THIRTY-FIRST
ANNUAL KEPORT.
1883.
[Document 103 — 1883.]
CITY OF NHS BOSTON.
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
Trustees of the Public Library.
18 8 3.
[A.]
The Trustees have the honor to present to the City Council
their Thirty-first Annual Report, it being the fifth made under
their Act of Incorporation, and containing details of the con-
dition of the Library for the year ending on the thirtieth of
April last.
The reports of the Examining Committee from the citizens
at large, and the Librarian's Report, are embraced in this
document.
The system of examination first adopted last year has been
continued with equally satisfactory results. The collections
of the Library are so extensive and various, and the work
performed at the central institution and its branches is so
widely diffused, that the time necessarily required to master
the details and workings of the whole organization is ob-
viously not afforded in the usual limited number of visits
within the convenience of an annual committee appointed in
the early spring of each year. The assignment of special
subjects is within better control.
2 City Document No. 103.
The general committee for the present year consists of
John G. Blake, M.D., Augustus Lowell, Esq., J. Audley
Maxwell, Esq., Richard Sullivan, Esq., and the Rev. Alex-
ander S. Twombly. The scholars having in charge the
examination of special subjects were Thomas W. Higginson,
Esq., for the investigation of the valuable Parker Library;
Professor Thomas S. Perry, who has continued and com-
pleted the survey begun last year of the French and German
collections of the institution ; and Prof. Win, F. Apthorp,
who reports upon the condition of the musical department.
To these was joined, as required by the ordinance, a member
of the Board, the position falling in turn this year to its Pres-
ident.
It must always be remembered that the functions of the
committee are of the most independent character, and that
the form and extent of its investigations are wholly under
its own control.
It will be seen, from the report of the committee, that it
has devoted a larger amount of time to the questions before
it, than has usually been within the convenience of average
committees. The suggestion made in the report, that the
services of the committee should be retained for two years,
is impracticable under the ordinance ; but there is no objec-
tion to its appointment earlier in the library year, thereby
giving the members an opportunity of larger familiarity with
the daily work of the institution in. all periods of its annual
service. •
The Trustees would invite particular attention to the
portion of the report relating to "the popular circulating
department."
In the special reports, the monograph of Thomas XV.
Higginson, Esq., upon the Parker Library, will be found to
be thoroughly appreciative and valuable, as giving the first
accurate description of this very remarkable collection. Pro-
fessor Perry's faithful and continuous work, in reference to
our French and German collections, brings the institution
under large indebtedness for his thorough and discriminative
examination in a field which few scholars in. this country
have so adequately explored. Professor Apthorp's examination
points out the deficiencies in the musical library, — a collection
originally formed in Germany, and slowly increased since,
according to the means within the disposal of the Trustees.
A full library of the best classic and modern composers is
a most desirable element in this important branch of popular
education. It is hoped that sufficient means may be provided
to meet the necessities of the increased and Avidely extended
culture of this civilizing accomplishment.
Public Library.
The Library and its Work for the Year.
The extent of the Library collections and their use by the
public during the past year are herewith presented.
The aggregate number of volumes embraced in the Bates
Hall collection is 267,21(5; in the Lower Hall, 38,164; in
the branches, 116,736, — making a total of 422,116, — a net
increase for the year of 17,895 volumes (of which 5,340
were gifts), — making the percentage of gain within a slight
fraction 4.25 per cent.
The whole number of days on which the libraries were
open to the public was 306.
The total use of the books for the year was 1,045,902, — an
increase of 5,349 over the previous year. These were dis-
tributed from the various libraries, as shown in the following-
table : —
Name of Library.
Lower Hall .
East Boston .
South Boston .
Koxbury . . .
Charlestown .
Brighton . . .
Dorchester . .
South End . .
Jamaica Plain
West Koxbury
North End . .
Bates Hall . .
No. of Vols.
April 30,
1S82.
149
237.
387,
790
736
526
In Use,
1S81-S2.
250,792
95,974
129.4S6
106,273
87,319
27,444
54,485
71,736
49,722
873,231
167,322
,040,553
No. of Vols.
April 30,
1883.
3S.164
11,263
10,961
21,999
24,825
13,190
11,910
9,947
8,976*
3,114
521
154*900
249,440
404,340
In Use,
1882-83.
195,930
100,940
126,411
112,525
87,304
28,257
67,558
94,250
49,137
3,515
1S65,827
1S0,075
1 In the totals of popular circulation, the issues of the Fellowes Athenaeum (8,385
vols.) are included with the Hoxbnry Branch. The Charlestown and Brighton libraries hav-
ing come into the possession of the City as single libraries, there are uo present means of
marking the use of the reference volumes in each collection.
The aggregates of the circulation for the past year de-
mand especial attention ; while the branches have either
increased, or substantially held their own, in the distribution
of books, the Lower Hall collection has experienced a very
large diminution.
4 City Document No. 103.
Yet the Lower Hall library never before contained so
many books of popular interest, or so well selected to meet
the wants of the very wide-spread classes of readers who
have heretofore depended upon its resources for their read-
ing.
But the uses of the Reading-room have increased. This
obviously arises from the fact that this is the only room
accessible to the public, on the lower floor of the building,
which is moderately light by day, since the new structure,
on the adjacent estate to the eastward, was erected. The
waiting-rooms are now neither cheerful nor attractive to the
visitors to the Lower Hall library.
Beyond this palpable fact there are grounds for the belief
that the circulation of other large popular libraries has di-
minished during the past year. It is not difficult to explain
why this should generally have ocurrred, nor why our own
popular collections have suffered.
When, in 1878, the South-End branch was established in
West Newton street, it found its readers in a community pre-
viously dependent upon the Boylston street library. When
it was removed, in 1881, to a site within four-fifths of a mile
from the main institution, and placed in pleasant apartments,
among a reading population, its influence was more perceptibly
felt. The popular libraries in the city proper issued last year
to readers 293, G95 volumes, against 322,528 in the previous
year : but of the aggregate for 1882-3, 22,514 is due to the
increase of the circulation at the South End, and 3,515 to
the establishment of the North-End branch, — a branch which
is expected to show much larger results in the coming year.
But, notwithstanding the decrease of circulation, as com-
pared with former years, it is found that in the volumes now
issued there is a larger percentage in science and technique,
in voyages and travels, in history and biography, than was ob-
tained in the year of the largest distribution from the Lower
Hall. So that in proportion, as the work of the Library goes
on, it accomplishes better results among its readers.
Another cause directly affecting the circulation of free
libraries is to be found in the cheap reprints issued of
popular novels, histories, biographies, travels, and science,
which are within the means of every reader. When for a
small sum of money one can purchase an attractive new
book, why should one be dependent upon a library,
which cannot reasonably have duplicate copies enough
on its shelves to supply an immediately numerous and
urgent demand? The books desired by the large body
of readers are the new books. Failing to obtain
these when wanted, it is the easiest possible thing to ac-
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quire them at a trifling outlay, within the means of a moderate
daily wage.
It is not strange that the issues of any popular library de-
pend, to a great degree, upon its accessions of new and desira-
ble fiction, — a branch of literature of growing importance
throughout the civilized world. It attracts the attention of
both sexes, of all ages. It has enlisted the services of au-
thors of great talent, of wide knowledge of human life, man-
ners, and social conditions ; it draws pictures from ancient,
mediaeval, and modern history, and from barbaric and
civilized races. From the simplest and most innocent forms
of social condition it extends step by step through the vary-
ing shades of daily life till it reaches the most complicated
forms of crime and immorality known to ancient or mod-
ern civilization. Within its wide ran^e manv readers can
tind the book which shall rivet attention, quicken the pulses,
and exert either good or bad influence according to the pre-
vious moral training or general information of the individual.
But to a large library it presents grave questions. If
duplicates of the newest fiction sufficient to supply the im-
mediate demand are purchased, the shelves are filled with vol-
umes which at the end of live years will be so much dead
material. A few great novelists have written works that have
lived and still live. But of the books of this description,
which were read in one's youth, how few are attractive to the
present generation ! Every decade shows some new develop-
ment in thought, invention, arrangement, and character, as
society becomes more complicated. It does not seem to the
Trustees to be a legitimate use of public funds to purchase
any considerable quantities of duplicate books, for the sake
of present popularity, which, in the space of five years, shall
cease to find readers.
The delivery of periodicals at the Central Library and
branches is recorded at 518,226, as against 492,090 for the
previous year. Of these, 381,810 found use in the Boylston-
street reading-room.
The number of volumes sent to the bindery during the
year from all the libraries amounted to 13,261. The charac-
ter of the work done has been fully up to the regular stand-
ard of the institution.
The records show a larger number of books lost than
during the preceding year. There are gone from Bates
Hall, 18 volumes; from the Lower Hall, 53; from South
Boston, Dorchester, and Brighton, 1 each; from Roxbury,
4 ; and from Charlestown, 2, — making a total of 80
volumes missing, or one to every 13,074 loaned. From the
East Boston, South End, and Jamaica Plain branches, with
6 City Document No. 103.
an aggregate circulation of 237,380 volumes, every book
has been returned.
The Trustees gratefully acknowledge the receipt of another
gift of five hundred dollars, from J. Ingersoll Bowditch, for
the increase of the Bowditch Mathematical Library. The
accessions to this collection during the past two years have
been most valuable and important, including complete sets of
Crelle's Journal far die reine und angewandte Mathemalik , in
93 vols, quarto ; and of Liouville's Journal de mathematiques
pures et apjpliqudes, in 46 vols, quarto.
A New Library Building.
The Trustees of the Library congratulate their fellow-
citizens that the City Government has settled the question
of the proposed construction of a new Library building.
The steps which led to this most important result may be
briefly told.
The first order looking to a new structure on the Dartmouth-
street estate was passed Dec. 1, 1881. By this the Com-
mittee on the Public Library were authorized to consult the
Trustees concerning a new Library building. No action,
however, was taken under this order, as the City Govern-
ment had not indicated by its action whether it intended to
occupy the site presented for the purpose by the Common-
wealth, or to acquire the additional land necessary for the
structure, which a special act of the Legislature had author-
ized it to take. Preparation for the work had, however, been
made, in the meantime, by the City Architect, by visits to
and examinations of some of the newer library buildings in
Europe.
The next step towards the removal of the Library to new
quarters proceeded from a member of the Board of Trustees,
who was also a member of the City Council. On the 9th of
March, 1882, he introduced, with other orders, having refer-
ence to the High and Latin Schools, the following mandate
to the Trustees of the Library : —
Ordered, That the Trustees of the Public Library be requested to
report upon the fitness of the present High and Latin School Building
for the purpose of the Public Library.
After a careful examination of this structure, and the em-
ployment of the services of Mr. Henry Van Brunt, the
eminent architect, in making a separate examination and
report, it was voted, on the second of May, one member of
the Board dissenting, —
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That the president be directed to report to the City Council, in re-
sponse to their order, dated 10th April, 1882, that, in the opinion of the
Trustees, the English High and Latin School Building, neither in part
nor as a whole, is fit for the uses of the Public Library, together with
the reasons of the Board for this opinion.
Mr. Whitmore, the dissenting member, gave notice of his
intention to present a minority report.
In preparing the statement of reasons called for by the
above vote, it was soon found that in order to show more
distinctly what was not wanted, it would be necessary to
draw plans which should show approximately what was
wanted.
The services of the accomplished City Architect were
engaged, and a set of drawings was made, as fully complete
as the great press of his engagements in other city work
would permit. The study of the plans of a great modern
library for popular use presented questions never before
fully met. In the limited time the most that could be done
was to show how the largest and most convenient access to
the public of readers and students could be accomplished ;
how the great library could be stacked ; how special rooms
of suitable size could be assigned to special libraries and art
collections ; and, lastly, how the arrangement of apartments
could be most fitly contrived for the administration of the
library. As a whole, it was concluded that the edifice to be
erected on this basis, to meet the probable requirements of a
century, need not occupy more than two-thirds of the land.
This, in brief, was the plan proposed by the Trustees. No
elevation of the structure was designed ; the studies on light,
air, ventilation, and fire-proofing could only be approximately
treated, yet the main principles of the structure seemed
satisfactory to the Trustees.
On the 1st August the President signed the report required
by the order of the Trustees, and it appears in City Docu-
ment No. Ill, 1882. The minority report (City Document
No. Ill B) appeared subsequently. After a series of delays
these papers did not reach the City Council till its meeting
of the 3d Oct., and were referred, on the 18th Dec, to the
next City Government.
' The next movement forward came from the Board of
Trustees. On the 24th Feb., 1883, the following order and
vote were offered, and unanimously accepted, and transmitted
on the 26th, by His Honor the Mayor, to the Board of Alder-
men, by whom they were referred to the Committee on the
Public Library : —
Ordered, That the plans for the Public Library building, on the Back-
Bay land, drawn by George A. Clough, and the estimated cost thereof
8 City Document No. 103.
at $450,000, as contained in City Document No. Ill, of the year 1882,
be, and they are hereby approved.
Voted, That the Trustees recommend to the City Council to take the
land fronting on Dartmouth street and St. James avenue, and adjacent
to the lot given by the Commonwealth to the City of Boston, for a Pub-
lic Library, under the provisions of Chapter 143 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Court for the year 1882.
On the 28th February, a public hearing was given by the
Committee on the Public Library, for the purpose of listen-
ing to any statements of the Board of Trustees, or other
friends of the institution, in favor of the proposed action of
the City Government, and also to hear any objection thereto.
At this meeting the President presented a statement of facts ;
and speeches in urgency of immediate action were made
by Colonel Jonas H. French, Hon. Mellen Chamberlain,
Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury, Mr. Henry P. Kidder, Rev.
George E. Ellis, D.D., Rev. Joshua P. Bodfish, Mr. George
B. Chase, Mr. Edwin P. Seaver, and Henry W. Williams,
M.D. Mr. William H. Whitmore made remarks in op-
position.
On the 5th March, the Committee on the Public Library,
through their Chairman, Alderman VVhitten, reported in favor
of the recommendation of the Trustees, and submitted orders
for the purchase of the land on St. James street, for $180,000,
and the erection of a building for the sum of $450,000 ; pay-
ment for the same to be made through the medium of a
public loan for $630,000. The orders thus reported were, on
the 19th March, referred to the Committee on Finance, who,
on the 26th March, reported in favor of the passage of the first
order (in City Doc. 45), and of the second order in a new
form, so that the orders as presented for the consideration of
the City Government were as follows : —
Ordered, That the City Treasurer be authorized to borrow, under the
direction of the Committee on Finance, and at such rate of interest
as they shall determine, the sum of $180,000, said sum to constitute a
special appropriation for the payments for land taken for library pur-
poses under chapter 143 of the Acts of 1882.
Ordered, That the City Treasurer be authorized to borrow, under the
direction of the Committee on Finance, and at such rate of interest as
they shall determine, the sum of $450,000; said sum to constitute a
special appropriation to be expended in the erection of a new library
building on Dartmouth street according to plans approved by the Trus-
tees of the Public Library.
These two orders then passed the Board of Aldermen
unanimously, and came up by special assignment in the
Common Council on the 12th April, and were passed in con-
currence by a vote of 55 yeas to 11 nays, and on the 14th
April received the approval of His Honor the Mayor.
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On the 21st April the city authorities took formal posses-
sion of the land given by the Commonwealth, and also of the
estates on St. James street.
The perfected plans, designed to fulfil the large expecta-
tions of the proposed structure, it is hoped will be ready
for acceptance, under the terms of the loan, before the begin-
ning of another year.
WILLIAM W. GREENOUGH,
SAMUEL A. B. ABBOTT,
GEORGE B. CHASE,
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE,
JAMES J. FLYNN,
HENRY W. HAYNES,
CHARLES V. WHITTEN.
Public Library, June 29, 1883.
10 City Document No. 103.
[B.]
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE OF
THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.
To the Trustees : —
Gentlemen, — Your committee, chosen for a single an-
nual examination of the Library, and serving but a few
months, must necessarily present imperfect results of their
labors.
Although every possible facility has been afforded them by
the Trustees, a thorough scrutiny of all, or indeed of any
one department of this vast establishment, including its eight
branches, is impracticable under the circumstances. It is there-
fore suggested that gentlemen be chosen hereafter on this com-
mittee who will be willing to serve for two or more years.
Our inadequate investigation, however, has revealed to us
the rich treasures of the Library, its usefulness to students
and the general public, and the increasing honor it confers
on its founders and promoters, as a conservator of literature
and literary tastes in our city, already distinguished for its
intellectual life.
Although Boston may not say, with Prospero, " My library
is dukedom large enough," yet, by means of it, a princely
feature is added to the public educational system which is
the city's pride.
Without this Library and its present generous maintenance,
the ancient traditions which gather about us would be im-
paired ; our reputation abroad as a literary centre of the
republic would be jeopardized, and our citizens themselves
would lack an opportunity for self-improvement which no
public buildings, parks, or mere material conveniences can
supply.
Even our admirable public schools would miss this crown-
ing strength of a great popular treasure-house of learning.
In regard to the whole vast
Collection of Permanent Literature,
one of our number, who has exceptional opportunity to
judge of this department, reports as follows : —
A former librarian, Mr. Justin Winsor, calls it the most
symmetrical library that he knows. Experts also say that it
offers abundant material to investigators in many departments.
PUHLIC LIBRARY. 11
The excellence of the Shakspeare collection and of the
Tioknbr Library of Spanish literature is well known.
When the catalogue of the Barton Library is published it
will be seen how very rich it is in the early dramatic litera-
ture of England, and, to some extent, in that of France. It
is a collection of gems.
How, then, shall the Library be kept abreast of the times
in all departments? At present it depends on the orders of
the officials, the demands of students, and the suggestions
of agents. Experts are also appointed to inspect and report
occasionally on special departments.
Would it not, however, be well to have the process con-
tinuous instead of sporadic, by inviting competent persons
to keep an eye on current publications, and on catalogues of
remote books of the past, so that no chance be lost to enrich
the Library, without great outlay at any one time?
To these persons the critical journals in each department
might be regularly sent ; also all valuable booksellers'
catalogues.
This plan is now in operation to a certain extent, but
needs enlargement to make it fully clfective.
The officials of the Library, on whom this labor might be
thought properly to fall, are too busily occupied with the
more immediate duties of the Library to accomplish all that
is desired for the symmetrical growth of the permanent col-
lection. Besides, this suggestion still leaves the officials
abundance of room to work for the same result.
In connection with this subject of increasing the permanent
collection of valuable literature, the committee finds that no
German books are sent from abroad without special order ;
less than one-sixth to one-seventh of the French works, and
those of an entirely scientific character.
English books are largely sent without special order, be-
cause, otherwise, the delay would be very inconvenient in
most cases.
There seems, however, to be no objection to purchases of
English books abroad without the personal endorsement of
each book by the administration of the Library, so long as
the books pass under strict scrutiny on their arrival, and can
be returned if undesirable.
In regard to
Further Assistance to Readers,
the present facilities would be ample, were it generally known
that three courteous and intelligent persons are at the desk
on Boylston street, and two at the other end of Bates Hall,
12 City Document No. 103.
a part of whose duty it is to answer all proper questions of
visitors. Could this fact he fully understood, even the card
catalogues would he a mystery to no one, and there would
be less difficulty in finding some books. It is gratifying to
learn that more readers than ever before frequent Bates Hall ;
that scholars from a distance resort to its matchless collec-
tions, and that some even choose Boston as a residence for
the winter, in order to use this part of the Library which is
freely placed at their disposal. Many authors might be named
who acknowledge great indebtedness to the special collec-
tions. Some write to ask for a verification of facts ; some
for copies of title-pages ; others for information not elsewhere
to be obtained.
The Patent Room
is fast becoming one of the more important parts of the Li-
brary. A record is kept of visitors to this department, and
shows that it is a benefit to the whole countiy. The collec-
tion, received by gift from the United States Government
and from foreign governments, needs larger and more acces-
sible quarters, which your committee is glad to know will be
provided in the new building.
The Present Building
is already too small, inconvenient, and unsafe for the Library
as a whole. When Mr. Winthrop, in his dedicatory address,
spoke of ample accommodations for many coming genera-
tions, he hardly thought he would live to see the day when
" Infinite riches in a little room "
would crowd and cry for space.
Owing to its location and the contiguity of lofty buildings
the risk of fire ought not to be overlooked.
The present danger is too great for such a depository of
thousands of priceless volumes, many of which, if destroyed
or damaged, could not be replaced.
The whole building is also sadly deficient in ventilation
and light.
Your committee are pleased to know that plans have been
obtained from the City Architect, providing, at a very reason-
able expense, better air and light for the temporary purposes
of Bates Hall, until the whole structure shall be remodelled
(as we trust it soon will be), exclusively for the popular
circulating portion of the books, the larger part of which
is now in the basement rooms.
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We forbear to comment on the dark and disagreeable
apartments below, used at present by the public at large,
inasmuch as the desirable change above mentioned will
probably be accomplished within a few years. Meanwhile,
we solicit your attention to the temporary improvement thus
rendered possible.
The theory of a great Public Library necessarily includes
The Popular Circulating Department.
This is somewhat distinct in its use and value from such
parts of the Library as are used for the accumulation and
preservation of literature for the researches of scholars, and
for circulation among them.
A Public Library in a crowded city consists in part
of a collection of entertaining and more or less instructive
works for the people at large : popular books of history,
biography, fiction, travel, and adventure; also, periodicals
and elementary treatises in science and the mechanical arts.
This department aims among other objects, to provide
employment and pleasure for minds which seek relaxation,
and also for those who might otherwise be occupied in less
profitable pursuits.
Thus it indirectly fosters a taste for better reading.
It also takes the place of special libraries in our common
schools, and supplies mechanics with facilities for improving
themselves in their various occupations. It ought there-
fore to contain the very best books for these purposes.
Your committee finds, from statistics carefully kept from
day to day, that books of the better sort are more read
than ever before in the history of this Library, and that this
department is continually increasing the number of the
improved class of instructive and entertaining books for
the young, which is a characteristic of our times. It should
always be kept in mind that three-quarters at least of the
readers are young persons ; this is especially true of the
branches. The employment of persons to advise the young*
in the selection of books, and the readiness of all the officials
to give such advice, cannot be too highly commended.
Your committee is fully aware of the charges urged
against the Library on the score of circulating books of a
harmful character.
The suggestions of the minority committee of last year
have also been duly considered and weighed.
It should be remembered that in a vast reservoir of lit-
erature like this, good and bad books must exist together,
and that the wisest supervision cannot prevent some harmful
14 City Document No. 103.
use of corrupting works. Besides, the keeping out of circula-
tion of all books to which exception may be taken is bi'\Tond
the power of any administration, so long as the best "critics
of morals " are divided in their opinions as to what books are
injurious. It would be impossible for this committee per-
sonally to inspect the thousands of volumes of fiction in the
Lower Hall and in the branches.
While deprecating the fact that there may be injurious
works in the accessible parts of the Library, which have
escaped the vigilance of the authorities, Ave do not see how
a committee of inspection outside the present administration,
could be made efficient. We are inclined therefore to
intrust this important matter of suppressing all works dis-
covered to be vicious, to the men and women who hase
charge of the Library, and who can find out its contents
better than any one else. We are satisfied that, so far as they
can, the librarians conscientiously deny to the public access
to any works fairly considered to be of a demoralizing charac-
ter ; the Trustees refuse to provide duplicates of recent works
of fiction which cumber the shelves after their novelty is gone ;
feeble books give place to those of a more robust char-
acter, and the really objectionable ones, when discovered,
are kept under lock and key ; very little if any " trash "
is now purchased, and therefore we can only recommend the
most constant vigilance and the utmost circumspection pos-
sible. To do more than this would be to imply a lack of
purity, or at least an indifference to it in others, on the part
of those appointed to provide reading for the public. We
rejoice that the percentage of the poorer sort of reading is
gradually diminishing, and we heartily commend all honest
efforts, within and without the Library, to reduce such read-
ing to a minimum, especially among the young. Let
parents, teachers, and others give immediate notice of any
improper book with the stamp of the Library upon it. The
committee would also suggest that the lists of the better class
of popular books, historical, scientific, instructive, or enter-
taining, which have from time to time been posted in the
public schools for the stimulation and guidance of the pupils,
be extended, and accompanied with a request from the libra-
rian to the teachers that more pains be taken to encourage
the scholars in a proper use of the Library.
The public schools and the Library, as parts of one great
system of education, might thus be brought into even more
helpful relations to each other than exist at the present time.
In addition, it may be possible to elevate the literary
standard of the schools by giving to the higher classes an
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occasional talk on books and their uses, at the Library build-
ing, by one or more of the teachers or librarians.
Catalogues.
The problem of the best catalogue is how to bring the
greatest number of books in the simplest and most con-
venient way to the largest number of readers, — a problem
by no means easy of solution, even if the factor of expense
be excluded.
Your committee cannot venture to advise, with their
present limited knowledge, between the several modes of
cataloguing the immense number of books in this Library.
While for younger readers and mechanics a printed cata-
logue seems almost a necessity, for scholars the card
catalogue must at present suffice, especially when the large
number of books added every year is taken into account.
For the special collections, like the Barton and Ticknor
libraries, the more precise and full the printed catalogues
the better, since these collections are complete in themselves
and permanent.
We would, however, advise a consolidated catalogue of
authors and titles, including subject-references, supple-
menting the lists now in use in the popular circulating
department.
This would do much towards satisfying many who ask
only for new publications, by aiding them in making other
selections.
Your committee is impressed with the fact that so few
books are lost or stolen out of the immense number circu-
lated among all classes. It seems to argue that a sense of
honor, as well as a love of reading, is developed among the
people, by freely trusting them with the books, which are
understood to be the property of all alike.
The Branches.
We doubt if the general public is aware of the effective
work done by this Library, by means of its eight branches
and six delivery-stations.
At several of the branches there are special collections of
valuable books. Such are the rich Library of the Fellowes
Athenreum at the Highlands, and the Harris collection at
Charlestown.
In some localities the accommodations are excellent, espe-
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cially at the Highlands, where the building in which the Fel-
lowes Library is deposited is superb, although it is a most
inconvenient location for the general public.
It is very obvious however, to your committee, that the
rooms of the East Boston branch are not only inadequate in
size, but very unfortunately placed over the police-station
of that district. The present plan of enlarging this building,
with its Public School and Library above, and its court-rooms
for criminals below, appears to us the very worst possible
arrangement for the good of this branch. That ladies and
children visiting this Library are compelled to witness the
scenes that daily occur in and around this building is a re-
proach to the city which ought to be removed.
The lack of many duplicates of recent works of fiction at
the branches — which has been sometimes complained of —
esems to us a wise economy on the part of the Trustees, who
decline to increase the number of such books indefinitely.
The librarians of the various branches are enthusiastic over
the improvement they see in the reading public which uses
their rooms and books.
They are anxious to maintain as high a standard in all de-
partments as the surroundings will allow. In the more
favored locations the citizens take a just pride in their local
collections, and the Trustees are wisely adding new delivery-
stations wherever the population and the demand warrant the
increased outlay.
The Administration.
The complicated machinery of this great institution is now
adjusted admirably to the working force. The business of
the various financial departments appears to be most system-
atically conducted. The current expenses, for which the
means are furnished by the city, are paid each month by the
city treasurer, after being approved by the Trustees. Thus,
very little money passes through the hands of the officials or
Trustees.
The more expensive books for Bates Hall and the special
collections are bought with the income of funds given by
individuals.
Your committee concur with the opinion of the Examining
Committee of last year in regard to a larger allowance of
salary for such members of the working force as might be
designated by the Trustees. The skilled intellectual labor
of a portion of those employed demands exceptional qualifi-
cations, which ought to be correspondingly remunerated.
Public Library. 17
The advantages of having the binding done in the building,
under the immediate supervision of the librarian, are so ob-
vious, that it is commended, even at a slightly increased cost
over the same work done outside.
The relations between the Trustees and the Librarians
appear to be harmonious and satisfactory.
While the Trustees give a great deal of valuable time and
thought gratuitously to the Library, those in daily charge of
its affairs seem to be no less interested in the endeavor to
enrich and purify the streams that flow from this source of
public benefaction.
We commend to them the use of even greater efforts to
satisfy the demands, both of those who read and those who
are interested in the elevation of the great variety of readers.
Our investigations cause us to realize more than ever
before, how much good citizenship depends on the use that
is made of this noble institution, which contains within its
walls enough of health to make the whole world well.
In conclusion, your committee congratulates the com-
munity on the recent decision of the City Government to
build
A New Library Building.
The site which is now secured is a most commanding and
suitable one. When placed in the new structure the most
valuable part of the Library will be permanently safe.
Facilities will there be offered to scholars which will leave
little to be desired ; and the general public will be far better
served than ever before, by the occupation and improvement
of the whole of the building on Boylston street as a centre
for the circulating department.
It is obvious that great care and forethought must be ex-
ercised in adapting the new structure to its most desirable
ends.
We commend the wisdom of the city in obtaining sufficient
space for any future of which the present can justly take
thought. The construction will naturally be carried forward
under the watchful eye of all friends of free libraries. The
plans will require the best professional talent, and to that
talent must be added a knowledge and practical experience
of the needs of such a library in its actual working.
Your committee consider the public fortunate in being able
to entrust the execution of this important work to the excel-
lent Board of Trustees, and to its President, Mr. W. W.
Greenough, wThose able care and sound judgment may be
18 City Document No. 103.
confidently relied upon, notwithstanding the magnitude of
the undertaking.
ALEXANDER S. TWOMBLY,
RICHARD SULLIVAN,
THOMAS S. PERRY,
JOHN G. BLAKE,
T. W. HIGGINSON,
J. AUDLEY MAXWELL,
WM. F. APTHORP,
AUGUSTUS LOWELL,
Examining Committee.
Public Library. 19
Report on the Parker Library.
To the Trustees of the Public Library : —
The remarkable collection of books bequeathed by Rev.
Theodore Parker to the Public Library of Boston has never
been separately catalogued, as has been the case with the
Ticknor and Barton collections. It was simply included in
the books indexed in the Supplement to the Bates Hall Cata-
logue ; and the books coming from this source are not there
distinguishable from the mass of other works. The collec-
tion has always been kept by itself in the Library, and there
is a manuscript catalogue of a portion of it, prepared under
Mr. Parker's own direction. The bequest has now been
completed by the reversion of that part of the library re-
tained by Mrs. Parker until her death, under the pro-
visions of her husband's will. It therefore seems proper that
there should be some special report upon a collection so
valuable in itself, so interesting through its personal asso-
ciations, and historically so important to the Public Library,
as being the first considerable private collection which it in-
herited by bequest.
The books which came to the Library at Mr. Parker's
death numbered 11,190 volumes, besides 2,500 pamphlets,
which were afterwards bound and accounted as books. (In-
dex of Books in Bates Hall ; Supplement; Prefatory Note.)
At the death of Mrs. Parker, 2,117 additional volumes be-
came the property of the Library, besides 280 volumes of
her own which she bequeathed. To these are to be added
a small number of volumes relating to Mr. Parker, but pre-
sented by others, and properly to be considered in connec-
tion with his library, making up the whole number of books
under this head to nearly sixteen thousand. This does not
include Mr. Parker's manuscripts and literary materials,
these having passed, at Mr. Parker's death, into the pos-
session of Mr. F. B. Sanborn, of Concord, who is to act
henceforth as literary executor.
The library was formed under circumstances somewhat
peculiar. It was the work of a man possessing a more
omnivorous passion for books than almost any of his con-
temporaries in this country, and enabled by circumstances
to gratify that passion more and more as time went on.
Beginning as a poor scholar, and then living on a very
modest salary as the minister of a small suburban parish,
he was early a collector of books to supply his actual needs ;
and, after he had been transferred to a large city parish, and
had become a very popular lecturer, he was enabled to set aside
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most of his income from the lecture source for this object.
Books, which were at first the necessaries of his life, became
at last his only luxuries. He justified himself for incurring
the expense of their purchase partly by looking forward to
a great work which he had planned on the History of Re-
ligion, partly by the purpose, long cherished, of bequeathing
these literary collections for some public service. For a
long time this prospective destination Avas Harvard College,
of whose library he had made much use ; but soon after the
formation of the Free Public Library, in 1852, he was led
to change his purpose by the conviction that the plan of this
institution would make the books even more useful than if
given to Harvard College. It is pleasant to know that one
controlling influence which brought about this change of plan
was — according- to his life-long friend and housemate, Miss
Hannah Stevenson — his confidence in Mr. George Ticknor
as a library organizer. These two men, resembling each
other in their love of books and in their public spirit, but
cut off almost from personal intercourse by their difference
of opinion on public questions, thus cooperated in endowing
the greatest institution of the city which they both loved.
The library of Mr. Parker was thus collected with a view
to actual use by himself, and prospectively by others, audi
this affected its very selection from the beginning. It was
not a show library, or the library of a technical biblioma-
niac ; it was the collection of a specialist, but of a specialist
with a wide horizon. It was formed by a scholar upon
the lines of his own particular studies, but projecting
those lines far beyond what he could reasonably expect to
accomplish in a lifetime. In the midst of a career so exact-
ing and laborious that, in spite of a most vigorous organiza-
tion, he died an old man at fifty, Mr. Parker was always
making a collection of books that represented both his pursuits
and his purposes. On particular occasions he ransacked these
books to his heart's content ; but they also represented the
vast range of study which he never lived to accomplish. It
often happens that the most valuable part of a student's col-
lection may be that on which time has for him written JVo
thoroughfare, but which opens such a thoroughfare for others
after he is gone.
It is easy to select the single book with which a view of
the Parker Library should properly begin. " Which of all my
books," the donor once said to the present writer, " do you
think that I have most enjoyed ? " Then turning, he took
down a well-worn copy of Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary
(Philadelphia, 1820), inscribed in a boyish hand on the
fly-leaf, "Theodore Parker, ejus liber, 1822," He was then
Public Library. 21
twelve years old ; it was the first book he had ever owned ;
he had earned the money for its purchase by picking-
berries on his father's farm — the farm which had been in
his family for a century and a half, and from which his
grandfather had gone forth to take part in the battle of
Lexington. On this corner-stone the costly library was
built up.
It is doubly fitting to regard this book as the corner-stone
of the library, because it is on a copious variety of diction-
aries and grammars that its foundations are farther laid. No
class of books contained in it has been more used by the public.
Mr. Parker had himself the greatest facility for learning
languages. Dr. Convers Francis used to say of him in his
youth that when he had lent Theodore Parker the grammar
of a new language he usually found, at their next meeting,
that he had devoured half its literature ; and Professor
Seligstrom, who taught him Swedish, said that he took it in as
one eats an apple. He had given more or less attention to
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian, German, Anglo-Saxon, Mceso-Gothic, Dutch, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, and several American Indian
dialects — making more than twenty in all. The apparatus
for nearly all these is to be found in the Parker Library, with
that of many more which he had only wished to study.
These last cover a wide geographical range, from the minor
Sclavonic dialects to the African lanjmao-es and the Kawi
language of Java ; and include, for instance, the very rare
Mexican and Spanish dictionary of Molina, now worth £20
at book auctions. Counting all these, the full number of
languages or dialects represented cannot fall much short of
forty.
After the grammars and dictionaries comes a class of books
to which the general public is inevitably indifferent, but
which for scholars are of the very greatest value. Mr. Parker
had a great taste for those formidable and ponderous works
of which Bayle's Dictionary is the most familiar type, — vast
and voluminous encyclopaedias, giving a summary of all the
wisdom of their time ; books which, in one sense, are super-
seded, but which, in another sense, can no more be superseded
than the Pyramids, because they preserve indestructibly
that of which the present has lost sight. They are inestimable
as a part of the history of knowledge ; their very omissions
are exceedingly important, for it may be as essential to as-
certain definitely what was not known on a given point at a
certain period as what was known. Such books are, for in-
stance, llofmann's Lexicon universale, in 4: vols., folio (1698) ;
Beyerlinck's vast Magnum theatrum vitce humance, in 7 vols.
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folio (1631) ; Moreri's Dictionnaire historique, 4 vols., folio
(1724) ; Joeher's Gelelir ten- Lexicon, 4to (1750) ;
Senders Welthistorie, 72 vols., 8vo (1744) ; Pierer's Uni-
versal-Lexikon, being the copy presented by the author to
J. E. Worcester, 34 vols., 8vo (1840) ; the series closing
with Ersch and Gruber's enormous Allgemeine Encydo-
pddie, 150 vols., 8vo, which belongs to our own time, and
is still unfinished. With these should be classed the well-
known French Biographie Universelle, and many other
works not enumerated. Few American libraries are so well
furnished in what may be called the retrospective-encyclo-
paedic department ; and there is always a possibility that the
faithful scholar may find in these vast mausoleums of
knowledge some fact which he might otherwise have had to
take a voyage across the Atlantic to obtain.
In the department of literary history these great collections
are especially to be found. These are, for instance, Meusel's
two great lexicons of German authors, 38 volumes in all ;
the Bibliothek des Literarischen Vereins in Stuttgart in 150
vols., and a similar collection of equal size from a society in
Halle. There is also Hammer-PurgstalPs great history of
Arabian literature in seven bulky volumes, with other works
by the same author. In the department of travels and
geography there are similar voluminous collections, begin-
ning with Strabo, including a fine copy of Minister's
quaintly illustrated Cosmographia of 1554, with the great
Allgemeine Ilistorie der Beisen in 21 vols., 4to (1747).
There are also the more modern collections of Malte-Brun,
Mannert, Herrera, Torquemada, Pallas, Berghaus, and
others.
Another favorite department of Mr. Parker was that of
Jurisprudence, and this he used largely in preparing his
defence — perhaps more laboriously learned than the occa-
sion required — when indicted in the Anthony Burns case.
In this department there are great folios of Roman law, with
the works of Bynkershoek, Savigny, Rein, and Hugo. He
even pleased himself by possessing the great Jurisprudence
Musulmane, of Khalil-Ibn-Ishak', in six volumes, 8vo. In
theology, as in other departments, his tendency was towards
monumental works ; thus he not only has the early Christian
fathers in the hundred-volumed Patrologia, of Migne, but
has also the Maxima BibliotJteca veterum patrwn, published
at Lyons in 1677, in 21 volumes, folio. He has also the
Annates Ecclesiastici of Ceesar Baronius, published at Ant-
werp, from 1597 to 1642, in 12 vols., folio; the works of
John of Launoy (1731) in 9 vols., folio; Mabillon's Annates
ordinis S. Benedicti (1739-45), in 6 vols., folio, and simi-
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lar ponderous foundations of ecclesiastical history. Upon this
is, of course, reared a great superstructure of modern and
especially of German theology. There are also the com-
plete works of the German metaphysicians of the first class,
and some of the second class.
Mr. Parker bought the Latin and Greek classics in the
large collections which comprise them all, and had a few
tine old folio editions, with many modern editions and
commentaries. These all have their value, though often
superseded by the more critical work since done. In some
cases we see his special tastes in the accumulation : — thus
there are a dozen different works on Aristotle, and all the
best editions of the Greek Anthology, the Palatine text, as
edited by Brunck (3 vols., 8vo), and Jacobs (10 vols.,
8vo), and that of the Planudenn text, edited by Bosch, with
the versions of Grotius (3 vols., 4to). There ma}' also be
mentioned Wolfs Mulierum Groecarum Fragmenti (4to),
the Oudendorp edition of Apuleius (7 vols., 4to), Spalding's
Quintilian, with Bonnell's Lexicon (b' vols.), and the com-
mentary of Eustathius on the Iliad and Odyssey (5 vols.,
4to).
There is not much in English literature, three-quarters of
the books, perhaps nine-tenths, being in foreign languages.
There is little in natural science, which he gets rather by the
conversation of his learned friends, like Desor, than by
personal study. There is something in the way of botany,
for which he always preserved a farmer's love ; and one is
surprised to find books on mathematics, to which he is not
known to have given much attention. There is a good deal
of European and ancient history, and a large collection of
the more common histories, biographies, and a collection of
works in American history, but few rare Americana. There
is, of course, a large collection of books and pamphlets
bearing on American Slavery. There is also a very consid-
erable gathering of out-of-the-way books on the Occult
Sciences, for which he had, like many studious men, a
covert taste. This includes such books as Lobeck's Agla-
qphamus — a study of ancient systems — and KeifFs edition
of the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, — a work on the inter-
pretation of dreams.
One naturally wishes to track the personal footsteps of a
man like Theodore Parker through the books he used ; but
this is rather difficult, and one is a little disappointed at the
infrequency of notes and memoranda. No doubt it is the
more indolent scholars, like Coleridge, who annotate their
books ; and Parker was the busiest of men apart from all
literary work. He wrote largely for the "Dial," and he
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edited the "Massachusetts Quarterly Review," which was
to be, he said, " the f Dial ' with a beard" ; but there are no
notes in his copy of either.
The interleaved copy of his translation of De Wette has
a few notes and emendations for another edition. It is in-
teresting, as a proof of his promptness and activity as a
student, to see that he owned, in 1837, Comte's Oours de
Philosophic Positive, which was originally published in
1830-1842, and attracted so little attention that it is said
not to have been noticed in any leading review until 1846.
But there are no notes in his copy. Nor are there many in
his copies of the classics, though the present writer was once
told by Mr. John G. King, of Salem, one of the last of our
old-fashioned classical scholars, that Theodore Parker was
the only person he had ever encountered who could sit down
with him and seriously discuss a disputed passage in a Greek
play. Accordingly there are some hints and criticisms of this
kind in one of his copies of JEschylus ; and there are many
critical notes and references at the end of almost every one
of the nine volumes of Duncan's edition of Euripides. It
must be remembered that most of his classical study took
place in his earlier life, when he had little money to buy
books.
The one department in which his notes are full and inter-
esting is that of American history ; and these books show
the great amount of work that went to prepare for his
"Historic Americans," and also his extreme independence
and freshness of criticism. His set of John Adams' writings,
for instance, has plenty of such notes, including a very spicy
summary at the beginning, in which he gives his opinion
both of the statesman and his biographer; and in the works
of Webster, and many others, there are similar notes. It is
understood that an enlarged edition of "Famous Americans"
is now being prepared by Mr. Sanborn ; and this when pub-
lished may enable us to understand how it is that we have in
his library ampler traces of preparation for this book than for
most others.
The element of personal biography in Mr. Parker's collec-
tion seems naturally to culminate in a remarkable collection of
personal memorials of him, prepared by Miss Matilda Goddard
and contained in eleven thick volumes presented by her to
the Public Library. These are neatly bound, arranged, and
indexed ; they contain most of his pamphlets and magazine
papers and a large number of those occasioned by him ; there
are also many original letters or documents bearing upon
his life. It is, in short, such a collection as only affectionate
Public Library. 25
care could plan and close personal intimacy create. Aided by
these and by the unconscious reflection of Theodore Parker
in the library he collected, the future historian will be able
to furnish a better picture than any yet given of his remark-
able character and career.
THOS. WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
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Report of Mr. Thomas S. Perry, on French Literature
in the Puhlic Library*
To the Trustees of the Public Library : —
Gentlemen, — Lust year I handed to you a list of the
German books that, in rny opinion, were most immediately
needed in the Public Library ; and since then, as I had done
before, I have suggested many additions to what is already
a satisfactorily full collection. With regard to the French
books, my task is much more difficult ; for, although the Library
already contains material for a careful study of French litera-
ture, there are many directions in which gradual growth is
desirable. What may be called the framework is provided.
In the Barton library alone there is an admirable selection
of important books in costly editions. 1 need only mention
the now rare reprints of early Avorks that were made before
1850, such as the Poteies morales et historiques of Eustace
Deschamps, Paris : 1832; LLIistoire du Chatelain de Coucy
et de la Dame de Fayel, Paris: 1829; the Chansons de
Chatelain de Coucy; Legrand d'Aussy's and Barbazan's
editions of the fabliaux, and very many reprints of the
romans, la is, moralites, confes, fables, etc., etc. Among early
editions are to be found the Roman de la Pose, 1529 ;
Gamier s plays, 1585 ; those of Montchrestien, 1027 ;
Tragedies sainctes, 1583 ; La Guisiade, 3d ed., Lyon, 1589 ;
Jean de laTaille, vol. n., Paris : 1573 ; a volume of Scarron's
comedies, 1670 to 1688 ; Le Marchant converti, 1582 ; Char-
ron's De la sagesse, 1601 ; Le Tombeau de Marguerite de
Valois 1551 ; the Marguerites dela Marguerite des princesses,
1547 ; the works of Alain Chartier, Paris : 1529 ; Jean Antoine
de Baif's Les Mimes, Paris : 1597 ; Le Moyen de parvenir,
12 mo, pp. 623, possibly the oldest edition, at any rate very
rare, etc., etc., etc.
These books are obviously not mere bibliographical curi-
osities. They enable the student to carry on his investigation
of the beinnnino-s of modern French literature more
thoroughly than he can do with even the numerous reprints
of the early authors. These rare books fill many gaps.
The Barton library contains also numerous early but not
specially rare editions of various other important books.
The best known, as well as many secondary writers, up to
the middle of the present century, appear in the best edi-
tions. The stage is exceptionally well represented. Many
of Potrou's plays in their original form, those of Fagan,
Public Library. 27
Pannard, Boursault, Quinaulfc, and of many others, indicate
the collector's taste for the drama and form an important
supplement to the rich collection of early English plays in
the original editions. The copy of Ducis is further enriched
by the insertion of the original drawings for the illustrations,
and of the engravings in three states. This is an excellent
example of Mr. Barton's method in forming his collection.
Besides his love for the best books, he had the book-buyer's
hunger for whatever was unique.
There are also a few volumes of the plays published at
the time of the Revolution, and about thirty volumes of
curious historical pamphlets belonging to the same period.
Outside of the Barton library there is a large number of
French books. The cheap reprints that have appeared in
profusion during the last thirty years have been generally
bought by the library, and it is to be hoped that the same
policy will be pursued in the future. The mere fact that a
book is reprinted shows that it has some importance and,
since the price at which the}' are republished is generally
low, the Library can evidently thus enrich its shelves at mod-
erate expense. It is to be remembered that the editions are
generally small, and that thus delay is dangerous. Just
now many minor writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries are reappearing at a moderate price. I earnestly
recommend their purchase whenever they are not already in
the Library.
I add no list of other books which seem to be needed, be-
cause not a week passes, I think I am safe in saying, that I
do not hand in titles for your consideration. I have during
the year, however, marked in Saintsbury's History of French
literature the lacking books which it seemed desirable to
have. I have also run over Lorenz's catalogues for thirty-
five years, and several volumes of the Bibliocjraphie de la
France, marking what, in my judgment, it was important
that the Library should possess. Not all the books thus
marked are, of course, of equal value, yet all, I think,
might well, in time, find a place on your shelves.
Let me, in conclusion, say that the more I have examined
the Library the more I have been impressed with the richness
of its collections. The French and German departments
were originally begun by ripe scholars. The lines in which
they have been built up, in the direction of solid literature,
show the wise spirit of those who began the task of col-
lection, and their frequent use by readers attests their value
in the public estimation. Doubtless with time the interde-
pendence of all modern literatures, — the fact that they are all
working together in behalf of civilization, — will become more
28 City Document No. 103.
manifest; the study of the modern languages will spread,
and these departments will be more used even than hoav
when this division of the Library is invaluable to all scholars
and most readers.
T. S. PERRY.
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Report of William F. Apthorp, Esq., on the Musical
Department in the Public Library.
Mellen Chamberlain, Esq., Librarian Public Library,
Boston : —
Dear Sir, — As requested by you, I have examined the
musical department of the Public Library, and find that the
collection of musical biographies, theoretical treatises, and,
in general, of such works as come under the head of" Musical
Literature," is what may be called measurably complete.
On the other hand, the musical library, properly so-called,
the collection of works by great composers, is by no means
rich, when compared with the condition of other special de-
partments in the Public Library.
As you have intimated that the trustees of the Public
Library are anxious to place the musical department upon a
footing worthy of the dignity, and of the prominent position
the art of music holds at the present clay as an element of
general culture, and have furthermore asked me to make
such suggestions as seemed to me best calculated to obtain
this result, I submit the following : —
It seems to me important, in every respect, that the Pub-
lic Library should own as many of the full orchestral scores
as possible of the great masters. Such scores may be di-
vided into two classes, —
Class I., comprising such standard works as it is beneath
the dignity of a great library to be without ;
Class II., comprising such modern works as it is of inesti-
mable and immediate importance to the music-student to
have at his disposal, but the costliness of which makes it
generally impossible for him to purchase.
I therefore suggest that the Public Library purchase, as
soon as practicable, the following works : —
A in Class I.
1. Such numbers of the complete edition of the works of
Johann Sebastian Bach, by the German " Bach-Gesellschaft "
(published by Breitkopf und Hartel, of Leipzig), as are not
already in the alcoves.
30 City Document No. 103.
2. The entire edition of the works of G. F. Handel, by
the German " Handel-Gesellschaft," in so far as it has yet
appeared. It also is published by Breitkopf und Hartel.
3. The following complete editions by Breitkopf und
Hartel: — Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schu-
mann.
4. The following standard scores, completed by Robert
Franz : —
Bach's" St. Matthew Passion," Breitkopf u. Hartel, Leipzig ;
Bach's " Trauer-Ode," Kistner, Leipzig ; Bach's " Weih-
nachts-Oratorium, Leuckart, Breslau. Cantatas by Bach,
published by Leuckart, Breslau : — 1. " Es ist dir gesagt " ;
2. "Gott fahret auf " ; 3. "Ich hatte viel Bekiimmerniss " ;
4. "Wer sich selbst erhohet " ; 5. "O ewiges Feuer"; 6.
"Lobet Gott"; 7. "Wer da glaubet"; 8. "Ach, wie rltich-
tig"; 9. "Freue dich"; 10. " Gottes Zeit " ; 11. " Sie
werden aus Saba. Handel's "l'Allegro," etc., Leuckart,
Breslau ; Aslorga's " Stabat Mater," H. Karmrodt ; Du-
rante's "Magnificat," Ibid.; Handel's "Jubilate," Ibid.
5. The following scores by Handel filled out by Mo-
zart : —
"Acis and Galatea," Novello, London; "Alexander's
Feast," Peters, Leipzig; "The Messiah," Ibid.
B in Class II.
1. The following full orchestral scores by Wagner: —
1. "Lohengrin," Breitkopf und Hartel; 2. "Tristan,"
Ibid. ; 3. " Die Meistersinger," Schott, Mainz ; 4. " Das
Rheingold"; 5. " Die Walktire " ; 6. "Siegfried"; 7. Got-
terdammerung," Schott, Mainz.
2. The following full orchestral scores by Berlioz : —
1. Requiem (Ricordi's 2d edition) ; 2. Te Deum ; 3.
Symphonic Fantastique ; 4. "Harold en Italie " ; 5. Sym-
phonic Funebre et Triomphale ; 6. " Romeo et Juliette."
Furthermore, it seems to me a good idea for you, sir, to
put yourself in communication, at the beginning of every
season, with Mr. Georg Henschel, of the Boston Symphony
orchestra, with the presidents of the Handel and Haydn
Society, the Philharmonic Society, the Cecilia, the Apollo
Club, and the Boylston Club, and find out from them what
important new choral works with orchestra (oratorios, can-
tatas, etc.), or new orchestral works (symphonies, overtures,
suites, concertos), they purpose bringing out during the
season, and for you to purchase the full orchestral scores of
the same for the Public Library.
Public Library. 31
I would also suggest that all the scores I have mentioned
be classed as special books, and only allowed to be taken
from the Library for purposes of study.
I remain, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM F. APTHORP.
Boston, June 1, 1883.
32 City Document No. 103.
[O.]
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Trustees: —
My fifth annual report is herewith respectfully submitted.
Increase of the Library.
At the close of the library year, April 30th, the Public
Library contained 422,116 volumes, a net increase for the
year of 17,895 volumes, and the largest of any year not
marked by the accession of an entire library.
Of these volumes, 16,202 came by purchase, 404 by ex-
change, and 5,340 by gift, a detailed account of which will
be found in the Appendix. Nearly 12,000 have been added
to the Bates Hall collection, and the remainder distributed in
the Lower Hall and the branches.
The largest donations are as follows : Mrs. E. B. Bigelow
has presented, from the library of the late Erastus B. Bigelow,
138 volumes on industrial science, uniformly and handsomely
bound. Dr. Henry J. Bigelow has permitted the Librarian
to select from the library of the late Dr. Jacob Bigelow
927 bound volumes and 749 pamphlets, many of which
are of very considerable value. From the British govern-
ment has been received its annual contribution of British
patents, this year comprising 6G volumes; from Dr. William
Moon, of Brighton, England, 351 volumes and 200 printed
sheets, in embossed type for the blind ; from Mrs. Edward
Wiggles worth, and from Miss Caroline Dorr, valuable collec-
tions of newspapers and pamphlets ; from Wendell Phillips,
Esq., 1,303 books and 4,682 pamphlets, many of which are
of great value, with a mass of anti-slavery literature which
will strengthen a division of the Library previously uncom-
monly full ; from the Arch-Duke Ludwig Salvator, of Austria,
ten volumes of his own works, finely printed and illustrated,
and from Charles F. Shimmin, Esq., the publications of the
Chaucer society, the Early English text society, and the
New Shakspere society, in 158 volumes and parts. Nor
will I omit to mention in this place several important dona-
tions made shortly after the close of the library year. Mrs.
R. Anne Nichols, of the Roxbury Highlands, has presented
to the Library 77 volumes, chiefly folios and quartos, and
many of them richly illustrated with portraits and engravings.
This collection, which has rarely been exceeded in value by
Public Libeary. 33
any single donation to the Library, has already been assigned
to the same apartment which contains the library given by
Mrs. Nichols' sister, the late Miss Eliza M. Thayer. From the
family of the late Deacon Moses Grant have been received
several hundred volumes and many pamphlets, comprising
copies of many desirable books printed in Boston ; and from
Mrs. S. A. Clark a collection of more than a thousand por-
traits and engravings, gathered by her late husband, Elijah
P. Clark, Esq., to illustrate Carlyle's History of the French
Revolution.
Nor has the Central Library been the sole recipient of bene-
factions. Dr. Edward J. Forster has presented to the
Charlestown branch a complete set of Braithwaite's Retrospect
of Practical Medicine and Surgery, from 1840 to 1883, and a
nearly complete set of the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal. Friends of the Public Library living in West
Roxbury have given sixty-four dollars, which have been ex-
pended in books for the Library in that ward ; and a citizen
of South Boston has given one hundred dollars for the pur-
chase of reference books for the South Boston branch
library.
The family of the late Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch have con-
tinued their annual liberality, enabling the trustees to pur-
chase, during the year, several hundred volumes on mathe-
matics, selected mainly by the advice of Professor Runkle,
and his assistants, of the Institute of Technology. And I
desire to mention in this connection similar services to the
Library, rendered by Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and
Edward W. Sanborn, Esq., in the department of jurispru-
dence, and by Prof. Thomas S. Perry, in French and Ger-
man literature.
Library Facilities.
The additional facilities for the distribution and use of
books added during the year are the North-End Reading-
room and Delivery station, opened in the Hancock school-
house, in which eligible rooms wrere placed at the disposal of
the Trustees, by the school committee, and fitted for library
purposes by a special appropriation of the City council. A
Delivery station has been opened at Neponset, which appears
to be appreciated by the inhabitants of that section of the
city ; and the trustees will soon be in possession, by vote of
the City Council, of rooms in the old Blue Hill bank building,
more convenient than those at present occupied at the Lower
Mills, Dorchester.
34 City Document No. 103.
Circulation.
The circulation of books from the whole Library exceeds
that of the last year by 5,349 volumes, and presents some
gratifying features. From Bates Hall, for home use, were
taken 66,948, against 63,782 the preceding year ; and the
hall use was 113,127 against 103,540, for the same period ;
and the aggregrate use of 180,075 is larger by more than
12,000 than in any previous year.
This increase in the circulation of books from Bates Hall
extends through all the classifications into which books are
divided, with two exceptions. In the classics and in French
literature, especially the latter, the circulation has fallen
off. On the other hand, in American history, English his-
tory, and theology, the growth of circulation has been most
marked, being more than one third of the total circulation.
Works illustrating the tine and the useful arts have been in
demand.
Circulation in the Lower Hall.
From the following tables the Trustees will see the
improved character of the books circulated from the Lower
Hall, during the last year, as compared with the year
previous : —
Classification of Lower Hall Circulation by Per-
centages for 1881-2 and 1882-3.
Fiction and juveniles
History and biography
Voyages and travels
Science, art, etc. ....
Periodicals, in volumes
Foreign languages ....
Miscellaneous, poetry, etc.
The above figures show a very considerable decrease in the
use of fiction, and a corresponding increase in the use of
other departments of literature. But, while the foregoing
figures are gratifying as indicating the efficiency of those
means, used particularly in the Lower Hall, to improve the
quality of the reading, still it will be noticed that there is a
very large decrease in the circulation of books from that
department.
1881-82.
1882-83.
64.23
61.49
7.01
7.26
4.03
4.57
8.96
9.47
4.93
5.11
3.52
4.41
7.32
7.69
Public Library. 35
Catalogues.
During the last year a much needed catalogue of the
South-End branch has been published, and the effect on the
circulation at that branch has been marked, as is always the
case. All the branch libraries now have printed catalogues,
issued as follows: Brighton, in 1874; Charlestown, 1880;
Dorchester, 1882 ; East Boston, 1879 ; Jamaica Plain, 1878 ;
Koxbury, 1876; South Boston, 1879; South End, 1883.
These are supplemented by card catalogues at each branch,
by titles published in the Quarterly bulletins, and by those
in forms upon the walls in each building. Supplementary
printed volumes will soon be desirable at Roxbury and other
branches, and a new catalogue at Brighton. Nothing will
supply the place of a printed catalogue, embracing under
one alphabet, the titles of all the books in a library ; and
since the branch libraries are designed for popular use, it
becomes a serious question whether superannuated books
should be allowed to remain in such libraries, thereby swell-
ing the number of useless volumes, so as to render impracti-
cable the frequent issue of new catalogues.
At* the Central Library the work of revision of the card
catalogue has gone steadily forward, and the improvement
in its condition is quite marked. The aim has been to re-
duce the bulk of catalogues as far as possible without inter-
fering with its completeness, and to condense the titles
within the closest limits.
The Quarterly bulletins have been published as usual.
Several lists begun during the year promise to be of great
value. The preparation of the catalogue of the Benjamin
Franklin literature in this and other libraries, for the
Bulletin, has brought to light much unpublished material.
The publication of special lists has served to show the defi-
ciencies of this library, which, as in the case of the Franklin
collection, have been largely supplied by gift. The index*
of articles upon American local history, contained in miscel-
laneous collections in the Public Library, which was begun
in the April number of the Bulletin, has been received with
favor.
The final revision of the cards of the Barton catalogue
previous to printing is now going on ; and work is in progress
upon a new edition of the Hand-book for Readers, which will
consist largely of such lists of books as will serve to make
the Library more accessible. One of these lists — an index
to the notes upon books found in our own bulletins and cata-
logues, and in those of other libraries, as also in various
literary periodicals — has been finished and duplicated on
36 City Document No, 103.
cards which have been inserted in the card catalogues in
Bates Hall.
During the period from May 1, 1882, to May 1, 1883,
16,025 new books, 4,217 pamphlets, and 4,084 serial volumes
have been catalogued ; and 92,394 cards have been added to
the catalogues of the Central library and branches, including
those for books re-catalogued, but not those made for the
Barton and Bowditch libraries.
MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN,
Librarian.
April 30, 1883.
APPENDIXES
TO THE
LIBKABIAN'S EEPOET
1883.
LIST OF APPENDIXES.
I. Extent of the Library (by Years).
II. Yearly Increase by Purchase and Donation.
III. Volumes in the Special Collections of Bates Hall.
IV". Volumes Located in the Lower Hall.
V. Increase of the Several Departments.
VI. Increase from Newly Published Books.
VII. Bates Hall Classifications.
VIII. Lower Hall Classifications.
IX. Givers and Amount of Gifts.
X. Circulation.
XL Registration of Applicants.
XII. Books Recommended. Use of Patent Library.
XIII. Bates Hall Reading.
XIV. Lower Hall and Branch Reading.
XV. Fellowes Athenaeum and Brighton Reading.
XVI. Periodical Reading Rooms.
XVII. Losses and Delinquencies.
XVIII. Financial Statement.'
XIX. Library Funds.
XX. Library Service.
XXI. Report of Examination of the Shelves.
XXII. Work in the Library Bindery.
XXIII. Examining Committees for Thirty-one Years.
Public Library.
39
APPENDIX I.
EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY BY YEARS.
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1852-53
9,688
961
16
1867-68
144,092
47,254
2
1853-54
16,221
3,950
17
1868-69
152,796
61,177
3
1854-55
22,617
6,507
18
1869-70
160,573
74,770
4
1855-56
28,080
12,386
19
1870-71
179,250
89,746
5
1856-57
34,896
16,053
20
1871-72
192,958
100,383
6
1857-58
70,851
17,938
21
1S72-73
209,456
112,153
7
1858-59
78,043
19,255
22
1873-74
260,550
134,628
8
1859-60
85,031
20,707
23
1874-75
276,918
150,921
9
1860-61
97,386
27,381
24
1S75-76
297,873
181,653
10
1861-62
105,034
28,874
25
1876-77
312,010
196,958
11
1862-63
110,563*
31,043
26
1877-78
345,734
212,414
12
1863-64
116,934
31,837
27
1878-79
360,963
227,010
13
1864-65
123,016
32,553
28
1879-80
377,225
236,534
14
1865-66
130,678
36,566
29
1880-81
390,982
250,495
15
1866-67
136,080
44,443
30
1881-82
404,221
261,056
31
18S2-S3
422,116
275,425
Note. — The aggregate of pamphlets " added from the beginning " includes many since
bound, singly or in groups (which are now counted among volumes), and a very large num-
ber of duplicates which are thrown out and put among the pamphlets held for exchange.
VOLUMES IN LIBRARY AND BRANCHES, 1882-83.
i
^s
Bates Hall
Newspaper room ....
Duplicate room
Lower Hall
Total, Central Library .
Fellowes Athenaeum . .
City part
Total, Roxbury Branch
249,440
3,603
14,173
38,164
305,3SO
8,385
13,614
21.999
East Boston
South Boston ....
Charlestown
Brighton
Dorchester
South End
Jamaica Plain ....
West Roxbury delivery
North End
11,263
10,961
24,825
13,190
11,910
9,947
8,976
3,144
521
40
City Document No. 103.
APPENDIX II.
YEARLY INCREASE OF THE WHOLE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE AND BY GIFTS.
Note. — The increase of volumes is not the sum of those added by gift and purchase, etc., because lost
and condemned books are deducted.
Years.
Increase.
Gifts.
Purchases, in-
cluding those
charged to funds
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exchange.
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395,177
12,239
17,895
251,538
10,561
14,369
143,745
5,291
5,340
178,S66
8,773
11,844
250,474
15,986
16,222
67,974
2,068
2,525
7,143
745
522
12.5S3
520
575
1 Includes pamphlets added both by purchase and exchange, as taken from the Accession
catalogue.
2 Included in previous columns. The volumes are not the property of the Public Library,
but form a part of the Roxbury branch, by agreement.
Details for the years 1852-81 can be found in Appendix II. to the Report for 1881.
APPENDIX III.
VOLUMES IN THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BATES HALL.
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2,120
2,323
2,457
2,596
2,731
2,823
2,897
3,003
3,066
3,142
3,259
Bowditch libr'y1
2,542
2,542
2,542
2,542
2,592
2,932
3,043
3,060
3,152
3,224
3,456
Parker library1,
11,907
11,907
11,935
12,292
12,291
12,296
12,309
12,322
12,337
12,363
13,952
Prince library .
1,970
1,970
1,970
1,970
2,028
2,029
2,037
2,159
2,230
2,274
2,327
Ticknor library,
3,907
3,907
3,940
4,285
4,929
5,171
5,354
5,432
5,454
5,463
5,507
Barton library .
12,057
11,902
12,1082
12,804
13,950
14,210
14,301
14,360
13,487
13,610
Franklin library
Thayer library,
202
240
292
893
920
1 See Appendix VII.
2 The number given in 1874 was as near as could be reckoned before the entry on the
Accession catalogue was made. The number given in 1875 is what had actually been entered,
and the full number is given since these dates.
Public Libraky.
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City Document No. 103.
APPENDIX Y.
INCREASE OE THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
' Gain in books . .
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8,506
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8,322
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Less transfers
and condemned
2,483
2,094
2,376
1,164
2,576
2,378
1,400
s
289
1,212
978
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Gain by addition .
Less loss by ex-
changes, etc. . .
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Loss .
784
2,177
386
1,233
936
223
713
1.764
781
g f Gain in books . .
o< I Condemned and
1 5 ) lost
"ill
^ [ Net gain
649
587
596
406
377
372
243
210
223
604
379
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is lost
935
581
995
644
1,000
485
766
304
354
351
515
462
( Gain in city part .
Condemned and
lost
Net gain
Fellowes Athe-
naeum. (Net
gain)
[ Total gain .
77s
333
44:.
361
811
335
476
2,111
2,5S7
1,090
757
579
333
745
522
1,324
855
' Gain in books
: I Condemned and
^ I. Net gain
1,310
340
1,568
425
1,533
675
f Gain in books . .
5 -^ 1 Condemned and
■;- = 1
fi5«Q 1
273
27
183
26
108
56
140
97
246
117
52
51
«. fGain in books . .
~<; 1 Condemned and
926
166
640
128
828
93
767
189
JS£
760
512
578
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'Gain in books . .
Condemned and
539
18
450
23
460
96
569
195
Si
521
427
364
374
"5 fGain in books . .
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*j| ) lost
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368
no
215
200
410
197
515
288
.55 1
258
9
213
227
'Bates Hall gain .
7,758
8,322
8,731
11,704
Lower Hall gain .
389
1,212
loss 531
978
Newspaper room
gain .'
332
69
41
98
Duplicate room
713
9S3
E. B. branch gain,
243
210
223
225
S. B. branch gain.
354
351
515
462
Rox. branch gain,
445
476
579
333
Fellowes Athe-
naeum gam . .
361
2,111
745
522
Chn. branch gain,
970
1,143
858
765
Bri. branch gain .
246
117
52
51
Dor. branch gain .
760
512
735
578
J. P. branch gain .
521
427
364
374
S. E. branch gain.
258
9
213
227
W. Rox. branch
74
N.E. branch gain,
521
Total gain . . .
14,112
14,113
**13,239
17,895
* There is a loss of 531 volumes for 1882, owing to the transfer of a large number of duplicates to the duplicate
room and also to the fact that the number of books condemned this year exceeds those supplied.
**This total gain includes the 1 vol. at the West Roxbury delivery gained during 1682.
Public Library.
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APPENDIX VI.
INCREASE FROM NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS.
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J, 294
1,533
2,830
2,237
1,763
1,781
1,555
1,841
2,091
2,058
English books -with
American imprint . .
3,807
7,365
10,501
6,761
5,546
5,295
5,637
4,346
4,856
4,755
English books 'with
Continental imprint .
125
375
316
180
191
233
238
1S6
235
232
858
767
1,858
1,742
1,269
1,372
1,399
1,245
1,411
1,427
Total
6,084
10,040
15,505
10,920
8,769
8,681
8,829
7,618
8,593
8,472
APPENDIX VII.
BATES HALL CLASSIFICATIONS.
(Representing book* located only.)
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
xxn.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
Cyclopa-dias, etc
niblkitjiajiliy and literary liUtory
General history, biography, travel, and geography
American history, geography, biography, travel, and polite literature .
English history, etc
French history, etc
Italian history, etc
German history, etc
Greek, Latin, and philology
Spanish and Portuguese history and literature
Other history, geography, biography, travel, and literature ......
Periodicals and transactions
Theology, ecclesiastical history, etc
Metaphysics and social science
Jurisprudence
Politicale tomy
Medical science
Natural history and science
Mathematics and physical science
Useful arts
Fine arts
Bound volumes of miscellaneous pamphlets
Hound volumes o:
Hooks tor tin' blind .
(1 knckai, LlBRAr.T.
1 ,685
6,344
23,733
13,807
7,634
8,039
5,520
1,218
1H.137
19,129
8,263
5,414
6,497
Special Libraries.
3,457
1,359
Total,
including
special
2,267
7,961
8,392
33,112
31,227
17,048
5,228
7,102
20,704
24,406
9,958
4,618
2.S20
11,992
7,00s
11, till
5,474
6,631
547
Kxci.anation,— < Oa-s III. includes general history, etc., when embracing several countries,
and collected works of historians.
Class I V. includes tie- collected works of American writers, and what of American literature is
sometimes termed polygrapby.
t I isse. \\, VI., VII.. and VIII. have the same scope for tie- respective countries that Class IV.
has lor America Class VIII. includes also Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the
Scandinavian nations.
i la-- XIV. includes political science and ethics, applied and unapplied, education, phrenology,
Cla-s XIX. includes mechanics, military alel naval alt-, act iciiltnre, domestic aits, etc.
Class XXIV. does not include the Shakespeare collection of the geueral library.
The subdivisions of classes are kept in ranges by themselves, so that for purposes of
r learning percentage of use. it is practicable at any time to get exact figures upon the sub
dft LsionB; as also upon such point*
of the ranges devoted to tbeni '
Note. — The dates given in the special libraries column show
by the library.
Details for years previous to 1SS2 can be found i
, etc., by summing the r
year when they were acquired
Appendix VIII. to the Report for 1881.
■ Includes all books i
i G, — 12,108 of them belonging to the Barton library.
finally shelved the
Public Library.
45
APPENDIX VIII.
LOWER HALL CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
Theology, moral and intellectual science, etc. . . .
Jurisprudence and political science
Medicine, mathematics, physics or natural science .
Useful and line arts, military and naval science . .
American history and politics
Foreign history and politics
Poetry, drama, oratory, rhetoric
English prose fiction, including juvenile fiction, and
other juvenile books
Biography
Travels
Libraries, collections, periodicals, etc.*
German books ,
Italian books ,
French books ,
Spanish books
Books of reference
Extent of L. H. collection
1882
1,961
385
2,558
918
1,169
1,571
3,279
13,195
2,732
2,355
3,800
1,524
158
1,152
3
426
37,186
46
13
78
55
34
33
80
347
97
71
103
1,026
1,079
1883
49
16
109
41
123
1,343
126
121
210
2,378
To be de-
ducted.
5
2
12
11
19
6
37
1,040
31
35
156
26
1,393
£2
2,005
399
2,655
979
1,226
1,606
3,364
13,498
2,826
2,441
3,854
1,546
156
1,171
4
434
38,164
Reported last year 37,186
Gain in 1882-83 978
* This class, embracing sets like Bohn's " Libraries," etc., includes many books, of course, which,
in a minute classification, would have been divided among all the previous heads of this table.
Note. — The column of " Condemned books replaced," includes books condemned in previous
years as well as in the current year. The column " Total added " shows the number of volumes as put
iipon the shelves, counting as one those bound two volumes in one, etc.
46
City Document No. 103.
APPEOT3IX IX.
GIFTS, MAY 1, 1882, TO APRIL 30, 1883.
Givers (excluding anonymous) ..... 575
Volumes 5.340
Pamphlets 11,844
Givers.
Abbott, Samuel A. B.
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.
Aldrich, A. J., & Co., Coldwater, Mich.
Allibone, S. Austin, New York City .
Almy, Francis, Chicago, 111.
A lmy, Frederic, New Bedford .
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American and Foreign Bible Society
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Salem ....
American Bar Association .
American-Belgian Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia
Pa
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Ephemens and Nautical Almanac Office, Wash
ington, D.C. .......
American Institute of Mining Engineers, Easton, Pa.
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Pharmaceutical Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Socie
American Unitarian Association
Anonymous, 3 charts ....
Anthony, Susan B., Rochester, N. Y. .
Appleton, Nathan ....
Appleton, William S.
Archaeological Institute of America .
Armas, Juan Ignacio de, Havana, Cuba
Arnold, Howard Payson
Arnold Arboretum, Brookline .
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Baker, Henry A., D.D.S. .
Balfour, David M
Ballon, Maturin M
Bancroft, Harlow P., San Francisco, Cal
Bangs, E. D., Amherst
Barlow, Samuel L. M., New York City
Barry, T. S
Bartlett, Mrs. M. D., Mendon .
Barton, Rev. Walter, Lynn
Basford, James L.
Bcal, Hon. George L., Avgusta, Me.
Bell, Alexander G., Ph. D., Washington, D.C.
ty
1
1
l
2
1
108
109
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
12
1
4
2
2
1,053
Public Library.
47
Givers.
Vols.
Pphs.
Benet Brig.-Gen. S. Y., Washington, P.C.
2
1
138
Bigelow, Henry J., M.D
927
749
Biker, Julio F. J., Lisbon, Portugal. ....
1
1
1
Blaisdell, Frank C
1
Blake, Eli W., New Haven, Conn. .....
1
Blodgett, Albert N., M. D
5
Blood, Mrs. James G. ......
1
Boardman, Mrs. W. L. P
1
Bolles, William P., M.D. .
16
Bolton, H. Carrington, Ph. P., Hartford, Conn.
1
Bontemps, George, Amboise, France ....
1
Boston, City of, 3 maps, 6 newspapers ....
380
370
Assessors' Department ......
17
Auditor of Accounts ......
4
66
Board of Health
2
Fire Commissioners, 1 engraving ....
1
1
1
Overseers of the Poor ......
1
Police Commissioners ......
4
2
_ S\r*lirww Ptimtnit'tr'P
1
7
AV'itor Rn*irrl
Boston Commercial Exchange ......
2
Boston Gas Light Company ......
4
1
2
Boston Young Men's Christian Union ....
1
1
Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad Company
1
Bourinot, John G., Ottawa, Canada .....
1
1
Boutwell, Francis M., Groton ......
1
2
Bowman, Hon. S. Z., Washington, P.O. .
6
1
Brace, Charles L., New York City .....
1
Brackett, C. A., P.M. P., Newport, R.I. ....
1
Bradford, Charles F
1
Bradlee, Rev. Caleb D., a lot of broadsides, 2 maps, 119
newspapers, 2 photographs ......
18
350
Brewer, Mrs. Gardner .......
2
Bridgeport, Conn., Public Library .....
1
Brigham, William T., 1 map ......
1
1
Brighton Health Congress, Brighton, England
1
4
Brookline Civil Service Reform Association, Brookline .
1
Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, N. Y. .
13
Brooks, Rev. William Henry, Hanover ....
13
35
Brown, Francis H., M.P., 7 broadsides ....
4
70
Brown, J. C. J. .
1
Brown, J. Hurd .........
1
Brown, Mrs. John Carter, Providence, R.I.
1
Brown, W. Symington, M.D.
1
Brown University, Providence, R.I. .
1
Budapest, Hungary, Statistical Bureau ....
4
Bulkeley, Hon. Morgan E., Hartford, Conn.
1
Burnham, Sherburne W., Chicago, III. ....
1
1
48
City Document No. 103.
Givers.
Butler, James D., LL.D., Madison, Wis.
Butts, Bryan J., Hopedale
Byrani, Edward It. ....
Calvert, George II., Newport, R.I. .
Campbell, John L., Indianapolis, Ind.
Campbell, Samuel S. ....
Canada, Geological and Natural History Survey, Montreal
Candler, lion. John W., Brookline .
Capen, John ......
Carret, Jose F
Cartee, Cornelius S., M.D.
Cayuga County Historical Society, Auburn, N.
Chamberlain, Hon. Mellon
Chandler, Horace P., 31) newspapers
Chapin, Alfred C, New York City
Chase, George B.
Cheney, Rev. Oren B., D.D., Lewiston, Me.
Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, 111.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, III. .
Children's Hospital .....
Childs, George W., Philadelphia, Pa.
Christern, F. W., New York City
Christian Register Association .
Christian Union, New York City
Chute, J. M
Cincinnati Observatory, 3ft. Lookout, Ohio
Claflin, Hon. William ....
Clapp, Herbert C, M.D
Clark, Rev. George F., Mendon
Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D. .
Clarry, Miss C. F. . . . .
Cobb, Hon. Samuel C.
Cobden Club, London ....
Colby University, Waterville, Me.
Collet, 0. D., London ....
Collet, Prof. O. W., St. Louis, Mo. .
Comite Central Itusse de Statistique. St. Petersburg, Russia
Commission Geodesiquede laNorvege, Christiania, Norway,
Connecticut Board of Education .....
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Haven,
Conn. .......
Cook, Clarence, New York City
Cook, George H., Trenton, N.J.
Cook, George J. .
Cooke, Mrs. ......
Cooley, Mrs. MaryE., Adrian, Mich.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Costello, Martin J., Clinton
Cotton, Mrs. Lizzie E., West Gorham, Me.
Courtenay, Hon. William A., Charleston, S.C.
Cox, Hon. William It., Washington, D.C.
Crane, Phineas M., M.D
Crawford, T. H., Portland, Oregon .
Crosby, John L., Bangor, Me. .
Crunden, Frederick M., St. Louis, Mo.
Cullum, Brig. -Gen. George W., New York City
Cummings, T. H.
Curtis, Prof. H. S., West Point, N. Y. .
Cusliings & Bailey, Baltimore, Md.
1
44
1
1
2
16
1
1
15
1
1
1
1
1
15
1
15
3
1
135
1
3
2
1
33
1
2
3
10
1
Public Libraky.
49
Givers.
Del.
1
Cutter, Abram E.
Dahlgren Post 2, G.A.R.
Dalton, Joseph G.
Davis, Hon. Alonzo, Fitchburg
Davis, Robert C, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dawson, Henry B., New York City .
Day, Albert, M. D
Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington,
Dennet, Charles F., Brighton, England
Depping, Guillaume, Paris, France .
Derby, Orville A., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Devoe, F. W., & Co., New York City
De Voe, Thomas F., New York City
Dexter, George ....
Dexter, Julius ....
Dickerman, Rev. Lysander
Dillaway, Charles K.
Dixey, Wolstan, 12 newspapers
Dixwell, George B. .
Dodd's Newspaper Advertising Agency
Dodge, James H.
Dorr, Miss Caroline, lot of newspapers
Dryden, Miss Minta I., Dayton, Ohio
Duane, William, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Duffield, Rev. Samuel W., Bloomfield, N.J.,
Dunnell, Hon. Mark H., Washington, D.C.
Duren, Elnathan F., Bangor, Me.
Dwight, Theodore F., Washington, D.C.
Eads, H. L., South Union, Ky.
Eaton, Prof. D. Cady, New Haven, Conn
Edes, Henry H. ....
Edes, Robert T., M.D.
Edison Electric Light Company, New York
Edmands, Thomas J. .
Eigenbrodt, Rev. William E., D.D.,New
Ellicott, Joseph P
Elze, Dr. Karl, Halle, Germany
Emery, George E., Lynn .
Ernst, C. W
Essex Institute, Salem
Evening Post Publishing Company, New York City
Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, Pa
Fall, Charles G
Fall River, Public Library
Fernald, Prof. O. M. ...
Fernandez, Leon, Sa?i Jose, Costa Rica
First Church, Lynn ....
First Religious Society, Roxbury
Firth, A., 1 map ....
Fisher, Charles H., M.D., Providence, R.l.
Fitz, Reginald H., M.D., 42 newspapers
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt.
Floye, W. J. . . .
Fliigel, Dr. Felix, Leipzig, Germany
Folsom, Albert A. . .
Forbes, J. M
Ford, William E
Forster, Edward J., M.D. .
Foster, W. E., Providence, R.I.
City
'ork
newspaper
City
Pphs.
2
14
1
1
1
1
1
2
19
2
130
1
50
1
1
10
93
2
2
2
4
2
1
1
1
1
28
146
18
1
1
1
1
2
609
1
10
1
1
6
2
1
60
14
2
1
2
18
77
59
2
7
14
11
1
32
2
50
City Document No. 103.
Givers.
Foster, William H. .
Fox, Capt.G.V., U.S.N. . 1
France, Ministry of Public Instruction .... 1
Frazer, Prof. P., Philadelphia, Pa. ..... 1
French, John D. W ■ . . .3
Fteley, A
Fuller, Miss Edith D
Gauthier, Mine. Victor .......
Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Ga., 2 newspapers .
Gerould, Rev. Samuel L., Goffstown, N.H.
Gibbs, J. Willard, Philadelphia, Pa. .....
Giles, Alfred E., Hyde Park
Gillman, Henry, Detroit, Mich. .....
Globe Newspaper Company ...... 3
Gloucester, City of 1
Gould, Benj. A., Ph.D., Cordoba, Argentine Republic
Gould, S. ('., Manchester
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Rhode Island, Provi-
dence, R.I. ........ 1
Gray, Miss Ann G 14
Great Britain, Commissioners of Patents .... o'6
Green, S. W., New York City ......
Green, linn. Samuel A., M.D., 15 broadsides, 1 chart, 73
maps, 48 portraits, 32 prints ...... 28
Greenough, Harry P., San Francisco, Cal.
Greenough, Malcolm S. ...... .
Greenough, W. A., & Co 1
Greenough, William W 19
Groo, lion. William J., Middleton, N.T. ....
Groton, Town of ....... .
Hale, Rev. Edward E., D.D 20
Hale, George S., 3 maps ....... 6
Hallett, lion. W. II., Brighton, England
Hampshire, Franklin & Hampden Agricultural Society,
Northampton ........
Harlan, Caleb, M.D., Wilmington, Del. ....
Harlow, James H., Pittsburgh, Pa. .....
Harney, George J., Cambridge ......
Harris, Samuel T. .......
Harrison, J. B., Franklin Falls, N.TL, 2 broadsides
Hart, Charles H., Philadelphia, Pa. .....
Hassam, John T. . .
Hawkins, Dexter A., New York City ....
Hayes, Miss Abby Stanley ......
Ilaynes, Prof. Henry W. ....... 2
Hazard, Thomas R., Vauclitse, R.I. .....
Head-quarters of the Military Division of the Missouri,
Chicago. III. .........
Herrick, Hon. R. R., Cleveland, Ohio ....
Hildeburn, Charles R., Philadelphia, Pa.
Hill, Hon. Hamilton A
Hill, Walter H., Jr
Hinds, J. I. D., Ph.D., Lebanon, Tenn
Hoar, Hon. E. R., Concord ...... 1
Hoar, Hon. George F. ....... 5
Holder, Thomas W 1
Hollis, John W 4
Homes, Henry A., LL.D., Albany, N.Y. . . . . 6
Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 4 calendars ....
Public Library.
51
Givers.
, Vi
Norw
Howland, Joseph, Matteawan, N. Y. .
Hughes, Hon. John, Liverpool, England .
Hunnewell, James F. ....
Huntington, 3Irs. L. A. .
Huntington, W. H
Hutchins, Rev. B. T., Philadelphia, Pa. .
Institution of Civil Engineers, London
Iowa Historical Society, Iowa City .
Italy, Ministry of Agriculture, Rome
James Lick Trust, San Francisco, Cal.
Jay, John, Katonah, N Y.
Jeffries, B. Joy, 31. D., 7 maps .
Johnson, Rev. Samuel, Family of
Jones, E. U., M.D. .
Judd, Chauncy P.
Kaiserliche Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt
Austria .......
Kennedy, Frederick C, Burlington, Vt. .
Knapp, Arthur M., 5 broadsides .
Knapp, George B. .
Knapp, Prof. William I., New Haven, Conn.
Knowlton, T. S., West Brookfield
Kongelige Fredericks Universitet, Cliristiania,
Korschelt, 0., Tokio, -Japan
Krewson, W. E., Philadelphia, Pa. .
Lancaster Town Library ....
Lang, Hon. Henry, Newark, N.J.
Latham, Williams, Bridgewater
Lathers, Richard, New York City
Laurie, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Providence, R.I.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1 map ....
Lawrence, Richard H., New York City
Lawrence Academy, Groton
Lee, John W. M., Baltimore, Md.
Leicester Public Library ....
Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society,
England ......
Le May, Leon P., Quebec, Canada
Lenox Library, New York City ■
Leve & Alden ....
Lewis, John A. .
Library Company of Philadelphia
Lincoln, Francis H. .
Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Canada
Lockwood, Brooks, & Co. .
Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lowell, Mrs. John
Loyal Legion of the United States, Massachusetts
mandery ......
Ludington, J. ..... .
Ludwig Salvator, Arch-Duke, Prague, Austria
Lyon, W. B., San Francisco, Cal. .
McCleary, Samuel F. .
McDanolds, James S., Trenton, N.J.
MacDonald, Carlos F., 31. D., Auburn, N.Y.
McDonald, Frank V., San Francisco, Cal.
Mace, Jean, Monthiers, France .
McPhetres, Samuel A., Lowell .
Mallinckrodt, James F., St. Louis, Mo. .
a'J
Leicester
Com
Pphs.
6
1
1
20
1
4
1
1
107
11
9
2
1
10
41
2
1
1
1
1
297
1
3
1
1
35
4
1
2
2
1
1
40
1
1
9
1
2
2
1
1
1
195
1
247
52
City Document No. 103.
Manchester, England, Public Free Libraries
Manning, Jacob W. .
Marcus, Alfred A., and family .
Marcy, Henry O.
Massachusetts, State of ... .
- Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Library
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy .
Massachusetts Historical Society, 3 newspapers
Massachusetts Horticultural Society .
Massachusetts Medical Society .
Massachusetts Universalist Convention
Maxwell, Sidney D., Cincinnati, Ohio
May, Miss Abhy W
Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, Cal. .
Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland,
Mai.
Medical Journal Publishing Company, St. Louis, Mo
Melbourne, Australia, Public Library
Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Cal.
Michigan, State of, Lansing
- Railroad Commissioner .
State Library
Baltimore
200 broad
Milwaukee, Wis,, Public Library
Minnesota, State Board of Health, Red Wing, Minn
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.
Mitchell, Clifford, M.D., Chicago, III.
Montague, Rev. Richard, Providence, R.I.
Moon, William, LL.D., Brighton, England,
sides .......
Morgan, Henry J., Ottawa, Canada.
Morrison, Nathan J., D.D., Springfield, Mo.
Morse, lion. Leopold ....
Morse, William B.
Morse Institute, Natick ....
Murdock, A. L., 12 maps ....
Murphy, Hon. Charles M., Dover, N. 11. .
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge
Nagle, JohnT., M.D., New York City .
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
National Board of Health, Washington, B.C.
New Bedford, City of ....
Free Public Library
New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute
New Hampshire, State of .
Library, Concord, Nil.
New Jersey, State Geologist, Trenton, N.J.
New York City Mission and Tract Society, New
New York Historical Society, New York City
New York Produce Exchange, New York City
New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.
Newbrough, Br. W. J., New York City
Newburyport, City of
Public Library
Nichols, Mrs. B. W.
Nichols, James R
Nichols, Mrs. Mary P.
Northumberland, Buke of, London .
Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition,
tee, Christiania, Norway
York
City
Editorial Commit-
18
12
10
351
97
1
1
42
1
1
1
1
1
2
13
Public Library.
53
GlTERS.
Nourse, Henry S., Lancaster ......
Noyes, Charles J. .......
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Odd Fellows' Library Association, San Francisco, Cal.
Ohio Mechanics' Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio State Library, Columbus, Ohio .....
Oliver, Mrs. J. P., 4 newspapers .....
Olney, Peter B., New York City
Oregon State Medical Society, Portland, Oregon
Owings, N. H..,Olympia, Washington Territory
Packard, Rev. E. N
Paine, Nathaniel, Worcester ......
Panin, Ivan, Cambridge .......
Paris, France, City of .......
Municipal Council ......
Parish, Roswell ........
Park, Rev. Edwards A., D.D., Andover ....
Parmenter, Hon. William E., Arlington ....
Parsons, Charles E., Lynn ......
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology,
Cambridge .........
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Perry, Thomas S., 2 broadsides .....
Phelps, Hon. Edward J., Burlington, Vt. ...
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia,
Pa. .
Phillips, Wendell, 6 broadsides, 2 maps, a lot of news-
papers
Pittsburg, Pa., City of
Plymouth, England, Free Public Library.
Pool, Wellington, Wenham ......
Poole, William F., Chicago, III
Porter, Rev. Edward G., Lexington
Portland, Me., City of
Pray, Lewis Glover, Estate of
Prescott, B. F
Preston, Edward, London .......
Prince, C. Leeson, Crowborough, England
Prince, Hon. Frederick O.
Prisoners' Aid Association, Chicago, 111. ....
Proctor, Lewis A., Milwaukee, Wis. ....
Providence, R.I., Auditor
Public Library
Putnam, Benjamin W. .......
Putnam, Hon. Horace B., Manchester, N.H. .
Putnam, Burr, & Co
Quincy, Miss Eliza S., Wollaston
Ray, Richard .........
Reale Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, Italy
Reale Istituto-Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, Italy
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Reed, John H., Cotuit
Rhode Island, State Board of Health, Providence, R.I.
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, R.I. .
Richardson, Miss Susan C.
Rideing, William H
Roberts, George, York, England
Robertson, Hon. John B., New Haven, Conn. .
Pphs.
13
2
1
36
1,303
1
1
1
1
2
87
135
1
2
1
3
31
1
4,682
2
1
2
2
40
5
27
54
City Document No. 103.
Givers.
Robinson, F. T
Robinson, S., Glasgow, Scotland
Rolfe, William J., Cambridge .
Ross, W. T., Louisville, Ky., 1 broadside
Rotherham, England. Free Public Library
Royal Astronomical Society, London
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England .
San Francisco, Cat., Free Public Library .
Sawyer, Hon. Timothy T. ...
Schlegel & Fottler
Scudder, Samuel EL, Cambridge
Seeley, Montressor S., W'obum
Seymour, Hon. Norman, Ml. Morris, N. Y.
Shaw, B. S
Shaw, Samuel S
Sheffield, England,, Central Library .
Sheridan, Lieut. -Gen. P. EL, Chicago, III.
Shimmin, Charles F. ....
Shirley, Hon. John M., Andover, N.H.
Sinnickson, Robert, Trenton, N.J., 102 broadsides
Slack, Charles W
Slocum, Charles E., M.D., Syracuse, NY.
Smith, Charles C
Smith, W. L., Lansing, Mich. .
Smith, Walter
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Smyth, C. Piazzi, Edinburgh, Scotland
Snow, Edwin M., M.D., Providence, R.I.
Societe de Geographic, Paris, France
Societe rlistorique de Montreal, Montreal, Can
Spangler, William VV., Bloomington, Ind
Starck, E. G. .
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 3Iadison
Stearns, Robert E. C, Berkeley, Cal.
Stennett, W. H., Chicago, III. .
Stevens, Abel F., Natick ....
Stevens, Henry, London .
Stockwell, Thomas B., Providence, R.I. .
Strahan, Thomas, Chelsea
Strict-Constructionist Publishers, 70 newspapers
Strout, James C, Washington, D.C.
Stryker, Adj. -Gen. William S., Trenton, N.J.
Suplee, Thomas I)., San Francisco, Cal.
Swansea, Wales, Public Library
Sweet, Frank ......
Swift, Lindsay ......
Taylor, Daniel T., Hyde Park .
Taylor, Edward, Andover
Teele, Rev. A. K., Milton
Thayer, Miss C. C, & Mrs. R. A. Nichols
Thayer, Samuel J. F
Thompson, Rev. Augustus C, D.D. .
Thompson, Mrs. Elizabeth, New York City
Thomson, John H., Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tileston, Miss Mary W., Salem
Towne, E. II., Worcester ....
Truhner & Co., London ....
Tucker, W. W
Tuttle, Rev. Joseph F., D.D., Crawfordsville, Ind.
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Tyndale, Mrs. Hector, Philadelphia, Pa.
Union Ferry Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Union Lodge ....
United Polish National Benevolent
United States. Adjutant General
Army, Surgeon-General
• Board of Indian Commissioners
■ Bureau of Education
Bureau of Engineers, 1 map
Bureau of Statistics
Census Bureau
Coast & Geodi'tic Survey
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
■ Department of Justice .
Department of tlie Navy
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Department of War
Director of the Mint
General Land Office, 1 map
Geological Survey .
Hydrographic Office
Library of Congress
• Light-house Board
Marine Hospital Service
Military Academy, West Poin
Naval Observatory . i
Navy, Surgeon-General
Patent OflSee .
Signal Service
Supervising Inspector-General of Steamboats
United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, 3Id.
University of Kiel, Germany .
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
Van Etto, Prof. E
Victoria Public Library, Melbourne, Australia
Wadsworth, M. E., Ph.D., Cambridge
Walcott, Charles F
Waldo, Miss Phoebe M., Salem.
Walker, Francis A. .
Walker, Isaac, Pembroke, N.H.
Ware, Rev. L. G., Burlington, Vt. .
Ware, William, & Co
Waring, George E., jr., Newport, R.I.
Warren, J. Collins, 31. D
Warren, Joseph H., M. D., and James R. Osgood & Co
Waterloo Library and Historical Society, Waterloo, N. Y.
Weckherlin, G. de, Minister from the Netherlands
Wheelwright, John T.
Whipple, E. P.
Whitcher, Miss Mary, Shaker Village, N.H. .
White, James C, 31. D
White, Smith, & Co.
Whitney, James L., 6 broadsides, 2 newspapers
Whitney, Prof. Josiah D., Cambria
Whitney, Prof. William D., New Haven, Conn.
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Whyte, Thomas M
Whyte, Hon. William P., Baltimore, Md.
Wigglesworth, Mrs. Edward, a lot of newspapers
Wilder, Alexander, M.D., Newark, N.J. ....
Wilder, Hon. Marshall P.
Winchester Public Library
Winsor, Justin, Cambridge ......
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 45 newspapers
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
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Woolrich & Co., Palmer
Worcester, Samuel, M.D., Salem,
Worthington, Roland, & Co
Wright, Elizur .........
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes- Barre,
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Yale College Library, New Haven, Conn
Young Men's Library, Buffalo, NY.
Young Men's Library Association, Ware ....
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APPENDIX X.
CIRCULATION.
(Books issued.)
Total Circulation.
Bates Hall.
Lower Hall.
Bast Boston Branch.
Sovtu Boston Bkanch.
Roxbury Branch.
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625,442
1,519
2,031
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5,124
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34,441
31,003
37,872
59,264
72,313
192
235
388
544
230,111
245,244
7,946
7,853
238,057
253,097
772
S22
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1,536
07,754
80,771
458
320
68,212
81,091
6222
263
558
712
101, OSS
107,651
634
915
102.322
108,566
330
350
18T4
64,092
3,250
07,342
203
612
1875
306
758,417
2,581
6,074
41,721
39,016
80,737
263
603
264,325
8,009
272,S:;4
864
1,759
85,134
414
85,548
277
789
111,677
84S
112,525
364
S60
87,079
285
680
1870
306
847,021
3,097
8,035
59,373
114,329
373
877
338,450
10,392
348,842
1,140
2,698
89,949
1,038
99,987
293
856
113,334
988
115,530
370
1,045
98,304
2,093
101,297
320
925
1877
306
1,140,572
3,727
8,348
66,832
74,786
141.018
463
930
392,995
12,737
405,732
1,326
2,439
101,022
1,605
102,627
335
902
131,969
3,210
135,179
430
1,075
6,770
140,829
477
1,190
1878
305
1,183,901
3,882
10,478
80,326
66,670
146,996
4S3
1,001
378,439
12,736
391,175
1,265
2,902
104,717
1,879
106,596
313
1,088
137,010
3,741
140,751
447
1,414
122,517
7,513
404
1,100
187«
308
1,180,565
3,833
8,747
74,627
89,163
163,790
532
926
350,521
12,672
363,193
1,179
2,085
95,887
2,794
e98,681
320
916
115,509
3,335
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503
1,200
123,492
6,397
129,889
403
1,013
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307
1,156,721
3,768
8,781
60,042
101,100
17U.142
554
1,045
306,148
10,369
316,517
1,031
1,999
105,197
3,004
108,201
303
951
138,309
5,261
143,570
467
1,196
119,450
5,480
124,930
388
1,017
1881
301
1,005,OS1
3.504
8,637
68,609
96,764
165,373
547
1,046
257,592
9,271
266,863
847
1,849
97,024
4,097
101,118
318
989
129,251
3,607
132,858
435
1,137
105,700
4,912
110,012
360
972
1883
303
1,040,553
3,434
8,170
03,782
103,540
167,322
552
1,052
239,601
11,191
250,792
828
1,670
88,901
7,073
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328
868
125,409
4,077
129,486
426
1,074
101,534
4,739
100,273
347
876
1883
306
1,045,002
3,416
8,209
66,948
113,127
180,075
588
1,181
163,811
32,119
195,930
640
1,301
92,833
8,107
100,940
329
876
121,939
4,472
126,411
413
1,062
105,797
6,728
112,525
370
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South End Branch.
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78,169
84,631
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99,537
8 i,925
78,682
85,038
1,368
1,206
1.184
1,605
2,008
1,815
1,440
2,140
2,281
2,744
327
259
279
348
289
246
273
254
285
734
704
830
902
970
685
616
789
741
775
9,642
21,394
23,531
27,832
27,549
20.737
26,400
26,067
25,152
25,905
448
1,274
1,960
1,698
1,859
1,574
2,110
2,292
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21.842
24,805
29,792
20,247
28,928
27,980
25,177
27,444
28,257
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93
91
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92
234
314
290
328
312
302
269
277
273
16,675
632367
67,692
63,025
56,785
55,690
53,904
53,036
65,678
132
899
4,287
1,949
1,423
1,026
730
1,449
1,880
r*16,017
56,016
71,979
61,974
59,673
50,710
65,188
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197
206
220
197
184
170
177
144
219
439
552
620
624
575
641
541
501
650
1878
1870
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1881
188a
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73,154
77,016
71,432
01,453
70,472
1,099
2,713
2,275
2,530
10,283
17,778
42,402
75,867
79,291
73,962
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94,250
183
247
258
242
318
308
667
622
080
578
670
774
28,174
50,457
52,406
47,797
16, 116
41,758
2,100
2,503
2,220
2,311
3,406
4,379
30,280
52,969
54,626
50,108
49,722
49,137
138
171
170
104
164
161
384
413
487
467
381
411
211
■ irrowed on \vlntc slip.-;, an J returned the same day.
6 The E. B. branch was open on]} 807 days, i on furnace.
C Includes the largest of each department on any day, without regard to il- brin-
the same day, as in the previous entry under this head.
(7The use of the Dorchester branch for 1875 was a little over three months.
cThe Easi Boston branch \\.i ■ :;. r 7th to 9th, 1879, for repairs \
South Boston from August 12th to November 2d, 1879, for repairs and enlargement.
/ The Charlestown branch was closed from April 20th to thi tO
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APPENDIX XIII.
BATES-HALL READING.
Classification.
English history, topography, biogra-
phy, travel, and polite literature .
American (North and South) histo-
ry, etc
French history, etc
German history, etc
Italian history, etc
Other history, topography, biogra-
phy, travel, and polite literature .
General and epochal history ....
Greek, Latin, and philology ....
Bibliography
Transactions
Periodicals
Fine arts
Natural history and science ....
Theology, ecclesiastical history, eth-
ics, education, etc
Medicine
Law, government, and political econ-
omy
Useful arts, mathematics, physics,
etc
Miscellaneous pamphlets bound . .
Percentage of Use.
13.2
11.8
6.1
3.4
1.5
4.2
3.3
3.5
1.2
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3.9
8.9
3.8
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1.8
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11.5
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12.2
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3.9
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3.6
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6.6
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4.6
3.9
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3.5
3.3
1.6
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3.7
8.4
3.8
15.0
6.4
2.3
9.1
4.8
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 divisions, as is indicated in the table.
(See Explanations to Appendix VII.)
The figures for 1879 are only approximately correct.
APPENDIX XIV.
LOWER HALL AND BRANCH READING.
[Bused upon Hie record of looks returned.]
CL IBSE8.
percentages.
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are not fiction.
fiction and juvenile
Public Library.
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City Document No. 103.
APPENDIX XVIII.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
General Library
Accounts.
1882-83.
Binding
Books ... •
Periodicals*
Catalogues (printing) . .
Expense
Fuel
Furniture (cabinets,
shelving, fixtures, etc.)
Gas
Printing (miscellaneous)
Stationery
Salaries
Transportation, Postage,
etc
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$3,000
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4,000
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5,000
4,000
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2,000
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24,953 49
3,536 99
4,554 84
3,488 10
3,126 45
1,178 5.r>
5,473 96
3,725 51
71,623 41
1.SS0 14
$116,000 $124,977 54
Fellowes
Athenaeum,
$1,147 47
1,147 47
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of catalogues.
Year.
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
$1,681 79
2,000 00
2,360 24
2,505 35
3,092 12
3,266 31
2,618 32
2,984 12
3,497 03
2,945 74
3,223 14
* The appropriation for periodicals is included in that for hooks.
Note. — The expenditures for books cover the cost of those chargeable to the trust
funds account, as well as those charged to the annual appropriations from the city, and also
include such as are bought with the balances with the foreign agents at the close of the
previous year. The financial and library years now nominally correspond, but it 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 account beginning
nominal^- May 1st. In this way books added between March 15th and May 1st may be
counted in one year's growth, and paid for in the subsequent year's account. The cost of
maintaining branches after the first year makes part of the general items of the several
appropriations.
The money for books bought on account of the Fellowes Athenaeum is spent under the
direction of the book committee of the trustees ot the Fellowes fund.
Details for previous years can be found in Appendix XIX. to the report for 1881.
NORTH END BRANCH.
City Appropriation, §4,000.
Salaries $672 48
Books 705 71
Expense 1,027 86
Amount actually expended $2,406 05
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City Document No. 103.
APPENDIX XX.
LIBRARY SERVICE.
(April 30, 1883.)
Name.
Mellen Chamberlain
James L. Whitney
Jose F. Carret . .
Louis F. Gray . . . ,
Adelaide A. Nichols ,
Frank A. Thain . . .
Total
1869
18T5
1880
1868
1883
Position, duties, etc.
Librarian and Clerk of the Cor
poration
Principal Assistant Librarian .
Register, and Curator of patents
ami engravings
Librarian's Secretary .
Auditor and Cashier .
Librarian's Runner .
James L. Whitney ,
William H. Foster . ,
Jose F. Carret ....
Lindsay Swift ....
Elizabeth T. Reed . .
Roxanna M. Eastman
Frank C. Blaisdell . .
Annie C. Miller . . .
Annie E. Hutchins .
Edward B. Hunt . .
Alice M. Poree . . .
Card Catalogues
Harriet C. Blake .
Carrie K. Burnell . .
Mary F. Osgood . . .
Alice Browne ....
William Walsh . . .
Total
1869.
1860.
1875.
1878.
1873.
1859.
1876.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1866.
1880.
1881.
1877.
1883.
1882.
Principal of the department .
Cataloguer for Branch libraries
and Proof Reader
Register, Curator of patents and
engravings and Assistant . .
Assistant .
Assistant .
Extra Assistant and Cataloguer
of U.S. documents
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant in Patent room, etc. .
Curator
Curator of official card catalogue
Assistant
Assistant
Runner
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LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
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1879.
1883.
1868.
1882.
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1
1
1
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8
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William F. Canny
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1880.
1881.
1882.
1
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4
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Thomas M. Whyte ....
Elizabeth J. Collins ....
W. Maynard L. Young . .
Benjamin White
Total
1875.
1867.
1874.
1875.
1865.
1878.
1880.
1882.
1883.
1883.
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Edward Tiffany ....
William F. Robinson . . .
Thomas H. Cummings . . .
Caroline E. J. Poree ....
Sarah A. Mack
Annie M. Kennedy ....
Ella R. Dillon
1878.
1877.
1872.
1879.
1859.
1863.
1863.
1869.
1876.
1881.
1874.
1878.
Librarian of Lower Hall . . .
Clerk for registration and fines
Curator of Lowell Hall card
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Registration and Assistant . .
Delivery desk and Assistant .
Assistant in reading-room . .
Record of slips and Substitute .
Return slips and Assistant . •
68
City Document No. 103.
LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
Name.
Mary Sheridan . . .
Rebecca J. Briggs . .
Julia Twickler . . .
John J. Butler . . .
Evening Service.
Frank C. Blaisdell . .
Robert B. Ross . . .
Louis F. Gray ....
Catherine McGrath .
Harry Young ....
William L. Day . . .
T. J. McCormick . .
Horace Burnham . .
J. H. Reardon ....
Total
H
1880.
1881.
1882.
1878.
1883.
1873.
1881.
1873.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1882.
1882.
Position, duties, etc.
Runner . . . .
Runner . . . ,
Runner . . . ,
Care of shelves ,
Registration Clerk and Sunday
service
Reading-room .
Card catalogue
Receiving desk
Runner . . .
Runner ...
Runner ...
Runner . . .
Runner . . .
William E. Ford ....
William F. Adams . . . .
John White
William Monahan ....
Extra daily Assistants.
Total
1858.
1879.
1880.
1883.
Janitor ,
Night Watchman .
Porter
Porter
c »>
Andrew M. Blake .
Frank Ryder . . . ,
P. B. Sanford . . . .
Wm. Hernstead . .
William F. Sampson
Arthur Siguere . . .
Mary E. Austen . . ,
Martha M. Wheeler ,
Mary Gr. Moriarty . ,
Sarah E. Bo wen . ,
Sarah Dumas . . . .
Mary J. Morton . .
Samuel Macconnell
Total
1870.
1883.
1879.
1883.
1880.
1881.
1874.
1869.
1875.
1876.
1881.
1881.
1877.
Foreman ....
Extra forwarder
Finisher . . . .
Pressman . . .
Forwarder . . .
Forwarder . . .
Forewoman . .
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Apprentice . . .
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LIBRARY SERVICE. —Continued.
Name.
+5 o
Position, duties, etc.
E
Sarah C. Godbold
Mary R. Pray . . .
Alice M. Wiug . .
Mary E. Cathcart .
E. L. Lennon ...
Adelia H. Ghen . .
Eva D. Merrill . .
Anna B. Rollins . .
Ada J. McConnell .
George H. Hosea .
Total ....
1871.
1870.
1872.
1870.
1881.
1876.
1879.
1882.
1881.
1S73.
Librarian . . .
Assistant . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Extra Assistant
Extra Runner .
Extra Runner .
Extra Runner .
Extra Runner .
Janitor
N. Josephine Bullard
Ellen A. Eaton
Emogene C. Davis . . . .
Idalene L. Sampson . . .
Mary Watson
Reata Watson
Mabel Pond
Lilla F. Davis
Emmie W. Bragdon . . .
Amy Acton
Emma Le Fevre
Etta Le Fevre
Joseph Baker
Total
1883
1872
1873
1877
1873
1873
1879
1881
1882
1881
1881
1882
1872
Librarian
Registration Clerk
Delivery Clerk . .
Receiving Clerk .
Assistant
Extra Assistant .
Extra Assistant .
Extra Assistant .
Extra Assistant .
Extra Runner . .
Extra Runner . .
Extra Runner . .
Janitor
Sarah Bunker . .
Mary Bradley . . .
Elizabeth C. Berry
Helen M. Bell . . .
Dora Puffer . . . .
Helen R. Crowell
1876.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1878.
1882.
Librarian
Assistant .
Assistant .
Assistant .
Reading-room and registration
Clerk
Extra Assistant
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LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
Position, duties, etc.
M 1^
5 =
Etta R.Clark . .
BertbaM. Nelson
Katie F. Albert .
Cbarles R. Curtis
Total
1882.
1882.
1883.
1873.
Extra Assistant
Extra Assistant
Runner . . . .
Janitor
Cornelius S. Cartee
Annie E. Eberle ...
Mary P. Swain ...
Alice G. Willoughby
Sarah E. McConnell . .
Susan E. Livermore . ,
Emma L. Willoughby .
Thomas E. Smith . .
Total
1870.
1874.
1878.
1882.
1879.
1879.
1882.
1874.
Librarian . . .
Assistant . . .
Assistant . . . .
Runner . . . .
Extra Assistant
Extra Assistant
Extra Runner .
Janitor
Mary E. Brock
Mary V. Gralley .
Sara R. Brock . .
James M. Brock .
Total
1875.
1880.
1880.
1878.
Librarian . . .
Assistant . . . .
Extra Assistant
Janitor
Mart G. Coffin . . .
Mary J. Sheridan . . .
Frances Willard Pike .
Lucy Adelaide Watson
Susie G. Cook ....
Edward Davenport . .
Total
1874.
1875.
1881.
1881.
1882.
1874.
Librarian . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Extra Assistant
Extra Assistant
Janitor
Grace A. De Borqes
Maude M. Morse . . ,
Margaret A. Sheridan
Mary Arkinson . . .
Harold Percival ...
William Brydon ...
Total
18S0
1877
1875
1881
1883
Librarian . .
Assistant . . .
Assistant . . .
Assistant . . .
Runner . . . .
Extra Runner
Public Libraey.
LIBRARY SERVICE. — Concluded.
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Name.
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Position, duties, etc.
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Eliza R. Davis . .
Anna J. Barton . .
Nellie F. Riley . .
Margaret 8. Barton
John Erickson . .
Timothy Johnson .
Total
1877.
1876.
1878.
1882.
1882.
1877.
Librarian . . .
Assistant . . . .
Extra Assistant .
Extra Assistant
Extra Runner .
Janitor
Eliza R. Davis .
Mary E. Mooney
J. P. Fleming . .
Total
1882.
1882.
1882.
Librarian .
Assistant ,
Janitor . .
Mary A. Hill . . .
Robert M. Otis . .
Anna nibbard . .
Harriet L. Atkinson
Etta M. Ruggles . .
Total
1875.
1881.
1882.
1882.
1883.
Custodian, Lower Mills . .
Custodian, Roslindale . . .
Custodian, West Roxbury
Custodian, Mattapan . . .
Custodian, Neponset . . .
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SUMMARY.
Librarian, Register, Secretary, Auditor, and
Runner ....... 5
Catalogue Department ..... 1-4
Purchase and Entry department ... 5
Shelf department . ..... 4
Bates Hall circulation department . . 10
Lower Hall circulation department, day,
evening, and Sunday service . . . 10
Janitor's department ..... 4
Bindery . . . . . . . 18
East Boston branch ..... 5
South Boston branch ..... 0
Roxhury branch ...... 6
Charlestown branch ..... 5
Brighton branch ...... 3
Dorchester branch ..... 4
South-End branch ..... 5
Jamaica Plain branch ..... 3
North-End branch ..... 3
Deliveries ....... 5
L.
Central Library.
71 regulars.
10 extras.
81 in all.
Branches.
45 regulars.
20 extras.
71
Totals .
Grand total
116
30
152
36
AGENTS.
Messrs. W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston.
Mr. Edward G. Allen (for English patents), London.
Messrs. N. Triihner & Co.. Hondon.
Mr. F. W. Christern, and M. Charles Reinwald, New York and Paris.
Deuerlich 'sche Buchhandlung, Oottingen.
Signorina Giulia Albert Florence.
Senor Don Juan F. Riano, Madrid.
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APPEXDIX XXI.
EXAMINATION OF THE LIBRAEY.
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APPENDIX XXIII.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
The following gentlemen have served on the Examining
Committees for the years given. The names in italics are
those of Trustees, who have acted as chairmen of the various
committees.
Abbott, Hon. J. G., 1870.
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880.
Adams, Nehemiah, D.D., 1860.
Adams, Wm. T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. Wm. R., 1870.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, 1854.
Apthorp, Wm. F., 1883.
Arnold Howard P., 1881.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 18G0.
Attwood, G., 1877.
Bailey, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball, Joshua D., 1861.
Barnard, James M., 1866.
Bartlett, Sidney, 1869.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Rev. Edward, 1854.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.I)., 1857.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1856.
Blagden, George W., D.D., 1856.
Blake, John G., M.I)., 1883.
Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P., 1879.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1855.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.I)., 1865.
Bowditch, H. P., M.D., 1881.
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll, 1855.
Bowman, Alfonzo, 1867.
Bradford, Charles F., 1868.
Brewer, Thomas M., 1865.
Brooks, Rev. Phillips, 1871.
Browne, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, C. E., M.D., 1872.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, jr., 1869.
Chadwick, James R., 31. D., 1877.
Chaney, Rev. George L., 1868.
Chase, George B., 1876.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., 1881.
Clapp, William W., jr., 1864.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.I)., 1877.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D., 1882.
Collar, Wm. C, 1874.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.D., 1878.
Curtis, Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Thos. B., 31. D., 1874.
Dana, Samuel T., 1857.
Dean, Benj., 1873.
Denny, Henry G., 1876.
Dexter, Rev. Henry M., 1866.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Durant, Henry F., 1863.
Duryea, Jos. T., D.D., 1880.
Dwight, John S., 1868.
Dwight, Thomas, 31. D., 1880.
Eastburn, Manton, D.D., 1863.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.D., 1868.
Ellis, Calvin, 31. D., 1871.
Ellis, Geo. E., D.D., 1881.
Endicott, Wm., jr., 1878.
Field, Walbridge A., 1866.
Fields, James T., 1872.
Foote, Rev. Henry W., 1864.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freeland, Charles W., 1867.
Frost, Oliver, 1854.
Frothing ham, Richard, 1876.
Fitz, Reginald H., 1879.
Fnrness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett, Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gilchrist, Daniel S., 1872.
Gould, A. A., 31. D., 1864.
Gray, John C, jr., 1877.
Green, Samuel A., 31. D., 1868.
Greenough, William W., 1858, 1874,
1883.
Grinnell, Rev., C. E., 1874.
Hale, Rev. Edward E., 1858.
Hale, Moses L., 1862.
Haskins, Rev. George F., 1865.
Hayes, Hon. F. B., 1874.
Haynes, Henry W., 1879.
Haynes, Henry W., 1881.
Hay ward, George, 31. D., 1863.
Heard, John T., 1853.
Higginson, Thomas W., 1883.
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 1853.
Hodges, Richard M., 31. D., 1870.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881.
Holmes, Oliver W., 31. D., 1858.
Holmes, Oliver W., jr., 1882.
Homans, Charles D., 31. D., 1867.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 1857.
Hubbard, William J., 1858.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Jeffries, B. Joy, 31. D., 1869.
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City Document No. 103.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kidder, Henry P., 1870.
Kimball, Henry H., 18G5.
Kirk, Edward N., D.D., 1859.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrence, James, 1855.
Lewis, Weston, 1882.
Lincoln, Hon. F. W., 1856.
Little, James L., 1864.
Lombard, Prof. Josiah L., 18G8.
Loring, Hon. Charles G., 1855.
Lothrop, Loring, 1866.
Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lunt, Hon. George, 1874.
Manning, Rev. Jacob M., 1861.
Mason, Rev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Minns, Thomas, 1864.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morse, John T., jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., jr., 1878.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W., 1871.
Mudge, Hon. E. R., 1871.
Neale, Rollin H., D.D., 1853.
Noble, John, 1882.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1878.
Otis, G. A., 1860.
Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benj. H., 1876.
Parks, Rev. Leighton, 1882.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883.
Phillips, John C, 1882.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Prescott, William H., LL.D., 1853.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. John P., 1865.
Rice, Hon. Alexander H., 1860.
Rogers, Prof. William B., 1861.
Ropes, John C, 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 1863.
Runkle, Prof. J. D., 1882.
Russell, Samuel H., 1880.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B., 1857.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 1881.
Sprague, Charles J., 1859.
Sprague, Homer B., 1882.
Stevens, Oliver, 1858.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thomas, 1856.
Stockwell, S. N., 1861.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883.
Thaxter, Adam W., 1855.
Thayer, George A., 1875.
Thayer, Rev. Thomas B., 1862.
Thomas, B. F., 1875.
Thomas, Seth J., 1856.
Ticknor, George, 1853, 1854, 1855,
1859, 1863, 1866.
Tobey, Hon. Edward S., 1862.
Twombly, Rev. A. S., 1883.
Upham, J. B., M.D., 1865.
Vibbert, Rev. Geo. H., 1873.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Ward, Rev. Julius H., 1882.
Ware, Charles E., M.D., 1875.
Ware, Darwin S., 1881.
Wales, George W., 1875.
Warner, Herman J., 1867.
Warren, Hon. Charles H., 1859.
Warren, J. Collins, M.D., 1878.
Waterston, Rev. Robert C, 1867.
Wells, Mrs. Kate G., 1877.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1869.
Whitney, Daniel H, 1862.
Whitney, Henry A., 1873.
Wightman, Hon. Joseph M., 1859.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Wilson, ElishaT., M.D., 1861.
Winsor, Justin, 1867.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 1854,
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1871.
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