F.. 1868.
Bragg, Hon. Henry W., 1898, 1899.
Brewer, Thomas M., 1865.
Brimmer, Hon. Martin, 1890, 1891
Brooks, Phillips, D.D., 1871.
Brown, Allen A., 1894.
Brown, Francis H., M.D., 1899
1900.
Browne, Alexander Porter, 1891.
Bi-owne, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, C. E., M. D., 1872.
Burdett, Everett W., 1896, 1897.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, Jr., 1869
Byrne, Very Rev. William, 1899
'1900.
Carpenter, Rev. Carlos C, 1901.
Carr, Samuel, 1894.
Carruth, Herbert S., 1892.
Chadwick, James R., M.D.. 1877.
Chamberlain, Mellen, LL.D., 1894
Chaney, Rev. George L., 1868.
Chase, George B., 1876.
Chase, George B., 1877. 1885.
Cheever, David W., M.D., 1894.
Cheever, Miss Helen, 1896, 1897.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., 1881.
Clapp, William W., Jr., 1864.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D., 1877
Clarke, James Freeman, B.D., 1882
Clement, Edward H., 1894, 1895.
Coale, George O. G., 1892, 1893.
Colby, John H., 1900, 1901.
Collar, William C, 1874.
Collar, Mrs. William C, 1900
Collins, Hon. Patrick A.,
1899.
Connolly, Rev. Arthur T.,
1899. '
Corbett, Hon. Joseph J.,
1897.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.D., 187
Curtis. Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Thomas B., M.D., 1874.
Cushing. Thomas, 1885.
Dalton, Charles H., 1884.
Dana. Samuel T., 1857.
1901.
1898,
1896,
92
City Document No. 24.
Davis, James C, 1899, 1900.
Dean, Benjamin, 1873.
Denny, Henry G., 1876.
Derby, Hasket, M.D., 1895, 1896.
Dewart, Mrs. William H., 1901.
Dexter, Henry M.. D.D., 1866.
Dillingham, Rev. Pitt, 1886.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Doherty, Phillip J., 1888.
Dolan, Rev. F. X., 1901.
Dole, Rev. Charles F., 1901.
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Donald, E. Winchester, D.D., 1898,
1899.
Donnelly, Charles F., 1899, 1900.
Dreyfns, Mrs. Carl, 1901.
Dunphy, .James W., 1900, 1901.
Durant, Henry F., 1863.
Duryea, Joseph T., D.D., 1880.
Dwight, John S., 1868.
Dwight, Thomas, M.D., 1880.
Eastburn, Manton, D.D., 1863.
Eaton, William S., 1887.
Edes, Henry H., 1886.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.D., 1868.
Ellis, Arthur B., 1888, 1889.
Ellis, Calvin, M.D., 1871.
Ellis, George E., D.D., 1881.
Endicott, William, Jr., 1878.
Ensworth, William H., M.D., 1898,
1899.
Ernst, Carl W., 1897, 1898.
Evans, George W., 1887, 1888, 1889.
Everett, Sidney, 1895.
Fallon, Hon. Joseph D., 1899, 1900.
Farlow, John W., M.D., 1892, 1893.
Field, Miss Gretchen, 1898.
Field, Walbridge A., LL.D., 1866.
Fields, James T., LL.D., 1872.
Fitz, Reginald H., 1879.
Fitz, Walter Scott, 1894.
Foote, Rev. Henry W., 1864.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freeland, Charles W., 1867.
Frost, Oliver, 1854.
Frothlngham, Richard, LL.D.,1816.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett, Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Gargan, Mrs. Helena N., 1901,
Gargan, Thomas J., 1899, 1900.
Garland, George M., M.D., 1895,
1896.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gilchrist, Daniel S., 1872.
Gordon, George A., D.D., 1885,
1899, 1900.
Gould, A. A., M.D., 1864.
Grant, Robert, 1884.
Gray, John C, LL.D., 1877.
Green, Scnmiel A., M.B., 1868.
Green, Samuel S., 1895.
Greenough, William W., 1858, 1874,
1883, 1886.
Grinnell, Charles E., 1874.
Hale, Edward E., D.D., 1858.
Hale, Mrs. George S., 1887, 1888.
Hale, Moses L., 1862.
Hale, Philip, 1893.
Haskins, Rev. George F., 1865.
Hassam. John T.. 1885.
Hayes, Hon. F. B., 1874.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1879.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1881,1884.
Hay ward, George, M.D., 1863.
Heard, John, Jr., 1888, 1889, 1891.
Heard, John T., 1853.
Hellier, Charles E., 1895.
Hemenway, Alfred, 1898, 1899.
Herford, Brooke, D.D., 1884.
Herrick, Samuel E., D.D., 1888,
1889.
Hersey, Miss Heloise E., 1895, 1896.
Higginson, Francis L., 1899, 1900.
Higginson, Thomas W., LL.D.,
1883
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 1853.
Billard, Hon. George S., 1873.
Hills, Thomas, 1898, 1899.
Hodges, Richard M., M.D., 1870.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., M.D., 1858.
Holmes, Oliver W., Jr., LL.D.,
1882.
Homans, Charles D., M.D., 1867.
Homans, Mrs. Charles D., 1885,
1886, 1887.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 1857.
Horton, Rev. Edward A., 1899,
1900.
Hubbard, James M., 1891.
Hubbard, William J., 1858.
Hudson, John E., 1895, 1896.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880, 1893,
1894.
Hutchins, Miss Emma, 1895, 1896.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Irwin, Miss Agnes, 1894.
Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D., 1869.
Jeffries, William A., 1893.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jenney, Bernard, 1901.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, 1900,1901.
Johnson, Rev. Robert F., 1900,1901.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kellen, William V., 1901.
Kidder. Henry P., 1870.
Kimball, David P., 1874.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
Kirk, Edward N., D.D., 1859.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrence, Miss Harriette S., 1890.
Lawrence, James. 1855.
Lee, Miss Alice, 1889, 1K90, 1891.
Library Department.
93
Lee. Hon. Jolm II., ISOT, 1898.
Lewis, ]V,'stnn, 1872, 1878.
Lincoln, Hon. F. W., 1856.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, 1886.
Little, James L., 1804.
Lombard. Prof. Josiah L., 18G8.
Loriug, Hon. Charles G., 1855.
Lothrop, Loring, 1866.
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 1897, 1898.
Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lowell, Edward J., 1885.
Lunt, Hon. (ieorge, 1874.
Lyman, George H., M.D., 1885.
McClearv, Samuel F.. 1890.
McNulty, Rev. John J.. 1896, 1897.
Manning, Rev. Jacob M., 1961.
Mason. Rev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Miss Ellen F., 1898, 1899.
Mason, Frank S.. 1899, 1900.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Metcalf, Rev. Theodore A., 1888,
1889.
Minns, Thomas, 1864.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morison, Miss Mary, 1892, 1893,
1895.
Morrill, Charles J., 1885.
Morrison. Dr. William A., 1901.
Morse, John T., Jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., Jr., 1878.
Morton, Hon. Ellis \V., 1871.
Morton, Johnson, 1901.
Mudge, Hon. E. R., 1871.
Neale, Rollin H., D.D., 1853.
Noble, John, 1882, 1899, 1900.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
O'Brien, Hon. Hugh, 1879.
O'Callaghan, John J., 1895.
O'Reillv, John Boyle, 1878.
Otis, G. A., 1860.
Paddock. Rt. Rev. Benj. H., 1876.
Parker, Charles Henrv, 1888, 1889.
Parker. William L., 1900, 1901.
Parker. Mrs. William L., 1897,
1898.
Parkman, Henry, 1885.
Parks. Rev. Leighton, 1882, 1896,
1897.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,
1884, 1885. 1890, 1891.
Phillips, John C, 1882.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Pierce, Hon. Henry L., 1891.
Pingree, Miss Lalia B., 1894.
Prescott. William H., LL.D., 1853.
Prince, Hon. F. O., 1888. 1889,
1890, 1891, 1892, 1893. 1895, 1896.
Putnam, George, 1900, 1901.
Putnam, George, B.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. John P., 1865.
Putnam. William L., 1898. lS»i9.
Randall, Charles M., M.D., 1884.
Reed, Henry R., 1899, 1900.
Rice, Hon. Alexander H., 1860.
Robbins. Elliott. M.D., 1893.
Roberts, Rev. W. Dewees, 1899,
1900.
Roche, James Jeffrey, 1898, 1899.
Rogers, Prof. William li., 1861.
Rollins, J. Wingate, 1888, 1889.
Ropes, John C, LL.D., 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 1863.
Runkle, Prof. J. D., 1882.
Russell, Samuel H., 1880.
Sampson, O. II., 1892, 1893.
Sanyer, Hon. George P., 1860.
Searle, Charles P., 1898, 1899.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1888,
1889.
Sherwin, Mrs. Thomas, 1893, 1894.
Shnrtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B., 1857.
Smith, Azariah, 1895, 1896.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 1881, 1886.
Smith, Miss Minna, 1892.
Sowdon, A. J. C, 1892, 1893.
Sprague, Charles J., 1859.
Sprague, Mrs. Henry H., 1899,
1900.
Sprague, Homer B., 1882.
Stedman, C. EUery, M.D., 1888.
Stevens, Oliver, 1858.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thomas, 1856.
Stockwell. S. N., 1861.
Stone, Col. Henry, 1885, 1886, 1887.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883, 1884.
Teele, John O., 1886.
Thaxter, Adam W., 1855.
Thayer, Rev. George A., 1875.
Thaver, Rev. Thomas B., 1862.
Thomas, B. F., LL.D., 1875.
Thomas, Seth J., 1856.
Ticknor, Miss Anna E„ 1891.
Ticknor, George, LL.D., 1853,
1854, 1855, 1859, 1863, 1866.
Tillinghast, Caleb B., 189.5, 1896.
Tobey, Hon. Edward S., 1862.
Todd, William C, 1894.
Turner, Miss Frances H., 1899,
1900.
Twombly, A. S., D.D., 1883, 1884.
Updike, D. B., 1900, 1901.
Upham, J. B., M.D., 1865.
Vibbert, Rev. George H., 1873.
Wadlin, Horace G., 1899, 1900.
Wales, George W., 1875.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Ward, Rev. Julius H., 1882.
Ware. Charles E., M.D., 1875.
^Vare. Darwin E.. 1881.
Ware, Mrs. Darwin E., 1899, 1900.
Warner, Hermann J.. 1867.
94
City Document No. 24.
Warren, Hon. Charles H., 1859.
Warren, J. Collins, M.D., 1878.
Waterston, Rev. Robert C, 1867.
Weissbein, Louis, 1893.
Wells, Mrs. KateG., 1877,
Wells, Samuel, 1900, 1901.
Wendell, Prof. Barrett, 1895, 1896.
Wharton, William F., 1886.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1869.
Whitmore, William H., 1887.
Whitney, Daniel H., 1862.
Whitney, Henry A., 1873.
Wightman, Hon. Joseph M., 1859.
Williams, Harold, M.D., 1888, 1889,
1890.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Williamson, Mrs. William C, 1897,
1898.
Wilson, Ellsha T., M.D., 1861.
Winsor, Justin, LL.B., 1867.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 1854.
Winthrop, Robert C, Jr., 1887.
Wood, Frank, 1897, 1898.
Wood, Miss Maria E., 1900, 1901.
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1871.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Goold, 1888,
1889.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D., 1884.
Library Department.
95
APPENDIX X.
SCHEDULE OF LIBRARY SERVICE.
Su
Central Libraiy
Branches and reading-rooms
MARY.
176
Men
9o
Women
83
72
"
17
''
5.5
248
Evening and Sunday service, Central Library,
Sunday service, branches, 21.
Extra assistance is employed at the braucties.
10
138
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Entered.
G
i-ade.
"Whitney, James L. .
1869
Librarian.
Fleischner, Otto
1891
Ass't Librarian.
Nichols, Adelaide A.
1868
Auditor.
Deery, Delia Jean
1891
B.
Special.
Learned, Lucie A. .
1891
B.
((
tMooney, George V.
1889
B.
((
McFarland, Peter V.
1896
D.
**Bicknell, Margaret M. .
1896
C.
Special.
McKenzie, Kenneth .
1897
D.
Guinan, Thomas H.
1901
Runner.
CATALOGUE ]
DEPARTMENT.
Hunt, Edward B.
1883
Chief.
•[ Swift, Lindsay
1878
A.
Special.
Chevalier, Samuel A.
1894
A.
Special.
Murdoch, John
1896
A.
ii
Rollins, Mary H.
18S6
A.
Lane, Lucius P.
1898
B.
Special.
Rice, Edwin F.
1885
B.
a
Tenney, Mary A.
1897
B.
a
Forsyth, Walter G.
1902
—
Gould, Ida W.
1884
Hemmings, Anita F.
1897
—
* Serving from three lo seven evenings a week eacli. The total number of posiMons
is 37, evemngs; 43, Sundays.
** Auditor's Assistant, f Custodian of Stock-room. IT Editor Library Publica-
tions.
96
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Entered.
Grade.
Bartlett, Mary R. .
1897
B.
Cutler, Dora L.
1887
B.
Durand, Susan M. .
1900
B.
Leavitt, Luella K. .
1895
B.
Mackay, Susan H. .
1901
B.
Brennan, Thomas Francis
1890
C. Special.
Lilienthal, Flora N. .
1902
—
McSweeney, M. Agnes.
1897
—
Dolau, Charts W. .
1894
D.
ORDERING DEPARTMENT
Macurdy, Theodosia E.
1889
Chief.
Seemiiller, Mary
1899
B. Special.
Frinsdorff, Emily 0.
1894
B.
Goddard, Mrs. Frances H.
1892
B.
Hutchins, Fernald
1896
B.
McGratb, Mary A. .
1868
B.
Keleher, Alice A. . ,
1891
—
Maiers, AYilliam C, Jr.
1897
C.
Daly, Gertrude B. .
1901
D. Runner.
Ennis, William J.
1900
D. Runner.
SHELF DEI
»ARTMEXT.
Roffe, William G. T.
1881
A. Div. 2.
Locke, John F.
1894
B. Special.
Richmond, Bertha P.
1895
B.
Connor, George H.
1891
C. Special.
Eberhart, John
1894
C.
Reardon, John H. .
1896
C.
Muckensturm, Matthew
1899
—
Caiger, Eliza F. A.
1895
D.
Conroy, Michael J. .
1897
D.
Lucid, John F.
1893
D.
Schnabel, Paul J.
18^8
D.
Hennessey, Alice M.
1901
D. Runner.
BATES
HALL.
Bierstadt, Oscar A.
1899
Custodian.
* Blaisdell, Frank C.
1876
A. Special.
Doyle, Agnes C.
1885
B. Special.
Buckley, Pierce E.
1891
B.
McCarthy, Michael, Jr.
1892
C. Special.
Ward, Joseph W.
1891
C. "
Plunkett, Albert J. .
1895
D. "
Hannigan, Frank J. .
1898
D.
Rosenberg, Morris J.
1901
—
In charge of Patent and Newspaper Departments.
Library Department.
97
Name.
KiUeri'd.
Gra.k'.
Hogan, C. Thomas .
LS99
D. Runner.
Sullivan, James L. .
1902
—
SPECIAL LIBRARIES.
Hitchcock, Grace A. .
1895
B. Special.
Barton, Marguerite .
1900
B.
Chamberlain, Mrs. jNIarion L.
1897
B.
Keller, Helen Rex
1901
—
Cassidy, Margaret L.
1895
D. Special.
Kelly, 'Charlotte H. .
1895
D.
Doyle, Charles A.
1899
D.
Clarke, Harold
1900
D. Runner.
Doyle, James L.
1900
D. "
Meehan, Michael J. .
1901
—
Barbour, Joseph H. D.
1901
—
DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT.
Ford, AVorthington C.
1898
Chief.
"Wheeler, Horace L. .
1900
B.
Cutting, Grace M. .
1899
C. Special.
PERIODIC.
IL ROOM.
"Wendte, Frederika .
1895
B.
Mulloney, WilUam J.
■ 1892
D. Special.
Collins, John T.
1901
E.
NEWSPAP
ER ROOM.
Serex, Frederic .
1895
B.
Keenan, Matthew T.
1896
D. Special.
ISSUE DEP
ARTMENT.
McGuffey, Margaret D.
. 1895
Chief.
Sheridan, Mary C. .
1881
—
Jordan, Alice M.
1900
B.
Cuftlin, M. Florence .
1892
C. Special.
Richards, Florence F.
1875
C.
Shumway, Marion H.
1895
C.
Cunniff, Nellie L.
1895
D. Special.
Dowhng, S. Jennie .
1895
D. Special.
Murphy, Annie G. .
. 1888
D.
Reynolds, Mary A. .
1894
D.
Schulz, Henry A. C.
1898
D. "
AVeichmann, Catherine A.
1895
D.
AViUiams, Grace
1895
D.
Zaiigg, Joanna .
! 895
D.
Beck, Ernest M.
. 1900
D.
98
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Connolly, Nellie L.
Gorman, John E.
Hagerty, Mary E.
Olson, Alphild ,
Olson, Bertha A.
Quinlan, George H
Shaughnessy, Mary
Stetson, Nina M.
Barry, Margaret
Bryce, Jean M.
Cole, Grace E.
Connor, Lillian L.
Day, Josephine E.
Gorman, Annie L.
Kolsky, Joseph
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1890
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Wing, Alice M.
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the year. Here certain members o'f the regular week-day force serve Sundays, their
compensation ijeing for seven days per week.
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APPENDIX XI.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ABBI:Y AND ELLIOTT DECO-
RATIONS.
THE QUEST AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HOLY GRAIL.
[Paintings by Edwin A. Abbey, R.A.]
, The Holy Grail was fabled to be the sacred vessel from which
our Lord had eaten at the Last Supper, and into which (having
purchased it from Pontius Pilate) Joseph of Arimathea had
gathered the divine blood of His wounds. Its existence, its
preservation, its miraculous virtues and properties were a cher-
ished popular belief in the early ages of European Christianity ;
and in the folk-tales from which the twelfth century narrators,
Walter Mapes in England, Chretien de Troyes in France, and
Wolfram von Eschenbach in Grermany, drew their material, it was
represented as guarded for ages in the Castle of the Grail by the
descendants of the " rich man," to whom the body of .Jesus had
been surrendered, where it awaited the coming of the perfect
knight, w^ho alone should be worthy to have knowledge of it.
This perfect knight is introduced to us in the romances of the
Arthurian cycle, so largely devoted to the adventures of the
various candidates for this most exalted of rewards. Incom-
parable were the properties of the Grail, the enjoyment of a rev-
elation of fvhich conveyed, among many privileges, the ability to
live, and to cause others to live, indefinitely, without food, as
well as the achievement of universal knowledge, and of invulner-
ability in battle.
This revelation was the proof and recompense of the highest
knightly purity, the perfection constituting its possessor the type
of the knightly character; so that the highest conceivable
emprise for the Companions of the Round Table was to attain to
such a consecration — to cause the transcendent vessel to be
made manifest to them. The incarnation of the ideal knighthood
in the group here exhibited is that stainless Sir Galahad, with
whom — on different lines — Tennyson has touched the imagina-
tion of all readers.
The following is a restricted attempt to place before the visitor
the meaning of each composition :
No. 1. — The child Galahad, the descendant, by his mother,
of Joseph of Arimathea, is visited, among the nuns who bring
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him up,, by a dove bearing a golden censer and an angel carr3'iug
the Grail, the presence of which operates as sustenance to the
infant. From the hands of the holy women the predestined boy
passes into those of the subtle Gurnemanz, who instructs
him in the knowledge of the things of the world, and in the
duties and functions of the ideal knight. But before leaving the
nuns he has performed his knightly vigil — has watched ah^ne,
till dawn, in the church.
yb. 2. — This ordeal of the vigil terminates in his departuie.
Clothed in red, he is girt for going forth, while the nuns bring to
him Sir Launcelot, who fastens on one of his spurs, and Sir Bors,
who attaches the other.
Xo. 3. — The Arthurian Round Table and the curious fable of
the Seat Perilous are here dealt with: the Seat Perilous —
" perilous for good and ill" — in which no man has yet sat with
safety, not even the fashioner himself, but into which, standing
vacant while it awaits only a blameless occupant, the J'oung Sir
Galahad, knighted hy Arthur, has sworn a vow to be worthy to
take his place. The Companions of the Order are seated in
Arthur's hall, and every chair, save one, is filled. Suddenly the
doors and windows close of themselves, the place liecomes
suffused with light, and .Sir Galahad, robed in red (an emblematic
color used throughout the series), is led in by an old man clothed
in white, Joseph of Arimathea, who, according to one of the most
artless features of the romance, has subsisted for centuries by
the possession of the supreme relic. The young knight is thus
installed in safety in the Seat Perilous, above which becomes
visible the legend, " This is the seat of Galahad."
Ko. Jf. — The knights are about to go forth on their search for
the Holy Grail, now formally instituted by King Arthur. They
have heard Mass and are receiving the episcopal benediction.
Sir Galahad always in red. Throughout this series he is the
"bright boy-knight" of Tennyson, though not, as that poet
represents him, "white-armored."
Xo. 5. — Amfortas, the Fisher King, King of the Grail, as the
legend has it, having been wounded several centuries before for
taking up arms in the cause of unlawful love, lies under a spell,
with all the inmates of the Castle of the Grail, into which the
artist here introduces us. They are spiritually dead, and although
the Grail often appears in their very midst, they cannot see it.
From this strange perpetuation of ineffectual life they can none
of them, women or men, priests, or soldiers, or courtiers, be
liberated by death until the most blameless knight shall at last
arrive. It will not be sufficient, however, that he simply penetrate
into the castle : to the operation of the remedy is attached that
condition which recurs so often in primitive romance, the asking
of a question on which everything depends. Sir Galahad has
reached his goal, but at the very goal his single slight taint of
imperfection, begotten of the too worldly teaching of Gurnemanz,
defeats his beneficent action. Before him passes the procession
of the Grail, moving between the great fires and the trance-
106 City Document No. 24.
smitten king, and gazing at it he tries to arrive, in his mind, at
an interpretation of what it means. He sees the bearer of the
Grail, the damsel with the Golden Dish (the prototype of whom
was Herodias bearing the head of John the Baptist on a charger),
the two knights with the Seven-branched Candlestick, and the
knight holding aloft the Bleeding Spear. The duty resting upon
him is to ask what these things denote ; but, with the presumption
of one who supposes himself to have imbibed all knowledge, he
forbears, considering that he is competent to guess. But he pays
for his silence, inasmuch as it forfeits for him the glory of
redeeming from this paralysis of centuries the old monarch and
his hollow-eyed Court, forever dying and never dead, whom he
leaves folded in their dreadful doom. On his second visit, many
years later, he is better inspired.
JSTo. 6. — It is the morning after his visit to the Castle of the
Grail. Awakening in the chamber to which he has been led the
previous night Sir Galahad finds the .castle deserted. Issuing
forth, he sees his horse saddled and the drawbridge down.
Thinking to find in the forest the inmates of the castle, he rides
forth, but the drawbridge closes suddenly behind him; a wail of
despair follows him, and voices mock him for having failed to ask
the effectual Question.
He fares forward and presently meets three damsels ; the
first, the Loathly Damsel, is riding upon a pale mule with a
golden bridle. This lady, once beautiful in form and features, is
now noble still in form but hideous in feature, and she wears a
red cloak, and a hood about her head, for she is bald; and in
her arms is the head of a dead king, encircled with a gold crown.
The second lady is riding in the manner of an esquire. The
third is on her feet, dressed as a stripling, and in her hand
is a scourge with which she drives the two riders. These
damsels are under the spell of the Castle of the Grail. Against
her will a magic power is used b}'^ the Loathly Damsel to tempt
and destroy knights and kings. She, with her two companions,
must continue to wander, doing deeds of wickedness, until the
sinless Virgin Knight shall come to the castle and ask concerning
the wonders he sees there. They now assail Sir Galahad with
reproaches, cursing him for having failed on the previous day to
ask the Question, wdiich not only would have delivered them and
the inmates of the castle, but would have restored peace and
plenty to the land. The earth now must remain barren, and Sir
Galahad, wandering forth again, is followed by the curses of the
peasantry, while war rages throughout the land. He must
encounter many adventures, suffer many sorrows, and many years
must pass before he returns once more to the Castle of the Grail,
where, having through all ordeals remained sinless, he will finally
ask the Question which shall redeem the sin-stricken land.
No. 7. — Sir Galahad is here seen arriving at the gate of the
Castle of the Maidens, where the seven Knights of Darkness, the
seven Deadly Sins, have imprisoned a great company of maidens,
the Virtues, in order to keep them from all contact with man.
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It is Sir Galahad's mission to overcome Sin and redeem the
world by setting free the Virtues, and he aceordingly fights the
seven knights till he overcomes them.
A^o. S. — Having passed the outer gate of the castle, Sir
Galahad encounters a monk, who blesses him and delivers up to
him the keys of the castle.
iVo. 9. — Sir Galahad's entry into the castle is here shown.
The imprisoned maidens have long been expecting him, for it had
been prophesied that the perfect knight would come to deliver
them. They welcome him with shy delight, putting out their
hands to be kissed. Having accomplished this mission Sir
Galahad passes on to other deeds.
JVo. 10. — Sir Galahad has become wedded to Blanchefleur,
but, sacrificing his earthly love, he leaves her that he may con-
tinue the Quest. The wounded and sin-stricken Amfortas can be
healed only by a Virgin Knight, and only by a Virgin Knight
may achieve the Quest. A new-born knowledge has unsealed
Sir Galahad's ej'es, but with this knowledge is begotten the
strength to overcome, and, renouncing finally every human desire,
he resumes the Quest.
-A^o. 11. — Having passed through many adventures, Sir Gala-
had has here returned to the Castle of the Grail. The procession
of the Grail has once more passed before him, and this time,
grown wise by knowledge and suffering, he asks the Question,
and thereby heals Amfortas, cleanses him from sin, and allows the
old king to die. The Angel bears away the Grail from the castle,
and it is not seen again until the day when Sir Galahad achieves
it at Sarras. Having now accomplished his great task he is
guided by the spirit of the Grail toward the goal which shall crown
his labors — the achievement of the Grail. He is directed
toward the sea, to Solomon's Ship, which will bear him to Sarras,
where he will be crowned king, and where the Grail itself will
finally appear to him.
JAo. 12. — Sir Galahad, borne upon a white charger, and fol-
lowed by the blessings of the people, is seen passing from the
land, where peace and plenty once more reign.
No. 13. — Sir Galahad is here in Solomon's Ship, which he found
waiting to carry him across the seas to Sarras. The Grail, borne
by an angel, guides the ship. Sir Bors and Sir Percival follow
him. Having sinned once, the}' can never see the Grail them-
selves, j-et, having persevered faithfully in the Quest, they have
acquired the right to accompany Sir Galahad and witness his
achievement. Resting upon a cushion in the stern of the ship
are three spindles made from the "Tree of Life" — one snow-
white, one green, one blood-red. When Eve was driven from the
Garden of Eden, she carried with her the branch which she had
plucked from the ''Tree of Life." The l)ranch, when planted,
grew to be a tree, with branches and leaves white, in token that E!ve
was a ^'irgin when she planted it. AVhcn Cain was begotten, the
tree turned green ; and afterward, when Cain slew Abel, the tree
turned red.
108 City Document No. 24.
Xo. 1^. — The city of Sarras.
No. 15. — Sir Galahad is now King of Sarras, and upon a hill
he makes a Sacred Place, and builds a Golden Tree. Morning
and evening he repairs thither, and from day to day he beauti-
tifies the tree, and, finally, when it is complete, Joseph of
Arimathea (with a company of angels) appears with the
Grail. As Sir Galahad gazes upon it, crowai, sceptre and robe
fall from him. He no longer needs them. He thanks God for
having let him see that which tongue may not describe nor heart
think. Having now beheld that which is the source of all life and
knowledge and power, his spirit can no longer remain in the nar-
row confines of his body. The Grail itself is borne heavenward,
and is never again seen on earth.
THE TRIUMPH OF TIME.
[Painting by John Elliott.]
The painting contains thirteen winged figures. The twelve
female figures represent the Hours, and the one male figure Time.
The Christian Centuries are typified by twenty horses, arranged in
five roAvs of four each. In each row the two centre horses are
side by side, and between these and the outer horses are two
winged female figures representing Hours. On either side of the
car in which is the figure of Time are the Hoxirs of Life and
Death. Seen from before the door of the Children's Room, the
design begins in the neighborhood of the nearer left-hand corner,
and describes a semi-circle, with a downward sweep over an effect
of clouds, back to the left again, to a point about two-thirds
across the canvas, and culminates in a disk — the sun — before
which are the leading horse and the figure typifying the Twentieth
Century. In the nearer right-hand corner is a crescent moon,
with a full disk faintly showing. The decoration is divided in
the centre by a beam, but, notwithstanding this division, the com-
position is consecutive.
Library Department. 109
APPENDIX Xir.
GIVERS AND GIFTS.
Mr. Edward Edwards, at one time Librarian of the Manchester
Free Library, in his "Memoirs of Libraries," published in 1859,
says: "If we revert to the ordinary circumstances of Town
Libraries, such as those which are now in course of formation in
the United Kingdom, we shall find that it will not be safe to place
any great reliance on the acquisition of books by gift."
Elsewhere he says: "In Boston there has been precisely that
cooperation between corporate functionaries on the one hand,
and independent citizens on the other, which is, I think, to be
desiderated here."*
To this no doubt may be attributed the fact that since the
establishment of the Library the flow of gifts, varying from a
single volume to hundreds and thousands, has been ceaseless.
The following Ust of gifts has been prepared by the Chief of
the Ordering and Receiving Department :
1900-1.
1901--2.
Givers
2,450
2,359
Volumes
15,065
7,956
Numbers
12,109
30,308
Photographs, engravings, etc.
262
850
Newspaper subscriptions (gifts of the
pub-
Ushers)
97
101
The following gifts may be particularly mentioned :
Mrs. Lydia B. Attwood, through Messrs. James W. and Charles
H. Bartlett, Executors, over 1,300 volumes, of which 700 are in
the Japanese language. One curious work is a manuscript
manual of Japanese Court Etiquette (Rei-Gi Rui-Ten) in 510
volumes, one of three copies, and perhaps the only one in the
United States. The gift comprises also works in other languages
relating to Japan, such as Siebert's Nippon, and Humbert's Japon
illustre, and many prints and serials.
James M. Barnard, 150 volumes, including twenty volumes used
bylaw students.
Josiah H. Benton, Jr., A Confession and Protestation of the
Faith of certaine Christians in England, by Henry Jacob, London,
1616. A typewritten copy made from the original in the British
Museum by direction of Mr. Benton for this Library.
*Annual Report, Boston Pulilic Library, 1867.
110 City Document No. 2-i.
Boston Browning Society, twenty-six volumes for the Browning
Collection.
Boston Philatelic Society, ninety-live volumes relating to post-
age stamps andjother stamps.
'Allen A. Brown, 168 volumes for the Music Collection.
Through the kindness of Mr. B. F. Keith, Mr. Brown and an
unnamed friend, seventeen full scores of the operas of Bellini,
Meyerbeer, Rossini, Sullivan and Verdi have been secured for the
Library by Lionel Mapleson of the Maurice Crau Opera Com-
pany. Of these Mr. Brown says :
" These scores were originally owned by Sir Michael Costa and
were used by him at her Majesty's Theatre in London. At his
death they came into the possession of Colonel J. H. Mapleson.
As to their 'scarcity and value in such a collection as ours there
can be no question. The greater part of them exists only in
manuscripts. I know that for the loan of the "Carmen" alone
they demand in Europe SloO a night. The possession of this
last lot of scores practically completes our list of all Meyerbeer's
operas, all of Bellini that are given and all of Rossini that have
ever had any marked success."
Chamberlain collection. That part of the collection of pictures
and books (274 volumes) belonging to .Judge Mellen Chamber-
lain, which was bequeathed to this Library, but retained at his
house during his lifetime, has been brought to this building and
placed in the same room with the Chamberlain manuscripts.
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the continuation of
Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Collations and Notes. Catalogue of
P2nglish Newspapers, 1641-1646.
The German Patent Office, four volumes and 12,291 numbers
of the Patentschriften.
Great Britain Patent Office, 118 volumes of Specifications and
Drawings.
Augustus Hemenway. A Worlde of Wordes, or Most copious
and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, collected by John
Florio. London, 1578. (Of interest to Shakespeare scholars.)
Lyly, John, Euphues, the Anatomie of Wit. Black letter, Lon-
don, 1617 ; Lyly, John, Euphues and his England. Black letter,
London, 1617; Morse, Edward S., Catalogue of the Morse Col-
lection of Japanese Pottery. Issued by the Museum of Fine
Arts, 1901.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, fifty-nine volumes for the Gala-
tea Collection.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, through Mr. John Elliott, a signed
copy, in the author's handwriting, of the Battle Hymn of the
Republic.
Godfrey M. Hyams, 650 photographs, among them over 300
Egyptians views, selected by Mr. W. C. Lane, Librarian of
Harvard College, while in Egypt; 150 views of American parks,
and 200 colored photographs of views in the United States and
on the continent of P^urope, purchased with a view to aiding
geographical study.
Library Department. Ill
William V. Kellen, -iOO photographs (known as the AVoolley
photographs) of early t^'pes, designed to supplement published
examples. With references to an index of early printed books
in the British Museum. One of an edition of sixty copies, and a
valuable addition to the Library examples of specimens of early
printing.
Mrs. John A. Lewis has given the following books for the
John A. Lewis Collection : Mather, Cotton, Letter to ungospel-
lized plantations : . . . Composed at the desire and sent by
the care of . . . certain gentlemen of Boston, Boston, 1702 i
Mather, Moses, The visible church, in covenant with God, New
York, 1769; Mather, Samuel, A funeral sermon for Mr. Na-
thaniel Collier, London, 1711; jMather, Samuel, A discouise
concerning the necessity of believing the doctrine of the Holy
Trinity, London, 1719; Pemberton, William, The godly mer-
chant, or the great gaine, London, 1G13; A cop}^ of a letter
from the Reverend Mr. Smith, Minister in Charlestoune, South
Carolina, to the Eeverend Mr. Cooper Minister in Boston, giving
an Account of the State of the Orphan House in Georgia, Glasgow,
1743; Vindiciae Clavium . . . Being some animadversions
upon a tract of Mr. L C. (.lohn Cotton) called The Keyes of the
Kingdoms of Heaven, London, 1645 ; Walter, Thomas, A choice
dialogue between John Faustus, a conjurer, and Jack Tory his
friend, Boston, 1720; Worshop, William, The Christian's mourn-
ing garment, Aaron's Bels, the Fisher, Earth raining upon
Heaven, Foure sermons, London, 1615.
The Due de Loubat (Fac-simile of). The Tonalamatl of the
Aubiu collection. An old Mexican picture manuscript in the
Paris National Library. With introduction and explanatory text
by Dr. Eduard Seler."^ Berlin and London, 1900-1901.
The Due de Loubat (Fac-simile of). Codex Fejervary-Mayer.
Eine altmexikanische Bilderhandschrift der Free Public Musenmg
in Liverpool. Erliiutert von Dr. P^duard Seler, Berlin, 1901.
Miss Helen C. McCleary, 344 volumes of Boston and ^lassa-
chusetts documents from the collection of the late Samuel F.
McCleary.
Michael J. McEttrick, 179 volumes of state and national
documents.
George C. Mann, 27 volumes, many of them early American
imprints ; 346 concert and theatre programmes, and over 500
serials.
Methodist Book Concern, 55 volumes of its publications.
Miss Susan Minns, 72 volumes of music, and the literature of
music, including the first edition of the collected pieces of Rouget
de Lisle. (Cinquante chants frau9ais paroles de differens auteurs.
Mise en musique .... par Rouget de Lisle, Paris, 1825.) The
volume is a folio, bound in three-quarters morocco and brocaded
silk. This gift, contained also several volumes of music pub-
lished in Boston and Salem about 1830.
New Plngland Methodist Historical Society, through Willard
S. Allen, Libraiian, 155 volumes, of which 92 contain sermons
112 City Document No. 21.
and addresses, and some 500 serials, many of them very scarce
and needed in the Library files.
L. C. Page and Company, 53 volumes of their current pub-
Mcations.
Charles H. "Wise, twenty-five subscriptions to current periodi-
cals for the Roslindale Reading Room.
Yale College Library, a collection of material relating to the
Yale Bi-centennial celebration.
1. Works of Art.
{See page 7.)
2. Miscellaneous Gifts of Money.
From Godfrey Michael Hyams, for the purchase of
photographs, the sum of . . . . . $108 60
From Andrew Carnegie, through Col. Thomas "Went-
worth Higginson, for the purchase of books for the
Galatea Collection of books relating to the history
of woman, the sum of . . . . . . 100 00
From Augustus Hemenway, for the purchase of books,
the sum of 62 22
3. Photographs, Engravings, etc.
Ames, Mrs. Frederick L. . . . 17 Photographs.
Anonymous 11 Photographs.
Attwood, Mrs. LydiaB., Estate of, 1 Photograph, 1 engraving
and 1 painting on silk.
Barnard, .James M 1 Photograph, 19 prints
and 23 engravings.
Baxter, Sylvester 1 Photograph.
Boardman, William L. P. . . . 4 Prints.
Cleaveland, Edwin A 1 Photograph.
Coolidge, Miss Marie .... 1 Photograph.
Curtis & Cameron 2 Photographs.
Davis, Andrew McF 35 Plates.
Fleischner, Dr. Ferdinand . . . 14 Photographs.
Gay, Frederic L 4 Engravings.
Gray, Samuel 1 Photograph.
Greenough, Charles P 5 Photographs.
Hammond, Mrs. George W. . . 1 Drawing.
Hunnewell, Hollis H 16 Photographs.
Hyams, Godfrey M 642 Photographs, colored.
Iconographic Societj' .... 1 Etching.
Kellen, William Y 1 Portrait, 400 photo-
graphs.
Lane, Mrs. .Jonathan A. . . . 1 Photograph.
Lane, Lucius P 2 Prints.
Lane, William Coolidge ... 1 Photograph.
Lee, Francis W 3 Photographs.
Little, Brown & Co 2 Photographs.
Library Dei»artment.
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McClure's]V[agaziue,rublisbersof, 6 Prints.
3Iacomber, Frank G 6 Photographs.
Maynard, i>aureus 1 Photograph.
Missouri Botanical (harden . . 1 Plate.
Morey, 31iss C. F 1 Photograph.
Pan American Exposition Co.,
Publicity Department ... 1 Framed print.
Paris. Prefecture du Departe-
ment de la Seine 3 Engravings.
Parlin Memorial Library ... 1 Photograph.
Sprague, Mrs. Charles F. . . . 7 Photographs.
Stebbins, Nathaniel S 3 Photographs.
Whitney, James L 8 Prints.
4. Books, Periodicals and Neavspapers.
Abbot Public Library. Marblebead
Aberdeen. Public Library
Abu-Khalil, Alex. . 1901-02 subscription to Al-AIyam
1901-02 subscription to Al-Musheer
Academy of Natural Sciences
Academy of Science of St. Louis
Actors' Fund of the United States of America
Actuarial Society of America, New York City .
Adadourian, Rev. Haig, Plymouth
Adams, William F., Springfield . . .2 broadsides
Adams Nervine Asylum
Advance, San Francisco . . 1901-02 subscription
Aeltisten, Die, der Kaufmannschaft von Berlin
Aerztlicher Yerein, Frankfort-on-the-Main
Aguilar Free Library, New York City ....
Alabama. Governor 1
Albany Medical College
— Alumni Association 1
Albany Museum. Cape of Good Hope
Alcan, Felix. Paris
Akuin Club, London
Alden, John E., Dedham 1
Alden, Mrs. W. E., Quincy ... 1 broadside 23
Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum,
Claremont, Pa.
Allen, Mrs. Charles A., Waverley 1
Allen, Edward G., London 1
Allen, James T. & Son, Philadelphia .... 1
Allen, Walter S., New Bedford 2
Allen, Willard S 9
Altona. Germany. Handelskammer .... 2
American Academy of Political and Social Science .
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester ... 1
American Anti-Yivisection Society, Philadelphia . . 1
American Art Association, New York City ... 1
American Association for the Advancement of Physical
Education 2
American Association for the Advancement of Science . 1
American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech
to the Deaf, Philadelphia
American Baptist Home Mission Society, New York
City 2
American Baptist Missionary L'nion .... 2
American Bar Association, Philadelphia .... 1
American Bible Society, New York City . . . .' : 2
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions .
American Citizen . . . 1901-02 subscription
American Climatological Association, Pliiladelphia
American Congregational Association
American Economic Association
American Federation of Labor, Wasliington
American Free Trade League ....
American Geographical Society, New York City
American Historical Association
American Humane Association ....
American Institute of Architects
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York
City
American Institute of Homa^opathy, New York City
American Institute of Instruction upon New England
School Legislation
American Institute of Mining Engineers, New York City
American-Irish Historical Society ....
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia .
American Jewish Historical Society, Washington .
American Journal of Pharmacy, Publishers of, Phila
delphia
American Laryngological Association
American Library Association .....
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
American National Red Cross, Washington
American New Church Tract and Publication Society
Philadelphia
American Numismatic and Arch»ological Society, New
York City
American Ophthalmological Society, New York City
American Otological Society
American Purity Alliance, New York City
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Women's Auxiliary, New York City . .
American Seamen's Friend Society, New York City
American Society for the Extension of University Teach
ing, Philadelphia
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty t(
Animals, New York City
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
American Statistical Association ....
American Surgical Association, Philadelphia .
American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society
New York City
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. .
American Warehousemen's Association, New York City
American Water Works Association, New York City
Amerikanische Turnzeitung, Milwaukee,
1901-02 subscription
Amerikas Westnesis . . . 1901 02 subscription
Amherst College
Among the Clouds, Mt. Washington, 1901-02 subscription
Amory, Frederic
Amsterdam. Bureau Municipal de Statistique
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Andover Theological Seminary
— Alumni Association .......
Anna Tieknor Library Association
Anonymous . 11 broadsides, 1 newspaper, 1 poster
Anthon, Miss Marie M. G., New York City
Antigua. Colonial Secretary
Anti-Imperialist League, Chicago
Antwerp. Conseil Communal .
Library Department.
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Appleton, William S 1 map
Apprentices' Librarj' Company of Philadelphia
Arbeiterstimme, Ziirich .... periodical
Archer, Miss Ruby, Kansas City
Argentine Republic. Biblioteca Nacional, Seccion de
Canje, Buenos Aires
— Departmento de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto
— Direccion de Vias de Comunicacion y Arquitectura
— Direccion General de Estadistica . . . . .
— Miuisterio de Obras Piiblicas
— Ministerio del Interior
— Museo Nacional
Arizona. Governor
Arkansas. Governor
— Agricultural Experiment Station
Armenian Publishing Co. . . 1901-02 subscription
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago ....
Armstrong, L. K., Spokane
Arnold, Miss Emma .J., Providence
Arnold, Howard P
Aron, Joseph, Paris
Art Club of Erie, Erie, Pa
Art Club of Philadelphia
Ashley, Prof. William J., Cambridge ....
Asociacion Salitrera de Propaganda, Iquique .
Associated Charities of Cambridge
Association des Actuaires Beiges
Association of American Anatomists, Washington .
Association of American Medical Colleges, Chicago
Association of American Physicians, Philadelphia .
Association of Collegiate Alumni
Association of Engineering Societies, Philadelphia .
Association of Executive Health Officers, Ontario .
Atkinson, Charles F. . . . . .
Atkinson, Hon. Edward
Atlanta University
Attwood, Mrs. Lydia B., through James W. and Charles
H. Bartlett, Executors . . .5 letters, 38 prints
Auchincloss, W. S., Atlantic Highlands, N. J
Australian Museum, Sydney
Austria. K. K. Ackerbau Ministerium ....
— K. K. General Commissar fiir die Weltausstellung,
Paris, 1900
-^K. K. Geologische Reichs-Anstalt
— K. K. Handelsministerium
— K. K. Statistische Central Commission ...
Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
London
Avenir, L'Social, Brussels
Avery, Miss Helen M., Xew London ....
Ayers, Prof. Edward E., North Andover ...
Back Bay Gazette .... 1902 subscription
Baden. Grossherzogliches Statistisches Landesamt
Baker, Prof. Marcus, Washington
Balatka Musical College, Chicago
Balch, Thomas W., Philadelphia
Baltimore. Chamber of Commerce .
Bancroft, Mrs. George
Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale
Bangor. Public Library
Bangs, Outram
Banque. La, da France, Paris
Bar Association of the City of New York
Barbadoes. Colonial Secretary .
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Barnard, James M 1 map
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Barnes, Prof. Earl
Barrows, Charles M., Springfield
Barton, Rev. and Mrs. William E., Oak Park, 111.
Batchelder, Samuel F.
Bates, Albert C, Hartford
Bates, Waldron 2 maps
Bates and Guild Co
Battersea Public Library, London
Baxter, Hon. Charles S.,Medford
Baxter, Sylvester, Maiden .... 1 broadside
Baylis, T. H., London
Beacon . . . _ . . .2 1901-02 subscriptions
Beal, Thomas P.
Beale, Charles C.
Beaman & Smith, Providence
Bean, Dr. George H., Washington
Beer, William, New Orleans
Beet Sugar Gazette Company, Chicago ....
Belfast, Ireland. Free Public Library ....
Belgium. Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique
— Caisse Generale d'Epargne et de Retraites .
— Comite Permanent des Congres Internationaux
d''Actuaires
— Commission Centrale de Statistique . . . .
— Commissionaires des Monnaies au Ministers des
Finances
— Commissions Royales d'Art et d'Archeologie
— Institut de Prevoyance
— Ministere de r Industrie et du Travail . . . .
— Ministere de Tlnterieur
— Ministere des Chemins de Fer, Postes et Telegraphes .
— Service Beige des Echanges
Bell, Samuel R
Bellows, John, Gloucester, England
Bemis, Prof. Edward W., Cleveland
Bengal. Chamber of Commerce
Bennett, Charles G
Bennett, John A.
Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery,
Chicago . . . '
Benton, Ira E., Peoria
Benton, Josiah H., jr
Berkowitz, Rev. Henry, Philadelphia ....
Berkshire Baptist Association
Berlin Photographic Co., London
Berne. Statistisches Bureau
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Berry, John M., Millbury, Mass.
Beverly Citizen .... 1901-02 subscription
Bibliographical Society of Chicago . . 3 broadsides
Biblioteca Nacional de Espaiia, Madrid ....
Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton ....
Bigelow School, Newton
Biggs, Wesley M.
Billerica, Mass., Town of
Bingham, Hiram, Jr., Cambridge
Binghamton. Board of Health
Biological Society of Washington
Birmingham, Eng. Free Libraries Committee
— School Board
Blackmar, Prof. Frank W., Topeka
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Blaisdell, Frank C
Blake, Francis
Blakely, Dr. David N.
Ulaney, Henry K
Blenck, E., Berlin
Blue Anchor Society, New York City ....
Boardnian, Samuel L,, Bangor
Boardman. William L. P
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bologna. Consiglio Comunale
Bolton, Prof. H. Carrington, Washington ....
Bolton, Eng. Public Library
Bonelli, Mrs. L. H
Book News, Publishers of, Philadelphia ....
Book World, Publishers oif, New York City
Borden, Miss Caroline,
2 1901-02 subscriptions to Gotchung
Borden, Lemuel, Calvary, Va
Boston. Assessing Department
— Board of Health
— Board of Overseers of the Poor
— Cemetery Department
— Children's Institutions Department . . . .
— City Auditor
— City Clerk
— City Hospital
— City Messenger
— City Registry Department
— Department of Municipal Statistics . . . .
— English High School
— Institutions Registration Department ....
— Park Commissioners
— Pauper Institutions Department
— Penal Institutions Department
— Printing Department
— School Committee 1 broadside
— Street Department
— Treasury Department
— Wire Department ........
Boston Agitator 1902 subscription
Boston Art Club
Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Book Company
Boston Browning Society
Boston Budget .... 1901-02 subscription
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Boston Children's Friend Society
Boston College
Boston College of Practical Psychology ....
Boston Commercial . . . 1901-02 subscription
Boston Courier .... 1901-02 subscription
Boston Daily Advertiser . . 1901-02 subscription
Boston East Baptist Association
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Evening Transcript . 12 1901-02 subscriptions
Boston Fish Bureau
Boston Floating Hospital .......
Boston Globe, 2 1901-02 subscriptions, .3 editions each
Boston Herald . . 1901-02 subscription, 2 editions
Boston Home for Incurables
Boston Ideas . . . .2 1901-02 subscriptions
Boston Industrial Home
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Boston Insane Hospital .......
Boston Journal, 2 1901-02 subscriptions, 3 editions each
Boston Medical Library
•Boston Merchants' Association
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
— School of Drawing and Painting
Boston Normal School
Boston Normal School of Gymnastics ....
Boston North Baptist Association
Boston North End Mission
Boston Philatelic Society
Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society ....
Boston Post, 2 1901-02 subscriptions, 2 editions each
Boston Protective Department
Boston Provident Association
Boston Real Estate Exchange
Boston Society of Architects
Boston Society of Natural History
Boston Times . . . . 1901-02 subscription
Boston Transit Commission
Boston Traveler . . . .2 1901-02 subscriptions
Boston University
Boston Woman's Christian Temperance Union .
Boston Young Men's Christian Association
Boston Young Men's Christian Union ....
Boston Young Women's Christian Association
Bostonian Society
Botanical Society of America, New York City
Bourne, Mass., Town of
Bowditch, Charles P
Bowditch, Dr. Henry P 1 broadside
Bowdoin College, Library
Bowker Chemical Company
Boyd, M. G., Dedham
Boys' Institute of Industry
Bradford, Laurence, Millbrook, Mass., 446 newspapers
_ Bradford, England. Public Free Libraries
" Bradley, John E., Randolph, Mass
Bramwood, J. W., Indianapolis .....
Brazil. Directoria Geral de Saude Publica
Breck, Joseph
Breck, Miss Mary A., Milton . . 559 newspapers
Bremen. Bureau fiir bremisclie Statistik ....
Brent, Rev. Charles H.
Breslau. Statistisches Amt
Brighton and Allston Equal Suffrage Association,
1901-02 subscription to Woman's Journal, for Brighton
Branch,
Bristol, England. City Treasurer
British and Foreign Bible Society, London
British and Foreign Unitarian Association, London
British Columbia. Board of Trade
British Museum, London .
British South Africa Company, London ....
Britton, Edward E., Brooklyn
Brockton. Board of Health
— Public Library
Brookline. Public Library
Brooklyn Daily Eagle . . . 1901-02 subscription
Brooklyn Daily Times . . 1901-02 subscription
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Museum .
Brooklyn Library
Brooklyn Public Library Association . . . .
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Brooks, Fred
Brown, Prof. A. N., Annapolis
Brown, Allen A
Brown, David II.. West Medford
Brown, Dr. Francis 11.
Brown, Isaac B., and J. S. Hall, Ilarrisburg . 1 map
Brown, .1. Adams 2 maps
Brown, Mrs. J. Adams .......
Brown, .John P., Connersville, Ind. . . 1 broadside
Brown, Leonard, Des Moines
Brown-Green Company, New York City ....
Brown University
Bruce, Edward E
Bruce, Webster, Lynn
Briinn. Handels und Gewerbekammer ....
— Statistisches Bureau
Brirnswick. Statistisches Bureau des Iierzoglichen Staats-
ministeriums
Brussels. Conseil Communal
Brymner, Douglas, Canada
Buck, Mrs. Eliza A., Worcester
Buckley, Pierce E .
Buckman, Charles ........
Budapest. Statistisches Bureau der Haupt-und-Resideuz-
stadt
Buell, Jlon. Charles E., Rainfield, N. Y
Buenos Aires. Biblioteca Publica.
Buffalo. Board of Health
— Park Commissioners
— Public Library
Bugbee, James M ,
Bulgaria. Direction de la Statistique de la principautc,
Bulkley, Dr. L. Duncan, New York City ....
Bunker Hill Monument Association . . .2 plates
Burlington, Iowa. P'ree Public Library ....
Burrill, Miss Ellen M., Lynn
Burrows, Fred G., San Francisco
Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence
Button, W. B., Philadelphia
Calais. Chambre de Commerce
Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun, Ala
California. Governor
— Agricultural Experiment Station
— Board of Railroad Commissioners ....
— Insurance Commission'er
— School of Mechanical Arts
— State Mining Bureau
California Academy of Sciences
California Bankers' Association ......
California Genealogical Society
Call, Edward P., Xew York City
Call, San Francisco . . .2 1901-02 subscriptions
Cambridge, Mass. Board of Health
— Board of Overseers of the Poor
— City Clerk
— Public Library
Cambridge Press .... 1901-02 subscription
Cambridge University Library
Campbell, Rev. Thomas, S..J., New York City
Campello, Solone di. Count
Canada. Department of Agriculture, Archives Branch,
Central Experimental Farms
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— Department of the Interior
— Geological Survey 4 maps
— ■Government Printing Bureau
— Inland Revenue Department, Laboratory
— Meteorological Service ... . . . .
— Minister of Education
— Minister of Finance
Canadian Institute, Toronto
Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Montreal .
Candage, R. G. F
Cape of Good Hope. Colonial Secretary ....
Caproni, P. P., and Brother
Card, C. A. 1901-02 subscription to North Adams Trans-
cript.
Carmarthen, Wales. Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum
Carnegie Free Library, Alleghany
Carnegie Institute. Department of Fine Arts. Pitts-
burgh
Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh
Carnegie Steel Co.
Carney Hospital
Carr, M. J., New York City
Carter, H. C, North Andover
Case, Miss M. R
Cassa di Risparmio Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo
Cassier's Magazine, Publishers of, New York City .
Castilian Club
Castor, T. H., & Co
Catholic News, New York City . 1901-02 subscription
Catholic University of America, Washington .
Caveglia, Crescentino, Rome
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Free Public Library
Cedar Rapids Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. .
Century Company, New York City . . .2 posters
Cette. Chambre de Commerce
Ceylon. Chamber of Commerce
Chadwick, Dr. James R. ...... .
Chamberlain, Hon. D. H., West Brookfield, Mass. .
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Spokesman-Review, Spokane . 1901-02 subscription
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Turner, Alfred T., Estate of
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Wade, Joseph M
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York. Library 16 broadsides
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mittee. Publication Department, New York City
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Ziirich, Switzerland. Stadtbibliothek
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APPENDIX XIII.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIBRARY. — 1541-1901,
1841-1847. Various preliminary movements made toward a City
. Library. In 1843 and 1847 books were received by the City
from the City of Pai-is, through M. Vattemare.
1547. A joint Committee of the City Council on a Library first ap-
pointed. Josiah Quincy, Jr., while Mayor, otfered to give
$5,000 for a Public Library, on condition that the citizens should
add $10,000. This offer was not met.
1848. March 12. Act of the Massachusetts General Court, author-
izing the City of Boston to establish and maintain a Public
Library. Accepted by the City, April 3,
Unsuccessful efforts to procure a union with the Athenteum
Library.
1849. R. C. Winthrop gave the first books to begin the collection.
J. D. W. Williams, S. A. Eliot, Dr. J. Mason Warren, Dr. J. B.
McMahon, Ezra Weston and others also presented books.
1850. August 5. John P. Bigelow, while Mayor, gave $1,000.
August 7. Edward Everett presented his set of Public Docu-
ments and State Papers of the L^nited States, with other works,
numbering upwards of 1,000 volumes.
1851. The City possessed 2,000 volumes.
1852. Edward Capen chosen Librarian.
May 24. First Board of Trustees constituted, with Edward Ever-
ett as President.
June 28. James Brown gave $500.
June 30. The Trustees were requested by the City Council to re-
port upon the objects to be attained by the establishment of a
Public Library, and the best mode of effecting them.
July 6. In reply, the preliminary report of the Trustees was
made, drawn up by George Ticknor and the President.
September 24. Samuel Appleton gave $1,000.
October 1. Joshua Bates of London gave $50,000, which was
subsequently funded.
October 12. The first Library ordinance of the City Council
passed.
1853. February. Authority given to purchase land.
March 5. James Xightingale gave $100.
March 12. A new act of the General Court, extending the limit of
expenditures.
Jonathan Phillips gave $10,000; N. I. Bowditch gave the value of
$200; J. I. Bowditch gave $300.
154 City Document No. 24.
1854. March 20, Ma}' 2. Eeadiug-room and Library opened in
Mason street.
N'ovember 27. Ordinance appointing Commissioners to erect a
building; R. C. Winthrop made Chairman.
First catalogue of the Library published.
Thomas G. Appleton gave a copy of Audubon's '' Birds of Amer-
ica."
1855. Mrs. Sally I. K. Shepard gave .^1,000.
September 17. Corner-stone of the Library building on Boylston
street laid.
1857. Act of March, 1853, so far changed that there was no enforced
limit to the appropriations of the City for the Library. An addi-
tional ordinance created the office of Superintendent. Charles
C. Jewett was appointed to that office.
1858. January 1. Library building dedicated. Addresses by R. C.
Winthrop, Edward Everett, A. H. Rice, Mayor. Cost, with
land, about S365,000.
Mr. Bates's gift of books completed, amounting in value to
$50,000, making the total sum given by him $100,000.
The sons of the late Nathaniel Bowditch gave their father's
library of 2,550 volumes, besides manuscripts.
The Library began to receive the Specifications of the English
patents, a gift from the British government.
June 30. Library in Mason street building closed.
July, The portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Duplessis, pre-
sented by Hon. Edward Brooks.
August 17. A figure in marble, the Arcadian Shepherd Boy, by
W. W. Story, given by several citizens.
September 17. The Reading-room opened in the building on
Boylston street.
December 20. The Lower Hall Library opened, with the printed
Index to the books in that collection.
1859. LTnder the will of Abbott Lawrence, .$10,000 was received.
Copley's picture of Charles the First, demanding the impeached
members, given by citizens of Boston.
1860. Theodore Parker's Library, containing 11,061 volumes,
received under the provisions of his will ; in May, 1881, some
2,000 volumes, and a bust of Theodore Parker, by W. W.
Story, received from the estate of Mrs. Parker.
George Ticknor presented a collection of Greek, Latin and Italian
classics, and later a collection of books relating to Molifere.
His total donations up to this time upwards of 3,000 volumes.
1861. April. A further sum of .$20,000 received under the will of
Jonathan Phillips.
The Upper Hall, containing over 74,000 volumes, opened to the
public, and its first printed Index of books published. The
entire Library contained 97,386 volumes.
June. By the will of Miss Mary P. Townsend, $4,000 was
received.
1863. The City Council modified the ordinance relating to the Pub-
lic Library.
June. The Trustees of the Franklin Club gave $1,000.
Library Department. 155
1864. September 24. Joshua Bates died. The Upper Hall, it is
ordered, October 13. shall henceforth be called Bates Hall.
Mr. Ticknor gave a collection of Provencal books.
December. Gift of original paroles signed by Generals Burgoyne
and Eiedesel.
1865. January 17. Edward Everett, President of the Board of
Trustees, died ; succeeded by Mr. Ticknor.
March. Portrait of Joshua Bates, b}-^ Eden W. Ennis, and bust
copied from original by William Behnes, presented by Mr.
Bates's daughter.
March 7. Gift of SlOO from J. L. Stoddart.
July 21. Group in marble of Holy Eamily, by Julius Troschel,
presented by Gardner Brewer.
1866. The Prince Library, bequeathed by the Rev. Thomas Prince,
1758, to the Old South Church, received on deposit.
The Supplemental Index of the Bates Hall published.
The Ledger system for recording loans displaced by the Slip
system.
Donation of S160 received through Hon. John P. Bigelow.
May. The silver vase presented to Daniel Webster in 1835,
received from various citizens.
June 22. Mr. Ticknor resigned the presidency ; succeeded, July
24, by William W. Greenough.
September. The printing of Finding Lists for the Lower Hall
begun.
December. A new ordinance reorganizing the Board of Trustees.
1867. May 16. Bust of Edward Everett, by Thomas Ball, pre-
sented by subscribers.
August. Bust of J. Lothrop Motley, by Richard S. Greenough,
given by Thomas B. Curtis.
October. The first number of the Library Bulletin issued.
1868. January 9. Mr. Jewett, the Superintendent, died.
February 25. Justin Winsor chosen Superintendent.
August. Bust of George Ticknor, by Martin Millmore, presented
by several citizens.
November. William E. Jillson, the Assistant Superintendent,
died. William A. Wheeler was appointed in his place.
1869. Annual closing of the Library for examination dispensed
with.
A new ordinance, reorganizing the Board of Trustees, changing
the beginning of the Library year to May 1st, and authorizing
the establishment of Branch libraries.
Gift of an antique bust from Signor Alessandro Ceccarini.
Bindery opened in the building.
October. The Tosti engravings given by Thomas G. Appleton.
1870. The Reading-room of the East Boston Branch Librarj'^
opened ; and in January, 1871, delivery of books began. The
Catalogue was issued March 3d, and the formal dedication of
the Library took place March 22d. The Sumner library associa-
tion gave its collection of books to this Branch Library.
Portrait of Edward Everett by J. Harvey Young given by citizens
of Boston.
November. 285 volumes and 2,259 pamphlets of Rev. Dr. William
E. Channing presented by his children.
156 City Document No. 24.
1871. April. The Spanish and Portuguese library, bequeathed by
George Ticknor, was received at the Library, numbering nearly
4,000 volumes ; also a fund of $4,000, for its increase.
October. A printed Card catalogue of the Bates Hall established.
1872. An agreement made with the Trustees of the Fellowes
Athemeum, securing their co-operation in the founding of a
Branch library at Roxbury, and a building for the use of it
begun.
Alterations made in the Bates Hall, by which the lateral alcoves
are subdivided and lighted.
The South Boston Branch Library opened with 4,400 volumes,
and dedicated May 16th. The Mattapan literary association
gave its collection of books, numbering 1,470 volumes, to this
Branch Library,
March. Gift of a portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean Baptiste
Greuze, from Gardner Brewer.
Gift from John G. Loring of oil painting by (Robert?) Salmon,
representing a fire in the Old State House, Boston, in Novem-
ber, 1832.
1873. May. The Barton Library received.
June. Additional precautions taken to render the Library build-
ing safe against fire.
July. The Roxbury Branch building dedicated, and the Library
opened with 5,700 volumes.
August. The Lower Hall Catalogue of History, Biography, and
Travel published. The first catalogue with notes.
December. Gift of $5,000 from Henry L. Pierce.
1874. January. The Public Libraries of Charlestown (15,000
volumes) and Brighton (11,000 volumes) became Branches by
the annexation of those places to Boston.
Addition made to the south-west corner of the Central Library
building.
August. The new building of the Brighton Branch Library was
opened for use.
The apartments of the Charlestown Branch Library were enlarged.
Portrait of Charles Sumner by M. Wight presented to city by
F. D. Huntington and others.
October. William A. Wheeler, the Assistant Superintendent, died,
and was succeeded by James L. Whitney.
Edward Capen resigned as Librarian.
1875. January 16. Dedication of the Dorchester Branch
Library. The Library (nearly 4,000 volumes) opened to the
public, January 25. A Delivery of the same Branch established
at the Lower Mills. The Dorchester and Milton Library gave
its collection of books, numbering 1,922 volumes, to this Branch
Library.
1876. March. The gold medal presented to Gen. Washington by
Congress in commemoration of the evacuation of Boston by the
British troops, given to the City, to be preserved in the Library.
April. A new exterior gallery built at rear end of the Central
Library Building.
Gift of Manuscript of Webster's Reply to Hayne, from Hon. R. C.
Winthrop and others.
Library Department. 157
June. A Delivery Station of the Roxbury Branch opened at
Jamaica Plain.
1877. February. Bequest from Benjamin P. Hunt, of Philadel-
phia, of a collection of books relating to the West Indies.
May. The Boston ' Mercantile Library Association gave its
collection of 18,000 volumes.
August. By the will of Miss Charlotte Harris, the Charlestown
Branch Library received a fund of S10,000, the testator's
private library of over 1,100 volumes, and a portrait of Richard
Devens.
Bequest of over 800 volumes of illustrated books from IMiss Eliza
Mary Thayer, of Roxbury. Supplemented at subsequent times
by gifts of similar works from her sisters, Mrs. R. Anne Nichols,
Mrs. Susan Thayer Balch, and Miss Caroline C. Thayer. A list
of this collection published in 1895.
August. The South End Branch Library opened to the public.
September. The Jamaica Plain Branch Library opened to the
public.
October 1. Justin Winsor resigned the office of Superintendent,
and Dr. Samuel A. Green, one of the Trustees, was placed in
charge of the Library.
1878. April 4. The Trustees were made a corporation under the
name of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of
Boston.
April 12. The corporation organized by the choice of William
W. Greenough as President, and Dr. Samuel A. Green as Clerk.
Maj^ 14. Dr. Green was chosen Acting Librarian, and held the
otfice until October 1, 1878.
August 26. Mellen Chamberlain was elected Librarian, and
entered upon his otfice October 1.
November 23. Dr. Samuel A. Green gave $1,000, the income of
which is to be applied to the purchase of books upon American
history ; in 1880 he gave $500 under the same conditions, and
in 1884, !?500.
December 3. A Delivery Station of the Jamaica Plain Branch
Library opened at Roslindale.
December 16. Gift from George B. Chase of S200 for purchasing
periodicals; in 1879 he gave the chair and table formerly belong-
ing to Sir Anthony Panizzi, Librarian of the British Museum.
1879. Catalogue of the works of Shakespeare, in the Barton col-
lection, printed. A year later the second part, containing the
titles of works about Shakespeare, was published.
Catalogue of the East Boston and South Boston Branch Libraries
published.
April. The Franklin Club gave Roberts' Egypt and Nubia, and
his Holy Land.
July. Catalogue of the Ticknor collection of Spanish and Portu-
guese books published.
December. Dr. Samuel A. Green gave a collection of Benjamin
Franklin books, pamphlets, and engravings.
1880. January 6. The West Roxbury Free Library transferred to
the Boston Public Library its collection of books, numbering
3.068 volumes, and a Delivery Station was opened at West Rox-
bury.
158 City Document No. 24.
April. The General Court, by an act approved April 22, gives to
the City a parcel of laud, situated on the southerly corner of
Dartmouth street and Boylston street, on condition that a build-
ing for a library should be begun in the course of three years,
which time was extended in 1883 for ^ further term of the
same duration.
1881. July. The South End Branch Library was moved into the
English High School Building on Montgomery street.
July. Bust of John G. Whittier, by Preston Powers, given by
citizens of Boston.
December 1. The Committee on the Public Library was author-
ized by the City Government to consult the Trustees concerning
a new Library building.
December. A Delivery Station of the Public Library (Dorchester
Branch) was opened at Mattapan.
Bowditch Library card catalogue completed.
1882. March 9. The Trustees were requested by the City Council
to report on the fitness of the High and Latin School building
for the purposes of the Public Library. The Trustees reported
that this building is unfit for the uses of the Public Library.
April 10. On petition of the City Council, the Legislature passed
a bill authorizing the City of Boston to take for the Public
Library the necessary land belonging to private parties adjoin-
ing the land granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
May. Gift of SlOO from Charles Mead for South Boston Branch.
October. A Keading-room and Delivery Station was opened in
the Hancock school-house, on Parmenter street,at the North End.
1883. January. A Delivery Station of the Public Library (Dor-
chester Branch) was opened at Neponset.
April 12. The Common Council, concurring with the Aldermen,
appropriated the sum of $180,000 for the purchase of additional
land, adjoining that granted by the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, and the sum of .^450,000 for the erection of a building
thereon, fronting on Copley square.
April 21. The City of Boston took formal possession of the land
given by the Commonwealth, and also of the estates on St.
James avenue (later Blagden street).
December. By the will of the late Arthur Scholfield of New
York, formerly of Boston, the Library received the sum of
$50,000, the income to be paid certain parties during their lives.
1884. April. By the will of the late Thomas B. Harris of Charles-
town, the Charlestown Branch Library received the sum of
$1,000.
August 1. Twenty competitive plans for the proposed new build-
ing received by the Trustees; $10,000 in premiums paid.
Reading-rooms established at the Brighton, Dorchester and
Jamaica Plain Branch Libraries, and at the Lower Mills Deliv-
ery Station at Dorchester.
Fourteen folio volumes of illustrations of the parks and public
works of the City of Paris given by the Municipal Council of
that city.
The City Council appropriated $1,000 for the purchase of historical
works in fine binding, relating to Boston, and these were sent
to the Municipal Council of Paris.
Library Department. 159
1885. January. Bust of Thomas Gold Appleton giveu by Capt.
Xathan Appleton and others.
March 30. The City Government directed that the City Architect
prepare the plans for the new building and submit them to the
Trustees of the Public Library for their approval.
May. Bust of Cervantes by Antonio Sola received from heirs of
George Ticknor.
Legacy from the estate of Daniel Tread well, formerly Rumford
Professor in Harvard College. Amount, with latter additions,
about S10,700.
May. Legacy of S500 from the estate of Hon. Edward Lawrence,
for the Charlestown Branch Library.
December. Bronze statuette of Daniel Webster bequeathed by
Hon. Joseph M. Wightmau.
1886. The Roxbury Athenteum Library purchased by the Trustees
of the Fellowes Athenaeum.
November 1. Delivery Station opened at Mt. Bowdoin. The
North End Library removed to the building on the corner of
North Bennet and Salem streets.
1887. March 10. An act was passed by the General Court giving
the Trustees full power and control of the design, construction,
erection, and maintenance of the new building, and authority
to select and employ au architect.
March 30. The Trustees contracted with Messrs. McKim, Mead,
and White, to design and supervise the construction of the new
building, and the plans, as prepared by the architects, were at
a later period approved by the Trustees.
1888. Plans for the new building submitted by the Trustees to the
City Council, and i^laced on exhibition, together with a model
in plaster, in the rooms of the Bostonian Society at the Old
State House.
May 7. The City Council authorized the Trustees to begin the
erection of the building.
The Trustees were requested by the City Council to report to the
City Government the cost and advisability of keeping Bates
Hall open in the evening. An order passed to provide for the
expense of the same.
April 2. Resignation of William W. Greenough, a Trustee of
the Library for thirty-two years, and President for twenty-two
years.
May 12. Samuel A. B. Abbott was chosen President of the
Trustees.
August 1. Contract made with Messrs. Woodbury and Leighton
for the building of the basement and first floor of the new
Library building Avithin one year, and, later, contract made
with the same parties for continuing the building.
November. Gift of bronze bust of Mayor O'Brien, by Douoghue,
from M. M. Cunniff.
November 2. Death of William H. Foster, a member of the Cat-
alogue Department for nearly thirty years.
November 28. The corner-stone laid of the new Library building
on Copley square, with addresses at the New Old South Church
by Hon. Frederick O. Prince and Mayor Hugh O'Brien, and a
poem by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Barton catalogue (Miscellaneous portion) published.
160 City Document No. 24.
1889. March 1. Act of the Legislature authorizing the City of
Boston to incur indebtedness to the amount of one million dol-
lars outside of the debt limit to complete its new Public Library-
building.
March 11. The City Treasurer authorized to issue bonds or cer-
tificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding one million
dollars outside of the limit of indebtedness fixed by law for the
city, the proceeds from the same to be used for the completion
of the new Library building.
Electric lighting introduced into the Central Library building.
March 11. Delivery station opened at Allston.
The late ,J. Ingersoll Bowditch bequeathed :?1 0,000 to the Library,
the income from the same to be applied to the increase of the
Bowditch Library. Since 1877, Mr. Bowditch gave yearly the
sum of ^500 for the same purpose.
December 16. Bates Hall open until 9 P.M., and (February 2,
1890) from 2 until 9 P.M. Sundays.
December. The Library received from Mrs. John G. Gilbert
eleven hundred volumes and pamphlets, chiefly dramatical
works, which belonged to her late husband.
The Board of Health began to report cases of contagious diseases,
in order that books and cards may be destroyed or disinfected.
1890. April. Bequest of the late Joseph Scholfield, of 811,766.77,
the same being the income from the bequest of S50,000, made
in 1883, by the late Arthur Scholfield.
A collection of rare books on America purchased by the city for
the Library, the same being a part of the library of the late
Samuel L. M. Barlow.
May. The John A. Lewis Library of early printed books on
America, given to the Library by Mrs. Lewis. Number of vol-
umes about six hundred. A catalogue was published two years
later.
Hand-book for Keaders in the Boston Public Library published,
9th edition, containing 388 pages.
July 26. Delivery station opened at Ashmont (Station H).
September 30. Mellen Chamberlain, Librarian, resigned.
N'ovem]),er 12. Delivery station opened at Dorchester Station
(Station J).
December. The city was empowered to borrow the necessary
money to complete the new Library building.
Gift from the Second and Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry
Associations of two sitting lions, done in Siena marble, the
work of Louis St. Gaudens.
1891. October 24. Appropriation of SI, 000 ,000 authorized by the
City Council for the completion of the new Library building.
Gift from the Kepublic of Mexico of a copy of Penafiel's " Monu-
mentos del arte mexicano autiguo,'' through President Diaz.
1892. January 22. Bird-street Delivery Station (Station K) opened.
February. A collection of works relating to the American Civil
War from the library of the late Gen.^F. W. Palfrey, given by
Mrs. Palfrey as a nucleus for the Twentieth Kegiment library.
April 13. Theodore F. Dwight appointed Librarian.
April 29. Mt. Pleasant DeUvery Station (Station N) opened.
May 9. North Brighton Reading Room (Station L) opened.
Library DEPART]VIE^^T. 161
June 25. Crescent Avenue Delivery Station (Station M) opened.
A new edition of the Lower Hall Catalogue of History, Biography,
and Travel was published ; also a Finding List of French
Fiction.
1893. June 16. Mr. William C. Todd of Atkinson, N. H., offered
to pay 82,000 annually to be expended for newspapers, and,
sooner or later, to give a fund of $50,000, to secure forever this
annual payment. (See Annual Report, 1893, p. 6.) The
principal sum of §50,000 he gave October, 1897.
September 4. The collection of historical documents, manu-
scripts, autographs, books, and portraits of Mellen Chamberlain
received for deposit, in accordance with his oifer of February 4,
1893. (See Annual Report, 1893, p. 5.) By the provision of
his will the collection became the property of the Library in
1900.
November 29. The private library of President John Adams
placed on deposit in the Boston Public Library by the Super-
visors of the Adams Temple and School Fund, QuinJcy, Massa-
chusetts.
1894. January 12. Portrait of Joshua Bates presented by Mr. S.
G. Ward.
April. Linotype printing machines adopted by the Library.
April 30. Resignation of Theodore F. Dwight, Librarian.
July 6. Gift of oil painting, Saints Justa and Rutina, by Domingo
Fernandez, from Miss Ellen Chase.
August 13. Mr. Allen A. Brown offered his library of music.
In November, 1897, the collection, comprising over 30,000
dilferent publications, bound in some 8,000 volumes, was made
available for the public. (See Annual Report, 1894, and
Bulletin, December, 1897.)
November. Catalogue of books relating to Architecture published.
December 14. Removal of the main body of books to the build-
ing on Copley square begun; finished, January 28, 1895. Some
of the smaller collections were moved during the autumn
previous.
The old West Church, corner of Cambridge and Lynde streets,
bought by the city, and placed in the control of the Trustees of
the Library.
December 16. The West Church Parish Library given through
Mr. Thomas Gaffield to the newly established West End Branch
Library.
1895. January. Special appropriation of $12,000 for moving books
to the Copley square building.
January 11. The sum of $1,000 given in memory of Charles G.
Loring by his family.
January 24. Boylston-street building closed, four days before the
removal to the new building was completed.
February. Gift from Horatio S. Greenough of busts of Christ and
Lucifer by Horatio Greenough.
February 11. Herbert Putnam appointed Librarian.
March 11. New building on Copley square opened for use.
March 26. A system of graded service, based upon examinations,
established.
May. Children's Room opened at the Central Library.
162 City Document No. 24.
May. Retirement of Samuel A. B. Abbott, President, from the
Board of Trustees : succeeded as President by Hon. F. O.
Prince, October 8.
October 20. Extension of Library hours from 9 P.M. to 10 P.M. ;
after the removal to the new building, in Apiil, departments
hitherto closed to the public on Sundays were opened.
Conferences held between committees representing the School
Committee and the Library Trustees, as to a possible further
cooperation between the Public Library and the schools.
The sum of S15,000 contributed by subscription by citizens of
Boston for completing the paintings by John S. Sargent.
A bronze statue of Sir Harry Yane, by MacMonnies, given by Dr.
Charles G. Weld and others.
A marble copy of the Venus de Medici given by Mrs. John
Ellerton Lodge.
A bust of William W. Greenough, by Richard S. Greenough,
given by Mrs. W, W. Greenough.
Reference librar}'^ of books on open shelves, accessible to all
readers, formed in Bates Hall.
Special libraries (Fine Arts, Technical Arts, Music, the Bowditch,
Ticknor, Barton, and other collections) placed on the upper
floor of the Library building. Many thousand books placed
on open shelves.
Gift of the original manuscript of the "El castigo sin venganza "
of Lope de Vega, from Miss Anna E. Ticknor.
First section of John S. Sargent's decoration, "The Triumph of
Religion," placed.
Joseph Lindon Smith's fresco, Venetian lobby, finished.
Five sections of Edwin A. Abbey's frieze, " The Holy Grail,"
finished and placed in position; the remaining panels finished
in February, 1902.
The card catalogues were placed in drawers which could be taken
from their places and used at tables, at the convenience of the
reader.
Largest panel of the mural decoration of Puvis de Chavannes
placed; the other eight panels were installed the following year.
1896. January. The publication of a Monthly Bulletin of books
added to the Library, was begun.
January. The Quarterly Bulletin ceased publication. Fourteen
volumes were published, beginning with October, 1867.
January, A bronze bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ordered by
the City of Boston of the sculptor Richard Edwin Brooks,
placed in Bates Hall.
January 4. Appropriation of $44,000 for furnishing the new
Library building, authorized.
January 16. Delivery station opened on Broadway Extension
(Station P).
February. Gift from Col. Thomas W. Higginson of a collection
of books, numbering nearly one thousand, on the history of
woman, to be called the Galatea Collection.
Fe])ruary 3. The West End Branch opened in the old West
Church building, with 8,600 volumes, and with accommodations
for 250 readers. Of these volumes, between 5,000 and 6,000
were selected and bought by the Woman's Education Associa-
tion, with funds raised from private subscription.
March 16. Upham's Corner Delivery Station (Station Q) opened.
Library Department. 163
May 1. "Warren Street Delivery Station (Station R) opened.
May. Gift from Miss Anna E. Ticknor of a copy of a portrait,
by Tbionias Sully, of her father, George Ticknor.
May. System of inter-library loans adopted.
June 29. A bust of Benjamin Franklin, attributed to Ceracchi,
given by Mr, Frank Wood.
August. A collection of photographs, numbering over 1,100, was
given to the Library as a memorial to Miss Harriet H. Graupner.
September. From the estate of Mrs. Bessie S. Lockwood of
Cambridge, gift of 1,643 volumes, to be known as " The Hiland
Lockwood Gift."
JiTovember. A fund of $10,000 received from Miss Victorine
Thomas Artz, of Chicago, " the income of this sum to be
employed in the purchase of valuable rare editions of the
writings, either in verse or prose, of American and of foreign
authors." These books are to be known as the "Longfellow
Memorial Collection."
November. A legacy of $2,500 received from the estate of the
late Charles Mead of Boston.
The Library received from Mr. and Mrs. James M. Codman, of
Brookline, 611 volumes of works on landscape architecture,
with photographs and prints. Given " in memory of Henry
Sargent Codman and Philip Codman, landscape architects," by
whom the collection was made.
A bust of Whittier given by the sculptor, William Ordway
Partridge, was placed in Bates Hall.
A room fitted up for Ijound volumes of newspapers.
1897. January 18. Roxbury Crossing Delivery Station (Station S)
opened.
March 15. From the children of the late Dr. Benjamin Apthorp
Gould a gift of 4,105 volumes, largely astronomical works.
April. Gift of S5,000 from the Twentieth Regiment Association
of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the income to be expended
in the purchase of books of a military and patriotic character.
April 29. A collection of paintings by Howard Pyle, illustrative
of scenes in the life of Washington and in colonial times, was
given by friends of the Library.
April 30. The Boston Browning Society gave its collection of
books to this Library.
May. A marble copy of the bust of Powers' Greek Slave received
from Mrs. Margaret S. Otis.
May. The sum of $1,000 was given by the Papyrus Club, to be
used in the purchase of books which shall serve as a memorial
to John Boyle O'Reilly.
June. A special appropriation for the new Broadway Extension
Station was made by the city.
June. A Bibliography of the Higher Education of Women
published.
November 1. Boylston Delivery Station (Station T) opened.
November, The sum of $1,000 received as a bequest from the
late Rev. Caleb D. Bradlee of Brookline.
November. The branches at Charlestown, East Boston, and
South Boston, were opened for reading and reference on
Sundays, from 2 to 10 P.M.
December 8. Josd Francisco Carret died. He was for over
twenty-two years a member of the Library service.
164 City Document No. 24.
A List of Periodicals, Newspapers, Transactions, and other
Serial Publications currently received in the Principal Libraries
of Boston and Vicinity, was issued by the Librar}- from material
contributed b}' thirty-six libraries.
. A bust of John Boyle O'Reilly, purchased by the City Council,
placed in the Library.
The sum of -SI ,321 subscribed for the purchase of photographs.
1898. January. The Boston ISTumismatic Society gave to the
Library its collection of books and pamphlets, and also the sum
of $300.
Januar}'. The first Annual List of new and important books
added to the Library was published.
March. Texts of the Pour Great Documents in the Chamberlain
Collection published.
May 28. The sum of $100,000 additional authorized for com-""
pletion of the new Library building.
June. The library of the American Statistical Association, con-
sisting of about five thousand volumes, given to the Boston
Public Library. It forms a part of the Division of Documents
and Statistics, at that time established, in the charge of Mr.
Worthington C. Ford.
June. Catalogue of the Galatea collection of books relating to the
history of woman published.
July. List of books on social reform published.
December 27. Arthur Mason Knapp, the custodian of Bates
Hall, died, after a service here of nearly twenty-four years.
December 27. Station U, No. 62 Union Park street, opened.
The sum of .$2,852.41 contributed by the relatives and friends of
the late Henry Sargent Codman, the income to be used in the
purchase of books upon landscape gardening.
The reclassification of the Branches on a common system begun.
Important alterations made in the Library building. The News-
paper and Periodical Reading Rooms made connecting depart-
ments, on the entrance floor; the Patent collection removed to
the west wing, the Patent Room taken for a Children's Reference
Room; the Executive otfices, the Delivery Room, the Ordering
Department, etc., enlarged; a service elevator installed; im-
provements in heating and ventilating.
1899. February. Library building on Boylston street sold for
$850,000 to the executor^ and trustees acting under the will of
the late Frederick L. Ames. The proceeds were paid to the
Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of Boston.
April 3. Herbert Putnam resigned as Librarian to accept the
position of Librarian of Congress. James L. "Whitney was
appointed Acting Librarian.
May 1. Children's Reference Room opened.
May 8. Hon. F. O. Prince resigned the presidency (term expired
as Trustee); succeeded by Hon. Solomon Lincoln.
May 17. The Lecture Hall of the Library was opened with
addresses connected with the unveiling of a bust of Sir Walter
Scott, a gift to the Library from the Westminster Committee on
the Scott Memorial.
June 4. Death of Philip Henry Savage, a member of the Library
staff since 1896, and Clerk of the Corporation.
Library Department. 165
June 6. Death of Hon. Frederick O. Prince, a member of the
Board of Trustees from 1S88 to 1899, and from October, 1895,
until his retirement in May, 1899, President of tlie Board.
June 17. Death of AVilliam W. Greeuough, appointed a Trustee
in lS56, and from 1866 until his retirement in 1888, President
of the Board.
November 3. Industrial School Deliver}^ Station (Station W)
opened.
December 22. James L. Whitney appointed Librarian. January
12, 1900, Otto rieischner appointed Assistant Librarian.
A Selected Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology of
Europe, by Prof. William Z. Ripley, was edited and published
by the Library.
The Library received from the widow of Eobert Louis Stevenson,
original blocks of eighteen wood engravings executed by her
late husband.
Crawford's statue of Beethoven, the property of the Handel and
Haydn Society, deposited in trust with the Trustees of the
Librar}'.
Publication of An Index to the Pictures and Plans of Library
Buildings to be found in the Boston Public Library, 2d enlarged
edition.
Department of Manuscripts established.
Gift from Godfrey M. Hyams of $1,000 for the purchase of
French books on art.
1900. March 12. The first course of free lectures, under the
auspices of the Trustees of the Library, begun in the Lecture
Hall.
June. Finding list of genealogies and town and local histories
published.
June 25. The sum of ^6,000 received, a legacy from the late
Daniel Sharp Ford, publisher of the Youth's Companion, the
income to be used for the purchase of books adapted to youth.
August. A Children's Boom opened at the West End Branch
Library.
August 4. Delivery Station I^, at the corner of Dudley and
Magazine streets, opened.' Station N", 200 Blue Hill avenue,
discontinued June, 1900.
October. The West Roxbury Branch Library enlarged.
November. A bust of Gen. Francis A. Walker, by Richard E.
Brooks, placed in the arcade of the interior court of the Library,
December 29. Station B, hitherto a shop station, opened in a
new location as the Roslindale Reading Room.
First consolidated Brauch Finding List published.
A bronze bust of Wendell Phillips, by Milmore, given by Mr. A.
Shumau, through the AVendell Phillips Memorial Association.
A portrait of the Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke, painted by
Edwin T. Billings, given by members of the Church of the
Disciples, through William Howell Reed.
The publication of the historical collections in manuscript in the
Library begun.
A second collection of John Brown manuscripts given to the
Library by Col. T. W. Higginson.
A collection of literary manuscripts, made by the late Rufus W.
Griswold, given to the Library by his widow.
166 City Document No. 24.
Gift from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, through Col. T. W. Higginson,
of .SlOO, as the first annual contribution for the purchase for
the Galatea collection of books relating to the history of woman.
Gift from George B. Knapp, in memory of his brother Arthur
Mason Knapp, of a collection of medals and coins.
1901. January. The work begun of changing the Bates Hall card
catalogue from double to single rod drawers.
January 5. Station Y, the Andrew-square Reading Room, opened
in the John A. Andrew School-house, Dorchester street.
March. The ceiling decoration for the Children's Reference
Room, by John Elliott, representing "The Triumph of Time,"
placed in position. A gift from the citizens of Boston.
June 25. Station Z, Orient Heights Reading Room, opened.
Numerous illuminated manuscripts received by the Library.
The sum of S4,000 received by the will of the late Abram E.
Cutter of Charlestown; also his library of books, subject to a
life interest for his widow.
October. Italian fiction list published. Extensive improvements
in the heating and ventilation of Bates Hall completed.
INDEX.
Abbey, Edwin A., decoration completed
and placed, 4, 7; description of decor-
ation by, 104.
Adams, President John, library trans-
ferred to Children's reference room, 7.
Ajte limit on borrowers' cards lowered,
'21.
American poetrv, accessions, 12.
Annual list, 19.
Appropriations, 2, 59, 63; special, C4, 67.
Art, works of, 7.
Auction sales, 15.
Auditor's report, 59.
Bates hall, books consulted in, 23; im-
provement in heating, 6, 23.
Bates hall card catalogue, double rods
replaced by single rod, 15.
Benton, Josiah H., jr., 5.
Binding, work done, 20.
Boilers, reset, 7.
Books, added during year, 3; number of,
3; home use of, 3; fiction, added, 14;
for branches, 46; issue from Central
Library to branches, ."51 ; extent of
Library, 80; increase, 81; circulation
of, 87; received, 7; sum expended for,
1, 8; recommendation for purchase, 15;
transfer of non-flction, 16; use of, 22.
Boston newspapers, early, additions, 10.
Bowditch, Henry P., 5.
Branches, 35; finding list, 16; issue of
books, 36; extension of hours, 36, 44, 56;
Sunday opening, 45; reclassification, 36,
45; union catalogue, 45; instruction of
employees, 45; work with schools, 46;
books bought, 46; open shelves, 47;
repairs, 47; expenditures, 47; circula-
tion, 47; issue of books from Central
Library, 51.
Branches and stations. Supervisor of, re-
port, 43.
Brown, Allen A., library of music, 25.
Buildings, equipment and general ad-
ministration, 6.
Card catalogue, double rods replaced by
single rod, 15.
Catalogue cards, printed, 16.
Catalogue department, 15.
Catalogue room, ventilation improved
in, 7.
Catalogue, union, for branches and sta-
tions, 36, 45, 49.
Charlestown branch, as to new build-
ing for, 3; books for, 14.
Children's reference room (Elliott room)
gallery removed and Adams library
transferred to, 4, 7.
Children's room, work of, 31.
Chronology of the Library, 153.
Circulation, Central Libi-ary and
branches, S7.
Classification, Central Library, 83;
branches, 84.
Clerk of Trustees, Delia Jean Deery,
elected, 1.
Colonial history, books on, added, 10.
Cooperation with the schools, 36, 43, 46,
49.
Cooperative index, titles catalogued, 16.
Cutter, Abrani E., legacy of $4,000 re-
ceived, 6.
Deaths and resignations, list, 53.
Deery, Delia Jean, elected Clerk of Trus-
tees, 1.
Delivery room, treatment of ceiling, 7.
De Normandie, Rev. Dr. James, Vice-
President, 1, 5.
Deposit collection, card catalogues of
Iwoks in, .50; use of collection, 50.
Documents, Department of, 28; reiiort,
38.
Dwight, Thomas, 5.
Elliott, John, decoration of, 4; placed, 7;
description of, 108.
Employees, list of, 95.
English literature, accessions, 11.
Engravings, 26.
Evening and Sunday service, schedule,
102.
Examinations, 37.
Examining Committee, list of, 3; report,
54; sul)-committees, 54.
Examining Committees, list of, 91.
Exhibitions of photographs and en-
gravings, 26.
Expenditures, 60; for branches and sta-
tions, 73.
Fiction, added, 14; purchase of books
of, 3.
Fiction Committee, work done by, 15.
Finance, .59.
Fine arts and architecture, accessions,
11.
Givers, list of, 109.
Gutters, steam pipes in, replaced, 7.
Incunabula, added, 10.
Inter=library loans, 22.
Issue department, work done, 22.
Italian fiction, list, 16, 19.
Lectures, 27; series for 1901, under au-
spices of Trustees, 2, 35.
Librarian, report of, 6.
Librarians, list of, 90.
Library agencies, 2, 6, .50.
Library service, schedule, 95.
Library system, 2, 6.
Lincoln, Solomon, reappointed Trustee,
1; President, 1, 5.
Manuscripts, Department of, 4; added,
28; illuminated, 9.
Music collection, 25.
Natural history, accessions of books on.
Newspapers, expenditure for, 1, 8; re-
ceived, 34.
Ordering department, statement of, 7.
Orient Heights (Station Z), books for,
14; establishment of, 37, 48.
Paris Exposition literature, 12.
Patent room, work of, 34.
Periodicals, added, 34; distribution of,
.52; expenditure for, 1, 8.
168
Index.
Photographs, 25, 26.
President, Solomon Lincoln elected,!.
Printing department, work of, 20.
Publications, disposed of, 22; Issued, 17.
Registration, statement on, 21; statis-
tics, 85.
Resignations, list, 53.
Roslindale Reading-room (Station B),
books for, 14.
Sargent, John S., walls prepared for
decoration by, 7.
Schools, cooperation with, 36, 43, 46, 49.
Shelf department, work of, 20.
Special libraries, woi-k of, 24.
Station B (Roslindale), books for, 14.
Station Z (Orient Heights), books for, 14;
establishment of, 37, 48.
Stations, issne of books, 36; circulation,
48; expenditures, 48, 73; reclassifica-
tion, 49; work with schools, 49.
Statistics, Department of, 4, 28; report,
.38.
Sunday and evening schedule, 103.
Supervisor of branches and stations,
report of, 43.
Ticknor collection, works for, 12.
Trust funds, 65, 68.
Trustees, report of, 1-5; President, Vice-
President, Clerk, 1 ; list of, 89.
Vice-President, Rev. Dr. James De
Normandie elected, 1.
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