2,542 11,721 | 1,970 3,907

Totals

5,100

6,296 7,508 115,232 6,477 6,297 7,475 | 6,296 7,508 115,232 6,477 121,709 142,286

EXPLANATION. CLASS III includes General History, Universal Biographies, Histories of Eras, Voyages and Travels, when embracing several countries, and collected works of historians.

CLASS IV includes North and South American History, Documents and Statistics, Biographies of Americans, Geography of, and Voyages and Travels in America, with the collected works of American writers, and what of American Literature is sometimes termed Polygraphy.

CLASS V, CLASS VI, CLASS VII, CLASS VIII.-These have the same scope for the respective countries that Class IV has for America. Class VII includes also Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as also the Scandinavian nations.

etc.

CLASS XI includes Russia, Greece, Turkey, with Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, etc.
CLASS XIV includes Political Science, Social Science, and Ethics applied and unapplied, Intellectual Science, Education, Rhetoric, Logic, Phrenology,

CLASS XIX includes Mechanics, Military and Naval Arts, Agriculture, Domestic Arts, etc.

CLASS XXII embraces all such pamphlet volumes as may have been received from time to time, and are generally too heterogeneous in their make-up to be classed otherwise than by themselves.

The subdivisions of classes are kept in ranges by themselves, so that for purposes of enumeration or learning percentage of use, it is practicable at any time to get exact figures upon the subdivisions; as also upon such points as Biography, Travel and Voyages, etc., by summing the results of the ranges devoted to them in the several alcoves.

NOTE. The above figures of the four special collections exhibit them as when received in the Public Library and assigned to our shelves. There have been since then some small additions to them, chiefly from continuations of serials, but such accessions are counted in the classes of the General Library, though the books are located with the special collection. The increase of the Ticknor Library will hereafter be considerable from the fund left by the donor; but the accession will appear in this table under the increase of the General Library.

table. which, in a minute classification, would have been divided among all the previous heads of this *This class, embracing sets like Bohn's "Libraries,” etc., includes many books, of course,

as put upon the shelves, counting as one those bound two volumes in one, years as well as in the current year. The column "Total added" shows the number of volumes NOTE. - The column of "Condemned books replaced" includes books condemned in previous etc.

APPENDIX IX.

LIST OF DONORS, 1871-72.

Bates, Joshua, London, interest in gold on the fund of . $50,000

DONATIONS MAY 1, 1871, TO APRIL 30, 1872.

American Baptist Missionary Union,

2

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
American Colonization Society, Washington, D. C.,

3

1

American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, Pa.,
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.,
American Statistical Association,

1

,3

American Tract Society, New England Branch,

American Unitarian Association,

Amiens, France, Bibliothèque communale,

Andover Theological Seminary,

Andrews, Frank W.,

Anonymous, 20 numbers of periodicials, 1 broadside,

Bankers' Magazine, The, Publisher, New York City,

1

Birmingham, England, Free Libraries Committee,

1

Blatchford, John S.,

Blair, Prof. Walter, Hampden Sidney College, Va.,
Blake, Clarence J., M. D.,

Bolton, England, Public Library and Museum,
Bossange, Gustave, Paris,

Bethesda Society,

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