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APPENDIX VII.

INCREASE FROM NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS.

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1867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874.

867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874.

1875.

809 1,006 1,389 1,294

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APPENDIX VIII.

VOLUMES LOCATED IN BATES HALL, BY MONTHS.

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1868-69. 1869-70. 1870-71. 1871-72. 1872-73. 1873-74. 1874-75.

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NOTE. -These monthly figures are the results of tables made out year by year, like the one constituting Appendix VI for 1869. The figures for May, June, and July, 1868-69, should follow those for April of the same year. They were misplaced to adapt the table to a change of the Library year.

* 3,876 are books of the Ticknor Library, then assigned to permanent places,

+ Includes 31 vols. of the Ticknor MSS.

Pamphlets. During the year the Curator of pamphlets has continued the arrangement of all the loose pamphlets by subjects, etc., in the Cabinet Room; and such as were duplicates and not needed have been arranged in adjacent apartments.

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APPENDIX IX.

HALL CLASSIFICATIONS. (Not including volumes added, but not yet located.)

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PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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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 VIII
includes also Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as also the Scandinavian nations.

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, etc.
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 special collections, excepting the Patent Library, which is yearly increased, exhibit them as when received in the Rublic
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

The annual increase of the Patent Library is included in the last column of the Special Libraries, and not in the yearly locations of the General Library.
The column "May 1, 1874," does not include the totals of the Patent Library, or of the other special libraries.

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NOTE. — upon the shelves, counting as one those bound two volumes in one, etc. in a minute classification, would have been divided among all the previous heads of this table. years as well as in the current year. The column "Total added" shows the number of volumes as put * This class, embracing sets like Bohn's "Libraries," etc., includes many books, of course, which The column of "Condernned books replaced" includes books condemned in previous

1867. 1868. | 1869. 1870. | 1871, | 1872. | 1873. | 1874,

Total, May 1.

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APPENDIX XI.

DONATIONS MAY 1, 1874, TO APRIL 30, 1875.

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Note.-The income of the Library Funds is expended for books, which are credited yearly

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Allen, Hon. William, Columbus, Ohio,

Allibone, S. Austin, LL. D., Philadelphia, Pa., A set of
proofs of Article Shakespeare in his "Dictionary of
authors,

American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester,

American Association for the Advancement of Science,
American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford,
Conn.,

American Baptist Missionary Union,

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
American Congregational Association,

American Education Society,

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American Female Guardian Society, New York City,

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