Annual report

FIFTY-SIXTH

ANNUAL REPORT

1907-I908

TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

ON FEBRUARY I, 1908.

JAMES DE NORMANDIE, President.
Term expfres May i, 1910.

JOSIAH H. BENTON. THOMAS DWIGHT.

Term expires May i, 1909. Term expires May i, 1908.

THOMAS F. BOYLE. WILLIAM F. KENNEY.

Term expires May i, 1912. Term expires May i, 1911.

LIBRARIAN.

HORACE G. WADLIN.

With the Compliments of

THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EEPORT

TRUSTEES

Public Libeaey

CITY OF BOSTON

1907-1908

BOSTON

MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE

1908

CONTENTS.

Page.
Report of the Trustees ...... 1

Report of the Librarian . . . . . .12

Report of the Examining Committee .... 60

Appendixes :

I. Financial Statement . . . . . .67

II. Extent of the Libraiy by Years .... 89

III. Net increase of tlie several Departments, includ-

ing Branches . . . . . . .91

IV. Classification : Central Library . . broadside

V. Classification : Branches ..... 95
VI. Registration ..... broadside

VII. Circulation 97

VIII. Trustees for Fifty-six Years. — Librarians . . 99

IX. Examining Committees for Fifty-six Years . . 101
X. Library Service, including Sunday and Evening

Service ........ 105

Index to the Annual Report, 1907-1908 . . . .117

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BOSTON

Public Library System

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of iqos), 595.380.

Branch Libraries, February i, 1908.

Brighton Branch. Holton Library Building, Academy HiU Road

Charlestown Branch, City Square.

Dorchester Branch. Arcadia, cor. Adams St.

East Boston Branch, 37 Meridian St.

Jamaica Plain Branch, Curtis Hall, Centre St.

Roxbury Branch, 46 Millmont St.

South Boston Branch, 372 Broadway.

South End Branch, 397 Shawmut Avenue.

Upham's Corner Branch. Columbia Road, cor. Bird St.

"West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lynde St.

Roxbury Branch,

Delivery Stations, February i, 19

Mt. Ve

i St.

A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington, cor. Richmond St,

B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washington, cor. Ashland St.

D. Mattapan Reading Room, 727 Walk HiU St.

E. Neponset Reading Room. 362 Nepcnset Ave.

P. Mount Bowdoin Reading Room, Washington, cor. Eldon St.

G. Allston Reading Room. 6 Harvard Ave.

J. Codman Square Reading Room, Washington, cor. Norfolk St

N. Mt. Pleasant Reading Room. Dudley, cor. Magazine St.

Broadway Extension Reading Room, 13 Broadway Extension.
Warren Street Reading Room, iqo Warren St.
Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, 1154 Tremont St.
Boylston Station Reading Room. The Lamartine. Depot Square.
, Industrial School Reading Room, 39 North Bennet St.

;oom, 1030 Bennin '

)m, 207 North St.

, 61s Broadway.
Parker Hill Reading Room, 1518 lYemont St.

LIBRARY SYSTEM, FEBRUARY I, 1908.

Departments. Opened.

Central Library, Copley sq. Established May 2, 1854 Mar. 11, 1895

tEast Boston Branch, 37 Meridian st Jan. 28, 1871

§ South Boston Branch, 372 Broadway May 1, 1872

IIRoxbury Branch, 46 Millraont st July, 1873

JCharlestown Branch, City sq *Jan., 1874

tBrighton Branch, Academy Hill rd *Jan., 1874

JDorchester Branch, Arcadia, cor. Adams st Jan. 25, 1875

§ South End Branch, 397 Shawmut ave Aug., 1877

J Jamaica Plain Branch, Curtis Hall, Centre st Sept., 1877

tWest Roxbury Branch, Centre, near Mt. Vernon st *Jan. 6, 1880

t West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lynde st Feb. 1, 1896

JUpham's Corner Branch, Columbia rd., cor. Bird st Mar. 16, 1896

Station A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington st June 7, 1875

B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washington, cor Ashland st. .. Dec. 3, 1878

D. Mattapan Reading Room, 727 Walk Hill st Dec. 27, 1881

E. Neponset Reading Room, 362 Neponset ave Jan. 1, 1SS3

F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading Room, Washington, cor. Eldon st .. Nov. 1, 1886

G. Allston Reading Room, 354 Cambridge st Mar. 11, 1889

J. Codman 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 Exten-
sion Jan. 16, 1896

R. Warren Street Reading Room, ^90 Warren st May 1, 1896

S. Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, 1154 Tremont st Jan. 18, 1897

T. Boylston 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 June 9,1903

23. City Point Reading Room, 615 Broadway July 18, 1906

24. Parker Hill Reading Room, 1518 Tremont st July 15, 1907

*As a branch.

tin building owned by the City, and exclusively devoted to Library uses.

Jin City building, in part devoted to other municipal uses.

§ Occupies rented rooms.

||The lessee of the Fellowes Athenaeum, a private library association.

To His Honor George A. Hibbard,

Mayor of the City of Boston :

Sir, — The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of
Boston present the following report of its condition for the
year ending January 31, 1908, being their fifty-sixth annual
report :

Organization of the Board.

The Board organized on May 17, 1907, by the election
of Mr. Solomon Lincoln as President, Rev. Dr. James
DeNormandie, Vice-President, and Miss Delia Jean Deery,
Clerk.

On the 17th of May Mr. Thomas F. Boyle was reappointed
a member of the Board for five years.

Mr. Lincoln, who had been a member of the Board for ten
years, died October 15. The Board at its meeting, Friday,
October 18, took action as follows :

The Trustees of the Boston Pul>Hc Liln-ary desire to put upon
their records their high estimation of Mr. Solomon Lincoln, for
ten years a Trustee, and for eight years the President of the
Board.

A man of large affairs, he was always ready to give his pres-
ence and advice upon everything relating to the welfare of the
Lil)rary ; with good judgment and legal ability he helped us to
decide all the difficult questions which arose at our meetings ; he
presided with rare dignity, impartiality and genial temper, and we
regard his death as a great personal and public loss.

2 City Document No. 25.

The vacancy in the Board was filled on December 30, 1907,
by the appointment of Mr. William F. Kenney. Dr. DeNor-
mandie was chosen President, and Mr. Josiah H. Benton,
Vice-President, on January 31, 1908.

Chapter 114 of the Laws of the Commonwealth of the year
1878, as amended by chapter 60 of the Laws of 1887, con-
stitutes the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of
Boston a corporation, with authority to take and hold real
and personal estate which may be given to it and accepted
by the Trustees for the benefit of the Library or any branch
thereof, or any purpose connected therewith. These acts
require the Trustees to have the general care and control
of the Central Public Library and of all branches thereof,
and the fixtures connected therewith, and also all the expendi-
tures of money appropriated therefor.

The money which the Trustees can expend for Library
purposes comes from two separate sources : Appropriations
made by the City Council for maintenance of the Library
and branches, and income from property given to the Trustees
in trust for Library purposes.

The use of much of the income from property held in trust
by the corporation is restricted to specific purposes by the
conditions of the several trusts under which it is received,
and none of it is applicable to the general maintenance of
the Library. The unexpended balances of this income are
carried from year to year to meet payments made there-
from in accordance' with the terms of the trusts. The
income from this source during the last year has been
$15,912. It will be seen, therefore, that the maintenance
and general purposes of the Library must be met almost
entirely by appropriations by the City Council. These appro-
priations since 1900 have been as follows:

1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907

$302,000
300,000
305,500
305,000
310,000
324,550
325,000

The percentage of increase in these appropriations during
these seven years has been less than the percentage of
increase in the population of the city during that time. But
although the Library service has been extended in various
directions for the public convenience the Trustees have never

Library Department, 3

exceeded the amount appropriated for it, nor have they
received by transfer, or otherwise, anything from the city
treasury in addition to the amount of tlie appropriation in
each year.

The principal increase in the expense of the administration
of the Library since 1901 has been caused by the establish-
ment of reading rooms and delivery stations in different parts
of the city, by means of which the people in outlying districts
have the collections of the Central Library brought near to
them, and may receive books tlierefrom, witliout the necessity
of coming to the Central Library Building in Copley square.
The work of the branches and stations, including impoitant
work with the schools of the city, is, we believe, of much
benefit to the various parts of the city in which they are
located, and promotes the convenience of the public by
extending their use of the Library advantages.

The payments made from the city appropriations for the
expenses of the Central Library, including the printing and
binding departments, have increased in the past seven years
only $4,026, being less than two per cent , while the pay-
ments from the same source for the expenses of branches
and stations have increased about twenty-five per cent.

The following condensed abstract exhibits the receipts and
expenditures for the year for which this report is made :

• Receipts.

City appropriation . . . '§325,000 00

Income from Trust Funds . . 15,912 00

Miscellaneous sources, inchidiug
cash on deposit in London in
part to meet pa3mients for pur-
chases during the year, and
unexpended balances of trust

funds ....

•

22,990

60

$363,902 60

EXPENDITU]

RES.

Salaries, including printing

bindery departments
Books ....
Periodicals ....

and

$222,806

36,638

6,916

44
21

96

Newspapers

General maintenance .

2,059
73,329

65
30

341 750 56

*J^ X * 1 tJ\f tJ \J

Balance

$22,152 04

4 City Document No. 25.

This balance of ^22,152.04 is composed of income of trust
funds and cash on deposit in London to pay for books pur-
chased on foreign account. The Auditor's report to the
Trustees, which is appended hereto, contains a detailed state-
ment of the receipts and payments for the year. The
methods of financial administration of the Trustees in the
disbursement of moneys are shown by an appendix hereto,
to which they invite the careful attention of the City Council
and of all persons interested in the expenses of the Library.

The report of the Librarian, appended hereto, contains
detailed information as to the operation of the Library
and its various departments during the year, and the
Trustees refer thereto for information not given in their own
report.

The maintenance of the Library system requires the care
and management of properties representing an investment of
at least five million dollars in value. These properties con-
sist of the Central Library building and grounds, four branch
library buildings and grounds, and parts of various other
buildings, together with the contents and equipment of them
all. The care of the Central Library building alone com-
prises the protection, repair, cleaning, and maintenance of a
building which covers 65,000 square feet of land, and has a
floor area in daily use of 150,000 square feet. The Central
Library building is also an elaborate architectural monument,
so notable that, as such, it has given distinction to the City of
Boston, and attracts visitors from every part of the world. It
contains fine marbles, rich woodwork, and elaborate and
unique decorations, which must be carefully guarded and
fittingly maintained.

Even the mere maintenance of this building requires,
among other things, the following :

A heating, lighting, ventilating and power plant of three
100-horse-power boilers ; two tandem compound engines, each
of 150-horse-power ; two dynamos ; eight pumps ; four venti-
lating fans ; eight electric motors ; twelve elevators and
booklifts, and a vacuum cleaning apparatus.

This plant requires about sixteen hundred tons of coal
annually for its operation, and current is supplied by it for
about four thousand electric lamps. The care of the build-
ing and operation of the plant call for the constant service of
a force of engineers and firemen, janitors and assistants, two
watchmen, carpenter, painter, electrician and a marble
cleaner. The cleaning of the building alone requires a ser-
vice of about twenty-two thousand hours annually.

Library Department. ■ 5

The binding, rebinding and repair of books requires a
bindery to be maintained with twenty-nine employees. The
Trustees also maintain a printing office, in which all of the
Library catalogues, cards, forms, finding lists, bulletins and
publications are printed, and by means of which 71,421
Library pul)lications were distributed to the citizens of Boston
during the last year without chai'ge.

The service of the Library to our people includes the
proper protection, repair and administration in use of about
nine hundred thousand books, and the proper selection, pur-
chase, cataloguing and preparation for use of about thirty
thousand books, either purchased or acquired by gift, each
year. In addition, however, to books for ordinary and general
use, the Library has the custody of manuscripts and other
special material, invaluable historically, and priceless com-
mercially. The donors of such collections as the Chamber-
lain, the Prince, and the Garrison collections and others have
selected the Boston Public Library as the place which is of
all others in New England at once the most safe, honorable
and useful.

The Library also receives by gift public documents for
which it is a depository selected for similar reasons. For
instance, it receives in this way the specifications and draw-
ings of patents from almost every civilized country having
great industrial activities. It has the most complete collec-
tion of such specifications and drawings in the United States
outside of the City of Washington. This collection is being
constantly used for service to the industrial interests of
Boston and New England. It is, of course, the duty of the
Trustees to accommodate, conserve and adequately administer
all this material for public use.

The real work of a great circulating and reference library,
like the Boston Public Library, only begins when its books
and other material are acquired. Books and manuscripts
and other library material are only valuable for use, and the
important work of a library is to provide for such use in a
convenient and efficient manner. This requires a force of
intelligent, educated, specially trained persons. The Trus-
tees are glad to be able to say that they think the persons
employed in the Library for this purpose fully meet this
requirement.

The primary purpose of a public library, supported by
money raised by taxation, should be to give the use of good
books and other educational library material to persons who
might not othewise enjoy such use. But it is also of very

6 City Document No. 25.

great importance that the library should within the means at
its cojnmand afford opportunity for study and research by
scholars and students. In doing this the library supple-
ments the work of the public schools and of the university.
It places the highest special knowledge at the service of all
our citizens without charge and without unnecessary detail
or formality. It touches the elementary and common need,
and begins with the child who has just learned to read and
aids him in the common school. To most of the graduates
of our grammar schools who pass at once into active life, the
library stands in place of the high school, the academy and
the college, and it is to them a university. In short, in the
aggregate of all its services, the Boston Public Library is in
itself a system of education for all and free to all.

The Boston Public Library is not a single isolated collec-
tion of books. It is a system of libraries. It includes not
only the Central Library in Copley square, but also twenty-
eight branches and reading rooms in different parts of the
city, between the Central Library and which there is daily
"delivery of books, so that persons residing in different parts
of the city, removed from the Central Library, may upon
application to the branches and reading rooms in their
immediate vicinity draw books from the Central Library col-
lection. The Trustees are regularly delivering books to
eleven branches, seventeen reading rooms, forty-six engine-
houses, thirty-one institutions, and one hundred and eight
public and parochial schools in the city, and an average of
four hundred volumes a day has been sent out by the delivery
wagons of the Central Library this year. They supply
books for general reading, free of charge, to the people of a
city of six hundred and twenty-eight thousand inhabitants
distributed over an area of forty-three square miles.

The active work of the Library foice occupies every secu-
lar day of the year excepting four, and one-half day on Sun-
day. The active day's work of the Library force begins at
nine o'clock in the morning, and lasts until ten o'clock at
night at the Central Library, except in summer, when the
Library closes at nine o'clock in the evening.

The Trustees hold regular meetings each week, except
during the summer months, and it is rare that anj' member
of the Board is absent from a meeting. Much time is also
given by committees of the Board in attention to matters
requiring special investigation or consideration.

We are glad to be able to commend the faithful, intelli-
gent, and loyal service of the Librarian, the heads of depart-

Library Department. 7

ments, and all the employees of the Library. It is upon this
service that the success of the Library in meeting the reason-
able requirements of the public necessarily depends.

An Examining Committee of twenty-one persons, citizens
residing in different parts of the city, was appointed by the
Trustees as required by the ordinance, and their report is
published herewith.

James De Normandie_,

President,

JosiAH H. Benton,

Vice-President,
Thomas F. Boyle,
Thomas Dwight,
.; William F. Kenney.

City Document No. 25.

APPENDIX.

METHODS OF FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION.

The financial administration of the Library is closely controlled, and
subjected to definite checks and balances. In order that the system
may be fully understood, the following detailed statement is presented :

Income.

The Trustees or their employees do not handle directly any funds save,
first, the income from invested book funds when and if placed abroad
to meet foreign bills ; and second, a small sum on deposit representing
interest on former deposits and payments for lost books. The sum of
$1,500, however, is advanced each year by the City Auditor to the
Library Auditor, for the payment of petty expenses.

Expenditures.

The Trustees being a corporation,* the by-laws provide as follows :

" Article 1, Section 2. — The President shall preside at all meetings
of the corporation, sign all pay-rolls and all requisitions upon the City
Treasurer, and all drafts or checks upon 'funds on deposit in London
and in payment for purchases made by the Trustees.

" Art. 1, Sect. 8. — In the absence or disability of the President, the
Vice-President shall perform all the duties of the President.

"Art. 4, Sect. 4. — The Auditor shall examine and audit all bills and
accounts due from the Library, keep a record of receipts from fines and
sales of catalogues and other sources, and prepare the pay-rolls, and all
requisitions upon the City Auditor.

" The Auditor shall also keep books of account showing accurately
all expenditures of the city appropriation, the income of each of the
trust funds and expenditures thereof ; and at the first regular meeting
of the Trustees in each month shall make a report showing the receipts
and expenditures of the Library for the previous month and for the
current year, and its financial condition. She shall submit, also, monthly,
for allowance with other bills presented, a statement, with voucher, of
sums expended by her for postage, expressage, cleaning, bills for books
whose total in each case does not exceed ten dollars, and other bills
which she is required to pay in cash out of the Library moneys in her
hands.

" All bills and accounts audited by the Auditor if then approved by
the Librarian shall be presented to, the Trustees for allowance at the
meeting next preceding the 15th day of each and every month ; but in
castes of special exigency bills may be presented for allowance at ather
meetings of the Trustees."

The fiscal year of the Library is from February 1st to January 31st.

Authorization.

At each weekly meeting of the Trustees the Librarian submits a type-
written list of books and a list of supplies and miscellaneous articles
which he asks authority to purchase, and of work which he asks author-
ity to have done. A copy of the list of books is in the hands of each

*See page 2 (nife.

Library Department. 9

Trustee a day Ijefore the meeting. A copy of the list of supplies, etc.,
is at th'e place of each Trustee at the date of the meeting. Both these
lists are dated, and on the latter list each item is numbered and its esti-
mated price affixed. The lists when authorized are transmitted to the
Library Auditor, and together with them an attested copy of the entry
in the Trustees' record of the vote of authorization, which reads in the
following form :

'' The Librarian was authorized to purchase according to the lists sub-
mitted by him, and to be placed on file the following: Books chargeable
to city money to the amount of $ ; chargeable to trust funds

income, $ ; also miscellaneous supplies for Central Library and

branches, to the amount of $ ; for Bindery, $ ; and for

Printing Department, $ ."

Orders, whether for goods or for labor, are in writing signed by the
Librarian and numbered to correspond with a stub record kept. Upon
the stub record are minuted the date of the list authorized by the Trus-
tees on which the item appears, and the number of the item on that
list. Bills rendered are checked up in the Librarian's office from the
stub record, and to each item is prefixed a minute identifying that
item by date and number with the item authorized by the Trustees.
The receipt of the goods or the completion of the work is certified by
the head of the department to which the goods are delivered or for
which the work is done; or if the goods are for stock, their receipt is
certified to by tlie custodian of the stock room. The bill then goes to
the Library Auditor, who, upon finding that the bill is figured correctly,
certifies to it as " Examined." It is then endorsed by the Librarian as
"recommended for payment,'' and is presented to the Trustees for
allowance under Article 4 of the By-Laws, supra. If allowed, it is
signed by the President of the Trustees as " Approved for {$ )."

It is also included in a list of bills chargeable to the same account,
the requisition upon the City Auditor for the payment of which is
signed by the President of the Trustees. This requisition is drawn by
the Library Auditor upon receipt from the Clerk of the corporation of
an attested copy of the vote authorizing the payment of such bills.

The foregoing practice covers miscellaneous bills.

Exceptions. — As to certain of the accounts the circumstances are
peculiar.

1. Book Billii. — Orders placed for books, though placed as per
direction from the Librarian, go not from the Librarian's office, but
from the Ordering Department, upon receiving an attested copy of the
list authorized by the Trustees. The bills received do not have pre-
fixed to the items the specific authority. Each bill is as a whole certi-
fied to by the head of the Ordering Department.

2. Bills for books payable out of the income of trust funds on
deposit abroad.

These are not paid through the City Auditor, but by special draft
drawn upon funds on deposit in London, drafts being signed by the
President of the Trustees, upon authorization by the Board. (See By-
Laws, article 1, section 2, siq)ra.)

3. Payments on Contracts. — Original of all contracts must be filed
with the ('ity Auditor. A duplicate is on file with the Library Audi-
tor. A copy of each contract is also deposited in the office of the
City Clerk, under provision of chapter 343 of the Acts of 1907.

4. Routine Accounts. — These include —

(a.) Gas or electric light.

(b.) Rents of branches or branch reading rooms.

(c.) Work done and service rendered under what might be
called open contracts, the price being agreed upon, but
the amonnt of the work or service varying from month
to month. Such are the transportation of books in
so far as by local express between the Central Library
and the branches and delivery stations.

10 City Document No. 25.

(d.) Minor Bills. — Bills not exceeding $10, including bills for
books, are by direction of the City Auditor paid by
the Library Auditor out of the cash in her hands.
(See article 4, section 4, of the By-Laws, fiupra.) From
such moneys also are paid in cash postage and express-
age. For all such payments she requires a memo-
randum in writing, certified by the employee, and
approved for payment in writing by the Librarian.
All book bills are rendered in duplicate, the original is transmitted
with the requisition to the City Auditor, the duplicate being kept on file
in the Ordering Department and used in place of an accession list. All
bills, except book bills, entering into the monthly requisition upon the
City Auditor are transcribed in full in the books of the Library Auditor
under date of requisition.

Actual payment of all bills transmitted with the requisition to the
City Auditor is made by the City Treasurer upon a draft signed by the
Mayor.

Pay-kolls. (See article 4, section 4, supra.)

. No person can be added to the pay-roll nor can the salary of any
employee be increased without a vote of the Trustees in the form of an
order, an attested copy of which must be filed Avith the City Auditor
after passing through the hands of the Library Auditor.

The evening and Sunday service employees are, however, paid by the
hour, and for this branch of the service a schedule of the positions author-
ized by the Trustees, the rate per hour to be paid, and the number of
hours weekly for which the attendant may be employed is filed with the
City Auditor and with the Library Auditor. The amount of this branch
of the pay-roll varies somewhaf from week to week, and a statement of
the persons employed and the amounts due to each under the schedule
is drawn up weekly by the officer in charge of the evening service, is
approved by the Librarian and transmitted to the Library Auditor, and
if found to be in accord with the schedule authorized is incorporated in
the pay-roll for that week.

Absences for which deductions are to be made from the salaries of
regular attendants are reported weekly to the Library Auditor by the
Librarian's clerk and pro rata deductions made accordingly.

Exceptions. — Janitor's pay-roll for cleaning.

The scrub women employed at the Central Library and at the
branches are not included in the ordinary pay-rolls. A statement is
rendered weekly by the chief engineer at the Central Library giving the
names of the women employed for that week and the number of hours
of service rendered by each at the rate of 20 cents an hour. This state-
ment is transmitted to the Library Auditor, who pays for this service
out of the cash in her hands, taking as her voucher a special pay-roll
receipted.

Cleaning in the Branches. — Bills are rendered by the branch cus-
todians, and if approved by the Librarian are paid directly by the
Auditor.

For all payments made by the Library Auditor out of cash as above,
she submits monthly a bill with vouchers, which is audited by the
Librarian, and, if approved by the Librarian, takes the course of other
bills presented. (See article 4, section 4, of the By-Laws, supra.)

Auditor''s Books.

The following books are kept by the Library Auditor:

1. Cash Book.

2. Day Book.

3. Ledger.

4. Trial Balance.

LiBEARY Department. ■ 11

statements Rendered by the Library Auditor.

1. The Auditor's monthly exhibit rendered according to the pro-
visions of article 4, section 4, siq)ra.

2. The Auditors annual financial statement to the Trustees.

3. Special statements as called for by the Trustees.

4. A statement to the Mayor of monthly receipts and expenditures.
This statement is signed by the President of the Board of Trustees.

Method of Disbursing Suj)plies.

The chief of the department for which any supply is needed draws a
requisition. This requisition is stamped " Approved " by the Librarian
and forwarded to the custodian of the stock room, who then supplies
the article direct to the department. This applies to all articles used
by the various departments, which may be denominated supplies, i.e.,
which are consumed in use, including oil, etc., for the engineer depart-
ment, supplies for janitors, carpenter, painter and marble washer; stotJk
of printing ofiBce and bindery.

The custodian of the stock room keeps a record showing purchases,
firm from whom purchased, and amounts paid, distribution by day,
month and year to the several departments, and at the end of the year
a summary account showing under each department the amount and
cost of the various supplies furnished to it, itemized under the several
articles.

12 City Document No. 25.

LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.

To the Board of Trustees:

I respectfulh' submit my report for the year ending
January 31, 1908.

Finance.

A record of the receipts and payments for the year is
to be found in the statement of the Library Auditor (Appen-
dix L).

Buildings, Equipment and General Administration.

No changes of importance have been made in the equip-
ment at the Central Library, and the entire plant is in good
order. The fire boxes of the three boilers have been re-
lined, and the bridge walls rebuilt. These boilers are peri-
odicall}" inspected, and their condition is pronounced satis-
factory. The consumption of coal has slightly exceeded
that for the preceding year, aggregating 1,650 tons. Addi-
tional lamps have been installed in the Newspaper Room,
improving the lighting there, and certain changes are under
consideration affecting the lighting of the wall cases in Bates
Hall, with a view to improvement.

The vacuum cleaning system has been extended, and it
is now applied to the cleaning of books and shelves in various
parts of the building as well as in the stacks, and in sweep-
ing on the Special Libraries floor.

The exterior woodwork of the windows and doors through-
out the building ought to be painted at an early day, or as
soon as the financial resources of the department will permit.

Repairs and Improvements at Branches.

The repairs and improvements at the branches and read-
ing rooms include a new boiler at the Brighton Branch,
new exterior metal lamps at the front entrance, and a large
glazed screen in the main hallway, to break drafts from the
outer doors. The Charlestown and East Boston Branches
have been repainted. At the Roxbury Branch a new boiler
has been installed by the Trustees of the Fellowes Athe-
naeum, who own the building. The Public Buildings De-

Library Department. 13

partment, which provides us with apartments at the Uphain's
Corner and West Roxbury Branches, has repainted them,
and similar improvements with other repairs have been
made by our landlords at the Broadway Extension, Roxbury
Crossing and Mt. Bowdoin Reading Rooms. At Roslindale
the roof has been thoroughly repaired, the outside of the
building painted, and the fence put in good order.

One new reading room has been fitted up and opened
at 1518 Tremont street, in a closely populated district.
The discontinuing of the shop-station in Neponset, the last
shop-station maintained by the Library, was immediately fol-
lowed by the opening of a new reading room fitted up at
"362 Neponset avenue to serve the needs of the same dis-
trict. The Mattapan Reading Room was transferred in
March to a new location at 727 Walk Hill street, nearer
the centre of population in that district.

The Upham's Corner Reading Room has been made a
branch library.

Fire Protection at the Central Library and in the
Printing and Bindery Departments.

This subject, referred to in the report of the Examining
Committee, has, under your direction, been fully considered by.
me, and a statement as to existing conditions follows.

In the Central Library the carpenter's and painter's repair
rooms are located in the basement, isolated, however, from the
rest of the building. The book stacks occupy wings of the
building apart from that portion of the structure which con-
tains the boilers.

The stacks contain nothing combustible except the books
and shelving. They are constantly occupied, and, in effect,
patrolled continuously during the day and evening, and peri-
odically by a watchman during the night, his visits being
made certain by the use of a watchman's register. The stacks
are not particularly exposed to fire danger from without, and
the walls, ceilings, and floors are of incombustible material.

The carpenter's and the painter's rooms contain some com-
bustible material, but these rooms are simply parts of the cellar
of the building, with walls, ceilings, and floors of masonry.
There are partitions of boards at each end shutting off the
carpenter's and painter's rooms from the rest of the cellar, and
only exposed to these other portions of the cellar, which are
also constructed of masonry with incombustible ceilings,
floors, and walls. No fire is allowed or is necessary in either the
carpenter's or painter's rooms or in the stacks or anywhere

14 City Document No. 25.

adjacent thereto. The Hghting is by electricity, and all the
wires here, as throughout the building, are run in metal tubes.
No smoking is allowed in either place. A gas burner against
a brick pier, and properly guarded, is used for heating glue in
the carpenter's room.

The entire building is under constant observation during ser-
vice hours, day and evening, and periodically patrolled by the
watchmen, two being on duty, throughout the night, ancl it is
adequately provided with automatic fire extinguishers of the
})est type, periodically tested and kept in working condition.
The carpenter's room also has a hose connection, ready for
immediate use therein or in the painter's room.

I think the probability of a fire occurring anywhere in the
building is remote. If there should be one, from incendiarism
or other cause, the means of extinguishing it are ample and
easily accessible, and the provisions for confining a fire to the
apartment wherein it might occur seem to me ample. The
board partitions across the corridors of the basement adjacent
to the carpenter's and painter's rooms have now been covered
with tin, on the room side, the only part exposed to combusti-
ble material.

The entire building is periodically inspected by the fire
department patrol, and it has recently been inspected by the
•underwriters' inspection department. There is, of course, no
question of fire escapes to be considered at the Central build-
ing, nor is the building open to danger from fire upon the
outside.

The Printing and Bindery Departments are contained in a
brick building at 42 Stanhope street. This building is sepa-
rated on three sides from other buildings by the width of a
street or alley. Where adjacent to other buildings the win-
dows have outside fke-resisting shutters of approved type.

Each department has an adequate outside fire-escape, con-
sisting of iron platforms- and stairs, well constructed ancl
maintained in good condition. Gas jets are used for heating
glue in the bindery, and in connection with the linotype
machines but especial care is taken against fire due to any-
thing in the building. The boilers supplying heat, electric
light and power are not in the basement, but are located in an
adjoining structure, and are in charge of a competent superin-
tendent.

Each of the departments has the following fire protec-
tion: twelve iron pails, readily accessible, and each kept
full of water; one automatic fire extinguisher, frequently
tested, and kept in working order. The ceilings are equipped
with a system of fusible automatic fire-alarm connections,
signalling the Auxiliary Fire Alarm service, with which

Library Department. 15

every other apartment in the building is also similarly con-
nected. Each department has a fire-alarm box of the pull-
down lever type.

If an alarm should occur in the night from the fusible plug
system, the Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company is required to at
once notif}^ the chief of the Printing Department, who is in tel-
ephonic communication. The rooms are periodically inspected
by the fire department patrol, the underwriters' inspectors,
and the building inspectors who have supervision of the
arrangement of exits and fire-escapes.

These departments are insured against fire damage in the
sum of $25,000, payable to the Trustees in case of loss. This
amply covers any pecuniary risk on account of equipment,
stock, or material in process, in either department. Each
department has a safe. If rare or valuable books are sent to
the bindery they are especially safeguarded, put in the safe at
night, and returned to the Central Library as soon as possible.

The Use of Books.

Statistical tables will be found in Appendix VII. showing
the circulation of books for use outside the Library buildings
throughout the Library system. The following summary of
this circulation is presented :

Central Library (including Central Library books
issued through the branches, stations, and to
schools and institutions 389,752

Branches and station circulation (other than books

received from Central) . . . . . . 1,139,359

1,529,111
The usual comparative statements follow :

1907-08. 1^06H37.

Central Library circulation

(excluding schools and institutions) :
Direct, home use . . 287,165
Through branches and

stations .... 84,644

371,809

Branch Department circulation

(excluding schools and institutions) :
Branches, direct home use 742,565
Stations (reading rooms) :

Direct home use . . 303,458

— 1,046,023

272,547

77,899

350,446

* 675,951

* 329,059

* 1,005,010

Carried forward .... 1,417,832 1,355,4:6

* In the statistics presented in the Report for 1906-07, the Upham's Corner Branch
was included with "stations," it not having been made a branch untif February 8,
1907. To compare the branch and station circulation for the two years on exactly the
same basis, the branch figures for 1906-07 should be increased by 62,177, the circulation
for that year at Upham's Corner; and the station circulation correspondingly dimin-
ished.

16

City Document No, 25.

Brought forward
Schools and institutions (from
Central through the branch
system) . . . .

Totals ....

1,417,832

111,279
1,529,111

1,355,456

105,947
1,461,403

The extensive use of the Library, by means of its reference
and reading-room service, in various departments, is not regis-
tered statistically, but it is probably larger in the aggregate
than the home use of books. The reference use, including that
in co-operation with the schools, continually increases.

It is our purpose to encourage the use of books within the
Library as well as at home, and to make our books available
with as little formality as possible. Thousands of carefully
selected volumes may now be taken directly from the shelves
for use at the reading tables, without the necessity of filling
call slips, and therefore without appearing in the registered
circulation.

The Issue Department of the Central Library.

■ The statistics of the circulation from the Central Library for
home use, by months, as compiled by Mr. Frank C. Blaisdell,
Chief of the Issue Department, are as follows :

Issue for Home Use,
Central Library

Daily Issue from

Central Library

through Branch

Division.

Total Central
Library Circu-
lation for
Home Use.

February, 1907

27,721
29,583
26,276
23,308
17,891
15,278
16,387
17,837
25,166
29,185
26,994
31,539

8,440
9,567
7,802
6,664
5,218
3,806
3,981
4,354
7,326
9,025
9,023
10,975

36,161

39,150

34,078

May, "

29,972

June, "

23,109

July, "

19,084

20,368

September, "

22,191

October, "

32,492

November, "

38,210

36,017

January, 1908

42,514

Totals

287,165

86,181

* 373,346

* See note on page 15.

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These figures do not include the number of books which are
sent to engine houses, institutions, and schools.

Restricted Access to Open Shelves — Missing Books.

The total number of books reported as missing at the close
of the year's shelf reading was 1,742, as compared with 1,819
in 1906-07. Experience has shown that about 30 per cent,
of these will eventually be recovered, but the others, mainly
cheap books, largely from the children's open shelves at the
branches and reading rooms outside the Central Library, may
be considered as permanently lost.

The experiments in restricted access to open shelves, affect-
ing only the younger readers, begun some months ago, and
described in my last report, have now been tried long enough
to enable us to judge of the results. As expected, fewer books
have been lost than heretofore. The restriction is not particu-
larly burdensome, and has caused no friction. Under it chil-
dren below sixteen years of age are simply required to present
a library card or identification ticket as a pre-requisite for
admission to the open shelves at the branches or reading
rooms. In some instances entrances and exits are controlled
by turnstiles near the custodian's desk.

The restriction has been in force satisfactorily at certain
branches for nearly twelve months, and only 944 missing vol-
umes have been recorded throughout the system, excluding the
Central Library, as compared with 1,140 in the preceding
year. These statistics, showing a decrease in losses amounting
to 200 volumes, although encouraging and indicative, do not
enable us to measure the full effect of the restriction, since they
include some months before the new rule was adopted.

But apart from the diminished losses, it has been found
that the requirement of the use of a card before children are
permitted access to the open shelves has had an important
influence upon discipline. The crowding of the reading rooms
at certain hours, by children who visit them, not for books, but
for loitering, has largely ceased.

The problem of preserving order in some of these rooms has
at times taxed the energies of the custodians that should be
devoted to other purposes. The restriction aids in its solu-
tion.

This improvement in discipline promotes the attendance of
adults, who are disinclined to use rooms frequented by more
or less disorderly crowds of children. In branches where sep-
arate children's rooms can be maintained, no difficulty of this
kind is found. But in the smaller reading rooms, where pro-

18 City Document No. 25.

vision for children consists only in separate tables reserved
for them, order and quiet must be preserved or adult readers
will not remain in the rooms. Hence the closer supervision
of the children, possible under the new rule, encourages a
serious use of the branches and reading rooms by adults.

The new rule also promotes the home use of books. Since
the children who use the open shelves must provide them-
selves with library cards, they avail themselves of the privi-
leges the cards carry, and take out books for home reading.

The rule permitting the remission of fines incurred by chil-
dren after the lapse of six months, which went into effect coin-
cidently with the rule restricting the access to open shelves,
has set free for use several thousand cards previously held
without limit on account of the non-payment of such fines.
It has been found also that it has stimulated the payment of
fines before the six months' limit is reached. That the recov-
ery of the card after a fixed time prevents the irregular taking
of books from the open shelves is unquestioned. If the card
with its privileges can be thus recovered by one who wishes
to take books, the temptation to take them without having
them charged as required by the rules is diminished.

The change does not appear to have afTected the amqunt
of fine money collected. During the year 1906-07, $2,131.16
was received in fines at eleven branches, and during 1907-08,
$2,166.30. These figures seem to confirm the opinion that
fines due on children's cards permanently withheld were for
various reasons not collectable, and that the withholding of
such cards, depriving the young persons to whom they had
been issued of the privileges of the Library without alterna-
tive, was in its effect an excessive penalty, that might be remit-
ted without other than a nominal money loss.

Frequently, carelessness on the part of the child led to the
fine. Carelessness is to be discouraged, but primarily the
Library aims to promote the use of books, not to impose pen-
alties for carelessness. If the non-payment of a fine in such
cases is to lead, as it often led, to the permanent . loss of
Library privileges by the card-holder, one of the objects for
which the Library exists is defeated in order that carelessness
may be punished.

Books Received.

In the routine work of selection of books for purchase I have,
as heretofore, been materially assisted by Mr. James L. Whit-
ney, who has regularly examined the current American and
English announcements of new publications ; by Mr. Fleisch-

Library Department. 19

ner, Assistant Librarian, who has checked up and vakied pro-
posed purchases from auction catalogues and sale lists of rare
books; and by Dr. W. M. Arnolt and Mr. Murdoch, who have
covered, respectively, the foreign and scientific lists and
catalogues. To them, and to Miss Macurdy, of the Ordering
Department, Mr. Bicrstadt, of the Reference Department, Mr.
Ward, of the Branch Department, and Mr. Maiers, of the
Ordering Department staff, my acknowledgments are due.

The net results of selection, as shown by the accessions for
the year, as well as the accessions by gift and exchange are
shown in the following statement :

Central, Branches, Total
Volumes. Volumes. Volumes.

Accessions by purchase .
Accessions by gift ....
Accessions by exchange
Accessions by periodicals (bound)
Accessions by Statistical Department

13,417

14,040

27,457

6,547

2,800

9,347

761

1

762

2,046

462

2,508

668

668

Purchases, Central Library:

From city appropriation .... 11,255
From trust funds income .... 2,162

Purchases, Branches and Reading Rooms:

From city appropriation .... 12,953

From trust funds income .... 268

By Fellowes Athenaeum .... 819

23,439 17,303 40,742
13,417

14,040

27,457

The total accessions number 40,742, as shown in this state-
ment, while the number for 1906-07 was 37,452.

ENGLISH PROSE FICTION.

The number of volumes of new English prose fiction pur-
chased during the year was 1,623, costing $1,572.98.
Replacements of fiction already on our catalogue and addi-
tional copies for the Central Library, branches and stations,
including juvenile fiction, required 8,123 volumes, costing
S4,875. The total cost of fiction, current and non-current,
amounted to 17.3 per cent, of the total amount expended for
all books.

Of current fiction, 759 different titles comprise the number
of volumes sent to us for examination. These have been read
usuall}^ by two, and frequently by three persons, and outline
reports, indicating the character of the books, filed with the
Librarian. Of the entire number, 147 were selected for
purchase. The conservative policy of selection, pursued for
some 5'ears, has, it will be seen, been maintained.

20 City Document No. 25.

DETAILED REVIEW OF ACCESSIONS.

The following detailed review of the accessions of the year
is from the report of Miss Theodosia E. Macurdy, Chief of the
Ordering Department :

PAYMENTS FOR BOOKS, PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS,

1907-08.

The payments for 1907-08 have been as follows :

City money expended for books:
For the Central Library (includ-
ing $1,622.07 for deposit) .
For branches

City money expended for periodicals:
For Central Library
For Branches and Stations .

Total city money expended
Trust funds expended for books:
For Central Library
For branches

Trust funds expended for news-
papers

Carnegie fund expended for Central
Library

$18,123 73
7,382 58

$25,506 31
6,916 96

$4,453 34
2,463 62

$10,484 97
639 58

$32,423 27
11,124 55

2,067 00

$2,059 65

7 35

ed . .

$45,614 82

Total city money and funds expended

The number of books bought in 1907-08, 30,727, exceeds by
4,359 the number purchased in the preceding year, due to the
larger number (4,518) added to the branches, stations and
reading rooms.

In addition to the list of noteworthy books given here by
title, there have been purchased a collection of books in
modern Greek, selected in part by a native Greek, Professor
Ion, of Boston University; one of works in the Lettish language
bought in response to a request made by a committee repre-
senting the Letts in this city, and a collection of books for the
Wind, chiefly pianoforte music, together with a few works on
the literature of music, in New York point and Braille.

Other special purchases not elsewhere noted arc a collection
of genealogies obtained from Walford Brothers, England; a
number of the publications of the Roxburghe Club; books

Library Department. 21

illustrating the printing art, i.e., works printed by Bodoni and
those issued by the Essex House Press, including the Guild and
School of Handicraft publications; books relating to the
textile industries ; forty-one volumes of modern music selected
by Mr. Allen A. Brown; seventy-five volumes of standard
German fiction, and about one hundred volumes, additional
copies of English literature and history, to meet the special
needs of students in the Harvard-Lowell Institute Collegiate
Courses.

Another important accession is the ' ' Correspondencia de la
Legacion Mexicana en Washington durante la Intervenacion
Extrangera, 1860-1868," published, 1870-92, in ten volumes,
and covering a period which has been called the most difficult
in the annals of Mexican diplomacy, when Matias Romero was
in office at the legation in Washington.

EARLY AMERICAN ALMANACS.

An unusually large number of early American almanacs
were obtained, chiefly at auction sales, of which ten were pub-
lished in Boston and Cambridge before 1700, viz. : Bracken-
bury, 1667; Dudley, 1668; Browne, 1669; Richardson, 1670;
Russell, 1671; Hobart, 1673; Sherman, 1674; Foster, 1675;
Tully, 1690; Tully, 1695.

EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.

The chief additions to the early newspaper files do not
represent an outlay of money, but have been effected through
exchanges of our duplicates with other libraries. In this
way there have been secured 195 numbers of the Boston
Evening Post, covering parts of the years 1767, '68, '71 to
'74; 41 numbers of the Boston News Letter, 1763-75; 155
numbers of the Boston Post Boy, 1753-74 ; 40 numbers of the
Boston Gazette, 1756-57, or 431 numbers in all, representing a
priced valuation of S523, and a piece-for-piece exchange of 165
numbers.

WORKS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST RELATING TO THE COLONIAL
AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS.

Aitken, James. A genuine account of the life, transactions,
confession, and execution of James Aitken, alias John Hill,
commonly called John the Painter, who was tried and con-
victed of setting fire to His Majesty's dockyard at Ports-
mouth . . . London, 1777.

22 City Document No. 25.

The author pretends that he took part in the Boston Tea
Party, and that he set fire to the dockyard at Portsmouth
with the approval of Silas Deane, American agent in
France.

Bay Psalm Book. The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into
English metre. For the use, edification, and comfort of the
Saints in Publick and Private, especially in New-England.
18th edition. London: Printed for T. & T. Longman.
1754.

According to the list of the editions of the Bay Psalm
Book given by Sabin in his Dictionary of Books relating to
America, there were three distinct editions called the ISth.
The first printed in Boston in 1717, the second at London in
1741, and the 1754 edition.

Bishop, George. A treatise concerning the resurrection:
written to friends of truth, and all others who stumble at
them, about the body of the Lord Jesus that died at Jeru-
salem : In answer to a question oft-times put to friends of
truth, particularly by the Governors of New England, etc.
Privately printed, 1662.

Board of Agents for the American Loyalists. Observations
on the fifth article of the treaty with America and on the
necessity of appointing a judicial enquiry into the merits
and losses of the American Loyalists. Printed by order
of their agents. [London], 1783.

Bostonian Prophet: an herio-comico-serious-parodical-Pin-
daric ode, in imitation of the bard, with notes, critical,
satirical, and explanatory, by the editor. 1779. (An inter-
esting item on the Boston Tea Act and the Revolution.)

Common Prayer, (The Book of) 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 of the said Church in the States of
New^ York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary-
land, Virginia, and South Carolina, held in Philadelphia
. 1785. Philadelphia, Printed : London, re-printed
for J. Debrett. 1789.

Congratulatory Poem, A, on the late successes of the British
arms, particularly the triumphant evacuation of Boston.
Dublin, 1776. (An ironical poem.)

[Franklin, Benjamin]. An account of the principle and
effects of the air stove-grates . . . commonly
known by the name of American stoves: together with
a description of the late additions and improvements
made to them by James Sharp. London, 1781. A large

Library Department. 23

part of Franklin's tract on Penns3dvanian fire-places,
printed in 1744, is here reprinted.

Grand Magazine of Magazines, The, or Universal Register,
Vol. 1-3. London, 1758, 59. Plates. Maps. Vignettes.
(Contains Gen. Amherst's Journal of the Siege of Louis-
burg with maps of the city and harbor.)

Great Britain. Acts and Laws. American Colonies. Plan
offered by the Earl of Chatham to the House of Lords,
entitled, A provisional act, for settling the troubles in
America, and for asserting the supreme legislative author-
ity and superintending power of Great Britain over the
Colonies . . . Which was rejected and not suffered
to lie upon the table. London, 1775.

Massachusetts. By His Excellency, John Hancock, Esq.;
Governor. ... A brief. Whereas the hostile forces
of Great Britain . . . earty in this contest . . .
exerted their powers in the destruction of . . . Charles-
town . . . and thereby exceedingly reduced the in-
habitants in their circumstances, and has rendered them
unable to build a house for the public worship of God,
and said inhabitants have represented their situation to
the General Court ... in consequence of which they
passed a resolution, desiring me to issue a brief, for mak-
ing a collection . . . for the relief of the sufferers
. . . (Boston, 1782) Broadside.

Massachusetts. General Court. Resolves. Constitution.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Represen-
tatives, May 5, 1777 . . . We do resolve .
(Boston.) 1777, Broadside. Signed by J. Warren, Speaker.
(Urging the election of delegates to the General Assembly
for the purpose of drafting a State Constitution.)

Papers presented to the Committee appointed to inquire
into the state and condition of the countries adjoining to
Hudson's Bay, and of the trade carried on there. [Lon-
don,] 1749.

Stephenson, Marmaduke. Een roep van de doot, tot het
leeven, ende uyt de duistere wegen en aanbiddinge des
werelts; alwaar het zaat in banden is gehouden onder de
koopluiden van Babilon. Beschreeven door Marmaduke
Stephenson; dewelke (met een ander waerde dienstknegt
des Heeren/genaemt William Robinson) heeft (na dit
schrijven) tot der doot geleden/om getuigenis te clragen
voor deselve waerheit/onder de belijders van Bostons
jurisdictie/in nieu Engelandt (in America) . . . (N. p.)
1679. Black-letter. (An account of the hanging of the
Quakers in Boston.)

24 City Document No. 25.

Vorspiel der Neucn-Welt. Welches sich in der letzten
Abendroethe als ein paradisischer Lichtes-glantz unter
den Kindern Gottes hervor gethan. In Liebes, Lobes,
Leidens, Krafft und Erfahrungs liedern abgebildet, die
gedriickte, gebiickte und creutztragende Kirche auf
Erden. . . . Zu Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Benja-
min Francklin. . . . 1732. (The first book printed
in German, although in English type, in America.)

Waddell, I. H. Horrid massacre at Dartmoor Prison, Eng-
land. Where the unarmed American prisoners of war
were wantonly fired upon by the guard, under the com-
mand of the prison turnkey, the bloodthirsty Shorland
(sic. . . . Poem. Anon. N. p. 1815.) Broadside.
Illus.

LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT BOOKS ADDED TO THE SPECIAL

LIBRARIES.

Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kiinstler von der Antike

bis zur Gegenwart. Band 1. Aa- Antonio de Miraguel.

Leipzig, 1907. (To be completed in 20 volumes.)
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Department des estampes.

Exposition d'oeuvres du XVIIIe siecle. Cent estampes

choisies parmi les pieces les plus remarquables ayant figure

a I'Exposition. Texte de M. Henri Bouchot. Paris, 1906.

2 portfolios. Plates. The examples are English. Some

of the plates are colored.
Breuete, A. de. Velasquez. Illustrations par Braun Clement

et Cie. Portraits. Paris, 1898.
Carlier de Lantsheere, A. Les clentelles a la main. 135

plates. Plauen i. V.
Caw, J. L. Scottish portraits. With an historical and

critical introduction and notes. Pts. 1-5. Edinburgh,

1902-3. 2 vols.
Domanig, Carl. Die dcutsche Medaille in kunst-und kultur-

historischer Hinsicht nach dem Bestande der Medaillen-

sammlung des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses. Wien, 1907.

100 plates.
Elgood, George S. Italian gardens after drawings by G. S.

Elgood. London, 1907.
Gerlach, Martin. .Volkerschmuck mit besonderer Beriick-

sichtigung des metalUschen Schmuckes nebst Einfiih-

rungen und Erlauterungen von Mich. Haberlandt. Wien,

1906. 109 plates.
Gurlitt, Cornelius. Die Baukunst Konstantinopels. Lief 1.

Berlin, 1907., 25 plates.

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Hamcl, Maurice. Corot and his work. Glasgow, 1905. 2
portfolios. 100 plates.

Hardie, Martin. English colored books, London, 1906.
Colored plates. Facsimile. (The connoisseur's library.)
The appendices contain lists of colored books printed by-
Baxter and Ackermann, and books with plates by Row-
landson and Aiken.

Haseloff, Arthur Erich Georg. Die Glasgemalde der Elisa-
betkirche in Marburg. Berlin. 1906. 21 plates.

Herrmann, Paul, Hrsg. Denkmaler der Malerei des Alter-
tums. Parts 1-5. Miinchen, 1906. To be in 60 parts.

Joly, Henri L. Illustrator. Legend in Japanese Art. A
description of historical episodes, legendary characters,
folk-lore, myths, religious symbolism. Illustrated in the
Arts of old Japan by Henri L. Joly. Upwards of 700 illus-
trations. London. Lane. 1908.

Ludwig, Gustavo and Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo. Vit-
toreCarpaccio: la vitae le opere. Milano, 1906. Portraits.
Luebke, Wilhelm. Rafael-Werk. Sammtliche Tafelbilder
unci Fresken des Meisters in Nachbildungen nach Kupfer-
stichen und Photographien herausg. von Adolf Gut bier.
Dresden, 1875. 5 vols. Portraits. Plates.

Luthmer, F. Der Schatz d(;s Freiherrn Karl von Rothschild.
Meisterwerke alter Goldschmiedekunst aus clem 14.-18.
Jahrhundert. Series 1, 2. 1883, 1885. 2 vols. 100
plates. Folio.

Martin, F. R. A history of Oriental carpets before 1800.
Part 1, 2. Vienna, 1906. Text. Atlas. 22 plates.
(Complete in 3 parts.)

Mauclair, Camille. Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Introduction de
Henry Marcel. . Paris. [1905.] 2 parts in 1 vol. Portraits.
Maximilian I., Emperor of Germany. Gebetbuch, mit
Zeichnungen von Albrecht Diirer und ancleren Kiinstlern.
Faksimiledruck der Kunstanstalt Albert Berger in Wien.
Mit Unterstiitzung des K. K. Ministerium fiir Kultus und
Unterricht in Wien und des konigl. Ministeriums der
geistlichen Unterrichts-und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten in
Berlin. Herausg. von Karl Giehlow. Wien, 1907. Lim-
ited edition.

Meisterwerke der Kunst aus Sachsen u. Thiiringen . . .
Herausg. von Oscar Doering und Georg Voss. Magdeburg,
1905. 128 plates.

Michel Andre. Francois Boucher. Paris, (1906.) 2 parts
in 1 vol. Portraits.

Millet, Jean Franyois. The drawings of Jean Fran9ois Millet,
with fifty facsimile reproductions of the master's work,

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and an introductory essay by Leonce Benedite. Phila-
delphia, 1906. 50 plates.
Moehring, B. Stein und Eisen. Berlin, (1903.) 48 plates.
Molinier, C. L. M. E., and others. Exposition retrospective
del'art frangais des origines a 1800. Paris, 1900. 100
plates. Folio.
Molthein Alfred Walcher, Ritter von. Bunte Hafnerkeraniik
der Renaissance in den osterreichischen Landern, Oster-
reich ob der Enns und Salzburg, bei besonderer Beriick-
sichtigung ihrer Beziehungen zu den gleichzeitigen
Arbeiten der Niirnberger Hafner. Wien, 1906.

Muiloz, Antonio. II Codice purpureo di Rossano, e il fram-
mente Sinopense. Rome, 1906. 23 plates.

Musil, Alois, and others. Kusejr Amra. 2 vols. Text and
plates. Wien, 1907.

Neue Farbige Vorlagen fiir die Textil-Industrie. Plauen i. V.
(190-?). 24 Tafeln.

Patek, Carl. Neue farbige Vorlagen im modernen Stil fiir
Tapezierer und Decorateure. 2 vols. Wien. .(1902, 1903.)
48 colored plates in 2 portfolios.

Paul, Herbert W. Queen Anne. Paris, 1906. Portraits.

Pekin. Photographs of palace buildings of Pekin, com-
piled by the Imperial Museum of Tokyo, collotyped from
the negatives taken by K. Ogawa, with explanatory notes.
Japanese by C. Ito, English by T. Tomiogo, Chinese by
A. Aoyagi. Tokyo. Ogawa, 1906. 2 vols.

Purcell, Henry. Orpheus Britannicus. London, 1706.

Rouen Cathedral. Le graduel de I'eglise cathedrale de Rouen
au XIII. siecle. Rouen, 1907. 2 vols. Facsimiles.

St. Gall, Monastery of. Kolorierte Friihdrucke aus der
Stiftsbibliothek in St. Gallen mit einem Vorwort von
Ad. Fah. Strassburg, 1906. 43 plates.

Scott, M. H. Baillie. Houses and gardens. London, 1906.

Schroll, Anton & Co., Neubauten in Wien, Prag, Budapest,
Fagaden, Details, Haustore, Vestibule. Wien, 1904. 65
plates.

Spelman, W. W. R. Lowestoft china. London, 1905. 97
plates. Plan.

Stauffer, David McNeely. American engravers upon copper
and steel. New York, 1907. 2 vols. Portraits. Plate.
(Grolier Club.)

Stoll, Christian, publisher. Morgenlandische Motive. Origi-
nal— Teppiche, Stoffe u. Stickereien. Serie 1. (Vorwort
von E. W. Albrecht.) Plauen i. V. (1907.) 20 colored
plates.

Strauss, Richard. Salome. Full orchestra score.

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T Square Club, Philadelphia. American competitions . . .
1907. Compiled by Adin Benedict Lacey. (Philadelphia,
1907). 160 plates. A collection of designs for various
buildings by American architects.

Valerius Maximus. Miniatures of the school of Jean Fouqiiet,
illustrating the French version by Simon de Hesdin ancl
Nicholas de Gonesse, contained in a MS. written about
A.D. 1475 for Philippe de Comines. Reproduced in photo-
gravure with frontispiece in colour for Henry Yates
Thompson. London, 1907.

Vatican, Rome. Le nozze aldobrandine, i paesaggi con scene
dell' Odissea e le altre pitture murali antiche conservate
nella Biblioteca vaticana. 53 plates. (Collezioni
archeologiche artistiche e numismatiche dei Palazzi aposto-
lici. 2.)

Wheatley, Henry B. Remarkable bindings in the British
Museum, selected for their beauty or historic interest.
London, 1889. No. 2 of an edition of 25 copies with
colored plates.

Wytsman, P. Interieurs et mobiliers de styles aii^eiens. Col-
lection receuillie en Belgique. Vol. 2. Bruxelles, 1902.
There have also been adcled 45 volumes, completing the

series as far as issued, of the Monographs on Artists, edited

by Knackfuss.

Miscellaneous Works of Especial Note.

Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon. Opera omnia. 38
vols. Parisiis. 1890-1899.

Almanach des muses pour I'annee 1765-1829. 31-33.
(Tome) l-(65), 67-69. Paries, 1769-1833. 68 vols. Plates.
Engraved title pages. Contains miscellaneous French
poems.

Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et Sanctis ad nor-
man Brevarij ex decreto sacrosanct i concilij Triclentini
restituti, B. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi ivssv editi, Clements
VII. ac Vrbani VIII. avctoritate recogniti. . . Venetiis.
MDCXCIII.

Appledore Press. A collection of eleven books and pamphlets,
all privately printed by W. J. Linton, at ''The Appledore
Press," Hamden, Conn., U. S. A. 1882-1895, presen-
tation copies to Dr. Garnett, nearly all with the author's
autograph inscription. Very few copies of each printed.

Avellaneda, Alonzo Fernandez de. Pseud. The life ancl
exploits, of the ingenious gentleman, Don Quixote, de la
Mancha; containing his fourth sally, and the fifth part

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of his adventures . . . With illustrations and corrections
by Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translated
from the Spanish. Swaffham, 1805. 3 vols.

Basilius II., Emperor, 976-1025, II menologio di Basilio II.
(Cod. Vaticano Greco 1613). Torino, MDCCCCVII. 2 vols.
(Codices e Vaticanis selecti phototypice expressi. V. 8).
The 433 pages of text contain also 430 miniatures, one
to each saint treated in the manuscript.

Belle Assemblee (La) or Bell's Court and fashionable maga-
zine. Complete set of the old series. 1806-1833. 48
vols, bound in 28.

Bible. The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English,
ovt of the avthentical Latin. Diligently conferred with
the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in diuers lan-
guages. By the English College of Doway. Doway,
M. DC. IX. M. DC. X. 2 vols. First edition of the Roman
Catholic version in English, known as the Douay Bible.

Biblia Sacra Germanica: Begin: Das erst Blat. Hie hebet
an die Epistel des heyligen priesters sant Iheronimi zu
Paulinii vb alien gotlichen biichern der hystori. 2 vols.
100 wood cuts colored. Nuremberg, 1483. The ninth
edition of the Bible in German, the first printed in Niirnberg.

Boulenger, G. A. Zoology of Egypt : The fishes of the Nile.
.2 vols. I vol. Text. 1 vol. Plates. Pubhshed for the
Egyptian Government by Hugh Rees. London, 1907.

Buel, J. W., ed. Louisiana and the Fair. An exposition of
the world, its people and their achievements. St. Louis.
[1904.] 10 vols.

Bullarium Franciscanum Romanorum Pontificum, consti-
tutiones epistolas, ac diplomata continens tril^us ordi-
nibus Minorum, Clarissarum et Poenitentium a seraphico
patriarcha Sancto Francisco institutis concessa.
Tom. 1-4. Romae, MDCCLIX-MDCCLXVIII. 4 vols.
Vignettes. Tomi 5-7 a Conrado Eubel . . . digesti.
Romae. MDCCCXCVIII-MDCCCCIV. 3 vols. Vols. 3
and 4 were edited by the colleagues of Sbaralea, in the
Franciscan Order, on the basis of the collections and
manuscripts left by him. A supplement compiled by
Flaminio Annibali de Latera was incorporated by Eubel
into Vol. 5 when he, after a lapse of over one hundred
years, undertook the continuation of this great historical
work.

Collection (A) of upwards 300 old Irish street ~ ballads,
including ''Rory O'More," "Downfall of Garibaldi," ''Girl
I left behind me," ''Johnny, I hardly knew you," "Paddle

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your own canoe/' ''The mistletoe bough/' "Terrence's
farewell/' etc. 2 vols. 1790-1882.

Common Prayer, Book of. Church of England. [The Prayer
Book of King Edward VH. Printed in type specially
designed for the book by C. R. Ashbee, and decorated with
some 150 cuts and borders designed by C. R. Ashbee and
engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper and Miss Clemence
Housman. Printed throughout in red and black. Bound
in full crushed levant.] New York. [1904.]

Duff, E. Gordon. Wihiam Caxton. Chicago. Caxton Club,
1905.

Duns Scotus, Johannes. 1265 (?)-1308. Opera omnia. Edi-

. tio nova juxta editionem Waddingi XII tomos continen-

tem a patribus franciscanis de observantia accurate

recognita. Parislis, MDCCCXCI-MDCCCXCV. 26 vols.

Elwes, Henry John and Henry Augustine. The trees of
Great Britain and Ireland. (To be in 5 volumes.) Vols.
1, 2. Edinburgh. Privately printed. 1906-7.

Howells, William Dean. , Venetian life. Autograph edition,
with illustrations bv Edmund H. Garrett. 2 vols. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin.^ 1907.

Kidd, Captain. The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation
of Capt. William Kidd for murther and piracy at the Old
Bailey, May 8th, and 9th 1701; also the Tryals of Cur-
chill, Howe, etc., at the same time for piracy. Folio.
London, 1701.

Littlehales, G. W. Altitude, azimuth and geographical posi-
tion, comprising geographical tables for finding the alti-
tude and azimuth, the position line, and the variation of the
compass : and for identifying observed celestial bodies, and
finding the course and distance in great circle sailing.
Phila., 1906.

Longfellow, Henry W. The complete writings of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, with portraits, illustrations and
facsimiles. 11 vols. Edition de luxe. Boston, 1906.

Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed. Colonial families of the
United States of America in which is given the history,
genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who
settled in the American colonies from the time of the
settlement of Jamestown, 13th of May, 1607, to the battle,
of Lexington, 19th of April, 1775. New York, 1907.

Norton, Charles Eliot. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a
sketch of his life . . . with Longfellow's chief autobi-
ographical poems. Boston, 1907. Portrait. Bound by
Riviere in full crushed levant morocco. Extra illustrated
by the insertion of portraits, with autograph facsimiles,

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including twenty-five different portraits of Longfellow;
plates; manuscript notes; and a letter written by Long-
fellow at Rotterdam in 1835.

Pryme, Jane Townley, and Bayne, Alicia. Memorials of the
Thackeray family. For private distribution, 1879. 100
copies printed.

Retana, W. E. Aparato iDibliografico de la historia general de
Filipinas. 3 vols. Madrid, 1906.

Rothschild, Lionel Walter. Extinct birds. An attempt to
unite in one volume a short account of those birds which
have become extinct in historical times, that is, within the
last six or seven hundred years. With 45 colored plates,
embracing 63 subjects, and other illustrations. London.
1907. Limited edition of 300 copies

Rowland, Daniel. An historical and genealogical account
of the noble family of Nevill, particularly of the House of
Abergavenny, and also a history of the Old Land Barony of
Abergavenny, etc. London, 1830.

Salazar, Ambrosio de. Secretes de la gramatica espaiiola, o
abreuiacion della: con un tradato muy curioso, donde se
contienen muchos cuentos graciosos y honestos, para alegrar
alos tristes y melancolicos. Y un dialcvgo entre dos coma-
dres. Rouen. 1640.

Sarasin, Paul and Fritz. Materialen zur Naturgeschichte der
Insel Celebes. 5 vols. Wiesbaden, 1898-1905.

Shakespeare, William. Timon of Athens. A tragedy. Lon-
don. Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors,
and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,
1734. Frontispiece by Fourdrinier.

Thoreau, H. D. Writings. Walden edition. 20 vols. Bos-
ton, 1906.

CHARTS, MAPS, ATLASES, ETC.

Among the more important geographical works bought
were 39 charts to fill deficiencies in the Library set of the
Atlantic Neptune, 1778-81 ; Vol. 3 of the Crown Collection of
photographs of American Maps (photographed from originals
in the British Museum) . Braun and Hogenberg. Ci vitates orbis
terrarum. Colonise, 1576-1618, one of the most important
topographical works of the sixteenth centurj^ A facsimile
of the Hondius World Map of 1611, reproduced from the only
copy known to exist, issued by the American Geographical
Society and the Hispanic Society of America, 1907. A
perfect copy containing 78 maps of Santarem's Atlas.
. . . Paris, 1842. A nlap of Boston drawn to a scale of 500

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feet to the inch. Boston, 1906. A plan of South Cove in
Boston, 1838, showing the contemplated plans and tracks
of the Boston and Worcester railroads. An atlas of the City
of Quincy, by Ernest Branch, 1907, and Rand & McNally's
Indexed atlas of the world in two volumes, 1907, for the Bates
Hall Reference collection.

AUCTIONS.

The Library has had bids in 84 sales, 18 in Boston, 62 in
New York, 3 in Philadelphia, and 1 in London. The number
of items bid for was 1,133, the number secured 724, or 61
per cent. Of these 478 volumes were obtained in the Boston
sales.

PHOTOGRAPHS.

The number of photographs purchased aggregates 928.
They included 200 colored photographs of bridges, public
buildings, monuments, lighthouses, canals, mining, etc., in
the LTnited States; 180 photographs of Greek and Roman
sculpture; 119 of the works of Th. Rousseau; 43 Copley
prints illustrating the works of American artists, and 300
selected at a nominal price from the closing-out sale of a promi-
nent dealer, of examples not, represented in the Library col-
lection, including 62 drawings of Diirer, Holbein and Rem-
brandt.

BRANCHES AND STATIONS.

There have been purchased 14,502 volumes for the branches
and stations, or 4,518 more than in 1906-07. Of these 6,104
were placed in the 17 stations and were bought chiefly to
strengthen the permanent collections at the reading rooms.
They included, besides books of reference and non-fiction,
1,400 volumes of juvenile fiction, representing 108 titles, and
143 volumes of the Lang Fairy books.

Some purchases common to all the branches and stations
were the Catholic Encyclopsedia, of which two volumes are
issued, and the Children's Hour, a collection of stories in 10
volumes, edited by Eva March Tappan. This last was bought
from the income of the Ford fund, which is applicable to
the purchase of books adapted to youth. A set of Dickens'
works, in the Fireside edition, was bought especially for
replacing worn-out copies.

GIFTS.

The givers for 1907-08 number 3,844, the volumes 14,030,
and the number (serials) 23,471. Besides these, there were

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received by gift 80 newspaper subscriptions, 441 photographs,
605 maps, 14 manuscripts, and 144 broadsides.

The most notable gift of books in recent years was received
in August when this Library came into possession of the valu-
able private library of the late Abram E. Cutter of Charles-
town. The collection, comprising 2,809 volumes, was, under
the will of Mr. Cutter, subject to a life interest of his widow,
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Cutter, executrix. Mrs. Cutter, however,
relinquished her rights, and the books are now shelved tem-
porarily on the Special Libraries floor. The collection as a
whole is miscellaneous, with much material relating to Ameri-
can history and biography, and while the larger part of the
books is duplicated here, there are upwards of 700 volumes,
many of them rare and important, which are lacking. The
gift enabled the Library to make nine additions to its already
large collection of Cotton Mather's works, as shown by the
following titles: Speedy Repentance — A sermon. Boston,
1689. Man of his Word — Essay on fidelity. Boston, 1713.
Faithful Monitor — An Abstract of lawes. Boston, 1704.
Malachi; or the Everlasting Gospel. Boston, 1717. Bron-
tologia Sacra; The Voice of God in the Thunder. London,
1695. Repeated Warnings — Essay to warn young people.
Boston, 1712. Sailor's Companion and Counsellour. Boston.
1709. Vigilantius; or a Servant of the Lord. Boston, 1706.
Real and Vital Religion, served, etc. Boston, 1716.

Other works are John Norton's Redeemed Captive, Boston,
1748; Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746 (lacking in the Libraiy
file); a perfect copy of the first Boston Directory, 1789;
Samuel Johnson's Ethica, 1752, printed by Benjamin Frank-
lin; a complete set of the Historical and Genealogical Society
Register in 50 volumes; a set of the Proceedings and Collec-
tions of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 74 volumes;
the Prince Society publications, and the New York Historical
Society Collections in 29 volumes. There are also 126 vol-
umes made up by Mr. Cutter from various printed sources and
illustrated with engravings and other matter relating to the
particular subject. One of the features of the collection is' the
beauty of the bindings, some of which were done by Zaehns-
dorf and Riviere.

These books supplement a gift of $4,000 received by the
Library from the Cutter Estate in 1901.

Another gift of note, received in May, was that of Mr. Louis
Weissbein, a Boston architect, who gave his collection of works
on architecture, numbering 146 volumes, 112 serials and 160
photographs. Eighty-six volumes were placed in the Libraiy
collection, and those which were duplicated here were ex-

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changed for other books. Among the books retained were
Schinkel's Sammlung Architektonischer Entwih'fe, Berhn,
1866, 174 plates, in which the plans are taken from buildings
in Germany, especially in Berlin; Hamburgs Neubaii von
Charles Fuchs, 1844-68, 60 plates; and Das neue Anatomie-
Gebaude zu Berlin, von Albert Cremer, Berlin, 1866.

Other gifts deserving mention are as follows :
Appleton, William S. One hundred and twenty-two photo-
graphs, scenes in San Domingo.
Arnim, Miss von, Longwood. Twenty-three volumes, includ-
ing William Lloyd Garrison, 2 volumes, Bal'onial Halls
and picturesque edifices of England, 2 volumes. A senti-
mental journey through France and Italy by Laurence
Sterne.
Benton, Josiah H. Forty-four volumes, a miscellaneous

collection.
Bixby, William K., St. Louis, Mo. Hamilton's Itiner-
arium, being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis,
Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, etc.,
from May to September, 1744, by Doctor Alexander Ham-
ilton. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. (Printed only for
private distribution. No. 167.)
Blommers, B. J. The Hague, Netherlands, through Theo de
Veer, Holland* City, Mich, Thirty-five photographs from
paintings representing the modern Dutch school of art.
Boston. Park Department. Thirty-eight photographs illus-
trating the children's playgrounds in Boston.
Boston Athenseum, Trustees of, tlirough Mr. Albert Thorn-
dike, Secretary. The Athenaeum Centenary. The influ-
ence and history of the Boston Athenseum from 1807 to
1907, with a record of its officers and benefactors, and a
complete list of proprietors. By Charles K. Bolton.
Boston Browning Society, for the Browning collection. Pro-
gram of drama, ''Colombe's Birthday," January 14, 1908.
Manuscript records of the Browning Society of Boston,
lst-145th, 1885-1903, in seven volumes. Studies of English
mystics. St. Margaret's Lectures, 1905, by William Ralph
Inge. The Christ of English poetry, by Charles William
Stubbs. The Brownings in Italy, by George B. Morris.
(Typewritten manuscript.) Five (5) volumes of music:
(1) Lyrics from Ferishtah's Fancies. (2) In a gondola.
(3) A Woman's Last Word. (4) What are we two ? (5)
Serenade.
Boston Young Men's Christian Union. Fifty-six volumes and
28 numbers.

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British Museum. Catalogue of manuscript music in the Brit-
ish Museum. Vol. 1, London, 1906. Subject Index of the
modern works added to the Library of the British Museum
in the years 1901-1905.

Brown, Allen A. Two hundred and eleven volumes of music
fdr the Allen A. Brown Collection.

Brown, Charles R., Roxbury, Mass. Ninety-four volumes,
chiefly Portuguese and Latin works, and 231 pieces of
music.

Brown, Dr. Francis H., Boston. Two hundred and thirty-
three pamphlets, reports, periodicals, etc.

Carter, Richard B., Boston. Emanuel Swedenborg Opera
quaedam aut inedita aut obsoleta de rebus naturalibus,
. . . Vol. 1. Geologica et Epistalse. Holmse, 1907.
(The complete set will be received as issued.)

Case, Mrs. J. B., Boston. One hundred and forty-five volumes,
chiefly reports.

Cassill, George N., South Boston. Photograph of Longfellow,
from a negative discovered in 1907, not before printed.

Castilian Club of Boston. Original papers of the Castilian
Club of Boston, Massachusetts. Vol 31.

Coveney, John A., Boston. Sixty-seven volumes, chiefly
reports.

Curtis & Cameron, Boston. Two photographs of the Abbey
paintings: — Galahad the Deliverer. The Round Table of
King Arthur. (For South End Branch.)

Ditson, Oliver, Company, Boston. Twenty-seven volumes of
music, published by them.

Eliot, The Misses, Cambridge, Mass. Manuscript letter from
Rev. Andrew Eliot to Daniel Parker, Boston, July 31, 1775.

Everett, Dr. William, Quincy, Mass. Seventy-five volumes,
catalogues, reports, etc.

Fay, Dudley B., Boston. Le antichita di Ercolano esposte.
Napoh, 1757-1792. Nine volumes.

Foerster, Adolph M. Twenty-four volumes of music.

Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Estate of, through Philip McKim
Garrison, Orange, N. J. Thirty volumes of early printed
books, including 10 Elzevirs; 4 volumes of the works of
Erasmus; Bacon's History of the reign of Henry VII.
London, 1647; Hebrew Bible, 1701; The New Testament,
paraphrased by Erasmus. Basel, 1541; Rousseau's Con-
solations. Paris, 1781.

Germany. Patent Office. Two volumes and 14,457 numbers
of the Patentschriften.

Gould, Miss A. B., Boston. I quattro libri dell'architettura.
di Andrea Palladio. Venice, 1570. (1st edition.)

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Great Britain. Patent Office. Two hundred and forty-six
volumes, publications of the Patent Office.

Greene, Henry Copley. Sixty volumes, including Richard
Hovey's works in 6 volumes; Meredith's works in 4
volumes, and The Southern History of theWar, by Edward
Pollard, in 4 volumes.

Grolier Club, New York City. Catalogue of engraved por-
traits of actors of olden time. 1907.

Hartley, J. Scott, New York Citj-. Nine photographs of
sculpture by J. Scott Hartley.

Higginson, Col. Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Mass.
Seventy-eight volumes and 2 manuscripts for the Galatea
Collection.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., through Mr. Winthrop S.Scudder.
Eleven photographs of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

J. V. Fletcher Library, Westford, Mass. Seventy-five vol-
umes and 40 numbers of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Jeffries, Dr. B. Joy, Boston. Two hundred and ten volumes,
chiefly classics and text books, and 99 numbers of periodi-
cals, also the Harvard Crimson from 1895-190L

Kitson, H. H. Six photographs of sculpture by H. H. Kitson.

Lane, Mrs. J. A., Boston. From the library of the late Lucius
Page Lane. Thirty-two volumes, chiefly reports, 55 num-
bers of periodicals and 9 photographs of the Summer
street shops for the unemployed, when Jno. A. Lane was
on the Committee.

Lodge of St. Andrew, Boston. Winthrop Wetherbec, Wor-
shipful Master. Bronze Medal to commemorate the Anni-
versary of granting of charter to the Lodge of St. Andrew,
1756-i906. (Struck November, 1906.)

Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Seventy-
eight volumes and 2 Proclamations.

May, Miss A.M., Roxbury, Mass. (1.) The Book of Common
Prayer. Oxford, 1790. (2.) A Collection of Psalms and
Hymns for Christian Worship. (3.) Amasina, or the
American foundling. Vol. 2.

Mayo, Arthur D., Boston. Three hundred and forty volumes,
(locuments and reports.

Murdoch, John.. Eighty volumes, a miscellaneous collection,
and 10 photographs, chiefly of Meran, Austria.

Percival, Mrs. Sarah E., Boston, through Mr. Horace P.
Chandler. Twenty-two volumes.

Perry, Thomas Sergeant. Thirty volumes.

Putnam, Dr. F. W., Binghamton, N. Y. Forty-three volumes,
a miscellaneous collection.

Reid, Hon. Whitelaw, New York City. Facsimile of the

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City Document No. 25.

Royal Commission issued to Customs Officers in Boston
preceding the Revolutionary War.

Sibley, Richard S., Boston. Twenty-eight volumes of miscel-
laneous works.

Sprague, Mrs. H. H., Boston. One hundred and thirty vol-
umes, chiefly reports, and 175 numbers of periodicals.

Tuckerman, Frederick, Amherst, Mass. Fifteen volumes of
music, compositions of the late Dr. Samuel Parkman
Tuckerman.

Wendte, Miss Frederika. (1.) Six. photographs showing
costumes in the first Greek play at Harvard. (2.) Sixty-
five photographs of Cuba, Hawaii, New Orleans, Mexico
and California.

Weil, Mrs. Charles, Boston. Sixty-seven volumes and 294
numbers of periodicals.

There were given in the course of the year 66 genealogies
and memorial volumes. These are especially welcomed for
the genealogical collection in the Libraiy.

Gift of Paintings at the West End Branch.
At the West End Branch oil portraits of four of the min-
isters who were long connected with the old West Church,
now the branch building, and w^ho were influential in the
historic life of Boston, have been hung on the rear wall. These
portraits were given to the Library for this purpose by Miss
Elizabeth Bartol.

The Catalogue Department.

Mr. S. A. Chevalier, Chief of this Department, has compiled
the following statistics, covering the work of the year.

The number of volumes and parts of volumes catalogued
was 50,719, comprising 30,030 titles; subdivided, in com-
parison with the preceding year as follows :

1907-08.

Vols, and
Parts.

Titles.

1906-07.

Vols, and
Parts.

Titles.

Catalogued (new):

^- Bates Hall (Central Library) Cata-
logue

Serials

Branches

Ke-catalogued

21,100
8,773
10,620
10,226
50,719

15,525

9,367

5,138

30,030

27,344
6,015
10,228
15,512
59,099

15.607

9,262

9,244

34,113

Library Department. 37

CATALOGUE CARDS FIXISHED AND FILED.

The number of cards added to the catalogues during the
year aggregates 206,589. Of these, 182,039 were added to the
Central Library Catalogues. Of the cards filed in the Central
Library Catalogues, 67,552 were placed in the Bates Hall
public catalogue cabinets, the same number in the official
catalogue, and 46,935 in the cabinets connected with the
Special Libraries.

THE ALLEN A. BROWN CATALOGUE.

The work of printing the Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown
Collection of Music has proceeded throughout the year.
About one-fifth of the entire work is in type. It is proposed to
issue this catalogue in parts, following each other, as com-
pleted, until the work is done. It has required much care in
order to secure the best presentation of the diversified
material, and the preparation of the first section has
involved delays that will not be repeated.

Shelf Department.

The annual statistics of the Shelf Department, prepared by
Mr. W. G. T. Roffe, officer in charge, appear in Appendix IV.

The number of volumes placed upon the shelves in the
general collection for the year aggregated 15,309. The
additions to the special collections number 2,076. The total
number of volumes in the Central Library, January 31, 1908,
was 723,075 as compared with 706,909 at the corresponding
date in 1907.

In the general collection the additions for the year in the
principal classes are : Bibliography, ,362 ; History, Biography,
and Geography — General, 393 ; American, 1861 ; English,
982; French, 459; German and Scandinavian, 450; Oriental,
494; Theology, Ecclesiastical History, etc., 1,316; Social
Science, Political Economy, etc., 637; Mechanic Arts, 386;
Music, 1,497; Fine Arts (exclusive of Music), 529; Natural
History, 311.

The additions to the special collections comprise the follow-
ing: Statistical Department, 783; Galatea, 173; Allen A.
Brown, 179; Bowditch Libi'ary, 51; Ticknor, 27; Artz, 368;
Frankhn, 11; Twentieth Regiment Collection (Military),
104; Barton (Shakesperiana) 8; Patent Collection, 266;
Newspaper Room, 84; Codman, 8; and Parker, 1 (a second
volume added to complete a work).

38 City Document No. 25.

Publications.

Mr. Lindsay Swift, Editor of Library Publications, has pre-
pared the following report as to the number and character of
the documents which have passed under his editorial super-
vision during the year :

1. Monthly Bulletin, twelve issues, containing about 440

pages for the year. The editions were 5,000 each month,
except during June, July, and September, when 4,000
. were issued.

2. The Annual List, containing 307 pages, as against 272

pages of the year preceding, was issued on January 1,
1908, in an edition of 2,500 on common paper, and 200
on bond paper for binding purposes.

3. In February, 1907, in an edition of 500 copies, a 12"*

" Description of the Mural Decorations" (pp. 36), wherein
the various hitherto separate accounts were brought
together and revised.

4. Li April, 1907, in an edition of 250 copies, a " Catalogue of

Selected Editions of the Book of Common Prayer . . .
together with Illuminated Missals in Manuscript, Early
Printed Books of Hours, and other Books of Devotion
... on Exhibition at the Boston Public Library from
August, 1906, until February, 1907" (pp. 52). The
nuclei of the exhibition were loaned by Mr. Josiah H.
Benton .(Prayer Books), and Miss Susan Minns (Missals
and Books of Hours).

This makes a total of 835 pages as against 714 pages for the
year previous. Considerable time was also given to reading
proof and conferring on the Allen A. Brown Music Catalogue.

Besides the usual titles of new books, programmes of
exhibitions, Library Regulations, hours of opening and closing,
and lists of free lectures, etc., there were printed in the
Monthly Bulletin the following special Hsts:

1. Memorial Day: a list for the use of Schools. (In Bulletin

for May, 1907, pp. 187, 188.) Compiled by Miss Jordan.
Also the following Lists prepared by the lecturers them-
selves in connection with the lectures during the season before
in the Lowell Institute. These lists were brought before print-
ing, into conformity with the established methods of the
Library.

2. Nutrition of Man, by Russell H. Chittenden, LL.D.,

Professor of Physiological Chemistry and Director of the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. (In
Bulletin for March, 1907, p. 105.)

Library Department. 39

3. The Polish Nation and its Struggle for Freedom, by

Wincenty Lutoslawski. (In Bulletin for October, 1907,
p. 375.)

4. The Protozoa, by Gary N. Calkins, Professor of Proto-

zoology in Columbia University. (In Bulletin for
November, 1907, p. 410.)

5. The Philosophy of Loyalty, by Josiah Royce, LL.D., Pro-

fessor of the History of Philosophy in Harvard Univer-
sity. (In Bulletin for December, 1907, p. 460.)

6. The Private Life of the Ancient Romans, by Morris H.

Morgan, Professor of Classical Philology in Harvard
University. (In Bulletin for January, 1908, pp. 28, 29.)

7. The Early Church, by George Hodges, D.D., Dean of the

Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge. (In Bulletin
for February, 1908, p. 53.)

8. The Early History and Recent Development of the

Atomic Theory, by Theodore W. Richards, Professor of

Chemistry in Harvard University. (In Bulletin for

February, 1908, p. 54.)

In connection with these lists, there also appeared from

month to month the programme of the Lowell Institute

Courses for the season of 1907-08, beginning with October,

1907.

The Bindery.

Mr. Frank Ryder, Chief of the Bindery, reports to me the
following statistics :

Number of volumes bound during the year in various styles,
30,761; volumes repaired, 1,897; volumes guarded, 522; maps
mounted, 427; photographs and engravings mounted, 2,980;
magazines stitched, 224; libraiy publications folded, stitched
and trimmed, 74,949. A large amount of miscellaneous work
has been done as usual.

The total cost of operation of the bindery aggregated
$25,942.01. If from this amount be deducted $2,191.80, the
estimated value of the miscellaneous work done, there remains
823,750.21, representing the cost of binding alone. This sum
includes the binding of 2,230 pamphlets, 1,160 pieces of music
and 179 broadsides in cheap covers costing in all $763. The
total cost of volumes of books bound is therefore found to be
$22,987.21.

The Printing Department.

The following comparative statement of the operations of
this department has been compiled by Mr. Francis Watts Lee,
Chief:

40

City Document No. 25. *

Requisitions on hand, February 1
Requisitions received during year
Requisitions withdrawn .
Requisitions on hand, January 31
Requisitions filled during year
Card Catalogue (Central):
Titles (Printing Dept. count)
Cards finished (excluding "extras
Titles in type, but not printed
Guide cards printed
Card Catalogue (Branches) :
Titles (Printing Dept. count)
Cards (approximately) .
Call slips ....
Stationery and Blank Forms

Signs

Blank Books

')

1906-07.

190 /-08.

9

21

217

233

3

1

21

13

202

240

26,432

18,678

161,521

182,039

2,520

60

5,700

384

360

19,200

18,000

1,654,000

2,271,078

513,742

871,982

534

1,286

17

61

The Bulletins, regularly issued each month, and the other
Library publications of the year, referred to in the statement
of the Library Editor, and the Allen A. Brown Catalogue (so
far as completed) have also been printed in the department.

Distribution of Documents and Supplies.

Mr. George V. Mooney, in charge of the Stock Department,
reports that during -the year there have been 71,421 Libraiy
publications distributed to the public ; and to the various de-
partments, for official and public use, 2,278,000 blank forms,
including 1,879,000 call slips.

Registration.

The statistical tables relating to the registration of borrow-
ers, prepared by Mr. John J. Keenan, Chief of the Registration
Department, appear in their usual form in Appendix VI.
These tables give complete information as to the ages, sex,
and distribution by wards of card holders. January 31, 1908,
there were outstanding 79,662 active cards, an increase of
2,880 over the number reported at the beginning of the year.
The number of cards issued to replace others lost, spiled or
filled was 43,133.

Children's Department. — Central Library.

The operations of this department, an important branch
of the Central Library activities, have continued under the
immediate direction of Miss Alice M. Jordan. From her
report to me the following extracts are taken :

Library Department. 41

ISSUE.

The past year shows an increase in the circulation of books
from the Children's Department both directly to borrowers
in the room and indirectly by daily issue through the Branch
Department. There were 55,379 books issued in the room as
against 51,373 the year previous, and 20,054 were sent through
the Branch Department as against 17,262 in 1906.

USE OF ROOMS.

No estimate is possible of the users of the two rooms or of
the books consulted in reference work by children and teach-
ers. The marked attendance of adults in the Children's Ref-
erence Room during the winter months was due especially to
the collection of books on history and English literature
shelved there temporarily for the benefit of students in the
Lowell Institute-Harvard Collegiate Courses. These books
have been extensively used and have required considerable
care and attention. In this particular the Children's Depart-
ment has shared in the general reference work of the Library.
Of great importance also is the use by teachers of the perma-
nent collection of educational books. The ease with which
they may be consulted has been greatly appreciated.^

SCHOOLS.

The Children's Department has continued its efforts to
supplement the work of the schools so far as lies within its
province. Twenty classes from the Boston grammar schools
have received instruction at the Libraiy during the year;
schools have been visited and parents' associations addressed.
The establishment of perfect co-operation is slow, but each
year shows progress.

LISTS.

Reqiiests for selected lists of children's books bring con-
stantly increasing demands upon the department. While the
"List of Books for BoyS and Girls," published in 1904, is still
in print, and useful as a finding list, it fails to supply the needs
of parents unfamiliar with the great mass of literature for
young persons. Interviews with parents, and those with
teachers, reflect the demand for short graded or selected
lists. In part these requests are met by lists prepared to suit
each case. A revision of the list of books on gardening was
made for a second printing.

42 City Document No. 25.

STORY HOUR.

To celebrate the Longfellow centennial a story hour for
little children was held in the Lecture Hall on February 25.
Miss Sarah Cone Bryant told stories, and about four hundred
children formed the audience. Admission was by tickets,
which were distributed through the schools in the vicinity.

Bates Hall

The Bates Hall Reading Room, as the principal reading
room of the Library, is at times taxed to its fullest capacity.
It is the reference centre of the Library, and its use in that
respect constantly increases. During the year about half a
million call slips for the table use of books have been used,
and readers have also used 345,000 slips calling for books for
home use. The maximum attendance of 322 readers at one
time was reached on the afternoon of December 1, while at
the other extreme is recorded the minimum attendance of
91 on July 2L The average maximum attendance for the
twelve months is 235, but since this figure is obtained by
counting the number of readers at certain fixed hours, and
individuals are constantly coming and going, it will be clear
that the actual number of persons using the hall was much in
excess of such an average.

Although nearly 10,000 selected volumes are placed upon
the permanent open shelves in this hall, available for use by
readers without formality, only 55 have been reported as
missing. The newest accessions to the general collection are
placed upon open shelves here, temporarily, as received each
week, for public examination, and only 52 volumes have been
lost from these.

The employees at the reference and centre desks have been
faithful and efficient in attending to the wants of the public.
The Reference Department is in charge of Mr. Oscar A.
Bierstadt and his assistants. It is th-eir duty to point
out the sources of information to the users of books,
to help readers in every possible way, and to assist in
the use of the card catalogue. They are required to
answer thousands of questions in the course of their
work, and, to serve the public acceptably, must possess
not only a wide knowledge of many subjects, but complete
information as to the resources of the Library. During
the year a large number of letters is received requiring refer-
ence work in reply, and this work is also performed by the
attendants in this department, to whom the correspondence
is referred.

Library Department. 43

The Centre Desk is in charge of Mr. Pierce E. Buckley and
assistants, who have direct supervision of the Reading Tables
in the Hall. The opportunity given to readers to have books
reserved at this desk, obviating the need of repeated calls
from day to day for books which are desired for continuous
use, is apparently appreciated, since the number of persons
availing themselves of the privilege continually increases.

The Special Libraries.

Mr. F. DeW. Washburn, first assistant in the Fine Arts De-
partment, exercising general supervision of the Special Libra-
ries, resigned September 8, 1906. Mr. Garrick M. Borden, of
the staff of the Fine Arts Museiuii, was appointed to this
position October 11, 1907, under an arrangement whereby he
gave to us four-fifths of the regular service time, relinquishing
one-fifth of the fixed compensation, and retaining for one-
fifth of the time his connection with the Museum. This
arrangement has permitted a certain amount of co-operation
between the two institutions, while materially strengthening
the Library staff. The work of the various departments in
the group of Special Libraries may be seen from the following
condensed individual statements.

the fine arts department.

Photographs.

During the year the collection of photographs has been
increased by the addition of prints, process pictures, and
colored photochroms, bringing the aggregate number now
shelf-listed to 18,865 photographs and 7,943 half-tones and
other process prints. The figures do not include 251 pictures
which have been placed in folios and given shelf numbers.
These last include many portraits and historical pictures, and
a set illustrating Alaskan and Esquimaux life.

The process pictures especially are in great demand for
school circulation, and the photographs are constantly em-
ployed in class work in the Fine Arts Gallery and in exhibi-
tions periodically arranged.

Many new photographs and prints are still needed to fill
gaps in the collection, especially American Art subjects and
views of certain foreign countries now insufficiently repre-
sented.

Lantern Slides.

The Library now possesses 2,158 lantern slides. These
have been added from time to time for use in connection with

44 City Document No. 25.

our lecture courses, and have now been catalogued and may-
be lent for school or other uses under such restrictions as may
be necessary to preserve them in good condition.

Circulation of Books.

The circulation of books for home use from the Fine Arts
Department continues to increase, reaching 17,282 volumes
for the year, a gain of nearly 9 per cent, as compared with the
preceding year. Of these, 6,257 were sent out through other
departments. In order to obtain a figure indicative of the
hall use of the books in the Fine Arts Reading Room a record
was kept for one week in January. This showed an increase of
about 500 volumes for the week as compared with a corre-
sponding week in 1900.

A new section for books on Chinese and Japanese Art has
been formed on the reference shelves. Later editions have
been substituted for some of the books in the reference collec-
tion, and many out-of-date catalogues of noted picture gal-
leries have been replaced by new issues. The periodical list
has been revised and made more useful.

Catalogues, Etc.

The indexing of important articles relating to fine arts in
current periodicals has continued. This index is found very
useful to persons interested in the subjects covered. A large
number of special catalogue cards have been filed.

Circulation of Portfolios.

The usefulness of the department in co-operation with the
schools has been maintained and extended. The total number
of portfolios of pictures sent to schools and study clubs has
increased by nearly 100.

There is a great difference in the relative demand for these,
shown by the different schools. For example, out of 646 port-
folios issued to 85 schools, about one-half went to 20 schools.
During the year, 22 schools applied for pictures, never having
received them before. The department, so far as its resources
permit, is ready to extend all possible assistance to the
teachers in this or in other directions within the scope of the
subjects covered by it, and invites the largest possible use of
its privileges.

Visits of Classes.

During the year 66 visits of study clubs were recorded in
the department, with an attendance of 868 persons. There

Library Department. 45

were recorded,. also, 54 visits of private classes, with an attend-
ance of 679 persons. These clubs and classes are assigned to
tables, and material from the collection supplied freely for use
in study under the direction of the teachers or conductors of
the classes.

The figures given do not include the constant visits of
students from the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the
Fine Arts Museum School, and other institutions in the
vicinity.

The work performed in this department is an important
branch of the library service, and should be developed and
maintained to a degree corresponding to its character.

barton-ticknor room.

The use of this room can best be shown by the following
statistics for the year :

Barton-Ticknor books issued 11,643

Maps issued 826

Books from other departments, issued for readers

applying in this room 8,216

Barton-Ticknor books — maps included:

Smallest number issued, September 2-8 ... 76

Largest number issued, April 29-May 5 . . . 454

Average number issued 240

Books from other departments sent to Barton-Ticknor:

Smallest number, July 29- August 4 . . . . 23

Largest number, January 20-26 394

Average number 158

Barton Reserves — (semi- weekly record of stack books

only) :

Smallest number reserved, July 13 ... . 169

Largest number reserved, June 14 ... . 417

Average number reserved 257

These figures indicate the important use that is made of the
tables in the reading gallery connected with this room, and of
the rare and valuable collections in the room itself. All of this
service is of the highest grade, and the so-called ''reserves"
represent books set apart for the use of persons engaged in
authorship or serious research of a scholarly character.

During the summer months of 1907 the entire collection of
topographical maps was carefully examined, defects repaired
and new covers provided. The stack books kept in the Barton
Gallery have been re-classified. All the catalogue cards of

46 City Document No. 25.

cabinets kept in the Barton-Ticknor room, and heretofore to
be found only in the Fine Arts Catalogue Drawers, have now
been completely copied for the Barton-Ticknor drawers.
Arrangements have been made for the better preservation of
broadsides in this room.

ALLEN A. B^IOW^N MUSIC ROOM.

For readers in this room, 6,601 volumes were issued during
the year. The total number of volumes now contained in the
collection is 10,805.

The additions during the year were chiefly works of modern
composers. The orchestral scores added include Bischoff's
Symphony, Op. 16; Bossi's Intermezzi Goldomani; Franck's
Redemption, and four overtures by Richard Wagner. The
operatic scores include Strauss's Salome (full score); Mas-
senet's Therese; Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-bleue; Messager's
Fortunio; and Lehar's Die lustige Witwe. The gifts from
Mr. Brown during the year number 211 volumes.

The entire catalogue in this room has been re-arranged and
re-labelled.

LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS.

The free public lectures given in the Lecture Hall have been
largely attended. Some of these were arranged in co-opera-
tion with the Boston Architectural Club and with the Society
of Printers.

They have usually been co-ordinated with exhibitions of
photographs and other material in the Exhibition Room of
the Fine Arts Department. In some instances lectures of par-
ticular interest to classes from the public schools have been
repeated in the day time, for their especial benefit. The fol-
lowing list shows the subjects and dates of the lectures and
exhibitions :

Lectures.

1907. February 8. Lecture before the Ruskin Club. By

C. Howard Walker.
February 14. The Catholic Church and the Art of To-day.

By Charles D. Maginnis.
February 21. Industrial Education, especially in relation to

Printing. By Samuel H. Hubbard. Under the auspices of

the Society of Printers.
February 28. Normandy. By Frank Choteau Brown. Under

the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club.
March 7. Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance. By Benj.

Ives Oilman.

Library Department. 47

March 14. An Analysis of Modern Printing. By Henry
Turner Bailey. Under the auspices of the Society of Print-
ers.

March 21. Sicily. By George P. Fernald. Under the aus-
pices of the Boston Architectural Club.

March 28. World-Famous Books. By William Dana Orcutt.
Under the auspices of the Society of Printers.

April 4. The Gothic in Spain. By Walter H. Kilham. Under
the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club.

April 11. The Architecture of Francis I. By Louis C. New-
hall. Under the auspices of the Boston Architectural Club.

April 18. Jewelry. By Frederic Allen Whiting.

April 25. The paintings of Puvis de Chavannes in Boston
and Paris. By Fraulein Antonie Stolle. Illustrated by
slides painted by Fraulein Stolle.

October 31. A Tour in Sicily. By Arthur Stoddard Cooley.

Three Lectures on Michelangelo. By H. H. Powers :

November 7. Early Influence and Early Triumphs. Michel-
angelo's Relation to Savonarola and Julius II. "The
Tragedy of the Tomb."

November 14. Michelangelo's Manhood. The Sistine Ceil-
ing.

November 21. Michelangelo's Later Works. The Tombs of
the Medici. The Last Judgment.
#Detember 5. Around the Bay of Naples. By Arthur Stod-
dard Cooley. Repeated December 9.

December 12. Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance Venice.
By Garrick M. Borden. .Repeated December 13 and 20.

December 19. Rome. By Arthur Stoddard Cooley. Re-
peated December 21.

December 26. Painters and Sculptors of Siena. By Miss
Martha A. S. Shannon.

1908. January 2. A Study of Portraiture. Illustrated by
stereopticon slides painted from the originals by the lecturer,
Fraulein Antonie Stolle.

January 9. Whistler. By Miss Alicia M. Keyes.

January 16. Some Interesting Irish Antiquities. By Daniel '
J. Dwyer.

January 21. Baronial Halls and Elizabethan Mansions. By
E. H. Garrett.

January 23. Civic Improvement in Europe and America. By
Edward T. Hartman. Under the auspices of the Massa-
chusetts Civic League.

January 30. Modern Printing Establishments and Their
Output. By Henry Lewis Johnson. ITnder the auspices
of the Society of Printers.

48 City Document No. 25.

Exhibitions, Central Library.

1907. February 11. Longfellow portraits, books and auto-
graphs. Shown in honor of the centenary of Longfellow's
birth, February 7, 1907.

February 11. Church Architecture. To illustrate the lecture
by Mr. Charles D. Maginnis, " The Catholic Church and
the Art of To-day. "

February 25. Normandy. In connection with Mr. Frank
Chouteau Brown's lecture on Normandy.

March 2. Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrating
Mr. Benjamin Ives Oilman's lecture on the same subject.

March 16. Sicily. Water colors lent by Mr. George P.
Fernald to illustrate his lecture on Sicily.

March 30. Spanish Gothic Architecture. In connection with
the lecture, "The Gothic in Spain." By Mr. Walter H.
Kilham.

April 8. French Chateaux. To illustrate Mr. Louis C.
Newhall's lecture, " The Architecture of Francis I."

April 15. The Art of the Jeweller. In connection with Mr.
Frederick Allen Whiting's lecture on Jewelry.

April 24. Puvis de Chavannes. Illustrating the lecture by
Fraulein Antonie Stolle, " The Paintings of Puvis de Chav-
annes in Boston and Paris." , • »

May 1. Asian Carpets.

May 22. Japanese and Russian Cartoons of the Russo-
Japanese War. Shown in honor of the visit of General
Kuroki.

May 27. Alaska.

July-August. Old Boston and Mayors of Boston. In con-
nection with "Old Home Week."

September 1. Pictures in the Berlin Gallery. — Sweden and
Norway. In connection with the visit of the Swedish
prince.

October 1. Sicily. In connection with Mr. Arthur Stoddard
Cooley's lecture, "A Tour in Sicily."

November 4. Michelangelo. To illustrate the three lec-
tures on Michelangelo by Mr. H. H. Powers.

November 25. Naples, Venice, Rome, Siena. To illustrate
four lectures : "Around the Bay of Naples. " Mr. Arthur S.
Cooley. "Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance Venice."
Mr. Garrick M. Borden. "Rome." Mr. Cooley. "Paint-
ers and Sculptors of Siena." Miss Martha A. S. Shannon.

November 29. Bookbindiny-s of Mr. Cobden-Sanderson.

Library Department. 49

December 28. Whistler and Irish Antiquities. Illustrating
two lectures. ''Whistler/' by Miss Alicia M. Keyes, and
"Some Interesting Irish Antiquities," by Mr. Daniel J.
Dwyer.

November 22-January 9. Copies of books left by John
Harvard to Harvard College, which were destroyed by fire.

^ (John Harvard Celebration.)

January 20. Civic Architecture in Europe and America. In
connection with Mr. Edward T. Hartman's lecture, ' 'Civic
Improvement in Europe and America."

January 20. Elizabethan Mansions. To illustrate the lec-
ture, "Baronial Halls and Elizabethan Mansions," by Mr.
E. H. Garrett.

Department of Documents and Statistics.

This department is in direct charge of Mr. James L. Whit-
ney. The number of volumes placed upon the shelves during
the year has been 783; the entire collection now numbers
14,714 volumes, exclusive of the Congressional documents of
the United States and the Parliamentary documents of Great
Britain.

The gifts through the American Statistical Association,
whose library is now in our custody, comprised 679 volumes
and 2,197 numbers or parts of volumes. These have been
received from various governments and societies and insti-
tutions.

By an Act of Congress, approved January 15, 1908, author-
ity is given for the delivery of Congressional documents and
reports of the United States to designated libraries as soon as
issued. These publications as received by us are now placed
within the reach of readers promptly, obviating the previous
long delays.

Manuscript Department.

Mr. James L. Whitney, as Custodian of Manuscripts,
reports that the use of the manuscripts during the past year
has been greater than in recent preceding years; numerous
visitors have come to the Library from distant places for their
examination.

A few purchases have been made of local documents and
letters. Among the gifts received was a copy on parchment
of the form of commission issued by the British Commissioners
of Customs to the Custom Officers in Boston, before the Revo-
lutionary War. A few impressions were printed from the
original copper plate, which is said to be one of the few
articles of antiquarian value which survived the destruction of

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City Document No. 25.

the London Custom House by fire in 1814. One of three
copies sent to the Honorable Whitelaw Reid, American
Ambassador to England, for institutions in the United States,
has been given to the Library.

Branches and Stations.

The following details as to the work of the Branch Depart-
ment are compiled from the report submitted to me by Mr.
Langdon L. Ward, Supervisor.

expenditures.

The total expenditure for the branches and stations is
),233.69, an increase of -13,513.95 over last year. Almost
all of this increase is accounted for by the establishment of
the Neponset and the Parker Hill Reading Rooms, and the
raising of the Upham's Corner Reading Room to the status
of a branch. Many of the branches and reading rooms have
cost less than in the year 1906-1907. A careful analysis
of expenditures would show that except where new agencies
are undertaken or an enlargement of old ones made, the
expenses of the branches and stations do not tend to increase
materially from year to year, while on the other hand the
amount of work performed steadily increases.

circulation.

The total circulation of the branches and reading rooms,
including that from the Central Library, is 1,241,946 volumes,
as against 1,188,856 volumes in 1906, a gain of four and
two-tenths per cent.

The circulation by classes of eleven branches for two years is
as follows:

Direct Home Use Only.

1907-08.

1906=07.

Vols.

Per cent.

Vols.

Per cent.

Fiction for adults

256,913
130,461
261,489
95,498 .

34.5
17.6
35.1
12.9

274,6.38
133,923
243,534

87^526

37.1

18.1

32.9

Juvenile non-fiction

11.8

The substantial gain in the issue of juveniles, both fiction
and non-fiction, is due to several causes. One custodian says

Library Department. 51

in her report, "Four factors have contributed to make a gain
in the juvenile issue: (1) restricted access, which fosters the
use of the card ; (2) remission of fines incurred by those under
sixteen, which has released 301 cards; (3) registration at
schools, which advertises the branch annually among the
children; (4) the generous supply of new, replacement, and
additional copies of children's books." The last reason is
probably the most important of the four.

It is to be noted that fairy tales form an important and, as is
generally allowed, a wholesome part of children's reading.
One custodian reports that of the juvenile books issued in one
month, 17 per cent, were fairy tales (the term includes folk-
lore, myths, and hero-stories), and that this was more than
the juvenile non-fiction for that month.

In collections of 15,000 or more volumes, like those of the
branches, the circulation is really based on a certain part
only — the so-called " live " books — and it is an interesting
question what proportion of the whole collection these con-
stitute. It was found at certain branches that if live books
were considered to be those that had circulated at least orlce
during a year, the estimated proportion of such books to the
whole was at one branch 46 per cent., at a second 55 per cent.,
at a third 56 per cent., and at a fourth 57 per cent. That is to
say, at these branches at least 45 per cent., approximately, of
the books have no direct relation to the home use. But these
books include the reference books, using the term in a broad
sense, and also the sets of bound periodicals. Many of
the other books are too good in themselves to be discarded,
and time is often lacking to transfer them and space to store
them. Nevertheless, it is evident that the collections must
be again materially reduced in the near future. The relative
figures of -live books and circulation are interesting. At one
branch, from an estimated number of 9,000 volumes of live
books, or 57 per cent, of the total, there was a circulation of
98,824 volumes for the year, that is, each volume went out
theoretically eleven times. But actually the larger part of
the circulation was from the books for younger readers, the
popular fiction, and the new books of all kinds, perhaps from
4,000 to 5,000 volumes in all. At one branch where the col-
lection of books is less than 5,000 volumes and there is little
dead material, each volume went out nominally sixteen times
during the year.

. DEPOSIT AVORK.

The branches and the two largest reading rooms have sent
out on deposit this year 16,352 volumes, distributed among

52 City Document No. 25.

124 places, as against 16,792 volumes, distributed among 112
places last year. Of the total number of volumes, 12,285
were sent to schools, as against 12,074 volumes in 1906. The
number of schools suppHed has increased by ten, the number
of teachers by thirty-two. That is, with practically the same
number of volumes much greater results have been accom-
plished. The books so thoroughly meet the needs of the
schools that they are changed less often than formerly. In
fact, the whole deposit work of the branches is increasingly
satisfactory. They are reservoirs of supply for the schools and
institutions of their districts.

REFERENCE WORK.

The relations with the school teachers, which grow closer
year by year, the steady additions to the collections of refer-
ence books, and the growing experience of the Library
employees are all factors in the improvement of this most
important department of the work of the branches and read-
ing rooms. Each branch and station is visited in the latter part
of the day by children from schools in the vicinity seeking help
in connection with their lessons. At one grammar school the
work of the custodian of the neighboring reading room as an
unofficial instructor was recognized by her election at a
teachers' meeting to an honorary membership in the teaching
force of the school.

As much reference help is given to adults as they desire.
Some branches and reading rooms have been useful to neigh-
boring study clubs, and to pupils of evening schools, who are
largely adults.

PICTURES.

Pictures from the branch collections have been lent to the
reading rooms, schools, and study clubs, to the number of
9,626, as against 9,749 in 1906, and 4,849 in 1905.

The portfolios of pictures from the Fine Arts Department,
Central Library, issued through the branches and reading
rooms to schools and study clubs have been mentioned on
page 44 ante. There have been the usual useful monthly
exhibitions of Central pictures at the branches and reading
rooms, and a special exhibition during Old Home Week.

The enlargement of the branch collections of pictures has
gone on steadily. To encourage this a small yearly allowance
for the purchase of material has been made to each branch and
reading room. Most of the pictures added are naturally those
asked for by teachers, and, as one custodian reports, are such
as "illustrate industries, folk-lore, American history, etc."

Library Department. 53

Filing cabinets, in which the largest mounted pictures may
be arranged in classified order, have been provided at most of
the branches.

BOOKS.

The number of books added to the branches and stations is
shown on page 19 ante. The needs of the schools make it
necessary to have many copies of standard books. Hence in
addition to new titles and replacements, during the latter part
of the year approximately 4,000 volumes of duplicates were
ordered for the branches and reading rooms; as well as 1,000
volumes for the deposit collection. Only a part of them
appear in this year's total. Included in these books were
additions to the permanent collections of the smaller reading
rooms of books in great demand for general reading, such as
children's classics, both fiction and non-fiction. This was an
innovation, for liitherto the permanent collections of the small
reading rooms have consisted only of books for reference.
Now they will have in addition to deposit books a small
independent collection of books in every-day demand.

A few months ago, the School Committee issued a pro-
visional course of study for the elementary schools, and the
books and poems mentioned in it began at once to be in great
demand. Except in three or four cases, where the branches
lacked any of these books, they were at once supplied, and
existing copies were duplicated.

THE SCHOOLS AND THE BRANCH DEPARTMENT.

The total number of volumes sent on deposit to the
schools this year from the Central Library and the branches
is 19,555 volumes, as against 19,546 in 1906, and 19,092 in
1905. The total, therefore, remains nearly constant. The
number of schools, however, has increased, as well as the
number of teachers supplied, and this is the real extension
of the work. From the branches and reading rooms 358
teachers were supplied this year, as against 326 in 1906,
and 270 in 1905. Requests for books have come from the
schools unsolicited, more freely and more promptly than
ever before. The school circulation through the branches
and reading rooms (estimated in the usual way) was 80,548
volumes, as against 75,939 volumes the year before. Books
have been reserved for the use of schools, at the branches
and reading rooms, to the number of 1,985 volumes, on 121
different occasions.

As was noted in the last annual report, the work of the
branches with the evening schools was systematized through

54

City Document No. 25.

conferences with Mr. Lamprey, the Director. Last November,
in a general conference between Mr. Lamprey and certain
heads of departments, at which the Librarian presided, further
plans of cooperation were made. These included talks on the
use of the Library by Miss Jordan and certain custodians,
and the sending of pictures. The conditions at the evening
schools are so different from those at the day schools that
some of the things which the Library undertakes in coopera-
tion with the latter, and is prepared to do for the former also,
are not recjuired.

CENTRAL LIBRARY ACTIVITIES — BRANCH DEPARTMENT.

Deposit Work.

Books have been sent from the Central Library on deposit
to 122 places, as against 117 in 1906-07. The number of
volumes sent is 35,951, as against 34,049, the year before. Of
the total this year, 7,270 volumes were sent to schools. The'
percentage of fiction in the books sent on deposit was 43.8.
The number of volumes in the deposit collection is 31,038, a
gain of 1,136 volumes since Januaiy 31, 1907. There have
been condemned 1,084 volumes. Of the additions, 976 vol-
umes were books for children, 592 volumes were fiction for
adults. In other classes the largest number of additions
were in history and science. The estimated circulation of
the books of the deposit collection is 106,046, as against
87,337 in 1906.

Daily Issue.

The daily issue of Central Library books on cards sent
by applicants through the branches and stations amounts
to 86,181 volumes, which is an increase of 6,918 volumes over
the previous year. The gain is in fiction, as was the loss the
year before. There have been no undue additions of fiction,
"however, to the Central Library this year.

The classified issue for two years is as follows :

1907=08.

1906=07.

Vols.

Per cent.

Vols.

Per cent.

27,700

25,464

29,998

3,019

32.2

34.8

29.5

3.5

23,943

25,670

26,145

3,505

30.2

Non-fiction for adults

, 32.4
33.0

4.4

LiBKARY Department. 55

The percentage of fiction in the issue is necessarily high.
Much of the juvenile fiction is of a high grade, and exactly
the books children ought to read, in fact, to a- considerable
extent, the books that the schools prescribe for them.

Binding.

The following figures represent the binding clone through
this department :

1907-08. 1906-07-

Books bound in art canvas or half-duck
(fiction and juveniles):
Central books . . . . . . . 5,003 5,736

Branch and station books .... 12,169 11,945

Books bound in Bates Hall style:
Branch and station books .... 1,441 2,102

Of the 5,003 volumes of Central Library books, 2,486
were from the deposit collection.

The bindery clerk has received and disposed of 2,455
volumes of condemned books from the branches, as against
1,756 in 1906.

As the collections of books at the branches and reading
rooms grow, and as the use at these agencies and the schools
increases, the number of volumes that come to binding and
to be condemned will inevitably increase.

Inter-Library Loans.

The following figures summarize the loans of books to
other libraries and the instances in which this Library has
been a borrower:

Lent to libraries in Massachusetts
Lent to libraries outside Massachusetts

Total

Applications refused:
From libraries in Massachusetts .
From libraries outside ^lassachusetts .

Total

Borrowed from other libraries

The applications that it was found necessary to refuse
form 36 per cent, of the total.

Volu
07-08.

690

184

mes,

1906-07.

650
201

874

851

162
69

93

38

231
31

131
47

56

City Document No. 25.

The Department of Patents.

There have- been added to the files 304 volumes of patents,
bringing the aggregate number of volumes in the department
to 10,170. The attendance and use of the room has increased
as compared with the preceding year. The number of
persons using the room was 5,954, as against 2,856 in 1906-07.
There were 58,317 volumes consulted, as against 57,868 for
the former year.

The number of readers and volumes consulted, by months,
are shown in the following table :

Months.

Number of
Readers.

Number of
Volumes.

February, 1907
March, "

April, "

May,

June, "

July,

August, "

September, "
October,
November, "
December "
January, 1908 .

Totals

563
521
534
473
439
405
444
453
503
510
522
587

4,510
4,833
4,906
4,767
4,397
4,238
4,607
4,368
5,069
5,176
5,521
5,925

5,954

58,317

The Periodical Room, Central Library.

The record of attendance in the Periodical Room at cer-
tain hours in comparison with the preceding year:

Attendance at 1907-08. 1906-07

10 A.M " . . 8,115 7,637

]2M 12,142 11.636

2 P.M 15.300 14,290

4 P.M. . 22,912 20,430

6 P.M 18,117 16,816

8 P.M 20,623 17,744

10 P.M.* 4,780 5,057

The extensive use of the files appears from the record of
24,394 bound volumes consulted during the day, for the
year; and 7,060 during the evenings and on Sundays. The
corresponding figures for the preceding year are 21,368 and
5,778. There were also 22,787 unbound back numbers of

* October to May only.

Library Department. 57

periodicals supplied to readers during the day, and 13,990
during the evenings or on Sundays. These compare with
23,835 and 13,580, respectively, during 1906-07.

There were regularly filed in the several classes of periodi-
cals currently taken, at the close of the year, 1,477 publica-
tions, exclusive of Government and State publications and
Library bulletins.

The Newspaper Room, Central Library.

Mr. Pierce E. Buckley, in charge of this department (as
also of the Patent Department), has submitted to me a report
relating to the current use of the room, and of the files, from
which the following extracts are taken.

The number of papers now on file in the reading room
is 355; this does not include the trade newspapers and
magazines, of which there are 93. Six papere were added
during the year.

The attendance of this room is always large ; the maximum
for the year was 194 on October 27, 1907. A new table
has been placed in the room to accommodate the women;
it was needed badly to relieve the congestion which for-
merly existed. A new case placed behind the attendant's
desk will accommodate all the papers of the large cities,
and the attendant will thus have within reach the most
important papers most called for by the public.

files.

Early in the year the files room was equipped with extra
shelving, making it possible to shelve 1,500 additional volumes.
All the Boston papers, and in fact all papers preserved by
binding, are in this room. All the sets are now placed to-
gether, and, as now placed, there is room for more than ten
years' growth. There were 221 volumes added to the files,
making the total number of volumes in the room 6,651.

This room was largely used during the year, 4,656 persons
consulting the files, as against 2,380 for the preceding year.

A list of all the duplicates has been made, including those
which were at the Brighton Branch. In many cases breaks
in our files can be made up from these volumes. Where
the bindings and papers were superior to ours, the better copy
has been substituted.

Through an exchange we have received from .the Library
of Congress 39 volumes of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

A large number of 18th century papers have been added
to the files, largely through an exchange of our duplicates

58 City Document No. 25.

with the Massachusetts Historical Society. From that so-
ciety we received 67 Boston News-Letters, 50 Boston Ga-
zettes, 142 Boston Evening Posts, 227 Boston Weekly Post
Boys; in all there were 507 old papers added. A card
check list of the 18th century papers has been made.

The maximum attendance in the Newspaper Room upon
selected days in each month is shown in the following table;
the record was made at 5 o'clock P.M. on each day:

T^ , Maximum t, , Maximum

Dates. Attendance. D^<^^^- Attendance.

February 22, 1907 189 August 4 122

March 31 174 September 8 134

April 19 175 October 27 194

May 5 130 November 10 168

June 16 123 December 14 169

July 14 102 Jamiary 19, 1908 151

Sunday and Evening Service.'

The following record of the number of books issued for
home use on Sundays and holidays is compiled from the
report of Mr. Frank C. Blaisdell, Chief of the Sunday and
Evening Service.

SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY* CIRCULATION.

Sundays

February 22

April 19

The reading room use of books on Sunday and during
the evenings continues large. The reference work, of which
we keep no statistical record, is apparently increasing, and
fully occupies the staff employees who are in charge of it.
The character of the use of the Library at this time plainly
shows that a considerable number of persons who would not
be able to visit the building on week days or in the daytime
make diligent use of the Sunday and evening privileges.

Resignations.

The following resignations from the service have been
received during the year:

* Closed on all holidays except as specified.

1907-08.

1906-07.

36,740

36,687

506

708

354

393

Library Department.

59

Name.

Department.

E ntered

Service.

Resigned.

Sarah Nolen

Robert E. Knight

Lillian E. Ethier

Leo J. Grady

Letitia M. Kiernan

John F. Lucid

Mary E. Griffith

Susan G. Parrow

Grace E. Kellogg

Charles E. Herekson ....

Benjamin Levine

Marie H. Odenthal

Catharine A. Wiechmann

Florence Barnett

Emily W. Maynadier. . . .

Thomas E. Smith

Clyde W. Hayes

Bindery

Printing

Children's

Bindery

Branch

Shelf

Dorchester Branch. .

Bindery

Dorchester Branch. .

Patent

Catalogue

Issue

Issue

Station P

Special Libraries . . .
Charlestown Branch
Patent

Dec. 28,

Oct. 9,

April 27,

July 1,

Nov. 11,

Oct. 10,
V

Sept. 1,

April 6,

Dec. 23,

Dec. 4,

Jan. 31,

June 25,
March 22,

Sept. 19,

Nov. 10,
Jan.,

Dec. 9,

1891
1906
1895
1904
1895
1893
1886
1903
1898
1903
1907
1907
1895
1902
1905
1874
1907

June
Aug.

Feb. 26, 1907

(Died)
March 19, 1907

April 17, 1907

May 25, 1907

7, 1907

10, 1907

Aug. 14, 1907

Aug. 19, 1907

Aug. 31, 1907

Oct. 1, 1907

7, 1907

19, 1907

26, 1907

16, 1907

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Nov

Nov. 29, 1907

Dec. 2, 1907

(Died)
Jan. 18, 1908

Examinations.

Examinations for the Library service were given in Gracies
B,'C, and E, on May 18, 1907. In Grade B, 16 were ex-
amined; in Grade C, 52; and in Grade E, 54.

Respectfully submitted,

Horace G. Wadlin,

Librarian.

June 2, 1908.

60 City Document No. 25.

REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
FOR 1907-1908.

To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library:

The first meeting of the Examining Committee for 1907-
1908 was held at 3 P.M., Friday, June 28, in the Trustees'
Room of the Library.

The Rev. Reuben Kidner was chosen Chairman and Mrs.
Henry S. King, Secretary, and the following sub-committees
were appointed:

ADMINISTRATION.

Mr. John B. Berran, Chairman.
Hon. Wm. H. H. Emmons, Mr. Augustine L. Rafter,

Mr. Henry Lewis Johnson, Mr. John P. Woodbury.

Rev. Reuben Kidner,

BOOKS.

Rev, Joseph V. Tracy, D.D., Chairman.
Mrs. P. O'Meara Edson, Mrs. William Parmelee,

Miss Bertha Hazard , Mr. Augustine L. Rafter,

Mrs. Henry S. King, Mr. John P. Woodbury.

Mrs. Nathaniel P. Beaman,

BRANCHES.

Hon. Wm. H. H. Emmons, Chairman.
Mr. W. W. Clarke, Mrs. WilUam Parmelee,

Miss Bertha Hazard, Miss Juha G. Robins,

Mr. Robert M. Morse, Mr. John P. Woodbury.

CATALOGUES.

Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Chairman.
Hon. Wm. H. H. Emmons, Mrs. Frederick C. Shattuck,

Rev. Reuben Kidner, Rev. Joseph V. Tracy, D.D.,

Mrs. Stephen O'Meara, , Dr. John Warren.

FINANCE.

Rev. Reuben Kidner, Chairman.
Mr. John D. Berran, Mr. Augustine L. Rafter,

Mr. W. W. Clarke, Mr. Wilham G. Shillaber.

Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien,

Library Department. 61

printing and binding.
Mr. Henry Lewis Johnson, Chairman.
Mr. John D. Berran, Miss Julia G. Robins,

Mr. J. Allen Crosby, Mr. Wm. G. Shillaber.

Mrs. Stephen O'Meara,

FINE ARTS.

Miss Bertha Hazard, Chairman.
Mrs. P. O'Meara Edson, Mrs. William Parmelee,

Mr. Henry Lewis Johnson, Mrs. Frederick C. Shattuck,

Mrs. Henry S. King, Rev. Joseph V. Tracy, D.D.

Mrs. Nathaniel P. Beaman,

Subsequent meetings of the committee were held on
October 17, November 13, and January 15, 1908.

At the final meeting (January 15) reports were received
from the various sub-committees, and, after discussion upon
them, they were given to the Chairman to be used by him
in preparing the report of the whole committee.

The Chairman herewith submits an abstract of these
reports :

The Library is in admirable condition, an institution of
which the citizens may be justly proud. Large as is the
appropriation annually made to it by the City Government,
more money could be used to advantage, and it is to be hoped
that the stream of bequests to its permanent funds, for
special or general purposes, will not cease.

Books. — The books are housed, arranged, and distributed
in excellent fashion, and this in face of the fact that the
present unoccupied book space has been obtained by resort-
ing to the expedient of turning the basement to account for
the stacking of books and documents least in demand, a pur-
pose that part of the structure was not intended to meet.

It is recommended, as soon as practicable, that metal
book-frames with glass shelves be substituted for the present
ones made of wood, a change which would increase the room
for books, and decrease danger from fire; that woodworking
machinery and paint materials be removed from the build-
ing; that automatic fireproof doors be placed to separate the
stacks wherever practicable, and that one of the employees
receive appointment as a Fire Inspector, whose duty it shall
be to visit every room of the Libraiy daily, to see to the
proper disposition of waste, and to the order and condition
of the fire appliances. The employees might occasionally
receive instruction in the use of the hose and extinguishers.

In Bates Hall some seats placed nearer the delivery desk
would be serviceable, and a few more lights for those seeking

62 City Document No. 25.

books on the shelves would be of use. The case marked
"New Books " might be kept more distinctly up to date.

Branches. — The branches appear to be conducted with
financial economy. The salaries of the younger attendants
might perhaps be graded a little higher. The employees
are found to be uniformly courteous and efficient. In many
of the sub-stations the persons in charge are of great help to
the children, understanding and sympathizing with their
needs. More attention, however, should be paid to the venti-
lation of all the reading rooms, and, indeed, also to many
rooms of the main building. The Committee realize the
difficulties attending the problem of securing sufficient fresh
air, but hope that eventually those difficulties will be over-
come.

Catalogues. — The Catalogue Department continues in
excellent condition. The Cooperative Catalogue experience
proves to have been little used, and steps towards its
discontinuance are now wisely in progress. The commend-
able readiness of the attendants of this department to help
all persons who have occasion to use its facilities has been
favorably noted by many visitors. In view of the cost of
card catalogues, it is to be hoped that further steps will be
taken by librarians looking toward the ultimate standardiza-
tion of the entire cataloguing system. American publishers
could then, acting through a committee of expert cataloguers,
prepare the proper cards for each book issued, and sell them
to the libraries of the country.

Finance. — The financial system under which moneys are
received and expended in the Public Library leaves nothing
to be desired. By a most careful system of checks and
balances, the funds are accounted for and regulated.

Binding. — A large amount of work is done in this depart-
ment, and it includes much rebinding, and the mounting
and binding of architectural prints. The quality of the work
is entirely satisfactory. It is impossible to compare with
absolute precision the cost of the binding done with what it
would be if put out on contract, yet the Committee is satis-
fied that even if the cost is somewhat higher the advantage
to the Library in durability of output and convenience
more than offsets any difference.

Printing. — The making of the cards for the catalogue
appears to be done with marked success both in composition
and expedition. But the equipment of the department is
one-sided. There is a large capacity in machine composi-
tion, while the press work is restricted to a single cylinder,
which is not of the style best adapted to the work required.

Library Department. 63

It is the opinion of the Committee that there is a real need of
a new press in order to increase the output of printing with-
out any material increase in the cost of labor.

The danger from fire seems great in the printing and
binding office. While ample fire-escapes are provided for
the safety of the employees, a fire starting in any part of the
building would probably destroy the whole of it. The
Committee recommends securing quarters in some more
fire-proof building.

It is suggested to future examining committees that the
usefulness of sub-committees might be increased if they
could confer with the heads of departments, and have the
benefit of their experience. In some cases this plan was
followed, but it might be the general practice.

In closing this report the Examining Committee wishes to
express its full appreciation of the remarkable effectiveness
of the Library machinery, the perfect adjustment of its parts,
and the entire absence of friction in the different depart-
ments, which are correlated in a noticeably smooth and
harmonious manner.

The Committee realizes that its suggestions can scarcely be
met without increased funds. That so much is accomplished
in keeping the Library up to the highest standard of useful-
ness is a matter for unstinted praise. A spirit of wise and
discriminating economy is everywhere apparent.

In this connection the Committee also wishes to endorse
the policy of a judicious limitation in the purchase of ephem-
eral fiction, to the encouragement of a taste for better and
more permanent literature.

The Committee can only regret that a larger proportion of
the community does not even yet fully comprehend the won-
derful resources of the Library and its admirable methods of
service, and how completely equipped it is to meet not only
the most advanced demands of schools, study classes of all
kinds and technical students, but to furnish the best general
reading for the masses. It is hoped that in the near future
a wider knowledge of the real value of the Library may in
some way be extended to the public, with a view to better
acquaintance with its fine educational collections so easily
accessible.

The Committee desires to thank the officers of the Libraiy
for the full opportunities given to investigate its methods
and aims.

Reuben Kidner,

Chairman.

APPENDIXES

1907—1908.

LIST or APPENDIXES.

Pa?e

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 97

VIIL Trustees for Fifty-six Years. Librarians . 99
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty-six Years, 101
X. Library Service, including Sunday and Even-
ing Service . . ... . . , 105

APPENDIX I.

Boston Public Library,
Auditing Department, February 1, 1908.

To the Trustees:

Gentlemen, — The undersigned herewith presents a state-
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the Library Depart-
ment for the financial year commencing February 1, 1907,
and ending January 31, 1908; also a statement concerning
the trust and other funds, statements covering special appro-
priations, and a statement of expenditures on account of the
branches for the twelve years ending 1907-1908.

Respectfully,

A. A. Nichols,
Auditor.

RECEIPTS. -

Appropriation, 1907-1908 S325,000 00

Payments for lost books 288 91

Income from trust funds, 1907-1908 . . . 15,912 00
Interest credited:

From J. S. Morgan & Co. . . $89 35
On bank deposits .... 64 52

153 87

Center Fund (Income) 954 84

Total receipts $342,309 62

Balances, February 1, 1907:
On deposit, J. S. Morgan & Co., London:
From income of Trust

Funds . . S3,827 24
From General Funds:
(City Appropria-
tion) . . . 1,958 04

55,785 28

On deposit. Baring Bros. Co., Ltd.,
London ....

Interest accrued on bank deposits

Center Fund

Income of Trust Funds (unexpended
balance in city treasury) .

Carried forward

2,038
300

95
00

13,396

00

21,592 98

$363,902 60

68

City Document No. 25.

Brought forward

$363,902 60

EXPENDITURES.

Salaries (general Library
account, includ-
ing branches) :

General administration $172,806 54
Sunday and evening

force . . 20,747 46

$193,554 00

Books:

From city appropria-

tion

$21,488 18

City appropriation

(London ac-

count)

4,018 13

From trust funds in-

come (includ-

ing London ac-

count)

11,124 55

From gift:

Andrew Carnegie

7 35

36,638 21

Newspapers, from Todd fund income,

2,059 65

Periodicals, including

London ac-

count .

.

6,916 96

Binding Department:

Salaries . .

$22,079 49

Stock ....

2,321 82

Equipment

5 98

Electric power .

36 60

Contract work (Brit-

ish patent specifica-

tions, paid through

J. S. Morgan & Co.,

London) .

32 08

Rent (13 months)

989 48

Miscellaneous expense.

531 63

25,997 08

Printing Department:

Salaries

$7,172 95

Stock

2,558 57

Equipment

96 46

Electric power .

232 00

* Contract work .

776 60

Rent (13 months)

556 20

Miscellaneous expense,

806 49

12,199 27

. $2

Carried forward

77,365 17 $363,902 60

* Chiefly paid to the City Printing Department for printing the Annual Report of
the Library.

Library Department.

69

Brought forward

. $277,365

17

$363,902 60

Central Library and Branches:

Furniture and fixtures

7,023

43

Gas ....

2,142

83

Electric lighting

2,378

65

Cleaning .,

8,053

26

Small supplies

3.584

71

Stationery

1,704

33

Rent

13,274

48

Fuel . .

12,501

22

Repairs .

5,010

14

Freights and cartage

1,082

59

Transportation betweei

1 Central

Library and branches

3 . . 3,949

90

Delivery stations, rent ai

id service, 1,130

65

Telephone service .

304

82

Postage and telegrams .

1,131

04

Typewriting .

40

58

Travelling expenses

393

91

Grounds ....

. . 93

70

Premium on surety bon

d . . 5

00

Lectures ....

452

90

.

Insurance on boilers

120

00

Notary Public certificat

e . . 7

25

341,750 56

Balance .

.

$22,152 04

The balance includes the following items:

Cash, city treasurv, Trust Funds

income . .... . $15,859 06

On deposit, London:

J. S. Morgan & Co., Trust Funds,

income 2,861 92

Baring Bros. Co., Ltd., London . 72 75

Cash on deposit. New England Trust
Company:
Interest on deposits . $2,103 47
Center Fund (Princi-
pal accumulated) . 1,254 84

3,358 31

,152 04

70

City Document No. 25.

Resume of Expenditure, City Appropriation.

Comparative Statement for Fiscal Years Ending January SI, 1907 and 1908.

1906-1907.

1907-1908.

Salaries:

General Administration

Sunday and evening force

Binding:

Salaries

Stock

Equipment

Electric Power

Rent

Books, including Carnegie gift, reported page 68 .

Periodicals, exclusive of London account

Fiirniture and fixtures *

Ga

Electric lighting *

Supplies *

Cleaning *

Printing-
Salaries

Stock

Contract work, chiefly printing annual report, see

page 68

Equipment

Electric power

Rent. .

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

Insurance *

Grounds

Premium on surety bond

Vacuum Cleaning System, installation

Architect's services (Charlestown Branch)

Remittance to J. S. Morgan & Co., London

Lectures

Notary Public certificate

1163,742 18
20,213 58

20,446 20

2,415 60

303 92

45 30

825 00

24,2.55 24

6,488 58

7,705 88

2,782 36

2.665 80

3,200 04

6.378 11

7,044 85
3,575 10

1,169 03

1,626 00

241 40

458 36

2,235 87

31 37

12,873 03

13,226 16

6,486 78

1,477 11

4,426 43

980 82

353 59

1,328 28

389 38

100 31
5 00
526 00
100 00
5,000 00
183 90

$172,806 54
20,747 46

22,079 49

2,321 82

5 98

36 60

989 48

21,495 53

6,909 32

7,190 94

2,433 59

2,486 40

3,594 87

8,115 06

7,172 95
2,558 57

776 60

96 46

232 00

556 20

1,704 33

40 58

12,501 22

13,274 48

5,010 14

1,386 24

- 3,949 90

1.130 65
393 91

1.131 04
304 82
516 49

93 70
5 00

1,000 00

452 90

7 25

$325,306 56

$325,508 51

The cost of maintaining the branches w?s as follows:

Cost of Branches, 1906-1907 $91,719 74

Cost of Branches, 1907-1908 94.594 11

Expenditures for newspapers, books and binding (not included above),
paid from trust income and city money in the hands of London bankers,

For 1906-1907.
For 1907-1908.

B9,014 45
8,793 11

Expenditures for books, 'newspapers and photographs (not included
above), paid from trust income in the hands of the City Treasurer, were:

For 1906-1907.
For 1907-1908.

89,069 01
8,448 94

* The figures under these heads vary from those on page 69, for the reason that
these include items of expenditure at the Printing and Binding Depa.-tments, grouped
under the head " Miscellaneous Expense," page 68.

Library Department,

71

Special Appropriation.

Library Building, Dartmouth street, balance of
appropriation, February 1, 1907 . . . .

i,640 44

Balance, February 1, 1908 . .

LONDON ACCOUNTS.

. $48,640 44

Balances

from
1906-1907.

Remittances

and interest,

1907-1908.

Total
Credits.

Expendi-
tures
1907-1908.

Balances
Unex-
pended.

J. S. Morgan & Co. . .
J. S. Morgan & Co.,

£. s. d.
1,191 7 10

£. s. d.
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£. s. d.
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15 0 0

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£. s. d.
588 7 6

15 0 0

15 0 0

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1,249 2 0

2,455 9 10

1,852 2 4

603 7 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 income 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, expended
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 tune 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 $1,000 00

The interest on this fund is to be exclusively appropriated for the pur-
chase 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

Library Department. 75

Pierce Fund. — This is a gift from Henry L. Pierce, Mayor of the
City, November 29, 1873, and accepted by the City Council December 27,
1873.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $5,000 00

TowNSEND Fund. — This is a gift from William Minot and William
Minot, Jr., executors of the will of Mary P. Townsend, of Boston, at
whose disposal she left a certain portion of her estate in trust for such
charitable and public institutions as 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 eA^ery year, be expended
in the puschase 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. " Received April, 1879.

Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bond, for . . ' $4,000 00

Ticknor Bequest. — By the will of the late George Ticknor, of
Boston, he gave to the City of Boston, on the death of his wife, all his
books and manuscripts, in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, about
four thousand volumes, and also the sum of four thousand dollars. After
the receipt of said sum, the City is required to spend not less than one
thousand dollars in every five years during the twenty-five years next
succeeding {i.e., the income of four thousand dollars, at the rate of five per
cent, per annum) in the purchase of books in the Spanish and Portuguese
languages and literature, five years old in some one edition. 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 Portu-
guese 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 exe-
cuted, 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. Received April, 1871.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . . $4,000 00

Franklin Club Fund. — This is a gift made in June, 1863, by a literary
association of young men in Boston, who at the dissolution of the asso-
ciation authorized its trustees, Thomas Minns, John J. French and J.
Franklin Reed, to dispose of the funds on hand in such a manner 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 pur-
chase of books of permanent value for the use of the free Public Library
of the City, and as far as practicable of such a character as to be of special
interest to young men. " The Trustees expressed a preference for books
relative to Government and Political Economy. Received June, 1863.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00

76 City Document No. 25.

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 remain-
ing 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 authorized the Trustees
of the Public Library to receive the same, and to invest it in the City of
Boston Bonds, the income of which is to be expended by said Trustees in
such manner as they may deem for the best interests of the Library.
Invested in the City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds, for . $5,550 00
Invested in the City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bonds, for 1,400 00

Invested in 16 shares Boston & Albany R.R. Co. stock, par

value $100 each 1,600

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 private 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. Received
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 rep-
resents the income of said fund, received by him up to the time of his death,
to be added to the fund given by his brother.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
" " " " " " " " . 11,800 00

$61,800 00

Green Fund. — Gifts from Dr. Samuel A. Green, of Boston, of $2,000,
the income of which is to be expended for the purchase of books relating
to American History.

Invested in one City of Boston Five per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00

Four '• " . 500 00

Three " " . 500 00

$2,000 00

Library Department. 77

South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund— Gift of a citizen of
South Boston, the income of which is to be expended for the benefit of
the South Boston Branch Library. Received September, 1879.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent Bond, for . $100 00

Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund. — This is a gift from the fam-
ily of Charles Greely Loring, the income of which is to be expended for the
purchase of books for the West End Branch. Received January, 1S9G.

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 con-
sistent 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 Victo-
RiNE Thomas Artz, of Chicago; the income "to be employed in the pur-
chase of valuable rare editions of the writings, either in verse or prose, of
American and of foreign authors." These books are to be known as the
"Longfellow Memorial Collection."

Invested in one City 'of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00

John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund. — This fund was received from
the members of the Papyrus Club, May, 1897. The income thereof is to
be expended for the purchase of books in memory of their late member,
John Boyle O'Reilly.

Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00

Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund. — This is a gift made in April,
1897, by the Association of Officers of the Twentieth Massachusetts Vol-
unteer Infantry. It is to be used for the purchase of books of a military
and patriotic character, to be placed in the alcove appropriated 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 an-
nually 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. R,eceived November, 1897.

Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bond, for $1,000 00

Henry Sargent Codman Memorial Fund. — This is a contribution
from the friends of the late Henry Sargent Codman, to be used to per-
petuate the memory of Mr. Codman, by the purchase of books upon land-
scape gardening. Received January, 1898.

78 City Document No. 25.

Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-lialf per cent.

Bond, for $2,800 00

Casli in City Treasury, January 31, 1908 . . . . 54 41

$2,854 41

Ford Fund. — A bequest of Daniel Sharp Ford to the Public Library
of the City of Boston for the purchase of books for youth. 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 collection
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 $5,000 00

Billings Fund. — From the estate 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
purpose 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

Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bond ■. 3,000 00

Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bond 6,200 00

Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1908 .... 150 55

* $23,350 55

Tufts Fund. — A bequest of the late Nathan A. Tufts, of Charlestown,
to be known as the "Nathan A. Tufts Fund," the income to be applied at
all times to the purchase of books and other additions to the Library, to
be placed in the Charlestown branch.

Invested in City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.

Bonds $10,000 00

Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1908 .... 131 77

$10,131 77

* The Trustees also hold real estate received from Mr. Center, valued at S19,800.
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Recapitulation of Public Library Trust Funds.

Robert Charles Billings Fund 1100,000 00

Scholfield Fund 61,800 00

Bates Fund 50,000 00

Todd Fund 50,000 00

Center Fund * 23,350 55

Phillips Fund 20,000 00

Treadwell Fund 10,487 69

Nathan A. Tufts Fund 10,13177

Phillips Fund 10,000 00

Bowditch Fund 10,000 00

Charlotte Harris Fund 10,000 00

Abbott Lawrence Fund 10,000 00

Artz Fund 10,000 00

Ford Fund 6,000 00

Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund 5,000 00

Pierce Fund 5,000 00

Mrs. John A. Lewis Fund 5,000 00

Townsend Fund 4,000 00

Ticknor Fund 4,000 00

Cutter Fund 4,000 00

Codman Memorial Fund 2,854 41

Charles Mead Fund 2,500 00

Green Fund 2,000 00

Bigelow Fund 1,000 00

Thomas B. Harris 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 Fund 500 00

South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund .... 100 00

$422,224 42

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VOLUMES IN LIBRARY AND BRANCHES JANUARY 31, 1908,
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PLACED ON THE SHELVES FEBRUARY 1. 1907, TO JANUARY 31, 1908.

Placed on

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Condemned,

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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 Athenaeum.

South Boston branch

South End branch

Upham's Corner branch

West End branch

West Roxbury branch

Lower Mills reading room

Roslindale reading room

Mattapan reading room

Neponset reading room

Mt. Bowdoin reading room

AUston reading room

Codman Square reading room

Mt. Pleasant reading room

Broadway Extension reading room . . .

Warren Street reading room

Roxbury Crossing reading room

Boylston Station reading room

Industrial School reading room

Orient Heights reading room

North Street reading room

City Point reading room

Parker Hill reading room

Total .

21,673
1,SS9
556
712
520
950
571

13
796
980
661
630
888
277

82
488

79
254
288

91
461
111
287
108
108
100

93

83

97

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275

34,277

3,134

4,262

182

3,341

386

565

351

113

351

720

340

244

531

27

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2

1

57

1

138

6

280

7

29

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14

17

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18,539

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loss 2,629

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445

260

321

386

357

250

82

450

77

253

231

90

323

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89

69

80

22

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CENTRAL LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS.

CLASSES.

General collection.

Special Libraries.

1

1868.

1861.

1866.

18G9.

1871.

1873.

1875.

187".

1880.

1889.

1890.

1892.

1894.

1SS4.

1894.

1896.

1896.

1897.

1898.

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19,928
92,098
60,918
30,932
13,170
23,925
12,168

3,896
20,669
27,390

7,962
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29,320

8,02*
10,198
26,0S9
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27,048
10,013
10,S75

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18,724

347
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493

2,617

1,210
543
210
652
287
59
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516
165

1,416
967
168
166
310
525
615
448
627,

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54
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4
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13
11

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12

14
9
4
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2.426
18,382
20,428
94,765
62,182
31,482
13,384
24,485
12,461

3,956
21,168
27,917

8,117
44,484
30,2»8

8,194
10,356
26,987
22,627
27,677
10,600
11,406
11,084
19,407

1

18
77
195
118
31
32
28
23
7
23
13

32
65
20
11
18
39
38
45
32
17
19

2,426
18,364
20,361
94,570
62,064
31,461
13,352
24,457
12,438

3,949
21,145
27,904

8,117
44,452
30,223

8,174
10,346
26,969
22,588
27,639
10,455
11,374
11,067
19,388

249
36

17

108

77

60

11

9

9

22

2

1,387

68

146

6

66

3

3

15

5,009

14

322
614

665

1,096

869

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327

1,426

1,179

95

3:9

740

6

5

43

835

114

197

21
691
137
813
3,215
2,474
338
254
617
200
225
471

16
33
424
387
2,459
669
184
190
23
66
60
63

31
13

501
904
1,220
293
76
59
66
64
178
462
22
415
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67
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1,679
65
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26
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IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.
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278
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371
22
58
31
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4,454

6

260

669

14

1

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19

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47
10

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375
226
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2,137
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291

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37,947

XII6.
XIII.

Transactions

8,286

3,634

1,361

96

307

75

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135
13

685
52

382
121
24
63
5
32
63
36

246
130

17
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89
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18
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60,199

36,811

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16,729

14
23

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114
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116

14,263

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3

27,629

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23,225

Mntberoatlcsand ih sleal science

21

8

1
1

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33,096

4

30

11,191

11,113

10,804

8
6

1

6
20

21,885

13
38

30

1
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26

1

129

14

43

84

93

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401
10
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37

276

97

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60

169

652

652

652

47

13

2

150

16

1,038

3,393

704
20,.".74
25,718

70
1,347
1,202

181
18

774
22,112
27,938

1,236
997

774
20,877
26,941

774

20,877

26,911

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596,042
2,373

19,164

1,840

443

49

615,639
4,262

3,134
4,262

612,505

7,356

13,888

2,052

129

6,473

13,669

5,390

669

793

422

696

1,872

3,019

10,806

424

2,501

806

3,043

196

1,7(14

10,132

6,611

11,711

723,075

129

6,473

793

422

1,872

2,604

806

3,013

196

1,704

10,132

6,614

11,714

598,415

20,994

492

619,901

7,S96

612,605

7,356

13,886

2,0.')2

13,669

5,390

669

696

3,019

10,805

424

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Class VIII. includes nleo Belgium, tlic Nelliprlande, Switzerland and tiie Scandinavian nations. CluseXXIV. does not include tlie Shakespeare eollection of the general library.

Class XIV. iiii-ludeBpolliictil scleuce and ethics, education, etc. Note. —The dates given In the special libraries coluuinBhow th(i year when these collectlona i

Claases IV., V., VI., VII., VIII.. X. and XI. include history, geography, biography, belles-lettres and language of the countries speciiied.

* Not yet definitely clnseifled.

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Library Department.

95

APPENDIX V.

CLASSIFICATION.

Branch Libraries.

As reported by Custodian of branches January 31, 1908.

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Genealogy and heraldry.

Biography

History

Fine arts, archseology . .

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

Total .

414

12

1,506

1,682

328
1,097

100
1,806

114

621

327

340

229

17

345

91

4,544

2,529

985

17,08;

1,107

49

1,634

2,490

373

1,042

86

1,782

95

513

229

474

173

20

257

84

4,527

2,567

720

4,224

22,446

419

2

1,508

1,558

368

1,041

91

1,552

115

516

227

249

145

9

289

88

5,149

3,060

1,415

851

18,652

406

444

190

1,377

483

517

23

6

35

77

3

5

1,210

1,401

933

2,659

1,325

1,610

1,415

1,350

738

3,117

1,463

1,467

295

361

147

639

394

340

784

857

615

1,689

929

833

72

99

46

102

75

75

1,487

1,396

932

4,214

1,575

1,624

89

93

61

303

126

120

458

521

196

1,169

547

502

177

222

133

392

245

269

205

244

243

1,204

290

235

129

157

52

427

151

150

17

7

6

79

23

25

245

281

112

448

295

243

75

88

■55

60

89

81

3,615

4,106

3,305

2,235

4,222

4,112

3,608

2,300

444

2,256

2,762

2,141

674

1,377

1,213

3,544

1,401

1,073

40

504

19

82

15,024

15,309

9,960

25,991

16,417

15,504

127

1

174

238

36
102

25
224

17

91

29

40

27

1

52

10

903

1,022

50

3,169

717

8

1,395

1.434

304

957

144

1,395

101

673

279
882
264

8

378

85

2,355

2,266

894

14,539

96

City Document No. 25.

CLASSIFICATION OF HOLDERS OF
JANUARY 31, 1908.

By Wards.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.
10.
11.
12.
13.

1.810

25,405

1,740

25,929

1,390

14,831

1,310

12,499

1,220

12,633

2,360

29,987

2,245

15,579

5,605

30,810

3,204

22,120

6,203

23,841

6,462

22,353

5,384

21,738

1,695

21,654

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.0671
.0937
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.0966
.0787
.1441
.1819
.1448
.2601
.2935
.2476
.0782

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.

2,240
2,142
2,565
2,543
2.398
2.125
4,740
4,523
3,104
3,394
5,687
3,643

Total .

79,662

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

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.1054
.1169
.1045
.1084
.0727
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.1704
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By Sexes, Ages, Etc.

Males 32,282 Over 16 years old ... . 50,628

Females 47,380 Under 16 years old ... 29,034

Single 69,521 Married (ladies) 10,141

Teachers . . . 3,906 Students . . . 11,080 Pupils . . 25,122

Teachers' and Special Cards.

Of the 4,072 teachers' cards issued prior to February 1, 1908, 980 are
" live " cards; of these 890 are held by permanent residents (in addition to
their ordinary cards), and 90 are held by non-residents.
' Of the 1,340 special privilege cards issued prior to February 1, 1908, 249
are " live " cards, 82 are held by permanent residents, and 167 are held
by non-residents.

Total number of application blanks, borrowers' cards, certificates, etc.,
filled in, and filed alphabetically each year since the present numerical
record of borrowers was commenced on February 1, 1899:

1899-1900
1900-1901
1901-1902
1902-1903
1903-1904
1904-1905
1905-1906
1906-1907
1907-1908

58,193
67,305
76,394
71,406
81,881
86,856
89,520
88,070
88,890

Total 708,515

APPENDIX VI.

REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Statistical lieport, February 1, 1907 to February 1, 1908.

CARDS ISSUED FEBEUABY 1, 1907 — JANUARY 31, 1908.

Re-registrations.

New Registrations.

Renewals.

Over Under

Over Under

Over Under

Over Under

Over Under

Over Under

Central Library

Brighton Branch

Cbarlcstowu Branch

Dorchester Brancli

East Boston Branch

Jamaica Plain Branch

Roxbury Branch

South Boston Branch

South End Branch

Upham'B Corner Branch .

West End Branch

West Roxbury Branch . . .

Station A

B

32,072
1,715
2,674
3,134
3,546
2,754
4,020
4,017
2,874
3,468
4,133
1,152
400

2,631
3,876
4,317
6,648
4,284
6,109
7,000
4,379
6,676

1,279

i,e

1,750
1,461
2,046
2,683
1,699
1,781
2,100

22,762
1,751
2,597
2,659
3,898
2,823
4,063
4,417
2,780
3,894
4,486
1,182
371

1,774
2,005

1,137
1,294

31
1,472
1,764
1,603
1,733
1,1%

111

31

2,187
2,679
2,411
2,660
2,065
19

1,421
1,806
1,604
1,625
1,405

at Franklin Park.

1,220
1,913

Totals 76,782

2,880 2,376 9,656

Library Department.

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APPENDIX VII.

CIRCULATION OF BOOKS.
Home Use 0^fLT.

Total Circulation.
Home Use.

From Central

Library through

Branches and

Stations.

Included in

Central Library

Circulation "B."

From Branches
through Stations.

Included in
Branch (Circulation

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

Central Library :

272.547

94,308
41,877
51,424
55.548
76.046
52,061
80.241
88,570
96,608

287.165

102.587
46.423
47,863
54,933
85.080
53.493
83.760
88.885
94.145
68.087

138.893

34,286

7.295

38,171

7,160

9,341

24,982

20.712

43.486

16.794

25.603

778

753

650

1.511

1,560

1,053

936

1,342

3.026
1,464
1,428
1,620
2,483
2,338
2.537
4,393
5,958
4,874
3,028

955

673

512

1,786

1,572

871

865

1,487

3,849

4.121

1,803

1,566

1,333

2,792

1.941

2,608

3,483

5.433

4,953

2,778

2259
2384

B, through branches and

Roxbury

South Boston

South End

West End

154.333

30,896

6,607

35,923

5,118

8,520

24,766

20,555

39,062

15.315

23,771

West Roxbury

=164

B

D

E

2417

F

G

J

N

P

Carried forward

1,235,010

1.336,747

33,830

37.650

643

581

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APPENDIX Yll.—Concl uded.

•

Total Circulation,
Home Use.

From Central

Library through

Branches and

Stations,

Included in

Central Library

Circulation" B."

From Branches
through Stations,

Included in _
Branch Circulation

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

1906-
1907.

1907-
1908.

Brought forward

Station Q

1,235,010

62,177

19,418

13,022

16,300

7,642

7,457

5,186

16,677

1,336,747

18,778

15,297

18,784

8,714

7,869

5,017

24,683

9,235

482

33,830
4,180
4,856
4,218
5,040

12,312
2,444
1,959
1,158

69
1,151

144

111,600
3,445

37,650

5,265

6,037

5,908

12,210

2,387
2,975
2,984
1,497

362
910

265

'11,750
4,656

643

3900

581

R

8956

S

T

W

Z

22

23

24

Cottage Place

831

4,341

1,258

2,840

786

29,372

5,390

1,608

1,812

212

32,086

Guild St. Elizabeth

Suffolk School for Boys... .
Parental School

Total

1,461 403

1,529,111

94,308

102 587

1,543

1,537

' Number sent on deposit. Number used on premises not recorded.
" Included in Dorchester Branch Circulation.
8 " " I^oxbury . • . .

§ Supplied from Central Library.

Library Department.

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APPENDIX VIII.

TRUSTEES FOR FIFTY-SIX 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; Prof. Henry W.
Haynes, from May 7, 1888, to May 12, 1888; 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, May
12, 1899, to October 15, 1907; and Rev. James De Normandie,
D.D., elected January 31, 1908.

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 citi-
zens at large, two of whom retired, unless 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 alderman, 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., 1894-1907.
BiGELOw, Hon. John P., 1852-68.
BowDiTCH, Henry I., M.D., 1865-

68.
BowDiTCH, Henry P., M.D., 1894-

1902.
Boyle, Thomas F., 1902-1907.
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.
C.\RR, 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-

1907.
Dickinson, M. F., Jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1863-64.
DwiGHT, Thomas, M.D., 1899-1907.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett, Hon Edward, 1852-64.
Flynn, James J., 1883.
Frost, Oliver, 1854-55; 1856-58.
Frothingham, Richard, LL.D.,

1875-79.
Gaffield, Thomas, 1867-68.
Green, Samuel A., M.D., 1868-78.

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Greenough, William W., 1856-88.
Guild, Curtis, 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris, William G., 1869-70.
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.
Kenney, William F., 1907.
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-

1907.
Little, Samuel, 1871-73.
Messinger, George W., 1855.
Morse, Godfrey, 188.3-84.
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, 1855-56; 1865-67.
Thomas, Benjamin F., LL.D.,

1877-78.
TicKNOR, George, LL.D., 1852-66.
Tyler, John S., 1863-64; 1866-67.
Walker, Francis A., LL.D., 1896.
Warren, George W., 1852-54.
W^ashburn, Frederick L., 1857-58.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1868-70.
Whitmore, W^Qliam H., 1882-83.
Whitmore, William H., 1885-88.
Whitney, Daniel A., 1862-63.
Whitten, Charles V., 1883-85.
Wilson, Elisha T., M.D., 1861-63.
Wilson, George, 1852.
WiNSOR, Justin, LL.D., 1867.
Wolcott, Hon. Roger, 1879.
Wright, Albert J., 1868-69.

LIBRARIANS.

1852 to date.
(From 1858 to 1877, the chief executive officer was entitled Superintendent.)

Capen, Edward, Librarian, May 13, 1852-December 16, 1874.

Jewett, Charles C, Superintendent, 1858-January 9, 1868.

WiNSOR, Justin, LL.D., Superintendent, February 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-Septembef 30,

1890.
Dwight, Theodore F., Librarian, April 13, 1892-April 30, 1894.
Putnam, Herbert, LL.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.

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APPENDIX IX.

EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR FIFTY-SIX 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 peiiod
of eight months, for which no Examining Committee was
appointed.

Abbott, Hon. J. G., 1870.
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880, 1894.
Adams, Brooks, 1894.
Adams, Nehemiah, D.D., 1860.
Adams, William T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. William R., 1870.
Allen, Hon. Charles, 1899.
Amory, Miss Anna S., 1890, 1891.
Andrew, Hon. John F., 1888.
Andrews, Augustus, 1892, 1893.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, 1854.
Apthorp, WUliam F., 1883, 1899,

1900.
Arnold, Howard P., 1881.
Arnold, Miss Sarah L., 1902.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, Gilbert, 1877.
Austin, Thomas H., 1906.
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.
Bartlett, Sidney, 1869.
Bates, Hon. John L., 1896, 1897.
Beaman, Mrs. Nathaniel P., 1907.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Edward, D.D., 1854.
Bellows, Mrs. John A., 1903, 1904.
Bent, Samuei Arthur, 1890, 1891.
Berran, John D., 1906, 1907.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1857.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1856.
Blagden, George W., D.D., 1856.
Blake, J. Bapst, M.D., 1897, 1898.
Blake, John G., M.D., 1883, 1891.
Blake, Mrs. Mary E., 1894, 1900,

1901.
Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P., 1879, 1891.
Bowditch, Alfred, 1899, 1900.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1855.

Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1865.
Bowditch, Henry P., M.D., 1881.
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll, LL.D., 1855.
BowTnan, 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.
Browiie, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, Charles E., M.D.,

1872.
Burdett, Everett W., 1896, 1897.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, Jr., 1869.
Bvrne, 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, D.D., 1882.
Clarke, Hon. William W., 1907.
Clement, Edward H.. 1894, 1895.
Coale, George O. G., 1892, 1893.
Colby, John H., 1900, 1901.
Collar, William C, 1874.

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Collar, Mrs. WUliam C, 1900, 1901.
Colleton, Miss Eleanor M., 1904,

1905.
Collins, Hon. Patrick A., 1898, 1899.
Concannon, John S., 1903, 1904.
Connolly, Rev. Arthur T., 1898,

1899.
Connolly, James B., 1905, 1906.
Coolidge, J. Randolph, Jr., 1904,

1905.
Corbett, Hon. Joseph J., 1896, 1897.
Crosby, J. Allen, 1907.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.D., 1878.
Curtis, Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Laurence, 1905, 1906.
Curtis, Thomas B., M.D., 1874.
Cushing, Thomas, 1885.
Dalton, Charles H., 1884.
Dana, Samuel T., 1857.
Davis, James C, 1899, 1900.
Dean, Benjamin, 1873.
Denny, Henry G., 1876.
Derby, Hasket, M.D., 1895, 1896.
Devine, WOliam 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, Hemy 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.
Edson, Mrs. P. O'Meara, 1906, 1907.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.D., 1868.
Ellis, Arthur B., 1888, 1889.
Ellis, Calvin, M.D., 1871.
Ellis, George E., D.D., 1881.
Emmons, Hon. WUliam H. H., 1907.
Endicott, William, Jr., 1878.
Ensworth, • William H., M.D., 1898,

1899.
Ernst, Carl W., 1897, 1898.
Evans, George W., 1887, 1888, 1889.
Everett, Sidney, 1895.

Fallon, Hon. Joseph D., 1899, 1900.
Farlow, John W., M.D., 1892, 1893.
Field, jMiss 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.
Frothingham, 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.
Green, 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, 1906.
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. Henry W., 1881,

1884.
Hayward, George, M.D., 1863.
Hazard, Bertha, 1907.
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.
Higgiiison, Francis L., 1899, 1900.
Higginson, Thomas W!, LL.D.,

1883
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.

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Hillard, Hon. George S., 1853.
HUlard, Hon. George S., 1873.
Hilis, Thomas, 1898, 1899.
Hodges. Richard M., M.D., 1870.
Holbrook, Mrs. Pinckney, 1905-,

1906.
Hohnes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., M.D., 1858.
Holmes, Oliver W., Jr., LL.D., 1882.
Homans, Charles D., M.D., 1867.
Homans, Mrs. Charles D., 1885,

1886, 1887.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 1857.
Horton, Rev. Edward A., 1899,

1900.
Hubbard, James M., 1891.
Hubbard, William J., 1858.
Hudson, John E., 1895, 1896.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880, 1893,

1894.
Hutchins, Miss Emma, 1895, 1896.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Irwin, Miss Agnes, 1894.
Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D., 1869.
Jeffries, William A., 1893.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jenney, Bernard, 1901, 1902.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, 1900, 1901.
Johnson, Henry Lewis, 1906, 1907.
Johnson, Rev. Robert F., 1900,

1901.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kellen, WUliam V., 1901, 1902.
Kidder, Henrv P., 1870.
Kidner, Rev. Reuben, 1907.
Kimball, David P., 1874.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
King, Mrs. Henry S., 1906, 1907.
Kirk, 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.
Lewis 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, Loricg, 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.
Mann, Alexander, D.D., 1906.
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,

1906.
Maxwell, Hon. Arthur, 1906.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Merriman. Daniel, D.D., 1905, 1906.
Metcalf, Rev. Theodore A., 1888,

1889.
Minns, Thomas, 1864, 1905, 1906.
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., 1878, 1907.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W., 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. Hugh, 1879.
O'Brien, Robert Lincoln, 1906,

1907.
O'Callaghan, John J., 1895.
O'Meara, Mrs. Stephen, 1907.
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, 1898.
Parkman, Henry, 1885.
Parks, Rev. Leighton, 1882, 1896,

1897.
Parmelee, Mrs. William, 1906, 1907.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,

1884, 1885, 1890, 1891.
Phillips, John C, 1882.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Pierce, Hon. Henry L., 1891.
Pingree, Miss Lalia B., 1894.
Plant, Mrs. Thomas G., 1904, 1905.
Prescott, William H., LL.D., 1853.
Prince. Hon. F. 0., 1888, 1889, 1890,

1891. 1892, 1893, 1895, 1890.
Putnam, George, 1900, 1901.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. John P., 1865.
Putnam, WMlliam L., 1898, 1899.
Rafter, Augustine L., 1907.

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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.
Robins, Julia Gorham, 1907.
Roche, James Jeffrey, 1898, 1899.
Rockwell, Miss Maud M., 1902,

1903.
Rogers, Prof. William B., 1861.
Rollins, J. Wingate, 1888, 1889.
Ropes, John C, LL.D., 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 1863.
Rowe, Henry S., 1903, 1904.
Ruddick, William H., M.D., 1905,

1906.
Runkle, Prof. J. D., 1882.
Russell, Samuel H., 1880.
Sampson, O. H., 1892, 1893.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860.
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, Mrs. Frederick C, 1907.
Shattuck, George B., M.D., 1904,

1905.
Shaw, Mrs. Walter, 1905, 1906.
Sheldon, N. Louis, 1903, 1904.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1888,

1889.
Sherwin, Mrs. Thomas, 1893, 1894.
Shillaber, William G., 1907.
Shippen, Rev. Eugene R., 1906.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B., 1857.
Smith,' Ajjariah, 1895, 1896.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 1881, 1886.
Smith, Miss Minna, 1892.
Snow, Frederic E., 1906.
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. N., 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, WUliam C, 1894.
Tracy, Joseph V., D.D., 1906, 1907.
Trueblood, Rev. Benjamin F., 1904,

1905.
Turner, Miss Frances H., 1899, 1900.
Tuttle, Lucius, 1903, 1904.
Twombly, Alexander S., 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.
Warren, John, M.D., 1907.
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.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1869.
Whitmore, William H., 1887.
Whitney, Daniel H., 1862.
Whitney, Henry A., 1873.
Wightman, Hon. Joseph M., 1859.
Williams, Harold, M.D., 1888, 1889,

1890.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Williamson, Mrs. William C, 1897,

1898.
Wilson, Elisha T., M.D., 1861.
Witisor, 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.
Woodbury, John P., 1907.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Gould, 1888,

1889.
Worcester, Elwood, D.D., 1905,

1906.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D.. 1884.

Library Department.

105

APPENDIX X.

SCHEDULE OF LIBRARY SERVICE.

Note. — This schedule has been brought down to May 1, 1908.

Summary.

Central Library

Branches and reading rooms

Men.

105

17

Women.

92
73

Total.

197
90

122

165

287

Evening and Sunday service, Central Library ,^* 106.
Sunday service, branches, 61.

Extra assistance is employed at the branches.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

Name.

Entered.

Wadlin, Horace G. . . . 1903

Librarian.

Fleischner, Otto

1891

Ass't Librarian.

Nichols, Adelaide A.

. 1868

Auditor.

Deery, Delia Jean .

1891

Shumway, Marion H.

1895

tMooney, George V,

1889

Dixon, Robert F. X.

1902

JBerran, Mary A. C.

1902

JDoyle, Katharine M.

1908

Mackin, Timothy J.

1903

Lee, Charles 0.

1904

CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.

Chevalier, Samuel A. . . . 1894

Chief..

Swift, Lindsay

1878

Editor.

Murdoch, John

1896

Muss-Arnolt, William

1907

Hinckley, George L.

1903

Tenney, Mary A. .

1897

Rice, Edwin F.

1885

Taylor, Lucien E. .

1903

Bartlett, Mary R.

1897

* Serving from one to seven evenings a week each. The total number of positions
is 39, evenings; 47, Sundays,
t Custodian of stock room.
j Auditor's Assistant.

106

City Document No. 25.

Name.

Entered

Cutler, Dora L. . . .

1887

Gould, Ida W. . . .

1884

Mackay, Susan H.

1901

Whitman, Frances N. A.

1903

Coolidge, Elsie W.

1903

Durand, Susan M.

1900

Lilienthal, Flora N.

. 1902

Merrill, E. Carolyn

1906

Brennan, Thomas F,

. 1890

Campbell, M. Theresa .

1902

Blinn, Lucius A. . . .

. 1907

ORDERING DE

PARTMEN^

Macurdy, Theodosia E.

1889

Frinsdorff, Emily 0. .

1894

Cushing, Helen G. .

1905

Goddard, Mrs. Frances H. .

1892

Collins, Margaret F.

1901

Cunniff, Nellie L. .

1895

Maiers, Wilham C, Jr. .

1897

Sanford, Emma D.

1902

Boyle, Gertrude

1906

Courtney, Francis X. .

1906

Tortorella, Lillian .

1906

SHELF DEPi*

lRTMENT,

Roffe, William G. T. .

1881

Locke, John F. . . .

1894

Connor, George H.

1891

Reardon, John H.

1896

Eberhart, John

1894

McCarthy, Michael, Jr.

1892

Ward, Joseph W. .

1891

Muckensturm, Matthew

1899

Meehan, Michael J.

1901

Gorham, Katharine J.

1902

Hennessey, Alice M. . . .

1901

Doonan, Anna G

1903

Horgan, John J

1902

Mason, Roger B

1907

Chief.

In charge.

BATES HALL.

Catalogue and Reference.

Bierstadt, Oscar A. . . . 1899

Doyle, Agnes C 1885

Forsyth, Walter G. . . . 1902

Benson, Axel L 1906

Custodian.

Library Departoient.

107

BATES ]

SALL.

Centre Desk.

Name.

Entered.

Buckley, Pierce E.

,

1891 Custodian

Conroy, Michael J.

1897

Olson, Alphild

1895

Corbett, William J.

1906

Hughes, George H.

1905

SPECIAL LIBRARIES.

Borden, Garrick M.

1907 Custodian

Currier, Mary T. .

1905

Duncan, Barbara .

1907

O'Neill, Alice H. .

1905

Cassidy, Margaret L.

1895

Murphy, Annie G.

1888

Doyle, James L. .

1900

Downey, John G. .

1904

Coughlin, Thomas A.

1907

Clegg, Wilham E. .

1908

Donahoe, Robert V.

1907

Documents and Manuscripts.

Whitney, James L. . . . 1869 CHief.

Wheeler, Horace L. . . . 1900

Rosenberg, Morris J. . . . 1901

McGowan, William A. . . . 1903

Wendte Frederika
Quinlan, George H.
Wallace, William C.

PERIODICAL ROOM.

1895
1901

1905

Serex, Frederic
Ennis, Wilham J.

NEWSPAPER ROOM.

1895
1900

PATENT ROOM AND NEWSPAPER FILES.

Mulloney, Wilham J.
O'Meara, Jeremiah J.

Blaisdell, Frank C.
Sheridan, Mary C.
Cufflin, M. Florence
Reynolds, Mary A.

1892
1905

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
1876

1881

1892

. . . 1894

Chief.

108

City Document No. 25.

Name.

Entered.

Dowling, S. Jennie . . . 1895

Hagerty, Mary E. .

1897

Bryce, Jean M.

1898

Richards, Florence F.

. 1876

Williams, Grace

1895

Shaughnessy, Mary A.

1897

McLaughlin, Alice

1901

Burke, Mary M. .

1904

Concree, Gertrude M.

1907

Daley, Agnes J.

1905

Day, Josephine E.

1899

Dohej-ty, Bessie L.

1905

Downing, Alice A.

1905

Doyle, Maizie E. .

1907

Ennis, Flora A.

1904

Greenlaw, Olive V.

1907

Haves, Clement T.

1903

Hoiden, Elsie M. .

1907

Lipshutz. William T.

1906

Maguire, Susan

. 1905

Mantle, Annie E. .

1905

Mulvaney, Mary E.

1904

Murphy, Michael F.

. 1907

Shea, Ella T. .

1905

Sullivan, James L.

. 1905

Sullivan, Katharine G.

1906

Zaugg, Julia R.

1903

children's room.

Jordan, Alice M 1900

Custodian.

Crush, Mildred E 1905

Tov. May C 1903

Williams, Eleanor M. . ^ . 1899

REGISTRATION DEPARTMENl

^

Keenan, John J 1885

Chief.

Hannigan, Frank J.

1898

Barry, Margaret M.

1897

Rogers, Anna F. .

1903

McNeil, Anna M. .

1903

PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

Lee, Francis W 1894

Chief.

Geyer, Willfried H.

1896

Pressman.

Boyle, Mary T. M.

1903

Compositor.

Land, Annie F.

1896

a

Munson, Minnie A.

1902

It

O'Keefe, Charles J.

1899

Job pressman

Bo wen, Thon>as

1908

Library Department.

109

BINDERY.

Name. Entered.

Ryder, Frank .... 1883

Foreman.

Collins, Dennis J. .

1887

Finisher,

Lofstrom, Konrad A.

1892

li

Callahan, Frank H.

1906

Forwarder.

Cellarius, Theodore W.

. 1892

Connell, William .

1904

Conolly, John F. .

. 1900

Doyle, M. Joseph .

1902

Eichhorn, Maximilian I

. 1904

Hemstedt, William P.

. 1883

Hoeffner, George .

1891

Murphy, John F. .

. 1885

Sullivan, J. Henry

1898

Watson, John H. .

. 1902

O'Brien, John J. .

1902

Apprentice.

Gallagher, George W.

1903

Masterson, Therese A.

1907

Clerk.

Abely, Alice M.

1906

Sewer.

Cooney, Elizabeth F.

1906

u

Coullahan, Ellen J.

1905

u

Denney, Ida G.

1902

il

Doiron, Joanna

1896

11 f

Fitzgerald. Mary E.

1907

' il

Flynn, Annie T. .

1907

it

Glancy, Mary A. .

1906

u

McElaney, Mary T.

1902

(C

Moriarty, Mary G.

1875

il

Potts, Ellen G.

1892

11

Soule, Lucy E.

1891

tl

ENGINEER .

iND JANITOR DEPARTMENT.

Niederauer, Henry

. 1894

Chief Engineer

McCready, Alexander

1895

Engineer.

Malone, John P.

1895

a

Zittell, George, Jr.

1891

a

Herland, Nils J.

1895

Fireman.

Lacey, Garrett

1904

a

Quirk, Timothy J.

1906

a

Karlson, Charles W.

1896

Electrician.

Williams, John L. .

1886

Janitor.

Berran, Edward

1903

it

Frye, Henry W. .

1898

11

Kelley, James J. .

1900

il

Murphy, Charles W.

1904

u

Kelly, Daniel T. .

1906

Watchman.

McCarty, Dennis .

1888

11

McGee. Alexander D. .

1896

Painter.

110

City Document No. 25.

Name.

Entered.

Lawrence, John A. . . . 1898

Carpenter.

Hanna, William T.

1895

Marble polisher.

Cole, William E. .

. 1898 )

Elevator and

Kennedy, Patrick A.

1906 >■

coat-room

Webster, Charles .

. 1906 )

attendants.

Mullen, Mrs. Mary F,

1905

Matron.

BRANCH DEPARTMENT

Ward, Langdon L. . . . 1896

Supervisor of Branches
and Stations.

Stevens, Alice V, .

. 1899

Kueffner, Cecilia W.

. 1898

Adams, Amy W. .

. 1903

Heimann, Otto A.

1890

Morse, Maud M.

1877

McCarthy, Marion A.

. 1895

Zaugg, Joanna

1895

Maier, Joseph A. .

. 1892

Brown, Richard

1898

Fazakas, Chester A. S.

1901

Mason, Forest L. .

1906

BRIGHTON BRANCH.

Prouty, Louise . . . . 1902

Custodian.

Conley, Ellen F. .

1891

Watson, Geneva .

1904

Mohan, Eleanor R.

1907

O'Neil, Thomas J.

1902

Janitor.

CHARLESTOWN BRANCH.

Cartee, Elizabeth F. . . . 1886

Custodian.

Rogan, Katharine S.

1896

Sullivan, Ellen L. .

1903

Donovan, Annie M.

1899

Jones, Clara L.

1903

Kiley, Mary G.

1903

DORCHESTER BRANCH.

Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth T. . . 1873

Custodian.

Donovan, Mary G.

1891

Reid, Margaret H.

1907

Connell, Grace M. .

1906

Lynch, Anna G.

1906

Halligan, John F. .

1902

Janitor.

EAST BOSTON BRANCH.

Walkley, Ellen O. ... 1897

Custodian.

Wing, Alice M.

1873

Library Department.

Ill

Name. Entered.

Brackett, Marian W. . . . 1897

Bethune, Florence M. . . 1903

Bickford, Lillian A. . . . 1891

Matthews, Everett F. . . 1900

Janitor.

Donnelly, James J. . . . 1904

JAMAICA PLAIN BRANCH.

Swain, Mary P 1877

Custodian.

Riley, Nellie F 1878

Orcutt, Alice B 1887

Kelley, Elizabeth M. . . . 1904

Kenney, Thomas H. . . . 1897

Janitor.

ROXBURY BRANCH.

Bell, Helen M. . . . . 1878

Custodian

Albert, Katie F 1892

Berry, Martha L. C. . . .' 1883

Griggs, Sarah W. ... 1886

Connell, Gertrude L. . . . 1903

Bell, Louise B 1906

Nugent, William B. . . . 1906

Janitor.

Robinson, Alice M. . . . 1902

Custodian

Eaton, Ellen A 1873

Sampson, Idalene L. . . . 1878

McQuarrie, Annie C. . . . 1894

Kiley, Catherine F. . . . 1904

Baker, Joseph .... 1872

Janitor.

SOUTH END BRANCH.

Sheridan, Margaret A, . . 1875

Custodian.

McEttrick, Alice .... 1902

Lynch, Emma F. ... 1885

McGrath, AmeHa .... 1888

Walsh, Katherine E. . . . 1903

Harris, William L. ... 1907

Busby, James H 1904

Janitor.

upham's corner branch.

Brick, Mary L 1899 Custodian.

Curley, Mary F 1905

Murphy, Margaret A. . . . 1905

Neilson, Ohve M. ... 1907

Davis, Mrs. Eliza R.
Barton, Margaret S.

WEST END BRANCH.

1877

1885

Custodian.

112

City Document No. 25.

Name.

Entered.

Forbes, George W. . . . 1896

Kiley, Mary E.

1896

Millmeister, Rebecca

1899

Riley, Mary E.

1891

McMullen, Katharine M.

1905

Menaker, Naaman

1903

Cardarelli, Eugene

1905

Sullivan, Daniel J.

1898

Janitor.

WEST ROXBURY BRANCH.

Morse, Carrie L 1890

Custodian

Willis, Rebecca E. ... 1903

Schwartz, Edward . . . 1904

Janitor.

STATION A.

Hill, M. Addie .... 1875

Custodian

Moulton, John W. . . * . 1890

Janitor.

STATION B.

Murray, Grace L 1900 Custodian,

Regan, Alice M 1903

Stackpole, Freeland E. . . 1900 Janitor.

STATION D.

Capewell, Mrs. Emma G. . . 1892 Custodian.

STATION E.

Sullivan, Mary M.

1902 Custodian.

STATION F.

Fairbrother, Mrs. Elizabeth G. . 1887 Custodian.

Wetherald, Isabel F. . . . 1902

STATION G.

Muldoon, Katherine F, . . 1896 Custodian.

STATION J.

Harkins, Gertrude M.
Sargent, Abbie E.

Witherell, Anna G.
Stewart, Cora L, .

1905 Custodian.
1906

STATION N.

1900 Custodian.

STATION P.

1898 Custodian.

Library Department.

113

STATION R.
Name. Entered.

Kelly, Mary L 1904

Cross, Laura N.

STATION s.

1901

STATION T.

Ross, Elizabeth P. ... 1905

STATION W.

Guerrier, Edith W. . . . 1899

STATION Z.

McDougall, Helen M. . . . 1901

STATION 22.

Boggiano, Iside .... 1903

STATION 23.

Kenney, Josephine E. . . . 1906

STATION 24.

Kelley, Mary F 1905

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Custodian.

Evening and Sunday Service.

Central Library.

Bates Hall. — Officers in charge: Frank C. Blaisdell, Sam-
uel A. Chevalier, Otto Fleischner, John Murdoch, Lindsay Swift.
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 W. Dolan, Fernald Hutchins, William A.
McGowan, Timothy J. Mackin, Morris J. Rosenberg. Collectors
of slips: Lucius A. Blinn, Terence D. Gordon, John A. Lahive,
Constantine E. McGuire, Irving G. Rouillard. Runners:
Alfred E. Bown, Thomas A. Coughlin, Francis X. Courtney,
Terence D. Gordon, Stanton F. Gorman, John A. Lahive,
Irving G. Rouillard.

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. Deliverers of books: Fred W. Blaisdell, Michael J.

114 City Document No. 25.

Conroy, James L. Doyle, Matthew Muckensturm, George H.
Quinlan. Care of indicator: Robert F. X. Dixon, James L.
Doyle, Clement T. Hayes, Joseph A. Maier, Harry F. Mayer,
James L. Sullivan. Assistants at indicator: Max H. Newman,
Richard F. O'Toole, Prescott F. Sale, Frederick H. Toye, Wil-
liam C. Wallace. Care of slips: Otto A. Heimann, Michael
McCarthy, Jr., Joseph A. Maier, Harry F. Mayer, Joseph W.
Ward. Desk attendants: Robert F. X. Dixon, Fernald Hutchins,
Peter V. McFarland,«iWiniam A. McGowan, Harry F. Mayer,
James L. Sullivan, Care of tubes and cars: John W. Athridge,
Edward J. Berran, Charles W. Dolan, Chester A. S. Fazakas,
Thomas G. Goodwin, Clement T. Hayes, Charles E. Herekson,
William A. McGowan, Timothy J. Mackin, James L. Sullivan.
Bookcase attendant: Thomas G. Goodwin. Runners: Edward
J. Berran, Alfred E. Bown, Walter F. Brown, Edward E. Bruce,
Charles Concannon, James J. Cotter, Charles W. Dolan, John
G. Downing, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Frank V. Flanagan, George
W. Gallagher, Charles H. Gelpke, Terence D. Gordon, Stanton
F. Gorman, Leo J. Grady, Cornelius A. Guiney, Charles E.
Herekson, Gardner D. Howie, William H. Kennedy, Charles
O. Lee, William T. Lipshutz, Joseph F. McLean, Charles V.
Mansfield, R. Philip Monahan, Holman S. Pearl, Prescott F.
Sale, Philip A. E. Sheridan, Isador Singer, Lewis A. Wall, Wil-
liam C. Wallace. Children's room attendants: Mary A. C. Berran,
Jean M. Bryce, Maud M. Morse, Mary A. Reynolds, Mary A.
Shaughnessy, Mary C. Toy, Joanna Zaugg. Extra attendants:
William P. Hemstedt, Thomas G. Goodwin, Max H. Newman,
Richard F. O'Toole, Holman S. Pearl, Frederick H. Toye.

Special Libraries. — In charge of Barton Library: Mary T.
Currier, Francis W. Lee, David L. Williams. Assistants:
Edward E. Bruce, John G. Downey, Loren N. Downs, Jr.,
William H. Kennedy. Music room: John W. Athridge, Edward
E. Bruce, Bradley Jones, Archer C. Nichols. In charge of Fine
Arts De-partment: Frank A. Bourne, Walter G. Forsyth, Walter
Rowlands, Assistants: James L. Doyle, William C. Maiers, Jr.,
Michael J. Meehan, Extra assistants: Walter M. Broderick,
Francis X. Courtney, Robert V. Donahoe, Bradley Jones,
Charles 0. Lee.

Newspaper Room. — Michael J. Conroy, Robert F. X.
Dixon, James L. Doyle, William J. Ennis, Joseph A. Maier,
George H. Quinlan. Newspaper files: Arthur E. Cufflin, Thomas
H. Gillis, Charles E. Herekson. Jeremiah J. O'Meara, Frederick
H. Toye.

Patent Room. — Walter T. Hannigan, Albert J. Plunkett,
Morris J. Rosenberg.

Periodical Room. — WilHam J. Ennis, William J. Mulloney,
Albert J. Plunkett, George H. Quinlan.

Library Department. 115

Registration Desk. — George H. Connor, Frank J. Hanni-
gan, John J. Keenan, William J. Mulloney.

Replacement of Books. — Richard Brown, John J. Horgan,
Michael J. Meehan.

Statistical Department. — Frederic Serex Horace L.
Wheeler.

Coat Room, — William H. Kennedy, Charles Webster.

Elevator. — Patrick A. Kennedy, Charles Webster.

Sunday Service.

* Branch Libraries, November 1 to May 1.

Brighton Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f Ellen F. Con-
ley, t John P. O'Hara; assistant: Gertrude Boyle.

Charlestown Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. In charge: f Ellen L,
Sullivan, f Annie M. Donovan; assistants: f Henry P. McLaugh-
lin, Mary G. Kiley, once in four weeks, Clara L, Jones, once in
four weeks.

Dorchester Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: t Margaret H.
Reid, t Mary G. Donovan, f Anna G. Lynch; assistant: Wil-
liam J. Kennedy.

East Boston Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: t Florence
M. Bethune, f Lillian A. Bickford; assistants: f Everett F.
Matthews, f Helen B. Shannon, Joseph H, Driscoll. Janitor:
James J. Donnelly.

Jamaica Plain Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f Nellie F.
Riley, f Alice McEttrick; assistants: f Anna G. Doonan,
t Elizabeth M. Kelley. Janitor: Thomas H. Kenney.

RoxBURY Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge, reading room:
t Martha L. C. Berry, f Sarah W. Griggs; in charge, lower floor:
t Katie F. Albert, f Gertrude L. Connell; assistants: f Florence
Richards, t Agnes L. Murphy.

South Boston Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: Alice B.
Orcutt; assistant: Joseph Baker. Janitor: Thomas Saunders.

South End Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: t Emma F.
Lynch, f Katherine S. Rogan; assistant: Marguerite Coyde-
vant; in charge children's room: f Amelia F. McGrath, f Eleanor
M. Williams; assistants children's room: f Frederick A. Garth,
t Loren N. Downs.

* With the exception of the West End Branch, which is open Sundays throughout
the year. Here certain members of the regular week-day force serve Sundays, their
compensation being for seven days per week.

t Alternate Sundays.

116 City Document No. 25.

Upham's Corner Branch, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f Mary
F. Curley, f Mary E. Hagerty; assistants: f Margaret A. Mur-
phy, t Katherine E. Walsh.

Station G, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f Margaret
V. Rooney, f M. Florence Cufflin.

Station J, 2 to 9 P.M. — In charge: W. A. Bailey; assistant:
Charles J. White.

Station P, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: Cora L.
Stewart; assistant: Minerva Ratchevsky.

Station R, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: Frederick H.

Busby.

Station S, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f M. Theresa
Campbell, f Mary A. Shaughnessy.

Station T, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: t Anna E.
Monahan, f Anna F. Rogers.

Station 23, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: f Grace V.
Meehan, f Grace Williams; assistants: flda G. Denney, f Anna
M. McNeil.

Station 24, 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M. — In charge: t Margaret
S. Barton, fMary F. Kelley; assistants: t Margaret F. Meehan,
t Alice Downing.

t Alternate Sundays.

INDEX.

Appropriation. (.S'ee Finance.)
Appropriations since 1900, 2.
Auditor, books and statements, 10, 11;
report, 67.

Barton=TicknorRoom, 45.

Bates Hall, 42.

Benton, JosiatiH., Vice-President, 2.

Bindery, 39.

Books, use of, 15, 16; missing, 17; received,
18; accessions, 19, 20; Englisii prose
fiction, 19; e.xpenditures, 20; special
purchases, 20; added to the Special
Libraries, 24; miscellaneous works, 27-
30; for branches and stations, 31; circu-
lation, 16, 50, 97; number in library, S9,
90; net increase, 91 ; placed on shelves,
93; In special collections, 94; classifi-
cation of, 94,95.

Borden, Garrick M., appointed Custodian
of Fine Arts Department, 43,

Boyle, Thomas F., Trustee, reappointed,
1.

Branch Department, 50.

Branches and stations, circulation, 15;
books purchased for, 31; one reading
room raised to status of branch, two
new stations established, 13, 50; daily
issue, 54; e.xpenditures, 80.

Brown, Allen A., Music Room, 46.

BuUdlngs, equipment and general
administration, 12.

Catalogue and Shelf Department, 36.
Charts, maps, atlases, etc., 30.
Children's Department, 40.
Classification of books. Central Library,
94; branches, 95.

DeNormandie, Rev. James, Vice-Presi-
dent of Trustees, 1; President, 2.

Deposit work, 51, 52, .54.

Documents and Statistics, Department
of, report, 49.

Early American Almanacs and news-
papers, 21.

Employees, list of, 105; resignations, 58,
59.

Examinations, 59.

Examining Committee, report of, 60.

Examining Committees, list of, for forty-
six years, 101.

Exhibitions, Central, 49; at branches, 52.

Fiction, percentage purchased, 19; circu-
lation in branches, 50.

Finance, methods of administration, 8;
Auditor's statement, 67.

Fine Arts Department, 43.

Fines, 73; remission of, 18.

Fire i)rotection. Central, and Printing
and Bindery Departments, 13.

Gifts, 31.

Iiiter-Llbrary Loans, 55.
Issue Department, 16.

Kenney, William F., appointed Trustee,

Lantern slides, 43.

Lectures, 46.

Librarian, report, 12.

Librarians, list of, 100.

Library, extent of, Ijy years, 89.

Library Auditor, books and statements,
10, 11; report, 67.

Library System, 4.

Lincoln, Solomon F., President of Trus-
tees, 1 ; death of, 1 ; action of Board, 1, 2.

Manuscripts, use of, and accessions, 49,
Maps, 30.

Mattapan Reading Room, new loca-
tion, 13.
Music, 46.

New stations established, 13.
Newspaper Room, 57.
Newspapers, payments for, 20; additions
to tiles b}' exchange, 21, 57.

Open shelves, 17.
Ordering department, 20.

Patents, Department of, 56.

Periodical Room, 56.

Periodicals, accessions, 19; expenditures
for, 20.

Photographs, 31,43.

Pictures, exhibitions of, 49, 52; circula-
tion, 44.

Printing Department, 39.

Publications, issued, 3S; distribution, 40.

Registration, 40; report, 95, 96.
Resignations, 58, 59.

Repairs and improvements at branches,
12.

Schools, work with, 41, 53.

Service, 105.

Shelf Department, 37.

Special Libraries, 43.

Sunday and evening service, 58; sched-
ule, 113.

Stations. (See Branches.)

Statistics, Department of Documents
and, 49.

Trust funds, 72-79.

Trustees, report of, 1-11 ; President, Vice-
President and Clerk elected, 1, 2; va-
cancy in Board, filled, 2.

Upham'e Corner Reading Room made a
branch, 13.

Washburn, F. De W., resigned from
Fine Arts Department, 43.

West End Branch, gift of paintings, 36.

Works relating to Colonial and Revolu-
tionary Periods, 21-24 .

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