NOTE.-In computing this percentage, the use of books in the Bowditch, Parker and Prince Libraries,-which are kept apart from the general classifications of the Library,-is reckoned as nearly as possible and included in the usual divisions, as indicated in the table. See Explanations to Appendix VII. The figures of 1867 were got by an estimate; those of 1868 and 1869 by actual The columns of "Loans returned” do not include the books taken and returned the same day. NOTE. Compare Appendixes X and XI, and notes to the same. |