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CITY  OF  fr^Rj  BOSTON. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH  ANNUAL  REPORT 

OF    THE 

TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

18  7  9. 


[A.] 

The  Trustees  hav^c  the  honor  to  present  to  the  City  Council 
their  twenty-seventh  annual  report.  It  is  the  first  made 
under  the  Act  of  Incorporation  of  the  4th  of  April,  1878,  aud 
includes  the  details  of  condition  and  of  administration  for 
the  year  ending  the  30th  of  A[)ril  last. 

Two  other  reports  are  also  herewith  submitted  :  one  of  the 
Examining  Committee,  consisting  for  the  present  year  of 
Rev.  Joshua  P.  Bodfish,  Reginald  H.  Fitz,  M.D.,  Prof. 
Henry  W.  Haynes,  George  B.  Hyde,  Esq.,  Charles  E.  Jen- 
kins, Esq.,  John  T.  Morse,  Jr.,  Esq.,  and  Prof.  Thomas  S. 
Perry,  with  Alderman  Hugh  O'Brien,  a  member  of  the  Board, 
as  Chairman  ;  and  the  other,  of  the  Librarian. 

In  view  of  the  magnitude  of  the  Library,  and  the  continued 
extension  of  its  administrative  force,  it  was  deemed  expedi- 
ent, under  the  power  given  by  the  ordinance,  to  add  to  the 
examining  committee,  selected  from  the  citizens  at  large, 
two  members,  making  the  number,  with  their  chairman, 
eight,  instead  of  six.  The  good  policy  of  this  enlargement 
is  shown  by  the  character  of  their  observations,  and  the 
enlightened  interest  which  t:hey  have  taken  in  the  varied 
work  of  the  institution  in  all  its  branches. 

Their  meetings  have  been  more  numerous,  and  their  inves- 
tigations more  extensive  than  those  of  any  committee  for 
several  years.  The  important  question  of  the  removal  of  the 
Library;  the  quality  and  extent  of  the  circulation  of  the 
books ;  the  condition  of  the  branches ;  the  relation  of  the 


2       •  City  Document  No.  78. 

institution  to  its  patrons  ;  the  want  of  provision  for  suitable 
accommodation  tor  scholars, — these  and  other  topics  receive 
careful  attention,  and  reference  must  be  made  to  the  report 
for  a  full  understanding  of  their  conclusions.  This  docu- 
ment, from  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bodfish,  has  the  great 
merit  of  showing  the  tidelity  with  which  such  disinterested 
service  may  be  rendered. 

The  report  of  the  Librarian  covers  the  seven  months  of  his 
experience  in  this  most  responsible  position,  and,  necessa- 
rily avoiding  minute  detail,  gives  his  general  impressions  as 
to  the  present  usefulness  of  the  institution,  and  such  changes 
as  his  brief  experience  have  shown  to  be  judicious.  His  con- 
victions about  the  Library  are  earnest  and  are  forcibly  ex- 
pressed . 

On  the  6th  of  ALay,  1878,  the  corporation  was  organized 
under  the  Act  of  April  4,  1878,  by  the  election  as  President 
of  the  officer  who  had  acted  in  that  position  in  the  previous 
administration,  and  of  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green,  as  Librarian  and 
Clerk,  who  had  succeeded  Mr.  Justin  Winsor  on  his  resigna- 
tion. After  a  valuable  and  disinterested  library  service  of  a 
year.  Dr.  Green  terminated  his  Avork  on  the  1st  of  October. 
On  the  2(ith  of  August  the  Hon.  JNIellen  Chambeilain  was 
unanimousl}'  elected,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office 
on  the  1st  of  October.  The  Library  may  be  deemed  fortunate 
to  have  had  no.  break  in  its  reguhir  service,  and  no  further 
change  in  its  policy  than  might  naturally  arise  in  a  new  over- 
sight of  its  internal  arrangements.  Such  traditions  as  its 
experience  has  given  it,  modified  by  the  new  relations  which 
are  constantly  arising,  may  be  felt  to  be  safely  confided  to  the 
careful,  thorough,  and  intelligent  supervision  of  the  new  and 
accomplished  Librarian. 

In  the  inaugural  address  of  His  Honor' the  jNIayor,  in  re- 
ferring to  the  Public  Library,  he  says  :  "The  necessity  of 
more  ample  accommodations  for  this  institution  has  long  been 
recognized,  but  no  government  has  felt  justified  in  expend- 
ing the  moneys  required  for  this  pnrpose. 

"  Whether  such  a  building  as  the  safety  and  the  conven- 
ience of  the  Library  requires  shall  be  built  on  some  of  the 
Back-bay- lots,  or  whether  an  addition  shall  be  made  to  the 
present  edifice  on  the  land  in  its  rear  (east  side),  purchased  in 
1872  ;  or  whether  relief  shall  be  obtained  by  removal  of  the 
Lower  Hall  Library  and  Reading-Koom  to  other  quarters, 
are  questions  which  should  receive  yoiu'  attention,  as  it  is 
necessary  that  something  should  be  done.  A  proposition  to 
build  an  addition  to  the  present  building  seems  to  me  inex- 
pedient and  unwise,  as  it  would  be  merely  a  temporary 
relief,  involving  a  considerable  expense. 


•    Public  Library.  3 

"I  would  suggest,  as  the  best  thing  at  this  time,  the  re- 
moval of  the  Lower  Hall  Library  and  Reading-Room,  to 
some  convenient  place,  until  the  time  shall  arrive  when  it 
will  be  proper  to  erect  a  new  building." 

In  order  that  the  City  Council  may  understand  precisely 
the  present  state  of  the  institution,  with  its  arrangements  for 
the  public  convenience,  it  is  desiiable  to  rehearse  in  part  the 
facts  which  have  appeared  in  previous  reports  of  the  trustees. 

Two  separate  relations  must  be  borne  in  mind  at  the  out- 
set as  affecting  its  present  condition  and  future  usefulness. 

First,  the  contents  of  the  building  are  of  such  inappre- 
ciable value  that  if  destroyed  they  never  could  be  fully  re- 
stored. Second,  notwithstanding  its  great  popularity,  it 
would  receive  a  much  larger  number  of  visitors  in  its  dif- 
ferent departments,  and  apw  rata  increase  of  usefulness,  were 
suitable  accommodations  afforded. 

In  consequence  of  its  surroundings  and  internal  structure 
the  Boylston-street  Library  is  not  perfectly  lire-proof;  its 
ventilation,  insufficient  both  in  the  Upper  and  Lower  Halls, 
affects  the  health  of  the  attendants,  and  seriously  injures 
the  condition  of  the  books  stored  in  the  upper  alcoves ;  the 
shelving  falls  short  of  the  necessities  of  the  classitications  ; 
there  is  no  accommodation  for  the  valuable  collection  of 
newspapers,  in  quarters  convenient  for  consultation;  the 
waiting-room  in  the  Lower  Hall  has  no  separation  of  access 
for  men,  women,  and  boys,  and  requires  a  much  larger  area; 
there  are  no  rooms  where  students  can  pursue  their  special 
investigations  without  interruption  ;  the  Reading-Room,  ad- 
mitting only  the  hundred  chairs  prescribed  under  the  bequest 
of  Mr.  Bates,  could  be  extended  five  or  six  fold  with  great 
advantage  to  its  readers.  The  building  is  therefore  deficient 
in  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  constructed,  the  perfect 
preservation  of  its  contents,  and  a  sufficiency  of  accom- 
modations for  its. patrons. 

Are  the  dangers  and  inconveniences  of  the  present  struc- 
ture to  be  only  obviated  by  the  construction  of  a  new  build- 
ing on  a  different  site,  or  can  such  changes  and  modifications 
be  made  as  will  be  sufficient  for  the  protection  of  the  prop- 
erty, and  the  entire  convenience  of  the  public? 

Before  this  question  can  be  rightly  determined  it  is  proper 
to  consider  what  the  Public  Library  is.  It  is  an  institution  of 
widely  different  but  parallel  uses  ;  of  both  popular  and  educa- 
tional aim.  Its  popular  side  includes  the  Lower  Hall  Library, 
Avith  the  Reading-Room,  frequented  by  the  great  masses  of 
its  patrons.  These  must  be  situated  where  they  will  be  most 
convenient  to  the  largest  number  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
city.       The  present  site,   or  one  in  its  immediate  vicinity 


4  City  Document  No.  78. 

probably  answers  these  requirements.  The  great  educational 
and  reference  library  is  mainly  contained  in  Bates  Hall,  and 
in  the  sonth-west  tower  of  the  ])uilding.  This  is  the  collec- 
tion in  relation  to  the  absolute  safety  of  which  anxiety 
naturally  exists,  and  the  removal  to  secure  this  end  is 
the  debatable  point.  As  it  comprises  books  only  to  be 
used  in  the  l)uilding,  either  as  a  condition  of  gift  or 
acquirement,  works  for  reference  and  consultation,  and 
voliunes  of  permanent  value,  many  of  which,  however,  cir- 
culate, the  location  of  the  building  containing  them  is  of  im- 
portance to  a  smaller  number  of  visitors  than  those  interested 
in  the  other  branch  of  the  Library.  That  is  to  say,  the 
character  of  the  contents  of  the  Up})er  Hall  is  such  that  the 
great  majority  of  people  using  it  would  follow  it  from  its 
present  site  to  almost  any  other  part  of  the  city  proper, 
where  an  estate  suitable  for  its  erection  could  be  obtained. 

if  deemed  expedient  to  remove  the  whole  Boylston-street 
Librarjs  can  these  economic  and  divers  conditions  be  combined 
on  any  other  site?     This  is  the  real  problem  to  be  solved. 

If  the  Library  is  to  remain  in  Boylston  street  new  land  must 
be  acquired  from  the  property  adjacent,  either  for  the  erec- 
tion of  a  separate  building,  to  l)e  specially  used  to  meet  the 
great  necessities  of  the  Lower  Hall  Library  and  the  Reading- 
Koom,  or  for  such  enlargement  of  the  present  edifice  as,  so 
far  as  practicable,  would  meet  the  whole  of  its  future  require- 
ments. 

If  deemed  advisable  to  remove  the  great  collection  con- 
tained in  Bates  Hall  and  the  tower  to  a  perfectly  isolated 
and  tire-proof  structure,  might  it  not  be  well  to  consider 
whether  the  present  building  could  not  be  adapted  to  the 
needs  of  an  enlarged  popular  Library,  and  the  miieh-extended 
accommodation  re(iuirtd  for  the  Keading-Koom? 

The  summary  of  libiary  work  lor  the  year  will  be  found 
to  present  details  of  an  important  character.  The  aggregate 
nmnber  of  volumes  contained  in  Bates  Hall  is  212,545;  in 
the  Lower  Hall,  3(3,1 1(5 ;  in  the  basement,  17,*J8U;  in  the 
Branches,  i)4,322  ;  making  a  total  of  3t)0,9()3, — a  net  in- 
crease for  the  year  of  14,92(5  volumes,  or  4  per  cent. 

The  libraries  were  open  to  the  public  3(»8  days,  with  the 
exception  of  the  South  Boston  Branch,  which  was  closed  for 
alteration  and  enlargement  from  August  12th  to  November 
2d.  The  East  Bo>ton  Branch  also  stopped  its  delivery  of 
books,  on  account  of  necessary  repairs,  from  October  7th 
to  19th. 

The  exclusion  from  circulation  of  the  books  of  the  two 
branches  during  these  periods  resulted  in  a  diminished 
aggregate  of    books  loaned    as    compared   with   last   year ; 


Public  Library.  5 

the  total  of  1877-8  having  been  1,183,991,  and  of  1878-9, 
1,180,565. 

The  following  table  shows  the  comparative  contents  and 
use  of  the  Central  Lil)r.iry,  and  the  Branches  for  the  present 
and  previous  library  year. 

Books  in  the  basement  are  excluded. 


Lower  Hall  .... 
East  Boston  .... 
South  Boston    .   .   . 

Roxbury 

Charlestown  .... 

Brighton 

Dorchester 

South  End 

Jamaica  Plain    .    .   . 

Total 

Bates  Hall 

Fellowes  Atheuseum 


No.  of  Vols. 

April  30, 

1878. 


35,862 

10,049 

8,754 

11,114 

18,681 

12,535 

8,763 

8,804 

6,620 


121,182 

203,928 

4,458 


329,568 


Circulation 

1877-78. 


391,175 

106.596 

140,751 

113,495 

101, .540 

29,247 

64,974 

42,402 

30,280 


,020,460 
146,996 
16,535 


1,183,991 


No.  of  Vols. 

April  30, 

1879. 


36,116 

10,362 

9,279 

11,749 

19,675 

12,724 

9,325 

9,240 

7,290 


125,760 

212,545 

4,678 


342,983 


Circulation 

1878-79. 


363,193 
98.681 
118,844 
113,763 
88,740 
28,928 
59,673 
75,867 
52,960 


1,000,649 

163,790 

16,126 


1,180,565 


In  this  table  it  is  first  noticeable  that  the  delivery  of  books 
from  the  Lower  Hall  has  fallen  off  about  28,000  volumes. 
This  is  due  to  two  catises  :  — 

First,  to  a  limited  purchase  of  the  lower  grades  of  fiction  ; 
and,  second,  to  the  greater  convenience  of  the  South  End 
Branch  to  the  district  which  it  supplies,  and  which  formerly 
mainly  relied  upon  the  Lower  Hall  Library. 

South  Boston  Branch  would  probably  have  sent  out  as 
many  books  as  during  the  previous  year  had  its  doors  not 
been  closed  for  over  eleven  weeks.  It  will  be  seen  also  that 
the  branches  at  the  South  End  and  Jamaica  Plain  have  met 
with  marked  success. 

The  popular  lil)rarie.s  during  the  year  were  increased  4,578 
volumes,  and  their  circulation  diminished  19,811  volumes. 
To  the  consulting  libraries  were  added  8,837  books,  and 
their  use  increased  16,385  volumes. 

The  table  indicates  that  the  circulation  of  the  last  year  is 
nearly  as  large  as  that  of  the  year  before  ;  but  there  is  no 
question  on  the  part  of  the  trustees  that  the  books  loaned 
were  on  the  whole  of  a  hicrher  character.     The  increase  of 


6  City  Document  No.   78. 

the  use  of  the  books  in  Bates  Hall  continues  to  be  large, 
amounting  to  11  per  cent,  over  the  previous  year. 

The  connection  between  the  Library  and  the  children  in  the 
schools  is  receiving  particular  attention.  During  the  year 
a  conference  was  held  with  Dr.  Eliot,  the  superintendent, 
and  with  a  committee  of  the  masters,  to  see  whether  a  jirac- 
tical  system  could  be  devised  whereby  a  better  class  of  books 
could  be  circulated  on  their  recommendation  among  their 
pupils,  and  a  larger  assistance  in  works  of  consultation  be 
given  to  the  masters.  The  negotiation  is  still  in  progress,  and 
it  is  earnestly  to  be  desiied  that  some  etiicient  result  may  be 
obtained  from  it. 

While  it  is  no  part  of  the  design  of  the  Public  Library  to 
furnish  text-books  for  teachers  or  scholars,  it  is  yet  not  ditii- 
cult  to  see  how  it  may  be  made  to  work  in  harmony  with 
courses  of  reading  and  instruction.  Popular  books  of  con- 
tinuous interest  may  be  duplicated  so  as  to  supply  the  need 
of  a  larger  demand. 

It  is  possible,  also,  that  it  may  be  desirable  to  print  a  list  of 
books  considered  especiall>^  useful,  as  well  as  harmless,  for 
school  children.  To  obtain  this  result,  however,  the  co- 
operation of  the  teachers  will  be  largely  important,  and  there 
is  little  doubt  but  that  it  Avill  l)e  gladly  rendered. 

In  any  event,  however,  it  is  practical)le  that  a  specified 
number  of  books  may  be  distributed  weekly  by  the  masters  of 
schools  under  the  guarantee  of  the  School  Conuiiittee  for 
their  careful  treatment  and  safe  return  ;  and  thus  cover  a 
larger  ground  of  interest  and  instruction  than  is  at  present 
attainable. 

It  is,  however,  in  the  ditferent  grades  of  fiction  that  the 
diflicultios  of  the  ade(|uate  supervision  of  the  circulation 
chielly  arise.  With  collections  of  this  popular  form  of 
literature  adai)ted  in  the  Lower  Hall  and  branches  to 
satisfy  the  taste  and  understanding  of  every  man,  woman, 
and  child,  not  vicious  in  tendencies,  it  is  obviously  a  task 
requiring  no  common  ingenuity,  not  only  to  direct  atten- 
tion to,  but  to  secure  the  perusal  of,  the  better  class  of 
works  of  imagination. 

Fiction  and  juveniles  now  comprise  a  large  and  dis- 
tinct class  in  literature.  The  extent  of  subjects  upon  which 
they  treat  is  of  the  widest  possible  compass.  AVhile  the 
standard  historical  and  social-life  stories  continue  to  attract 
the  cultivated,  it  is  not  surprising  that  the  sensational,  vision- 
ary, and  vapid  narratives  should  find  a  full  reception  from  the 
less  critical  and  consequently  more  numerous  class  of  readers. 

With  a  view  to  obtain  some  approximate  results  on  this 
point,  attention    has   been  given   to  the    circulation  of  the 


Public  Library.  7 

works  of  a  few  of  the  popular  and  sensational  writers, 
whose  tales  were  most  attractive  to  youth  and  to  adults.  By 
this  examination  it  has  been  found  that  the  circulation  of 
these  specified  authors  in  the  Lower  Hail  Library  and  in  the 
branches  (with  the  exception  of  Charlestown,  from  which  in- 
formation was  not  obtained),  indicates  that  the  apparent 
average  delivery  of  each  volume  was  about  forty  in  the  year, 
while  the  great  mass  of  the  less  attractive  but  really  better 
class  of  novels  did  not  find  over  thirteen  readers  in  a  year. 

These  figures,  however,  must  be  taken  only  as  propor- 
tional, and  to  bo  confirmed  or  changed  by  continuous  exami- 
nation. It  is  sufficiently  evident,  however,  that  the  class  of 
fiction  not  immoral,  but  of  the  lowest  value,  attracts  the  ma- 
jority of  readers. 

Is  a  remedy  to  be  songht  for  this  condition  of  things,  or  is 
this  the  natural  result  of  the  popular  reading  of  fiction  not 
immoral?  The  theory  from  the  outset  has  been,  that  a  taste 
for  reading  once  formed  would  continue  to  rise  ;  that  the  mind 
having  been  fed  sufficiently  with  the  thinnest  possible  intellec- 
tual viands  would  naturally  seek  a  stronger  nutriment ;  that  the 
sweetened  or  palatable  food,  not  deemed  hurtful  in  juvenile 
development,  would  by  and  by  assist  in  forming  a  healthy  appe- 
tite. If  intervals  of  leisure  were  not  innocently  employed, 
other  conditions  would  arise  to  fill  the  vacuum,  of  at  least  ques- 
tionable tendency.  Mental  occupation ,  even  in  the  lowest  form 
of  simple  amusement,  is  a  direct  gain  to  the  classes  which 
gradually  become  dangerous  for  want  of  any  employment  in 
their  leisure  hours.  In  furnishing  reading,  then,  from  a  free 
library  to  every  grade,  even  the  lowest  in  the  community,  it 
is  certainly  for  the  benefit  of  the  body  politic  that  a  class  of 
books  suited  to  its  capacity  should  be  furnished  at  the  pul)lic 
expense  ;  but  the  number  of  these  should  obviously  be  limited, 
and  this  limit  will  naturally  be  somewhat  in  excess  of  the  real 
need,  from  an  anxiety  that  the  least  intelligent  class  in  the 
community  should  be  as  proportionately  well  served  as  the 
best  citizens. 

It  is  not  in  one  year,  or  in  a  decade  of  years,  that  popular 
libraries  can  be  so  constituted  as  to  provide  for  all  the  moral 
and  intellectual  wants  of  a  community.  No  library  could 
ever  be  collected  for  the  use  of  all  tlescriptions  of  age  and 
cultivation  in  which  all  the  books  shall  circulate  in  equal  pro- 
portions, or  in  which  even  all  the  books  can  be  made  to  cir- 
culate. The  classes  of  books  are  easily  known  which  the 
more  cultivated  people  in  any  community  desire  ;  but  the 
works  which  are  attractive  to  the  immature  intellect,  and 
which  are  not  objectionable  in  style  or  aim,  are  more  difficult 
of  selection. 


8  City  Document  No.  78. 

The  record  of  books  lost  still  continues  to  be  most  satis- 
factory. But  one  book  is  unaccounted  for  out  of  every 
11,805  circulated,  exceeding  even  the  favorable  results  of 
last  year,  which  were  the  best  yet  reported. 

The  branches  at  South  Boston,  Brighton,  Dorchester,  and 
Jamaica  Plain,  with  an  aggregate  issue  of  260,405  books, 
lost  none. 

The  Central  Library  suffered  to  nearly  the  same  extent  as 
last  year,  losing  from  Bates  and  Lower  Hall  87  volumes 
against  90  in  1878. 

These  figures  are  most  gratifying,  as  showing-  the  general 
care  of  borrowers,  as  well  as  the  fidelity  of  the  Library 
service. 

In  the  report  of  the  trustees,  last  year,  a  statement  was 
made  rehitive  to  the  number  of  volumes  condemned  during 
the  previous  five  years ;  but,  in  order  to  judge  what  the 
wear  and  tear  of  the  Library  has  been,  a  table  is  annexed, 
showing  the  number  of  condemned  books  for  each  interval  of 
five  years,  from  1854  to  1878,  inclusive  :  — 

1854-58 734 

1859-63 1,376 

1864-68 3,012 

1869-73 3,621 

1874-78  .         .         .         .         .  15,838 

1879  4,028 


Total 28,609 

When  it  is  i-emembered  that  these  28,609  volumes  were  de- 
stroyed and  lost  in  a  circulation  from  the  beginning  of  the  Li- 
brary and  its  branches,  of  10,483,431  volumes,  or  one  volume 
to  each  366  circulated,  in  twenty-one  years'  use  of  the  Central 
liibrary,  and  a  proportionate!}'  shorter  use  of  the  branches, 
the  result  on  the  whole  is  not  surprising.  Fortunately,  those 
books  were  from  the  class  of  reading  which  is  most  popular 
and  inexpensive,  and  new  copies  have  been  purchased  except 
in  cases  where  file  number  of  duplicates  was  considered  to  be 
sufficient,  or  where  the  books  were  out  of  print,  or  deemed 
objectionable.  During  the  same  period  there  was  ])aid  into 
the  city  treasury,  from  the  sale  of  cat'ilogues  and  tines  col- 
lected ut  the  main  Library  and  branches  (with  tiie  exception 
of  Charlestown  and  Brighton,  whose  contributions  were  made 
sul)soquent  to  their  accession  to  the  city),  the  sum  of 
$26, ()95. 61,  which  probabl}'-  would  have  been  amply  sufficient 
if  retained  by  the  Library  to  make  its  losses  good. 

There  would  seem  to  be  a  special  justice  that  the  patrons 


Public  Library.  9 

of  the  Library   in  whose    service  these  volumes  had    been 
destroyed  should  thus  pay  for  their  restoration. 

The  catalogue  work  of  the  year  has  borne  large  practical 
fruit  :  beside  the  regular  quarterly  bulletins  there  have  been 
issued  two  much-needed  branch  catalogues, —  one  for  the 
Library  in  East  Boston,  and  the  other  for  that  in  South 
Boston.  The  great  Ticknor  Catalogue,  the  work  of  so  many 
years,  has  been  thoroughly  and  accurately  completed  by  Mr. 
James  L.  Whitney,  and  will  be  very  shortly  ready  for  distri- 
bution. The  first  part  of  the  Barton  Catalogue,  comprising 
the  important  Shakespeare  collection,  has  been  finished, 
micler  the  careful  and  scholarly  supervision  of  Mr.  James  M. 
Hubbard,  and  printed. 

To  indicate  the  variety  and  extent  of  work  which  falls  upon 
this  department,  it  may  be  added  that  the  number  of  volumes 
catalogued  during  the  year  was  2.5,259,  which  requiredr 
inclusive  of  cross-references,  6'i.205  cards.  Of  these  cards 
8,<i24  were  for  the  branches.  The  niunber  of  persons  inves- 
tigating special  subjects,  assisted  during  the  year  by  the 
catalogue  attendants,  and  by  Mr.  Knapp,  Librarian  of  Bates 
Hall,  amounted  to  9,172.  For  the  previous  year  consulta- 
tion was  had  b}'  6,284  persons,  showing  a  gratifying  increase 
in  this  important  part  of  library  service. 

The  accommodations  for  visitors  at  the  branch  libraries, 
with  the  exception  of  the  one  at  the  South  End,  are  found  to 
be  amply  sufficient.  The  room  occupied  by  the  South  Boston 
Branch  has  been  nearly  doubled  in  size  during  the  past  year, 
and  a  lease  of  the  premises  taken  by  the  city  government  for 
ten  years.  The  condition  of  the  South  End  Branch  has  been 
noted  in  the  report  of  the  Visiting  Committee  as  insufiicient, 
and  the  trustees  recommend  that  the  suliject  be  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Public  Buildings  of  the  City  Council,  to 
make  such  provisions  for  its  necessities  as  the  interests  of  the 
Library  require. 

During  the  past  year,  also,  the  premises  occupied  in  the 
Library  building  for  the  bindery,  having  been  found  entirely 
inadequate,  were  much  enlarged  and  improved.  This  de- 
partment is  now  provided  with  sufficient  room  and  every 
needed  convenience  for  its  work,  —  a  work,  too,  which  must 
necessarily  increase  year  by  year,  from  the  wear  and  tear  of 
circulation,  and  the  continued  influx  of  books  requiring  re- 
binding. 

It  continues  to  maintain  the  high  standard  of  workmanship 
which  obtained  for  it  a  medal  at  the  Centennial  Exhibition, 
a^id  secured  for  the  Library  also  a  gold  medal  at  the  Universal 
Exhibition  at  Paris  in  1<S78,  from  which  the  Library  is  to 
receive  another  medal  for  its  published  contribution. 


10  City  Document  No.   78. 

The  total  woi^k  of  the  year  in  the  bhicleiy,  derived  fi'om 
Bates  Hall  and  the  branches,  amoiuited  to  14,356  volumes 
bound  and  1,371  repaired.  Besides  this  there  has  been  a 
large  variet}^  of  labor  which  canuot  be  tabulated  in  any 
convenient  form  of  statistics. 

In  addition  to  this  there  has  been  employed,  under  the  spe- 
cial direction  of  the  Librarian,  a  person  who  finds  continued 
occupation  in  attending  to  the  slight  repairs  of  the  volumes 
on  the  shelves,  in  which,  if  the  injury  is  not  at  once  taken 
care  of,  the  books  will  soon  require  to  be  wholly  rebound. 

The  trustees  have  again  to  acknowledge  with  pleasure  au 
addition  of  $1,000  to  the  permanent  funds  of  the  institution,  — 
the  generous  gift  of  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green,  who  requires 
that  its  income  should  be  spent  in  the  purchase  of  books  re- 
lating to  Anierican  History.  The  Library  has  also  received 
from  J.  Ingersoll  Bowditch,  Esq.,  a  third  sum  of  $500,  to  be 
devoted  t(^  the  increase  of  the  Bowditch  collection. 

One  of  the  trustees,  whose  name  is  withheld  at  his  request, 
has  made  a  large  purchase  of  recently  published  periodicals, 
in  order  to  try  the  experiment  of  their  use  in  circulation, 
which  so  far  has  met  with  a  marked  snccess.  Besides  this 
the  Library  is  indebted  to  470  givers  for  3,680  volumes  and 
8,786  pamphlets.  In  addition,  an  arm-chair,  constructed 
from  the  wood  of  the  old  Elm  on  the  Common,  has  been  given, 
for  the  perpetual  use  of  the  President,  by  a  member  of  the 
Board . 

This  closes  the  record  of  another  prosp^^rous  3'ear.  With 
the  Library  strengthened  in  all  its  departments  of  learning, 
art,  and  literature,  it  yearly  becomes  better  fitted  to  meet  the 
multitudinous  wants  which  it  is  called  upon  to  fill.  The 
number  of  volumes  in  any  library  does  not  indicate  value  ; 
but  for  the  great  collection  of  works  of  an  important  charac- 
ter in  this  institution  all  scholars  and  readers  have  reason  to 
pay  a  thankful  tribute. 

WILLLVM   AA\    GREENOUGH, 
WESTOX    LEWIS. 
RICHARD   FROTHIXGHAM, 
GEORGE   B.  CHASE, 
JAMES   FREEMAN    CLARKE, 
HUGH   O'lUHEN, 
ROGER   WOLCOTT. 

Public  Libuvry,  June  21st,  187!). 


Public  Libhary.  11 


[B.] 
REPORT   OF   THE   EXAMINING    COMMITTEE, 

CONSISTING   OF 

Rev.  Joshua  P.  Bodfish,  Geo.  B.  Hyde,  Esq.,  Charles 
E.  Jenkins,  Esq.,  Henry  W.  Haynes,  Esq.,  Reginald  H. 
FiTz,  M.D.,  John  T.  Morse,  Jr.,  Esq.,  T.  S.  Perry, 
Esq.,  with  Alderman  Hugh  O'Brien,  as  Chairman. 

In  behalf  of  the  Examining  Committee  appointed  under  the 
sixth  section  of  the  City  Ordinance  to  examine  the  Lil)raiy, 
the  undersigned  has  the  honor  to  present  the  following  re- 
port to  the  Trustees  :  — 

The  committee  has  held  frequent  meetings,  during  which 
they  have  examined  the  Central  Library  in  all  its  depart- 
ments. They  have  also  visited  all  of  the  Branches.  They 
all  unite  in  commending  the  efficient  administration  of  those 
in  charge  of  the  Library.  The  money  appropriated  for 
works  of  permanent  vaUie  has  been  judiciously  expendeil, 
until  we  have  the  best  collection  of  useful  works  for  refer- 
ence and  study  in  the  United  States.  » 

We  regret  to  say,  however,  that  for  want  of  accommo- 
dation for  students  and  literary  workers  this  valuable  collec- 
tion of  books  can  be  comparatively  little  used  by  the  persons 
it  was  intended  to  benefit. 

Prof.  Henry  W.  Haynes,  whose  experience  as  an  author 
and  a  former  trustee  of  the  Library  renders  his  suggestions 
especially  valuable,  w^as  appointed  a  sub-committee  to  con- 
sider this  matter,  and  made  the  following  report :  — 

Your  committee  —  while  finding  complete  satisfaction  in  the  use  made 
by  the  community  of  the  Circulating  Department  of  the  Library,  and 
ev^erything  to  commend  (with  a  single  exception)  in  the  facilities  fur- 
nished for  its  enjoyment;  and  while  appi'oving  the  polic}"  that  has  of 
late  prevailed  in  its  management,  which  almost  thrusts  a  book  into  the 
hands  of  every  inhabitant,  and  insists  upon  his  reading  it  —  is,  neverthe- 
less, unable  to  speak  in  like  terms  of  gratification,  either  of  the  general 
use  thus  far  made  of  the  other  great  department,  —  the  Reference  Li- 
brary, —  or  of  the  conveniences  afforded  those  who  seek  to  avail  them- 
selves of  its  priceless  treasures. 

This  is  said  in  no  spirit  of  fault-finding,  and  with  no  disjjosition  to. 
impute  blame  to  any  one.  It  is  only  a  recognition  of  one  of  the  inevita- 
ble results  that  have  followed  upon  the  rapid  growth  of  the  collection 
of  books,  and  the  expansion  of  the  system  ol"  circulation.  We  wish 
merely  to  present  from  another  point  of  view,  what  has  been  so  strongly 
forced  upon  our  minds  by  many  other  considerations,  the  fact  that  the 


12  City  Document  No.  78. 

Library  has  outgrown  its  present  accommodations,  and  imperatively 
demands  ampler  space  and  larger  and  better  C(inveniences  for  the  class 
of  students  and  literary  workers.  That  the  needs  of  this  class  were 
present  to  the  far-sighted  thought  of  the  genei'ous  founder  of  the  Li- 
brary is  evident  from  the  terms  of  his  benefaction,  Avhich  restricts  the 
income  of  the  invested  fund  to  the  purchase  of  "  books  of  permanent 
and  general  utility." 

It  was  natural  that  a  public-spirited  American,  knowing  how  much 
the  noble  librai-y  of  the  British  ]\Iuseum  and  its  constant  use  by  schol- 
ars and  writers  have  contributed  to  the  literary  glory  of  Great  Britain, 
should  desire  to  help  in  accomplishing  somewhat  of  the  same  result  for 
his  native  country.  How  well  his  desires  have  been  carried  out,  and 
how  many  other  generous  donors  have  seconded  his  wishes,  the  suc- 
cessive addition  of  the  Parker,  the  Bowditch,  the  Ticknor,  the  Barton, 
and  the  Thayer  collections  bears  witness,  to  say  nothing  of  the  steady 
flow  of  lesser  gifts  from  hundreds  of  friendly  sources.  The  treasures 
of  learning  thus  collected  within  these  walls  have  been  principally  the 
free  gift  of  private  munificence  to  the  citizens  of  Boston,  for  a  specific 
purpose,  and  have  not  been  purchased  with  their  own  money,  however 
cheerfully  paid  in  taxes,  and  however  liberally  appropriated  hj  sncces- 
.';ive  municipal  governments^,  as  is  the  case  with  the  books  that  are  con- 
stantly circulating  among  the  j^eople  and  being  legitimately  worn  out 
in  that  good  service. 

The  possession  of  great  powers  and  capacity  for  good  implies  equally- 
great  responsibilities  in  their  employment.  Where  so  much  has  been 
given  much  is  required.  Ought  we  to  rest  satisfied  that  such  a  combi- 
nation of  generosity  on  the  part  of  the  donors,  and  the  rare  felicity 
which  secured  for  our  city  the  invaluable  services  of  Everett,  of  Tick- 
nor, of  Jewett  (to  say  nothing  of  the  living),  at  the  inception  of  the 
undertaking,  and  which  have  resulted  in  bringing  together  liere  by  far 
the  most  valuable  collection  of  books  in  the  United  States,  and  one  of 
the  remarkable  libraries  of  the  world,  through  the  painstaking  vigi- 
lance of  the  trustees  and  oflicers  in  securing  the  best  works  in  all 
departments  of  human  knowledge,  ought  we  to  rest  satisfied  that 
all  these  should  fail  to  bear  their  legitimate  fruit?  And  yet  how_ 
is  it  possible  for  any  satisfactory  or  general  use  to  be  made  of 
this  great  collection  of  books  under  the  existing  circumstances,  and 
in  the  present  condition  of  the  Library  building?  How  can  any  im- 
portant literary  production,  sucli  as  Macaulay's  history,  for  example, 
which  requires  for  its  composition  access  to  large  stores  of  books, 
such  as  only  a  Public  Library  affords,  how  can  such  a  work  be 
accom])lished  here,  where  no  privacy  is  affortied  the  student,  and  no 
opportunity  for  consulting  numerous  volumes  at  tiie  same  time,  and  of 
keeping  them  together  over  night  in  one  place  reserved  for  his  use  on 
the  succeeding  \lay  ?  In  the  present  crowded  state  of  the  Library 
building,  scarcely  half-a-dozen  people  can  eacli  be  supplied  with  a  table 
and  the  opportunity  of  making  notes  from  the  Ijook  he  is  consulting. 
Are  scientific  research  and  literary  creation  possible  under  these  circum- 
stances, and  will  not  the  Library  necessarily  remain  sterile  in  one  of 
its  most  imj^ortant  functions  utd'ess  proper  consideration  be  shown  for 
the  needs  of  literary  workers  in  all  the  varied  brandies  of  intellectual 
activity?  Would  it  not  nthl  a  crowning  merit  to  our  city's  reputation 
for  intelligence,  and  culture,  and  liberality,  if  we  could  say  to  the 
tiiinkers,  the  writers,  the  special  students,  and  all  the  toiling  delvers 
after  knowledge,  not  only  in  our  own  community,  but  throughout  our 
whole  country — here  you  can  find  stored  up  the  treasured  wisdom  of 

"  The  ftssembled  souls  of  all  that  men  held  wise." 

We  bid  you  all  heartily  welcome  to  these  accumulations  of  knowledge. 
Use  them  freely  for  the  common  benefit  of  our  country  and  of  man- 


Public  Librarf.  13 

kind.  Such  would  seem  to  be  the  ripe  and  noble  outgrowth  of  this 
great  public  institution,  and  a  just  recognition  of  the  debt  whicli  Boston 
owes  to  the  literature  of  America. 

This  report  was  unanimously  accepted,  and  the  necessity 
recognized  by  all  of  providing,  at  once,  greater  facilities  for 
those  who  desire  to  make  use  of  this  valuable  collection. 

More  room  is  needed  also  for  the  convenient  delivery  of 
popular  works,  which  circulate  more  freely.  The  space  al- 
lotted for  reading-rooms  is  altogether  insufficient.  The  val- 
uable coMections  of  newspapers  are  stored  away  in  the 
basement,  where  they  are  practically  inaccessible.  The  room 
allotted  for  the  working  force  in  charge  of  the  Library  is  far 
too  small,  thereby  increasing  the  labor  of  administration. 

For  these,  and  many  other  reasons,  increased  accommoda- 
tions seem  imperatively  demanded. 

Various  plans  were  suggested  and  duly  considered.  The- 
possibility  of  utilizing  the  Adams  estate,  east  of  the  present 
building,  and  thus  providing  for  immediate  wants,  was  dis- 
cussed, and  plans  and  estimates  considered.  The  great 
expense,  however,  of  making  an  addition  which  would  be 
fire-proof,  and  the  unsatisfactory  character  of  the  building 
when  completed,  forbid  us  to  recommend  such  an  expenditure 
of  money. 

The  committee  would  therefore  recommend  that  sufficient 
land  be  acquired  for  the  erection  of  a  new  building.  This 
building  to  be  of  a  quadrangular  form.  A  portion  of  it 
could  be  built  at  once  sufficient  to  accommodate  the  books 
used  for  reference  and  consultation.  It  should  also  contain 
ample  space  for  the  accommodation  of  students.  The  plan 
should  be  such  that  it  could  be  enlarged  as  the  necessities  of 
the  Librar}^  require.  This  would  leave  the  present  l)uilding 
for  the  use  of  the  popular  or  circulating  library,  commodious 
reading-rooms,  etc. 

This  beginning  could  be  made  without  a  very  great  outlay 
of  money.  As  scholars  would  follow  this  valuable  collection 
of  works  for  reference  and  study,  the  new  building  could  be 
placed  on  land,  at  present  unoccupied,  which  could  be 
acquired  at  a  moderate  price.  Such  a  location  would  be 
better  suited  for  the  purpos.e  than  the  crowded  section  of  the 
city.  The  new  building  would  become  a  literary  exchange, 
where  scholars  and  literary  and  scientitic  workers  would 
assemble  for  the  exchange  of  views  and  the  pursuit  of  their 
special  branch  of  study.  The  masses  using  the  popular 
works  would  also  be  better  accommodated,  having  the  whole 
of  the  present  building  for  the  purposes  of  the  circulating 
branch  of  the  Library,  reading-rooms,  etc. 

The  committee  would  urge  this  matter  at  the  present  time, 


14  City  Document  No.  78. 

because  the  land,  Avhich  could  now  be  obtained  at  a  moderate 
price,  will  soon  be  built  upon,  and  could  not  be  bought  with- 
out a  much  greater  outlay  of  money.  We  are  convinced  that 
such  a  building  must  be  built  not  long  hence,  and  it  can  be 
done  much  cheaper  noAV  than  in  the  future.  The  same  gen- 
erous spirit  which  has  led  our  citizens  to  provide  this  splendid 
collection  of  books  for  the  wants  of  tiie  people  demands 
that  a  proper  building  be  provided  for  their  preservation. 
The  present  building  is  far  from  he'mg  fire-p7-oof.  It  is  in  an 
exposed  location.  If  its  pricek^ss  treasures  should  be  con- 
sumed by  tire,  money  could  not  rephice  them. 

The  Branches  have  all  been  examined  and  found  to  be  in 
excellent  condition.  They  are  doing  an  important  work  in 
the  easy  and  convenient  distribution  of  books.  The  apart- 
ments occupied  by  the  South-End  Branch,  however,  are 
w^holly  inadequate  to  the  wants  of  that  important  Branch. 

Mr.  T.  S.  l^erry  was,  on  account  of  his  familiarity  with 
the  Library,  appointed  a  sub-committee  on  the  subject  of 
circulation,  and  reports  as  follows  :  — 

With  regai'd  to  the  circuhvtion  the  showing-  for  the  past  year  is  most 
satisfactory.  An  apparent  diminution  of  about  three  thousand  four 
hundred  volumes  is  explained  by  the  tact  that  the  Branch  Librarj^  at 
South  Boston  was  closed  from  the  12th  of  August  to  the  2d  of  Novem- 
ber, and  that  at  East  Boston  for  12  days  of  last  year.  Had  these  branches 
been  open  during  the  whole  time  the  total  number  of  books  in  the  hands 
of  readers  would  have  shown  the  normal  rate  of  increase.  As  to  other 
variations  in  the  statistics  it  is  to  be  noticed,  in  the  tirst  place,  that  there 
is  a  decided  increase  of  nearly  thirty  thousand  in  the  number  of  books 
from  the  shelves  of  Bates  Hall.  In  view  of  the  character  of  these 
books  this  is  an  excellent  sign.  A  diminution  in  the  nundjer  of  books 
taken  irom  the  Lower  Hall  of  the  Central  Library  is  to  be  explained  in 
part  by  the  increase  of  the  nundjer  of  books  taken  out  at  the  8outh-End 
Bran^i,  and  partly  l)y  the  pains  that  have  been  taken  of  late  to  provide 
rather  a  suflicient  supply  of  good  books,  than  a  very  large  supjdy  of 
books  possiblj^  harmless,  yet  surely  not  benelicial  to  any  reader. 

In  this  way,  and  by  the  excellent  device  of  maintaining  books  of  a 
good  class,  readers  are  gradually  secured  lor  more  improving,  and  no 
less  entertaining,  literature. 

In  discharging  this  function  of  purveying  for  more  scrujtulous  taste, 
it  would  seem  that  the  Trustees  were  but  following  out  part  of  their 
duty  as  educators,  and  that  they  must  exercise  their  discretion  hei'c  as 
they  do  in  other  departments  of  the  Library  when  they  have  to  decide 
what  books  shall  be  bought  and  Avhat  left  unbought.  While  there  is  an 
abundance  of  good  literature  which  the  Library  can  buy,  it  would 
seem  absurd  to  purchase  even  remotely  deleterious  works  for  general 
reading. 

Still  evo»-y  question  of  this  kind  is  better  settled  by  the  examination 
of  particular  instances  than  by  general  i)rinciples.  In  case  of  doubt 
any  injustice  can  be  easily  remedied.  Judging,  however,  from  the  in- 
spection of  shelves  and  the  books  returned  l)y  renders  in  the  Lower  Hall, 
it  is  impossible  not  to  have  the  feeling  that  the  majority  of  the  books 
read  are  of  a  good  sort.  They  are  to  a  great  extent  novels,  but  novels 
it  will  do  no  one  harm  to  read. 

The  examination  of  the  shelves  of  Bates  Hall  has  shown  your  com- 


Public  Libeart.  15 

mittee  how  few  are  the  books  that  have  never  been  taken  out.  The 
number  of  times  thej'  may  have  been  consulted  in  the  hall  does  not  ap- 
pear. Volumes  on  all  sorts  of  remote  and  generally  uninteresting  sub- 
jects will  be  found  to  have  gone  out  at  least  once  or  twice  from  the 
Library.  Indeed,  it  would  seem  as  if  there  were  scarcely  a  book 
printed  that  some  one  did  not  want  to  see  at  some  time. 

We  desire  to  commend  the  effort  of  the  Superintendent 
and  Trustees  to  cooperate  Avith  the  School  Committees  in 
exercising  a  supervision  over  the  books  delivered  to  the 
school  children.  It  would  surely  be  inconsistent  for  the 
city,  while  endeavoring  to  cultivate  the  mind  and  taste  of 
the  young  in  school,  to  deliver  to  them,  Irom  the  shelves  of  the 
Library,  books  which  Avould  be  to  ttem  injurious. 

"The  number  of  good   books   is   so  great  that  a   lifetitne 
would  not  suffice  to  read  them.     A  wise  man  can  only  lind 
time  to  read  the  best.     Surely  time  spent  in  reading  bad- 
books  is  worse  than  wasted.     It  is  certainly  no  part  of  the 
city's  duty  to  provide  books  that  can  be  in  any  way  harmful. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  only  complete  catalogue  of  the 
Library  is  the  Card  Catalogue,  the  use  of  which  is  not  under- 
stood by  the  majorit}^  of  applicants  for  books,  we  earnestly 
recommend  that  some  person  or  persons  be  specially  charged 
with  the  duty  of  finding  the  numbers  and  making  out  slips 
for  books  asked  for. 

It  seems  almost  a  hopeless  task  to  the  uninitiated  to  find  the 
particular  title  and  number  he  wants,  when  referred  to  an 
array  of  one  million  (1,000,000)  cards. 

Such  a  person  could  be  of  great  service  to  readers  by 
advising  them  in  regard  to  the  best  works  on  the  subject  they 
were  studying.  We  hope  in  time  some  more  perfect  form 
of  catalogue  may  be  devised  than  the  present  one,  which 
seems  fast  becoming  unwieldy. 

Great  good  would  result,  in  our  opinion,  if  some  of  the 
officials  connected  with  the  Library,  who  are  familiar  with  the 
literary  and  scientific  treasures  it  contains,  were  to  give,  in 
the  form  of  familiar  lectures,  instruction  to  the  earnest  seeker 
after  knowledge  as  to  what  he  should  read. 

The  Library  has  been  established  to  assist  in  the  great 
work  of  education,  so  dear  to  all.  It  seems,  therefore,  within 
the  province  of  those  in  charge  to  help  those  who  desire  it 
to  pursue  a  systematic  course  of  reading  which  will  be  a 
permanent  benefit,  rather  than  leave  them  to  an  aimless  and 
desultory  perusal  of  books. 

The  present  condition  of  the  Library  reflects  great  credit 
upon  those  in  charge.  The  percentage  of  losses  has  been 
wonderfully  small  for  so  great  a  circulation.  Serious  dam- 
age is    being  done  however  to  some  of  the   most  valuable 


16  City  Document  No.  78. 

books  by  the  foul  air  aiul  noxious  vapors  that  collect  in  the 
upper  part  of  Bates  Hall.  The  remedy  for  this  is  a  new 
building,  better  suited  for  Library  purposes. 

We  have  to  thank  the  city  government  for  its  foster- 
ing care  of  the  Library.  It  is  an  institution  of  which  our. 
citizens  may  well  be  proud.  We  feel  assured  that  those 
who  have  seen  its  wonderful  development  and  increasing 
usefulness  under  the  charge  of  the  present  Board  of  Trustees 
do  not  wish  to  see  its  growth  checked,  as  it  must  be  unless 
increased  accommodations  are  provided  for  its  expansion. 

In  conclusion,  the  committee  desire  to  express  their  grati- 
tude to  the  Superintendent  and  Board  of  Trustees,  and  to 
the  Library  otHcials  in  general,  foi-  the  cheerful  cooperation 
they  have  afforded  the  committee  in  their  investigations. 

For  the  Committee, 

JOSHUA  p.  BODFISH. 


Public  Library.  17 


REPORT   OF   THE   LIBRARIAN. 

To  the  Trustees:  — 

By  the  laws  of  the  corporation,  the  Lilirariaii  is  required, 
at  the  close  of  the  library  year,  to  report  to  the  Trustees,  in 
writing,  whatever  may  relate  to  the  condition  and  increase  of 
the  whole  estal)lishment,  and  whatever,  in  his  judgment,  may 
extend  its  usefulness. 

Within  the  last  year  there  has  been  no  territorial  extension 
of  library  facilities,  except  by  the  establishment  of  a  branch- 
delivery  station  at  Roslindale,  which  was  opened  December 
3,  and  Dr.  Samuel  T.  Bowthorpe  appointed  delivery  agent. 

At  South  Boston,  the  branch  library  was  closed  from 
August  12  to  November  2,  while  undergoing  enlargement 
and  alteration ;  and  that  at  East  Boston  from  October  7  to 
October  19,  in  order  to  make  some  desirable  changes. 

During  my  short  term  of  office,  the  condition  of  the  Library 
has  not  changed  so  materially  as  to  require  any  extended  re- 
port ;  but  some  new  measures  have  been  adopted,  and  these, 
so  far  as  they  have  become  part  of  the  permanent  adminis- 
tration of  the  Library,  will  be  briefly  noticed  as  belonging  to 
its  history. 

The  tables  annexed  show  the  increase  and  use  of  the 
Library  in  its  various  departments,  with  such  other  infor- 
mation as  is  usually  exhibited  in  that  form. 

All  the  branch  library  buildings  seem  to  be  reasonably 
secure  from  fire,  and  I  discover  no  deterioration  of  the  books 
in  them  save  such  as  is  incident  to  the  nature  of  their  use. 
With  the  exception  of  the  apartments  at  the  South  End,  they 
fairly  answer  the  public  demands  ;  nor  is  there  anything  in 
their  situation,  surroundings,  or  internal  arrangements  preju- 
dicial to  the  health  of  those  who  resort  to  them,  or  of  those 
by  whom  the  public  is  served.  But  of  the  Central  Library, 
none  of  these  pleasant  things  can  be  said.  It  is  neither 
suited  to  the  proper  arrangement  or  preservation  of  the 
books  stored  in  it,  nor  to  theh*  convenient  use.  Its  temper- 
ature is  not  agreeable,  its  air  is  not  "pure  ;  it  is  safe  neither  for 
the  books  nor  for  those  who  consult  them,  nor  for  the  officers 
or  their  assistants  ;  and  it  would  seem  that  the  consideration 
of  the  reconstruction  and  enlargement  of  the  existing  edifice, 
or  of  seeking  adequate  accommodations  elsewhere,  cannot 


18  City  Document  No.  78. 

be  much  longer  postponed.  But  the  subject  of  present  solici- 
tude is  the  safety  of  the  edifice  and  its  collections. 

The  Central  Library  edifice  was  designed  as  a  fire-proof 
structure,  and  when  erected  was  so  regarded  until  the  result 
of  the  fires  at  Chicago  and  Boston  excited  apprehensions  as 
to  its  safety  in  case  of  an  extensive  conflagration,  and  led  to 
the  adoption  of  some  additional  safeguards.  Iron  shutters 
were  hung  to  the  more  exposed  windows.  The  high  service 
stand-pipe  was  placed  in  the  south-eastern  tower.  Fire-ex- 
tinguishers were  distributed  in  various  parts  of  the  building, 
and  other  means  of  prevention  were  adopted.  But  it  has 
l)een  questioned  whether  these  precautions  were  not  partially 
neutralized  by  the  erection  of  the  wooden  structure  at  the 
rear  of  Bates  Hall ;  and  are  cent  trial  of  one  of  the  instru- 
ments relied  on  as  useful  in  an  emergency  showed  that  the 
confidence  was  not  well  phiced.  It  seemed  tome,  therefore, 
in  view  of  the  menacing  facts  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Public 
Library,  that  the  precautions  already  taken  place  ivere  insuffi- 
cient to  warrant  a  feeling  of  security  ;  and,  accordingly,  with 
the  approl)ati()n  of  the  Trustees,  application  was  made  to 
the  Police  Commissioners  to  detail,  as  at  the  Court  House 
and  City  Hall,  an  officer  to  act  as  night-watchman  in  the 
building.  But  the  Commissioners,  having  no  supernumerary 
officer  at  their  disposal,  were  obliged  to  deny  the  request. 

Under  these  circumstances,  I  recommend  that  the  Trustees 
employ  a  vigilant  and  discreet  person  whose  business  it  shall 
be  to  visit  each  half  hour  of  the  night  every  exposed  portion 
of  the  Library,  and  also  to  attend  to  what  may  occur  outside 
of  the  building,  in  its  immediate'  vicinit}'.  By  such  watch 
incipient  fires  might  be  detected  and  suppressed,  and  timely 
alarm  given  of  those  outside  of  a  threatening  character,  and 
thus  enabling  the  people  in  the  Library  to  use  all  the  ap- 
pliances at  hand  for  protection  against  fire.  Of  course 
efficient  measures  should  be  taken  to  secure  absolute  and  un- 
varying fidelity  on  the  i)art  of  the  watchman,  which,  as  I  am 
informed,  will  involve  no  dispr()[)orti()ned  expense.  I  will 
only  add,  by  Ava}^  of  emphasis  to  these  reconmiendations,  that 
the  grief  of  all  liberal  minds  at  the  irreparable  loss  of  the 
splendid  collections  at  Birmingham  is  rendered  more  poignant 
by  the  statement  of  a  British  journal,  that  the  catastrophe 
might  have  been  prevented  by  the  employment  of  a  watch- 
man, as  is  here  proposed. 

Note.  —  Sinco  flie  dnto  of  fliis  report,  tho  Trustees  have  employed  a  watcliman, 
who  elite  cil  upon  his  ihilics  .Tunu  "Jlst;  luitl  >i\tccn  iiointsof  the  huildiii^  hiive  been 
coiHRCled  witli  a  clock  whicli  rc^risters  his  ])i-eseiicc  at  those  points  every  half  hour 
of  the  nifrhl.  The  wooden  doors  at  tlie  connection  of  the  atldition  with  the  main 
iiuilding  have  received  a  metallic  covering,  and  it  is  expected  that  similar  shutters 
will  be  hun<;'  to  the  windows  of  the  wooden  gallery. 


Public  Library.  19 

The  next  subject  to  which  I  wish  to  call  attention  is  that  of 
the  preservation  of  the  bindings  of  books  in  Bates  Hall. 
This,  I  am  aware,  is  no  new  matter,  but  one  which  has  been 
repeatedly  urged  upon  the  attention  of  the  city  government 
in  various  reports  and  communications ;  nor  has  it  failed  of 
respectful  consideration  by  that  body.  The  highest  profes- 
sional skill  has  been  invoked  to  ascertain  the  cause,  and  to 
devise  a  remedy  for  the  rapid  deterioration  of  the  bindings 
now  going  on,  but  thus  far  without  substantial  results.  The 
difficulty  is  to  discover  a  remedy.  Those  which  have  been 
suggested  are  inconvenient  of  application,  expensive  and  ex- 
perimeutal,  even  in  the  judgment  of  those  who  propose  them. 
So  the  matter  remains,  and  is  likely  to  remain,  until  a  new 
structure  is  erected,  with  an  efficient  system  of  ventilation, 
or  a  remedy  is  discoveied  more  promising  than  any  yet 
suggested. 

Meanwhile  measures  have  been  adopted  which  promise 
some  alleviation  of  the  evil.  Early  in  January  last  a  book- 
binder of  experience  and  good  judgment  was  engaged  to  go 
through  the  alcoves  taking  down  each  volume,  removing  the 
dust  from  the  books  and  shelves,  and  making  such  repairs 
of  the  bindings  as  would  serve  to  arrest  the  progress  of  de- 
terioration. In  about  seven  months  after  entering  upon  the 
work  the  binder  will  have  gone  entirely  through  Bates  Hall 
without  delaying  the  patrons  of  the  Library  in  the  receipt  of 
books,  or  discommoding  the  runners ;  and,  after  the  first 
year,  the  annual  spring  cleaning  will  be  unnecessary.  It 
has  also  been  made  a  part  of  his  work  to  correct  the  mal- 
adjustment of  shelves  to  books  by  which  they  are  relieved 
from  uneasy  and  damaging  positions,  and  I  am  happy  to  say 
they  seem  not  insensible  to  his  attention.  I  recommend 
that  his  position  be  made  permanent,  and  I  feel  confident 
that  his  salary  will  be  more  than  saved  by  postponing  the 
time  when  the  Library  must  go  to  the  bindery,  to  say  nothing 
of  other  considerations. 

The  daily  observations  I  have  made  of  the  progress  of  the 
work  above  mentioned  have  led  me  to  notice  some  of  the 
deficiencies  of  the  Library.  They  consist  mainly  of  uncom- 
pleted or  imperfect  sets  of  periodicals,  serials  or  continued 
works  :  of  the  lack  of  the  best  book  in  some,  and  of  the 
second  best  book  in  many  departments,  and  of  books  on  the 
shelves  rapidly  perishing  from  use,  and  not  easily  replaced 
after  the  lapse  of  some  years. 

I  have  caused  an  examination  to  be  begun  which  in  its 
results  will  present  in  convenient  and  permanent  form  the 
nature  and  extent  of  these  deficiencies,  and  shall  recommend 


20  CiTr  Document  No.  78. 

the  systematic  application  each  year  of  some  portions  of  the 
funds  necessary  to  their  supply. 

In  the  selection  of  a  library  the  primary  purpose  is  to  col- 
lect all,  or  as  many  as  possible  of  the  best  books,  and  of  the 
best  only ;  but  large  liljraries  should  include  not  only  all  of 
the  best  books,  but  all  useful  books  ;  as  it  is  frequently  the 
case  that  of  two  or  more  books  covering  the  same  ground, 
the  second  best  is  in  some  respects  best,  and  equall^with 
the  best,  indispensable  to  the  student  of  the  subject-matter. 
This  is  also  sometimes  true  of  different  editions  of  the 
same  work.  Of  course,  in  a  collection  so  large  as  that  of 
the  Public  Library  these  deficiencies  are  not  general ;  and 
yet  they  are  larger,  I  apprehend,  than  would  be  suspected. 
What  surprises  most  on  a  cursory  examination  of  any  great 
collection  is  its  completeness  ;  on  a  more  careful  examination, 
its  deficiencies. 

With  respect  to  books  perishing  from  use,  and  the  re- 
placement of  which  is  growing  yearly  more  diflicult,  this  is- 
true  of  many  valuable  histories,  printed  in  limited  editions, 
much  used  and  soon  becoming  despoiled  of  maps  and  plans 
essential  to  the  understanding  of  the  text.  These  it  might 
be  well  to  purchase  in  duplicate  and  have  one  copy  withdrawn 
from  circulation  that  it  might  be  always  found  in  the  Library 
and  in  good  condition. 

But  this  class  of  considerations  does  not  end  here.  Dr. 
Samuel  A.  Green,  late  trustee  in  charge  of  the  Library,  in 
his  report  for  the  year  1878,  says  :  "It  might  be  well  con- 
sidered whether  or  not  to  modify  the  usual  rule  of  not 
duplicating  Bates  Hall  volumes,  so  far  as  to  permit  two 
copies  of  each  of  certain  classes  of  books  to  be  procured, 
one  to  be  a  two-starred  book,  on  purpose  to  be  always  found 
within  the  building,  while  the  other  shall  be  for  the  purpose 
of  circulation." 

This  suggestion  gives  prominence  to  the  twofold  relation 
which  the  Public  Library  holds  towards  its  patrons.  The 
widest  and  freest  circulation  of  books  consistent  with  their 
safet}'  has  given  it  distinction  among  great  libraries,  and  this 
characteristic  it  is  likely  to  retain.  But  it  is  also  a  great 
reference  library,  and  as  such,  resorted  to  from  distant  parts 
of  the  country.  The  records  show  that  this  mode  of  use  is 
increasing  rapidly,  and  it  is  already  evident  that  two  things 
onl}^  are  needed  to  render  its  value  and  prestige  as  a  library  of 
reference  as  remarkable  as  it  has  already  become  in  respect  to 
circulation, —  the  never-failing  presence  in  the  Library  of  such 
books  as  students  desire  and  reasonable  fiicilitics  for  their  use. 
Such  facilities  cannot  at  present  be  accorded  ;  and  though  they 
may  not  be  speedily  secured  to  the  fullest  extent,  it  seems  to 


Public  Library.  21 

me  that  plans  may  be  formed  and  measures  adopted  which 
at  no  remote  period  will  relieve  the  present  discontent  and 
yield  partial  satisfaction  at  least.  If  Dr.  Green's  suggestion 
were  adopted  the  desired  books  would  come  with  the  lapse 
of  time ;  and  the  erection  of  a  new  edifice,  or  the  radical 
alteration  and  extension  of  the  present  edifice  would  supply 
the  fiicilities  for  their  use. 

Under  the  most  favorable  circumstances,  however,  some 
years  must  pass  away  before  the  trustees  can  off*er  to  students 
the  conveniences  essential  to  the  successful  prosecution  of 
their  work ;  and  as  the  case  stands  to-day,  with  no  general 
concurrence  of  opinion  as  to  the  desirability  of  removal  from 
present  quarters,  or  if  removed,  to  what  locality,  the  posses- 
sion of  such  facilities  seems  to  be  indefinitely  postponed. 
In  the  meantime,  while  these  questions  are  seeking  solution, 
something  may  be  accomplished  and  without  unreasonable  . 
delay,  by  the  transfer  of  the  Lower  Hall  library  to  some 
other  quarters,  and  converting  the  space  thus  obtained  to 
reading-rooms.  This  separation  seems  to  me  only  a  question 
of  time  ;  and  as  a  step  in  that  direction,  I  would  recommend 
the  removal  of  the  Lower  Hall  cards  from  the  Bates  Hall 
catalogue,  and  especially  since  their  continued  union  as  at 
present,  with  the  rapid  increase  now  going  on,  will  in  a  short 
time  result  in  further  encroachment  on  the  already  crowded 
space  in  Bates  Hall,  and  render  it  still  more  inconvenient  as 
a  reading-room. 

If  the  removal  of  the  Lower  Hall  collection  must  be  de- 
layed for  want  of  suitable  quarters  to  receive  it,  then  it  is 
worth  consideration  whether  or  not  the  time  has  come  when 
the  estate  adjacent  to  the  Library  and  already  owned  by  the 
city  may  be  used  >so  as  to  afford  partial  relief.^ 

I  have  stated  in  the  preceding  pages  what  has  occurred  to 
me  in  relation  to  the  condition  and  increase  of  the  establish- 
ment, and  it  now  remains  to  report  what  in  my  judgment  may 
increase  its  usefulness.  Were  it  entirely  a  matter  of  choice  I 
would  willingly  postpone  the  expression  of  opinions  on  that 
subject  until  longer  experience  and  more  careful  thought 
shall  bring  —  if,  perchance,  they  may  —  greater  assurance 
of  their  practical  value  ;  but  as  the  thought  I  have  already 
given  to  certain  matters  has  led  to  certain  convictions,  and 
as  their  expression  is  in  the  line  of  official  duty,  I  have  con- 
cluded to  submit  them  to  the  judgment  of  the  trustees. 

When  I  came  to  the  service  of  the  Library  seven  months 
ago,  it  seemed  to  be  my  first  dut}^  apart  from  the  daily 
routine  of  business,  to  examine  its  condition  and  gain  some 

1  This  subject  is  now  in_,the  hands  of  the  committee  or  administration. 


22  City  Document  No.  78. 

clear  ideas  respecting  the  aims,  plans,  and  administration  of 
an  institution,  which,  at  the  end  of  twenty-tive  years  from  its 
organization,  had  put  into  use  three  hundred  and  sixty 
thousand  volumes,  and  attained  to  an  actual  circulation  of 
nearly  twelve  hundred  thousand  volumes  a  year ;  and  which 
had  widened  from  the  Central  Department  so  as  to  include 
eight  branches  and  two  delivery  stations,  employing  under 
one  general  direction  one  hundred  and  forty  persons.  Be- 
sides seeking  to  become  familiar  with  the  administration  of 
the  institution,  I  deemed  it  advisable  to  study  the  law  of  its 
organic  life  and  growth  as  found  in  the  successive  reports  of 
the  trustees,  examining  committees,  and  sui3erintendents, 
with  such  aid  as  the  records  and  files  of  the  institution 
afforded.  This  examination  I  have  now  made;  and  the 
impression  left  on  my  mind  is,  that  the  Library  has  been 
almost  exceptionally  fortunate  in  having  had  through  the 
entire  period  of  its  historv  the  services  of  a1)le  and  devoted 
men  in  all  departments  of  organization,  direction,  and  admin- 
istration, who  have  carried  it  forward  with  no  false  steps  to  a 
point  where  little  remains  to  be  desired  either  in  the  com- 
prehensiveness of  its  plans  or  completeness  of  detail,  so  far 
as  its  plan,  according  to  the  fulness  of  time,  has  been  devel- 
oped. There  have  been  no  wide  intervals  between  well-con- 
sidered plans  and  their  practical  adoption.  It  holds  to-day 
all  the  ground  it  has  taken,  and  still  seeks  new  positions  of 
public  usefulness  even  in  advance  of  puljlic  requirement. 
And  in  what  I  have  to  suggest  in  respect  to  the  increase  of 
the  usefulness  of  the  institution  I  desire  expressly  to  recog- 
nize the  fact  that  all  will  be  found  either  to  have  been 
suggested  by  my  predecessors,  or  fairly  included  in  the 
original  desiijn  of  the  founders  and  carlv  laborers  in  the 
Library  service,  and  only  waiting  for  further  development  ot 
the  system  to  render  its  adoption  practicable. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  chief  end  of  a  library  is  to  get 
itself  read:  not  primarily  for  amusement,  though  that  may 
be  a  legitimate  purpose,  but  mainly  for  instruction  ;  and  it 
is  claimed  that  books,  even  the  most  frivolous,  may  serve 
two  useful  purposes.  First,  that  they  engage  attention 
through  vacant  hours  which  would  otherwise  be  unwisely 
spent,  if  not  in  crime,  and  so  serve  as  an  auxiliary  to  the 
police  force;  and,  secondly,  that  the  mere  fact  of  reading, 
irresj^ective  of  its  character,  tends  to  improve  the  taste  and 
judgment,  until  at  length  they  come  to  demand  better  things 
than  they  have  been  accustomed  to.  Whatever  degree  of 
truth  may  l)e  allowed  to  these  claims,  it  is  evident  that  so 
long  as  taste  and  judgment  may  be  improved  by  external 
influences  such  influences  should   be  called   into  requisition, 


Public  Library.  23 

and  young  readers  not  be  wholly  left  to  their  own  caprice. 
And  I  understand  the  problem  in  respect  to  public  libraries 
to  be,  not  how  their  patrons,  young  or  old.  shall  extract  a 
certain  amount  of  amusement  from  books  provided  for  their 
use,  but  rather  how  they  can  be  induced  to  enter  into  the 
fullest  possession  of  the  accumulated  wealth  which  rightfully 
belongs  to  them. 

There  is  ample  testimony  that  young  people  who  have  had 
the  education  which  common  schools  afford  can  be  taught  to 
appreciate  the  best  of  literature,  and  for  that  best,  to  aban- 
don the  worst  or  the  indifferent.  But  it  is  also  clear  that 
they  must  be  taught.  Such  preference  of  the  best  does  not 
come  by  any  process  of  natural  evolution.  In  this,  as  in 
other  matters,  good  influences  come  mainly  from  without  and 
above. 

Excellent  things  in  this  direction  have  already  been  ac- 
complished. The  publication  of  Mr.  Winsor's  class  lists 
formed  an  epoch  in  the  history  of  circulating  libraries  ;  and 
there  is  little  likelihood  of  their  being  superseded  by  better 
work.  They  will  be  in  the  future,  as  in  the  past,  most 
important  auxiliaries  for  promoting  the  reading  of  good 
books. 

What  every  good  book  needs  is  a  good  teacher  behind  it. 
Sometimes  this  teacher  may  be  another  book ;  but  better 
still,  a  living,  personal  influence,  as  constant  and  as  active, 
and,  if  possible,  as  well  sj'stematized  as  that  of  the  public 
schools,  meeting  every  youth  in  the  community  arriving  at 
a  certain  age,  and  continuing  friendly  companionship  until 
judgment,  matured  by  age  and  best  associations,  shall  un- 
erringly direct  such  j^outh  to  the  best  fields  of  literature. 
And  by  reason  of  a  present  lack  of  such  personal  influence 
in  the  Public  Library,  I  would  seek  io  secure  such  healthful 
association  by  establishing  more  intimate  relations  between 
the  Public  Library  and  the  personal  educational  force  of  the 
public  schools.  -  Not  tliaf  either  should  be  merged  in  the 
other,  or  delegate  its  functions  to  the  other ;  but  that  each 
working  after  the  law  of  its  organic  life  should  coijperate 
w'itli  the  other  in  their  common  purpose  of  educating  the 
community.  The  best  literature  of  the  Public  Library  should 
find  its  way  into  the  public  schools  ;  and  the  best  influence 
of  the  public  schools  should  accompany  those  who  enter  the 
Public  Library. 

Nor  is  there  anything  novel  in  these  suggestions.  It  was 
claimed  by  those  most  active  in  founding  the  Public  Library 
a,t  municipal  expense,  that,  rightly  considered,  it  was  a  part 
of  the  public  school  system,  and  when  fully  developed  would 
take  its  place  naturally  at  the  head  of  that  system. 


24  City  Document  No.   78. 

And  there  are  those  whose  convictions  are  becoming  clear 
that  the  use  of  the  Pubhc  Library  by  the  pupils  in  the  public 
scliools  will  subserve  its  most  beneficent  ends  only  when 
regulated  in  accordance  with  the  views  of  those  more  imme- 
diately charged  with  the  education  of  youth.  Amusements 
at  public  expense  have  as  yet  become  no  part  of  our  system, 
nor  are  likely  to  become  ;  but  to  furnish  the  means  of  educa- 
tion to  every  child  on  the  soil  .is  a  fundamental  idea  likely 
to  lose  its  place  neither  in  the  organic  law  nor  in  the  minds 
of  the  people.  And  the  Public  Library  will  maintain  its  place 
in  public  favor  and  receive  the  supplies  necessary  to  its 
etficient  existence,  not  by  furnishing  that  amusement  which 
is  found  in  sensational  and  low-toned  reading,  but  rather  by 
showing  its  efficiency  as  a  public  educator. 

This  leads  directly  to  the  question  :  How  can  the  Public 
Library  be  made  to  participate  more  efficientl}'  than  at  pres- 
ent in  the  work  of  public  education?  Assuming  that  the 
reading  of  poor  literature  leads  to  the  reading  of  better 
literature,  still  the  process  is  slow  and  expensive,  and  can 
only  be  defended  on  the  further  assumption  that  any  more 
direct  and  less  expensive  process  is  inipracticable.  A  better 
way  is  worth  seeking. 

If  we  regard  the  Puldic  Library  as  a  })art  of  a  system  of 
public  education,  and  carry  the  idea  to  its  legitimate  results, 
then  the  way  begins  to  become  clear,  since  every  system  of 
education  worthy  the  name  includes  some  personal  educator. 
It  is  not  enough  that  school-houses  are  built  and  l)ooks  fur- 
nished gratuitously  to  pupils,  nor  that  free  lil)raries  exist 
and  are  brought  to  every  man's  door.  Schools  and  libraries 
require  the  teacher  behind  them  if  best  results  would  be 
secured. 

The  problem,  then,  as  it  seems  to  me,  is  this  :  How  to 
make  tlio  Pul)lic  Library,  in  like  manner  as  the  ])ublic  school, 
an  instrument  in  the  hands  of  the  public  teacher  of  imparting 
knowledge  at  the  public  expense  to  those  whom  the  city  is 
under  legal  obligations  to  educate. 

I  may  as  well  say  at  the  outset,  that  what  I  have  in  mind 
contenqdates  some  restriction  ui)on  the  indiscriminate  and 
often  harmful  use  of  the  Public  Library  by  pupils  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  while  they  remain  such,  and  substitutes  therefor  its 
use  under  the  guidance  of  the  legally  constituted  instructors 
of  youth  ;  nor,  as  I  conceive,  is  this  course  oi)en  to  any 
theor(>tical  objection.  The  puldic  uoav  claims  and  exercises 
the  right,  and  with  legal  sanction  and  obligation  as  well,  to 
determine  the  kind  of  educati(m  it  will  furnish  to  children  at 
the  public  ex]icnse,  and  from  what  books  they  shall  or  shall  not 
be  taught ;  and  with  equal  right  and  propriety,  as  it  seems 


Public  Library.  25 

to  me,  the  public  may  determine  what  books  for  I'eacling  it 
will  provide  for  children,  and  under  what  direction  they  shall 
be  read. 

But  the  initiation  of  the  plan  requires  no  such  radical 
measures.  What  I  respectfully  submit  to  the  consideration  of 
the  trustees  is  the  propriety  of  setting  apart  some  portion  of 
the  annual  appropriation  to  meet  the  requisitions  of  teachers 
of  the  public  schools,  by  the  purchase  of  such  books  as  in 
their  judgment  might  be  useful  to  their  pupils,  and  these 
books  to  have  their  local  habitation  in  the  several  school- 
houses  under  their  charge,  but  always  to  remain  the  property 
of  the  Public  Library  and  subject  to  such  regulations  as 
might  be  found  necessary. 

If  this  plan  should  commend  itself  to  the  judgment  of  the 
trustees,  it  would  not  necessarily  follow  that  its  adoption 
with  respect  to  all  schools  should  be  simultaneous.  The  ex-- 
periment  might  be  tried  in  one  school,  and  its  success  noted ; 
and  in  all  cases  the  judgment  of  the  superintendent  of  schools 
Avould  naturally  be  sought  before  filling  any  requisition  for 
books. 

It  is  not  my  purpose  in  this  report  to  follow  the  plan  into 
matters  of  detail,  or  to  consider  the  objections  which  may  be 
urged  against  its  adoption.  These  matters  I  reserve  for  some 
less  formal  consideration  should  the  occasion  present  itself. 
I  will  only  add  that  the  advantages  of  the  plan  seem  to 
me  obvious  and  important.  It  would  have  a  tendency  to 
restrict  the  use  of  hurtful  books  and  the  injurious  use  of  good 
books ;  and,  should  its  operation  become  efficient,  teachers 
would  less  often  than  now  find  their  best  efibrts  thwarted  by 
influences  they  are  powerless  to  control.  It  would  lead  teach- 
ers to  form  the  habit  of  preparing  themselves  for  the  duties  of 
this  new  function  by  more  careful  examination  of  the  minds, 
character,  and  acquirements  of  their  pupils,  and  to  enlarge 
their  own  by  cultivating  a  familiarity  with  the  best  books.  It 
would  also  —  which  is  of  prime  importance  —  tend  to  es- 
tablish more  intimate  personal  relations  between  themselves 
and  their  pupils  than  at  present  exist,  and  to  counteract  the 
fatal  tendency  to  separation  which  has  shown  itself  in  graded 
and  classified  schools.  And,  finally,  if  teachers  in  this  way 
could  even  measurably  direct  the  reading  of  their  pupils,  it 
would  promote  unity  and  symmetry  of  education ;  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  many  pupils  in  after  years  would  be  able 
to  look  back  with  satisfaction  and  grateful  feelings  to  their 
teachers  for  the  needed  book  and  the  no  less  useful  word 
which  changed  the  direction  of  thought  and  purpose  for  life. 

If  any  experiment  in  this  direction  should  be  deemed  wise, 
the  present  time  is  not  unpropitious  if  I  rightly  understand 


26  City  Document  No.  78. 

the  spirit  which  animates  those  charged  with  the  administra- 
tion of  the  pul)lic  school  system. 

The  general  purpose  I  have  in  mind,  however,  would  not 
be  fully  subserved  when  the  Public  Library  should  have  been 
made  useful  in  the  fullest  and  best  sense  to  the  pupils  in  the 
public  schools,  since  these,  after  the  nominal  completion  of  their 
education,  still  remain,  for  a  season  at  least,  in  the  formative 
period  of  life,  and  still  receptive  of  good  influences  ;  and 
will  then,  as  now,  naturally  resort  to  the  Pul)lic  Library  for 
works  of  instruction  or  amusement.  To  the  Public  Library, 
then,  good  influences  should  follow  them. 

And  so  the  problem  changes  in  form  only,  not  in  sub- 
stance. At  first  the  question  is,  How  can  the  most  salutarv 
influence  of  good  books  reach  the  public  schools?  and,  sec- 
ondly. How  can  the  benign  influence  of  personal  instruction, 
similar  to  that  found  in  the  public  schools,  be  made  to 
attend  those  who  frequent  the  Public  Lil)rary?  Doubtless 
it  would  be  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  to  organize  any  sys- 
tem of  personal  instruction  in  connection  with  a  library,  as 
thorough  and  continuous  as  that  which  belongs  to  the  schools  ; 
nor  would  that  be  necessary  unless  the  schools  should  utterly 
fail  in  laying  that  foundation  of  good  judgment  and  taste  in 
the  minds  of  their  pupils  which  would  serve  in  some  good 
degi-ee  to  guide  their  later  reading. 

But  that  something  may  be  accomplished  in  this  direction,  I 
am  fully  persuaded  ;  and  this  conviction  rests  in  part  upon  a 
basis  of  experiment  and  ol)servati()n  which  I  shall  not  hesi- 
tate to  explain.  Occasionally  I  have  found  young  persons  in 
Bates  Hall  vaguely  searching  the  catalogues,  and  yet  appar- 
ently persistent  in  the  accomplishment  of  a  purpose  of  some 
sort.  A  question  as  to  their  wishes  has  led  to  the  suggestion 
of  the  needed  book,  with  a  word  as  to  its  special  value  and 
right  use,  Avhich,  if  later  assurances  may  be  relied  on,  was  not 
Avithout  l)enefit.  The  number  of  persons  of  this  class  is,  or 
would  soon  be,  sufiiciently  large  to  justify  the  presence  in 
Bates  Hall,  in  the  lil)rary  service,  of  some  person  of  the 
requisite  cidture  and  zeal  in  the  cause  of  good  literature,  who 
should  devote  certain  hours  of  the  day  to  the  advice  and 
assistance  of  all  comers.  In  the  hands  of  such  a  person  the 
Library  would  become  an  instrument  of  innneasurable  influ- 
ence in  the  cause  of  sound  learning.  It  would  be  alive  ;  not 
merely  a  reservoir,  with  skilfully  contrived  conduits,  leading 
to  each  main  door,  but  a  living  fountain,  to  which  all  nn'ght 
repair,  each  to  quench  his  individual  thirst,  and  bring  away 
what  he  might  need  for  less  public  use. 

I  am  not  aware  that  the  experiment  has  yet  been  tried  of 
a  course  of  lectures  in  a  public  lil)rary  designed  to  induce  the 


Public  Library.  27 

critical  and  appreciative  reading  of  the  best  things  in  litera- 
ture by  those  who  might  repair  to  them  for  instruction  ;  and 
yet  there  is  always  in  every  community  a  considerable  number 
of  persons  who  would  gladly  avail  th(miselves  of  such  oppor- 
tunities, for  which  no  substitute  is  found  in  the  occasional 
intermittent  courses  of  lectures  designed  primarily  for  the 
"•ratification  of  those  whose  tastes  are  already  formed.  If 
such  a  course  could  be  made  permanent,  meeting  every  year, 
the  young  men  and  young  women  who  reach  a  certain  stage 
in  their  progress,  with  the  same  unvarying  regularity  as 
marks  a  college  curriculum,  it  is  obvious  that  a  power 
would  be  organized  from  which  the  happiest  results  might 
be  expected.  There  may  be  practical  difficulties  in  the  in- 
stitution of  such  a  course  more  formidable  than  any  wdiich 
have  occurred  to  my  own  mind,  but  I  think  1  see  the  way 
clear,  and  I  should  look  hopefully  to  the  results  of  an  experi- 
ment in  this  direction,  the  details  of  wdiich  I  reserve  for 
some  less  public  expression. 

It  will  be  observed  that  I  estimate  highly  the  value  of  per- 
sonal influence  as  a  means  of  giving  vitality  to  a  library,  but 
I  hope  the  estimate  is  not  extravagant.  The  Public  Library 
has  not  as  yet  become  the  centre  of  any  considerable  num- 
ber of  literary  people  resorting  to  it  for  the  interchange  of 
opinions. 

I  think  it  may  be  made  to  be  such  a  centre  and  its  power 
indefinitely  enlarged,  its  prestige  increased,  and  its.  influence 
widely  felt  in  the  republic  of  letters. 

MELLEX   CHAMBEELAIN, 

Libvarian. 

Public  Library, 

April  30,  1879. 


APPENDIXES 


TO    THE 


LIBKARIAN'S  EEPORT. 


18  7  9 


LIST  OF  APPENDIXES. 


I.  Extent  of  the  Library  (by  Years). 

IF.  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. 

XL  Gifts. 

XII.  Circulation. 

XIII.  Registration  of  Applicants. 

XIV.  Books  Recommended.     Use  of  British  Patents. 
XV.  Batks  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  End  Reading. 

XXIII.  Jamaica  Plain  Reading. 

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

XXVI.  Financial  Statement. 

XXVII.  Library  Funds. 

XXVIII.  Library  Service. 

XXIX.  Report  on  the  Examination  of  the  Shelves. 

XXX.  Work  in  the  Library  Bindery. 


Public   Ltbraky. 


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Pamphlets 

added  tVom  the 

beginning. 

961 

39.50 

6,507 

12,386 

16,0,53 

17,938 

19,-j55 

20,707 

27,381 

28,874 

31,043 

31,837 

32,553 

36,566 

44,443 

47,254 

61,177 

74,770 

89.746 

100,383 

112,153 

134,6-.8 

150,921 

181,653 

196,958 

212,414 

227,010 

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5,116 

4,984 

5,141 

5,146 

5,>05 

6,106 

6,245 

»6,954 

*7.314 

*8,1S3 

9,4i0 

9,938 

11.321 

11,985 

12,944 

14,717 

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19,161 
20,881 
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23,592 
24,860 
25,366 

*25,199 
26,606 
28,723 
29,909 
30,574 
21,827 
32,fi05 
32  590 
33,395 
35,152 

*  35,478 
35,862 
36,116 

60,420 

66,228 

75,217 

79,359 

82,801 

88,226 

93,172 

100,171 

105,735 

111,681 

117,967 

124,419 

135,786 

142,685 

149,477 

]6H,748 

175,122 

184,938 

*  192,326 

203,928 

212,545 

Total  Volumes 
in  the  Libraries. 

9,688 

16,221 

22,617 

28,080 

34,896 

70,861 

78  043 

85,031 

*97,386 

105,0.34 

110,563 

116,9.34 

123,016 

130,678 

136,080 

144,092 

152,796 

160,573 

179,250 

192,958 

209,456 

260,.5.'iO 

276.9:8 

297,873 

312,010 

345,734 

360,963 

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1863-64 

1864-65 

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1866-67 

1867-68 

1868-69 

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1870-71 

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1873-74 

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APPEISTDIX    II. 


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

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


Years. 

Increase. 
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Vols. 

Pamph. 

Vols. 

Pamph. 

Vols. 

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1852-53 
1833-54 

1854-55 

9,688 
6,533 
6.396 

961 

4,000 
2,152 
2,663 

961 

5,688 
4  381 

76 

2.  .   . 

3.  .   . 

2,989 
2,463 

105 

2,557 

3,733 

89 

158 

4.   .   . 

1855-56 

5,463 

5,879 

1,865 

6,330 

3,.598 

549 

126 

6.   .   . 

1856-57 

6,816 

3,667 

1,686 

3,646 

6,130 

21 

132 

8  .   .   . 

7  .   .   . 
8.   .   . 

9  .   .   . 

1857-58 
1858-59 
1859-60 
1860-61 

35,955 

7  192 

1,885 
1,317 
1,452 
6,674 

30,214 
3,405 
3  744 

1  885 

5,741 
3,787 

881 

1,317 
1,452 
6,656 

247 

6,939 
16,94S 

3  245 

207 

12,299 

4,649 

18 

242 

10.   .   . 
11  .   .   . 

1861-62 
1862-63 

7,391 
5,529 

1,493 
2,169 

1,274 

829 

1,493 
1,958 

6,117 
4,700 

234 

212 

194 

12.    .   . 

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2,939 

1,081 

2,772 

6,145 

167 

219 

13.   .   . 

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1,516 

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1,026 

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7,877 

1,465 

7,769 

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1,648 

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14,976 

9,750 

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8,349 

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4,169 

15,899 

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15,206 

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3,680 

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(fl)    Of  the  increase,  2t.(',l8  were  the  Bates  (fift. 

(9)    Of  the  increase,  11,7l'1  wore  the  Parker  beiuest. 

( 19)  M,774  volumes  of  tlio  Tieknor  beijuest,  and  2,082  from  the  Sumner  Library  Association,  arc  included 
in  tlip  increase. 

120)    l.'I'l  volumes  from  t)ic  Jlattapan  Literarv  Association  arc  included  in  the  incrcafe. 

(22)  The  increase  of  this  ,\  cur  includes  the  totals  of  the  libraries  at  Charlestown  and  Brij(bton,  and  also, 
under  purchases,  the  Barton  lilbrarv. 

(24)  The  purclinios  of  tliis  viar  include  thirtv  volumes  to  replace  books  in  the  Bates  Ilall  lonf;  lost.  The 
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(20)  The  unusual  incrcnsc  is  nwiniito  the  addition  of  the  books  of  the  Mercantile  Library  Association 
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APPENDIX   YI. 

INCREASE    OF   THE    SEVERAL   DEPARTMENTS. 


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6,297 

7,475 

6,296 

7,508 

10,3S4 

6,622 

6,198 

6,. 564 

0,227 

9,357 

11,286 

8,459 

Of     these    not 

located  at  last 

Report    .    .    . 
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1,678 

1,.327 

140 

294 

4,135 

651 

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1ST 

691 

303 

655 

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4,619 

6,148 

6,1.56 

7,214 

6,249 

5,971 

5,369 

0,377 

9,227 

8,746 

10,983 

7,804 

.\dded  and  not 

located   .   .   . 
Total  gain  .   .   . 

1,.327 

140 

294 

4,135 

651 

829 

*12,244 

591 

303 

655 

558 

5,940 

6,288 

6,450 

11.349 

6,900 

6,800 

17,613 

6,377 

9,818 

9,049 

11,638 

8,362 

Condemned  and 

transferred    . 
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2 

1 

6 

3 

2 

21 

36 

48 

5,946 

6,290 

6,450 

11,349 

6,899 

6,796 

17,613 

6,374 

9,816 

9,028 

11,602 

8,314 

f  Gain  In  books  . 

Less     transfers 

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■(     books  .... 


.  Net  gain     .   .   . 


:,003 

536 


1,407 


2.460 

352 

2,117 


1,417 

2,780 

2,614 

1,799 

1,465 

3,385 

3,570 

231 
1,186 

2,116 
665 

1,361 

1,021 

1,480 

2,586 

1,813 

1,253 

778 

(1om)15 

799 

1,757 

3,830     2,72S 
1,701   t2,344 


2,129        384 


2,339 

2,085 

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402 

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157 

126 

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1,641 
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1,234 

786 

1,902 

519 

1,015 
351 

1,677 
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3,216 

1,443 

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659 

301 

139 

149 

360 

860 

1,307 

448 

1,383 

664 

1,773 

5,936 

881 
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621 
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143 

915 
334 

017 
273 

856 
250 

676 
270 

716 

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5,936 

831 

524 

521 

681 

644 

606 

406 

313 

885 

76 

850 
217 

1,359 
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1,261 
495 

1,303 
413 

823 
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329 

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4,365 

809 

633 

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766 

890 

576 

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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. 


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163 

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304 

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1,167 

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1,043 
1,330 

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4,615 

2,373 

1,822 

1,895 

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3,037 

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15,932 
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15,788 

1,305 

403 

1,004 
300 

1,123 
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398 

1,268 

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274 

902 

704 

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597 

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1,041 

616 

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89 

139 

6,401 
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670 

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522 

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86 

8,804 

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5,946 

1,407 

6,290 
2,117 

6,450 
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6.899 
1,253 

6,795 

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254 
869 
524 
809 
3,750 
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19.271 
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101 

1,307 

521 

633 

1,043 

1,330 

15,788 

11,037 

54 

24 

6,374 

799 

402 
448 
581 
715 

1,250 
572 
902 
405 

3,905 
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9,816 
1,757 

335 

1,383 

644 

760 

1,136 

759 

704 

480 

3,147 

9,028 
2,129 

157 

6G4 

606 

890 

1,092 
738 
690 
406 

1.041 

11,602 
384 

126 

959 

400 

576 

2,841 

190 

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218 

610 

6,399 

8,804 

8,314 
254 

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301 

139 

146 
5,936 

380 

831 

4,365 

1,773 
313 

S.  B.  Brunch 

525 

S 

Rox.  Branch 

635 

5 

Fellowes    Atbe- 

220 

Chn.  Branch 

994 

^ 

Bri.  Branch 

189 

Dor.  Branch 

562 

J.  P.  Branch 

1 

1  .    .    . 

39        139 

670 

* 

8.  E.  Branch 

436 

Total  gain  .    . 

8,012 

8,708 

7,77o|  18,099 

13,708 

j  14,644 

51,109 

:  16,372 

20,955  17,277 

33,724 

14,926 

38 


City  Document  No.  78. 


APPENDIX   yil. 

INCREASE   FROM   NEWLY    PUBLISHED   BOOKS. 


H 

(X 
9 
SB 

H 

H 
Z) 

9» 

H 

H 

at) 

H 

at) 
at) 

H 

e 

3D 

H 

English  Books  with  1 
British  imprint    .   \ 

635 

703 

625 

811 

899 

1,096 

1,389 

1,294 

1,533 

2,830 

2,237 

1,763 

1,781 

English  Books  with  ) 
American  imprint  ( 

1,154 

1,445 

1,455 

1,411 

2,20C 

3,642 

4,301 

3,807 

7,365 

10,501 

6,761 

5,546 

6,295 

English  Books  with  ) 
Contin'tal  imprint  j 

104 

100 

80 

50 

48 

115 

291 

125 

375 

816 

180 

191 

233 

Foreign  hooks  .... 

539 

673 

789 

487 

561 

891 

1,064 

858 

767 

1,858 

1,742 

1,2G9 

1,372 

Duplicates  of  either  ^ 
class,  when  not  in-  1 
eluded  in  the  other  ( 
items    ......  J 

97 

447 

248 

480 

Total 

2,529 

2,926 

3,3^6 

3,007 

4,194 

5,744 

7,045 

6,084 

10,040 

15,505 

10,920 

8,769 

8,681 

APPENDIX  YIII. 

VOLUMES   LOCATED   IN   BATES   HALL,    BY   MONTHS. 


Months. 

1 

1 

at) 
O 
ac 

H 

© 

e 

e 

Ot) 

H 

1 

0 
ao 

H 

M 
1 

r4 

M 

at) 

r4 

la 

1 

f 

aD 

1 
at) 

1 

90 

H 

9C 
I* 

1 

X 

« 

ao 

758 
509 
1,037 
883 
713 
866 
443 
639 
626 
663 
621 
417 

347 
833 
697 
763 
632 
834 
633 
882 
1,175 

727 
480 
462 
620 
878 
646 
695 
905 
427 
706 
1,001 
661 

455 
464 
291 
618 
611 
295 
*  4,628 
651 
611 
724 
788 
t598 

534 
684 
631 
554 
457 
52j 
489 
646 
656 
456 
551 
492 

357 
527 
839 
405 
436 
414 
377 
507 
665 
694 
472 
605 

883 
477 
713 
660 
62'2 
590 
722 
758 
427 
849 
419 
544 

830 
845 
829 
666 

1,036 
602 
825 
567 
579 
645 
752 

1,050 

«71 
613 
738 

591 
611 
751 
697 
772 

1,014 
677 
649 

1.558 

654 
963 
9S4 
2,078 
899 
842 
940 
745 
881 
707 
654 
939 

751 

677 

July 

641 

456 

September 

620 
816 

November 

945 
843 

January  

February 

887 
567 
531 

April 

725 

Total 

7,475 

6,2'J6 

7,608 

10,:i84 

6,62.i 

6,198 

6,564 

9,226 

9,337 

11,286 

8,459 

Pamphlet  volurnes         j 
arranged   by  the  Curator  ( 


385 


554 


206 


159 


20 


121 


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

t  Includes  31  volumee  of  the  Ticknor  MSS. 

Note.  —  Tlieso  monthly  figures  arc  the  results  of  the  tables  made  out  year  by  year,  like  the 
one  constituting  Appemlix  Vt  fur  lSfi9.  The  figures  for  May,  June,  and  July,  1868-69,  sliould 
follow  those  for  April  of  the  same  year.  They  were  misplaced  to  adapt  the  table  to  a  change  of 
the  Library  year. 

I'amphleU.  —  Hunng  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  aud 
not  needed  have  been  arranged  in  adjacent  apartments. 


APPENDIX    IX. 

BATIiis      HALL      CLASSIFICATIONS, 
fllepreeenting  books  located  only.) 


General  Libraries. 


Special  Libraries. 


Total, 
including 

Special 
Libraries. 


Cyclopaedias,  etc 

Bibliography  and  Literary  History 

General  History,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Geography  .   .   .   . 

American  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 
lite Literature 


English  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Tr.avel,  and  Polite 
Literature 


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


Italian  History,  Geography,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Polite 
Literature 


,  Biography,  Travel,  and  Po- 


Greek,  Latin,  and  Philology 

Spanish  and  Portuguese  History  and  Literature 


Periodicals  and  Transactions 

Theology,  Ecclesiastical  History,  etc 

Metaphysics  and  Social  Science 

Jurisprudence 

Political  Economy 

Medical  Science 

Natural  History  and  Science 

Mathematics  and  Physical  Sciences 

Useful  Arts 

Fine  Arts 

Bound  Volumes  of  Miscellaneous  Pamphlets 
Bound  Volumes  of  Manuscripts 


22 
278 
223 

1,305 

1,018 


16 
179 
285 

1,265 

953 


220 
444 

1,708 

1,306 


1,109 
1,023 


1,326 
5,412 
6,238 

24,369 


6,420 

4,783 

862 

8,203 
15,579 
16,440 
6,714 
3,623 
2,169 
10,322 
6,635 
7,825 
4,372 
5,294 
455 


1,290 
1,124 


3,243 
1,253 


162 
1,012 
3,645 
2,616 


t220 


Totals 6,100    6,297    7,475    6,296     7.508    6,477  ■  6,622    5,995    6,333    8,626    9,424    7 


.   .   .1 


44      172,137  3,043    12,309   2,037     5,354     14,210  2,89' 


1,873 
7,076 
7,163 

27,362 

26,474 

14,692 

7,823 

8,048 
6,871 
4,770 

5,801 
17,906 
21,389 
8,283 
4,033 
2,370 
10,446 
6,895 
9,347 
4,425 
5,401 
634 


Explanation.  —  Class  III  includes  General  History,  Universal  Biographies,  Histjories  of  Eras,  Voy- 
ages, and  Travels,  when  embracing  several  countries,  and  collected  works  of  historians. 

Class  IV  includes  North  and  ciouth  American  History,  Hocuments  and  Statistics,  Biographies  of 
Aiiiericans,  Geography  of,  and  Voyagesand  Travels  in  America,  wilh  the  collected  works  of  American 
writers,  and  what  ot  American  Literature  is  sometimes  termed  Polygraphy. 

Class  V,  Class  VI,  Class  VII,  Class  Vlll.  —  These  have  the  same  scope  for  the  i-espective  countries 
that  Class  IV  has  for  America.  Class  Vlll  includes  also  Belgium,  the  Netherlands,  and  Switzerland,  as 
also  the  Scandinavian  nations. 

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

Claea_XIV  includes  Political  Science,  Social  Science,  and  Ethics  applied  and  unapplied.  Intellectual 
ology,  etc. 


Science,  Education,  Rhetoric,  Logic,  Phr^ 


Class  XIX  includes  Mechanics,  Military  and  Naval  Arts,  Agriculture,  Domestic  Arts,  etc 
Class  XXII  embraces  all  such  p.,mphlet  volumes  as  may  Imvo  been  received  from  time  to  time,  and 
are  generally  too  heterogeneous  in  their  make-up  to  bo  classed  otherwise  than  by  themselves 

Class  XXIV  includes  only  the  Shakespeare  collection  of  the  Harton  Library,  and  not  that  of  the  Gtn- 

"'^'''The'eJbdivislons  of  classes  are  kept  in  ranges  by  themselves,  so  that  for  purposes  of  enumeration  or 
learning  percentage  of  use,  it  is  practicable  .it  any  time  to  get  exact  igures  upon  tbe  subdivisions  >  »»  ff » 
^*^      ■  ,.=  ..„  n,-„„r„T,i,„  'p-o^oi   »n,i  Vovaoes.  etc..  bv  summing  ihe  results  of  the  ranges  devoted 


upon  such  points  ao  Biography,  Travel,  and  Voyages,  etc.,  by  summing  i 
to  them  in  the  several  alcoves.  .    .     ,,,,,.« 

Note.  —  The  increase  of  the  several  special  libraries  is  included  In  the  ngnr 


for  these  libraries. 


*  Includes  all  Books  in  Room  G,  — 12,108  of  them  belonging  to  tlit 
t  One  volume  transferred  to  B.  H. ;  thjrec  from  American  History  ' 
X  Patent  Records  of  the  Colony  of  Victoria. 


APPEIS^DIX       X. 

OWER      HALL      CLASSIFICATIONS 


1875    isro 


1877  I  1878 


To  be  deducted. 


SB 
-«  o 


sa 


Theology,  Moral  and  Intellectual  Science,  etc 

jQritpmdence  and  Political  Science 

Uedlcine,  Matliematici,  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  JuTenil*  Fiction,  and  other  Juvenile  books. 

Biography     

Travels 


Ubrarles,  Collections,  Periodicals,  etc.* 

(German 

Italian  Books 

French  Books 

Bpanish  Books 

Books  of  Reference 


270 
1,705 

699 
1,023 
1,333 
■i,268 
7,165 
2.342 
1,897 
2,621 
J,ia7 

221 


l,6fli) 

278 

1,77^ 

«2I^ 

1,050 

1,374 

2,344 

8,06i! 

2,223 

1,871 

2,798 

l,20e 

221 

1,104 


1,867 
647 
1,082 
1,387 
2,634 
9,130 
2,300 
1,989 
3,125 
1,232 


1,703 

283 

1,898 

664 

1,089 

1,401 

2,576 

9,818 

2,336 

2,041 

3,305 

1,246 

224 


209 
1,908 

639 
1,086 
1,363 
2,467 
10,469 
2,298 
1,990 
3,478 
1,247 

226 


1,805 

275 

1,948 

629 

1,070 

1,359 

2,529 

11,281 

2,281 

1,980 

3,771 

1,250 

226 


2,043 
656 
1,077 
1,354 
2,544 
11,864 
2,246 
1,965 
3,827 
1,262 
227 
1,232 


2,098 

668 

1,070 

1,362 

2,540 

11,858 

2,234 

1,986 

3,728 

1,261 

228 

1,244 

1 


691 
1,072 
1,380 
2,672 
12,426 
2,278 
2,040 
3,698 
1,263 

229 
1,241 


2,191 

716 

1,112 

1,392 

2,667 

13,899 

2,347 

2,061 

3,928 

1,201 

203 

992 


1,844 

328  I 
2,202  j 

715 
1,129 
1,477 
2,868 
13,501 
2,489 
2,186 
3,866  ! 
1,313 
156 


"32 
1,113 
1,439 
2,930 
13,742 
2,448 
2,132 
4,035 
1,334 


Totals 25,199      26,606      28,723      29,909      30,574      31,827      32,605      32,596      33, 


35,152      36,478      36,8 


1,863 
S34 

2,276 
750 
1,119 
1,463 
2,964 
13,696 
2,476 
2,153 
4,072 
1,361 
165 


•  This  class,  embraciug  seta  like  Bohn's  "  Libraries,"  etc.,  includes  many  books,  of  coarse,  which,  in  a  minute  classification,  would  have  been  divided  among  all  the  previous  heuds  of  this  tabic. 
t  The  books  enumerated  in  this  it«m  are  mostly  imperfect  sets. 

Note.  —The  column  of  "  Condemned  books  replaced"  includes  books  couden(ned  In  previous  years  as  well  as  in  the  current  year.    The  column  "Total  added"  shows  the  number  of  volumei 
bound  two  volumes  in  one,  etc    The  small  gain  in  this  Hall  Is  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  many  old  books  not  in  request  and  broken  sets  have  been  taken  off  the  shelves,  to  make  room  for  newer  books. 


put  upon  the  shelves,  couutiug  t 


Public  Library. 


39 


APPENDIX  XI. 


GIFTS,  MAY   1,    1878,   TO  APRIL   30,    1879. 


Givers  (excluding  anonymous) 
Volumes  .... 

Pamphlets      .... 


470 
3,680 

8,786 


GiVEHS. 


Pphs. 


Abbott,  Francis  E. 

Adams,  C.  F.,  Topeka,  Ks. 

Adams,  Hon.  Charles  Francis 

Adams,  R.  B.      . 

Advocate's  Library,  Edinburgh 

Ainsworth,  F.  S.,  M.D.,  Jaffray,  N.H. 

Amalgamated  Society  of  Engineers,  London 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences    . 

American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester  . 

American  Association  for   the  Advancement  of  Science 

Worcester 
American  Bible  Society 

American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  Easton,  Pa. 
American  Iron  and  Steel  Association,  Philadelphia   . 
American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia   . 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  JVew  York  City 
Anderson's  University,  Glasgow,  Scotland 
Andrevr,  John  A.,  Monument  Association 

Angell,  George  T 

Anonymous,   1  map     .... 

Appleton,  Prof.  John  H.,  Providence,  E.I. 

Appleton,  Nathan 

Appleton,  William  S.,  1  broadside. 

Apprentice's  Library  Company,  Philadelphia     . 

Argentine  Meteorological  Office,   Cordoba,  Argentine  Re 

public       .         .         .-        . 
Aristarchi  Gr6goire,   Bey,    Turkish  Envoy,    Washington 

D.C. 


Arnold,  Howard  P 

Astor  Library,  New  York  City    . 
Atkinson,  Prof.  William  P. 
Bachelder,  John  B.,  Chelsea 
Baetz,  Henry,  Milwaukee,   Wis.  . 
Baker,  William  H.,  M.JD.   ... 
Baldwin,  William  H,  . 
Baldwin  Place  Home  for  Little  Wanderers 
Balfour,  David  M.        .         .  .         . 

Barber,  George  W.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Batchelder,  Joseph  A.,  Middleton 
Beardsley,  J.  L.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Belrose,  Louis,  jr.,  Chester,  Pa. 
Benson,  Mason  D.       .         .         .         , 
Bertrand,  Arthur,  Paris     . 


1 
1 
1 
101 
1 


4 
1 
1 

2 
1,336 

fi 

1 


12 


40 


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Givers. 


Beverly  Yacht  Club    . 
Biblioteca  Nazionale,  Milan,  Italy 
Bigelow,  Henry  J.,  M.D. 
Bliss,  Alexander . 
Blodaett,  Albert  N.,  M.D. 
Booth,  Alfred,  M.D.    . 
Boothby,  Josiah,  London 
Boston,  City  of   . 

Overseers  of  the  Poor 

Art  Club  . 

Gas  Light  Company 

Bowditch,  Henry  I.,  M.D. 

Boxer,  F.  N.,  Montreal 

Brace,  Charles  L.,  New  York  City 

Bradford,  Charles  F.' . 

Bradford,  Miss  Rebecca,  Bequest  of  . 

Bradlee,  Rev.  Caleb  D.,  90  broadsides,  di  newspaper 

Breck,  Charles,  Milton 

Brewer,  Frof.  Fisk.  P.,  Grinnell,  Iowa 

Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  31.  D. 

Brigham,  Rev.  Charles  H.,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich 

British  Museum,  London    .... 

Brock,  R.  A.,  Richmond,  Va.,  4  newspapers 

Brooks,  Frederick,  1  map. 

Brooks,  Rev.  John  G.  .         .         . 

Brophy,  Thomas  C.     . 

Brown,  Ammi,  M.D.   .... 

Brown,  Walter  L.,  New  York  City     . 

Brown  University,  Providence,  R.I.    . 

Budapest,  Hungary,  City  of 

Burnham,  Gordon  W. 

Burnham,  Leavitt,   Omaha,  Neb. 

Burroughs,  Rev.  Henry,  D.D.    . 

Butler,  George    ..... 

Byram,  Cliarles  R.       .         .         .         . 

Calvert,  George  H.,  Newport,  R.I. 

Campbell,  George,  London 

Capcn,  Miss  Mary  F.    121  newspapers 

Carr,  Henry  J.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Garret,  Jose  F 

Cartoe,  Cornelius  S.,  M.D. 
Carter,  Samuel  C,  Amherst 
Castromediano,  Sigismondo,Z)Kcadi  Caballino,  Lecce, 
d'Otranto,  Italy     .... 

Caswall,  Mrs.  M.  C 

Caulfield,  Richard,  LL.D.,  Cork,  Ireland 
Cavaleri,  Miclieli,  Milan,  Italy  . 
Chadwick,  James  R.,  M.D. 
Chandler,  Horace  P.   . 
Chase,  George  B.         .         .         .         . 
Chase,  Richard  M.,  Annapolis,  Md.    . 
Cheever,  David  W.,  M.D.,  I  broadside. 
Chicago,  III.,  City  of  . 

Public  Library 

Historical  Society,  Chicago,  111. 

Child,  Hon.  Linus  M. 
Child,  Mrs.  Lydia  Maria     . 
Choate,  Joseph  IL,  New  York  City     . 
Christern,  F.  W.  New  York  City 


Terra 


1 

93 

1 


7 

5 

26 


Pphs. 


>70 

1 


13 


18 


1 

If.O 

•7 
9 

5 

9 

Public  Librakt. 


41 


Givers. 


Claghorn,  James  L.,  Philadelphia 
Clarke,  Rev.  James  Freeman,  D.D.    . 
Clarke,  Robert,  &  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Coffin,  Charles  C 

Coghill,  J.  Henry,  New  York  City 

Cogswell,  Gen.  William 

Cole,  H.  Hammond     .... 

Collins,  Frank  S 

Concord  Public  Library 
Connell,  William,*/?-.,  Fall  River 
Conwell,  Russell  H.    .         .         .  • 

Cotting,   Bliss  Julia  A.         .         .         . 
Coxe,  Brinton,  Philadelphia 
Crooke,  Reuben ..... 
Crosby,  John  L.,i?a?2^or,  J/e.   . 
Crosswell,  Hon.  Charles  M.,  Lansing,  Mich. 
Crunden,  Frederick  M.,  St.  Louis,  Mo 
Curtis,  Col.  H.  P.,   Washington,  B.C. 

Cutler,  E.  G.,  3/.i? 

Cutter,  George  F.,   Washington,  B.C. 

Dana,  Miss  Elizabeth  E.      . 

Davis,  Andrew  J.,  Orange,  N.J. 

Davis,  Charles  E.,  jr.,  90  newspapers. 

Davis,  Thomas  W.,  1  map. 

Davis  &  Son,  London  .... 

Dayton,  Ohio,  Public  Library     . 

Dean,  Hon.  Benjamin,   Washington,  D.C. 

Deane,  Cliarles,  Cambridge 

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

Dexter,  D.  Gilbert,  Cambridge,  newspaper  cuttings 

Dexter,  George,  Cambridge 

Dillaway,  Charles  K. 

Dimmock,  George,  Cambridge 

Dixwell,  George  B. 

Dixwell,   Mrs.  John  J. 

Dorr,  3Irs.  C.  H.,  1  map     . 

Duane,  William,  Philadelphia 

Duren,  Elnathan  F.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Earle,  Pliny,  M.B.,  Northampton 

Eliot,  John  Fleet 

Elliot,  Joseph  D.,  Newton 

Elze,  Karl,  Halle,  Germany 

Essex  Institute,  Salem 

Evanston,  III.,  Philosophical  Associat 

Fales,  Lewis,  Medford 

Fay,  Joseph  S.,   Wood's  Hole 

Fellowes  Athenreum    . 

Fernald,  Prof.  0.  M.,   Williamstown 

Field,  Hon.  Walbridge  A.,   Washingt 

Fisher,  Horace  N. 

Fiske,  Daniel  W.,  Ithaca,  N.  I 

Floye,  W.  J        . 

Fliigel,  Br.  Felix,  Leipzig,  Germany 

Folsom,  George  M.     . 

Forster,  Edward  J.,  M.B.   . 

Fol-t  Worth  Eclipse  party   . 

Foster,  William  E.,  Providence,  R.I. 

Francis,  Miss,  Cambridge  . 

Francis,  Samuel  W.,  31. B.,  Newport,  R.I. 


on,  B.  C 


I'plis. 


1 
1 

1 
1 

4 
IS-t 

1 
3 
1 

1 
1 


15 
1 


117 

88 
1 


28 
1 


193 
1 
1 
1 


15 

27 

1 

1 


42 


City  Document  No.   78. 


Givers. 


Franklin  Club 

Free  Eelisious  Association 
Frothingham,  Henry  K.,  Cambridge. 
Frothingham,  3Iiss  Martha  W.  . 
Gassett,  Edward  ..... 

Gassett,  M 

Georgetown  College,  Georgetown,  D.  C. 
Gerber,  Dr.  C.  F.  V.  von,  Dresden,  Germany 
Gerrish,  Frederic  H.,  M.D.,  Portla?id,  Me. 
Gibbs,  Montgomery,  London 

Giles,  Alfred  E 

Globe  Publishing  Company 
Godkin,  E.  L.,  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  14  broadsides,  C31 
newspapers    ........ 

Good  Health  Publishing  Association,  Battle  Creek,  Mich 

Gottlob,  J.  J 

Great  Britain.     Commissioner  of  Patents 

Green,  Samuel  A.,  31. D.,  1  broadside 

Greener,  Richard  T.,  Washington,  D.C. 

Greenough,  C.  P. 

Greenough,  "William  W. 

Groton,  Town  of  ...         . 

Hale,  George  S.  .... 

Hall,  Gustavus  V 

Hall,  Miss  H.  W 

Hamburg,  Germany,  Stadtbibliothek. 
Hamilton,  J.  B.,  M.D.,  Washington,  D.C 

Hanna,  William 

Harlem  Library,  New  York  City 
Hart,  Charles.  H.  Philadelphia  . 
Harvard  College,  Cambridge 

Library   

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Haverford  College,  Ilaverford,  Pa.  . 
Haverhill  Public  Library  .... 
Hawkins,  Dexter  A.,  New  York  City 
Hcrschel,  Clemens  ..... 
Hewins,  Eben  N.  .  .  .  .  • 
Hewitt,  lion.  Abram  S.,  Washington,  D.C. 
lUckey,  M.,  Detroit,  Mich.  ... 

Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  PhiladeliM 
Hoar,  lion.  George  F.,   Washington,  D.C. 
Hodges,  Richard  M.,  M.D.,  4  broadsides.     1  map 

tographs         ...... 

Holland,  Henry  "W.,  Cambridge 

Holmes,   Henry.      Water-color  painting  of  old  building 

corner  ^loon  and  Sun-court  Streets 
Horton,  S.  Dana,  Pomeroy,  Ohio 
Horton,  Mrs.  William  R.     . 
Houghton,  George,  Ne%v  York  City    . 
Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co.    .... 
Howell,  Edward,  Liverpool,  Eng. 
Howgate,  Capt.  Henry  W.,   Washington,  D.C. 
Hubbard,  Rev.  James  JNL,  74  broadsides,  4  newspapers 
Hudson,  Charles,  Lexington,  2  engravings. 
Huidekoper,  Frederic,  Meadville,  Pa. 
Humphreys,  Brig. -Gen.  Andrew  A.,   Washington,  D.C. 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  Public  Library      .... 
Industrial  League,  Philadelphia        .... 


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Ingleby,  Clement  M.  . 

Ingraham,  Robert  C,  New  Bedford  . 

Institution  of  Civil  Engineers,  London 

Iowa  Agricultural  Society,  Ames,  Iowa 

Jackson,  Henry  B.      .         .         . 

James,  Henry,  Cambridge 

Janssens,  E.,  31.  B.,  Brussels 

Jav,  John,  New  York  City 

Jeffries,  B.  Joy,  M.D. 

Johnson,  A.  H.,  M.D.,  Salem     . 

Jones,  J.  M.  and  F.    . 

Jones  &  Laughlin,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Jones,  McDuffee,  &  Stratton 

Kaiserliche  Kpniglich  Geologische  % 
Austria        ... 

King,  James  W. . 

Knapp,  Arthur  M.,  7  broadsides 

Knapp,  William  I. 

Kneeland,  Prof.  Samuel  W-,  10  broadside 

Knortz,  Karl,  Johnstown,  Pa.     . 

Konigliche    Bayerische    Akademie 
Munich         .... 

Lane,  Eev.  James  P.,  Bristol,  R.I. 

Langworthy,  Pev.  Isaac  P. 

Laurie,  Eev.  Thomas,  D.D.,  Providence,  R.I. 

Lawrence,  Abbot 

Lawrence,  Hon.  Edward     . 

Lawrence  Academy,   Oroton 

Leavitt,  George  A.,  &  Co.,  New  York 

Lee,  Francis  H.,  Salem 

Lee,  Henry  .... 

Lee  &  Shepard    .... 

Lefort,  J.,  Lille,  France 

Leicester  Public  Library     . 

Leslie,  J/155  Annie  M. 

Lewis,  George    .... 

Library  Association,  Portland,  Oregon 

Lindsay,  W.  Lander,  3LD.,  Perth,  Scotland 

Lindsley,  J.  Berrien,  M.B.,  N'ashville,  Tenn. 

Literary  and  Philosophical  Society,  Liverpool, 

Little,  Brown,  &  Co.  .         .         .  "       .   _ 

Liverpool,  Bng-,  Free  Public  Library 

London  Athenaeum      .... 

Lord,  Henry  W.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Lyman,  George  H.,  M.B.  . 

Lyncli,  Frank  H.         .         .         .         . 

MacDonald,  Carlos  F.,  3LB.,  Auburn,  N. 

IMcPhail,  H.  A.  C,  Sa7ita  Barbara,  Cal. 

McPhetres,  Samuel  A.,  Lowell  . 

Mallalieu,  Rev.  Willard  F. 

Manchester,    Bng.,    Fi'ee    Public    Library 

Committee    .... 
Manchester,  Nil.,  City  Library 
Mann,  Hon.  Horace,  Heirs  of    . 
Marble,  Albert  P.,   Worcester      . 
Marcus,  Alfred  A.        . 
Marsh,  Spencer,  Burlington,  Vt.,  2  newspapers 
Marthens,  John  F.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  2  maps 
Martin,  Henry  A.,  31. 1) 


anstalt,   Vienna 


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Marvin,  William  T.  E. 
Massachusetts,  State  of 

Board  of  Health      . 

Board  of  State  Charities 

Bureau  of  Statistics 

State  Library  . 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society 

Massachusetts  Horticultural  Society 

Massachusetts  New  Church  Union 

May,  3Iiss  Abby  W.,  50  broadsides 

May,  Samuel,  &  Co.    . 

Meek,  Henry  M.,  Salem     . 

Memorial  Hall  Library,  Atidover 

Mercantile  Library  Association  . 

Mercantile  Library  Association,  Cincinnati,  Oh 

Mercantile  Library  Company,  Philadelphia 

Merrill,  George  S.,  1  newspaper. 

Metcalf,  Theodore 

Michell.  Nicholas,  Falmouth,  Eng. 

Missouri  University  Library,  Columbia,  Mo. 

Mixter,  Calvin  S.,  Arlington 

Morse  Institute,  N'atickf  596  broadsides 

Mudie's  Select  Library,  London 

Munsell,  Joel,  Albany,  A".  Y.       .         .         ■ 

Museum  of  Comparative  Zoology,  Cambridge 

Myer,  Isaac,  Philadelphia 

Napier,  Macvey,  London    .... 

Nash,  Joseph       ...... 

National  Association  of  Wool  Manufacturers 

Neill,  Rev.  James  L.,  Lynn 

Nelson,  C.  A.,   West  Somerville  . 

New  Bedford  Free  Public  Library 

Newburyport  Public  Library 

New  Hampshire  Medical  Society,  Concord 

Newton,  T.  W.,  London     .... 

New  York  City,  Board  of  Education  . 
New  York  Historical  Society 
Nichols,  Smith  W.,  Melrose 

Nichols,  Prof.  William  R 

Nicholson,  Col.  John  P.,  Philadelphia 
Nicliolson  File  Company,  Providence,  R.I. 

Nicholson,  S.  D 

Norfolk  County  Commissioners  . 

Nottingham,  Eng.,  Free  Libraries  and  Museums  Committe 

Nowell,  Cyrus,  Portland,  Me.    . 

Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society,  Philadelphia 

Nutting,  Miss  Mary  O.         .         .         .         • 

Ohio  State  Librarv,  Columbus     . 

Ohse,  Mrs.  . ' 

Onderdonk,  Henry, /r.,  .Tamaiea,  L.I. 
Osgood,  Rev.  Samuel,  D.D.,  New  York  City 
Ostori,  K.  S.,  Tokio,  -lapan 

Oti^j  Robert  M.,  M.D 

Paine,  Nathaniel,   Worcester 

Paris,  France,  Prefet  de  la  Seine 

Parker,  Augustus        ..... 

Peabody,  J/i's.'?  Elizabeth  P.,  Cambridge    . 

Peet,  Stephen  D.,  Ashtabula.  Ohio,  5  broadsid 

Pennsylvania  Board  of  Public  Charities,  Ifarrishurg 


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Perkins,  Albert  C,  Exeter,  N.H. 
Perkins,  Charles  C.     . 
Perkins,  Samuel  C,  Philadelphia 

Perry,  Thos.  S 

Philbrick,  John  D 

Pike,  James  S.    . 

Plymouth,  Eng.,  Free  Library    . 

Pool,  Wellington,   Wenham 

Poole,  William  P.,  Chicago,  III. 

Poor,  Hon.  Amos,  Providence,  R.I.    . 

Porter,  Gen.  Fitz  John,  Morristown,  N.P. 

Pulsifer,  R.  M 

Putnam,  Charles  P.,  31. D. 

Putnam,  G.  P.,  &  Sons,  New  York  Oity 

Putnam,  Mrs.  J.  P 

Quincy  Public  Library 

Quint,  Rev.  Alonzo  H.,  New  Bedford 

Hand,  George  D.,  Portland,  3Ie. 

Randolph,  English,  &  Co.,  Richmond,   Va. 

Rawle,  William  B.,  Philadelphia 

Reale  Istitiito  Lombardo,  3Iilan,  Italy 

Reed,  J.  Harris  ..... 

Richards,  Samuel  W. 

Richardson,  William  L.,  M.I).     . 

Robinson,  Miss  Harriet  H.,  3Ialden    . 

Robinson,  James  R.,  Cambridge 

Rockwell  &  Churchill 

Rogers,  Henry  B.         .         .         .         . 

Rolfe,  William  J.,  Cambridge     . 

Rotch,  W^illiam,  Fall  River 

Royal  Astronomical  Society,  London 

Royal  Geographical  Society,  London 

Royal  Observatory,  Edinburgh,  Scotlatid 

Royal  Observatory,  Greenwich,  Eng. 

Royal  Society,  London 

Russell,  David  F 

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

Saigo-Tsukumichi,  Jushii,  Tdjcio,  Japan 

St.  Marylebone  Charity  Organization  Committee,  London 

Salisbury,  Stephen, /r.,   Worcester,  1  map 

Sargent,  Charles  S.,  Cambridge 

Sauveur,  Prof.  Lambert 

Schlaginweit,  Robert  von,  Giessen,  Germany 

Schlegel,  Everett,  &  Co.      . 

Scudder,  Samuel  H.    . 

Searle,  Frederick  A.,  100  broadsides. 

Selwyn,  Hon.  Alfred  R.  C,  3Iontreal,  Canada 

Sexton,  Andrew,  3Iadison,   Wis.,  13  maps  . 

Shattuck,  George  C,  31. D.  .... 

Shepherd,  Herbert  M 

Sherman,  Hyde,  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Sinnickson,  Robert,  Trenton,  N.J.,  18  broadsides. 

Slafter,  Rev.  E.  F 

Smith,  Amzi,   Washington,  B.C.,  1,950  broadsides 
.  Smith,  Charles  C 

Smithsonian  Institution,  Washington,  D.C. 

Societe  Franklin,  Paris      ..... 

Somers,  John  J.,  Gloucester        .... 


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South  Carolina  State  Library,  Columbus,  S.C. 

Shields,  JSng.,  Public  Library     . 

Stevens,  George  H.,  Newburyport 

Stillman,  Oscar  B.       .         .         .         . 

Stilson,  Rev.  Arthur  C,  Ottumwa,  Iowa 

Stockbridge,  Prof.  Levi,  Amherst 

Stockwell,  Thomas  B.,  Frovidence,  R.I. 

Stone,  Gen.  Charles  P.,  Cairo,  Egypt 

Stone,  Ormond,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Stuart,  A.  H.  H.,  Olympia,  Washington  T.,  1 

Swift,  Lindsay     ..... 

Swinncy,  E.  H.  . 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Central  Library 

Tache,  J.  C,  Ottawa,  Canada  . 

Tappan,  S.  S 

Taylor,  Rev.  D.  Henry 
Tenney,  David  B.,  Haverhill 
Thaxter,  L.  L.,  Neivton,  5  broadsides 

Titus,  Charles  H 

Toles,  Rev.  R.  G 

Town,  E.  H.,  Worcester 
Triibner  &  Co.,  London 

Turner,  Alfred  T 

Tuttle,  Charles  W 

Tuttle,  Rev.  Joseph  F.,  D.D.,  Crawfordsv 
Twombley,  Rev.  A.  S. 
Uhde,  Mrs.  John  W.  .         .         . 
UUmann,  Joseph,  New  Yoj-k  City 
United  States.     Bureau  of  Education 

Bureau  of  Engineers,  6  maps  . 

Bureau  of  Navigation 

Bureau  of  Statistics 

Chief  of  Engineers 

Coast  Survey  Office 

Comptroller  of  the  Treasury   . 

Department  of  the  Interior 

Department  of  the  Treasury    . 

Light-House  Board . 

Naval  Observatory  . 

Patent  Office    .... 

Post-Office  Dejjartment   . 

Surgeon-General's  Office 

University  of  California,  Berkeley,  Cal. 
University  of  Michigan  Library,  Ann  Arbor,  A 
Utter,  D.  N.,  Olympia,   Washington  T. 
Van  Antwerp,  Bragg,  &  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Van  Hengel  &  Ettyes,  Rotterdam 
Vermont  Historical  Society,  Monipelier,   Vt. 
Victoria,  Keiv  South   Wales,  Public  Library 
Vose,  Hon.  William  H.,  Fitchburg     . 

Wade,  George  T 

Wallace,  Capt,  William      .... 
Walter,  Joseph  R.,  Wilmington,  Del.,  3  newspapers 
Walworth  Manufacturing  Company     . 

Ward,  Miss  Ellen  M 

Warren,  J.  Collins,  M.D.,  2  maps 
Washburn,  Mrs.  F.  T. 

Waters,  Edwin  F 

Watorston,  Rev.  Robert  C. 


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Watson,  James  R.        .         .         .         . 

Weld,  Miss  Alice  C 

Weld,  Hon.  Stephen  M.       . 
Wheeler,  Everett  P.,  New  York  City 
Whitaker,  Alfred  E.,  San  Francisco,  Cal 
White,  Rev.  Isaac  C,  Newmarket  N.H. 
Whitford,  John,  Liverpool,  Eng. 

Whitman,  George  H 

Whitmore,  William  H.         .         .         . 
Whitney,  James  L.,  10  broadsides,  2  newspapers 
Whitney,  Prof.  William  D.,  New  Haven,  Conn 
Williams,  James,  Columbus,  Ohio 
Wilson,  Frank    ...... 

Wilson,  John  B. 

Winthrop,  Hon.  Robert  C,  1  portrait 
Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  Madison,  Wis. 
Woman's  Baptist  Missionary  Society  . 

Wood,  Rev.  Will  C 

Woodward,  Charles  L.,  New  York  City 
Woodward,  Frederic  E.,  Chelsea 

Wright,  Carroll  D 

Wright,  Elizur    ...... 

Wyman,  Charles  F.,  133  newspapers  . 

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APPEJS^DIX  XV. 

BATES   HALL   READIXG. 


Pekcextage  of  Use. 

Classification. 

« 

2 

9 

H 

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X 

H 

2 

0 
X 

X 

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H 

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13 

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phy, Biograi^hy,  Travel, 
and  Polite  Literature  .   . 

17.5 

16 

13 

18 

20 

17 

17 

17 

17 

12 

19 

16 

15 

15 

13 

American       (N'orth      and 
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6 

8.5 

10 

8 

12 

12 

12 

12 

13 

10 

12 

11 

11 

12 

10 

14 

13 

French  History,  Topogra- 
phy, Biography,  Travel, 
and  Polite  Literature  •  . 

5 

7.5 

6 

6 

7 

4 

5 

5 

5 

4 

6 

6 

5 

6 

5 

4 

4 

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raphy, Biography,  Trav- 
el, aud  Polite  Literature. 

2.-5 

2 

2.5 

2 

4 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

3 

3 

4 

3 

3 

5 

5 

Italian   History,    Topogra- 
phy, Biograi)hy,  Travel, 
and  Polite  Literature  .   . 

4 

2.5 

2 

3 

3 

2 

2 

2 

2 

1 

1 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

Other   History,    Topogra- 
l)hy.  Biography,  Travel, 
and  Polite  Literature  .   . 

3.5 

3.5 

2.5 

4 

4 

5 

5 

3 

3 

3 

4 

3 

4 

4 

3 

5 

5 

General  and  Epoclial  His- 
tory,   Geography,   Biog- 
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4.5 

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3 

3 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

1 

2 

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2 

3 

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2 

2 

Greek,  Latin,  and  Philology 

3 

3.5 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

3 

4 

3 

4 

4 

4 

Bibliographj- 

2.5 

3 

3 

3 

1 

2 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

2 

Transactions 

3 

1.5 

2.3 

5 

7 

6 

4 

6 

1 

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1 

2 

1 

5 

2 

2 

Periodicals 

7 

6 

6 

11 

7 

8 

9 

10 

8 

10 

8 

7 

7 

6 

5 

5 

Fine  Arts 

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16.5 

8 

6 

8 

8 

8 

9 

11 

10 

11 

11 

10 

9 

12 

13 

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3 

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8 

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8 

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9 

14 
9 

10 

8 

11 

11 
6 

10 
6 

10 
6 

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1.5 

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2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

3 

2 

2 

2 

3 

3 

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2 

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5.5 

5.5 

7.5 

7 

8 

7 

6 

5 

6 

8 

5 

6 

7 

9 

10 

10 

10 

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2 

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1 

2 

1 

3 

3 

3 

2 

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3 

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5 

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3 

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

The  llgures  for  1878-9  are  only  approximately  correct.  Hereafter  they  will  be  given  with 
the  utmost  accuracy. 


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Poetry,  Drama,  Rlietoric,  Mis- 
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Biography 

Travels,  Voyages,  etc 

Collections,  PcriodicaU,  etc.    . 

French,  German,   and  Italian 

10,522 
2,533 
3,030 

3,692 

105,227 

3,641 
3,289 
5,941 

3,978 

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2.8 

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APPENDIX    XIX. 


ROXBURY    BRANCH    AND    FELLOWES    ATHENiEUM    READING. 
ISTOTE.  —  The  two  sections  of  this  table  refer  to  two  different  collections  of  books. 


Ranges. 

Classes. 

1874. 

18T5. 

1876. 

1877. 

1878. 

1879. 

'6 

a 
m  a 

O  3 

<§2 

G  3 

2  3 

CD    C 
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O    3 

P  2 
47,307 

53 

O  3 

3  " 

2 

%  s 

O   3 

fa  %. 

61,642 

54 

'6 

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o  a 
.So 

56,970 

I. 

1,3,5,7,23 

Prose  Fiction  . 

28,575 

-49 

40,666 

52 

68,965 

54 

53 

II. 

2,4   ..   , 

Travels  .... 

2,623 

-5 

2,555 

3-1- 

2,519 

3 

2,745 

2 

2,333 

2 

2,573 

2+ 

in. 

6, 8   .   .   . 

History  .... 

1,121 

-2 

1,133 

1+ 

1,598 

2 

2,377 

2 

2,371 

2 

2,403 

2-t 

IV. 

9,  11     .   . 

Juveniles  .   .   . 

19,261 

32+ 

26,650 

34 

28,918 

32 

40,871 

32 

35,917 

31 

33,737 

31 

V. 

10,12   .   . 

Biography    .   . 

1,351 

2+ 

1,583 

2 

1,575 

2 

2,143 

2 

1,90S 

1 

2,099 

2 

VI. 

13,  14  .   . 

Periodicals  .  . 

1,019 

_2 

IjooS 

-2 

1,785 

2 

3,110 

2+ 

2,810 

2+ 

2,705 

2+ 

VII. 

15,17    .   . 

Arts,  Sciences, 
Professions   . 

2,757 

-4 

2,815 

4 

2,992 

3 

3,8.38 

3 

3,369 

3 

3,831 

3-1- 

VIII. 

16  ...   . 

Poetry         and 
Drama    .   •   . 

1,219 

-2 

1,235 

2-1- 

1,326 

1 

1,712 

1+ 

1,451 

1 

1,793 

1+ 

IX. 

18,  19   .    . 

Collected 
Works      and 
Lit.     Miscel- 
lanies .... 

724 

.. 

1,069 

2-F 

887 

1 

1,815 

._2 

1,699 

1 

1,720 

"1 

X. 

20.   .   .   . 

Books  in  For- 
eign        Lan- 
guages   .   .   . 

55 

1-2 

114 

1+ 

119 

1 

190 

287 

)  2 

23S 

r 

XI. 

21  ...   . 

Theological 
Works  .   .    . 

^^ 

-^ 

^^ 

S9 

108,108 

Total  .  .  . 

58,605 

.   •   . 

78,858 

89,026 

127,786 

113,787 

<^ 

'J 

I. 

60,  54,  59 

History,  Biog- 
raphy,Travels 

1,982 

35 

3,754 

-43 

3,548 

38 

5,335 

33 

4,941 

30 

5,964 

37 

II. 

55,  57   .   . 

Modern     For- 
eign        Lan- 
guages   .   .  . 

729 

13 

1,073 

12+ 

921 

9 

'  1,773 

11 

1,654 

10 

1,742 

11 

III. 

51,53,65,67 

Periodicals  .   . 

160 

2 

331 

4 

488 

5 

2,313 

14 

2,798 

17 

941 

6 

IV. 

52,  56  .   . 

Miscellaneous 
Literature  .   . 

.     661 

12 

921 

10+ 

97G 

10 

1,474 

0 

1,344 

8 

1,4S1 

9 

V. 

58,  70   .   . 

Theology,    So- 
ciology ,Ethica 

412 

7 

550 

6+ 

517 

5 

1,151 

7 

1,212 

7 

1,035 

6 

VI. 

60.   .   .   . 

Medicine  .   .   . 

46 

1 

81 

1 

126 

1 

249 

1 

343 

2 

294 

2 

VII. 

61  ...   . 

Greek  and  Latin 
Languages 
and  Literature 

262 

5 

374 

4+ 

376 

4 

687 

4 

713 

4 

683 

4 

VLIl.   62.   .   .   . 

Fine  Arts,  En- 
gineering  .   . 

684 

12 

750 

81 

932 

10 

1,243 

7 

1,220 

7 

1,225 

T 

IX.   63,69   .   . 

Law,    Politics, 
Government . 

36 

1 

149 

-2 

250 

3 

446 

s 

414 

3 

430 

.■J 

X.    64,  66,  68 

Mathematics, 
2!fatural    and 
Applied    Sci- 
ence    .... 

719 

12 

846 

-10 

1,414 

15 

1,739 
16,410 

11 

1,896 

12 

2,331 

14+ 

j 
i 

Totals     .   . 

5,691 

8,829    .   .   . 

9,548 

16,535 

16,12P 

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APPENDIX    XX. 

BRIGHTON    BKANCH   EEADIXG. 


1874-5. 

187.5-6. 

1876-7. 

1877-8. 

1878- 

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6 

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Ranges. 

Classes. 

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pass 

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^ 

fa» 

- 

I. 

1,2,3,4, 

Fiction 

17,662 

84 

19,532 

80 

22,8.'58 

77 

22,114 

76 

21,831 

75 

II. 

5,  6,  7,  8, 

Biography,  Travel, 
and  History     .   . 

1,424 

7 

1,677 

7 

2,451 

8 

2,306 

7 

2,416 

8 

m. 

9  to  20    . 

Other 

1,957 

9 

3,226 

13 

4,611 

15 

4,780 

17 

4,711 

17 

Totals 

21,043 

24,435 

29,900 

.   .        29,200 

28,958 

APPENDIX   XXI. 

DORCHESTER  BRANCH  READING. 


Ranges. 

Classes. 

1874-5. 

1875-6. 

1876- 

7. 

1877-8. 

1878- 

9. 

6 

0 

-3 
a 

m  ° 

6 

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Is 

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6 

a 
I 

i 
1 

3 
g 

1 

ll 

O  ») 

8) 

I. 

1,  11,21  . 

Poetry,  Drama  .  . 

221 

— 1 

927 

1 

1,021 

—2 

1,152 

3 

1,070 

2 

II. 

2,  1-2    .   . 

Travels 

535 

—4 

2,233 

4 

2,133 

3 

2,090 

3 

1,949 

3 

III. 

IV. 

3,  13,  23  \ 

4,  14,  24  ) 

Fiction 

(    3,9831 
i    2,877) 

47 

21,580  |, 
13,701  ) 

55 

26,107  1 
14,059  j 

57 

19,779  ) 
15,522  ) 

55 

15,573  i 
18,425  ) 

57 

V. 

5, 15,  25  . 

Juveniles 

5,343 

-37 

17,363 

27 

18,071 

26 

16,778 

26 

15,008 

25 

VI. 

6,16,23. 

History 

285 

2 

1,.555 

2 

1,660 

2+ 

1,510 

2 

1,522 

2 

VII. 

7,  17,27. 

Biography   .... 

414 

—3 

1,567 

2 

1,655 

2+ 

1,600 

3 

1,305 

2 

\aii 

8,  IS    .    . 

Pcriodicala  .... 

162 

1+ 

1,311 

2 

2,193 

S 

2,047 

3 

1,924 

3 

IX. 

9,  10    .   . 

Arts,  Sciences,  etc. 

465 

3+ 

2,274 

4 

2,157 

3 

2,168 

3 

2,230 

4 

X. 

10,  20,  2^, 

Miscellanies    .   .   . 

311 

2+ 

1,671 

3 

1,459 

2 

1,431 

2 

1,252 

2 

Totals 

14,601 

64,487 

70,505 

64,077 

60,258 

CHARLESTOWN  BRANCH  READING. 

Note.  — No  classification  of  the  use  is  practicable,  as  the  books  arc  shelved  without  regard  to  classes.    Tables 
■similar  to  those  of  the  other  branches  will  bo  possible  when  a  rertrraiigenient  of  the  books  is  made. 


Public  Library. 
APPENDIX   XXII. 

SOUTH  END  BEANCH  EEADING. 


59 


6 

5 

Ranges. 

Classes. 

1878. 

1879. 

c   . 
Pn 

I 

3,4 

1,2,13,14,17,18. 

5 

6 

7,8 

12 . 

9,  10 

15,  16 

11 

1,210 
33,728 

1,076 
903 

1,177 
711 
722 
732 
999 

-3 

81+ 
-3 

2+ 
-3 
-2 
-2 
-2 

2+ 

2,530 
58,587 
1,220 
1,499 
3,173 
1,310 
2,424 
1,936 
2,521 

3+ 
-78 
-2 
-2 

4+ 
-2 

3+ 
-3 

3+ 

II. 
III. 

IV. 

V 

Prose  Fiction  andjuveniles  . 

American  History 

Foreign  History 

Travel 

VI. 
VII. 

vin. 

IS. 

Miscellaneous 

Arts,  Sciences  and  Tlieologj'. 

Poetry  and  Drama 

Bound  Periodicals 

Total 

41,258 

75,200 

APPENDIX  XXIII. 

JAMAICA   PLAIN   BRANCH   READING. 


6 

o 

Ranges. 

Classes. 

■Si 

2 

o 

C3 

s 

p 

3 

.32 

2 

p 

I. 

II. 

1,2,  3,4,5,6.   .    . 

7,  8 

9,  19 

11,12 

13,  14 

15,16 

17,18 

19,  20 

21 

22 

23 

24 

Fiction  and  Juveniles  .... 

19,470 

3,760 

1,121 

736 

785 

373 

322 

193 

344 

12 

100 

116 

72 
14 
4 
3 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
0 
0 
0 

30,984 

9,823 

1,649 

1,207 

1,661 

760 

855 

952 

828 

53 

426 

5r'3 

62+ 
20 

III. 

History 

3+ 
2+ 
8+ 

-2 

-2 

-2 

-2 
0 
1 

IV. 

V. 

Travel 

VI. 

vn. 

VIII. 
IX. 
X. 
XI. 

Miscellaneous 

Poetry  and  Drama 

Science  and  Professions    .   . 

Periodicals 

Foreign  Languages 

Fine  Arts 

XII. 

Useful  Arts 

1+ 

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27,332 

49,791 

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APPENDIX    XXYIII. 


LIBEARY    SERVICE. 

April  30,  1S79. 


Mellen  Chamberli:^ 

James  L.  WhitnQj- 
James  M.  Hubbard 
Frederic  B.  Perkins 
"William  H.  Foster 


Edward  Tiffany 


Charles  A.  Wilson 
Aunie  P.  Call  .  .  . 
Adelaide  A.  Nicbol 
VVilliom  J.  Cable  . 
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1878. 

1869. 
1874. 
1874. 
1S60. 

1877. 

1871. 
1872. 
1868. 
1878. 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


Librarian  and  Clerk  of  the  Cor- 
poratlou 


Principal  Assistant  Librarian 

Assistant  Librarian    ..... 

Register  and  Assistant  Librarian 

Cataloguer  for  Branch  Libraries 
and  Proof  Reader 


Inspector  of  circulation  in  Lower 
Hall  and  Branch  Libraries 


Clerk  for  Branch  Libraries 
Librarian's  Secretary  .  .  . 
Auditor  and  Cashier  .  .  . 
Librarian's  Runner    .... 


James  L.  Whitney 
James  M.  Hubbard  . 
William  H.  Foster  . 
Jos6  F.  Garret  .   .   . 


Lindsay  Swift  .  .  . 
Anna  C.  D.  Keen  .  . 
Susan  A.  Joslyn  .  . 
Elizabeth  T.  Reed  . 
Roxanua  M.  Eastman 
Frank  C.  Blaisdell  . 
Card  Catalogues 
Harriet  E.  Green 
Josephine  Hewins  . 
Mary  F.  Osgood  .  . 
Ellen  F.  McCarthy  . 
Total 


1869. 
1874. 
1860. 
1875. 

1878. 
1872. 
1873. 
1873. 
1S59. 
1876. 

1873. 
1875. 
1877. 
1872. 


Principal  of  the  Department     . 

First  Assistant 

(See  Executive  Department.)    . 

Curator  of  patents  and  engrav- 
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Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant  in  Patent  Room,  etc.  . 

Assist.iut 

Extra  Assistant 

Runner 


Cur.-itor  , 
Assistant 
Assistant 
Assistant 


Public  Library. 

LIBRARY    SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


65 


Name. 


Harriet  N.  Pike 
Adeline  8.  Baylies 
Mary  A.  McGrath 
Richard  8.  Payne  . 
Total 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


1867.  Chief  Clerk 

1877.  Assistant    . 

1868.  Assistant    . 

1878.  i  Runner   .  . 


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Appleton  p.  C.  Griffin 

Arthur  8.  Knight 

Henry  F.  Barrett 

Total 


1865. 
1876. 
1878. 


Custodian 
Assistant 
Runner    . 


Arthur  If.  Knapp  . 
Charles  A.  Wilson  .  . 
Alice  M.  Poree  .  .  .  . 
Lydia  F.  Knowles  .  . 
Thomas  Whyte  .  .   .   . 

Richard  Ray 

Samuel  McConnell  .   . 

John  Speak  

Robert  J.  Donovan  .   . 

W.  Maynard  L.  Young 

Total 


1875. 
1871. 
1866. 
1867. 
1874. 
1876. 
1877. 
1879. 
1876. 
1878. 


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

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Assistant 

Runner    

Runner 

Runner    

Runner    


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Edward  Tiffany  . 

Elbridge  Bradshaw,. 
William  F.  Robinson 
Mary  A.  Jenkins  .  . 
Caroline  E.  Poree  .  . 
Sarah  A.  Mack  .  .  . 
Eliza  J.  Mack  .  .  . 
Annie  M.  Kennedy  . 

Ella  Dillon 

Ellen  E.  Bresnahau  . 
Ella  Sturmy  .... 
Margaret  A.  Sheridan 


1818. 

1869. 
1872. 
1877. 
1859. 
1863. 
1863. 
1869 
1876. 
1869. 
1872. 
1875. 


Inspector  of  circulation  for  Low- 
er Hall  and  Branch  Libraries  . 

Librarian  of  Lower  Hall  .... 

Clerk  for  Registration  and  Fines 

Assistant  Librarian 

Reading-room  Clerk 

Delivery  Desk  .  .  • 

Receiving  Desk 

Registration  and  assistant   .   .   . 

Delivery  Desk  and  assistant    .   . 

Assistant  in  Reading-room  .   .   . 

Care  of  shelves 

Record  of  slips  and  substitute   . 


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City  Document  No.  78. 


LIBRARY    SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


Name. 


Margaret  Doyle    .   .  . 

Margaret  Clifford  .  .  . 

Florence  Richards    ,  . 

Annie  G.  Shea  .   .   .  . 

Mary  A.  Doyle  .   .   .  . 

Mary  Anderson     .   .  . 
Evening  Service. 

T.  P.  Bennett     .   .  .  , 

Robert  B.  Ross  .   .   .  . 

Catherine  McGrath  .  , 

Edward  Moore  .   .   .  , 

Albert  Carter     .   .  .  , 

John  J.  Butler  .   .   .  , 

Daniel  Donovan    .   .  , 
F.  W.  Blaisdell  ... 

Total 


Hi 


1875 
1878 
1878 
1874, 
1879 
1879, 

1879 
1873 
1873 

1878 
1878 
1878 
1878 
1878 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


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Runner 

Runner 

Runner 

Runner   


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(     day  service ) 

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Care  of  shelves 

Runner    

Runner 

Runner    

Runner    


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WiLi-iAM  E.  Ford  .  . 
Thomas  Collins  .... 
Jeremiah  Sullivan  .  . 
Extra  daily  assistants. 
Total 


1858. 
1867. 
1874. 


Janitor ' 
Porter  . 
Porter  . 


Frank  P.  Hathaway  . 
Andrew  M.  Blake    .  .   . 

Romeo  Cervi , 

P.  B.  Sanford 

Michael  J.  Healy  .  .  .  , 
James  Pendergast  .  . 
Edward  M.  Roe  .  .  .  . 
Mary  E.  Austen  ... 
Martha  M.  Wheeler  , 
Mary  Moriarty  .... 
Sarah  E.  Bowen  .  .  . 
Katherine  Reilly   .   .   . 

Sarah  Dumas 

Frank  Thomai  .... 
Total 


1871. 

1870. 
1874. 
1879. 
1875. 
1875. 
1876. 
1874. 
1869. 
1875. 
1876. 
1876. 
1879. 
1874. 


Foreman 

Assistant  Foreman 
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Finisher 

Forwarder     .   .   .   . 
Forwarder     .  .   .   . 

Pressman 

Forewoman   .   .   .   . 

Stitcher 

Stitcher 

Stitcher 

Stitcher 

Stitcher 

Apprentice    .   .   .   . 


Public  Library. 

LIBRARY   SERVICE.  —  Continued. 


67 


Name. 


Sarah  C.  Godbold 
Mary  R.  Pray  .  .  .  . 
Alice  M.  Wing  .  .  .  . 
Mary  E  Cathcart  .  .  . 
Ellen  L.  Lennon  .  .  . 
Adelia  H.  Ghen  .  .  . 
Laura  B.  Morse  .  .  . 
Blanche  E.  Griffin  .  . 
Grace  E.  Hahn  .  .  .  • 
George  H.  Hosea  .  .  . 
Total 


Alice  J.  Bragdon 

Nora  McCarty  .  .  . 
Ellen  A.  Eaton  .  .  . 
Emogene  C.  Davis  • 
Idalene  Sampson  .  . 
Cora  G.  Hale  .... 
Minnie  E.  Sampson 
Mabel  Pond  .... 
Mary  Watson  .  .  . 
Elizabeth  McCarthy 
Marguerite  Watson 
Joseph  Baker  .  .  . 
Total 


w; 


1871. 
1870. 
1872. 
1870. 
1872. 
1876. 
1875. 
1877. 
1879. 
1873. 


Position,  duties,  etc. 


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


1872. 
1872. 
1872. 
1873. 
1877. 
1877. 
1877. 
1879. 
1873. 
1873. 
1877. 
1872. 


Librarian  .  .  .  .  . 
Receiving  Clerk  .  . 
Registration  Clerk 
DeUVery  Clerk    .  . 

Assistant 

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


I'"  .2  -5  - 

<~  >    -^  u 

Ob.    c-g 

o  S  ,oS 

1 
1 

1 
1 


_,  o 


Sarah  Bunker  . 
Mary  Bradley  .  . 
Dora  Puffer  .  .  . 
Helen  M.  Bell  .  . 
Margaret  E.  Blood 
Florence  A.  Vose 
Francena  E.  Ryder 
Elizabeth  C.  Berry 
Charles  R.  Curtis 

Total 


1876. 
1876. 
1878. 
1878. 
1872. 
1876. 
1879. 
1877. 
1873. 


Librarian 

Assistant 

Reading-r'm  &  registrat'n  clerk. 

Assistant 

Runner 

Extra  Runner 

Extra  Runner 

Extra  Runner 

Janitor 


68 


City  Document  No.  78. 

LIBKARY   SEUYIC^.—Contimied. 


■  05 


Dr.  Cornelius  S.  Cartj^e 

Susan  Edwards 

Annie  E.  Eberle 

Annie  C.  Davis 

S.  Maria  Root 

Harriet  N.  Davis 

Mary  P.  Swain 

Anna  S.  "Woodberry    .   .   . 

Ella  Downs 

Frederick  "W.  Baxter  .   .   . 
Thomaa  E.  Smith 


Total 


1870. 
1869. 
1874. 
1878. 
1878. 
1874. 
1878. 
1878. 
1879. 
1878. 
1874. 


Position,  Duties,  etc. 


Librarian  .  .  .  . 
Assistant  .  .  .  . 
Assistant    .   .   .   . 

Runner    

Extra  Cataloguer 
Extra  Assistant  . 
Extra  Assistant  . 
Extra  Assistant  . 
Extra  Runner  .  . 
Extra  Runner  .  . 
Janitor 


Mart  E.  Brock  . 
Bridget  T.  Grailey 
Alma  J.  Wilson  . 
James  M.  Brock    . 


Total 


1875. 
1874. 
1875. 
1878. 


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


1 

1 

1 

1 

3 

1 

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  , 
Charles  M.  Renter    . 

Total 


1877. 
1878. 
1878. 
1879. 


Librarian 
Assistant 
Assistant 
Runner    . 


Public   Library. 

LIBRARY    SERVICE.  —  Concluded. 


69 


s 
a 

u 

a) 
ft 

Name, 

■a   • 

u  a 

Position,  Duties,  etc. 

3     . 

£| 
cS 

1 
1 

1 

1 

2 

o  s 

Eliza  R.  Davis 

Anna  J.  Barton 

Ellen  F.  Riley 

George  L.  Hargraves  .   .  . 
Timothy  Johnson 

Total 

1877. 
1876. 
1878. 
1878. 
1877. 

1 

"3 

e 

1 

4 

<3 

S 

R 

SUMMARY. 


Librarian,  Register,   Secretary,  Auditor,  and 

Runner     \ 
Catalogue  and  Entry  Department . 
Purchase  Department    . 
Shelf  Department .... 
Bates  Hall  Circulation  Department 
Lower   Hall   Circulation   Department, 

Evening  and  Sunday  Service     . 
Janitor's  Dejpartment     . 
Bindery  .         .         . 


Dav 


iilars. 

Ex 

1 

tras. 

0 

18 
4 
3 

10 

1 

Central  Library 
70  regulars. 
9  extras. 

18 

8 

79  in  all. 

14 


East  Boston  Branch 
South  Boston  Branch 
Roxbury  Branch    . 
Charlestown  Branch 
Brighton  Branch    . 
Dorchester  Branch 
South  End  Branch 
Jamaica  Plain  Branch , 

Totals 


Grand  Total 


6 
6 

5 
3 
4 
4 
4 

107 
34 

ik 


34 


Branches. 
37  regulars. 
25  extras. 

62  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. 

Messrs.  N.  Triibner  and  Co.,  London. 

Mr.  F.  W.  Christern,  and  M.  Charles  Reinwald,  New  Fork  and  Paris. 

Dr.  Felix  Fiigel,  Leipzig. 

Signorina  Giulia  Alberi,  Florence. 

Seiior  Don  Juan  F.  Riano,  Madrid. 


Not  on  shelves     .... 
0/ thete  found  to  be 

Lent 

At  tba  binderies  .... 
Otherwise  accounted  for 
Not  accounted  for  .   .  . 


APPENDIX    XXIX. 

EXAMINATION     OF     THE     LIBRARY. 


Bates  Hall. 


4,1{10 


Lower  Hall. 


1874    ISrS    18TB 


7,396  7,001     I        7,610 


i,304  5,264     |        0,121 


200     '  622     \  718 


853  «48 


7,134  7,431 


East  BostoIn  Branch 


South  Doston  Branch. 


1,932  1,739 


«    I    I 


Not  on  ihelvGB 

Of  theie /mnd  to  be 

Lent 

At  the  binderies 

OtherwlBe  accounted  for . 
Not  accounted  for  ...  . 


IloxBtjRY  Branch. t 


1874     1875 


1878      1870 


2,908        2,441 


2,200  I     2,283 
1 
89  >        144 


CHARLE8T0WN    BRANCH. 


187«      1877 


104  166 


Brighton  Branch. 


S.  E.  Branch 


J.  P.  Branch, 


13,181 

1,396 

2,010 

67 


14,816      18,816 
2,121        2,296 


1877 

1878 

22,676 

22,613 

19,130 

18,963 

1,887 

2,096 

1,468 

1,477 

128 

135 

19,30S 

1,920 

1,61U 

200 


•The  examination  of  the  shelves  at  Bast  Boston  took  place  while  the  Library  was  closed  for  repairs.  t  Including  Fe 


Howes  Alhenseum. 


Public  Library.  71 


APPENDIX   XXIK.— Continued, 

To  the  Librarian :  — 

Herewith  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  report  of  the  11th  an- 
nual examination  of  the  Library,  made  according  to  the  plan 
adopted  in  1869.  Previous  to  that  time  the  examination  was  con- 
ducted while  the  Library  was  closed,  and  the  work  shared  in  by 
the  whole  force.  The  s3-stem  now  in  use  is  described  as  follows  in 
the  report  for  1869  :  "  First,  to  divide  the  Library  into  sections 
[alcoves]  corresponding  to  any  arbitraiy  division  of  the  ^-ear,  as 
twelve  sections  for  each  month,  so  that  the  section  examined  in 
January-,  1869,  will  again  be  reached  in  January,  1870,  giving  g^ 
full  year  between.  The  shelves  are  then  compared  with  the  shelf 
lists,  and  every  volume  missing  is  noted.  When  a  morning's  work 
is  thus  done,  the  slips  showing  books  in  the  hands  of  borrowers 
are  examined,  and  part  of  the  missing  books  thus  accounted  for. 
The  binder's  schedules  are  next  looked  to,  and  those  in  his  hands 
are  further  checked  off.  Others  are  found  to  be  in  some  part  of 
the  building  for  temporar}"  use.  The  remainder  are  set  down  as 
missing,  but  most  of  them  reappear,  misplaced  in  some  alcove  sub- 
sequently examined,  and  are  then  marked  as  accounted  for.  If 
an}'  are  still  missing,  they  are  sought  for  at  intervals,  in  their 
proper  places  on  the  shelves,  and  sometimes  are  found,  thus  cor- 
recting some  oversight  in  charging  which  did  not  allow  them  to  be 
discovered  when  examining  the  slips."  The  procedure,  while  not 
giving  the  exact  condition  of  the  whole  Library  at  a  given  time, 
has  proved  satisfactory,  as  it  obviates  the  annual  closing,  and  fur- 
nishes information  in  regard  to  any  book  at  the  time  its  shelf  is 
scrutinized.  8ome  idea  of  the  number  of  books  finall}'  unac- 
counted for  can  be  gained  by  a  consultation  of  Appendixes  IX. 
and  X.  of  the  report  for  1877,  where  the  losses  for  ten  years  in  the 
Lower  Hall  are  shown  to  have  been  1,086  ;  and  from  1858  to  1877 
in  Bates  Hall  amounted  to  168.  No  limit  can  be  assigned  to  the 
time  in  which  a  missing  book  may  reappear,  as  sometimes  after  an 
absence  of  ten  years,  and  even  more,  books  have  been  restored  to 
the  Librarj-,  either  by  some  negligent  borrower,  who  by  some 
means  obtained  the  book  without  its  being  properly  charged  ;  or, 
as  oftener  occurs,  have  been  found  in  successive  examinations  on 
the  shelves  in  their  legitimate  position.  By  what  agency  they  thus 
reappear  generally'  remains  a  mystery.  It  is  gratifying  to  notice  in 
the  annexed  tables  that  in 

Bates  Hall, 

where  the  circulation  has  been  steadily  increasing,  the  number  of 
books  unaccounted  for  does  not  aggregate  much  more  than  in  1878  ; 
and  has  been  exceeded  in  1875,  when  the  circulation  was  less  than 
in  the  past  year.     In  this  hall,  11  books  previously  reported  miss- 


72  City  Document  No.  78. 

ing  have  been  recovered.  •  Of  these  one  was  found  missing  as  long 
ago  as  1871,  and  its  whereabouts  in  the  mean  time  are  unknown. 
The  emplo^-ment  of  a  special  attendant  to  clean  and  repair  the 
books  has  proved  an  advantage  over  the  old  plan  of  emplo3-ing 
women  for  that  purpose.  The  books  are  less  roughly  handled,  and 
subject  to  fewer  displacements.     In  the 

Lower  Hall 

an  increase  of  books  unaccounted  for  is  to  be  regretted,  consider- 
ing the  diminished  circulation.  It  is  expected  that  the  losses  from 
this  department  will  be  large,  from  the  character  of  its  circulation, 
and  the  multiplication  of  duplicates  rendering  the  chances  of  errors 
in  charging  or  numbering  numerous.  Whether  additional  safe- 
guards in  charging  loans,  or  in  keeping  the  records,  can  be  devised 
is  for  the  consideration  of  the  Trustees  and  Librarian.  Some  plan 
ensuring  that  the  person  presenting  a  card  signs  the  name  of  the 
card-holder  on  the  loan  slip,  and  not  his  own  name,  and  that  the 
book  falls  into  the  hands  of  the  rightful  claimant,  would  be  advan- 
tageous.    Good  returns  are  received  from  the 

Branches, 

with  the  exception  of  the  South-End.  The  large  number  missing 
here  may  perhaps  be  attributable  to  inaccuracies  in  the  shelf-lists, 
consequent  upon  their  necessarily  hasty  preparation  before  the 
opening  of  that  branch.  During  the  3'ear  the  shelf-lists  will  be  re- 
vised, and  a  better  showing  may  be  expected  in  the  next  report. 
From  the  Central  Librar}^ 

Reading-Room  Desk, 

the  following  have  disappeared  :  Boston  Directory,  1878  ;  Yonge, 
Latin-English  Dictionary. 

Bates-Hall  Desk  : 

Andrews,  Latin-English  Dictionar\' ;  Bartlett,  Familiar  Quota- 
tions ;  Clement,  Sacred  and  Legendary- Art ;  Dictionary  of  Poeti- 
cal Quotations  ;  Franco-Prussian  war  map  ;  Gasc,  Dictionary  of 
French  and  English  language  ;  Hawes,  Chronology  of  Ancient  and 
Modern  History  ;   Milton,  Poetical  works,  edited  b}*  Cleveland. 

Respectfullj-  submitted, 

APPLETON  P.  C.  GRIFFIN, 

Custodian  of  the  Shelves. 
May  17,   1879. 


Public  Libkary. 


73 


APPENDIX  XXX. 


WORK  IN   THE   LIBRARY   BINDERY. 


Character  of  Work. 


feates  Hall  books  bound  and 
finished 

Books  of  the  Lower  Hall 
and  Branches 

Books  repaired 

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

Maps  dissected  and  mounted 

Map- volumes  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 


« 
»• 

i 

H 

M 
!• 

90 

H 

2,219 

2,008 

2,635 

1,015 

744 

753 

396 

430 

492 

490 

437 

287 

47 

28 

9I 

212 

165 

109  1 

546 

64 

24 

5 

8 

8 

266 

263 

450 

54 

41 

8 

1,842 

2,297 

1,437 

2,613        3,223 

1,508     j    7,766 
444     I       959 


1,520 


2,486 


1,287 


2,183 


4,759 

8,743 

873 


2,712 


1,271 


4,155 

11,129 
949 


1,469 


4,272 

10,084 
1,371 


3,014 


1,970 


2,615 


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