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FIFTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL REPORT
I905-I906
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ON FEBRUARY I, 1906.
SOLOMON LINCOLN, President.
Term expires May i, 1906.
JOSIAH H. BENTON, jR. JAMES De NORMANDIE.
Term expires May i, 1909. Term expires May i, 1910.
THOMAS F. BOYLE. THOMAS DWIGHT.
Term expires May i, 1907. Term expires May i, 1908.
Librarian.
HORACE G. WADLIN.
^Vith the Compliments of
THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE TEUSTEES
Public Library
CITY OF BOSTON
I905-I906
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BOSTON
MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFPICE
1900
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CONTENTS.
Page.
Report of the Trustees ...... 1
Report of the Librarian ...... 6
Report of the Examining Committee .... 56
Appendixes :
I. Financial Statement ...... 67
II. Extent of the Library by years .... 89
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments, includ-
ing Branches . . . . . . .91
IV. Classification : Central Library . . broadside
■ V. Classification : Branches ..... 95
VI. Registration ..... broadside
VII. Circulation 98
VIII. Trustees for Fifty-four Years. — Librarians . . 100
IX. Examining (^Qijimittee^Jtof Fif^y- four "Shears. ^« J . 102
X . Library S'^rV^ce',' Irtdudiiig - ".SmKlay- • an'd' Evening
Service . . »•;.; j •;» "•:•»*; • • • 1*^6
Index to the Annual Report;*f90o-i906 '. . ,. .117
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Public Library System
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Area of City. 43 square :
Branch Libraries, February i, 1906.
HriKhton Branch, Holton Library Building. Academy Hill Koiid.
Charlestown Branch, City Square.
Dorchester Brunch, Arcadia, cor. Adams St.
Kast Boston Branch, 37 Meridian St.
JumHicft Plain Branch, Curtis Hall. Centre St.
Riixbury Branch, 46 Millmont St.
South Bosi.in Branth. 37a Broadway.
Sduth End Branch, agj Shawmut Avenue.
West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lynde St.
West Roxbury Branch. Centre, near Mt. Vern
1 St.
B.
I>. Mattapan Reading Room. River, cor. Oakland St.
E. Keponset Delivery Station, 49 Walnut St.
F. Mount Bowdoin Readinis; Room. Washington, cor. Bldon St.
G. Allston Reading Room, 354 Cambridge St.
I. Codmnn Square Reading Rnom, Washington cor. Norfolk St.. Dorchester,
X Mt. 1'leasant Reading Room, Dudley, cor. Magazine St.
Delivery Stations, February i, 1906,
;t. P. Broadway Extension Reading Room, 13 Broadway Extension,
y. Upham's Corner Reading Room, Columbia Road cor. Bird St.
R, Warren Street Reading Room, 390 Warren St.
S. Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, 115a Tremont St.
Boylston Station Reading Room, The Lamartine, Depot Squa
W Industrial School Reading Room, 39 North Bennet St.
Z. Orient Heights Reading Room, 1030 Bennington St.
22. North Street Reading Room, w.7 North St.
LIBRARY SYSTEM, FEBRUARY 1, 1906.
Depaktments. Opened.
Central Library, Copley sq. Established May 2, 1854 Mar. 11, 1895
X East Boston Branch, 37 Meridian at Jan. 28, 1871
I South Boston Branch, 372 Broadway May 1, 1872
IIRoxbury Branch, 46 3Iillmont st July, 1S73
X Charlestown Branch, City sq '. *Jan., 1874
t Brighton Branch, Academy Hill rd *Jan., 1874
X Dorchester Branch, Arcadia, cor. Adams st Jan. 25, 1875
§ South End Branch, 397 Shawmut ave Aug., 1S77
X Jamaica Plain Branch, Curtis Hall, Centre st Sept., 1877
X West Roxbury Branch, Centre, near Mt. Vernon st *Jan. 6, 1S80
t West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lynde st Feb. 1,1896
Station A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington si June 7,1875
" B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washington, cor. Ashland st Dec. 3,1878
" D. Mattapan Reading Room, River, cor. Oakland st Dec. 27, 1881
" E. Neponset Delivery Station, 49 Walnut st Ian. 1,18(^3
" F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading Room, Washington, cor. Eldon st Nov. 1, 1886
" G. Allstou Reading Room, 354 Cambridge st Mar. 11, 1889
" J. Codnian Square Reading Room, Washington, cor. Norfolk St. Nov. 12, 1890
" N. Mt. Pleasant Reading Room, Dudley, cor. Magazine st Apr. 29, 1892
" P. Broadway Extension Reading Room, 13 Broadway Ex-
tension Jan. 16, 1896
" Q. Upham's Corner Reading Room, Columbia rd., cor. Bird St.. Mar. 16, 1896
" R. Warren Street Reading Room, 390 Warren st May 1, 1896
" S. Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, 1154 Tremont st -Jan. 18, 1897
" T. Boylstou Station Reading Room, The Lamartine, Depot sq.. Nov. 1,1897
" W. Industrial School Reading Room, 39 North Bennet st Nov. 3,1899
" Z. Orient Heights Reading Room, 1030 Bennington st June 25, 1901
" 22. North Street Reading Room, 207 North st Jnne. 9, 1903
* As a branch.
t In buildings owned by the City, and exclusively devoted to Library uses.
X In City buildings, in part devoted toother municipal uses.
§ Occupies rented rooms.
II The lessee of the Fc-llowes Athenaeum, a private library association.
To His Honor John F. Fitzgerald,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
Sir, — The Trustees of the Public Library of the City
of Boston present the following report of its progress and
condition during the year ending January 31, 1906, being
the fifty-fourth annual report of the Trustees.
The Rev. Dr. James De Normandie, whose term as Trustee
expired April 30, 1905, was re-appointed for a term of five
years, beginning May 1, 1905. The corporation w^as subse-
quently organized by the re-election of ]\Ir. Solomon Lincoln
as President and the Rev. Dr. De Normandie as Vice-Presi-
dent. Miss Delia Jean Deery was re-elected Clerk.
This report is similar in form to that adopted in several
years immediately preceding, and thus affords ready means
of estimating the comparative growth of the Library.
The following tables exhibit the receipts and expenditures
during the year :
Receipts.
City appropriatiou .... $310,000 00
Income from trust funds . . 15,431 00
Miscellaneous sources, gifts, etc., in-
cluding cash on deposit in Lou-
don in part to meet payments for
purchases made during the year,
and unexpended balances of trust
funds 14,939 55
$340,370 55
Expenditures.
Salaries, including Printing and
Binding Departments . . . $208,019 39
Books 33,648 86
Periodicals 6,712 00
Newspapers . . . . . 1,833 71
General maintenance . . . 70,888 81
321,102 77
Balance *$19,267 78
*Tbi8 balance is composed of certain items of income of trust funds, accrued inter-
ests ou deposits, etc., as shown in the Auditor's detailed statement, Appendix I.,
page 69.
City Document No. 24.
The Trustees append, as usual, the report of the Librarian,
Mr. Wadlin, and the reports of other officials of the Library.
That of the Librarian is ver}- complete, and should be con-
sulted by all who desire to obtain a full account of the work
and condition of the Library for the preceding year.
The Examining Committee of citizens for the year
consisted of the following ladies and gentlemen :
Dr. George B. Shattuck,
Chairman^
Miss Eleanor M. Colleton,
Secretary ^
Timothy E. Byrnes,
James B. Connoll}',
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr.,
Laurence Curtis,
William F. Donovan,
Frank K. Foster,
Mrs, Francis P. Garland,
Rev. F. J. Halloran,
Mrs. Pinckney Holbrook,
Miss Carohne Matthews,
Rev. Daniel Merrimau,
Thomas Minns,
Mrs. Thomas G. Plant,
Abraham Ratshesk}',
Dr. William H. Ruddick,
Mrs. Edward Scates,
George A. Scigliano,
Mrs. Walter Shaw,
Rev. Benjamin F. Trueblood,
Dr. J. Collins Warren,
Daniel A. Whelton,
Rev. Elwood Worcester.
This committee was very completely organized and sub-
divided, and the respective sub-committees made very careful
examination of the condition of the Library and reported
valuable suggestions. Their report is appended.
The agencies of the Library were diminished by two this
5'ear, numbering now 199 instead of 201, as enumerated in
the last report. This diminution, however, has been more
than made up by the expansion of certain deposit stations
into reading rooms. The latter are under the charge of
regular officials of the Library, contain deposits of books, and
in general supply much greater provision for their patrons.
Their greater value appears at once from the immediately
increased use and the greater circulation of books.
The new- building at Codman square, Dorchester, erected
by the Public Buildings Department, has been placed at the
disposal of the Library, and was opened as a reading room
on JMarch 6, 1905. This building was designed chiefly for
Library purposes, and is the only one of the buildings under
the control of the Trustees which was so planned. It con-
stitutes a permanent addition of value to the system. During
the past year a fire occurred in the building, 397 Shaw-
mut avenue, occupied by the South End Branch. Very
little damage was done to the property of the Library, and
only temporary inconvenience suffered while repairs were
making. A fire also damaged the Old City Hall building in
Charlestown, but in this case also the Library sustained but
Library Department. 3
little loss. Other changes of less importance have occurred
in the stations under the control of the Trustees, and the
report of the Librarian gives a full description of these.
The Vacuum Cleaning System has been installed in the
Central Library. It has improved the sanitary condition of
the building, and by thoroughly and quietly removing the
dust from the shelves, does the work of cleaning economi-
cally, and in a manner which tends to the better preserva-
tion of the books.
The Trustees call attention to the fact that the cost of
replacing, re-binding, and repairing books, consequent upon
the growing use of the Library, is a large and increasing
item of expense.
The losses resulting from permitting access to the books
upon open shelves continue to be considerable, although
chiefly of books of small value. The Trustees, however,
are still of opinion that these losses are more than compen-
sated by the more complete and valuable use of the Library
made possible to those who are permitted to have such access.
By an arrangement made with the Boston Medical Library,
the Trustees have constituted that library a deposit station,
and have sanctioned the ultimate removal for deposit there of
such medical works now in the Central Library as in the
judgment both of the Trustees and of the Boston JNIedical
Library can wisely be thus deposited. No control of the
books is relinquished, and they are to be open to the use of
the same persons who would be entitled to use them if they
remained at the Central Library, the object of establishino-
this deposit being to avoid the duplication of medical works,
especiall}- books of a class which are not in popular demand,
thus securing the advantage that those who desire to consult
works of this character will find the largest collection under
one roof. The books and periodicals of which the transfer
has been authorized are chiefly those of an especially scien-
tific character, which are not often consulted except by
professional readers.
The inevitable growth and expansion of the Library, com-
mensurate with the growth of the city, entails a laroer
expenditure for employees and for providing and equipping
branch libraries and reading rooms ; and the Trustees find,
as usual, that it is impossible to comply- with all requests
made to them for expansions of the Library system. On
the other hand, the provision made by the city for the
Library has not been substantially increased forseveral years.
Accordingly the expenditures for books are necessarily first
diminished. Other expenses cannot be materially reduced.
4 City Document No. 24.
Even, however, in the dimmished purchases of books the
Trustees bear in mind, of course, the necessity of maintaining
the continuity of previous accessions, and so far as it is
possible they endeavor to obtain, at the public auctions now
frequently held in this city and elsewhere, such valuable
historical matter relating especially to the City of Boston
and also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as seems
to find an appropriate place in the Library.
In reference to the purchases of books of fiction, the
Trustees have continued to confine such purchases to works of
authors of recognized distinction or of deserved popularity,
and to works of obvious intrinsic merit. It is quite impossible,
with the funds at the disposal of the Trustees, to purchase
any large portion of the current fiction of the day, or the num-
ber of copies required to meet a popular demand ; nor is it in
the judgment of the Trustees desirable. The collections of the
Library must be of more permanent value. It is not difficult
for those who seek lighter literature to obtain it elsewhere.
By reason, therefore, of the diminished means at the com-
mand of the Trustees, and for other causes, the number of
accessions to the Library is considerably less this year than
during the preceding. The total accessions amount to 33,551
volumes, of which 21,400 were acquired by purchase. Con-
siderable purchases of photographs have been made, and the
publications of the Library have been continued in the direc-
tions heretofore adopted.
Especial efforts have been made to reach children by
means of exhibitions of photographs and of pictures. For
details relating to all these matters the Trustees refer again
to the report of the Librarian.
The catalogue receives constant attention, but it would be
impossible, in a general report, to indicate the character of
the work done.
The Special Libraries are much resorted to. Mr. Allen A.
Brown continually adds to his generous gifts in the Music
Library.
A very complete course of free public lectures was given
in the Central Librar}^ during the usual lecture season. A
complete list of the subjects treated in the months covered
by the present report is given in the report of the Librarian,
and deserves special attention in order that a knowledge may
be had of the variety and usefulness of these lectures. The
names of the speakers who generously gave their services to
the Library in connection with the course also appear in this
list, certain lectures having been arranged in co-operation
with the Boston Society of Printers and the Boston Archi-
Library Department. 6
tectural Club. Repeated exhibitions of pictorial art Lave
been given in the Central Library, and in some cases concur-
rently with the lectures.
A considerable number of gifts is regularly received by
the Trustees, and in some cases the gifts are of considerable
value. During the year covered by this report, however, the
Trustees have received no gift of money of large importance.
The first payment in cash to the Library, under the will of
Joseph H. Center, of Roxbury, amounting to $14,000, was
received during September. This sum, to be increased from
time to time from the proceeds of certain items of real estate
received from the same source, but not yet disposed of, has
been funded as the Joseph H. Center Fund, the income to
be used for the purchase of books and other additions to the
Library.
This report is necessarily of very general character, and
attention is again called to the special report of the Librarian
for a much more minute and important account of the activ-
ities of the Library.
Solomon Lincoln,
President,
Jam^s De Normandie,
Vice-Presidejit,
JosiAH H. Benton, Jr.,
Thomas F. Boyle,
Thomas D wight.
Mat 25, 1906.
City Document No. 24.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees :
The report of the Librarian for the year ending January
31, 1906, is hereby submitted:
The Library System.
The Library system includes :
The Central Library on Copley square.
Ten branch libraries with permanent collections of books.
Sixteen delivery stations (all but one of which are reading
rooms), and also, as places of deposit or delivery, forty
engine-houses, twenty-nine institutions, and one hundred and
four public and parochial schools. The total number of
agencies of all kinds is one hundred and ninety-nine, as
against two hundred and one in the previous year. The
reduction in the number of delivery stations from twenty-two
ta sixteen, which will be hereinafter referred to, affects the
total, but is partly offset numerically by an increase in the
number of schools or other institutions to which books are
sent on deposit.
Finance.
A record of the receipts and payments for the year is to
be found in the statement of the Library Auditor (Appendix
I.)
Buildings, Equipment and General Administration.
The usual routine repairs have been made on the Central
building, Copley square, and on the branch buildings which
we own or control.
At the Central, during the summer, the walls, piers and
ceilings of the Special Libraries, including the Barton-Ticknor
and Music Rooms, were entirely renovated under the direction
of our own painter.
The valve stems on the high and low pressure cylinders of
Engine No. 1 have been renewed. A new feed-water heater
has been installed, and a new system-water tank put in to
replace one that, after service since the building was
originally occupied, was found defective on account of
Library Department. 7
corrosion. Minor repairs have been made upon the boilers
and piping system.
The elevators have been thoroughly examined, and put in
order, including new hoist ropes and counter-weight drum
ropes on the electric elevator, and repairs to the safety appa-
ratus, a new set of tilting sheaves and a new counter-weight
rope on the hydraulic elevator.
The heating system of the Central building is in good
condition. About 1,600 tons of coal have been consumed, a
decrease of 200 tons as compared with the preceding year,
due to the mild weather during the winter. The ventilation,
not always excellent under the crowded condition of some of
our rooms, has been somewhat improved so far as relates to
the Lecture Hall by re-opening three large inlets which had
been closed for some time, permitting the introduction of a
considerable amount of fresh air. This, while not entirely
satisfactory, is an improvement.
No repairs have been required during the year upon the
dynamos at the Central building, and the motors have been
regularly operated without a break. The book-railway has
required but slight repairs, and is now in good order.
VACUUM CLEANING SYSTEM.
The installation of the Vacuum Cleaning apparatus at the
Central building is an important permanent improvement,
especially from a sanitary point of view, inasmuch as it
supersedes, in the cleaning of the stacks, the use of brushes
and sawdust, and enables the work to be thoroughly done
without raising dust. Although the plant as now con-
structed is primarily intended for stack-sweeping and for
cleaning the books and shelves contained in the stacks, the
connections are arranged so as to be extended for operation
in other parts of the building.
NEW BRANCH BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
The new building at Codman square, Dorchester, erected
by the Public Buildings Department, was placed at the
disposal of the Library Department and opened as a reading
room March 6. This is the only agency of the Library
which occupies a new building erected chiefly for Library
purposes. Although there is a ward-room in the basement
having an independent entrance, the remainder of the build-
ing is entirely devoted to the Library, and in its arrange-
ment and furnishing the Librarian was consulted, and our
requirements provided for, although the plans were prepared
8 City Document No. 24.
and carried out by the Public Buildings Department, which,
in offering the rooms to us, agreed to keep the building in
repair and to provide light, heat and janitor service.
Since the building was opened the grounds have been put
in thorough order, and some additional furniture snp]3lied by
that department. The reading room is convenient, well-
lighted, and generally attractive. Its location, also, at the
junction of several main thoroughfares and near the Dor-
chester High School and the Henry L. Pierce Grammar
School, could not well be improved.
As the nucleus of a permanent collection about 1,200 vol-
umes were placed upon the shelves when the building was
opened, besides several hundred volumes of deposit books.
The permanent collection now numbers nearly 1,700 volumes,
although some of these are books transferred from branches
and therefore not recent publications. From this small col-
lection there was a direct circulation during eleven months
of 34,894 volumes, and besides these, more than 7,000 vol-
umes were drawn from the Central Library for borrowers at
this station.
A serious fire occurred November 9 in the building 397
Shawmut avenue, occupied by the South End Branch, and
held by us under lease from the Shawmut Church. The
fire was caused by a defectiA^e furnace, and although con-
siderable damage was done to the building the Library prop-
erty suffered little. The necessary repairs have Ijeen made
by the owners, the work of the branch proceeding without
cessation, but not without inconvenience which, under the
circumstances, it was impossible to avoid.
On December 12 a fire broke out in the Old City Hall
building, Charlestown, part of which is occupied by the
Charlestown Branch, but the Library rooms were but slightly
damaged, nor were they closed except briefly. The repairs
were made by the Public Buildings Department, which is in
control.
The grounds at the Brighton Branch, Academy Hill road,
were planted by the Park Department with shrubs early in
the spring, according to an elaborate scheme, under the ini-
tiative of the Brighthelmstone Club of Brighton. This, as
the shrubs mature, will add greatly to the appearance of the
branch.
At the East Boston Branch a re-arrangement of the exits
aids materially in the administration of the room. Allusion
was made in the last report to the inadequacy of the accom-
modations at this branch, especially in view of the increasing
circulation and use of the readino- room. For lack of seats
Library Department. 9
436 persons were turned away on Sundays during the last
three months of the year.
At the South Boston Branch, located in rooms which we
hold under lease, the owners have repainted the interior, laid
cork matting in the main reading room and made other
repairs. A new fire-escape and also gratings for the exposed
windows have been provided, and we have supplied some
new furniture.
At the West Roxbury Branch, a toilet-room has been put
in on the main floor by the Public Buildings Department at
our request.
The grounds of the West End Branch, which are now
under our control, have been kept in good condition by the
Park Department at our expense. The trees were badly
infected with the tussock moth, requiring special attention.
At the same time, six trees were removed, under the advice
of the Park Department, either on account of decay or because
they interfered with the proper development of other trees.
Following the fires at the South End and Charlestown
Branches, previously mentioned, the instructions which had
been in force with regard to precautions against fire and
relating to the duty of custodians in case of fire, were ampli-
fied in a special circular, and additional fire extinguishers
were sent to the branches and stations.
Problems in Administration.
In several respects it seems impossible, under present
financial limitations, to reach ideal conditions in the admin-
istration of a great public library, serving a mixed popu-
lation. Our constant effort is toward such conditions, but
between the necessity of confining our operations within
rigid economy of management, and the desire to overcome
certain defects, which are obvious no less to ourselves than
to the public, there lies a line of compromise by which our
action must be determined.
I do not now especially refer to the insufficient supply of
books to meet the demand, requiring us constantly to deny
the requests of borrowers. Demand constantly outruns sup-
ply, and can only be approximately met, in any case. But
there are other serious problems.
For example, books which are in active circulation soon
become soiled. Borrowers frequently complain of this, and
members of the Examining Committee have criticised the con-
dition of certain popular books at the Central Library and at
the branches. The cause of complaint is legitimate, and is by
10 City Document No. 24.
no means disregarded by us, but it is impossible to at once
replace these books. The expense is prohibitive. To deter-
mine how long such a book shall be retained in circulation,
or whether it shall be re-bound when the original binding is
worn out if, at the same time, it is more or less filthy, calls
for much discrimination. We condemn and discard such
books as freely as the money available for replacing them
permits, but this is far less freely than would be done under
ideal conditions. Many of the popular books at the branches
and stations are much soiled. As the custodian of one
reading room remarks, " Doubtless the time comes when in
any collection of much used books there are many volumes
not quite bad enough to be condemned, but far too dirty to
be pleasant to the touch."
The books in active circulation become gradually dirty, and
it is therefore impossible to hold any one person responsible,
especially when hundreds of children handle the books
daily. Where there are open shelves the promiscuous use is
increased.
We are able through the branch charging system to
measure the life of a book upon our shelves. Taking six
popular books as a test, it was recently found that, at a branch
with a large circulation, such books were often issued from
100 to 120 times, being re-bound twice. The shortest
period in the life of the book was that previous to the first
re-binding.
As an indication of the care which, from considerations of
economy, we find it necessary to give in order to reduce the
cost of replacements, it may be stated that 7,000 volumes
were repaired during the year at one branch, 7,500 at another
and 18,000 at another. Missing pages are written to the
number of several hundred a year at each of the larger
branches.
Another problem to which we are giving constant atten-
tion, but have not _yet solved, is the prevention of losses from
open shelves. This was mentioned in my last annual report.
The advantages to the public of the open shelves are
obvious. The disadvantages set forth last year need not be
again mentioned. The actual loss during the last twelve
months aggregates 843 from open shelves at branches, and
129 from closed shelves, open however to certain applicants.
There is also a considerable loss from the larger reading-
rooms and from the deposit collection at the stations. I have
under consideration, and shall soon propose, certain restric-
tions which are likely to reduce these losses, without seriously
impairing the open shelf privilege. The ideal can never be
reached until the abuses of the privileges are overcome.
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Library Department. 11
A third point in which the administration falls below our
ideal, relates to the length of time which now elapses after
a book is reported as missing from the shelves before it can
be replaced. This is now a question of montlis. Patrons do
not understand the reasons for the delay, and are apt to criti-
cise it. It is principally a matter of economy. A consider-
able number of books reported as missing will eventually be
returned. If immediately replaced unnecessary duplication
of purchases would result. If our funds were unlimited
duplication might, of course, be disregarded. But this,
unfortunately, is not the case. Therefore, as in the replace-
ment of soiled books, there must be compromise upon some
line below the ideal, but within our financial resources. To
reduce the delay as much as possible, under conditions which
we cannot disregard, is the only open course.
Transfer of Medical Books.
Under authorization of the Trustees an agreement has been
made with the Boston Medical Library in the Fenway,
whereby a deposit station has been established there for
medical books, involving the transfer from our collection of
such volumes as may be mutually decided upon by repre-
sentatives of each library, to be held on deposit at this
station, upon conditions which provide for the use of the books
by the game persons as would be entitled to use them at the
Central Libraiy. The volumes which it is proposed to
deposit there are, in general, such strictly professional works
as are used by medical students or by members of the profes-
sion. The books deposited are subject to recall at any time,
and, like all books sent to our other deposit stations, remain
the property of the Boston Public Library.
A similar arrangement has been made between the Boston
Medical Library and other large libraries in the vicinity, in-
tended to promote a plan for co-operation between the insti-
tutions concerned, under which the funds of each may be
used to the best advantage, unnecessary duplication of pur-
chases avoided, and students, who principally use such books,
may find the largest possible collection under one roof.
Nothing except periodicals has as yet been transferred to
this station. The work of selection for transfer, the making
of the catalogue reference entries required in the case of
books deposited, and other work in connection therewith re-
quires discrimination and must necessarily proceed slowly.
The continuation of the medical periodical files has been
taken over by the Medical Library, and the funds thus re-
12 City Document No. 24.
leased from our annual expense budget can now be used for
the purchase of other books.
Books Received.
Mr. Thomas S. Perry, who for several years had been
intrusted with the regular examination of current European
Continental book lists, in the work of selection for purchase,
closed his direct connection with the Library in June in
anticipation of prolonged absence from the country. Since
that date this service has been rendered by members of the
regular staff. Mr. James L. Whitney has continued his
valuable assistance in the examination of American and
English catalogues and publishers' lists.
The Librar}" has been represented at every important
auction daring the year, and, within the limits of our avail-
able funds, desirable acquisitions from this source have been
added to our collection.
We are, as usual, under obligations to those who have
generously given to the Library much literary material, some
of which would not have been obtainable by purchase.
The total accessions for the j'ear, from various sources,
amount to 33,551 volumes, as against 42,891 for the year
1904-05. The total accessions, as will be seen, are less than
those of the preceding year by 9,341 volumes. The total
number of volumes purchased (21,400) is 6,096 less than for
the preceding year, the reduction being entirely due to lack
of funds which could be devoted to this purpose. The total
number of gifts (11,116) is 4,021 less than for the preceding
year. The following statistical statement presents the facts
as to accessions in detail :
Accessions by purchase .
Accessions by gift
Accessions by exchange .
Accessions by periodicals (bound) .
Accessions by Statistical Department
24,034 9,517 33,551
Books bought for Central Library:
From City appropriation . . . 8,083
From trust funds 2,248
10,331
Centi-al,
Branches,
Totals,
Volumes.
Volumes.
Volumes.
10,331
9,278
19,609
9,831
239
10,070
1,035
1,035
1,791
1,791
1,046
1,046
Books bought for branches :
From City appropriation . . . 8,054
From trust funds ..... 260
From Fellowes Athenajum . . . 964
9,278
19,609
Library Department. 13
The diminished purchases have been largely in the depart-
ment of current publications in foreign languages, but the
number of volumes ordered for the branches and for deposit
■work has also been somewhat reduced. It is expected that the
expenditures in certain directions, which this year have been
unavoidably large, will not hereafter draw so severely upon
our general appropriation, and that we shall not be obliged
to restrict beyond reasonable limits our annual purchases.
Every year the demands upon the Library increase. The
increase in population ; the growth of the reading habit,
which we have sedulously cultivated for some time through
our work in connection with the schools ; the establish-
ment of new stations and other agencies for bringing the
Library near to the people — these inevitably require large
expenditures for books and general administration, which
have not thus far been met by a corresponding increase
in our annual appropriation.
ENGLISH PROSE FICTION.
It will, I think, be obvious that, with a comparatively
limited amount of money which can be devoted to the
purchase of current publications of all classes, expenditures
for new fiction must, whether we favor or deplore it, be
closely restricted. The policy now well established, of con-
fining our purchases of current novels to those of the highest
merit as determined by a rather conservative standard,
necessarily excludes a large number of recent publications,
but the experience of several years has shown that nearly all
of the works of fiction which for various reasons we have found
it impossible to buy, have failed to demonstrate their ability
to live for even a few brief months. The demand for some
of them was insistent for a short time. Now their names
are for the most part forgotten, and nobody cares to read
them. If we had purchased a considerable number of
these volumes, the money, so far as present demand is
concerned, would have been wasted, and the books would
have taken places on our shelves that are needed for litera-
ture of a more permanent character.
It may be justly said, however, that we have bought mean-
time, so far as our resources permitted, a fair representation
of the best fiction, that which is likeliest to remain in constant
request. Our supply of standard English fiction is large,
and is constantly replaced as the books are worn out. We
are liberal in providing good fiction for the young. We could
undoubtedly use to advantage a larger number of copies,
14 City Document No. 24.
especially in branch and deposit work, but unless our funds
are enlarged we cannot expend a larger portion of our money
in this way, without retarding tlie growth of the Libiary in
other important directions.
Durmg the year 774 volumes of English prose fiction
were received from the publishers, and were considered care-
fully upon their merits, the reports of the volunteer reading
committee, as to plots, interest, general characteristics, etc.,
being taken into account, together with other factors, deter-
mining the merit of the books and their suitability for our
purposes. Of these, 161 titles were accepted, and author-
ized for purchase ; 1,230 copies being bought, requiring an
expenditure of $1,267. If this expenditure for fiction seems
small, it must be borne in mind that it does not include
replacements constantly required to keep our collection, as
catalogued, complete. The following statement will be
found interesting, bringing out, as it does, the relative ex-
penditure for fiction in the aggregate, as compared with that
for books of all kinds : Number of copies of current fiction,
original purchases, added during the year 1905-06 (Central
Library and branches), 1,230 ; cost, $1,267. Number of re-
placements (Central, 710 ; deposit, 66 ; branches and
stations, 3,504), 4,280 ; cost, $4,280. Additional copies
(Central, 127; deposit, 601; branches and stations, 162),
890 ; total number of copies purchased, 6,400 ; cost, $6,437.
From the foregoing it will be seen that the total expendi-
ture for fiction was $6,437, covering 6,400 volumes. In com-
parison, the total expenditure for all books was $34,460.90,
and the total number of volumes purchased, 19,609.
For the year preceding, 1904-05, the total expenditure was
$37,266.84, covering 27,469 volumes, and that for fiction
$7,532.04, covering 7,556 volumes. Expressed in terms of
percentage, the expenditure for fiction, including new pur-
chases, replacements and additional copies, amounted to
18.65 per cent of all book expenditure in 1905-06, and
20.21 per cent in the preceding year.
From a report prepared by Miss Theodosia E. Macurdy,
Chief of the Ordering Department, the following information
as to the accessions of the year is presented :
Library Department. 15
PAYMENTS FOR BOOKS, PERIODICALS AND NE\VSPAPERS,
1905-06.
The payments for 1905-06 have been as follows :
City money expended for books :
For the Central Library (including
$1,670.27 for deposit) . . $14,023 83
For branches . . . . 8,719 79
822,743 62
City money expended for periodicals :
For Central Library . . .14,643 64
For branches and stations . . 2,068 36
6,712 00
Total City money expended .... $29,455 62
Trust funds expended for books :
For Central Library (including $21.55
for deposit) .... $10,453 88
For branches ..... 428 77
Trust funds expended for newspapers . 1,833 71
Total trust funds expended . . . . 12,71636
Carnegie fund expended for Central Library . . 22 59
Total City money and funds expended . . $42,194 57
Fellowes Athena;um paid for books for Roxbury
Branch, purchased by the Central Library" :
Books $845 63
Periodicals ..... 276 68
1,122 31
$43,316 88
Total amount paid for books, periodicals and newspapers,
$43,316.88, as against 846,077.85 in 1904-05.
REVIEW OF PURCHASES, 1905-06.
There has been no falling off in the past year in the
acquisition of books on the subjects (outside of current
publications) to which this Library aims to give unremitting
attention, viz., material relating to the early history of this
countr}', particularly the New England States and the City of
Boston. Besides the various historical documents, broadsides
and newspapers which have been purchased, there have also
been added books of note in archa3ology, particularly the litera-
ture of present day excavations, the issues of Franklin's Press,
the fine arts, heraldry, and in technical works suited to the
16 City Document No. 24.
practical needs of the artisan. The accessions of current
works in foreign languages have not been as large as usual,
and the books ordered for branches and deposit have been
noticeably less than last year. The non-replacement of a
large number of branch .and deposit books tends to restore
somewhat the balance which formerly existed in favor of the
Central Library, but which has been growing steadily in favor
of the branches for some years. The members of the official
staff have recommended as heretofore the books relating to
the subjects with which they are in touch, and Mr. Perry,
who resigned to go abroad in October, continues to cull from
the foreign reviews titles of importance for the consideration
of the Trustees.
The illustrative titles and lists here given of books bought
during the year are of necessity selective only, but they show
the direction in which the literary activity of the Library
tends, and they account also for a good part of the outlay
from the book funds.
NEWSPAPERS.
To complete as far as possible certain files of early news-
papers in which the history of colonial and revolutionary
events is recorded, is one of our reasonable ambitions. The
work is of necessity slow and piecemeal, yet no opportunity
is neglected which will add even one number at a time to
the files of the Boston Post-Boy, The Massachusetts Centi-
nel or the Pennsylvania Gazette. It is often necessary to
buy lots in which many duplicates occur in order to secure
what is needed, but by a system of exchange with other
libraries these duplicates are disposed of for their equivalent
in value or in kind. This year there have been bought 1,084
numbers of these early newspapers at an outlay of $1,343.95,
and of this number 684 filled existing gaps in our files.
There Avere also obtained eleven of the Massachusetts
Credit and Land Bank tracts, issued in 1717-1720, including
one entitled " The distressed state of the Town of Boston
considered. 1720." Among the 152 broadsides secured, per-
haps the most noteworthy was that known as the " Pendleton
Resolution," passed by the Virginia Convention of May 15,
1776, and issued from the press of the Virginia Gazette, May
17, 1776. In it the delegates were instructed to propose a
Declaration of Independence " to declare the United Colo-
nies free and independent states, absolved from all allegiance
or dependence upon the Crown or Parliament of Great
Britain."
Library Department. 17
Another broadside of local interest, received by exchange
from the Massachusetts Historical Society, was the " Names
of the streets, lanes and alleys witliin the town of Boston in
New England. Boston. B. Green. 1708."
The titles of some of the rarer books purchased, relating
to the early history of this country, are as follows :
Castell, AVilliam. A short discoverie of the coasts and continent
of America, from the equinoctiall northward, and of the
adjacent isles . . . Prefixed the authors Petition to this
present Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospel 1 in
America . . . and a late Ordinance of Parliament for that
. pm-pose, and for the better government of the English plan-
tations there . . . Loudon. 1644.
Chauncy, Charles, D. D. The wonderful narrative: or, a faith-
ful account of the French prophets, their agitations, extasies,
and inspirations : . . . Boston, 1742.
Common Prayer, Book of. Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States. "Proposed Book." The Book of Common
Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments and other rites
and ceremonies, as revised and proposed to the use of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, at a convention . . . held
in Philadelphia from September 27th to October 7th, 1785.
Philadelphia, 1786. "This book never was accepted by the
American Church, but was proposed by Bishop White."
King's Chapel Liturgy. A Liturgy collected principally from the
Book of Common Prayer, for the use of the First Episcopal
Church in Boston, together with the Psalter, or Psalms of
David. Printed by Peter Edes : Boston, 1785.
Condolence : an elegiac epistle from Lieut. General B-rg-yne,
captured at Saratoga, Oct. 17th, 1777, to Lieut. Gen. Earl
C-rnw-11-s, captured at York Town, Oct. 17th, 1781. (By -
Dorset.) London. 1782.
Eliot, John, Apostle to the Indians. A further accompt of
the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New
England, and of the means used eft'ectually to advance the
same. Set forth in certaine letters sent from thence declaring
a purpose of printing the Scriptures in the Indian tongue into
which they are already translated . . . London, 1659.
This tract forms No. 9 of the series issued by the Corporation
of New England, and completes the Library set.
Expedition, The, of Major General Braddock to Virginia ; with
the two regiments of Hacket and Dunbar. Being extracts of
letters from an officer in one of tliose regiments to his friend
in London, describing the march and engagement in the woods.
London. MDCCLV.
Keith, George. The Christian Quaker; or, George Keith's eyes
opened. Good news from Pensilvauia [sic]. Containing a
testimony against that false and ahsurd opinion which some
18 City Document No. 24.
hold . . . Printed in Pensilvania [sic], and reprinted in
London for Elias Keach . . . and John Harris
1693.
Mather, Cotton. The good old way. Or, Christianity described,
from the glorious lustre of it, appearing in the lives of the
primitive Christians . . . Boston: 1706.
Pierson, Abraham. Some helps for the Indians. Shewing them
how to improve their natural reason, to know the true God,
and the true Christian religion . . . Undertaken at the
motion, and published by the order of the Commissioners of
the United Colonies. A catechism in the language of the
Quiripi Indians. It ends abruptly : "The reason why there
is so short an imperfect siDecimen given of it is because the
ships came away from N. E. before any more of the copy
was wrought off from the presse."
Wheelwright, John. Mercurius Americanus, Mr. AVelds his
antitype, or, Massachusetts great apologie examined, being
observations upon a paper styled, A short story of the rise,
reign, and ruine of the Familists, Libertines, &c. which infected
the churches of New-England, &c. Wherein some parties
therein concerned are vindicated, and the truth generally
cleared. London, 1645.
Workman, Giles. Private-men no pulpit-men ; or, a modest
examination of lay-mens preaching. Discovering it to be
neither warranted by the Word of God, nor allowed by the
. Churches of Christ in New-England, [n answer to a
writing published by John Knowls. London. 1646.
FRANKLIN IMPRINTS.
Twenty volumes printed by Benjamin Franklin were
acquired, including the " Laws of the Library Company of
Philadelphia, Phil., 1746." In this connection was also
secured a collection of pamphlets on electricity (40 in all)
belonging originally to Franklin, and a little book entitled
" Of education. Especially of young gentlemen. Oxford.
1677.", bearing the initials B. F. in autograph on the title
page.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND EXPLORATION.
Amelio, Pasquale d', editor. Nvovi scavi di Pompei. Casa dei
Vettii. Appendice a dipinti mvrali. NapoH. [1904.]
Bruennow, Rudolf Ernst, and Alfred von Domaszewski. Die
Provincia Arabia, auf Grund zweier in den Jahren 1897 und
1898 unternommenen Reiseu und der Berichte friiberer Reisen-
der beschrieben. Band 1, 2. Strassburg. 1904, 05.
Bulitchov, N. Fouilles- de la Russie centrale. Kourgans et
Gorodietz. Reeherches archeologiques sur la ligne de partage
des eaux de la Volga et du Dnieper. Moscow. 1900.
Library Department. 19
ficole Fran^aise d'Extreme-Orient. Fouilles de Delphes.
1904-05.
Egypt. Service des antiquites. Annales. LeCaire. 1900-04.
5 V.
Gsell, Stephane. Les monuments antiques de I'Algerie. Paris.
1901. 2 V.
Hartman, C. V. Archaeological researches in Costa Rica.
Stoclvhohn. 1901.
Murray, Margaret A. The Osireion at Abydos. London.
1904.
Popofsky, A. Die Acanthariader Plankton-Expedition. Teil 1 :
Acanthometra. Kiel. 1904.
Uhle, Max. Pachacamac. Report of the William Pepper, M.D.,
LL.D., Peruvian Expedition of 1896. Translated by C.
Grosse. [Philadelphia. 1903.]
Wiegand, Theodor & Schrader, Hans. Priene. Ergebnisse der
Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren 1895-98.
Berlin. 1904.
FINE ARTS.
Adler, Friedrich. Mittelalterliche Backstein-Bauwerke des
preussischen Staates gesammelt und herausgegeben. Berlin.
1862, 1898. 2 v.
Arundel Club. Publications. (In progress.)
Aubert, Joseph Felix. Entwiirfe fiir Spitzen & Stickereien.
Stuttgart. [190-?]
Berguer, Heinrich. Handbuch der kirchlichen Kunstaltertiimer
in Deutschland. Lief. 1, 2. Leipzig. 1905.
Burger, Fritz. Geschichte des tlorentinischen Grabmals von den
iiltesten Zeiten bis Michelangelo. Strassburg. 1904.
Calvert, Albert Frederic. The Alhambra. London. Philip.
1904. Autograph facsimile.
Dobson, Henry Austin. AVilliam Hogarth. With an introduc-
tion on Hogarth's workmanship by Sir Walter Armstrong.
London. 1902.
Duerer, Albrecht. Das Skizzenbuch ... in der Konigl. offentl.
Bibliothek zu Dresden, herausgegeben von Robert Bruck.
Strassburg. 1905.
Eeghen, P. van, and Johan Philippe van der Kellen. Het werk
van Jan en Caspar Luyken. Amsterdam. 1905. 2 v.
Fenaille, Maurice. L' oeuvre grav6 de P. L. Debucourt [1755-
1832]. Accompagn^ d'une preface et de notes de Maurice
Vaucaire . . . Paris. 1899.
Frankau, Julia. Eighteenth century colour prints: an essay on
certain stipple engravers and their work in colour. London.
1900.
Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland Leveson. Sir Thomas
Lawrence. With a catalogue of the artist's exhibited and
engraved works compiled by Algernon Graves. London. 1900.
Hirth, Herbert, and Ernst Bassermann- Jordan. Der schone
Mensch in der Kunst der Neuzeit. Miinchen. 1902.
20 City Document No. 24.
Hrdlicka, J. Entwiirfe fiir moderne Spitzen, Stuttgart. [1902.]
Jacobsen, E. & Ferri, N. Neiientdeckte Michel Angelo Zeich-
nuugen in den Ufflzien zu Florenz. 1903.
Joseph, David, Architektonische Meisterwerke alter iind neuer
Zeit in Deutschland, Eelgien, Holland nnd der Schweiz.
Berlin. [1896.]
Josz, Virgile. Antoine Watteau. Sa vie — son oeuvre — son
6poque. Paris. 1904-05.
Mucha, Alphouse M. Figures decoratives. Paris. [1905.]
Nikolai Mikhailovitch, Grand-Duke . . . Portraits russes du
XVIIIe et XIXe si^cles. Tome 1, fascicule 1, 2. St. P^ters-
bourg. 1905, (In progress.)
Original drawings of the Dutch and Flemish schools in the Print-
room of the State-Museum at Amsterdam, Pis. 1-5, The
Hague, Nijhoff, [1905,] To be complete in ten parts.
Phillipps, Evelyn March, The gardens of Italy, By Charles
Latham. With descriptions by E, March Phillipps, [Lon-
don,] 1905. 2 V.
Poete, Cesar Marcel. Les primitifs Parisiens. fitude sur la
peinture et la miniature a Paris, du XlVe siecle k la Renais-
sance. Paris. 1904. Facsimiles.
Ross, Janet Ann. Florentine villas. With reproductions , . .
from Zocchi's etchings and many line drawings of the villas by
Nelly Erichsen. London. 1901.
Statz, V. und Ungewitter, G. Gotisches Musterbuch, Leipzig,
1905.
Tajima, Shiichi. Masterpieces selected from the K6rin school :
with biographical sketches of the artists of the school and some
critical descriptions. Vol. 1. Tokyo. 1903. Plates,
Vachon, Marius, L'Hotel de ville de Paris, 1535-1905, Paris.
1905.
Vasari Societ3\ Publications. (In progress.)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. History of ancient pottery, Greek,
Etruscan and Roman. Based on the work of Samuel Birch.
London. Murray, 1905, 2 v,
Wetzel, Heinrich, and others, editors. Die Decorations-Malerei
der Gegenwart, Entwiirfe fiir Decken-und Wandmalereien.
Berlin. [190-?]
Wharton, Edith. Italian villas and their gardens. Illustrated.
... by Maxfield Parrish. New York. 1904.
Williamson, George Charles. The history of portrait miniatures,
London. 1904. 2 v. Facsimiles,
PHOTOGRAPHS,
Five hundred and thirty-seven photographs have been
bought. They include 107 portraits of soldiers, statesmen
and writers of the Civil War period, 100 photographs of
New England historic buildings and colonial and provincial
houses, 100 platinum prints of places of interest in New
Library Departmext. 21
Mexico and the Western United States; also 53 photographs
of the works of Daniel C. French ; 54 of the buildings at the
St. Louis Exposition and 14 of the Germanic Museum at
Harvard College. In this connection there was also bought
a water color view of Boston, made about 1800.
Among the miscellaneous purchases may be noted the
following titles :
Ackermann, R. The microcosm of London : or, London in min-
iature. 3 v., roy. 4°. 100 colored plates of the interiors of
the public buildings, by Pugin and Rowlaudson. [1808-11.]
Amadis de Gaula. Le premier [qvatriti'me] livre d'Amadis de
Gavle mis en franyois par le Signeur [sic] des Essars Nicolas
de Herberay. Anvers. Christophe Plantin. MDLXI. 4 v.
Bible. Biblia : das ist : die gantze heilige Schrifft : Deudsch.
Auffs new zugericht. Doct. Martin Luther. Wittemberg,
M.D.LI. 2 vols, in 1.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Life of Dante. Translated by Philip
Henry Wicksteed. [Cambridge.] 1904.
Bridges, Noah. Vulgar arithmetique, explayning the secrets of
that art, after a more exact and easie way than ever . . .
[London, 1653.] P'or Bowditch Collection.
Brossard, Charles. Geographic pittoresque et monumentale de
la France. Paris. 1900-03.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The works of Geoffrey Chaucer and others.
Being a reproduction in facsimile of the first collected edition,
1532, from the copy in the British Museum. London. [1905.]
De Walden Library. Vol. 1. Some Feudal Lords and their
seals MCCCI. Vol. 2. Banners, standards and badges from
a Tudor MS. in the College of Arms. Vol. 3. A Tudor
Book of Arms tricked by Robert Cooke : being Harleian MS.
Nos. 2169 & 6163 blasoned by Joseph Foster.
Diccionario P^uciclopedico de la lengua espanola. Madrid. 1878.
2 V.
Gass, Patrick. A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps
of discovery under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt.
Clarke from the mouth of the Missouri through the interior
parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean. During 1804,
1805 and 1806. Pittsburg. Zadok. 1807.
[The gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde
Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the
Saxons.] London. 1571.
Great Britain. Army Lists. 15 volumes, between 1761 and
1814.
Grolier Club. Publications. Nine volumes.
Lean, Vincent Stuckey. Lean's Collectanea. Collections of
proverbs (English & foreign), folk lore, and superstitions, also
compilations towards dictionaries of proverbial phrases and
words, old and disused. Bristol. 1902-1904. 4 volumes in
5. Fac-simile.
22 City Document No. 24.
Livermore, George. Origin, history and character of the New
England primer ; being a series of articles contributed to the
Cambridge Chronicle. B}' "The Antiquary." Cambridge,
1849.
Medina, Jos6 Toribio. La imprenta en Lima (1584-1824).
Santiago de Chile, 1904. 2 volumes. Facsimiles.
Notas bibliograficas referentes a las primeras producciones
de la imprenta en algunas ciudades de la America espaiiola
.... (1754-1823.) Santiago de Chile, 1904.
Mena, Juan de. Coronacion de Juan de Mena al Marques.
[Zaragoza. 1499?] Black-letter. For the Ticknor Col-
lection.
Sandys, George. A paraphrase upon the Divine poems.
London. CIO.IOC.XXXYI. Music. L. 8.°
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, and Claude Wilmot Wyatt. A mono-
graph of the Hirundinidse, or family of swallows. London.
1885-1894. 2 vols.
Testamenta Lambethana being a compleat list of all the wills and
testaments recorded in the archiepiscopal registers at Lambeth
from A.D. 1312, to A.D. 1636, extracted by Dr. Ducarel,
F. R. & A. S. Lambeth Librarian, etc., with a compleat
index, A.D. 1779. Folio.
Thorpe, John. Custumale Roffense, from the original manu-
scripts in the archives of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester ;
to which are added Memorials of that Cathedral Church ; and
some account of the remains of churches, chapels, chartries,
etc. Folio, with portrait and 56 plates of architectural re-
mains and monuments. 1788.
Travis, Daniel. An almanack of celestial motions and aspects
for the year of Christian Era 1710. Boston. 1710.
University of Cambridge. Facsimiles of rare fifteenth century
printed books.
Among the more popular books of reference added to the
Bates Hall collection are Bartholomew's Survey Atlas of
England and Wales, 1903; the Cyclopedia of Modern Shop
Practice, 1904, in 4 volumes : the Cyclopedia of Engineering,
1904, in 4 volumes; Davies' Art of Heraldr}^, 1904; Great
Events by Famous Historians, in 20 volumes ; A History of
All Nations, in 24 volumes ; Burton Holmes' Lectures, in
10 volumes ; International Library of Technology, volumes
46-62, and Irish Literature, edited by Justin McCarthy, in
10 volumes.
CODMAN SQUARE READING ROOM.
A collection of 1,400 volumes comprising 1,250 titles (of
which 507 are fiction) was bought for the Codman Square
Reading Room. Subsequent additions brought the whole num-
ber of books purchased for this station up to 1,706 volumes.
LiBKAKY Department. 23
AUCTION SALES.
The records kept of auctions during the year show that
bids Avere sent to 54 sales (32 in New York, 17 in Boston,
5 in Philadelphia) ; that 956 books were bid for, and 666, or
69 per cent, secured.
GIFTS FOE 1905-06.
The number of givers was 3,570. The gifts comprise
12,812 volumes, 13,690 serials, 83 newspaper subscrip-
tions, 663 photographs, 809 maps, 4 etchings, 2 engrav-
ings, 2 medals, 2,733 cards, 2,174 manuscripts, 600
prints, 43 lantern slide plates. From the gifts the follow-
ing are selected as worthy of mention, and are noted alpha-
betically by givers :
Ames, Winthrop. (1) Engraving from original pahiting —
" FrankUn at the Court of France, 1778. Receiving the
homage of his genius and the recognition of his country's
advent among the nations." (2) Engraving from the origi-
nal picture — " FrankUn before the Lords in Council, White-
hall Chapel, London, 1774. "
Anonymous. 21 photographs and 4 etchings.
Appleton, William S. Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunter-
ian Collection, University of Glasgow. V. 2. By George
McDonald.
Arnold, Howard Pay sou. Autograph letter signed by Oscar
Wilde. Discourses concerning Government by Algernon
Sydney. Published from an original manuscript of the author,
1698.
Atkinson, Charles F. 280 volumes of miscellaneous works.
Benton, Josiah H., Jr. 63 volumes, 1 manuscript, 1 photo-
graph. The manuscript given by Mr. Benton was the original
manuscript of the Census of Massachusetts Bay, 1765.
("The lost census.") Accompanying the manuscript was a
volume entitled "Early census making in Massachusetts,
1643-1765." By J. H. Benton, Jr. With a reproduction
of the lost census of 1765 (recently found) and documents
relating thereto. Boston, 1905. Facsimiles.
Biblioteca Nacional, Chile. 30 public documents of the Repub-
lic of Chile.
Bishop, Heber R., Estate of. A. T. Paterson, Executor. The
Bishop Collection — Investigations and Studies in Jade. V. 1
& 2. (Made from the Collection in the Metropolitan jNIuseum
of Art ....).
Bixby, William K. Letters from George Washington to Tobias
Lear, with an appendix. Printed for private distribution.
No. 201.
24 City Document No. 24.
Borglum, Gntzon. 13 photographs from the works of Gutzon
Borghim.
Boston Browning Society. 6 vohimes for the Browning Collec-
tion, inchiding the original proof sheets of Browning's " Sor-
dello." This copy contains numerous corrections and altera-
tions by Robert Browning and a number of the signatures are
signed at the foot with his initials, " R. B."
Boston News Bureau, Publishers of. " Boston News Bureau,"
Vols. 34-36.
Boston Society of Natural History. 307 volumes. A miscella-
neous collection, containing many foreign theses.
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll, Estate of, through Mr. Alfred Bowditch.
Comprising three gifts. 232 volumes, 93 serials, 8 photographs,
78 letters relating to the Bowditch Library, 87 copies of the
Bowditch and Ingersoll Ancestry, 228 copies of The Bronze
Statue.
Brewster, Frank, acting for the beneficiaries under the will of
Arthur Croft, Esq., late of Wadhurst, England. A volume
containing 177 manuscripts, chiefly autograph letters. (See
report of Manuscript Department.)
British Museum. 10 volumes, including Franks bequest. Cata-
logue of British and American book plates bequeathed to
the . . . British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks.
By E.R. .J. Gambler Howe. V. 1-3. London. 1903-04.
Brown, Allen A. 296 volumes of music.
Brown, Dr. Francis H. 47 volumes.
Browne, Miss Nina E. 115 pamphlets and a miscellaneous col-
lection of cards and programmes.
Bureau of University Travel. The University Prints (500).
Accompanying Von Mach's "Greek and Roman sculpture."
Caryl, Miss Harriet E. Notes on M^canique cdeste. By Dr.
Lucian W. Caryl. (Original manuscript.)
Castilian Club of Boston. Original papers of the Castilian Club
of Boston, Mass. V. 28, 29 and 30.
Chadwiek, Dr. .James R. 2 volumes and 72 manuscript letters.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., Estate of, through JMiss Mary Cheney.
652 volumes, 403 serials, 31 photographs for the Graupner
Collection, 127 manuscript letters. Two gifts.
Chivers, Cedric. (1) Bookbindings at the St. Louis Exhibi-
tion, 1904. (2) Books in beautiful bindings. By Cedric
Chivers.
Cormack, Irwin C. Price's View of Boston, 1722. Enlarged
photograph.
Crane, Mrs. J. 41 vohmies (bound) of music, 383 pieces of
sheet music, and 48 opera librettos.
Ditson, Oliver, Co. 63 volumes of music.
Everett, William. 107 volumes of miscellaneous works.
Fay, Eugene F. 80 pamphlets, chiefly reports of the U. S.
Sanitary Commission, manuscript letters, theatre programmes^
maps and charts and a number of newspaper clippings.
Fernow, B. 18 volumes, including two books on heraldry.
LiBKAEY Department. 25
Folsom, Estate of Charles F., of Cambridge, through Mrs.
Elizabeth C. Folsom. 1,067 autograph letters, 803 volumes,
56 broadsides, 11 maps and 16 volumes in manuscript. (This
gift was more fully described in the report of the Manuscript
Department for 1904. The actual transferral was not made
until 1905.)
France. Minist^re de I'instruction publique, Paris. 9 public
documents.
Franklin Bi-Centennial Committee, through Mr. Edward S. Sears.
(1) Extracts from the Autobiography and other writings of
Benjamin Franklin, suggested for use in the public scnoois
of the City of Boston. 49 copies. (2) Programme of order
of exercises of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Benjamin Franklin. 13 copies.
French, Daniel Chester. 6 photographs from sculpture by
Daniel Chester French.
French, Wilfred A. 117 volumes, 518 serials relating to pho-
tography.
Garrison, Wendell P. Artotype print of a hfe mask of William
Lloyd Garrison.
Germany. Patent Office. 4,819 numbers of the Patentschriften.
Great Britain. Patent Office. 125 volumes, pubhcations of the
Patent Office.
Green, Dr. Samuel A. 28 volumes ; including Works of Benjamin
Franklin, by Jared Sparks, 10 volumes. From the Amos
Lawrence Library (for the Franklin Collection). Broadside
relating to the trial of William Penn and William Mead, in
1670.
Greene, Henry Copley. 10 volumes of French literature and
" Mercure de France " for 1904.
Grolier Club. Catalogue of about 130 selected French almanacs
from a complete collection illustrative of French binding dur-
ing this period . . . 1694-1883. Exhibited by the Grolier
Club. Catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the two
hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin.
Grover, Rev. Richard B. Jaffrey, N. H. Births and marriages,
with a partial census from the burial-ground at Jaffrey Centre.
Manuscript copy made by Rev. Richard B. Grover.
Hale, Philip. 274 pieces of music for the Allen A. Brown
Library.
Halsey, R. T. H. The Boston Port Bill as pictured by a con-
temporary London cartoonist. By R. T. H. Halsey, N.Y.
The Grolier Club. Bound in full levant.
Hemenway, Augustus. A translation of thirty-two Latin poems
in honor of Francis Bacon, published by Rawley in 1626.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 64 volumes for the Galatea
Collection.
Holden, Luther L. 50 bound volumes of periodicals, 1 map,
including The Shoe and Leather Reporter, 1867-69, Daily
Graphic, Folio, Scientific American, and Morning Star and
Red Man.
26 City Document No. 24.
Holden, Mrs. Luther L. 7 volumes of miscellaneous works, 36
periodicals, 15 newspapers (old), 4,692 theatre and concert
programmes.
Hooper, Mrs. S. T., through Mr. Horace P. Chandler. 39
volumes, 482 manuscript letters, 42 programmes and circu-
lars of the Women's Centennial Committee of Massachusetts
and the Soldiers' Home Bazaar, 1881. Clippings relating to
the Boston Cooking School.
Hunterian Coin Catalogue Fund, Trustees of the. Catalogue of
Greek coins in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glas-
gow, V. 3. By George McDonald.
Huntington, Archer M. Collection of Spanish documents-
manuscripts in the British Museum published in facsimile.
By Archer M. Huntington.
Hutton, Mrs. Laurence. Laurence and Eleanor Huttou : Their
Books of Association. No. 30 of an edition of 152 copies,
privately printed.
Indiana, State Library. Documents of the State of Indiana.
63 volumes.
Italy. Ministero della pubblica istruzione, Rome. Le opere di
Gahleo Galilei, V. 16.
Jeffries, Dr. B. Joy. 103 volumes, 198 numbers, including a file
of Science, 1901-04, and a number of medical pamphlets.
Joy, Mrs. Charles H. 14 volumes, chiefly travellers' guide-
books.
Jusserand, Jean J., French P^mbassy, Washington, D. C.
Histoire litter aire du peuple anglais. Par J. J. Jusserand.
Large paper copy, with the author's autograph.
Keene, N. H., City Clerk. 20 volumes of Vital statistics of
Keene, N.H., 1888-1904.
Kellen, William V. Photographs of early types designed to
supplement published examples, with reference to the British
Museum Index, Part 5. Containing 100 plates. Woolley photo-
graphs, 1899-1901. Photographs of fifteenth-century types.
Kidder, Nathaniel T. 19 volumes ; including the botanical works
of Wilham Griffith, 9 volumes. Almanach de Gotha, 7 vol-
umes. New Orleans Weekly Picayune, V. 5. The Democratic
Press, 1813.
Liceaga, Dr. Eduardo. 50 documents and pamphlets relative to
sanitary affairs in Mexico.
London. Town Clerk. Calendar of letter-books. Letter-book
G. Circa A.D. 1352-1374.
Lowell, Mrs. Lucy B., Estate of, through Miss Lucy Lowell.
297 volumes. French, German and classical literature.
Three gifts.
MacEwen, Walter. 9 photographs from paintings by Walter
MacEwen.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 69 volumes, miscella-
neous collection.
Millet, F. D. 19 photographs from paintings by F. D. Millet.
Library Department. 27
Minus, Thomas. 28 packages of pamphlets and newspapers,
comprising college and educational, railroad and other business
reports.
Morton, Dr. William J. Portrait of Dr. AVilliam T. G. Morton,
discoverer of surgical anivsthesia. Honorary degree in medi-
cine granted Dr. W. T. G. Morton by Washington University.
Photograph of the tuition tickets of W. T. G. Morton, in the
Harvard Medical School. The use of ether as an anissthetic
at the Battle of the Wilderness, by Dr. W. T. G. Morton.
Four great Anglo-American medical discoveries, by Dr.
William E. Stokes. Memoranda relating to the discovery of
surgical anaesthesia, by W. T. G. Morton.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 20 photographs.
New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office. 43 pamphlets relating
to military affairs of the State of New Jersey.
Old South Meeting House, Directors of. Engraved portrait of
Washington. By J. A. J. Wilcox.
Peabody, John E. 13 volumes of French literature.
Perry, T. S. 8 photographs from paintings by Lilla Cabot
Perry.
Ross, Mrs. Ellen H. 22 volumes of miscellaneous works, 305
Nos. of periodicals.
Small, Mrs. Herbert. Whitman's Ideal democracy and other
writings. By Helena Born. Also, clippings and other printed
matter relating to Walt Whitman.
Smiley, Charles W. 7 volumes, including (1) S aty r arum- Lib ri
quinque Priores 1555, a Thoma Naogeorgo. (2) Pindari
Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Adiuncta est interpre-
tatio Latina ad verbum. [Geneva.] Oliva Pavli Stephani.
M.D.XCIX.
Smith, Anne EHzabeth, Estate of, through Mrs. William C. Ap-
pleton. 276 volumes, 39 maps, 25 newspapers, 5 broadsides,
1 chart. Two gifts.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C. 92 volumes, 123 numbers.
Stallbohm, Miss Caroline. 181 volumes, 51 numbers, chiefly
New Zealand government documents.
Tuckerman, Miss Luc}' D. 119 volumes, relating to drawing
and painting.
University of Chicago. Library. 48 dissertations submitted for
the degree of Doctor of Philosoph3\
Upham, William P. (1) Two Dutch letters from Emden in
Hanover, 1659 and 1661, to Evert Jansen Wendell. (2)
House of John Proctor, witchcraft martyr, 1692. By William
P. Upham.
Vinton, Frederic P. 15 photographs from portraits painted by
Frederic P. Vinton.
Wakeman, Stephen H. Twenty days with .Julian and Little
Bunny — A diary b}' .Julian Hawthorne. (One of 30 copies
printed from the original manuscript.)
Whiting, Lilian. The Florence of Landor, by Lilian Whiting.
Whorf, Edward H. (1) Appeal to the citizens of Boston, to be
28
City Document No. 24.
read before voting. (1838.) (2) Massachusetts and bow sbe
is governed. Address by Gov. Alexander H. Rice. (3) The
great Anarchist trial. The Haymarket speech. Tales of the
day. Vols. 1 and 2.
Williams, Mrs. Francis H. 29 volumes, including History of
England by Hume and Smollett, 13 volumes. Rollin's Ancient
history, 2 volumes.
Woman's Education Association. 392 mounted photographs.
Xavier Free Publication Society for the Blind. Fabiola, V. I.
By Cardinal Newman, in raised type. (2 copies.)
The Catalogue Department.
From a report prepared by the Chief of the Catalogue and
Shelf Departments are compiled the following statistics and
statements :
Catalogued (new) :
Bates Hall (Central Library) Cata
logue
Serials
Branches
Re-catalogued
Vols, and
parts.
20,174
4,678
11,008
19,121
Titles.
15,716
10,030
9,610
1904-05.
Vols, and
parts.
21,619
4,614
12,773
16,306
Titles.
15,488
11,418
10,457
54,981
35,356
55,312
37,363
CATALOGUE CARDS FINISHED AND FILED.
The number of cards added to the Central Library cata-
logues by the Catalogue Department during the year was
220,286, as against 244,708 added in the year preceding.
The reduction was due to the reprinting during the preceding
year of a considerable number directly from the fiction cata-
logue without re-cataloguing. Besides the total given,
17,539 cards were prepared and sent to the branches and
4,307 filed in the Co-operative periodical index, making a
total output of 242,132 cards for the year. Of the cards
filed at the Central Library, 83,969 were added to the Bates
Hall cases, the same number to the official (departmental)
catalogue, and 52,348 were added to catalogues of the Special
Libraries. As in previous years, one card for each title
printed has been sent to the Library of Congress on exchange
account.
Library Department. 29
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL WORK.
Besides the current work of cataloguing, much general
work is performed by the Catalogue Department. During
the year, the final preparation for printing of the catalogue
of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music has been com-
pleted. The copy for the new German fiction list was trans-
mitted to the Library editor, and has since been printed.
The addition of 312 new drawers in the Bates Hall catalogue
cases has required the re-arrangement and re-labelling of
about one-half of the public catalogue. The growth of this
catalogue will require additional drawers for enlargement
during the coming year.
Much time has been given to a thorough revision of the
scheme for classifying bibles and biblical literature. Many
of the titles under these heads have been re-written and re-
arranged in accordance with this scheme. A new scheme
for cataloguing laws and legislative documents has been pre-
pared, and the entries under twenty-three States and for the
District of Columbia have been corrected or re-catalogued
with great improvement to these divisions of the catalogue.
A beginning has been made in re-cataloguing and re-an-anging
the collection of Massachusetts laws.
SHELF DIVISION.
The usual statistics of the Shelf Department have been
prepared by Mr. William G. T. Roffe, officer in charge, and
may be found in Appendix IV.
The additions to the shelf list for the year. Central Library
collection, aggregated 14,583 volumes, the principal classes
being: Bibliography, 396; History, Biograph}^ and Geog-
raphy, general, 460 ; American, 2,145 ; English, 1,145 ;
French, 477; German, 467; Oriental, 441; Theology,
Ecclesiastical History, etc., 896 ; Social Science, Metaphysics,
etc., 1,001 ; Natural History and Science, 468 ; Mathematics
and Physical Science, 474 ; Useful and Industrial Arts, 351 ;
Mechanic Arts, 365 ; Music, 366 ; Painting, Architecture,
etc., 652.
The additions to the special collections included the
following : Statistical Department, 1,097 ; Bowclitch Library,
99; Parker, 12; Prince, 1; Ticknor, 35; Barton, 19
Franklin, 68; Lewis, 1; Military, 110; Brown, 463
Galatea, 92; Codman, 12; Artz, 193; Browning, 12
Harris, 31 ; Newspaper Room, 64 ; Patent Room, 392 ; total,
2,701. A small part of the gain to the Statistical Depart-
30 City Document No. 24.
ment and to the A.rtz, Military and Galatea collections was
due to transfers.
The total number of volumes in the Central Library,
January 31, 1906, was 687,456, including 2,761 in the
Duplicate Room so-called (set aside for exchange).
Publications.
The publications of the Library issued during the year,
under the editorship of Mr. Lindsay Swift, include the
Monthly Bulletins, issued on the first day of each month
(aggregate pages, 444 ; regular edition, 5,000 ; free). A
list of works of fiction in the German language, together
with translations from the German, contained in the Library,
issued in October (pages, 171 ; edition, 3,000 ; price 10
cents) ; and the annual list of new books added during the
year, issued January 1, 1906 (pages, 312; edition, 3,000;
price 5 cents). The copy for the foregoing was entirely pre-
pared in the Library, that for the German list devolving
upon the editor. In November, a bibliography entitled
" Contributions toward a Bibliography of the Higher Educa-
tion of Women" was issued (pages, 63; edition, 1,500;
price 10 cents). This was supplementary to a similar publi-
cation issued in 1897, and like that was compiled by a
Committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae ; and
to such of the titles included within it as were to be found
in our collections our Library shelf-numbers were added.
With respect to this publication, as well as to certain
reference lists issued during the year, in connection with the
Monthly Bulletin, including one on the History of Philos-
ophy, prepared by Dr. Benjamin Rand, the Library assumed
only the printing, neither supervising the preparation of the
lists nor holding itself responsible for the completeness, cor-
rectness, form or arrangement of the titles. In the lists of
this class are included those issued in the Bulletin in con-
nection with the lectures before the Lowell Institute, in
each case prepared by the lecturer himself. These are :
English Literature in the last half of the Nineteenth Century,
by Thomas Wentworth Higglnson, LL. D. (March, 1905.)
The Development of Religiou in Japan, by George William
Knox, D.D., LL. D., of the Union Theological Seminary, New
York City. (November, 1905.)
The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, by Professor
George Pierce Baker of Harvard University. (January,
1906.)
The Literary Power of the English Bible, by Professor John Hays
Gardiner of Harvard University. (February, 1906.)
Library Department. 31
In January, 1906, there was issued a brief list of books
on the history and art of printing (pages, 42 ; with plates ;
edition, 650 ; price 15 cents) ; prepared by Mr. Otto Fleisch-
ner in co-operation with the libraries of Harvard University
and the Boston Atheneeum, and published in connection with
the commemoration of the bi-centenary of the birth of Franklin,
and with an exhibition of printing held during the month by
the Society of Printers in the Exhibition Room of the Library.
The Bulletin for December, 1905, contained a brief refer-
ence list on The Hague Conference and International Arbi-
tration, including periodical references to the Treaty of
Portsmouth.
In all, the total number of pages passing under the edi-
torial supervision of Mr. Swift and contained in the Library
publications of the year was 1,047.
The Bindery.
During the year 35,720 books were bound in the Bindery
Department ; 2,198 volumes repaired ; 632 volumes guarded ;
1,685 maps mounted on cloth ; 8,848 photographs and engrav-
ings mounted ; and 294 magazines stitched. The bindery
has also performed the miscellaneous job work required,
portfolios, blocks, covers, etc., the value of which has approx-
imated nearly 15 per cent of the entire expense of the
department. The number of Library publications folded,
stitched and trimmed was 75,482.
The Printing Department.
The usual statistical statement, prepared by Mr. Francis
Watts Lee, Chief of the Printing Department, follows. This
shows the work performed in 1905-06, as compared with
1904-05:
Requisitions on hand February 1
Requisitions received during year
Requisitions withdrawn .
Requisitions on hand January 31
Requisitions filled during the year .
Card Catalogue (Central) :
Titles (Printing Dept. count)
Cards finished (excl. " extras ") .
Titles in type, but not printed
Headings for Guide Card sets (about)
Guide Cards printed
Card Catalogue (Branches) :
Titles (Printing Dept. count)
Cards (approximately)
1904-05.
1905-06
4
11
206
213
5
3
11
9
194
212
41,121
34,184
. 264,708
220,286
2,300
1,800
1,500
12,000
26,000
560
288
28,000
14,400
32 City Document No. 24.
1904-05.
1905-06.
Call Slips ....
. 1,810,000
2,376,500
Stationery and Blank Forms .
. 706,541
537,954
Signs .....
1,301
645
Blank Books ....
6
9
The publications of the year, referred to in the report of
the editor of Library Publications, have also been put in type
in the Printing Department.
Distribution of Documents and Supplies.
Mr. George V. Mooney, in charge of the Stock Depart-
ment, reports as follows :
Number of Library publications distributed during the
year, 76,342; number of blank forms distributed, 2,247,017,
including 1,748,400 call slips.
Registration.
The usual statistical tables relating to registration, pre-
pared by Mr. John J. Keenan, Chief of the Registration
Department, appear in Appendix VI.
Summarizing the facts in brief, it appears that there were
76,661 active cards in the hands of borrowers at the end of
the year, as against 73,211 outstanding February 1, 1905, an
increase of 3,450.
The requirements of 89,520 patrons were attended to in
the department, as compared with 86,356 during the preced-
ing year.
The number of cards issued in place of others which were
lost, soiled, or filled, was 40,919, an increase of 2,770 as
compared with the preceding year.
There were, at the close of the year, 62 educational insti-
tutions wliich had filed bonds of indemnity against the loss
of books borrowed by their non-resident pupils, and these were
represented by 2,961 registered card holders, as against 2,689
at the close of the preceding year.
The Issue Department of the Central Library.
The statistics of circulation derived from the records of
this department and submitted in the report prepared by
Mr. Frank C. Blaisdell, Chief, together with other items
summarizing the work of the j'ear, are condensed in the
following statements :
Library Department.
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CIRCULATION.
Issue for
Home Use,
Central.
Dail.v Issue
Through Branch
Department.
Total for
Home Use.
February, 1905.
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,
January, 1906.
31,224
34,223
28,952
24,445
19,392
17,342
17,279
18,797
25,006
26,045
25,310
29,979
10,197
10,502
8,0-15
7,567
6,385
4,863
4,797
4,928
6,649
8,231
7,811
9,143
41,421
44,725
36,997
32,012
25,777
1 2,205
22,076
23,725
31,655
34,276
33,121
39,122
297,994
89,118
387,112
The books sent on deposit to engine houses, institutions,
and schools are not included in the foregoing table. A com-
parison of the total circulation in two successive years
follows :
Home use, including Branch Department
issue ......
Home use, not including Branch Depart-
ment issue .....
Average dally circulation (home use),
iuchiding Branch Department issue
Average daily circulation (home use),
not including Branch Department issue.
1905-06.
387,112
297,994
1,081
832
1904-05..
401,983
299,647
1,116
832
The largest daily circulation for home use, not including
the issue through the Branch Department, was recorded on
Saturday, February 11, 1905, twelve hours, 1,875 volumes.
The circulation of English fiction for home use (to
adults), exclusive of the Branch Department, aggiegated
100,547 volumes, as against 104,716 for the preceding year.
34 City Document No. 24.
The foregoing figures deserve a brief analysis. It will be
seen that although the total direct circulation for home use
from the Central Library (that is, circulation excluding
books sent out through the Branch Department) declined
from 299,647 to 297,994, nevertheless, excluding the circula-
tion of adult English fiction (104,716 in 1904-05 and
100,547 in 1905-06), the circulation increased from 194,931
to 197,447. That is to say, the direct circulation from the
Central Library for home use of English fiction for adults
declined nearly 4 per cent, but the direct circulation exclu-
sive of this fiction increased somewhat more than 1 per cent.
Although the total direct circulation for the year slightly
declined, as shown by the figures, tlie average daily circula-
tion (direct) did not change. This is due to the fact that
the Library was in operation one day less in 1905-06 than in
1904-05.
Part of the decline in circulation is undoubtedly due to
weather conditions, over which the Library has no control.
Protracted inclement weather increases the home use of
books. On the other hand, weather such as prevailed during
the winter, permitting out-of-door sports and freedom of
movement, reduces the number of books drawn for home
reading.
Childeen's Department — Central Library.
The following extracts are from the report of Miss Alice
M. Jordan, Custodian :
ISSUE.
The direct circulation of books to borrowers shows a gain
over the two preceding years. The total number of books
issued in 1905-06 was 58,533; the year previous it was
54,398. The issue to readers through the daily delivery to
the branches aggregated 15,204. There has been but one
year in the history of the department when the aggregate
number of books circulated directly and through the Branch
Department has exceeded 73,737, the number issued this
year. Even this does not give the entire issue from the
department, as the books loaned through the deposit system
for a longer period than the usual two weeks are not
included.
NEW BOOKS.
Additions to the books in the Children's Room amount to
about 115 titles for the year. This is perhaps the average
LiBKARY Department. 35
rate of expansion, although the tendency is to decrease rather
than increase the number of titles and to duplicate largely
the copies of books whose value has been proven by time.
Books which are but little read are removed from the open
shelves in order to leave space for others in greater demand.
Hence the total number kept in the room varies but slightly
from year to year, not increasing as rapidly as the quantity
of new books bought would indicate. Notwithstanding the
use of the Children's Department by as many readers as at
any time in the past four years, we have recorded the
smallest loss of books which has occurred since the opening
of the rooms. Less than I5 per cent of the entire number
are missing by this year's shelf reading.
WORK AVITH SCHOOLS.
The Children's Department continues to aim toward close
relations with other agencies devoting themselves to the
interests and education of children. The schools may be
placed as the most important among such agencies. Our
co-operation with them falls naturally into three divisions,
reference work in the Library, instruction given to classes at
the Library as to how to use the Library, and, thirdly, visits
of our custodian to schools to aid them in matters relating to
the Library. In the first division growth is shown not only
in the amount of work done, but in its quality. From the
observation of several years it appears that teachers and
pupils present fewer trivial requests, and a larger number
legitimately within the province of library reference work.
Such work in the Children's Department includes not only
the direct answer to a present question, but the anticipation
of probable requests along certain well-established lines of
study, the preparation of reading lists for special occasions
and for individuals. Instruction to classes from the schools
has continued in the directions described in previous reports.
Although a larger number of scliools than ever before were
invited to share in this instruction only eleven have
responded, with about eight hundred pupils, during 1905.
For- visiting schools very little time can be spared from other
duties. Such visiting is greatly to be desired, however, as it
offers an opportunity to meet the teachers and to bring to their
notice the assistance so abundantly provided by the Library.
REFERENCE COLLECTION FOR TEACHERS.
The Kindergarten Collection, so-called, kept for some
years in the Children's Reference Room, and originally
36 City Document No. 24.
intended for the use of kindeigaiten teachers, Las been
extended to include books on psycliology and education used
also by students. The reference books embracing these sub-
jects, formerly on the Bates Hall shelves, were lately trans-
ferred to supply the especial requirements of pedagogical
students. This enlargement of the scope of the collection
has materially increased its value.
STORY HOUR.
For the purpose of celebrating the centenary of the birth of
Hans Christian Andersen, a story hour foi children was given
in the Lecture Hall in April. Miss Sara Cone Bryant told
Andersen stories to a large and interested audience, and a
picture bulletin was placed in one of the Children's Rooms to
illusti ate some of the selections.
PICTURE WORK.
During the present winter the picture bulletins have
seemed to fulfil their purpose acceptably. They have been
planned with reference to topics of current interest, and have
aroused more attention than usual, suggesting to teachers
means of illustrating lessons or of holiday celebration. As
in the past, it has been possible to utilize some of the picture
posters prepared at the Central Library in reading rooms in
other parts of the city. From time to time requests are
made by children and teachers for pictures to be used in
school work, illustrating compositions or a topic in history or
geography. Opportunity to cut from magazines pictures
which, though not sufficiently valuable for preservation in
the Fine Arts Department, are yet suitable for this purpose,
is open to the Children's Department. Some of these
pictures are used for bulletins, but there is an increasing
remainder relating to subjects not catalogued in the Fine
Arts Department for which we have found an existing
demand. These are simply arranged unmounted in envelopes
under general headings, or grouped together on a manila
mount, indexed and filed.
Bates Hall.
In Bates Hall the maximum attendance of readers (291)
was recorded February 5. Except during a single month,
the maximum attendance has not fallen below 100 readers
during the year, and during seven months of the year it has
continued above 200. It is impracticable to record the
Library Department. 37
number of volumes consulted in the hall, either from the
open shelves or from the stacks. There is no diminution
in the use of the reading tables, but, on the other hand,
apparently an increase. The following statements as to the
general use of the reference department and of the other
work in Bates Hall are taken from a report submitted by
Mr, Oscar A. Bierstadt, the Custodian :
The acquisition of new cabinets for the card catalogue has
so filled up the available space that the removal of the new
books displayed upon the open shelves at the catalogue end
of Bates Hall became absolutely necessary. They now occupy
the ranges adjoining the centre desk, having displaced a few
reference volumes. At one time 443 of the new books weie
charged out for home use, about half of the collection.
Several collections of works appertaining to some timely
topics have been brought together temporarily at the centre
desk, as for the anniversary celebrations of Garrison and
Franklin.
The arrangement of the reference books in Bates Hall is
practically finished, and the shelves are nearly all crowded to
their utmost limit. The Bates Hall reference collection
numbers by actual count 8,512 volumes. They have all been
removed from the shelves and critically examined to find
those in need of re-binding or repairs, and 519 volumes have
been sent to the bindery during the year. The replacement
of labels on the reference books soiled by use is a never end-
ing task. Many readers return the volumes consulted to the
shelves, but the thousands of them gathered from the tables
and put back every day by the attendants testify to an im-
mense use of the reference library.
The card catalogue in Bates Hall, the main source of in-
formation concerning the contents of the entire Library, has
bjen referred to by an increasing number of readers.
The Special Libraries.
There are now 109,496 volumes contained iu the Special
Libraries located on the floor above Bates Hall. These are
distributed as follows :
Fine Arts 18,002
Industrial Arts 10,340
Music (including the Allen A. Brown Collection, 10,349), 19,500
Special Collections (including the Ticknor and Barton
Libraries and U. S. Congressional documents and
British Parliamentary papers) ..... 61,654
Total 109,496
38 City Document No. 24.
In the Fine Arts room considerable freedom of access is
permitted, a selected collection of standard works in different
branches of the fine and industrial arts being located on open
shelves. Tables are set apart for the use of classes and
individual students whenever requested, and the lai-ge Fine
Arts reading room and the one opening from the Barton
Room are in constant use.
It is impossible to keep a statistical record of the hall use
of books from these Special Libraries, but it is increasing.
From an educational standpoint, no more important work is
done in the Library than that performed in connection with
these departments. This work includes the free public
lectures given each week in the Lecture Hall, and the exhi-
bitions, many of which are given in co-operation with the
lectures, arranged in the Exhibition Room during the winter.
Mr. Frank De W. Washburn, Custodian in charge, has pre-
pared the following resum^ of the work of the year, includ-
ing also a brief statement of important additions to the
collection :
PHOTOGRAPHS.
During the year the following additions were made by gift
and purchase, and were added to the photograph collection :
386 photographs.
757 process pictures.
29 colored photographs.
This does not include the following, which were not added
to the regular collection of photographs :
One hundred and eight portraits of Americans, 392 photo-
graphs of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, given by
the Woman's Education Association ; 54 photographs of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition ; 144 photographs of Old
Boston.
Many of these have been used for exhibition at the
branches and stations.
The collection of photographs now numbers 17,776 ;
process pictures, 7,311 ; colored photographs, 1,020.
The collection of lantern slides has now reached 1,010,
and is increasing with the number of public lectures, for use
in wiiich the}^ are purchased.
CATALOGUES.
In order to have the whole subject of architecture entered
in the general fine arts catalogue in card form, it was decided
Library Department. 39
to cut up two of the printed catalogues of architecture and
paste on cards for that purpose. This work has now been
completed.
During the year the cataloguing by subjects of paintings
illustrated in books and by photographs has been completed.
It is now possible, therefore, to determine from a consulta-
tion of this catalogue whether the Library has a certain
subject or the paintings of a certain artist represented. This
work is being kept up, and a beginning has also been
made on the cataloguing of sculpture in like manner.
All important articles on the Fine Arts in the magazines
are indexed and the cards filed in the catalogue. Periodicals
belonging in this department are indexed here ; all others
are indexed in the Periodical Room. Music periodicals are
indexed by the attendant in the Brown Library, and the
cards are added to the Brown catalogue.
The special catalogues in use in the department have been
constantly improved. The scheme for classifying photo-
graphs has been extended so that now it embraces a division
for photographs of objects of art not included in architecture,
sculpture and painting, and already a large number of photo-
graphs have been listed under this heading.
A large number of photographs and process pictures which
had accumulated, and for which, in some cases, identification
was missing, have been shelf-listed and catalogued.
The collection of posters has been mounted, classified and
placed in portfolios on the shelves.
circulation of pictures.
The comparative tables which are appended to this report
indicate that there has been a remarkable increase in the
circulation of portfolios of pictures over other years, and an
increase of 33 per cent is indicated in the circulation among
public schools alone.
The following facts are evident from a consultation of the
tables :
1. Portfolios were loaned to 57 public schools during the
year.
2. There is an increase over any other year in the num-
ber of portfolios issued to 15 of these schools.
3. There is a decrease in the number issued to 21.
4. Six schools borrowed the same number as last year.
5. Eleven schools borrowed portfolios who have never
done so in any previous year.
6. Thirty schools who borrowed portfolios in previous
years have not done so this year.
40 City Document No. 24.
7. Of the 381 portfolios taken out by schools this year,
one-half were borrowed by 20 of the 57 schools.
Lectuhes.
The following free public lectures have been given at the
Central Library :
February 2, 1905. Towers and Bridges. By Richard A. Rice.
Under the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club. Illus-
trated.
February 8. Ruskin. By Rev. Henry G. Spaulding. Under
the auspices of the Ruskin Club. Illustrated.
February 9. The Museum of Fine Arts. Classical Anticpiities.
By Edward Robinson.
February' 16. Village Architecture of Massachusetts. By J.
Randolph Coolidge, Jr. Under the auspices of the Boston
Architectural Club. Illustrated.
February 23. Museum of Fine Arts. Oriental Collections.
By Edward S. Morse. Illustrated.
March 2. Early Gothic of Northern France. By H. Langford
Warren. Under the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club.
Illustrated.
March 9. Museum of Fine Arts. Egyptian Antiquities. By
Albert M. Lythgoe. Illustrated.
March 16. Development of Church Architecture in England.
By Ralph Adams Cram. Under the auspices of the Boston
Architectural Club. Illustrated.
March 23. The Semitic Museum, Harvard University. By
David G. Lyon. Illustrated.
March 30. Elizabethan Architecture in England. By Robert S.
Peabod3^ Under the auspices of the Boston Architectural
Club. Illustrated.
April 6. The Germanic Museum, Harvard University. By
Kuno Francke. Illustrated.
April 8. Sara Cone Bryant. Reading from Hans Christian
Andersen.
April 13. Modern I^nglish Domestic Architecture. By R.
Clipston Sturgis. Under the auspices of the Boston Architec-
tural Club. Illustrated.
April 20. The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. By
Charles H. Moore. Illustrated.
April 27. Roman and Renaissance Villas. By Thomas A. Fox.
Under the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club. Illus-
trated.
November 2. Central and Northern Greece. By Arthur
Stoddard Cooley. Illustrated.
November 9. A Greek City of the Dead. By H. H. PoAvers.
Illustrated.
November 16. The American School at Athens and its Excava-
tion. By Arthur Stoddard Cooley. Illustrated.
Library Department. 41
November 23. Athens and Athena. By H. H. Powers. IRus-
trated.
December 7. Apollo and his Shrines. By H. H. Powers. Illus-^
trated.
December 14. The Peloponnesos. By Arthur Stoddard Cooley.
IlUistrated.
December 28. Christian and Pagan in the art of the Renaissance..
By H. H. Powers. Illustrated.
January 4, 1906. What Constitutes Style in Printing. By C.
Howard Walker. Illustrated.
Janunry 11. Benjamin Franklin the Printer. By Lindsay
Swift.
January 11. The Latest Discoveries in Babylonia. By Eev..
John P. Peters. Under the auspices of the Boston Society of
the Archaeological Institute of America. Illustrated.
January 18. Theatres, Ancient and Modern. By Clarence H.
Blackall. Illustrated.
January 25. Masterpieces of Italian Painting. By William
Rankin. Illustrated.
Exhibitions — Central Library.
These exhibitions of photographs and other material have
been given at the Central Library, many of them in connec-
tion with lectures on similar subjects :
February 6-13, 1905. Greek Art.
February 13-20. Architecture of Towns and Villages.
February 20-27. Walters' Collection of Oriental Art.
February 27-March 6. Gothic Architecture of France.
March 6-13. Egyptian Art.
March 13-20. Early Church Architecture of England.
March 20-27. Assyrian and Chaldean Art.
March 27-April 3. Elizabethan Architecture.
April 3-10. German Art.
April 10-24. English Country Houses.
April 24-May 8. Roman and Renaissance Villas.
May 8-26. A recent gift to the Library. A collection of photo-
graphs given by Miss Laura E. Hall.
May 26-July 1. Portraits of men conspicuous in the late Civil
War.
July 2-29. Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War.
July 29-September 1. A recent gift to the Librar3^ A collec-
tion of photographs given by Rev. Austin B. Carver.
September 1-October 2. Photographs of Australia, Tasmania
and New Zealand. A collection of photographs given by
the Woman's Education Association.
October 2-30. Photographs of Egypt. A collection of photo-
graphs loaned by Mr. J. S. Lee.
October 31-December 1. Athens.
42 City Document No. 24.
December 1-23. Books, autograph letters and portraits relating
to the anti-slavery movement. Shown in honor of the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison.
December 23-January 1. Pearly Christian Art.
January 1-29, 1906. Frankliniana. Shown in honor of the
two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin.
Books, autograph letters and portraits. Specimens of printing.
Materials, tools and processes of bookbinding. (Exhibit
loaned by the Newark Free Public Library.)
January 1-29. Architectural Exhibition, Boston Architectural
Club and Boston Society of Architects.
The Barton-Ticknor Room.
The number of Barton-Ticknor books issued during the
year was 11,875; besides these 918 maps were issued, and
8,458 volumes drawn from the stacks for use in the Barton
Room. Special reservations of books have been phiced on
the tables here for classes from Simmons College and Welles-
ley College, and for the Garland Kindergarten Classes. Early
editions of Shakespeare were also displayed while the Ben
Greet Company was presenting the plays in Boston.
Allen A. Brown Music Room.
Volumes issued . . . . . . . .6,027
Volumes added ........ 463
Titles catalogued . . . . . . . 513
Volumes supplied with indexes ..... 10
The additions duiing the year have been largely works of
modern composers, light operas and orchestral scores. Among
the former may be named Massenet's Cherubim, George's
Mearka, Bruneau's L'enfant roi, and Puccini's Madama
Butterfly. Among the latter, symphonies and symphonic
poems by Rimski-Korsakov, Glazunov, Tcherepnin, and Mah-
ler, Max Reger's Sinfonietta and Richard Strauss's Sinfonia
Armestica. A number of organ works was donated by Mr.
Hale.
Six thousand six hundred and twenty-five cards were filed ;
about 800 were written.
Department of Documents and Statistics.
Mr. James L. Whitney, Chief of this department, reports
that the entire collection, exclusive of the regular series of
the Congressional documents of the United States and the
Parliamentary documents of Great Britain, numbers 12,702
volumes. During the year, 1,105 volumes have been added.
Library Department. 43
The gifts through the American Statistical Association,
whose library is in our custody, comprised 982 volumes and
2,043 pamphlets.
Manuscripts.
Mr. Whitney, who is also custodian of manuscripts, has
prepared the following memoranda relating to the important
accessions since February 1, 1905:
A few manuscripts of local interest have been purchased
recently, including documents relating to the Boston Fire of
March 20, 1760, and a subscription list, dated December 2,
1779, of citizens of the Town of Boston "for Cloathing
our Brethren in the Army " ; also the " Accompt of the
Time and Expence of the Gentlemen &c who attended his
Excellency the Governor at the Interview with the Eastern
Indians at Falmouth in Casco Bay," July, 1732.
From the beneficiaries under the will of Mr. Arthur Croft,
late of Wadhurst, England, there have been received one
hundred and seventy-seven letters, writings and signatures,
collected by the late Gardner Brewer of Boston. Among
these is a letter from George Washington, dated Head Quar-
ters, 28th April, 1783, in regard to tories and refugees who
were embarking from New York, asking that they be pre-
vented from carrying off any negroes or other property of
the inhabitants of the United States, and that any of his own
slaves found be secured. There are also papers and letters
of Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Henry Lee, Benedict Arnold,
Aaron Burr, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, Lafayette,
Steuben, General Heath, Alexander Hamilton, Philip Schuyler,
John Marshall, John Randolph, William Wirt, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln, with others of the
time of the Civil War, while among foreigners are the elder
Pitt, Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhurst, John Bright, Napoleon,
Chateaubriand, and Necker. Among American authors are
Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, and
Prescott. There is a poem in the handwriting of Robert
Burns, entitled "The Rights of Woman. Spoken by Miss
Fontenelle, at the Theatre in Dumfries," 1793 ; also a Sonnet,
by Charles Lamb, with letters by Garrick, Mrs. Hemans,
Harriet Martineau, Leigh Hunt, Turner, Landseer, Talma,
Verboeckhoven, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, and others.
The Census of Massacliusetts, known as " The Lost Census
of 1765," has been found. This valuable manuscript has
been presented to the Library by Mr. J. H. Benton, Jr., who
has published a facsimile, together with illustrative docu-
44 City Document No. 24.
ments, and an account of " Early census making in Massa-
chusetts, 1643-1765."
Volumes containing the proceedings and papers of The
Franklin Club of Boston have been received through Mr.
Charles F. Wyman. In 1863, after the dissolution of the
club, the sum of one thousand dollars was given to this
Library.
The documents of the Women's Centennial Executive
Committee of Boston, dated 1876, have also been given.
The Bowditch Collection has been increased by a gift of
manuscripts from the estate of J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
The Branch System.
Apart from the maintenance of the ten branches of the
Library, the policy of establishing service stations in different
parts of the city for the accommodation of sections more or
less remote from a branch, or from the Central Library, was
some time ago adopted in connection with the development
of the Library system. These stations were of two kinds,
namely, reading rooms administered directly by members of
the Library staff, and each equipped with a small collection
of books, approximating 2,000 volumes, and, secondly, shop
stations, so-called, which were located in shops, contained a
small deposit of books, and were agencies, carried on by
arrangement with the proprietor of the shop, to receive and
transmit to the Central Library requests from borrowers, and
to act as intermediaries in the loan and return of books thus
called for, in connection with the system of daily wagon
service to and from the Central. This wagon service was
also operated in connection with the reading rooms, but such
rooms had a great advantage over the shop stations, in that
they contained public reading tables, were devoted entirely
to librury purposes, and being in charge of a Library employee
were equipped to render a much more important service to
the public than was possible at a mere place of call, inci-
dentally located in a business establishment.
Since the shop stations were easily established, the
tendency seemed to favor their multiplication, without cor-
responding increase in efficienc}^ At the same time the
experience of several years clearly showed the greater value
of the reading rooms as essential elements in the Library
system.
As the result of a general consideration of the subject,
following a careful investigation and report by a committee
of the Trustees, upon the question of the distribution, cost.
Library Department. 46
and efficiency of stations, various changes were made during
March and April. The scheme adopted involved the discon-
tinuance of all the shop stations except the one at Neponset,
which was retained for the reason that it seived a population
remote from other library agencies, and the substitution for
such stations of reading rooms, either newly established for
the purpose or already so located geographically as to take
over without great inconvenience the service formerly per-
formed by one or more of the discontinued shop stations.
The changes may be sunmiarized as follows : Six shop
stations were discontinued, namely: Station G (14 Franklin
street. Alls ton) ; Station H (4 Talbot avenue, Ashmont) ;
Station J (157 Norfolk street, Dorchester) ; Station M
(1011 Dorchester avenue) ; Station R (329 Warren street,
Roxbury) ; Station T (Lamartine, corner Paul Gore street,
Boylston Station). Four reading rooms of less importance
than others in point of location or of use were also discon-
tinued. These were the South End Reading Room, 55 Berkeley
street ; the Ward Nine Reading Room, 62 Union Park street ;
the Andrew Square Reading Room, Dorchester street ; and the
North Brighton Reading Room, 56 Market street, Brighton.
In place of Stations G, R and T, new reading rooms were
established as follows : Allston, 354 Cambridge street ; War-
ren street, 390 Warren street; Boylston Station, The Lamar-
tine, Depot square. The Codman Square Reading Room
serves in place of Stations H and J.
The changes left the Library system with sixteen stations,
only one of which is a shop station, as against twenty-two
stations before readjustment, of which seven were shop sta-
tions. The substitution of reading rooms as described gives
to the public more space, more books immediately at hand,
regular supplies of periodicals where none were accessible
before, and much better service generally. This implies a
distinct gain in efficiency ; and, as might be expected, all
the new reading rooms show an increased cii'culation, as com-
pared with that of the shop stations which were discontinued.
The actual opening of the reading rooms did not entail
large expense, but the operating expenses of such a room are,
of course, greater than those of any single shop station. As
stated, they perform a larger service, and the change per-
mitted the closing of six of the least important agencies for-
merly in operation.
Besides the changes described, the Mt. Pleasant Reading
Room on Dudley street was moved from the basement to
larger and more convenient quarters on the first floor of the
same building.
46
City Document No. 24.
The general operations of the branch system are summar-
ized in the following extracts, condensed from the report of Mr.
Langdon L. Ward, the Supervisor of Branches and Stations :
CIRCULATIOlSr.
There is a loss this year in the total circulation from the
branches (764,434) of one-half of one per cent, the loss being
chiefly from the direct circulation, that from the Central
Library remaining nearly stationary. The South Boston,
South End and West Roxbury branches are the only ones
that have gained, the two former substantially. The loss at
Dorchester and Jamaica Plain may be partly attributed to the
establishment of Stations Q and T as reading rooms, but the
chief cause of losses is usually an inadequate supply of
books.
The classified circulation of the ten branches (exclusive
of circulation from books sent out on deposit) for two years
is as follows :
DIRECT HOME USE ONLY.
Fiction for adults. . . .
Non-fiction for adults
Juvenile fiction
Juvenile non-fiction . .
Vols.
254,935
129,697
232,949
87,016
Per
cent.
36.18
18.41
33.06
12.35
1904-05.
Vols.
264,234
131,138
226,636
90,527
Per
cent.
37.1
18.4
31.8
12.7
The loss is chiefly in books for adults, especially fiction.
DEPOSIT WORK.
Deposits have been sent from the branches to 98 places, as
against 97 last year. Sixty-four schools are regularly supplied
by branches, as against 62 in 1904-05, and 270 teachers, in all,
have been supplied, as against 266 in the preceding year.
The number of volumes, however, sent to the schools by the
ranches is only 12,166, as against 14,713 the year before.
This is partly due to special conditions in the West End
and Charlestown districts, but partly also to the fact, as one
Library Department. 47
custodian points out, that with increased knowledge of what
the schools want, the deposits are so much more satisfactory
that they are exchanged only at long intervals.
PICTURES.
The number of pictures lent by the branches to reading
rooms, schools and clubs is 4,849 this year, as compared
with 1,250 the year before. From the very small deposit
collection at the Central Library there were also lent 632
pictures. Probably no activity of the Branch Department
has developed so much as this during the year. A revised
list of the pictures and picture bulletins that may be had
from the branches and from the Children's Room, Central
Library, was prepared and sent out a few months ago. A
statement of what pictures can be furnished by the Fine
Arts Department, Central Library, has also been sent out.
There has been a large increase in the collections of pictures
and picture bulletins of the branches and reading rooms.
These are usually made from pictures cut from periodicals
not needed for binding, or from material bought or otherwise
secured by the custodians. The cardboard for mounting is
provided by the Libraiy. While reading rooms have bor-
rowed systematically from the branches, and more than ever
this year, the larger reading rooms are beginning to have
collections of their own, and almost all have at least a few
picture bulletins. Several picture bulletins have been sent
from the Children's Rooms at the Central Library to two
reading rooms. The schools want especially pictures of
birds and animals, and those which are related to geography,
physical and political, to history and to the industrial arts.
Such pictures we plan to supply, gradually and with little
expense, from the branches and large reading rooms for the
most part. A cai'eful attempt is being made to ascertain
and meet specific demands rather than to collect pictures on
general subjects.
A method of meeting the wants of the schools, under
difficult conditions, is described in the following passage
from the report of the Custodian of the Broadway Extension
Reading Room :
"As but small space is available at the station for pictures,
effort has been made to adapt the poster idea to the situa-
tion. Posters illustrating special cities, artists and famous
men have been made and planned. These can be done in
sets, to illustrate first the work of a special class and then
used for general purposes. For instance, a French history
48 City Document No. 24.
set, illustrating the geographj^-histoiy work of the seventh
grade (a subject passed over in two weeks by boys who have
as background only their double promotion knowledge of
American histoiy, who many of them will get no other
schooling on ' France '), consists at present of a poster on
Joan of Arc, one on the French Revolution, one on Napoleon,
with projected ones on the American Revolution in compari-
son, on Parisian famous buildings, on famous French writers
and scientists. These are mounted on sheets of uniform
size and of a color especially associated with that country.
This is, of course, illustration and not tine arts. So
far, it has interested the children much, and one teacher of
an ungraded class proposes to adopt the scheme, and places
her posters at our disposal for use at the station or for loan-
ing to other schools. Competition is bound to improve the
quality. Material for the station posters has been accumu-
lating for some years, largely from condemned volumes of
magazines. Appropriate pictures suitable for these grades
can be supplied to the lower grades and the ungraded classes
more easily than books, few of which exist."
Pictures from the Fine Arts Department, Central Library,
have been sent each month for exhibition at the branches and
reading rooms, as usual. They are more varied in subject
iis the central collection grows, and are more and more ap-
preciated. One hundred and ninety -four portfolios of
pictures were sent from the Central Library to schools and
clubs through the branches and stations, as against 117 in
the year 1904.
BOOKS.
The ten branches have received this year 3,291 volumes
of new books, as against 5,799 volumes in the previous year
■(and 6,007 in the year 1903-04), a decrease of nearly one-
half. The replacements are less by over 300 volumes. This
reduced supply is chiefly due to lack of funds.
EXPENDITURES BRANCH LIBRARIES.
The total expense of the ten branches is $63,701.83, which
is an increase of $3,052.46 over the total for the year pre-
vious. The increase is due to the greater cost of the South
End Branch in its new quarters. The expense of this
branch is 112,230.95 for the year, as against $8,788.51 in
1904 and $4,539.17 in 1903. Books and furniture for the
ten branches have cost much less, fuel less, light, rent and
repairs more. If the South End Branch is left out, the
Library Department. 49
branches show a decrease in expenditure. That is to say, the
branches have cost less so far as regards things that it was
possible to control.
SCHOOLS.
The total number of volumes sent to the schools from the
Central Library and the branches is 19,092, as against 21,899
volumes last year. The number of schools supplied is, how-
ever, slightly greater. In one school-room of 50 pupils, to
which 25 volumes were sent, each circulated 14 times, giving
a record of 350 books read, or 7 volumes by each pupil.
The bill for missing books for the year, which was paid
by the School Department, was $37.40, as against $43.79
last year.
More Library finding lists have been sent to the schools.
Registrations for Library cards have been taken, as usual,
by the custodians of the branches and reading rooms.
The establishment of new reading rooms and of new
schools has made necessary a thorough redistribution of the
schools, with respect to the relations of the branches and
reading rooms of the Library to them in providing books
and taking applications for cards. As before, each branch and
each reading room is responsible for certain schools, and by
co-operation with the Central Library the whole held is covered.
The minute details of what is done for schools at the
branches and stations cannot well be given. There is a con-
stant effort to keep in touch with the teachers of the neigh-
boring schools and to provide books and pictures on the
subjects prescribed for study. The report of the Custodian
of Station P illustrates this in a specially forcible manner.
A circular of information was sent to the parochial schools,
a few months ago, and ten of them are now supplied, as
against four a year ago.
CIRCULATION — STATIONS.
The stations, schools, and institutions show a total circu-
lation of 447,984 volumes, as against 444,410 volumes last
year. A few stations have lost in circulation, several have
gained by being changed into reading rooms, others have
been discontinued, and their use appears in the present fig-
ures only to a limited extent. The school circulation repre-
sents a gain of nearly 6,000 volumes. The proportion of
fiction in the circulation of the reading rooms is approxi-
mately 70 per cent.
50 City Document No. 24.
expenditures stations.
The total cost of the stations is $25,534.62, as against
$23,305.33 the year before. In the case of nearly every
reading room except Codman Square, books have cost less
than in 1904, but the large expenditure for that reading
room makes the total greater. Rent has cost $4,870. 83
during the past year, as against $3,585 in 1904, but the
increase is explained by the establishment of the new read-
ing rooms. The amount spent for furniture is also much
greater, and for the same reason.
CENTRAL LIBRARY ACTIVITIES BRANCH DEPARTMENT.
Deposit Work.
We have sent from the Central Library 35,262 volumes
on deposit, as against 35,090 volumes in 1904-05. The per-
centage of fiction sent was 40.9, as against 42 per cent last
3'^ear and 45 per cent the year before. The net gain in the
deposit collection is only 987 volumes, as against 2,204
volumes in the year 1904-05. This very small gain is due
to the fact that a large number of replacements (more than
2,000) have been held for consideration or refused. Of the
27,612 volumes now in the deposit collection (of which
several thousand are either permanently or temporarily dead
books), 16,338 volumes are now actually out on deposit
at branches, stations, schools or institutions. No collection
of books in the Library is more thoroughly used or
brings greater returns in use for the money expended
than this. Less than 25,000 volumes of live books
produce a circulation of approximately 281,000 volumes
per year, almost as much as the total direct cir-
culation of the Central Library itself. This implies many
copies and a considerable number of new titles. The collec-
tion is the chief resource of the reading rooms, most of which
have not, like the branches, permanent collections, and it is
the only reliance of ninet3^-seven schools and institutions. It
is in reality not a part of the Central Library collection, but
rather the undifferentiated library of the stations, schools
and institutions.
At the annual shelf reading two volumes only were
unaccounted for.
The Daily Issue.
The total number of volumes issued from the Central
Library on cards sent from the branches and stations, by the
wagons, is 89,121. This is 13,215 volumes less than were
Library Department.
51
issued in 1904. Tlie issue for two years is divided into
classes as follows :
190&-06.
1904-05.
Vols.
Per Cent.
Vols.
Per Cent.
Fiction for adults
31,174
25,571
29,586
2,7f)0
35.
28.7
33.2
3.1
41,520
25,021
32,388
3,406
40 6
Non-fiction for adults
24 4
Juvenile fiction
31.7
Juvenile non-fiction
3.3
Last year it was the circulation of adult books that
increased ; this year, while both the adult and juvenile circu-
lation have decreased, it is the former that shows the greater
loss, more than 10,000 volumes in the class of fiction. There
is a slight decrease in the proportion of unsuccessful cards,
and the percentage of fiction in the unsuccessful applications
is only 76, as against 79.9 in the year 1904-05.
There was a substantial gain last year over the year
1903-04 in the daily issue, and the loss this year corresponds
approximately to the issue from the Central Library to
Stations C, M, U and Y, which were discontinued last
spring. The readjustment, under the new conditions, of ap-
plications that were made through these stations to the
Central Library cannot be traced. But the establishment of
the reading rooms, G, J, R and T, in place of shop stations,
has brought in every case an increase of issue from the
Central Library, except that the issue for J does not quite
equal the issue for the two shop stations that it replaced.
These were a considerable distance apart.
Inter-Lihrary Loans.
Lent to libraries in Massachusetts .
Lent to libraries outside Massachusetts .
Total
Applications from libraries in Massachusetts
refused . . . . . .
Applications from libraries outside Massachu
setts refused .....
Total ......
Borrowed from other libraries
Volumes, Volumes,
1905-06. 1904-05.
495
157
652
110
62
172
17
421
162
583
98
57
155
11
52
City Document No. 24.
Distribution of Periodicals.
The unbound periodicals have been distributed to
institutions to the number of 23,565 copies.
city
G-eneral.
Several thousand volumes of books transferred from the
branches to the Central Library have been disposed of this
year, some of them having been sold, some added to the Cen-
tral collection or sent to reading rooms. Last spring, when
the Blagden-street basement had been cleared of former
transfers, 4,700 volumes were brought in from Charlestown.
The Patent Room.
During the year 63,078 books were consulted in the Patent
Room. This is an increase from 49,631 as reported in
1904-05. On the other hand the number of visitors for the
purpose of consultation was 2,237, as against 2,426 in the
preceding year. Of these 848 were non-residents.
The number of volumes in the Patent Room has increased
during the year from 10,135 to 10,537.
The Periodical Room.
The following table shows the record of attendance in the
Periodical Room, as taken at certain hours in comparison
with the preceding year :
1905-06.
1904-05.
10,041
10,472
13,492
14,718
15,897
17,014
22,257
23,225
19,036
18,151
17,534
17,532
6,468
7,371
Attendance at
10 A.M.
12 M. .
2 P.M.
5 P.M.
6 P.M.
9 P.M.
10 P.M.
During the year 22,057 volumes were consulted in the
daytime, as against 27,071 in the previous yeiir. In the
evening and on Sundays 6,476 volumes were consulted, as
against 7,534 in the previous year. Besides these 22,862
unbound back numbers of periodicals were consulted in the
daytime, as against 24,353 in the preceding year; and 11,388
in the evenings and on Sundays, as against 12,346 in the
preceding year.
Library Department. 53
The Newspaper Room.
The record of maximum attendance on a selected day in
each month, showing the use of the Newspaper Room, is as
follows :
Attendance. nnfpa Attendance.
Maximum Xo. x^aieb. Maximum No.
Dates. .r„h=l'.,„" v-„ Dates.
February 5, 190.5 173 August 6 129
March 5 149 September 24 116
April 9 132 October 29 167
May 14 162 November 19 156
June 12 104 December 10 148
July 30 109 January 7, 1906 156
It will be seen that the maximum attendance on any single
day for the year (173) was recorded on February 5.
The number of papers regularly filed at the beginning of
the year was 312. During the year 13 newspapers have been
added to the list and 9 discontinued, leaving 316 as the total
number regularlv received at the close »>f the year, January
31, 1906.
During the year the newspaper files (back numbers) were
consulted by 1,562 visitors, of whom 590 were non-residents.
The number of bound volumes consulted was 6,223, as "com-
pared with 5,413 in 1904-05.
The attendance in the Newspaper Reading Room at times
exceeds the limit of its capacity. This is especially the case
on Sundays, and it is frequently necessary to use vacant
seats in the adjoining Periodical Room, in order to accommo-
date the public.
The Use of Books.
The tables contained in Appendix VII. show the circula-
tion for home use throughout the Library system for the
year. The aggregates are :
Central Library (including Central Library books
Issued through the branches, stations, etc.) . . 401,566
Branches and stations direct . . . . .1,106,926
Total 1,508,492
as against 1,509,086 for the preceding year.
Other figures relating to circulation are brought forward
and put in comparison with those for the year 1904-05 :
64
City Document No. 24.
Total circulation of stations, schools and insti-
tutions .......
On deposit from Central Library .
Daily issue to branches and stations from
Central (aggregate) .....
Direct circulation, home use, from branches .
On deposit from branches ....
1905-06.
1904-05.
447,984 444,410
35,262 35,090
89,121 102,336
764,434 768,329
14,977 18,790
Sunday and Evening Service.
The usual table, prepared from the records of Mr. E'rank
C. Blaisdell, Chief of the Sunday and Evening Service,
exhibits as follows, the number of books issued for home use
on Sundays and holidays, for each of two successive years :
SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY * CIRCULATION.
Sundays
February 22 .
April 19
1905-06. 1904-05.
37,856 36,770
568 527
481 384
The regular Sunday use of the reading rooms continues
large.
Resignations.
The service has been affected by the following resignations
during the year :
Name.
Department.
Entered
Service.
Kesigned.
Edward F. Collier
James S. Driscoll
James W. Bridge
John Finneran
Charles E. McCarthy
Charles McGinniss
Katherine G. Mooney
Grace Cole
E. Christine Yeaton
Ella K. Murray
Elizaheth K. Reagan
M. Marguerite Coydevant . .
Victor Mclnnis
Charlotte H. Kelly
Issue
South End Branch. . .
Periodical
Issue
Bates Hall
Periodical
West End Branch. .•. .
Issue
Station S
Registration
Charlestown Branch
Issue
Special Libraries
Special Lihraries
July 1, 1904. . .
June 14,1901..
Nov. 10, 1904..
Sept. 12, 1904 .
Aprils, 1905..
April 11, 1905.
Jan. 1,1885....
May 10,1897..
Oct. 21, 1898...
Jan. 15, 1886..
March 1, 1895.
May 22,1905..
Oct. 7, 1902....
Nov. 11, 1895..
Feb.
March
March
April
April
May
May
May
June
June
July
July
Aug.
Aug.
6, 1905
21, 1905
25, 1905
20, 1905
24, 1905
2, 1905
3, 1905
30, 1905
1, 1905
27, 1905
13, 1905
27, 1905
15, 1905
18, 1905
* Closed on aU holidays except as specified.
LiBKARY Department.
55
Department.
Entered
Service.
Kesigned.
Carrie U. Doyle
Edna M. llersey
John J. TValdron
Charles H. Gelpke
Margaret C. Hartmann... .
Belle S. Hall
William C. Prout
Mrs. Kate Shaughnessy...
Matthew T. Keenan ,
Marguerite Barton
Henry J. Graham ,
William J. Adams
Mrs. Susan E. Livermore
Bindery
Children's
Shelf
Bates Hall
Children's
Bi-ighton Bi-anch
West End Branch
Engineer and Janitor,
Patent
Special Libraries
Engineer and Janitor,
Special Libraries
Charlestown Branch,
Aug. 13,1900..
July 1, 1898...
Oct. 2, 1903....
Dec. 15, 1903..
March 22, 1895
Aug. 2, 1895...
May 7, 1902...
Dec. 4, 1894. . .
March 2, 1896.
June 23, 1900..
Dec. 15, 1903..
Oct. 7, 1905....
June 1,1885...
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Jan.
22, 1905
12, 1905
12, 1905
2, 1905
10, 1905
13, 1905
15, 1905
16, 1905
6, 1905
11, 1905
29, 1905
6, 1906
19, 1906
Examinations.
The following examinations have been given for the
graded service of the Library, namely: June 24, 1905,
Grade E (51 applicants) ; January 6, 1906, Grade E
(36 applicants) ; Grade C (35 applicants), and Grade B
(17 applicants).
Respectfully submitted,
Horace G. Wadlin,
Librariaii.
April 27, 1906.
56 City Document No. 24.
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
FOR 1905-1906.
To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library :
The Examining Committee held its first meeting for organi-
zation in the Lecture Hall of the Public Library, April 28,
1905. Mr. Solomon Lincoln, President of the Board of
Trustees, was present to receive the members of the commit-
tee, of whom thirteen were in attendance.
Mr. Lincoln read the city ordinance relative to the appoint-
ment of an examining committee, and explained briefly the
nature of the duties of the committee. The committee then
proceeded to organize by the election of Dr. George B.
Shattuck as Chairman and of Miss Eleanor N. Colleton as
Secretary. It was voted that the sub-committee should be
appointed by the chairman, who requested that individual
members should express any personal preference for service
on special committees which they might entertain.
Mr. Fleischner, the Assistant Librarian, came before the
committee and answered such questions as the members
desired to put in relation to the conduct of the various
departments of the Library.
The appointment of sub-committees was announced by
mail April 29, and the chairmen were requested to call their
committees together for organization. The Examining
Committee met again May 15. Before the meeting those
who wished to do so met the chairman in the Librarian's
office, and were shown over the various departments of the
Librar}'. The following sub-committees were announced :
Administration.
Dr. J. Collins Warren, Chairman^
Rev. Daniel Merriman, /Secretcoy ,
Mr. Timothy E. Byrnes, Mr. Thomas Minns,
Mr. William F. Donovan, Mr. Abraham Ratshesky,
Mr. Frank K. Foster, Mr. George A. Scighano.
Books.
Dr. George B. Shattuck, Chainjian,
Miss Eleanor M. Colleton, ISecretary^
Mr. James B. Connolly, Miss Caroline Matthews,
Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Mrs. Walter Shaw,
Mrs. Pinckney Holbrook, Rev. Benjamin F. Trueblood.
Library Department. 57
Branches.
Miss Eleanor M. Colleton, Chairman^
Miss Caroline Matthews, Secretary^
Mr. "William F. Donovan, Dr. William H. Ruddick,
Mrs. Francis P. Garland, Mrs. Walter Shaw,
Rev. F. J. Halloran, Rev. Benjamin F. Trueblood.
Mrs. Thomas G. Plant,
Catalogues.
Mr. Thomas Minns, Chairman^
Mrs. Edward Scates, Secretary,
Mrs. Francis P. Garland, Mr. Abraham Ratshesky,
Rev. F. J. Halloran, Rev. Elwood Worcester, D.D.
Mrs. Thomas G. Plant,
Finance.
Mr. Laurence Curtis, Chairman,
Mr. Timothy E. Byrnes, Mr. George A. Scigliano,
Mr. Abraham Ratshesky, Mr. Daniel A. Whelton.
Dr. William Ruddick,
Fine Arts.
Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Chairman,
Miss Eleanor M. Colleton, Dr. J. Collins Warren,
Mrs. Edward Scates, Rev. Elwood Worcester, D.D.,
Dr. George B. Shattuck, Rev. Daniel Merriman.
Printing and Binding.
Dr. William H. Ruddick, Chairman,
Mrs. Pinckney Holbrook, Secretary,
Mr. James B. Connolly, Mr. Frank K. Foster,
Mr. Laurence Curtis, Mr. Daniel A. Whelton.
The desirability of the purchase by the city of the Boyls-
ton-street property of the Harvard Medical School, in case it
should be for sale, was brought up by the Chairman of the
Committee on Administration, and a favorable but informal
opinion of such action was expressed.
The majority of the committees reported through their
chairman that they had met and organized.
The Examining Committee held a final meeting February 21,
1906, to hear and discuss the reports of the sub-committees
on what they had done and the suggestions they wished to
make. Reports were received from all the committees.
Nearly all of the committees had held several meetings dur-
ing the year; most of the committees had been unusually
58 , City Document No. 24.
active and assiduous in endeavors to seriously observe and
study the condition and the working of their departments.
While the interest taken was very gratifying, it is proper to
state that it was confined to a comparatively small number of
the members of the General Committee. Some attended
meetings constantly, some came occasionally, some, and
those not a few, did not come at all, or took no part in the
work of the sub-committees.
At this final meeting the question of the acquisition by the
city of the contiguous property of the Harvard Medical
School was again discussed, and the unanimous opinion was
expressed that it was most important that the Library should
in some way control this property.
The immediate and crying need of proper accommodation
in a separate building for the branch library in the Charles-
town District was emphasized, as also the less urgent
requirement for better quarters in the East Boston District —
the oldest branch of all. Improvements at the reading room
on the Broadway Extension were also warmly advocated.
The practice of story telling to childien was brought up
by Mr. Merriman, a member of the Committee on Adminis-
tration. He had been much struck by its successful applica-
tion at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg, where it is
understood the library is fortunate in having a very good
story teller. The chairman is aware that this question has
been discussed by the officials of our Library, and that a trial
was made at the Brighton Branch. Its usefulness would
probably be greater at some of the branches. It involves
some expense and depends upon gifts of the story teller for
its results. First rate story tellers for children are born, and
if subsequently made are so only in a minor degree. The
chairman has had submitted to him all the reports on this inter-
esting subject from the Pittsburg Library, and the Committee
expresses the hope that the Trustees will give it further
consideration.
It was voted that the chairman should make the usual
annual report to the Trustees, and he accordingly appends a
summary of the reports of the seven sub-committees as
rendered.
Administration. — The placing of one or more large chande-
liers of twenty lights in the Catalogue Room of the Central
Library would add to its cheerfulness and promote the efficient
working of the Library by facilitating the use of the card
catalogue. When a suitable building for the Charlestown
Branch is provided it should include large rooms for the use
of children and good light for evening use. The same obser-
Library Department. 59
vation applies to East Boston also. The hanging of useful
maps and engravings on the walls at the West End and
South End Branches is recommended. A lighted sign at the
front door of the Dorchester Branch is needed. Ceilings
and walls at some of the branches should be cleaned and
some new curtains provided for windows.
This sub-committee calls attention to the contemplated
sale of the adjoining property on which the Harvard Medical
School building is situated, and would recommend the advisa-
bility of considering the purchase of this land by the city.
The Library at present has no accommodation for printing-
and binding, and this work is done in the building 42 Stan-
hope street at an annual rental of $1,500. The objections
to employment of land on the same lot with the Public
Libraiy for business purposes are obvious. In addition to
the danger from fire and the interference with light and air,
is the unfavorable contrast which a modern " business sky-
scraper " would offer to the beautiful architectural effects of
the present Library building.
Books. — Many of the books of fiction in the branches and
in the Central Library are in poor condition, dirty and ill-
smelling because ill-used. Can blame for ill-use be fixed and
penalties inflicted by means of greatei' care and watchfulness
on the part of employees who deliver and receive books of
this class ? What length of time might be considered to
constitute the average life of a book of fiction ? It may be
easier to ask these questions than to answer them, but the
committeee would not wish to have them answered by a
diminution in the works of fiction.
A greater number of books in foreign languages, when
there is demand for such, seems desirable. The young
should be brought up on English, but those in middle life
and beyond can hardly be weaned altogether from customary
reading-.
The question of keeping the books of reference in Bates
Hall up to date is recognized as attended with some diffi-
culties. The space is limited, and often, in some subjects,
when a new book is added an older, though perhaps an
equally useful one, may have to be displaced. Asa test of
the serviceableness of this portion of the Library the follow-
ing query was put to Mr. Bierstadt, the official in charge:
What is the highest mountain in the United States south of
Alaska? One hour and thirty minutes was spent in search-
ing the reference books in Bates Hall, twenty-six in number,
ranging fron 1889 to 1906, for the answer upon which these
authorities agree. One important book of reference which
60 City Document No. 24.
suggested the doubt giving rise to the question was not men-
tioned. The result of the test cannot be considered as
unsatisfactory.
It is desired to say a good word again in praise of the
management of the Chiklren Department.
Branches. — At the first meeting of this sub-committee the
different branches and reading rooms were divided into
groups and apportioned to the members for visitation. The
following suggestions for observation on visits were made by
the chairman and approved : Ventilation and General Con-
dition ; Books : number, kind, condition ; Foreign Books :
character of population, condition of books ; Magazines :
what provided, what not provided but demanded, are those
furnished adapted to the population of the neighborhood ?
Patrons: are they chiefly adults or children?
Mr. Ward, the Supervisor of Branches, whose unfailing
courtesy is mentioned, was present at the first meeting, and
subsequently proposed suggestions were discussed with him.
The following suggestions are offered :
1. More attention to ventilation of branches and reading
rooms is needed. The air in many is very poor, and this,
with the high temperature, makes continued study or intelli-
gent reading almost impossible.
2. Some method to obviate the filthy condition of books
should be devised.
3. More uniform helpfulness on the part of the assistants
is desirable, especially to children and persons not well
equipped to make the best use of the Library, and this is
more true in the branches than in the Central Library. The
instructions sent out by the Supervisor of Branches cover this
suggestion, but the interpretation of these differs at the
different branches, and thus their usefulness is greater or less
in consequence.
4. More accurate, ready knowledge on the part of assist-
ants as to the available reference books on historical, geo-
graphical and scientific subjects — especially of the more
recent publications — would be desirable.
5. Probably occasional intervisiting of custodians and
assistants of branches and reading rooms might be productive
of more uniform, wholly satisfactory conditions such as
already exist in many of the branches and reading rooms.
Catalogues, Bulletins and Finding Lists. — This sub-com-
mittee has taken much pains in going over the subjects
confided to it, and makes a very full repoi-t. It recommends
that additional space for cabinets be provided for the public
catalogue in Bates Hall, and more space for the co-operative
Library Department. 61
catalogue in Bates Hall, if the Trustees consider it advisable
to continue this, and that some better method be devised
for the general lighting of the Catalogue Room. Additional
stack room for the shelving of books is urgently needed.
And this observation has a direct bearing upon the ques-
tion of keeping the reference library up to the highest
standard.
In previous reports attention has been directed to the
general condition of the card catalogues and finding lists in
the main building and in the branches. The committee this
year have taken up this subject and conclude that it is
chiefly a question of expense, and think the renewal may
safely be left to be attended to when the Trustees think it is
expedient. The renewal of the card catalogue of stack four,
circulating fiction, reprinted last year, shows how easily and
successfully a renewal can be made.
The expediency of furnishing a typewriting machine at
some of the branches is suggested. Commendation is ex-
tended to a catalogue, the Avork of Mr. Hunt of the Catalogue
Department, making available many monographs in large sets
and collections, which would otherwise be buried under the
main title. At the branches it was found that the attendants
had used leisure moments to re-write old and worn cards and
that the general condition of the catalogue and lists is ex-
cellent. In this connection this committee takes occasion to
praise the skilful management of the branches and the de-
votion of the attendants to their duties.
In conclusion, the chairman of this committee makes an
interesting comparison between the report of the Library for
186-4, when he last served on one of these committees, and
the report for last jear, 1904-05. The death of Mr. Joshua
Bates, sometimes spoken of as the founder of the Library,
occurred in 1864.
Finance. — The sub-committee on finance had not been
called together in special meeting. The last printed report
of the Trustees, recently issued, contains a financial statement
from the Auditing Department for the fiscal year ending
January 31, 1905, with the usual voluminous and detailed
statistics. It did not appear to be expedient to call the com-
mittee together to consider that report, inasmuch as a whole
year of further business has already intervened.
The system of accountability under which are conducted
the receipts, payments, vouchers, counter-checks, etc., appears
to be a strict and accurate one, and under the by-laws of the
corporation the use of the funds is under the direct control
of the Trustees.
62 City Document No. 24.
The attention of the Trustees might be respectfully called
to the increased and increasing amount of printing done by
the Department of Printing.
Fine Arts. — The report of the sub-committee on this de-
partment is submitted in full :
In the department of Fine Aits the committee believes
the accessions to be judiciously chosen and sufficient in
number to include all the more desirable works as they appear.
It is rather with the circulation of such works than with
their acquisition that a problem is presented.
The resources of the Library in this department seem to be
insufficiently understood and made use of. The excellent
bibliography of architecture published eleven years ago should
be brought down to date and re-issued, and the professional
organizations of art students and architects should be invited
to co-operate in its distribution among their numbers.
It is further suggested that an experiment be made in
printing upon mailing cards such portions of the monthly
bulletin as relate to works of fine arts, not including music,
and that these mailing cards be sent regularly, at cost, to all
registered applicants. In this way the titles of all works in
this department would be on file in many an office, workshop
or studio whose inmates would be thus tempted to make use
of such books.
The committee is impressed with the probable value of an
index of plates compiled from illustrations in this depart-
ment, and by selection from other departments of the
Library. Such an index has been found of great assistance
to students in the Architectural Department at Harvard and
the Institute of Technology. It makes immediately avail-
able all the illustrations of any one subject that exist among
the volumes or photographs in those libraries. With a far
greater wealth of illustrative material, there is in the Boston
Library no subject index to make such material available.
The making of such an index is, however, very expensive,
although a good beginning was made upon it some years
ago, thanks to a private gift. The need of it can only be
pointed out to the Trustees, with the recommendation that
the work be undertaken as soon as provided for through gifts
or bequests.
Printing and Binding. — This department was visited
several times, and the work seemed to be progressing with
due economy and despatch. The appearance of thorough-
ness and devotion on the part of the employees, and the
courteous and ready attention of the superintendents are
especially commended.
Library Department. 63
The chairman of the general committee permits himself
to add that those members of the committee who have inter-
ested themselves in its work feel that they have themselves
profited by the study of the detailed operations of a great
and beneficent institution ; they recognize that, even with
their best endeavor, their observations must in so short a
time be in some measure hasty and superficial ; but they
venture to indulge in the hope that some of their sugges-
tions may be found practicable within the appropriations, and
thought worthy, in the fullness of time, of bearing a little
fruit.
For the Committee,
George B. Shattuck,
Chairman.
APPENDIXES.
1905—1906.
LIST OF APPENDIXES.
Page.
I. Financial Statement ..... 67
II. Extent of the Library by Years . . . 89
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments,
Including Branches . . . . . 91
IV. Classification : Central Library . . broadside
V. Classification : Branches .... 95
VI. Registration ...... broadside
VII. Circulation . 98
VIII. Trustees for Fifty-four Years. Librarians, 100
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty-four Years, 102
X. Library Service, Including Sunday and Even-
ing Service ....... 106
Index to the Annual Report, 1905-1906 . 117
APPENDIX I.
Boston Public Library,
Auditing Department, February 1, 1906.
To the Trustees :
Gentlemen, — The undersigned herewith presents a
statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Library
Department for the financial j'ear commencing February 1,
1905, and ending January 31, 190G ; also a statement con-
cerning the trust and other funds, statements covering special
appropriations, and a statement of expenditures on account
of the branches for the twelve 3^ears ending 1905-1906.
Respectfully,
A. A. Nichols,
Auditor.
Receipts.
Appropriation, 1905-06 8310,000 00
Payments for lost books ..... 305 07
Income from Trust Funds, 1905-06 . . . 15,43100
Interest credited :
From J. S. Morgan & Co. . 831 49
On bank deposits ... 44 43
75 92
Gift, 1905-06 :
From Andrew Carneoie . . . . . 100 00
Total receipts 8326,001 99
Balances, February 1, 1905 :
On deposit, J. S. Morgan & Co., London :
From income of Trust Funds . 81,454 30
On deposit. Baring Bros. & Co.,
London .... 72 75
Interest accrued on bank deposits, 1,908 52
Gifts, unexpended balance :
From Thomas F.
Temple . .825 00
From Richard C.
Humphreys . . 25 00
50 00
Carried forioard . . . $3,485 57 8326,001 99
68 City Document No. 24.
Brought forward . . . $3,485 57 $326,001 99
Income of Trust Funds (unex-
pended balance in city treas-
ury) 10,882 99
14,368 56
Total balances and receipts .... $340,370 55
Expenditures.
Salaries (generalLibrary account, including branches) :
General administra-
tion . . $160,677 32
Sunday and evening
force . . . 19,952 17
Books :
?J cjuju^./
•±1/
From city appropria-
tion . . .$21,025 41
City app ropriation
( London account) .
1,718
21
From trust funds
income (including
Loudon account)
10,882
65
From gift :
Andrew Carnegie .
22
59
33,648
86
Newspapers, from Todd fund
income
.
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1,833
71
Periodicals, including
London
account .
,
.
6,712
00
Binding Department :
Salaries . . $20,148 41
Stock
2,031
64
Equipment .
127
29
Electric power
32
00
Contract work
90
78
Contract work : (British
patent specifications,
paid through J. S.
Morgan & Co.,
London) .
320
36
Rent ....
918
50
Miscellaneous expense,
540
15
24,209
13
Printing Department :
Salaries
$7,241
49
Scock
2,137
26
Equipment .
760
58
Electric power
219
40
Carried forward, $10,358 73 $247,033 19 $340,370 55
Library Department.
69
Brought forward^ $10,358 73
Contract work . . 899 89
Rent .... 518 50
Miscellaneous expense 478 68
Furniture and fixtures (includes gifts
to Station Q) .
Gas . . .
Electric lighting
Cleaning
Small supplies
Stationery
Rent
Fuel
Repairs
Freights and cartage
Transportation between Central Li
brary and branches
Delivery stations, rent and service
Telephone service .
Postage and telegrams
Typewriting .
Travelling expenses
Grounds
Insurance
Vacuum Cleaning System, balance
(See Library Building, Dartmouth
street, furnishing. )
Premiums on Security Bond
Draping building, death of Mayor
Collins .....
Balance .....
$247,033 19 $340,370 55
12,255 80
6,117 65
2,377 83
2,102 60
7,671 84
2,965 42
1,773 43
11,009 08
11,619 91
6,169 21
812 53
4,349 19
1,726 68
566 29
1,263 80
20 83
369 45
152 06
141 39
450 19
10 00
144 40
The balance includes the following items :
Cash, city treasur}^. Trust Funds income
On deposit, Loudon :
J. S. Morgan & Co. :
Trust Funds income . $1,927 42
General Funds . 1,763 59
$3,691 01
Barino- Bros. & Co. . . . 72 75
321,102 77
$19,267 78
$13,156 00
Cash on deposit. New England Trust Company :
Exchange account :
Receipts from lost books, post-
age, etc $395 07
Interest accrued on deposits . 1,952 95
3,763 76
2,348 02
819,267 78
70
City Document No. 24.
GENERAL APPROPRIATION.
Comparative Statement for Fiscal Years Ending January 31, 1905 and 1906.
1904-1905. 1905-1906
Salaries :
General administration —
Sunday and evening force
Binding:
Salai'ies
Stock
Contract work
Equipment
Electric power
Books.
Periodicals
Furniture and fixtures.
Gas ,
Electric lighting.
Supplies
Cleaning
Printing:
Equipment
Stock
Contract work.
Salaries
Electric power.
Stationery
Typewriting
Fuel
Rent of branches and reading rooms
Repairs
Freights and cartage
Transportation between Central Library and branches —
Delivery stations
Travelling expenses
Postage and telegrams
Telephone service
Miscellaneous expense ."
Insurance
Grounds
Vacuum cleaning system, balance (see Library Building,
Dartmouth street, furnishing)
Premiums on surety bond
Expense of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the
opening of the Public Library
Draping building, death of Mayor Collins
Remittance to J. S. Morgan & Co., London
$154,746 05
19,866 20
19,834 35
2.785 14
42 la
11 42
39 10
20,974 93
6,804 72
6,137 24
2,,'J47 82
2,389 04
2,128 74
6,640 93
3,103 33
2,966 41
1.786 i)7
6,867 98
180 08
1,684 21
35 05
15,.594 42
9,9;]7 59
6,197 19
1,191 118
4,244 18
3,619 72
592 26
1,006 68
241 27
17 25
445 67
48 70
729 83
$160,677 32
19,952 17
20,148 41
2,031 64
90 78
127 29
32 00
21,044 54
6,668 88
6,080 05
2,720 48
2,159 95
2,965 42
7,713 65
760 58
2,137 26
899 89
7,241 49
219 40
1,773 43
20 83
11,619 91
12,446 08
6,209 21
1,.337 15
4,349 19
1,726 68
369 45
1,263 80
566 29
141 39
152 06
450 19
10 00
144 40
3,848 74
$305,437 65
$310,100 00
The cost of maintaining the branches makes part of the general items
of the several appropriations :
Cost of branches 1904-1905 $84,304 22
Cost of branches 1905-1906 89,701 44
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 1904-1905 $6,922 42
For 1905-1906 6,648 52
The amount expended for books, newspapers and photographs (not
included above) paid from trust funds in the hands of the City Treasurer :
For 1904-1905 $10,280 19
For 1905-1906 8,157 99
Library Department.
71
Special Appropriations.
Library Building, Dartmouth street, balance of
appropriation, February 1,1905 . . . $48,640 44
Balance, February 1, 1906
. $48,640 44
This balance will be required to settle outstanding contracts.
Library Building, furnishing, balance of city appro-
priation, February 1, 1905 .... S2,349 81
Payment :
Vacuum Cleaning System ..... $2,349 81
LONDON ACCOUNTS.
Balances
from
1904-1905.
Remittances
and Interest,
1905-1906.
Total
Credits.
Expendi-
tures,
1905-1906.
Balances
Unex-
pended.
.J. S. Morgan & Co.
J. S. Morgan & Co.
£. s. d.
296 19 S
£. s. d.
1,8U 6 11
6 8 n
£. s. d.
2,117 15 6
£. s. d.
1,360 0 0
£. s. d.
757 15 6
Baring Bros. & Co.
15 0 0
15 0 0
15 0 0
311 19 8
1,8-20 15 10
2,132 15 6
1,360 0 0
772 15 6
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LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS.
BiGELOW Fund. — This is a gift from the late John P. Bigelow, of
Boston, in August, 1850, when Mayor of the City.
The incQme from this fund is to be appropriated for the purchase of
books for the increase of the Library.
Invested in one City of Boston four per cent Bond, for . $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 London
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, 1890.
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 Three and one-half 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 Three and one-half per cent
Bond, for $10,000 00
The interest on this fund is to be exclusively appropriated for the
purchase of books for the said Library having a permanent value.
Edward Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of Edward Law-
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
76 City Document No. 24.
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
TowxsEND Fund. — This is a gift from William Minot and William
Minot, Jr., executors of the will of Mary P. Townsend, of Boston, at
whose disposal she left a certain 23ortion of her estate in trust for such
charitable and public institutions as they 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 be so purchased." Keceived 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 cent, 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, the 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. Keceived 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 percent Bond, for . $1,000 00
Library Department. 77
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 accepted said bequest, and aiithorized 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 the Librai-y.
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 GO
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
Cash in treasury 37 69
•$10,487 69
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 Scholfield, 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, which 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
" u t; .t u II u ^ 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,
Invested in one City of Boston Five per cent Bond, for . $1,000 00
" " " Four " " " . .500 00
" " " Three " " " . 500 00
$2,000 00
78 City Document No. 24.
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, 1ST9.
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 . -Sio^ooo qq
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 Ofificers 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 appropri-
ated 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
Bradlee 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 an done-half per cent
Bond, for SLOOO 00
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.
Library Department. 79
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent
Bond, for , • S2,800 00
Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1906 .... 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 . $6,000,00
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
Lewis Fund. — A bequest of Mrs. John A. Lewis for the purchase
of such old and rare books as shall be fitly selected to augment the col-
lection known as the John A. Lewis Library, to be known as the Mrs.
John A. Lewis Fund.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent
Bond, for S5,000 00
Billings Fund. — A bequest of Robert Charles Billings, "This
sum to constitute a permanent fund for said Library, to be called the
Robert Charles Billings Fund, the income only to be used for the pur-
pose of the purchase of books for said Library."
Invested in City of Boston Three and one-half per cent
Bonds $100,000 00
Center Fund. — Bequest of Joseph H. Center.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent
Bond $14,000 00
Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1906 .... 538 25
$14,538 25
Recapitulation of Public Library Trust Funds.
Robert Charles Billings Fund .$100,000 00
Scholfield Fund , . 61,800 00
Bates Fund 50,000 00
Todd Fund 50,000 00
Phillips Fund 20,000 00
Center Fund 14,538 25
Treadwell Fund 10,487 69
Phillips Fund 10,000 00
Bowditch Fund 10,000 GO
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
Mrs. John A. Lewis Fund 5,000 00
Townsend Fund 4,000 00
Carried forward $881,825 94
80 City Document No. 24.
Brought forward $381,825 94
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 Fund 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 Fupd .... 500 00
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund .... 100 00
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PLACED OX THE SHELVES FEBRUARY 1, 1905, TO JANUARY 31, 1906.
Placed on
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missing,
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Net Gain.
Central Library
Central Library, Duplicate room
Brighton branch
Charlestown branch
Dorchester branch
East Boston branch
Jamaica Plain branch
Roxbury branch, city collection
Roxbury branch, Fellowes Athenreum.
South Boston branch
South End branch
West End branch
West Roxbury branch
Lower Mills reading room
Roslindale reading room
South End reading room
Mattapan reading room
Mt. Bowdoin reading room
Allston reading room
North Brighton reading room
Codman Square reading room
Mt. Pleasant reading room
Broadway Extension reading room
Upham's Corner reading room
Warren Street reading room
Roxbury Crossing reading room
Boylston Station reading room
Ward Nine delivery station
Industrial School reading room
Andrew Square reading room
Orient Heights reading room.
North Street reading room
23,210
1,282
502
776
634
1,014
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1,091
1,292
925
612
387
8
366
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1,658
8
315
1,121
233
38
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4,040
11,945
553
5,195
427
1,044
651
305
503
1,221
680
654
66
54
168
1
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588
71
245
42
321
8
312
168
6
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155
146
1,649
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1,053
231
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CKNTRAL LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
Gekeeal Collection.
Special I.ibkabies.
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1861.
1866.
1869.
1871.
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1876. 1877. 1880.
1889.
1890. 1892.
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18,704
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11,726
3,763
19,404
26,317
7,681
40,679
27,056
7,G32
9,778
25,815
20,725
26,760
0,250
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8,744
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671
3,223
1,711
646
183
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75
681
606
109
1,228
1,361
237
230
468
786
819
441
611
4J0
888
2,069
17,142
19,391
89,493
69,518
30,350
13,046
23,328
11,959
3,836
19,961
26,884
7,789
41,864
28,288
7,847
10,000
26,256
21,476
26,641
9,661
10,340
9,161
18,002
249
35
17
108
77
60
11
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9
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1,387
58
146
6
66
3
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4,843
14
322
614
655
1,095
869
523
317
1,426
1,179
96
329
740
6
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835
114
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2
8
197
21
691
137
813
3,214
2,474
338
264
617
200
226
471
16
33
424
387
2,469
669
184
191
23
65
61
53
31
13
601
903
1,220
393
76
69
66
64
178
462
22
415
49
60
21
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67
21
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98
28
1,261
63
166
8
88
2
173
56
89
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2,467
7,170
263
447
86
87
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13
32
131
71
27
22
42
21
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20
11
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102
12
6
23
23
32
40
32
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27
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106
8
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6
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12
27
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13
6
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54
371
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68
31
26
136
4,410
6
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13
1
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19
8
75
270
4
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1,165
6,632
439
3
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10
184
10
22
141
522
369
221
16
56
11
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2,079
346
6
7
10
4
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General hUtory, biography, and geograpliy
11
1
442
669
683
1,397
34
3
35,282
14,048
26,473
14,210
1
3
1
4
1
5
21,002
36,737
7,968
47,690
33,232
16.274
13,.>i81
26,909
J2,l(r2
31,828
10,367
10,359
19,600
19,057
1
14
5
6,334
3,630
1,361
98
307
76
170
135
13
685
62
381
121
24
63
5
32
63
36
246
130
17
28
27
89
48
16
248
67
2
2
6
31
2
59
25
33
1
2
10
1
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3
1
24
659
6
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14
23
1
25
108
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2
61
49
3
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Medical science
4
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113
1
373
XI.X.
21
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4
16
2
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Music
10,348
1
20
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13
37
30
1
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20
1
1-29
14
43
84
93
3.321
401
10
1
12
34
271
3
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XXII.
Bound volumes of miscellaneous pamjililets
50
XXIII.
Bound volumes of miscellaneous ninnuscrlpts
C52
652
47
13
2
160
16
1,037
3,322
XXIV.
Shakespeare
XXV.
Hooks for the blind
687
20,465
22,376
10
1,621
2,316
1,793
1,186
60
4
697
20,123
23,601
XXVI.
Stack land Juvenile Fiction
20,123
23,501
XXVII.
Deposit collection
Totals
602,673
13,424
20,609
1,28-2
3,709
10,627
331
1,418
579,142
2,761
7,189
13,883
2,052
129
6,428
13,697
6,392
669
740
422
9.322
696
1,444
3,019
10,349
424
2,286
792
2,606
6,34S
466
4,703
12,702
684,695
D upllcate r oom account
Totals
676,097
21,791
14,236
1,749
681,903
7,189
13,883
2,062
129
6,428
13,697
5,392
740
422
9,322
669
1,444
3,019
10,340
424
2,286
792
2,506
6,:M6
466
4,703
12,702
687,466
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UaBB VIU.lncluUeB also Belgium, tbe NuUierlandB, Switzerland, and Ibe Scandinavian natlona.
UaBB XI V . Includes political science and ethics, education, etc.
Class XIX. includes mechanics, military and naval arts, etc.
Class XXI V. docs not include the Sbakcspenre collection of the general library.
Note. ~ The dates ^'iven in the special libraries column show the year when these collections were acquired by the Library.
Library Department.
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APPENDIX V.
CLASSIFICATION.
Bkanch Libraries.
As reported by Custodians of branches January 31, 1906.
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Reference books
Genealogy and heraldr)-,
Biography
History
Fine arts, archjeology
Geography, travels
Language —
Literature
Medicine, hygiene
Natural science
Philosophy, ethics, edu-
cation'
Religion, theology.
Sociology
Law
Useful and industrial
arts
Amusements, games,
sports
Fiction
Books for the young
Bound periodicals. .
Unclassified
415
12
1,478
1,63-2
319
1,071
101
1,757
104
607
322
324
223
16
333
89
4,436
2,231
902
1,473
6
1,596
2,436
366
1,013
84
1,721
84
500
225
455
166
20
243
83
4,490
2,353
1,547
7,095
416
1
1,49.-
1,526
360
1,016
90
1,525
107
501
223
230
139
9
278
88
5,419
2,850
1,363
949
380
23
1,216
1,441
289
777
76
1,513
93
437
191
191
141
IS
244
78
3,608
3,023
595
66
449
5
1,374
1,308
357
832
100
1,342
84
514
220
225
152
86
4,098
2,161
1,295
185
35
937
741
147
616
45
939
61
197
138
244
52
5
112
56
3,483
503
1,468
505
1,327
76
2,625
3,059
626
1,650
96
4,172
290
1,142
379
1,179
415
77
435
59
2,112
2,029
3,372
45'
3
1,284
1,420
391
893
73
1,505
117
540
231
272
145
23
4,124
2,495
1,475
63
440
5
1,575
1,426
334
825
82
1,579
120
493
264
214
142
25
236
80
4,090
1,796
965
95
636
1,354
1,370
397
917
143
1,351
91
654
273
864
257
8
367
83
2,521
2,012
799
213
1
519
562
133
379
27
548
33
225
75
64
72
6
110
26
1,375
1,680
317
24
Total.
16,372
25,956
18,585
14,400
14,885
10,464
25,120 15,876
I
14,786
14,005
6,389
96
City Document No. 24.
CLASSIFICATION OF HOLDERS OF "LIVE CARDS"
JANUARY 31, 1906.
By Sex and Occupation.
Classes.
Permanent
Residents.
^Non-
residents.
Males.
Over 16 years of age.
Professional classes
Teachers
Students
Business men
Unemployed
Laborers
Under 16 years of age.
Clerks
Office and errand boys
Unemployed
Pupils of Latin and High schools
Pupils of Grammar schools
Other students
Females.
Over 16 years of age.
Professional classes
Teachers
Students
Business women
Married
Single, unemployed
Under 16 years of age.
Clerks .
Errand girls
Unemployed
Pupils of Latin and High schools.
Pupils of Grammar schools
Other students
Totals
2,610
188
414
219
1,962
1,220
7,290
156
2,318
516
396
8
1,716
141
913
11
42S
18
1,262
23
9,283
32
187
80
602
196
2,154
320
2,082
1,741
4,561
182
8,043
263
8,829
618
2,072
113
640
2
1,687
121
1,214
28
9,316
76
314
96
70,293
6,368
1 Including persons temporarily sojourning in Boston.
N B —Of the 3,551 teachers' cards issued prior to February 1, 1906, 1,241 are live
cards-" of these, 993 are held bv permanent residents, in addition to their ordinary
cards'fnot included in permanent residents' column above), nud 248 are held by non-
residents (whicli are included in nonresidents column above).
Of the 1,109 special privilege cards issued prior to 1 ebruary 1, 1906
cards- 281 are held by permanent residents, and 122 are held by non-resi
1906, 403 are live
sidents.
APPENDIX VI.
REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Statistical Beport, February 1, 1905, to January SI, 1906.
CARDS ISSUED FKBHUARY 1, 1905-JANUARY 31, 1906.
Re-Registrations.
Over Under
Over Under
New Registrations.
Over Under
Over Under
Over Under
Over Under
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Centrnl Library
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Cliarlestown Branch
Dordiestei* Branch
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West End Branch
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21,133
1,652
3,473
3,146
3,704
2,926
4,44S
4,600
2,276
3,977
1,121
Totals 73,211
4,762
4,804
6,464
4,387
6,494
7,183
3,874
6,077
1,722
678
623
1,466
733
2,676
393
648
2,120
2,3S1
3,68.1
1,687
2,367
1,380
1,372
1,764
1,962
1,472
21,4.S3
1,6'J4
3,380
3,040
3,502
2,915
4,409
4,723
2,931
1,121
366
417
•272
2,180
1,325
213
♦138
356
•252
1,406
4:1
1,566
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3,27.!
1,369
1,274
364
1,566
147
3,703 112,355 35,694
Library Department.
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
1,680
1,512
1,239
1,326
1,280
2,147
1,648
4,469
3,266
8,827
5,402
5,309
1,741
25,405
25,929
14,831
12,499
12,633
29,987
15,579
30,810
22,120
23,841
22,353
21,738
21,654
.0661
.0579
.0835
.1060
.1011
.0715
.1057
.1450
.1476
.3701
.2417
.2442
.0804
Ward No.
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22 . . . .
23
24
25
Total
2,228
2,101
2,642
2,461
2,493
1,881
4,682
4,472
2,998
3,289
4,196
3,372
76,661
O
22,127
20,310
21,924
24,313
22,121
29,213
41,805
26,533
27,769
26,410
31,650
21,806
595,380
St3
^8
.1006
.1034
.1205
.1012
.1126
.0643
.1119
.1685
.1079
.1245
.1325
.1546
.1287
Total number of application blanks, borroAvers" cards, cer-
tificates, etc., filled in, and filed alphabetically each year since
the present numerical record of borrowers was commenced
on February 1, 1899:
1899-1900 .
58,193
1900-1901
67,305
1901-1902
76,394
1902-1903
71,406
1903-1904 .
81,881
1904-1905
86,856
1905-1906
89,520
Totals ....
531,555
98
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX VII.
CIRCULATION OF BOOKS.
Home Use Only.
Central Library :
A, direct
B, through branches
and stations
Brighton
Charlcstown....
Dorcliester
East Boston
Jamaica Plain..
Roxbury
South Boston . . .
South End
West End
West Roxbury.
Station A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
L
Total Circulation,
Home Use.
1904-
1905,
299,647
115,084
44,8.51
60,013
62,976
8.5,542
55,187
89,463
92,278
90,977
142,872
.Sl,508
7,234
40,083
11,8.55
5,405
8,607
23,621
11,658
8,924
10,773
5,388
1905-
1906
297,994
103,572
43,596
58,630
57,479
83,439
53,556
87,830
98,824
98,653
137,657
32,131
6,962
38,833
2,466
4,951
10,300
25,020
19,713
1,008
37,196
1,715
From Central
Library through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation, " B."
1904-
1905,
1905-
1906
771
882
630
1,662
1,120
956
684
1,410
3,048
1,499
1,910
1,938
2,566
2,903
2,214
4,608
3,325
4,091
6,080
1,469
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
BranchCirculation.
1904- 1905-
1905. 1906.
797
792
543
1,616
1,477
802
846
1,522
2,802
1,442
1,925
1,697
481
2,694
2,982
3,181
4,533
455
8,108
410
2 730
35
2 367
2 514
2 17
Carried forward
1,303,946
1,301,.525
43,766
39,105
1,392
Library Department.
99
APPENDIX VII. — Concluded.
Brought for icard.
Station M
N
P
Q
R
S
T
U
AV
Y
Z
Cottage Place
Fort Revere Garrison
Franklin Park
Guild St. Elizabeth
House of Reformation.. .
Parental School
§ Schools
Engine-houses
Institutions, etc ,
Total Circulation,
Home Use.
1904- 1905-
1905. 1906J
,303,946
9,217
14,594
25,517
32,345
14,141
13,35S
11,166
23,333
8,671
6,438
7,415
7,056
1,000
4,147
2,036
1,753
766
2-2,187
1,301,525
1,075
15,714
24,670
57,366
17,308
13,277
15,257
1,967
7,871
761
8,007
6,l.il
315
4,312
1,417
2,495
960
28,044
Total 1,.509,086 1,508,492 115,084 103,572 3,300
From Central
Library through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation, " b!"
1904-
1905,
1905-
1906.
43,766
2,940
5,684
2,483
5,125
4,086
4,129
3,266
6,786
13,052
3,343
2,782
3,350
194
1,194
156
110,100
2,648
39,106
362
5,469
3,337
5,459
3,721
4,790
4,821
454
13,627
336
3,.345
2,746
1,306
168
J 10,500
3,951
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
BranchCirculatlon.
1904-
1905.
1905-
1906.
* 1,883
5 25
* 1,146
1,920
1 Number sent on deposit. Number used on premises not recorded.
- Included in Dorchester Branch Circulation.
3 <. « Brighton "
•■ " " Roxbury " "
6 " " South Boston " "
§ Supplied from Central Library.
100
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX VIII.
TRUSTEES FOR FIFTY-FOUR YEARS.
The Hon. Edward Everett was President of the Board of
Trustees from 1852 to 1864; George Ticknor in 1865; William
W. Greenough, from 1866 to April, 1888; from May 7, 1888,
to May 12^ 1888, Prof. Henry W. Haynes ; Samuel A. B.
Abbott, May 12, 1888, to April 30, 1895; Hon. F. 0. 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, imless re-elected, 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.
Appleton, Thomas G., 1852-57.
Barnes, Joseph H., 1871-72.
Benton, Josiah H., Jk., 1894-
1905.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1852-68.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1865-
68.
BowDiTCH, Henky p., M.D., 1894-
1902.
Boyle, Thomas F., 1902-1905.
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.,
1895-1905.
Dickinson, M. F., Jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1803-64.
Dwight, Thomas,M.D., 1899-1905.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett, Hon. Ebward, 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.
Greenough,William W., 1856-88.
Guild, Curtis, 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris, William G., 1869-70,
Library Department.
101
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-
1905.
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., 1873-74.
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.,
1888-99.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1868-77.
Reed, Sampson, 1852-53.
Richards, William R., 1889-95.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860-61,
Sears, Philip H., 1859-60.
Seaver, Hon. Benjamin, 1852.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1878-79.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B.,
1852-68.
Stebbins, Solomon B., 1882-83.
Story, Joseph, 185.5-56 ; 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 A., 1862-63.
Whitten, Charles V., 1883-1885.
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 1858 to 1877, the chief executive oflicer was entitled Superintendent.)
Capen, Edw^ard, Librarian, May 13, 1852-December 16, 1874.
Jewett, Charles C, Superintendent, 1858-January 9, 1868.
WiNSOR, Justin, LL.D., Superintendent, February 25, 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, Litt. D., Librarian, February 11, 1895-April 30, 1899.
Whitney, James L., Acting Librarian, March 31, 1899-December 21,
1899; Librarian, December 22, 1899-January 31, 1903.
Wadlin, Horace G., Litt. D., Librarian, February 1, 1903.
102
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX IX.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR FIFTY-FOUR 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 thirty-
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. jB., 1880, 1894.
Adams, Brooks, 18941
Adams, Neliemiah, D.D., 1860.
Adams, William T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. AVilliam R., 1870.
Allen, Hon. Charles, 1899.
Amory, Miss Anna S., 1890, 1891.
Andrew, Hon. John F., 1888.
Andrews, Augustus, 1892, 1893.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, ]8.')4.
Apthorp, William F., 1888, 1899,
1900.
Arnold, Howard P., 1881.
Arnold, Miss Sarah L., 1902.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, Gilbert, 1877.
Babson, Thomas M., 1900, 1901.
Bailey, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball, Joshua D., 1861.
Bancroft, Robert H., 1894.
Bangs, Edward, 1887.
Barnard, James M., 1866.
Barry, Rev. Richard J., 1895.
Bartiett, Sidney, 1869.
Bates, Hon. John L., 1896, 1897.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Edward, D.D., 1854.
Bellows, Mrs. John A., 1903, 1904.
Bent, Samuel Arthur, 1890, 1891.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1857.
Bkjelow, 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.
Briggs, Frank H., 1903, 1904.
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.
Browne, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, Charles E., M.D.,
1872.
Burdett, Everett W., 1896, 1897.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, Jr., 1869.
Byrne, Very Rev. William, 1899,
1900.
Byrnes, Timothy E., 1905.
Carpenter, Rev. Carlos C, 1901,
1902.
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, 1901.
Colleton, Miss Eleanor M., 1904,
1905.
Collins, Hon. Patrick A., 1898,
1899.
Concannon, John S., 1908, 1904.
Library Department.
103
Connolly, Rev. Arthur T., 1898,
1899.
Connolly, James B., 1905.
Coolidge, J. Randolph, Jr., 1904,
1905.
Corbett, Hon. Joseph J., 1896,
1897.
Cud worth, Warren H., D.D., 1878.
Curtis, Charles P., 18(32.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Laurence, 1905.
Curtis, Thomas B., M.D., 1874.
Gushing, Thomas, 1885.
Dalton, Charles H., 1884.
Dana, Samuel T., 1857.
Davis, James C, 1899, 1900.
Dean, Benjamin, 1873.
Denny, Henry 6., 1876.
Derby, Hasket, M.D., 1895, 1896.
Devine, William H., M.D., 1902,
1903.
Dewart, Mrs. William H., 1901,
1902,
Dexter, Henry M., D.D., 1866.
Dillingham, Rev. Pitt, 1886.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Doherty, Philip J., 1888.
Dolan, Arthur W., 1904.
Dolan, Rev. F. X., 1901, 1902.
Dole, Rev. Charles F., 1901, 1902.
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Donald, E. Winchester, D.D., 1898,
1899.
Donnelly, Charles F., 1899, 1900.
Donovan, Edward J., 1902.
Donovan, William F., 1904, 1905.
Doogue, William J., Jr., 1903, 1904.
Dreyfus, Mrs. Carl, 1901, 1902.
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, JohnW., 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.
Foster, Frank K., 1904, 1905.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freeland, Charles W., 1867.
Frost, Oliver, 1854.
Frothing ham, Richard^LL.D., 1876.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett, Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Gargan, Thomas J., 1899, 1900.
Gargan, Mrs. Thomas J., 1901,
1902.
Garland, Mrs. Francis P., 1904,
1905.
Garland, George M., M.D., 1895,
1896.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gerry, E. Peabody, M.D., 1902,
1903.
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, 1902,
1903.
Grem, Samuel A., M.D., 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.
Halloran, Rev. F. J., 1905.
Hamlin, Charles S., 1902, 1903.
Haskins, Rev. George F., 1865.
Hassam, John T., 1885.
Hayes, Hon. F. B., 1874.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1879.
Haynes, Prof. Henr^j 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.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 1873.
Hills, Thomas, 1898, 1899.
Hodges, Richard M., M.D., 1870.
Holbrook, Mrs. Pinckney, 1905.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., M.D., 1858.
104
City Document No. 2'!.
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., 1S91.
Hubbard, William J., 1858.
Hudson, John E., 1895, 1896.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880, 1893,
1894.
Hutching, Miss Emma, 1895, 1896.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Irwin, Miss Agnes, 1894.
Jeftries, B. Joy, M.D., 1869.
Jeffries, William A., 1893.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jenney, Bernard, 1901, 1902.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, 1900,
1901.
Johnson, Rev. Robert F., 1900,
1901.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kellen, William V., 1901, 1902.
Kidder, Henry P., 1870.
Kimhall, David P., 1874.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
Kiik, Edward N., D.D., 1859.
Lathrop, Hon. John, 1903.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrence, Miss Harriette S., 1890.
Lawrence, James, 1855.
Lee, Miss Alice, 1889, 1890, 1891.
Lee, Hon. John H., 1897, 1898.
Leiois, Weston, 1872, 1878.
Lincoln, Hon. Frederick W., 1856.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, 1886.
Little, James L. , 1864.
Lombard, Prof. Josiah L., 1868.
Loring, Hon. Charles G., 1855.
Lothrop, Loring, 1866.
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 1897, 1898.
Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lowell, Daniel O. S., 1902, 1903.
Lowell, Edward J., 1885.
Lunt, Hon. George, 1874.
Lyman, George H., M.D., 1885.
McCleary, Samuel F., 1890.
McDonald, Miss Anna Sprague,
1903, 1904.
McLaughlin, Edward A., 1903,
1904.
McNulty, Rev. John J., 1896, 1897.
Manning, Rev. Jacob M., 1861.
Mason, Rev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Miss Ellen F., 1898, 1899.
Mason, Frank S., 1899, 1900.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Matthews, Miss Caroline, 1905.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Merriman, Rev. Daniel, D.D., 1905.
Metcalf, Rev. Theodore A., 1888,
1889.
Minns, Thomas, 1864, 1905.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morison, Miss Mary, 1892, 1893,
1895.
Morrill, Charles J., 1885.
Morrison, William A., M.D., 1901,
1902.
Morse, John T., Jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., Jr., 1878.
Morton, Hon. Ellis TF., 1871.
Morton, Johnson, 1901, 1902.
Mudge, Hon. E. R., 1871.
Neale, Rollin H., D.D., 1853.
Noble, John, 1882, 1899, 1900.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
O'Brien, Hon. Hxigh, 1879.
O'Callaghan, John J., 1895.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1878.
O'Reilly, Miss Mary Boyle, 1902,
1903.
Otis, George A., 1860.
Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benjamin H.,
1876.
Parker, Charles Henry, 1888, 1889.
Parker, William L., 1900, 1901.
Parker, Mrs. William L., 1897,
189S.
Parkman, Heni-y, 1885.
Parks, Rev. Leighton, 1882, 1896,
1897.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,
1884, 1885, 1890, 1891.
Phillips, John C, 18S2.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Pierce, Hon. Henry L., 1891.
Pingree, Miss Lalia B., 1894.
Plant, Mrs. Thomas G., 1904, 1905.
Prescott, William H., LL. D., 1853.
Prince, Hon. F. O., 1888, 1889,
1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896.
Putnam, George, 1900, 1901.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. John P., 1865.
Putnam, William L., 1898, 1899.
Randall, Charles M., M.D., 1884.
Ratshesky, Abraham C, 1904,
1905.
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.
Rockwell, Miss Maud M., 1902,
1903.
Rogers, Prof. William B., 1861.
Rollins, J. WingatP, 1888, 1889.
Library Department.
105
Ropes, John C, LL. D., 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 1863.
Rowe, Henry S., 1903, 1904.
Ruddick, William H., M.D., 1905.
Runkle, Prof. J. D., 1882.
Russell, Samuel H., 1880.
Sampson, O. H., 1892, 1893.
Sanger, Hon. George P., ISfiO.
Scates, Mrs. Edward C, 1904, 1905.
Scigliano, George A., 1905.
Searle, Charles P., 1898, 1899.
Sears, J. Montgomery, 1903, 1904.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Shattuck, George B., M.D., 1904,
1905.
Shaw, Mrs. Walter, 1905.
Sheldon, N. Louis, 1903, 1904.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1888,
1889.
Sherwin, Mrs. Thomas, 1893, 1894.
Shurtlef, 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. Ellery, M.D., 1888.
Stevens, Gen. Hazard, 1903, 1904.
Stevens, Oliver, 1858.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thomas, 1856.
Stockwell, S. X., 1861.
Stone, Col. Henry, 1885, 1886, 1887.
Storrow, Mrs. James J., 1902, 1903.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883, 1884.
Supple, Rev. James N., 1903, 1904.
Teele, John O., 1886.
Tetlow, Mrs. John, 1902, 1903.
Thaxter, Adam W., 1855.
Thayer, Rev. George A., 1875.
Thayer, Rev. Thomas B., 1862.
Thomas, Benjamin 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., 1895, 1896.
Tobey, Hon. Edward S., 1862.
Todd, William C, 1894,
Trueblood, Rev. Benjamin F., 1904,
1905.
Turner,Mis8 Frances H.,1899, 1900.
Tuttle, Lucius, 1903, 1904.
Twombly, Alexanders., D.D., 1883,
1884.
Updike, D. B., 1900, 1901.
Upham, J. Baxter, M.D., 1865.
Vibbert, Rev. George H., 1873.
Vinton, Frederick P., 1903, 1904.
Wadlin, Horace G., Litt. D., 1899,
1900.
Wales, George W., 1875.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Walsh, Rev. James A., 1902, 1903.
Ward, Rev. Julius H., 1882.
Ware, Charles E., M.D., 1875.
Ware, Darwin E., 1881.
Ware, Mrs. Darwin E., 1899, 1900.
Warner, Herman J., 1867.
Warren, Hon. Charles H., 1859.
Warren, J. Collins, M.D., 1878,
1904, 1905.
Waterston, Rev. Robert C, 1867.
Weissbein, Louis, 1893.
Wells, Mrs. Kate G., 1877.
Wells, Samuel, 1900, 1901.
Wendell, Prof. Barrett, 1895, 1896.
Wharton, William F., 1886.
Whelton, Daniel A., 1904, 1905.
WJiipple, 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, Elisha T., M.D., 1861.
Winsor, Justin, LL.D., 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 Gould, 1888,
1889.
Worcester, Rev. El wood, D.D ,
1905.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D., 1884.
106
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX X.
SCHEDULE OF LIBRARY SERVICE.
Note. —This schedule has been brought down to May 1, 1906.
Summary.
Central Library
Branches and readino- rooms
198 Men, 106 Women, 92
88 " 16 " 72
286
122
164
Evening and Sunday service. Central Library, * 114.
Sunday service, branches, 65.
Extra assistance is employed at the branches.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Entered.
Wadlin, Horace C .
1903
Librarian.
Fleischner, Otto
1891
Ass't Librarian.
Nichols, Adelaide A.
1868
Auditor.
Deery, Delia Jean
Learned, Lucie A.
1891
1891
t Mooney, George V.
Dixon, Robert F. X.
1889
1902
** Berran, Mary A. C.
** Gatewood, Marie .
1902
1905
Guinan, Thomas H. .
1901
Lee, Charles 0.
1904
CATALOGUE
DEPARTMENT.
Chevalier, Samuel A.
1894
Chief.
If Swift, Lindsay
Murdoch, John
1878
1896
Rice, Edwin F.
1885
Tenney, Mary A.
Gould, Ida W.
1897
1884
Hinckley, George L.
Bartlett, Mary R.
1903
1897
Coolidge, Elsie W.
1903
Cutler, Dora L.
1887
♦Serving from one to seven evenings a week each. The total number of positions
18 39, evenings; 47, Sundays.
** Auditor's Assistant, t Custodian of Stock-room. IT Editor Library Publications.
Library Department.
107
Ncanie.
Durand, Susan M.
Leavitt, Luella K.
Mackay, Susan H.
Taylor, Lucien E.
Brennan, Thomas Francis
Lilienthal, Flora N. .
Whitman, Frances N. A.
Campbell, M. Theresa
Sullivan, Jeremiah J.
Horgan, John J.
Entered.
1900
1895
1901
1903
1890
1902
1903
1902
1900
1902
ORDERING DEPARTMENT.
Macurdy, Theodosia E.
Frinsdorff, Emily O. .
Gushing, Helen G.
Goddard, Mrs. Frances H.
Collins, Margaret F. .
Cunniff, Nelhe L.
Maiers, William C, Jr.
San ford, Emma D.
Daly, Gertrude B.
Twamsley, Collin R. .
1889
1894
1905
1892
1901
1895
1897
1902
1901
1904
Chief.
SHELF DEPARTMENT.
Roffe, WiUiam G. T.
Locke, John F. .
Connor, George H.
Reardon, John H.
Eberhart, John .
McCarthy, Michael, Jr.
Ward, Joseph W.
Muckensturm, Matthew
Lucid, John F. .
Gorham, Katharine J.
Hennessey, Alice M. .
Meehan, Michael J
Doonau, Anna G.
Ahlstrom, Martin E. .
1881
1894
1891
1896
1894
1892-
1891
1899
1893
1902
1901
1901
1903
1905
BATES HALL.
Bierstadt, Oscar A.
Buckley, Pierce E.
Doyle, Agnes C.
Forsyth, Walter G.
Conroy, Michael J.
Olson, Alphild .
Downey, John G.
1899
1891
1885
1902
1897
1895
1904
Custodian.
108
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Entered.
Hughes, George H. .
1905
Jones, Bradley ....
1905
SPECIAL LIBRARIES.
Washburn, Frank De W. .
1904
Currier, Mary T.
1905
Maynadier, Emily W.
1905
O'Neil, Ahce H.
1905
Cassidy, Margaret L.
1895
Murphy, Annie Gr.
1888
Doyle, James L.
1900
Athridge, John W. .
1904
Brunt, John J. .
1904
Mackin, Timothy J. .
1903
Desmond, John P.
1905
DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT.
Whitney, James L. .
1869
Wheeler, Horace L. .
1900
Rosenberg, Morris J.
1901
McGowan, William A.
1903
PERIODIC.
^L
ROOM.
Wendte, Frederika .
1895
Quinlan, George H. .
1901
Wallace, William C. .
1905
NEWSPAP
ER
ROOM.
Serex, Frederic
.
1895
Funis, AVilliam J. . ' .
•
1900
PATENT ROO]\I AND
NEWSPAPER
Mulloney, William J.
1892
Herekson, Charles E.
,
1904
O'Meara, Jeremiah J.
•
1905
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Blaisdell, Frank C. .
1876
Sheridan, Mary C.
1881
CulHin, M. Florence .
1892
Richards, Florence F.
1875
Shumway, Marion H.
1895
DowUng, S. Jennie .
1895
Reynolds, Mary A. .
1894
Chief.
FILES.
Chief.
Library Department.
109
Name.
Entered.
AViechmauu, Catherine A. .
1895
Williams, Grace
1895
Zaugg, Joanna .
1895
Bryce, Jean M. .
1898
Hagerty, Mary E.
1897
Shaughnessy, Mary A.
1897
Day, Josephine E.
1899
Burke, Mary M. . . .
1904
Ennis, Flora A. . . .
1904
Hayes, Clement T. .
1903
Sullivan, James L. .
1902
McLaughlin, Alice
1902
Mulvaney, Mary E. .
1904
McNeil, Anna M.
1903
Zaugg, Julia R.
1903
Daley, Agnes J.
1905
Dennison, James F., jr.
1905
Doherty, Bessie L. .
1905
Downing, Alice A.
1905
McMullen, Katherine M, .
1905
Maguire, Susan
1905
Mantle, Annie E.
1905
Shea, Ella T. .
1905
Corbett, William
1906
Lynch, Anna Cx.
1906
Sullivan, Katherine G-.
1906
ISSUE DEPARTMENT,
children's
ROOM.
* Jordan, Alice M. .
1900
Ethier, Lillian E.
1895
Toy, May C. .
1903
Williams, Eleanor M.
1899
REGISTRATION
DEPARTMENT.
Keen an, John J.
1885
Hannigan, Frank J. .
1898
Barry, Margaret M. .
1897
Rogers, Anna F.
1903
PRINTING D
EPARTMENT.
Lee, Francis W.
1894
Chief.
Geyer, Willfried H. .
1896
Pressman.
Boyle, Mary T. M. .
1903
Compositor.
Land, Annie F.
1896
((
Munson, INIinuie A. .
1902
((
O'Keefe, Charles J.
1899
Job pressman.
Walsh, John E.
1903
Apprentice.
*Inc
harge.
110
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Ryder, Frank .
Collins, Dennis J.
Lof Strom, Konrad A.
Cellarius, Theodore W.
Connell, William
Connolly, John F.
Doyle, Michael J.
Eichhorn, Maximilian L.
Hoeft'uer, George
Murphy, John F.
Ochs, Alfred G.
Sullivan, J. Henry
Watson, John H.
Hemstedt, William P.
O'Brien, John J.
Grady, Leo J. .
Carroll, Margery H.
Barrett, Margaret A.
Carroll, Bessie R.
CouUahan, Ellen J.
Denney, Ida G.
Doiron, Joanna .
Kiley, Margaret J.
McElaney, Mary T.
Mori arty, Mary G.
Nolen, Sarah
Farrow, Susan G.
Potts, Ellen F.
Soule, Ellen E.
Niederauer, Henry
McCready, Alexander
Malone, John P.
Zittell, George, Jr.
Herland, Nils J.
Laeey, Garrett .
Moran, John A.
Karlson, Charles W.
Williams, John L.
Berrane, Edward
Frye, Henry W.
Kelley, James J.
Murphy, Charles W.
Kelly, Daniel T.
McCarty, Dennis
McGee, Alexander D
BINDERY.
Entered.
1883
Foreman.
1887
Finisher.
1892
;(
1892
Forwarder.
1904
((
1900
u
1902
u
1904
(;
1891
u
1883
u
1900
a
1898
a
1902
a
1883
Pressman.
1902
Apprentice.
1904
Runner.
1902
Clerk.
1903
Sewer.
1903
ki
1905
a
1902
u
1896
a
1889
u
1902
u
1875
a
1891
u
1903
a
1892
u
1891
a
JANITOR DEPARTMENT.
1894
Chief Engineer
1895
Engineer.
1895
a
1891
a
1895
Fireman.
1904
u
1894
((
1896
Book Motors.
1886
Janitor.
1903
u
1898
u
1900
((
1904
u
1906
Watchman.
1888
u
1896
Painter.
Library Department.
Ill
Name.
Entered.
Lawrence, John A. .
1898
Hanna, William T.
1895
Cole, William E.
1898)
Lufkin, Ernest S.
1901 [
1906)
Webster, Charles
Mullen, Mrs. Mary F.
1905
Carpenter
Marble polisher.
Elevator and
c o a t-r o o m
attendants.
Matron.
BRANCH DEPARTMENT.
Ward, Langdon L.
Kueffner, Cecilia W
Stevens, Alice V.
Adams, Amy W.
Heimauu, Otto A.
Morse, Maud M.
Kiernan, Letitia M.
McCarthy, Marion A
Maier, Joseph A.
Brown, Richard
Fazakas, Chester A
Gallagher, George W
Prout}", Louise .
Conley, Ellen F.
Watson, Geneva
Marshall, Jeanette M
O'Neil, Thomas J.
1896
1898
Supervisor of Branches
and Stations.
1899
1903
1890
1877
1895
1895
1892
1898
s.
1901
1903
BRIGHTON BRANCH.
1902
Custodian.
1891
1904
1900
.
1902
Janitor.
CHARLESTOWN BRANCH.
Cartee, P^lizabeth F. .
1886
Custodian
Eogan, Katharine S.
1896
Donovan, Annie M. .
1899
Sullivan, Ellen L.
1903
Jones, Clara L.
1903
Kiley, Mary G. • .
1903
Smith, Thomas E.
1874
Janitor.
DORCHESTER BRANCH.
Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth T. .
1873
Custodian
Griffith, Mary E.
1886
Donovan, Mary G. .
1891
Kellogg, Grace E. .
1898
Sulliv^an, Mary M. .
1902
Halligan, John F.
1902
Janitor.
112
City Document No. 24.
EAST BOSTON BRANCH.
Name.
Walkley, Ellen 0.
Wing, Alice M.
Brackett, Marian W
Bethune, Florence M
Bickford, Lillian A.
Matthews, Everett F
Donnelly, James J.
Entered.
1897
1873
1897
1903
1891
1900
1904
Custod an.
Janitor,
Swain, Mary P.
Riley, Nellie F.
Albert, Katie F.
Kelley, Mary F.
Kenney, Thomas H.
JAMAICA PLAIN BRANCH.
1877 Custodian.
1878
1892
1905
1897
Janitor.
Bell, Helen M.
Puffer, Dorothy
Berry, Martha L. C
Griggs, Sarah W.
Connell, Gertrude
Kiley, Catherine F
ROXBURY BRANCH.
1878
1878
1883
1886
L. . . 1903
1904
Custodian.
SOUTH BOSTON BRANCH.
Robinson, AUce M. .
Eaton, Ellen A.
Sampson, Idalene L.
McQuarrie, Annie C.
Orcutt, Alice B.
Baker, Joseph .
1902
1873
1878
1894
1887
1872
Custodian
Janitor
SOUTH END BRANCH.
Sheridan, Margaret A
McEttrick, Alice
Lynch, Emma F.
McGrath, Amelia
Walsh, Katherine E
Gillis, Thomas H.
Busby, James H.
1875
1902
1885
1888
1903
1902
1904
Custodian.
Janitor.
WEST END BRANCH.
Davis, Mrs. Eliza R.
Barton, Margaret S.
Forbes, George W. .
1877
1885
1896
Custodian.
Library Department. 113
Name. Entered.
1896
Kiley, Mary E.
Kelley, Mary L.
Millmeister, Rebecca
Eiley, Mary E.
Menaker, Naaman
Cardarelli, Eugene
Sullivan, Daniel J. .
1904
1899
1891
1903
1905
1898 Janitor,
WEST ROXBURY branch.
Morse, Carrie L. . . . 1890 Custodian.
Willis, Rebecca E. . . . 1903
Schwartz, Edward . . . 1904 Janitor.
READING ROOMS AND STATIONS.
Station.
A. Lower Mills Heading Room Hill, M. Addie Custodian.
Moulton, John W Janitor.
B. Roslindale Readin^Room Murray, Grace L Custodian.
Regan, Alice M Assistant.
Stackpole, Freeland E Janitor.
D. Mattapan Reading Room Capewell, Mrs. Emma G . .Custodian.
E. Neponset Delivery Station Savil, Susan Custodian.
F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading Room. .Fairbrotlier, Mrs. Eliz.G., Custodian.
Wetherald, Isabel F Assistant.
G. Allston Reading Room Muldoon, Katherine F. . .Custodian.
J. Codman Square Reading Room . Harkins, Gertrude M . . . . Custodian.
Sargent, Abbie E Assistant.
N. Mt. Pleasant Reading Room. . . . Witherell, Anna M Custodian.
P. Broadway Ex. Reading Room. .Stewart, Cora L Custodian.
Barnett, Florence Assistant.
Q. Upham's Corner Reading Room. Brick, Mary L Custodian.
Curley, Mary F. )
Kelley, Elizabeth M. > Assistants.
Murphy, Margaret A. )
R. Warren Street Reading Room. . . Grush, Mildred Custodian.
S. Roxb'y Crossing Reading Room. Cross, Laura M Custodian.
T. Boylston Station Reading Room. Ross, Elizabeth P Custodian.
W. Industrial Sch. Reading Room . . Guerrier, Edith Custodian.
Z. Orient Heights Reading Room. . McDougall, Helen M Custodian.
22. North Street Reading Room. . .Boggiano, Iside Custodian.
Evening and Sunday Service.
Central Library.
Bates Hall. — Officers in charge : Frank C. Blaisdell, Samuel
A. Chevalier, John Murdoch, Lindsay Swift, Frank DeW. Wash-
burn. Assistants : George L. Hinckley, John Murdoch, William
G. T. Roffe, David L. Williams. Central desk : Thomas F.
Brennan, George H. Connor, John J. Keenan, John H. Reardon.
Care of reference books: Charles AY. Dolan, P'ernald Hutchins,
Michael J. Meehan, Morris J. Rosenberg, Paul J. Schnabel.
114 City Document No. 24.
Collectors of slips : John S. Concannon, William H. Kennedy,
Edward T. O'Keefe, Isidor Singer. Himners : John Brunt,
John G. Downe}', Louis W. Hickey, Gardner D. Howie, WiUiam
H. Kennedy, Edward T. O'Keefe, Holman Pearl, Isidor Singer.
Issue Department. — Officers in charge : Frank C. Blaisdell,
Pierce E. Buckley, John H. Reardon. Receivers of books :
Thomas F. Brennan, Otto A. Heimann, Michael McCarthy, Jr.,
Joseph W. Ward. Deliverer of hooks : YxedW . ^Isd&dQW. Care
of indicator : Thomas H. Guinan, John L. McKiernan, Joseph
A. Maier, Matthew Muckensturm, George H. Quinlan. Assist-
ants at indicator : Edward E. Bruce, Bradley Jones, Max H.
Newman, Nathaniel A. Sherman, Frederick H. Toye. Care of
slips : Otto A. Heimann, Joseph A. Maier, Harry F. Mayer,
Matthew Muckensturm, George H. Quinlan. Desk attendants :
Robert F. X. Dixon, Axel Z. Fogel, Thomas H. Guinan, John
Horgan, Peter V. McFarland, Harry F. Mayer, Jeremiah J.
Sullivan. Care of tubes and cars : Charles D. Campbell, Robert
F. X. Dixon, Charles W. Dolan, James L. Doyle, Axel Z. Fogel,
Thomas G. Goodwin, Thomas H. Guinan, John Horgan, William
A. McGowau, Timothy J. Mackin, Michael J. Meehan, James
L. Sullivan, Jeremiah J. Sullivan. Bookcase attendant : Thomas
G. Goodwin. Runners : John W. Athridge, Edward J. Berrau,
Howard C. Blake, Vincent Brennan, Walter M. Broderick, Rich-
ard Brown, George G. Bulfinch, Jr., Joseph B. Compton, Charles
Concannon, .John S. Concannon, James P. Cotter, John P. Des-
mond, Charles W. Dolan, Loreu N. Downs, Jr., Thomas G.
Goodwin, Terence Gordon, Leo Grady, Frank P. Hagerty, Chester
Fazakas, William P. Hemstedt, Jr., Charles E. Herekson, Louis W.
Hickey, Bradley Jones, William A. McGowan, James J. L.
McSorley, Charles V. Mansfield, Bartholomew J. O'Brien, Rich-
ard F. OToole, Holman Pearl, James E. Rush, Prescott F. Sale,
Phihp A. E. Sheridan, Nathaniel A. Sherman, James J. Sulli-
van, Aram Tatian. Children'' s room attendants : Mary A. C.
Berran, Margaret C. Daly, Lillian E. Ethier, Maud M. Morse,
Marion H. Shumway, Joanna Zaugg. Extra attendants : William
P. Hemstedt, Thomas G. Goodwin, Wilham P. Hemstedt, Jr.,
Max H. Newman, Thornton T. Penrose, James J Sullivan,
Frederick H. Toj^e.
Special Libraries. — In charge of Barton Library : Mary
T. Currier, Francis W. Lee, David L. Williams. Assistants :
John W. Athridge, Edward E. Bruce, Daniel M. Lyons, Tim-
othy J. Mackin. 3Iusic Room : Augustus F. McAloon, Joseph
A. Murphy, Archer C. Nichols. In charge of Fine Arts De-
partment : Frank A. Bourne, Walter G. Forsyth, Walter Row-
lands, Frank DeW. Washburn. Assistants : James L. Doyle,
John L. McKiernan, WilUam C. Maiers, Jr. Extra assistants :
Howard C. Blake, John Brunt, John P. Desmond, Clement T.
Hayes, Augustus F. McAloon, Michael J. Meehan, Thornton T.
Penrose.
LiBEAKY Department. 115
Newspaper Room. — Michael J. Conroy, James L. Doyle,
William J, Eunis. Neiospaper files : Howard C. Blake, Arthur E.
Cutlliu, Thomas H. Gillis, James L. Sullivan.
Patent Rooii. — Walter T. Hannigan, Albert J. Plunkett,
Morris J. Rosenberg.
Periodical Rooji. — Michael J. Conroy, William J. Mulloney,
Albert J. Plunkett, George H. Quinlan.
Registration Desk. — George H. Connor, Frank J. Hannigan
John J. Keenan, William J. Mulloney.
Replacement of Books. — Richard Brown, John F. Lucid,
Michael McCarthy, Jr., Joseph W. Ward.
Statistical Department. — Frederic Serex, Horace L. Wheeler.
Coat Room. — Joseph Kolsky.
Elevator. — George P. McCulloch.
Sunday Service.
* Branch Libraries^ Novemher 1 to May 1.
Brighton Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — 7?^ charge: § Lydia E.
Stevenson, § Ellen F. Conley ; assistant : § John P. O'Hara,
§ Miah J. Falvey. Janitor : Thomas J. O'Neil.
Charlestown Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge: § Ellen L.
Sullivan, § Annie M. Donovan ; assistant : Thomas F. Brunton.
Janitor: Thomas Smith.
Dorchester Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge : § Mary E.
Griffith, § Mary G. Donovan, § Mary M. Sullivan ; assistant:
William J. Kennedj^.
East Boston Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge : Robert J.
Kissock ; assistants : § Lillian A. Bickford, § Everett F.
Matthews, § Helen M. Brackett, § Helen B. Shannon. Janitor :
James J. Donnelly.
Jamaica Plain Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge: § Katie
F. Albert, § Nellie F. Riley ; assistant : § Anna G. Doonan,
§ Alice McEttrick. Janitor : Thomas H. Kenney.
RoxBURY Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge : § Gertrude L.
Council, § Mabel L. Harrington ; iii charge reading rootn :
§ Dorothj' Puffer, § Martha L. Berry ; assistants : § Catherine F.
Kiley, § Ellen R. Scott.
South Boston Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge: Alice B.
Orcutt ; assistant : Joseph Baker. Janitor : Thomas Saunders.
*With the exception of the West End Branch, which is open Sundays throughout
the year. Here certain members of the regular weelj-day force serve Sundays, their
compensation being for seven days per week.
§ Alternate Sundays.
116 City Document No. 24.
South End Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge. : § Emma F.
Lynch, § Katherine S. Rogau ; assistant: Marguerite Coydevant ;
in charge children's room : § Amelia F. McGrath, § Katherine
Wiechmann ; assistant children's room : § Loren N. Downs,
§ Frederick A. Garth.
Station G, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 YM.—In charge : § Henry
P. McLaughlin, § M. Florence Cufflin.
Station J, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: John Binda; assist-
ant : W. A. Bailey.
Station P, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge : Florence
Barnett ; assistant : Mary Linda.
Station Q, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: § Jean M. Biyce,
§ Mary E. Hagerty ; assistant: § Elizabeth M. Kelley, § Marga-
ret A. Murphy.
Station R, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 TM. — In charge : § Flor-
ence M. Bethune, § Josephine E. Kenney.
Station S, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 F.M.— In charge : § M.
Theresa Campbell, § Mary A. Shaughnessy.
Station T, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge : Anna E.
M on ah an.
§ Alternate Sundays.
INDE
Allston Reading Room, established in
place of shop statiou, 45.
Andrew Square Reading Room, discon-
tinued, 45.
Appropriation. See Finance.
Ashmont Delivery Station, discontinued,
45.
Auction sales, 23.
Auditor, report of, 67.
Barton-Ticknor Room, work of, 42.
Bates Hall, use of, 36.
Benton, Josiah II., jr., Trustee, 5.
Bindery, worli of, 31.
Books, losses from open shelves, 3; cer-
tain medical works deposited with
Boston Medical Library, 3, 11; as to
purchase of fiction, 4; accessions, 4;
replacing soiled copies, 10; losses from
open shelves, 10; replacement of miss-
ing, 11; received, 12; English prose
fiction, 13; payments for, 15; pur-
chases, 15; rare purchases, 17; miscel-
laneous purchases, 21; gifts, 23; circu-
lation, £3; number in Library, 89, 90;
net increase, 91, 93; classified, 94, 95;
circulation, 98.
Boston Medical Library, certain medical
works deposited with, 3, 11.
Boyle, Thomas F., Trustee, 5.
Boylston Station Reading Room, estab-
lished in place of shop station, 45.
Branch Department, work of, 50.
Brancli Libraries, addresses, _/?;/ leaf; cir-
culation, 46; deposit work, 46; books
received, 48; expenditures, 48; work
with schools, 49; circulation, 50; expen-
ditures for, 1893-1906, 81; classification,
95.
Branch Libraries and Stations, Super-
visor of, report, 46.
Brighton Branch, slirubseet out, 8.
Brown, Allen A., Library, catalogue,
29; additions, 42.
Buildings, equipment and general ad-
ministration, 6.
Catalogue Department, 28.
Center, Joseph H., first payment under
will of, 5.
Charlestown Brancli, fire in building,
3, s.
Children's Department, 34.
Classification, Central Library, 94;
branches, 95.
Coal, consumed, 7.
Codman Square Reading Room, new
building for, and opening of, 3, 7;
volumes bought, 22; in place of shop
stations H and J, 45.
Crescent Avenue Delivery Station, dis-
continued, 45.
Deery, Miss Delia Jean, re-elected Clerk
of tne Trustees, 1.
De Normandie, Rev. Dr. James, re-ap-
pointed Trustee, 1 ; Vice-President, 1, 5.
Deposit work, 46, .50.
Documents and Statistics, Department
of, report, 42.
Dorchester Station Delivery Station, dis-
continued, 45.
Dwight, Dr. Thomas, Trustee, 5.
East Boston Branch, exits at, 8; inade-
quacy of accommodations, 8.
Employees, resignations, 54; list of, 106.
English prose fiction, 13.
Evening and Sunday service, 54;
schedule, 113.
Examinations, 55.
Examining Committee, list of, 2; report
of, 56.
Examining Committees, list of, 102.
Exhibitions, 41.
Fiction, as to purchase of, 4.
Finance, 67.
German fiction list, printed, 29.
Gifts, 23.
Inter-library loans, 51.
Issue Deparlmeut, 32.
Lectures, 5, 40.
Librarian, report, 6.
Librarians, list of, 101.
Library, agencies, 2; extent of, 89; ser-
vice schedule, 106.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, President of the
Trustees, 1, 5.
Manuscripts, accessions, 43.
Medical books, transfer of, 3, 11.
Mt. Pleasant Reading Room, larger
iiuarters, 45.
Newspaper Room, 53.
Newspapers, payments for, 15; early
<'opies, 16.
North Brighton Reading Room, discon-
tinued, 45.
Open shelves, losses from, 3, 10.
Patent Room, 52.
Periodical Room, 52.
Periodicals, payments for, 15; distribu-
tion of, 52.
Photographs, added, 20, 38; circulation
of, 39; exhibitions, 41.
Picture bulletins, 36.
Pictures, lent by branches, 47.
Printing Department, work of, 31.
Publications issued, 30; distributed, 32.
Registration, statement of, 32; statistics
of, 96.
Resignations, 54.
Schools, work with, 35, 49.
Shelf Department, 29.
Shop Stations, discontinued, 44.
South Boston Brancli, repairs, 9.
South End Branch, fire at, 3, 8.
South End Reading Room, discontinued,
45.
Special Libraries, work of, 37.
Station C, discontinued, 45.
118
City Document No. 24.
station O, shop station discontinued and
reading room established, 45.
Station H, discontinued, 45.
Station J, new building for, opening of
as reading room, 3, 7; reading room
in place of shop stations, 45.
Station L, discontinued, 45.
Station M, discontinued, 45.
Station N, larger quarters, 45.
Station R, shop station discontinued and
reading room established, 45.
Station T, shop station discontinued
and reading room established, 45.
Station U, discontinued, 4.5.
Station Y, discontinued, 45.
Stations, circulation, 49; expenditures,
50; expenditures, 1893-1906, 81.
Story hour, 36.
Sunday and evening service, 54; sched-
ule, 113.
Trust funds, 72, 75.
Trustees, report of, 1-5; President, Vice-
President and Clerk elected, 1; list of,
for fifty-four years, 100.
Vacuum cleaning system, installed, 3, 7.
Ward Nine Reading Room, discontinued,
45.
Warren Street Reading Room, estab-
lished in place of shop station, 45.
West End Branch, grounds at, 9.
West Roxbury Branch, toilet room, 9.
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