[Document 78 — 1879.]
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
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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.
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"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
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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 ;
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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
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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
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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!).
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
31
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
Jamaica
Plain
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1,804
1,804
3,008
4,794
5,237
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
? S i Previously included in the Bates Hall -i^^ 2 3 S g ?! S
^go collection. ^-S-S-«'|-m'«-
15,819
17,000
19,161
20,881
-'2,525
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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1852-53
1853-54
1854-55
1855-.'i6
1856-57
1857-58
1858-59
1859-60
1860-61
1861-62
1862-63
1863-64
1864-65
l»65-66
1866-67
1867-68
1868-69
1869-70t
1870-71
1871-72
187-.'-73
1873-74
l>74-75
1875-76
1876-77
1877-78
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City Document No. 78.
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.
(A^e« after 1861.)
Gifts.
Purchases, in-
eluding those
charged to funds
and added by
exchange.
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Vols.
Pamph.
Vols.
Pamph.
Vols.
*Pftmpb.
Vols.
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. . .
186.3-64
6,226
2,939
1,081
2,772
6,145
167
219
13. . .
1864-65
6,082
1,516
804
1,026
5,17S
490
328
14. . .
1S65-66
7,662
, -J-ois
1,476
3,342
' 6,286
671
336
15. . .
1866-67
5,303
7,877
1,465
7,769
7,732
103
300
16. . .
1867-63
7,673
2,811
1,554
2.513
6,300
j298
342
17. . .
1868-69
8,685
13,023
2,138
10.984
.6,531
2,939
649
18. . .
1869-70
7,775
13,593
1,648
10,228
6,120
3.865
666
19. . .
1870-71
18,099
14,976
9,750
10,805
8,349
4,171
604
20. . .
1871-72
13,703
10,637
4,349
6,831
9,359
4,806
_
610
21 . . .
1872-73
14,644
11,770
3,039
8,060
10,705
3,710
865
601
22. . .
1873-74
51,094
22,475
4,783
17,138
18.671
5,337
1,330
739
23. . .
1874-75
16.372
16,293
4,169
15,899
17,080
394
572
1.091
24. . .
1875-76
20,955
80,732
5,749
6,891
15,206
24,841
759
694
25. . .
1876-77
16,974
13,805
3,662
11,071
10,544
2,234
738
1.125
ae. .
1877-78
83,724
16,554
21,206
12,453
17,570
3,101
196
677
27 . . .
1878-79
14,926
14,596
3,680
8,786
14,403
6,810
211
470
• Includes pamphlets nddct both bv purchase ond exchatiK?, as taken from the Accession Catalopie.
t Included in previous coUimns. These volumes aro not the property of the Public Library, but form a
part of tlic rioxbury Branch by nRreement.
(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
great nccession I'f pamphlets caiue f.oni the purchase of duplicates from Harvard-CnllcKe Library
(20) The unusual incrcnsc is nwiniito the addition of the books of the Mercantile Library Association
which form tha nucleus of the South End Branoh.
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City Document No. 78.
APPENDIX YI.
INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
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books (App.
Vlll.) . . .
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 . . .
Added and lo-
1,678
1,.327
140
294
4,135
651
?29
1ST
691
303
655
!.
cated ....
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 .
, JTet gain . . .
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
I and condem'd
■( 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
254
254
101
402
335
157
126
66
25
s-i^
^ t Xet gain .
254
101
402
335
157
126
41
,j, rOainhj-additlon
"g ^ Less loss by ex-
1,375
506
1,641
334
1,234
786
1,902
519
1,015
351
1,677
718
959
3,216
1,443
=^.11
^ l.Xct gain . . .
659
301
139
149
360
860
1,307
448
1,383
664
1,773
5,936
881
50
621
97
664
143
915
334
017
273
856
250
676
270
716
Condemned and
403
•^r
M^
5,936
831
524
521
681
644
606
406
313
885
76
850
217
1,359
644
1,261
495
1,303
413
823
247
854
^< Condemned and
329
^§1 "-'
4,365
809
633
715
766
890
576
525
♦Includes 12.057 (close estimate) of the Barton books, and 137 other volumes.
t This item is exceptionally large, as many duplicates not in use, and broken sets have been
transferred to Duplicate Room, to make room on the shelves for fresh accessions.
Public Library.
37
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4
1,069
26
1,296
46
1,299
163
1,396
304
3,542
701
1,167
«
Condemned and
532
^
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3,760
805
1,043
1,330
1,250
572
1,136
759
1,092
738
2,841
11:0
6;^5
Fellowe.s Athe-
naeum. (-N'et
220
»i;
4,615
2,373
1,822
1,895
1,830
3,037
855
s •
15,932
144
15,788
1,305
403
1,004
300
1,123
438
995
398
1,268
Condemned and
274
902
704
690
597
994
^
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11,049
12
480 1
599
480
74
264
46
218
236
Condemned and
751 130
47
11,037
405
469
408
ISO
*■ r
Gain in books .
Condemned and
3,905
3,179
S2
1,057
16
341
25
672
110
. . .54
3,905
3.147
1,041
616
562
Is.
24
19
89
139
6,401
2
696
Condemned and
26
6,-399
670
1^1
8,856
52
522
Condemned and
86
8,804
436
1
Bates Hall gain .
Lower Uall gain
Newspaper
5,946
1,407
6,290
2,117
6,450
• 1,186
11,349
665
6.899
1,253
6,795
778
254
869
524
809
3,750
865
19.271
(loss) 1.-)
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
19
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
.597
218
610
6,399
8,804
8,314
254
41
Duplicate Room
s;;iin
E. B. Branch
659
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
City Document No. 78.
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 .
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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. . . .
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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 .
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Duren, Elnathan F., Bangor, Me.
Earle, Pliny, M.B., Northampton
Eliot, John Fleet
Elliot, Joseph D., Newton
Elze, Karl, Halle, Germany
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Fales, Lewis, Medford
Fay, Joseph S., Wood's Hole
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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. .
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Gerrish, Frederic H., M.D., Portla?id, Me.
Gibbs, Montgomery, London
Giles, Alfred E
Globe Publishing Company
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Gottlob, J. J
Great Britain. Commissioner of Patents
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Hall, Miss H. W
Hamburg, Germany, Stadtbibliothek.
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Hanna, William
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Institution of Civil Engineers, London
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Knapp, Arthur M., 7 broadsides
Knapp, William I.
Kneeland, Prof. Samuel W-, 10 broadside
Knortz, Karl, Johnstown, Pa. .
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Munich ....
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Langworthy, Pev. Isaac P.
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Lawrence, Abbot
Lawrence, Hon. Edward .
Lawrence Academy, Oroton
Leavitt, George A., & Co., New York
Lee, Francis H., Salem
Lee, Henry ....
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Lefort, J., Lille, France
Leicester Public Library .
Leslie, J/155 Annie M.
Lewis, George ....
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Lindsay, W. Lander, 3LD., Perth, Scotland
Lindsley, J. Berrien, M.B., N'ashville, Tenn.
Literary and Philosophical Society, Liverpool,
Little, Brown, & Co. . . . " . _
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London Athenaeum ....
Lord, Henry W., Detroit, Mich.
Lyman, George H., M.B. .
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MacDonald, Carlos F., 3LB., Auburn, N.
IMcPhail, H. A. C, Sa7ita Barbara, Cal.
McPhetres, Samuel A., Lowell .
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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
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Hand, George D., Portland, 3Ie.
Randolph, English, & Co., Richmond, Va.
Rawle, William B., Philadelphia
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Royal Astronomical Society, London
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotlatid
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Sargent, Charles S., Cambridge
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Schlaginweit, Robert von, Giessen, Germany
Schlegel, Everett, & Co. .
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Selwyn, Hon. Alfred R. C, 3Iontreal, Canada
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Stillman, Oscar B. . . . .
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Stockbridge, Prof. Levi, Amherst
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Stone, Ormond, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Tenney, David B., Haverhill
Thaxter, L. L., Neivton, 5 broadsides
Titus, Charles H
Toles, Rev. R. G
Town, E. H., Worcester
Triibner & Co., London
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Tuttle, Charles W
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City Doct'MENT No. 78.
APPEJS^DIX XV.
BATES HALL READIXG.
Pekcextage of Use.
Classification.
«
2
9
H
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English History, Topogra-
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
South) History, Topog-
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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
Germanic History, Topog-
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-
raphy, etc
4.5
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3
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
2
2
2
3
2
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
1
1
2
1
5
2
2
Periodicals
7
6
6
11
7
8
9
10
8
10
8
7
7
6
5
5
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12
16.5
8
6
8
8
8
9
11
10
11
11
10
9
12
13
Natural History and Science
4
4
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3
3
4
3
4
4
5
3
3
3
3
1
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Theology, Ecclesiastical
History, Ethics, Educa-
11
7
11
6
8.5
4.6
4
8
4
6
8
6
9
8
8
8
11
9
14
9
10
8
11
11
6
10
6
10
6
3
6
8
Mcdicine
6
Law, Government, and
Political Economy . . .
1.5
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2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
3
3
2
2
Useful Arts, Mathematics,
I'hysics, etc
5.5
5.5
7.5
7
8
7
6
5
6
8
5
6
7
9
10
10
10
Miscellaneous Pamphlets,
2
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2
1
2
1
3
3
3
2
2
3
3
5
3
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.
APPENDIX
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XVI.
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1888
1809
I »70
(Nine months.)
iNri
1873
1873
1874
187(J
1876
1877
1878
1870
5
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loan
d.
Per
Loans
returned.
Per
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
Loans
returned.
Per
Loans
returned.
Per
Loans
returned.
Per
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returned.
Per
cent.
1
2
3
4
6
6
7
8
9
10
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lOof X, XX . . . .
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m.xm
IV, XIV j
VU, XVU j
V, XV
VI, XVI
VIII, XVIU
X, XX, except ranges
8,0.10
Bciences, Arts, Profesalooa . .
American History and Politics
Foreign History and Politics .
Poetry, Drama, Rlietoric, Mis-
cellaneous EsBiiys, etc. . . .
Prose Fiction and Juveniles . .
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
7.4
1.8
2.1
2.6
74.2
2.6
2.3
4.2
2.8
11,436
2,682
3,221
2,461
12;),273
4,570
5,303
4,.550
4,482
6.97
1.63
1.96
1.5
76.36
2.78
3.26
2.77
2.73
7,60'
2.071
2,38<
2,441
120,3S
4,025
5,154
6,747
3,637
6
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4.9
1.4
1.5
1.5
78.4
2.7
3.4
3.8
2.4
12,662
2,270
2,702
5,954
107,604
5,108
6.062
11,530
4,451
5.7
1
1.2
2.7
77.2
2.2
2.8
5.2
2
15,996
2,0%
2,715
8,019
173,433
4,106
4,998
14,315
2.691
6
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1+
4
76
2
3
6
1+
12,757
1,496
1,863
7,601
154,836
2,641
3,631
17,167
5,341
6+
v
7
74
1
1
8
2
14,422
2,705
2,834
8,636
168,4.53
6,027
6,290
15,563
6,388
1"
4
71
3
3
7
3
16,218
3,878
3,983
9,704
163,657
7,416
8,049
15,106
7,394
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4+
69+
8+
4+
«+
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20,065
6,467
4,879
11,618
209,070
0,710
10,227
17,827
9,123
7
1'
4
70
3
3
6
3
23,318
6,6J4
6,820
12,677
263,964
11,229
10,419
20,404
11,845
4
71
3
3
6
3
21,684
5,300
6,395
11,915
251,856
10,076
10,034
18,668
12,037
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4
72
3
3
6
3
18,630
6,198
4,712
11,382
230,101
9,225
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19,127
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72
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153,423
216,696
228,864
207,382
221,418
236,004
297,986
355,320
346,866
316,828
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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
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G 3
2 3
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54
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56,970
I.
1,3,5,7,23
Prose Fiction .
28,575
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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
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1,699
1
1,720
"1
X.
20. . . .
Books in For-
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guages . . .
55
1-2
114
1+
119
1
190
287
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23S
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XI.
21 ... .
Theological
Works . . .
^^
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108,108
Total . . .
58,605
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78,858
89,026
127,786
113,787
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60, 54, 59
History, Biog-
raphy,Travels
1,982
35
3,754
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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
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Law, Politics,
Government .
36
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250
3
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s
414
3
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Mathematics,
2!fatural and
Applied Sci-
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719
12
846
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1,414
15
1,739
16,410
11
1,896
12
2,331
14+
j
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5,691
8,829 . . .
9,548
16,535
16,12P
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APPENDIX XX.
BRIGHTON BKANCH EEADIXG.
1874-5.
187.5-6.
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17,662
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19,532
80
22,8.'58
77
22,114
76
21,831
75
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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.
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1876-
7.
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1878-
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1,021
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1,152
3
1,070
2
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2, 1-2 . .
Travels
535
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2,233
4
2,133
3
2,090
3
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IV.
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4, 14, 24 )
Fiction
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47
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13,701 )
55
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14,059 j
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15,522 )
55
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18,425 )
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5, 15, 25 .
Juveniles
5,343
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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
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1,567
2
1,655
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1,600
3
1,305
2
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Pcriodicala ....
162
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1,311
2
2,193
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2,047
3
1,924
3
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9, 10 . .
Arts, Sciences, etc.
465
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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
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1879.
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15, 16
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1,210
33,728
1,076
903
1,177
711
722
732
999
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2+
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2,530
58,587
1,220
1,499
3,173
1,310
2,424
1,936
2,521
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III.
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American History
Foreign History
Travel
VI.
VII.
vin.
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Miscellaneous
Arts, Sciences and Tlieologj'.
Poetry and Drama
Bound Periodicals
Total
41,258
75,200
APPENDIX XXIII.
JAMAICA PLAIN BRANCH READING.
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11,12
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15,16
17,18
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21
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23
24
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19,470
3,760
1,121
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785
373
322
193
344
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116
72
14
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3
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9,823
1,649
1,207
1,661
760
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426
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XI.
Miscellaneous
Poetry and Drama
Science and Professions . .
Periodicals
Foreign Languages
Fine Arts
XII.
Useful Arts
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27,332
49,791
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
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64
City Document No. 78.
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 .
Total ....
K§
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-
ings, and Assistant
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 . .
^i
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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
10
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 .
6Q
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.
Return slips and assistant
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
I Registration Clerk and Sun- j
( day service )
Reading Room
Receiving desk
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
Extra Forwarder .
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
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1
1
1
1
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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
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Position, Duties, etc.
3 .
£|
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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
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1
4
<3
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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
«
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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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