^^^ 


TWENTY-FIRST 


ANNUAL     REPORT 


1873 


City   Document.  —  JSfo.  88. 


CITY     OF    BOSTON. 


R  E  P  O  U  T 


TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


18  7  3. 


CITY     OF     BOSTON^. 


Public  Libkary,  June  25,  1873. 

His  Honor,  Henry  L.  Pierce,  May  or  of  the  City  of  Boston: 
Sir,  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  herewith,  the 
Twenty-first  Annual  Eeport  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library,  prepared  in  obedience  to  the  fourth  section  of  the 
Ordinance  of  1869,  relative  to  the  Public  Library. 

Very  respectfully, 

JUSTIN  WINSOR, 

Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


TWENTY-FIEST    ANNUAL    EEPORT 


OF     THE 


TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


In  couformity  with  the  requirements  of  the  fourth  section 
of  an  Ordinance  concerning  the  Public  Library,  passed  Sep- 
tember 21,  1869,  the  Trustees  have  the  honor  to  present  to 
the  City  Council  their  Twenty-first  Annual 

REPORT, 

being  the  fourth  made  under  the  new  ordinance,  and  in- 
cluding the  results  of  administration  for  the  last  year,  in 
which  the  Library  was  opened  for  the  uses  of  book-borrow- 
ers three  hundred  and  eight  days,  and  the  Reading  Rooms 
of  the  Central  Library  and  its  Branches  for  the  perusal  of 
periodicals  and  books  of  reference  therein  contained,  includ- 
ing twelve  Sundays,  three  hundred  and  twentj'  days. 

The  reports  of  the  Examining  Committee  and  of  the 
Superintendent  are  herewith  appended. 

The  members  of  the  Committee  for  the  present  year  were 
the  Hon.  Benjamin  Dean,  Eben  D.  Jordan,  Esq.,  Charles  C. 
Smith,  Esq.,  Rev.  George  H.  Vibbert,  Henry  A.  Whit- 
ney, Esq.,  with  the  Hon.  George  S.  Hillard,  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  as  Chairman.  This  independent  examination 
has  been  carefully  made.  The  recommendations  relative  to 
an  adequate  protection  from  fire  of  the  invaluable  property 
belonging  to  the  city  contained  within  the  walls  of  the  Boyls- 
ton  street  building  will,  it  is  hoped,  receive  the  attention  which 
the  importance  of  the  subject  deserves.     Further  reference 


6  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

will  be  made  to  this  point.  Their  judgment  also  in  respect 
to  the  defective  arrangements  of  the  building  for  many  of 
the  purposes  for  which  it  was  designed,  and  which  the  in- 
creasing uses  of  the  Library  render  every  day  more  evident, 
enforces  the  previously  expressed  opinions  of  the  Trustees 
as  contained  in  former  reports.  In  possessing  themselves  of 
the  facts  of  administration  as  comprised  in  the  tables  and 
report  of  the  Superintendent,  and  by  personal  inspection  of 
the  working  of  the  Central  Library  as  well  as  of  the  Branches, 
they  have  obtained  a  clear  understanding  of  the  management 
and  usefulness  of  the  whole  institution,  of  which,  including 
the  two  Branches,  the  examination  is  now  first  made.  Suc- 
cessive annual  examinations,  as  provided  by  the  ordinance, 
of  committees  selected  at  large  from  our  citizens,  ensure  to 
the  public  unbiassed  opinions  upon  the  condition  of  the  foun- 
dation and  upon  its  manifold  relations  to  the  public.  Sug-  ' 
gestions  from  this  source,  in  the  present  as  in  former  years, 
are  of  large  interest  and  importance. 

With  the  increasing  magnitude  of  the  libraries,  and  the 
new  experiences  called  forth  by  the  Branches,  the  reports  of 
the  Superintendent  increase  annually  in  detail  and  in  value. 
No  one  can  properly  understand  or  appreciate  the  careful 
oversight  and  the  minute  analysis  of  all  the  points  of  admin- 
istration which  ought  to  be  known  not  only  to  the  community, 
but  to  every  similar  organization,  without  a  careful  scrutiny 
of  his  tabular  statements.  The  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
this  devoted  official  increase  from  year  to  year.  With  the 
additional  charge  of  the  Roxbury  Library,  to  be  opened 
during  the  next  month,  and  with  the  possibly  impending 
annexation  of  neighboring  towns  and  cities  containing  other 
libraries  to  be  placed  under  the  control  of  this  Board,  all 
executive  labor  will  be  proportionately  magnified. 

Recurring  to  the  condition  of  the  building,  and  to  the 
inadequate  accommodation,  not  only  for  the  public,  but  also  for 
the  administrative  necessities  of  the  Library,  it  is  hoped  and 


PUBLIC     LIBRARY.  7 

anticipated  that  some  relief  may  be  obtained,  at  no  distant 
day,  by  tlie  adaptation  to  the  Library's  service  of  the  estate 
purchased  for  that  purpose  by  the  city,  in  the  spring  of  1872. 
Want  of  room  for  the  public  curtails  the  circulation  of  the 
Lower  Hall,  and  diminishes  attendance  at  the  Heading  Room. 
No  satisfactory  plans  have  yet  been  formed  for  the  construc- 
tion upon  this  site  of  a  new  edifice  to  be  attached  to  the  main 
building,  which  should  meet  any  considerable  portion  of  our 
present  and  future  requirements.  When  the  City  Govern- 
ment are  of  the  opinion  that  the  financial  condition  of  the 
city  will  authorize  a  sufficient  appropriation  for  the  purpose, 
the  Trustees  will  endeavor  to  present  suitable  designs. 

Upon  the  other  point,  of  sufficient  protection  against  fire, 
the  Trustees  feel  sensitively  the  dangers  so  strongly  set  forth 
in  the  reports  of  the  Examining  Committee  and  of  the 
Superintendent.  The  removal  of  the  wooden  sky-lights  upon 
the  roof  of  the  building,  and  the  substitution  of  fire-proof 
coverings  in  their  places,  is  now  going  forward,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Buildings.  Every- 
thing should  be  done  which  skill  or  ingenuity  can  dictate  to 
render  the  building;  safe  from  outward  or  internal  conflao;ra- 
tion.  The  Library  now  contains  a  large  number  of  works, 
which  if  lost  could  never  be  replaced.  The  institution  could 
never  again  rise  from  its  ashes  to  the  wealth  of  its  present 
possessions.  There  must  be  no  mistake  or  misunderstanding 
on  this  point.  It  is  the  duty  both  of  the  City  Government 
and  of  the  Trustees  to  see  that  everything  practicable  is  done 
to  insure  the  permanent  safety  of  this  inestimable  property. 

The  operations  of  the  past  year  and  the  present  condition 
of  the  Library  are  briefly  as  follows.  The  whole  number  of 
volumes  at  present  contained  in  the  Libraries,  parent  and 
branches,  are  209,456,  of  which  149,477  are  in  the  Bates 
Hall.  The  remainder  is  to  be  found  in  the  circulating  libraries 
of  the  Lower  Hall  in  Boylston  street,  the  East  Boston,  South 
Boston,  and  lioxbury  Branches..    The  increase  of  the  Library 


8  CITY    DOCUMENT.  No.  88. 

during  the  year  has  been  14.644  volumes.  The  whole  num- 
ber of  pamphlets  is  now  112,153,  of  which  11,770  have  been 
added  dui'ing  the  year.  The  total  circulation  has  been 
467,855,  being  a  daily  average  of  1,519  for  home  use.  The 
figures  from  the  Branches  are  most  encouraging.  While 
East  Boston  shows  a  circulation  of  67,754,  from  a  library  of 
7,291  volumes,  South  Boston  gives  a  circulation  of  102,322 
for  5,174  volumes.  The  total  number  of  names  registered 
as  p.pplicants  for  the  Library  privileges  are  53,043  ;  of  these 
1,592  have  had  cards  refused,  principally  for  the  reasons  of 
non-residency  or  under  age,  and  3,626  have  not  taken  their 
cards.  177,512  readers  frequented  the  Periodical  Reading 
Room  of  the  Central  Library,  who  read  213,599  magazines. 
The  total  number  of  books  loaned  and  not  returned  has  been 
between  60  and  70.  Most  of  these  were  taken  from  the 
Lower  Hall  in  Boylston  street,  and  a  portion  of  them  may' 
possibly  be  recovered.  Thfe  average  loss  on  these  figures  is 
one  volume  in  every  7,000  or  more  loans.  The  total  expen- 
diture from  the  city  appropriations  was  $86,498.01,  and 
$1,681.79  was  paid  into  the  City  Treasury  from  fines  and 
sales  of  catalogues.  Other  important  results  will  be  found 
in  the  tables  attached  to  the  Superintendent's  Report. 

The  most  striking  novelty  in  the  administration  of  the 
Library  has  been  the  opening  of  its  Periodical  Reading 
Rooms  on  Sunday,  at  the  request  of  the  City  Council.  The 
event  is  too  recent  to  admit  of  any  decisive  conclusions. 
There  is  not  yet  occasion  for  discourageinent  nor  greatly 
marked  features  of  encoui'agement  for  the  enterprise.  The 
best  indications  are  to  be  found  in  the  increasing  attendance 
of  adults,  and  in  the  presence  of  a  considerable  number  of 
people  who  seldom  or  never  came  to  the  rooms  on  week 
days.  It  was  for  this  latter  class  specially  that  the  I'oonis 
were  opened.  Another  year's  trial  will  enable  the  Trustees 
to  gauge  their  results  more  accurately,  and  to  determine 
whether  the  advantages  are  in  due  proportion  to  the  expense. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  9 

It  is  most  gratifying  to  find  that  the  establishment  of  our 
Branches,  as  is  also  the  experience  of  the  large  English  cities, 
is  more  successful  than  could  have  been  possibly  anticipated. 
With  the  new  Branch  shortly  to  be  inaugurated  in  Roxbury 
in  connection  with  the  Fellowes  AthenfBum,  quite  as  favor- 
able figures  may  be  expected.  This  Library  will  at  the  out- 
set possess  superior  advantages  in  having  a  considerable  fund 
to  be  annually  expended  in  books«.of  permanent  value,  all  of 
which,  except  works  of  reference,  will  be  used  in  circulation, 
bringing  as  it  were  a  considerable  portion  of  the  more  valu- 
able modern  books,  published  both  here  and  in  England, 
such  as  form  part  of  the  Bates  Hall  collection,  directly  at 
hand  to  the  residents  of  the  Highland  District.  In  view  of 
the  formation  of  these  smaller  libraries  it  is  naturally  found 
that  convenience  of  access  creates  circulation  of  books  where 
none  existed  before. 

Like  the  great  European  Libraries,  our  institution  finds 
continued  embarrassment  in  any  catalogue  system.  We 
have  long  passed  the  period  when  it  was  possible  to  print  in 
one  alphabet,  upon  any  intelligible  system,  the  titles  of  all 
the  books  contained  in  our  Libraries.  Such  an  undertaking 
would  be  enormously  expensive,  and  when  concluded  at  the 
end  of  five  or  ten  years,  the  continual  additions  during  that 
period  would  require  the  whole  work  to  be  done  over  again. 

The  expedients  which  have  been  adopted  in  place  of  this 
system  are  well  known  to  the  frequenters  of  the  Library. 
The  card  catalogues  in  the  Bates  Hall  accessible  to  the  pub- 
lic, with  the  bulletins  and  class  lists,  aflbrd  the  needed  infor- 
mation, and  the  Hand-book  prepared  by  the  Superintendent 
for  the  use  of  borrowers,  indicates  to  every  reader,  how  and 
where  he  ma.y  find  what  he  wants,  provided  it  is  upon  the 
shelves  of  the  institution. 

The  donations  to  the  Library  have  been  continued  by  its 
friends  during  the  present  year,  with  the  same  liberality  as 
before.  The  report  of  the  Examining  Committee  shows  how 
2 


10  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.   88. 

largely  it  has  been  iudebted  since  its  foundation  to  the  sym- 
pathetic  generosity  of  special  benefactors  and  the  public  at 
large.  Probably  no  other  Library  in  the  world  has  received 
so  many  benefactions  from  so  many  different  sources  as  this. 
In  this  matter  the  Trustees  would  be  deeply  ungrateful  if  they 
felt  any  distrust  in  the  future. 

The  most  important  event  of  the  year  has  been  the  acqui- 
sition of  the  Barton  Library,  for  which  the  negotiations  were 
completed  just  previous  to  its  close.  An  account  of  the  vol- 
umes acquired,  which  did  not  come  to  the  Library  until  after 
the  beginning  of  the  new  library  year,  will  find  an  appro- 
priate place  in  the  next  Report  of  the  Trustees.  It  is  suffi- 
cient to  say  now  that  it  is  the  most  intrinsically  valuable 
addition  yet  made  to  the  Library,  and  that  it  has  placed  the 
institution  in  a  position  which  will  render  it  still  more  inval- 
uable and  indispensable  to  every  cultivator  of  elegant  letters 
in  the  country.  From  the  initial  correspondence  to  the  final 
termination  of  the  purchase,  Mrs.  Cora  Livingston  Barton, 
the  widow  of  Thomas  P.  Barton,  the  collector  of  the  Library, 
conducted  herself  with  a  liberality  founded  on  generous  im- 
pulses and  a  large  cultivation.  For  the  purpose  of  fulfilling 
the  expressed  wishes  of  Mr.  Barton,  and  of  keeping  the 
Library  together  as  one  collection,  and  in  placing  it  within 
the  means  of  our  institution,  she  undoubtedly  made  a  large 
pecuniary  sacrifice.  In  her  sudden  death  the  Trustees  expe- 
rienced a  sense  of  personal  loss.  Indeed,  the  whole  transac- 
tion was  as  creditable  to  her  as  it  was  advantageous  to  the 
city.  It  is  most  gratifying  to  the  Trustees  to  place  upon 
record  their  acknowledgment  of  the  intelligence  and  public 
spirit  of  the  City  Government,  which  so  promptly  and  deci- 
sively secured  this  magnificent  acquisition.* 

In  Appendix  No.  23  will  be  found  an  enumeration  of  the 
employes  of  the  institution,  from  which  some  idea  may  be 

*  See  Appendix  for  further  details. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  11 

gained  of  the  multifarious  work  carried  on  in  the  Central 
Library  and  its  Branches.  Great  activity  is  necessary  in 
order  to  keep  pace  with  the  daily  requirements  of  its  service. 
The  books  as  purchased  and  obtained  must  be  as  rapidly  as 
possible  collated,  classified,  shelved,  catalogued,  and  made 
ready  for  use.  The  Library  has  been  fortunate  in  securing 
the  services  of  so  many  accomplished  and  skilful  assistants, 
both  male  and  female.  In  fact,  there  is  no  position  in  the 
world  where  a  large  knowledge  of  language  and  literature, 
with  systematic  habits  of  application  is  of  more  value  than  in 
the  administration  of  a  great  Library. 

In  an  educational  point  of  view  it  is  no  exaggeration  to 
say  that  the  largest  expectations  of  the  founders  of  the  Li- 
brary have  been  more  than  fulfilled.  The  liberality  of  the 
City  Government,  and  the  intelligent  generosity  of  private 
benefactors  have  established  a  store  of  learning  and  knowl- 
edge which  has  substantially  supplemented,  as  well  as 
strengthened  and  developed,  most  forms  of  progress  known 
to  modern  civilization.  It  has  attracted  to  itself  the  sympa- 
thetic aid  and  frequent  use,  not  only  of  the  so-called  profes- 
sions, but  also  of  other  laborers  in  science  and  art,  whether 
engaged  in  the  duties  of  instruction,  or  in  the  practical  appli- 
cation of  their  accomplishments  to  the  daily  wants  of  life. 
But  beyond  this  the  increase  of  the  Library  has  received  a 
vigorous  impulse  from  the  specialists,  who  have  confined 
themselves  to  narrower  fields  of  work,  the  outgrowth  of 
some  larger  classification.  Although  all  departments  are  not 
filled  in  the  same  proportion,  continuous  attention  will  be 
paid  till  such  a  result  shall  be  measurably  obtained.  It  has 
placed  within  reach  of  our  schools  and  colleges  knowledge 
beyond  the  instruction  of  teachers  ;  it  has  assisted  in  forming 
a  taste  for  reading  and  for  culture  among  many  to  whom  the 
chances  of  life  had  previously  denied  such  an  opportunity. 
Few  should  be  the  homes  in  the  City  of  Boston  which  should 


12  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

not  have  experienced  its  tangible  benefits,  and  whose  inmates 
have  not  reason  to  bless  the  intelligence  which  renders  its 
existence  a  public  necessity. 

WILLIAM  W.    GREENOUGH, 
G.   S.   HILLARD, 
GEORGE    PUTNAM, 
WESTON   LEWIS, 
SAMUEL  A.   GREEN, 
DANIEL   S.   CURTIS, 
JOHN  T.   CLARK, 
W.   E.    PERKINS, 
CHARLES  A.   BURDITT. 

Public  Librakt,  24th  June,  1873. 


(A.) 
EEPOKT  OF  THE  EXAMINING  COMMITTEE. 


The  Committee,  appointed  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  the  sixth  section  of  an  Ordinance  in  relation  to  the 
Public  Library,  "  to  examine  the  condition  of  the  Library 
and  report  to  the  Trustees,"  have  made  an  examination  of  the 
Central  Library,  and  the  Branches  at  East  Boston  and  South 
Boston,  and  of  the  building  erected  for  the  use  of  the  Rox- 
bury  Branch,  and  respectfully  submit  the  results  of  their 
investigation. 

In  examining  the  several  buildings,  the  Committee  have 
regarded  it  as  their  first  duty  to  ascertain  how  far  the  build- 
ings have  been  made  tire-proof,  and  whether  any  alterations 
are  needed  to  provide  further  security  to  the  books  against 
injury  by  fire  or  water.  At  the  present  time  the  pecuniary 
value  of  the  books  in  the  Central  Library  alone  caimot  be 
estimated  at  less  than  half  a  million  of  dollars  ;  but  this  sum 
very  imperfectly  represents  the  loss  which  would  be  sustained 
by  the  destruction  of  the  Library.  To  give  but  a  single  illus- 
tration :  the  Prince  Library,  which  was  deposited  with  the 
Trustees  in  1866,  contains  about  1,900  volumes,  and  is  of 
inestimable  value  to  the  student  of  American  history  ;  but  so 
rare  are  many  of  the  volumes  that  probably  no  amount  of 
money  would  enable  the  Trustees  to  duplicate  them.  This  is 
true  also  of  portions  of  other  collections  which  have  from 
time  to  time  been  given  to  the  city.  Their  loss  would  be 
irreparable,  and  without  them  any  one  wishing  to  prosecute 


14  CITY.  DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

thorough  and  exact  inquiries  in  history  or  science  would  have 
to  go  elsewhere  for  his  most  important  materials. 

In  view  of  the  new  light  which  recent  experience  has 
thrown  on  the  combustible  character  of  buildings  heretofore 
regarded  as  fire-proof,  the  Committee  are  unanimously  of 
opinion  that  the  Central  Library  is  not  adequately  protected 
against  fire,  and  that  immediate  attention  ought  to  be  given 
to  this  matter.  The  special  arrangements  which  they 
recommend  are  the  following  :  — 

1.  That  the  common  glass  sky-lights  in  the  roof  should  be 
replaced  by  Hyatt  lights,  or  by  heavy  rough  glass  set  in  an 
iron  frame  and  protected  by  a  raised  wire  netting. 

2.  That  the  central  lantern  should  be  provided  with  heavy 
iron  shutters,  to  be  closed  from  the  outside. 

3.  That  double  iron  shutters,  with  a  water  or  air  chamber 
between  the  inner  and  outer  part,  should  be  placed  on  all  the 
windows  opening  toward  Tremont  street. 

4.  That  the  present  water-pipes  should  be  extended  to  the 
top  of  the  building,  so  that  a  hand-hose  can  be  attached  and 
used  for  wetting  the  roof. 

5.  That  suitable  apparatus  should  be  placed  on  the  out- 
side of  the  building,  both  in  front  and  rear,  for  rapidly 
hoisting  hose  to  the  roof  in  case  of  any  large  fire  in  the 
neighborhood. 

The  building  erected  for  the  use  of  the  Roxbury  Branch  is 
the  property  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum.  The 
estate  on  which  it  stands  is  bounded  on  three  sides  by  public 
streets,  and  beside  this  advantage  it  is  so  far  from  other 
buildings  that  no  anxiety  need  be  felt  at  present  for  its 
safety.  The  Committee  are  glad  to  add  that  it  is  a  model  of 
convenient  arrangement,  and  is  well  worth  the  examination 
of  persons  interested  in  town  libraries.  Built  at  a  moderate 
cost,  it  makes  no  pretension  to  architectural  beauty,  but  is 
admirably  adapted  to  the  use  for  which  it  was  designed.     At 


PUBLIC   LIBEARY.  15 

a  small  additional  expense  it  can  be  shelved  to  contain  about 
100,000  volumes. 

The  South  Boston  Branch  is  located  in  the  second  story  of 
a  stone  and  brick  building  at  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  E 
street.  There  are  no  iron  shutters  on  the  building,  aud  on 
two  sides  it  is  exposed  to  danger  from  fire  communicating 
from  the  adjacent  buildings.  But  as  the  Library  is  only  one 
of  several  tenants,  and  the  collection  at  the  present  time 
numbers  little  more  than  5,000  volumes,  which  could  be  du- 
plicated at  a  comparatively  small  cost,  the  Committee  do  not 
recommend  any  further  expenditure  by  the  City  Government, 
until  the  wants  of  the  Branch  shall  justify  the  erection  of  a 
building  specially  devoted  to  its  use. 

A  similar  remark  will  apply  to  the  East  Boston  Branch, 
which  occupies  a  part  of  the  old  Lyman  School-house,  in  Me- 
ridian street.  It  is,  however,  less  exposed  to  danger  from  fire 
than  the  South  Boston  Branch  ;  and  as  the  city  owns  the  land 
and  building,  suitable  accommodations  can  readily  be  pro  - 
vided  whenever  the  increase  of  the  Library  shall  render  a 
reconstruction  of  the  building  desirable. 

The  Committee  regard  the  establishment  of  these  Branches 
with  great  favor,  as  adding  largely  to  the  usefulness  of  the 
Library.  They  not  only  contain  books  of  a  similar  character  to 
those  in  the  Lower  Hall  in  Boylston  street,  but  by  means  of 
the  daily  communication  which  has  been  established  Avith  the 
Central  Library,  books  from  either  of  its  departments  can  be 
obtained  by  application  at  the  Branch. 

The  i-eport  of  every  Examiniiig  Committee  since  1864  has 
referred  with  more  or  less  of  detail  to  the  defects  of  the  plan 
adopted  in  the  erection  of  the  building  in  Boylston  street. 
This  Committee  have  likewise  been  impressed  by  these  de- 
fects, which  even  the  large  capacity  for  organization,  and  the 
great  executive  ability  of  the  present  Superintendent  have 
not  been  able  to  overcome.  The  extensive  alterations  made 
within  the  last  two  years  have  nearly  doubled  the  shelf-room. 


16  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 


9 


both  in  the  Lower  Hall  and  in  the  Bates  Hall,  and  have  pro- 
vided improved,  though  still  inadequate  accommodations  for 
some  of  the  emplojes  connected  with  the  former.  But  in 
other  respects  the  wx)rk  of  the  Libiaiy  is  carried  on  under 
great  and  increasing  disadvantages,  which  can  be  remedied 
only  by  an  enlargement  of  the  building.  Much  of  the  un- 
packing, collating,  cataloguing,  and  marking  is  now  per- 
formed in  the  galleries  and  alcoves,  and  in  the  south- 
eastern tower,  used  also  as  a  stairway.  The  rooms  for  the 
Superintendent  and  the  Assistant  Superintendent  are  so 
cramped  and  crowded  with  the  necessary  furniture  and  books 
of  reference  as  greatly  to  interfere  with  the  discharge  of  their 
respective  duties.  Additional  closets,  wash-basins,  and 
other  conveniences  for  the  employes,  now  numbering  about 
fifty  persons,  are  also  needed.  There  is  no  room  for  meetings 
of  the  Trustees.  The  only  room  available  for  the  examina-' 
tion  of  the  Foreign  and  American  Patents,  which  now  extend 
to  more  than  2,000  volumes,  and  are  in  almost  constant  use,  is 
so  small  that  not  more  than  two  or  three  persons  can  easily 
consult  them  at  the  same  time.  The  bindery,  which  occupies 
a  portion  of  the  basement,  is  much  too  small  for  the  necessary 
work  of  the  Library.  The  newspaper-room,  which  is  also  in 
the  basement,  is  dark,  damp,  and  badly  ventilated  ;  and  no 
one  can  contrast  it  with  the  small,  but  convenient,  newspaper- 
room  recently  fitted  up  by  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society  without  a  feeling  of  regret  that  this  room  is  the  only 
one  in  the  Public  Library  which  can  be  appropriated  to  this 
important  use.  If  the  public  are  to  derive  the  fullest  benefit 
from  the  Library,  these  defects,  which  do  not  fall  under  the 
notice  of  an  occasional  visitor,  should  be  remedied  at  the 
earliest  practicable  opportunity. 

In  the  judgment  of  the  Committee,  it  would  also  be  much 
better  if  separate  rooms  could  be  provided  for  large  and 
valuable  collections,  like  the  recently  acquired  Barton  Li- 
brary, the  Parker  Library,  and  some  others.  Heretofore 
these  collections  have  been    placed  in  separate  alcoves,   or 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  17 

distinct  portions  of  the  galleries,  appropriately  inscribed  ; 
and  the  Committee  are  informed  that  the  same  conrse  will  be 
pursued  with  regard  to  the  books  in  the  Barton  Liln-ary. 

The  acquisition  of  this  Library,  so  rich  in  Shakespeariuna 
and  in  other  departments  of  dramatic  literature,  was  the 
great  event  in  the  history  of  the  Public  Library  during  the 
past  year.  As  the  volumes  have  not  yet  been  unpacked,  only 
a  few  of  them  have  come  under  the  examination  of  the  Com- 
mittee ;  but  the  great  value  of  the  collection  has  long  been 
known  through  the  elaborate  description  in  Dr.  Wynne's 
Libraries  of  New  York.  The  Committee  desire  to  congratu- 
late the  Trustees  and  the  public  on  this  important  addition 
to  the  treasures  of  the  Library. 

It  is  a  noteworthy  fact  that  with  the  exception  of  this  pur- 
chase almost  the  whole  strength  of  the  Library  comes  from 
the  direct  gift  of  individuals,  or  from  the  income  of  trust- 
funds  specially  given  for  this  purpose.  At  the  very  outset 
Mr.  Bates  gave  about  26,000  volumes ;  the  Bowditch, 
Parker,  Ticknor,  and  Prince  Lil)raries  (the  last  of  which, 
however,  is  only  deposited  with  the  Trustees)  contain  20,- 
326  volumes ;  and  during  their  lives  Mr.  Everett  and  Mr. 
Ticknor,  by  whom  the  original  plan  for  the  organization  of 
the  Library  is  understood  to  have  been  drawn  up,  gave 
3,587  volumes  and  5,673  volumes  respectively,  exclusive  of 
an  immense  mass  of  pamphlets.  Indeed,  of  the  whole  num- 
ber of  volumes  in  the  Library  at  the  present  time,  209,456, 
exclusive  of  the  Barton  collection,  nearly  one  half,  92,333 
volumes,  are  set  down  as  gifts.  If  to  this  number  are  added 
the  volumes  purchased  from  the  income  of  the  trust  funds, 
it  will  be  seen  how  largely  the  Library  is  indebted  to  private 
munificence.  Liberal  as  have  been  the  appropriations  of  the 
City  Government,  and  they  have  been  unstinted,  even  more 
has  come  from  other  sources.  No  one  who  has  been  fimiliar 
with  the  history  of  the  Library  from  that  clay  of  small  things, 
when  it  was  first  opened  to  the  public  in  the  lower  floor  of 


18  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

the  Mason  street  School-house,  can  fail  to  bo  amazed  at  its 
rapid  and  healthy  growth.  For  the  whole  cost  of  its  ad- 
ministration the  Library  is  of  course  indebted  to  the  annual 
appropriations  of  the  City  Government. 

The  volumes  are  all  in  good  condition,  with  the  exception 
of  the  usual  amount  of  injury  to  the  books  of  a  more  popu- 
lar character  which  circulate  from  the  Lower  Hall  and  the 
Branch  Libraries,  and  of  a  few  volumes  in  one  of  the  galleries 
of  the  Bates  Hall,  where  the  old  bindings  have  been  destroyed 
by  the  heat  and  foul  air.  The  Committee  are  by  no  means 
confident  that  such  a  system  of  ventilation  can  be  introduced 
as  will  obviate  this  evil ;  but  the  subject  is  one  worthy  of 
investigation. 

The  cataloguing  has  been  regularly  kept  up,  and  the  Ac- 
cession Lists,  the  Shelf  Lists,  and  the  Card  Catalogue  are 
all  that  can  be  desired  in  those  departments.  Four  numbers 
of  the  Library  Bulletin  have  also  been  issued  during  the 
year,  and  have  proved  of  much  service  to  readers.  In  1858, 
the  Index  to  the  Lower  Hall  Catalogue  was  issued  ;  and  this 
was  followed,  in  1861,  by  the  Index  to  the  Bates  Hall  Cata- 
logue, and  in  1866  by  a  Supplement  to  the  latter.  These 
three  volumes  were  prepared  under  the  direction  of  the  late 
Professor  Jewett,  at  that  time  Superintendent  of  the  Library, 
and  form  a  fit  memorial  of  the  bibliographical  knowledge  and 
thoroughness  of  research  which  that  accomplished  scholar 
brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  task.  In  1870,  the  excel- 
lent Catalogue  of  the  Prince  Library  was  issued  ;  a  Catalogue 
of  the  Ticknor  Library  is  in  preparation  ;  and  by  the  con- 
tract for  the  purchase  of  the  Barton  Library,  a  Catalngue  of 
that  collection  must  be  printed  within  four  years.  But  the 
long-expected  third  vokune  of  the  Bates  Hall  Catalogue  has 
not  yet  been  put  to  press.  The  Committee  are  aware  that 
the  tendency  of  opinion  among  librarians  at  the  present  time 
is  against  the  issuing  of  printed  Catalogues ;  but  in  view  of 
the  great  number  of  students  who  cannot  go  to  the  Library 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  19 

every  time  they  wish  to  ascertain  whether  it  contains  some 
book  of  which  they  have  need,  it  is  to  be  hoped  the  time 
will  never  come  when  the  Trustees  will  not  include  within  the 
plan  of  their  operations  the  issuing  of  consolidated  catalogues 
as  often  as  the  growth  of  the  Library  ma}'"  require.  To  no 
better  use  could  the  City  appropriations  be  applied  ;  and  for 
it  the  appropriations  should  be  freely  granted. 

Complaint  in  regard  to  the  sensational  character  of  some  of 
the  juvenile  books  in  the  Library  has  come  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  Committee ;  but  they  are  not  able,  from  their  OAvn 
examination,  to  say  how  far  these  complaints  have  a  solid 
foundation.  They  accordingly  recommend  the  subject  to  the 
consideration  of  the  Trustees.  They  are,  however,  of  the 
opinion  that  a  closer  scrutiny  should  be  made,  and  a  stricter 
rule  should  be  observed,  as  to  the  character  of  books  pur- 
chased for  the  juvenile  department,  than  would  be  proper  in 
the  case  of  books  ordered  at  the  request  of  adult  readers. 
No  doubt  a  large  part  of  the  juvenile  literature  of  the  day  is 
of  a  very  unprofitable,  if  not  pernicious,  character :  it  does 
not  afford  healthful  amusement,  and  it  is  not  instructive. 
But  it  is  possible  to  select  from  the  immense  mass  of  juvenile 
books  some  which  are  harmless,  and  at  the  same  time  not 
uninteresting  to  the  youthful  reader.  That  the  excessive 
reading  of  works  of  fiction  is  an  evil  will  not  be  denied,  and 
in  the  case  of  school  children  it  is  a  very  great  evil ;  but  in 
their  case  the  remedy  is  in  the  hands  of  parents  and  guar- 
dians, and  not  with  the  managers  of  a  public  library.  It  is 
not  easy  to  see  how  they  could  frame  rules  to  prevent  the 
abuse  of  its  privileges,  without  narrowing  its  scope  and  prac- 
tically limiting  its  usefulness. 

From  records  kej^t  by  the  Superintendent,  it  appears  that 
the  number  of  persons  who  use  the  reading-rooms  on  Sunday 
is  more  than  half  as  large  as  the  number  using  them  on  other 
days ;  and  that  a  very  large  proportion  are  persons  who  use 
the  Library  only  on  Sunday.     N-o  case  of   improper  conduct 


20  CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

has  been  reported ;  and  no  injury  has  been  done  to  the  build- 
ings or  the  periodicals.  The  result  of  the  experiment  thus 
far  has  probably  disappointed  the  expectations  of  those  who 
took  extreme  views  on  one  side  or  the  other  of  this  much- 
vexed  question ;  but  the  Committee  regard  it  as  highly  satis- 
factory, and  as  fully  justifying  the  increased  cost  of  carrying 
on  the  Library. 

GEORGE  S.   HILLARD, 
BENJ.  DEAN, 
E.  D.  JORDAN, 
CHARLES  C.  SMITH, 
GEORGE  H.  VIBBERT, 
HENRY  A.  WHITNEY. 
Boston,  June  16,  1873. 


[B.] 
REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT, 


To  the  Trustees :  — 

Gentlemen,  —  I  herewith  present  my  sixth  annual  report, 
nd  begging  to  refer  you  to  the  tables  in  the  ai:)penclix  for  the 
body  of  the  information,  which  you  have  a  right  to  expect,  I 
shall  touch  here  but  a  few  points  that  need  further  elucidation. 

THE  CENTRAL   BUILDING. 

The  alterations  of  the  easterly  alcoves  of  the  Bates  Hall, 
in  progress  at  the  date  of  the  last  report,  were  completed  so 
that  the  books  were  restored  to  their  places  between  Sept. 
27th  and  Oct.  20th,  and  after  some  supplemental  work  on 
the  western  alcoves,  by  November  25th  the  circulation,  in  all 
its  classifications,  was  resumed.  The  gain  to  the  Librarj-  by 
these  alterations  was  fully  explained  last  year. 

Work  was  begun  in  the  Low^er  Hall  August  18th,  by  erect- 
ing supplemental  cases  on  the  main  floor,  into  which  the 
books  in  the  galleries  were  removed  September  30th,  when  a 
temporary  ceiling  was  laid  over  these  cases,  and  above  this,  the 
work  of  cutting  up  the  windows,  and  flooring  the  new  apart- 
ments went  on  with  little  interruption  to  the  business  of  the 
Library.  The  work  was  completed  and  the  rooms  occupied 
on  the  first  of  January.  The  annexed  plan  will  repre- 
sent clearly  the  new  disposition  of  the  various  oflSces. 


82  fl ' 

NEW      HALF-STORY 

Over  llie  IjOwer  Ilall,  coiin<'C'ting  with    the   old   ITalf-story    (Storo-room,  etc.) 
over  tlie  Lower  U:iU  ])elivcry  lioom. 

K  —  Elcvutor.  n  —  Uoisting  Apparatus. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  23 

The  gain  from  this  new  arrangement  is  all  that  was 
expected,  — a  much  greater  rapidity  of  delivery  of  the  books 
from  one  floor ;  and  an  extent  and  convenience  of  offices 
which  were  never  before  enjoyed. 

The  fire  of  November  last  led  to  a  survey  of  the  building, 
and  under  a  decision  reached  not  long  afterwards,  the  roof  of 
the  building  is  to  be  made  practically  fire-proof.  The  win- 
dows of  the  main  lantern  will  be  protected  by  iron  shutters ; 
and  the  ordinary  sky-lights  over  the  upper  alcoves  will  be 
replaced  by  heavier  glass,  with  honeycomb  settings.  Means 
are  also  to  be  provided  for  hoisting  hose  to  the  roof  without 
dragging  it  through  the  interior  of  the  building.  I  look,  how- 
ever, upon  Hotel  Pelham  as  a  standing  menace,  that  ren- 
ders the  most  particular  precautions  advisable.  A  number 
of  fire-extinguishers,  as  an  additional  safeguard,  have  also 
been  placed  in  the  building.  An  outer  row  of  iron  shutters 
on  the  side  windows,  by  providing  an  air-chamber,  would 
aiford  further  security ;  but  the  present  shutters  are  at  such 
distance  from  the  sashes,  that  wet  sail-cloth  or  blankets  placed 
in  the  interval  will  probably  furnish  good  protection  in  case 
great  heat  should  curl  the  shutters.  The  janitor  makes  a 
monthly  report  upon  the  condition  of  all  appliances  for 
guarding  against  and  subduing  a  fire. 

It  should  be  added  that,  during  the  winter,  two  agents  from 
the  office  of  Inspector  of  Buildings  have  examined  the  steam- 
heating  apparatus  to  see  if  the  Library  was  under  any  dan- 
ger from  super-heated  steam  ;  and  have  pronounced  the  build- 
ing free  from  danger,  except  at  one  point,  which  was  at  once 
attended  to. 

THE  SOUTH   BOSTON  BRANCH. 

The  first  year's  experience  with  this  Branch  has  shown  a 
success,  as  compared  with  the  operations  of  the  East  Boston 
Branch,  proportionate  to  the  difference  in  the  population  of 
the  two  sections  of  the  city.  •  While  South   Boston  has  a 


24  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

population  about  half  as  large  again  as  that  of  East  Boston, 
the  number  of  people  registering  for  the  first  j^ear,  and  the 
extent  of  the  circulation  has  been  in  much  the  same  relations, 
and  the  immunity  from  loss  has  been  nearly  as  favorable. 

The  formal  dedication  of  this  Branch  took  place,  May 
16th,  1872,  the  Mayor  presiding,  and  included  an  address 
by  the  President  of  the  Trustees  and  others.  A  full  account 
of  the  proceedings  has  been  printed  as  a  City  document. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Hawes  Fund,  having  established  a 
School  of  Art  in  the  same  building,  have  kindly  placed  a 
number  of  their  casts  upon  brackets  about  the  Library  rooms, 
adding  much  to  their  attractiveness. 

THE   ROXBURY  BRANCH. 

As  explained  in  the  appendix  of  the  last  Annual  Report, 
the  enforced  sale  of  the  lot  on  Bartlett  street,  on  which 
the  Trustees  of  the  Fellowes  Athenj?eum  had  begun  the 
erection  of  a  Library  building  for  the  use  of  this  Branch,  has 
prevented  the  inauguration  of  this  department  duriug  the 
year  now  closed  ;  and  the  date  of  opening,  which  will  be  not 
far  from  the  beginning  of  July,  is  at  least  six  months  later 
than  was  anticipated. 

A  new  site  having  been  secured  on  Millmont  street,  with 
the  rear  on  Lambert  street,  and  bounding  laterally  on  Lam- 
bert avenue,  embracing  15,930  feet  of  land,  the  work  of  re- 
construction—  in  good  part  with  material  got  out  for  the 
structure  planned  for  the  original  site  —  begun  in  the 
autumn.  The  plans  as  originally  designed  have  been  sub- 
stantially carried  out  on  the  new  ground,  though  a  consider- 
able slope  from  the  front  has  compelled  the  lowering  of  the 
altitude  of  the  rear  portion,  containing  the  Librarj'  room,  while 
at  the  same  time  it  has  given  a  high  and  well-lighted  basement 
room  beneath  in  place  of  a  low  cellar.  A  private  door 
enterinii'  from  the  outside  on  the  side  where  the  Librarian's 


PUBLIC  Library.  25 

room  is  situated,  and  into  the  space  between  that  and  the 
Trustees'  room,  as  marked  on  the  plans  given  in  the  hist 
report,  is  the  only  other  material  change.  The  public  are 
under  oblis^ations  to  the  architect  and  building  committee  of 
the  Fellowes  Trustees  for  the  willing  alacrity  with  which  they 
have  adopted  every  suggestion,  derived  from  our  experience  ; 
and  I  feel  confident  the  result  will  be,  that  in  convenience  of 
arrangement  and  adaptation  to  all  the  purposes  of  a  popular 
public  library,  the  building  of  the  Roxbur}^  Branch  will 
be  among  the  few  Library  structures  in  the  country  th;it 
embody  typical  features  in  due  proportion  and  proper 
subordination.  This  will  be  a  matter  for  constant  gratu- 
lation. 

Moreover,  the  citizens  of  Roxbury  are  under  great 
obligations  to  S.  C.  Thwing,  Esq.,  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Fellowes  Fund,  for  the  original  instigation,  that  resulted  in 
the  bequest,  by  which  they  thus  are  peculiarly  benefited  over 
the  other  sections  of  the  city. 

In  forming  a  collection  for  this  Branch,  about  700  volumes 
were  taken  in  nearly  equal  proportions  from  the  shelf- 
duplicates  of  the  Lower  Hall  and  from  the  Duplicate  Room, 
and  to  these  something  over  3,000  had  been  added,  mostly 
by  purchase,  up  to  the  30th  of  April,  on  account  of  the  City's 
appropriation,  while  to  the  same  date,  865  of  the  more 
expensive  books  had  been  bought  with  the  money  of  the 
Fellowes  Fund,  making  a  total  of  over  4,600  volumes.  The 
Branch  will  open  with  something  over  5,000  volumes,  all 
of  which  will  have  been  catalogued  and  otherwise  prepared 
for  the  shelves  by  the  time  the  building  is  ready  to  receive 
them. 

Note.  — The  books  were  removed  to  the  new  building  on  the  20th  and  21st 
of  June ;  the  Reading  Room  for  Periodicals  was  opened  to  the  public    on  the 
23d;  and  the  delivery  of  the  books  begun  on  the  IGth  of  July. 
4 


26  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 


THE  BOOKS. 

If  we  add  the  Barton  Library  (purchased,  but  not  received 
at  the  end  of  the  Library  year)  to  the  fi^^ures  of  the 
extent  of  the  collections,  shown  in  appendix  I,  it  will  be 
found  that  more  than  220,000  volumes  is  the  result,  which 
is  just  double  the  extent  of  the  Library  ten  years  ago.  The 
Library  of  Congress  still  surpasses  it,  but  the  Astor 
Library  has  only  about  an  equal  extent  with  the  Bates  Hall 
collection.  The  Library  seems  now  to  be  having  a  normal 
increase  of  about  12,000  to  15,000  volumes  a  year.  Should 
the  acts  of  the  Legislature  annexing  Charlestown,  Brookline, 
Brighton,  and  West  Roxbury  find  favor  with  the  people, 
three  ncAv  branches  —  being  the  existing  public  libraries  in 
all  but  the  last-named  place  —  will,  within  a  year,  be  added 
to  our  system,  bringing  to  our  aggregate  something  like 
35,000  or  40,000  volumes,  and  swelling  the  total  under  the 
control  of  the  Trustees  to  nearly  275,000  volumes,  —  an 
extent  likely  to  place  the  Boston  Public  Library  at  the  head 
of  all  American  libraries  in  the  aggregate  of  its  collections, 
as  it  is  already  in  the  value  and  usefulness  of  them. 

The  list  of  donors  in  Appendix  XI  is  a  continued  proof  of 
the  good-will  which  is  cherished  towards  the  Library  by  citi- 
zens and  remoter  friends. 

The  increasing  magnitude  of  the  labor  attending  the  or- 
dering and  receiving  of  books  for  all  the  departments  of  the 
Library  has  justified  the  division  of  the  Library  Service, 
which  will  appear  in  Appendix  XXIII,  by  which  the  fiiithful 
assistant  of  the  Superintendent  in  this  duty  is  assigned  to 
the  responsible  head  of  a  new  department,  kept  heretofore 
as  an  adjunct  of  the  Catalogue  Department. 

The  Library  sufiered  a  small  loss  of  books  in  a  bindery  in 
Hawley  street,  by  the  fire  of  November  last ;  and  the  Italian 
invoice  for  the  year,  embracing  a  complete  set  of  the  public 


PUBLIC    LIBEARY.  Zi 

documents  of  the  Italian  government  since  1848,  upon  the 
collection  of  which  considerable  pains  had  been  expended, 
was  on  board  the  ship  Charlotte,  from  Leghorn,  which  was 
wrecked  on  Bermuda  reefs,  in  March.  Insurance  will  be 
recovered  in  both  cases.  The  Italian  books,  it  proved,  were 
saved,  though  damaged,  and  were  sold  for  salvage,  and  the 
purchaser  has  offered  them  to  the  Library  at  one-quarter  of 
the  original  cost,  and  his  offer  is  under  consideration. 


CIRCULATION  OF   BOOKS. 

I  refer  to  the  full  figures  of  Appendix  XII,  where  it  will 
be  seen  that  the  grand  total  of  issues  approximates  to  half 
a  million  volumes.  I  look  during  the  coming  A'ear,  for  a 
larger  use  of  the  Bates  Hall  than  ever  before.  The  last 
month  of  the  year  showed  that  the  circulation,  which  it  main- 
tained before  the  alterations,  had  been  restored,  and  it  will 
naturally  increase. 

In  the  Lower  Hall  there  was  no  perceptible  diminution  of 
use,  from  the  withdrawal  of  readers  living  at  East  Boston, 
during  the  first  year  after  the  opening  of  the  Branch  in  that 
district.  It  was  too  remote  from  Boylston  street  to  allow 
its  inhabitants  to  be  c(mstant  frequenters  of  the  Central 
Liljrarj',  and  the  use  which  the  new  Branch  got  was  almost 
entirely  from  readers  never  before  enjoying  the  privileges  of 
the  Library.  With  South  Boston  the  case  was  difierent.  There 
was  far  greater  convenience  of  access  for  its  residents  to  the 
Central  Library,  the  drain  upon  whose  frequenters  was  so 
severe,  that  the  new  retainers  on  our  registration  roll  have 
not  been  able  to  make  the  loss  good.  The  loss  from  last 
3'ear  is,  however  only  about  16,000  issues,  while  the  gain  to 
the  Library  from  the  issues  at  the  South  Boston  Branch  has 
been  over  102,000.  The  natural  recuperative  power  of  our 
circulation  will  probably  more  than  regain  during  the  coming 


28  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

year,  what  has  been  lost,  were  no  other  new  Branch  to  inter- 
fere ;  but  the  opening  of  the  Roxbury  Branch  is  likely  to 
produce  the  same  temporary  stay  npon  the  accumulative 
tendency  of  our  statistics  for  the  Lower  Hall.  The  check 
will,  however,  be  but  temporary. 

'To  counteract  any  such  tendency,  late  in  the  year  an 
additional  hour  was  added  to  the  available  time  for  the 
delivery  of  books,  by  closing  the  Lower  Hall  at  9  o'clock, 
P.M.  instead  of  8  o'clock  P.M.  Coiucidentally  the  service 
of  this  department  has  been  modified  somewhat,  the  hour  of 
dismissal  of  the  attendants  being  now  uniformly  at  7  o'clock 
( except  on  Saturdays) ,  instead  of  varying  from  6  o'clock  to 
8'clock,  as  before,  and  a  new  force  has  l)een  organized  for 
evening  service,  as  will  be  seen  by  Appendix  XXHI. 

It  should  be  stated  however  that  the  use  of  the  South 
Boston  Branch  is  not  alone  the  occasion  of  the  loss  in  our 
Lower  Hall  circulation.  A  very  perceptible  falling  oif  has 
been  owing  to  an  apprehension  with  some,  during  a  part  of  the 
year,  that  the  circulation  of  the  Library  was  accountable  m 
some  way  for  the  spreading  of  the  small-pox.  In  all  cases 
when  it  was  known  that  books  had  been  in  houses  where 
the  infection  existed,  they  were  properly  disposed  of,  when 
returned.  It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  not  one  in  the 
Library  service  was  attacked  by  the  disease. 

For  a  week  or  two  after  the  fire  of  November  last  the 
circulation  was  ver}^  materially  checked ;  and  consider- 
able diminution  was  observable  during  the  continuance  of  the 
Peace  Jubilee  of  June  and  July,  1872. 

USE  OF  PERIODICALS. 

Referring  to  Appendix  XX,  I  may  add  that  the  same 
reasons  have  afiected  the.  slight  diminution  in  the  use  of  the 
Central  Reading  Room,  which  has  been  referred  to  in  con- 
nection with  the  circulation  of  books. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY.  29 

Acting  upon  a  request  of  the  City  Council,  the  Trustees 
ordered  the  opening  of  the  Reading  Rooms  for  Periodicals  on 
Sundays,  from  2  P.  M.  to  9  P.  M.,  and  this  was  done  for 
the  first  time,  February  9th.  The  use  has  been  from  one- 
half  to  three-quarters  of  the  average  week-day  use.  The 
frequenters  have  been  uniformly  decorous ;  and  the  most 
favorable  feature  of  the  results  is,  that  a  large  proportion  of 
the  Sunday  visitors  are  not  such  as  are  seen  in  the  rooms  on 
week-da}' s.  After  a  brief  interval  of  scrutiny  among  those 
interested  favorably  or  adversely  in  the  experiment,  this 
inroad  upon  old  custom  has  passed  from  all  active  obser- 
vation and  the  bulii  of  the  population  probably  neither 
know  nor  care  about  the  practice ;  leaving  a  comparatively 
small  number  of  people  to  find  a  satisfaction  in  the  privilege 
that  sufficiently  pays  for  the  attendant  outlay. 

CATALOGUES. 

In  pursuance  of  a  policy  of  guiding  rather  than  forcing  the 
public  taste  in  the  selection  of  books,  the  past  year  has  been 
significant  in  the  publication  of  two  different  helps  to  this 
end. 

First.  In  August  a  new  Hand-book  for  Readers  was  issued, 
including  the  regulations,  a  description  of  the  possessions  of 
the  Librar}^  most  likely  to  interest  the  curious,  with  a  brief 
summary  of  its  history.  Its  distinctive  feature,  however,  was 
a  full  description  of  the  catalogues,  with  directions  how  to 
use  them,  and  lists  of  books  classified  under  various  subject 
heads,  calculated  to  acquaint  the  reader  with  the  simplest 
methods  of  bibliographical  research.  Before  the  year  closed, 
an  edition  of  5,000  had  been  distributed,  and  a  second 
amended  edition  is  now  in  press. 

Second.  The  scope  of  the  new  Lower  Hall  Class  List  for 
History,  Biography  and  Travel,  has,  in  its  progress  through 
the  press,  been  much   enlarged.  •  In  addition  to  the  features 


30  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

mentioned  in  the  Keport  for  last  year,  notes  have  been 
appended  to  all  the  subject-references  of  importance, 
which  sometimes  give  concisely  the  history  of  the 
literature  of  the  subjects,  and  often  afford  indications  of 
the  beariig  and  purposes  of  particular  books,  —  the  aim  being 
to  give  assistance  to  persons  looking  for  books  under  sub- 
jects. Constant  reference  has  also  being  made  to  the 
Catalogues  of  the  Bates  Hall,  with  the  hope  that  the  user  of 
the  Library  will  thus  learn  better  how  the  two  collections 
can  be  made  to  supplement  one  another.  While  it  cannot 
but  be  believed  that  good  will  come  of  this  innovation  in 
the  style  of  popular  catalogues,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that 
personal  attention  to  the  wants  of  unskilful  users  of  the 
catalogues  would  accomplish  much  more  ;  but  other  duties 
prevent  any  of  the  officers  making  it  a  special  object.  This 
latter  work  is  an  excellent  field  for  a  humanitarian  of  tact 
and  the  requisite  knowledge,  who  could  counsel  without 
dogmatism  or  personal  bias,  if  such  a  one  could  be  found  to 
devote  his  mornings  and  evenings  among  the  scores  and 
hundreds  of  inexperienced  frequenters  of  the  Library  halls. 

The  publication  of  this  catalogue  has  been  delayed  by  the 
increasing  labor,  and  by  the  misfortune  of  November  last, 
much  beyond  what  was  anticipated.  It  was  thought  to  have 
been  half  carried  through  the  press  when  the  entire  edition 
up  to  that  point  was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire.  The  reprinting 
of  that  portion,  however,  has  given  the  opportunity  for  much 
improving  it,  and  it  is  now  hoped  that  it  will  be  in  the  hands 
of  the  public  during  August.  It  has  proved  so  extensive  that 
the  original  project  of  appending  to  it  a  second  edition  of 
the  Chronological  List  of  Historical  Fiction  has  been 
abandoned,  and  that  work  must  find  an  independent  issue. 

A  second  edition  of  the  list  of  periodicals  currently 
received  in  the  Central  Library  has  likewise  been  printed, 
and  brief  discriminations    of  the    character   of  the   several 


PUBLIC   LDBRART.  31 

periodicals  added  to  the  titles  in  cases  where  it  was 
necessary. 

A  supplemental  List  of  the  Tosti  Engravings,  including 
those  framed  in  the  lower  floor  of  the  Central  Library,  and 
not  included  already  in  the  List  of  Portraits,  has  been  pre- 
pared by  Mr. Whitney,  the  Principal  Assistant  of  the  Librarj'-, 
to  whom  has  been  entrusted  with  confidence  this  critical 
labor.     The  present  issue  completes  the  work. 

The  general  work  of  this  department,  including  the  issue 
of  four  Bulletins,  has  gone  forward  satisfactorily  under  the 
immediate  direction  of  Mr.  Wheeler,  its  accomplished  head. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JUSTIN  WINSOR, 

Superintendent. 
Public  Library,  June  2d,   1873. 


APPENDIXES 


TO  THE 


SUPERINTENDENT'S  REPORT 


1873 


LIST  or  APPENDIXES. 


I.  Extent  of  the  Library  (by  Years). 

II.  Yearly  Increase  by  Purchase  and  Donation. 

III.  Extent  of  the  Bates  Hall  Collection. 

IV.  Extent  of  the  Lower  Hall  Collection. 
V.  Sale  Duplicates,  etc. 

VI.  Increase  of  the  several  Departments. 

VII.  Increase  from  Newly  Published  Books. 

VIII.  Volumes  Located  in  Bates  Hall. 

IX.  Bates  Hall  Classifications. 

X.  Lower  Hall  Classifications. 

XI.  Donors. 

XII.  Circulation. 

XIII.  Books  Keturned  in  Lower  Hall. 

XIV.  Registration  of  Applicants. 

XV.  Books  Recommended.     Use  of  British  Patents, 

XVI.  Bates  Hall  Reading. 

XVII.  Lower  Hall  Reading. 

XVIII.  East  Boston  Reading. 

XIX.  South  Boston  Reading. 

XX.  Periodical  Reading  Rooms. 

XXI.  Losses  and  Delinquents. 

XXII.  Financial  Statement. 

XXIII.  Library  Service. 

XXIV.  Report  on  the  Examination  of  the  Shelves. 
XXV.  Work  in  the  Library  Bindbey. 

XXVI.  The  Barton  Library. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY. 


35 


APPENDIX  I. 

EXTENT   OF   THE   LIBRARY,  BY   YEARS. 


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Note.  —  The  aggregate  of  pamphlets  "added  from  the  begmning  "  includes  many  since  bound,  singly  or 
1  groups  (which  are  now  counted  among  volumes),  and  a  very  large  number  of  duplicates,  which  are  thrown  out 
nd  put  among  the  pamphlot=  held  for  cxrhana-c. 


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CITY    DOCUMENT. No.  88. 


APPENDIX  II. 


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


Tears. 


1852-53 
1853-54 
1854-55 
1855-56 
1856-57 
1857-58 
1858-59 
1859-60 
1860-61 
1861-62 
1862-63 
1863-64 
1864-65 
1865-66 
1866-67 
1867-68 
1868-69 
1869-70 
1870-71 
1871-72 
1872-73 


Increase. 
(i^e<  after  1861.) 

Gifts. 
(SeeApp.  IX.) 

Purchases  in- 
cluding those 
charged  to  funds. 

Vols. 

Pamph. 

Vols. 

Pamph. 

Vols. 

JPamph . 

9,688 

961 

4,000 

961 

5,688 

6,533 

2,989 

2,152 

2,989 

4,381 

6,396 

2,557 

2,663 

2,468 

3,733 

89 

5,463 

5,879 

1,865 

5,330 

3,598 

549 

6,816 

3,667 

1,686 

3,646 

5,130 

21 

*35,955 

1,885 

30,214 

1,885 

5,741 

7,192 

1,317 

3,405 

1,317 

3,787 

6,989 

1,452 

3,744 

1,452 

3,245 

.   .   . 

tl6,948 

6,674 

12,299 

6,656 

4,649 

18 

7,391 

1,493 

1,274 

1,493 

6,117 

.   .   . 

5,.529 

2,169 

829 

1,958 

4,700 

212 

6,226 

2,939 

1,081 

2,772 

6,145 

167 

6,082 

1,516 

804 

1,026 

5,178 

490 

7,662 

4,013 

1,476 

3,342 

6,286 

671 

5,303 

7,877 

1,465 

7,769 

7,732 

108 

7,673 

2,811 

1,554 

2,513 

6,396 

298 

8,685 

13,923 

2,138 

10,984 

6,531 

2,939 

7,775 

13,593 

1,646 

10,228 

6,129 

3,366 

§18,099 

14,976 

9,750 

10,805 

8,349 

4,171 

1113,708 

10,637 

4,349 

5,831 

9,359 

4,806 

14,644 

11,770 

3,939 

8,060 

10,705 

3,710 

Fello'es 

Athenae 

um. 


Vols. 


Donors, 
exclud- 
ing 
anony- 
mous. 


**865 


75 

105 
153 
126 
132 
381 
247 
207 
242 
234 
194 
219 
328 
336 
800 
342 
649 
665 
604 
610 
601 


*  Of  these,  24,618  were  the  Bates  gift. 

t  Of  these,  11,721  were  the  Parker  hequest. 
.  I  Includes  pamjihlets  added  both  by  purchase  and  exchange,  as  taken  from  the  Accession 
Catalogue.     The  large  number  of  recent  years  has  been  occasioned  by  the   systematic  com- 
pletion  of  serials  and  periodicals  for  the  Central  Library,  as  well   as  for  the  Branches. 

§  Including  3,774  volumes  of  the  Ticknor  bequest,  and  2,682  from  the  Sumner  Library 
Association. 

II  Including  1,471  volumes  from  the  Mattapan  Literary  Association. 

**  Included  in  previous  columns.    These  volumes  are  not  the  property  of  the  Public 
Library,  but  form  a  part  of  the  Roxbury  Branch  by  agreement. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY. 


37 


APPEISTDIX  III. 

EXTENT  OF  THE  BATES  HALL  COLLECTION  IN  VOLUMES. 


1867. 

1868. 

1869. 

18'ro. 

1871. 

1873. 

1873. 

The  General  Library  .... 

87,658 

93,553 

101,428 

107,724 

115,232 

121,709 

126,207 
j|2,120 
2,542 
11,907 
1,970 
3,907 

Bowditch  Library* 

Parker  Library* 

Prince  Library 

2,542 

tll,907 

1,'J52 

2,542 

11,907 

1,952 

2,542 

11,907 

1,962 

2,542 

11,907 

1,952 

2,542 
11,907 
tl,970 

3,774 

2,542 

11,907 

1,970 

§3,907 

Entered     on    tlie    Accession 
Catalogue,    but    not    yet 

1,078 

1,327 

140 

294 

361 

651 

829 

105,737 
0 

111,281 
0 

117,969 
2 

124,419 
0 

135,786 
0 

142,686 
1 

149,482 
6 

Total 

105,737 

111,281 

117,967 

124,419 

135,786 

142,685 

149.477 

*  See  Appendix  IX. 

t  Including  186  duplicates,  whicli  are  boxed  and  stored  in  the  basement. 

t  Including  18  vols,  of  MSB. 

§  Includes  31  vols,  of  MSS.  as  bound.  When  received  they  were  mostly  in  stitched 
brocliures,  several  of  which  are  now  bound  in  one  volume.  The  remainder  of  the  difl'ercnce 
between  these  figures  and  those  for  the  previous  year,  arose  from  some  discrepancy  in  the 
count  of  pamphlets  destined  for  volumes. 

II  Divided  into  1,791  volumes  for  the  English ;  130  volumes  for  the  American;  and  199 
volumes  for  the  French  specifications  and  drawings.  Included  previously  in  the  General 
Library.    Now  in  charge  of  a  special  Curator. 

**  Purchased,  but  not  yet  received  and  enumerated. 

Note.  —  Of  the  volumes  lost  from  the  Bates  Hall  some  reappear  each  year,  while  a  few 
in  excess  disappear,  increasing  the  aggregate  loss  a  little;  so  that  it  is  probable  the  figures 
of  the  Bates  Hall  collection  ai-e  a  trifle  in  excess  of  what  an  actual  count  would  indicate. 


38 


CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 


APPENDIX  TV. 

EXTENT   OF   THE   LOWER   HALL   COLLECTION. 


1867, 

1868. 

1869. 

1870. 

1871. 

1872. 

1873. 

Reported  the  preceding  year  . 
Added  during  the  year    .   .   . 

25,199 
2,003 

26,606 

2,469 

28,723 

1,417 

29.909 

2,780 

30,574 
2,614 

31,827 
1,799 

Total 

27,202 
339 

29,075 
93 

30,140 
19 

32,689 

23 

859 

1,233 

33,188 

7 
535 
819 

33,626 

Books    transferred    to    Bates 
Hall 

1 

342 

Condemned  during  the  year  . 

257 

259 

212 

67S 

Total  left 

*25,199 

26,606 

28,723 

29,909 

30,574 

31,827 

32,605 

* 

Actual  ( 

;ount. 

Note.  —  There  have  been  since  the  last  actual  count  In  1867,  perhaps  a  hundred 
volumes  irrecoverably  lost  in  the  Lower  Hall.  Perhaps  an  ei^ual  number  are  to  be  classed 
as  ''  unaccounted  for,"  but  may  reappear. 


APPENDIX  y. 

SALE   DUPLICATES   AND   ODD  VOLUMES. 

{^'^ot  including  the  Parker  duplicates,  or  a  large  lot  of  odd  and  imperfect  volumes  of  books, 
not  likelij  to  have  the  missing  volumes  supplied,  which  are  boxed  up  at  intervals.) 


1867. 

1868. 

1869. 

1870. 

1871. 

1878. 

1873. 

Number  at  beginning  of  year, 
Added  during  the  year    .  .  . 

4,955 
714 

5,146 
1,004 

5,805 
847 

6,106 
443 

383 

6,954 
996 

7,314 
1,375 

5,669 
523 

6,150 
345 

6,662 
546 

6,549 
304 

234 

7,950 
636 

8,689 
t506 

Total 

5,146 

5,805 

6,106 

6,245 

*6,954 

*7,314 

*8,183 

*  This  number  is  by  an  actual  count  of  the  serviceable  volumes  now  arranged  in  our 
Duplicate  Room ;  and  it  includes  three  hundred  and  eighty-one  volumes  of  British  Sessional 
documents,  ready  for  exchange.  * 

t  Of  these,  one  hundred  and  forty-five  were  exchanged  and  three  hundred  and  sixty-one 
sent  to  the  Roxbury  Branch.  A  considerable  number  of  odd  and  imperfect  volumes,  of 
which  no  account  is  made,  have  been  sent  to  the  City  quarantine  boat. 

Note. — There  are  also  of  pamphlets  some  thirty  thousand  duplicates,  arranged  and 
ready  for  exchanges.     Libraries  are  invited  to  make  such  exchanges. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY. 


39 


APPEiSTDIX  YI. 

INCREASE   OF   THE   SEVERAL   DEPARTMENTS. 


1868. 

18G9. 

1870. 

isri. 

1873. 

1873. 

Gain  in  located  b'ks(App. VIII.) 
Of  these  not  located  at  last  Re- 

6,297 
1,678 

7,475 
1,327 

6,296 
140 

7,508 
294 

10,384 
4,135 

6,622 
651 

Added  and  located 

Added  and  not  located    .... 

4.619 
1,327 

6.148 
140 

6,156 
294 

7,214 
4,135 

6,249 
651 

5,971 

829 

1 

5,946 

6,288 
2 

6,450 

11,349 

6,900 
1 

6,800 

5 

5,946 

6,290 

6,450 

11,349 

6,899 

6,795 

1 

Gain  in  located  books 

Less  transfers  and  condemned 

2,003 
596 

2,469 
352 

1,417 
231 

2,780 
2,115 

2,614 
1,361 

1,799 
1,021 

fe    ^ 

H 

1,407 

2,117 

1,186 

665 

1,253 

778 

254 

0 

g-i^ 

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fe;          Net  gain 

254 

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Less  loss  by  exchanges,  etc. 


*^      [  Net  gain 


1,375 
506 


5,936 

881 
50 

621 

97 

^|<! 

2^ 

5,936 

831 

524 

Gain  in  located  books 
Condemned  and  lost . 


^      [  Net  gain 


885 
76 


40 


CITY   DOCUMENT. 


No.  88. 


APPENDIX  VI,  Continued. 


1868. 

1869. 

1870. 

1871. 

18T8. 

1873. 

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r   Gain  in  city  part 

3,754 
4 

< 

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865 

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Total  gain 

<§ 

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'  Bates  Hall  gain 

Lower  Hall  gain 

5,946 
1,407 

6,290 
2,117 

6,450 
1,186 

11,349 
665 

6,899 
1,253 

6,795 

778 
254 

Duplicate  Room  gain 

659 

301 

139 

149 
5,936 

360 

831 

4,365 

869 
524 

^ 

809 

3,750 

,« 

665 

g 

8,012 

8,708 

7,775 

18,099 

13,708 

14,644 

APPENDIX  VII. 

INCREASE  EROM  NEWLY  PUBLISHED  BOOKS. 


English  Books  with  British 
imprint 

English  Books  with  American 
unprint 

English  Books  with  Conti- 
nental imprint 

Foreign  Books 

Duplicates  of  either  class, 
when  not  included  in  the 
other  items 

Total 


1867. 


635 
1,154 


104 
539 


2,529 


1868. 


1,445 


100 
673 


2,926 


1869. 


625 
1,455 


80 
789 


3,396 


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811 
1,411 


50 
487 


3,007 


1871. 


899 
2,206 


48 
561 


4,194 


1873, 


1,096 
3,642 


115 

891 


5,744 


1873. 


1,389 

4,301 

291 
1,064 


7,045 


PUBLIC     LIBRARY. 


41 


APPENDIX  YIII. 

VOLUMES   LOCATED   IN   BATES    HALL,  BY  MONTHS. 


Months. 

1868-69. 

1869-70. 

1870-71. 

1871-78. 

1878-7.3. 

May 

758 
509 
1,037 
383 
713 
866 
443 
639 
626 
563 
521 
417 

347 
833 
697 
763 
632 
834 
633 
382 
1,175 

727 
480 
462 
520 
378 
546 
695 
905 
427 
706 
1,001 
661 

455 
464 
291 
518 
511 
295 
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651 
611 
724 
788 
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584 

June 

584 

July 

631 

554 

September 

October 

457 

520 

November 

489 
646 

658 

456 

March 

551 

April 

492 

Total 

7,475 

6,296 

7,508 

10,384 

6,622 

Pamphlet       volumes       ar- 
ranged by  the  Curator  .  . 


385 


Note.  — These  monthly  figures  are  the  results  of  tables  made  out  year  by  year,  like  the 
one  constituting  Appendix  VI  for  1889.  The  figures  for  May,  June  and  July,  1868-69,  should 
follow  those  for  April  of  the  same  year.  They  were  misplaced  to  adapt  the  table  to  a 
change  of  the  Library  year. 

*  3,876  are  books  of  the  Ticknor  Library,  then  assigned  to  permanent  places, 
t  Includes  31  vols,  of  the  Ticknor  MSS. 

Pamphlets.  During  the  year  the  Curator  of  pamphlets  has  rearranged  all  the  loose 
pamphlets  by  subjects,  etc.,  in  the  new  Cabinet  Room;  and  such  as  were  duplicates  and  not 
needed  have  been  arranged  in  adjacent  apartments. 


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*  This  class  embracing  sets  like  Bolin'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  jirevious 
years  as  well  as  in  the  current  year.  The  column  "  Total  added  "  shows  the  number  of  volumes  as 
put  upon  the  shelves,  eounlinijj  as  one  those  bound  two  volumes  in  one,  etc. 


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APPEN^DIX  XI. 


LIST  OP  DONORS,  1872-73. 

Bates,  Joshua,  London,  interest  on  the  fund  of       .         .  ^50,000 

Bigelow,  Hon.  John  P.,         "         "             "            .         .  1,000 

Franklin  Club,                          <i         ^^             u            .         .  i,000 

Lawrence,  Hon.  Abbott,        "         "             "             .         .  10,000 

Philips,  Hon.  Jonathan,         "         "             "             .         .  30,000 

Ticknor,  George,                     "         "             "             .         .  4,000 

Townsend,  Mary  P.,              "         "             "            .         .  4,000 

$100,000 

DONATIONS  MAY  1,  1872,  TO  APRIL  30,  1873. 

Donors  (excluding  anonymous),      .....  601 

Volumes, 3,939 

Pamphlets, 8,060 


Abbe,  Rev.  Frederic  R., 

Advocate  Publishing  Company,  Jackson,  Tenti.,  1  news- 
paper, ........ 

Alabama,  University  of,  Tuscaloosa, .... 

Albert  Memorial  Museum,  F.xeter,  England, 

Allen,  Asa  Witter,  Salem,  Ohio,         .... 

Allen,  Edward  G.,  London,  42  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Allen,  Willard  S., 

American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester, 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union, 

American  Bible  Society,  New  York  City, 

American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions  . 

American  Colonization  Society,   Washington.  D.  C, 

American  Gcogra])liical  Society,  JVew  York  Citi/, 

American  Home  Missionary  Society,  New  York  City, 

American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

American  Social  Science  Association,  36  numbers  of  peri 
odicals,         ..... 

American  Unitarian  Association, 

Amory,  Thomas  C,    . 

Andover  Theological  Seminary, 

Anonymous,  23  numbers  of  periodicals. 


Vols. 


1 

10 

4 

1 
2 
I 

142 
2 
1 

26 


Pph. 


186 
1 


1 
21 


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Pph. 


l3roa 


dside, 


Anthon,  Charles  E.,  Kew  York  City, 

Appleton,  Daniel, 

Appleton,  Natlian,       ... 

Appleton,  W.  S., 

Armstrong  and  Co.,  1  lithograph, 

Attvvood,  Gilbert  and  Co.,  . 

Atwell,  Richard,  I.,     . 

Austin,  S.  H.,  New  York  City,   . 

Axon,  William  E.  A.,  Manchester,  England 

Baker,  Joseph,  .... 

Baldwin,  Charles  C,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 

Balfour,  David  M.,  Charlestown, 

Ballou,  Maturin  M. ,  . 

Baltimore,  Md.,  Mercantile  Library, 

Barnard,  James  M.,    . 

Barr,  Johij  C,  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 

Bartol,  George  M.  Rev.,  Lancaster,  Mass 

Bassett,  Rev.  E.  B.,   Warwick,  Mass., 

Batchelder,  Rev.  C.  E.,  Bethel,   Vt.,  . 

Bell,  James  B., 

Bennett,  Joseph  E.,  Manchester,  iV.  II. 

Berkshire  Athenaeum,  Pittsjield,  Mass., 

Berlin,  Prussia,  City  of,     . 

Bigelow,  Jacob,  M.  D., 

Bigelow,  Hon.  John  P.,  The  Estate  of,  1  broadside 

Birmingham,  England,  Free  Libraries  Committee, 

Bixby,  George  Holmes,  31.  D.,  . 

Bixby,  H.  C,      . 

Blood,  Mary  W.,  64  newspapers, 

Bogart,  W.  H., 

Bolles,  W.  v.,  31.  D.,         . 

Bossange,  Gustave,  Paris,  France, 

Boston,  City  of,  ... 

Athenaeum, 

Board  of  Trade,  10  broadsides 

College, 

■  Gas  Light  Company, 

Home  for  Aged  Men, 

Home  for  Little  Wanderers 

■  Industrial  Aid  Society,    . 

■ Land  Company, 

. North  St.  Union  Mission, 

• Overseers  of  the  Poor,    . 

. Penitent  Females'  Refuge, 

Port  and  Seamen's  Aid  Society, 

■ Provident  Association,    . 

• •  Young  Men's  Christian  Union, 

. Young  Women's  Christian  Association, 


Boston  and  Albany  Railroad  Company, 
Both,  Carl,  M.  D.,      . 
Bowditcli,  Henry  L,  3L  D., 
Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Me., 
Bowen,  James  A.,       . 
Bradford,  George  P., 


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11 
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Bradford,  T.  G.,  26  newspapers,  13  broadsides, 

Bradlee,  Eev.  Caleb  D.,      . 

Brainard,  E.,  2  photographs, 

Brewer,  Gardner. 

Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  31.  D. 

Bridgeman  Alfred,  and  Son,  New  York  City, 

Brigham,  Charles  B.,  31.  D., 

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

Brighton,  Town  Clerk, 

British  Museum,  London,  . 

Brockliaus,  F.  A.,  Leipzig,  Germany, 

Brookline,  Town  of,  . 

Public  Library, 

Brooklyn,  JY.  Y.,  Art  Association, 

Mercantile  Library  Association, 

Park  Commissioners, 


Brown,  Buckminster,  3L  D., 
Brown,  Francis  H.,  3L  Z>., 
Brunn,  Chr.  V.,  Copenhagen,     . 
Bufi'alo,  N.   Y,  Catholic  Institute, 
University  of. 


Bufford,  Rev.  Marcellus,  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
Burroughs,  Rev.  Henry,      ... 
Butler,  Hon.  Benj.  F.,  Lowell,  . 
Butler  Hospital  for  the  insane.  Providence 
California  Pharmaceutical  Society,  San  Fr 

State  Library,  Sacramento,     . 

Canada,  Co  iiniissioner  of  Patents, 

Department  of  Agriculture,     . 

Department  of  Public  Works, 

Geological  Survey, 


Capen,  Barnard, 

Capen,  F.  L., 

Carlton  and  Lanahan,  New  York  City, 
Caswell,  Edward  T.,  Providence,  R.  I., 
Chamberlin,  David,    .... 
Chambers,  George  E.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
Champney,  J.  W.,      .... 
Chandler,  Hon.  Z.,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Chapman,  E.  D., 

Charlestown,  City  of,  ... 

Public  Library, 


Library  A 


Chelsea,  City  of, 

Christern,  F.  "W.,  New  York  City,     , 

Ciiristian  Register  Association,  . 

Christian  Visitor,  The,  Publisher, 

Chute,  J.  M.,  Chelsea,  24  broadsides, 

Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Young  Men's  Mercantile 
ation,  ..... 

Claghorn,  James  L.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

Clapp,  David,  and  son,  1,949  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Clapp,  Otis, 

Clarke,  Rev.  James  F.,  218  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Clarke,  Robert,  and  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Cleveland,  Rev.  N.,  Westport,  Conn.,  12  numbers  of  peri- 
odicals,          


B.  L, 
ancisco,  Cal., 


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10 
12 


19 


11 
4 


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12 


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543 

471 

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76 


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■No.    88. 


Vols. 


Pph. 


Mo. 


Coe,  Levi  E.,  West  Meriden,  Conn., 

Colman's  Rural  World,  The,  Publisher,  St.  Louis, 

Columbia  College,  New  York  City,     . 

Commonwealth,  The,  Publisher, 

Concord,  iV.  II.,  City  Clerk, 

Conkling,  Clinton  L.,  Springfield,  111., 

Connecticut  Board  of  Education, 

Coolidge,  Algernon,  M.  D.,  50  numbers  of  periodicals 

Corbin,  P.,  and  H.,  New  York  City., 

Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 

Creery,  William  R.,  Baltimore,  M.  D., 

Cronin,  David  E.,  Binghampton,  JV.   Y.,    . 

Cross,  .Tames  M.,  Providence,  R.  I., 

Cullis,  Charles,  31.  D.,        . 

Curaings,  Bradley  N.,  45  numbers  of  periodical; 

Cupples,  Joseph  G., 

Curtis,  P.  G 

Cutter,  Charles  A., 

Dalton,  Henry  R.,       . 

Dana,  E.  E.,  1  number  of  a  periodical, 

Dana,  Hon.  Richard  H.,  Jr.,       . 

Deane,  Charles,  ..... 

Deblois,  Stephen  G., 

Deborah,  Die,  Publisher,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Dellinger,  Fanny,  1  newspaper, 

Dennet,  W.  H.,  ... 

Derby,  George,  M.  D., 

Detroit,  Mich.,  Board  of  Education, 

Deutscher  Medicinischer  Verein,  178  numbers 

icals, . 

Dexter,  Franklin  B.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  . 
Dickinson  College,  Carlisle,  Pa., 
Dixon,  Thomas,  Sunderland,     . 
Douglass,  D.  De  Forrest,  Springfield, 
Dow,  J.  E.,  Peoria,  III.,    .... 
Drake,  Francis  S.,      . 

Drew,  M., 

Drummond,  Josiah  H.,  Portland,  Me., 
Dubois,  Patterson,  Philadelpihia,  Pa., 
Duren,  Dea.  Elnathan  F.,  Bangor,  Me., 
Durrie,  Daniel  S.,  Madison,   Wis.,     . 
Dwelshanvers,  Celestine,    .         .         .         . 

Dwight,  Edmund, 

Eclectic  Medical  Institute,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Edes,  Rev.  Richard  S.,  Bolton, 

Eissfeldt,  Ferdinand,  .... 

Eliot,  John  Fleet, 

Emerson,  Hon.  George  B.,  1  photograph,  3  m; 

bers  of  pci-iodicals,  2  broadsides, 
Essex  Institute,  Salem, 
Evans,  Rev.  F.  W.,     .         .         . 
Everett,  Horace,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
Fall  River,  Public  Library, 
School  Committee, 


aps, 


of  period- 


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21 


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11 

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75 

1 
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204 
2 


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17 


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Ferris,  B.  G.,  Ithaca,  N.   F,       . 

Fitchburg  Railroad  Company,     . 

Fliigel,  Dr.  Felix,  Leipzig,  Germany, 

Foley,  William  J.,      . 

Foot,  Samuel  A.,  Geneva,  If.  Y., 

Foote,  Rev.  Henry  W., 

Ford,  William  E.,       . 

Forssman,  O.  W.  A.,  Cape  Town, 

Foster,  William  H. ,    .         .         . 

Fowler,  M.  F., 

Franks,  Augustus  W.,  Executor  of  tlie  Estate  of  F.  Slade 

London,       ....... 

Freeman,  William  F.,  and  Co., 
French,  Hon.  Henry  F.,     . 

Gaffield,  Thomas, 

Gardner,  William  S., 

Garrison,  W.  P.,  Heiv  York  City, 

General  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 

through  W.  S.  Perry,  .... 

George,  W.  S.,  and  Co.,  Lansing,  Mich., 
Georgia,  University  of,  Athens, 
Globe  Publishing  Company,         .... 
Goel,  3Irs.  G.  B.,  7  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Gorham  Manufacturing  Company,  New  York  City, 
Gould,  Prof.  B.  A.,  Cordoba,  Argentine  Republic, 
Graham,  William,  Detroit,  Jlich., 
Grahame,  T.,  165  newspapers,  . 
Gray,  Hon.  William, 
Green,  Samuel  A.,  iM.  D., 
Greene,  Rev.  J.  S.  Copley,  Brookline, 
Greenough,  William  W.,    . 
Guild,  Chester,  .... 

Guild,  Curtis,  and  Co., 
Guild,  Reuben  A.,  Providence,  R.  I., 
Gunn,  R.  A.,  M.  D.,  Neiu  York  City, 
Hale,  Hon.  Charles,    .... 
Hale,  Rev.  Charles  R.,  Auburn,  N.   Y, 
Harding,  William  P., 
Harrison,  W.,  and  Son,  London, 
Hart,  Charles  H.,  Pennsylvania,  Pa., 
Harvard  College,  Cambridge, 

Museum  of  Comparative  Zoology, 

Peabody  Museum, 

Medical  College, 

Haskins,  Rev.  David  G.,  Cambridge, 


Haskins,  Rev.  George  Foxcroft, 

Hayes,  John  L.,  1  newspaper, 

Haynes,  Prof.  Henry  W.,  Burlington,   Vermont, 

Hazard,  Willis  P.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

Heiuzen,  Karl,    ..... 

Hill,  William  N., 

Hillard,  Hon.  George  S.,    . 

Hingham.     Agricultural  and  Horticultural 

School  Committee, 


Society, 


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10 


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Hinton,  James,  London, 

Hoadlcy,  Charles  J.,  Hariford,   Conn., 

Hoar,  lion.  E.  R.,  Concord, 

Holton  Librarj',  Brighton, 

Homans,  I.  Smith,  New  Yoi-Tc  City,    . 

Hooper,  H071.  Samuel, 

Howard,  Cliarles  P.,  North  Reading, 

Howe,  Samuel  G.,  M.  D.,  . 

Howe,  William,  .... 

Hoyt,  Col.  A.  H., 

Hubbard,  Luther  P.,  Greenwich,  Conyi.. 

Humphreys,  Brig.  Gen.  A.  A.,   Washingto 

Hunterian  Club,  Glasgow,  Scotland,  . 

Hurd  and  Houghton,  New  Yorh  City, 

Index  Association,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

Indiana  Board  of  Agriciilture,  Indianapolis, 

Indiana  Institute  for  the  Blind,  Indianapolis, 

Institution  of  Civil  Engineers,  London, 

Iowa  State  Historical  Society,  Davenport, 

Israelite,  The,  Publisher,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Jackson,  Charles,  245  numbers  of  periodicals,  2  broad 

Jackson,  Mrs.  Charles,        ..... 

Jackson,  Charles  F.,  . 

Jarvis,  Edward,  31.  D.,       . 

Jay,  Hon.  John,  United  States  Minister  at  Vienna, 

Jeflrics,  B.  Joy,  M.  D., 

Jeffries,  John,  Jr.,  30  numbers  of  periodicals,    . 

Jenkins,  Josepli  H.,  1  broadside, 

Jennison,  Rev.  Joseph  F.,  Chaplain  of  the   203d  Pe 

vania  Regiment,  ...... 

Johnson,  Rev.  George  D.,  NewhurypoH,    . 

Jones,  Jessie  H.,  East  Abington, 

Jordan,  0.  J.,      . 

Joy,  Prof.  Charles  A.,  New  Yorh   City,     . 

Kaiserliche  Konigliche  Geologische  Reichsanstalt,  Vi 

Keep,  N.  C,  M.  D.,  43  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Kellaway,  Elder  W.,  ..... 

Kenyon  College,  Gamhier,  Ohio, 

Kingman,  K.  P., 

Koenigiiche    bayerische   Akademie    der     Wissenschaften 

Munich,        ...... 

Lancaster.     Library  Committee, 

Landreth,  David,  and  Son,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

Langworthy,  Rev.  LP.,. 

Laurie,  Rev.  Thomas,  Providence,  R.  I.,    . 

Lawrence,  Abbott,  6  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Lawrence,  William  Beach, 

Lawrence.     Free  Public  Librar3% 

Lawson,  L.  M.,  M.  D.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Leeds,  England,  Public  Library, 

Leicester.     Public  Library, 

■ School  Commitee,  .... 

Lemay,  L.  Pamphile,  Quebec, 
Lenox,  James,  New  York  City, 


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Leonard,  Rev.  George,  East  Marshfield,    . 

Lewis,  Winslow,    M.    D.,    4    numbers    of   periodicals, 

engraved  portraits, 
Lewiston,  3Ie..  City  Clerk, 

Liberal  Christian,  The,  Publisher,  Kew  York  City, 
Library  of  the  General  Staff,  Cairo,  Egypt, 
Licking  County  Pioneer  Association,  Newark, 
Ligue  de  I'Enseignement,  Paris, 
Lincoln,  Henry  W.,    ..... 

Lippincott  and  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
List  and  Franck,  Leipzig,  Germany, 
Liverpool,  England,  Free  Public  Library, 
Livingston,  G.  F.,  Manchester,  N,  H., 
Lodge  of  St.  Andrew,         .... 

Loring,  James  Spear,  Brooklyn,  N.   Y., 

Loring,  John  G.,  11  engraved  portraits,  1  plaster  bust, 

Loubat,  J.  F.,  New  York  City,  . 

Low,  Peter,         ...... 

Lowell.     City  Clerk, 

City  Library,  ..... 

Mc  Cleary,  Samuel  F.,  City  Clerk,     , 

Mc  Demiott,  Thomas  M. 

Mac  Donald,  »S'irJohn  A.,  Ottawa,    . 
McMichael,  Morton,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,     . 
Magee,  Henry  F.,  7  numbers  of  periodicals, 
Maine.    Secretary  of  State, 

State  Library,  .... 

Manchester,  England,  Public  Free  Libraries, 

Mann,  B.  Pickman,  Cambridge, 

Marble,  Albert  P.,   Worcester,     . 

Martin,  Charles,  M.  D.,  Navy  Yard,  Charlesto 

Martin,  Hon.  Silas  N.,   Wilmington,  N.  C, 

Massachusetts,  State  of,      . 

Agricultural  College,  Amherst, 

Board  of  Health,     .         .         .         , 

Bureau  of  Statistics  of  Labor, 

Charitable  Mechanics  Association, 

Eclectic  Medical  Society, 

• General  Hosjiital,    . 

Horticultural  Society,     . 

Institute  of  Technology, 

Medical  Society,  20  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Railroad  Commissioner, 

Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth, 

Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 

State  Library, 

State  Lunatic  Hospital,  . 

Temperance  Alliance,     . 

May,  Rev.  Samuel,  Leicester,     .         .         . 
Mendels,  Jacob,  ..... 

Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Bulletin,  Publi 

cinnati,  Ohio,      ..... 
Miami  University,  Oxford,   Ohio, 
Michigan  State  Library,  Lansing,  1  newspaper, 


here 


Animals, 


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Miller,  Charles  A.,  New  York  City,  3, GOO  Union  and  seces- 
sion envelopes,     ...... 

Minnesota.     Historical  Society,  St.  Foul,  . 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,     . 


Moore,  J.  F., 

Mori,  JIo)i.  Arinori,  Japanese  Ambassador, 
Mosely,  Edward  S.,  Ncu-hiirypoyi,     .         . 
Mount  Holyoke  Female  Seminary,  South  HacUey, 
Munsell,  Joel,  Albany,  N.  Y.,    .... 
Nation,  The,  Publisher,  New   York  City,   113  numb 

periodicals,  550  newspapers. 
National  Association  of  Wool  Manuficturers,     . 
National  Deaf-Mute  College,   Washington,  D.  C, 
Nauniann,  Dr.  Robert,  Leipzig,  Germany, 
Nelson,  Horatio,  ...... 

New  Bedford,  City  of, 

Free  Puhlic  Library,        .... 

Newcomb,  John  B.,  Elgin,  111., 
New  En^'land  Cotton  Manufacturers"  Association, 
New  England  Freedmen's  Aid  Society,  18  numbers  o 
odicals,         ....... 

New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society, 

NeM'  England  Society,  Orange,  N.  J., 

New  Hampshire.     Asylum  for  the  Insane,  Concord, 

Secretary  of  State,  .... 

Newton.    Free  Library,      ..... 
Theological  Institution, 

New  York,  City,  Apprentices'  Library, 

Astor  Library,         ..... 

Board   of    Commissions  of    Public  Charitie 

Correction,  ...... 

Board  of  Health,     ..... 

' City  Mission  and  Tract  Society,     . 

Commissioners  of  Public  Parks, 

Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 

General  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesme 

Life  Insurance  Company, 

Medico-Legal  Society,    .... 

Mercantile  Library  Association, 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 

New  York,  State,  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public 
ities,     ........ 

Chamber  of  Commerce, 

Department  of  Public  Instruction, 

Engineer  and  Sui'veyor, 

— ■ Ivibrary,  ...... 

Lunatic  Asvlum,     ..... 

Nichols,  Prof.  W.  R., 

Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company, 

Ohio.     Commissioners  of  the  Sinking  Fund, 

State  Library,  .         .         . 

Omaha,  Nebraska,  Library  Association,     . 
Onderdouk,  Henry,  Jr.,  Jamaica,  Long   Island, 
Ontario.     Library  of  Parliament,  Toronto, 


pen 


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Paine,  Prof.  J.  K.,  Camhridge, 

Paine,  Prof.  Martyn,  New  York  City, 

Palfrey,  Hon.  John  G.,  Cambridge,   . 

Palmer,  Julius  A.,  30  newspapers, 

Parker,  J.  H.,  London,       ..... 

Parrish,  Clemnions,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 

Parvin,  T.  S.,  Iowa  City, 

Peabody  Academy  of  Science,  Salem, 

Peabody  Institute,  Baltimore,  3Id.,    . 

Peabody  Institute,  Peahody,        .... 

Peck,  George  W.,  Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Peirce,  Gen.  E.  W.,  Freetown,  .... 

Pennsylvania.     Board  of  Public  Charities, 

Institution  for  the  Instruction  of  the  Blind, 


and 


Perkins,  Charles  C,    . 

Perkins    Institution   and    Massachusetts    Asylum   for   the 

Blind, 

Perry,  Hon.  Eli,  Albany,  N.  Y., 

Perry,  John  B.,  Carnbridge,        .... 

Perry,  T.  S., 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Apprentices'  Library  Company 

City  Institute,  .         .       • . 

College  of  Pharmacy,     .... 

Fairmount  Park  Art  Association,    . 

Library  Company, 

Mercantile  Library  Company, 

Philbrick,  John  D.,  Superintendent  of  Schools, 
Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  //.,    . 
Pittsburgh,   Pa.,   Young    Men's   Mercantile   Library 

Mechanics'  Institute,    ..... 
Poore,  Hon.  Ben  Perley,  Washington,  D.  C,    . 

Por^e,  Alice  M., 

Potter,  Thomas  Bayley,  London, 

Powers,  Thomas  H.,  Philadelphia,  Pa..    . 

Prairie  Farmer,  The,  Publisher,  Chicago,  111.,  . 

Pratt,  John  M.  AV.,  Taunton,  59  numbers  of  periodicals 

84:-t  newspapers,  ...... 

Preble,  Capt.  George  H.,  U.  S.  N.,  Charlestown, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  City  of,  .... 

Athenfeum,      ...... 

Woman's  Christian  Association, 

Putnam  Library,  Dayton,  Ohio, 

Quincy,  Eliza  Susan,  ..... 

Quincj%  Hon.  Josiah,  24  numbers  of  periodicals,  fi2  broad 

sides,    ........ 

Raymond,   Mrs.,  ...... 

Rayner,  John  J.,  Lexington,  464  newspapers,     . 

Read,  William,  M.  D., 

Reading.     Trustees  of  Public  Library, 
Reiche,  Charles,  ...... 

Rhode  Island.     Board  of  State  Charities  and  Corrections 

Medical  Society,  Providence, 

Rice,  Roswell,  Shushan,  iV.  Y.,  12  broadsides,  . 

Rich,  Gilbert,  W., 

Richardson,  Hon.  William  A.,  Washington,,  D.  C, 
Roberts,  John  P.,  Alfred,  Me.,   .... 


2 

263 


3 
1 
1 

11 
1 
1 


39 
24 


1 
57 
2 
2 
1 
3 
6 
1 
1 
5 

1 

4 

19 


399 
6 


20.- 


614 
1 


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Pph. 


Rochdale,  England,   Free  Public  Library 
Rochester,  N.   Y.,  University  of, 
Rolfe,  William  J.,  Cambridge,    . 

Ross,  Daniel, 

Ross  James,  jMadison,  Wis., 
Royal  Astronomical  Society,  London, 
Royal  Geographical  Society,  London, 
Royal  Observatory,  Edinburgh, 
Runnels,  Rev.  M.  T.,  Sanbornton,  N.  II., 
Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Board  of  Public  Schools, 

Mercantile  Library  Association, 

■ Public  School  Library,    . 

Salem,  City  Clerk,      .... 

Salem,  Ohio,  Union  School, 

Salford,  England,  Museum  and  Library, 

Sandford,  Rev.  Enoch,  Raynham, 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  Superintendent  of  Common  Schools 

Sanger,  Hon.  George  P.,  Cambridge,  5  newspapers,  10 

broadsides,  ..... 
Saturday  Express,  The,  Publisher, 
Savage,  E.  H.',  Chief  of  Police,  . 
Saville,  Mrs.  Mary,' The  Estate  of,     . 
Sawyer  Free  Library,  Gloucester, 
Seaman,  Ezra  C,        .         .         .         . 
Searle,  F.  A,  605  playbills, 
Seeley,  J.,  Great  Barrington,   . 
Shaw,  Benj.  ^.,  M.  D.,       . 
Shaw,  Daniel,  Albany,  N.   Y.,    . 
Shellabarger,   Iloii.  Samuel,  Springfield,  Ohio 
Shepard,  Charles  A.  B.,      . 
Sibley,  John  L.,  Cambridge, 
Smith,  Charles  C,     .  .         .         . 

Smithsonian  Institution,   Washington,  D.  C, 
Snider,  D.  J.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,    . 
Snow,  Edwin  M.,  M.  D.,  Providence,  R 
Socifite  Franklin,  Paris,     . 
Sons  of  Temperance.     Grand  Division  of  Massachusetts, 
Solheby,  Wilkinson,  and  Hodge,  London, 
Southbridge.     Library  Committee, 
Soiith  Carolina,  University  of,  Columbia, 
Spooner,  Lysander,    .... 
Springfield.     City  Library  Association, 
Staehli,  Francis  R.,  M.  I).,     .    . 
Start,  Rev.  AV.  A.,  North  Cambridge, 
Steele,  James  G.,  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
Steiger,  E.,  New  York  City, 
Stevens,  Henry,  London,    . 
Stevens,  Simon,  New  York.  City, 
Stimpson,  Charles  M.,  2  broadsides,  . 
Stockholm,  City  of,     . 
Stoddard.  Charles,       .... 
Stone,  Gen.  C.  P.,  Alexandria,  Egypt, 
Stone,  Hon,  Jonathan,  Charlestown,  . 


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1 

396 

1 
32 


16 

1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 


155 
1 


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Pph. 


Sumner,  Hon.  Charles,  2  newspapers,  5  broadsides,  .         .  62  45 

Sunday  Times,  The,  Publisher, 2 

Sykes,  Joseph,    .........  1  1 

Taunton.     Public  Library, •  1 

Taylor,  H.  P., 1  1 

Teele,  A.  K.,  Milton 1 

Temjiorar}'  Asylum    for    Discharged    Female    Prisoners, 

Dedham,      .........  1 

Tenney,  Eev.  E.  P.,    . 1  3 

Thayer,   Caroline    C, 3 

Thrailkill,  John  W.,  M.  D.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,       .         .         .  1 

Thurman,  Hon.  A.  G.,  Charlottesville,   Va.,       ...  1 

Tiele,  P.  A.,  Leyden,  .... 

Titus,  Charles  H., 2  6 

Tobey,  Hon.  Edward  S., 1 

Toner,  J.  M.,  M.  D., 1 

Towne,  Rev.  Edward  C.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  5  newspapers, 

Trumbull,  Hon.  J.  H.,  Hartford,  Conn.,  ....  1 

Tucker,  W.  W., 

Tufts  College,  College  Hill, 5 

Turf,  Field  and  Farm,  The,  Publisher,  New  York  City,     .  2 

Turner,  Mrs.  Abby  D., 9 

Turner,  Alfred  T., i 

Union  League,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 1 

United  States.     Board  of  Indian  Commissioners,        .         .  1 

Bureau  of  Education,     ......  2 

Bureau  of  Navigation, 8 

Census  Office,         .......  2 

Department  of  Agriculture,    ..... 

Department  of  the  Interior,  1  map,         ...  87 

Department  of  State,      ......  17 

Department  of  the  Post  Office,        ....  8 

Department  of  the  Treasury,  3  broadsides,     .         .  4  1 

Department  of  "War,       ......  2 

—  Library  of  Congress, "     .  1  1 

Naval  Observatory,         ......  3 

Office  of  the  Chief  Engineers,         ....  2 

Patent  Office, 56  1 

Quartermaster  General's  Office,      ....  1  I 

Surgeon  General's  Office,  2  broadsides,         .         .  11 

United    States    Military   Post    Library  Association,  New 

York  City, 

United  States  National  Prison  Association,  Washington, 

D.   C, ] 

Vassar  College,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,       .      '  . 

Vermont,  State  of,      .......         .  2 

Asylum  for  the  Insane,  Brattlehord' ,      ...  1 

State  Library, 5  1 

Vermont  Kecord  and   Farmer,   The,  Publisher,  Brattle- 

horo\    ..........  1 

Veterans'  National  Committee,  N'ew  York  City,  .         .  1 

Vibbert,  Rev.  G.  II., 2        101 

Vinton,  Frederic,   Washington,  D.  C,        .         .         .         .  1 

Wabash  College,  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,      .-        .         .         .  1 


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Wadman,  Theopli.  G. , 

Wallace,   Capt.  W.,  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,    3  newspapers, 

1  medal, 

Waltham.     Public  Library,         ...... 

"Ware,  Rev.  Jobn  F.  W.,     ....... 

Ware,  William,  ........ 

Warner,  Hermann  J.,  Cambridge,     ..... 

Warner,  IIoi.  Oliver, 

Warren,  Ho?i.  G.  Washington,  ...... 

Warren,  J.  Collins,  M.  £>., 

Washington,  Z>.  C,  Board  of  Trustees  of  Public  Schools, 
Watertown,  Free  Public  Library,        ..... 
Watson,  Winslow,  M.,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Webster,  Warren,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  A.,  Fort  Independence,    . 

Weld,  Theodore  D.,  Hyde  Park, 

Wells,  S.  E.,  New  York  City, 

Wenzel,  Iwan, 

Wesleyan  University,  Ifiddletown,   Conn., 
Western  Farmer,  The,  Publisher,  Madison,   Wis.,    . 
Western  Lunatic  Asylum,  Staunton,   Va., 

Westford,  Town  of, 

Wheeler,  William  A.,  11  numbers  of  periodicals,  1  map. 
White,  James    C,  M.  D.,  15   numbers    of  pferiodicals,   1 

broadside,    ......... 

White,  3Irs.  Warren,  361  numbers  of  periodicals,  475  news- 

jiapers,  ......... 

Whiteley,  John,  Shirley  Village,       ..... 

Whiting,  Uon.  William, . 

Whitney,  Rev.  F.  A.,  Allston,  49  numbers  of  periodicals, 
AVhitney,  James  L.,  3  numbers  of  periodicals,  . 
Whitney,  Prof.  Josiah  D.,  Cambridge,      .... 
Whitney,  Prof.  AV.  D.,  New  Haven,  Conn., 
Wilder,  Pro/.  Burt  G.,  /if/jaca,  iV.r.,  .         .         .         . 

Wilder,  Hon.  Marshall  P., 

Wilkins,  E.  T.,  M.  D.,  Sacramento,  Cal.,  .... 

Willard,  Z.  A., 

Wilcox,  E.  S.,  Peoria,  111., 

William  and  Mary,  College  of,   Williamsburg,   Va.,  . 

Williams,  J.  Otis, 

Wilson,  Hon.  Henry,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States, 
Wilson,  Henry  W.,  2  broadsides,        .         .         .         . 
Wilson,  J.  Ormond,   Washington,  JD.  C,    . 
Winchester,  C.  T.,  Middleiown,  Conn.,      .         . 
Wing,  Alice  M.,  5  numbers  of  periodicals, 

Winship,  J.  P.  C,  Brighton 

Winsor,  Justin, 

Winsor,  Nathaniel, 

Winthrop,  Ho7i.  Robert  C,  Brookline,  1  portrait, 
Wisconsin.     Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Madison, 

Historical  Society,  1  broadside,      .... 

Institution  for  the  Blind,  Janesville, 

State  Agriculture  Society,  Madison, 

Withington,  Joseph  C, 

Woburn,  Town  Clerk 


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Woman's  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania,  PhiladeJj^liia, 

Wood,  Minard,  .........  1 

Woods,  Joseph  E.,     .......         .  1 

Worcester.     City  Clerk,     .......  1 

Free  Public  Library,       ...... 

Wright,  Col.  Albert  J., 14 

Wright  and  Potter, 1 

Wynian,  Morrill,  M.  D.,  Cambridge,         ....  1 

Yale  College.     New  Haven,  Conn.,    ..... 

Linonian  and  Brothers'  Library,     .... 


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issues  at  East  Boston  be  excluded,  this  footing  would  be  296,.315;  and  if  hall  issues  be  excluded,  there  will  be 
record  of  293,710  volumes  used  at  home,  i  Open  seventy-eight  days,  m  See  report  for  186S.  n  Includes 
books  borrowed  and  returned  the  same  daj',  on  white  slips,  as  shown  in  Appendix  XIII.  o  1'he  E.  B.  Branch 
was  open  only  307  days,  owing  to  repairs  on  furnace,  p  Includes  the  largest  of  each  department  on  any  day, 
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APPENDIX   XIII. 

LOWER   HALL. 

Books  returned  for  each  month.    (Books  issued  appear  in  Appendix  XTI.) 

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APPENDIX  XIY. 

REGISTRATION. 


IV. 


VI. 


Note.  The  first  registration,  18.54-8, 
had  17,066  names ;  the  second,  1859-67, 
had  52,829  names. 


Applications.  <J 


C  Central  Library 
E.  B.  Branch  .  . 
S.  B.  Branch  .  . 

ITotal 


Applications 
sent  to  I'olice, 


f  Central  Library 
E.  B.  Branch  . 


^Ior  verincauou 
when  needed.) 


I.  Total 


(  Central  Lib'  ary  ■ 


Cards  Refused, 
(mostly  for  non-^ 
residency 
under  age. ) 


Cards  not  called 
for  during  the 
year. 


E.  B.  Branch 
S.  B.  Branch 


Total 


Central  Library  . 
E.  B.  Branch  .  . 
S.  B.  Branch  .  . 
Total  


Applications 
Cancelled.  (Six 
months  on  file, 
and  one  month 
longer  after  no- 
tice.) 


Cards  in  use  (de- 
ductingClasses 
III  and  V). 


f  Central  Library  . 


E.  B.  Branch 
S.  B.  Branch 
Total  .... 


'  Central  Library  . 
E.  B.  Branch  .  . 
S.  B.  Branch  .  , 
Total  


Third  Registration. 


12,057 


12,057 


2,810 


6,490 


3,462 


3,462 


6,577 


1,904 


1,904 


7.096 
2,320 


9,416 

3,040 
1,012 


4,052 


321 

393 
117 


1,215 


1,215 

30,150 
2,240 


32,390 


993 

232 

7,913 

2,876 

474 


267 

28 


439 
151 


590 

264 
82 


36,307 
3,123 


39,430 


6,670 

826 

3,094 

10,590 

3,419 
266 
645 

4,330 

288 
10 


409 

93 

179 

681 

196 
45 
82 

323 

42493 
3,894 
3,180 

49,567 


45,578 
4,139 
3,326 

53,043 

17,511 

1,752 

645 

19,908 

1,410 

118 

64 

1,592 

3,086 
361 
179 

3,626 

1,675 

127 

82 

1,884 


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APPENDIX   XIV.  —  Continued. 
MEMORANDA. 


Memoranda. 


Largest  weekly  number  of  applicants  . 

Month  of  this  last 

Smallest  weekly  number  of  applicants  . 

Month  of  this  last 

Weekly  average 

Largest  dally  number 

Date  of  same 

Smallest  daily  number 

Date  of  same 

Dorchester  applicants* 

Cards  rejjorted  lost 

Of  these  replaced 

Cards  detained  for  fines 

Cancellation  warnings 

Of  these  cards  called  for 


1872. 


202 

Oct. 

56 

May 

128 

39 

Feb.  28. 

2 

Sept.  18. 

295 

2,493 

1,636 

273 

327 

63 


18T3. 


Central 
Library. 


204 

Nov. 

58 

June 

128 

46 

Sept.  28. 

1 

May  30. 

285 

2,483 

1,701 

350 

241 

45 


16 
14 
Feb.  1. 
0 


402 

209 

382 

51 


S.  B. 


197 

May 

17 

Dee. 

60 

53 

May  11. 

2 
May  30. 


711 
512 
192 
112 


*  The  number  of  Dorchester  applicants  reported  in  1870  was  565;  in  1871,  293,  making 
with  the  above,  to  date,  1,438. 


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KOTE. — The  column  of  "  Received  since  "  denotes  those  received  of  the  "  Total  recommended,"  the 
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in  this  table.  For  instance,  of  the  1,120  — (183  +  423)  =  514  not  received  in  1868  of  the  total  recommended 
that  year,  a  large  part  has  since  been  received. 

*  The  partial  disuse  of  the  Bates  Ha'l,  on  account  of  the  alterations  going  on,  affected  this  number. 

P«<«/r;.s.— The  American  and  French  Patents  have  been  placed  in  an  alcove  contiguous  to  the  room 
of  the  British  Patents,  and  the  whole  collection  put  in  charge  of  a  curator.  No  record  is  made  of  the  use 
of  either  the  American  or  French  Patents. 

Svgravinas.  — These  are  shown  by  the  Curator,  Mondays  and  Saturdays;  and  the  statistics  refer 
only  to  the  bound  volumes,  not  to  those  framed  and  on  the  walls. 


PUBLIC    LIBRARY. 


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BATES     HALL    READING, 


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table.    See  Explanations  to  Appendix  IX. 

The  want  of  a  Catalogue  to  the  Spanish  books  of  the  Ticknor  Library  has  continued  to  ' 
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PUBLIC    LIBRAEY.         '  73 

APPEI^DIX    XXIII. 

LIBRARY    SERVICE. 

JUSTIN  WINSOE,  Superintendent. 

William  A.  Wheelek,  Assistant  Superintendent. 

James  L.  Whitney,  Principal  Assistant. 

Miss  A.  A.  Nichols,  Accountant. 

John  Barry,  Superintendent's  Runner. 

CATALOGUE   DEPARTMENT. 

William  A.  Wheeler,   Chief. 
James  L.  Whitney,  Principal  Assistant;  Max  Auerbach,  Assistant  and 
Curator  of  Patent  Room  ;  J.  Otis  Williams,  Curator  of  Pamphlets  and  En- 
gravings ;  William  H.  Foster,  Proof-Reader. 

Mrs.  R.  M.  Eastman,  Extra  Work ;  Miss  M.  E.  Joslyn,  Assistant ;  Miss 
A.  B.  Loud,  Pamphlets;  Miss  A.  P.  Call,  Cataloguer  for  Branches;  Miss 
Margaret  W.  McGrath,  Curator  of  Public  Card  Catalogue. 

Miss  Alice  M.  PorSe,  Lower  Hall  Assistant. 

ORDERING   AND   RECEIVING   DEPARTMENT.. 

Miss  Harriet  N.  Pike,   Chief  Clerk. 
Miss  Mary  A.  McGrath,  Assistant;  Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Stevenson,  ^iVews- 
papers  and  Duplicates ;^E.\\QVi  Stevenson,  Attendant. 

SHELF   DEPARTMENT. 

Mrs.  L.  T.  Barton,   Custodian. 
Appleton  P.  C.  Griffin,  Assistant  Custodian;  Annie  M.  Kennedy,  Assistant. 

BATES   HALL   DEPARTMENT. 

Joseph  Syk.es,  Keeper. 
Charles  A.  Wilson,  Assistant  Keeper ;  Miss^L.  S.  Norton,  Miss  E.  T.  Hill, 
Assistants. 

Charles  H.  Ginness,  John  Bresnahan,  Charles  M.  Stimpson,  Runners. 

LOWER   HALL   DEPARTMENT. 

Edward  Capen,  Keeper. 
Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Haley,  Delivery  Clerk ;    Miss  Lydia  F.  Knowles,  Receiv- 
ing Clerk ;  Miss  Lucy  A.  W-  Ginness,  Keeper's  Clerk ;  Miss  Elizabeth  Ross, 
Misses  Eliza  J.  Mack,  Sarah  A.  Mack,  Ellen  E.  Bresnahan,  Assistants. 

Eliza  F.  Cotter  {monitor),  Ellen  F'.  McCarthy,  Ella  Sturiny,'Henrietta  E. 
Mack  {extra),  Florence  E.  Ginness  {extra).  Runners. 
10 


74  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

Elbridge  Bradshaw,  Registration  Clerk. 
Miss  Matilda  J.  Eoss,  Assistant  Registration  Clerk. 
Miss  Caroline  E.  Poree,  Reading  Room  Attendant. 
Evening  Service.     J.  M.  W.  Pratt,  Registration  Clerk;  P.  G.  Pratt,  jr., 
Delivery   Clerk;    Miss  Catharine   McGrath,  Receiving  Clerk;   Miss  Amelia 
McGrath,  Assistant;   W.  F.  Eobinson,  Reading  Room  Attendant;   Charles 
H.  and  Otis  K.  Moses,  Runners. 

Sunday  Service.     W.  P.  Eobinson,  Reading  Room  Attendant. 

JANITOEIAL  DEPARTMENT. 

William  E.  Pord,  Janitor. 
Thomas  Collins,  Assistant. 

BINDING  DEPARTMENT. 

Prank  P.  Hathaway,  Foreman. 
Andrew  M.  Blake,  Mrs.  Martha  Wheeler,  Assistants. 
Note.  —  The  binderies  of  Theodore  Jackson,  Jerome  Seidensticker  and 
G.  H.  Plattich  are  also  employed. 

EAST  BOSTON  BEANCH. 

Miss  Sarah  C.  Godbold,  Librarian. 

Miss  Mary  E.  Pray,  Miss  A.  M.  Wing,  Assistants. 

Mary  E.  Cathcart,  Runner. 

G.  H.  Hosea,  Janitor. 

Misses   Mary  Lennon,  Martha  Hill,  Emma  Pond,  G.  Chilcott,  and  Kate 

Greene,  Substitutes  and  extra  Assistants. 

Mrs.  M.  L.  George,  Sunday  Service. 

SOUTH  BOSTON  BEANCH. 

Mrs.  Anna  C.  D.  Keen,  Librarian. 

Miss  Clara  P.  Mulloy,  Miss  L.  Anna  Baldwin,  Assistants. 

H.  E.  McCarthy,  Runner.  . 

Joseph  Baker,  Janitor. 

Misses  E.  A.  Eaton  {also  Sunday  Service),  A.  Bragdon,  E.  Watson,  H. 

Twing,  and  M.  Webster,  Substitutes  and  extra  Assistants. 

ROXBUEY   BEANCH. 

I  Miss  H.  C.  Price,  Librarian. 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Nye,  Miss  Marietta  Goldsmith,  Assistants. 

Margaret  E.  Blood,  Runner. 

Charles  E.  Curtis,  Janitor. 

Substitutes  and  extra  assistants  not  yet  engaged. 


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AGENCY   DEPARTMENT. 

Messrs.  Lee  &  Shepard,  Boston. 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  and  Sampson  Low,  Marston,  Low  and  Searle, 
Boston  and  London. 
Mr.  F.  W.  Christern,  and  M.  Charles  Reinwald,  New  York  and  Paris. 
Dr.  Felix  Flugel,  Leipsic. 
Chev.  Eugenio  Alberi,  Florence. 


SUMMARY. 

Regulars.    Extras. 

Superintendent ,  1 

Accountant  and  Superintendent's  Runner      ....  2 

Catalogue  Department 10  1 

Ordering  and  Receiving  Department     .....  4 

Shelf  Department 3 

B.  H.  Circulating  Department 7 

L.  H.  Circulating  Department,  Day  Service  ...  14  2 

L.  H.  Circulating  Department,  Evening  and  Sunday  Service  7 

Janitorial  Department  ........  2 

Binding  Department 3 

East  Boston  Branch 5  6 

South  Boston  Branch 5  5 

Roxbury  Branch   . 5 

Totals 61  21 

21 

Grand  Total 82 


76  CITY    DOCUMENT.  —  No.  88. 


APPENDIX  XXIY. 

REPORT  ON  THE  EXAMINATION  OF  THE  LIBRARY. 

To  the  Superintende7it :  — 

Sir, — The  report  which  I  now  present  hicliides  the  re- 
sults of  the  examination  of  the  Central  Library,  since  the 
repairs  have  been  completed,  and  also  the  second  report  upon 
the  East  Boston  Branch,  and  the  first  report  upon  the  South 
Boston  Branch. 

Owing  to  the  alterations  in  progress  in  the  Bates  Hall  last 
year,  it  was  impossible  to  conduct  a  minute  examination  of  that 
portion  of  the  Library,  and  the  usual  report  in  detail  was 
omitted.  The  present  report,  therefore,  covers  the  period 
that  has  elapsed  since  April  30, 1871.  Within  this  period,  the 
books  on  each  side  of  the  Hall  have  been  twice  moved,  and 
numerous  misplacements  resulting  therefrom  have  rendered 
the  present  examination  more  than  usually  perplexing. 

In  the  Bates  Hall  there  were  missing  from  the  shelves 

at  the  time  of  examination  ....  2,786  vols. 

Of  these  there  were  found,  — 

Loaned         .......  758 

At  the  Binder's    ......  546 

Otherwise  accounted  for       ....  1,452 

2,756    " 


Not  at  present  accounted  for,  — 

Books  .......  29 

Maps 1 


30    " 


It  is  gratifying  to  be  able  to  state  that  not  a  single  volume 
is  missing  from  either  of  the  Special  Libraries,  and  that  the 
western  alcoves,  which  were  the  first  completed,  and  liave  been 
twice  read  by  the  shelf-catalogues,  show  but  eight  missing 
volumes.     This   is  not   in    excess  of  former  results.     The 


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remainder  of  the  missing  volumes  belong  in  the  eastern  al- 
coves, more  recently  completed ;  and,  as  there  is  no  record 
to  show  that  they  have  been  loaned,  it  is  probable  that  some 
of  them  will  be  brought  to  light  at  another  reading  of  the 
shelf-catalogues. 

One  volume  reported  missing  in  1869  and  one  in  1870 
have  appeared  in  their  places  during  the  past  year. 

In  the  Lower  Hall  there  were  missing  from  the  shelves 

at  the  time  of  examination  .....    5,075  vols. 
Loaned  .......   4,159 

At  the  Binder's 216 

Otherwise  accounted  for  ....       674 

5,048    " 


Not  at  present  accounted  for,  — 
Fiction  .... 

Duplicates  of  Fiction     . 
Miscellaneous        .         .         .  • 


6 
11 

9 


26 


Only  two  of  these  volumes  have  been  found  loaned  dur- 
ing the  year  ;  while  nine  are  recent  accessions.  Most  of  them 
may  be  accounted  for  as  mis-numbered,  an  accident  which  is 
liable  to  occur. 

None  of  the  volumes  have  appeared  which  were  reported 
missing  at  the  last  exauiination  ;  but  four  have  been  found 
which  were  missing  in  1867,  and  one  which  was  missing  in 
1870.     All  of  these  volumes  were  mis-numbered. 

The  number  of  books  missing  from  each  alcove,  is  as 
follows  :  — 


1st  alcove 

1  vol. 

10  th  alcove     . 

1  vol 

4th     "      . 

3    " 

11th     " 

2    " 

5th     '^      . 

1    " 

13th     " 

1    " 

6th     "      . 

1    " 

17th     " 

1    " 

7th     "      . 

3    " 

20th     " 

1    " 

8th     "      .         .         . 

1    " 

Dup's  of  4th  alcove 

6    " 

■    Dup's  of  4th  alcove 

6    " 

78  CITY    DOCUMENT.  No.  88. 

At  the  East  Boston  Branch  there  were  missinor  from  the 


shelves  at  the  time  of  examination 

Loaned    

At  the  Binclei-'s        .         .         .         .         , 
Otherwise  accounted  for  ... 

1,557  vols 

1,346 

128 

77 

1,551    " 

Not  at  present  accomited  for,  — 

Fiction 

Juveniles 

2 
2 

4    " 

At  the  South  Boston  Branch  there  were  missing  from  the 

shelves  at  the  time  of  examination          .  .        2,061  vols. 

Loaned    .......  1,810 

At  the  Binder's 194 

Otherwise  accounted  for  ...  57 

2,061    "    , 

I  have  also  to  report  that  tliere  are  no  books  of  reference 
at  present  missing  from  the  Bates  Hall  desk,  and  that  Burke's 
Dictionary  of  English  peerage,  which  was  reported  missing 
last  year,  has  since  been  found  at  the  Binder's. 

From  the  desk  in  the  Periodical  Reading  Room  there  are 
missing,  — 

Arnault's  Biographic  des  Contemporains,  vol.  15. 
Haydn's  Dictionarj'  of  dates. 
Martin's  Hand-book  of  biography. 
Webster's  Counting-house  dictionary. 
Wheeler's  Noted  names  of  fiction. 
Wood  and  Bache's  Dispensatory. 

Also,  from  the  S.  B.  Branch  Reading  Room,  a  Catalogue 
of  the  E.  B.  Branch  was  missing  Dec.  24,  1872. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

L.    T.    BARTON, 

Custodian  of  the  Shelves. 
Public  Library,  May  14,  1873. 


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APPENDIX  XXV. 

WORK  IN   THE   LIBRARY   BINDERY. 


Character  of  Work. 


Bates  Hall  books  bound  and  finished  . 
Books  of  the  Lower  Hall  and  Branches 
Books  repaired 


Catalogues  wired  and  covered  for  public  use  in  Lower 
Hall  and  Branches 


Maps  dissected  and  mounted    .  .  .  . 
Map-volumes  and  shelf-lists  mounted 

Pamphlet  cases 

Portfolios 


Removable  covers  for  catalogues,  and  paper  covered 
books  


Maps  mounted,  bound  and  bordered 
Hours  of  misceUaneous  work  .  .  . 


18T0-1. 


1871-3. 


18T3-3. 


2,219 

2,008 

1,015 

744 

396 

430 

490 

437 

47 

28 

212 

165 

546 

64 

5 

8 

266 

263 

54 

41 

1,842 

2,297 

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APPENDIX  xxyi. 

THE  BARTON  LIBRARY. 
Prepared  bt  the  President  of  the  Trustees. 

A  brief  account  of  the  negotiation  which  ended  in  the  pur- 
chase of  the  Barton  Library  may  not  be  without  interest. 

Late  in  the  summer  of  1869,  Mr.  F.  W.  Cliristern,  the  emi- 
nent bookseller  and  agent  of  the  Library  in  New  York, 
made  known  to  Mr.  Winsor,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Li- 
brary, the  desire  of  Mrs.  Barton  to  arrange  for  some  satis- 
factory disposition  of  the  collection  formed  by  her  deceased 
husband.  A  direct  correspondence  was  opened  with  her; 
and  in  September  she  visited  the  Library,  and  had  interviews 
with  the  Superintendent  and  Mr.  Ticknor.  A  valuation  was 
made  of  her  books,  shortly  after,  by  two  well-known  bibliog- 
raphers. Dr.  Joseph  G.  Cogswell  and  Mr.  Joseph  Sabin  of 
New  York,  and  in  December  her  terms  were  given  to  the 
Trustees  in  the  sum  of  $45,000  for  a  collection  of  books 
which  had  cost  Mr.  Barton  more  than  $60,000,  and  which 
had  increased  considerably  in  value  since  they  were  pur- 
chased. The  conditions  of  sale  were  substantially  those 
which  formed  part  of  the  final  contract,  viz.,  that  the  books 
should  be  kept  together  as  one  collection,  and  that  they 
should  not  be  loaned  from  the  building.  Notwithstanding 
the  liberality  of  these  terms,  the  want  of  pecuniary  means  at 
the  disposal  of  the  Trustees  compelled  them  to  decline  the 
offer,  and  the  correspondence  terminated  in  January,  1870. 

Two  years  later  negotiations  were  resumed,  and  the  sum 
of  $40,000  was  named  as  a  basis,  with  other  conditions  not 
previously  stated.  This  amount  also  could  not  be  obtained 
trom  any  source  accessible  to  the  Trustees.  On  the  13th 
April,  1872,  so  anxious  had  she  become  that  the  collection 
should  be  safely  placed^in  the  Bates  Hall,  that  she  reduced 


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her  price  to  $30,000,  annexing  the  new  condition  that  she 
should  retain  1,500  volumes  during  her  lifetime. 

This  concession  was  so  large  that  the  Trustees  determined 
to  make  an  effort  to  obtain  the  amount.  So  important  did 
the  proposed  acquisition  appear,  that  they  felt  justified  in  ar- 
rano:ino-  to  set  aside  from  the  interest  of  the  Trust  Funds  be- 
longing  to  the  Library,  in  the  course  of  two  or  three  j^ears, 
the  sum  of  $10,000  —  and  that  an  appeal  for  the  sum  of 
$20,000  should  be  made  to  such  friends  of  education  and 
polite  letters  in  our  community  as  could  appreciate  the  worth 
of  the  collection,  and  might  be  disposed  to  contribute  to  the 
purchase.  Mr.  Hillard,  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  prepared  a 
suitable  circular,  which  was  issued  on  the  last  of  May.  Of 
the  sum  desired,  about  $2,000  only  was  subscribed ;  and  fur- 
ther action  was  deferred  until  the  autumn,  Mrs,  Barton  hav- 
ing extended  her  refusal  to  Nov.  1st. 

This  was  the  condition  of  affairs  on  the  return  of  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  Board  from  Europe  in  Septeml)er  last.  It  was 
seen  that  further  steps  must  be  taken  if  the  library  was  to 
be  secured  to  Boston.  Conferences  were  held  with  the 
Mayor,  and  the  Committee  upon  the  Public  Library  of  the 
City  Goverument,  whereby  the  co-operation  of  the  City  was 
to  be  arranged,  and  a  further  extension  of  time  was  obtained 
to  the  first  of  January. 

Just  as  a  plan  was  matured,  which  met  the  approval  of  the 
Trustees  and  of  the  committee,  the  disastrous  fire  of  Novem- 
ber removed  all  hope  of  immediate  assistance  from  the  City 
Treasury ;  and  they  withdrew  from  the  negotiation,  in- 
forminsr  Mrs.  Barton  that  if  the  events  of  the  future  should 
improve  their  condition,  and  the  library  still  remained  in  her 
possession,  they  should  desire  to  reopen  a  correspondence. 

Most  unexpectedly  to  the  Trustees,  the  correspondence  was 

reopened  by  Mrs.  Barton  in  February  of  the  present  year, 

when  she  informed  them,  through  their  Superintendent,  that 

other  parties  were  moving  to  obtain  possession  of  her  collec- 

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82  CITY   DOCUMENT. No.  88. 

tion  ;  while  at  the  same  time  she  reiterated  her  preferences 
for  the  Boston  Public  Library,  and  inquired  whether  we  had 
relinquished  all  expectation  of  acquiring  it. 

A  new  effort  was  made,  which,  by  the  unanimous  consent 
of  all  interests  concerned,  proved  successfnl ;  and  on  the  27th 
of  March,  a  contract  was  signed  by  both  parties,  in  which 
she  agreed  to  sell  to  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston 
her  collection  for  the  sum  of  $34,000,  upon  the  following 
conditions  :  — 

1st.  The  collection  is  to  be  kept  in  a  separate  alcove  or 
alcoves  or  apartments  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  building, 
and  is  to  be  known  and  designated  as  the  "Barton  Library," 
which  name  shall  be  placed  over  the  alcoves  or  room  contain- 
ing said  collection. 

2d.  None  of  the  books  shall  be  loaned  or  permitted  to  be 
taken  out  of  the  Library,  but  the  entire  collection  shall  be 
kept  and  used  for  reference  in  the  Library  only. 

3d.  A  book-plate,  of  which  the  design  shall  be  selected 
by  Mrs.  Barton,  shall  bo  engraved  and  provided  by  the  Li- 
brary, and  pasted  in  each  volume  of  the  collection. 

4th.  The  Library  shall  cause  a  catalogue  of  the  collection 
to  be  prepared  so  as  to  embody  the  information  contained 
in  Mr.  Barton's  catalogue,  and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be 
printed  and  published  as  a  separate  catalogue  within  four 
years  from  the  date  of  contract. 

By  the  fourth  article  of  the  contract,  it  was  further  agreed 
that  the  books,  al)out  one  hundred  in  number,  the  personal 
property  of  Mrs.  Barton  before  the  death  of  her  husband, 
were  not  to  be  included  in  the  sale. 

The  fifth  article  gave  Mrs.  Barton  permission  to  retain 
during  her  lifetime  about  800  volumes,  which  upon  her  de- 
cease were  to  revert  to  the  Library. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  price  finally  agreed  upon  was 
larger  than  the  one  previously  named.  This  had  arisen  from 
the  fact  that  private  circumstances,  which  she  made  known 


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to  the  Trustees,  had  rendered  it  necessary  on  her  part  to  in- 
crease the  sum  at  which  she  could  in  justice  to  herself  dispose 
of  the  library. 

Early  in  May  the  delivery  of  the  books  frona  her  house  in 
Z^ew  York  city  began,  which  was  completed  before  the  close 
of  the  month,  by  the  despatch  of  four  cases  from  Montgom- 
ery Place,  her  residence  at  Barrytown,  on  the  Hudson, 
whither  had  been  sent  from  New  York,  a  few  days  previously, 
five  cases  containing  her  own  books,  and  the  others  to  be  re- 
tained by  her  during  her  lifetime.  The  whole  library  was 
packed  in  about  seventy  cases. 

Within  two  days  after  this  fulfilment  of  the  agreement, 
Mrs.  Barton,  early  on  the  morning  of  the  22d  May,  sud- 
denly died  at  Montgomery  Place. 

This  bare  narration  gives  no  idea  of  the  generous  •spirit 
with  which  this  most  estimable  lady  carried  forward  every 
step  of  the  contract.  The  library  had  been  left  to  her  by 
her  husband's  will,  without  condition,  to  do  Avith  as  she 
pleased.  But  she  knew  that  his  desire  had  been  that  the  la- 
bor of  his  lifetime  should  not  be  lost  by  the  separation  of 
his  dearly  prized  books,  and  she  determined  that  his  wishes 
should  be  literally  carried  out.  In  doing  this,  she  gave  to 
the  Barton  Library  everything  in  her  possession  which  could 
add  value  to  the  collection,  —  the  correspondence,  autographs, 
and  })lates,  which  would  illustrate  and  complete  it.  She 
added  a  mask  of  Shakespeare's  face,  taken  at  Mr.  Barton's 
expense  from  the  monument  at  Stratford  on  Avon,  and  a 
statuette  of  Richard  III,  the  work  of  Rogers. 

Note.  —  Of  the  sum  of  $34,000,  the  price  to  be  paid  under  the  contract  for 
the  Barton  Library,  $15,000  was  directly  appropriated  for  the  purpose,  by  the 
City  Council ;  $10,000  was  drawn  from  a  sum  at  the  disposal  of  the  Trustees 
in  the  City  Treasury;  and  the  balance  of  $9,000  is  to  be  paid  previous  to  the 
first  of  January,  1874, 


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