of parts II, III, and IV, of Paolo Beni's Anticrusca, bearing the approbation of the inquisitor, dated 7 Oct., 1624. Part I of the Anticrusca was printed in 1612 at Beni's private press, and a copy of it is in the Petrarch collection. Possibly owing to Beni's death in 1625, the continuation was never printed and now, after many vicissitudes, the manuscript has found its way to our shelves giving to this library the honor of possessing the only complete copy of the work. Among other important purchases may be noted facsimiles of the Codex Vossianus of Lucretius, and of the Codex Toletanus of Isidore of Seville; Mazzoni's Discorso in difesa della Commedia del diuino poeta Dante, 1573; Museum Worsleyanum; Björnbo and Petersen's Anecdota Cartographica Septentrionalia; Nordenskiold's Periplus; Weisse's Positiones stellarum fixarum; Wimmer's Danske Runemindesmærker; Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII; Collection of State Tracts of the reign of William III; Nichol's Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth and James I.; Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets, 1691; La Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique, 1794-1807, 54 volumes; Horne's Alessandro Filipepi; Weale's Hubert and John Van Eyck; the full score of Elgar's King Olaf; Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, 1568; Day's Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, and Fishes of India; Dobson's Catalogue of the Chiroptera; Chodat's Principes de Botanique; Roth's Europäischen Laubmoose; Eichwald's Lethæa Rossica; Littlehales's Altitude, Azimuth, etc.; the British Association's Catalogue of Stars; complete sets of the Catholic World, London Quarterly Review, National Review, New York Daily Graphic, Deutsche Pionier, Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven, Revue de Philologie Classique, Journal de Botanique, Societas Entomologica (Zurich), Review of Neurology and Psychiatry. The following important sets have been completed: Bayreuther Blätter, Bibliotheca Norvegica, British and Foreign State Papers, Bibliotheca Zoologica, Biochemische Zeitschrift, Die Neueren Sprachen, Statistische Monatschrift. Among the purchases made for the library of the College of Agriculture are the following important sets: Annales Mycologici, Arbeiten der deutschen Landwirthschafts Gesellschaft, Flore de Buitenzorg, Icones Bogorienses, Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Agriculturchemie, Mededeelingen uit's Lands Plantentium, Teysmannia, Tijdschrift voor Nijverheid en Nederlandsch Indie.

Dr. A. C. White, assistant librarian in charge of accessions and classification, reports that the work of this department has been

carried on regularly and that all ordinary current accessions have been classified and assigned to their places.

The statistics supplied by Miss Dame, the assistant librarian in charge of the catalogue, show that during the year the number of volumes and pamphlets catalogued for the general card catalogue was 13,619. For these 14,529 cards were written besides the printed cards obtained from the Library of Congress. A complete alphabetical card catalogue of the large collection of the pamphlets on the French Revolution in the White Historical Library has been made by combining the entries in the printed catalogue of 1894 with those of later accessions, and a separate case has been provided for this special catalogue in the White Historical Library.

Professor Burr reports that for the President White Historical Library the year has been one of uneventful growth. The continued generosity of its founder has supplemented as hitherto the standing resources of the library, and it has been possible to build up the special collections as well as to supply the immediate needs of its uses and to maintain after some sort its general symmetry. It is especially the French Revolution, the history of Prussia, the Protestant Reformation, the period of Charles the Great, as to which our resources have been materially increased by the purchases of the past year. In the field first named and in that of church history some important sets of periodicals have been added.

Mr. Hermannsson, the curator of the Icelandic collection, reports that the regular accessions have been regularly cared for, that much binding has been done, and much time given to the preparation of "The Northmen in America (982—c. 1500), a contribution to the bibliography of the subject," which was published in June, forming volume II of “Islandica," the annual publication relating to the collection for which provision was made by the will of Mr. Fiske.

Miss Fowler, the curator of the Petrarch and Dante collections, reports that outside of the care of the acquisitions to the collections her time has been given to gathering material for the bibliography of Petrarch, in analysis of general literature and periodicals and notes on editions, and that continuous efforts have been made to secure fugitive pieces relating to Petrarch and the Petrarch centenary of

1904.

Mr. W. H. Austen, assistant librarian in charge of the reference and loan department of the general library, reports that the Library has been open 308 days during the year, being closed only on Sun

days and on five general holidays. The number of registered users here reported includes only those who have drawn books for home use from the general library.

University officers...
Students of all classes
Special borrowers

401
609

32

The number of reserved books in the reading rooms and seminary rooms in the Library building is 12,886, the number in locked presses is 1,385, and the number reserved at the delivery desk for special use during the year was 1,508. The number of volumes from the general library at present deposited in various laboratory and department collections in other University buildings is now 17,335. The number of volumes reported as missing from these collections during the year 1908-1909 is as follows:

From the reading room shelves

From seminary rooms

From departments and laboratories

70

I

88

It is perhaps worth noting that over thirty volumes of works relating to nature-study disappeared from the open shelves in the reading room during the summer session of 1908. During the year we have borrowed from other libraries 141 volumes and have lent 155 volumes to other libraries.

The following table gives the recorded use of books during the past two years. The use made of the Library, however, is shown only in part by this table as no record is kept of the large and constant use made of the books on open shelves in the building and in the department collections. This being the first complete year in which the special library in Goldwin Smith Hall has been open a considerable falling off in the number of books used in the general reading room might have been expected, but the figures show only a very slight diminution in the number of books called for in the general reading rooms.

The open shelf circulating collection fully justifies its establishment and is largely used by technical students. The number of students who have registered and drawn books from this collection during the year is 834, and the number of readers who used books in the room without taking them for home use was 3,280. During the year 15 volumes from this collection were reserved for class use in the general reading room and 8 volumes were sent back to the stacks.

Mr. W. W. Ellis, the curator of the shelves, reports that in addition to the regular inspection of new books before they pass from the catalogue room to the stacks and departments, the usual inventories have been made with the following results: 351 volumes were missing from their proper places in the stacks when the inventories were taken as against 311 last year, and 207 volumes were discovered on the wrong shelves as against 215 last year. Some progress has been made in the task of disposing of the increasing number of unnecessary duplicates by exchanges with libraries and dealers. As a result of efforts made to complete imperfect sets of reports 94 volumes and 47 pamphlets have been obtained as gifts. The growth of the general map collection calls for the addition of another map case at once.

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. The list of donors has been prepared by Miss Thornburg.

Respectfully submitted,
GEO. WM. HARRIS,
Librarian.

APPENDIX XVI

PUBLICATIONS, 1908-1909

Under the Auspices of the University

The University records. 8 s. no. 5-9 s. no. 4. 2m. Ithaca, 1908– 1909. 5 nos. 8°. Illus.

Contents:-viii. 5. The register, 1907-1908.

ix. I.

1908.

ix. 2.

ix. 3.

Sixteenth annual report of President Schurman, 1907–

The register, 1908-1909.

Announcement of the eighteenth summer session, July

Abraham Lincoln, an address by F. S. Black, delivered at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln at Cornell University, Feb. 12th, 1909. [Ithaca, 1909.] 8°. pp. 11.

Abstracts of work done in the laboratory of veterinary physiology and pharmacology under the direction of P. A. Fish. No. 6. Ithaca, 1909. 8°. pp. 34. Plate.

Circular no. 1, New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University. Ithaca, 1908. 8°. pp. 19.

The Cornell civil engineer and transactions of the Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University. Vol. xvii. Oct., 1908June, 1909. Ithaca, 1908-1909. 8°. PP. 361.

Illus.

The Cornell countryman. Vol. vi. Oct., 1908-June, 1909. m. Ithaca, 1908-1909. 8°. pp. 315. Illus.

Directory of resident officers of instruction and government and of students, Oct. 23, 1908. [Ithaca, 1908.] sm. 8°. PP. 73. Same, Feb. 17, 1909. [Ithaca, 1909.] sm. 8°. pp. 71. Islandica: an annual relating to Iceland and the Fiske Icelandic collection in Cornell University Library, edited by G. W. Harris. Vol. ii. Ithaca, 1909. 8°. pp. (6) + 94.