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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
thrown out and put among our pamphlets held for exchange.
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
111,681 117,969
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.
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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.
40
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 72.
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.
PUBLIC LIBKAKY.
41
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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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
45
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
46
CITY DOCUMENT.
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
1471
Pph.
1
70
120
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
11
6
1
29
19
1
1
2
3
1
1
2
5
1
PUBLIC LIBRAKY.
47
Pph.
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., .
ny
125
48
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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
1
1
2
22
1
1
1
54
1
3
1
36
1
1
5
1
2
3
10
12
2
2
6
14'
2
641
5
2
I
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49
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, . . . .
394
1
10
1
1
1
162
92
7
2
1
2
12
Pph.
3
12
1
13
I
1
3
2
34
1
976
2
2
2
28
1
86
28
106
1
15
9
50
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 72.
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,
Pph.
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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.
pen
of period
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,
York
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Vols.
Pph.
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.
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tral library only, h If the issues at East Boston be excluded, this footing would be 296. .315;
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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.
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12,051
2,810
2,810
233
I Central Library
Cards not called |
for during the i E. B. Branch . .
year. ■>
L Total
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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
3,313
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
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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.
62
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 72.
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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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.
During the year bound volumes of the Tosti Engravings have been shown on ilondaj- s
and Saturdays to 812 persons ; 553 ladies and 259 gentlemen ; and three copyists have been
accommodated.
PUBLIC LIBKARY.
63
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CITY DOCUMENT. No. 72.
APPEI^DIX XVI.
EAST BOSTON BRANCH READING.
{Shown from slips of Books returned.)
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5,6,7,17,37,39,40,41
13,22
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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
returned,
669
552
8,593
27
1,096
6,639
747
1,119
2,071
883
1,179
23,575
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2
25,855
35
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2
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6
2,447
4
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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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No. 72.
APPEI^DIX XYIII.
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
" Monthly
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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
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Duplicates taken
Copies Taken.
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1
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 : —
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" 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.
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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-
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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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