There were but few late registrations at the beginning of the second terms 1900-1904 because the first term closed on Friday evening and the second term began Monday, but it should be noted that 119 registered late in February, 1905, and 54 in February, 1906.

The registration of old students for the first term takes place after the matriculation of new students. This allows new students a day to arrange their work before instruction begins. Old students are not required to be at the University until the day preceding the one on which instruction begins. The system of registering new students in September in groups according as their names appear in the alphabet has solved the overcrowding of registration and gives each student abundant time to get started aright.

The inserted table gives the number admitted to graduation at the 1906 Commencement as well as those of former years. 9044 degrees have been conferred, but there are some duplicates between the first and second degrees. The discrepancy between this table and the one given in the 1896-97 report is due to a careful investigation while compiling data for the third Ten Year Book. One degree (D.V.M.) was conferred June, 1905, but owing to a technicality was withdrawn and conferred again June, 1906. Several degrees had been conferred and not recorded. Care has been taken to discriminate between closely allied degrees, but such have been grouped so as to show at a glance the number in each department. Respectfully submitted,

DAVID F. HOY,

Registrar.

APPENDIX XV

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN 1905-1906.

To the President of the University:

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report on the University Library for the year ending June 30th, 1906.

The following table shows the additions made during the year to the various collections forming the University Library and its total present extent. It seems proper that the Barnes Reference Library (the gift of the late Alfred C. Barnes, for the use of the Cornell University Christian Association) for the increase of which the University has received from his children an endowment fund of $5000, should be included among the collections making up the University Library, and it is therefore included in the statistics of this year, as follows:

Of the accessions to the general Library, numbering 10,719 volumes, 3,401 volumes were gifts. In the accessions to the general Library are included 308 volumes added to the various seminary and department collections. Of the additions to the Law Library, numbering this year 1,860 volumes, 130 volumes were gifts, as were also

28 volumes of the additions to the Flower Library and 20 volumes of the additions to the Stimson Hall Library.

Among the more important gifts of the year mention may be made of the following: from the estate of Heber R. Bishop the magnificent privately printed work, entitled Investigations and Studies in Jade, describing and illustrating the Bishop Collection in the Metropolitan Museum; from Mrs. Dean Sage her husband's sumptuous work, The Restigouche and its Salmon Fishing, and the privately printed catalogue of his rich collection of books on Angling; from Professor J. M. Hart six portfolios containing the literary corresponence of his father, John S. Hart; from the Mexican ambassador at Washington, J. D. Casasus, a set of his works; from Madame J. J. Clamageran of Paris, a set of her husband's works; from the trustees of the late Dr. James Young, a copy of Bibliotheca Chemica, an elaborate catalogue of the alchemical and chemical books in his collection; from the American Poland China Breeders' Association a complete set of the Association Record. During the year the Library received from ex-President White 40 volumes; from Theodore Stanton, of the class of '76, 620 volumes; from H. J. Messenger of the class of '80, 32 volumes. To yourself and to Professors Burr, Comstock, Crane, Hart, Hewett, Huffcut, Irvine, Willcox and Woodruff the Library is also indebted for many valuable volumes. From the National and various State governments the usual supply of public documents has been received. From the cities of Chicago and New York we have received large collections of their municipal documents and from many other cities their current documents. From the English, Canadian, and Australian Patent Offices we have received their valuable publications. For the gifts here mentioned and for the many minor gifts received during the year prompt acknowledgment of our thanks has been made to the respective

donors.

Among the more important purchases made from the income of the Sage Endowment Fund may be noted: facsimiles of the famous Vienna Codex of Dioscorides, and of the Vatican Codex 1209 of the New Testament; Walton's Biblia Polyglotta; Weale's Analecta Liturgica ; Clermont-Ganneau's Études d'Archéologie Orientale; MussArnolt's Dictionary of the Assyrian Language; Audsley's Art of Organbuilding; Williamson's History of Portrait Miniatures; the Collection Moliéresque; the first edition of Pope's Homer's Iliad ; The York edition of Sterne's Works; Batsch's Elenchus Fungorum;

Corda's Mucédinées d'Europe; a large collection of the works of modern Portuguese and Spanish authors, including also such sets as the Poetas Españoles, Libros de Antaño, Colección de Escritores Castellanos, the publications of the Sociedad de Bibliófilos Andaluces, and the Memorias de la Academia Española. The purchases of the year also include complete sets of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, National Magazine, Overland Monthly, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, The Dome, La Bibliofilia, Arbeiten aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheits-Amte, Jahrbuch der Koeniglich preussichen Kunstsammlungen, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Mississippi Historical Society's Collections, the Ithaca Chronicle 1835-1845 and Ithaca Daily Chronicle 1846-50; and the following important sets have been completed: Archiv für experimentale Pathologie, Archivio Storico Italiano, Bankers' Magazine, Publications of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie Egyptienne et Assyrienne, and the Scientific American, new series.

Dr. A. C. White, assistant librarian in charge of classification, reports that the work of this department has gone on regularly and that all ordinary current accessions have been cared for. A scheme of classification for the Icelandic collection has been worked out and Mr. Hermannsson is engaged upon the arrangement of the books in accordance therewith. During the year the press-marks for Russian, Portuguese, modern Spanish and modern Italian literature have been modified in such a way as to provide for any possible future growth of these collections. The press-mark consists of a class number, the initial letter of the author's surname and a simple book-number, not taken from Cutter's author-table but assigned sometimes with its aid. In form such a press-mark does not differ much from the press-marks employed in other sections of the Library. After full comparison of this system with that employed in marking American literature we shall be prepared to modify the call-numbers of other congested sections.

Miss K. Dame, assistant librarian in charge of the Catalogue, reports that during the year 11,656 volumes and pamphlets have been catalogued, including the regular accessions to the general Library, the Flower Library, the Forestry Library and the Stimson Hall Library. For these 16,523 cards have been written and 958 printed cards have been obtained from the Library of Congress. The titles of the books in the May Anti-slavery collection have been incorpo