[Document 94 — 1880.]
CITY OF i..,^:;l BOSTON.
TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL EEPOET
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. ,
1880.
[A.]
The Trustees have the honor to present to the City Coun-
cil their twenty-eighth annual report, it being the second
made under their Act of Incorporation, and comprising de
tails of the condition of the Library for the yeai- ending on
the 30th April last.
Two other reports also form part of this document ; the
first, that of the Examining Committee, required by the or-
dinance, consisting for the present year of Rev. Joseph T.
Duryea, D.D., Thomas Dwight, M.D., Clement Hugh Hill,
Esq., James F. Hunnewell, Esq., Hon. Otis Norcross, Sam-
uel H. Russell, Esq., with Samuel A. B. Abbott, a member
of the Board as Chairman ; and the other, of the Librarian,
including the Appendixes.
Neither of these reports requires any special comment here.
Some of the more important topics to which they refer are also
subjects of notice in the statements of facts given by the
Trustees.
The necessity of increased accommodations for the Public
Library, strongly stated by His Honor the Mayor in his in-
augural address of 1879, has terminated in a result most im-
portant to the future of the institution. On petitions to the
last Legislature of the City of Boston and of the Trustees of
the Library, there was granted to the city, for the site of a
new Ijuilding, a lot of land favorably situated at the south-
westerly corner of Dartmouth and Boylston streets, mainly
2 City Document No. 94.
upon the condition that the structure should be begun before
the lapse of three years. This gift will afford the desired
opportunity, at a suitable time, for the erection of a properly
planned edifice, adapted to the preservation of the invaluable
contents of Bates Hall and of the south-west tower ; to be
strictly fire-proof, isolated from surrounding structures, sys-
tematically arranged for all the uses of the institution, and
erected not for ornament, but for utility. The financial con-
dition of the city requires great economy in its expenditures,
and during the interval of time fixed by the Legislature for
the beginning of the structure, plans can be elaborated so
that the process of construction can be arranged to extend
over such reasonable time as may be convenient to the reve-
nues of the government and the gradual removal of the books
may be eflected in a systematic way to the portions of the
edifice ready for their reception. It is impracticable now to
offer any well-considered scheme of the future building, with
the most convenient arrangement of the present contents of
the great reference library, and Avith still further storage for
its prospective growth ; but it is evident that whatever struct-
ure is built should receive the best preparation affoi-dcd by
modern experience, in the convenient arrangement of the
volumes, in the proper separation of the departments of
administration, and in the general fitness for the working
students, no less than for the library organization.
The Trustees of the Library at a suitable time will prepare
a memorandum of the details of the internal arrangement of
the edifice, which they will ofter for the consideration of the
City Council.
The usual summary of the extent of the Library collec-
tions, and their work for the past year, is herewith pre-
sented : —
The aofSfrejjate number of volumes contained in Bates
Hall is 220,683 ; in the Lower Hall, 36,861 ; m the base-
ment, 16,719 ; in the branches, 102,962 ; making a total of
377,225, — a net increase for the year of 16,262 volumes, or
4^ per cent.
The libraries were open to the public 307 days, with the
exception of the Charlestown branch, which was closed, for
the purpose of rearrangement of the books to conform to
the newly issued printed catalogue, from 20th April to 1st
May.
The number of books loaned shows a decrease of 23,844
from the previous year, amounting in 1878-9 to 1,180,565,
and in 1879-80 to 1,156,721, as appears in detail in the fol-
lowing table, from which the collections in the basement are
excluded : —
Public Library.
Name of Library.
No. of Vols.
April 30, 1879.
Circulation
1878-79.
No. of Vols.
April 30, 1880.
Circulated
1879-80.
a
"5
Q4
0
Lower Hall • .
East Boston
South Boston
Roxbury
Charlestown
Brighton
Dorchester
South End
Jamaica Plain
1 West Roxbury ....
36,116
10,362
9,279
11,749
19,675
12,724
9,325
8,240
7,290
363,193
98,681
118,844
113,763
88,740
28,928
59,673
75,867
52,960
36,861
10,605
9,633
12,228
22,059
12,970
10,085
9,498
( 7,811
( 3,068
316,517
108,201
143,570
107,083
74,748
27,980
66,716
79,291
54,626
6
0
a
0
Bates Hall
Fellowes Athenaeum . .
125,700
212,545
4,678
342,983
1,000,649
163,790
16,126
1,180,565
134,818
220,683
5,005
360,506
968 732
170,142
17,847
1,156,721
111 taking note of these various channels of the distribution
of books, the question naturally arises, with the increasing
desire for branches and deliveries in districts where the
inhabitants have no library within moderate reach, what is
the comparative expense of each issue from the branches
and from the Central Library ?
The foUowinoj collections are housed in buildino^s belonsf-
ing to the city, and consequently pay no rent: viz., the
Central, or Boylston street; the East Boston; the Charles-
town ; the Brighton ; the Dorchester ; and the Jamaica
Plain.
The premises occupied for the South Boston, the Rox-
bury, and the South End are leased.
In comparing the expenses of circulation certain items
are necessarily excluded. The binding, rebinding, and
repairs of books, the catalogue work and the printing, are
all included in the Central Library accounts, and do not
appear in the branch accounts. They are also clearly not
chargeable to the expense of circulation of the Central
Library.
Including rent and the expenses of the reading-room at
1 The proprietors of the West Roxbury Free Library presented it to the city, and a
delivery station was established in the rooms occupied by it.
4 City Document No. 94.
South Boston, the cost of the delivery of each vohime per
aunum was 4^^ cents ; at Eoxbury, 4:^-^-^ cents.
Including rent, but without a readino^-room, and with no
janitorial service, the cost at the South-End branch was 3^^^
cents.
Without rent, but inclusive of reading-room service, the
cost at East Boston was Sy^^ cents ; at Charlestown, 5^^ cents ;
at Brighton, 10 ^'^^^ cents; at Dorchester, with a delivery
station at Lower Mills, 5 cents ; at Jamaica Plain, with
deliveries at Roslindale and West Roxbury parish, 5^^^
cents. ^
From the Boylston-street libraries, and with the reading-
room service included, the cost per volume was 6^ cents.
In considerino* the fisfures of the total circulation of the
popular libraries, and the diminution from the previous two
years, one most striking and important result is attained.
By consulting the table of the average circulation of juveniles
and fiction (Appendix, Table XV.), it will be found that the
whole issue of this class of reading has fallen off, owing to
the gradual restriction by the Trustees of sensational and
vapid productions, six per cent., that is from an average, on
the whole amount of distributions, of 76 per cent, to 70 per
cent. ; or, in actual loans, more than 50,000 volumes. So
far as the statistics of popular lending libraries have been
printed, it is l)elieved that the average loan of works of this
class seldom falls below 75 per cent, of the total issues.
Another result of this table is very noticeable. Both the
East Boston and South Boston branches increased their
issues, having received new printed catalogues of their
contents during the year 1878-9. That of South Boston
was begun and finished in the spring of 1879. Though
printed in such haste that errors of no great importance
necessarily occurred, in consequence of the facilities afforded
by its convenience, added to an excellent administration of
the branch, and to the active requirements of the district, the
circulation increased from the previous year nearly 25,000
volumes, or 20 per cent., notwithstanding the deprival of
the accustomed supply of the weaker class of fiction. Con-
sidering the number of volumes in the Library, and their
larger issue, it is the most active and successful of all the
branches.
But in addition to the new catalogue, the materially in-
creased accommodation for the books, visitors, and employes
of the Library afforded by the enlargement of the premises
' Brighton ia the smallest precinct enjoying the privileges of a branch, — having a
populition of a little more than 6,000. The Library was founded and presented to the
town by Mr, Holton, and became the property of the city on its annexation.
Public Library. 5
previously occupied, nearly doubling the conveniences of
storage and access, also contributed to this result.
Aside from the diminished uses of fiction, the failure to
fitly develop the use of the Lower Hall is mainly due to
the same causes assigned in previous reports, which still
continue to limit and diminish its issues. Li confined
quarters, without room for separation and accommodation of
the difierent classes of age and sex, without proper ventila-
tion, with disagreeable crowds at the hours of largest demand,
it is not strange that the loans should be seriously aflected.
The experience of South Boston is not to be overlooked.
When sufBcient room is obtained for the Lower Hall visitors,
one may reasonably expect a use of this Library commensurate
with the daily increasing value and extent of its resources.
In the possibly impending changes consequent upon the
removal of the Bates Hall collection to the Dartmouth-street -
site, the greatly extended quarters demanded by public
convenience may be found in the present building.
Although by the regulations of the Library it is no part
of its duties to furnish text-books to the schools, permission
was given during the year to an earnest friend of education
to try the experiment of what was deemed a more useful
form of reading than was furnished by the authorities. The
success of the trial is related in the report of the librarian.
It is the duty of the Library to cooperate within its means
with masters and pupils, and its great stores of reading are
equally open for instruction and information to them as well
as to the larger mass of readers. The lists prepared by the
Superintendent of Schools and printed by the Library for
teachers and scholars, and distributed to all the schools, are
believed to have been found generally useful. .
The large number of books shelved in Bates Hall, cover-
ing very great diversity of subjects, invite at the present
tixae special interest in the form of the catalogues by which
they are opened to public use. It will be seen that any
important change will be radical, and more expensive than
the present system.
The card catalogue, to which the public has access in Bates
Hall, has now reached enormous dimensions, comprising not
far from 600,000 distinct and separate titles and cross-
references. It is presumed to include an appropriate notice
of every work and pamphlet in the reference library. Hav-
ing been constructed with as much rapidity as was practi-
cable, to keep pace with the great annual accessions of
books, it now requires and is undergoing a complete revi-
sion. It is what is termed a dictionary catalogue, including
6 City Document No. 94.
authors and subjects under one alphabet, and has been found
good and sufficient for libraries of moderate size.
In addition to this there is also in use for the officials of
the Library a smaller card catalogue, containing the titles of
books added to the Bates Hall library since the publication
of the Supplement to the Index in 186(3. This, together
with the printed volumes, is also supposed to include all the
books in the upper hall.
Besides these conveniences the printed quarterly bulletins
contain the more important accessions from 1867 to the
present time.
It will thus be seen that there is but one complete list of
all the books for general use, and that is to be found in the
great card catalogue in Bates Hall, noAv uudergoiug complete
revision to enable it to perform all its functions with
accuracy and certainty. It is a work requiring great skill,
and patient labor, and will occupy a long time in completion.
In the mean time assistance is gladly rendered by the Library
officers to those who fail to find the book of which they are
in search, and to all persons who are willing to make known
their wants.
It is a grave question whether the great value of the
collection, and the important functions which it fulfils, do
not now, or will not in the immediate future, require some
form of printed catalogue embracing the whole contents of
the shelves, with the exception of those already embraced in
the Index and Supplement, and the catalogues of the Prince
and Ticknor libraries, already printed, and of the Barton,
now in process of printing. If this step should be consid-
ered desirable, it could only be l)egun after the card cata-
logue shall have been completely revised, as this would form
its basis.
The objections to a great printed list of books of a rapidly
increasing library are obviously, first, its expense, and,
next, the number of years necessary to its completion. In-
cluding in its pages books that were in the Library at the
specified date of its beginning, when completed, other
volumes in combination must be begun to receive the titles
added since the first part of the catalogue was started.
Another condition also complicates the question. If the
City of Boston concludes to avail itself of the grant of the
Commonwealth, and decides to begin the gradual erection
of a new edifice for the Bates Hall and the other special col-
lections, the whole catalogue enterprise would naturally be
deferred until such time as the present reference libraries,
with their subsequent accessions, should have been trans-
ferred to the shelves of the new building.
Public Library. ' 7
Practically, it is a choice between a bulky and cumbrous
card catalogue on the dictionary system, in one alphabet,
keeping pace with the daily accessions, and printed cata-
logues in several alphabets, which do not include the addi-
tions to the Library for a term of years, — and the publication
of quarterly bulletins, still adding to the number of alpha-
bets to be consulted ; or if the last-named publications
should cease, a further recurrence to the card catalogue to
fill the vacancy in titles till the issue of a new volume,
during the printing of which another new card catalogue
must be begun.
In this sketch of the catalogue apparatus of the Library,
mention should be made of the effective card catalogue of
the lower hall, comprising about eighty thousand references,
which has been withdrawn from the upper-hall drawers, and
which now is in charge of a special officer, whose duty is to-
assist lower-hall readers in the selection, as well as search,
of books.
The previous notice of special catalogues was not intended
to include the class lists, so called, which for a series of
years have been prepared for the use of readers, for the
purpose of condensing into one printed alphabet the works
contained in the popular library in Fiction and Juveniles,
History, 'Biography, and Travels, Poetry and the Drama,
and other special subjects.
In order, however, that the present state of this depart-
ment may be properly understood, Mr. Whitney, its head,
has prepared a statement, to which attention is particularly
desired, and which will be found in Appendix XXIV.
This notice of the department would be incomplete with-
out calling attention to the publication of the Ticknor cata-
logue,,— a work long desired by American and European
scholars, and which in its execution has received great praise
from those most competent to judge of its scholarly accu-
racy and thorough exhaustion of details. It is a product of
which Mr. Whitney and the Library may well be proud.
The catalogue of the- Shakespeare portion of the Barton
Library has also been finished, in a manner reflecting great
credit upon Mr. James M. Hubbard, to whom was specially
entrusted its preparation.
In concluding their observations upon the condition of the
catalogue department, the Trustees feel that great caution is
to be exercised in any change of action, so much so that
the}' are not at this time agreed among themselves on the
most advantageous course to be pursued.
The number of books lost still remains moderate. Thousfh
not quite so comparatively small as last year, when only one
8 ' City Document No. 94.
volume was unaccounted for out of every 11,805 circulated,
the present year shows one to every 11,123.
In one respect the record is the most remarkable yet
chronicled. The aggregate circulation of the branches at
East Boston, Koxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain, was
342,807 volumes, and not a single volume was lost.
The Central Library, in this report, suffered slightly less
than last year, 81 volumes being recorded as missing in
1879-80, against 87 in 1878-79, and 90 in 1877-78.
Among the gifts of the Library during the past year two
deserve especial mention.
Li addition to the previous foundation of the Green Fund,
given by Dr. S. A. Green to the Library two years since,
he has shown a further mark of his interest in the institution
by presenting to it his Franklin collection of books and
engravings, — a collection peculiarly important to all who
respect the memory of the great Bostonian, and who desire
to see in the possession of the -city everything illustrating
his history and memory. Li this patriotic work Mr. W. S.
Appleton has joined, by adding, from his own valuable
stores, such engravings of Franklin as he possessed that
were not included in the Green collection.
An accession of the West Roxbury Free Library being a
popular collection of 3,008 volumes, Avas accepted by the
Trustees, on condition of establishing a delivery in that dis-
trict, with the proviso that the books given should not be
removed from that parish neighljorhood. The arrangement
has proved convenient and inexpensive to the Library, and
satisfactory to the inhabitants of the precinct.
In the general summary of gifts it is found that the same
friendly spirit is evinced as has been recorded in previous
years. It is indebted to 546 givers for 5,524 volumes and
8,356 pamphlets.
Though work at the library bindery has been unusually
active, it was unable to take care of the whole service
demanded of it. From the Bates Hall collection there were
bound 3,958 volumes ; from the Lower Hall and branches,
10,196 volumes; of which 2,590 were sent to outside
binders; 1,397 volumes were repaired.
In conclusion, it is most gratifying to be able to state that
the experience of the years since its foundation has neither
added to nor altered the principles upon Avhich the Library
was founded, and which have constituted the mainspring of
its success. Such changes in forms of administration as a
larger contact Avith borrowers showed to be expedient or
necessary, and could safely be admitted for the general con-
venience of the public, have from time to time been adopted.
Public Libkary. 9
The fostering care of the city government, and the generosity
of our donors, have established a Library now the largest in
the country, and the most useful to all classes of the com-
munity. Its large educational influences have been extended
and improved, and it has been the steady aim of the Trus-
tees to elevate the character of the books most widely cir-
culated, especially among the younger body of readers.
The facilities for importation are decreasing the cost of the
13urchases for the reference library. May it continue its
beneficent assistance to all readers and students, so that in
the future as now the simplest beginner in knowledge may
find at hand what he needs, at the same time that the most
enthusiastic and advanced experts in science, art, and litera-
ture shall make it their helpful resort.
WILLIAM W. GEEENOUGH.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.
GEORGE B. CHASE.
SAMUEL A. B. ABBOTT.
HENRY W. HAYNES.
HUGH O'BRIEN.
CHARLES E. PRATT.
Public Library, 24:th June, 1880.
10 City Document No. 94.
[B.]
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE.
The Examining Committee has endeavored to perform its
task to the best of its ability. The diflSculties before such a
body are more formidable than might at first sight be sup-
posed. Several of the questions before them require the
judgment of the expert ; others demand a much deeper
knowledo;e of the workinai; of a o-reat institution than a visit-
ing committee can easily acquire. Happily there are some
points on which any man of average intelligence is, after due
observation, competent to form an opinion. The committee
resrrets that, owins: to the bad health of the Hon. Otis Nor-
cross, it has been deprived of his valuable assistance.
It is impossible to contemplate the vast stores of learning
in many languages and all the departments of science, the
treasures of literature, suited alike to the scholar and the
simple reader, the valuable collections of works of art,
without feeling how just is the pride the citizens of Boston
take in their Library.
If we criticise certain points, it is because we believe
that by doing so we are rendering a greater service to this
valued institution than we should by referring only to the
many features we can heartily praise.
The unfitness of the main building on Boylston street has
been repeatedly commented upon. It is inadequate, incon-
venient, not fire-proof, and in parts ill-lighted and ill-venti-
lated. If we are to hope for a new building, no expensive
alteration would be justifiable ; but wo may call attention to
the fact that the rear corner is a vulnerable point to fire, and
that too much reliance jnay be placed on iron shutters when
exposed to a hot blaze. If, on the other hand, the new
building should be long delayed, we would suggest that
space might be gained and the distribution of books facili-
tated by removal of the second gallery in Bates Hall, and
the substitution of three light iron floors. This would in-
volve the insertion of skylights.
It is apparent to the Committee and to the Trustees that a
new building is a crying necessity. But any new building
will be a comparative failure which is not built on a radically
ditferent plan from the present one. The chief defect is
that the Library is sacrificed to the great Bates Hall ; a very
handsome room, we admit, but out of place in a large and
growing librar}', unless there are land and money enough for
Public Libraet. 11
indefinite expansion. The new building should contain
numerous moderate-sized rooms and wide corridors, both
well lighted and not too high-studded, in some of Avhich
there should be coveniences for students who, under special
circumstances, should be allowed access to them. The
waiting and reading rooms should be separated from the
room for general delivery. In one of the reading-rooms
there should be a reference library, in which, under proper
regulations, every one should be permitted to take down
and consult the books at pleasure. The present building
could then be used in the place of the Lower Hall, and the
South End Branch for the storing and delivery of popular
books, and for a reading-room of periodical literature. It
should be borne in mind, in making the plans for the new
building, that fitness must not give place to show.
The Boston Public Library has many rare and valuable
books that will be wanted by many generations in the
future. Such a collection appears one not merely for present
uses, but a trust for a future that is very likely to judge
present care of the great wealth held in charge. It seems,
accordingly, that many of these books should be kept under
glass doors, protected from bad air and dust, and secured by
locks. Fine bindings and those Avith which it is undesirable
to interfere should be further protected by wrapping covers,
and the wear on heavy volumes reduced by linings on the
shelves. All the Prince Library, parts of the Barton,
Ticknor, and other collections, and the English County
Histories are of this class. The deterioration of common
bindings, largely in the upper part of Bates Hall, is evident.
The great heat there appears in some cases to have seriously
dried the leather; but there are indications that on some
volumes the rapid decay may be owing to the badness of
congressional sheepskin rather than to that of a Boston
literary atmosphere.
We find that the work done in the bindery is good, and
that bindings of the finest quality can be furnished when
desired. We are not prepared, however, to offer any
opinion as to the policy of maintaining a bindery as a part
of the Library.
The collection of books in Bates Hall is a magnificent
one, and the well-known readiness of the government of the
Library to fill any gaps to which attention is called assures
its still greater perfection. The Lower Hall contains an
excess of juvenile stories and poor novels, which, though
not immoral, give such false views of life to the young and
inexperienced that they must be considered bad reading.
Their tendency, moreover, is to develop a taste for similar
12 City Document No. 94.
and worse literature, rather than for that of a higher grade.
The same criticism applies in a greater or less degree to
most of the branches. We are glad to understand that
literature of this class is not encouraged by the authorities,
that its circulation is proportionally less than it has been,
and that efforts are making to turn the attention of readers
to more worthy objects ; still ^ve believe that more energetic
action would be advisable.
With regard to the purchase of books, it would appear
that the plan of allowing foreign booksellers to send Avhat
they please is at least liable to abuse, even though the right
of returning books is retained. It is certain that no book
of a character at all doubtful should be permitted to be sent
without a definite order.
The question of cataloguing has been considered with
great care. It may be divided into three heads : First, the
catalogues of special collections, namely, the Prince,
Ticknor, and Barton. The Ticknor has been completed in
a most creditable manner, but at very great expense. The
catalogue of the Shakespearean part of the Barton collection
has been finished, but there remain some eleven thousand
volumes which, according to aggreement, must be cata-
logued. It is to be hoped that it will be done with all pos-
sible economy, and that the part already published ma}'^ be
given -to public.
Under the second head Ave consider the catalogue of the
Bates Hall. This has already outgrown its usefulness, for
purely mechanical reasons. The plan and the work are, we
believe, on the whole satisfactory, though too close adher-
ence to rule has sometimes interfered with clearness. It
seems to us unfortunate that well-knowni pseudonyms are
not treated as proper names. The cost, though apparently
large, does not strike us as extravagant, and the plans we
could suggest to diminish it -svould cflect only minor points.
The greattrouble is that it is already too large, and Avill not
admit of indefinite expansion. We believe the best plan
will be a book catalogue, to be published in revised editions,
say, every fifteen years, and to be supplemented by a card
catalogue to record current additions. The catalogue should
contain as many cross-references as are necessary for clear-
ness, but should be as simple and brief as possible, contain-
ing no notes. We would recommend that this be under-
taken as soon as practicable, and that, as a measure of
economy, the quarterly bulletins be discontinued.
Under the third head we would speak of the catalogues of
the Lower Hall and Branches. These present wide varia-
tions, some being very satisfactory, while others show great
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13
deficiencies. Probably the South End Branch is the most
wanting in this respect.
With regard to the service of the Library we liave but
one point to criticise. The demand for books from the
Bates Hall is so great that, especially on Saturdays in winter,
the delay in obtaining them is often considerable. We
recommend that a larger force be emploj^ed, at least on
Saturdays, during the busiest months. This is advised both
in the interest of the public and of the boys whose duty it is
to bring the books, who, on tlie occasions referred to, are
severely taxed.
The great development of the system of Branch Libraries
has struck the committee as a very important subject. On
referring to last year's report, Ave find that the total hall and
home use of books in all the branches exceeded that in the
main building by over one hundred and tw^enty-six thousand.
Few will deny that it is right to maintain branches in
thickly settled districts, at a considerable distance from the
Library ; but the case is very diflerent in the rural outskirts,
and in that part of the city from which the main hall can be
easily reached. The idea that every citizen has a right to
have a book- delivery near his dwelling is wrong in theory
and mischievous in practice. We l)elieve that this system
has passed the point at which it should have been checked.
We would call attention to the following table, showing the
cost of the branches during the past year : —
East Boston.
South Boston.
ROXBURY.
Charlestown,
Salaries,
Books,
Expenses,
$3,062 74
591 03
873 75
$3,330 03
757 68
646 91
$3,079 68
543 93
1,289 78
$3,323 75
932 57
800 01
Total,
$4,517 52
$4,734 62
$4,913 39
$5,056 33
Brighton.
Dorchester.'
South End.
Jamaica Plain.
Salai-ies,
Books,
Expenses,
$1,279 85
176 88 -
737 47
$2,077 17 '
932 15 ;
767 56 1
1
$1,510.92
397 28
178 38
$2,040 35
451 95
1,185 74
Total,
M,194 20
5,776 88
^2,086 85
},678 04
This shows a total cost of $30,957,56 ; but this is not all,
for the above figures represent oidy the suras that come from
the Library appropriations. The city paid, in addition,
$5,883.33 for rent and taxes for Branch
and $1,385.80 for repairs on the same,
outside the appropriation.
Libraries in 1879,
making $7,269.13
1 Including the Lower Mills delivery.
- Including the lioslindale and West Roxbury deliveries.
14 City Document No. 94.
It will be well to consider for what this large sum is ex-
pended. A glance at the tables appended to the Librarian's
Report, showing the kind of reading, will show that it is
essentially for amusement. As these branches increase, the
expenses will necessarily increase also, and at no distant
time will become very hard to bear.
The committee cannot pass over the South End branch,
concerning which there has been so much discussion, with-
out comment. If there is to be a branch at all, the present
quarters are certainly inadequate ; but we fail to find any
excuse for its existence. With the present horse-car facili-
ties, it is no hardship for the inhabitants of the South End
to go to Boylston street. Some, indeed, may find Roxbury
more convenient. During the past year works of fiction
and juveniles have composed 74- per cent, of the circulation
of this branch; miscellaneous works, 1-f- percent. ; poetry
and the drama, 3- per cent. ; and bound periodicals, 5-|- per
cent. Thus certainly four-fifths of its circulation may fairly
be called very light reading. The number of books used is
very great ; Avhich shows, no doubt, that it is pleasant to
have a branch, but not that it is needed.
In the opinion of the committee the South End branch
is utterly unnecessary. If it were feasible, we should re-
commend its suppression. We can at least protest against
opening any new branches.
A fine public library is necessarily very expensive, and
the just appreciation in which ours is held makes the citizens
of Boston pay the bills very cheerfully ; but, that this may
continue, all extravagance should be carefully avoided. We
are compelled to say that this has not been done in the
matter of the branches, and the policy may be questioned
by which very large sums are expended on catalogues of
special collections, which are used by very few.
We find that the accounts arc kept with great neatness
and accuracy by ]Miss Nichols, and appear to be arranged ex-
pressly for the needs of the Libraiy. As far as we have
observed, all the employes are faithful to their duties.
In conclusion, we have to express our thanks for the
courtesy and ready assistance in the discharge of our duties
we have received from every one connected with the
Library.
THOMAS DWIGHT,
For the Committee.
Public Library. 15
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Trustees : —
'Agreeably to the by-laws, I herewith submit my report
for the library year ending April 30, referring to the tables
annexed for the information usually presented in that form.
Library Facilities.
The agencies by which books are brought more nearly to
their readers have been multiplied within the past year by a
deposit of duplicate volumes with the Wells Memorial
Workingmen's Club and Institute, at the corner of Wash-
ington and Dover streets ; and also by opening a delivery
station of the Jamaica Plain branch at West Roxbury, in
the room formerly occupied by the Free Library. In No-
vember last the proprietors of that library voted to transfer
their books, numbering about three thousand volumes, to the
Trustees, for the use of the inhabitants of Boston, on the
condition that they should forever remain, as a collection, in
that precinct. This gift was accepted, and the room opened
as a delivery station on the 6th of January last, under the
charge of Marion L. Woodward. The success of this de-
livery justifies its existence ; and the petition of the inhabit-
ants in its neighborhood for an increase in the number of
delivery days is entitled to favorable consideration.
A petition, numerously signed by those dwelling in the
vicinity of Grove Hall, for the establishment of a delivery
station at that point, has led to the examination of that
territory in respect to library facilities. Grove Hall is not
so remote, by right lines, either from the Roxbury or Dor-
chester branches, as to warrant the establishment of a
branch or delivery station at that point ; but, by the only
practicable modes of conveyance to those branches, access is
indirect and costly, and the necessity of providing for a full
branch at that point will ultimately force itself upon the
attention of the City Council.
Nothing has occurred to interrupt the usual circulation of
books at either of the branches, except Charlestown, which
was closed from April 27 to May 11, both inclusive, for
the rearrangement of the books, so as to conform to the
system of classification which prevails both at the central
and branch libraries. It was deemed a favorable time to
16 City Document No. 94.
make this change simultaneously with the issue of a new
catalogue of this the largest and most valuable of the
branch libraries.
The branch library apartments remain the same as at the
date of my last report ; all fairly answering the public re-
quirements, except that at the South End. In respect to
the rooms occupied by this branch all opinions concur as to
their unfitness ; and the City Council are considering the
site best adapted to the requirements of this growing
branch.
Central Library Building.
All the measures deemed necessary to render the Central
Library secure from fire have been adopted. A night-watch-
man has been employed, as recommended by my last report,
and his fidelity is attested in a satisfactory manner.
Nothing further seemed to be required to render the col-
lection safe, so far as safety can be secured while it remains
in its present position, except to close certain doorways be-
tween the furnace-room and the adjacent apartments used
for storing duplicates ; and these openings have now been
closed, on the suggestion of a member of the Examining
Committee.
Condition of the Library.
There is nothino- new to be said as to the condition of the
Library. Its deterioration by use, especially that part
which circulates most freely, as well as from heat, gas, or
other undetermined causes, still continues to excite apprehen-
sion, and doubtless will continue to do so until the erection
of a new building on the lands granted by the State for that
purpose.
Increase of the Library.
During the past 3'ear the increase of the Library l)y gift,
as well as l)y purchase, has been regular and gratifying.
The whole number of volumes is now 377,225 net, of which
15,016 have been purchased, and 5,524 have been given
within the year.
Some of the gifts are worthy of special mention. In
1863 the Franklin Club gave to the Library the sum of one
thousand dollars, to be invested, and the income thereof to
be applied to the purchase of books of permanent value,
and preferably works on government and political economy.
On the 15th of April, 1871), the surviving trustees of the
Franklin Club expended the balance of the funds then re-
Public Library. 17
maining in their hands in the purchase aud presentation to
the Public Library of six magnificent volnmes, comprisiug
Roberts' "Holy Land and Egypt," and " Nubia," with some
other volumes of less note.
This transfer to the Public Library of the funds of the
Franklin Club is in accordance with the spirit and conduct
of the great man whose name it bore, and recalls the ex-
pressed intentions and efforts of those in the government
of the library to make a collection of Frankliniana. In
the report of the Superintendent for the year 1869, it is
said : " It has been thought that Franklin is to Boston of
something like the same importance [as that of Shakespeare
to England] , and I have lost no opportunity of securing
what I could illustrative of the man and his works, and
hope the collection may prove in the end of credit to the
city of his birth."
The result, however, was less than might have been
reasonably hoped for, since, until the donation about to be
mentioned, the number of volumes and pamphlets in the
Library relating to Franklin was inconsiderable.
But, by gift from Dr. Samuel A. Green, there has been
added to the Library about 135 books and pamphlets, to-
gether with y7 portraits and engravings, all of which in some
way relate to Franklin ; and to these some important
additions have been made by William S. Appleton, Esq.
The Library has also received an interesting letter of
Josiah Franklin, the tallow-chandler, dated January 11,
1744, addressed to some correspondent unknown, except
that he was a collateral relative, and of the English branch
of the family. This letter contains facts of interest not
hitherto known.
This collection of Frankliniiina is now made to comprise
everything in the Library respecting Franklin, not dupli-
cates, and is kept apart by itself. It contains more than
eighty titles of books aud pamphlets not found in the most
complete bibliography of Franklin published, though it is far
from complete. But it is gratifying to be able to say that the
publicity given to Dr. Green's donation has led to some im-
portant additions from other sources, and will doubtless lead
to others ; and it now may be reasonably expected that the
Public Library will ultimately possess as complete a col-
lection of Frankliniana as is anywhere to be found.
Nor should it fail of mention that the Youngs Men's
Library of Bufi'alo, New York, have presented to the Public
Library a volume of the greatest interest and value, and
thought to be unique in some portions. It is the first
printed Journal of the House of Representatives of the
18 City Documjent No. 94.
Province of Massachusetts for the political year 1715-16.
The value of this donation is enhanced by the fact that it
contains important historical matter nowhere else to be
found, as well as by the fact that it was the only copy pos-
sessed by that library; and, in a spirit of comity, has been
given to the Boston Public Library, as the place where
Massachusetts history would properly be found.
The Bindery.
It was deemed unfortunate that, when the Library was
making large demands upon the bindery, it should lose
from that department the services of its foreman, Mr.
Hathaway, under whose administration it was- raised to high
rank. This branch of the service has now been reinforced
by the addition of several competent workmen, and it is
expected that arrearages will soon be brought up, and the
current work promptly attended to. But it is evident that
with the increasing circulation of books from Bates Hall, and
their consequently increased wear, the expenses of the
bindery will be larger than heretofore.
Lower Hall Catalogue.
The recommendations of my last report that the Lower
Hall cards should be separated from those in Bates Hall, and
transferred to that department, were adopted and have been
carried into effect.
On the tirst of September that portion of the catalogue was
placed in the charge of Mr. Thomas H. Cunnnings (and, in
his absence, of Miss Mary A. Jenkins), whose business it is
to assist all comers in finding the books they desire, and,
what is of more importance, to direct the attention of young
and inexperienced readers to the best literature. I have rea-
son to think that the influence of this new department in the
Lower Hall is very considerable and most salutary, and is
likely to increase. From Mr. Cunnnings' report, it appears
that from Dec. 1, 1879 — when the account was opened — to
May 1, 1880, 7,351 persons were assisted on special sub-
jects ; and of general readers, including readers of fiction,
juvenile books and miscellanies, there were above 10,000.
As the working days for this period were 128, the daily
average of special readers assisted is 57, and of general read-
ers, 84.
A detailed account of the services thus rendered would
include many interesting facts bearing upon the question of
the possibility of bringing personal influence to supplement
Public Library. 19
the use of catalogues, class lists, and other printed aids, in
wisely directing the reading of those who come to the Library
for books.
The Public Library and the Public Schools.
In this connection, as well as in any other, I may allude
to the subject of a closer union between the public library and
the public schools, as auxiliaries of each other in the work of
education.
In my report of last year I suggested to the Trustees "the
propriety of setting apart some portion of the annual appro-
priation for books to meet the requisitions of the teachers of
the public schools, by the purchase of such books as in their
judgment might be useful to their pupils, and those books to
have their local habitation in the several houses under their
charge, but always to remain the property of the Public Li-
brary, and subject to such regulations as might be found
necessary."
This subject I have not lost sight of. On the contrary, it
has engaged much of my attention, though in an unofticial
way ; and I now^ desire to restate, though briefly, the nature
of the union I consider desirable, and the way in which, as I
conceive, it may be brought about.
Perhaps this may be best shown by a statement of what
has already been done.
On the reopening of the public schools in September last
an experiment Avas made, which, though not on precisely the
same basis as that I recommend, led to some interestino;
and valuable results, which I now propose to lay before the
Trustees.
By previous arrangement with the principal of the Wells
School I received from him a requisition on the Public Li-
brary for fifty copies of " A Sunmier in Leslie Goldthwaite's
Life," by Mrs. Whitney, to be retained for an indefinite
period; and, some months later, for the same number of
"Pizarro; his Adventures and Conquests," by George M.
Towle.
Several difficvdties arose with respect to these requests.
In the first place there were no more than two or three
copies, instead of fifty, of each in the Library, and no funds
from which they could be properly purchased ; and, sec-
ondly, the nature of the loans, and the time for which they
w^ere desired, were in contravention of the Library rules.
But, there being a good will, a good way was found. The
books were purchased from funds supplied from a private
source, and presented to the Library, and accepted by the
20 City Document No. 94.
Trustees, with the conditions annexed, that they should be
loaned according to the will of the donor.
After nearly a year's use the books have been returned to
the Library, in as good order substantially as when they
left; and there they remain to meet a similar requisition,
and to be subjected to the same use on the reopening of
the public schools in September. I have assurances that
they will then be demanded by more than one teacher.
But in the mean time it seems to me that it is worth stat-
ing what they have already done. When they were loaned
to the Wells School, before being issued to the pupils, they
were neatly covered by them and made ready for use. These
pupils seem to have taken pride in using them carefully, as
only one of them shows the results of carelessness. And
this fiict is worthy of being contrasted with the general use
of the Library by a similar class of persons who draw books
from it under different circumstances.
" Leslie Goldthwaite " was read successively by three
classes, comprising more than one hundred and fifty girls ;
and " Pizarro," by two classes, comprising over one hundred
girls.
The reading of these books Avas not a part of regular
school exercises ; that is, the pupils were expected to read
each her own copy at home, as she would read any other
book taken from the Public Library, but to be ready once a
week, in her class, to be examined on what was thus read.
In this examination is found the chief interest and value
of the scheme ; and it seems to be new.
Reading is an art which, with a little of almost everything,
has been taught in the public schools immemorially ; but how
to read a book — an entire book — is an acquisition made by
few, and never, so far as I am aware, systematically taught
in the public schools.
This experiment made in the Wells School, with the
cooperation of the Pul)lic Library, is, I think, the first ever
made, and it was successful.
By simultaneous reading of the same book, and by class
examination in respect to what they read, these pupils, under
the skilful teaching of their master, came finally to see, as
they would be likely to learn in no other way, that every
good story is a work of art, 'consisting of a plot in which the
incidents should follow each other in such order and re-
lation as properly to bring abont the result; that the
personages should act and talk consistently, and with
reference to the result; and, finally, that style should
be simple, clear, and appropriate, and the ornamen-
tation just. They came to see that the true value and
Public Library. 21
chief interest in novels consist in these very qualities, rather
than in the sensational and exaggerated.
These one hundred and fifty girls, under the instruction
which was only possible with the facilities thus ex-
ceptionally granted by the Public Library, have acquired
a critical judgment which will serve them in good stead,
not only with respect to the books they may hereafter draw
from the Public Library, but, if the same system could be
made applicable to all the schools, would soon settle the
vexed question of what sort of fiction should be purchased
by the Trustees.
I have dwelt less on the details of the experiment because
several of the Trustees have witnessed at least one of the
weekly examinations, and have reached a conclusion as to
its value not unlike my own.
Why, then, may not what has proved of value in a single
school be extended so as to include ultimately all the schools
whose teachers have the requisite interest to undertake and
skill to carry forward a similar work ?
The Public Library keeps books to read, and is using all
possible devices to get them read. This is one of its func-
tions ; possibly it may be said, that its chief function is to
provide the books, leaving the manner of their reading, and
consequently the value of the reading, to the care of those
more immediately charged with the education of youth.
And, further, that if there is any deficiency, either in the
number or character of the books needed for this purpose,
they should be furnished, as are other text-books, by the
school committee, with funds provided them for that purpose.
It is submitted, however, that it is less a question of a
theoretically perfect distribution of functions among difierent
bodies serving the same public, from which they draw their
resources, and having the same general aim in view, — the
education of the community, — than of practical efiiciency in
bringing about a desirable purpose ; and if this is so, then
if the school committee can best expend the public money
required for this end, let them answer the requisitions of
teachers ; but if, theory apart, the Public Library can best
administer the trust, by its disciplined force and adequate
machinery, then let the Public Library enter upon the work.
Which body can best perform the service is best deter-
mined by considering the elements which are essential to its
success.
And the first is, that the teacher should be absolutely free
to choose the book he desires to use. This is essential. A
book which interests another and serves another's purpose
may not interest him nor serve his purpose. He wants his
22 City Document No. 94.
own tools. Consequently, no stock of books, in numbers
however large, selected by the school committee or the Trus-
tees, will answer.
Again, the books should be furnished just when wanted ;
not a week or fortnight afterwards. The Trustees, in a sense
in which the school committee are not, are buyers of books.
They have the best facilities, and can command the best
terms. This new form of loans can be made promptly and
without confusion or causing trouble in the ordinary work of
the Library.
Finally, should this work be entered upon, I do not appre-
hend any such general and immediate requisitions by the
teachers as will deplete the treasury, or embarrass the em-
ployes of the Library. The cost of the experiment for a
year in the AVells School was less than fifty dollars. Books
thus read are read slowly, — nmllum non multa. The plan,
if adopted, will be adopted only by the best and most enter-
prising teachers ; and even with the best will make its way
slowly. But should it come to be generally adopted, against
the expense, however great, would stand this grand result:
a community of readers, S3stematically educated in the
public schools, not only to read, but to select the best books
for their reading which a great public library offers. Then
will the Public Library take its true place at the head of the
educational system of the city, and as truly a part of it, not
merely in name.
Use of the Lower Hall Books.
The Trustees cannot have failed to notice from my monthly
reports some interesting facts respecting the circulation of
books bolh at the Central and Branch libraries. The circu-
lation of the Lower Hall has fallen off* considerably Avithin
the year. This was doubtless foreseen by the Trustees when
they determined to lessen the supply of that class of books
which most rapidly swells the statistics of circulation. But
an analysis of tables of the classes of books circulated shows
the gratifying fact that the proportion of the better books is
constantly increasing ; and this is the case aside from the in-
crease of the Bates llall circulation by nearly seven thousand
over that of the last year. This improvement in the quality
of the circulation is in part due to the vigilance of the In-
spector of Circulation, Mr. Tifftmy, in recommending the
purchase of a liberal supply of newly-published books of a
superior quality, in anticipation of the public demand.
Public Library. 23
The Purchase or Books.
With a view to the economic use of the public money, as
well as to the establishment of surer safeguards in respect to
the character and cost of books forwarded by our foreign
agents under general orders, I have, under the direction
of the Trustees, entered into new contracts, by which will be
obviated such objections as had become apparent. These
contracts will be kept well in hand, and, by their terms,
may be cancelled or modified whenever it may be found
desirable.
So long as our agents are restricted in their purchase, on
our account, to first-rate works in science, literature, and
art, there seems to be little dan2:er of their forwardinsf ob-
jectionable books ; nor costly works, so long as they are
limited, as now, not only in the amount of their aggregate
purchases, but also as to the cost of any one work.
That foreign works must be purchased in some such way
is obvious, and is followed by every considerable library in
the country. Time is an important element in the value of
books, especially those of a professional or scientific char-
acter ; and the public would have good cause for dissatisfac-
tion if they were received only after the delay attendant on
specific orders.
With the purpose of bringing important English publica-
tions promptly before the patrons of the Library, I have
made arrangements for receiving by mail such books as are
adapted to that mode of conveyance, which is more speedy,
and not more costly for small packages than the usual
method ; and the experience has proved so successful that I
recommend its adoption with respect to a similar class of
continental publications.
Kevision of the Card Catalogue.
Mr. Whitney, the head of the Catalogue Department, will
make a special report respecting his work, and the state of
that department generally. I will only add that, within a
few months past, I have caused to be made the experiment
of printing within the building of the card catalogue and
broadsides displayed in Bates Hall, and I am happy to
report that arrangements have finally been made by which
the work is done expeditiously as well as satisfactorily, at
an expense not greatly exceeding that of transcription ; and
this dilferencc in cost is more than compensated for by the
superiority of the printed card.
24 City Document No. 94.
Books Lost and Condemned.
The reports of the custodian of the shelves and of the
librarians of the several branches show the number of books
lost and condemned for the last year.
MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN,
Librarian.
April 30, 1880.
APPENDIXES
TO THE
LIBEAEIAN'8 EEPOET.
1880
LIST OF APPENDIXES.
I. Extent of the Library (by Years).
II. Yearly Increase by Purchase and Donation.
III. Extent of the Bates Hall Collection.
IV. Extent of the Lower Hall Collection.
V. Sale of Duplicates and Odd Volumes.
VI. Increase of the Several Departments.
VII. Increase from Newly Published Books.
VIIL Bates Hall Classifications.
IX. Lower Hall Classifications.
X. Givers and Amount of Gifts.
XI. Circulation.
XII. Registration of Applicants.
XIIL Books Recommended. Use of Patent Library.
XIV, Bates Hall Reading.
XV. Lower Hall and Branch Reading.
XVL Fellowes Athen^um and Brighton Reading.
XVn. Periodical Reading Rooms.
XVIII. Losses and Delinquents.
XIX. Financial Statement.
XX. Library Funds.
XXL Library Service.
XXII. Report on Examination of the Shelves.
XXIII. Work in the Library Bindery.
XXIV, The Catalogues of the Library.
Public Library.
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APPEisroix n.
rEARLT INCREASE OF THE WHOLE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE
AND BY GIFTS.
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4,000
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6,688
75
2
1853-54
6,533
6,396
2 989
2,152
2,663
2,989
4,381
3,733
106
8. . .
1854-55
2,557
2,468
89
163
4. . .
1855-56
5,463
5,879
1,865
5,330
3,598
549
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1856-57
6,816
3,667
1,686
3,646
5,130
21
132
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1857-58
35,955
7,192
6 989
1,885
1,317
1,452
6,674
30,214
1,885
5,741
3,787
3 245
381
7 .
1858-59
3,405
3,744
12,299
1,317
1,452
6,656
247
8
1859-60
207
0. . .
1860-61
16,948
4,649
18
242
10
1861-62
7,391
5,529
1,493
2,169
1,274
829
1,493
1,958
6,117
4,700
234
11. . .
1862-63
212
• 194
12. . .
1863-64
6,226
2,939
1,081
2,772
6,145
167
219
13. , .
1864-65
6,082
1,516
804
1,026
5,178
490
328
14. . .
1865-66
7,662
4,013
1,476
3,342
6,286
671
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1866-67
6,303
7,877
1,465
7,769
7,732
108
300
16. . .
1867-68
7,673
2,811
1,554*
2,513
6,396
298
342
17. . .
1868-69
8,685
13,923
2,138
10,984
6,531
2,939
649
18. . .
1869-70
7,775
13,593
1,643
10,228
6,129
3,365
666
19. . .
1870-71
18,099
14,976
9,750
10,805
8,349
4,171
604
20. . .
1871-72
13,708
10,637
4,349
5,831
9,359
4,806
610
21 . . .
1872-73
14,644
11,770
3,939.
8,060
10,705
3,710
865
601
22. . .
1873-74
61,094
22,475
4,783
17,138
18,671
5.337
1,380
730
S8. . .
1874-75
16,372
16,293
4,169
15,899
17,080
394
572
1.091
24. . .
1876-76
20,966
30,732
6,749
6,891
15,206
24,841
759
694
26. . .
1876-77
16,974
13,305
3,562
11,071
16,544
2,234
738
1.126
96. . .
1877-78
33,724
15,554
21,206
12,453
17,579
3,101
196
677
27 . . .
1878-79
14,926
14,596
3,680
8,786
14,403
5,810
211
470
28. . .
1879-80
16,262
9,624
5,624
8,356
15,016
1,367
361
646
• Includes pamphlets adde<t both bv purchase and exchange, as taken from the Accession Catalogue.
tincluded in previous columns. These volumes are not tlie property of the Public Library, but fonn •
part of the Roxbury Branch by agreement.
(6) Of the increase, 24.r.l8 wori> the Bates gift.
(9) Of the increase, 11,721 were the Parker bequest.
(19) .'1,774 volumes of the Ticknor bequest, and 2,G82 from the Suiudci- Librarv Asaocintiou, are included
in the increase.
(201 1,471 vohimos from the Mattapan Literary Association are included in the increase.
(2'-) The increase of this year includes the totals of the libraries at Charlestown and Brighton, ond alio,
under purchases, the Barton Library.
(24) The purchnics of this vear include thirty volumes to replace books in the Bates Hall long Inst. The
great accession nf pninphlots cninc fmrn thf purchase of duplicates fnini Harvard-Cullege Librarv
(26) The unusual increase is mviiipto the addition of the hooks of tho Mercantile Librarv Associatinn
which form the nucleus of the South End Branch.
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APPENDIX YI.
INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
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located at last
Report . . .
Added and lo-
cated ....
Added and not
located . . .
Total gain . .
Condemned and
transferred .
^ Net gain . . .
6,296
140
7,508
294
10,384
4,135
6,622
661
6,198
829
6,564
187
9,227
9,337
691
11,286
303
8,459
655
7,804
558
7,494
558
-~5
1
6,156
294
7,214
4,135
6,249
651
5,971
829
5,369
*12,244
6,377
9,227
691
8,746 10,983
303 655
6,936
846
6,450
11,849
6,900
1
6,800
6
17,613
6,377
3
9,818
2
9,049 11,638
21 36
8,362
48
7,782
6,450
11,349
6,899
6,795
17,618
6,374
0,816
0,028 11,602 8,314 7,758
,^ f Gain in books .
e Less transfers
Cq andcondera'd
,, -( books ....
1,417
231
2,786
2,116
2,614
1,861
1,799
1,021
1,465
1,480
3,385
2,686
3,570
1,813
3,830
1,701
2,728
t2,344
2,339
2,085
2,483
2,094
o
s
^ Net gain . , .
1,186
665
1,263
778
(losi)16
799
1,767
2,129
384
254
389
« ("Gain in books .
254
101
402
336
167
126
66
25
132
§"2 Less loss . . .
II
Ife Net gain . . .
254
101
402
835
167
126
41
132
<a [■ Gain by addition
1,375
606
1,641
834
1,234
786
1,902
619
1,016
351
1,677
718
3,216
1,443
784
e jj Less loss bj- ex-
;2 S , changes, etc.
2,177
1^1
^ (.Net gain . . .
139
149
860
869
1,307
448
1,383
064
959
1,773
1,393
loss.
e f Gain in books .
5< 1
S s J Cond'dand lost
5,936
881
60
621
97
664
143
016
834
917
273
856
250
676
270
716
1
403
1
649
406
''I
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^ Net gain . . .
5,986
831
524
621
681
644
606
406
313
243
g ("Gain in books .
•S-g I
gel Cond'd and lost
""I
I Net gain . . .
CO
885
76
850
217
1,359
644
1,261
495
4,365
609
633
715
766
1,303
823
854
413
247
329
800
676
525
935
581
* Includes 12,057 (close estimate) of the Barton books, and 187 other voluraes.
t This item is exceptionally large, as manj' duplicates not in use, and broken sots have been
transferred to the Duplicate Room, to make room .pn the shelves for fresh accessions.
Public Library.
APPEOT)IX Yl.— Continued.
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Cond'd and lost
3,754
4
1,069
26
1,296
46
1,299
163
1,396
304
3,542
701
1,167
532
778
333
-s
1^
3,750
865
1,043
1,330
1,250
572
1,136
759
1,092
738
2,841
196
635
220
445
361
Fellowes Athe-
nfeura. (Net
OS
4,615
2,373
1,822
1,895
1,830
3,037
855
806
a
* Si
15,932
144
1,305
403
1,004
800
1,123
433
995
398
1,268
274
1,310
340
nnn^>/1 an/1 Inst.
fc S
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15,788
902
704
690
597
994
970
II
11,049
12
480
75
599
130
480
74
264
46
236
47
273
27
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11,037
405
469
406
218
189
246
^ • C Gain in books .
•g g <! Cond'dand lost
3,905
3,179
S2
1,057
16
341
25
672
110
926
166
^•^
... 54
3,905
3,147
1,041
616
562
760
24
19
89
139
6,401
2
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26
539
18
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6,399
670
521
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8,856
52
522
86
368
110
8,804
436
258
Bates Hall gain
Lower Hall gain
Newspaper
6,450
1,186
11,349
665
6,899
1,253
6,795
778
254
869
624
SOS
3,750
866
19,271
(loss) 16
101
1,307
621
633
1,043
1,330
15,788
11,037
64
24
6,374
799
402
448
581
715
1,250
572
902
406
3.906
19
9,816
1,757
835
1,883
644
766
1,136
759
704
460
8,147
39
9,028
2,129
157
664
606
890
1,092
738
690
406
1.041
139
11,602
384
126
959
406
576
2,841
196
597
218
616
6,399
8,804
8,314
254
41
1,773
313
525
635
220
994
189
562
670
436
7,758
389
132
Duplicate Room
gain ....
E. B. Branch
gain ....
S. B. Branch
139
149
5,936
860
831
4,365
243
354
c
Rox. Branch
445
1 \
Fellowes Athe-
naeum gain .
Chn. Branch
861
970
"e
^
Bri. Branch
246
Dor. Branch
. . .
760
J. P. Branch
521
S. E. Branch
258
Total gain . .
7,775
18,099
13,708
114,644
51,109
16,372
20,955
17,277
33,724
14,926
14,112
The total gain includes the 8,068 vols, at the West Eoxbury delivery given during the yea*, less
1,393 vols, the loss in the Duplicate Boom.
34
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APPEOTDIX YII.
INCREASE FROM NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS.
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English Books with 1
British imprint . j
811
899
1,096
1,389
1,294
1,533
2,830
2,237
1,763
1,781
1.555
English Books with )
American imprint (
1,411
2,206
8,642
4,301
3,807
7,365
10,501
6,761
5,546
5,295
5,637
English Books with )
Contin'tal imprint (
50
4?
115
291
125
375
316
180
191
233
238
Foreign Books . . .
487
561
891
1,064
858
767
1,858
1,742
1,269
1,372
1,399
Duplicates of either"!
class, when not in- 1
eluded in the other |
items J
248
480
Total
3,007
4,194
5,744
7,045
6,084
10,040
15,505
10,920
8,769
8,681
8,829
APPENDIX YIII.
BATES HALL CLASSIFICATIONS.
(ReprescDting books located only.)
VII.
vni.
XI.
XII.
xin.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
-XXIII.
XXIV.
Cyclopaedias, etc
Bibliography and Literary History .
General History, Biograpby, Travel,
and Po-
nd Polite
Hislory, Geography, Biography, Travel, and Po-
lite Literi
Greek, Latin, and Pbilology
Spanish and Portuguese History and Literature
I'eriodicals and Transactions
Theology, Ecclesiastical History, etc. . . .
Metaphysics and Social Science
Jurisprudence
Political Economy .
iledical Science
Natural History and Science
Mathematics and Physical Sciences ....
Useful Arts
Fine Arw
Bound Volumes of Miscellaneous Paraphlei
Bound Volumes of Manuscripts
Shakespeare
Totals
25J
508 6,47; 6,622 6,995 6,383 8,626 9,424 7
1,336
5,569
6,509
25,473
20,784
11,832
7.239
6,867
4,932
3,704
2,272
10,622
Special Libraries.
1,298
1,125
1,018
3,662
3,060 12,322 2,159 6,432 14,301 3,003
Explanation.— Class III includes General History, Universal Biographies, Histories of Eras, Voy-
j!*, and Travels, when embracing several countries, and collected works of historians.
Class IV Includes North and South American History, Documents and Statistics, Biographies of
nericans. Geography of, and Voyages and Travels in .•\merica. with the collected works of American
iters, and what of American Literature is sometimes termed Polygruphy.
r.1...... v^ (jla^s VI, Class VII, (Mass Vlll. — These have the same scope for the respective countries
Class VIU includes also Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, as
Class XIX Includes Merhanics. Military and Naval Arts, Aariculturi-, Domestic Arts, etc.
Class XXII embraces all such p.imphlet volumes as may have been received from time t.
■ ■ • • • ■ classed otherwise than by thernselvei
that Class IV has for A
also the Scandlnavi:
Class XI includes Russia, Gree
Class XIV Ineludea Political Si .
Science, Bducation, Rhetoric, Logic, Phrenology, etc.
!y, with Asia, .-Vfrica, .\ustralia, Polynesia, etc.
cial Science, and Ethics applied and unapplied, Intellectual
are generally too heterogeneous in their make-up to hr classed otherwise than by themselves.
Class XXIV includes only the Shakespeare collection of the Barton Library, and not that of the O-
eral Library.
The subdivisions of classes are kept in ranges by them
learning percentage of use, it is practicable at
upoti such points ao Biography, T
•luded in the figures for these libi
, so that for purposes of enumeration or
eao.e »•, u„. .,.„,.- ,i, s' . --act figures upon the subdivisions; as also
1, and Voyages, etc., by summing the results of the ranges devoted
the several alcoves.
Note. — The increase of the several special libra:
dates given in the special libraries colnnin show the year when acquired by the library.
♦ Includes all Books in Room Q, — 12,108 of thom belonging to the Barton Library, aa originally shelved there.
t One volume transferred to B. H.; three from American History were also transferred, and are deducted.
i Patent Records of the Colony of Victoria.
APPEI^DIXIX.
EXTENT OF LOWER HALL COLLECTION, AND ADDITIONS TO AND TOTALS OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS.
isro
18T1
1873
1873
1874
187S
1870
1877
1878
187»
1880
To be deducted.
CLASSES.
1
1
s
1
s
3
1
1
3
c
3
i
^
>>
a
•J
•ax
36
10
114
14
25
54
117
1,640
168
77
165
31
1
3:i
|3J
II
Jl
1
11
2
29
4
12
10
40
1,481
35
37
94
17
3.
1,-oa
283
1,898
664
1,089
1,401
2,676
9,818
2,336
2,041
3,306
1,246
224
1,209
1,753
269
1,908
639
1,086
1,363
2,467
10,469
2,298
1,990
3,478
1,247
226
1,209
1
171
1,805
275
1,948
629
1,070
1,369
2,529
11,281
2,281
1,980
3,771
1,250
226
1,213
1
214
1,802
285
2,043
656
1.077
1,354
2,644
11,864
2,246
1,985
3,827
1,262
22J
1,232
1
225
1,792
294
2,098
668
1,070
1,362
2,640
11,858
2,234
1,986
3,728
1.261
228
1,244
1
232
1,822
301
2,110
Ml
1,072
1,380
2,672
12,426
2,278
2,040
3,698
1,263
229
1,241
1
260
1.853
322
2,191
716
1,112
1,392
2,667
13,899
2,347
2.061
3,928
1,201
203
992
1
267
1,844
328
2,202
716
1,129
1,477
2,868
13,601
2,489
2,186
3,805
1,313
155
1,002
2
402
1,834
326
2,220
732
1,113
1,439
2,930
13,742
2,448
2,132
4,035
1,334
154
1,015
2
406
1,868
334
2,276
750
1,119
1,463
2,964
13.690
2,478
2,153
4,072
1,361
155
1,016
25
9
76
13
12
^6
75
418
105
64
59
18
1
28
4
19
6
14
4
307
50
9
44
1
6
1
19
1
8
4
'38
916
13
14
62
12
1,892
8
2,363
3
1,132
1,507
3,039
13,633
2
6
1
Koglish Proae Fiction, including Juvenile Fiction, and other juvenile books.
48
216
22
2
1,375
....
6
126
410
5
1
3
9
3
....
29,909
30,674
31,827
32,606
32,696
33,305
35,152
36,478
35,862
36,116
934
458
1,0111
2,483
14
48
249
1,783
36,605
IlL'ported last year
Total again in I87fl-a0
* This class, embracing seta like Bohu's " Libraries," etc., includes many books, of coiu'se, which, in a minute classification; would have been divided among ail the previous heads of this table,
t The books enumerated in this item are mostly imperfect sets.
Note. — The column of " Condemned books replaced," includes book*) condemned in previous years as well as in the current year. The column * ' Total added " shows the number of volumes us put upon the shelv.
bound two volumes in one, etc. Tlie smiill ^ain in this Hall U accounted for by the fact that many old books not In request and broken sets have lieun taken off" the shelves, to make room for^newer books.
Public Library.
35
APPEOT)IX X.
GIFTS, MAY 1, 1879, TO APRIL 30, 1880.
Givers (excluding anon^-mous) ..... 546
Volumes ......... 5,524
Pamphlets ,. . 8,356
Givers.
etc
relating to
Abbott, Samuel A. B.
Academia Rheno-Trajectina, Utrecht
Adams, Charles F., jr.
Adams, James O., Manchester, N.H.
Advocate's Lilirary, Edinburgh .
Albree, John, jr., Amherst
American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
American Association for the Advancement of S
Salem ........
American Bible Union .....
American Institute of Mining Engineers, Easton, Pa
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia
American Metric Bureau .....
American Pharmaceutical Association, Philadelphia
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
Amiens, France, Bibliotheque Communale
Amory, Thomas C. . . .
Anonymous ....
Appleton, D. & Co., New York City
Appleton, Nathan
Appleton, William S., 35 portraits
Franklin .....
Atkinson, Prof. E. . . .
Attwood, Gilbert
Atwood, Charles
Baetz, Henry, Milwaukee, Wis. .
Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York City
Baldwin, William H. .
Balfour, David M. . . .
Banks, Hon. Nathaniel P. .
Barnes, Hon. Milton, Columbus, Ohi
Barrett, Miss M. L. . '
Barstow, John S. . . .
Bates, Joseph L. . . .
Beardsley, J. L., Cleveland, Ohio
Beers, William A., Fairfield, Conn.
Bell, Alexander G., Cambridge .
Benet, Brig.-Gen. S. V., Washington
Benson, M. D., Cambridge
Berry, A. Hun ....
Bibliothek des Deutschen Reichstags
Bibliotheque Natiqnale, Paris .
Bishop, Levi, Detroit, Mich.
Bliss, R., Cambridge .
Bogart, William H. , Aurora, N. Y.
I)
Ber
C.
tin
Pphs.
43
47
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
187
1
1
1
1
1
9
22
1
1
6
1
1
2
1
17
3
1
121
1
1
1,761
353
17
1
5
3
2
2
1
12
38
36
City Document No. 94.
Givers.
Bolles, H. Eugene
Bolles, William P., 31. D
Bolton, England, Free Library and Museum
Bond, Geo. W
Boston, City of, 1 engraving
Commissioners of Parks .
School Committee . . .
Water Board .....
133
Boston Daily Globe, Publishers .
Boston Gas Light Company
Boston Marine- Society ....
Bowditch, Henry P., M.D.
Bowditch, J. I. >,^
Bowen, Mrs. Sarah E
Bowker, R. R., New York City . .
Bowman, Ho7i. Selwyn Z., Washington, B.C.
Bradford, Charles F
Bradlee, Rev. Qaleb D., a lot of broadsides,
papers .......
Brill, E. J., Leyden . . . . .
Brinton, Daniel G., M.D., Philadelphia .
British Museum, London ....
Brock, R. A., Richmond, Va., 8 newspapers
Brophy, Thomas C. . . . . .
Brown, Francis H., M.D., Chelsea
Brown, Henry A., Saxonville
Brown, John P. .
Brown University, Providence, R.I. .
Browne, T. Quincy . . . . .
Brownell, T. Frank, New York City.
Bunker Hill Monument Association .
Burchard, Horatio C, Washington, B.C. .
Burnham, J. H., Bloominqton, III. .
Burnham, Leavitt, Omaha, Neb.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, D.D. .
Butler, Wentworth S., New York City
Cabot, Miss Helen J., 4 broadsides .
Caldwell, Augustine, Ipswich
Caldwell, Joseph H. .....
Calvert, George H., Newport, R.I. .
Cambridge, England, Observatory .
Capon, Miss M. F., 52 newspapers.
Carret, Jos6 F. .
Cartee, Cornelius S., M.D,
Carter, John G. .
Cassell, Fetter, Galpin & Co., New York City
Cervantes, Alejandro M.agarinos, Montevideo, Uruguay
Cervi, Romeo ....
Challen, Howard, Philadelphia
Chamberlain, IIo7i. Mellen
Chambers, George E., Philadelphia
Chandler, Alfred D. .
Chandler, Horace P. .
Chandler, J., Titusville, Pa.
Chandler, Thomas H., M.D.
Chaney, Rev. George L., Cambridge
Chapin, Alfred C, New York City
Chase, George B. . . .
Clieales, Rev. Alan, Brockham, Siirf-ey, England
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, 111. .
27
2
26
109
1
17
6
2
4
1
1
7
30
1
1
7
89
3
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
50
1
10
1
8
196
1
45
207
3
1
6
57
1
6
81
2
30
1
1
2
6
1
217
1
6
Public Libraey.
37
Givers.
Child, Hon. Linus M.
Christern, F. W., New York City
Claflin, Hoti. William
Clapp, Ebenezer, 48 newspapers.
Clapp, Herbert C, jV.Z>. .
Clapp, William W. .
Clark, Rev. George Faber, Meyulon
Clarke, Isaac E., Washington, D.C.
Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D.
Clarke, Robert & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio
Clough, Joseph W. . . .
Clyde, Rev. John C, Frazer, Pa.
Cobden Club, London, 9 broadsides
Coghill, James H., New York City
Colby University, Waterville, Me.
Cole, H. Hammond .
Connelly, William T.
Cook, Samuel F., Lansing, 3Iich.
Cook & Townsend, 3Iarlboro'
Cornulier-Luciniere, E. de, Orleans, France
Cowles, 3Iiss Jennie E.
Crane, T. Frederick, Ithaca, N. Y.
Crocker & Brewster .
Crooke, William B. .
Crosby, Mrs. E. L., Bangor, Me.
Crosby, John L., Bangor, Me. .
Culley, Eli, Fitchburg
Cummings, Thomas H.
Cunningham, Peter F., Philadelphia
Cure and Bath Administration, Kreuznach, Oer
Curtis, Col. H. P., Washington, D.C.
Cushing, Luther S., Heirs of
Cushings & Bailey, Baltimore, M.D.
Cutter, Abram E.
Cutter, Ge7i. George F., Washington, D.C.
Dall, W. H., Washington, D.C.
Davenport, George E.
Dawson, C. C, Lowell
Dawson Brothers, Montreal
Day, Albert, M.D. .
Day, J. Alphonso, Lunenburg .
Dean, John W. ....
De Costa, Rev. Benjamin F., New York City
Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, Del
Dennet, Charles F., Brighton, Eng.
Dennis, M. T
Depping, Guillaume, Paris
Dexter, George ....
Dickinson, M. Y., jr.
Dimmock, Prof. George, Cambridge
Ditson & Co
Dixwell, Mrs. John J.
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York City
Dorchester and Milton Circulating Library
Draper, George & Sons, Andover
Dreher, Prof. Julius D., Salem, Va.
Drowne, Henry T., New York City
Dudley, Dean . ...
Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y.
Dupee, James A., Winchester .
many
Pphs.
3
15
2
4
1
1
1
241
5
1
12
1
2
2
22
1
1
4
1
46
2
3
1
162
38
City Document No. 94.
Givers.
Vols.
Pphs.
Duren, Elnathan F., Bangor, 3fe
1
Durrie, Daniel S., Madison, Wis.
20
7
Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London
1
Dwight, Prof. Timothy, JVew Haven, Conn.
1
Earle, Pliny, M.D., Nortliam'pion
2
Eastman, Edmund T., M.D
1
Eaton, John, Wasliington, D.C.
5
Edes, Henry H., a lot of broadsides and cards .
2
199
Emery, George E., Lynn
1
Evans, Warren ^., 3LD
1
Everett, Rev. William, Quincy ....
1
Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia .
1
Fales, Lewis, Milford
1
Fearing, A. C, jr. ......
1
Fernald, Prof. Orlando M., Williamatown
2
6
Fisher, Charles H., M.D., Providence, R.L
1
Fisher, S. D., Springfield, III
1
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt.
7
Floye, W. J
2
Folsom, Rev. George M
5
Ford, Rev. David B., Hanover ....
1
Ford, William E
2
French, A. D. Weld
1
Furness, Horace H., LL.D., Philadelphia
1
Gallaudet, E. M., LL.D., Washington, D.C. .
2
Galvin, Rev. Edward J., Walla Walla, Washington Ty., 1
portrait.
Ganzhorn, William
1
Garbit, Frederick J., J/. Z>
1
Gardiner, George, London . . . ...
1
Garrett, T. Harrison, Baltimore, Md.
1
Garrison, William Lloyd, Children of . . .
1
Gassett, Edward
4
Gayangos, Pascual de ......
1
Gerould, Rev. Samuel L. Goffstown, N.H.
1
Getchell, Annie, M.D
1
Giles, Alfred E., Hyde Park
1
Gloucester, City of
1
Godkin, E. L. & Co., New York City, 25 broadsides
1 maj), 41 G newspapers ......
22
293
Goeje, Prof. M. J. de, Leyden
1
Gold, T. S., West Cornwall, Conn
2
Gorgas, Gen. Josiah, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
1
Gould, I'rof. Benjamin A., Cordoba, Argentine Republic
2
Gould, E. W
4
4
Gould, S. C. Afanchesier, N.H.
1
1
Graham, Douglas, M.L)
1
Gray, John F., M.D., mica, N.Y. ....
1
Great Britain, Commissioner of Patents
91
Green, Miss H. E
1
Green, Millrey, M.D
1
Green, Samuel A., M.D
143
40
Green, Samuel S., Worcester
1
Greenougli, Charles P., 3 broadsides ....
1
5
Greenough, William W
30
GriflRn, A. P. C
3
Grimshaw, W. A., Pittsfield, III
1
Groton, Town of
2
Guitoau, Charles J
2
Gulliver, Rev. John P., Andover
1
Public Libeary.
39
Givers.
Pphs.
Hampton,
Gunton, William, M.D., Washington, D.C.
Hackett, Frank W., Portsmouth, N.H.
Hagen, Prof. Herrmann A., Cambridge
Hall, Edward W., Ithaca, N.Y. .
Hallet, Miss H
Hamm, Mrs. C. H
Ham[)ton Normal and Agricultural Institute,
Va
Hanaford, Rev. Phebe A., Jersey City
Happy Hours Companj^, New York City
Harney, G. J., Cambridge .
Harper Brothers, New York City
Harris, Joseph, Rochester, N. Y.
Hart, Charles H., Philadelphia .
Harvard Art Club, Cambridge .
Harvard College Library, Cambridge .
Hassam, John T. ....
Hatch, Hon. J. D., Burlington, Vt. .
Haven, S. F., Worcester
Haynes, Prof. Henry W.
Hazen, Rev. Henry A., Billerica
Heikel, Felix, Helsingfors, Finland .
Heinzen, Karl .....
Hennell, Sara S., London .
Herschel, Clemens ....
Hickey, M., Detroit, Mich.
Hill, Rev. James L., Lynn
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Hitchcock, Edward M.D., Amherst .
Holder, Thomas W., 1 broadside.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 31. D., 23 broadsides
Holmgren, Frithiop, M.D., Upsala, Sweden
Holt, Henry & Co., New York City .
Holway, F. B
Homes, Henry A., Albany, N.Y.
Houghton, J. C, Lynn ....
Hovey, E. F., Philadelphia
Howard Association, Memphis, Tenn.
Hubbard, Rev. James M., 20 broadsides
Hudson, Rev. John Clare, Horncastle, England
Hughes, H. T., Carmarthen, Wales .
Huidekoper, Frederic, Meadville, Pa.
Humphrey, William F. ' .
Hunnewell, James F. .
Illinois Board of Public Charities, Springfield
Ingraham, Robert C, New Bedford .
Institution of Civil Engineers, London
James, Mrs. Thomas P., Cambridge .
Janvier, C. A. Philadelphia
Jarvis, Edward, J/. Z>
Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D
Jenks, Mrs. John H., 2 broadsides, £7 newspapers
Joslyn, Mrs. S. A
Joy, Prof. Charles A., Stockbridge
Kaserliche Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Topeka
Ketchum, Rev. Silas, Poquonock, Conn.
King, Moses, Cambridge ....
King, Thomas D
Knapp, Arthur M., 51 newspapers
1
2
2
249
1
1
1
1
1
15
1
29
1
161
126
1
40
City Document No. 94.
Givers.
Knapp, Frederick N., Plymouth
Kneeland, Samuel, M.D. .
Knevels, D. C. Verplanck .
Knortz, Karl, Johnstown, Pa.
Knust, Herrmann, London .
Koenigliche Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschften
3Iunich
Koenigliche Sammlungen fiir Kunst und Wissenschaft
Dresden .....
Koenigliches Zoologisches Museum, Dresden
Ko-Kun-hua, Prof., Cambi-idge .
Lambert, William H., Philadelphia .
Lamson, 3Iiss C. M., Dedham .
Langworthy, Rev. Isaac T., D.D.
Laurie, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Providence, R.I.
Lawrence, Abbott .....
Lawrence Public Library ....
Laws, James H. & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio .
Lawton, O. & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Lea, Henry C, Philadelphia
Lee, John W. M., Bcdtimore, Md., specimens of bank-note
paper ....
Lee & Shepard .
Leicester Public Library .
Lenox Library, New York City
Library of the University of Vermont, Burlingt
Lincoln, Francis H. .
Lincoln, Marshall .....
Lincoln, Varnum, Andover
Lindsley, J. Berrien, M.D., Nashville, Tenn
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Lippincott, J. P. & Co., Philadelphia
Locke, J. S.
London, City of .
London Library ....
Lowell, Miss Anna C.
Lowell, Augustus
Lowell, City of ....
Luiz, King of Portugal
Lyman, Theodore
MacCarthy, Denis Florence, London
McCleary, S. F. ...
McClellan, lion. George B., Trenton, N.J.
McNeill, George E., West Somerville
Macullar, Parker & Co.
Maim on, Bernhard
Mann, B. Pickman, Cambridge .
Manning, Mrs. J. E. .
Mansill, Thomas
Marsh, lion. George P.
Massachusetts, State of
Board of Health
• Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Library
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Horticultural Society .
Massachusetts Medical Society .
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention
Animals ......
Maxwell, Sidney D., Cincinnati, Ohio
of
Cruelty to
226
11
11
6
3
67
2
27
4
1
18
1
1
1
1
63
31
1
1
2
1
1
Public Library.
41
Givers.
May, Miss Abby W. . ' .
Medical Society of the County of New York
Meek, Henry M., Salem ....
Memorial Hall Library, Andover
Mercantile Library Company, Philadelphia
Metcalf, T. & Co., 7 newspapers
Milner-Barry, John, 31. D., Tunhridge Wells, England
Minns, Thomas, 380 newspapers.
Montague, William L., Amherst
Montpellier, France, Conseil Municipal
Morel-Fatio, Alfred, Paris
Morrison, N. J., D.D., Springfield, Mo.
Morse, Hon. Leopold, Washington, D C.
Muckle, M. Eichards, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mudge, Augustus, Danvers
MuUer, Frederik, Amsterdam .
Myer, Brig. -Gen. Albert J., Washington, B.C.
Nelson, Thomas & Sons, Ifew York City .
Newburyport, City of ....
New England Historic Genealogical Society
New England Society of Orange, N.J.
New York, City of. Department of Public Parks
Health Department
D.D.
New York City Mission and Tract Society
New York Produce Exchange, New York City
New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.
Nichols, Prof. William R. ...
Nicholson, Prof. James B., Philadelphia
Nickerson, Sereno D. ....
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
Nuiiez, Abelardo
O., Mrs. E. M., Oxford, England
Ohio State Library, Columbus .
Orwig, J. R., Harrisburg, Pa. .
O'Shea, P., New York City
Osier, William, 31. D., Montreal
Otori, K. S., Tokei, Japan
Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benjamin H
Paine, Nathaniel, Worcester
Parce, J. Y., Deland, Fla.
Park, Rev. Edwards A., Andover
Parrish, Robert A., jr., Philadelphia
Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Peck, John Lord, Philadelphia
Peirce, Hon. Henry B
Peirce, Prof. James M., Cambridge .
Penitent Females' Refuge ....
Peoria, III., Board of Trade
■ Perkins, Charles C. .
Perry, Prof. Thomas S
Perry, Rt. Rev. William S., D.D., Davenport,
VhiWiYis, Henry, jr., Philadelphia
Phoenix, S. Whitney, New York City
Pickering, 3Irs. Charles ....
Pike, Benjamin F. . . . . .
Pike, James S., Neiv York City
Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Lansing
Peymouth, England, Free Library
Pool, Wellington, Wenham
Porquet, Ch., Paris .
Iowa
26
1
10
Ppha.
3
4
1
102
46
2
10
1
1
1
1
1
42
City Document No. 94.
Givers.
R.
C.
Pratt, Charles E
Pratt Brothers, Marlboro' .
Probasco, Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio .
Providence, R.I., City of .
Providence Athenteura, Providence, R.I.
Pryor, T. H., M.D
Punchard, Rev. George
Putnam's Sons, New York City .
Quincy, Miss E. S., Quincy
Raw, Charles, Washington, D.C.
Ray, Richard, 1 broadside .
Read, George B. ....
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport
Reed, J. Harris
Riaiio, Juan F., Madrid
Rice, Roswell, Cambridge, N.Y., 6 broadsides
Rice, William Springfield .
Richards, Samuel W. .
Robinson, William F
Rodman, Thomas R., New Bedford .
Rolfe, William J., Cambridge .
Root, William H., Burlington, Vt. .
Ropes, J. C
Ross, Augustus .....
Rotch, William, Fall River
Royal Astronomical Society, London .
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England
Royal Society, London
Russell, lion. William A., Washington, D
Sabine, John 1)., Washington, D.C. .
St. Louis Public School Library, St. Louis, Mo
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company,
City
Salem Lyceum . .
Salisbury, Stephen, yr., Worcester
Salter, W. M
Sands, J • •
Sargeant, Mrs
Sargent, Charles S
Sawtoll, Edward B., Fitchbnrg .
Schwab, Emil .....
Scull, G. D., Oxford, England .
Searle, Frederick A., 215 broadsides.
Sears, Daniel W. ....
Sears, J. Montgomery, 3 broadsides .
Selwyn, lion. Alfred R. C, Montreal
Sharpe, William, M.D., London
Shaw, Benjamin S., M.D. .
Shaw, Samuel S
Sheffield, England, Central Library .
Slack, Charles W
Smith, Elbridge
Smith, James .....
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C-
Society of Arts, 7yOW(?on ...
Southbridgo Public Library
Spybey, F. G., Nottingham, England
Staples, Rev. Carlton A., Providence, R.L
State Charities Aid Association, New York City
Stearns, Prof. Robert E. C, Berkeley, Cal.
New
Yor
1
2
1
156
2
1
9
30
14
1
20
1
74
3
1
1,473
2
15
917
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
Public Library.
43
Givers.
Vols. Pphs.
Stevens, B. F., Londoii, 2 broadsides
Stilson, Arthur E., Ottumwa, Iowa .
Stockwell, Thomas B., Providence, R.I.
Stone, F. D., Philadelphia, 7 broadsides
Swift, Lindsay .....
Tatham, John, M.D., Salford, England
Taylor, William B
Tebb, William, London . . .
Teele, Eev. A. K , Hilton .
Tenney, David B., Haverhill
Tenney, 3frs. H. A., Lansing, Mich.
Thompson, Rev. H. A., D.D., Westerville
Thomson, Peter G., Cincinnati, Ohio
Thurston, Robert K., Hoboken, N.J. .
Ticknor, Miss A. E
Titus, Rev. Anson, jr., Weymouth
Todd, D. P., Washington, D.C.
Toledo, Ohio, Public Library
Townc, E. H., Worcester .
Tucker, William W
Turner, Alfred T
Tuttle, Charles W
Tuttle, Rev. Joseph F., D.D., Crawfordsv
Tuttle, Lucius .....
United States, Adjutant General's Office
Attorney General .
Bureau of Education
Bureau of Engineers
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau of Statistics
Census Office ....
Centennial Commission, Philadelph
Coast Survey Office
Department of the Interior
Department of State
Department of War
Director of the Mint
Life-Saving Service
Naval Observatory .
Navy, Department of
Ordnance Department
Patent Office ....
Paymaster General's Office
Post Office Department .
Signal Office ....
Surgeon General's Office
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
University of California, Berkeley, Cat.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
Vaux, Richard, Philadelphia
Vermont State Library, Montpelier, Vt.
Victoria, Chief Secretary's Office, Mclbour
Public Library, Melbourne .
Wadsworth, M. E
Wallace, Capt. William
Waller, James B., Chicago, 111. .
Waller, .Jcjhn, London, 1 engraved portrait
Walworth Manufacturing Company .
Warren, William F., LL.D.
Warren County Library, Monmouth, III
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Givers.
Waterburry, Rev. Julius H.
Weeks, Joseph D., Pittsburg, Pa. .
West Roxbury Public Library .
Wheeler, Harold, Cambridge
Wheelwright, 3Irs. Josiah .
Whitaker, Alfred E., San Francisco, Cal.
White, Charles J
Whitmore, William H. . , .
Whitney, James L. . . , .
Wigglesworth, The Misses .
Wilder, Miss Anna Dora, 17 newspapers.
Wilder, Hon. Marshall P. .
Willey, Rev. S. H., D.D., Santa Cruz, Cal.
Williams, A., & Co
Williams, James, Columbus, Ohio
Williams, W. A., Chelsea .
Wilson, James, Grant, New York City
Wilson, Silas N
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C. .
Witkowski, C
Woburn Public Library
Woodberry, George E., Cambridge .
Woodward, W. Elliot ....
Woolley, M., M.D.,Streator, 111.
Wormley, Mrs. K. P., Newport, R.I.
Wprthington, Roland, & Co.
Yendell, George .....
Young, Prof. Edward J., Cambridge, 1 newspaper
Young, W. Maynard L. . . .
Young Men's Institute, Neio Haven, Conn.
Young Men's Library, Buffalo, N. Y. .
ZUUig, Mrs. A. A. P., 1 newspaper.
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APPEiq^DIX XI
CIRCULATION.
(Books issued.)
a 1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
Total Cekcolatiok.
J,
Issues.
if
3
21 0,903
917
1,708
c 3i;,44 J
li 965
b 1,856
380,3«
1,»»
2,425
467,865
1,519
3,073
625,442
2,031
5,124
758,417
2,581
6,074
947,621
3,097
8,035
1,140,672
3,727
8,348
1,183,991
3,882
10,478
1,160,565
3,833
8,747
1,1.56,721
3,768
8,781
Feb. 19
Jan. 28
Mar. 16
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1
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1
3
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21,601
47,897
207
441
31,080
34,225
65.206
212
457
23,169
27,092
60,251
163
286
23,261
31,003
59,264
192
388
34,441
37,872
72,313
235
644
41,721
39,016
80,737
263
603
54,956
69,373
114,329
373
877
66,832
74,786
141,618
463
930
80,326
66,670
146,996
483
1,001
74,027
89,163
163,790
632
926
69.042
101,100
170,142
554
1,045
LowBK Hall.
m*:
161,631
227,579
248,029
230,111
245,244
264,826
333,450
392,995
378,439
350,521
306,148
1,140
1,326
1,265
1,179
1,031
1,386
1,413
1.472
1,443
1,535
1,759
2,598
2,439
2,902
2,085
1,999
1,735
3,631
6,217
7,946
7,863
8,009
10,392
12,737
12,738
12,672
10,369
163,366
231,110
254,246
238,057
253,097
272,834
348,842
405,732
391,176
.363,193
316,517
East Boston Branch.
26,151
74,804
67,754
80,771.
86,134
89,949
101,022
104,717
96,887
106,197
1,038
26,130
76,846
68,212
81.091
85,648
90,987
1,605 1102,627
1,879 1 106,696
2,794 198,681
3,00,4 ] 108,201
Sooth Boston Branch.
101,688
107.651
111,677
113,334
131,969
137,010
115,609
138,3119
860
1,046
1,075 3,210
1,414 3,741
1,200 I 3,335 ■
1,190 I 5,261
102,322
108,566
112,625
115,630
136,179
140,7M
i 118,844
143,.i7U
BozBOBT Branch.
Chaklestown Branch.
Brighton Branch.
Dorchester Branch.
Sooth End Branch.
Jamaica Plain Branch.
Yfar.
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1874
64,092
87,079
93,304
140,059
122,617
123,492
119,450
612
686
925
1,190
1,100
1,013
1,017
263
285
320
477
404
403
388
3,250
2,460
2,993
6,770
7,513
6,397
5,480
67,342
89,539
101,297
146,829
130,030
129,889
124,930
32,023
78,169
84,631
105,211
99,537
86,925
73,302
734
704
830
902
970
685
616
327
260
279
348
332
289
246
1,368
1,206
1,184
1,606
2,003
1,816
1,446
33,391
79,375
86,815
106,816
101,540
*88,740
74,748
9,642
21,394
23,631
27,832
27,649
26,737
26,406
225
234
314
290
328
312
302
88
70
81
97
89
93
91
448
1,274
1,960
1,698
1,869
1,674
9,642
21,842
24,805
29,792
29,247
28,928
27,980
1
1876
15,675
63,357
67,692
63,025
66,786
56,690
439
662
620
624
675
541
197
206
220
197
184
176
132
899
4,287
1,949
1,423
1,026
/a6,017
66,016
71,979
64,974
69,673
56,716
187i;
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1877
1
1878
1879
1880
41,303
73,154
77,016
667
622
080
188
247
258
1,099
2,713
2,275
42,402
76,867
79,391
28,174
50,467
52,406
384
413
437
138
171
176
2,106
2,503
2,220
30,280
52,960
.'.4,620
a Nine months.
0 Central Library odIj".
c If the issues of East Boston "be excluded, tlii
if Hall issues be excluded, there will be a record <»:
d Open seventy-eight days.
' day,
white slips,
i footing would be 290,315; ai
293,71U volumes used at home.
e Includes books borrowed and returned the i
shown in Appendix XHI.
/The E. B. Branch was open only 307 days, owing to repairs on furnace.
g Includes the largest of each department on any day, without rei^ard to i
being the same day, as in previous entries under this head.
/( The use of the Dorchester Branch is for a little over three months.
i The East Boston Branch was closed from October 7th to 19th for repain
Souili Boston from August 12th to November 2d for repairs and enlargement.
ytThe Charlestown Branch was dosed from April 20th to the 30th, to r
arrange the books.
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APPENDIX XIY.
BATES HALL READING.
Percentage
OF
Use.
Classification.
H
17.5
16
9
H
13
18
9
H
20
H
17
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H
17
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17
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13
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13
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English History, To-
pography, Biogra-
phy, Travel, and Po-
lite Literature . .
13.2
American (North and
South) History, etc.
6
8.5
10
8
12
12
12
12
13
10
12
n
11
12
10
14
13
11.8
French History, etc. .
5
7.5
6
6
7
4
5
5
5
4
6
6
5
5
5
4
4
6.1
Germanic History, etc.
2.5
2
2.5
2
4
3
3
3
2
2
3
3
4
3
3
5
5
3.4
Italian History, etc. .
4
2.5
2
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
1.5
Other History, Topog-
raphy, 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
4.2
General andSEpochal
History
4.5
4.25
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
3.3
Greek, Latin, and Phi-
lology
3
3.5
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
3
4
4
3
4
4
4
3.6
Bibliography ....
2.5
3
3
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1.2
Transactions ....
3
1.5
2.3
5
7
5
4
5
1
1
1
1
2
1
5
2
2
.5
Periodicals ....*.
7
6
6
11
7
8
9
10
8
10
8
8
7
7
6
5
5
3.9
Fine Arts
9
12
16.5
8
5
8
8
8
9
11
10
11
11
10
9
12
13
8.9
Natural History and
Science
4
4
4.6
3
3
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
3
3
3
1
1
3.8
Theology, Ecclesiasti-
cal History, Ethics,
Education, etc. . .
11
11
8.5
4
4
8
9
8
11
14
10
11
11
10
10
8
8
11.0
Medicine
7
5
4.6
8
6
6
8
8
9
9
8
7
6
6
6
6
6
7.3
Law, Government,
and Political Econ-
omy
1.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
3
3
2
2
27
Useful Arts, Mathe-
matics, Physics, etc.
5.5
5.5
7.6
7
8
7
6
5
6
8
5
6
7
9
10
10
10
9.7
Miscellaneous Pam-
phlets bound . . .
2
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.75
2
1
2
1
3
3
3
2
2
3
3
5
3
3
4.0
Note. — In computing this 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 divisioud, as is indicated in the table.
(See Explanations to Appendix VIII.)
The figures for 1878-9 are only approximately correct.
APPENDIX XV.
LOWKR HALL AND BRANCH RKADING
0LABSE8.
The figures give the relative percentages.
Fiction and juveniles
History and biography
Travels and voyages
Science, arts, fine and useful, theology, law, medi-
cine, profesaioDd
Periodicals
Foreign languages
Miscellaneous
1871
1872
1873
1874
187B
1876
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84
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80
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6
7
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6
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4
2
4
3
4
3
3
2
3
3
4
6
3
4.6
6
3
4.6
6
2
4
4
7
2
4
4
4
7
2
4
4
3
4
7
2
4
3
4
6
6
5
6
6
6
8
6
4
6
7
6
6
2
6
5
4
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2
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7
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4
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1878
1879
1880
0
The figures give the relative percentages.
K
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71
83
79
86
83
80
72
83
80
86
81
81
80
72
81
76
84
82
78
62
76.4
70 ■
80
76
83
79
73
62
74.7
II.
History and biography
6
3
6
4
4
4
6
4
6
4
5
8
5
6
6
6
4
4
7
6
6.3
6
4
6
4
6
8
6
5.3
T I A
.,
3
.
3
3
IV.
Science, arts, fine and useful, theology,
law, medicine, professions
7
2
4
3
3
4
6
2
3
3
3
2
3
6
2
3
4
4
3
4
4
3
4
4
4
6
4
4.4
Periodicals
6
5
4
2
3
4
6
4
4
2
3
2
3.5
6
6
'-
3
3
3
2
4
7
6
0
3
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4
5
1
4
6
6
3
4
4
4
4
6
3
6
4
4.5
4
J
6
3
4
6
24
7.3
4
6
5
3
4
4
21
6.6
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APPEIN^DIX XYI.
FELLOWES ATHEN^UM EEADING.
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Note. — No classification of the use is practicable, as the books were originally shelved
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future now that a rearrangement of the books has been made.
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APPENDIX XIX.
FINANCIAL S T A T E JI E N T .
♦ The nppvopiWilion for periodicals ie included in that for books.
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J J ears now nominally correspond, but .t will happen that bills accruing subsequently to the middle of March (when the last requisition of the year payable April 1st, is approved) will be audited in the subsequent year's
d ni one year's growth, and paid for in the subsequent year's account. The cost of maintaining Branches after the first year makes part of the general items of the several appropriations.
int of the Fellowes Athenieum is spent under the direction of the Book Comniilt«e of the Trustees of the Feliowes Fund.
Oenxkal Lidbart Account.
1875-70
1876-77
1877-78
1878-79
I870-80.
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Expended.
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City appro-
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Expended.
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City appro-
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City appro-
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Fellowes
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Treasury from
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Binding
$4,500 00
15,000 00
6,000 00
4,000 00
4,500 00
3,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
69,600 00
2,600 00
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3,181 91
2,499 76
2,971 87
2,444 55
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2.323 09
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( 4,117 29
4,807 82
3,649 33
2,116 86
2,050 16
5,307 81
6.267 59
66,038 97
2,710 51
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1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
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1869
1870
1871
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1874
1875
1876
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1878
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450 00
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314 60
386 64
203 92
504 18
607 72
659 86
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Jamaica Plain.
990 63
1.160 00
1,472 44
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3,288 73
1,373 68
1,681 79
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Salaries
2,000 00
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2,505 35
3,092 12
3,266 31
2,618 32
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$128,204 00
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March 15th and May Ist may be counted
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City Document No. 94.
APPE:^rDix XXI.
LIBEARY SERVICE.
{April 30, 1880.)
Name.
Mellen Chamberlain.
James L. Whitney.
Jose F. Carrct
Edward Tiffany
Adelaide A. Nichols
Samuel McConncll .
Total
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1877.
Position, duties, etc.
« .'as
Librarian and Clerk of the Cor-
poration
Principal Assistant Librarian. .
Register and Curator of Patents
and Engravings
Inspector of Circulation for Low-
er Hall and Branch Libraries
Librarian's Secretary.
Auditor and Cashier .
Librarian's Runner. . .
5 a
James L. Whitney .
William II. Foster . . .
Jose F. Carret .
Lindsay Swift . . ..
Anna C. D. Keen..
Susan A. Joslyn ..
Elizabeth T. Reed
Roxanna M. Eastman.
Frank C. Blaisdell . . .
Card Catalogues.
Harriet E. Green .
Josephine Hewins . . .
Mary F. Osgood
Ellen F. McCarthy . . .
Total
1869.
1860.
1876.
1878.
1872.
1873.
1873.
1859.
1859.
1873.
1875.
1877.
1872.
Principal of the Department. . . .
Cataloguer for Branch Libraries
and Proof Reader
Register, Curator of Patents .and
Engravings and Assistant . .
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant in Patent Room, etc.
Assistant and Cataloguer of
Lower Hall and Branch books
Extra Assist.int, and Cataloguer
of U.S. Documents
Copyist .
Curator .
Assistant.
Assistant
Assistant
Public Library.
LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
55
Harriet N. Pike...
Edith D. Fuller
Mary A. McGrath . . .
Frederic W.Blaisdell.
Total
1867.
1879.
186S.
1880.
Position, duties, etc.
Chief Clerk
Assistant
Assistant
Runner (entered M!ay 21st) . .
Appleton p. <^. Griffin.
Arthur S. Knight ,
Samuel C. Appleton
John Speak
Total
1865.
1876.
1879.
1879.
Custodian
Assistant .
Assistant in charge of repairs,
etc., of books on the shelves. .
Arthur M. Knapp . . .
Alice M. Poree
Lydia F. Knowles
Thomas Whyte
Richard Ray
W. Maynard L. Young .
Robert J. Donovan..
William J. Ferris . .
Andrew Kehoe
Thomas H. O'Kane
George Merrill
Total
1875.
1866.
1867.
1874.
1876.
1878.
1876.
1879.
1879.
1880.
1880.
Librarian of Bates Hall
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant in charge of Branch
boxes
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner. (Entered May 12th) ..
Edward Tiffany.
Elbridge Bradshaw. . . .
"William F. Robinson. .
Mary A. Jenkins
Thomas H. Cummings
Caroline E. Poree
Sarah A. Mack
Eliza J. Mack
Annie M. Kennedy
1878.
1869.
1872.
1877.
1879.
1859.
1863.
1863.
1869.
Inspector of Circulation for Low-
er Hall and Branch Libraries
Librarian of Lower Hall
Clerk for Registration and Fines
Assistant Librarian
Curator of Lower Hall Card
Catalogue
Reading Room Clerk
Delivery Desk
Receiving Desk
Registration and Assistant .
56
City Document No. 94.
LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
Name.
Ella R. Dillon ..
Ellen E. Bresnahan ..
Ella Sturmy
Margaret A. Sheridan
Margaret Doyle
Annie G. Shea
Florence Richards . . . .
Mary A. Doyle
Mary Anderson
Edward Moore
Evening Service.
T.P. Bennett
Robert B. Ross
Catherine McGrath.
Albert Carter
John J. Butler
Daniel Donovan . . .
F. von Olker
Harry Young
Total
1876.
1869
1872.
1875.
1875.
1874.
1878.
1879.
1879.
1878.
1879.
1873.
1873.
1878.
1878.
1878.
1880.
1880.
Position, duties, etc.
"5 a
Delivery Desk and Assistant . .
Assistant in Reading Room. . . .
Care of shelves
Record of slips and Substitute.
Return slips and Assistant . . . .
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
Care of shelves
( Registration Clerk andSun-
j day Service
Reading Room . .
Receiving Desk
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
William E. Ford
Jeremiah Sullivan
John White
Extra daily Asnistants.
Total
1858.
1884.
1880.
Janitor.
Porter .
Porter
Andrew M. Blake .
Romeo Cervi
P. B. Sanford
Michael J. Healy
Edward M . Roe
Wra. F. Sampson . . .
Frederic Allen
Mary E. Austen
1870.
1874.
1879.
1875.
1876.
1880.
18S0.
1874.
Foreman
Extra Forwarder
Finisher
Forwarder
Pressman
Forwarder (Entered May 24th)
Finisher (Entered June 1st) . .
Forewoman
Public Library.
LIBKARY SERVICE. — Continued.
57
Martha M. Wheeler
Mary G. Moriarty . .
Sarah E. Bowen
Frank Thomas
Total
1869.
1875.
1876.
1874.
Position, duties, etc.
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Apprentice.
aj
u
tl
"6
S o
'^ d
a '"
fl ^
o <"
O
O
H
1
1
1
1
12
12
Sarah C. Godbold.
Mary R. Pray
Alice M. Wing
Mary E. Cathcart . . .
Harriet E. Ellis
Adelia H. Ghen
Laura B. Morse
Eva D. Merrill
Grace E. Hahn
George H. Hosea
Total
1871.
1870.
1872.
1870.
1880.
1876.
1875.
1879.
1879.
1873.
Librarian
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Extra Assistant
Extra Runner ..
Extra Runner . .
Extra Runner . .
Extra Runner . .
Janitor
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
1872.
1872.
1872.
1873.
1877.
1877.
1877.
1879.
1873.
1873.
1877.
1872.
Librarian
Receiving Clerk . .
Registration Clerk
Delivery Clerk ....
Assistant
Extra Assistant . .
Extra Assistant . .
Extra Assistant . .
Extra Runner ....
Extra Runner . . . .
Extra Runner . . . .
Janitor
Sarah Bunker .
Mary Bradley . . .
Dora Puffer
Helen M. Bell
1876.
1876.
1878.
1878.
Librarian
Assistant.
Reading Room and Registration
Clerk
58
City Document No. 94.
LIBRARY SERVICE. — Conimued.
a
g
Name.
^8
Position, duties, etc.
go.
1
ci a
||
O
1
1
1
3
o
>.
o
— ft
S 3
o «
Margaret E. Blood
Elizabeth E. Berry
Florence A. Vose
1872.
1877.
1876.
1879.
1873.
•s
a.
Francena E. Ryder
Charles R. Curtis
1
6
fe;
Total
Dr. Cornelius S. Cart£e
Annie E. Eberlo
1870.
1874.
1878.
1878.
1880.
1878.
1879.
1879.
1874.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
Mary P. Swain
S
Annie C. Davis
f^
Abbie F. Kinmartin
Anna 8. Woodberry
Sarah E. McConnoIl
Susan E. Livermore
Thomas E. Smith
s
"£
e
1
6
Total
9
MaryE. Brock
1875.
1880.
1875.
1878.
1
1
s
Mary K. Grailey
cq
Alma J. Wilson
1
•e:
.
1
3
Total
1
4
Maky G. Coffin
1874.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1874.
1
1
o
Esther R. Whiton
Mary J. Sheridan
2
1
1
^
o
Edward Davenport
Total
1
3
<^
5
<
^
Milton Austin
1877.
1877.
1R7S
1
1
1
1
4
1
'2
Esther M. Hinckley
I?
Charles H. Reuter 1S7n.
1
Total
4
Public Library.
LIBRAEY SERVICE. — Concluded.
59
Name.
Eliza R. Davis
Anna J. Barton
Nellie F. Riley
George L. Hargraves.
Harry F. Davis
Timothy Johnson ...
Total
1877.
1876.
1878.
1878.
1879.
1877.
Position, duties, etc.
Librarian
Assistant
Extra Assistant .
Extra Runner . .
Extra Runner . .
Janitor
P u
a o
— o<
SB
o «
Mary A. HiU
Samuel G. Bowthorpe
Marion L.Woodward..
Total
1875.
1878.
1880.
Custodian, Lower Mills ..
Custodian, Roslindale
Custodian, West Roxbury
SUMMARY.
Librarian, Register, Secretary, Auditor, and
Runner .....
Catalogue Department .
Purchase and Entry Department .
Shelf Department.
Bates Hall Circulation Department
Lower Hall Circulation Department, Day
Evening, and Sunday Service
Janitor's Department
Bindery
East Boston Branch
South Boston Branch
Roxbury Branch .
Charlestown Branch
Brighton Branch .
Dorchester Branch
South End Branch
Jamaica Plain Branch
Deliveries
Totals
Grand Total
4
11
i
4
11
19
3
12
5
6
6
6
3
3
4
3
3
107
32
139
I Central Library.
I 6'8 regulars,
j 9 extras.
I 77 in all.
5 1
6
3
3
1
2
32
Branches.
39 regulars.
23 extras.
62 in all.
AGENTS.
Messrs. Lee and Shepard, Boston.
Mr. Edward G. Allen (for English patents), London,
Messrs. N. Triibner and Co., London.
Mr. F. W. Christern, and M. Charles Reinwald, New Fork end Paris.
Dr. Felix Fiigel, Leipzig.
Signorina Giulia Alberi, Florence.
Senor Don Juan F. Eiaiio, Madrid.
Not on shelves
0/ these found io be
Lent
At the binderies . . . . ,
Otherwise accounted for .
Not accounted for ...
Not on shelves
0/ these found to he
Lent
At the bindericfl
Otherwise accounted for .
Not accounted for . . . .
APPENDIX XXII.
EXAMINATION OF THE LIBRARY
Bates Hall.
IS
S
IB
X
H
3,612
3,653
3,222
3,205
1,970
2,161
1,991
2,003
907
920
622
707
596
542
573
462
49
30
36
33
<e X
4,110 4,511
2,436 2,607
1,142 1,303
493 664
39 37
Lower Hall.
7,001 , 7,510
6,254 6,121
8,063 I 8,592
948 I 536 445
East Boston B jakch.
South Boston Branch.
«
«
^
X
••
^
«>
f
«
« -
H
H
2,012
2,022
1,820
1,831
1,729
1,811
1,618
■ 1,609
137
73
44
37
,
146
133
5
163
5
178
7
h3 V
-5 ^
UOXBURV URANCH.t
CUARLESTOWN BRANCH.
Brighton Branch.
t
X
t.
X
H
X
X
728
707
829
591
519
629
62
91
116
54
90
83
21
7
1
Dorchester Branch ■
X
X
!•
X
H
3>
^
X
1,382
1,341
1,363
1,269
1,261
1,238
52
67
34
39
13
41
2
S.E.Branch. ; J. P. Branch.
14,816
2,121
1,917
244
18,815
2,296
18,968
2,095
1,477
135
2,212
1,747
* Tills examination took place while the Library was closed for repairs.
t Includes Feltowea Athena
"Public Library. 61
APPE:NrDIX XXll.— Continued.
To the Librarian : —
Herewith I beg leave to submit the Annual Report of the
examination of the Central Librarj^ and Branches for the year
ending April 30, 1880. By a comparison of the figures in the
annexed tables, which give the result in detail, the nun^ber of
books found to be missing compares favorably with that of pre-
ceding years, especially in the total, where a reduction of 57 is
shown from last 3-ear. In
Bates Hall,
where the circulation has been much larger than during any pre-
vious year, the loss is less than in 1879. Ten books reported as
missing last 3'ear have been found, and one, in 1878, has also re-
appeared. In the
Lower Hall
91 books have to be reported as missing this year, against 132 last
3'ear. 14 books missing in previous 3'ears have been accounted
for. At the
Branches
nothing requires comment, unless it is the diminution of loss at
the South End. This result was anticipated, as at the examination
of 1879, being the first made of this branch, the large number of
books found missing was thought to be traceable to errors in the
shelf records. From the
Bates Hall Desk
a catalogue of the Tosti Engravings has disappeared.
Central Reading Room Desk.
The following have disappeared : Cruden's Concordance to the
H0I3' Bible ; Yonge's Latin-English Dictionar3\
South Boston Branch Reading Room.
American Almanac, 1879 ; Chambers' C3'cl. of Literature, v. 2.
I have also to report that 6 books sent to the Binder are probably
lost, as they have been charged to him for a great length of time,
in one case as long ago as 1877.
Respectfully' submitted,
APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN,
Custodian of the Shelves.
June 4, 1880.
62
City Document No. 94.
APPENDIX XXIII.
WORK IN THE LIBRARY BINDERY.
9
O
Character of Work.
H
H
H
» -
X)
H
r4
FN
9
Bates Hall books bound and
finished
2,219
2,008
2,635
2,613
3,223
4,759
4,155
4,272
3,958
Books of the Lower Hall
and Branches
1,015
744
753
1,508
7,766
8,743
11,129
10,084
7,606
Books repaired
396
430
492
444
959
873
949
1,371
1,397
Catalogues wired and cov-
ered for public use in
Lower Hall and Branches
490
437
287
143'
Maps dissected and mounted
47
23
91
Map volumes and shelf-lists
mounted
212
165
109
493
820
2,712
958
3,014
2,14S
Pamphlet cases
546
64
24
Portfolios
5
8
8j
Removable covers for cata-
logues and for paper-cov-
ered books
266
263
450
1.520
1,287
1,271
1,469
1,970
1,946
Maps mounted, bound, and
bordered
Hours of miscellaneous
54
41
8
1,842
2,297
1,437
2,486
2,183
2,586
2,778
2,615
2,205
During the last five months of the year 2,590 Lower Hall and Branch books were bound in
outside binderies.
Public Library. 63
APPENDIX XXIV.
THE CATALOGUES OF THE LIBRARY.
To the Trustees: —
During the past three years there has been great activitj' in the
Catalogue Department.
In August, 1877, at which time two new Branches were estab-
lished, and unusual gifts and bequests were made to the Library,
there were more than 35,000 books and pamphlets uncatalogued.
These, with few exceptions, have been catalogued, and, besides
them, the subsequent additions to the Librar}-, numbering from
August, 1877, to May, 1880, 52,713 volumes, and also more than
12,000 pamphlets.
"Within this period of time the Ticknor Catalogue has been
finished — upon which a larger amount of work has been expended
by the Library than upon any single volume — the Shakespearian
part of the Barton Catalogue, most ably edited, has been com-
pleted, and the preliminar}' work of the transcription of titles of
the remaining portion is nearly finished. Four Branch Catalogues,
containing the titles of nearly 50,000 volumes, have been pub-
lished, the Bulletins have been kept up, as well as the Catalogues
of Special Subjects, such as of the United States Congressional
Documents, the Indexes to Periodicals and Newspapers, and the
Supplementary Ticknor Catalogue.
Economy.
The gain in economy is worth}^ of attention. The number of
assistants has been reduced, notwithstanding the increase of labor
caused by the addition of two new Branch Libraries, and the
salaries, which in the year 1876-7 amounted to $13,127.28, will,
under the present organization, it is estimated, be for the current
year, $10,825.
During the past year I have collected from several libraries
statistics in regard to their catalogues, and a comparison with our
own has strengthened the conviction that this department of the
Library is managed with vigor and economy. A greater economy
would, I think, be perilous to the best interests of the Library,
and it is a serious question whether the working force has not
already been reduced beyond its proper limit.
The Card Catalogue.
There has been a marked progress in the revision of the Card
Catalogue during the past year. In the process of this revision
all the cards in the Public Card Catalogue in Bates Hall, for each
book, are compared with each other, with the similar cards in the
64 City Document No. 94.
catalogue prepared for the use of the officers of the Library, with
the shelf-lists, and, in many cases, with the books themselves.
The Public Card Catalogue contains the titles of books received
since 1871, with which have been incorporated the titles previously
printed in thirty-five Catalogues and Bulletins. The catalogue
for the use of the officers of the Librar}' contains only additions
since the catalogues were printed in volumes. These man}'
catalogues, prepared for different purposes, vary in their mode of
construction, their system, with the growth of the Library, having
become more and more elaborate. To reduce these catalogues,
containing nearly three-quarters of a million cards, to one standard,
and to supply their deficiencies, is to be the most important work
of this department for some time. Its progress so far would have
been greater had not the gi'owth of the Libraiy been so rapid
within a few years that our energies have been taxed to keep up
with the current additions, which between the 3'ears 1869 and
1879 have averaged 36,528 volumes and pamphlets a year.
A catalogue such as this, where each subject is entered under its
most specific head, must be ver}- imperfect unless these isolated
subjects are connected with all others with which the}' stand related.
This is to be accomplished by references from each subject to the
others. This part of our work, begun in the printed Index and
Supplement, and carried on with greater fulness since that time, is
to be still further developed. A synoptical scheme of subjects has
already been partly prepared, which will serve as the basis of a
hand-ijook to the catalogue.
The possibilities of a catalogue perfected on the system now be-
ing pursued are outlined in the Rules for a Piintcd Dictionar}^ Cat-
alogue, published by the United States Bureau of Education, and
it is our aim to reach this high standard. The difficulties in the
way are grave ones, and progress must be slow.
Given two catalogues, of enormous proportions, increasing with
great rapidity, hard to consult, as such catalogues must be, how
can they be made self-explanatory and tiie most direct guide possi-
ble to tiie books? How can they be simplified, and to what extent
reduced in bulk? These and many other problems that have
arisen in the course of this work are difficult of solution. It is
gratifying to be able to report that each day's work upon the cata-
logue has brought new readers to it, quick to understand its ar-
rangement, and that its use is fourfold what it was five years ago.
The testimony to the great and constantly increasing usefulness of
the Card Catalogue is positive and unanswerable. In offers of
help which I have made during the past few months to nearly five
hundred persons using the catalogue, I have found only one in
seven that needed assistance, and but few from defects in the cata-
logue. During the past year 9,426 readers have been assisted by
the catalogue clerks in Bates Hall, and this has done much to
increase the acquaintance of the public with the catalogue. Dur-
ing the past five years the numl)er of readers in Bates Hall has
doubled, and this is due, probably, more than to anything else, to
the improvement of the Card Catalogue.
Economy, simplicity, and compression have been constantly stud-
ied during the past year. The titles of books have been largely
Public Library. 65
abridged ; different editions of the same work have been united
upon as few cards as possible, reducing the number in such cases
from one-half to three-fourths ; and help in copying titles has been
obtained from assistants who have leisure moments from other nec-
essar}' duties. As a result, the printer's bill for the Card Catalogue
has been reduced from $3,318.65 in 1875 to $272 in 1879. By a
recent arrangement the cards for the Central Library catalogues
are ncvw printed within the building, bj' which a saving in time and
mone^" will be effected.
Lower Hall.
During the past year the cards for the Lower Hall have been
taken ft-om the Bates Hall Catalogue, with which they were at first
united, and they have been moved to the Lower Hall, for the use
of the public there. A keeper has been placed over them, and he
has begun to revise the cards. This will supply — what has long
been felt to be a necessity — a complete catalogue of the Lower
Hall under one alphabet.
Branch Libraries.
A recent inspection has shown that the Card Catalogues of the
Branches are in good condition. These Libraries have printed
catalogues, and, for additional titles, catalogues on cards, which
are prepared at the Central Library. By this arrangement there
is a great gain in econom}' and time.
The Future.
Probabl}" for the coming year the amount of current work will
be less than heretofore, and our chief attention can be given to the
revision of the Card Catalogue. Doubtless, as this becomes more
unwieldy, the pressure already begun to be felt for a new printed
catalogue will be more urgent. If this is ever to be undertaken
the work of revision of the cards, now going on, must precede it.
In such a Library as this, it must be remembered tliat the expense
for cataloguing the purchases for any year is less than is often sup-
posed, and is much less than what is required for the proper care of
the catalogue of books long in the Library, for the constantly increas-
ing revision needed of the Card Catalogue, for the republication of
the catalogues of the Lower Hall and Branch Libraries, and for the
publication of special catalogues.
A library has been contrasted with a mercantile establishment,
where goods come in, are sold, and more goods are ordered. In a
librar}^ on the other hand, the goods stay and are constantly
accumulating, and the library record must show, over and over, how
each item of goods is distinguished from every other, and its history
must be carefully followed from year to year. Tliis is especially
true of the catalogue, and is the source of a burden and expense
little understood.
66 City Document No. 94.
In conclusion : if this institution is to be what its founders in-
tended, its catalogue must maintain the reputation it has already-
gained. It must be thorough and accurate, and its compilers skilfully
trained, patient, and exact. To risk this, in the desire for haste or
excessive economy, will prove fatal to the best interests of the
Librar3\
I wish to thank j'ou for having, during the past year, as always,
sustained me and my associates in carr3'ing on the Catalogue
Department in accordance with these principles.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES L. WHITNEY.
Boston Pctblic Libkart, June 1, 1880.
A P P E N Li'± XXII.
(.: I I! C U L A T 1 ( ) N .
(Books issued. No account is liept of tlie great use of liooks williin tlie Library rails.)
g
Year.
!i
K
a 1854
142
1855
286
1856
284 j
1857
288
41858
1»7
1850
254
1660
297
1S61
274
1802
288
c 1863
215
mi
280
1865
275
I860
278
1S87
277
rfl869
284
/i8;o
236
1S71
807
1872
309
187!
309
1874
308
1875
300
Total Circulation.
I..11C..
>,'
^1
n
35,380
250
535
81,281
281
606
82,661
291
647
80,423
310
730
76,570
383
693
140,468
5S8
1,335
151,020
60S
1,052
160,877
587
1,303
180,302
626
1,517
138,027
644
1,634
184,035
664
1,424
194,627
708
1,464
193.862
732
1.599
m 208,003
754
1.813
176,727
630
1,323
218,677
770
1,498
210,003
017
1,768
J 322.445
J 965
(J 1,866
386.343
1,234
2.425
407,855
1.519
3.073
625,412
2,031
6.124
768,417
2,581
6.074
Pol)
23
J,,n.
24
Fob.
27
Mu-
6
Fob
4
Feb
23
M«r
1
Fob
7
Fob
27
Nov
10
Fob
10
Fob
23
Fob
1
Fob
26
Fob
10
Jnn.
28
Mnr
10
P
Bates Hall.
25.996
31,080
23,150
28.261
84.441
41,721
Loiter Hall.
163,366
231.110
253,097
272,834
East Boston Branch.
26,130
75,846
68,212
81.091
85,548
South Bobton Brahcb.
101,688
107,651
111,677
102,322
108,566
112,525
ROXBURT BRANCa.
Charlestovn Branch.
Brighton Brakch.
Dorchester Branch.
0,642
21,394
« Hlx monllio.
b U.-nif.v.il (if ihe Library.
c Ton monUiH.
d Elovon months (Library not closed for cxnmiiiaUon).
e New rcBtricllonB put upon coBtly books.
/ Nine months.
g CenirnI Library only.
h ir tlic UsiicB of Eiuit Boston be excluded, thte footing would he 290,315; nn(i if
Ilitll isBuee be excluded, there will he record of 293,710 volumes used at home.
i Open seventy-eight days.
m See report for 1868.
71 Includes books borrowed Jiud :
II Appei.diu XIIL
I white slips, as shown
0 The E. B. Brnnch wna open only 307 dnys. owing to repairs on furnace.
p Includes the Inrgest of each depnrtmcnt on any da}', without regard to iW beln
tile same day, a» in previous entries under this head.
The dally avtruge of the I>ower Hiill Is on tho entire issuo for tbe present year.
The use of the Dorebester Branch la for little over three months.
APPEISTDIX XVI.
LOWER HALL R E A D I N G. — (A. P. C.)
Sftoirn from slips of bookn retui-ned.
1
5
AlrovES.
Classes.
1868
1869
18TO
(Nine months.)
ISTl
1872
isra
1874
18715
1876
1877
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent,
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
Per
cent.
Loans
returned.
1
Per
cent.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
I, XI and ranges 8, 9,
10 of X, XX
II, xu 1
IX, XIX i
iii,xm
IV, XIV 1
VII, xvn i
V, XV
VI, XVT
vra, XVIII
X, XX, except ranges
8, 9. 10
Sciences, Arts, Professions . .
American History and Politics
Foreign History and Politics .
Poetry, Drama, Rhetoric, Mis-
cellaneous Essays, etc. . . .
Prose Fiction for. adults and
10,522
2,633
3,030
3,692
106,227
3,641
3,289
6,941
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
128,273
4,670
5,363
4,660
6.97
1.63
1.96
1.5
76 ..36
2.78
3.26
2.77
2.7S
7,607
2,071
2,386
2,441
120,355
4,026
6,154
6,747
3,037
4.9
1.4
1.5
1.6
78.4
2.7
3.4
3.8
2.4
12,662
2,270
2,702
6,964
167,604
6,108
6,062
11,630
4,451
5.7
1
1.2
2.7
77.2
2,2
2.8
2
15,996
2,096
2,715
8,019
173,438
4,106
4,998
14,815
2,691
6
-1
1+
4
76
2
3
6
1+
12,767
1,496
1.863
7,651
154,836
2,641
3,631
17,167
6,.341
6-1-
7
74
1
I
8
2
14,422
2,705
2,834
8,636
158,453
5,027
6,290
15,563
6,388
V
4
71
3
3
3
16.218
3,878
3.983
9,704
163.657
7,415
8,649
15,106
7,394
i-'
•1+
69+
3-1-
4+
6+
3
20,065
6,467
4,879
11,018
209,070
9,710
10,227
17.827
9,123
4
70
3
3
6
3
23,318
6,644
6,820
12,677
253,964
11,229
10,419
20,404
11,846
!■
4
71
3
6
3
Travels, Voyages, etc
Collections, Periodicals, etc. .
French, German, and Italian
141,853
104,038
163,423
216,696
223,864
207,382
221,418
236,004
297,986
356,320
Note. — The columns of " Loans returned " do not include the books taken and returned the i
APPENDIX XXIV.
FINANCIAL
T A T E M E N T .
1870-71
1871-72
1872.7a
1873-74
1874-75
1875-76
Tears.
Paid intt. City
Treaaury from
lilies and aalea
of Catalogues.
General Library Account.
City appro-
priatiouB.
Expended.
City appro-
priationa.
Expended.
City appropiia-
Expended.
Fellowea
Athenaium.
City appropria-
tions.
Expended.
Fellowes
Alhenseum.
City appro-
priations.
Expended.
Fellowea
Athenaium.
City appro-
priations.
Expended.
Fellowes
Athenaeum.
«4,4CI0 00
7,500 60
J,80O 00
1,600 00
1.300 00
1,300 00
1,700 00
1.050 00
30,000 00
700 00
$5,231 38
1 12,109 68
I 1,979 63
3,433 62
1,678 90
1,083 80
1,982 03
2,041 76
2,247 28
1,303 95
29.074 00
9J7 22
$5,200 00
9,000 00
6,700 00
2,000 00
1,650 00
1,650 00
2.200 00
2,200 00
1,400 00
35,000 00.
1,000 00
$6,569 12
1 14,538 60
t 3,130 08
3,731 85
2,487 04
1.596 20
2,012 83
2,303 98
2,299 14
1,637 44
34,507 71
1.210 85
$4,000 OOf
9,000 00
6,500 00
2.000 00
1.650 00
1,500 00
2,500 00
J 4,000 00
39,650 00
1,200 00
$2,511 10
( 12.677 89
( 1,895 84
3,963 16
2.628 59
1,543 75
1,062 SO
2,425 45
4,217 59
38,252 45
1,213 87
$2,181 10
$5,866 00
35,697 28
8,010 00
4,305 00
2.580 00
2,870 00
6,022 00
6,457 00
60,000 00
2,440 00
$5,883 63
( 44.131 66
< 2,679 67
7,613 20
3,141 01
2,720 60
1,452 55
3,460 oe
5,280 72
48,782 76
2,440 2)
$1,652 22
$6,800 00
15,000 00
6,000 00
5,000 00
4,000 00
13,500 00
4 600 00
6,000 00
62,000 00
2,600 00
$8,080 84
{ 16,962 45
( 5,395 16
3,361 67
4,159 69
3,440 88
10,256 55
4,528 65
4,687 57
60,101 03
2.298 18
$2,193 61
$4,500 00
15,000 00
5,000 00
4,000 00
4,500 00
3,000 00
6,0C0 00
5,000 00
69,600 00
2,£00 00
$5,137 14
1 26,368 13
< 3,945 44
3,181 81
2,499 76
2,971 87
2,444 55
6.560 60
6,130 37
67.651 92
2,323 09
$1,547 18
-1859
1800
1861
1862
1863
18«
1865
1860
1867
1863
1869
1870
^
Ota g p
E p
Furniture {cabinets, siiclviug. tixturca, etc.) ....
385 64
Priming (
^
Tranaponation, I'oetnge, etc
996 63
En»t BoBl
n Branch.
South Boston
and Roxhury B
ranchea.
Roxbury Branch completin
' outfit.
Dorchester Branch.
4,250 00
1,700 00
3,000 00
3,899 69
2,323 41
1,117 35
I S. B. . 3,000 00
' Rox. . 3,000 00
la.B. . 4,600 00
i llox. . 4,500 00
( 8. B. . 2,600 00
( Rox. . 2.500 00
3,037 76
2,274 10
4,669 30
595 25
2,660 43
268 88
c Ch'n , , 746 66
I Bri
r"
\ Bri
1
1, Rox. . . 3,000 00
tCh'n
* Bri
602 40
343 42
175 34
4,084 97
791 87
291 89
3,000 00
4,500 00
2,600 00
3,629 33
2,684 96
1,026 45
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1,160 00
1,472 44
1.681 79
2,360 24
2,505 35
$65,000 00
$70,443 70
$67,000 00
$74,924 84
$91,000 00
$80,498 41
$2,181 10
{$127,593 83
$133,-75 68
$1,662 22
$136,000 00
$130,453 11
$2,193 61
$118,000 00
$128,204 00
$1,547 18
* The appropriation for Periodicals U included in thnt for books,
t The appropriation for binding before this year hnd included the salaries of the ■workmon in the Bindery, hut is now changed lo the nppropvintion for salaries.
t $25,lU7.2fi of this amount brought from last year, and added lo thi- appropriaiions for boobs, to enable the Trustees to buy the Barton Library. The total appropriation iiicludoa s
of the total amount expended and appiopriated is met by [he income of Uie Trust Funds.
Note. — The expenditures foi- books cover the cost of those chargeable to our Trust Funds Account, as well as those charged to the annual appropriations from the City, and also includes such ri
correspond, but it will bappen that bills accruing subsequently to the midrile of Mari^h (when the last requisition of the year, payable April Isti is approved) will be audited in the subsequent year's ace
and paid for in the feubacquc-nt yuar's account. The cost of maintaining Hranches after the first ye:ir makes part of the general items of the several appropriations.
The money for books bought on account of the Fellowes Athenaeum ts spent under the direction of the Book Committee of the Trustees of the Fellowes Fund.
During the year $214.20 has been spent on account of the Special Ticknor Bequest appropriation.
B of $11,650, by TOle of ihe Clly Council in December,
:i of Charleetown and Brighton. The differenc*
B bought with the balances with our foreign agents at the close of the previous year.
,, begioning nominally Hay Ist. In this way books added between March 15th and
Our financial and library years v
May iBt may be counted in one j
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