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[Document 28 — 1887.]
CITY OF 1 M BOSTON.
THIRTY-FIFTH REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
1887.
The Trustees have the honor to present to the Mayor and
the City Council their Thirty-fifth Report, embracing the
details of the condition and administration of the Library
for the year 1886.
The usual yearly examination of the institution by a
committee of citizens, omitted for the last eight months of
the year 1885, has been resumed. It consisted of eight
members, viz. : Rev. Pitt Dillingham, Henry H. Edes,
Esq., Mrs. Charles D. Homans, Mrs. Charles C. Smith,
Hon. Solomon Lincoln, Col. Henry Stone, John O. Teele,
Esq., and Wm. F. Wharton, Esq. It organized by the elec-
tion of Col. Stone as chairman.
Their important and valuable report, to which fuller refer-
ence will be made, and that of the Librarian, with its care-
fully drawn appendixes and sub-reports, will, it is hoped,
give a satisfactory and encouraging account of the large de-
tails which enter into the workings of the whole institution,
including the Central Library, the branches, and the delivery
stations.
The Library and its Work for the Year.
General Statement.
The present extent of "the Library collections and their
public use for the last year are herewith presented : —
2 City Document No. 28.
The aggregate number of volumes, including the dupli-
cate-rooms, embraced in the Bates Hall collection, is 305,-
006 ; in the Lower Hall 41,777 ; in the Branches, 132,638 ;
making the total number of volumes in all the libraries,
479,421, — a net increase for the year of 18,428.
The whole number of days upon which the libraries were
opened was 305.
The total use of books for the year was 958,629, — a de-
crease from the previous twelve months of 63,014. This
diminution of circulation occurred in all the popular libraries,
except the Lower Hall, and the North-End Branch, and is
due to various causes ; principally to the withdrawal of sen-
sational works for the young, but is also effected by the in-
creasing sale of the great monthly periodicals, and in the
ability of the individual reader to purchase at a low price
such series of attractive books as are issued by the leading
publishers at minimum rates.
The annexed table gives the circulation of the various
libraries for the year : —
Name of Library.
Lower Hall ,
East Boston ,
South Boston ,
Roxbury, including Fellowes Athenaeum . . .
Charlestown
Brighton
Dorchester
South-End ,
Jamaica Plain ,
West Roxbury ,
North-End
Bates Hall, exclusive of duplicates not in use
No. of Volumes
Dec. 31, 1886.
In Use, 1886.
41,777
183,931
12,167
79,435
12,220
99,992
29,334
87,516
26,428
65,977
13,686
21,829
13,791
69,890
9,995
78,718
10,383 )
3,252 )
48,344
1,382
19,524
174,415
755,156
289,494
203,473
463,909
958,629
The number of books recorded as missing during the year,
from all the libraries is as follows : From Bates Hall, 10 ;
from the Lower Hall, 31 ; from Roxbury, 3 ; from Charles-
town, 5 ; from East Boston, Dorchester, and South End, 2
each ; from Brighton, 1 ; from South Boston and Jamaica
Plain, with an aggregate loan of 148,336, 0; in all, 56, or
Public Library. 3
one in 17,110 volumes. A varying portion of these annual
losses is usually recovered afterward.
The periodicals delivered to readers at the Central Library
and Branches since the beginning of the Library year have
been 506,758, as against 551,550 for the same period in
1885; of these 327,915 found use in the Boylston-street
reading-room.
The aggregate issues from Bates Hall, the Lower Hall, and
all the Branches, from the original distribution at the main
library in 1853, and including the work of each branch in
the successive order of its establishment, amount to the
large aggregate of 18,437,147 volumes, of which 9,315,517
were delivered from the Boylston-street libraries.
The New Library Building.
Of the important edifice to which the attention and expec-
tations of the community are so aroused at the present time,
there is little to be said beyond the following facts. A good
and sufficient foundation of the building has been completed,
and is now covered in for protection against the winter's
climate. The Trustees are ready to give the necessary in-
struction to such architect as may have the matter in charge,
as to the proposed internal arrangements of the building, in-
cluding the stack. After these points are settled, an eleva-
tion can be projected for the construction, of the most durable
material, and of sufficient proportion and dignity. While spe-
cially to be built for great public uses, and for a long duration
of time, it should have a consistent elegance of its own,
which will be in sufficient harmony with the other noble struct-
ures in the finest square of which our city can at present
boast.
But the limit of expenditure for the external and internal
construction of this great temple of learning and general
knowledge has been fixed by the City Council ; and,"before
proceeding further in the work, it is the desire of the Trus-
tees that, after suitable plans have been accepted, specifica-
tions shall be made of every detail necessary to its proper
completion, and bids taken from responsible parties for the
whole cost of finishing the structure ; whether the balance
remaining of the appropriation will erect such a building as
will be satisfactory to the community will then be shown.
The Examining Committee.
The report of the Examining Committee is the fullest and
most comprehensive document upon the actual condition,
working detail, and progress of the institution that has been
4 City Document No. 28.
presented for years, if ever, to the public. It deserves the
careful examination of general readers, as Ave 11 as of the
friends and advocates of free libraries.
It has not been considered as within the compass of the re-
ports of the Trustees of the Library to cover, in their annual
statement, anything further than the actual statistics of Li-
brary work for the year, accompanied by such recommenda-
tions to the City Government as would extend its usefulness,
although the tables forming the appendix of each statement
give comparison with the important detail of previous years,
to which the attention of readers and thinkers is annually
called.
The recognition of the principles upon which the libraries
were based, and have been administered, particularly in ref-
erence to the Bates Hall collection, is most judicious and
gratifying. While, of necessity, the larger, more valuable,
and cosily works cannot be loaned, either because of the
terms of their gift to the Library, or from the inherent value
of the book itself, there still remains for circulation a very
large and valuable collection of permanent value, which is
within reach of the student and the scholar for home use, and
sufficient to show the annual movement or progress in science,
art, and literature. The Library would poorly meet the de-
mands of inquirers if it did not keep pace, so far as its means
would permit, with the important accessions to scientific and
general knowledge, whether derived from our own and Eng-
lish scholarship, or from the kindred advance of the more
enlightened communities in Europe.
With regard to the circulation of fiction in the popular
libraries the result of its curtailment to the better reading of
this class of literature forms an interesting study of popular
tastes. An indiscriminate purchase of works of this class,
neither expensive in cost nor absolutely immoral in tendency,
but vapid, unnatural, and sensational, would largely increase
the circulation of the popular libraries. The reading of fic-
tion is a natural taste among all classes of the community,
and, from the experience of former years, the Trustees have
sought to restrict the additions to this class of books to such
new works as seemed to have sufficient merit and interest to
deserve a position upon the Library shelves. They have
withdrawn from circulation, particularly for the reading of
the young, such works as seemed simply attractive from
their exciting relations of life and its accidents, entirely out-
side of any probable, or, perhaps, possible experience; or if
not outside of this last condition, not of any prospective value
for the youthful thought or consideration as fitted to the pos-
sible emergencies of life.
Public Library. 5
The Trustees would most gladly add to the facilities of
the catalogue department, particularly in reference to the
popular libraries. The force employed upon transcribing
the book-titles, cross-references, and classifications is now,
and has been for years, entirely inadequate to cover the
whole tield of labor. The number of first-class skilled em-
ploye's in this index work throughout the country is small
in proportion to the labor to be accomplished, but more of
them could be had if sufficient assistance was given from
the annual appropriation for this necessary work. A good
library is opened to public use by the maintenance of its
index of contents. The pertinence of the remarks of. the
examining committee upon the slow progress to be made by
the present catalogue force deserves special attention. To
enable the scholar, student, and reader to find the book of
which he is in pursuit, either by author, title, or subject, two
steps are necessary to be taken; first, and most important,
to catalogue the accessions to the Library as rapidly as possi-
ble after their arrival, so as to place them within quick
access of the public ; and, secondly, to bring up the great
mass of titles previously recorded to the system adopted
years since as most useful and convenient for general con-
sultation.
The principle upon which the Bates Hall catalogue was
based was that of instruction to the searcher after knowledge
in that, so far as was practicable, a person ignorant of the
author or name of a book, but desirous of exploring a sub-
ject, should find under that subject-title such references as
would lead him to the books on the shelves. The sugges-
tion of the examining committee that an attendant should be
at hand, who could act either as a subject-encyclopanlia of
the works in the library, or to direct the inquirer how to find
such as were needed for his purpose, would be most valuable
if practicable in its fullest sense. The librarian of Dates
Hall who has a familiarity of years with the contents and
accessions to the great consulting library, together with his
assistants, can always be consulted. He will gladly aid
any reader or student in his researches. With the popular
libraries, the librarian, or possibly the more experienced
assistants, should know and be able to advise as to the read-
ing material under their care.
The suggestion of the committee upon the expediency of
opening for public use the card catalogue of the Lower Hall,
now under the care of a special attendant, who furnishes titles
and shelf-numbers to the inquirer for books,, requires ex-
planation of the circumstances to which it owed its origin.
When the Mason-street Library was moved to the Boylston-
6 City Document No. 28.
street building, and the Bates Hall Library was established,
a selection of books of permanent value was taken from the
original collection and placed in the alcoves of the upper
hall. A consulting catalogue, alphabetically arranged for
the whole library, was placed on the same story on which
the most important contents of the institution were stored.
It was largely consulted by visitors to each division of the
collection ; but its frequent use by borrowers wrought such
injury to the cards, especially to those for the Lower Hall,
that it was found necessary to separate the catalogue into
two parts ; and that devoted to the Lower Hall was sub-
stantially rewritten, and put in charge of a custodian. The
newer accessions were placed upon lists within convenient
access in the delivery-room. If any system can be devised
by which a larger access can be given with safety to the slips
in this catalogue, or by which increased facilities for infor-
mation can be had, it would gladly receive consideration
from the Trustees.
The Trustees avail themselves with pleasure of the sug-
gestion of the committee that a systematic arrangement
should be made for a closer connection with the branches
than has hitherto been had. Conferences of these librari-
ans at different periods with the principal officer of the institu-
tion, and with one another, have already been inaugurated by
him, and will take more systematic form hereafter. This
will naturally increase the interest of each branch officer in
her work, and will give the advantage of mutual expe-
rience in assisting readers in increasing circulation and in
overcoming difficulties, with such advice from the central
institution as its chief librarian may think necessary.
The system under which the Public Library has so suc-
cessfully been administered from its outset was the result
of the general principles laid down by Mr. Ticknor in his
well-known initial report, — to which was joined the prac-
tical experience of experts in administration, — so that it has
been carried on upon substantially the same lines as at the
outset, but with such larger liberty to borrowers as could with
safety be permitted. Other libraries have followed the
Boston system, but with such changes as the character of
their readers, or the nature of their collections have demanded.
The study of the appendixes to the librarian's report will
show the extent of the work done, and an intelligent inquiry
into the different methods pursued, with a full understanding
of the reasons and of the practice, would by itself furnish
a normal-school education of library knowledge.
Public Library.
In General.
The Trustees acknowledge with pleasure the continued
bounty of J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Esq., to the Bowditch
Library ; now, with its additions, forming a collection of great
importance to students of the mathematical sciences, and
gradually becoming the most important collection of its class
in America.
The condition of the Treadwell Trust-fund remains sub-
stantially as given in the last report of the Trustees, with
the exception of the investment of the money balance paid
to the Library, which with the stock dividend of the Boston
and Albany Railroad added another share to the property
already held.
The restoration of the appropriation for the support of
the Library to the amount found necessary for the previ-
ous five years has enabled the Trustees to purchase more
books for the libraries, but not to bring up the acquisitions to
the needs of the requests of books " asked for," already
upon file.
In conclusion, the Trustees wish to express their great
gratification at the regular increasins; use of the Bates Hall
collection, and with the manifest tendencies in the Branches
to a better class of reading.
WILLIAM XV. GREENOUGH.
HENRY W. HAYNES.
SAMUEL A. B. ABBOTT.
WILLIAM H. WH1TMORE.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.
Public Librarv, February 4, 1887.
City Document No. 28.
[B.]
REPORT OF EXAMINING COMMITTEE.
The ordinance under which the Boston Public Library is
administered provides for its annual examination by "a com-
mittee from the citizens at large." This committee for the
current year was appointed about three months before its
close, and has given such examination as the limited time
allowed.
The object aimed at in the appointment of such a commit-
tee undoubtedly is to enable the citizens at large, in whose
stead it acts, to learn, as well as they can, from a perfectly
independent source, what the condition of the Library is,
and how the great trust devolved upon its Trustees and
officers is administered. The committee has no power ex-
cept to examine and report.
The Library has been in operation a third of a century. In
that time it has grown from a petty village circulating-
library of about 10,000 volumes, and open a few hours
each day, to a vast institution, — the central building having
340,000 books on its shelves, and open twelve hours every
week-day and Sunday afternoons, — and eight Branches, the
smallest of which is larger and better equipped than was the
entire library at its opening. So great an aggregation of
books, collected in so short a time, at the cost and for the
free use of all the citizens of the city, would, under any
conditions, be a source of just pride. If, in addition, the
books have been selected with intelligence, and always
with the single purpose of making the Library as complete,
in all directions, as its means will allow; and if it has been
so administered as to afford anybody wishing to read any
book or to study any subject quick, easy, and unrestricted
access to all its treasures, our sense of its value and useful-
fulness is immeasurably increased.
That the books have, as a rule, been so selected there is
abundant evidence. From the beginning one of the aims
of the Trustees has been to make the Library as full as possi-
ble in all departments of human knowledge. In this purpose
they have been heartily seconded by the liberality of many
citizens. The great gift by Mr. Bates, of |50,000, to be
expended for books, in addition to the permanent fund of
the same amount which he established, was spent, under the
careful advice and direction of literary and scientific gentle-
Public Library. 9
men, for books deemed most important in various depart-
ments of knowledge. About 35,000 volumes were selected,
and thus the foundation was laid. JVlr. Bates's generous
example has been followed by numerous smaller gifts, of
books and money. In this way the Library has grown great
as a whole, and exceedingly valuable in various directions.
Thus, the Barton Library, of nearly 14,000 volumes, is, in
addition to other rare treasures, one of the best Shakespearean
libraries in the world. The Ticknor Library, of nearly
6,000 volumes, is one of the best collections, in its way,
of Spanish books, containing, as it does, some works so
rare that their very existence has been doubted by accom-
plished Spanish scholars. The Bowditch Library, of 4,000
volumes, is a mathematical collection of rare excellence.
The Prince Library, of 2,600 volumes, in the custody of,
but not owned by, the city, is unequalled in its way. The
Parker Library, of 14,000 volumes, is unique, abounding in
books which could scarcely be replaced. The Patent Library,
of 3,500 volumes, is practically complete. The collection
of public documents of the United States government is
not surpassed anywhere, even in the Library of Congress.
Other departments might be named which are equally worthy
of remark. These facts show that the Trustees have con-
stant^ and steadily kept in view the purpose of having in
possession every obtainable book of real value to scholars
engaged in investigating any subject.
To show how carefully this purpose has been followed the
following table has been prepared : —
Table showing the number of books, in each classification,
in Bates Hall and the special libraries, January 1, 1886,
villi tlie 'percentage of increase in each class during (he
preceding five years: —
American History, etc.
English History, etc.
Theology, Ecclesiastical History, etc.
Periodicals and Transactions
French History, etc.
Medical Science
Mathematics, etc.
German History, etc.
Metaphysics and Social Science .
General History, etc.
Italian History, etc. .
N"o. of Volumes.
Per cent, of In
crease within
5 years.
. 37,656
26
. 34,590
21
. 26,472
18
. 22,634
18
. 18,371
18
. 13,079
16
. 12,690
25
. 11,305
23
. 10,177
14
9,196
19
. 8,9*3
11
Per cent, of In-
No. of Volumes.
crease within
5 years.
8,877
20
8,722
17
8,255
28
8,143
11
7,511
25
6,222
26
5,564
10
5,302
25
3,263
25
3,192
3
2,353
2'
354
10 City Document No. 28.
Natural History and Science
Bibliography, etc.
Other History, Geography, etc. .
Greek, Latin, and Philology
Fine Arts ....
Useful Arts ....
Spanish and Portuguese History, etc
Jurisprudence ....
Political Economy
Shakespeare . . .
Cyclopaedias, etc.
Books for Blind
Miscellaneous bound pamphlets and
MSS 756
The Bates Hall Library has, in the same time, grown from
227,804 volumes to 274,467 volumes, — a gain of 46,663, or
21 per cent., in five years. Of this gain 20,000 volumes
have been given to the Library, in addition to the number
bought with the funds bequeathed to the city for that pur-
pose, and yielding an annual income of $7,000, nearly all of
which is required to be spent for " books of permanent
value."
In the Lower Hall, which is specifically tlie popular
library, the classification is, of course, necessarily different
from that in Bates Hall, which is the scholars' library. Of
the 40,911 books on its shelves, January 1, 1886, 14,694,
or 36 per cent., are classified under the heading English
prose fiction, including juvenile fiction and other juvenile
books; 3,490, or 8^ per cent., come under the heading
poetry, drama, oratory, rhetoric; 3,105, or 7^ per cent.,
are biography; 2,680, or 6| per cent., are travels. The
remaining 42 per cent, are generally standard works in his-
tory, politics, theology and moral science, mathematics and
natural science; and books in foreign languages, — German,
French, Italian, and Spanish, — of which there are about
3,000.
The committee does not propose to discuss the much-vexed
question of the propriety of so large a proportion of works
of fiction. The fact that everybody reads such books, and
has read them from time immemorial, justifies their admis-
sion, in huge numbers, into the popular branch of the Public
Library. In the purchase of such books the committee has
ample evidence that great and unremitting care is exercised
that nothing which appears to have an evil tendency shall be
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admitted. But it is as useless to attempt to exclude " story-
books " from a library as to exclude fancy or imagination
from the human mind. The desire for hearing and telling
stories is innate, and cannot be suppressed. The Public
Library judiciously and carefully ministers to this healthy
appetite, and, as the committee believes, with no injurious
result.
The growth of circulation in the Library, and in each
Branch, during the last ten years, is shown in the following
table : —
Table showing the aggregate circulation of books in the entire
Librar//, and in Bates Hall and the Brandies, with the
increase or decrease in each, during the ten years 1876-
1885: —
The whole Library
Bates Hall
" Hall use ....
" " Home use ....
Lower Hall
" " Hall use ....
" " Home use . . .
East Boston2 Branch . . . .
South Boston " ....
Roxbury " ....
Charlestown " ....
Brighton " ....
Dorchester " ....
South-Eud 3 " (8 years)
Jamaica Plain 3 " "
1,027,393
202,764
124,134
78,630
183,594
32,768
150,826
98,537
128,666
106,180
71,541
24,892
73,502
90,857
51,192
1S7G.
947,621
114,329
59,373
54,956
348, S42
10,392
338,450
99,987
115,530
101,297
79,375
24,805
56,016
42,402
30,280
Increase in
10 years.
79,772
88,435
64,761
23,674
U65,248
22,376
1187,024
11,450
13,136
4,883
17.S34
87
17,486
48,455
20,912
Per cent, of
Increase.
8.4
80.
109.
43.
147.
215.
'55.
U.5
11.
4.
no.
0.
31.
111.
61.
i Decrease.
2 Library was closed forty-four days, for which the circulation is estimated. In 1834 the
circulation was 95,442.
3 Opened 1878.
During these ten years, while the libraries have increased
from 297,873 to 400,993 volumes, or about 55 per cent., the
circulation has only increased 8.4 per cent. But a close ex-
amination will show that this difference is more apparent than
real. The use of the Bates Hall books, which is by far the
most valuable part of the Library, has nearly doubled ; and
the hall use of books in the Lower Hall is three times as
great as it was ten years ago.
It is only in the home use
12 City Document No. 28.
of books belonging to the Lower Hall that there has been any
serious decline. That is largely due to two causes, — the
opening of the South-End Branch, which has drawn to itself
a considerable part of the former constituency of the Lower
Hall ; and the cheap issues of the better class of fiction in
the Franklin-square, the Seaside, and similar so-called " Libra-
ries." As a consequence the demand for works of fiction has
decreased, as is shown by the following table, which gives
the per cent, of increase in the several classifications of the
Lower Hall Library.
Table showing the percentage of increase of volumes in the
various classifications in the Lower Hall of the Public Li-
brary, for ten years, 1876-1885 : —
I'd- cent,
of Increase.
Whole Library (Lower Hall) . . . . II).
Reference books . . . . . .. 65.
Useful and Fine Arts, etc. ..... 53.
Jurisprudence, etc. ...... 42.
German books ....... 34.
Biography . . . . . . . . 32.
Medicine, Physics, etc. . . . . . 31.
Poetry, the Drama, etc. . . . . . 31.
Travels 30.
French books . . . . . . . 22.
American History, etc. . . . . . 21.
Foreign History, etc. . . . . . . 21.
Theology, Moral science, etc. . . . . 12.
Fiction and juvenile books, etc. . . . . 5.
Libraries, collections, etc. . . . . . 1.5
These facts are significant, as showing the very small in-
crease in the number of works of fiction compared with other
books in the popular branch of the Library, during ten
years. They show that the ample supply of standard works
of fiction, which from the beginning had been gradually sup-
plied to the Library, almost reached the maximum ten years
ago, and that the additions of that kind of literature since
have been made as sparingly as a due regard for its welfare
and completeness required.
That the Library has lost none of its hold on the interest
and regard of the people is evident from the fact that while
the total population of the city on the 30th of June, 1885,
was 390,406, the registration on the 1st of January, 1886,
was 224,118, — or 57 per cent, of the entire population.
The Central Library is also daily visited by an average of
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more than 2,200 persons, of whom over 1,600 use the Lower
Hall, and over COO Bates Hall.
It now remains to consider whether the Library, thus es-
tablished and developed, is so administered that the books
are freely and easily accessible to the public, to whom they
belong, and for whose use they are held in trust.
Perhaps there is no Library in the world the management
and administration of which are so difficult as the Boston
Public Library. A College Library is for the use of pro-
fessors and students, and it is comparatively easy, with such
a constituency, to make and enforce rules the practical work-
ing of which will yield the best results for all concerned. A
Social Library, like the Athenaeum, is for the use of its
owners. A Consulting Library — like the Astor, or the
Lenox — is very easily managed, since its use is given to
the public, subject to certain conditions, and its rules
can be made as narrow and inflexible as desired, with-
out giving any just cause of complaint. But the Boston
Public Library, like its public schools, is mainly supported
by the city, and is "open to all" its citizens. The chief
question to be answered in its administration is, how can it
best be made to subserve the purpose for which it was estab-
lished? In answering this question, no consideration of
personal convenience, or even of ordinary expediency, is to
be taken into account.
The committee has found, so far as its examination has
enabled it to judge, that the Library, in all its departments,
is administered with constant and unusual attention to the
wants of the public. One cause of complaint has come to its
attention, which seems to require explanation, viz. : the large
number of starred books, i.e., books which can be taken
out only by special permission, or not at ail. It is to be
remembered that there are not less than 30,000 volumes in
the Library, nearly 10 per cent, of all the Bates Hall collec-
tion, which, by the very conditions of their gift, are not to go
into ireneral circulation. The only question which concerns
the Trustees is, whether it is better to have the books, subject
to such condition, or not to have them at all. To such a ques-
tion there can be but one intelligent answer. The Library would
be an incalculable advantage to the city if no book on its shelves
ever went outside its walls, as is the case with the British
Museum in London, and the Astor Library in New York.
The starred books, aside from those given with the condition
stated, consist almost entirely of bound pamphlets, magazines,
reviews, etc., which, once lost, could not be replaced at all,
or only at the cost, perhaps, of the full set, from which a
single volume is missing ; and books containing valuable en-
14 City Document No. 28.
gravings, maps, etc. All such works, while they are indis-
pensable to the completeness of a great Library, ought to be,
and, for the benefit of the whole population, must be, so
guarded as to reduce the risk of loss or injury to the minimum.
It is not merely better, it is necessary, in such case to use
the ounce of prevention. The pound of cure could never
be administered.
A catalogue is the only means by which, in a large library,
books can be found. That is the only key to the treasures.
It should, therefore, be so complete and so accurate as never
to disappoint or mislead ; so plainly written or printed as not to
try the eyes severely, and so accessible that no time is un-
necessarily lost in consulting it. The card catalogue in Bates
Hall is, perhaps, as good as can be expected, in the present
state of things; but, with the limited room, its arrange-
ment is necessarily inconvenient and cramped. When the
system of card-cataloguing was first undertaken the method
adopted was far less complete and serviceable than now ; and,
in many cases, the titles were written, or printed in type so fine
that it is difficult to read them. The work of remedying this
defect has already begun ; but, at the present rate of progress,
it will be some fifteen years before the catalogue will be made
as complete and legible as it ought to be. The only way in
which this indispensable work can be brought to an early
completion is by an addition to the cataloguing force. This
can only be brought about by the employment of special
help. The time of every one of the present Library em-
ployees is fully occupied with useful, necessary, and legitimate
duties. An additional appropriation should be made by
the city ; or, perhaps, some generously disposed persons, who
know the value of a really good catalogue, might furnish the
means.
This pressing need of the Library deserves special atten-
tion. It is earnestly wished that a permanent fund of at least
$100,000 might be secured, either by public grant, private
subscription, or testamentary bequest, — or by all combined,
— the income of which should be exclusively devoted, in per-
petuity, to the Bates Hall catalogue. If this shall appear to
some persons a large sum to dedicate to the object named, it
should be remembered that, with the rapid growth of the
Library, in the not distant future the requirements of this
department will be immense.
The Lower Hall catalogue, in its entirety, is inaccessible
to the public. The only way in which books can be found is
by personal application to the curator, or by consulting the
bulletin-board, where the titles of later additions are dis-
played in manuscript, or the printed. quarterly Bulletins, in
Public Library. 15
which the books belonging to the Lower Hall and the Branches
are arranged together. It seems to the committee that there
should be a complete catalogue of the Lower Hall, more simple
in form, perhaps, than that of Bates Hall. The latest printed
catalogues of the Lower Hall have been as follows : One of
works included in poetry and the drama, in 1871 ; history,
biography, and travel, in 1873 ; art and science, and foreign
books, 1881 ; fiction, 1885. Thusthereare at least five different
printed catalogues, of various dates, as well as the Bulletin, to
consult, before one can be sure whether the book one wants
belongs to the Library or not. Many books are not easy of
classification, and might readily be placed in one of two or
three classes. A consolidated alphabetical catalogue, as free
as possible from cross-references, to be issued as a supplement
to those already in print, would be a great convenience, and
probabl}^ would also bring into circulation many books now
lying unused on the shelves.
But if it is impracticable, for any reason, to supply such
a catalogue, it is suggested that the printing, yearly, of class-
lists of history, fiction, science, etc., for the use of the
Lower Hall and Branches, shall be made a part of the regu-
lar work of the Library. These lists could be made by
classifying the titles, as printed in the three Bulletins pub-
lished each year, and could be prepared at comparatively
little expense. Such lists, mounted and hung on the walls
of the Lower Hall and Branches, will, it is believed, give
help often needed by the public, especially by young readers.
In addition to what has already been said on this subject
the committee presents here the substance of a special report
made by the sub-committee on the Lower Hall : —
The suggestions of this sub-committee seem to sum themselves up
into one cataloguing: 1st, making the card catalogue accessible to the
public; 2d, bringing the printed catalogue for history, biography, and
travel down to date. It is now nearly fourteen years behind time in
lields where the last fourteen years have made the most important con-
tributions. It is us if a great mercantile house should fail to advertise
its best goods. To fix the attention is a first principle in education.
How much may we be losing in chance to educate the public taste,
so long as we cannot call the attention of the public using the Lower
Hall to the recent books in these departments of literature !
If the card catalogue were accessible to all those above a certain
age, and the present superintendence of that catalogue continued, the
difficulty would be partly solved; but the printed catalogue, especially
just such an annotated one as the present down to iy?3, is most
urgently needed, and seems indispensable.
Such a catalogue, once published, the committee believes would
lessen the demand tor ephemeral fiction, and help to turn public atten-
tion in a better direction, even if it would not result in a sufficient
saving of money, now spent to supply the demand for lighter novels,
to enable the Trustees to increase the department and keep up the
catalogue of history, biography, and travel.
16 City Document No. 28.
The relation of the Public Library to the school can only partially
enter into the province of this committee. The Lower Hall must,
however, take the lead in any development here. Jt is the belief of the
committee that a world yet remains to be conquered by the Boston
Public Library* i-c, in establishing a vital relation with the public
schools. We do not speak without careful consideration of results else-
where. How to graduate the pupils of the schools into the Library, — this
seems to be the problem : to make them know and appreciate that the
city offers them a university, where the charges are nothing. We
know that something has been done and is doing in this direction, and
that adventures have been made in the hope of expanding the use of
the Library through the schools. But, from the committee's point of
view, this is a matter which merits special attention of all who believe
in a wide use of the Library. If some one with a genius for this subject
should devote a very large part of his or her time to a development of
the latent possibilities a few years would tell an important story. In
this connection the committee are glad that the lists of supplementary
reading, prepared from time to time for the Lower Hall, and hitherto
confined to its use, are now to be sent to the Branches.
The committee would say, in conclusion, that it fully realizes that,
with the present shortness of means and lack of space, many things are
impossible which are highly desirable, and it submits this report with
a strong sense of the present usefulness of the Lower Hall, and its
faithful management, and also in the belief that in its present lies the
promise of much more to come.
For the Sub-committee on Lower Hall,
(Signed,) PITT DILLINGHAM,
Chairman.
Since the Library was opened, in 1854, the total expense
of carrying it on, including books, salaries, etc., ba3
amounted to $2,283,369, — an average of $71,355 per year.
The largest amount appropriated in any one year was
$135,000, in 1875. The sum annually appropriated, of late
years, has been $120,000. The amount spent for books has
aggregated $533,065, showing a cost per volume of the
460,993 books in the Library of $1.15. Deducting the in-
come from funds given for the purchase of books, — about
$230,000, — the cost to the city has been only about 65
cents per volume. For this trifling sum our city is possessed
of one of the largest and best libraries in the world. All
the additional cost of these priceless treasures of learning,
as well as of more than three-fourths of the vast collection
of pamphlets, numbering nearly 320,000, has been paid by
generous donors from all parts of the world.
The total expense of the British Museum since its estab-
lishment has averaged over $107,000 yearly, of which sum
an average of $13,000 per year has been spent for books ;
while the average amount spent for books in the Boston
Public Library has been over $24,000, nearly double the
amount spent by the British Museum. It is to be said,
however, that a copy of every book copyrighted in England
Public Library. 17
has to be given to the Museum, so that the sum paid for
books represents only that spent for foreign or uncopyrighted
books.
The number of visitors to the reading-room of the British
Museum in 1874 was 104,727 ; ten years later, 152,983, — an
increase of 48,256, or 46 per cent., in ten years.
In the Astor Library, which is the great consulting library
of New York city, the use of books, which in 1876 aggre-
gated 143,545 volumes for the year, was, ten years later,
166,561, — an increase of 23,016 volumes, or nearly 17 per
cent., in ten years.
The use of books in Bates Hall, in 1876, aggregated 59,373 ;
and ten years later 124,134, — an increase of 64,761, or 109
per cent.
These figures show more plainly than any words the value
of the Boston Public Library, and the appreciation in which
it is held. Notwithstanding the limited accommodations,
and the great inconvenience attending the consultation of
books in Bates Hall, its use has more than doubled since
1876. With the completion of the new Library building, for
which every lover of reading is ardently longing, it is evident
that the use of books will be onty governed by the capacity
of the library to supply the demands upon it.
What the Library wants, and ought to have, beyond every-
thing else, is more money. That is needed for the revision and
completion of the catalogue ; for the increase of the working-
force ; for the purchase of new books constantly called for ;
and for facilitating, in every way, knowledge of and access
to the books that crowd its shelves. With every additional
10,000 volumes the expense of administration correspond-
ingly increases. Each Branch, also, adds to the item of sala-
ries far more than to that for books. In the Central Library
their are 80 persons ; in the Branches, 66. Not one of them
could be spared without serious injury to the efficiency of the
Library. The number should be increased rather than
reduced. A very large proportion of the persons now in the
service of the Library have been there for so many }'ears as to
be thoroughly familiar with and efficient in their duties. Forty-
two, including all but five of the heads of the eighteen depart-
ments and branches into which the Library is divided, have
been connected with it for more than ten years, and, of those
who have been there a shorter time, the most are runners
and persons employed in the merely mechanical work of the
institution. It is evident that the Trustees have faithfully
carried out the spirit of civil-service reform.
The facts here stated are nearly all to be found in the
annual reports of the Trustees ; but the committee has
18 City Document No. 28.
thought them of sufficient significance to invite renewed atten-
tion to them, that all our citizens may realize more nearly
the greatness of the work which the Library is doing at so
.small a cost.
The committee feels called upon to make certain recom-
mendations, some of which are repetitions of those made by
former committees, and chiefly in regard to the administra-
tion of affairs at the Central Library.
There should be, in Bates Hall, a person whose sole duty
it would be to answer questions of all sorts, and to direct in-
quirers in their search for information. In this way the use
of the Library would be greatly increased, and much informa-
tion furnished which would save students and others a great
amount of useless labor. Indeed, almost the only drawback
to the complete fulfilment of the hopes of the founders of the
Library is to be found in the barriers between the book and
the reader. Every such obstacle should be reduced to the
minimum. The catalogue is only one means of enabling a
reader to find what he wants. It is sometimes as important to
avoid what he does not want. Many a beginner in the use of
a great library has wasted precious hours in searching the
wrong trail, when, by intelligent answers to a few questions,
he would have saved his time and trouble.
The committee has found, also, a certain degree of separa-
tion, or lack of sympathy or closeness of action, between the
Branches and the Central Library. Each Branch seems to be
carried on in its own way, as if it were the only library, and
according to the plan or method of the Branch librarians.
While, of course, a certain amount of freedom and individu-
ality in the conduct of each Library will yield the best
results, there ought, also, to be a general harmony of action,
which draws its inspiration and guidance from the Central
Library. To this end the committee recommends either the
frequent inspection and personal oversight of the Branches by
some officer of the Central Library ; or, what seems still
better, frequent stated meetings of the librarians of all the
Branches at the Central Library, where they can compare
notes and results with each other, and each learn what the
other is doing, and so the combined experience of all be
made common to each. While the most competent and skil-
ful librarian cannot compel people to make use of a library,
an incompetent or inefficient one can greatly hinder its use.
It is also siujofested that such a method might result in
making the Library a sort of normal school for librarians,
where persons wishing to qualify themselves for such a pro-
fession may spend two or three years in a sort of apprentice-
ship, learning, by actual experience, every part of a librarian's
Public Library. 19
duties, and so fitting themselves to become chief librarians,
either of the Branches, when vacancies may occur, or wherever
competent service of this kind may be required.
There are several petty inconveniences, which, if they
cannot be remedied in the present building, ought, if pos-
sible, to be done away with in the new library, the erection of
which is so eagerly looked forward to. One is the method of
notifying an applicant for books of the result of his applica-
tion. In the Lower Hall this is done by calling out the
person's name; in Bates Hall, by placing the book or the
card on the table and waiting for the applicant to take it.
Both these methods are undesirable, the latter especially;
for there is usually a considerable crowd at the one place of
inquiry in Bates Hall, and some time is thus lost to the ap-
plicant. The light in Bates Hall is also inadequate for
readers, and especially for those consulting the catalogue.
In the evening, particularly, when the gas is lighted, the card
catalogue is in shade. Perhaps the ingenuity of some of the
assistants might remedy all these inconveniences, to the great
satisfaction and comfort of the public as well as of them-
selves.
Making every possible deduction, and considering every
objection and criticism that can justly be brought against the
Library, the committee has been more than ever impressed
with a sense of its vast usefulness, and also with the excel-
lence of its general administration. Every facility has been
given to the committee for seeing it in all its aspects. Every
portion of the Library has been at all times open to inspec-
tion ; and the members of the committee have, either as a
body or individually, visited it at all hours. They believe
that its work is as faithfully and efficiently carried on as the
means at the command of the Trustees will permit ; and they
have been gratified to find, in every part of its widely
separated operations, that spirit of intelligent interest which
no mere money-service can secure, and without which the
Library would fail of a large part of its usefulness.
HENRY STONE,
PITT DILLINGHAM,
HENRY H. EDES,
ELIZA L. HOMANS,
SOLOMON LINCOLN,
GEORGIANA W. SMITH,
JOHN OSCAR TEELE,
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
Examining Committee.
20 City Document No. 28.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Trustees: —
Herewith I submit my report as Librarian for the year
ending December 31, in which I have passed over, or lightly
touched upon, matters contained in your own report to the
City Council.
The net increase of the Library for the past year has been
greater than for any other year within the last ten, the gifts
being especially numerous and valuable. The contributions
to the Library from all parts of the world, as will appear in
Appendix IX., show the wide-spread esteem in which the
institution is held.
Many works privately printed, or not offered for sale, have
been freely given to the Library upon intimation that they
were desired, or have been sent as the voluntary act of their
authors.
Among the more notable accessions are : —
In Fine Arts Jahrbuch der Koniglich preussischen
Kunstsammlungen ; Koehler's American etchings ; Book of
American figure painters; Foreign etchings; Portfolios of
reproductions of Chodowiecki's Kupferstichen, etc. ; Port-
folio of eleven photographs of municipal buildings of Leeds,
England ; Chenneviere's Les dessins du Louvre ; Vacher,
Fifteenth century Italian ornament; Audsley, Ornamental
arts of Japan ; Darcel, Les tapisseries decoratives du Garde
meuble ; Brook Taylor's Method of perspective (folio). In
English County History the Archseologia Cantiana, published
by the Kent Archeeo logical Society, in 15 volumes, and pub-
lications of the Harle.ian, Lancashire and Cheshire, Chetham
and Camden Societies. In periodicals and transactions the
Comptes rendus of the Academie des inscriptions et belles-
lettres, in 29 volumes, completing the Library's collection of
the publications of the Institut de France ; the London Maga-
zine from 1732 to 1783 (98 volumes) ; ^Vcstermann*s Monats-
hefte, 1857-8(5 ((50 volumes) ; the Revue d'artillerie, 1873-
86 (24 volumes). In Oriental research, Benndorf, Reisen in
Lykien und Karien (folio), the Indian antiquary, 1872-SH
(16 volumes); Memoires publies par les membres de la.
Mission archeologique francaise an Caire, and in general
biography, Niceron, Memoires pour servir a l'histoirc des
Public Library-. 21
homines illustres, Paris, 1728-45 (44 volumes). The depart-
ment of English family and county histories has been strength-
ened by numerous accessions from purchases at sales in
England. In American history the collection of early
American prints which occupies a section of the Prince al-
cove has also received important accessions. Pains have
been taken to keep up with the latest productions of foreign
literature in works of literary criticism and history. With
the Bowditch fund for mathematical works 517 volumes have
been purchased during the year. In American local history
and publications of historical societies effort has been made
to make the collection as complete as possible.
Catalogue Department.
During the }7ear 28,967 volumes and pamphlets have
been catalogued, and 84,994 cards, prepared in connection
with this work, have been placed in the catalogue drawers at
the Central Library and Branch libraries. This does not in-
clude a special collection, numbering about 4,600 volumes,
purchased by the Fellowes Athenaeum, the cataloguing of
which is not yet finished. In this work intelligent aid has
been received from the officers at the Roxbury Branch
Library.
A new catalogue for the Jamaica Plain Branch Library has
been prepared, and is in the hands of the printer. New printed
catalogues are needed in several of the Branch libraries, as
well as in certain departments of the Lower Hall. The cata-
logue of the miscellaneous works in the Barton collection
has been completed and printed to the title Massachusetts,
making 368 pages, and is in type through title Mercier. The
Bulletins, with titles of new books and lists of works on
special subjects, have been printed as usual, and the Index of
Congressional documents has been continued.
The Index to the Bates Hall card catalogue is finished to the
letter W. This, which forms a guide or key to the subjects
of books in this collection, is contained in blank books, which
can be consulted by those who wish. It is also duplicated
in the cards in the catalogue drawers.
The work of revision of the card catalogues of the Cen-
tral Library has gone forward steadily, and the result is
apparent in their more orderly arrangement and increased
use. ,
By the two clerks at the northern end of the Bates Hall
4,246 readers have been helped, and many more by the
Librarian of this department and his assistants; 17,185 per-
sons have been helped by the assistant in charge of the
22 City Document No. 28.
Lower Hall card catalogue. Many are helped by other
officers in this department of which no numeration is made.
Changes have been made in the Branch libraries with a view
to increasing the use of their catalogues.
Bates Hall.
The circulation in Bates Hall has been satisfactory, both in
the number and in the character of books issued to readers.
There have been the same difficulties to contend with as in
former years, arising from the lack of room for students,
and, in general, from the faulty arrangement of the Library
building. These obstacles cannot be overcome, and can
hardly be mitigated so long as the Library is in its present
location. In the proposed new structure it h to be expected
that readers can be waited upon more promptly than at pres-
ent, and can have greater conveniences in their investigations.
The straitened condition of the shelves is felt more and
more with each year's growth of the collection. The custo-
dian of the shelves reports that he is much embarrassed in
trying to maintain the lines of classification. Already inroads
have been made in the system. This stringency in shelf ac-
commodation is perhaps most to be regretted in the case of
large, illustrated works of fine arts ; for many of them are
necessarily located in places remote from the reading-room
of Bates Hall, and in their transportation to and from which
they suffer more or less damage in their bindings.
New Registration.
The new registration, the fourth, begun Saturday, May 1,
1886, is progressing favorably, not only at the Central De-
partment, but at the Branches.
The rule requiring a delay of two weeks before a lost card
can be replaced is the chief difficulty connected with regis-
tration, and causes some dissatisfaction. This regulation,
however, should be strictly enforced, for the reason that
many persons, after giving notice, find their cards. An
average of 75 lost cards each week is sent to the Branches.
Over 1,500 lost cards have been replaced since May 1.
The registration work at the North-End Branch and at the
Mount Bovvdoin delivery station is included in the returns
of the Central Registration Department.
Losses of books issued to borrowers are so small as to
be significant, only because of the remarkable state of things
indicated. It is certainly worthy of remark that in a library
sending out a million of books only one in 17,000 should fail
Public Library. 23
to return, and that those lost are generally of the cheaper
sort.
Lower Hall.
In the Lower Hall there is little in the way of change in
organization to report. The old complaint, once so fre-
quently heard in the Library and outside of it, of the
length of time required to get a book from it, seems to have
completely died away.
The reading of the Hall steadily appreciates in quality and
variety. No figures, based upon a classification of only
seven divisions, can properly show this, but such is the
testimony of all who come directly in contact with the public.
The more recent German books, in this Hall, have a circula-
tion but little less than the more popular English ones.
AVholesome recreation for the public is one of the functions
of a popular library, and efforts have been made to provide
this end in the examination and selection of lighter books
adapted to readers of this class, especially to boj's and girls.
Where books have been found to be good, duplicates have
been procured, and the attention of young readers called to
them, — a course which has exercised a wholesome influence.
Many of these stories of Indian life, hunting adventures,
etc., for boys, have been spoken of by teachers as a welcome
relief from the sensational books which at one time seemed
to be the only ones heard of by the average boy. No diffi-
culty is found in the circulation of these better books, and
they have diversified and increased the attraction of the Hall.
The express connection with the Branches and deliveries is
steadily increasing; the largest draft being made by the Ros-
lindale and Mt. Bowdoin deliveries.
The Librarian and assistants share the work of assisting
readers, and the demands made upon their time and service
grow more frequent, and vary from those of the seeker for
the fairy story to the insatiate reader of fiction, or the student
in quest of general information.
It is impossible not to regret that want of space and light
and necessary accommodation for the public prevent the
development of some plans, and render impracticable others
which would increase the usefulness of the Hall.
The lack of shelf-room and of numbering capacity grows
more serious each year: New alcoves would obstruct light,
air, and passage, and add to the difficulty, rather than lessen
it. The transference of books to the galleries above would
greatly increase the work of the runners. The use of the
galleries, however, seems feasible, if a part of the work can
be done by mechanical means.
24 City Document No. 28.
Branch Libraries.
A general falling off in the circulation of books at the
Branches is noticeable, and is the natural result of the
multiplication of low-priced books of all kinds, with which
the market is flooded. Many people prefer purchasing these
to waiting for the one copy only with which each Branch is
supplied. The withdrawal, early in the year, of a large
class of sensational books for the young is an important
item to be considered in connection with the diminished
circulation ; this withdrawal reduced the number of juvenile
books used, but not the number of juvenile readers. Bound
volumes of such magazines for the young as St. Nicholas,
Wide-Awake, and Harpers' Young People, together with the
works of travel for young people which have appeared in
recent years, require a longer time for their reading than
the class of books now not allowed to circulate.
There seem to be at the present time fewer boys and girls
who change their books every day than formerly. The
example of the Lower Hall would tend to show that the
diminished circulation will be only temporary, and that the
diminution Avill be partially, if not wholly, redeemed by
numbers representing a higher order of reading.
To the stopping of the use of cards whose owners are
either dead, or removed from the cit}r, required by the new
registration, may be attributed, in some of the Branches, a
part of the decrease of circulation. This has especially been
the case at the South Boston Branch.
I would recommend to the Trustees that the rule pro-
hibiting the duplication of works of fiction and books for
the young, at the Branches, be modified so as to allow the
better class of such literature, to a limited extent, to be
represented by more than one copy of each book. This
would act as a sort of compensation for the withdrawal of
the large number of sensational works.
The quarters in the Hancock School-house, used for the
North-End delivery station, having been required by the
School Committee, new accommodations were secured at the
corner of North Bennet and Salem streets. This station,
which is carried on not without some annoyance to its
frequenters and employees by rude boys, is, nevertheless,
justifying its continuance. The number of readers for the
eight months that the delivery was open is larger than for
the whole of the preceding year.
During the year the experiment was tried of direct com-
munication, by express, for the transmission of books at
stated times between the Central Library and the respective
Public Library. 25
delivery stations. The success of the plan has fully justified
it, and the result has given satisfaction to the citizens who
draw upon the Central Library through these stations.
A new delivery station has been opened at Mt. Bowdoin,
in connection with a reading-room, which is maintained at
private expense ; and there is every reason to believe, from
the active interest shown by those who use it, that it will be
a permanent as well as a vigorous establishment.
MELLEX CHAMBERLAIN,
Librarian.
Public Library, Feb. 7, 1887.
APPENDIXES
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
1886.
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.
VII I. 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. List of Examining Committees for Thirty-five Years.
XXIV. List of Trustees for Thirty-five Years.
Public Library.
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APPENDIX I.
EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY BY YEARS.
Years.
a
8 J
£ g
U
2"=*
w o
ca - -
Years.
a
s'i
"Si
1
1852-53
9,688
961
19
1870-71
179.250
89,746
2
1853-54
16,221
3,950
20
1871-72
192,958
100,383
3
1854-55
22,617
6,507
21
1872-73
209,456
112,153
4
1855-56
28,080
12,386
22
1873-74
260,550
134,628
5
1856-57
34,896
16,053
23
1874-75
276,918
150,921
6
1857-58
70,851
17,938
24
1875-76
297,873
1S1,653
7
1858-59
78,043
19,255
25
1876-77
312,010
196,958
8
1859-60
85,031
20,707
26
1877-78
345,734
212,414
9
1860-61
97.3S6
27,381
27
1878-79
360,963
227,010
10
1861-62
105,034
28,874
28
1879-80
377,225
236,534
11
1862-63
110,563
31,043
29
1880-81
390,982
250,495
12
1863-64
116,934
31,837
30
1881-82
404,221
261,056
13
1864-65
123,016
32,553
31
1882-83
422,116
275,425
14
1865-66
130,678
36,566
32
1883-84
438,594
292,793
15
1866-67
136,080
44,443
33
1884-85
453,947
308,242
16
1867-68
144,092
47,254
34
1885
460,993
319,778
IT
1868-69
152,796
61,177
35
1886
479,421
335,017
18
1869-70
160,573
74,770
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, Dec. 31, 18SG.
f Bates Hall
? £' | Newspaper room ....
.* ~ Duplicate room
(. Lower Hall
Total, Central Library .
>> .
p-f ( Fellowes Athenasum . . .
■° £ \
Qjg ( City part
Total, Roxbury Branch .
East Boston
South Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
Dorchester
South-End
Jamaica Plain
West Roxbury delivery
North-End
12,167
12,2.0
26,428
13,686
13,791
9,995
10,383
3,252
1,382
30
City Document No. 28.
APPENDIX II.
YEARLY INCREASE OF THE WHOLE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE AND BY
GIFTS.
Notice. — The increase of volumes is not the sum of those added by gift and purchase, etc., because
lost and condemned books are deducted.
Years.
1852-81
1881-82
1882-83
1883-84
1884-85
1885 (eight months)
18S8
Increase.
Vols. Pamph,
395,177
12,239
17,895
16,478
15,353
7,046
18,428
251,538
10,561
14,369
17,368
15,449
11,536
15,239
Gifts.
Vols.
Pamph.
143,745
178,866
5,291
8,773
5,340
11,844
3,815
16,203
2,975
10,831
2,518
10,690
4,105
12,500
Purchases, in-
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charged to funds
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250,474
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Vols.
5
67,974
7,143
12,583
15,986
2,068
745
520
16,222
2,525
522
575
18,392
1,165
531
778
17,005
4,618
457
899
6,749
663
231
663
15,512
2,740
4,789
922
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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2,731
2,823
2,897
3,003
3,066
3,142
3,259
3,382
3,478
3,513
3,641
Bowditch libr'y '
2,592
2,932
3,043
3,060
3,152
3,224
3,456
3,701
3,854
3,933
4,510
Parker library1 .
12,291
12,296
12,309
12,322
12,337
12,363
13,952
13,971
14,024
14,057
14,069
Prince library .
2,028
2,029
2,037
2,159
2,230
2,274
2,327
2,397
2,510
2,581
2,706
Ticknor library .
4,929
5,171
5,354
5,432
5,464
5,463
5,507
5,544
5,724
5,731
5,764
Barton library .
12,804
13,950
14,210
14,301
14,360
13,487
13,610
13,610
13,642
13,652
13,800
202
240
893
292
910
357
1,085
378
1,123
382
1,175
392
1,217
1 See Appendix VII.
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APPENDIX Y.
INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
f Gain in books
*" J Condemned and transferred
05 L Net gain
1882
188.1
1884
1885
1885
(8 mos.)
8,750
19
11,729
25
11,216
54
10,230
15
4,877
6
4,871
8,731
11,704
11,162
10,215
9,733
12
9,721
2,576
*
2,378
1,400
2,716
1,361
2,099
1,074
737
370
1.728
862
71 ! Condemned and transferred . .
978
1,355
1,025
367
866
41
98
55
258
11
158
S. • 1
12
41
98
55
258
11
158
936
223
713
1,764
7S1
1,340
528
420
211
651
274
1,036
1,095
"S . 1 Less loss by exchanges,
K § J
etc. . .
983
812
209
377
fGain in books
(S 3 J Condemned and lost
« s- I
so I
I*) I. Net gain
596
604
669
585
233
372
223
379
225
383
28S
148
286
297
85
567
331
«< fGain in books
5 s I
6q 5 I Net gain
1,000
766
1,105
935
520
485
304
659
537
408
515
462
446
39S
112
1,052
749
839
260
1,090
757
976
42S
908
540
495
373
<
1
458
1
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579
745
333
522
548
531
368
417
122
209
Fellowes Athenaeum.
(Net gain.)
4,748
1,324
855
1,079
815
331
5,110
* 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
that year exceeds those supplied.
Public Library. 33
APPENDIX Y. — Concluded.
1883
1883
1884
1885
1885
(8mos.)
1886
l< 1
%t\ Condemned and lost ....
■eg 1
1,533
675
1,326
561
1,999
1,931
1,285
513
549
206
1,352
672
858
765
*loss 192
772
343
680
•< 3 J Condemned and lost ....
108
56
140
97
262
98
142
60
88
24
251
65
(S5 1
52
61
164
82
64
186
jb " ! Condemned and lost ....
££ i
828
93
767
189
961
402
1,120
664
475
199
908
318
<^"°
735
578
559
456
276
590
'5 r Gain in books . . .
e S J Condemned and lost
[Net!
460
96
569
195
559
119
569
124
26S
101
626
271
■ i J Condemned and lost ....
-! i
410
197
213
515
288
227
386
291
400
441
252
232
393
419
05 (. Net gain
95
loss 41
20
loss 26
f Bates Hall gain
Lower Hall gain
Newspaper-room gain . .
Duplicate-room gain . . .
East Boston branch gain .
South Boston branch gain
Roxbury branch gain . . .
Fellowes Athenaeum gain .
{ Charlestown branch gain .
Brighton branch gain . . .
Dorchester branch gain . .
Jamaica Plain branch gain
South-End branch gain . .
West Roxbury branch gain
North-End branch gain . .
(.Total gain
,731
3 531
41
713
223
515
579
745
8r.8
52
735
364
213
1
11,704
978
225
462
333
522
765
51
578
374
227
74
521
17,895
11,162
1,355
55
812
286
446
548
531
loss 192
164
559
440
95
74
143
16,478
10,215
4,871
1,025
367
258
11
209
377
297
85
398
112
368
122
447
209
772
343
82
64
456
276
445
167
l0S8 41
20
11
10
411
12
15,353
7,046
9,721
866
158
loss 59
236
303
362
4,748
680
186
590
355
loss 26
13
295
18,428
*This excessive loss at Charlestown is required to correct a mistake of some years'
standing in the aggregate number of volumes.
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APPENDIX VII.
BATES HALL CLASSIFICATIONS.
(Representing books located only.)
Cyclopaedias, etc
Bibliography and literary history
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 histor)', etc
Metaphysics and social science
Jurisprudence
Political economy
Medical science
Natural history and science
Mathematics aud physical science
Useful arts
Fine arts
Bound volumes of miscellaneous pamphlets
Bound volumes of manuscripts
Shakespeare
Books for the blind
General Library.
::
Total in
general
library
Jan. 1,
1,785
7,425
8,542
34,887
27,656
15,194
8,613
9,951
6,221
1,540
7,935
20,857
21,646
9,652
5,026
3,219
13,362
8,816
10,785
6,394
7,677
23S,0S6
Special Libraries.
1,156
1,072
858
120
520
7
325
2
1,420
8
1,181
196
3,492
1,360
3,237
2,495
Total,
including
special
libraries.
2,373
9,055
9,537
39,236
35,571
18,831
9,371
11,739
8,378
5,707
8,554
23,551
27,100
11,360
5,441
3,423
13,508
9,124
13,569
6,463
7,841
554
Explanation. — Class III. includes general history, etc., when embracing several countries,
and collected works of historians.
Class IV. includes the collected works of American writers, and what of American literature is
sometimes termed polygraphy.
Classes V., VI., VII., and VIII. have the same scope for the respective countries that Class IV.
has for America. Class VIII. includes also Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the
Scandinavian nations.
Class XIV. includes political science aud ethics, applied and unapplied, education, phrenology,
Class XIX. includes mechanics, military and naval arts, agriculture, domestic arts, etc.
Class XXIV. does not include the Shakespeare collection of the general library.
The subdivisions of classes are kept in ranges by themselves, so that for purposes of enumera-
tion or learning percentage of use, it is practicable at any time to get exact figures upon the sub-
divisions ; as also upon such points as biography, travel, and voyages, etc., by summing the results
of the ranges devoted to them in the several alcoves.
Note. — The dates given in the special libraries column show the year when they were acquired
by the library.
• Includes all books in room G, — 12,108 of them belonging to the Barton library, as originally shelved there.
Public Library.
35
APPENDIX VIII.
LOWER HALL CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
Theology, moral and intellectual sci-
ence, etc
Jurisprudence and political science . .
Medicine, mathematics, physics or
natural science
Useful and fine arts, military and naval
science
American history and politics ....
Foreign history and politics .....
Poetry, drama, oratory, rhetoric . . .
English prose fiction, including juvenile
fiction and other juvenile books . .
Biography . .v
Travels
Libraries, collections, periodicals, etc.*
German books
Italian books
French books
Spanish books
Books of reference
Extent of L. H. collection
2,0"fi
459
2,873
1,093
1,349
1,679
3,490
14,694
3,105
2,680
3,981
1,609
156
1,222
5
440
40,911
1880
25
25
37
66
425
63
52
106
43
970
£ p.
434
2
5
7
11
36
35
50
73
1,021
76
66
158
55
1,728
To be de-
ducted.
7
16
9
17
651
14
16
51
27
1
3
832
so
2,105
474
2,944
1,122
1,368
1,718
3,546
15,064
3,165
2,728
4,088
1,637
155
1,238
5
420
41,777
Reported last year 40,911
Gain in 1S86 ,
*Thi»jclass, 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 pre-
vious years as well as in the current year. The column " Total Added " shows the number of
volumes as put upon the shelves, counting as one those bound two volumes in one, etc.
36
City Document No. 28.
APPENDIX IX.
GIFTS, JANUARY 1, 1886, TO DECEMBER 31, 1886.
Givers (excluding anonj-mous)
Volumes ....
Pamphlets ....
922
4,105
12,500
Givers.
Abbott, Rev. Edward
Abbott, Josiah G
Aberdeen, Scotland, Public Library .
Academy of Science, St. Louis, Mo. .
Adams, Charles Kendall, Ithaca, N Y.
Adams, Henry C., Ellsworth, Kan., 1 framed portrait
Adams Nervine Asylum ....
Alba-Raymond, Gabriel, & Tobie M. Genoud
Albany Medical College, Albany, N. Y.
Aklen, Edwin, & Bro., Cincinnati, Ohio .
Alexander, Sigmond B
Algonquin Club .....
Allen, Ezra P., M.D., Athens, Pa. .
Alumni Association of the Philadelphia College of Phar
macy .........
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Bankers' Association ....
American Baptist Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Bar Association ......
American Bible Society ......
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Chemical Society, New York City
American Congregational Association
American Home Missionary Society
American Institute of Mining Engineers, New York City
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
American New Church Tract and Publication Society
Philadelphia, Pa. ......
American Ornithologists' Union, New York City
American Otological Society .....
American Pharmaceutical Association, Philadelphia, Pa
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
American Society of Microscopists ....
American Steam Boiler Insurance Company, New York
City
Ames, John G., Washington, B.C. .
Ames, John N., Chelsea
Amherst College. Library, Amherst .
Andover Theological Seminary, Andover
Anonymous,
1 chart
46
1
102
1
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1
4
1
2
1
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Public Library.
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Appleton, William S., 26 maps, 88 prints, charts, etc
Apprentices' Library Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Archaeological Institute of America .
Arnold, Howard P. ....
Association for the Advancement of Women
Astor Library, New York City . .
Atwater, Prof. W. O., Middletown, Conn-
Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y.
Austin, Henry Willard, Med field
Ayer, J. C, & Co., Lowell ....
Baker, Benjamin F., Brookline
Baker, Walter, & Co
Baldwin, William H
Ballou, Maturin M
Bank Presidents' Association
Banks, Charles E., M.D., Chelsea
Barnard, James M., Milton, . . a lot of photog
Barrett, Edwin S., Concord
Barry, John L. .
Basadre, Modesto, Lima, Peru .
Battell, Robbins, and Miss Anna, Norfolk, Conn
Bell, A. Graham. Washington, D.C- .
Bell, Alexander Melville, Washington, D.C.
Bell, Clnrk, New York City
Benet, Brig. -Gen. S.V., Washington, DC.
Berea College, Berea, Ky.
Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Pittsfield
Berry, Ira, Portland, Me. ......
Berry, Stephen, Portland, Me., . . .38 newspapers
Berthoud, H., . . . .a lot of newspapers
Betts, C. Wyllys, New York City .....
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele, Rome
Italy .........
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Bigelow, Prescott, .... 1 drawing, frame
Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton
Biker, Julio Firmino Judice, Lisbon, Portugal .
Birchard Library, Fremont, Ohio
Birmingham, England, Borough of
Bishop, James, Trenton, N.J. .
Blaisdell, Frank C. . . .
Blake, C. M., San Francisco, Cal.
Blake, Clarence J., M.D. .
Blake, Francis E. . . .
Blatchford, John S. .
Bodge, Rev. George M.
Bogert, R.R., New York City .
Bolton, Prof. H. Carrington, Hartfoi
Bolton, England, Public Library
Bund, Charles H., Middletown, Conn
Borland, Miss Alida L.
Boston, City of, ...
Board of Health
City Hospital .
Inspector of Buildings
Inspector of Milk and Vinegar
Overseers of the Poor
Park Commissioners
Water Board .
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204
870
1
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Givers.
newspaper
maps
Boston and Albany Railroad Company
Boston Children's Friend Society
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund .
Boston Gas Light Company
Boston Hygieina Publishing Company
Boston Latin School Association
Boston Lying-in Hospital ....
Boston Medical Library Association .
Boston Museum ......
Boston Port and* Seamen's Aid Society
Boston Provident Association
Boston Society of Architects
Boston Society of Natural History
Boston Theatre ......
Boston University .....
Boston Young Men's Christian Union
Bostonian Society, . . . . a lot of
Botume, J. Frank .....
Bourinot, John George, Ottaiva, Canada .
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D.
Bowdoin College. Brunswick. Me.
Bowman, Selwyn Z., Somerville
Boyd, John. St. John. N.B.,
Bracquemont, Leopold de, Grivesnes, France
Bradford, Charles F
Bradford. England. Free Library
Bradford Academy, Bradford .
Bradlee, Rev. Caleb D., a lot of newspapers and broad
sides .......
Bradley, C. B., Berkeley, Cal. .
Braintree, Records Publication Committee
Bridgeport. Conn., Public Library .
Bridgham, P. A.,
Briggs, N. A., Shaker Village, X.H.
Brinton, Daniel G., M.D., Philadelphia, Pa
British Association for the Advancement of
Montreal Committee
British Museum. London. England .
Brookline. Public Library
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, X. Y.
Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, X. Y. .
Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, X. Y.
Brooks, Frederick ....
Brooks. Rev. ^Yilliam Henry, Hanover
Bross, William, Chicago, 111. .
Brown, Arthur N.
Brown, Francis H, M.D. .
Brown, Joseph M., Atlanta, Ga.
Brown University, Providence, R.I. .
Browne, George M. .
Browne. Henry R. .
Brownell, T. Frank. Xew York City .
Brunei, Isambard, London, England.
Bruun, Chr., Copenhagen, Denmark .
Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo, A
Buffalo Library, Buffalo", X. Y. .
Bullard, William N., M.D.
Bunker. Miss Sarah ....
Burgess, George C, Portland, Me. .
Butler, George, New York City
Y.
maps
Science
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39
Givers.
Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence, R.I.
Byram, E. R. .
Cadit'iix & Derorae, Montreal, Canada, . \i newspaper
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cat
Cambridge. Public Library
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge. Englan
Canada. Geological and Natural History Survey
Candage, R. G.F
Canfield, Thomas H., Burlington, Yt.
Canfield Thomas W
Cannon, Henry W., Washington, D.C.
Carret, Jose F. .
Carter, Elwyn ......
Chalmers, Patrick. Wimbledon. England .
Chamberlain, Edward G., Hyde Park
Chamberlain, Mellen .....
Chambers, Talbot W., D.D., New York City
Chandler, Horace P., .... a lot of newspapers
Channing, Walter, M.D., Brookline .
Chapman. Alfred F. .
Chase, William L. . . . . .
Chelsea, City of
Public Library ....
Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.
Chenery, William E. .
Chicago, ///., Public Library
Chicago Historical Society. Chicago, III.
Children's Aid Society. New York City
Christern. F. W., New York City
Church Press Association, Xeic York City
Cincinnati, Ohio, Board of Education
Public Library ....
City Missionary Society ....
Claflin, John, New York City
Clapp, Charles, Union Yillage, Ohio
Clapp, Herbert C, M. D
Clarke, Eliot C
Clarke, Col. I. Edwards. Washington, D.C.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D.
Clarke, John S.. Auburn, X. Y.
Clarke, Miss Julia C. ....
Clarke, Robert. Cincinnati. Ohio
Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes, Xorthampto
Cleveland, Ohio, Public Library
Cloudman. F. A.. Rondout, N.Y.
Cobbett, Miss Susan. Manchester, England
Codman, Arthur Amory ....
Coffin, C. C
Colburn, Theodore E. ....
Colby, Charles C, Stanstead, Canada
Colby University, Watervi/te, Me.
Collins, Frank S., Maiden
Collins, Patrick A
Colored Home and Hospital, New York City
Columbia College, New York City .
Concord, iV.//., City of ....
Public Library ....
Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics .
Cook, George H., Xew Brunswick, X.J. .
Coolidge, Mrs. J. R
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Cotgreave, Alfred, London, England
Courtenay, William A., Charleston, S.C.
Cox, William R., Washington, D.C.
Crawford, T. H., Portland, Oregon
Crocker, Uriel H. . . . .
Crosby, John L., Bangor, Me. .
Cross, James M., Providence, R.I.
Cummings, Joseph, D.D., Evanston, 111.
Cupples, Joseph G. .
Curtis, George Ticknor, New York City
Curtis, Major Herbert P., West Point, A'.
Cust, Robert, London, England
Cutler, Elhridge G., M.D.
Cutler, Henry S. ....
Cutter, Abram E.
Dacosta, Charles W., Jacksonville., Fla.
Dakota Territory, Commissioner of Immi
Dana, Richard H. . . . .
Dante Society, Cambridge
Darapsky, L., Santiago, Chili .
Darling, C. W., Utica, N.Y. .
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences,
Iowa ......
Davie, Curtis, Plymouth .
Davies, Rev. E., Reading
Davis, Andrew McFarland, Cambridge
Dawson, C. C, Lowell
Day, Albert, M.D. .
Dean, Benjamin
Dedham, Town of
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Davenport
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De Lancey, William H., New York City
Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington
Demurest, Rev. David D., New B run sir irk. N
Demmon, Prof. Isaac N., Ann Arbor, Mich.
De Peyster, Gen. John Watts, New York City
Detroit, Mich., Public Library .
Deu'tscher Gesellig-Wissenschaftlicher Verein, New
City . . . . .
Dewey, Melvil, New York City
De Wolf, William F., Chicago, III. .
Dexter, George ....
Dixwell, Mrs. J. J
Dodge, James H. ....
Doggett, Frederick F., M. D.
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Episcopal Church ....
Donaldson, James, Liverpool. England
Doncaster, England. Free Library .
Dover, NIL, City of
Doyle, Thomas A., Providence, R.I.
Drowne, T. Si afford, D.D., Flatbush, L.I.
Dryden, Miss Minta I., Dayton, Ohio
Dudley, L. Edwin ....
Dunlap, Lauren, Huron. Dakota,
Durande-Claye, Alfred, Paris, France
Duren, Elnathan F., Banqor, Me.
Dwight, Prof. Thomas, Cambridge .
Yor,
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Dyer, Frank P.
Eames, Wilberforce, New York City
Eason, Charles, Dublin, Ireland
Eastern Dispensary, New York City
Eaton, Rev. Arthur Wentworth, Brookline
Eaton, C. H
Eaton, Dorman B., New York City .
Eddy, Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Edes, Henry H., I newspaper, a lot of cards and
Edgerly, Joseph G., Fitchburg .
Edmonds, Mrs. E. M., Carisbrook, Blackheath
Eliot, Rev. C. R., and Rev. C. J. Staples .
Ellis, John, M.D.. Edgewater, N.J.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.
Essex Bar Association, Salem .
Essex Institute, Salem. ....
Evening Post Publishing Company, New York
Farmer, E. J., Cleveland, Ohio
Farnham, J. M. W., D.D., Shanghai, China
Fa rra is, Perez J., City of Mexico
Fellows, I. W., Manchester, Nil. .
Female Auxiliary Bible Society
Ferguson, John, Columbo, Ceylon
Ferguson, R.. Henry ....
Ferrette, Julius, Leipzig, Germany .
First Parish and Shepard Congregational Society,
bridge ......
Fisher, G. G., &Bro., York, Pa.
Fisher, Theo. W., M.D. .
Fiske, W., Florence, Italy
Fitchburg. Public Library
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Fitzgerald. Desmond, Brookline
Fletcher, J. V. ....
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt.
Flick, Lawrence F., Philadelphia, Pa.
Floye, W. J
Fogg, Ebenezer T., South Scituate .
Folsom, A. A.
Folsom, Charles W., Cambridge
Forbes, R. B., Milton
Ford, William E
Fosdick, Frederick, Fitchburg
Foster, William H
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.
Frazer, Persifor, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Free Hospital for Women
Free Masons, Grand Chapter of Maine
Grand Lodge of Iowa
■ Grand Lodge of Maine .
French, A. D. Weld ....
broadsides
England
Friends' Free Library, Germantoivn, Pa. .
Fritsch, Hugo, Konigsberg, Germany
Fuller, Miss Edith D
Fuller, Mrs. Sarah E
Galloupe, F. E
Gardner, Mrs. George ....
General Association of the Congregational Churches of
Massachusetts ........
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Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Ga
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German Society of the City of New York ....
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Gerould, Rev. Samuel L. , Hollis, N. //., 97 newspapers,
7
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Gilson, F. H
1
Glasgow University Library, Glasgow, Scotland
9
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Goode, G. Brown, Washington, B.C.
1
Goodell, Henry H., and F. Tuckerman, Amherst
1
Goodrich, Prof. J. E., Burlington, Vt., . 1 photograph
Goodwin, Daniel, jr., and Thomas Pitts, Chicago, III.
1
Gorman. Arthur P., Washington, B.C.
1
Gould, Benjamin A., Cambridge .....
1
Gould, Miss Elizabeth P., Che/sea, . . 1 newspaper
Grand Rapids, Mich., Public Library ....
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Great Britain, Commissioner of Patents ....
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Green, Samuel A., M. B
110
Green, Samuel S., Worcester ......
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Greey, Edward, Neiv York City .....
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Griffin, Martin I. J., Philadelphia, Pa. ....
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Griggs, S. M., Westborough ......
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Grube, F., Schleswig, Germany .....
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Hamel, Prof. Thomas E., Quebec, Canada,
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Hamilton, James ........
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Harris, George H., Rochester, N.Y. ....
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Harris, George William, Ithaca, N. Y., . 1 photograph
Harris, J. Kendel, Cambridge, England ....
1
Harrisse, Henry, Paris, France .....
1
Hartford, Conn., City Clerk ......
1
Hartford Library Association, Hartford, Conn.
5
Hartwell, E. Adams, Fitchburg ......
1
Harvard Club, New York City ......
1
Harvard College, Astronomical Observatory, Cambridge .
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Class of 1830
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Hauselt, Edward, & I. Birkner, New York City
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. .....
1
Hayden, Jabez H., Windsor Locks, Conn. ....
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Hayes, John L., Cambridge ......
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Hazen, Rev. Henry A., Andover .....
1
Hebbard, E. C, M.B
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Hildeburn, Charles R., Philadelphia, Pa
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Hildrath, John L., Cambridge ......
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Hill, Don Gleason, Bedham ......
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Hill, Miss Lucy A., Belmont .....
Hilt, Warren E., Brooklyn, N. Y. ....
Hind, J. I. 1)., Lebanon, Tenn. .....
Bingham, Public Library ......
Hitchcock, Edward, M.D., Amherst ....
Hoadley, Charles J., Hartford, Conn.
Hoadley, John C, Executors of the Estate of .
Hoar, George F.. Worcester .....
Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y. .....
Hodges, Richard M., M. D
Hoff, Ludwig, Coesfeld, Germany ....
Holbrook. Public Library .....
Homans, Mrs. E. L. .
Home for Aged Men .......
Home for the Friendless, New Haven, Conn.
Homes, Henry A., Albany, N.Y. ....
Homes for Inebriates' Association, London, England
Hopkinson, Charles H., Groveland ....
Horsford, Prof. Eben Norton, Cambridge
Hosmer, Rev. Samuel 1)., Auburn ....
Houghton, Mifflin, & Co 4 calendars
Howard, Cecil H, Brooklyn, N.Y. ....
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Howe, Archibald M., Cambridge ....
Hoyt, Albert H
Hoyt, Thomas R., Goffstown, N.H. ....
Hubbard, Rev. James M. .
Hubbard, L. P., New York City .....
Huguenot Society of America .....
Hull, Charles J., Chicago, III
Humane Society of Massachusetts ....
Hunrath. Karl. Hadersleben, Schlesu'ig-Holstein,Gennany
Hunt, Edward B. ...... .
Huntington, William R., D.D., New York City
Hurlburt, Miss Harriet P., Chicago, III. .
Iglehart, A., St. Paul, Minn., . 1 lithograpl
Illinois, Department of State .....
Imperial University of Japan, Tokio, Japan
Index Society, London, England ....
Indian Eights Association ......
Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Ind. .
Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes
New York City .......
Institution of Civil Engineers, London, England
International Committee of Young Men's Christian Asso
ciations .........
Iowa, Bureau of Labor Statistics ....
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union ....
Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York City
Jack, John G. ....... .
Jay, John, Albany, N.Y. .
Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D
Jenks, Rev. H. F
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Johnson, H. L., . . . . . .4 newspapers
Jones, Charles C, jr., Augusta, Ga.
Journal Newspaper Company .....
Kaiserliehe Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna,
Austria ..........
Kansas, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Vols.
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Sera ni 'on
Kansas State Library ....
Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan
Kay, Robert, Adelaide, South Australia .
Keenan, John J.
Keller, W. B., New York City .
Keyes, John S., Concord .
Kilburn, D. W. . . ' .
Kimball, John, Concord, NIL .
Kimball, William T., Lawrence
King, John, Toronto, Canada .
Kingman, A. A.
Kingsbury, F. J., Waterbury, Conn
Knapp, Arthur Mason
Knight, Joseph K., D.D.S.
Knowlton, T. S., West Brookfield
Koenigliche Bayerische Akademie der Wisse
Munich. Germany ......
Koenigliche Oeffentliche Bibliothek, Dresden,
Kongligt Universitetet, Upsala, Sweden .
Kuebler, Prof. O., Berlin, Prussia .
Lackawanna Institute of History and Science
Pa
Lake, George W., Pembroke, NIL .
Lamberton. Robert A., South Bethlehem, Pa.
Lancaster, Public Library ....
Lane, Rev. James P., Norton
Lanza, Miss Mary P., . .1 chart, 79 newspapers
Lapham, W. B., Augusta, Me. .
Lathers, Col. Richard, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lawrence, Abbott, .... a lot of newspapers
Lawrence, Samuel C, Medford
Lawrence, City of ...
Free Public Library
Lee, William Wallace, Meriden, Conn.
Leeds, Josiah W., Philadelphia, Pa.
Leeds, England, Free Public Library
Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa.
Leicester, Public Library .
Levick, James J., Philadelphia, Pa.
Levy, Simeon, City of Mexico
Lewis, H. K., London, England
Library Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lincoln, George, Hingham
Lincoln, Public Library
Lintner, J. A., Albany, N. Y.
Little, George T., Brunswick, Me.
Little, Brown, & Co
Livermore, Rev. S. T., Bridgewater .
Liverpool, England, Free Public Library
Loring, H.rB
Lovering, Henry B., Washington, D.C.
Low, Lyman H., New York City
Lowell, City of . . . .
Public Library
Ludlow, Thomas W., Yonkers, N. Y.
Ludwig Salvator, Arch-Duke, Vienna, Austria
Lugrin, diaries H., Fredericton, N.B
Lyman. Mrs. Theodore, Brookline
Lynn, Public Library
McCamant, Joel B., llarrisburg, Pa.
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McClurg, A. C, & Co., Chicago, III.
MacDonald, Carlos F., M.D., Auburn, N F.
McDonnell Bros., Chicago, III. .
McPherson, William, jr., Lansing, Mich.
Maimonides Library, New York City
Manchester, England, Public Free Libraries
Manchester, N.H., City Library
Marcou, John B., Cambridge .
Marcy, Henry O., M.D. . . .
Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
Marlborough. Public Library .
Marquette College, Milwaukee, Wis.
Marsh, Edward B., Amherst
Marshall, Gen. J. F. B., Hampton, Va., newspaper cut
tings .......
Marvin, W. T. R
Marx, Henry, New York City . ■ .
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md.
Mason, Edward G., Chicago, 111.
Mason, Orion A., Med way
Mason, Thomas, Glasgow, Scotland .
Massachusetts, State of
Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity
■ Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Railroad Commissioners .
Secretary of the Commonwealth
State Library .....
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy .
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital
Massachusetts Horticultural Society .
Massachusetts Infant Asylum .
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded
Massachusetts State Pharmaceutical Association
Master Car-Builders' Association, New York City
Maxwell, Sidney D., Cincinnati, Ohio
May, Henry A., . . . .1 wood-cut, 5 map
May, Samuel P., Newton .
Mayo, Rev. A. D. .
Melrose. Public Library .
Mercantile Library, New York City
Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Cal. .
Merriman, Rev. Daniel, Worcester
Michigan, State Library ....
Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich.
Michigan Central Railroad Company, Detroit, Mich
Middlesex Mechanics' Association, Lowell
Millis, Mrs. Lansing, Millis
Milwaukee, Wis. , Public Library
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee, Wis
Minneapolis, Minn., Park Commissioners.
Minot, Charles S
Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics .
Missouri Agricultural College and University
Mitchell, Clifford, M.D., Chicago, III.
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Monks, Richard J. ....
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Moore, George H., New York City
Moore, John B., Concord .....
Moroney, T. W., 1
Morrison, Nathan J., D.D., Springfield, Mo. .
Morse, Edward S., Salem .....
Morse, Leopold .......
Morse Institute, Natick .....
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley
Muckle, M. Richards, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Mundo, John J. ......
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge .
Museum of Fine Arts
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
National Board of Trade .....
New Bedford, Free Puhlic Library .
New England Historic Genealogical Society
New England Meteorological Society
New England Methodist Historical Society
New England National Bank
New Hampshire, State of .
Secretary of State .
New Jersey, State Geologist
State Library
New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J. .
New London County Historical Society, New London,
New York, City, Board of Education
New York, State, Bureau of Statistics of Labor
— Forest Commission ....
Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N. Y.
City
Com
New York Civil-Service Reform Association, New
City
New York Free Circulating Library, New York City
New York Historical Society, New York City
New York Homoeopathic Medical College, New York
New York Microscopical Society, New York City
New York Produce Exchange, New York City .
New York State Agricultural Society, Albany, N. Y.
Newark Library Association, Newark, N.J.
Newburyport. Public Library ....
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Public Libraries
mittee ........
Newton. Free Library .....
Nichols, Mrs. R. Anne .....
Northwestern University, Evanston, III. .
Nova Scotia, Library Commissioners, Halifax, N.S.
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Philadelphia, Pa
Nutter, F. H., 3Iinneapolis, Minn. ....
Nye, Gideon, Canton, China .....
Nymanover, E., Minneapolis, Minn.
O'Connor, Mrs. Ellen M., Washington, D.C .
Odd Fellows' Library Association, San Francisco, Cal.
Ohio, Forestry Bureau ......
Secretary of State
chart
Co tin
York
Omaha, Neb., Public Library
Orphans' Home and Asylum, New York City
Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio
Ottofy, Louis, Chicago, III.
Owens Art Institution, St. John, N.B.
Oxford Historical Society, Oxford, England
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Paine, Robert Treat ....
Parato, Antonino, Turin, Italy .
Park, Mrs. John C, Newton
Parker, Henry J.
Parks, G. D. A., Joliet, III.
Parvin, T. S., Cedar Rapids, Iowa .
Paterson, N.J., Public Library
Paton, Allan Park. Greenock, Scotland
Pattee, Asa F., M.D.
Peabody Academy of Science, Salem
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Peabody Institute, Peabody .....
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology
Cambridge ........
Pennsylvania, Penitentiary of the Eastern District, Phila
delphia, Pa. ........
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa
Peoria Board of Trade, Peoria, III. ....
Perkins, Charles C, 3 maps, 317 newspapers, a lot o:
plates .........
Perkins, Samuel C, Philadelphia, Pa.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant ......
Perry, William Stevens, D.D., Davenport, Iowa
Phelan, James,' Memphis, Tenn. . ...
Philadelphia City Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Philadelphia Social Science Association, Philadelphia, Pa
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia
Pa.
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.II.
Philosophical Society, Washington, D.C. .
Pickering, Prof. Edward C, Cambridge .
Pickett, Rev. Joseph 1)., Frankfort, Ky. .
Pillsbury, Parker, Concord, N.II.
Pine, John B., New York City .
Pinkham, Joseph, Newmarket, N.II.,
Plymouth, England, Free Public Library
Pollard, Mrs. A
Pool, Wellington, Wenham
Portland, Oregon, Superintendent of Schools
Pratt, Charles, New York City .
Presbyterian Church, Eaglewood, N.J.
Prime, Temple, Huntington, N. Y. .
Providence, R.I., City of .
City Registrar ....
Public Library
1 newspaper
Providence Athenaeum, Providence, R.I.
Provident Life and Trust Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Aus
tralia, Adelaide, S.A. .....
Puffer, A. D., & Sons
Putnam, Charles F., Davenport, Iowa
Queen's College and University, Kingston, Canada
Quint, Rev. Alonzo H., Dover, N.II.
Ranney, A. A. . . . . . .
Rawle, Francis, Philadelphia, Pa. .
Reale Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
Reale Istituto di Studi Superiori, Florence, Italy
Reale Istituto Lombardo, Milan, Italy
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, R.I.
Reed, Mrs. E. T
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Remfry, John, Calcutta, India .....
1
Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Conn. .
1
Reynolds Library, Rochester, N.Y..
1
Rhode Island, Adjutant-General's Office .
1
Board of Health ......
1
Board of State Charities ....
1
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, R.I. .
3
Roberts Brothers .......
1
Robinson, A. W. .......
2
Robinson, F. T., East Somerville ....
1
Robinson, H. E., Maryville, Mo. ....
1
Rochester, N Y., Board of Education
2
Rockford, III., Public Library
1
Rogers, Edward EL, Chelsea .....
1
Rogers, Gorham .......
1
Rolfe, William J., Cambridge .....
1
Romero, Matias, Washington, D.C.
2
Rosengarten, J. G., Philadelphia, Pa.
2
Roxbury Latin School ......
2
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland .
2
Royal Society of Canada, Montreal ....
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Rue Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
1
Russell, E. P., Lynnfield ......
1
Russell, Samuel H. ......
3
Rutgers College Library, New Brunswick, N..T.
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St. Botolph Club, . . . . a lot of newspapers
26
St. Louis, Mo., Public Library ......
1
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St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis, Mo. .
2
St. Paul, Minn., Public Library .....
1
Salem, City of .
1
Sanguineti, Angelo, Genoa, Italy
1
Sargent, Charles S. .
2
Sargent, William M., Portland, Me. .
1
Sauveur. L., Germantown, Pa.
2
Savage, James W., Omaha, Neb.
1
Saville, Leonard A., Lexington
1
Sawyer, Timothy T. .
1
Schmitt, William, New York City .
1
Scholfield bequest, .....
60 newspapers
958
724
Science and Art Museum, Dublin, Ireland
1
Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, Scotland
1
Scripps, James E., Detroit, Mich. ....
2
Scudder, Horace E., Cambridge ....
1
Scudder, Samuel H., Cambridge ....
1
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Shaw, Samuel S. ....... .
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Sheean, John T., Pembroke, Nil. .....
1
Sheldon, George, Deerjic/d .
1
Sheltering Arms, New York City .....
1
Shepard, Col. Elliott F
1
Sibley, John Langdon, Estate of, Cambridge .
1
Sibley, Mrs. John Langdon, Cambridge, . . 1 portrait
1
Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury, Conn. ....
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Sinnickson, Robert, Trenton, N.J., a lot of broadsides, 2
newspapers.
Slafter, Rev. Edmund F
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Smith, Erwin F., Ann Arbor, Mich. .....
1
Smith, Hamilton, jr., New York City
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Smith, Perkins F., . . . -24 newspapers
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Snivelev. Rev. William A., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Snow. Edwin M., M.D., Providence, R.I.
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London
England ....■■■•
Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents. New
York City
Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, London
England ........
Society of Arts .
Society of Arts, London, England ....
Society of the Alumni of the New (Means High Schools
New Orleans, La. ......
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, New York City
Somerville, Public Library, . . 1 plan of library
South Shields. England, Public Library
Southhridge, Town of
Spaulding, Rev. H. G.
Spear Library, Oberlin, Ohio .
Spooner, Mrs. D. M. ...
Sprague, Homer B., San Francisco, Cal.
Springfield. Public Library
Start, Rev. W. A.
Stedman, C. Ellery, M.D.
Stevens, Charles E., Worcester
Stevens, George T., M.D., New York
Stimson, R. M., Marietta. Ohio
Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Stockwell, Thomas B., Providence, R
Stone, George F., Chicago, 111.
Stone, Henry ....
Storey, Moorfield
Stoughton. Public Library .
Stratton, Charles E. .
Stringham. Prof. Irving, Berkeley, Cal.
Swansea. England, Public Library .
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore. Pa.
Swift, Lindsay .....
T. K. Eaile Manufacturing Companv, Worcester
Talbot, I.T.. M.D. .
Taunton. Public Library, ... 1 broadside
Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum, Sydney,
N S. W. "
Tennessee, State Board of Health
Thayer, Miss Caroline Coddington
Thompson, Rev. A. C.
Ticknor, Miss Anna Eliot ....
Tilley, R. H., Neicport, R.I. .
Toledo, Ohio, Public Library .
Toronto, Canada, Public Library
Trask, William B. . . .
Traveller Newspaper Association
Tree. Miss Ellen F., Washington, D.C.
Trinity College, Hartford. Conn.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge, England
Triibner & Co.. London, England
Tubbs. Frank H., New York City
Tucker, James F., Annntta/iga, Fla.
Tucker, Willis G., M.D., Albany, X. Y. .
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Tufts College, Medford ....
16
Turner, A. R., jr. .....
2
Tuskegee Normal School, Tuskegee, Ala.
1
Tuttle, Julius IL, Dedham, a lot of cards, 4 newspapers
(i
Tvler, Mrs. Abby L. Hitchcock, Winchester
1
Tyler, Rev. B. B., New York City .
1
Union League Club, New York City .
1
Union Theological Seminary, New York City
12
Union University, Albany, NY.
1
United States, Army, Adjutant General
1
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Surgeon General .
1
■ Bureau of Education
8
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Bureau of Labor ....
11
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery .
1
Bureau of Ordnance
1
Bureau of Statistics, . . . 163
broadsides
6
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Civil Service Commission
1
Coast and Geodetic Survey
2
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Department of the Interior
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Department of the Treasury .
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Supervising Inspector-General of Steam
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1
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Universalist General Convention
1
University College and Free Library, Nottingham, Eng-
1
University of California, Berkeley, Cal., 9
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University of Ley den, Leyden, Holland .
2
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
l
University of Pennsylvania, Greek Play Committee,
Philadelphia, Pa. .....
1
University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. .
2
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland .
80
Upton, Winslow, Providence, R.I.
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Utica, N. Y., City Library ....
1
Van Voorhis, John C, Everett .
1
Vassar Brothers' Institute, Poughkeepsie, X. Y.
1
Vassal College, Ponghkeepsie, N.Y..
1
Vaux, Richard, Philadelphia. Pa.
1
Vermont, Superintendent of Education
1
Vermyne, J. J. B., M.D., New Bedford, .
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Waterloo, N. I
spaper cuttings
Victoria Street Society, London, England
Vose, George L. ...
Walker, Isaac, Pembroke, N.H.
Wallace, Rodney, Fitchburg
Walton, J. R., Muscatine, Iowa
Ware, William, & Co.
Warren, Charles E., M.D.,
Warren, Mrs. J. Mason
Warren, Joseph W., M.D.
Warren, Lucius H. .
Warren St. Chapel .
Washburn College, Topeka, Kan
Washingtonian Home
Watanabe, H., Tokio, Japan
Waterloo Library and Historical Society,
Waters, Henry F., Salem .
Watertown, Free Public Library
Watson, A. M., London, England
Watson, F. W., M.D.
Watson, Irving A., Concord, N.H.
Watson, Paul Barron
Wayland, Francis, New Haven, Conn
Wayland, Town of
Webb, Rev. E. B., Wellesley
Welcker, Adair, Sacramento, Cal
Weld, Miss Hannah M., . a lot o
Wellesley College, Wellesley
Wendell,' Barrett
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn
West End Nursery and Hospital for Infants
Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society
Cleveland, Ohio
Wheildon, William W., Concord
Whitaker, Rev. N. T., Providence, R
Whitcomb, H. C, & Co. .
White, F. R. S., New York City
White, James C, M.D.
White, John P., Chicopee .
Whitmore, William H.
Whitney, James L., . . 1 engraving, 1 newspaper
Whitney, W. Channing, Minneapolis, Minn., 6 photo-
graphs.
Wiggin, James B.
Wight, O. M., M.D., Detroit, Mich.
Wilder, Marshall P
Wilkinson, J. J. Garth, London, England
Willard, 31iss Frances E., Evanston, III.
Williams, B. W
Williams, Rev. F. F. ...
Williams, J. Fletcher, St. Paul, Minn.
Williamson, Joseph, Belfast, Me.
Wilmington Institute, Wilmington, Del
Wilson, AbielE., Worcester
Winchell, Rensselaer, Orange, N.J. .
Winchester Historical and Genealogical
Chester ....
Winsor, Justin, Cambridge
Winthrop, Robert C. .
Winthrop, Robert C, jr. .
Wisconsin, Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
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Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
Woman's Medical College of the New York
New York City
Wood, Rev. W. C
Wood, William, & Co., New York City .
Woodbury, C. J. H
Woodbury, diaries Levi ....
Woodman, Edgar H., Concord, Nil.
Worcester, City of ....
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Wyman, Morrill, M.D., Cambridge .
Yale College, New Haven, Conn.
Observatory, New Haven, Conn.
Young, Rev. Edward J., Cambridge .
Young Men's Association, Albany, N Y. .
Young Men's Association, Buffalo, N. Y. .
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APPENDIX X.
CIRCULATION.
(Books issued.)
ISM
1888
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Total Circulation.
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3,882
10,478
80,326
66,670
146,996
483
1,001
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3,833
8,747
74.627
89,163
163,790
532
926
1,156,721
8,781
69,045
101,100
170,142
554
1 ,046
1,065,081
8,637
68,609
96,764
165,373
547
1,046
1,040,553
3,434
8,170
63,782
103,540
167,322
552
1,052
1,045,902
3,418
8,209
66,948
113,127
180,075
588
1,181
[,056,908
:;,454
8,694
65,080
119,833
184,913
604
1,220
1,027,393
3,880
7,977
78,630
124,134
2112.764
667
1,210
602,431
2,953
6,988
38,345
81,507
119,852
586
1,027
058,629
3,143
7,614
62,672
140,801
203,473
667
1,235
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12,736
350,521
12,672
306,148
10,369
257,592
9,271
239,601
11,191
163,811
32,119
168,926
35,066
150,826
32,768
92,847
18,489
154,402
29,529
391,175
363,193
316,517
266,863
250,792
195,930
203,992
183,594
111,336
183,931
1,2115
1,179
1,031
847
2,902
2,085
1,999
1,849
1,670
1,301
1,333
1,186
1,136
1,362
East Boston Branch.
104,717
95,887
105,197
97,024
88,901
92,833
88,394
75,710
48,288
70,926
H
1,879
2,794
3,004
4,097
7,073
8,107
7,048
8,747
4,647
8,509
106,596
c 98,681
108,201
101,118
e96,974
100,940
95,442
?84,457
52,935
79,435
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137,010
3,741
115,509
3,335
138,309
5,261
129,251
3,607
125,409
4,077
121,939
4,472
119,564
4,656
123,570
5,096
66,547
2,383
97,715
2,277
140,751
C 118,844
143,570
132,858
129,486
126,411
124,220
128,666
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7,513
130,030
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1,100
123,492
6,397
129,889
408
1,013
119,450
5,480
134,930
388
1,017
105,700
4,912
110,612
360
972
101,534
4,739
106,273
::47
876
105,797
6,728
112,525
370
906
103,483
7,874
111,357
360
850
98,350
7,830
106,180
349
884
55,863
5,069
60,932
300
674
79,057
8,459
87,516
287
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99.537
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73,305
78,682
B5.038
84,660
71,453
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1,815
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2,513
2,360
1,368
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332
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88,740
289
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80,822
273
789
87,319
254
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87,304
285
775
76,966
25 1
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71,541
235
587
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194
533
65,977
216
593
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26,737
26,406
26,067
25,152
25,965
24,214
22, •is::
12,265
19,936
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1,698
1,859
1,574
2,110
2,292
2,295
1,927
2,209
1.222
1,893
29,247
28,928
27,980
28,177
27,444
28,257
26,141
24,892
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1,949
56,785
1,423
55,690
1,026
53,904
730
53,036
1.449
65,678
1,880
70,260
1,913
71,863
1,639
43.1S9
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67,862
2,028
64,974
59,673
56,716
55,188
e 54,485
67,558
/72.173
73,502
44,103
69,890
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W
41,303
73,154
77,016
71,432
61,453
76,472
76,693
68,362
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59,459
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2,713
2,275
2,530
10,283
17,778
22,108
22,495
13,343
19,259
42,402
75,867
79,291
73,962
■71,736
94,250
98,801
90,857
49,813
78,718
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28,174
50,457
52,406
47,797
48,316
44,758
43,039
41,526
25,732
40,851
2,106
2,503
2,220
2,311
3,406
4,379
8,232
30,280
52,960
54,626
50,108
49,722
49,137
51,271
61,192
31,736
48,344
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11,630
0 9,748
9,101
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98
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a Includes the largest of each department on any day, without regard to its being
the same day.
h Includes I k- borrowed on white Blips, and returned the same day.
• Tin- East Boston branch was closed from October 7th to 9th, 1S79, for repairs;
South Boston from August 12th to November 2d, 1S79, for repairs and enlargement.
d The Charlestown branch was closed lrom April 20th to the 30th, to rearrange the
books, and also from May 1st to the 11th, 1880.
i The East Boston branch was closed 25 working-days.
•• South-End " " " 85 "
" Dorchester " " " 6 " " during 1882.
The North-End branch was open 177 days during 1833.
/The Dorchester branch was closed one day. for repairs, during 1884.
g The East Boston and North-End branches were closed 41 and 2.5 working-days
respectively, during i**:'.
h The South-End blanch was closed 15 working-days during the period from May 1
to December 31, 1885.
j The North-End branch was open only 19S clays in 1886.
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3.9
1.6
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10.6
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English history, topography, l>i-
ography, travel and polite lit-
American (North and South)
13.2
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3.4
1.5
3.3
3.5
12
11.8
11.3
5.2
3.8
1.6
3.5
3.5
1.9
8.3
3.9
7.0
11.8
12.82
5.16
4.09
1.72
3.19
3.03
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5.3
5.87
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13 27
Greek, Latin, and philology . .
5.4
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1.09
3.07
2.62
1 31
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6 7.3
Natural history and science . .
Theology, ecclesiastical history,
3.19
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Mathematics and physical sci-
4.52
6 ' 0
1
in May, 1883, a change was made in the classification, some classes being divided, others
modified. Hence in ab.iut half the classes no comparison can be made with former years.
APPENDIX XIV.
LOWER HALL AND BRANCH READING.
Fiction and juveniles*
History and biography
Travels and voyages .
Science, arts, fine and useful, the
ology, law, medicine, proft
Periodicals
Foreign languages . .
Miscellaneous .....
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75.1
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77.33
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The figures give the relative per-
Fiction and juveniles*
History and biography
Travels and voyages
Science, arts, fine and useful, the-
ology, law, medicine, professions .
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Foreign languages
Miscellaneous
1885
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74.3
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68.65
81.81
75
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5
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5
7.4
5.6
8.51
6
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6.7
7.25
4
6
4
3
6
15
7
14
7.36
6.76
4.75
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4.37
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3.2
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Books taken out on white slips and returned the same day are not included.
The total percentage for 1991 and 1885 (ending April 30) do not include the North-Eud percentages, on account of the difference of classification; now, ho
the classification conforms with that of the other departn
Public Ltbrary
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City Document No. 28.
APPENDIX XVIII.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
General Library Accounts.
Binding
Books
Periodicals*
Expense
Fuel
Furniture (cabinets, shelving, fixtures,
etc.)
Gas
Printing and catalogue
Stationery
Salaries
Transportation, Postage, etc
Total
188G.
(Jan. 1-Dec. 31.)
Paid into City Treasury
from fines and sales of
catalogues.
City appro-
priations.
Expended.
Year.
Amount.
$2,000
$1,912 33
1877
$3,092 12
j 17,000
19,046 55
3,773 19
1878
1879
3,266 31
2,618 32
5,000
2,326 67
1880
2,984 12
3,000
2,461 64
1881
3,497 03
1,500
1,090 73
1882
2,945 74
5,500
5,697 57
1883
3,223 14
8,000
4,984 32
1884
3,018 01
1,000
1,133 88
1885
2,952 86
75,000
73,359 55
(8 mos.)
1,965 51
2,000
2,127 33
1886
3,000 00
$120,000
$117,913 76
* The appropriation for periodicals is included in that for books.
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.
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
nominally May 1st. In this way books added between March loth and May 1st may be
counted in one year, and paid for in the subsequent year. The cost of maintaining a branch
after the first year makes part of the general items of the several appropriations.
The money for books bought on account of the Fellowes Athenasum is spent under the
direction of the book committee of the trustees of the Fellowes fund.
NORTH-END BRANCH.
City Appropriation, §4,000.
f Salaries $672 48
I Books 705 71
1883. { Expense 1.0W S6
(.Amount actually expended $2,406 05
I Balance of City appropriation $1,593 95
I**.s. j EXpen,ied for books 186 08
( Balance $1,407 87
1884. { Books $415 08
( Alterations and repairs 506 51
921 59
$486 28
1885. Books 281 20
$205 08
( Books 95 54
( Balance $109 54
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City Document No. 28.
APPENDIX XX.
LIBRARY SERVICE.
(Dec. 31, 1886.)
Mellen Chamberlain
James L. Whitney . . .
Jose F. Carret
Louis F. Gray . . .
Adelaide A. Nichols
John J. Keenan . .
Total
James L. Whitney
William H. Foster .
Jose F. Carret . . .
Lindsay Swift ....
Edward B. Hunt . . .
Roxanna M. Eastman
Elizabeth T. Reed . .
Annie C.Miller . . . .
Mary H. Rollins . . .
Ida W. Gould ....
Card Catalogues.
Carrie K. Burnell . . .
Alice Browne . . . .
George Whalen . . .
Total
1878
1869
1875
1880
1868
1885
1860
1875
1878
1883
1859
1873
1881
1886
1S84
1881
1883
1886
Position, duties, etc.
Librarian and Clerk of the cor
poration
Principal Asssistant Librarian .
Registrar :ind Curator of Pat-
ents and Engravings
Librarian's Secretary
Auditor and Cashier .
Librarian's Runner .
Principal of the department .
Assistant
Registrar, Curator of Patents
and Engravings and Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Extra Assistant and Cataloguer
of U.S. Documents
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant in ratent-room, etc. .
Curator of officers' card catalog.
Assistant.
Runner
bi. o
2*&
Plblic Library.
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LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
Harriet N. Tike . .
Edith D. Fuller . . .
Agnes R. Dame . . .
Mary A. McGrath . .
Patrick D. Gorman . .
Total
'A
1867
1879
1883
1868
1S85
Position, duties, etc.
Chief Clerk . .
Associate Clerk
Assistant Clerk
Assistant . . .
Runner ....
O O
Appleton P. C. Gkiffin,
William Roffe
John S. Morrison
Matthew T. Keenan . . .
Total
1865
1881
1882
18S0
Custodian
Asst. in charge of repairs, etc.
Assistant
Runner
Arthur Mason Knapp
Lydia F. Knowles . . .
Louise A. Twickler . .
Agnes C. Doyle ....
W. Maynard L. Young
Alice M. Putnam ....
Edward Grady
James P. Donahoe . . .
Walter E. Clark ....
Michael F. Duffley . . .
Total
1875
1867
1881
1885
1878
1886
1886
1886
1886
1886
Librarian of Bans Hall
Delivery Clerk ....
Receiving Clerk ....
Assistant
Clerk of the branches .
Assistant
Runner
Runner
Runner
Runner
Edward Tiffany
Mary A. Jenkins . ,
Frank C. Blaisdell
Edwin F. Ilice . . .
Caroline E. J. Poree
Sarah A. Mack . . .
Eliza J. Mack . . .
Annie G. Shea . . .
Florence Richards .
Mary Sheridan . . .
Rebecca J. Briggs .
1878
1877
1876
1885
1859
1863
1863
1874
1878
1880
1881
Librarian of Lower Hall . . . .
Assistant Librarian
Curator of Lower Hall card
catalogue
Clerk for registration and fines .
Reading-room Clerk
Delivery Clerk
Receiving Clerk
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant .
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LIBRARY SERVICE. — Continued.
Name.
Julia C. Twickler .
Esther Nurenberg .
Agnes C. Murray . .
Elinor S. Briggs . .
Ella K. Murray . . .
Kathleen M. Hunter
Evening Service.
Louis F. Gray . . .
Fred. W. Blaisdell .
William Boffe . .
Amelia McGrath .
William L. Day .
Calvin A. Jones .
Freeman L. Zittel
Thomas Murray .
Total
a <d
1S82
1883
1885
1885
1886
1886
1881
1886
1884
1885
18S1
1SS4
1885
l!-85
Position, duties, etc.
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Card Catalogue
Registration Clerk and Sunday
service
Reading-room .
Delivery Clerk
Receiving Clerk
Runner ....
Runner ....
Runner ....
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William E. Foud . . .
John L. Williams . . .
John White
William Monahan . . .
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Total
1858
1886
1880
1883
Janitor
Night Watchman
Porter
Porter
Andrew M. Blake . .
Frank Ryder
P. B. Sanford
Wm. Hemstead ....
William F. Sampson . .
Arthur Siguere
S.irah E. Bowen ....
Martha M. Wheeler . .
Mary G. Moriarty . . .
Sarah J. Dumas ....
Mary J. Morton ....
Mary Roslund
John F. Murphy ....
Total
1870
1S83
1879
18S3
1880
1881
1S76
1869
1875
1881
18S1
1883
1S83
Foreman
Extra Forwarder
Finisher
Pressman . . . .
Forwarder . . . .
Forwarder . . . .
Forewoman . . .
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Sewer
Apprentice . . .
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Emma D. Coleman . . . .
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1872
1886
1886
1886
1885
1885
1873
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1877
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1884
1885
1885
1872
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Elizabeth F. Cartee
Annie E. Eberle . . .
Mary P. Swain ....
Susan E. Livcrmore .
Alice G. Willougbby
Lydia E. Eberle . . .
Emma L. Willougbby
Thomas E. Smith . .
Total
Mary E. Brock
Mary F. Grailey
Sara R. Brock .
James M. Brock
Total
Mart G. Coffin ...
Mary J. Sheridan . . . .
Lucy Adelaide Watson
Frances Willard Pike .
Ida B. Lefavour ...
Edward Davenport . .
Total
Grace A. De Borges
Maud M. Morse . . .
Margaret A. Sheridan
Mary A. Avkinson . .
Peter Sheridan . . .
Emma Lynch
Frank Hathaway . . .
Total
1886
1S74
1878
1879
1882
1881
1882
1869
1875
1880
18S0
1878
1874
1875
1880
18S1
1885
1874
1880
1877
1875
1881
1884
1885
1884
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Librarian . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Assistant . . . ,
Assistant . . . .
Runner . . . . ,
Extra Assistant -
Extra Runner .
Janitor ....
Librarian . . . .
Assistant . . . .
Extra Assistant .
Janitor . . . .
Librarian
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Runner .
Janitor .
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Assistant . . .
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1878
1882
1884
1877
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1884
1886
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Harriet L. Atkinson . . .
Samuel T. Bowthorpe . . .
Bessie G. Fairbrother . . .
1875
1884
1882
1886
1885
1886
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Custodian, West Roxbury . . .
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SUMMARY.
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Bates Hall circulation department
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AGENTS.
Messrs. W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston.
Mr. Edward G. Allen (for English patents), London.
Messrs. N. Triibner & Co., London.
Mr. F. W. Christern and M. Charles Reinwald, New York and Paris.
Deuerlich'sche Buchhandlung, Gottingen.
Signorina Giulia Alberi, Florence.
Senor Don Juan F. Riaho, Madrid.
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EXAMINATION OF THE LIBRARY.
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APPENDIX XXIII.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR THIRTY-FIVE 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. The thirty-fourth year was from May 1 to
Dec. 31, 1885, a period of eight months, for which no
Examining Committee was appointed.
Abbott, Hon. J. G., 1870.
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880.
Adams, Nehemiah, D.D., 18G0.
Adams, Wm. T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. Wm. R., 1870.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, 1854.
Apthorp, Wm. F., 1883.
Arnold, Howard P., 1881.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, G., 1877.
Bailey, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball. Joshua 1)., 1861.
Barnard, James M., 1866.
Bartlett, Sidney, 1869.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Rev. Edward, 1854.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1857.
Biqeloic, Hon. John P., 1X56.
Blagden, George W., D.D., 1856.
Blake. John G., M.D., 1883.
Bodfish, Rev. Joshua F., 1879.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1855.
Bowditch, Hen > y I., M.D., 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.
Chadwiek. James R., M.D., 1877.
Chaney, Rev. George L., 1868.
Chase, George B., 1876.
Chase, George B., 1877, 1885.
Cheney, Mrs. Kdnahl)., 1881.
Clapp, William W., jr., 1864.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D., 1877.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.B., 1882.
Collar, Wm. C, 1874.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.D., 1878.
Curtis, Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Thos. B., M.D., 1874.
Cushing, Thomas, 1885.
Dalton. Charles H., 1884.
Dana, S<muel T., 1857.
Dean, Benj., 1873.
Denny, Henry G., 1876.
Dexter, Rev. Henry M., 1866.
Dillingham, Rev. Pitt, 1886.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Durant, Henrv F., 1863.
Duryea, Jos. T., D.D., 1880.
Dwight, John S., 1868.
Dwight Thomas, M.D., 1880.
Easthurn, Manton, D.D., 1863.
Edes, Henrv H., 1886.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.D., 1868.
Ellis, Calvin, M.D., 1871
Ellis, Geo. E., D.D., 1881.
Endicott, Wm., jr., 1878.
Field, Walbridge A., 1866.
Fields, James T., 1872.
Foote, Rev. Henrv W., 1864.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freeland, Charles W., 1867.
Frost, Oliver, 1854.
Frothingham, Richard, 1876.
Fitz, Reginald H., 1879.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett. Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gilchrist, Daniel S., 1872.
Gordon, George A., D.D., 1885.
Gould, A. A., 31. D., 1864.
Grant, Robert, 1884.
Gray, John C, jr., 1877.
Green, Samuel A., M.D., 1868.
Greenough, William W., 1858, 1S74,
1883. 1886.
Grinnell, Rev. C. E.. 1874.
Hale, Rev. Edward E., Is58.
Hale, Moses L., 1862.
Haskins, Rev. George F., 1865.
Hassam, John T.. 1885.
Hayes, Hon. F. B., 1874.
Haynes, Henry W., 1879.
I/aynes, Henry W., 1881, 1884.
Havward, George, M.D., 1863.
Heard, John T., 1853.
Herford, Brooke, D.D., 1884.
Higginson, Thomas W., 1883.
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 1853.
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City Document No. 28.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 1873.
Hodges, Richard M., M.D., 1870.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., M.D., 1858.
Holmes, Oliver VV., jr., 1882.
Homans, Charles 1)., M.D., 1867.
Homans, Mrs. Charles D., 1885,
1886.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 1857.
Hubbard, William J., 1858.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D., 1869.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jordan, Kben D., 1873.
Kidder, Henry P., 1870.
Kimball, David P., 1875.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
Kirk, Edward N., D.D., 1859.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrence, James, 1855.
Lewis, Weston, 1872, 1878.
Lincoln, Hon. F. W\, 1856.
Lincoln, Solomon, 1886.
Little, James L., 1864.
Lombard, Prof. Josiah L., 1868.
Loring. Hon Charles G., 1855.
Lothrop, Loring, 1866.
Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lowell, Edward J., 1885.
Lunt, Hon. George, 1874.
Lyman, George H., 1885.
Manning, Rev. Jacob M., 1861.
Mason, Rev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Minns, Thomas, 1864.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morrill, Charles J., 1885.
Morse, John T.. jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., jr., 1878.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W., 1871.
Mudge, Hon. E. R . 1871.
Neale, Rollin II., D.D., 1853.
Noble, John, 1882.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
O'Brien, Hugh, 1879.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1878.
Otis, G". A., I860.
Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benj. H., 1876.
Parkman, Henry, 1885.
Parks, Rev. Leighton, 1882.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,
1884, 1885.
Phillips, John C, 1882.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Prescott, William H., LL.D., 1853.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon.\John P., 1865.
Randall, Charles L., M.D., 1884.
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 I'., 1860.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B., 1857.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 1881, 1886.
Sprague, Charles J., 1859.
Sprague, Homer B., 1882.
Stevens, Oliver, 1858.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thomas, 1856.
Stockwell, S. N., 1861.
Stone, Col. Henry, 1885, 1886.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883, 1884.
Teele, John O., 1886.
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, 1884.
Upham, J. B., M.D.. 1865
Vihbert, Rev. Geo. H., 1873.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Ward, Rev. Julius H., 1882.
Ware, Charles E., M.D., 1875.
Ware, Darwin E., 1881.
Wales, George VV., 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.
Wharton, William F., 1886.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1869.
Whitney, Daniel //., 1862.
Whitney, Henry A., 1873.
Wightman, Hon. Joseph M., 1859.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Wilson, Elisha T., 31. D., 1861.
Winsor, Justin, 1867.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 1854.
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1871.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D., 1884.
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APPENDIX XXIV.
TRUSTEES FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS.
The Honorable Edward Everett was President of the Board
from 1852 to 1864; the late George Ticknor in 1865; an.d
William W. Greenough, Esq., from 1866 to the present time.
The Board for 1852 was a preliminary organization ; that
for 1853 made what is called the first annual report. It
consisted of one alderman and one common councilman, and
five citizens at large, till 1867, when a revised Ordinance
made it consist of one alderman, two common councilmen,
and six citizens at large, two of whom retired, unless re-
elected, each year, while the members from the City Council
were elected yearly. In 1878 the organization of the Board
was changed to include one alderman, one councilman, and
five citizens at large, as before 1867 ; and in 1885, by the pro-
visions of the amended city charter the representation of the
city government upon the Board by an alderman and a
councilman was abolished, leaving the Board, as at present,
consisting of five citizens at lar^e.
Abbott, Samuel A. B., 1S79-87.
Allen. James B., 1852-53.
Appleton, Thomas G. , 1852-57.
Barnes, Joseph H., 1871-72.
Bigelow, John P., 1852-68.
Bowditch, Henry I., 1865-68.
Bradlee, John T., 1869-70.
Bradt, Herman D , 1872-73.
Braman, Jarvis I).. 1868-69.
Braman, Jakvis D., 1869-72.
Brown, J. C. J.. 1861-62.
Burditt, Charles A.. l.s7:J.-76.
Carpenter, George O., 1870-71.
Chase, George B., 1877-85.
Clark, John M., 1855-56.
Clark, John T., 1873-78.
Clarke, James Freeman, 1878-87
Clapp. William W , jr., 1864-66.
Coe, Henry F., 1878.
Crane, Samuel D., 1860-61
Curtis, Daniel S.. 1873-75.
Dennie, George, 1858-f.O.
Dickinson, M. F., jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1863-61.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett. Edward, 1852-64.
Flynn, James J., 1883.
Frost, Oliver, 1854-55; 1856-58.
Frothingham, Richard, 1875-79.
Gaffield. Thomas, 18(i7-68.
Green, Samuel A., 1868-78.
Greenolgii. William W., 1856-8*
Guild, Curtis. 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris, William G., 1869-70.
Haynes, Henry W., 1858-59.
Haynes, Henry W., 1880-87.
Hillard, George S., 1872-75; 1876-
77.
Howes, Osborne, jr., 1877-78.
Ingalls, Melville E., 1870-71.
Jackson, Patrick T., 1864-65.
Jenkins, Edward J., 1885.
Keith. James M., 1868-70.
Kimball, David P., 1874-76.
Lawrence, James, 1852.
Lee, John H., 1884-85.
Lewis, Weston, 1867-68.
Lewis, Weston, 1868-79.
Lewis, Winslow, 1867.
Little, Samuel, 1871-73.
Messinger, George W., 1855.
Morse, Godfrey, 1883-84.
Morton, Ellis W., 1870-73.
Munroe, Abel B., 1854.
Newton, Jeremiah L., 1867-68.
Niles, Stephen R., 1870-71.
O'Brien. Hugh, 1879-82.
Pease, Frederick, 1872-73.
Perkins, William E., 1873-74.
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