rated in the general card catalogue, and the Bayard Taylor correspondence, comprising 3,145 letters, has been arranged and listed. From the President White Library the librarian, Professor Burr, reports that nothing seems worthy of note in the past year except the steady enlargement of its collections and the progress made by the cataloguers in adding to the general catalogue of the University Library the titles hitherto accessible only through the special catalogues. An exchange of duplicates with the library of the Peabody Institute at Baltimore has brought some material additions to the collection. Mr. W. H. Austen, assistant librarian in charge of the reference and loan departments, reports that the Library has been open 307 days and 158 evenings during the year. The record of books used in the reading room shows an increase of ten per cent. over last year; the home use record shows a small decrease and the seminary and laboratory records show an increase as will be seen from the figures which follow: REFERENCE AND DEPARTMENT USE The number of volumes on open shelves in the reading rooms and seminary rooms in the Library building was 15,149 and of the constant use made of these books, freely accessible to readers, no record is possible. The number of volumes similarly removed from the stacks and deposited in the various laboratory and department collections in other buildings is now 13,798. The number of volumes reported missing from these collections at the close of the regular inspection this year is 310, distributed as follows: From the open shelves in the reading room. From the seminary rooms. From the department collection in Morse Hall From the department collection in Franklin Hall From the department collections in Sibley College...___ 181 4 24 16 34 From the department collection in Sage College. Total ---- I 12 28 ΙΟ University officers.. 310 The number of registered users of the Library given in the following table includes only those who have drawn books for home use: 330 344 23 697 Students of all classes. Special borrowers.. Total Mr. W. W. Ellis, curator of the shelves, reports that the coating of iron paint applied to the stack supports during the summer vacation has greatly improved the stacks. This work involved the removal and replacing of practically every book in the Library. Nevertheless the inventories this year revealed only 225 volumes misplaced, as against 300 last year and 649 the year before. During the winter at times when the stacks were too cold to carry on work in them, a large part of the shelf-list of the Dante collection was rewritten and expanded, and later checked with the books on the shelves In addition, this year Mr. Ellis has taken charge of the new books before they leave the catalogue room, inspecting them for errors in numbers and book-plates, and sorting out those which go to seminaries and departments. This has taken on an average from one to two hours daily. While we have had to continue piling up the less used books here, there and everywhere again this year, it is now hoped that some relief is near at hand. Although the contract made last year for erecting new shelving in the former lecture room called for the completion of the work in September, 1905, so many, so great and, I may add, so inexplicable have been the delays on the part of the contractor that it is not likely that the shelving will be available for our use before September, 1906. Consequently during the whole of the past year the makeshift process spoken of by Mr. Ellis has gone on causing continual annoyance and inconvenience to the users of the Library. This new shelving, as I have already pointed out, will do no more than provide for the ordinary additions of the next five years and I urgently recommend that in the meantime the necessary plans be matured and measures taken for extending the stack wings of the building. Owing to delays caused by sundry legal complications, the executors of the will of Mr. Fiske have as yet been unable to transfer to the University the endowment fund bequeathed by him for the support of the Library, but it is hoped that we shall come into possession of this fund during the summer and that its income will be available for next year. At the April meeting of the Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the University Faculty, the following action was taken: Resolved, That the Library privileges as now enjoyed by seniors be extended to juniors, also that a subsidiary circulating library on open shelves be established for the promotion of the general culture of the whole student body. At the May meeting of the Library Council the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the Library Council request the Trustees to make an appropriation of five thousand dollars for the purchase of books to give effect to the resolution adopted by the Trustees establishing a subsidiary circulating library. Resolved, That the Council recommend that an appropriation of three thousand dollars be made by the Trustees for the purchase of books for the Reading Room in Goldwin Smith Hall. These resolutions were duly transmitted to the Trustees and await their action. In the first term of the year Mr. Austen gave his regular course of lectures on the use of books which was followed by a course of instruction in practical work during the second term. In the second term the Librarian gave his regular course of lectures on general bibliography. The annual record of publications by the University and its officers has been prepared by Miss Dame and the list of donors accompanying this report has been prepared by Miss Thornberg. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. HARRIS, Librarian. APPENDIX XVI PUBLICATIONS, 1905-1906 Under the Auspices of the University The University records. 6 s. no. 1-5. 211. Ithaca, 1905-06. 8°. Photo-engrs. 5 nos. Contents:-vi. I. Thirteenth annual report of President Schurman, 1904-05. 2. 3. The register, 1905-06. Jan., 1906. Announcement of the fifteenth summer session, July 5 to Aug. 15, 1906. 4. The register, 1905-06. May, 1906. 5. College. Announcement, 1906-1907, the New York State Veterinary Abstracts of work done in the laboratory of veterinary physiology and pharmacology, under the direction of P. A. Fish. No. 3. Ithaca, 1906. 8°. pp. 44. Fig. The Cornell countryman. Vol. iii., no. 1-9. Oct., 1905-June, 1906. m. Ithaca, 1905-06. 9 nos. 8°. Illus. Cornell University Medical College Dispensary, New York City: medical report, Jan., 1905. No. 1. New York, [1905]. 8°. Illus. Directory of resident officers of instruction and government and of students, Oct. 10, 1905. [Ithaca], 1905. sm. 8°. pp. 34. [Ithaca], 1906. sm. 8°. pp. 34. Same, Feb. 21, 1906. The journal of physical chemistry; edited by W. D. Bancroft [and] J. E. Trevor. Vol. ix., no. 7-x, no. 6, Oct., 1905-June, 1906. m. Ithaca, 1905-06. 9 nos. 8°. Illus. "Issued monthly except in July, August and September." The philosophical review; edited by J. E. Creighton and E. Albee, with the coöperation of J. Seth. Vol. xiv., no. 5-xv., no. 4, Sept., 1905-July, 1906. 2m. New York, 1905-06. 6 nos. 8°. The physical review; a journal of experimental and theoretical physics, conducted by E. L. Nichols, E. Merritt and F. Bedell. Vol. xxi.-xxii., July, 1905-June, 1906. Illus. m. New York, 1905-06. 2V. 8°. Proceedings of the Electrical Society and of the Society of Mechanical Engineers of Cornell University. Vol. xiii., 1905-06. Ithaca, 1906. 8°. Publications of Cornell University Medical College: studies from the Department of Pathology. Vol. v. New York, 1905. 8°. Illus. Third annual music festival, Cornell University, April 26-28, 1906, given under the management of the Department of Music, Cornell University. Ithaca, 1906. 8°. pp. 58+(3). Portrs, and orn. Transactions of the Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University. Vol. xiv., 1905-06. Ithaca, 1906. 8°. Plates. Eighteenth annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 1905. Ithaca, 1905. 8°. Illus. Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Nos. 229-239, May, 1905-April, 1906. Ithaca, 1905-06. II nos. 8°. Illus. Cornell reading course for farmers. 6s. no. 26-30, with suppl., Nov., 1905-March, 1906. m. Ithaca, 1905-06. 5 nos. 8°. Illus. Cornell reading course for farmers' wives; M. Van Rensselaer, editor. 4s. no. 16-20, with suppl., Oct., 1905-Feb., 1906. m. Ithaca, 1905-06. 5 nos. 8°. Illus. N. S. vol. Ithaca, 1905 Home nature-study course; A. B. Comstock, editor. ii., no. 1-4, with suppl., Oct., 1905-May, 1906. 2m. 06. 4 nos. 8°. Illus. N. S. vol. Junior naturalist monthly; A. G. McCloskey, editor. ii., no. 1-8, with suppl., Oct., 1905-May, 1906. Ithaca, 1905-06. 8 8°. Illus. nos. U. S. Department of Agriculture, N. Y. Section of the Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau. Report. Vol. xvii., no. 6-xviii., no. 5, June, 1905-May, 1906. m. Ithaca, 1905-06. 12 Weekly crop bulletin. Vol. [xvii.], no. 10-[xviii.], no. 10, 27 June, 1905-26 June, 1906. w. [Ithaca], 1905-06. 25 broadsides. In cooperation with Cornell University. By Officers In the present list are included the titles of books, pamphlets and contributions to periodicals, transactions, etc., published by officers and fellows of the University during the period extending from |