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BOSTON. 


TWENTY-SIXTH  ANNUAL  EEPORT 

OF    THE 

TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

1878. 


[A.] 

In  conformity  with  the  requirements  of  the  ordinance  con- 
cerning the  Public  Library,  the  Trustees  have  the  lionor  to 
present  to  the  City  Council  their  twenty-sixth  annual  report, 
being  the  ninth  and  final  one  made  under  the  last  ordinance, 
and  including  the  details  of  condition  and  of  administration 
for  the  year  ending  on  the  30th  of  April  last,  when  the 
organization  of  the  Board  terminated. 

They  also  submit  herewith  two  necessary  reports  :  one 
of  the  Examining  Committee,  consisting  for  the  present  year 
of  Rev.  Warren  H.  Cud\v(n-th,  AVilliam  Kndicott,  Esq.,  Hon. 
Robert  M.  Morse,  Jr.,  J.  Boyle  O'Reilly,  Esq.,  and  John 
Collins  Warren,  M.D.,  with  AYeston  Lewis,  Esq.,  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  as  Chairman  ;  the  other,  of  Samuel  A.- 
Green, M.D.,  the  Trustee  in  charge,  with  the  regular  tabula- 
tions of  the  results  of  the  work  of  the  Library  during  the 
year,  with  such  comments  and  recommendations  for  future 
progress  as  have  been  derived  from  his  personal  experience 
in  its  manaofement. 

The  report  of  the  Examining  Committee  bears  forcibly 
upon  two  points  which  have  been  previously  presented  to 
the  City  Council,  and  which  are  most  important  to  its  future 
condition.  The  one  presents  strongly  the  insufficient  accom- 
modations of  the  Library,  either  in  space  for  its  shelving,  or 
in  accommodation  to  the  public,  in  its  reading-room,  or  iii 
the  ventilation  necessary  to  the  health  of  the  attendants,  and 
for  the  preservation  of  the  books. 

As  a  radical  and  absolute  cure  for  these  and  other  evils, 
they  have  entered  quite  fully  into  the  question  of  a  removal 


2  .  City  Document  No.  61. 

of  the  Library  from  its  present  site,  recommending  early 
action  on  the  part  of  the  City  Government.  Upon  the 
points  of  the  necessity  of  greatly  enlarged  and  improved 
accommodation,  both  to  the  Librar}'  and  to  the  public,  and 
increased  safety  for  its  invaluable  treasures,  the  Trustees 
have  expressed  their  opinion  in  previous  reports.  They 
submit  the  subject  to  the  best  consideration  of  the  City 
Council. 

The  other  portion  discusses,  in  an  impartial  and  thought- 
ful manner,  the  quality  of  the  reading  provided,  the  diffi- 
culties to  be  overcome  in  ministering  to  the  various  tastes 
dependent  upon  the  institution,  and  the  principles  which,  iu 
the  judgment  of  the  committee,  should  control  the  acquisi- 
tion of  its  books.  The  Trustees  are  glad  to  find  that  such 
an  independent  and  practical  body  approve  of  the  manner  in 
which  the  popular  selection,  especially,  has  been  made. 

The  report  of  Dr.  Green,  the  Trustee  in  charge,  gives  the 
results  not  only  of  his  work  as  Superintendent,  but  also  of 
his  experience  as  an  active  and  valued  member  of  this 
Board  for  ten  years.  His  observations  upon  the  disabilities 
suffered  by  the  institution,  and  by  the  public  in  consquence, 
from  the  present  library  structure,  will  still  farther  fortify 
the  recommendations  of  the  Examining  Committee.  His 
suggestions  relative  to  the  system  of  book  purchases  will 
receive  the  early  attention  of  the  Board.  AVhen  a  new 
librarian  is  obtained,  such  systematic  direction  will  naturally 
form  an  important  part  of  the  duties  of  that  officer. 

In  the  month  of  July  it  became  known  that  the  Library 
was  to  lose  the  services  of  Mr.  Winsor,  as  Superintendent, 
a  position  which  he  had  filled  with  eminent  ability  for  ten 
years.  Although  every  effort  was  made  by  the  Trustees 
and  the  City  Government  to  retain  him  in  office,  he  pre- 
ferred accepting  the  librarianship  at  Cambridge,  which,  in 
his  judgment,  was  more  permanent,  and  more  agreeable  in 
its  relations.  In  severing  his  personal  connection  with  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  they  took  great  pleasure  in  bearing  tes- 
timony to  the  distinguished  services  which  he  had  rendered 
the  institution,  and  which  were  especially  due  to  his  inven- 
tive talent  and  administrative  skill. 

The  resignation  of  Mr.  AVinsor,  on  the  1st  of  October, 
as  Superintendent,  in  one  respect,  proved  an  immediate 
embarrassment  to  the  institution.  The  appropriate  salary 
voted  by  the  City  Council  had  been  made  dependent 
upon  the  tenure  of  office  of  that  incumbent.  In 
making  a  selection  of  a  successor,  there  were  but  few 
competent  bibliographers  in  the  country,  and  fewer  still 
who  added  to  that  accomplishment  a  large  administrative 


Public  Libraey.  3 

ability.  The  very  few  whose  claims  might  be  con- 
sidered by  the  Trustees  were  already  occupied  in  positions 
where  their  services  were  approximately  rewarded  by  a 
higher  compensation  than  had  been  appropriated  as  the 
salary  for  the  most  important  librarianship  on  the  continent. 
Of  large  consulting  or  reference  libraries  there  were  but 
three  or  four  in  the  country  of  great  general  value.  Of 
popular  libraries  there  was  none  which  served  so  large  a 
constituency,  or  which  spread  such  a  collection  of  treasures 
so  broadcast  among  the  people.  It  required  no  argument  to 
prove  that  the  position  of  Superintendent  or  Librarian  could 
not  easily  be  filled.  The  names  presented  to  the  13oard  did 
not,  in  their  judgment,  include  any  one  either  competent  for 
the  work,  or  who  was  not  already  in  the  service  of  some 
other  institution  providing  a  sufficient  compensation. 

In  the  meantime,  until  a  suitable  successor  could  be  found, 
the  daily  details  of  the  machinery  of  the  institution  must 
receive  attention.  The  Board  were  fortunate  in  having  one 
among  their  number  w4io  was  competent  and  willing  to  give 
the  time  required  for  the  daily  executive  necessities.  Dr. 
Samuel  A.  Green  was  placed  as  "  Trustee  in  charge,"  at  a  large 
personal  inconvenience  to  himself,  and  Avith  a  disinterested- 
ness worthy  of  all  praise.  Such  assistance  also  as  could  be 
given  by  the  Board  was  freely  rendered.  While  the  Trustees 
by  the  ordinance  were  made  responsible  for  the  Library, 
they  had  never,  individually,  before,  been  brought  into  such 
immediate  contact  with  all  the  problems  of  administration. 
The  result  of  this  experience  has  produced  economical 
changes,  which  it  is  expected  will  in  the  future  materially 
enhance  the  efiicieiicy  of  the  popular  libraries. 

The  consideration  of  the  question  of  the  ventilation  of  the 
Bates,  as  well  as  of  the  Lower,  Hall  can  no  longer  be  deferred 
with  safety.  The  Committee  on  Public  Buildings,  in  the 
early  spring,  took  in  hand  the  admitted  necessities  of  the 
first  floor  in  the  Boylston-street  library.  Since  then,  the 
attention  of  the  Trustees  has  again  been  forcibly  drawn  to 
the  decay  of  the  bindings  in  the  upper  and  middle  ranges  of 
alcoves  in  Bates  Hall.  To  reptiir  the  volumes  already  injured 
will  require  the  expenditure  of  a  considerable  sum  of  money. 
This  condition  of  destruction  is  not  new  to  this  Library. 
The  same  causes  which  have  proved  so  injiu'ious  to  the  calf, 
sheep,  and  russia  binding  in  our  own  collection,  have  pro- 
duced similar  results  at  the  Boston  Athenteum  and  Harvard 
College  liljraries,  as  well  as  in  the  great  libraries  in  Europe. 
An  exhaustive  examination  by  Professor  Wolcott  Gil)bs,  of 
Harvard  University,  has  proved,  that  the  leather  became 
disintegrated  by  the  atmospheric  conditions  inseparable  from 
insufficient   ventilation,    and    not    from   the   noxious    gases 


4  City  Document  No.  61. 

sui)posecl  to  1)6  irenerated  in  injurious  qUcantities  from  the 
combustion  of  flame.  Having  ascertained  the  cause,  it  is 
earnestly  desired  that  the  city  authorities  will  at  once  inter- 
pose, and  preserve  the  invaluable  contents  of  the  Library 
from  farther  destructive  agencies  proceding  from  this  cause. 
Pure  air  is  as  necessary  to  the  preservation  of  books  as  it  is 
to  the  healthy  condition  of  human  existence. 

In  presenting  the  usual  sunmiary  of  library  work  for  the 
year,  there  will  be  found  a  gratif^'ing  increase  in  the  extent 
and  value  of  the  collections.  Two  new  Branches  have  been 
established  ;  one  at  the  South  End,  and  one  at  Jamaica 
Plain.  The  amount  of  donations  has  been  swelled  by  the 
gift  of  the  library  of  the  Mercantile  Library  Association. 
The  quality  of  the  works  added  to  the  popular  libraries  has 
been  higher  in  grade. 

The  number  of  volumes  shelved  in  Bates  Hall  are  203,928  ; 
in  the  Lower  Hall,  35,862  ;  in  the  basement,  16,166;  in  the 
branches,  89,778  ;  making  a  total  of  345,734  volumes,  —  an 
increase  for  the  year  of  33,724  volumes,  or  12  per  cent. 

The  libraries  were  open  for  the  year  for  popular  use  and 
consultation  306  days.  The  loans  increased  from  a  total  in  the 
previous  year  of  1,U0,572  to  1,183,991,  — a  gain  of  43,419 
volumes.  This  aggregate  gain  has  not,  however,  been  eflected 
without  a  loss  in  certain  of  the  popular  departments.  The 
establishment  of  the  South-End  Branch  withdrew  applicants 
for  books,  both  from  the  Central  Library  and  the  Koxbury 
Branch.  Jamaica  Plain,  which  had  received  from  the  lioxl)ury 
Branch  to  September  1,  3,712  volumes,  subsequent  to  that 
time  had  a  library  of  its  own  in  successful  operation. 

Another  cause  which  has  diminished  the  total  number  of 
books  charged  as  circulated  has  been  the  al)()lition  of  the 
old  seven-day  rule,  with  power  of  renewal,  and  the  substitu- 
tion of  a  longer  lilierty  of  fourteen  days,  without  power  of 
renewal.  It  will  be  seen  that  every  book  renewed  under  the 
old  rule,  and  detained  a  fortnight  for  home  use,  counted  as 
two  deliveries,  while  since  the  1st  of  January  such  detention 
counts  only  as  one. 

What  ell'eet  has  been  produced  on  the  popularity  ()f  the 
Library  by  the  etforts  of  the  Trustees  to  add  as  few  books 
to  the  shelves,  as  was  practicable,  of  the  lower  grades  of 
fiction,  not  immoral,  is  yet  hardly  perceptil)le.  The  attend- 
ants of  the  Lower  Hall  in  Bo^lston  street,  with  a  less 
number  of  l)0()ks  charixcd  than  durinE^  the  same  months 
of  the  previous  year,  have  never  been  so  busy  as  during 
the  past  winter. 

The  following  table  indicates  the  number  of  volumes  now 
in  each  library,  with  the  circulation  of  each  during  the  past 


Public  Libraet.  5 

and  the  present  year.  Other  statistics  indicating  tlie  char- 
acter of  that  circulation  will  be  found  subsequently.  The 
division  between  the  consulting  and  popular  libraries  indi- 
cates an  essential  educational  difference  :  — 

Circulation. 


Lower  Hall,  Boylston  street 

East  Boston 

South  Boston 

Roxbury 

Charlestown 

Brighton 

Dorchester 

South  End 

Jamaica  Plain 

Total 

Bates   Hall 

Fellowes  Athenseum 

Volumes  in  use  (excluding  duplicates,  etc) 


No.  of  Vols. 
Apl.30,1878 


35,862 

10,329 

8,666 

8,382 

20,300 

11,969 

8,535 

8,793 

5,857 

nS,693 

203,928 

7,181 

329,892 


1870-7. 


405, 
102, 
135, 
1.30, 
106, 
29, 
71, 


732 
627 
179 
419 
816 


141, 

16, 

1,140, 


410 
572 


1877-8. 

391,175_ 

106,596 

140,751 

113,787 

101,540 

29,247 

64,974 

42,402 

30,280 

1,020,460 

146,996 

16,535 

1,183,991 


It  will  at  once  be  noticed  that,  with  the  exception  of  East 
Boston  and  South  Boston  and  the  new  Branches,  the  popular 
service  shows  a  decrease,  while  the  consulting  libraries  have 
a  slight  increase  of  use.  The  most  marked  falling  off  has 
been  in  Eoxbury,  which  shows  a  diminution  of  nearly  17,000 
volumes,  the  larger  part  of  which  is  to  be  explained  by  the 
opening  of  the  Jamaica  Plain  Branch,  to  which  had  been 
furnished  the  previous  year  nearly  12,000  volumes. 

The  varying  figures  in  the  circulation  of  popular  libraries 
have  been  held  to  depend  in  a  large  degree  upon  the  quantity 
of  fiction  embraced  in  such  collections,  it  being  popuhvrly 
and  reasonably  accepted  as  a  fact  that  extent  of  circulation 
depends  upon  such  proportion.  But  the  element  of  quality 
as  suited  to  the  popular  taste  is  quite  as  important.  One  of 
the  Branches,  with  49  per  cent,  of  fiction  and  juveniles,  fur- 
nished bo  per  cent,  of  its  circulation  from  that  portion  of  its 
contents ;  while  another,  with  the  same  percentage  of  works 
of  this  class,  but  of  a  higher  grade,  issued  only  72  per  cent. 
Another  Branch,  with  38  per  cent,  of  the  same  class,  but 
poorer,  loaned  72  per  cent.     In  direct  contrast  with  these 


6  City  Document  Xo.  61. 

fiojures,  yet  another  Branch,  with  31  percent,  of  fiction,  de- 
rived from  it  76  per  cent,  of  its  issues.  The  average  contents 
of  all  the  popular  libraries  was  42  per  cent.,  which  covered 
75  per  cent,  of  their  total  circulation.*  In  one  Branch  each 
novel  or  juvenile  was  issued,  on  the  average,  24  times, 
while  from  another,  each  book  of  the  same  class  was  taken 
on  the  average  but  7  times. 

In  considering  the  readers  of  fiction  as  to  age  and  sex,  no 
exact  figures  have  yet  l)een  obtained.  It  is,  however,  suffi- 
ciently evident  that  the  female  sex  predominates.  Of  adults, 
the  men  take  from  the  Library  less  than  half  as  man}'  novels 
as  women.  In  juveniles,  owing  to  the  sensational  character 
of  the  majority  of  the  books  published,  bo3's  furnish  more 
readers  than  girls  ;  while  the  girls  make  up  more  than  the 
ditFerence,  by  reading  novels. 

The  managers  of  a  pu1)lic  library  cannot  afford  to  neglect 
the  constant  inspection  of  this  class  of  its  reading.  While  re- 
quired by  the  demands  of  circulation  to  place  upon  their 
shelves  stories  of  the  most  diverse  character,  not  iumioral 
in  tendency,  they  have  no  power  to  distribute  them  as  suited 
to  the  t'lstes  and  tendencies  of  the  individual  borrower.  For 
the  young  the  proper  oversight  is  due  from  the  parent ;  but 
from  observation  it  is  feared  that  a  very  large  proportion  of 
the  parents,  either  from  ignorance  or  disinclination,  do 
not  fulfil  the  duty.  In  this  connection,  the  remarks  of  the 
Examining  Committee  upon  the  quality  and  use  of  books 
selected  deserve  especial  attention. 

The  record  of  books  lost  still  continues  to  show  most  sat- 
isfactory results.  During  the  past  year  but  one  volume  is 
missing  from  among  11,723  issued.  This  fact  is  most  credit- 
able to  borrowers,  and  surpasses  our  previous  experience. 
The  Branches  at  Roxbury,  Brighton,  Dorchester,  South  End, 
and  Jamaica  Plain  have  lost  no  volume  from  an  aggregate 
circulation  of  275,6,54  ;  and  South  Hoston  but  one  out  of 
140,677.  The  whole  number  from  all  the  lil)raries  not 
recovered  was  101,  of  which  90  came  from  the  Central 
Libraiy,  which,  as  usual,  suffers  most  from  the  negligence  of 
its  patrons ;  but  even  with  this  drawback  its  figures  are 
better  than  those  of  the  previous  year. 

For  the  reading-rooms  of  the  lil)rai'ies,  the  few  facts  which 
are  to  be  noted  show  the  prescience  of  Mr.  Bates  in  making 
the  establishment  of  these  accessories  an  essential  part  of 
his  benevolent  conditions.  They  were  open  to  the  public 
357  days  in  the  year,  inclusive  of  Sundays,  during  which 

•These  percentages  do  not  include  the  Charlestown  Library,  which  has  not  yet 
taken  its  place  in  the  general  system  of  statistics;  but  the  use  of  ivhich,  it  is  Loped, 
will  bo  clearly  defined  in  the  course  of  another  year. 


Public  Library.  7 

371,693  readers  were  furnished  with  471,984  periodicals, — 
an  increase  of  32,179  readers,  and  47,320  periodicals.  These 
amounts  would  have  been  largely  increased  had  the  sitting 
accommodations  in  the  Central  Library  been  sufficient  for  the 
visitors.  So  large  a  proportion  of  the  immediate  intellectual 
activity  of  the  age  finds  its  vent  and  expression  in  works  of 
this  class,  that  it  has  become  a  most  important  element  in 
popular  education. 

The  gifts  to  the  Library  during  the  year  have  been  unusu- 
ally large.  By  the  public  spirit  of  the  Directors  of  the 
Mercantile  Library  Association  their  library,  which  had 
been  in  process  of  collection  for  55  years,  and  containing 
16,927  volumes,  was  presented  to  this  institution.  8,000  of 
its  volumes  were  transferred  to  their  building  in  Newton 
street,  as  the  basis  of  a  new  Branch  founded  for  the  ready 
convenience  of  an  important  constituency  of  the  j^arent 
library  residing  south  of  Dover  street.  The  uses  of  this 
collection  since  its  begiiining  show  a  lively  interest  on  the 
part  of  its  patrons,  and  have  had  an  effect  upon  the  cir- 
culation both  of  the  Lower  Hall  and  of  the  Roxbnry  Branch, 
which  are  its  nearest  neighbors.  This  is  the  first  Branch  estab- 
lished which  for  a  portion  of  its  issues  appears  to  have  with- 
drawn regnlar  visitants  of  the  other  libraries.  It  suggests  a 
question  for  the  consideration  of  the  Trustees,  as  to  whether 
further  Branches  shall  be  established,  at  an  increased  expense 
to  the  city,  unless  it  is  clearly  demonstrated  that  such  estab- 
lishment shall  not  interfere  with  the  usefulness  of  the  libra- 
ries already  in  snccessful  operation. 

But  these  remarks  must  not  be  considered  as  showing  any 
unthankfulness  for  large  gifts  of  popular  books,  to  which  the 
Trustees  must  assign  a  sphere  of  usefnlness.  AVhen  books 
are  largely  duplicated  by  gift  in  the  Lower  Hall,  beyond  the 
necessities  of  daily  demand,  they  must  not  on  this  account 
remain  fixtures  on  the  shelves.  There  are  people  who  will 
use  them,  if  convenient  of  access,  and  such  has  proved  to 
be  the  creditable  record  of  the  South  End  Branch.  Although 
the  books  were  not  used,  and  the  novels  and  juveniles  had 
mainly  been  printed  more  than  five  years,  and  were  selected 
as  of  good  quality,  the  circulation  at  once  became  notable,  and 
indicative  of  good  taste  and  of  educational  tendencies.  It 
will  be  fortunate  if  any  fiirther  donations  of  libraries  shall 
be  so  well  placed  as  a  selection  from  this. 

Retm-ning  to  the  general  gifts  throughout  the  year,  the 
Trustees  would  next  gratefully  acknowledije  the  second  gift 
of  J.  IngersoU  Bowditch,  Esq.,  of  $500,  for  the  purpose  of 
increasing  the  value  of  the  mathematical  collection,  —  the 
gift  to  the  Library  of  the  sons  of  the  late  Nathaniel  Bowditch. 


8  City  Document  No.  61. 

A  catalogue  of  these  additions  for  the  past  two  years  has 
been  printed.  The  vakie  and  use  of  any  such  special  col- 
lection obviously  depend  upon  its  completeness,  and  upon 
the  ready  knowledge  of  its  contents  offered  in  print  to 
students. 

There  was  also  added  to  the  Library,  during  the  year,  the 
bequest  of  Miss  Eliza  Mary  Thayer,  a  special  collection  of  890 
volumes,  relating  to  history  and  l)iography,  and  embracing  a 
large  variety  of  costly  illustrated  works,  containing  great 
numbers  of  valuable  historical  portraits.  The  result  of  the 
assiduous  and  careful  labor  of  the  owner,  it  forms  a  monu- 
ment to  her  excellent  judgment  and  good  taste. 

Another  considerable  addition  of  books  were  the 
1,118  volumes  comprising  the  private  library  of  Miss  Char- 
lotte Harris,  bequealhed  by  her  to  the  Branch  Library  at 
Charlestown,  which  she  still  farther  enriched  by  leaving  to 
it  in  trust  the  sum  of  $10,0U0,  the  interest  of  which  was  to 
be  expended  for  its  benefit  in  the  purchase  of  books  published 
previous  to  the  year  1850. 

A  most  notable  single  donation,  last  July,  was  due  to  the 
interposition  of  the  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  an  old  and 
constant  friend  of  the  Lilmuy.  Through  his  personal  efforts 
there  was  secured  to  it,  by  the  aid  of  a  few  subscribers,  the 
original  short-hand  report  of  Webster's  reply  to  Hayne  in 
the  U.  S.  Senate,  by  Joseph  Gales  ;  the  speech  as  written 
out  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gales  from  the  short-hand  report ; 
the  speech,  as  prepared  by  Mr.  Wel)ster  as  copy  for  the 
press  ;  an  appendix  indorsed  by  ^Ir.  Webster  ;  and  the  per- 
fected speech  as  originally  printed — the  whole  bound  in  one 
volume.  This  document  has  a  national  interest  from  its 
extraordinary  power,  and  for  the  important  political  conse- 
quences which  ensued  from  its  delivery. 

Besides  the  18,935  volumes  thus  enumerated,  the  Library 
was  indebted  to  674  givers,  for  2,271  volumes  and  12,453 
pamphlets. 

Nothing  more  plainly  shows  the  use  of  the  Library  than 
its  wear  and  tear.  During  the  past  five  years  15,392 
volumes  have  been  condemned.  jSIost  of  them  have 
been  replaced,  and  the  cost  of  the  purchase  has  formed 
a  part  of  the  expenditure  for  books  in  each  year.  They  are 
fortunately  the  more  popular  and  cheaper  books  which  suffer 
the  most.  During  this  same  i)eriod  of  time  the  Library, 
under  the  city  ordinance,  has  paid  into  the  city  treasury 
$13,644.13,  from  fines  and  the  sale  of  catalogues,  —  a  sum 
which,  had  it  been  placed  at  the  disposition  of  the  Board, 
Avoukl  have  made  good  all  losses  in  books,  and  paid,  too.  by 
the  public  in  whose  service  the  destruction  had  taken  place. 


Public   Library.  9 

Other  conditions  of  wear  and  tear  find  their  remedy  in 
the  bindery,  which  arm  of  the  service,  under  Mr.  Hathawa}^ 
required  during  the  year  12  assistants.  Besides  its  em- 
ployment upon  a  great  variety  of  miscelhmeous  work,  15,284 
vokimes  were  bound  and  949  repaired.  Of  the  quality  of 
the  work  done  it  is  just  to  say  that  it  is  not  surpassed  by 
that  furnished  by  the  best  binders  in  the  country.  The  pub- 
lications of  the  Library,  bound  in  this  department  of  its 
service,  have  been  sent  to  the  Paris  Exhibition  of  1878. 

The  Catalogue  work  of  the  Lil)rary,  during  the  year,  has 
been  unusually  large  and  important.  The  public  Card  Cata- 
logue has  been  so  far  completed  that  it  is  now  an  index  of  the- 
works  comprised  in  Bates  as  well  as  the  Lower  Hall.  The 
entries  for  the  last  nine  months  of  the  year  numbered  31,346 
volumes.  Besides  this,  a  Catalogue  of  the  Jamaica  Plain 
Branch  has  been  issued.  Work  on  the  Ticknor  Catalogue  has 
been  diligently  prosecuted  by  Mr.  Whitney,  so  that  this  long- 
expected  volume  is  approaching  a  near  completion.  The  print- 
ing of  the  Barton  Catalogue,  embracing  the  Shakespearian 
portion,  is  also  in  hand,  under  the  innnediate  charge  of  Mr. 
Hubbard,  and  will  be  continued  steadily  until  finished  under 
the  terms  of  the  contract  made  by  the  city  at  the  time  of  its 
purchase,  subsequently  modified  by  consent  of  the  executors 
of  Mrs.  Barton's  will.  The  quarterly  Bulletins  have  been 
reguhirly  issued. 

In  terminating  the  relation  of  Trustees  under  the  present 
form  of  organization,  they  cannot  but  hope  that  similar 
conditions  of  prosperity  will  be  vouchsafed  to  the  new 
corporation.  No  large  change  in  the  general  conduct 
of  administration  can  be  anticipated  so  long  as  means  are 
provided  adequate  to  support.  The  Library  in  the  past 
has  been  unfailingly  sustained  by  the  public  spirit  of  the 
City  Government,  and  of  their  fellow-citizens.  The  large 
educational  problem,  for  the  solution  of  which  it  was  created, 
may  reasonal)ly  be  claimed  to  have  been  solved.  The  free 
school  and  the  free  library  now  constitute  a  large  element 
in  making  up  the  character  of  the  freeman  — worthy  of 
freedom. 

AVILLTAM  W.    GREENOUGH, 
GEORGE   B.    CHASE, 
HENRY   F.    COE, 
RICHARD   FROTHINGHAM, 
CURTIS    GUILD, 
WESTON    LEWIS, 
HARVEY   N.    SHEPARD, 
BENJAMIN   F.   THOMAS. 
PcBLic  Library,  June  30,  1878. 


10  City  Document  No.  61. 


[B.] 
EEPORT   OF   THE   EXAMINING   COMMITTEE, 


COXSISTING    OF 


Rev.  Warren  H.  Cudavorth,  William  Endicott,  Jr.,  Esq., 
Hon.  Robert  "SI.  Morse,  Jr.,  John  Boyle  O'Reilly, 
Esq.,  J.  Collins  Warren,  M.D.,  with  Weston  Lewis, 
Esq.,  of  the  Trustees,  as  Chairman. 

In  accordance  Avith  the  requirements  of  a  City  Ordinance 
concerning  the  Public  Li!)rary,  passed  in  September  of  1869, 
the  committee  above  named  beg  leave  to  report  upon  its  con- 
dition on  the  last  of  April,  1878,  as  follows  :  — 

The  tirst  impression  made  upon  the  visitor  by  the  Library 
is  very  favorable,  and  to  the  City  of  Boston  extremely  cred- 
itable. The  building  is  imposing  without  and  within  ;  and 
although  situated  in  one  of  the  busiest  quarters  of  the  city, 
where  horse-cars  and  vehicles  of  every  description  pass  and 
repass  continually,  and  thousands  of  pedestrians  hurry  along 
intent  on  work  or  pleasure,  the  rooms  are  tilled  with  the 
spirit  of  repose,  and  by  their  very  aspect  seem  to  invite 
tiioughtful  contemplation,  or  silent  fellowship  Avith  those 
gifted  minds  or  soaring  souls,  the  record  of  whose  best  hours 
or  noblest  efforts  rise  shelf  above  shelf  from  floor  to 
ceiling. 

It  seems  scarcely  credible  that  only  twenty-six  years  have 
elapsed  since  the  movement  Avas  started  whose  already  at- 
tained proportions  are  so  colossal ;  scarcely  credible  that  in 
1852  the  first  l)ook  was  deposited  in  this  collection  so  vast 
and  valuable,  Avhich  has  been  followed  by  347,244  companions, 
A\arying  in  size  and  value,  of  course,  but  nearly  all  worthy 
of  the  places  they  occupy  and  the  consideration  they  have 
received.  One  Avould  think  that  he  was  beholding  Avhat  it 
had  cost  centuries  of  labor  and  millions  of  treasure  to  col- 
lect;  and  that  this  library  had  been  established  l)^'  some 
opulent,  powerful,  and  cultivated  nation  long  before  the 
present  generation  ajipeared. 

A  library  of  this  character,  that  is,  a  libraiy  selected  for 
the  people,  adapted  to  the  wants  of  the  people,  managed 
and  supported  by  the  people,  is  the  most  difficult  of  all 
libraries  to  secure,  on  accaunt  of  the  mixed  character  of 
its  patrons.  For  students  in  law,  medicine,  theology,  art 
or  science,  for  example,  a  library  must  supply  books  of  the 


Public  Library.  11 

character  needed  for  their  study  or  consultation  alone  ;  but 
for  the  people,  most  of  whom  are  readers  and  not  students, 
books  of  tins  character  would  possess  very  little  interest, 
and  from  them  receive  very  little  atteution.  To  select  a 
library  for  the  people,  therefore,  which  shall  attract,  instruct, 
and  improve  them  at  the  same  time  ;  which  shall  excite,  in- 
crease, and  retain  their  interest,  —  requires  a  combination  of 
qualities  rare  indeed  to  iind. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  professional  students  are  com- 
pelled to  read  and  study  professional  books,  whether  they 
find  them  interesting  or  not ;  just  as  a  carpenter  must  use 
carpenter's  tools,  or  a  dentist  the  instruments  furnished  by " 
the  practice  of  dental  surgery  in  the  past ;  and  it  is  not  diffi- 
cult to  decide  upon  the   nature  of  the  books  such   students 
must  peruse,  and  to  secure  them  accordingly.     But  to  be 
equally  wise  and  decided  concerning  the  books  best  adapted 
to  secure  mentally  and  morally  the  good  of  a  great  popula- 
tion, composed  of  people    from    every  rank    and   grade  in 
society ;  of  all    ages,   both    sexes,   with    every   conceivable 
taste,  style  of  thought,  peculiarity  of  nature,  and  degree  of 
culture,  is  far  more  difficult.     It  may  be  assumed  at  the  out- 
set to  be  utterly  impossible  to  suit  all.     Some  people  are  so 
eccentric,  or  so  captious,  orso  self-opinionated,  thattheyseem 
foreordained  to  sneer  at  everything  and  scowl  at  everybody. 
They  are  the  constitutional  cynics   and  growlers  of  society, 
whose  grapes  are  always  sour,  whose  times   are  invariably 
out  of  joint.     We  must  let  them  pass.    Their  conmiendation 
of  a  library  or  anything  else  would  make  us  suspicious  and 
distrustful.     Fortunately,  however,  they  form    so    small    a 
portion   of  urban  or  suburban  communities  that  they  need 
not  be  taken  into  account.     We  must  consult  the  people  at 
large  to  ascertain  how  useful  the  Library  has  become,  if  use- 
ful at  all.    The  verdict  of  the  people  has  been  very  fjivorable 
thus  far  to  those  who  have  had  the  selection  and  control  of 
their  books  in  the  Public  Library  and  all  its  branches  since 
1852  ;    so  favorable  indeed  as    to  produce   embarrassment, 
not  only  to  the  Superintendent  of  the  Library,  his  librarians 
and  their  assistants,    but  to  the    City  Council    also ;    who, 
nearly  every  year  for  the   last  twenty -five  years  have  been 
appealed  to  for  additional  appropriations  for  changes  in  the 
Central  building,  or  for  the   establishment  of  new  branches 
to  meet  the  great  and  growing  demand  for  something  con- 
veniently at  hand  to  read. 

In  the  year  1868,  for  instance,  the  call  for  books  from 
the  Central  Library,  previously  to  the  establishing  of  six  of 
the  existing  eight  branches,  did  not  exceed  176,000  volumes  ; 
but  in  the  year  1876-77  the  call  reached  1,140,572  volumes, 


12  City  Docu.ment  Xo.   61. 

and  since  the  Library  was  started  the  call  has  reached  the 
astounding  number  of  nearly  10,000,000  of  volumes.  This 
shows  not  only  how  much  Boston  people  read,  but  also  where 
they  get  most  of  the  books  they  read,  and  how  well  satisfied  they 
are  with  the  character  and  quality  of  these  books,  and  with 
the  method  of  procuring  and  returning  them  again.  On  one 
day  of  the  present  year,  z'.e.,thc  23d  of  February,  1878,  nearly 
10,000  books  were  issued  to  borrowers,  and  this  number, 
large  as  it  appears,  bids  fair  to  be  exceeded  repeatedly,  es- 
pecially during  the  fall  and  winter  months,  when  the  evenings 
are  long,  and  the  people  have  leisure  in-doors  to  inform  and 
regale  themselves  with  the  choicest  products  of  human 
thought  and  progress.  During  the  month  of  May  in  1875, 
64,3<)()  books  were  called  for  and  credited  ;  increasing  in  May 
of  1876  to  81,486  ;  and  in  May  of  1878,  to  95,469.  Think 
of  nearly  100,000  people  every  month  resorting  to  the 
Public  Library  and  its  various  branches,  with  books  in 
their  hands  which  they  have  read,  and  returning  to  their 
various  homes  with  books  which  they  have  borrowed,  and  an 
exact  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  this  great,  growing,  and 
important  interest  can  be  entertained.  Xo  wonder  it  re- 
quires a  stall'  of  130  persons  to  wait  upon  so  many  people, 
attending  to  their  wants  with  as  nmcli  despatch  as  accuracy 
and  the  safety  of  the  property  entrusted  to  their  keeping 
will  allow;  the  wonder  is,  it  does  not  require  more.  And 
no  Avonder,  for  the  speedy  and  successful  prosecution  of  all 
their  work,  with  keeping  the  Library  fully  up  to  the  demands 
of  the  times,  that  the  sum  of  $129,000  was  required  last 
year  to  pay  bills  incurred ;  the  wonder  is,  it  did  not  need 
more. 

Granted,  however,  that  the  people  as  a  whole,  approve  the 
Public  Library,  favor  its  management,  pay  cheerfully  the 
taxes  requisite  for  its  support,  and  with  numbers  largely  in- 
creasing from  year  to  year  resort  to  it,  or  some  of  its  branches, 
for  mental  food  and  satisfaction,  is  the  character  of  the  books 
supplied  by  the  management,  donated  by  friends  or  recom- 
mended by  readers,  precisely  such  as  could  be  w'ished?  To 
this  question,  asked  repeatedl3S  and  asked  by  the  Iriends  of 
our  youth  all  over  the  city,  we  nuist,  on  the  whole,  return  an 
aflirmativc  reply.  No  doubt  there  are  books  in  the  Central 
building,  and  in  every  one  of  the  eight  branches  throughout 
the  city  which  belong  to  a  poor  class,  and  which  are  not  the 
best  specimens  even  of  that  class  ;  l)ooks  which  are  not  ex- 
actly pernicious  in  statement  nor  tendency,  nor  prejudicial 
to  good  morals  ;  but  books  not  directly  and  positively  bene- 
ficial ;  concerning  which  the  best  you  can  say  is,  that  they 
form  a  taste,  they  whet  and  sharpen  an  appetite  for  reading. 


Public  Library.  13 

Banish  them  from  the  Lil^rary,  as  some  advise,  and  you  ban- 
ish their  readers  also.  Keep  them  in  the  Library  and  you 
keep  their  readers  also  ;  who,  with  constantly  improving 
tastes,  will  finally  select  books  of  unquestionable  excellence 
and  profit.  Moreover,  has  one  class  of  tax-payers  the  right 
of  judgment  and  selection  concerning  the  books  which  an- 
other class,  or  all  other  classes,  shall  peruse  and  ponder?  In 
a  pul)lic  library  can  any  portion  of  the  public  justly  deny  to 
all  other  portions  the  only  books  they  are  enough  interested 
iu  to  go  after  and  carry  home  with  them?  Manifestly  not,  in 
both  cases. 

The  only  thing  to  do,  then,  is  precisely  what  is  done,  to 
leave  this  whole  question  to  the  Superintendent  and  Board 
of  Trustees,  making  them  the  umpires,  from  whose  decision 
there  shall  be  no  appeal. 

There  is  much  cause  for  gratification  arising  from  the  fact, 
that  calls  for  works  of  fiction,  especially  those  of  a  light  and 
ephemeral  character,  are  not  so  numerous  as  they  have  been, 
and  that  the  people,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  young  per- 
sons, are  beginning  to  demand  books  designed  to  instruct 
and  improve  rather  than  only  to  amuse  them. 

This  affords  evidence  that  the  management  of  the  Library 
is  in  good  hands  ;  and  if  we  are  willing  to  wait  patiently 
until  the  experiment  initiated  by  Mr.  Jewett  and  the  Trus- 
tees of  his  day,  of  alluring  readers  into  the  Library  by  sup- 
plying books  adapted  to  their  condition  and  attractive  to 
their  tastes,  —  the  experiment  also  approved  by  Mr.  Winsor, 
and  continued  by  the  Trustees  associated  with  him,  —  shall 
have  had  fair  and  thorough  trial,  we  shall  feel  assured  that  it 
has  brought  forth,  and  will  bring  forth,  good  results.  A  city 
is  not  unlike  a  family  ;  and  if  we  look  over  the  books  read  by 
any  well-regulated,  high-toned  family  in  Boston,  although 
we  see  in  the  father's  hands  Avorks  containing  the  last  results 
of  science  or  the  most  recent  speculations  in  philosophy,  in 
the  mother's  hands  some  treatise  on  ^Esthetics  or  Sociology, 
and  in  the  hands  of  the  older  children,  poems,  histories, 
works  of  invention,  travel  and  discovery,  or  adventure,  we 
shall  see  Mother  Goose  in  the  hands  of  the  little  children, 
and  fables,  and  fairy  stories,  with  all  sorts  of  grotesque  and 
fantastic  imaginations  to  stimulate  the  nascent  power  of 
thought  and  compel  judgment  and  the  understanding  to  take 
tlieir  places  on  the  stage  of  action.  "  When  I  was  a  child," 
says  the  greatest  thinker  among  the  writers  of  the  New  Tes- 
tament, "I  spake  as  a  child,  1  thought  as  a  child,  I  under- 
stood as  a  child  ;  but  when  I  Ijecame  a  man  I  put  away 
childish  things."  We  must  not  expect,  therefore,  of  the 
childish  borrower  the  relish  and  strength  shown  by  those 


14  City  Document  No.  61. 

better  developed  and  farther  on  in  the  fields  of  literature  ; 
but,  at  the  same  time,  must  supply  somethiug  to  such  a  bor- 
rower, which  shall  help  him  along  as  fast  as  possible,  and 
finally  as  far  as  the  farthest. 

It  is  plainly  apparent  to  those  most  familiar  with  the 
growth  and  working  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  in  the 
past,  that,  useful  and  popular  as  it  has  been  made  ])y  those 
having  charge  of  its  interests,  its  usefulness  and  popularity 
could  be  very  much  increased  by  enlarged  accommodations, 
or  an  entire  change  of  location.  In  considering  which  of 
these  measures  it  would  be  the  more  advisable  to  recommend, 
the  committee  appointed  to  prepare  this  paper,  for  various 
reasons,  some  obvious,  others  easily  demonstrable,  have 
decided  to  favor  the  latter.  The  present  building  must  con- 
tain, at  the  present  rate  of  increase,  by  another  quarter  of 
a  century,  nearly  a  million  of  volumes,  which  it  is  altogether 
inadequate  to  furnish  with  shelf-room,  and  to  purchase 
Hotel  Pelham  for  this  purpose,  as  has  been  suggested,  would 
compel  the  ex])enditure  of  a  larger  sum  of  money  than  a 
new  library  building  would  cost. 

In  its  present  location,  surrounded  by  lofty  and  combus- 
tible structures,  the  present  building  could  never  be  made 
securely  lire-proof,  neither  can  quiet  or  thorough  ventilation 
be  obtained.  It  is  respectfully  recommended  by  this  com- 
mittee, therefore,  that  the  Board  of  Trustees  solicit  the  City 
Council  to  petition  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  at  its  next 
session,  to  give  and  set  apart  an  entire  square  of  the  Back 
Bay  lands,  now  belonging  to  the  State,  to  the  City  of  Bostou, 
whereon  a  new  building  for  the  Public  Library  can  be 
erected,  which  shall  not  only  be  convenient,  commodious, 
quiet,  and  well  ventilated,  but  isolated  and  absolutely  tire- 
proof. 

There  are  certain  features  providentially  developed  in  the 
history  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  which  seem  to  forecast 
for  it  a  career  of  high  and  honorable  usefulness  second  to 
none  iu  this  country.  One  is  the  location  within  its  walls  of 
the  entin;  collections  of  distinguished  scholars,  like  the  Bow- 
ditch  collection,  the  Parker  collection,  the  Ticknor  collection, 
and  others,  embodying  the  results  of  years  of  careful  thought, 
of  patient  research,  of  mature  and  ripened  judgment,  and  of 
generous  investment;  results  which  money  alone  could  never 
secure,  and  which,  providentially  placed  within  reach  of  all 
our  citizens,  suggest  the  desirableness  of  making  even  more 
special  provision  than  now  exists  for  the  reception  and  pres- 
ervation of  such  model  private  libraries  as  may  be  unusually 
rich  and  valuable  in  particular  departments,  the  owners  of 
which  may  feel  solicitous  to  have  them  kept  entire  after  their 


Public  Libraky.  15 

decease,  and  may  be  willing  to  set  apart  ample  funds  for 
their  care  and  increase,  provided  they  are  assured  that  such 
libraries  will  be  welcomed  and  preserved  unscattered  for  the 
good  of  others,  and  will  be  assigned  a  special  place  for  public 
consultation.  The  libraiy  of  a  man  so  great  and  good  as  Dr. 
Bowditch,  for  example,  becomes  in  time  to  those  in  sympathy 
with  his  line  of  thought,  or  professionally  engaged  in  liis 
sphere  of  worldly  activity,  a  kind  of  intellectual  shrine,  where 
devotees  from  other  places  and  from  distant  climes  may 
come  to  do  him  reverence,  or  to  honor  the  land  which  gave 
him  birth,  and  study  the  institutions  which  made  his  great- 
ness possible. 

Another  feature  of  this  sort  is  the  exceptionally  full,  well- 
preserved,  and  well-guarded  collection  of  folios  in  the  Patent 
Eoom.  America  is  the  home  of  inventors,  the  fruitful  soil 
from  Avhich  have  gone  forth  during  the  last  hundred  years 
more  useful  inventions,  important  discoveries,  and  sterling 
improvements,  than  any  other  single  country  on  the  earth  can 
boast  during  the  same  period  of  time.  It  is  not  remarkable, 
therefore,  that  310  persons,  during  only  one  month  of  the 
present  year,  the  month  of  January,  1878,  should  have 
sought  the  Patent  Boom  for  study  and  reference.  If  the 
wisdom  shown  hitherto  in  the  management  of  this  room 
be  continued,  and  the  liberality  of  the  City  Council  allow 
the  comi)letion  of  its  collections  from  foreign  countries  where 
the  patent  system  prevails,  there  will  be  reason  to  expect  thou- 
sands of  visitors  and  students  annually  at  the  Boston  Public 
Library  from  every  State  in  the  Union,  and  from  other  lands, 
to  consult  the  treasures  which  wait  their  appropriation  in  this 
room  alone. 

Another  feature  of  this  sort  is  the  large  number  of  public 
documents  which  have  been  accumulated  in  the  central 
building,  making  a  lil)rary  of  reference  for  statesmen,  jurists, 
students  of  natural  history  and  political  economy,  second  to 
none  accessible  in  the  land.  Although  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  excessive  heat  and  dryness,  insufficient  ventilation,  or 
the  presence  of  some  corrosive  vapor,  have  singly,  or  all 
combined,  greatly  injured  and,  in  some  cases,  rendered  use- 
less the  binding  of  many  of  the  volumes  iji  this  department, 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Trustees  will  be  empowered  to  take 
such  precautions,  and  make  such  expenditures,  as  shall  arrest 
further  ravages  in  this  direction,  and  prevent,  if  possible, 
their  recurrence  in  the  future. 

Another  feature  of  the  Library  worthy  of  commendatory 
mention  is  the  gradual  accumulation  of  literary  curiosities, 
historical  mementos,  relics,  portraits  of  famous  persons, 
statues,  busts,  medals,  and  the  like  works  of  art  which,  aside 


16  City  Document  Xo.  61. 

from  its  large  and  costly  collection  of  books,  make  the  build- 
ing an  attractive  centre  of  resort  to  students  of  antiquity  and 
lovers  of  the  rare  and  beautiful  from  all  sections.  Although 
it  has  been  suggested  that  everything  of  this  character  should 
be  sent  to  the  Museum  of  Art,  close  by,  it  may  be  replied,' 
that  there  such  articles  would  not  be  so  free  to  public  in- 
spection as  in  the  City  Library,  would  not  be  sure  of  such 
a  careful  and  thorough  showing,  on  account  of  the  lack 
of  funds  wherewith  to  pay  trained  attendants,  and  would  not 
have  a  corporation  so  opulent  and  generous  as  the  City  Coun- 
cil of  Boston  to  provide  every  facility  for  their  exhibition 
and  safety. 

In  conclusion,  the  committee  desire  to  express  their  thanks 
to  members  of  the  city  government  for  the  generous  appro- 
priation they  have  made  to  the  Public  Librarj'and  its  Branches, 
and  to  urge  that  measures  be  taken  to  secure  temporarily 
more  ample  accommodations  for  the  constantly  increasing 
number  of  books  in  the  Library,  for  better  ventilation  in  the 
central  building,  and  for  a  place  where  the  books  now  being 
injured  by  dampness,  and  various  causes,  may  be  secured 
against  farther  injury. 

They  desire  also  to  express  their  gratitude  to  Dr.  Samuel 
A.  Green,  the  superintendent  in  charge,  to  members  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  to  the  Library  otiicials  in  general,  for 
the  uniform  courtesy  with  which  their  investigations  have 
been  facilitated. 

For  the  Committee, 

WARREN   H.    CUDWORTH. 


Public  Library.  17 

[C] 
REPORT  OF  THE  ACTING  SUPERINTENDENT. 

To  the  Trustees :  — 

The  principal  events  of  the  past  Library  year  have  been  the 
close  of  jNIr.  Winsor's  term  of  service  as  Superintendent  and 
the  incorporation  of  the  Trustees  by  an  act  of  the  Legis- 
lature. 

For  the  statistical  details  of  the  year's  service  I  respect- 
fully refer  to  the  usual  tables  which  form  the  Appendix. 

The  observations  that  I  shall  here  lay  before  the  Board 
are  such  as  seem  suitable  in  view  of  the  close  of  my  own 
connection  with  the  Library,  and  they  have  been  in  some 
measure  shaped  by  the  approach  of  that  close. 

The  history  of  the  Library  up  to  the  present  time  falls 
naturally  into  two  chief  periods.  The  first  of  these  ends  with 
the  death  of  Mr.  Jewett,  the  first  superintendent,  and  may 
perhaps  be  called  the  literary  or  bibliographical  period, 
as  it  was  during  this  period  that  the  general  plan  was  laid 
down  npon  which  the  Library  has  been  collected,  classified, 
and  catalogued  ;  the  second  of  these  two  terms  covers  Mr. 
Winsor's  superintendency,  and  may  be  described  as  the 
organizing  or  administering  period.  This  distinction  implies 
no  defect  during  either  one  of  these  periods  in  the  leading 
qualification  of  the  other,  for  each  suited  the  needs  of  its 
time  and  arose  naturally  out  of  them. 

The  work  of  gathering  and  assorting  a  Library  must  pre- 
cede that  of  regulating  its  nse.  The  organizing  power  of 
Mr.  Winsor  was  brought  into  requisition  when  that  trait 
was  most  required.  His  management  of  the  Library,  aided 
by  the  unprecedented  liberality  of  the  City  of  Boston  and  by 
the  cooperation  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  has  made  it,  in  more 
than  one  respect,  an  acknowledged  model  for  imitation,  while 
in  mere  numerical  extent  it  has  become  the  largest  on  this  con- 
tment.  It  was  through  Mr.  Winsor's  instrumentality  that  the 
system  of  reference-note  catalogues  was  introduced,  which  has 
marked  a  new  era  in  Library  administration.  By  means  of 
this  system  the  Library  not  only  ofiers  its  books,  but  tells 
everybody  which  of  them  to  read.  The  School  District 
Lil)raiy  movement  of  about  a  generation  ago  was  an  attempt 
of  the  same  kind,  to  popularize  good  reading,  but  it  was 
a  decided  failure,  for  the  reason,  not  understood  at  the  time, 
though  now  it  seems  obvious  enough,  that  mere  books  on  a 
shelf  will  not  make  themselves  read.     Abreast  of  this  full 


18  City  Document  No.  61. 

supply  of  instruction  in  the  choice  of  reading,  apian  has  been 
carried  forward  to  aid  in  the  convenient  use  of  our  books  by 
increasing  the  number  of  deliveries.  This  mechanism  can  go 
on,  subdividing  the  channels  and  multiplying  the  depositories 
of  reading  matter  as  fast  and  as  far  as  may  be  required.  The 
ease  with  whicli  the  deliveries  for  the  firemen  and  the  public 
institutions  of  the  city  have  been  kept  up,  shows  that  the 
question  is  one  only  of  care  and  detail,  and  of  little  cost. 

The  two  periods  mentioned  as  covering  the  history  of  the 
Library  thus  far  amount  to  about  tAventy-four  years.  If  we 
date  from  the  time  when  the  project  of  a  Public  Library  first 
began  to  be  seriously  contemplated,  and  when  actual  elForts 
toward  it  were  made,  we  may  reckon  that  the  institution  has 
about  a  generation  of  human  life  to  look  back  upon.  But 
whether  we  date  from  the  year  1841,  or  from  Mayor  Quincy's 
conditional  ofier  of  $5,000,  and  the  appointment  of  a  joint 
committee  of  the  City  Council  on  a  Library  in  1847,  or  from 
the  enabling  act  of  1848,  or  from  the  first  opening  in  Mason 
street,  in  1854,  —  in  any  case  it  is  a  splendid  achievement  for 
the  City  of  Boston  to  have  established  within  that  time  a 
Library  of  350,000  books,  creditably  representing  the  chief 
departments  of  literature,  and,  to  a  fair  degree,  meeting  the 
intellectual  requirements  of  this  community. 

The  j^rogress  of  these  years  has  now  for  the  first  time 
brought  into  plain  view  a  fresh  set  of  considerations,  which 
must  be  considered  in  any  competent  action  for  the  future 
of  the  Library.  These  might  possibly  in  some  measure  have 
been  foreseen  at  the  outset ;  but  some  of  them  could  not  have 
been,  and  they  are  such  as  to  require,  in  order  to  be  fully 
appreciated,  exactly  the  practical  experiuicnt  which  has  now 
been  made.  Of  all  of  these,  the  most  striking,  from  a  libra- 
rian's point  of  view,  is  the  consumption  of  books  in  Bates 
Hall.  The  light  literature  of  the  Lower  Hall  and  branches 
is  expected  to  be  in  due  time  literally  used  up.  It  is  ground 
to  pieces  ;  its  material  fabric  is  actually  worn  out,  with  con- 
siderable rapidity,  under  the  diligent  application  of  the  public 
thumb  and  finger.  This  actual  consumi)tion  of  the  fabric  of 
the  books  is  a  matter  of  course,  under  the  swift  and  vigorous 
treatment  applied  to  them  in  the  Lower  Hall  circulation,  and 
to  a  certain  extent  it  is  no  doubt  legitimate  even  for  standard 
literature  and  reference-books.  Under  these  circumstances  it 
might  well  be  considered  whether  or  not  to  modify  the  usual 
rule  of  not  duplicating  Bates  Hall  volumes,  so  far  as  to  per- 
mit two  copies  each  of  certain  classes  of  books  to  be  pro- 
cured, one  to  be  a  two-starred  book,  on  purpose  to  l)e  always 
found  within  the  building,  while  the  other  should  be  for  the 
purpose  of  circulation.     Such  a  duplication  would  servo  two 


Public  Library.  19 

ends  at  once  :  it  would  secure  for  one  copy  a  practically  un- 
limited existence,  since  the  use  of  boolcs  within  the  Library 
exposes  them  to  the  minimum  of  wear  and  tear  ;  and  it  would, 
in  a  great  many  cases,  prevent  the  obvious  inconvenience  of 
a  collision  of  interests  between  two  users.  As  far  as  it  could 
be  applied  it  would  avoid  the  primary  difficulty  of  a  Library 
like  this,  which  seeks  to  meet  the  two  incompatible  purposes 
of  reference  and  circulation.  With  two  copies  we  could  have 
any  given  book  always  in  the  Library  and  always  out  of  it.  It 
is  hardly  necessary  to  point  out  how  helpful  such  a  provision 
would  be  in  a  community  where  books  of  standard  merit  are 
so  frequently  in  popular  demand. 

The  second  suggestion  which  I  shall  offer  arises  in  like 
manner  from  the  experience  of  the  Library.  Perhaps  it 
might  fairly  enough  have  been  judged  on  December  20, 
1858,  when  the  Lower  Hall  was  first  open  to  use,  that  the 
stately  Library  building  was  the  permanent  home  of  the  col- 
lection ;  but  twenty  years'  experience  has  taught  otherwise. 
Something  very  different  from  the  present  building  must  now 
be  anticipated  as  a  permanent  Library  edifice.  When  this 
building  was  erected,  not  only  were  the  actual  requirements 
of  the  community  unknown,  but  there  was  no  such  thing  as 
library  architecture,  in  the  present  meaning  of  the  term.  It 
is,  therefore,  no  cause  for  blame  that  a  structure,  which 
might  have  accommodated  one  million  and  a  half  of  books, 
is  visibly  approaching  its  storage  limit  with  three  hundred 
thousand  ;  that  the  interior  details  turn  out  such  as  to  re- 
quire as  much  time  and  labor  as  possible,  instead  of  as  little, 
in  finding  and  delivering  a  book  ;  that  the  sanitary  conditions 
and  domestic  arrangements  are  defective  to  a  degree  not 
merely  annoying,  but  discreditable  ;  and  that  the  accommoda- 
tions for  readers  and  students  are  by  far  too  limited.  Radical 
as  these  defects  are,  their  existence  hitherto  is  not  just  cause 
for  blame  ;  but  to  perpetuate  this  state  of  things  any  longer  than 
is  necessary  would  be  such  cause.  What  these  considerations 
indicate  is,  that  the  defects  of  the  present  building  should  be 
remedied  as  far  as  practicable,  but  that  the  Library  should  not 
be  irretrievably  anchored  in  its  present  inadequate  and  unsuit- 
able accommodations.  On  the  contrary,  its  administration 
should  be  shaped  with  a  view  to  its  transfer,  at  the  earliest 
possible  period,  to  an  edifice  which  shall  be  safe  from  fire 
risks,  both  within  and  without,  plamied  and  built  upon  com- 
j)lete  principles  of  library  economy  and  architecture,  and 
to  be  the  permanent  home  of  the  Library  in  all  future  times. 

There  seems,  lastly,  to  be  room  in  the  administration  of 
the  Library  for  a  definitely  organized  method,  within  certain 
guarded   limits,  of  systematizing   the   purchase   of  certain 


20  City  Document  Xo.  61. 

books.  There  should  be  an  arrangement  supplementary  to 
the  wise  and  successful  policy  hitherto  followed  of  occasion- 
ally filling  up  some  one  department  under  the  advice  of 
sj)ecialists.  The  proposed  additional  method  would  consist 
of  what  might  be  called  an  official  watch  on  the  part  of  the 
Library  on  the  whole  field  of  literature,  both  past  and  cur- 
rent, with  constant  parallel  reference  to  the  condition  of  the 
Library  itself.  It  would  seek  to  recognize  promptly  any  im- 
portant new  question,  and  provide  not  merely  that  some- 
thing should  be  procured  in  relation  to  it,  but  that  nothing 
important  for  its  competent  study  should  be  omitted.  And 
80  far  as  may  be,  a  similar  care  should  be  constantly  main- 
tained to  supply  deficiencies  in  the  older  parts  of  the 
collection. 

For  one  instance  in  point :  W' e  have  received  perhaps  as 
many  books  as  were  necessary  upon  the  Russo-Turkish  war, 
and  so  we  have  upon  recent  African  travel  and  discovery. 
Upon  the  important  German  cooperative  or  mutual  benefit 
system,  known  by  the  name  of  its  chief  advocate,  Schultze- 
Delitzsch,  we  have  something,  but  not  a  full  collection. 
On  the  other  hand,  an  inquiry  within  a  few  days  about  a 
subject  of  not  less  pressing  significance,  the  labors  of  the 
European  extreme  socialist  leaders,  Karl  Marx  and  Lassalle, 
shoAved  that  their  names  are  not  in  our  catalogue  and  that 
our  materials  for  an  account  of  them  are  scanty.  It  is  not 
meant  that  the  present  method  of  adjusting  our  current  sup- 
plies of  literature  is  a  bad  method.  It  is  a  good  one,  but 
the  additional  feature  here  suggested  would  carry  it-  some 
ways  toward  practical  completeness.  This  watchfulness 
after  omitted  subjects  and  omitted  books  is  something 
quite  difierent  from  the  ordinary  routine  scrutiny  of  cata- 
logues and  trade  lists.  It  calls  for  a  constant  survey 
over  the  past  and  present  growth  of  the  institution  with 
reference  to  its  systematical  development.  The  position  and 
ofiice  of  this  Library  are  such  as  to  require  the  services  of  a 
trained  scholar  in  thus  supervising  its  accessions. 

In  closing  this  brief  report,  the  last,  as  it  is  the  first, 
which  it  will  be  my  duty  to  lay  before  the  Board,  I  beg  to 
express  my  thanks  for  the  personal  and  olticial  kindness 
which  I  have  invariably  received  from  all  with  whom  my 
oflScial  duties  have  brought  me  in  contact. 

SAMUEL   A.   GREEIS', 

One  of  (he  Truslees  in  charge. 

PcBLic  LiBRAKY,  May  1,  1878. 


APPENDIXES 


LIBRARIAN'S    REPORT. 


1878. 


LIST  OF  APPENDIXES. 


I.  Extent  of  the  Library  (by  Years). 

II.  Yearly  Increase  by  Purchase  and  Donation. 

III.  Extent  of  the  Bates  Hall  Collection. 

IV.  Extent  of  the  Lower  Hall  Collection. 
V.  Sale  of  Duplicates  and  Odd  Volumes. 

VI.  Increase  of  the  Several  Departments. 

VII.  Increase  from  Newly  Published  Books. 

VIII.  Volumes  Located  in  Bates  Hall. 

IX.  Bates  Hall  Classifications. 

X.  Lower  Hall  Classifications. 

XI.  Funds  and  Donations. 

XII.  Circulation. 

XIII.  Registration  of  Applicants. 

XIV.  Books  Recommended.    Use  of  British  Patents. 
XV.  Bates  Hall  Reading. 

XVI.  Lower  Hall  Reading. 

XVII.  East  Boston  Reading. 

XVIII.  South  Boston  Reading. 

XIX.  Roxbury  Reading. 

XX.  Brighton  Reading. 

XXI.  Dorchester  Reading. 

XXII.  South  Boston  Branch  Reading. 

XXIII.  Jamaica  Plain  Branch  Reading. 

XXIV.  Periodical  Reading  Rooms. 
XXV.  Losses  and  Delinquents. 

XXVI.  Financial  Statement. 

XXVn.  Library  Funds. 

XXVIII.  Library  Service. 

XXIX.  Report  on  the  Examination  of  the  Shelves. 

XXX.  Work  in  the  Library  Bindery. 


Public  Library. 


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appe:n^dix  I. 


EXTENT   OF   THE   LIBRARY   BY   YEARS. 


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added  from  the 

beginning. 


Jamaica 

Plain 
Bhancii. 


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Branch. 


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Branch. 


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Branch. 


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Branch. 


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City  DoctnviENT  No.  61. 


APPENDIX   n. 


YEAELY   INCREASE   OE   THE   WHOLE   LIBRARY   BY   PURCHASE 
AND    BY    GIFTS. 

Note.  — The  increase  of  volumes  ia  not  the  sum  of  those  added  by  gift  and  purchase,  etc.,  because  lost  and 
condemned  books  are  deducted. 


Tears. 

Increase. 
(iV"«<  after  1861.) 

Gifts. 

Purchases,  in- 
cluding those 
cliarged  to  funds 
and  added  by 
exchange. 

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1.  .  . 

1852-53 

9,688 

961 

4,000 

961 

5,688 

75 

2.  .  . 

1853-54 

6,533 

2,989 

2,152 

2,989 

4,381 

105 

3.  .  . 

1854-55 

6.396 

2,557 

2,663 

2,468 

3,733 

,  89 

153 

4.   .   . 

1855-56 

5,463 

5,879 

1,865 

5,C30 

3,598 

549 

126 

5.   .   . 

1856-57 

6,816 

3,667 

1,686 

3,646 

5,130 

21 

132 

6  .   .   . 

1857-58 

35,955 

1,885 

30,214 

1,885 

5,741 

381 

7  .   .   . 

1858-59 

7,192 

1,317 

3,405 

1,317 

3,787 

247 

8.   .   . 

1859-60 

6,989 

1,452 

3,744 

1,452 

3,245 

297 

0.   .   . 

1860-61 

16,943 

6,674 

12,299 

6,656 

4,649 

18 

242 

10.   .   . 

1861-62 

7,391 

1,493 

1,274 

1,493 

6,117 



234 

11.   .   . 

1862-63 

5,529 

2,169 

829 

1,958 

4,700 

212 

194 

12.   .   . 

1863-64 

6,226 

2,939 

1,081 

2,772 

5,145 

167 

219 

13.   .   . 

1864-65 

6,082 

1,516 

804 

1,026 

5,178 

490 

328 

14.   .   , 

1865-66 

7,662 

4,013 

1,470 

3,342 

6,286 

671 

S36 

15.   .   . 

1866-67 

5,303 

7,877 

1,405 

7,769 

7,732 

108 

300 

16.   .   . 

1867-63 

7,673 

2,811 

1,554 

2,513 

6,396 

298 

342 

17.   .   . 

1868-09 

8,685 

13,923 

2,138 

10,984 

6,531 

2,939 

649 

18.   .   . 

1869-70 

7,775 

13,593 

1,643 

10,228 

6,129 

3,365 

660 

19.   .   . 

1870-71 

18,099 

14,976 

9,750 

10,805 

8,349 

4,171 

604 

20.   .   . 

1871-72 

13,708 

10,637 

4,349 

5,831 

9,359 

4,806 

610 

21.   .   . 

1872-73 

14,644 

11,770 

3,939 

8,060 

10,705 

3,710 

865 

601 

22.   .   . 

1873-74 

51,094 

22,475 

4,783 

17,138 

18,671 

6,337 

1,330 

739 

23.   .   . 

1874-75 

16,372 

16,293 

4,169 

15,899 

17,080 

394 

572 

1.091 

24.   .   . 

1875-76 

20,955 

30,732 

6,749 

5,891 

15,206 

24,841 

752 

694 

25.   .   . 

1876-77 

16,974 

13,305 

8,562 

11,071 

16,544 

2,234 

73S 

1.125 

26.   .  '. 

1877-78 

33,724 

15,554 

21,206 

12,453 

17,579 

3,101 

196 

677 

*  Includes  pamphlets  addeil  both  bv  purchase  and  exchange,  as  taken  from  the  Accession  Catalosue. 

+  Included  in  previous  columns.  These  volumes  are  not  the  property  of  the  Public  Library,  but  form  a 
part  of  the  Uo.vhuiy  Branch  liy  nsreemeiit. 

(«)    Of  the  increase,  24.1518  were  the  Mates  Eif- 

(il)    Of  tlie  increase,  ll,7;;l  were  the  I'nrker  bequest. 

(ISO  .'!,77l  volumes  of  the  Tickuor  bciiuest,  and  2,C82  from  the  Sumner  Library  Association,  ore  included 
in  the  iticrensc. 

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('-'2)  The  increase  of  this  vcar  includes  the  totals  of  the  libraries  ut  Charlestown  and  lirighton,  and  also, 
under  pureluises,  the  Barton  I,ibrarv. 

(24)  The  purchases  of  this  year  include  thirty  volumes  to  replace  books  in  the  Bates  Ilnll  lonp;  lost.  The 
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City  Document  No.  61. 


APPENDIX  lY. 

EXTENT   OF   THE    LOWER    HALL   COLLECTION. 


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Reported  the  pre- 
ceding year  .   . 

Added  during  the 

•  •  • 

25,199 
2,003 

26,606 
2,469 

28,723 
1,417 

29,909 
2,780 

30,574 
2,614 

31,827 
1,799 

32,605 
1,465 

32,596 
3,385 

33,395 
3,570 

35,1.52 
3,830 

35,478 
2,728 

Total   .... 

Books  tr.in8ferred 
to  Bates  Uall    . 

Books  transferred 
to  I3r;uifhcsand 

• 

27,202 
339 

29,075 
93 

30,140 
19 

32,689 
23 

859 
1,23" 

33,188 

7 

535 
819 

33,626 

1 

342 
678 

34,070 

6 

166 
1,308 

35,981 
37 

10 
2,539 

.36,965 
394 

1,419 

3S,982 
19 

27 

1,655 
1,803 

38,206 
22 

756 

Condemned    dur- 

257 

259 

212 

1,567 

Losees  often  years 

Total  left   .   .   . 

*25,199 

26,606 

28,723 

29.909 

30,574 

31,827 

32,605 

32,596 

33,395 

35,152 

*35,478  35,862 

*  Actual  count. 
Note.  —  The  "Losses  of  ten  years"  are  explained  in  Appendix  X. 

APPENDIX   Y. 

SALE   DUPLICATES   AND   ODD  VOLUMES. 

f2fot  including  the  Parker  duplicates,  or  a  large  lot  of  odd  and  imperfect  volumes  of  books,  not  likely 
to  have  the  missing  volumes  supplied,  which  are  boxed  up  at  intervals. J 


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1,902 

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X 

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Number  at  begin- 
ning of  year    .   . 

Added  during  the 
year 

4,955 
714 

5,140 
1,004 

5,805 
847 

6,100 
443 

383 

G,9J4 
906 

7,314 
1,375 

8,183 
1,641 

9,490 
1.234 

11,321 

1,015 

11,985 
1,677 

Disposed  of    .   .   . 

6,669 
523 

6,150 
a45 

6,652 
546 

6,54(1 
304 

234 

7,950 
636 

8,689 
506 

9,824 
331 

10,72-1 
786 

ll,84r 
519 

12,336 
t351 

13,662 
718 

Total 

5,146 

5,805 

6,106 

6,245 

*6,954 

*7,314 

*8,183 

9,490 

9,038 

*11,321 

11.9SJ 

12,944 

*  This  number  is  by  an  actual  count  of  the  serviceable  volumes  now  arranged  in  our  Duplicate 
Room;  and  it  includes  158  volumes  of  newspapers. 

t  Of  these  524  were  parted  with  on  exchange  account,  and  194  were  transferred  to  different  depart- 
ments of  the  Library 

Note. — There  arc  also  of  pamphlets  some  40,C0O  duplicates,  arranged  and  ready  for  cxcbangoa. 
Libraries  are  invited  to  make  such  exchanges. 


Public  Library. 


27 


APPENDIX   YI. 

INCREASE    OF    THE    SEVERAL    DEPARTMENTS. 


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6,297 

7,475 

6,296 

7,508 

10,384 

6,622 

6,198 

6,564 

9,227 

9,337 

11,286 

Of     these    not 

located  at  last 

Report    .   .   . 
Added  and  lo- 

1,678 

1,327 

140 

294 

4,135 

651 

829 

187 

.   .   . 

591 

303 

1 

cated   .... 

4,619 

6,148 

6,156 

7,214 

6,249 

5,971 

5,369 

6,377 

9,227 

8,746 

10,983 

Added  and  not 

^ 

located   .  .  . 
Total  gain  .  .  . 

1,327 

140 

294 

4,135 

651 

829 

*12,244 

•   •   • 

591 

303 

655 

5,946 

6,288 

6,450 

11,349 

6,900 

6,800 

17,613 

6,377 

9,818 

9,049 

11,638 

Condemned  and 

transferred    . 
,  Net  gain    .  .  . 

•   •  • 

2 

1 

5 

•    •    • 

3 

2 

21 

36 

5,946 

6,290 

6,450 

11,349 

6,899 

6,795 

17,613 

6,874 

9,816 

9,028 

11,602 

1 
1 

Gain  in  books  . 

Less  transfers 
and  condem'd 
books  .... 

Net  gain     .  .   . 

2,003 
596 

2,469 
352 

1,417 
231 

2,780 
2,115 

2,614 
1,361 

1,799 
1,021 

1,465 

1,480 

3,385 
2,586 

3,570 
1,813 

3,830 
1,701 

2,728 

12,344 

o 

S 

1,407 

2,117 

1,186 

665 

1,253 

778 

(loss)  15 

799 

1,757 

2,129 

384 

«      ("Gain  in  books  . 

254 

101 

402 

335 

157 

126 

g-S  i 

;S      t  Net  gain    .  .  . 

254 

101 

402 

335 

157 

126 

^      rOainbyaddition 
"g  ^     Less  loss  by  ex- 

1,375 
506 

1,641 
334 

1,234 

786 

1,902 
519 

1,015 
351 

1,677 
718 

R.,2  ) 

^      I.  Net  gain     .  .  . 

659 

301 

139 

149 

360 

869 

1,307 

448 

1,383 

664 

959 

5,936 

881 
50 

621 

fifi4 

915 

917 

856 
250 

676 

o  ^     Condemned  and 

97 1         lis 

334!       97S 

270 

^El 

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5,936 

831 

524 

521 

581 

644 

606 

406 

f  Gain  in  books  . 

885 
76 

850 
217 

1,359 
644 

1,261 
495 

1,303 
413 

8-'3 

.s-^ 

Condemned  and 
lost 

247 

^? 

^  Net  gain    .  .  . 

5i^ 

4,365 

-809 

633 

715 

766 

890 

576 

*  Includes  12,057  (close  estimate)  of  the  Barton  books,  and  187  other  volumes, 
t  This  Item  is  exceptionally  large,  as  many  duplicates  not  in  use,  and  broken  sets  have  been 
transferred  to  Duplicate  Room,  to  make  room  on  the  shelves  for  fresh  accessions. 


28 


City  Document  No.  61, 


APPENDIX  ^l.—  Co7itiwaed. 


f  Grain  In  city  part 

Condemned  and 

lost 


J  Net  gai 
)  Fellowe 


gain  .... 

8  Athe- 
nseum.  (Xet 
gain)      ,   .   .   . 


l     Total  gain 


3,754 
4 


3,750 
865 


4,615 


1,069 
26 


1,043 
1,330 


2,373 


1,296 

46 

1,250 

572 


1,8:22 


1,299 
163 


1,136 
759 


1,895 


1,396 
304 


1,830 


3,542 
701 


2,841 
196 


3,037 


s 

15,932 
14-1 

1,305 
403 

1,004 
300 

1,123 
433 

995 

•S'S     Condemned  and 
2  £ .      lost     

398 

15,788 

902 

704 

690 

597 

11,049 
12 

480 

75 

405 

599 
130 

430 
74 

264 

•2'S     Condemned  and 

46 

11,037 

469 

406 

218 

fe  •  fGain  in  books    . 
go  1  Condemned  and 
^  £  <!      lost 

3,905 

3,179 
32 

1,057 
16 

641 
25 

f^*^        Net  gain  .  .  . 

.   .   .  54 

3,005 

3,147 

1,041 

610 

g  r  ("Gain  in  books  . 
■g'S  Condemned  and 
b;!'!     'ost 

•^•^  [    Net  gain  .  .  . 


24         19         39        139 


6,401 

2 

0,399 


^  ^  f  G.iin  in  books    . 
e5"5     Condemned  and 

<  S  <      lost    

si  I 

t§^  L    Net  gain  .  .  . 


8,856 

52 

8,804 


Bates  Hall  gain  . 
Lower  Hall  gain 
XewspapiT 

Ilodin  train  .  . 
l)iil)li<atc  Koom 

gnin 

K.  B.  Hrauch 

gain 

8.  B.  Branch 


llox.  Branch 

gain 

,  I'\  Howes  Athc- 
'^  naaum  gain  .  . 
Clin.  Branch 

gain 

Bri.  liranch 

gain 

Dor.  Branch 

gain 

S.  E.  Branch 

g;iin 

J.  r.  Branch 

gain 


Total  gain 


5,946 

1,40 


6,290 
2,11 


8,0)2     8,708 


6,450 
1,186 


11,349 
665 


149 
5,936 


6,899 
1,203 


360 

831 

4,365 


6,795 

778 

254 
860 
524 
809 
3,750 
865 


7,775 


18,099  13,708,14,044 


19.271 
(loss)  16 

101 

1,307 

521 

633 

1,043 

1,330 

15,788 

11,037 

54 


24  19 

61,109:16,372 


6,374 

799 

402 
448 
58 1 
715 

1,250 
672 
902 
405 

3,905 


9,816 
1,767 

335 

1,383 

644 

766 

1,136 

759 

704 

469 

3,147 


39 
20,9)5 


9,028 
2,129 


157 
064 


1,092 
738 
690 
406 

1,041 


11,602 
384 

126 

059 

406 

576 

2,841 

196 

597 

218 

616 

8,804 

6,399 


17,277 1  33,724 

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Public  Librart. 


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APPEJ^DIX   YII. 

INCREASE  EROM  NEWLY   PUBLISHED   BOOKS. 


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British  imprint    .  \ 

635 

708 

625 

811 

899 

1,096 

1,389 

1,294 

1,533 

2,830 

2,237 

1,763 

English  Books  with  ) 
American  imprint  i 

1,154 

1,445 

1,455 

1,411 

2,200 

3,642 

4,301 

3,807 

7,365 

10,501 

6,761 

5,546 

English  Books  with  ) 
Coutin'tal  imprint ) 

104 

100 

80 

50 

48 

115 

291 

125 

375 

316 

180 

191 

Foreign  hooks  .... 

539 

673 

789 

487 

561 

891 

1,064 

858 

767 

1,858 

1,742 

1,269 

Duplicates  of  either"] 
class,  when  not  in-  1 
eluded  in  the  other  j 
items J 

97 
2,529 

2,926 

447 
3,396 

248 

480 

Total 

3,007 

4,194 

5,744 

7,045 

6,084 

10,040 

15,505 

10,920 

8,769 

APPENDIX  YIII. 

VOLUMES  LOCATED   IN   BATES   HALL,   BY   MONTHS. 


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443 
639 
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563 
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417 

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833 
697 
763 
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1,175 

727 
480 
462 
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378 
546 
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1,001 
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464 
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518 
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651 
611 
724 
783 
t598 

584 
584 
631 
554 
457 
620 
489 
646 
658 
456 
551 
492 

357 
527 
839 
405 
436 
414 
377 
507 
665 
594 
472 
605 

383 
477 
713 
560 
622 
590 
722 
758 
427 
349 
419 
544 

830 
845 
829 
566 

1,036 
602 
925 
567 
579 
645 
752 

1,050 

671 
613 
733 
591 
611 
751 
697 
772 

1,014 
677 
649 

1,558 

654 

963 

984 

2,078 
899 
842 

September 

October 

November 

940 
lib 

881 

February   ...    

March 

707 
654 

April 

939 

Total 

7,475 

6,296 

7,508 

10,384 

6,622 

6,198 

6,564 

9,226 

9,337 

11,286 

Pamphlet  volumes         \ 
arranged  by  the  Curator  J 

385 

554 

206 

159 

317 

29 

28 

*  3,876  are  books  of  the  Ticknor  Library,  then  assigned  to  permanent  places. 

t  Includes  31  volumes  of  the  Ticknor  MSS. 

Note.  —  These  monthly  figures  are*hc  results  of  the  tables  made  out  year  by  year,  like  the 
one  constituting  Appendix  VI  for  1869.  The  figures  for  May,  June,  and  July,  1868-69,  should 
lollow  those  for  April  of  the  same  year.  They  were  misplaced  to  adapt  the  table  to  a  change  of 
the  Library  year. 

Pamphlets.  —  During  the  year  the  Curator  of  pamphlets  has  continued  the  arrangement  of 
all  the  loose  pamphlets  by  subjects,  etc.,  in  the  Cabinet  Room;  and  such  as  were  duplicates  and 
not  needed  have  been  arranged  in  adjacent  apartments. 


APPENDIX    IX. 

BATES       HALL       CLASSIFICATIONS.  —  [G.] 
(Representing  books  located  only.) 


CLASSES 

General  Libraries. 

Special  Libhabies. 

1 

1S5S. 

1861. 

1866. 

1871. 

1873. 

Total 

►J" 

t3 

li 

as 

|S 

a" 

►J'"' 

1-1  "^ 

li 

iJ~ 

1=  i 

is 

>> 

(2^ 

1^ 

P3 

■§■2 

.       Special 
j^    Libraries. 

(5" 

etc 

24 
170 
170 

515 

493 
188 
87 

86 
231 
140 

1,168 

762 

335 

229 

159 
100 

19 
326 
184 

1,438 

739 

413 

189 

266 
112 

22 
271 
157 

918 

207 

160 

222 
97 

22 
278 
223 

1,305 

1,018 

263 

238 

250 
107 

32 
235 
284 

911 

635 

443 

.   249 

250 
82 

176 
397 
496 
263 
106 
68 
669 
331 
434 
181 
215 
3 

10 
205 
199 

983 

605 

530 

60 

260 
123 

47 

222 
394 
620 
324 
116 
101 
747 
239 
323 
256 
201 
9 
49 

9 
160 
210 

962 

712 

433 

198 

210 

98 
67 

143 
208 
072 
290 
109 
97 
499 
188 
301 
265 
162 
6 
1 

13 
178 
240 

1,.'586 

611 

271 

147 

184 
114 

148 
222 
684 
397 
116 
148 
670 
223 
263 
174 
215 
9 

16 
179 
285 

1,265 

953 

84S 

520 

264 
116 
81 

289 
769 
797 
363 
190 
88 
400 
183 
355 
273 
379 

9 

220 
444 

1,708 

1,306 

597 

96 

330 
207 
94 

476 
465 
1,000 
418 
128 
174 
323 
302 
462 
361 
287 
1 

1 

19 
5 

2 

1 
1 

2 
2 

1 

1,311 
5,222 
5,930 

23,261 

18,638 

10,758 

6,903 

6,156 

4,609 

813 

4,865 
15,041 
16,602 
6,392 
3,610 
1,919 
10,013 
6,359 
7,496 
4,089 
5,033 
455 

244 
32 
16 

96 

75 

69 

9 

6 
20 

2 

928 

144 

6 

3 

66 

3 

14 

1,194 

4 

6 

276 
596 
650 

712 

573 

413 

291 

1,290 
1,124 

82 

369 

708 

3,242 

1,247 
307 
98 
66 
1-J4 
90 
9 
29 

6 
3 
54 

681 

69 

8 
196 

1 
5 
874 
49 
13 

22 

20 

1 

256 
33 

241 

21 

66 

30 

130 
3,488 

1 
171 
367 
120 
66 
21 
4 
31 
01 
24 
4 

21 

715 
154 

996 
3,621 
2,669 

307 

-B91 
629 
208 

221 
475 
244 
141 
29 
17 
26 
91 
4S 
15 
68 
73 
39 
2,892 

.    .   .             1,858 
.   .   .             6,825 
.   .   .             6,837 

213            26,200 

2,389            25,386 

KbV  ''          '      d  Literar    Hiator 

III. 

IV. 

General  History,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Geography  .... 
American  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 

V. 

English  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Polite 

VI. 

French  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Polite 

VIZ. 

Italian  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Polite 

vm. 

Germanic  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 

190 

.   .   .             4,611 

XL 

Other  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Litera- 

214 
314 

963 
185 
145 

79 
370 
155 
312 

96 
197 

216 
341 
695 
343 
161 
06 
556 
170 
318 
116 
205 

189 
507 
836 
429 
111 
118 
706 
172 
394 
119 
193 
15 

160 
445 
617 
444 
112 

515 
212 
449 
102 
338 
6 

262 
560 
985 
378 
114 
130 
365 
191 
485 
76 
253 
5 

4t              6,463 
.   .   .           17,328 

Periodicals  and  Transactions 

.   .   .           20,473 

...             7,954 

.   .   .             3.917 

XVI 

.   .   .             2,120 

.   .   .           10,133 

6,619 

.   .   .             8,909 

w 

4,141 

XXI. 

5,134 

...                634 

xxin. 

18 

32 

.   .   .                  89 

XXIV. 

.   .   .             2,892 

Totals 

0,297 

7,475 

6,296 

7,608 

6,477 

6,622 

5,996 

6,383 

8,026 

9,424 

36 

164,375 

2,932 

12,296 

2,029 

6,171 

13,960 

2,823          203,576 

Explanation.  — Class  III  includes  General  Histury,  Universal  Biographies,  Histories  of  Eras,  Voy- 
ages, and  Travelt*,  when  embracing  several  countries,  and  collected  works  of  historians. 

Class  IV  includes  North  and  South  American  History,  Documents  and  Statistics,  Biographies  of 
Americans,  Geography  of,  and  Voyagesand  Travels  in  America,  with  the  collected  works  of  American 
writers,  and  what  of  American  Literature  is  sometimes  termed  Polygraphy. 

Class  V,  Cla-'S  VI,  Class  VII,  Class  VUl.  —  These  have  the  same  scope  for  the  respective  countries 
that  Class  IV  has  for  America.  Class  VIII  includes  also  Belgium,  the  Netherlands,  and  Switzerland,  as 
also  the  Scandinavian  nations. 

Class  XI  includes  Russia,  Greece,  Turkey,  with  Asia,  Africa,  Australia,  Polynesia,  etc. 

Class  XIV  includes  Political  Science,  Social  Science,  and  Ethics  applied  and  unapplied,  Intellectual 
Science,  Education,  Rhetoric,  Logic,  Phrenology,  etc. 

*  Includes  all  Books  in  Room  O,  —  12,10S  of  them  belonging  to  the  Barton  Library, 
t  Patent  Records  of  the  Colony  of  Victoria. 


Class  XIX  includes  Mechanics.  Military  and  Naval  Arts,  Agriculture,  Domestic  Arts,  etc. 

Class  XXII  embraces  all  such  pamphlet  volumes  as  mav  have  been  received  from  time  to  time,  and 
are  generally  too  heterogeneous  in  their  make-up  to  be  classed  otherwise  than  by  themselves. 

Class  XXIV  includes  only  the  Shakespeare  collection  of  the  Barton  Library,  and  not  that  of  the  Gen- 
eral  Library.  .        -  *•  »■ 

The  subdivisions  of  classes  are  kept  in  ranges  by  thomselves,  so  that  for  purposes  ot  enumeration  or 
learning  percentage  of  use,  it  is  practicable  at  any  time  to  get  exact  figures  upon  the  subdivisions ;  :is  also 
upon  such  points  ao  Biography,  Travel,  and  Voyages,  etc.,  by  summing  the  results  of  the  ranges  devoted 
to  them  in  the  several  alcoves.  ,    ,  .      »_     r.  *       ,_        tv.       ■ 

Note.  —  The  increase  of  the  several  special  libraries  is  Included  m  the  figures  for  these  libraries. 


i  originally  shelved  there. 


APPEN^DIX       X. 

LOWER      HALL      CLASSIFICATIONS.         [G] 


1867   1868   18e» 


18TO   1871   187a 


1873      1874 


1870 

1877 

a 

a 

1 

1 

1  853 

1,844 

322 

328 

2,191 

2,202 

710 

715 

1,112 

1,129 

1,392 

1,477 

2,687 

2,868 

13,S99 

13,501 

2,347 

2,439 

2,061 

2,186 

3,928 

3,805 

1,201 

1,313 

203 

165 

992 

1,002 

1 

2 

267 

402 

35,152 

35,478 

To  be  deducted. 


TJ 

2 

S 

Si 

V-S 

■s 

■g 

■s  « 

"HS 

la 

IP 

f  =• 

1 
-a 

gn 

s« 

s« 

o« 

H 

c-* 

h 

H 

O 

9 

28 

0 

1 

32 

6 

0 

4 

0 

0 

4 

2 

19 

58 

2 

0 

12 

26 

7 

30 

1 

0 

6 

6 

7 

17 

0 

0 

19 

14 

12 

46 

1 

0 

65 

13 

42 

127 

0 

0 

11 

54 

773 

1,817 

3 

22 

285 

1,266 

17 

74 

0 

1 

80 

25 

15 

48 

6 

7 

67 

32 

54 

415 

9 

11 

133 

92 

11 

38 

0 

0 

0 

17 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

7 

20 

0 

0 

7 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

2 

6 

0 

0 
42 

2 

975 

2,728 

22 

713 

1,667 
1 

Theology,  Moral  and  Intellectual  Science,  etc 

Jurisprudence  and  Political  Science 

Medicine,  Mathematics,  Physics  or  Natural  Science 

Useful  and  Fine  Arts,  Military  and  Naval  Science 

American  History  and  Politics 

Foreign  History  and  Politics 

Poetry,  Drama,  Oratory,  Rhetoric 

English  Prose  Fiction,  including  Juvenile  Fiction,  and  other  juvenile  books 

Biography 

Travels 


Libraries,  Collections,  Periodicals,  etc.* 

German 

Italian  Books 

French  Books 

Spanish  Books 

Books  of  Reference 


7,185 
2,342 


2,621 
1,137 


629 
1,059 
1,374 
2,344 
3,062 
2,223 
1,871 
2,798 
1,206 


647 
1,082 
1,387 
2,534 
9,130 
2,300 
1,939 
3,125 
1,232 


664 
1,089 
1,401 
2,576 
9,813 
2,336 
2,041 
3,305 
1,246 

224 


2,467 
10,469 
2,298 
1,990 
3,478 
1,247 
220 


2,529 
11,231 
2,281 
1,980 


056 
1.077 
1,354 
2,544 
11,864 
2,246 
1,965 
3,827 
1,262 

227 


1,070 
1,362 
2,540 
11,853 
2,234 
1,986 


Totals  ■ 25,199 


723       29,909      30,674      31,827      32,605      32,596      33, 


1,072 
1,380 
2,672 
12,426 
2,278 
2,040 


732 
1,113 
1,439 
2,930 
13,742 
2,448 
2,132 
4,035 
1,334 
154 


*  This  class,  embracing  sets  like  Bobn's  *'  Libraries,"  etc.,  includes  many  hooks,  of  course,  which,  in  a  minute  classification,  would  have  been  divided  among  all  the  previous  heads  of  this  table. 
t  The  books  enumerated  in  this  item  are  mostly  imperfect  sets. 

Note. — The  column  of  *' Conuemne<l  books  replaced"  includes  books  condemned  in  previous  years  as  well  as  in  the  current  year.    The  column  "Total  added"  shows  the  number  of  volumes  a 
bound  two  volumes  in  one,  etc     The  small  gain  in  this  Hall  is  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  mrttiy  old  books  not  in  request  and  broken  sets  have  been  taken  off  the  shelves,  to  make  room  for  newer  books. 


put  upon  the  shelves. 


Public  Library. 


31 


APPENDIX    XI. 


GIFTS,  MAY  1,  1877,  to  APRIL  30,  1878. 

Givers  (excluding  auonj'mous)  .....         677 

Volumes 21,206 

Pamphlets 12,453 

The  following  large  gifts  and  bequests  are  included  in  this  List : 
from  the  Mercantile  Library  Association  of  Boston,  16,927  vol- 
luiies ;  from  the  bequest  of  Eliza  Mary  Thayer,  890  volumes ; 
from  the  bequest  of  Charlotte  Harris,  1,118  volumes.  The  Library 
has  also  received  from  J.  Ingersoll  Bowditch,  Esq.,  $500,  for  the 
purchase  of  books  in  pure  mathematics,  to  be  added  to  the 
Bowditch  Librar}'. 

Note.  The  income  of  the  Library  Funds  is  expended  for  books,  which  are  credited  yearly 
to  the  respective  founders.     See  Appendix  XXVII. 


Abbot,  Francis  E.        .         . 

Abbot  Public  Library,  Marllehead 

Academy  of  Science,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  ..... 

Adams,  John  S.  .         . 

Advocates'  Library,  Edinburgh,  Scotland  .... 
American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  .... 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester  .... 
American  Association  for  the   Advancement   of  Science, 

Salem  .......... 

American  Asyhim   for   the   Deaf   and   Dumb,   Hartford, 

Conn.   .......... 

American  Bible  Societ^y      . 

American  College  and  Education  Society   .... 

American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  Easton,  Pa. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Fhiladelphia 
American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia   . 
American  Socialist,  Publisher,  Oneida,  N.  Y.     . 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  New  York  City 
American  Tract  Society       .         .         .         . 

American  Unitarian  Association  ...... 

American  Veterinary  Hospital,  N'ew  York  City 

Amherst  College 

Andrews,. C.  Stanley 

Andrews,  Robert  R.,  Cambridge 

Anonymous,  5  broadsides,  2  maps 

Appleton,  William  S. 

Apprentices'  Library  Company,  Philadelphia     . 
Arkansas  and  Texas  Bureau  of  Emigration,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

1  map  .......... 

Arnold,  Howard  P 

Ashurst,  John,  M.D.,  Philadelphia 

Atlantic  and  St.  Lawrence  Railroad  Company     . 

Babbs,  Mrs.  Sarah  S 

Baldwin  Cbarles  C,  Cleveland,  0 

Baldwin  Place  Home  for  Little  Wanderers 

Balfour,  David  JNI 


Vols. 


1 
1 

1 
1 
5 

10 


1 

40 
2 


Pphs. 


1 

3 

2 
5 

7 

401 


32 


City  Document  No.  61, 


Bancroft,  Hon.  George,  Newport,  R.I. 

Bar  Association  ..... 

Barlow,  Samuel  L.  M.,  New  Yorh  City,  1  newspaper 

Barrows,  Henry  D.,  Los  Angelas,  Cal 

Battle,  Hon.  Kemp  P.,  Raleigh,  N.C. 

Beaman,  Rev.  Charles  C.    . 

Bearce,  Horace  M.      .         .         .         . 

Bell,  Frof.  Alexander  G  ,  London 

Bell,  IToii.  Charles  H.,  Exeter,  N.II. 

Bell,  William,  Jr.,  Columbus,  0. 

Ben^t,  Brig. -Gen.  Stephen  V.,  Washington,  D 

Berea  College,  Berea,  Kg. 

Berlin,  Germany,  Statistisches  Bureau 

Berry,  Ira,  rortland.  Me.  ... 

Betts,  Rev.  Beverley  E.,  New  York  City 

Beverly  Yacht  Club  .  ... 

Bigelow,  Hon.  Erastus  B.    . 

Bigelow  Free  Public  Library,  Clinton 

Birmingham,  England,  Free  Libraries'  Committee 

Blackburn,  England,  Free  Public  Library 

Blackburn  University,  Carlinville,  III. 

Blake,  Clarence  J.,  M.I).    . 

Blake,  John  H 

Bolles,  Rev. IS..  C,  Salem,  G  broadsides 

Bolton,  England,  Free  Library  and  Museum 

Bond,  Miss  Anna  E.    . 

Bond,  George  W.         ... 

Boston,  City  of,  10  broadsides     . 

City  Hospital  . 

Gas  Liglit  Company 

Latin  School  Association 

Medical  Library  Association 

University,  1  broadside    . 

Both,  Carl,  M.I). 

Bouton,  James  W.,  New  York  City 

Bowditcli,  Henrv  L,  M.D. 

Bowditch,  Henry  P.,  M.IJ. 

Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Me. 

Bradford,  George  P.    . 

Bradlee,  Rev.  Caleb  D.,  59  broadsides,  170  newspapers 

Bradlee,  .T.  Putnam     . 

Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  M.D. 

Brigham,  Edwin  H.     . 

Brigham  Hull  Hospital,  Canandaigua,  N.  Y. 

British  Museum,  London    . 

Brock,  11.  A.,  Richmond,   Va.     . 

Brockhans,  F.  A.,  Leipzig,  Germany 

Brooks,  William  G.     . 

Brown,  Francis  .... 

Brown,  Francis  H.,  M.D.  . 

Brown,  Henry  A.,  Philadeljjhia 

Brown,  .John  C.  J.       . 

Brown,  Leonard  .... 

Brunn,  Dr.  Chr.,  Copenhagen     . 

Buciianan,  Koberdeau,   Washington,  D.C. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y,  General  Hospital 

Bugbee,  James  !\L        . 

Bunker  Hill  ^lonument  Association 

Burke,  'i'homas.  New  York  City 


Burke,  William,  1  map 


rphs. 


19 


15 

39 

10 

1 


1 
1 
1 
40 
•> 

1 
1 

1 
1 

1 
4 
1 


Public  Library. 


33 


Vols. 


Pphs. 


/. 


/. 


Burroughs,  Rev.  Henry 

Butler,  George  B.,  New  Torh  City     . 

Butler,  Prof.  James  D.,  Madison,   Wis. 

Caldwell,  Eev.  Samuel  L.,  Providence,  R 

Canto,  Dr.  Ernesto  do,  Miguel,  The  Azor 

Carey,  Henry  C,  Philadelphia 

Carleton,  Isaac  N.,  Neiv  Haven,  Conn. 

Carleton  College,  Northfield,  Minn.   . 

Carmany,  John  H.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Carpenter,  Henry  F.,  New  York  City 

Carret,  Jose  F.  .... 

CartSe,  Cornelius  S.,  M.D. 

Carter,  Caj^t.  11.  K.,  Chester,  Pa. 

Case,  Thomas  S.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Case,  Lockwood  and  Brainard,  Messrs.,  Ilartfor 

Caswell,  Edward  T.,  M.D.,  Providence,  R 

Caulfield,  liichard,  LL.D.,  Cork,  Ireland 

Caverly,  Ciiarles 

Chadwick,  James  R.,  M.D. 

Chandler,  Horace  P.  . 

Chaney,  Rev.  George  L. 

Chaplin,  Rev.  Jeremiah 

Chase,  George  B.        . 

Cheney,  Mrs.  Ednah  D.      . 

Cheney,  Rev.  Oren  B.,  Lewiston,  Me 

Child,  Prof.  Francis  J.,  Cambridge 

Christern,  F.  W.,  New  York  City 

Claghorn,  James  L.,  Philadel2Jhia 

Clapp,  Ebenezer  ... 

Clapp,  William  W.      . 

Clark,  W.  A.,  1  broadside. 

Clark,  William  S.,  LL.D.,  Amherst 

Clarke,  Edward  K.,  Binghamton,  N. 

Clarke,  Robert,  Cinciyinati,  Ohio 

Clements,  V.       .         .         .         . 

Cobden  Club,  London 

Cobham,  Claude  D.     . 

Colby  &  Rich,  Messrs. 

Cole,  J.  0.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

College  of  the  Holy  Cross,  Worcester 

Columbia  College,  New  York  City 

Compton,  G.  W.,  Woirester 

Connecticut,  State  of 

Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  New  Haven 

Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  Hartford 

Conwell,  Russell  H 


d,  Conn 


Corey,  Ueloraine  P.,  7l/aZ^m  .... 
Cotting,  Benjamin  E.,  M.D.,  136  newspapers  . 
Cowdin,  Hon.  Elliot  C,  New  York  City     . 

Cvoshj,  3o\mTi.,  Bangor,  Me 

Cross,  JumQ&M.,  Providence,  R.I.     . 

Croswell,  Hon.  Charles  M.,  Adrian,  Mich. 

Crowell,  John,  M.D.,  Haverhill 

Crunden,  Prof.  Frederick  M.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.    . 

Curtis,  Daniel  S.,  Paris,  France 

Curtis,  Miss  Isabel  P.,  7  maps. 

Gushing,  J.  E.,  Laivrence 

Cutter,  Abram  E.,  4  engravings,  6  maps,  3  portraits 
Cutter,  Thomas  E.,  Salisbury     .... 
Dana,  Gen.  James      ...... 


30 
9 


27 
5 
1 
1 


2 
13 


2 

1 

25 

216 

37 

1 

106 

13 

1 

21 

1 

2 


1 

1 

10 


1 
1 

1 

1181 
2 


100 
4 


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GrVEKS. 

Vols. 
1 

Pphs. 

Dana,  Richard  H.,  Jr 

Day,  Albert,  jM.B 

3 

Dean,  John  W 

1 

Deane,  Charles,  LL.D.,  Cambridge 

1 

De  Bernardy,  C.  W.,  London 

1 

De  Costa,  Rev.  Benjamin  F.,  New  York  City    . 

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Delafield,  Mrs.  Julia,  New  York  City         .... 

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Dennet,  Charles  F.,  Brighton,  England    .... 

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Doyle,  Hon.  Thomas  A.,  Providence,  R.I. 

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Drowne,  Henry  T.,  New  York  City     ..... 

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Duane,  William,  Philadelphia   ...... 

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Duren,  Elnathan  F.,  Bangor,  Me 

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Earl,  B.,  &  Son,  Fall  River 

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Eastern  Yacht  Club 

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Eclectic  Medical  Institute,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

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Edes,  Rev.  Richard  S.,  Bolton 

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Ela,  Alfred,  Cambridge 

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Ela,  Richard,  Cambridge 

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Ellis,  iJer.  George  E.,  Z».Z> 

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Elze,  Prof.  Karl,  Bonn,  Germany 

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Emery,  Charles  E.,  Neiv  York  City     ..... 

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Emery,  George  E.,  Lynn 

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Emery,  Rev.  Samuel  H.,  North  Middleborough 

1 

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Ericsson,  John,  LL.D.,  New  York  City      .... 

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Erie  Railway  Company 

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Essex  Institute,  Salem 

1 

Estuhrook,  J.,  Newburgh,  NY. 

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Folsom,  Charles  W.,  Cambridge,  a  lot  of  broadsides,   62 

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Folsom,  Rev.  Nathaniel  S.,  Concord 

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Foote,  Rev.  Henry  W 

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Galloupe,  Francis  E.,  Lynn 

Gallup,  H.  E.,  London 

Galvin,  Rev.  Edward  I.        .         .         . 

Garceau,  Treffle,  M.D. 

Garfield,  Hon.  James  A.,   Washington,  D. 

Garland,  George  M.,  Cambridge 

Garratt,  3Irs.  A.  C 

Garratt,  Joshua  H.      .         .         .         . 
General  Theological  Library 
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Gifford,  Stephen  N 

Globe  Publishing  Company 

Godkin,  E.  L.,  Neiv  York   City,  8  broadsides 

papers,  2  photographs  . 
Goeje,  Prof.  J.  de.  Ley  den 
Goodnow  Library,  Sudbury 
Goodwin,  //om.  John  A.,  Lowell 
Goold,  William,   Windham,  Me.  . 
Gould,  Prof.  Benjamin  A.,  Cordoba,  Argentine 
Gould,  John,  Cincinnati,  Ohio    . 
Gould,  S.  C,  Manchester,  N.H.  . 
Granger,  Rev.  Francis,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Gray,  Rev.  George  Z.,  Cambridge 
Great  Britain.     Commissioner  of  Patents 

Green,  Aliss  H.  E 

Green,  Samuel  A.,  M.D. 
Greene,  Reuben,  M.D. 
Greenough,  William  W. 

Griffin,  Laroy  F 

Groton,  Town  of  .... 

Guicciardini,  Conte  Piero,  Florence,  Italy 
Hale,  Rev.  Edward  E.  .         .         . 

Hale,  George  S 

Hall,  Edward  W.,   Waterville,  Me. 
Halliwell-Phillips,  James  O.,  London 
Hammond,  Rev.  Charles,  iMonson 
Hampton,  Hon.  Wade,  Columbia,  S.O. 
Hancock,  John,  Dayton,  Ohio    . 
Hanno,  V.   . 
Harris,  Miss  Charlotte,  Bequest  of 

Harris,  Elisha,  M.D 

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Hart,  Charles  H.,  Philadelphia  . 
Hart,  Prof.  Samuel,  Hartford,  Conn. 
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Harvard  University,  Cambridge 
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Haverford  College,  Haverford,  Pa.  . 
Hebbard,  E.  Cola,  M.D.       . 

Heinzen,  Karl 

Henshaw,  Miss  H.  E.,  Leicester,  1  portrait 
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Hill,  Walter  S.,  New  York  City 

Hilton,  William,  Bradford 

Himes,  Rev.  William  L.,  South  Groveland  ...  1 

Hitchcock,  David  K.,  Newton      ......  1 

Hodgkins,  William  H 1 

Hodgman,  Rev.  Edwin  R.,  Westford    . 
Hoe,  Kichard  &  Co.,  New  York  City  . 

Holland,  Rev.  F.  M.,  Concord 1 

Homes,  Henry  A.,  Albany,  N.Y......  1 

Hooper,  Miss  Alice  S.  ......         .  1 

Hornell  Library  Association,  HorneUsville,  N.i 
Hospital  of  St.  Barnabas,  Neicark,  N.J. 
Hospital  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Radnor,  Pa. 

Hough,  Franklin  B 

Houghton,  Horatio,   West  Boylston 

Howard,  C.  Frusher,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Howard  Benevolent  Society 

Howe  Memorial  Committee  ......  1 

Howes,  Osborne,  Jr.    ........  4 

Howson  &  Son,  Messrs.,  Philadelphia         ....  1 

Hubbard,  Hon.  Gardiner  G. 

Hubbard,  Rev.  James  M.,  40  broadsides,  1  newspaper         .  1 

Hudson,  Ho?i.  Charles,  Lexington       .....  1 

Hughes,  H.  T.,  M.D.,  Carmarthen,  Wales 
Hunt,  Setii,  Florence  .... 

Hunter,  William  ........  1 

Huntoon,  Daniel  T.  V.,  Canton  ......  1 

Hurnard,  .James,  Colchester,  England         ....  1 

Hutchins,  Rev.  Charles  L.,  Medford   .....  1 

lasigi,  Joseph  A.  .... 

Ingraliam,  Robert  C,  New  Bedford    . 

Institution  for  the  Instruction  of  Deaf-Mutes,  New  Yor'i 

City      .         .         ._       .         .         . 
Institution  of  Civil  Engineers,  Loiidon 
Iowa  College,  Grinnell,   Iowa     . 
Iowa  State  University,  Iowa  City 
Iowa  Wesleyan  University,  Mt.  Pleasant 
Ives,  Charles  L.,  Philadelphia  . 
Jarvis,  Edward,  M.D. 
JefiVies,  B.  Joy,  M.D. 
Johnson,  Franklin,  Cambridge  . 
Jones,  Augustine  .... 

Jones,  C.  W.,  Needham 

Jones,  Jesse  II.,  East  Ahington 

Jones,  Rev.  .Joseph  H.,  Baltimore,  Md.      ....  1 

Joslyn,  Miss  Mary  E.,  .32  newspapers  ....  6 

Kaiserliche  Ivonigliche  Geologische  Reichsanstalt,   Vientia.  2 

Kelly,  Hon.  William  1).,   Washington,  B.C. 

King,  Albert  T.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

King,  George  B., 

Kirhy,  Thomas  E.        .... 

Knapp,  Artliur  M 8 

Kna])]),  (u'orge  B.        .......         .  6 

Ladies'  I.,iterary  Association,  Flint,  Mich. 

Lancaster  Library  Coanmittee      ......  2 

Lansing,  Mrs.  Catharine  G.,  Albany,  N.Y....  1 

Lapham,  William  B.,  Augusta,  Me.    . 
Laurie,  Rev.  Tliomas,  D.D.,  Providence,  R.I. 
Laval  University,  Quebec    .... 


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Lawrence,  Hon.  Edward     . 

Lawrence  Academy,  Groton 

Lawrence  Public  Library    . 

Leavitt,  George  A.,  Neiv  York  City 

Lee,  Francis  H.,  Salem 

Lee  &  Shepard,  Messrs. 

Leicester  Public  labrary     . 

Leland,  D.  T.  S.  ... 

Lenox  Library,  New  York  City  . 

Lescu3'er,  r..  Saint  Dizier,  France 

Lewis,  Weston    .  •      . 

Ligue  Nationale  Fran^aise,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

Lincoln,  Prof.  John  L.,  Providence,  R.l. 

Lincoln,  Marshal  .... 

Lindgrist,  C.  A.,  Stockholm 

Lindsay,  Lord,  London       ... 

Lindsay,  W.  Lander,  M.D.,  Perth,  Scotland 

Literary  and  Philosophical  Society,  Leicester,  England 

Little,  Brown,  &  Co.,  Messrs. 

Littlefield,  J.  W 

Liverpool,  England,  Free  Public  Library 

Livingston,  Charles  F.,  Manchester,  N.H. 

Locke,  John  L.,  Belfast,  Me. 

Long,  John  D.,   1  broadside. 

Loomis,  E.  J.,   Washington,  D.C. 

Loring,  James  S.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

Loring,  Joseph  C.        .         .         . 

Lowell  City  Library    . 

Luckenbach,  Rev.  W.  H.,  Tarrytown,  3Id 

Lunt,  Horace  G.,  Evanston,  111. 

Lynn  Public  Library  . 

Lyon,  Henry,  M.D.     . 

Lyons,  J.  A..  Notre  Dame,  Ind. 

McAuley,  Jeriy.  New  York  City 

McCarthy,  NaJ^haniel  J. 

McDonald,  Maj.  W.  J.   Washington,  D.  C. 

Macedo,  Joaquin  M.  de,  Rio  de  Janeiro 

McKay,  George  F. 

Maclean,  John,  Princeton,  N.J. 

Macmillan  &  Co.,  Messrs.,  New  York  City 

McPhetres,  Samuel  A.,  Lowell    . 

Maine  Historical  Society,  Brunswick 

Manchester,  England,  Literary  Club 

Manning,  Robert 

Marcus,  Alfred  A. 

Marsh,  Prof.  0.  C.     . 

Marthens,  John  F.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Massachusetts,  State  of 

Board  of  Health 

Board  of  State  Charities 

^  Historical  Society    . 

• Horticultural  Society 

Medical  Society 

May,  Miss  Abby  W.    . 

Means,  Rev.  James  H.,  D.D. 

Medical  Society  of  the  County  of  Kings,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

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Mercantile  Library  Association,    A'^ew  York  City 

1 

Mercantile  Library  Association,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

1 

Merrinian,  Prof.  Mansfield,  Aew  Raven,  Conn. 

1 

Metcalf,  Miss  Kate      ...... 

2 

Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  Xew  York  City     . 

1 

Michigan  State  Board  of  Health          .... 

2 

Mixter,  Calvin  S.,  Arlington       .... 

4 

Montgomery,  Thomas  H.,  New  York  City 

1 

Montpellier,  France,  City  of        ...         . 

2 

Moore,  Rev.  William  H.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

1 

Moradi,  P.,  Philadelphia 

3 

Morris,  Hon.  Dwight,  Hartford,  Conn. 

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Morse,  //oh.  Leopold 

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Morton,  William  J.,  M.D 

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Mullen,  Samuel,  Melbourne 

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Munsell,  Joel,  Albany,  N.  Y.       . 

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Murray,  David,  Glasgow,  Scotland     . 

1 

Myrick,  E.,  Ayer 

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Nash,  Josepii 

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Nashville,  ye?;/!.,  Board  of  Trade        .... 

1 

National  Home  for  Disabled  Soldiers,  Milwaukee,   W 

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Needlewoman's  Friend  Society    ..... 

1 

Neill,  Edward  D.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1 

Nelson,  William,  Paterson,  N.J.         .... 

1 

New  Bedford  Free  Public  Library 

1 

New  Church  Board  of  Publication,  New  Yo7-k  City 

22 

29 

New  England  Cotton  Manufacturers'  Association 

3 

New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society 

1 

New  England  Normal  Institute,  Fast  Greenwich,  R.i 

r 

1 

New  Hampshire  Medcial  Society,  Concord 

I 

Now  Jersey,  State  of 

2 

Newton,  City  Council 

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New  York  City,  Board  of  Education  . 

2 

1 

1 

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7 

Nichols,  Prof.  William  K.,  3  broadsides     . 

Nicholson,  James  B.,  Philadelphia     . 

1 

Nottingham,  Fngland,  Free  Libraries  and  Museum 

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Nowell,  Cvrus,  Portland,  Me 

1 

Noyes,  S.'B.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y.    . 

1 

Odiorne,  James  C,  Framinghani 

1 

Ohio  Central  College,  Iberia       .... 

1 

Ohio  State  Library,  Columbus     .... 

11 

1 

Old  Bcsidents'  Historical  Association,  Lowell 

1 

Onderdonk,  Henry,  Jr.,  Jamaica,  L.I. 

1 

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Oregon  State  Board  of  Emigration      . 

3 

Osten-Sacken,  C.  Robert,  Baron  von,  Newport,  R.I 

1 

Othis,  R.  M.,  M.D 

1 

Otori,  K.  S  ,  Tokio,  Japan          .... 

1 

Otterl)ein  l^niversity,   Westerville,  Ohio 

1 

Pacific  Medical  College,  Santa  Rosa,  Cal. 

1 

Page,  James  A 

207 

Paine,  Nathaniel,   Worcester        .... 

1 

Palmer,  Miss  Alice  W 

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Paris,  City  of 

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2 

Paton,  Allan  P.,  Greenock,  Scotland  .... 

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Patten,  William  L.,  Denver,  Col. 

Patterson,  Cai^t.  Carlile  P.,   Washington,  D.C. 

Patterson,  Joseph  W.,  New  York  City 

Payne,  J.  T.,  M.D 

Peabody  Institute,  Baltimore,  3rd. 

Peabody  Institute,   Peabody 

Peabody  Museum,  Cambridge     . 

Pearson,  Bev.  R.  W.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Peloubet,  Rev.  Francis  N.,  Natick 

Penitent  Females'  Refuge   . 

Pennsylvania  Board  of  Public  Charities 

Peoria,  III.,  Board  of  Trade 

Perkins,  Samuel  L.     • 

Perry,  Ira,  M.D.  .... 

Perry,  Rt.  Rev.  William  S.,  D.D.,  Davenport, 

Philadelphia  Library  Company    . 

Phillips,  Henry,  Jr.,  PhiUulelphia 

Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  Exeter,  N.II. 

Pierce,  Hon.  Edward  L.      .         .         . 

Pierce,  Hon.  Henry  L.         .         .         . 

Pike,  Israel  S.,  Calais,  3Ie. 

Pike,  James  S.    . 

Plymouth,  England,  Free  Library 

Poole,  William  F.,  Chicago,  111. 

Portland,  Me.,  Public  Library     . 

Potocki,  Albert,  Paris,  France  . 

Potthast,  Dr.  August,  Berlin,  Germany 

Prescott,  Hon.  B.  V.,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Preston,  Edward,  London  . 

Prince,  Hon.  Frederic  O.    . 

Providence,  R.I.,  Athenaeum 

Quincy,  Hon.  Josiali,  1  photograph. 

Redwood  Library,  Newporty  R.I. 

Reed,  J.  Harris  ..... 

Reed,  John  H.,  4  broadsides,  I  map,  4  newspap 

Remsen,  Ira,  M.D 

Retreat  for  the  Insane,  Hartford,  Co7in. 

Rice,  Hon.  Alexander  H.    . 

Rice,  Roswell,  Cambridge,  JV.  Y.,  a  lot  of 

Rich,  Charles  T.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Richards,  Samuel  W. 

Richards,  William       .... 

Richardson,  William  L.,  31. D.    . 

Roberts,  Ellis  H.,  Utica,  N.Y.   . 

Rochester  Free  Public  Library   . 

Rogers,  Edward  H.,  7  broadsides 

Rogers,  John 

Rollins,  Edward  F 

Royal  Observatory,  Greenwich,  England 
Russell,  Charles  T.,  Jr. 
Russell,  F.  P.,  Lynnfield    . 
Rutter,  Josiah,     Walthom   . 
St.  Ignatius  College,  Chicago,  III. 
St.  Louis,  3Io.,  Mercantile  Library     . 
Salisbury,  Stephen,  Jr.,   Worcester     . 
Sanger,  George  P.,  Jr.,  Cambridge  . 
Santa  Clara  College,  Santa  Clara,  Cat 
Sargent,  Charles  S.,  Cambridge 
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Schultz,  Adolph  S.       .         . 

Scrosoppi,  Edouard,  Florence,  Italy 

Scudder,  Samuel  H.,  Cambridge 

Sehvyn,  Hon.  Alfred  R.  C,  Montreal 

Shaw,  Lemuel,  Barnstable 

Sheffield,  England,  Public  Library 

Shepardson,  Rev.  D.,  Hancock    . 

Sheppard,  S.  A.  D.     . 

Sherman,  Hon.  Amos,   Woonsocket 

Shreve,  William  P.      . 

Sibley,  John  L.,  Cambridge 

Simpson,  J.,  Alexander,  Philadelphia 

Sinnickson,  Robert,  Trenton,  N.J.,  a  lot  of  broadsides. 

Skinner,  Benjamin,  Acton  ..... 

Smiley,  Charles  AV.,  Madison,  N.J.  . 

Smith,  Albert,  Peterborough,  N.H.    . 

Smith,  Amzi,   Washington,  D.C.,  1788  broadsides 

Smitli.  Charles  C 

Smith,  Chauncey         ...... 

Smith,  Franklin  W 

Smith,  Gustavus  W.,  New  York  City 
Smithsonian  Institution,   Washington,  D.C. 
Snow,  Edwin  M  ,  M.D.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Societe  Franklin,  Paris     ..... 

Society  of  Arts,  London     ..... 

Somerset  Club     ....... 

Somes,  John  J.,  Gloucester         .... 

Sotheran,  Henry,  London  ..... 

South  Carolina  Medical  College,  Charleston 

State  Library,  Columbia 

Spaulding,  Rev.  Henry  G.  . 

S[)ooncr,  I^ysander      ...... 

Springfield  City  Library      ..... 

State  J^unatic  Asylum,  Utica,  N.  Y.    . 

Sterns,  E.  C,  New  York  City    .... 

Stevens,  B.  F.,  London       ..... 

Stewart,  Samuel  B.,  Lynn  .... 

Stickney,  J.  H.,  Baltimore,  Md.,  1  broadside. 
Stockport,  England,  Public  Free  Library. 

Stockwell,  Stephen  N 

Stockwell,  Thonuis  B.,  Providence,  R.I.     . 

Stone,  Gen.,  Charles  P.,  Cairo,  Egypt 

Stone,  Charles  W.,  Templeton    .... 

Stone,  Rev.  Edwin  M.,  Providence,  R.I.     . 

Stow,  B.  J.,  M.IJ.,  Brooklyn,  NY.    . 

Strauss,  J.,  Paris,  France  .... 

Sumner,  Charles  A.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.  . 

Swinney,  E.  Hazzard,  New  York  City 

Sydney,  New  South  Wales,  Free  Public  Library 

Tanaka,  Fujimaro,  Tokio,  Japan 

Taunton  Public  Library      ..... 

Tennessee  School  for  the  Blind,  Nashville 
Tenney,  Rev.  Edward  P.,  Colorado  Springs,  Col. 
Tliaxter,  Levi  D.,  Newton,  2  broadsides,  7  ncwspapc 
Thayer,  Miss,  Eliza  Mary,  Bequest  of 
Tliayer,  George  A.,  Braintree    .... 

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Thornton,  J.  Wingate,  1  newspaper    . 

Ticknor,  Mrs.  George 

Tileston,  Harvey         .... 

Tileston,  Miss  Mary  W.      . 

Tinkhani,  J.  G.,  Somerset  . 

Titus,  Charles  H.         .         . 

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Townsend,  John  P.,  New  York  City  . 

Trinity  College,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Trumbull,  J.  Hammond,  LL.D.,  Hartford,  Co 

Tuck,  Henrv,  M.D.    . 

Tufts  College,  Medford 

Turner,  Joseph  W. 

Tuttle,    Rev.   Joseph    F.,    D.D.,     Craufordsville, 

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Tyler,  Arthur  W.,  Baltimore,  Md.     . 
Tyndale,  Theodore  H.         .         .         . 
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Board  of  Indian  Commissioners 

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Bureau  of  Statistics 

Department  of  Agriculture 

■ Department  of  State 

Department  of  the  Interior 

Department  of  the  Treasury 

Hydrographic  Office 

Light-House  Board 

Naval  Observatory . 

Office  of  the  Coast  Survey 

Patent  Office   . 

Post  Office  Department   . 

University  of  London 
University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor 
University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis 
University  of  Missouri,  Columbia 
University  of  Nashville,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
University  of  Notre  Dame,  Notre  Dame,  Ind 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadcljjhia 
University  of  the  City  of  New  York     . 
University  of  Vermont,  Builington    . 
LTniversity  of  Wisconsin,  Madison 
Vermont  Historical  Society,  Moyitpelier 

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Verona,  Italy,  Biblioteca  Comunale    . 
Victoria  Public  Library,  Melbourne    . 

Registrar  General    . 

Wadsworth,  Prof.  Edward  M.,  Cambridge 
Waite,  Henry  E.,  Neu-ton 
Walke,  Rear- AdiniralR.,   Washington,   D.C. 
"Walter,  Joseph  R.,   Wilmington,  Del.,  2  newspapers 
Waltham  Puldic  Library     .... 

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Welch,  A.  S.,  LL.D.,  Ames,  Iowa 

West  Bromwich,  England,  Free  Library 

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Westminster  College,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

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Whitney,  David  K.      .         .         .         .         . 

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Williamsburgh  Library  Association    . 
Wilson,  J.  Ormond,   Washington,  B.C. 
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Winchester,  Prof.  Caleb  T.,  Middletown,  Conn 
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Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  Madison 

Woman's  Bajjtist  Missionary  Society 

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Worthington  &  Flanders,  Messrs. 

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Young  Men's  Association,  New  Fork  City 

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APPENDIX    XY. 

BATES   HALL   KEADIXG. 


CliASSIFICATION. 


English  History,  Topography, 
Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 
lite Literature 

American  (North  and  South) 
History,  Topography,  Bi- 
ography, Travel,  and  Polite 
Literature 

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

Germanic  History,  Topogra- 
phy, Biography,  Travel, 
and  Polite  Literature    .   .   . 

Italian  History,  Topography, 
Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 
lite Literature 

Other  History,  Topography, 
Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 
lite Literature 

General  and  Epochal  History, 
Geography,  Biogr.iphy,  etc. 

Greek,  Latin,  and  Philology  . 

Bibliography 

Transactions 

Periodicals 

Fine  Arts 

Natural  History  and  Science  . 

Theologj',  Ecclesiastical  His- 
tory, Ethics,  Education,  etc. 

Medicine 

Law,  Government,  and  Politi- 
cal Economy 

Useful  Arts,  Mathematics, 
Physics,  etc 

Miscellaneous      Pamphlets, 
bound  


Percentage  of  Use. 


o 

C 

H 

x 

9 
x 

X 

X 
H 

9 
9 
X 

X 
H 

H 

r» 

X 

X 

f 

X 
H 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 
H 

17.5 

16 

13 

18 

20 

17 

17 

17 

17 

12 

19 

16 

15 

15 

13 

13 

6 

8.5 

10 

8 

12 

12 

12 

12 

13 

10 

12 

11 

11 

12 

10 

14 

6 

7.5 

6 

6 

7 

4 

6 

5 

6 

4 

6 

6 

6 

5 

5 

4 

2.5 

2 

2.5 

2 

4 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

3 

3 

4 

3 

3 

6 

4 

2.5 

2 

8 

3 

2 

2 

2 

2 

1 

1 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

8.5 

3.5 

2.5 

4 

4 

6 

6 

3 

3 

3 

4 

3 

4 

4 

3 

5 

4.5 

4.25 

3 

3 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

1 

2 

2 

2 

3 

2 

2 

3 

3.5 

S 

3 

3 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

3 

4 

3 

4 

4 

2.5 

3 

3 

8 

1 

2 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

3 

1.5 

2.3 

5 

7 

5 

4 

6 

1 

1 

1 

2 

1 

6 

2 

7 

6 

6 

11 

7 

8 

9 

10 

8 

10 

8 

7 

7 

6 

5 

9 

12 

16.5 

8 

6 

8 

8 

8 

9 

11 

10 

11 

11 

10 

9 

12 

4 

4 

4.6 

3 

3 

4 

8 

4 

4 

5 

3 

3 

3 

3 

1 

11 

11 

8.5 

4 

4 

8 

9 

8 

11 

14 

10 

11 

11 

10 

10 

8 

7 

5 

4.6 

8 

6 

6 

8 

8 

9 

9 

8 

6 

6 

6 

6 

1.6 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

3 

2 

2 

2 

3 

3 

2 

5.5 

6.5 

7.5 

7 

8 

7 

6 

5 

6 

8 

5 

6 

7 

9 

10 

10 

2 

.76 

.76 

2 

1 

2 

1 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

3 

3 

5 

3 

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


APPENDIX     XVI. 

LOWER     HALL     R  E  A  D  I  N  fj . 
Shown  from  slips  of  books  returned. 


a 

Alcoves. 

Classes. 

1868 

180» 

18»0 

(Nine  months.) 

1871 

1872 

187S 

1874 

1875 

1870 

1877 

1878 

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Loans 
returned. 

Per 
cent. 

Loans 
returned 

Per 
cent. 

Loans 
returned. 

Per 
cent. 

Loans 
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Per 

Loans 
returned. 

Per 
cent 

Loans 
returned. 

Per 
cent. 

Loaus 
returned. 

Per 
cent. 

Loans 
returned. 

Per 

cent. 

Loans 
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Par 

cent. 

Loans 
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Per 

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Per 

1     1 

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4 

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III,  XIII 

IV,  XIV 1 

VII,  XVII ) 

V,  XV 

VI,  XVI 

vm,  x\nii 

X,  XX,  eseept  rungcB 
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Sciences,  Arts,  Professions  .   . 

American  Ilistory  and  Polities 

Foreign  History  and  Politics    . 

Poetry,  Drama,  Rhetoric,  Mis- 
cellaneous Essays,  etc.    .  .   . 

Prose  Fiction   for  adults  and 

10,522 
2,633 
3,030 

3,692 

105,227 
3,641 
3,289 
5,941 

3,078 

7.4 
1.8 
2.1 

2.6 

74.2 
2.6 
2.3 
4.2 

2.8 

11,436 
2,682 
3,221 

2,461 

125,273 
4,570 
6,363 
4,650 

4,482 

6.97 
1.63 
1.06 

1.5 

76.36 
2.78 
3.26 
2.77 

2.73 

7,607 
2,071 
2,386 

2,441 

120,355 
4,025 
5,164 
6,747 

3,637 

4.9 
1.4 
1.6 

1.6 

78.4 
2.7 
3.4 
3.8 

2.4 

12,662 
2,270 
2,702 

6,964 

167.604 
6,108 
6,062 
11,030 

4,461 

6.7 

1 

1.2 

2.7 

77.2 
2.2 
2.8 
5.2 

2 

15,990 
2,090 
2,716 

8,019 

173,438 
4,100 
4,998 
14,815 

2,691 

6 
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1+ 

4 

76 
2 
3 
6 

1+ 

12,757 
1,496 
1,863 

7,651 

1.54,835 
2,641 
3,631 
17,167 

6,341 

6+ 

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7 

74 
1 
1 

8 

2 

14,422 
2,706 
2,834 

8,636 

168,453 
5,027 
6,290 
15,663 

6,388 

1- 

4 

71 
3 
3 
7 

3 

16,218 
3,873 
3.983 

9,704 

163,667 
7,415 
8,649 
16,100 

7,394 

4+ 

69+ 
3+ 
4+ 
6+ 

3 

20,065 
6,467 
4,879 

11,618 

209,070 
0,710 
10,227 
17,827 

9,123 

4 

4 

70 
3 
3 
6 

3 

23,318 
6,644 
6,820 

12,677 

253,964 
11,229 
10,419 
20,404 

11,845 
355,320 

4 

71 
3 
3 

6 

3 

21,684 
6,300 
6,395 

11,915 

251.856 
10,076 
10,034 
18,668 

12,037 

6 

!■ 

4 

72 
3 
3 
6 

3 

1 

8 
9 

Biography 

Travels,  Voyages,  etc 

Collections,  Periodicals,  etc.    . 

French,   German,  and   Italian 

Totals 

141,863 

164,038 

163,423 

216,696 

228,864 

207,382 

221,418 

236,004 

297,986 

346,866 

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n 
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Ranges. 

Classes. 

1874. 

1875. 

1876. 

1877. 

1878. 

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61,642 

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I. 

1,3,5,7,23 

Prose  Fiction  . 

28,675 

-49 

40,666 

,r)2 

68,965 

54 

54 

II. 

2,  4   .   .   . 

Travels  .... 

2,623 

-5 

2,555 

3+ 

2,519 

3 

2,745 

2 

2,333 

i 

m. 

6,  8   .   .   . 

nistory  .... 

1,121 

-2 

1,133 

1+ 

1,598 

2 

2,377 

2 

2,371 

2 

IV. 

9,  11     ,   . 

Juveniles  .   .   . 

19,261 

32+ 

26,6i0 

34 

28,918 

32 

40,871 

32 

35,917 

31 

V. 

10,12   .   . 

Biography    .   . 

1,351 

2+ 

1,583 

2 

1,575 

2 

2,143 

2 

1,908 

1 

VI. 

13,  14  .   . 

Periodicals   .   . 

1,019 

-2 

1,338 

_2 

1,785 

2 

3,110 

2+ 

2,810 

2+ 

VII. 

15,17   .   . 

Arts,  Sciences, 

Professions    . 

2,757 

-4 

2,815 

4 

2,992 

3 

3,858 

3 

3,369 

3 

VUI. 

16.   .   .   . 

Poetry        and 

Drama    .  .   . 

1,219 

-2 

1,235 

2+ 

1,326 

1 

1,712 

1+ 

1,451 

1 

IX. 

18,19   .   . 

Collected 
Works      and 
Lit.      Miscel- 

X. 

lanies  .... 

724 

1 

1,069 

2+ 

887 

1 

1,815 

1 

1,699 

1 

X. 

20.   .   .   . 

Books  in  For- 
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guages    .   .   . 

55 

114 

1+ 

119 
89,026 

1 

190 

J 

287 
113,787 

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58,605 

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50,  64,  59 

History,  Biog- 

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1,982 

35 

3,754 

-43 

3,548 

38 

5,335 

33 

4,941 

30 

II. 

55,  57   .   . 

Modern      For- 
eign        Lan- 

guages    .   .   . 

729 

13 

1,073 

12+ 

921 

9 

1,773 

11 

1,654 

10 

III. 

51,53,65,67 

Periodicals  .   . 

160 

2 

331 

4 

488 

5 

2,313 

14 

2,798 

17 

IV. 

52,56   .   . 

Miscellaneous 

Literature  .   . 

661 

12 

921 

10+ 

976 

10 

1,474 

9 

1,344 

8 

V. 

58,70  .   . 

Theology,    So- 

ciology,Ethics 

412 

7 

550 

6+ 

517 

5 

1,151 

7 

1,212 

7 

VI. 

60.   .   .   . 

Medicine  .  .  . 

46 

1 

81 

1 

126 

1 

249 

1 

343 

2 

vn. 

61.   ,   .   . 

Greek  and  Latin 
Languagts 

and  Literature 

262 

5 

374 

4+ 

376 

4 

687 

4 

713 

4 

VIII. 

62  ...   . 

Fine  Arts,  En- 

gineering  .   . 

684 

12 

750 

8i 

932 

10 

1,243 

7 

1,220 

7 

IX. 

63,69   .   . 

Law,    Politics, 

Government . 

36 

1 

149 

-2 

250 

3 

446 

3 

414 

3 

X. 

64,  66,  68 

Mathematics, 
Natural    and 
Applied    Sci- 

ence    .... 

719 

12 

846 

-10 

1,414 
9,548 

15 

1,739 
16,410 

11 

1,896      12 

Totals     .   . 

5,691 

8,829 

16,535J  .   . 

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APPE-ISTDIX  XX. 

BRIGHTON  BRANCH  READING. 


Ranges. 

Classes. 

1874-5. 

187.5-6. 

1876-7. 

1877-8. 

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1,  2,  3,  4, 
5,  6,  7,  8, 

9  to  20    . 

Fiction 

Biography,  Travel, 
and  History    .   . 

Others 

17,662 

1,424 
1,957 

84 

7 
9 

19,532 

1,677 
3,226 

80 

7 
13 

22,8.^8 

2,451 
4,611 

8 
15 

22,114 

2,306 
4,780 

76 

7 
17 

Totals 

21.043 

24,435 

29,900 

29,200 

APPEXDIX  XXI. 

DORCHESTER  BRANCH  READING. 


Ranges. 

Classes. 

1874-5. 

1875-6. 

1676-7. 

1877-8. 

6 

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IV. 

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VI. 

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IX. 
X. 

1,11,21. 

2,  12    .   . 

3,  13,  23  1 

4,  14,  24  ) 
5, 15,  25  . 

6,  16, 2^5  . 

7,  17,  27  . 
8,18    .    . 
9,  19    .   . 
10, 20, 28, 

Poetry,  Drama  .  . 
Travels 

Fiction 

Juveniles 

History 

Biography  .... 
Periodicals  .... 
Arts,  Sciences,  etc. 
Miscellanies    .   .   . 

221 

535 

(    3,9831 

1    2.877) 

5,343 

285 

414 

162 

465 

311 

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47 

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3+ 
2+ 

927 

2,233 

21,880  i 

13,701  ) 

17,368 

1,555 

1,567 

1,311 

2,274 

1,671 

1 

4 

55 

27 
2 
2 
2 
4 
3 

1,021 
2,133 
26,107  1 
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18,071 
1,650 
1,655 
2,193 
2,157 
1,459 

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8 

67 

26 
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2+ 
3 
3 
2 

1,152 

2,090 

19,779  1 

15,522 ) 

16,778 

1,510 

1,600 

2,047 

2,168 

1,431 

3 
3 

55 

26 
2 
3 
3 
3 
2 

Totals 

14,601 

64,487 

70,505 

W.077 

CIIARLESTOWN   BRANCH   READING. 

Note.  —  No  classification  of  the  use  is  practiciblo,  as  the  books  are  shelved  ■without  regard  to 
classes.  Tables  similar  to  those  of  the  other  branches  will  be  possible  when  a  rearrangement  of  the 
books  is  made. 


Public  Library. 


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APPEOT)ix  xxn. 

SOUTH  END   BRANCH  READING. 


I. 

n. 
in. 

IV. 
V. 

VI. 
VII. 

vm. 

IX. 


Ranges. 


3,4 

1,  2, 13, 14,  17, 18 
5 


7,8 

12 

9,  10 

15,  16 

11 


Classes. 


Biography 

Prose,  Fiction  and  Juveniles 

American  History 

Foreign  History 

Travel 

Miscellaneous 

Arts,  Sciences,  and  Theology  . 

Poetry  and  Drama 

Bound  Periodicals 


Total 


1878. 


13 
O  3 

n2 

J, 

go; 

1,210 

-3 

33,728 

81+ 

1,076 

-3 

903 

2+ 

1,177 

-3 

711 

-2 

722 

-2 

732 

_2 

999 

2+ 

41,258 


APPEIS^DIX    XXIII. 

JAMAICA   PLAIN   BRANCH  READING. 


I. 

II. 

III. 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 

VIII. 

IX. 

X. 

XI. 

XII. 


Ranges. 


I,  2,  3, 
7,8  . 
9,10 

II,  12 
13,14 
15,  16 
17,18 
19,20 
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22.  . 

23.  . 

24.  . 


5.  6 


Classes. 


Fiction  and  Juveniles  . 

Collections 

History 

Biography 

Travel 

Miscellaneous 

Poetry  and  Drama   .  . 
Science  and  Professions 

Periodicals 

Foreign  Languages  .  . 

Fine  Arts 

Useful  Arts 

Total 


O  3 

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19,470 

3,760 

1,121 

736 

785 

373 

322 

193 

344 

12 

100 

116 


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appe:n^dix  xxyiii. 

LIBRARY     SERVICE. 

(^April  30,  1878.) 


o 

S 

Name. 

T3     . 

Position,  Duties,  etc. 

a 
"3    . 

"1 

s  ^ 

OS 

i 

_-  o 
So. 

Librarian  and  Clerk  of  the  Cor- 

James  L.  Whitney  .   .  . 
James  M.  Hubbard  .... 
Frederic  B.  Perkins     .   .   . 
William  H.  Foster    .... 

Edward  Tiiraiiy 

Charles  A.  Wilson    .... 

Annie  P.  Call 

Adelaide  A.  Nichols    .   .   . 

narry  A.  Rawlins     .... 

Total 

1869. 
1874. 
1874. 
1860. 

1877. 

1871. 
1872. 
1868. 

1878. 

Principal  Assistant  Librarian     . 

S 

Register  and  Assistant  Librarian 
Cataloguer  for  Branch  Libraries 

g 
1 

Inspector  of  circulation  in  Lower 
Hall  and  Branch  Libraries  .   . 

Clerk  for  Branch  Libraries  .    .   . 

Librarian's  Secretary 

Auditor  and  Cashier 

Librarian's  Runner 

4 

James  L.  Whitney  .  .  . 
James  M.  Hubbard  .... 
William  H.  Foster    .... 
Jose  F.  Garret 

Anna  C.  D.  Keen 

Susan  A.  Joslyn 

Elizabeth  T.  Reed    .... 

Mary  F.  Osgood 

Roxatma  M.  Eastman  .   .   . 
Frank  C.  Blaisdell    .... 

Richard  Ray 

Card  Catalogues. 
Harriet  E.  Green  .  .  . 
Josephine  Ilewins    .... 

Emily  0.  Osgood 

Ellen  F.  McCarthy  .... 
Total 

1869. 
1874. 
1860. 
1875. 

1872. 
■  1873. 
1873. 
1877. 
1859. 
1876. 
1876. 

1873. 
1875. 
1875. 

1872. 

Principal  of  the  Department  .    . 

1 
1 

•** 

1 

1 

(See  Executive  Department.)  . 

Curator  of  patents  and  engrav- 
ings, and  Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant  in  Patent  Room,  etc.   . 

Assist.ant 

Assistant 

1 

Runner 

Runner 

14 

Assistant 

la 

Public  Libraet. 


59 


LIBRARY    SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


Name. 


BLarriet  N.  Pike 
Adeline  S.  Baylies 
Mary  A.  McGrath 
Louisa  Hewins  .  . 
Richard  Paine  .  . 
Total 


Hg 


1867. 
1877. 
1868. 
1877. 
1878. 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


Chief  Clerk 
Assistant  . 
Assistant  . 
Assistant  . 
Runner    .  . 


C  ' 

O 


5  a. 


Appleton  p.  C.  Griffin 

Arthur  L.  Knight 

Samuel  McConnell   .... 
Total 


1865. 
1876. 
1877. 


Custodian 
Runner  . 
Runner    . 


Arthur  M.  Knapp  , 

Charles  A.  Wilson  .  , 
Alice  M.  Poree  .  .  .  . 
Lydia  F.  Knowles  .  , 
Thomas  Whyte .  .  .  . 
Henry  F.  Barrett  .  .  , 
Thomas  Driver  .   .   .   . 

Albert  Carter 

Robert  J.  Donovan  .   , 

William  M.  S.  Young  , 

Total 


1875. 
1871. 
1866. 
1867. 
1874. 
1878. 
1878. 
1878. 
1876. 
1878. 


Librarian  of  Bates  Hall    .... 
Deputy  and  Clerk  of  the  Branches 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Runner    

Runner    

Runner    

Runner 

Runner   


Edit ARD  Tiffany  . 

Elbridge  Bradshaw  . 
William  F.  Robinson 
Mary  A.  Jenkins  .  . 
Caroline  E.  Por6e  .  . 
Sarah  A.  Mack  .  .  . 
Eliza  J.  Mack  .  .  . 
Elizabeth  Ross  .  .  . 
Annie  M.  Kennedy  . 
Ellen  E.  Bresnahan  . 
Ella  Sturmy  .... 
Margaret  A.  Sheridan 


1878. 

1869. 
1872. 
1877. 
1859. 
1863. 
1863. 
1869. 
1869. 
1869. 
1872. 
1875. 


Inspector  of  circulation  for  Low- 
er Hall  and  Branch  Libraries 

Librarian  of  Lower  Hall .  .   .   . 

Clerk  for  Registration  and  Fines 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant • 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 


60 


City  Document  No.  61. 


LIBRARY    SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


Margaret  Doyle  .  .  .  , 
Mary  N.  Burke  .  .  .  . 
Mary  Connor  .  .  .  .  . 
Margaret  Donovan  . 
Annie  G.  Shea  .  .  ,  . 
Evening  Service. 
William  Hanna  ... 
Robert  B.  Ross  .   .   .   , 

Ella  Dillon 

Catherine  McOrath  . 
Amelia  McGrath  .  . 
Hannah  Clifford  .  . 
Florence  Richards  . 
Margaret  Clifford  .  . 
Total 


1875. 
1875. 
1873. 
1874. 
1874. 

1876. 
1873. 
1876. 
1873. 
1869. 
1876. 
1876. 
1876. 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


^3   y 


|« 


Assistant 
Runner  . 
Runner  . 
Runner  . 
Runner    • 


(  Registration  Clerk  and  Sun- 
(      day  service 

Assistant 


Assistant 
Assistant 
Assistant 
Runner  . 
Runner  . 
Runner    . 


William  E.  Ford  . 
Thomas  Collins  .... 
Jeremiah  Sullivan  .  . 
Extra  daily  assittants 
Total 


Frank  P.  IIatiia-way 
Andrew  M.  Blake     .   .   . 

Romeo  Cervi 

Joseph  R.  Beckett  .  .  . 
Michael  J.  Hoaly  .  .  .  . 
James  Pondergast  .  .  . 
Edward  M.  Roe  .  •  •  . 
Martha  M.  Wheeler  .  . 
Mary  E.  Austen    .   .   .   . 

Mary  Morlarty 

Sarah  E.  Bo  wen  .  •  .  . 
Katherine  Rollly    .   .   .   . 

Frank  Thomas 

Total 


185S. 
1867. 
1874. 


Janitor 
Porter  . 
Porter  . 


1871. 
1870. 
1874. 
1875. 
1875. 
1875. 
1876. 
1869. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1876. 
1874. 


Foreman  . 

Binder     .  . 

Binder     .  . 

Binder  .  .  . 

Binder  .   .  . 

Binder  .   .  . 

Binder     .  . 

Stitcher  .  . 

Stitcher   .  . 

Stitcher  .  . 

Stitcher  .  . 

Stitcher   .  . 
Apprentice 


Public  Library. 

LIBRARY   SERVICE.  —  Conthiued. 


61 


c 
S 

q 

Name. 

a)  o 

Position,  Duties,  etc. 

u 

"3  . 

T3g 
C3    > 

5 

o 
_  o 

p  a 

Sarah  C.  Godbold  .  .  . 

Mary  R.  Pray 

Alice  M.  Wing 

Mary  E.  Cathcart 

Ellen  L.  Lennon 

Adelia  H.  Ghen 

Laura  B.  Morse 

Abbie  M.  Keen 

Jessie  C.  Eraser 

George  H.  Hosea 

Total 

1871. 
1870. 
1872. 
1870. 
1872. 
1876. 
1875. 
1874. 
1876. 
1873. 

< 

o 

8 

e 

1 

^ 

5 

Alice  J.  Bragdon    .  .  . 

Nora  McCarty 

Ellen  A.  Eaton 

Emeogene  C.  Davis  .... 

Idalene  Sampson 

Cora  G.  Hale 

Minnie  E.  Sampson  .... 

Mary  Watson 

Elizabeth  McCarthy    .  ,  . 
Marguerite  Watson  .... 

Joseph  Baljer 

Total 

1872. 
1872. 
1872. 
1873. 
1877. 
1877. 
1877. 
1873. 
1873. 
1877. 
1872. 

5 

fci 

S 

-^ 

O 

3 

6 

n 

Sarah  Bunker  

Mary  Bradley 

Dora  Puffer 

Helen  M.  Bell 

Margaret  E.  Blood   .... 

Florence  Vose 

Louisa  Karcher 

Alice  Morrison 

Alitbea  M.  Hutching    .   .   . 
Elizabeth  C.  Berry  .... 
Charles  E.  Curtis 

Total 

1S76. 
1876. 
1878. 
1878. 
1872. 
1876. 
1877. 
1877. 
1877. 
1877. 
1873. 

5 

4- 

1 

Extra  Runner 

5 

8 

ftj 

6 

11 

62 


City  Document  No.  61. 

LIBRARY   SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


Name. 


Dr.  Cornelius  S.  Cart£e 

Susan  Edwards 

Annie  E.  Eberle 

Lilian  Davis    ....... 

Harriet  N.  Davis 

Mary  P.  Swain 

Anna  S.  Woodberry  .  .  . 
Frederick  W.  Parker  .  .  . 
Frederick  W.  Baxter  .  .  . 
Thomas  E.  Smith 


H 


Total 


1870. 
1869. 
1874. 
1874. 
1874. 
1878. 
1878. 
1877. 
1878. 
1874. 


Position,  Duties,  cet. 


Librarian  .  .  . 
Assistant  .  .  . 
Assistant  .  .  . 
Runner  .... 
Extra  Assistant 
Extra  Assistant 
Extra  Assistant 
Extra  Runner  . 
Extra  Runner  . 
Janitor     .... 


_H  o 


Mary  E.  Brock  . 
Bridget  T.  Grailey 
Alma  J.  'Wilson  . 
James  M.  Brock    . 


Total 


1875. 
1874. 
1875. 
1878. 


Librarian  .  .  . 
Assistant  .  .  . 
Extra  Assistant 
Janitor    .... 


Mart  G.  Coffin  .  . 
Esther  R.  Whiton  . 
Mary  Jane  Sheridan 

Mary  Elms 

Mary  A.  Hill  .  .  .  . 
Edward  Davenport  . 


Total 


1874. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1875. 
1875. 


Librarian 

Assistant 

Extra  Assistant 

Extra  Assistant 

Agent  at  Lower  Mills  Delivery  , 
Janitor 


Milton  Austin  .  , 
Maude  M.  Morse  .  . 
Esther  M.  Hinckley  , 
William  M.  Dudley  , 

Total  .   .   .  .  , 


1877. 
1878. 
1878. 
1877. 


Librarian 
Assistant 
Assistant 
Runner    . 


Public  Library. 

LIBEARY   SERVICE.  —  Concluded. 


63 


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t; 

Q 

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H 

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1 
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1 

1 

2 

—  o 

Eliza  R.  Davis 

Anna  J.  Barton 

Herbert  A.  Johnson    .   .   . 

Ellen  F.  Riley 

Orlando  Johnson 

Total 

1877. 
1876. 
1877. 
1878. 
1878. 

Librarian 

< 

1 

•S 

s 

"3 
S 

3 

5 

SUMMARY. 

Regulars.    Extras. 

Register,  Secretary,  Auditor,  and  Runner,  4 

Catalogue  Department        ....  H             1 

Purchase  Department          ....  5 

Shelf  Department        .....  3 

Bates  Hall  Circulation  Department     .         .  10 
Lower  Hall  Circulation  Department,  Day, 

Evening,  and  Sunday  Service           .         .  17             8 

Janitor's  Department           ....  3 

Bindery       . 13 

East  Boston  Branch 5            5 

South  Boston  Branch          ....  6             5 

Roxbury  Branch 6             5 

Charlestown  Branch 5             5 

Brighton  Branch 3             1 

Dorchester  Branch 3             3 

South  End  Branch 4 

Jama  ca  Tiain  Branch          ....  3             2 

Totals 104          35 

35 

Grand  Total  ....  139 


Central  Library. 

G9  regulars. 

9  extras. 

78  in  all. 


Branches. 
35  regulars. 
26  extras. 


61  in  all. 


AGENTS. 

Messrs.  Lee  and  Shepard,  Boston. 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown,  and  Co.,  and  Sampson  Low,  Marston,  Low,  and 
Searle,  Boston  and  London. 
Mr.  Edward  G.  Allen  (for  English  patents),  London. 
Mr.  F.  W.  Christern,  and 'M.  Charles  Reinwald,  New  York  and  Paris. 
Dr.  Felix  Fliigel,  Leipzig. 
Chev.  Eugenio  Alberi,  Florence. 
Seiior  Don  Juan  F.  Riaiio,  Madrid. 


APPENDIX    XXIX. 

EXAMINATION       OF       THE       LII5RARY  , 


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Of  these  found  to  be 

Lent 

At  the  binderies  .  .  .  . 
Otherwise  accounted  for 
Not  accounted  for    .   .  . 

Not  on  shelves 

Of  these  found  to  be 

Lent 

At  the  binderies  .  .  .  . 
Otherwise  accounted  for 
Not  accounted  for    .  .   . 


Bates  Hall. 


1874 

1875 

1870 

1877 

2,621 

3,612 

3,653 

3,222 

939 

1,970 

2,161 

1,991 

85-2 

997 

920 

622 

801 

696 

642 

673 

29 

49 

30 

36 

3,205 


Lower  Hall. 


5,254 
622 


East  Boston  Branch. 


1876 

1877 

2.022 

1,820 

1,811 

1,618 

73 

44 

133 

153 

5 

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South  Boston  Branch. 


1874 

1875 

1876 

1877 

2,309 

2,396 

2,068 

2,047 

1,993 

2,101 

1,876 

1,932 

129 

155 

141 

72 

185 

128 

60 

43 

2 

12 

1 

Eoxbcry  Branch. 


Charlestown  Branch. 


1874 

1875 

1876 

1877 

2,908 

2,441 

2,850 

3,300 

2,200 

2,283 

2,577 

3,017 

89 

144 

168 

253 

7 

8 

98 

26 

2 

6 

7 

4 

Brighton  Branch. 


Dorchester  Branch. 


1,835 


1,662 


13,181 

1,396 

2,010 

67 


14,816 

2,121 

1,917 

244 


18,815 

2.296 

1,560 

204 


19,130 
1,887 


18,968 

2,095 

1,477 

135 


*  Including  Fellowes  Athenaeum. 


Public  Libraey.  65 


APPENDIX  XXIX. 


To  the  Superintendent:  — 

In  the  foregoing  tables  ai*e  respectfull}'  presented  the  results  of 
the  annual  examination  of  the  Central  Library  and  Bi-anches,  for 
the  year  ending  April  3U,  1878      In  the 

Bates  Hall 

the  examination  has  resulted  in  finding  31  books  missing.  Many 
of  these  are  onl}'  temporaril}"  missing,  and  probabl}^  will  be  found 
b}'  another  examination  of  the  shelves.  Of  34  books  missing 
at  the  last  report,  10  have  been  found;  2  missing  in  1875  have 
also  reappeared.     In  the 

Lower  Hall 

a  larger  number  of  missing  books  is  to  be  reported  than  that  of  last 
3'ear.  There  seems  to  be  no  special  reason  to  assign  for  the  in- 
crease. 2  books  missing  in  1864,  1  in  1867,  '72  and  '74,  3  in 
1875,  and  4  in  1876  have  reappeared.     From  the 

Branches 

very  satisfactor}'  returns  are  made.  The  largest  number  un- 
accounted for,  from  an}'  one  Branch,  being  7,  and  3  report  all 
accounted  for.     The  following  are  missing  from 

Reading-Room   Desk. 

Putnam's  Best  Reading  ;  Gage's  English-French  Dictionary  ;  Bart- 
lett's  Familiar  Quotations ;  Gorton's  Biographical  Dictionary ; 
Chambers'  Encyloptedia,  Index. 

Bates-Hall  Desk. 

Putnam's  Best  Reading  (2  copies)  ;  Bartlett's  Familiar  Quotations  ; 
Dictionar}'  of  Latin  Poetical  Quotations  ;  Rich's  Companion  to 
Latin  Dictionar}- ;  Fairholt's  Dictionary  of  Terms  in  Art. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

A.  P.  C.  GRIFFIN, 

Custodian  of  the  Shelves. 


66 


City  Document  No.  61. 


APPENDIX    XXX. 


WORK    IN    THE    LIBRARY    BINDERY. 


Character  of  "Work. 


Bates  Hall  books  bound  and 
finished 

Books  of  the  Lower  Hall 
aud  Branches 

Books  repaired 

Catalogues  wired  and  cov- 
ered for  public  use  in 
Lower  Hall  and  Branches 

Maps  dissected  and  mounted 

Map-volumca  and  shelf-lists 
mounted 

Pamphlet  cases 

Portfolios 

Removable  covers  for  cata- 
logues and  for  paper-cov- 
ered books    

Maps  mounted,  bound,  and 
bordered    

Hours  of  miscellaneous 
work 


« 

« 

* 

2,219 

2,008 

2,635 

1,015 

744 

753 

396 

430 

492 

490 

437 

2S7 

47 

28 

91 

212 

165 

109  (, 

646 

64 

24 

5 

8 

sj 

266 

263 

4o0 

54 

41 

8 

1,842 

2,297 

1,437 

,508 
444 

143-) 
493  1 


2,486 


3,223 


7,766 
959 


1,287 


4,759 

8,743 
873 


2.712 


1,271 


4,155 

11,129 
949 


953 


1,469 


2,183 


2,586 


2,778 


rt 


3^