APPENDIX VII. INCREASE FROM NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS. 1867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. 867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875. 809 1,006 1,389 1,294 1,533 4,301 3,807 7,365 125 375 858 767 6,084 10,040 APPENDIX VIII. VOLUMES LOCATED IN BATES HALL, BY MONTHS. 1868-69. 1869-70. 1870-71. 1871-72. 1872-73. 1873-74. 1874-75. 383 477 713 560 622 590 722 758 427 349 419 544 6,564 159 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. PUBLIC LIBRARY. EXPLANATION. - Class III includes General History, Universal Biographies, Histories of Eras, Voyages and Travels, when embracing several countries, and CLASS IV includes North and South American History, Documents and Statistics, Biographies of Americans, Geography of, and Voyages and Travels in 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 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 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 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 special collections, excepting the Patent Library, which is yearly increased, exhibit them as when received in the Rublic 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. 49 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. APPENDIX XI. DONATIONS MAY 1, 1874, TO APRIL 30, 1875. Note.-The income of the Library Funds is expended for books, which are credited yearly 1 Allen, Hon. William, Columbus, Ohio, Allibone, S. Austin, LL. D., Philadelphia, Pa., A set of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Baptist Missionary Union, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Education Society, American Female Guardian Society, New York City, 6 |