42 CITY DOCUMENT. No. 89. APPENDIX II. YEARLY INCREASE OF THE WHOLE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE AND BY GIFTS. NOTE. The increase of volumes is not the sum of those added by gift and purchase, etc., because lost and condemned books are deducted. * Includes pamphlets added both by purchase and exchange, as taken from the Accession Catalogue. The large number, of recent years, has been occasioned by the systematic completion of serials and periodicals for the Central Library, as well as for the Branches. † Included in previous columns. These volumes are not the property of the Public Library, but form a part of the Roxbury Branch by agreement. (6) Of the increase, 24,618 were the Bates gift. (9) of the increase, 11,721 were the Parker bequest. (19) 3,774 volumes of the Ticknor bequest, and 2,682 from the Sumner Library Association, are included in the increase. (20) 1,471 volumes from the Mattapan Literary Association are included in the increase. (22) The increase of this year includes the totals of the libraries at Charlestown and Brighton, and also, under purchases, the Barton Library, 12,057 vols. APPENDIX III. EXTENT OF THE BATES HALL COLLECTION IN VOLUMES. 1870.|1871. 1874 1867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. |1872.|1873. 1874. 1875. The Gen'l Library. 87,658 93,553 101,428 107,724 115,232 121,709 126,207 133,585 140.379 Patent Library 2,120 2,323 ||2,457 Bowditch Library* . 2,542 2,542 2,512 2,542 2,542 2,542 2,542 2,542 2,542 Parker Library* †11,907 11,907 11,907 11,907 11,907 11,907 11,907 11,907 1,952 1,952 1,970 1,970 1,970 11,935 1,970 1,970 3,907 3,940 12,057 **11,902 361 105,737 111,281 117,969 124,419 135,786 142,686 149,482 166,453 175,125 0 105,737 111,281 117,967 124.419 135,786 142,685 149,477 168,478 175,122 *See Appendix IX. † Including 186 duplicates, which are boxed and stored in the basement. Including 18 vols. of MSS. § Includes 31 vols. of MSS., as bound. || Included before 1873 in the General Library. Now in charge of a special Curator. The additions for the year are 134 vols, namely. 115 English; 11 American; and 8 French, ** The number given last year was as near as could be reckoned before the entry on the Accession Catalogue was made. The number given this year is what have actually been entered, and the full number will probably, in the end, exceed last year's report. 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 are a trifle in excess of what an actual count would indicate. NOTE. There have been since the last actual count in 1867, over a hundred volumes irrecoverably lost in the Lower Hall. Perhaps an equal number are to be classed as "unaccounted for," but may reappear. APPENDIX V. SALE DUPLICATES AND ÒDD VOLUMES. (Not including the Parker duplicates, or a large lot of odd and imperfect volumes of books, not likely to have the missing volumes supplied, which are boxed up at intervals.) * This number is by an actual count of the serviceable volumes now arranged in our Duplicate Room; and it includes one hundred and forty volumes of newspapers. † Being divided as follows:-211 sent to Branches; 50 Blue books, assigned to Bates Hall by subjects, the first copies being in the set of British documents; 326 Blue books sent to Yale College Library on exchange account; and 169 volumes otherwise disposed of by exchange. NOTE.-There are also of pamphlets some forty thousand duplicates, arranged and ready for exchanges. Libraries are invited to make such exchanges. * Includes 12,057 (close estimate) of the Bartou books, and 187 other volumes. The condemnations have been large for the year, the transfers few; but their combined excess over the gains, which are exceptionally small on account of the few books published in this country, shows, for the first time, an absolute loss for the year. |