NOTE. - These figures are the results of tables made out year by year, like the one constituting Appendix VI for 1869. SPECIAL LIBRARIES, Class No. GENERAL LIBRARY. (Not including the sale or Parker duplicates, or volumes added, but not yet located.) BATES CLASSES. Total of Bates Hall. EXPLANATION.· CLASS III includes General History, Universal Biographies, Histories of Eras, Voyages and Travels, when embracing several coun- 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. CLASS X includes Russia, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, with Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, etc. CLASS XIII includes Political Science, Social Science, and Ethics applied and unapplied, Intellectual Science, Education, Rhetoric, Logic, Phrenology, etc. CLASS XXI 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 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 NOTE.The above figures of the three special collections exhibit them as when received in the Public Library and assigned to our shelves. There have Theology, Moral and Intellectual Science, etc. Medicine, Mathematics, Physics or Natural Science English Prose Fiction, including Juvenile Fic- Biography 74 6 1 1 57 13 6 2 20 2 14 4 6 24 4 1 61 6 4 74 6 (108 NOTE. this table. whịch, in a minute classification, would have been divided among all the previous heads of *This class, embracing sets like Bohn's "Libraries,” etc., includes many books, of course, umes, as put upon the shelves, counting as one those bound two volumes in one, etc. years as well as in the current year. The column "Total added" shows the number of volThe column of "Condemned books replaced" includes books condemned in previous TOTALS, |770 25,199 26,606 28,723 29,909 1,116 894 770 2,780 23 859 1,233 30,574 |