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City  Document.  —  No.  72. 


CITY    OF    BOSTON 


TWENTIETH 


ANNUAL   REPORT 


TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


In  Board  of  Aldekivien,  June  22,  1872. 
Laid  upon  the  table,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 
Attest:  S.  F.  McCLEARY, 

City  Clerk. 


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CITY  OF  bosto:n^. 


Public  Libeary,  June  12,  1872. 
His  Honor,  William  Gaston,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Boston: 
Sir:  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  herewith,  the 
Twentieth  Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library,  prepared  in  obedience  to  the  fourth  section  of  the 
Ordinance  of  1869,  relative  to  the  Public  Library. 

Very  respectfully, 

JUSTIN  WINSOR, 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


TWENTIETH  ANNUAL  REPORT 


TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


In  conformity  with  the  requirements  of  the  fourth  section 
of  an  Ordinance  concerning  the  Public  Library,  passed  Sep- 
tember 21,  1869,  the  Trustees  have  the  honor  to  present  to 
the  City  Council  their  Twentieth  Annual 

EEPORT, 

being  the  third  made  under  the  new  ordinance,  and  including 
the  results  of  administration  for  the  past  year,  in  which  the 
Library  was  opened  for  the  use  of  the  public  during  three 
hundred  and  eight  days,  a  larger  number  than  in  any  preced- 
ing year. 

Herewith  are  appended  the  reports  of  the  Examining  Com- 
mittee and  of  the  Superintendent. 

The  .members  of  the  Examining  Committee  were  Daniel  S. 
Curtis,  Esq.,  Daniel  S.  Gilchrist,  Esq.,  Jas.  T.  Fields,  Esq., 
Dr.  C.  E.  Buckingham,  and  John  C.  Ropes,  Esq.,  —  Weston 
Lewis,  Esq.,  of  the  Board,  acting  as  chairman. 

The  opinions  of  so  intelligent  a  committee,  exercising  an 
impartial  judgment  upon  the  subjects  submitted  to  them, 
will  receive  the  attention  to  which  they  are  entitled. 


6  CITY    DOCUIMENT. No.  72. 

But  l)y  those  who  would  fully  comprehend  the  Public  Li- 
brary, alike  in  its  theory  and  practical  operation,  the  report 
of  the  Superintendent,  and  the  documents  accompanying  it, 
must  be  carefully  studied.  Here  may  be  found  the  biogra- 
phy of  the  Library  during  the  past  year.  Here  is  the  infor- 
mation in  detail,  important  to  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
results  of  public  libraries,  as  a  branch  of  social  science,  and 
especially  so  to  those  men  of  fortune  —  and  we  hope  there 
are  many  such  —  who  may  be  contemplating  the  foundation 
of  similar  collections  in  other  towns. 

As  is  well  known  to  all  who  have  had  occasion  to  visit  the 
Library  during  the  past  year,  extensive  alterations  have  been 
made  in  Bates  Hall,  and  are  still  going  on.  By  means  of  these 
we  have  secured  additional  space  for  over  100,000  volumes, 
as  well  as  increase  of  light.  This  latter  is  a  very  important 
consideration,  especially  in  a  city  so  crowded  as  ours,  and 
where  real  estate,  within  certain  limits,  is  so  valuable,  and  in 
such  demand  for  business  purposes. 

The  Trustees  cannot  but  feel  a  little  uneasy  in  view  of  the 
possible  destination  of  the  estates  adjacent  on  the  east  and 
west,  which  are  in  the  market  for  sale.  Should  these  estates 
be  built  upon  in  a  way  that  sagacious  self-interest  would 
prompt,  the  result  would  be  a  very  serious  inconvenience  in 
the  darkening  of  rooms  already  hardly  light  enough  for  the 
purpose  for  which  they  are  used. 

More  room  is  still  much  needed  for  the  accommodation  of 
the  Patent  Reports,  the  use  of  which  is  steadily  increasing. 

On  the  16th  day  of  May  the  South  Boston  Branch  of  the 
Library  was  formally  dedicated  with  appropriate  ceremo- 
nies, including  an  address  by  the  permanent  president  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  Wm.  W.  Greenough,  Esq.,  now  tempo- 
rarily absent  on  a  visit  to  Europe.  The  books,  about  4,500 
in  number,  are  arranged  in  rooms  hired  by  the  city.  About 
1,400  volumes,  forming  the  nucleus  of  the  collection,  were 
furnished  by  the  Mattapan  Literary  Association. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  7 

An  agreemeut  made  with  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes 
Athenaeum  in  Roxbury  will  give  the  city  a  good  building,  now 
going  up,  and  two  or  three  thousand  dollars  a  year  for  books, 
in  addition  to  the  ordinary  appropriation  by  the  city.  The 
Roxbury  Branch  will  be  opened  next  winter. 

The  East  Boston  Branch  is  in  successful  operation.  The 
present  number  of  volumes  is  6,767,  and  the  circulation  dur- 
ing the  year  has  been  about  75,000,  showing  that  each  vol- 
ume would  have  been  taken  out  more  than  ten  times,  were 
the  circulation  uniform,  which  of  course  is  not  the  case  in  any 
circulating  library. 

The  whole  collection  of  books  in  the  Central  Library  and 
the  several  Branches  is  now  about  195,000  volumes.  Of 
these  about  14,000  were  added  during  the  past  year,  nearly 
4,400  being  gifts. 

The  daily  average  issue  of  books  was  1,234. 

The  noise  and  confusion  attending  the  work  going  on  in 
the  Central  Library  since  last  September  have  lessened  the  use 
of  Bates  Hall,  and  from  the  same  causes,  as  well  as  from  the 
diminished  light  occasioned  by  the  scaffolding,  the  usefulness 
of  the  Reading  room,  during  the  same  period,  has  been 
interfered  with.  The  use  6f  the  Lower  Hall  has  not  suffered 
from  these  causes,  but  has  rather  increased  during  the  past 
year.  But  the  work  still  to  be  done  in  that  department  dur- 
ing the  summer  will  probably  lessen  its  usefulness  some- 
what, though  much  less  than  would  be  the  case  were  the 
work  done  during  the  shortest  days  of  winter. 

Only  one  book  in  every  9,400  delivered  for  home  use  is 
not  finally  returned  to  the  Library ;  a  fact  honorable  to  the 
community  among  whom  the  books  circulate.  And  with 
hardly  an  exception  such  books  as  are  ultimately  lost  are 
easily  replaced,  if  need  be. 

The  information  required  by  the  Ordinance  to  be  given  as  to 


8  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

the  extent,  circulation,  and  expenditures  of  the  Library,  will 
be  found  in  the  tables  nppeudcd  to  the  Superintendent's  Re- 
port. 

G.  S.  HILLARD, 

President  pro.  tern. 
WESTON  LEWIS, 
ELLIS  W.  MORTON, 
HERMAN  D.  BRADT, 
SAMUEL  LITTLE, 
GEO.  PUTNAM, 
SAMUEL  A.  GREEN, 
FREDERICK  PEASE. 
Public  Library,  June  12,  1872. 


•       [A.] 
REPORT  OF  THE  EXAMINING  COMMITTRE, 

CONSISTiy^G  OF  WESTON  LEWIS,  ESQ.,  CHAIKMAK,  C.  E.  BUCKING- 
HAM, M.D.,  DANIEJj  S.  CVItTIS,  ESQ.,  JAMES  T.  FIELDS,  ESQ., 
VANIEL    S.    GILCHRIST,    ESQ.,    AND   JOHN   C.    ROPES,    ESQ. 


The  Committee  for  1872  appointed  to  examine  the  Boston 
Public  Library  have  attended  to  that  duty,  and  beg  leave  to 
report :  — 

The  general  condition  of  the  buildings,  of  the  books,  and 
of  the  other  contents  of  the  Central  and  Branch  Libraries  is 
satisfactory,  especially  considering  the  nature  and  amount  of 
use  to  which  they  are  constantly  subjected. 

The  recent  alterations,  and  those  projected  for  the  further 
improvement  of  the  Central  Library  Building,  as  far  as  they 
go,  have  the  Committee's  approval. 

The  system  of  administration  in  operation  appears  to  have 
been  elaborated  with  much  care  and  patience,  and  no  ascer- 
tained opportunity  for  amendment  is  neglected.  From  the 
data  of  its  own  experience  compared  with  those  of  other  li- 
braries with  which  ours  is  in  correspondence,  are  derived 
the  means  of  gauging  its  performance.  In  this  way  progress 
is  constantly  made  towards  attaining  a  maximum  of  result 
at  a  minimum  of  cost  and  labor.  The  wise  management  of 
such  an  institution  calls  for  a  degree  of  intelligence  and  per- 
severing industry  on  the  part  of  those  responsible  for  its 
working,  which,  we  are  persuaded,  would  surprise  any  casual 


10  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

and  superficial  observer  of  its  daily  operation.  This  Com- 
mittee has  had  ample  opportunity,  with  every  did  and  expla- 
nation on  the  part  of  the  Superintendent,  to  estimate-  the 
position  and  progress  of  the  Library,  and  they  are  gratified 
to  be  able  to  say  that  these  are  highly  satisfactory,  and  such 
as  entitle  the  institution  to  the  continued  favor  and  support 
of  the  community. 

Founded  in  1852,  the  Boston  Public  Library  now  numbers 
nearly  194,000  volumes,  holding  the  second  rank  among 
libraries  in  America.  Many  of  the  intelligent  and  liberal 
men  who  projected  and  advanced  this  noble  enterprise  have 
been  denied  the  sight  of  its  successful  execution,  but  the 
permanent  benefit  conferred  on  a  grateful  posterity  will  ever 
be  associated  with  their  names  and  memory. 

During  the  past  year,  ingenuity  and  expense  have  done 
something  to  remedy  the  original  defects  of  the  Library 
Building.  We  however  apprehend  that  the  time  is  rapidly 
coming  when  no  expedients  will  suffice  to  keep  the  present 
building  adequate  to  growing  demands.  Already  the  maxi- 
mum of  accommodation  is  reached.  Light,  ventilation,  offi- 
ces, work-rooms,  all  are  wanting ;  and  as  books,  readers 
and  employes  increase  in  numbers,  the  difficulty  of  expedients 
for  their  reception  must  also  increase.  In  the  face  of  such 
possible  dead-lock  as  even  one  decade  may  bring,  we  urge  the 
wisdom  and  the  economy  of  seasonable  foresight  and  action. 
We  need  but  allude  to  the  experience  of  the  British  Museum 
to  justify  fears  of  a  like  dilemma  on  a  lesser  scale. 

As  respects  the  circulation  and  use  of  the  Library  we  are 
led  to  hope  that  among  all  classes  may  be  developed  an  in- 
creased disposition  to  avail  themselves  of  its  advantages. 
That  a  library  shall  be  useful,  people  must  use  it.  Yet  it  is 
far  easier  to  get  books  than  readers.  Many  intelligent  lovers 
of  reading  have  yet  to  visit  the  Boston  Library  for  the  first 
time,  and  are  still  unaware  of  the  value  and  of  the  facility 
of  its  privileges.     The  completeness  of  the  collection  in  all 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  11 

departments  of  Modern  Literature,  English  and  foreign,  kept 
up  by  frequent  importations  of  the  newest  works  published 
abroad  ;  the  best  of  about  seven  hundred  periodicals,  American 
and  foreign,  all  perfectly  accessible,  would  surprise  and  attract 
many  who,  never  having  visited^the  Library,  have  no  idea  of 
its  contents.  Perhaps  an  occasional  advertisement  in  the  pub- 
lic newspapers  that  such  and  such  books,  American,  English, 
French,  German,  etc.,  have  been  received  at  the  Library,  relat- 
ing to  History,  Science,  Art,  Biography  or  Travel,  would  bring 
readers  to  ask  for  them.  Another  benefit,  we  suggest,  would 
be  addressed  to  another  class  of  readers,  viz.,  those  who  ask 
''what  to  read?"  Such  advice  in  simple  form,  for  distribu- 
tion among  schools,  clerks  and  mechanics,  would  kindle  or 
sustain  many  an  aspiration  for  self-improvement,  and  would 
save  those  who  "  (in  the  words  of  Mr.  Joshua  Bates),  "left 
to  themselves,  waste  their  time  in  railroad  literature,  chiefly 
American  novels.  These  publications  are  doing  immense 
mischief,  and  the  rising  generation  will  grow  up  destitute  of 
positive  knowledge." 

We  cannot  compel  young  people  to  read  good  books,  as 
Mr.  Bates  made  his  clerks  read  Law  and  Admiraltj^  Reports  ; 
and  very  many  will  read  novels,  or  "nothing.  But  if  since 
Mr.  Bates  thus  wrote,  novels  have  gained  more  in  numbers 
than  in  elevation  of  morals  and  style,  we  should  be  not  less 
solicitous  than  he  was  to  discourage  their  being  read  by  young 
people.  There  can  be  little  doubt  but  that  modern  sensa- 
tional fiction,  demanded  and  supplied  in  quantity,  not  only 
occupies  the  field  to  the  exclusion  of  better  reading,  but,  like 
other  stimulants,  perverts  the  natural  taste,  and  destroys  rel- 
ish for  plainer  aliment.  The  late  Dr.  Arnold,  of  Rugby,  in 
a  letter  to  Rev.  G.  Cornish,  says  :  — 

"  Childishness  in  boys,  even  of  good  abilities,  seems  to 
me  to  be  a  growing  fault,  and  I  do  not  know  to  what  to 
ascribe  it,  except  to  the  great  number  of  existing  books  of 
amusement,  like  Pickwick,  and  Nickleby,  Bentley's  Magazine, 


12  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

etc.  These  completely  satisfy  all  the  intellectual  appetite  o£ 
a  boy,  which  is  rarely  very  voracious,  and  leave  him  totally 
palled,  not  only  for  his  regular  work,  which  I  could  well  excuse 
in  comparison,  but  for  good  literature  of  all  sorts,  even  for 
History  and  Poetry."  * 

Boys  will  relish  such  writing  as  Irving's  "  Astoria "  or 
Parkraan's  "  Oregon  Trail,"  as  much  as  fantastic  extravagances 
in  Natural  History  or  Adventure.  In  this  sense,  we  regard 
with  approval  the  paper  compiled  by  Mr.  Winsor,  indicating 
such  works  of  fiction  as  are  based  upon  History,  Biography 
and  manners ;  an  excellent  step  in  the  right  direction,  which 
we  would  gladly  see  followed  by  other  similarly  useful  and 
popular  hints  for  readers  who  ask,  what  to  read? 

What  the  Library  does  daily  for  the  people  is  visible 
enough  ;  but  in  connection  with  our  system  of  education  it 
has  some  less  conspicuous  uses,  which,  in  a  degree  equal  to 
their  high  iniportance,  should  influence  the  selection  of  books 
for  purchase.  We  have  schools,  colleges,  and  institutes  whose 
scope  of  instruction  is  necessarily  limited  by  the  period  of 
time  which  our  youth  can  afford  to  give  to  the  numerous 
and  varied  branches  of  human  knowledge.  They  enter  upon 
active  life  with  acquirements  more  general  than  exact,  but 
also  with  capacity  for  development,  desire  for  improvement, 
and  habits  of  familiarity  with  books  which  should  impel  them 
towards  that  self-acquired  education  which  justly  ranks  above 
all  other.  To  such  young  men  the  Public  Library  should 
offer  the  means  of  pursuing  advanced  and  extended  courses 
of  study  on  any  topic  or  in  any  direction,  even  to  carry  out 
Mr.  J.  S.  Mill's  idea  of  a  good  education,  which  consists  in 
"knowing  all  about  one  thing,  and  something  about  every- 
thing." We  would  desire  that  the  whole  structure  of  human 
knowledge,  from  foundation  to  summit,  should  be  represented 

*  Life  of  Dr.  Arnold  by  Arthur  Penrhyn  Stanley,  p.  341. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  13 

upon  the  shelves  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  capital  of  New 
England,  and  that  however  rapid  the  "  advancement  of  learn- 
ing," this  institution  be  maintained  at  a  standard  of  complete- 
ness indispensable  to  its  credit  and  utility.  In  this  new  and 
busy  country,  where  a  class  of  professed  scholars  does  not 
exist,  those  exceptional  men  who  are  able  and  willing  to  in- 
struct others,  whether  by  oral  lectures  or  by  published  writ- 
ings, ought  to  find  at  the  Public  Library  full  materials  and 
ample  facilities  for  study.  Not  only  those  who  wish  to  learn 
Jiow  to  learn,  but  also  those  who  seek  to  leaim  how  to  teach, 
should  be  provided  for.  A  merely  provincial  Library  might 
well  enough  consist  of  elementary  and  popular  books  where 
few  others  would  be  called  for  or  read ;  but  it  is  our  pride  to 
assert  that  the  day  has  long  gone  by  when  so  little  could  sat- 
isfy either  the  needs  of  Boston,  or  our  legitimate  ambition  to 
sustain  a  Library  in  all  respects  worthy  of  her  intelligence 
and  resources. 

For  the  Committee, 

DANIEL   SARGENT   CURTIS. 
June  10,  1872. 


[B.] 
EEPORT  OF  THE    SUPERINTENDENT. 


To   the    Trustees: — Gentlemen,  —  I  oifer  herewith  my 
fifth  Annual  Report. 

I.     THE  BUILDINGS. 

For  many  years  the  Annual  Reports  have  dwelt  on  the 
insufficiency  and  unfitness  of  our  Central  Library  Building. 
Its  defects  are  radical  and  not  to  be  remedied,  but  work  has 
been  done,  and  is  now  in  progress,  which  will  much  improve 
it  for  administrative  uses.  Ihe  subdivision  of  the  alcoves  in 
the  Bates  Hall  will  increase  its  capacity  by  about  125,000 
volumes,  without  extending  the  area  over  which  the  books 
must  be  sought  for,  —  a  great  gain  towards  that  rapid  delivery 
of  books  which  a  Library  should  aim  to  establish,  since  noth- 
ing will  more  certainly  build  up  a  large  circulation.  This 
hall  is  unfortunately  planned  to  produce  the  largest  instead 
of  the  smallest  average  distance  of  books  from  the  point  of 
delivery, —  a  defect  which  requires  some  sacrifice  of  supposed 
architectural  claims  to  avoid,  and  Avhich,  in  consequence  of 
the  inability  of  architects  and  building  committees  to  recog- 
nize the  paramount  demands  of  admiuistrative  uses  over  the 
meretricious  attractions  of  vistas  of  books  and  displayed  al- 
coves, has  disfigured  some  of  the  more  important  and  recently 
erected  library  buildings  in  this  State  and  at  the  West.  A 
central  area,  with  surrounding  alcoves,  while  admirably 
adapted  to  a    Library   of  small    use,  where    access   to   the 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  15 

alcoves  is  free,  is  not  at  all  fitted  for  a  growing  and  popular 
collection,  in  which  the  conditions  of  use  are  entirely  difier- 
ent.  In  the  arrangement  of  the  books  in  relation  to  the 
delivery,  which  has  been  adopted  in  our  Branches,  and 
with  the  better  disposition  of  parts  to  arise  from  the  con- 
struction of  a  new  building  for  the  Roxbury  Branch,  it  is 
hoped  that  the  practical  advantages  of  an  opposite  plan  will 
be  satisfactorily  proved.  I  have  found  in  architects,  when 
brought  to  an  intelligent  comprehension  of  the  administrative 
requirements  of  a  popular  Library,  an  entire  willingness  to 
accept  anew  the  first  principle  of  all  architecture,  the  primary 
adaptation  of  the  building  to  its  uses.  A  want  of  it,  sanctioned 
inider  the  mistaken  plea  of  architectural  effect,  will  inflict 
much  trial  of  patience  upon  the  public  for  all  time,  and 
necessitate  with  librarians  a  failure  to  do  all  that  they  would 
do.  Books  can  be  very  compactly  stowed,  and  a  large  num- 
ber can  be  brought  within  a  short  radius.  In  the  East  Bos- 
ton Library-room  about  12,000  volumes  can  be  got,  all 
within  reach  of  the  hand,  within  a  room  seventeen  feet  by 
thirty-two,  and  at  an  average  distance  of  twelve  feet  from  the 
point  of  delivery.  In  a  room  at  South  Boston,  twenty-seven 
feet  by  twenty-three,  about  17,000  volumes  can  be  stored, 
with  an  average  of  twelve  feet,  as  to  distance  to  be  passed  by 
the  runner  who  brings  the  books  to  the  desk.  Librarians 
will  know  that  upon  about  one-third  of  a  collection  —  if  it  is 
constituted  according  to  A\^hat  is  the  experience  of  the  most 
successful  libraries  —  at  least  three-quarters  of  his  circulation 
will  fall,  and  in  a  library  of  12,000  volumes,  4,000  of  them  can 
be  got,  within  eight  or  ten  feet  of  the  desk,  and  the  delay  in 
fetching  a  book  reduced  to  a  minimum.  The  impatience  of 
the  public  —  not  always  unreasonable  —  and  the  physical  en- 
durance of  the  attendants  should  teach  all  who  have  to  do 
with  the  planning  of  a  library  that  these  claims  are  incessant, 
while  the  fancied  demands  for  architectural  show  rest  on  the 
most  unsettled  basis,  if  the  others  are  ignored. 


16  CITY   DOCUMENT.  —  No.  72. 

It  was  very  fortunate  that  the  alcoves  of  the  Bates  Hall 
were  originally  constructed  of  such  width  as  admitted  of  the 
subdivision  to  which  they  have  been  subjected ;  but  ^lot  so 
fortunate  that  the  altitude  of  them  was  too  little  by  a  few 
inches  to  allow  an  intermediate  iron  floor  to  be  placed  in 
each,  by  which  the  necessity  for  ladders  would  have  been 
avoided,  —  one  of  the  most  serious  inconveniences  which  a 
library  can  have.  The  introduction  of  light,  so  long  needed, 
hardly  requires  commendation.  The  alcoves  nearest  the  front 
of  the  Hall  are  still  not  as  light  as  they  should  be ;  and  what 
is  experienced  in  them  now  Avill  belong  to  all  the  others  on 
the  western  side,  and  ultimately  to  those  on  the  eastern  side, 
if  the  dwellings  on  the  contiguous  land  give  place  to  ware- 
houses of  the  depth  of  the  respective  lots.  This  light  above 
as  well  as  in  the  lower  parts  of  the  building  can  never  be 
made  certain  for  the  future,  until  the  city  owns  these  estates. 
The  Reading-room  is  now  rendered  far  less  cheerful,  and  even 
less  useful,  than  it  might  be  from  its  present  insufficiency  of 
light. 

The  plan  by  which  the  Bates  Hall  is  undergoing  alteration 
was  approved  by  the  Trustees,  July  12th,  and  their  ap- 
proval was  transmitted  to  the  City  Council.  It  was  hoped 
that  during  the  summer  the  work  would  have  far  progressed  ; 
but  it  was  not  until  the  13th  of  September  that  the  actual 
work  of  the  contractors  demanded  the  practical  closing  of  the 
western  alcoves.  Mistakes  and  delays,  arising  in  part  from  the 
unfavorableness  of  the  season,  made  the  work  occupy  nearly 
six  months  ;  and  it  was  not  until  March  8th  that  these  alcoves 
were  again  thrown  open  to  public  use. 

This  new  shelving  on  the  western  side  rendered  it  possible 
to  store  there  the  surplus  books,  that  could  not  be  repacked 
in  the  temporarily  diminished  space  of  the  alcoves  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Hall.  The  work  of  removing  such  books 
began  March  27th.  Those  still  remaining  in  the  alcoves, 
though  in  some  necessary  disorder,  were  made  accessible  by 


PUBLIC    LIBllAllY.  17 

a  temporary  staging.  More  care  was  exercised  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  temporary  partition,  behind  which  the  work 
is  going  on,  and  the  same  annoyance  from  the  penetration  of 
lime  dust  has  not  been  experienced,  which  rendered  the  work 
on  the  other  side  so  needlessly  annoying  to  the  Library  attend- 
ants and  to  the  public,  and  so  injurious  to  the  books. 

The  projected  changes  in  the  Lower  Hall  have  not  yet 
been  begun.  The  plan  was  approved  by  the  trustees  March 
1,  1872.  They  afford  two  large  rooms  and  six  small  ones, 
sufficiently  lighted,  with  their  floors  on  the  level  of  the  old 
gallery  of  that  hall.  In  these  the  cabinets  which  were  placed 
in  the  alcoves  of  the  Bates  Hall  will  be  put,  and  the  neces- 
sary work  of  the  Lower  Hall  will  be  done,  while  the  shelving 
which  will  still  remain  can  be  considered  as*  adding  very 
largely  to  the  capacity  of  the  Bates  Hall.  The  loss  of  this 
shelving  to  the  Lower  Hall  is  to  be  made  good  by  sub-divid- 
ing its  alcoves,  on  the  main  floor,  and  by  otherwise  occupy- 
ing the  floor  spaces  for  cases.  The  administrative  gain  will 
result  from  the  books  being  thus  made  far  more  accessible 
than  before. 

These  changes,  which  strongly  indicate  the  abiding  of  the 
Central  Library  in  its  present' site,  must  also  lead  to  others 
at  a  no  very  distant  future,  such  as  an  addition  to  the  build- 
ing in  the  rear,  which  shall  contain  a  juvenile  Library  and 
Reading-room,  with  an  entrance  on  Van  Rensellaer  place, 
whereby  the  main  entrance  and  the  front  hall,  may  be  at  cer- 
tain hours  relieved  from  the  crowds  of  youths  of  both  sexes , 
which  curtail  the  privileges  of  adults  very  materially.  Addi- 
tional accommodations  for  the  bindery,  for  the  newspaper 
room,  for  the  working  rooms,  for  official  apartments,  and  for 
special  collections  ought  also  to  be  found  in  this  prospective 
addition,  which,  extending  laterally,  can  have  windows  over- 
looking a  green  towards  the  Common,  if  the  adjacent  estates 
are  joined  to  the  Library  lot, 


18  CITY  DOCUMENT. No.  72. 


II.  ADMINISTRATION. 

1.     LIBRARY  SERVICE. 

The  present  divisions  of  the  service,  with  the  addition  of 
the  South  Boston  Department,  are  given  in  Appendix  XXI, 
where  tlie  figures  are  fully  explained. 

2.  EXAMINATION  OF  THE  LIBRARY. 

The  alterations  in  the  Bates  Hall  have  rendered  it  impos- 
sible to  conduct  the  examination  of  that  department  with  the 
usual  detail.  Only  the  alcoves  that  have  now  been  com- 
pleted have  been  examined,  and  with  what  result  the  report 
of  the  Custodian  in  Appendix  XXII  will  show.  It  also 
embodies  the  first  report  upon  the  East  Boston  Branch.  The 
irregularities  do  not  seem  to  be  in  excess  of  what  may  rea- 
sonably be  expected,  as  explained  in  previous  reports. 

3.  REGISTRATION  OF  APPLICANTS. 

The  same  system,  as  explained  in  the  last  report,  in  con- 
nection with  the  East  Boston  Branch,  has  now  been  applied  to 
the  South  Boston  Branch.  I  refer  to  Appendix  XII,  where 
the  figures  are  fully  explained. 

4.     SOUTH  BOSTON  BRANCH. 

The  rooms  in  the  new  Savings  Bank  Building,  in  Broad- 
way, were  profiered  by  the  Committee  on  Public  Buildings 
of  the  City  Council,  and  being  approved  by  a  Committee  of 
the  Trustees,  they  were  hired  by  the  City  during  the  winter, 
and  finished  as  was  desired.  Contracts  were  made  for  the 
shelving;  and  other  fixtures,  and  the  rooms  were  in  a  state  of 
readiness  on  the  first  of  April  for  the  contractor  to  put  this 
work  in  place. 

As  soon  as  it  became  evident  that  a  Branch  w^as  to  be 
established  in  South  Boston,  the  Mattapau  Literary  Associa- 
tion voted    to  make  over  their  collection  of  books,  which 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  19 

proved  a  very  good  one  for  the  purpose,  and  they  were 
received  at  the  Central  Library,  Jan.  15th,  1872.  The  col- 
lection numbered  1,470  vohuues,  a  very  small  part  of  which 
were  assigned  to  the^  Bates  Hall  as-  a  fitter  repository  for 
them.  The  work  of  cataloguing  the  remainder  began  at 
once,  and  as  the  work  proceeded,  and  it  became  evident  what 
desirable  books  the  collection  did  not  contain,  purchases 
began,  under  a  special  contract  with  the  Library  agents, 
Messrs.  Lee  and  Shepard,  though  a  small  part  of  the  pur- 
chases came  through  our  agencies  for  Europe.  It  was  pos- 
sible to  anticipate  the  appropriation,  which  was  not  to  become 
available  until  May  1st,  because  of  a  special  authorization  from 
the  City  Council  to  expend  not  over  ^5,000  on  account  of 
any  subsequent  appropriation.  This  anticipatory  action  has 
rendered  it  possible  to  open  this  Branch  some  six  months 
earlier  than  was  possible  at  East  Boston  in  the  year  of 
that  Branch's  establishment. 

As  soon  as  the  shelving  and  other  furniture  was  in  place, 
we  had  4,350  volumes  in  the  Art  Room  of  the  Central  Library, 
all  prepared  for  the  shelves.  They  were  removed  to  the 
Branch  on  the  tenth  of  April ;  and  after  they  had  been  put 
in  the  places  to  which  each  volume  had  already  been  assigned, 
according  to  prepared  plans  of  the  shelving,  the  work  of  veri- 
fying the  catalogue  and  w^riting  up  the  shelf-lists  began. 
There  was  some  delay  in  opening  the  Reading-room,  on 
account  of  the  condition  of  the  entrance  hall ;  but  on  the 
22d  this  department  was  opened.  As  soon  as  a  few  strips 
of  the  catalogue  had  been  received  from  the  printer,  every- 
thing was  in  readiness  for  delivering  books,  which  began  on 
the  first  of  May. 

5.     ROXBUEY  BRANCH. 

I  refer  to  Appendix  XXV  for  the  agreement  entered  into 
between  the  City  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athe- 
nreum  of  Roxbury,  by  which  tlie  resources  of  that  institution 


20  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.    72. 

are  made  available  towards  the  foundation  and  increase  of  a 
new  Branch,  in  addition  to  the  appropriations  to  be  made  for 
that  purpose  by  the  City  Council.  The  terms  of  the  contract 
are  in  some  measure  modified  by  another  agreement,  which 
forms  a  part  of  the  same  Appendix.  In  anticipation  of  the 
completion  of  the  building,  the  erection  of  w^hich  by  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Fellow^es  Athenteum  has  already  been  begun  on 
Bartlett  street,  a  collection  of  books  destined  for  it  will  be 
gathered  the  coming  summer. 

III.     THE  BOOKS. 

\ 

1.     EXTENT  OF  THE  COLLECTIONS. 

The  several  departments  now  hold  194,000  volumes,  giving 
us  still  the  second  place  for  size  among  the  Libraries  of  the 
country.  For  the  divisions  of  the  number  among  our  vari- 
ous departments,  I  refer  to  Appendix  I. 

\ 
2.     INCREASE. 

We  have  added  nearly  14,000  volumes,  which  is  nearly 
double  the  annual  increase  for  the  nine  years  preceding  the 
exceptional  increase  of  last  year.  In  addition  to  this  we  enu- 
merate a  growth  of  the  pamphlet  collection  by  nearly  11,000. 

The  gain  in  the  several  departments  is  shown  in  Appendix 
V.  The  gain  in  the  popular  departments,  owing  to  the  foun- 
dation of  the  new  Branch,  is  about  equal  to  the  increase  of  the 
Bates  Hall. 

Of  the  entire  gain  5,744  books  were  such  as  were  newly  pub- 
lished, of  which  3,642  were  of  American  publication,  including 
reprints. 

3,     GIFTS. 

It  appears  by  Appendix  IX  that  six  hundred  and  ten  per- 
sons, besides  a  few  whose  names  are  not  known,  have  given 


PUBLIC   LIBRAET.  21 

4,349  volumes  and  5,831  pamphlets.  Among  the  most  im- 
portant donations  was  a  valuable  collection  of  books  on  mili- 
tary science,  which  came  from  the  venerable  General  Sylva- 
nus  Thaj'er  to  supplement  the  good  collection  which  we 
already  had,  and  which  had  been  largely  selected  with  Gen- 
eral Thayer's  advice.  The  largest  gift  was  that  from  the 
Mattapau  Literary  Association,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of 
the  South  Boston  Branch. 

The  most  noteworthy  gift  of  the  year  is  that  of  an  original 
portrait  of  Franklin  by  Greuze,  which  forms  a  fit  pendant  to 
the  one  painted  by  Duplessis,  and  heretofore  presented  to 
the  Library  by  the  Hon.  Edward  Brooks.  There  is  no  mention, 
in  any  of  Franklin's  printed  writings,  of  his  sitting  to  Greuze  ; 
but  its  authenticity  is  not  questioned,  in  view  of  the  direct 
testimony  to  its  history  which  is  mentioned  in  Mr.  Gardner 
Brewer's  letter  making  gift  of  it,  and  in  the  interesting  paper 
by  the  Hon.  Charles  Sumner,  which  is  appended  to  the  letter 
in  Appendix  XXVI.  The  first  public  mention  of  the  exist- 
ence of  this  portrait  was  made  by  Sir  George  Cornwall  Lewis, 
in  the  Edinburgh  Review,  in  1854,  when  it  was  said  to  be  in 
the  possession  of  Mr.  Joseph  Parkes,  of  London,  and  this 
gentleman,  in  1860,  when  selling  it  to  Mr.  Brewer,  wrote  as 
follows  :  — 

"  I  am  better  content  that  it  should  be  placed  in  Boston 
than  in  England ;  and  as  I  told  Sumner,  it  was  my  wish, 
even  if  a  higher  price  in  England  was  ofiered  me. 
It  never  was  in  any  possession  except  his  [the  late  Mr.  Os- 
wald's] grand  uncle's,  —  an  ambassador  in  Paris  for  whom  it 
was  painted,  —  his  son  or  nephew,  and  the  late  Mr.  Oswald, 
the  M.  P.  for  Glasgow.  He  inherited  it,  and  was  its  donor 
to  me.  It  never  was  in  any  sale  or  offered  by  me  to  any  one, 
—  only  mentioned  by  me  to  vSumner  as  a  picture  I  would  sell 
for  proper  ownership  or  a  U.  S.  Public  Institution.  It  ought 
to  be  in  your  State." 

Late  in  the  year  it  became  known  that  Professor  Treadwell, 


22  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.    72. 

of  Cambridge,  had  bequeathed  to  the  Library  a  portion  of  his 
estate,  to  be  paid  over  upon  the  death  of  his  widow.  In 
Appendix  XXVII  will  be  found  explanatory  extracts  from 
the  will  and  from  the  proceedings  of  the  Trustees  and  of  the 
City  Council. 

4.    SHELF  DUPLICATES. 

We  still  duplicate  largely  in  the  Lower  Hall.  While  1091 
new  books  have  been  placed  there,  in  894  cases  duplicates 
were  added,  and  of  the  629  condemned  books  replaced,  most 
of  them  were  also  duplicates.     See  Appendixes  V  and  VIII. 

5.    SALE  DUPLICATES. 

There  has  been  a  net  increase  of  360  volumes  in  the  Dupli- 
cate Room,  making  the  total  7,314.  See  Appendixes  IV  and 
V. 

6.   PAMPHLETS. 

Over  100,000  pamphlets  have  now  been  added  to  the  Li- 
brary in  twenty  years,  and  double  the  average  number  was 
added  during  the  past  year. 

7.   PURCHASE   OF  BOOKS. 

The  appropriation  by  the  City  Council  and  the  income  of 
our  Funds  have  enabled  us  to  buy  9,359  volumes  during  the 
year.  A  few  insignificant  additions  have  been  made  with  the 
income  of  the  Ticknor  Fund,  the  catalogue  of  the  Ticknor 
Library  not  being  yet  far  enough  advanced  to  enable  us  to 
buy  a  large  extent,  without  the  risk  of  duplicating  what  it 
has  already.  Among  our  foreign  agencies,  the  re-establish- 
ment of  our  French  agent  in  Paris  is  to  be  noted  ;  and  though 
we  are  now  in  regular  receipt  of  French  books,  the  condition 
of  the  French  binderies  does  not  yet  seem  to  have  been 
restored  to  such  a  state  as  will  ensure  the  careful  work- 
which  used  to  be  mven  us. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  23 

Appendix  XIII  shows  au  increased  promptness  in  securing 
books  that  have  been  ordered  at  the  request  of  readers  ;  and 
that  the  number  of  books  recommended  is  less  than  last  year 
follows  upon  the  partial  disuse  of  the  Bates  Hall,  during  the 
progress  of  alterations.  Nevertheless,  nearly  1,600  titles  were 
recommended  during  the  year. 

One  of  the  vexations  of  librarians  arises  from  the  irregu- 
larities  of  serial  issues,  both  of  periodicals  and  of  sets.  A 
certain  percentage  of  delays  and  failure  is  almost  inevita- 
ble, and  with  a  list  like  our  own,  amounting  to  many  hun- 
dred separate  subscriptions, — counting  those  received  directly 
in  the  Bates  Hall  for  the  shelves,  as  well  as  those  which  have 
an  earlier  stage  of  use  in  the  Eeading-room,  —  every  month 
necessitates  more  or  less  correspondence  to  ascertain  the  rea- 
sons for  delaj's.  With  books  issued  in  numbers,  or  b}'  vol- 
umes, the  difficulty  is  increased,  as  the  intervals  of  perio- 
dicity are  so  irregular  ;  and  more  or  less  failure  to  get  prompt- 
ly or  not  at  all  the  last  consecutive  issue  is  hardly  to  be 
avoided.  When  this  annoj'ance  is  added  to  the  other  one, 
that  books  issued  in  this  way  occasion  an  increase  of  labor  in 
preparing  them  for  the  shelves,  almost  in  proportion  to  the 
number  of  parts,  as  each  is  treated  separately  in  many  re- 
sjDects,  it  is  very  clear  that  in  a  library,  where  the  detail  is 
necessarily  laborious,  the  subscription  to  such  books  is  al- 
ways an  irksome  self-denial  to  the  librarian.  It  is  possible 
that  the  difficulties  may  be  somewhat  regulated  by  system, 
and  to  this  end  blanks  have  been  of  late  prepared,  which  are 
sent  to  such  periodicals  as  are  overdue ;  and  the  ordering 
clerk  is  instructed  to  report  deficiencies  as  they  come  to  her 
knowledge  in  adding  new  numbers  or  volumes  to  sets  on  the 
shelves.  In  order  to  rectify  the  omissions  of  the  past,  the 
Custodian  of  the  shelves  has  carefully  examined  the  shelf- 
lists  of  the  Bates  Hall,  and  made  reports  on  291  periodicals, 
which  are  not  complete,  —  no  account,  however,  has  been 
taken  of  very  broken   series,   which   have   been    added  b}-- 


24  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.    72. 

chance  donations,  —  and  on  190  s&ts  of  books,  which  are 
more  or  less  imperfect.  Orders  to  supply  these  deficiencies 
will  be  gradually  despatched  during  the  coming  year. 

8.    BINDERY. 

The  bindery  of  Jerome  Seidensticker  still  does  almost  all 
the  binding  we  have  done  for  Lower  Hall  books,  and  for  vol- 
umes of  periodicals,  when  removed  from  the  Reading  Room. 
The  schedules  show  an  aggregate  of  3,219  volumes  for  the 
year. 

The  bindery  of  Theodore  Jackson  is  only  used  for  binding 
newspapers. 

To  the  bindery  in  the  basement  of  the  Central  Lb  rary  , 
now  under  the  charge   of  Mr.   Peter  Low,  almost  all  our 
Bates  Hall  books  are  sent,  and  the  very  miscellaneous  work 
turned  out  by  its  force  will  appear  from  the  following  table  :  — 
Bates  Hall  books  bound  and  finished,         .         .         .2,219 
Books  of  the  Lower  Hall  and  Branches, 
Books  repaired,        ...... 

Catalogues  wired    and    covered  for  public    use   in 

Lower  Hall  and  Branches, 
Maps  dissected  and  mounted,    .... 

Map-volumes  and  shelf-lists  mounted, 
Pamphlet  cases,        ...... 

Portfolios,        ....... 

Removable  covers  for  catalogues, 

Maps  mounted,  bound  and  bordered. 

Hours  of  miscellaneous  work,   .... 


1,015 
396 


490 

47 

212 

546 

5 

266 

54 

1,842 


IV.     CIRCULATION. 

1.     USE   OF   THE   LIBRARIES. 


The  Libraries  have  been  kept  open  one  day  more  than  ever 
before,  or  308  days,  and  the  daily  average  circulation  has 


PLTBLIO    LIBEARY.  25 

been  nearly  a  third  more  than  last  year,  or  1,234.  If  East 
Boston  be  excluded,  we  have  still,  notwithstanding  the  dimin- 
ished use  of  the  Bates  Hall,  on  account  of  the  progress  of 
alteration,  a  larger  daih^  average  than  ever  before,  namely, 
988  ;  for  the  gain  in  the  issues  for  the  Lower  Hall  is  23,136, 
while  the  loss  in  the  Bates  Hall  is  14,954.  The  figures  for  East 
Boston,  giving  75,846  instead  of  26,130  (as  the  last  figures 
only  embraced  a  few  months),  further  increase  the  grand  to- 
tal of  380,343,  which  is  nearly  60,000  in  excess  of  last  year's. 
The  largest  use  of  the  Central  Library  in  one  day  (March 
16)  is,  notwithstanding  the  deficit  in  the  Bates  Hall,  nearly 
as  large  as  last  year's,  being  1,848  against  1,856.  The  increase 
of  reference  use  over  home  use,  which  the  Bates  Hall  showed 
last  year,  is  apparent  again  this  year.  March  and  August 
still  retain,  respective!}-,  the  heaviest  and  lightest  use  by 
months,  the  August  use  being  about  68  per  cent,  of  that 
for  March.     See  Appendixes  X  and  XI. 

2.  BATES   HALL  CLASSIFICATIONS    AND  EEADINGS. 

I  need  only  remark  of  the  table  in  Appendix  VII,  that  a 
special  class  for  the  literature  of  Spaiu  and  Portugal  appears 
for  the  first  time,  embracino-  558  volumes  belono^inoj  to  the 
General  Library,  and  2,765  of  the  3,907  volumes  that  make  up 
the  Ticknor  Library,  as  now  arranged,  or  a  total  in  this  class  of 
3,425  volumes.  The  table  will  show  how  the  remaining  1,142 
volumes  of  the  Ticknor  Library  are  divided  among  classes 
independent  of  pure  literature  and  history. 

The  percentage  given  for  the  difierent  classes  of  reading 
of  the  Bates  Hall  in  Appendix  XIV,  shows  variations  from 
last  3'ear,  easily  explained  by  the  anomalous  condition  in 
which  this  department  has  been  during  the  year. 

3.  CLASSIFICATIONS  AND  READING  OF  THE  POPULAR 

DEPARTMENTS. 

The  proportion  going  to  make  up  the  character  of  our 
Lower  Hall  collection  remains  from  yesLV  to  year  much  the 


26  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

same,  from  its  natural  growth,  and  the  due  regard  paid  to 
the  wants  of  readers  and  the  proportionate  numerical  impor- 
tance of  different  classes  of  publications.  An  examination  of 
Appendix  VIII  makes  this  apparent. 

By  Appendix  XV  it  will  be  seen  that  there  is  an  almost  un- 
appreciable  diminution  in  the  percentage  of  prose  fiction 
drawn  for  reading.  Still,  over  eighty  per  cent,  of  the  use  of 
the  Lower  Hall  may  be  safely  set  down  to  the  use  of  works 
of  the  imagination,  in  every  department  of  its  range  ;  and  the 
results  are  not  different  at  the  East  Boston  Branch,  as  can  be 
reckoned  from  Appendix  XVI. 


4.     PERIODICAL  READING-ROOMS. 

The  same  cause  which  has  diminished  the  use  of  the  Bates 
Hall  has  in  some  degree  affected  the  use  of  the  Central  Read- 
ing-room, as  the  apartment  has  been  more  or  less  darkened 
from  the  scaffolding  on  the  exterior,  and  its  frequenters  have 
experienced  unusual  noise  and  dust.  The  daily  average  issue 
of  magazines,  which  last  year  was  792,  has  fallen  for  this  year 
to  740.  The  large  use  of  the  Readins^-room  at  East  Boston 
reported  last  year  arose  from  the  novelty  of  its  first  opening, 
and  from  the  dependence  placed  upon  it  for  reading  before 
the  books  were  put  in  circulation.  The  issues  there  for 
twelve  months  are  accordingly  but  little  in  excess  of  those  for 
five  months  last  year,  but  these  five  were  naturally  the  heav- 
iest ones  of  the  year.  From  these  causes  the  average  daily 
issues  from  both  Reading-rooms  has  fallen  from  992  to  825. 

The  table  in  Appendix  XVII  will  also  show  that  fifteen 
new  magazines  have  been  added  to  the  Central  Room,  and 
nine  to  the  East  Boston  Room,  making  the  total  of  the  first 
389  and  of  the  latter  37  ;  Avhile  80  duplicates  swell  the  grand 
total  of  the  two  rooms  to  506. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  27 


5.     LOSSES    AND   DELINQUENTS. 

On  a  circulation  for  home  use  of  about  346,000  volumes, 
it  will  be  again  seen  by  Appendix  XIX  that  the  proportion 
of  delinquents  is  regularly  maintained  from  year  to  year. 
Last  year  one  borrower  in  fifteen  had  to  be  notified,  and  the 
figures  stand  the  same  this  year ;  and  it  is  even  more  remark- 
able that  one  borrower  in  348  both  this  year  and  last  had  to 
be  sought  by  messenger  for  the  recovery  of  the  book  charged 
to  him.  Last  year  we  finally  recovered  all  the  books  that 
were  taken  from  the  Library  except  one  in  7,531,  and  this 
3^ear  it  is  one  in  9,351  for  the  entire  I/ibrary,  and  one  in  3,860 
for  the  Bates  Hall,  and  one  in  8,001  for  the  Lower  Hall,  while 
not  one  was  lost  out  of  the  75,000  delivered  at  the  East 
Boston  Branch,  —  a  remarkable  instance  of  the  safety  of  cir- 
culation without  guaranty. 

Other  particulars  in  the  same  Appendix  will  indicate  the 
wear  and  tear  of  the  popular  departments,  as  for  instance  the 
condemning  of  872  volumes,  and  the  putting  on  of  nearly 
82,000  paper  covers. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  delinquents  who  require  mail  no- 
tices make  a  charge  upon  the  Library  of  about  $1,100  —  no 
inconsiderable  sum.  Of  this  about  |500  is  for  postage, 
notices  to  Dorchester  still  requiring  three  cents.  Action  by 
Congress  establishing  a  postal  card  system,  with  a  cent  for 
the  postage,  will  materially  reduce  this  cost.  The  card  system 
without  the  reduction  of  postage  has  been  introduced  in  the 
sending  of  these  notices  in  this  Library  during  the  past  few 
months,  at  a  saving  of  fifty  per  cent,  on  the  cost  of  printing, 
paper  and  envelopes,  under  the  old  system. 

Under  the  law,  approved  May  16,  1867,  for  the  protection 
of  libraries  from  the  mutilation  of  books,  it  was  found  diffi- 
cult to  secure  a  conviction.  The  evil  being  one  of  consider- 
able magnitude,  the  Hon.  Ellis  W.  Morton  was  requested  by 
the  Board  to  represent  the  interests  of  the  Library  at  the 


28  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

State  House,  and  the  result  was  the  passage  of  an  act  which 
became  a  law  March  26,  by  which  "  whoever  wilfully  and 
maliciously  or  wantonly  and  without  cause"  commits  such  an 
offence,  is  rendered  liable  to  a  fine  of  from  five  to  fifty  dol- 
lars, or  to  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months.  It  is 
very  desirable  for  its  salutary  effect  that  a  few  convictions 
should  be  got  under  this  amended  law. 

V.  CATALOGUES. 

1.  BATES   HALL. 

An  important  change  has  taken  place  in  the  management 
of  our  catalogue.  Thirty  years  ago  the  British  Museum 
abandoned  the  plan  of  a  printed  catalogue.  The  Bodleian  has 
not  printed  any  since  1859,  and  does  not  intend  to  do  so  here- 
after. Dr.  Pertz,  the  Librarian  of  the  Royal  Library  of  Berlin, 
and  other  of  the  chief  bibliographical  authorities  of  the 
continent,  are  likewise  united  in  the  view  that  such  printing 
in  a  large  and  rapidly  growing  library  is  impracticable,  both 
from  the  expense,  and  from  the  constant  reduplication  of 
alphabets,  which  will  in  not  a  long  time  become  very  burden- 
some to  examine,  with  the  necessity  of  turning  to  one  from 
another.  It  has  always  been  felt  that  our  Library  might  in 
time  find  itself  in  the  same  circumstances  with  the  older  libra- 
ries of  Europe,  but  when  our  repeated  efforts  during  the  last 
four  or  five  years  to  begin  on  a  new  volume  of  the  Bates  Hall 
Catalogue  have  been  as  repeatedly  thwarted  by  the  increasing 
detail  of  this  department,  arising  from  ramifications  and 
a  rapid  growth,  it  has  become  more  and  more  apparent 
that  the  contingency  was  not  so  far  removed  as  it  had  been 
felt  to  be.  At  the  rate  of  growth  which  the  Library  is  now 
maintaining,  we  should  have  found  after  increasing  the  force 
of  this  department  for  the  purpose  of  adding  the  proof-read- 
ing of  a  new  volume  to  its  other  work,  that  its  completion 
would  only  have  been  the  signal  for  a  repetition  of  all  the 


PUBLIC    LIBEAIIY.  29 

labor,  upon  the  material  Avhich  had  accummulated  while  the 
other  was  going  through  the  press.  This  would  be  equiv- 
alent to  adding  largel}^  to  our  permanent  force,  besides 
entailing  a  heavy  cost  for  printing. 

While  the  use  of  a  catalogue  in  print  is  vastly  more 
convenient  than  the  best  in  manuscript,  and  while  our 
printed  volumes  may  be  of  great  advantage  in  other 
libraries,  and  to  a  few  students  who  possess  them,  it  is 
very  apparent  from  observation  that  the  great  bidk  of  users 
of  the  Bates  Hall  are  in  search  of  the  newer  books,  which 
cannot  be  found  in  printed  catalogues,  or  else  they  find  it 
more  convenient  to  consult  the  catalogues  in  the  building 
than  elsewhere.  Any  deprivation  which  would  ensue  from 
the  abandonment  of  printing  the  catalogues  in  volumes  was 
likely  therefore  to  fall  upon  distant  libraries  and  a  very  few  per- 
sons, not  always  among  those  who  assist  in  supporting  the 
institution.  There  was  to  be  other  gain  than  economy  in 
making  the  change,  and  that  consisted  largely  in  massing  in 
one  alphabet  an  index  to  the  stores  of  the  entire  Library ; 
and  it  was  not  felt,  moreover,  to  be  necessary  to  give  up  the 
advantages  of  print. 

In  some  correspondence  with  the  Librarian  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Leydeu,  it  had  been  learned  that  they  used  a  printed 
card  catalogue,  uniting  the  marked  advantages  of  both  sys- 
tems. Their  titles  were  set  up  in  the  order  of  accession  and 
printed  in  sheets,  one  hundred  and  fifty  titles  at  a  time,  on 
thin  paper ;  and  then  being  cut  out  and  pasted  in  different 
records,  they  made  up  their  catalogue  of  accessions;  their 
alcove  lists  ;  the  public  alphabetical  catalogue  ;  the  same  for 
ofiicial  use ;  and  a  systematic  catalogue.  It  seemed  that  in 
this  plan  there  was  a  solution  of  our  difiiculties.  The  multi- 
plication of  titles  by  print  promised  much  saving  of  clerical 
labor,  with  fewer  chances  of  error,  and  was  capable  of  devel- 
oping a  great  variety  of  use  by  the  mere  labor  of  assortment. 
It  had  been  found  at  the  British  Museum  that  their  augmen- 


30  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

tatiou  of  copies  by  the  carbon  process,  which  yields  only 
four  transcripts,  allowed  them  no  chance  of  adding  variety  to 
their  catalogues  in  the  way  of  different  systems,  suited  to 
varied  wants  in  the  users  of  the  collections.  Their  small 
reserve  of  copies  of  titles  for  replacing  those  worn  out  pre- 
vented any  more  systematic  use  of  them  than  a  simple  alpha- 
betical catalogue,  to  Avhich  they  might  add  an  index  in  the 
case  of  important  articles  like  Shakespeare  and  the  Bible. 
In  a  catalogue  that  now  numbers  about  1,900  folio  volumes, 
and  is  expanding  so  rapidly  that  a  binding  force  is  constantly 
at  work  interleaving  and  re-guarding,  there  is  some  dangler 
that  in  no  long  time  this  reserve,  with  the  constant  wear,  will 
not  be  enough.  The  dilemma  we  believe  is  recognized  by 
the  authorities  of  that  Library ;  but  no  change  is  yet  made 
in  their  processes. 

Taking  then  the  idea  indicated  by  the  practice  at  Leyden, 
and  after  some  experimenting  with  printing  directly  upon  cards, 
and  in  establishing  the  form  of  the  title,  a  method  has  finally 
been  worked  out  which  seems  to  meet  every  requirement. 
The  cataloguer,  having  prepared  his  title,  indicates  the  cross 
references,  and  then  draws  his  pen  through  them,  to  guard 
against  the  compositor's  setting  them  up.  A  day's  accumu- 
lation of  such  slips  goes  to  the  printer  at  night,  and  comes 
back  in  the  shape  of  printed  strips,  several  copies  being  re- 
turned, one  of  which  is  corrected  and  sent  back.  One  of 
such  strips  is  posted  at  once  on  a  bulletin-board,  showing  the 
freshest  books,  and  another  is  scanned  for  books  known  to  be  of 
interest  to  specialists,  to  whom  the  title  thus  printed  is  de- 
spatched. About  one  hundred  titles  are  enough  for  a  form, 
which  is  then  printed  on  thin  paper,  and  ordinarily  about 
thirty  copies  of  each  sheet  are  printed,  though  more  are 
struck  off  in  special  instances,  one  or  two  hundred  being 
sometimes  the  number,  when  a  form  is  made  up  of  titles  of 
pamphlet  volumes,  with  contents,  or  other  works  requiring 
a  larger  number  of   cross-references, —  the  object  being  to 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  31 

provide  enough  copies  of  such  titles  to  supply  all  the  entries 
in  duplicate  (tlie  public  and  official  catalogues  being  kept 
up  independently,  for  convenience  and  ai  a  necessary  check) 
and  to  furnish  a  reserve  for  future  contingencies. 

To  each  title  is  appended,  beside  the  shelf  number,  the 
accession  number,  the  number  of  the  sheet  in  which  it  is 
printed,  and  to  some  the  letter  B,  to  indicate  snch  as  are  to 
be  made  to  reappear  in  the  quarterly  bulletins.  The  sheet 
number  is  a  clue  at  once  to  the  pigeon-hole  in  which  the  re- 
serve titles  are  kept.  By  referring  to  the  cross-references  on 
the  printer's  "copy"  of  such  titles,  the  attendant  knows  just 
how  many  copies  to  cut  out  of  the  sheet  for  each  title,  and 
just  what  headings  to  give  them.  These  are  pasted  on  cards  and 
rolled  smooth ;  and  the  cards  are  then  put  in  their  proper 
places  in  both  the  public  and  official  catalogues. 

The  reserve  of  copies  renders  it  of  course  possible  to  ar- 
range by  assortment  any  special  alphabetical  or  systematic 
catalogue,  as  may  be  required  of  the  medical  or  any  other  de- 
partment of  the  Library  ;  and  in  the  case  of  any  special  collec- 
tion, like  the  Ticknor  Library,  they  afford  ready-made  "  copy" 
for  a  separate  volume.  Indeed,  while  abandoning  the  print- 
ing of  volumes  of  the  General  Library  of  the  Bates  Hall,  it  is 
not  at  all  improbable  that  the  publication  of  special  catalogues, 
in  departments  for  which  we  may  from  time  to  time  become 
known,  will  follow. 

To  perfect  the  system  indicated  by  this  description,  the 
work  is  not  by  any  means  to'  be  confined  to  the  entry  of  titles 
of  books  yet  to  be  acquired.  It  is  hoped  gradually  to  em- 
body in  this  one  alphabet,  not  only  all  previous  additions  to 
the  Bates  Hall,  with  all  their  cross-references ;  but  also  the 
titles  of  the  Lower  Hall  Collection,  so  that  it  shall  represent 
the  entire  Central  Library.  It  is  not  likely  that  the 
Branches,  except  in  very  rare  instances,  will  contain  any 
books  not  to  be  found  in  the  Boylston  street  Buildino*. 
Work  was  begun  in  this  direction  with  the  Prince  Catalogue, 


32  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.   72. 

the  titles  and  cross-references  from  which  have  been  put  upon 
cards,  and  are  ah-eady  inserted;  and  progress  is  making  on 
the  printed  bulletins,  proceeding  backwards  from  No.  19.  It 
must  be  long  before  this  work  is  entirely  done,  so  as  to  in- 
clude the  titles  of  the  two  printed  volumes. 

This  new  system  was  begun  on  the  first  of  October,  ;]and 
up  to  this  time  there  have  been  printed  39  sheets,  beside 
2  extra  ones,  covering  the  titles  and  contents  of  pamphlet 
volumes.  This  gives  a  total  of  3,840  titles,  and  has  necessi- 
tated 10,396  entries  on  the  cards  in  each  catalogue,  or  count- 
ing the  triplication  of  the  titles  in  the  Ticknor  Librar}^  — 
another  set  being  made  to  constitute  a  special  catalogue  of 
this  collection, —  we  have  a  record  of  nearly  21,000  cards, 
prepared  in  six  months,  an  extent  of  manual  labor  in  mount- 
ing, inscribing  and  assorting,  that  has  severely  taxfed  the 
faithful  Curator  of  the  Card  Catalogues,  and  the  assistants 
who  have  aided  her.  ; 

2.     LOWER   HALL  AND   BRANCHES. 

The  sj'stem  of  printed  lists  of  books  for  the  popular  de- 
partments of  the  Library  is  not  affected  by  the  new  arrange- 
ments for  the  Bates  Hall.  The  fifth  edition  of  the  Lower 
Hall  Class  List  for  Fiction  and  Juveniles  Avas  issued  in 
August,  and  the  second  edition  of  that  for  the  Arts,  Sciences 
and  Professions  in  September ;  and  in  these  a  new  stjde  of 
page,  more  economical  as  well  as  more  handsome,  w^as 
adopted.  The  first  edition  of  the  List  for  History  and  Pol- 
itics, and  that  for  Travel  and  Biography,  has  been  for  some 
time  exhausted,  beyond  what  is  necessary  for  use  in  the 
building,  and  a  great  deal  of  labor  has  been  expended  in  pre- 
paring a  new  Class  List,  which  would  unite  the  two,  their 
subjects  being  too  far  interlinked  for  successful  treatment 
independently.  This  catalogue,  which  will  shortly  be  put  to 
press,  promises  to  be  very  large,  and  as  inconvenience  has 
been  experienced  from  the  absence  of  the   place  and  date  of 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  33 

publication  in  connection  with  the  titles,  these  particulars 
have  been  restored,  A  more  extensive  system  of  cross-refer- 
ences, and  a  brief  indication  —  in  case  of  biographies  —  of 
who  the  subject  was,  is  also  to  be  introduced.  A  new  edi- 
tion of  the  Index  to  Historical  Fiction  is  likewise  in  prepara- 
tion. Since  January,  the  collection  for  the  South  Boston 
Branch  has  been  catalogued,  and  the  printing  of  the  list  is 
now  in  progress. 

3.     BULLETINS. 

Four  (Nos.  18  to  21)  have  been  printed,  covering  about 
4000  titles.  Since  the  first  printing,  in  October,  of  the  broad- 
sides of  titles  for  the  card  catalogue  we  have  reserved  a 
selection  of  the  titles  contained  in  them  as  "  copy  "  for  the 
Bulletin  ;  which  has  proved  a  gain  in  accuracy,  and  a  saving 
of  expense  for  corrections  of  type.  Out  of  the  3,840  titles 
mentioned  above,  2,152  were  considered  important  enough 
for  reproduction  in  the  Bulletins,  which  establishes  a  ratio 
very  nearly  of  two  in  every  three. 

During  the  year  a  list  of  the  portraits  in  the  Tosti  Engravings 
has  been  printed  ;  and  a  further  instalment  of  the  list  of  other 
prints  was  given  in  the  Bulletin  for  April.  With  that  for 
October  (No.  19)  the  first  volume  of  the  Bulletins  was 
brought  to  an  end. 

VI.     FINANCE. 

In  Appendix  XX  will  be  found  the  usual  financial  state- 
ment. 

Eespectfully  submitted, 

JUSTIN  WIN80R, 

Supermtendent. 
Public  Library,  May  9,  1872. 


APPENDIXES 


SUPERINTENDENT'S  REPORT. 


1873. 


LIST  OF  APPENDIXES. 


I.  Extent  and  Inceease  of  the  Library. 

II.  Extent  of  the  Bates  Hall  Collection. 

III.  Extent  of  the  Lower  Hall  Collection. 

IV.  Sale  Duplicates  and  Odd  Volumes. 
V.  Increase  of  the  Library. 

VI.  Volumes  Located  in  Bates  Hall. 

VII.  Bates  Hall  Classifications. 

VIII.  Lower  Hall  Classifications. 

IX.  Donors. 

X.  Circulation  of  Books. 

XI.  Books  Returned. 

XII.  Registration  of  Applicants. 

XIII.  Books  Recommended.    Use  of  British  Patents. 

XIV.  Bates  Hall  Reading. 
XV.  Lower  Hall  Reading. 

XVI.  EiST  Boston  Branch  Reading. 

XVII.  Periodical  Reading  room. 

XVIII.  Periodicals  Duplicated. 

XIX.  Losses  and  Delinquents. 

XX.  Financial  Statement. 

XXI.  Library  Service. 

XXII.  Report  on  the  Examination  of  the  Library. 

XXIII.  List  of  Examining   Committee  for  Twenty  Years. 

XXIV.  List  of  Trustees  for  Twenty  Years. 

XXV.  The  Eellowes  Athenjeum  and  Roxbury  Branch. 

XXVI.  Papers  Concerning  Greuze's  Franklin. 

XXVII.  The  Bequest  of  Daniel  Treadwell. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY. 


37 


APPENDIX  I. 

EXTENT  AND  INCREASE  OF  THE  LIBRARY. 


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Note. — The  aggregate  of  pampLlets  ''added  from  the  beginning"  hicludes  of  course  many  since  bound, 
singly  or  in  groups  (which  are  now  counted  among  volumes),  and  a  very  large  number  of  duplicates,  which  are 
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38 


CITY    DOCUMENT.  —  No.  72. 


APPEOT)IX    II. 

EXTENT  OF  THE  BATES  HALL  COLLECTION  IN  VOLUMES. 


The  General  Library 

Bowditch  Library* 

Parker  Library* 

"      Duplicates  (not  for  sale)t 

Prince  Library 

Ticknor  Library 


Entered  on  the  Accession  Catalogue, 
but  not  yet  located  at  the  end  of  the 
year  . ■ 


1867. 


87,658 
2,542 

11,721 

186 

1,952 


Condemned 


Total 


1868. 


93,553 
2,542 

11,721 

186 

1,952 


105,735 


1869. 


101,428 

2,542 

11,721 

186 

1,952 


1870. 

107,724 

2,542 

11,721 

186 

1,952 


1871. 


115,232 

2,542 

11,721 

186 

11,970 

3,774 


187S. 


121,709 

2,542 

11,721 

186 

1,970 

§3,907 


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2 


117,967 


134,419 
0 


124,419 


135,786 
0 


135,786 


142,686 
1 


142,685 


*  See  Appendix  VII. 

t  Including  18  vols,  of  MS8. 

{  Boxed  and  stored  in  the  basement. 

§  Includes  31  vols,  of  MSS.  as  bound.  When  received  they  were  mostly  in  stitched 
brochures,  several  of  which  are  now  bound  in  one  volume.  The  remainder  of  the  difference 
between  the  present  year's  figures  and  those  for  last  has  arisen  from  some  discrepancy  last 
year  in  the  count  of  pamphlets  destined  for  volumes. 

Note.  —  Something  less  than  100  volumes  have  probably  been  lost  from  the  Bates  Hall 
since  1861,  and  each  year  some  reappear,  while  a  few  in  excess  disappear,  increasing  the 
aggregate  loss  a  little ;  so  that  it  is  probable  the  figures  of  the  Bates  Hall  collection  are  a 
trifle  in  excess  of  what  an  actual  count  would  indicate. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY. 

APPENDIX  III. 

EXTENT  OF  THE   LOWER  HALL   COLLECTION. 


39 


186T. 

186S. 

25,199 
2,003 

1869. 

26,606 
2,469 

18TO. 

28,723 
1,417 

ISTl. 

29,909 
2,780 

187SS. 

Reported  the  precediu?  year 

30,574 
2,614 

Total 

27,202 
339 

20,075 
03 

30,140 
19 

32,689 

23 

1859 

1,233 

30,574 

33,188 

7 

535 

819 

31,827 

Books  transferred  to  Bates  Hall    .   .   . 
Books  transferred  to  Branches  .... 

Condemned  during  the  year 

257 
26,606 

259 
28,723 

212 

29,909 

Total  left 

*25,199 

*  Actual  count.        f  To  East  Boston. 

Note.  There  have  been  perhaps  since  the  last  actual  count  in  1837,  about  sixty  or  sev- 
enty volumes  irrecoverably  lost  in  the  Lower  Hall.  Perhaps  an  equal  number  are  to  be 
classed  as  "  unaccounted  for,"  but  may  reappear. 


APPEISTDIX  lY. 

SALE   DUPLICATES  AND   ODD  VOLUMES. 

{Not  including  Parker  duplicates,  or  a  large  lot  of  odd  volume-')  of  books,  not  likely  to  have 
the  missing  volumes  supplied,  which  are  now  boxed  up.) 


ISGT. 

4,955 
714 

5,669 
523 

1868. 

5,146 
1,004 

6,150 
345 

1869. 

5,805 

847 

6.652 
546 

6,106 

1870. 

ISTl. 

18T». 

Number  at  beginning  of  year 

Added  during  the  year  ........ 

1 

6.106 
443 

6,549 
304 

6.245 

383 

6,954 
996 

Disposed   of 

234 
*6,954 

7,950 
t636 

Total 

5,146 

5,805 

*7,314 

*  This  number  is  by  an  actual  count  of  the  volumes  now  arranged  in  our  Duplicate 
Room ;  and  it  includes  three  hundred  and  eighty-one  volumes  of  British  Sessional  documents, 
ready  for  exchange. 

t  Of  these  one  hundred  and  eighty-eight  were  exchanged  and  four  hundred  and  forty- 
eight  sent  to  the  South  Boston  Branch. 

Note.  There  are  also  of  pamphlets  some  thirty  thousand  duplicates,  arranged  in  boxes, 
and  ready  for  exchanges.    Libraries  are  invited  to  make  such  exchanges  with  us. 


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APPENDIX  y. 

INCREASE  OF  THE  LIBRARY. 


1867. 

1868. 

1869. 

1870. 

6,296 
140 

1871. 

7,508 
294 

1873. 

Increase  of  the  Bates  Hall. 

Gain  in  located  books  (App.  VI.)  . 
Of  these  not  located  at  last  Report  . 

6j297 
1,678 

7,475 
1,327 

10,384 
4,135 

4,619 

1,327 

659 

6,148 
140 
801 

6,156 
294 
139 

7,214 
*4,135 

6  249 

Added  and  not  located  at  end  of  year 

Net  increase  of  sale  duplicates  .  .  . 

(App.  IV.) 

•  •  • 

651 

6,605 

6,589 
2 

6,589 

11,349 

6  900 

1 

6,605 

6,587 

6,589 

11,349 

6  899 

Increase  of  the  Lower  Hall. 

2,003 
596 

2,469 
352 

1,417 
231 

2,780 
2,115 

2,614 

Les8  transfers  and  condemned  books 

... 

1,361 

1,407 

2,117 

1,186 

665 

1,253 

Increase  of  East  Boston  Branch. 

5,936 

881 

50 

831 

Increase  of  So.  Boston  Branch. 

Gain 

4,365 

Increase  of  Duplicate  Room. 

149 

360 

Increase  of  Entire  Collection. 


Bates  Hall  gain  .  .  . 
Lower  Hall  gain  .  .  . 
E.  B.  Branch  gain  .  . 
S.  B.  Branch  gain  .  . 
Duplicate  Room  gain 


Total  gain 


6,605 

1,407 


6,568 
2,117 


8,685 


6,589 
1,186 


11,349 

665 

5,936 


18,099 


6,899 
1,2.53 

831 
4,365 

360 


13,708 


Increase  from  Newly  Published 
Books. 

Engli.sh  Books  ■with  British  imprint  . 

English  Books  with  American  im- 
print   

English  Books  with  Continental  im- 
print  

Foreign  Books 

Duplicates  of  either  class,  when  not 
included  in  the  other  items  .... 


Total 


635 

708 

625 

811 

899 

1,154 

1,445 

1,455 

1,411 

2,206 

104 
639 

100 
673 

80 

789 

50 

487 

48 
561 

97 

447 

248 

480 

2,529 

2,826 

3,396 

3,007 

4,194 

1,096 

3,642 

115 


5,744 


*  Inclndes  Ticknor  Library. 


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APPENDIX    yi. 

VOLUMES   LOCATED   IN   BATES   HALL,    BY   MONTHS. 


Months. 


May  .  .  . 
June  .  .  . 
July  .  .  . 
August .  . 
September 
October  . 
November 
December  , 
January  . 
February 
March  .  . 
April     .  . 

Total 


1868-69. 


7,476 


1869-70. 


758 

727 

509 

480 

1,037 

462 

383 

,347 

520 

713 

833 

378 

866 

697 

546 

443 

763 

695 

639 

632 

905 

626 

834 

427 

563 

633 

706 

521 

382 

1,001 

417 

1,175 

661 

6,296 


1870-71, 


7,508 


1871-78. 


_455 
464 
291 
518 
511 
295 
*4,528 
651 
611 
724 
738 
t598 


10,384 


Note. — These  figures  are  the  results  of  tables  made  out  year  by  year,  like  the  one  con- 
stituting Appendix  VI  for  1869.  The  figures  for  May,  June  and  July,  1868-69,  should  fol- 
low those  for  April  of  the  same  year.  They  were  misplaced  to  adapt  the  table  to  a  change 
of  the  library  year. 

*  3,876  are  books  of  the  Ticknor  Library,  then  assigned  to  permanent  places, 
t  Includes  31  vols,  of  the  Ticknor  MS3. 

Pamphlets.  During  the  year  the  Curator  of  pamphlets  has  beside  assorting  the  cur- 
rent additions,  arranged  for  the  binder  385  volumes,  of  an  average  of  12  pamphlets  each, 
and  of  these  59  related  to  the  Slavery  question. 


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table. 

Note.  —  The  column  of"  Condemned  books  replaced  "includes  books  condemned  in  previous 
years  as  well  as  in  the  current  year.  The  column  "  Total  added  "  show.''  the  number  of  volumes 
as  put  upon  the  shelves,  counting  as  one  those  bound  two  volumes  in  one,  etc. 


PUBLIC     LIBRARY. 


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APPENDIX    IX. 


LIST  OF  DONORS,  1871-72. 

Bates,  Joshua,  London,  interest  in  gold  on  the  fund  of     .  $50,000 

Bigelow,  Hon.  John  P.,        "         "             "             "        .  1,000 

Franklin  Club,                        "         "             "             "         .  1,000 

Lawrence,  Hon.  Abbott,       "         "             "             "         .  10,000 

Phillips,  Hon.  Jonathan,       "         "             "             "         .  30,000 

Tieknor,  George,                   "         "             "             "         .  4,000 

Townsend,  Mary  P.,              "         "             '"             "         .  4,000 

$100,000 

DONATIONS  MAY  1,  1871,  TO  APRIL  30,  1872. 

Donors  (excluding  anonymous),      .....  610 

Volumes, 4,349 

Pamphlets, 5,831 


Academia,  Lugduno-Batava,  Ley  den, 

Adams,  i7o?i.  Charles  F.,  Q(/z«C7/, 

Alden,  Miss  Mary  Anne,  Ditxhury,  1  newspaper, 

Allen,  George  H.,        . 

Allen,  Joseph  H., 

Allen,  Nathan,  M.  D., 

Allen,  SteplienM., 

Alameida,  Joao  de,  Brazil, 

Alton,  111.,  Horticultural  Society,  3  newspapers, 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 

American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester,  .         . 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union, 

American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions, 

American  Colonization  Society,    Washington,  D.   C, 

American  Iron  and  Steel  Association,  Pliiladelphia,  Pa. 

American  Philosophical  Society,  P/ii7«(ZeZ/?Ata,  Pa., 

American  Statistical  Association,         ... 

American  Tract  Society,  New  England  Branch, 

American  Unitarian  Association, 

Amiens,  France,  Bibliotlieque  communale, 

Andover  Theological   Seminary, 

Andrews,  Frank  "\V.,  ..... 

Anonymous,  20  numbers  of  periodicials,  1  broadside, 


Vols. 


1 

29 
1 
1 


42 


Pph. 


3 

110 


1 

2 

24 


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No.  72. 


City, 


Appleton,  Thomas  G., 

Ashley,  J.  N.,  New  York  City,    . 

Aspinwall,   Col.  Thomas,    .... 

Attwood,  Gilbert,  and  Co., 

Austin,   Miss,   158  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Austin,  Ivers  J., 

Babcock,  Rev.  William  G., 

Baird,  Henry  Carey,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,.    . 

Baifour,  David  M.,  Charlestown, 

Ballantyne  and   Co.,  Edinburg,  Scotland, 

Baltimore,  3Id.,  City  of,      .... 

Commissioner    of    Public    Schools, 

Bankers'  Magazine,  The,  Publisher,  New  York  City, 
Barclay,  James  J.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

Barton,  3Irs.  L.  T 

Bates,  Stockton,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  . 

Beadley  and  Power,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Beaman,  Charles  C,  Jr.,  New  York  City, 

Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  New   York 

Benhara,   Oen.  H.  W., 

Bennett,  Joseph,  Brighton, 

Bigelow,  Henry  J.,  M.  D., 

Bigelow,  Jacob,  M.  D.,       . 

Birkenhead,  England,  Free  Public  Library, 

Birmingham,  England,  Free  Libraries  Committee, 

Blair,  Prof.  Walter,  Hampden  Sidney   College,   Va. 

Blake,  Clarence  J.,  M.  D., 

Blatchford,  Jolm  S.,    . 

Bolton,  England,  Public  Library  and 

Bossange,  Gustave,  Paris, 

Boston,  City  of,  .... 

Athenaeum, 

Bethesda  Society,    . 

Board  of  Trade, 

Children's    Hospital, 

Gas  Light  Company, 

Home  for  Aged  Men,  867  numbers  of  perio 

Mattapan  Literary  Association,  1  MS. 

Mercantile  Library  Association, 

Port  and  Seaman's  Aid  Society, 

Provident    Association, 

St.  Stephen's  Chapel, 

Temporary  Home  for  the  Destitute, 

Young   Women's    Christian  Association 

Boston  and  Albany  Railroad  Library, 

•Both,  Carl,  7?f.Z>., 
Bowditch,  Henry  1.,  M.  D., 
Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Me., 
Boyd,  David  F.,  New  Orleans,  La., 
Bradford,  George  P.,   . 
Bradlee,i?ei'.  Caleb  D., 
Brady,  William,  Houston,  Texas, 
Brennecke,  Dr.  W.,  Posen,  Prussia 
Brewer,  Gardner,  1  oil  painting. 


Museum 


dicals. 


28 
6 


70 


107 
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120 
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Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  j!/.  Z)., 
Bridgeraan,  Alfred,  and  Son,  New  York  City, 
Briggs  and  Brother,  Rochester,  N.Y., 
Brighton,  Town  of,    "^ . 

Holton  Library, 

Brinckle,  J.  Gordon,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
Brinton,  D.  G.,  M.  D.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., . 


n. 


ntho 


Briscoe,  J.  J.,  Executor  of.   West  Surrey,  England, 

British  and  Foreign  Unitarian  Association,  London, 

British  Museum,  London, 

Brookline  Public  Library, 

Brooklyn,  N.   Y.  Mercantile  Library  Association. 

Brown,  Prof.  George  W.,  Paltimore,  3Id., 

Brown,  J.  C.  J., 

Brown,  Orren  L.,         ..... 

Brown,  Rev.  S.  E.,  Yokohama,  Japan, 
Brown,  William  M.,    . 
Brown  University,  Providence,  R.  I., 
Bryant,  H.  W.,  Portland,  Me.,  . 
Buccellati,  Dr.  Antonio,  Pavia,  Italy, 
Buck,  David,       ...... 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Board  of  Trade, 

University,       ..... 

Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association,  Charleston- 
Burbank,  Edwin  C,  Medford,     ... 
Burgess,  George,  London,  Bequeathed  by  Sir  A 

Sterling,        .... 
Burritt,  Elihu,  Neiv  Britain,  Conn. 
Burroughs,  Rev.  Henry, 
Buswell,  Edwin  S.       .         .         . 
Butler  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Providence,  R.L 

Buteux,  Rev.  S., 

Campbell,  Loomis  J., 

Capen,  Barnard,  ..... 

Capen,  John,       ...... 

Capen.  Nahum,  ...... 

Centro,  Kobert  E.,      ..... 

Chamberlain,  David,   ..... 

Chandler,  Horace  P.,  24:  numbers  of  periodicals 

Ch.andler,  Col.  3.  G., 

Chapman,  George  A., 

Charlestown,  City  of,  .... 

Public  Lil3rary,         .... 

Cheever,  David  W.,  M.  D 

Chicago,  /?Z.,  Board  of  Trade,    . 

Medical  College,       .... 

Eeform  School, 


Christern,  E.  W.,  Xew  York  City, 

Christian  Eegister  Association,    . 

Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Mercantile  Library  Association 

Public  Library,  5  maps,   ... 

Claghorn.  James  L.,  Philadelp)hia,  Pa., 
Clapp,  Herbert  C,        . 
Claxk,  Henry  G.,  JiL  D.,     . 


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Ohio 


4  numbers  of 


periodicals,  10 


Clark,  William  A., 

Clarke,  Rev.  Dorus,  D.D., 

Clarke,  Edward  H.,  M.D., 

Clarke,  M.  E.,     .         .         .         .       _ 

Clarke,  Robert,  and  Co.,  Cincinnati, 

Collar,  William  C, 

Collins  and  M'Leester,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

periodicals,  . 
Colton.  G.  W.,  andC.  B.,  and  Co.,  New  York  City, 
Columbia  College,  New  York  City, 
Conant,  Caleb  A., 
Coolidge,  Algernon,  M.  B.,  45  numbers  of 

newspapers, 
Cowdin,  Elliot  C.,  New  York  City, 
Cowley,  Charles, 

Crestadoro,  A.,  Ph.  D.,  Manchester,  England, 
Crosby,  Sumner,  .... 

Cupples,  Joseph  G.,     . 
Curtis,  lion.  George  T.,  New  York  City, 
Curtis,  Thomas  W.,  Qwmci/, 
Cutter,  Charles  A.,       . 
Dalton,  John  C,  M.  D.,  New  York  City, 
Dana,  Israel  T.,  M.  D.,  Portland,  Me., 
Dana,  Hon.  Richard  H.,  Jr.,         .         ,    , 
Elanforth,  Jolm,  Lynnfield  Centre, 
Davis,  Hon.  J.  C.  V.,   Washington,  D.  C, 
Davis,  Mrs.  Paulina  W.,  Providence,  R.  I., 
Davis,  Tliomas  W.,  13  engraved  plans, 
Dennet,  William  H.,     .... 

Derby,  George,  M.  D.  , 

Detroit,  Mich.,  Public  Library,     . 

Deutsclier  medicinischer  Verein,  4  numbers 

De  Voe,  Edwin,  Ckao'lestown, 

Dexter,  John  H.,  1  engraving. 

Dexter,  Williams., 

Dix,  Miss  D.  L.,   Washington,  D.  C, 

Doliber,'  Thomas, .... 

Donahoe,  Patrick, 

Dowse,  J.,  Jr.,  Sherhoy-n,     . 

Drowne,  Rev.  T.  Stafford,  D,  D.,  BrookUne,  N.  Y. 

Duane,  William,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1  lithograph, 

Duren,  Elnathan  F.,  Bangor,  Me., 

Dux,  Gustav,        ....... 

Eastern  Railroad  Company,  .... 

Eclectic  Medical  College,  New  York  City,  . 
'Edes,  Harry  H.,  Cliarlestown,      .... 

Eliot,  John  F.,  16  broadsides,      .... 

Elliot,  J.,   Wolverhampton,  England, 

Emerson,  Hot..  George  B.,   8G  numbers  of   periodicals 

map,      .         .         .         ... 

Emigrant  Union,  San  Francisco,  Col., 
Espinassous,  Alphonse  d',  Salinelles,  France, 
Essex  Institute,  Salem,         .         .         . 
Estes,  Edwin  C,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 


of  periodicals 


rph. 


14 

87 
1 

1 
2 
2 
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1 


2 
22 


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1 
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Evans,  Mrs.  Lucy  D.,  Duxbury, 

Everett,  Pcrcival  L.,  77  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Fall  River,  ^.  /.,  Public  Library, 

Fielding  and  Son,   4   framed   photographs, 

Finotti,  Rev.  Joseph  M.,  Brookline,    . 

Fislier,  Theodore  W.,i¥.Z>.,        .... 

Fitchburg  Railroad  Company,      .        .         '.        . 

Fliigel,  Br.  Felix,  Leipzig,  Germany,  12  numbers  of  peri 

odicals,  ....... 

Foote,  Rev.  Henry  W.,  2  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Ford,  William  E., 

Forstemann,  Dr.  E.  W.,  Dresden,  Saxony, 

Foster,  Joseph,  Portsmouth,  N.  IL,    . 

Franklin  County  Agricultural  Society,  Greenfield, 

Frazar,  3frs. 'Maria  W.,  Duxbury, 

Freke,  Henry,  M.  D.,  Duhliyi,  Ireland,        .         .   , 

French,  Jonathan,  13  plans  of  real  estate, 

Gaffield,  Thomas,         ...... 

Galveston    Texas,  Mercantile  Library, 

Gannett,  Rev.  William  C,  193  numbers  of  periodicals,  59 

maps  and  broadsides,  and  1  engraving. 
Garrison,  Wendell  P.,  NeivYork  City, 
Genealogical  Registry  of  the  United  States,  New  York  City, 
General  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen,  N'.  York  City, 
General  Theological  Library,      ...... 

Genin,  John  N.,  New  York  City, 

George,  W.  S.,  Lansing,  Mich., 

Georgia  Historical  Society,  Savannah,  Ga., 

Gilmau,  Arthur,  Lee,  ....... 

Gilman,  JohnH.,  M.  D.,  Lowell, 

Gould,  Prof.  B.  A.,  Cordoba,  Argentine  Republic, 
Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templars  of  Massachusetts 

and  Rhode  Island, 

Gray,  Hon.  John  C,  78  numbers  of  periodicals. 

Gray,  W.  H.,  St.  Louis,  Mo., 

Great  Britain,  Commissioners  of  Patents,  .         .         .         . 

Green,  J.  Orne,  M.  D., 

Green,  Rev.  Orion,      ........ 

Green,  Samuel  A.,  M.  D.,  5  broadsides,  1  newspaper,  1 

print,  1  bookplate,         ....... 

GvQQXiQ,  Rev.  3.  S.  C,  Brookline,         .         .         .         .         . 

Greenleaf,  A.  W.,  Newbwryport, 

Greenough,  William  W., 

Griffin,  Prof.  Nath.  H.,  WillioMistown,       .... 
Griscon,  R.  D.,  Reading,  Pa.,  1  newspaper,  2  circulars, 

GuUd,  Curtis,  and  Co., 

GuUd,  R.  A.,  Providence,  R.  L, 

Haitian  Embassy,  Secretary,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Hale,  Hon.  Charles,  Washington,  D.  C,    . 

Hale,  George  S., 

Hanover,  College,  Hanover,  Ind., 

Harding,  William  P., 

Hart,  Charles  H.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  3  engraved  portraits, 
Hartford,  Cow w.,  Young  Men's  Institute,     .         .         .         . 


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Harvard  College,  Cambridge, 

Class  of  1864, 

Museum  of  Comparative  Zoology,  2  plates,     • 

Pcabody  Museum, 

Haskell,  Daniel  N.,  18  numbers  of  periodicals,        .     . 

Haskins,  Ealpli,  1  plan, 

Hatch,  Samuel,  and  Co.,  64  plans,      ... 

Haverford  College,  Haverford,  Pa., 

Haynes,  Prof.  Henry  W.,  Burlington,  Vt., 

Heinzen,  Karl, 

Henry,  Prof.  Joseph,  Smithsonian  Institution,  Washing- 
ton, D-  C, 

Higginson,  Col.  Thomas  W.,  Newport,  R.  L,       . 

Hill,  C.  H.,  Washington,  D.  C, 

Hill,  Hamilton  A.,  6  broadsides, 

Hillard,  Hon.  George  S., 

Hingham  Agricultural  and  Horticultural  Society, 

Hobart  College,  Geneva,  N.Y., 

Hodges,  iJey.  Richard  M.,  CamSricZg'e,         .         .         .         . 
Holland,  Rev.  Frederick  W.,  Canvbridge,  .... 

Holmes,  Prof.  Oliver  W., 

Homes,  Henry  A. ,  ^ZZ)a/ii/,  iV.  T., 

Horton,  S.  D.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  newspaper  cutting, 

Hyren,  Frederick, 

Illinois  College,  Jacksonville,  III.,      ..... 
Indiana  Inst,  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind,  Indianapolis, 

State  Library,  Indianapolis,  ..... 

University,  Bloomington,        .         .        .         . 

Institution  of  Civil  Engineei-s,  i/oraif 071,       .         .         .         . 
Iowa  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Mount  Pleasant,  . 

Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Council  Bluffs, 

State  Historical  Society,  Iowa  City, 

Ivey,  Herbert,  London,      . 

Jarvis,  Edward,  M.  D., 

Jefferson,  Daniel, 

Jeffries,  E.  Joy,  M.  D.,  1  broadside, 

Jeffries,  John,  jr., . 

Johnson,  Edwin  F.,  New  York  City, 

Johnson,  W.  Forbes,  Dublin,  Ireland,       .... 
Kaiserliche  Akademie  der  Wissenchaften,  Munich,    . 
Kaiserliche  Kdnigliche  Geologische  Ecichsanstatt,  Vienna, 
Kansas  Institution  for  the  Blind,  Wyandotte, 
Keep,  N.  C,  M.  D.,  666  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Kehrhahn,  Ernest, 

Keith,  James  M.,        , 

Knight,  Albert  M., 

Kongelige  Bibliothek,  Copenhagen, 

Kongelige  Nordiske  Oldskrift-Selskab,  Copenhagen,  . 
Kongelige  Norske  Frederiks  Universitet,  Christiana, 
Landreth,  David,  and  Son,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  . 
Lane,  Thomas  W.,  Manchester,  N.  H.,      .... 
Lawrence,  Abbott,  19  numbers  of  periodicals,    . 
Lawrence,  Hon.  William  Beach,  Nervport,  R.  I., 
Lawrence,  William  C, 


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Lawton,  Miss  Antoinette,    .... 

Lee,  W.  M.,  Baltimore,  Md.,     . 

Lenox,  James,  Neiv  York  City, 

Leonard  and  Co.,        ..... 

Leonard,  M.  Bloonifield,  M.D.,  100  numbers  of  perioi 

Liberal  Ciiristian,  Tlie,  Publisher,  New  York  City, 

Lincoln,  Henry  W., 

Literary  and  Historical  Society,  Quebec,     . 
Little,  T.  II.,  Janesville,  Wis.,  .... 

Little,  Brown  and  Co., 

Liverpool,  England,  Free  Public  Library, 
Livingston,  Cliarles  F.,  Manchester,  N.  II., 

London,  City  Mission, 

Library  of  tlie  Corporation 

Lord,  Rev.  Charles  E.,  Easton, 
Loring,  lion.  George, B-?  Salem, 
Lonng,  John  G.,  1  oil  painting, 

Lothrop,  Daniel, 

Louisville,  A')/.,  Library  Association, 
Lovering,  P;o/.  Joseph,  Cambridge, 

Lo-vvell,  City  Clerk, 

City  Library, 

'Lyma.n,  Jieniamin  S.,  PhiladeljjJiia,  Pa.,. 


dicals 


■k  City, 


Lynn,  City  Clerk, 

McCartee,  Cliarles  B.,  Washington,  D.  C, 

Macearty,  William,  West  Roxbury,    . 

McCleary,  Samuel  F., 

Mace,  Jean,  Pa ?-is, 

Mackellar,  Smiths,  and  Jordan,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
McMichael,  lion.  M.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., . 

Magee,  Henry  F., 

Maine,  Superintendent  of  Common  Schools,  Augusta 

Mallory,  Wheeler,  and  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn., 

Manchester,  England,  Free  Libraries, 

Manchester,  N.  II.,  City  Library, 

Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  Neiv  Yo 

Marietta  College,  llarietta,  Ohio, 

Marquette,  3Iiss  Lydia, 

Maryland  Historical  Society,  Baltimore, 

Mason,  Erskine,  31. D.,  New  York  City, 

Massachusetts,  State  of,      . 

Agricultural  Society,  Amherst, 

Board  of  State  Charities, 

Bureau  of  Statistics  of  Labor, 

Eclectic  Medical  Society, 

General  Hospital,    . 

Historical  Society,  . 

Humane  Society,    . 

Institute  of  Teclmology, 

Medical  College,     . 

restate  Normal  School,  Bridgewater 

Temperance  Alliance, 

Matthews,  Nathan,     .         . 
May,  Miss  Abby  W., 


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May,  Rev.  Samuel  J.,  Syracuse,  N.  T.,     . 

Meadville  Theological  School,  Meadville,  Pa.,  . 

Meriden  Britannia  Company,  West  3Ieriden,  Conn.,  , 

Michigan  State  Library,  Lansing,  Mich.,  .... 

University,  Ann  Arbor, 

University  Library,  ...... 

Milan,  Italy,  Municipality  of, 

Minnesota  Historical  Society,  Saint  Paul, 

Moore,  Emery  N.,      .        . 

Moore,  George  H.,  Librarian  of  the  New  York  Historical 
Society,  New  York  City, 

Moore,  Jonathan  F., 

Morse,  Edward  S.,  Salem, 

Morton,  Hon.  Ellis  W., 

Morton,  Mrs.  W.  T.  G.,  Wellesley, 

Mount  Holyoke  Female  Seminary,  South  Hadlcy,     . 

Mullen,  Wm.  J.,  Philadeljohia,  Pa.,  2  newspaper  cuttings, 

MuUer,  Frederick,  Amsterdam, 

Munday,  Eugene  H.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  .... 

Munsell,  Joel,  Albany,  N.  Y., 

Nahant  Public  Library, 

Nashua,  N.  IL ,  City  Library, 

Nation,  The,  Publisher,  New  York  City,  129  numbers  of 
periodicals, 

National  Association  of  Wool  Manufacturers,    . 

National  Library  of  Greece,        ...... 

National  Transition  Moonly  Voice,  The,  Publisher,  Tren- 
ton, N.  J.,  14  numbers  of  periodicals. 

Nelson,  Thomas  and  Sons,  New  York  City, 

New  Bedford  Public  Library,      ...... 

Newburyport  Public  Library, 

Newcomb,  John, '         . 

New  England  Farm  Agency, 

New  England  Female  Medical  College,      .... 

New  England  Hospital  for  Women  and  Children, 

New  England  Society,  New  York  City,       .... 

New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  Newark,    .... 

Newport,  R.  /.,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 

Newton  Free  Library, 

Newton  Theological  Institution,  Neivton  Centre, 

New  York,  City,  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Parks, 

Bo.ard  of  Health, 

City  Mission  and  Tract  Society,       .... 

Mercantile  Library  Association,       .... 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 

New  York  State,         ........ 

Cliamber  of  Commerce,  ...... 

• Library, 

Lunatic  Asylum,  Utica, 

Nichols,  Hon.  George,  Northjield,  Vt.,      . 

North  Bridgewater,  Town  Clerk, 

North  Carolina,  University  of.  Chapel  Hill, 

Northern  Home  for  Friendless  Children,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

North  Reading,  Town  of, 


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Nottingham,  Englaiid,  Committee  of  Free  Libraries  and 

Museums,    . 
Nowell,  Cyrus,  Poiiland,  Me.,   . 
Noyes,  Lewis  E.,  Ahington, 
Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society, 
Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio, 
Ochs,  Florian,     .... 
Oglethorpe  University,  Atlanta,  Ga., 
Ohio.     State  Library, 

University,  Athens, 


Philadelphia 


Ourt,  Andrew  J. ,  Philadelphia,  Pa. , 

Owen,  G.,  2  maps 

Paine,  George  T.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  1  map. 

Paine,  H.  M.,  M.  D.,  Albany,  ^\  Y., 

Paine,  Prof.  T.  O.,  Elmwood,    . 

Pawcatuck,  R.  I.,  Library  Association, 

Peabody  Academy  of  Science,  Salem, 

Peabody  Institute,  i?aZ^more,  J/(^.,    . 

Peabody  Institute,  Danvers, 

Peck,  George  W.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  15  numbers  of 

odicals,  2  autograph  letters, 
Peckham,  Rev.  Joseph,  Kingston,  16  numbers 

icals, 

Peirce,  Prof.  Benjamin,  Cambridge, 
Peirce,  Prof.  James  M.,  Cambridge, 
Pennsylvania.     Board  of  Public  Charities, 

Institution  for  the  Instruction  of  the  Blind, 

Peoria,  7ZL,  Board  of  Trade, 
Perkins,  Charles  C,    .         . 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  City  of, 

Apprentices'  Library  Company, 

Board  of  Health, 


College  of  Pharmacy, 

Library  Company,    . 

Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  II., 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  Mercantile  Library  Association 

Poore,  Hon.  Ben.  Perley,  Washington,  D.  C, 

Porter,  J.  K.,  22  engraved  plans. 

Porter,  Noah,  D.  D.,  President  of  Yale  College 

Portland,  Oregon,  Library  Association, 

Vosi  a.nA  Co., •Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Preble,  Capt.  George  H.,  U.S.  N.,  Charlestow)i, 

Preussischer  Provinzial-Verein  fiir  Blinden-Unterricht,  Ko 

nigsherg,  Prussia, 
Protestant,  A, 
Providence,  R.  I,  City  of, 

Athena?um, 

City  Solicitor, 


Pa. 


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ige, 


Pumpelly,  Prof.  Raphael,  Harvard  College,  Cambria 
Purdie,  Henry  A.,       . 
Putnam,  Charles  G.,  M.  D.,  483  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Putnam,  G.  P.,  Metropolitan  3Iuseitm  of  Art,  New 

City, 

Putnam,  Mrs.  M.  Lowell, 


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Quincy,  Miss  E.  S., 

Quincy,  IIo)i.  Josiah,  4  broadsides,  1  plan, 

Eantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem,         ..... 

Reading.    Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  . 

Reale  Istituto  Lombardo  di  Scienze  e  Lettere,  Milan, 

Reavis,  L.  U.,  <S'^.  Louis,  Mo.,    ..... 

Redpath  and  Fall,  6  numbers  of  periodicals. 

Reed,  John  H., 

Reinwald,  Charles,  Paris,  ..... 
Rhode  Island.     Board  of  State  Charities  and  Corrections, 
M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons 

Providence,  ....... 

Richardson,  William  L.,  31.  D., 

Ripley,  Henry  J.,  D.  D.,  Newton  Theological  Institution 

Robbins,  Chandler,  D.  D., 

Rockwell  and  Churchill, 

Rolfe,  William  J.,  Cambridge,  ..... 
Ross,  Jaines,  Madison,  Wis.,  ..... 
Rowell,  George  P.,  and  Co.,  Neio  York  City,  1  number  of 

a  periodical,  ....... 

Rowlands,  Walter, 

Royal  Astronomical  Society,  London, 

Royal  Geographical  Society,  London, 

Royal  Observatory,  Greenwich,  England,  1  chart. 

Ruppaner,  Anthony,  M.  D.,  New  York  City, 

Russell,  Mrs.  Edward, 

Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,    . 

Sabin,  J.,  and  Sons,  New  York  City,  8  numbers  of  period 

icals.     ......... 


Sabine,  John  D.,  Washington,  D.  C, 

St.  Louis,  Mo.  Board  of  Public  Schools,     . 

• Mercantile  Library  Association, 

• Public  School  Library,     .... 

Sakellarios,  D.  Z.,  Athens,  Greece,     . 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  Board  of  Supervisors, 

Savage,  Edward  H.,  Chief  of  Police, 

Sawyer,  A.  W.,  D.  D.,  Wolfville,  N.  S.,    . 

Searle,  Frederick  A.,  1,100  play  bills. 

Seaverns,  Joel,  3L  D.,  2G5  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Selwyn,  Alfred  R.  C,  Director  of  the  Geological  Survey 

of  Canada,  Montreal, 

Sewall,  J/iss  Eunice  D.,  Vassar  Coll.,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Shattuck,  George  C,  3L  D.,  37  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Shepley  and  Co.,  Fitchhurg,       .... 
Shimmin,  3Irs.  Charles  F.,  Hingham, 
Shoe  and  Leather  Record,  The,  Editor, 
Silas  Bronson  Library,   Waterhury,  Conn., 
Slack,  3Irs.  Mary  R.  F.,  Brookline,   . 

Slafter,  Rev.  Edmund  F., 

Smith,  Alfred  R.,  London,  .... 

Smith,  Charles  C, 

Smith,  Edward,  Superintendent  of  Schools,  Syracuse, 
Smith,  William  B.,  New  York  City,  . 
Smithsonian  Institution,  Washington,  D.  C, 


NY. 


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Snow,  Edwin  M.,  M.  D.,  Providence,  R.  I., 
Socicte  Franklin,  Paris,     ..... 
Society  of  Antiquaries,  i;0??<?o?i. 
Society  of  Arts,  London,  4rG  numbers  of  periodicals 
Soutl)  Carolina,  University  of,  Colmnhia,  . 
Spauhling,  Bev.  John  F.,  Erie,  Pa.,  . 

Sprague,  Henry  H., 

Springfield,  //?.,  Board  of  Trade, 

Springfield,  3Iass.,  City  Library  Association, 

Stansbury,  Charles  F.,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of  the 

District  of  Columbia,  Washington, 
Stednian,-  C.  Ellery,  31.  D.,  253  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Steele,  James  G.,  San  Francisco,\Cal., 
Steiger,,E.,  New  York  City,        .... 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  Tlohoken,  N.  J. 
Stevenson,  tliss  Hannah  E.,        . 

Stoddard,  Charles, 

Storer,  Horatio  E.,  Jr.,  31.  P.,  . 

Stratton,  Henry  B., 

Strout,  James  C,  Washington,  D.  C, 

SuUivant,  Joseph,  Columbus,  Ohio,    . 

Sumner,  Hon.  Charles,  28  broadsides,  4  newspaper  slips, 

Sunday  Times,  The,  Publisher,  . 

Sykes,  Joseph,    ...... 

Tennessee,  Scliool  for  the  Blind,  Nashville, 

Tenney,  Rev.  E.  P., 

Tewksbury,  M.  W.,  Fall  River, 

Thayer,  Miss  Caroline   C,  31  numbers  of  periodicals, 

broadside,     ..... 
Thayer,  Rev.  R., 
Thayer,  Gen.  Sylvanus,  Soiith[Braint7~ee,3  charts,  6  MSS 
Thompson,  N.  A.,  and  Co.,  _187  plans  of  real  estate  in 

Boston.         .         .         .      '    . 
Thornton,  J.  Wingate,  1  engraving.    . 
Ticknor,  3Irs.  George,         ... 
Tiffany,  John  K.,  St.  Louis,'3Io., 
Tobey,  Hon.  Edward  S.,     . 
Toledo,  Ohio,  Index  Association, 
Townsend,  George  A.,   Washington,  D.  C. 
Trask,  AVilliara  B.,     . 
Trumbull,  Hon.  J.  H.,  Hartford,  Conn., 
Tufts  College,  Medford,      . 
Turner,  Alfred  T.,       . 
Tuttle,  Charles  W.,     . 
Tyler,  W.  P.,  1  plan  of  Chicago. 
Tynemouth,  England,  Borough  of,  Free  P 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  Neiv  York  City, 
United  States.     Bure'au  of  Education, 

Bureau  of  Navigation, 

■ Bureau  of  Statistics, 

Census  Office, 

Coast  Survey  Office,  4  charts, 

Department  of  Agriculture, 

Department  of  the  Interior,  2  broadsides,  1  map. 


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United  Stales.    Department  of  State, 

Library  of  Congress, 

Military  Academy,   West  Point,  iV.  Y., 

Naval  Observatory, 

Office  of  the  Chief  Engineers, 

Patent  Office,  2  circulars, 

Quartermaster  General's  Office, 

Signal  Office,  . 

Surgeon  General's  Office, 

Van   Name,   Addison,   Librarian   of 

Haven.  Conn. 
Vassar  College,  Poughheepsie,  N.  Y., 
Vauchez,  Emmanuel,  Paris, 
Veazie,  W.,  1  plan.     . 
Vermont.     Dairyman's  Association,  St.  Albans, 
Historical  Society, 


Yale    College, 


I^rew 


Vick,  James,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  . 
Villard,  Henry,  18  maps  and  broadsides,     . 
Walker,  A.  K.,  and  Co.,  1  broadside,  3  plans. 
Walker,  Gen.  Francis  A.,  Washington,  D.  C., 

Waltham,  Town  Clerk, 

Warren,  Hon.  Charles  H.,  109  numbers  of  periodical 
Warren,  Hon.  G.  Washington,   .... 
Warren,  George  Willis,       ..... 
Washburn,  Hon.  Emory,  Cambridge, 
Washburn,  Frank  T.,  Milton,     .... 
Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington,  Va., 
Watertown.     Free  Public  Library,     . 
Webster,  Warren,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  A.,  Fort  Independence, 
Westermann,  B.,  and  Co.,  New   York  City,  3  numbers  of 

periodicals.  . 

Western  Lunatic  Asylum,  Staunton,  Va., 
Western  Reserve  College,  Hudson,  Ohio,  . 
Western  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Pittsburgh, 

Weston,  Town  of, 

Westphal-Castelnau,  Alexandre,  Montpellier,  France, 
Wetzel,  Rev.  H.,  Woodstock,   Va.,       .... 
Wheeler,  William  A.,  37  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Wheildon,  William  W.,  Concord,  118  broadsides, 

Whipple,  Charles  K., 

White,  Horace,  Chicago, 

White,  James  C.,  M.  D.,  43  numbers  of  periodicals,  . 

Whitney,  Rev.  Frederic  A.,  Brighton, 

Whitney,  James  L.,  4  numbers  of  periodicals,  2  broadsides 

Whitney,  Prof.  William  D.,  New  Haven,  Conn., 

Wilder,  Hon.  Marshall  P.,  .... 

Willcox,  E.  S.,  Peoria,  III,        .... 

Williams,  Henry  W.,  M.  D.,       . 

Williams,  J.  Fletcher,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 

Williams,  Major  3.  Otis,  19  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Williams  College,   Williamstown, 

Williams  Review,  The,  Editors,   Williamstown,  9  numbers 

of  periodicals. 
Wilson,  Hon.  Henry,  Natick, 


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"Wilson,  Henry  W.,  1  plan, 

Wilstach,  Baldwin,  and  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  ...  17 

"Winchell,  Rev.  Eensselaer, 7  9 

Winchendon.     Public  Library, 2 

Winchester,  Caleb  T.,  Librarian  of  Wesleyan  University, 

Middletown,  Conn.,      ....... 

Winslow,  J/rs.  Ellen  A., 10 

Winsor,  Justin,   . 12  15 

Winthrop,  Ho7i.  Robert  C, 61 

Wisconsin,  State  of, 1 

Historical  Society,  1  newspaper  slip,        ...  4 

Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind,  Janesville,  1 

Office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,       ....  1 

Woburn,  Town  of, 1  2 

Woodman,  Cyrus,  Cambridge,  1  map,         ....  1 

Woodward,  Joseph  T.,  Augusta,  Me.,         .         .         .         .  2 

Worcester,  City  of, .  1 

Free  Public  Library, 2 

Worthington,  Flanders,  and  Co., 

Wuertembergischer  Thierschutzverein,  StuttgaH,  Wurtem- 

berg,     ..........  1 

Yale  College,  New  Haven,  Conn.,       .....  1 


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APPENDIX  X. 

CIRCULATION. 

(Books  issued.    No  account  is  made  of  the  great  use  of  books  within  the  Library  rails.) 


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APPENDIX  XI. 


LOWER  HALL. 

Books  returned  for  each  month,    (Books  issued  appear  in  Appendix  X.) 


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CITY   DOCUMENT.  —  No.   72. 


APPEISTDIX  XII. 

REGISTRATION. 


Note.  The  first  registration,  1854-8, 
had  17,066  names;  the  second,  1859-67, 
had  52,829  names. 


II. 


in. 


IV. 


VI. 


Applications.  < 


Central  Library 

E.  B.  Branch  .  . 

S.  B.  Branch  .  . 

(.  Total 


C  Central  Library 
[Total 


Central  Library 
Cards  Refused.  <!  K  B.  Branch  .  . 
t  Total  


Third  Registration. 


12,057 


12,051 
2,810 

2,810 
233 


I  Central  Library 
Cards  not  called  | 
for  during  the  i  E.  B.  Branch  .   . 
year.    ■> 

L  Total 


C  Central  Library 


^ScelieT^-^-^--^' 


L  Total , 


{Central  Library 
E.  B.  Branch  .  , 
Toted 


233 


6,490 


6,577 


6,490 


3,462 


3,462 


202 


852 


6,577 


1,904 


1,904 
179 


179 
404 


7,096 
2,.320 


9,416 

3,040 
1,012 
4,052 

241 
80 
321 

393 
117 
610 


1,215 

30,150 
2,240 
32,390 


6,688 
993 
232 

7,913 

2,876 

474 

3,350 

26' 

28 
295 

439 
151 
690 


346 

36,307 
3.123 
39.430 


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232 

42,453 

14,092 
1,486 
16,578 

1,122 

108 

1,230 

2,677 

268 

2,945 

1,479 

82 

1,561 


The  largest  weekly  nimiber  of  applicants  at  the  Central  Library  was  202,  for  the  week 
beginning  Oct.  30,  1871 ;  and  the  smallest  56,  for  the  week  beginning  Maj-  29,  1872  (the  Li- 
brary was  closed  part  of  Dedication  Day) ;  and  the  weekly  average  has  been  128.  The 
largest  number  of  applicants  in  any  one  day  was  39  for  Feb.  28;  the  smallest  2  for  Sept.  18. 

Up  to  October,  1870,  there  had  been  a  large  number  of  applicants  from  the  beginning  of 
the  present  registration,  who  had  not  called  for  tlieir  cards,  and  a  system  was  then  begun  of 
notifying  applicants  of  six  months  standing  that  their  cards  were  held  subject  to  their  order 
for  one  month  longer,  and  if  then  not  called  for  the  application  would  be  cancelled.  Under 
this  rule  at  the  Central  Library  there  had  been  sent  this  year  327  notices,  and  264  applications 
had  been  cancelled,  leaving  63  cases  which  were  satisfactorily  adjusted. 

The  number  of  applicants,  who  are  residents  of  Dorchester,  since  January  let,  1870  (when 
they  became  entitled  to  the  privileges  of  the  Library),  is  565  for  1870,  293  for  1871,  and  295 
forl872  — total,  1,153. 

Most  of  the  "  cards  refused  "  are  for  reason  of  non-residency  or  being  under  age. 

Since  the  change  was  made  in  the  registration  of  fines,  March  16,  1869,  cards  have  been 
retained  for  non-payment  of  lines,  until  redeemed,  and  May  1, 1871,  the  Clerk  had  in  his  pos- 
session 505  such  cards.     There  have  been  273  cards  detained  during  the  past  year. 

Applications  are  sent  to  the  police,  when  the  Directory  and  all  other  means  of  verification 
fail. 

Cards  Lost.  2,493  notices  of  such  were  given  at  the  Central  Library  during  the  year, 
and  1,636  were  restored  on  further  application. 


rUBLIC    LIBRAKY. 


61 


APPENDIX    XIII. 

BOOKS   RECOMMENDED,   AND   USE   OF  BRITISH   PATENTS. 


Books  Recommended. 


185-1 

1855 

1856 

1857 

1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 

1862 

1863 

1864  .   .   

1865 

1866 

1867  .  •    

1868 

1869 

1870  (nine  months) 

1871 

1872 


123 

221 

121 

18 

85 

178 

91 

115 

204 

135 

56 

58 

306 

646 

,120 

,178 

,231 

,665 

,576 


A  Iready  in 
Library. 


95 
183 
226 
257 
418 
334 


Received 
since. 


260 
423 
535 
448 
549 
756 


Use  of  British 
Patents. 


182 
187 
197 
269 
361 
346 
347 
642 


Hours' 
use. 


243 
243 
248 

367 
589 
389 
301 
815 


Note.  —  The  column  of  "  Received  since  "  denotes  those  received  of  the  "  Total  recom- 
mended'" the  same  year.  What  may  be  in  subsequent  years  received  of  such  "Total 
recommended,"  does  not  appear  in  this  table.  For  instance,  of  the  1,120  —  (183+423)  =  514 
not  received  in  1868  of  the  total  recommended  that  year,  a  large  part  has  since  been  re- 
ceived. 

*  The  partial  disuse  of  the  Bates  Hall,  on  account  of  the  alterations  going  on,  affected  this 
number. 

Patof^s.  —  The  American  and  French  Patents  have  been  placed  in  an  alcove  contiguous 
to  the  room  of  the  British  Patents,  and  the  whole  collection  put  in  charge  of  a  curator.  No 
record  is  made  of  the  use  of  either  the  American  or  French  Patents. 


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APPEIN^DIX    XIY. 

BATES     HALL     READING 


Classifications. 


English  History,  Topography,  Biography, 
Travel  and  Polite  Literature    .... 


American  (North  and  South)  History.  To 
pography,  Biography,  Travel  and  Polite 
Literature 


French  History,  Topography,  Biography, 
Travel  and  Polite  Literature  .   .   .  .  , 


Germanic    History,   Topography,    Biogra- 
phy, Travel  and  Polite  Literature    .   . 

Italian  History,   Topography,   Biography, 
Travel  and  Polite  Literature 


Other    History,   Topography,    Biography, 
Travel  and  Polite  Literature 

General  and  Epochal  History,  Geography, 
Biography,   etc 


Greek,  Latin,  and  Philology 

Bibliography      

Transactions 

Periodicals 

Fine  Arts    .  .  .  .  •    .... 
Natural  History  and  Science 


Theology,   Ecclesiastical   History,    Ethics, 
Education,  etc 


Medicine ,  .   .  . 

Law,  Government,  and  Political  Economy 
Useful  Arts,  Mathematics,  Physics,  etc.  . 
Micellaneous  Pamphlets,  bound 


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Note.  —  In  computing  this  percentage,  the  use  of  books  in  the  Bowditch,  Parker  and 
Prince  Libraries,  —  which  are  kept  apart  from  the  general  classifications  of  the  Library, — 
is  reckoned  as  nearly  as  possible  and  included  in  the  usual  divisions,  as  is  indicated  in  the 
table.    See  Exjjlanations  to  Appendix  VII. 

The  want  of  a  Catalogue  to  the  Spanish  books  of  the  Tickuor  Library  has  prevented  any 
use  of  those  books  which  would  enter  into  the^tatistics. 

During  a  considerable  part  of  1872,  the  first  nine  classes  were  partially  inaccessible  on  ac- 
count of  the  alterations  in  the  Hall,  which  has  caused  the  unusual  diminution  of  the  per- 
centage of  use  of  those  classes. 

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and  Saturdays  to  812  persons ;  553  ladies  and  259  gentlemen ;  and  three  copyists  have  been 
accommodated. 


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APPEI^DIX  XVI. 


EAST  BOSTON  BRANCH  READING. 


{Shown  from  slips  of  Books  returned.) 


I. 
II. 
III. 

rv. 

V. 
VI. 

VII. 

vin. 

IX. 

X. 

XI. 


Ranges. 


10,11,12,19,21 .  .   . 

4,33 

24,26,28,30,32,34   . 

27 

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Classes. 


Biography 

Collections,  Libraries,  etc.    . 

Fiction  in  Prose 

Foreign  books 

History 

Juvenile  books 

Miscellaneous 

Periodicals  {bound) 

Poetry  and  Drama 

Sciences,  Arts,  Professions  . 
Travels,  Voyages 

Total 


1871.  (3  mos.) 


Books 
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669 

552 

8,593 

27 

1,096 

6,639 

747 
1,119 
2,071 

883 
1,179 


23,575 


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181 


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35 

1,256 

2 

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6 

2,447 

4 

2,057 

3 

2,296 

3 

73,839 

There  were  965  volumes  in  the  hands  of  borrowers  April  30, 1872. 

Note.  The  classification  in  this  Branch  is  somewhat  different  from  that  of  the  Lower 
Hall  of  the  Central  Library,  where  juvenile  books  are  scattered  among  the  other  classes,  as 
the  character  of  the  book,  whether  fiction,  history,  biography,  etc.,  would  require.  The 
above  table  can  better  be  compared,  then,  with  the  statistics  of  the  Public  School  Library  of 
St.  Louis,  where,  according  to  their  last  report,  the  circulation  of  novels  was  52  per  cent. ; 
of  juvenile  books,  27  per  cent. ;  of  scientific  books,  5  per  cent.,  and  of  historical  and  all  others, 
16  per  cent.  Fiction  and  juveniles  will  be  found  in  each  case  to  be  about  78  per  cent,  of  the 
circulation.  The  percentage  of  English  prose  fiction  and  juveniles  at  the  Public  Library  of 
Cincinnati,  during  the  past  year,  has  been  nearly  75. 


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PERIODICALS   OF   WHICH  DUPLICATES   ARE   TAKEN. 


Titles. 


American  Artisan 

Appleton's  Journal 

Army  and  Navy  Journal  .   . 

Atlantic  Monthly 

Boston  Journal  of  Chemistry 

Boys  of  England 

Catholic  World 

Dwight's  Journal  of  Music    . 

Every  Saturday 

Galaxy 

Godey's  Lady's  Book  .  .  .  . 
Good  Words  for  the  Young 
Harper's  Bazar 

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"        Weekly 

Illustrated  London  News  .  . 
Lippincott'B  Magazine     .  .  . 

Little  Corporal 

Merry's  Museum 

Nation 

North  American  Review    .  . 

Old  and  New 

Oliver  Optic's  Magazine  .   .   . 

Our  Young  Folks 

Overland  Monthly 

Peterson's  Magazine  .... 
Phrenological  Journal  .   .   .   . 

Scientific  American 

Schoolmate 

Scribner's  Monthly 

Woman's  Journal 

Copies  taken 

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Duplicates  taken 


Copies  Taken. 


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KOTE.  The  expenditures  for  books  cover  the  cost  of  those  chargeable  to  our  Trust  Funds 
Account,  as  well  as  those  charged  to  the  annual  appropriations  from  the  City,  and  also  in- 
cludes such  as  are  bought  with  the  balances  with  our  foreign  agents  at  the  close  of  the  ure- 
■vious  year.  Our  financial  and  library  years  now  nominally  correspond,  but  it  will  happen 
that  bills  accruing  subsequent  to  the  middle  of  March  (when  the  last  requisition  of  the  year, 
payable  April  1st,  is  approved)  will  be  audited  in  the  subsequent  year's  account,  beginning 
nominally  May  1st.  In  this  way  books  added  between  March  1.5th  and  May  1st  may  be 
counted  in  one  year's  growth,  and  paid  for  in  the  subsequent  year's  account.  The  cost  of 
maintaining  Branches  after  the  first  year  makes  part  of  the  general  items  of  the  several  ap- 
propriations. 


72  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

APPENDIX    XXI. 

LIBRARY    SERVICE. 

JUSTIN   WINSOR,  Superintendent. 

William  A.  Wheeler,  Assista^it  Superintendent. 

James  L.  Whitney,  Principal  Assistant. 

Miss  Caroline  F.  Adams,  Accountant. 

CATALOGUE    DEPARTMENT. 
William  A.  Wheelee,  Chief. 
James  L.  Whitney,  Princi^^ial  Assistant ;   Max  Auerbach,  Assistant  and 
Curator  of  Patent  Room  ;  Miss  M.  E.  Joslyn,  Assistant ;  J.  Otis  Williams, 
Curator  of  Pamphlets  and  Engravings ;    William  H.  Foster,   Proof-Reader. 
Mrs.  R.  M.  Eastman,  Extra  Work  ;  Miss  Harriet  N.  Pike,  Ordering  Clerk; 
Miss  Mary  McGrath,  Assistant  Ordering  Clerk;  Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Steven- 
son, Newspapers  and  Duplicates  ;  Miss  A.  B.  Loud,  Pamphlets  ;  Miss  A.  A. 
Nichols,  Catalogues  for  Branches  ;  Miss  Margaret  McGrath,  Curator  of  Public 
Card  Catalogue. 

Miss  Alice  M.  Poree,  Lower  Hall  Assistant. 

SHELF    DEPARTMENT. 

Mrs.  L.  T.  Barton,  Custodian. 
Appleton  P.  C.  Griffin,  Assistant  Custodian;  Ellen  Stevenson,  Annie  M. 
Kennedy,  Assistants. 

BATES    HALL    DEPARTMENT. 

Joseph  Stkes,  Keeper. 
Charles  A.  Wilson,  Miss  L.  S.  Norton,  Miss  Mary  A.  Tyler,  Assistants. 
Charles  H.  Ginness,  John  Bresnahan,  John  Barry,  Runners. 

LOWER    HALL     DEPARTMENT. 
Edward  Capen,  Keeper. 
Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Haley,  Delivery  Clerk  ;  Miss  Lydia  F.  Knowles,  Receiv- 
ing Clerk ;  Lucy  A.  W.  Qinness,  Keeper's  Clerk  ;  Miss  Elizabeth  Ross,  Misses 
Eliza  J.  Mack,  Sarah  A.  Mack,  Assistants. 

Ellen  E.  Bresnahan,  Ellen  F.  McCarty,  Eliza  F.  Cotter,  Henrietta  E.  Mack 
(extra'),  Florence  E.  Ginness  (extra),  Runners. 

Elbridge  Bradshaw,  Registration  Clerk. 

Miss  Matilda  J.  Ross,  Assistant  Registration  Clerk. 

Miss  Caroline  E.  Poree,  }  r,      t       r. 

,.,,^      ,,     ,     .     i  Reading  Room  Attendants. 
Miss  Amelia  McGrath  (extra),  } 

J.  G.  Cupples,  Reading  Room  Attendant  (evenings). 

JANITORIAL    DEPARTMENT. 

William  E.  Ford,  Janitor. 

Thomas  Collins,  Assistant. 


PUBLIC   LIBRAKT.  iO 

'  BINDING    DEPARTMENT. 
Petek  Low,  Foreman. 
Andrew  M.  Blake,  Mrs.  Martha  Wheeler,  Assistants. 
Note.  —  The  binderies  of  Theodore  Jackson  and  Jerome  Seidensticker  are 
also  employed. 

EAST    BOSTON    BRANCH    LIBRARY. 

Miss  Sarah  C.  Godbold,  Librarian. 

Miss  Mary  R.  Pray,  Miss  Addie  G.  Tracey,  Assistants. 

Mary  E.  Cathcart,  Runner. 

A.  W.  Trask,  Janitor. 

Misses   Mary  Lennon,  Martha  Hill,  Alice  Wing,  Emma  Pond,  and  Phebe 

Prince,  Substitutes  and  extra  Assistants. 

SOUTH    BOSTON    BRANCH. 

Mrs.  Anna  C.  D.  Keen,  Librarian. 

Miss  Clara  F.  Mulloy,  Miss  L.  Anna  Baldwin,  Assistants. 

Norah  McCarthy,  Runner. 

Joseph  Baker,  Janitor. 

Note.  — The  extra  assistants  and  substitutes  are  not  yet  engaged. 

AGENCY    DEPARTMENT. 

Messrs.  Lee  &  Shepard,  Boston. 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  and   Sampson  Low,  Son  &  Marston,  Boston 
and  London. 
Mr.  F.  W.  Christern,  and  M.  Charles  Reinwald,    New  York  and  Paris. 
Dr.  Felix  Fliigel,  Leipsic. 
Chev.  Eugenio  Alberi,  Florence. 


SUMMARY. 

Superintendent 
Accountant 
Catalogue  Department 
Shelf  Department 
B.  H.  Circulating  Department 
L.  H.  Circulating  Department 
Janitorial  Dejjartment 
Binding  Department  . 
East  Bostoil  Branch   . 
South  Boston  Branch 

Regularly  employed  in  the  Libraries 
Substitutes  and  extra  Assistants 


1 

1 

13 

4 

7 
14 
2 
•6 
5 
5 

55 
10 


Total 
10 


65 


74:  CITY  DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

APPENDIX  XXII. 

KEPOET  ON   THE   EXAMINATION   OE   THE   LIBRARY. 
To  the  Superintendent:  — 

Sir,  —  For  the  year  ending  the  30th  of  April,  1871,  there  has 
been  no  regular  examination  of  the  Bates  Hall  collection,  as  the 
alterations  in  the  hall  and  temporary  changes  in  the  location  of  the 
books  have  rendered  it  impossible.  Since  the  completion  of  the 
shelving  on  the  west  side  of  the  building  the  books  have,  however, 
been  read  by  the  shelf-lists  and  re-arranged  in  their  proper  places. 
Comparatively  few  of  the  volumes  are  missing,  and  it  is  believed 
that  when  the  alterations  on  the  east  side  are  completed  and  the 
library  again  restored  to  its  wonted  order,  the  results  of  a  full  ex- 
amination will  prove  as  satisfactory  as  usual.  Upon  the  Lower 
Hall  library  and  the  East  Boston  Branch,  I  beg  leave  to  present 
the  following 

REPORT. 

In  the  Lower  Hall  there  were  missing  from  the  shelves 

at  the  time  of  examination  .         .         .  5,198  vols. 


5,171 


Loaned          ...... 

At  the  Binder's 

Otherwise  accounted  for 

.     4,402 
340 
429 

Not  at  present  accounted  for,  — 

Fiction 

Duplicates  of  Fiction 

Miscellaneous 

6 

4 

17 

27     " 

Missing  volumes  are  constantly  and  persistently  sought,  yet  acci- 
dents are  liable  to  occur  in  a  library  of  so  large  a  circulation,  and 
make  it  quite  possible  for  a  few  books  to  slip  away  without  being 
accounted  for. 

Eleven  volumes  recorded  missing  during  previous  years  appeared 
on  the  shelves  at  the  last  examination,  and  nearly  all  of  them  were 
found  to  have  been  wrongly  numbered.  Of  this  number  one  was 
reported  missing  last  year,  five  were  missing  in  1868,  three  in 
1867,  and  two  in  1866. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  75 

The  number  of  books  missing  from  each  alcove,  is  as  follows  :  — 


1st   alcove 

2  vols. 

8  th  alcove     . 

3  vols. 

2d      "       . 

1    " 

13th   " 

2    " 

3d      "       . 

2    " 

14th   " 

2    « 

4th     " 

.         •         1    " 

18th   " 

3    " 

6th    " 

2    " 

20th    " 

2    " 

7th     "       . 

3    " 

Dup's  of  7th  alcove 

4    " 

At  the  East  Boston  Branch  there  were  missing  from  the  shelves 
at  the  time  of  examination  .         ....  1,451  vols. 

Loaned     .......         .1,331 

At  the  Binder's 105 

Otherwise  accounted  for    .         .         .         .         .11 

1,447    » 

Not  at  present  accounted  for,  — 

Fiction     .        ' 2 

Juveniles  .......        2 


I  have  also  to  report  the  following  books  which  have  disappeared 
from  the  Bates  Hall  desk,  during  the  past  library  year  :  — 

I.  13  Burke's  Dictionary  of  English  peerage.     Nov.  1871. 
I.    4  Haydn's  Book  of  dignities.     Nov.  1871. 
F.    4  Bartlett's  Familiar  quotations.     Dec.  1871. 

D.  5  Cleveland's  Concordance  to  Milton.     Dec.  1871. 

Also   the   following   from   the  desk    in  the  Periodical  Eeading 
Room  :  — 

E.  7  Biographic  des  Contemporains,  v.  14.     June,  1871. 
C.    1  Burke's  Dictionary  of  peerage.     Oct.  1871. 

B.  19  Index  to  Works  of  Charles  Dickens.     Oct.  1871. 

A.    5  Godwin's  Hand-book  of  universal  biography.     Nov.  1871. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

L.   T.  BARTON, 

Custodian  of  the  Shelves. 

PcRLic   LIBRA.RY,   May  8th,  1872. 


76 


CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 


APPE:^rDix  XXIII. 

EXAMINING  COMMITTEES  FOR  TWENTY  YEARS. 

The  followiuor  gentlemen  have  served  on  the  Exammhiof 
Committees  for  the  years  given.  The  names  in  italics  are 
those  of  Trustees,  who  have  acted  as  chairmen  of  the  various 
committees. 


Abbott,  Hon.  J.  G.,  1870. 
Adams,  Nehemiah,  D.D.,  1860. 
Alger,  Rev.  Wm.  R.,  1870. 
Appleton,  Hon.  Nathan,  1854. 
Aspinwall,  Col.  Thomas,  1860. 

Bailey,  Edwin  C,  1861. 
Ball,  Joshua  D.,  1861. 
Barnard,  James  M.,  1866. 
Bartlett,  Sidney,  1869. 
Beebe,  James  M.,  1858. 
Beecher,  Rev.  Edward,  1854. 
Bigelow,  Jacob,  M.D.,  1857. 
Bigeloiv,  Hon.  John  P.,  1856. 
Blagden,  George  W.,  D.D.,  1856. 
Bowditch,  J.  Ingersoll,  1855. 
Bowditch,  Henry  I.,  M.D.,  1855. 
Bowditch,  Henry  I.,  M.D.,  1865. 
Bowman,  Alfonzo,  1867. 
Bradford,  Charles  F.,  1868. 
Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  1865. 
Brooks,  Rev.  Phillips,  1871. 
Buckingham,  C.  E.,  M.D.,  1872. 
Burroughs,  Rev.  Henry,  jr.,  1869. 

Chaney,  Rev.  George L.,  1868. 
Clapp,  William  W.,  jr.,  1864. 
Curtis,  Charles  P.,  1862. 
Curtis,  Daniel  S.,  1872. 

Dana,  Samuel  T.,  1857. 
Dexter,  Rev.  Henry  M.,  1866. 
Dix,  James  A.,  1860 
Donahoe,  Patrick,  1869. 
Durant,  Henry  F.,  1863. 
Dwight,  John  S.,  1868. 


Eastburn,  Manton,  D.D.,  1863. 
Eliot,  Samuel,  LL.D.,  1868. 
Ellis,  Calvin,  M.D.,  1871. 

Field,  Walbridge  A.,  1866. 
Fields,  James  T.,  1872. 
Foote,  Rev.  Henry  "W.,  1864. 
Fowle,  William  F.,  1864. 
Freeland,  Charles  W.,  1867. 
Frost,  Oliver,  1854. 

Gannett,  Ezra  S.,  D.D.,  1855. 
Gilchrist,  Daniel  S.,  1872. 
Gould,  A.  A.,  M.D.,  1864. 
Green,  Samuel  A.,  M.D.,  1868. 
Greenough,  William  W.,  1858. 

Hale,  Rev.  Edward  E.,  1858. 
Hale,  Moses  L.,  1862. 
Haskins,  Rev.  George  F.,  1865. 
Hay  ward,  George,  3f.D.,  1863. 
Heard,  John  T.,  1853. 
Hillard,  H071.  George  S.,  1853. 
Hodges,  Richard  M.,  M.jD.,  1870. 
Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  M.D.,  1858. 
Homans,  Charles  D.,  i/.Z>.,  1867. 
Homer,  George,  1870. 
Homer,  Peter  T.,  1857. 
Hubbard,  William  J.,  1858. 

Jeffries,  B.  Joy,  3I.D.,  1869. 
Jewell,  Ho7i.  Harvey,  1863. 

Kidder,  Henry  P.,  1870. 
Kimball,  Henry  H.,  1865. 
liirk,  Edward  N.,  D.I).,  1859. 


PUBLIC   LIBRAKY. 


77 


Lothrop,  Loring,  18GG. 
Lawrence,  Eon.  Abbott,  1853. 
Lawrence,  Abbott,  1859. 
Lawrence,  James,  1855. 
Lewis,  Weston,  1872. 
Lincoln,  Hon.  F.  "W.,  1856. 
Little,  James  L.,  1864. 
Lombard,  Prof.  Josiah  L.,  1868. 
Loring,  Hon.  Charles  G.,  1855. 

Manning,  Rev.  Jacob  M.,  1861. 
Mason,  Rev.  Charles,  1857. 
Mason,  Robert  M.,  1869. 
Minns,  Thomas,  1864. 
Minot,  Francis,  1866. 
MoHon,  Eon.  Ellis  W.,  1871. 
Miidge,  Eon.  E.  R.,  1871. 

Neale,  RoUin  H.,  D.D.,  1853. 

Otis,  G.  A.,  1860. 

Perkins,  Charles  C,  1871. 
Phillips,  Jonathan,  1854. 
Prescott,  William  II.,  LL.D.,  1853. 
Putnam,  George,  D.D.,  1870. 
Putnam,  Eon.  John  P.,  1865. 

Rice,  Eon.  Alexander  H.,  1860. 
Rogers,  Prof.  William  B.,  1861. 
Ropes,  John  C,  1872. 


Rotch,  Benjamin,  1863. 

Sanger,  Eon.  George  P.,  1860. 
Shnrtleff,  Eon.  Nathaniel  B.,  1857. 
Spraguc,  Charles  J.,  1859. 
Stevens,  Oliver,  1858. 
Stevenson,  Eon.  J.  Thomas,  1856. 
Stockwell,  S.  N.,  1861, 
Story,  Joseph,  1856. 

Thaxter,  Adam  W.,  1855. 

Thayer,  Rev.  Thomas  B.,  1862. 

Thomas,  Seth  J.,  1856. 

Ticknor,    George,  1853,    1854,   1855, 

1859,  1863,  1866. 
Tobey,  Eon.  Edward  S.,  1862. 

Upham,  J.  B.,  M.D.,  1865. 

Walley,  Eon.  Samuel  H.,  1862. 
Warner,  Herman  J.,  1867. 
Warren,  Eon.  Charles  II.,  1859. 
Waterston,  Rev.  Robert  C,  1867. 
Whipple,  Edwin  P.,  1869. 
Whitney,  Daniel  E.,  1862. 
Wightman,  Eon.  Joseph  M.,  1859. 
Wilson,  Elisha  T.,  M.D.,  1861. 
Winsor,  Justin,  1867. 
Winthrop,  Eon.  Robert  C,  1854. 
Woodbury,  Charles  Levi,  1871. 


78 


OITY   DOCUMENT.  —  No.  72. 


APPENDIX  XXIY. 

TRUSTEES   FOR   TWENTY   YEARS. 

The  Honorable  Edward  Everett  was  President  of  the  Board 
from  1852  to  1864;  the  late  George  Ticknor  m  1865;  and 
William "W.  Greenongh,  Esq.,  from  1866  to  the  present  time. 

The  Board  for  1852  was  a  preliminary  organization ;  that 
for  1853  making  what  is  called  the  first  annual  report.  It 
consisted  of  one  alderman  and  one  common  councilman,  and 
five  citizens  at  large,  till  1867,  .when  a  revised  Ordinance 
made  it  consist  of  one  alderman,  two  common  councilmen, 
and  six  citizens  at  large,  two  of  whom  retire,  unless  re- 
elected, each  year,  while  the  members  from  the  City  Council 
are  elected  yearly. 


Allen,  James  B.,  1852. 
Appleton,  Thomas  G.,  1852,  1854-5. 
Barnes,  Joseph  H.,  1871. 
BiGELOw,  John  P.,  1852  to  18G8. 
BowDiTCH,  Henry  L,  1865-6. 
Bradlee,  John  T.,  1869. 
Bradt,  Herman  D.,  1872. 
Braman,  Jarvis  D.,  1868  to  1871. 
Brown,  J.  C.  J.,  '1861. 
Carpenter,  George  O.,  1870. 
Clapp,  William  W.,  jr.,  1864-5. 
Crane,  Samuel  D.,  1860. 
Dennie,  George,  1858-9. 
Dickinson,  M.  E.,  jr.,  1871. 
Drake,  Henry  A.,  1863. 
Erving,  Edward  S.,  1852. 
Everett,  Edward,  1852  to  1864. 
Frost,  Oliver,  1856-7. 
Gaffield,  Thomas,  1867. 
Green,  Samuel  A.,  1868  to  1872. 
Greenough,   William   W.,  1856   to 

1872. 
Harris,  William  G.,  1869. 
Haynes,  Henry  W.,  1858. 
HiLLARu,  George  S.,  1872. 
Ingalls,  Melville  E.,  1870. 


Jackson,  P.  T.,  1864, 
Keith,  James  M.,  1868-9. 
Lawrence,  James,  1852. 
Lewis,  Weston,  1867  to  1872. 
Lewis,  Winslow,  1867. 
Little,  Samuel,  1871-2. 
Messenger,  George  W.,  1855. 
Morton,  Ellis  W.,  1870  to  1872. 
Munroe,  A.  B.,  1854 
Newton,  Jeremiah  L.,  1867. 
Niles,  Stephen  R.,  1870. 
Pease,  Frederic,  1872. 
Perry,  Lyman,  1852. 
Plummer,  Farnhara,  1856. 
Putnam,  George,  1868  to  1872. 
Reed,  Sampson,  1852-3. 
Sanger,  George  P.,  I860. 
Sears,  Philip  H.,  1859. 
Seaver,  Benjamin,  1852. 
SiiURTLEFF,  Nathaniel  B.,  1852  to 

1867. 
Story,  Joseph,  1855,  1865-6. 
Ticknor,  George,  1852  to  1866. 
Tyler,  John  S.,  1863,  1866. 
Warren,  George  W.,  1852  to  1854. 
Washburn,  F.  L.,  1857. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  79 


Whipple,  Edwin  P.,  1867  to  1SG9. 
Whitney,  Daniel  H.,  18G2. 
Wilson,  P:iisliaT.,  18G1-2. 


Wilson,  George,  1852. 
WiNSOR,  Justin,  18G7. 
Wright,  Albert  J.,  1868. 


Whole  number,  56  ;  citizens  at  large  in  small  capitals,  two 
of  whom,  Jarvis  D.  Braman  and  Weston  Lewis,  have  also* 
represented  the  City  Council. 


80  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

APPEI^DIX  XXY. 

THE  FELLOWES  ATHEN^UM  AND  ROXBURY  BRANCH. 

To  THE  Mayor  and  City  Council  of  the  City   of  Boston  :  — 

Gentlemen, — Under  the  will  of  the  late  Caleb  Fellowes,  the  un- 
dersigned were  invested  with  a  trust,  whose  purpose  is  to  establish 
a  library,  and  erect  a  building  for  it,  within  half  a  mile  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Putnam's  church.  The  will  j^rovides  that  forty  thousand 
dollars  shall  be  spent  in  the  purchase  of  land  and  in  the  erection 
of  the  said  building.  The  available  fund  now  amounts  to  about 
fifty-four  thousand  dollars,  and  the  excess  over  that  appropriated 
for  the  land  and  building  we  are  required  to  invest  as  a  fund,  the 
income  of  which  shall  be  available  for  the  purchase  of  books  ;  and 
to  this  will  be  added,  when  the  building  is  completed,  a  further 
sum  of  about  thirty  thousand  dollars,  which  will  then  be  paid  to 
us  by  the  executors  under  the  will  of  the  late  Mrs.  Fellowes. 

We  deem  it  for  the  interest  of  all  concerned  that  the  advantages 
of  these  funds  shall  be  joined  with  such  others  as  may  accrue  from 
the  provisions  to  be  made  for  the  benefit  of  the  District  of  Rox- 
bury,  in  the  way  of  a  Branch  of  the  Public  Library. 

To  that  end  we  respectfully  request  that  we  may  be  allowed  a 
hearing  before  the  appropriate  committee  of  the  City  Council ;  and 
further  request  that  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  be  invited 
to  attend. 

In  behalf  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum, 

GEORGE  PUTNAM, 

President. 


In   Board  op   Aldermen,  December  26,  187 L 

The  Committee  on  the  Public  Library,  to  whom  was  referred  the 
foregoing  communication  from  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athe- 
nseum,  having  carefully  considered  the  subject,  would  respectfully 
.recommend  the  passage  of  the  accompanying  order. 
For  the  Committee, 

GEORGE  D.  RICKER, 

Chairman  pro  tern. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  81 

Ordered,  That  His  Honor  the  Ma3'or  be  authorized  to  sign, 
seal,  and  deliver  the  Indenture  (a  Qopy  of  which  is  appended 
hereto)  between  the  City  of  Boston  and  the  Trustees  of  the 
Fellowes  Athenaeum  in  Roxbury,  for  joint  action  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  Branch  Public  Library,  for  the  territory  now  com- 
prising Wards  13,  14  and  15. 


This  Indenture  between  the  City  of  Boston  and  the  Trustees  of 
the  Fellowes  Athenfeum  in  Roxbury,  a  corporation  duly  created  by 
law,  witnesseth :  — 

That,  whereas  the  said  trustees  hold  certain  funds  under  the  will 
of  Caleb  Fellowes,  late  of  Philadelphia,  in  the  State  of  Peunsyl- 
vauia,  deceased,  in  trust,  to  la}'  out  and  expend  forty  thousand 
dollars  upon  land,  and  a  building  to  be  erected  thereon,  within 
half  a  mile  of  the  meeting-house  of  the  first  religious  society  in 
Roxbury,  to  be  used  for  an  Athenaeum  for  literary  and  instructive 
purposes  for  the  benefit  and  pleasure  of  the  inhabitants  of  said 
Roxbur}'  and  of  other  worthy  persons  who  may  visit  that  city  : 

And  in  further  trust,  to  keep  the  remainder  of  said  sum  over 
and  above  said  forty  thousand  dollars,  constantly  and  safely  invest- 
ed, and  to  expend  the  income  thereof,  half-yearly  forever,  in  pur- 
chasing and  supplying  books  and  periodical  works  for  the  said 
Athenaeum. 

And  whereas  it  is  expedient  that  the  City  of  Boston  should 
establish  in  that  part  of  said  city  called  Roxburj',  and  formerly  the 
Cit}'  of  Roxbury,  a  Branch  of  its  Public  Library  : 

And  whereas,  the  said  city  and  the  said  trustees  can  accomplish 
the  purposes  of  said  Athenaeum  and  of  said  Public  Library  more 
efiectually  in  conjunction  than  separatel}',  and  have  accordingly 
agreed  upon  a  method  of  co-operation  so  as  to  bring  about  a  union 
of  the  resources  of  the  two  institutions  : 

And  whereas,  in  order  to  furnish  the  needful  accommodations 
for  tlie  united  institutions,  it  may  be  necessary  for  the  said 
trustees  to  expend  somewhat  more  than  forty  thousand  dollars 
upon  land  and  building,  and  in  that  case  they  will  be  obliged  to 
treat  the  surplus  as  an  investment  of  which  the  income  is  to  be  ap- 
plied for  the  purchase  of  books  as  aforesaid  : 

And  whereas,  upon  the  completion  of  said  building,  the  said 


82  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

trustees  will  become  entitled  to  a  further  sum  under  the  will  of 
Sarah  Fellowes,  upon  trust,  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  such 
books  and  periodicals  as  the  said  trustees  may  from  time  to  time 
deem  best  to  be  placed  in  said  Athenaeum,  as  the  property  thereof: 

Now,  therefore,  it  is  agreed  between  the  parties  hereto  as  follows, 
viz. :  — 

The  said  trustees  shall  proceed  as  soon  as  may  be  to  erect  a 
building  which  shall  contain  suitable  accommodations  for  a  Branch 
Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston  as  well  as  for  said  Athena3ura. 

As  soon  as  said  building  shall  be  read}^  for  occupancy,  the  said 
city  shall  appropriate  towards  a  Branch  Public  Library,  for  the 
territor}'  now  comprising  Wards  13,  14  and  15,  as  large  a  sum  of 
money  as  has  been,  or  shall  be,  appropriated  for  outfit  and  main- 
tenance to  an^r  other  Branch  Library  in  said  cit}',  and  the  said 
city  sliall  pa}^  for  the  rental  of  said  building  the  sum  of  sixteen 
hundred  dollars  per  annum,  which  shall  be  paid  annuall}'  to  the 
said  trustees,  to  be  laid  out  by  them,  after  pacing  insurance,  re- 
pairs, etc.,  in  the  purchase  of  books  and  periodicals,  to  be  the 
property  of  said  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum  in  Roxbur3r, 
and  their  successors  in  said  trust. 

The  rest  of  said  appropriation  shall  be  expended  in  the  purchase 
of  books  and  the  administration  and  management  of  the  joint  in- 
stitutions by  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Librar}^ 

All  books  and  periodicals  purchased  by  the  said  Trustees  of  the 
Athenaeum  from  any  of  the  funds  in  their  hands  for  the  purchase 
of  books  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  put  in  charge  of  the  custodians  of 
the  said  Branch  Public  Librarj^  being  first  distinctly  marked  as  the 
property  of  said  Trustees,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  direction  of 
the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Libi'ary,  as  to  custody,  care,  and  ar- 
rangement within  the  said  building,  and  shall  be  open  to  the  public 
for  reading  and  •  circulation  under  such  regulations  as  the  said 
Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  said 
Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenasura,  from  time  to  time  establish. 

This  contract  shall  be  terminable  by  either  party,  at  an}^  time, 
upon  giving  six  months'  notice  to  the  other  party,  and,  upon  its 
termination,  the  books  shall  belong  to  the  party  which  shall  have 
purchased  them,  or  to  whom  they  have  been  given  ;  the  furniture, 
shelving,  and  all  other  movable  property,  which  shall  have  been  pur- 
chased by  the  city,  shall  belong  to  the  said  city  ;  and  the  property 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  83 

which  shall  have  been  fixed  to  the  real  estate,  and  any  furniture 
which  may  have  been  purchased  by  the  said  Trustees  of  the 
Fellowes  Athenaeum,  shall  belong  to  the  said  Trustees. 

A  suitable  room  shall  be  provided  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Fel- 
lowes Athenffiutn,  in  tlie  building  to  be  erected  by  them,  and  fur- 
nished by  the  city,  for  the  joint  use  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes 
Athenreura  and  the  Trustees  of  tlie  Public  Library. 

It  is  further  agreed  that  all  questions  of  detail  of  management, 
not  herein  provided  for,  shall  be  settled  in  conjunction  by  the 
Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenauuu  and  of  the  Public  Library. 


The  above  order  was  passed  by  the  City  Council,  Dec.  30,  1871. 
The  Lidenture  was  on  the  29th  of  January,  1872,  signed  by  William 
Gaston,  Mayor,  in  behalf  of  the  City  of  Boston  ;  and,  under  author- 
ity given,  .January  22d,  1872,  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes 
Athenseum,  it  was  signed  in  their  behalf  by  their  President,  George 
Putnam. 

This  was  again  modified  by  the  following  agreement,  which  was 
executed  in  consequence  of  an  order  of  the  City  Council,  author- 
izing the  Mayor  to  sign  such  a  supplemental  indenture  as  may  be 
approved  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library :  — 

This  Indenture,  made  this  twelfth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-two,  between 
the  City  of  Boston  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum, 
in  Roxbury,  a  corporation  duly  created  by  law, 

Witnesseth : — 
That  the  contract  entered  into  by  the  said  parties  by  an  Inden- 
ture, duly  executed,  dated  the  twent^'-ninth  day  of  Januar3'^,  in  the 
year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-two,  shall  be  and  here- 
by is  changed  and  altered  by  striking  out  and  expunging  from  the  said 
Indenture  the  words  "  with  the  consent  of  the  said  Trustees  of 
the  Fellowes  Athenaeum,"  in  the  paragraph  relating  to  the  custody, 
care,  arrangement,  reading  and  circulation  of  books  and  peri- 
odicals purchased  by  said  trustees ;  and  also  by  striking  out  and 
expunging  the  paragraph  in  said  Indenture  which  is  in  the  follow- 


84  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.    72. 

ing  woi'ds,  viz.,  "  A  suitable  room  shall  be  provided  by  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Fellowes  Athenoeum,  in  the  building  to  be  erected  by 
them  and  furnished  by  the  city  for  the  joint  use  of  the  Trustees  of 
Fellowes  AthenjBum,  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library" — 
and  the  said  Indenture  shall  be  construed  for  all  purposes  as  though 
the  words  and  provisions,  hereby  agreed  to  be  stricken  out  and 
expunged,  had  not  been  inserted  therein. 

In  witness  whereof  the  said  parties  have  caused  their  seals  to  be 
hereto  affixed  and  these  presents  to  be  signed  by  William  Gaston, 
Mayor  of  said  City,  and  George  Putnam,  President  of  said  Trus- 
tees, respectively,  the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 

City   of   Boston, 
By  WILLIAM  GASTON,  Mayor.     [Seal.] 
In  presence  of 
James  R.  Carret. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athen^um, 

by  GEORGE  PUTNAM,  Pres't. 
Approved,  by  vote  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library. 

W.  W.  GREENOUGH, 
Pres't  of  the  Board. 


DESCEIPTION   OF   THE   PLANS 

of  the  building  for  the  joint  use  of  the  Roxbury  Branch  of  the 
Public  Library  and  the  Fellowes  Athenoeum,  as  drawn  by  N.  J. 
Bradlee  and  W.  J.  Winslow,  architects.  The  building  is  situated 
on  Bartlett  street,  near  Shawmut  avenue. 

Library  Room.  The  bottom  of  the  windows  are  eight  feet  from 
the  floor,  so  that  a  range  of  shelving  runs  round  the  entire  wall, 
broken  only  by  the  doorways.  This  shelving,  not  above  reach  of 
hand,  will  hold  not  far  from  15,000  volumes.  Twenty  cases,  oi", 
without  over-crowding,  twenty-two  cases,  each  nine  feet  long, 
double-faced,  holding  about  1,750  volumes  each,  and  not  over  eight 


FIRST  FLOOR 
Scale,  20  feet  to  inch. 


SECOND   FLOOR. 

Scale,  20  feet  to  inch. 


PUBLIC    LEBEART.  85 

feet  high,  will  provide  for  about  35,000  volumes,  making  the 
capacity  of  the  floor  about  50,000  volumes.  The  altitude  of  the 
room  renders  it  possible,  when  required,  largely  to  increase  its 
capacity,  by  galleries  or  intermediar}^  floors. 

Waiting-room.  This  is  divided  by  a  rail  into  apartments  for 
adults  and  youths,  and  while  but  one  record  of  borrowers  is  kept, 
the  books  can  be  delivered  over  either  end  of  the  counter  to  visi- 
tors on  either  side  of  the  rail.  The  wall  space  back  of  the  counter 
is  to  be  shelved  for  the  books  most  often  in  demand. 

Reading-room.  Public  access  to  this  is  had  by  the  staircase 
in  the  tower,  but  the  official  access  is  by  the  winding  staircase 
connecting  the  space  behind  the  counter  with  the  Librarian's  room. 
The  rear  wall  has  windows  (not  shown  in  the  plan),  through  which 
the  public  can  have  oversight  of  the  main  library  floor.  The  ante- 
room over  the  Trustees'  room  can  be  used  for  storing  the  accumu- 
lating numbers  of  periodicals  before  binding,  and  as  a  writing 
room  for  students,  and  for  the  showing  of  illustrated  works. 

jf OTE.  —  Since  the  above  was  written,  the  Metropolitan  Horse  Railroad 
Company,  having  purchased  the  land  bounding  the  Library  lot  on  all  sides  ex- 
cept the  street  side,  and  purposing  to  erect  stables  thereon,  the  Trustees  of  the 
Fellowes  Athenasum  have  deemed  it  advisable  to  sell  to  the  same  corporation 
the  lot  on  which  the  building  was  in  progress.  Another  lot  has  not  at  this 
date  [Aug.  10]  been  secured. 


86  CITY    DOCUMENT.  No.  72. 


APPENDIX    XXYI. 

PAPEES  CONCERNING  GREUZE'S  FRANKLIN. 

Boston,  March  7,  1872. 
To  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston:  — 

Gentlemen,  —  It  having  been  announced  that  you  are  desirous 
of  forming  a  collection  of  books  and  other  objects  connected  with 
the  history  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  it  has  occurred  to  me  that  such 
a  collection  would  be  the  most  fitting  repository  for  a  valuable 
original  portrait  of  him,  by  Greuze.  which  I  possess. 

This  portrait  I  purchased  some  j'ears  since,  in  London.  It  was 
painted  for  Mr.  Oswald,  British  Ambassador  to  France,  who  was 
associated  with  Franklin  in  the  negotiation  of  the  Provisional 
Articles  of  Nov.  30,  1872,  acknowledging  the  Independence  of  the 
United  States.  The  gentleman  of  whom  I  bought  it,  Mr.  Joseph 
Parkes,  an  eminent  lawyer,  and  well  known  in  London  for  his 
literary  ability,  received  it  from  the  late  Mr,  Oswald,  M.  P.  for 
Glasgow,  and  grand-nephew  of  the  ambassador,  in  consideration 
of  valuable  legal  services  rendered. 

I  take  pleasure  in  offering  this  portrait  to  the  Public  Library, 
with  the  single  condition  that  it  always  shall  be  kept  in  the 
Library,  and  where  it  can  be  freel}''  seen  by  visitors.  If  you 
decide  to  accept  it  on  these  terms,  I  shall  be  happy  to  place  it  in 
your  charge. 

I  enclose  an  interesting  paper  written  by  the  Hon.  Charles  Sum- 
ner, together  with  some  other  documents,  relating  to  the  portrait, 
all  of  which  are  at  the  service  of  the  Librarj'^,  if  you  wish  to  pre- 
serve them  on  file  as  evidence  of  its  authenticity. 

Respectfully  yours, 

GARDNER   BREWER. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  87 

MEMORANDA 

By  the  lion.  Charles  Sumner. 

I  fiist  saw  Mr.  Brewer's  portrait  of  Franklin,  in  the  snmmer  of 
1857,  in  London,  at  the  house  of  a  valued  friend,  the  late  Joseph 
Parkes,  Esq.,  then  living  in  Saville  Kow.  In  the  summer  of  1859 
I  saw  it  again  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Parkes,  who  had  removed  to 
Wimpole  street. 

I  was  interested  in  the  portrait,  and  Mr.  Parkes  took  pleasure 
in  speaking  of  it.  He  called  it  "  a  Greuze,"  and  said  that  it  had 
always  been  so  regarded  in  the  family  from  which  it  came.  He 
had  received  it,  in  consideration  of  certain  services,  from  the  grand- 
nephew  of  Mr.  Oswald,  who  negotiated  with  Franklin  the  Pro- 
visional Articles  of  Nov.  30th,  1782,  ackilowledging  the  Independ- 
ence of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Parkes  thought  it  had  been  given 
b}^  Franklin  to  his  brother  negotiator,  in  whose  family  it  was 
known  as  "  An  ambassador's  portrait." 

The  position  and  character  of  Mr.  Oswald  appear  in  the  con- 
temporary coiTespondence,  especially  of  Franklin  and  John 
Adams.  He  was  introduced  to  the  former  by  the  Earl  of  Shel- 
burne,  Prime  Minister  of  England,  in  a  letter  dated  April  6, 
1782,  where  it  is  said  :  — 

"  I  have  had  a  high  opinion  of  the  compass  of  your  mind  and 
of  your  foresight.  I  have  often  been  beholden  to  both,  and  shall 
be  glad  to  be  so  again,  so  far  as  is  compatible  with  your  situation. 
Your  letter  discovering  the  same  disposition  has  made  me  send  to 
you  Mr.  Oswald.  I  have  had  a  longer  acquaintance  with  him  than 
ever  I  have  had  the  pleasu^'e  to  have  with  you. ,  I  believe  him  an 
honest  man,  and  after  consulting  some  of  our  common  friends,  I 
have  thought  him  the  fittest  for  the  purpose.  He  is  a  pacifical 
man  and  conversant  in  those  negotiations  which  are  most  interest- 
ing to  mankind.  This  has  made  me  prefer  him  to  any  of  our 
speculative  friends,  or  to  any  person  of  higher  rank.  He  is  fully 
apprized  of  my  mind  and  you  may  give  full  credit  to  everything 
he  assures  you  of."  (Franklin's  "Works  b}"  Sparks,  Vol  IX.,  pp. 
240,  241.) 

Franklin,  in  a  letter  dated  April  18,  1782,  reported  to  the  Earl 
of  Shelburne  his  impression  of  Mr.  Oswald,  as  follows  :  — 


88  CITY   DOCUMEI^T. No.    72. 

"  I  have  conversed  a  good  deal  with  Mr.  Oswald,  and  am  much 
pleased  with  him.  He  appears  to  me  a  wise  and  honest  man," 
(Ibid.  p.  245.) 

John  Adams  in  writing  to  Secretary  Livingston,  of  the  Conti- 
nental Congress,  under  date  of  Nov.  6,  1782,  said  :  — 

"The  English  have  sent  Mr.  Oswald,  who  is  a  wise  and  good 
man,  and  if  untrammelled  would  soon  settle  all."  (John  Adams's 
Works,  Vol.  VII.,  p.  600.) 

At  the  negotiation  of  the  definitive  Treaty  of  Peace  of  Sept.  3, 
1783,  Mr.  Hartley  was  substituted  for  Mr.  Oswald,  on  which  John 
Adams  remarks,  in  a  letter  to  Secretary  Livingston,  under  date  of 
April  14,  1783:  — 

"  It  would  have  been  more  agreeable  to  have  finished  with  Mr. 
Oswald.  But  the  present  Ministry  are  so  dissatisfied  with  what  is 
past,  as  they  say,  though  nobody  believes  them,  ihat  they  choose 
to  change  hands."     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.,  p.  54.) 

I  remember  to  have  heard  Sir  Charles  R.  Vaughan,  British  Min- 
ister at  Washington  many  years  ago,  say,  that  on  his  return  to  Lon- 
don, and  finding  the  dissatisfaction  with  his  course,  Mr.  Oswald 
burst  into  tears.  It  is  hardly  possible  that  he  did  anything  with- 
out the  sanction  of  the  Ministry  ;  but  it  was  probably  convenient 
to  allow  the  burden  to  fall  on  him. 

From  this  statement  it  is  easy  to  see  how  natural  it  would  be  for 
Mr.  Oswald  to  have  a  portrait  of  Franklin. 

Mr.  Parkes,  into  whose  hands  it  passed  from  the  family  of  Mr. 
Oswald,  and  from  whom  it  came  to  Mr.  Brewer,  was  a  remarkable 
person,  extensively  known  in  London,  full  of  information,  fond  of 
pictures,  much  interested  in  our  countrj'-,  with  an  excellent  Amer- 
ican library,  and  with  an  American  wife,  born  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
grand-daughter  of  Priestley.  He  is  known  as  author  of  the  unfin- 
ished memoirs  of  Sir  Philip  Francis,  completed  by  Mr.  Merivale, 
and  also  early  in  life  of  a  volume  on  the  History  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  which  Brougham  complimented  highly  in  his  famous 
speech  on  Law  Reform,  Feb.  7,  1828. 

I  am  sure  that  Mr.  Parkes  had,. entire  confidence  in  this  por- 
trait, as  painted  by  Greuze,  and  belonging  originally  to  Mr.  Os- 
wald. 

CHARLES   SUMNER. 

Washington,  6th  Aug.,  '71. 


rUBLIC     LIBRARY.  89 


APPE]N^DIX  XXVlI. 

THE   BEQUEST   OF   DANIEL   TREAD  WELL. 

Extract  from  the  ivill  dated  Nov.  7,  1863. 

In  the  ninth  place,  all  the  residue  of  my  estate,  both  real  and  per- 
sonal, I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  my  executors  hereinafter 
named,  to  have  and  to  hold  the  same  to  them  and  their  heirs  suc- 
cessors and  assigns  forever,  but  in  trust  nevertheless  for  the  fol- 
lowing uses  and  purposes,  viz. :  to  pay  over  all  the  net  income 
thereof  to  my  wife  during  her  life  for  her  own  use  and  benefit ;  and 
if  at  any  time  my  said  Trustees  shall  not  deem  the  net  income 
thereof  sufficient  for  a  suitable  allowance  for  her,  they  may  make 
such  further  allowance  to  her  from  the  principal  of  the  said  residue 
of  my  estate,  as  shall  seem  to  them  proper  and  expedient.  At  the 
decease  of  my  wife,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  shall  be  found  conven- 
ient and  desirable,  my  said  Trustees  shall  divide  the  residue  of  my 
estate  then  remaining  in  their  hands,  into  five  equal  parts,  and  pay 
over  and  transfer  one  of  the  said  fifth  parts  to  the  President  and 
Fellows  of  Harvard  College  for  the  use  of  the  College  Library  ; 
and  transfer  and  pay  over  one  of  the  said  fifth  parts  to  the  Ameri- 
can Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  ;  and  transfer  and  pay  over  one 
of  the  said  fifth  parts  to  the  Boston  Athenaeum  ;  and  transfer  and 
pay  over  one  of  the  said  fii'th  parts  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston 
Library ;  and  transfer  and  pay  over  the  remaining  one-fifth  part 
thereof  to  the  town  of  Ipswich  aforesaid,  for  the  Library  above  pro- 
vided for. 

Extract  from  a  codicil,  dated  25th  March,  1864. 

I  hereby  declare  that  it  was  my  intention  by  the  said  Will,  to 
give  one  fifth  part  of  the  residue  of  my  estate  after  the  decease  of 
my  wife,  and  as  more  pai'ticularly  set  forth  in  the  said  Will,  for 
the  use  and  benefit  of  "  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston," 
now  located  in  Boylston  street  in  the  said  City,  and  it  is  according- 


90  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  72. 

ly  my  will  that  where  the  words  "  Trustees  of  tlie  Boston  Library" 
occur  on  the  fourth  page  of  my  said  Will,  the  words  "  Public  Li- 
brary of  the  City  of  Boston"  shall  be  substituted  therefor ;  and 
that  where  the  same  T,^ords  occur  on  the  fifth  page  of  my  said  Will 
the  words  "  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Bos- 
ton" shall  be  substituted  therefor,  and  my  will  carried  into  eflect 
accordingly  by  my  Executors  therein  named. 

Extract  from  the  Records  of  the  Trustees. 

In  Board  of  Trustees,  Apr.  11,  1872. 

The  President  presented  a  cop}^  of  the  will  of  the  late  Daniel 
Treadwell,  under  which  the  Library,  on  the  death  of  his  widovv,  it 
was  thought,  would  come  into  the  possession  of  almost  $12,000. 
The  President  was  requested  to  notifj-  the  City  Council  of  the  fact, 
and  to  address  an  acknowledgment  to  the  Executors. 

The  Committee  on  the  Library  of  the  Cit}'  Council  reported  to 
that  body  the  following  order,  which  was  passed  and  approved  by 
the  Mayor,  May  17,  1872. 

Ordered,  Tliat  the  bequest  to  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 
Boston,  named  in  the  ninth  article  of  the  will  of  Daniel  Treadwell 
of  Cambridge,  Engineer  and  late  Eumford  Professor  in  Harvard  Col- 
lege, be,  and  the  same  is  hereb}^  accepted  ;  and  that  the  Trustees  of 
the  Library  be  authorized  to  receive  said  bequest  when  it  becomes 
due  ;  and  invest  the  amount  received  in  bonds  of  said  city,  and  ex- 
pend the  income  in  such  manner  as  they  may  deem  for  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  Library. 

Ordered,  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  be  requested 
to  make  a  suitable  acknowledgment  of  this  generous  contribution 
to  the  funds  of  the  Library  by  the  late  Professor  Treadwell,  whose 
distinguished  services  in  the  application  of  science  to  the  useful 
arts,  have  given  him  a  high  position  among  public  benefactors. 

Public  Library,  in  Board  of  Trustees, 

June  12,  1872. 
Ordered,  That  the  action  of  the  City  Council  in  relation  to  the 
Treadwell  bequest  be  communicated  to  the  Executors  of  the  estate, 
as  supplemental  to  the    resolutions  of  gratitude  already  passed  by 
the  Board,  and  communicated  in  due  course  to  said  Executors. 


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