WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Chief. James L. Whitney, Principal Assistant ; Max Auerbach, Assistant and Curator of Patent Room ; Miss M. E. Joslyn, Assistant; J. Otis Williams, Curator of Pamphlets and Engravings; William H. Foster, Proof-Reader.

Mrs. R. M. Eastman, Extra Work ; Miss Harriet N. Pike, Ordering Clerk; Miss Mary McGrath, Assistant Ordering Clerk; Miss Elizabeth J. Stevenson, Newspapers and Duplicates; Miss A. B. Loud, Pamphlets ; Miss A. A. Nichols, Catalogues for Branches ; Miss Margaret McGrath, Curator of Public Card Catalogue.

Miss Alice M. Porée, Lower Hall Assistant.

SHELF DEPARTMENT.

Mrs. L. T. BARTON, Custodian. Appleton P. C. Griffin, Assistant Custodian; Ellen Stevenson, Annie M. Kennedy, Assistants.

BATES HALL DEPARTMENT.

JOSEPH SYKES, Keeper. Charles A. Wilson, Miss L. S. Norton, Miss Mary A. Tyler, Assistants. Charles H. Ginness, John Bresnahan, John Barry, Runners.

LOWER HALL DEPARTMENT.

EDWARD CAPEN, Keeper. Miss Elizabeth S. Haley, Delivery Clerk ; Miss Lydia F. Knowles, Receiving Clerk; Lucy A. W. Ginness, Keeper's Clerk ; Miss Elizabeth Ross, Misses Eliza J. Mack, Sarah A. Mack, Assistants.

Ellen E. Bresnahan, Ellen F. McCarty, Eliza F. Cotter, Henrietta E. Mack (extra), Florence E. Ginness (extra), Runners.

Elbridge Bradshaw, Registration Clerk.
Miss Matilda J. Ross, Assistant Registration Clerk.
Miss Caroline E. Porée,

Reading Room Attendants.
Miss Amelia McGrath (extra),
J. G. Cupples, Reading Room Attendant (evenings).

JANITORIAL DEPARTMENT.

WILLIAM E. FORD, Janitor.
Thomas Collins, Assistant.

BINDING DEPARTMENT.

PETER Low, Foreman. Andrew M. Blake, Mrs. Martha Wheeler, Assistants. Note. --The binderies of Theodore Jackson and Jerome Seidensticker are also employed.

EAST BOSTON BRANCH LIBRARY.

Miss SARAH C. GODBOLD, Librarian.
Miss Mary R. Pray, Miss Addie G. Tracey, Assistants.

Mary E. Cathcart, Runner.

A. W. Trask, Janitor. Misses Mary Lennon, Martha Hill, Alice Wing, Emma Pond, and Phebe Prince, Substitutes and extra Assistants.

SOUTH BOSTON BRANCH.

Mrs. ANNA C. D. KEEN, Librarian.
Miss Clara F. Mulloy, Miss L. Anna Baldwin, Assistants.

Norah McCarthy, Runner.

Joseph Baker, Janitor.
NOTE. - The extra assistants and substitutes are not yet engaged.

AGENCY DEPARTMENT.

Messrs. Lee & Shepard, Boston.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., and Sampson Low, Son & Marston, Boston and London.

Mr. F. W. Christern, and M. Charles Reinwald, New York and Paris.
Dr. Felix Flügel, Leipsic.
Chey. Eugenio Albèri, Florence.

APPENDIX XXII.

REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION OF THE LIBRARY.

To the Superintendent:

Sir, - For the year ending the 30th of April, 1871, there has been no regular examination of the Bates Hall collection, as the alterations in the hall and temporary changes in the location of the books have rendered it impossible. Since the completion of the shelving on the west side of the building the books have, however, been read by the shelf-lists and re-arranged in their proper places. Comparatively few of the volumes are missing, and it is believed that when the alterations on the east side are completed and the library again restored to its wonted order, the results of a full examination will prove as satisfactory as usual. Upon the Lower Hall library and the East Boston Branch, I beg leave to present the following

REPORT.

In the Lower Hall there were missing from the shelves at the time of examination

5,198 vols.

Missing volumes are constantly and persistently sought, yet accidents are liable to occur in a library of so large a circulation, and . make it quite possible for a few books to slip away without being accounted for.

Eleven volumes recorded missing during previous years appeared on the shelves at the last examination, and nearly all of them were found to have been wrongly numbered. Of this number one was reported missing last year, five were missing in 1868, three in 1867, and two in 1866.

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

At the East Boston Branch there were missing from the shelves at the time of examination .

1,451 vols.

I have also to report the following books which have disappeared from the Bates Hall desk, during the past library year:

I. 13 Burke's Dictionary of English peerage. Nov. 1871.
I. 4 Haydn's Book of dignities. Nov. 1871.
F. 4 Bartlett's Familiar quotations. Dec. 1871.
D. 5 Cleveland's Concordance to Milton. Dec. 1871.

Also the following from the desk in the Periodical Reading

Room :

E. 7 Biographie des Contemporains, v. 14. June, 1871.
C. 1 Burke's Dictionary of peerage. Oct. 1871.
B. 19 Index to Works of Charles Dickens. Oct. 1871.
A. 5 Godwin's Hand-book of universal biography. Nov, 1871.

APPENDIX XXIII.

EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR TWENTY YEARS.

The following gentlemen have served on the Examining Committees for the years given. The names in italics are those of Trustees, who have acted as chairmen of the various committees.