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Of the accessions to the general library, numbering 12,200 volumes, 3,177 volumes were gifts. In the accessions to the general library are included 374 volumes added to the various seminary and department collections. Of the additions to the law library 75 volumes were gifts, as were also 15 volumes of the additions to the Flower library and 40 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 Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, of the class of 1886, his interesting and valuable Molière collection, numbering one hundred and fifty volumes and comprising the works used by him in writing his Life of Molière; from Dr. William Ewart, a set of his medical works; from the editors a set of the Homeopathic Eye and Ear Journal; from ex-President White, 185 volumes, and from Theodore Stanton, of the class of 1876, 491 volumes of general literature and history. From the national government and from various state and municipal governments the usual supply of federal, state, and municipal documents has been received. 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 and costly works purchased during the year may be noted: Facsimiles of the Ambrosian codex of the Peshito Syriac version of the Old Testament, of the Vatican codex of Fronto, of the Vatican codex of Petrarch's Canzoniere, and of the Jenaer Liederhandschrift; Pavly's edition of the Babylonian Tal

mud; the Mishnah with German translation; Furtwängler's Aegina; Gerhard's Griechische Vasenbilder; Cumont's Mystères de Mithra; Venturi's Storia dell 'Arte Italiana; L'Architecture du Louvre et des Tuileries; Rooses' Life of Rubens; Barado's Vida Militar en España; España sus monumentos y artes; Biblioteca Catalana; Biblioteca de Escritores Aragoneses; Petrarch's Triumphs by Boyd; Björnson's complete works; Moroni's Dizionario de erudizione storico-ecclesiastico; Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana; Minutes of the Common Council of New York 1675–1776; the Journals of the Legislative Council and of the Assembly of Jamaica for a considerable part of the 19th century; a collection of Parliamentary Papers relating to the West Indies for the period from 1835 to 1847; Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas; Richardson's Fauna BorealiAmericana; DeGeer's Histoire des Insectes; Boisduval de Chauffour's Histoire des Lépidoptères; Doubleday and Westwood's Diurnal Lepidoptera; Tutt's Natural History of British Lepidoptera; Houzeau and Lancaster's Bibliographie de l'Astronomie; Loewy's Atlas photographique de la lune; Kayser's Spectroscopie; Columbian Centinel 1793-1819; La Civilta Cattolica 1850-1891.

The purchases of the year also include complete sets of the Ana lecta Bollandiana, Revue Biblique, Revue de Synthèse Historique, Historisches Jahrbuch der Görres Gesellschaft, Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Library Association Record, NonSlaveholder, La Tradition, The Casket, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, Graham's Magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Baumaterialienkunde, Zeitschrift für Schulgesundheitskunde, Hackney Stud-Book and Suffolk Stud-Book. The following sets have been completed: Mitteilungen aus den Grenz gebieten der Medizin, Biological Bulletin, New York Produce Review, New York Tribune, Journal of Theology, Journal des Savants, new series, Upsala University Aarsskrift, and the unabridged Philosophical Transactions from 1750 to 1799.

The work of the classification department, in the absence on leave of Dr. A. C. White, for the latter part of the year has been in charge of Mr. W. W. Ellis, the curator of the shelves, who reports that all ordinary current accessions have been cared for. For the shelf department Mr. Ellis reports that in December the moving of certain collections of books to the new shelving under the readingroom was begun. On the upper floor of these new stacks were

placed the government documents and patent specifications, American and foreign, and on the lower floor all the American and foreign newspapers. The removal of these large collections from the main stacks enabled us to make a general readjustment of practically all the books in the library. The Fiske collections which are to be kept distinct from the other portions of the library were brought together and the entire lower floor of the south stack is now occupied by the Dante, Petrarch, Rhaeto-romanic and Icelandic collections. The thousands of volumes which, during the last four years, had either been packed away or stored out of their proper order were now brought back into their regular sequence in the classification, and we have now space for shelving the ordinary accessions of the next four years, but not more. Owing to the extra work involved in these circumstances, but one complete inventory of the shelves has been made this year. The number of books found out of place was 215 as against 225 last year and 300 the year before.

From the catalogue department, Miss Dame, the assistant librarian in charge, reports that during the year the number of volumes and pamphlets catalogued for the general catalogue was 10,544, including the regular accessions to the general library, Flower library and Stimson Hall library. For these 12,846 cards have been written and 1,404 printed cards have been obtained from the Library of Congress. Besides the regular work of the department, the correspondence of John S. Hart, comprising about one thousand letters, has been arranged and listed by Miss Thornburg. On January first, Miss Mary Fowler was transferred from this department to take charge of the Petrarch and Dante collections and her time since then has been mainly spent in arranging and classifying the Petrarch collection. The classification has now been completed and the preparation of the shelflists is in progress. Mr. Hermannsson, in charge of the Icelandic collection, reports that the arrangement and classification of this collection is nearly completed and some progress has been made on the catalogue; but this year a considerable portion of his time has been occupied in preparing for the printer the manuscript of Bibliographical Notices No. 6, which was left unfinished by Mr. Fiske. This is now passing through the press. Mr. Hermannsson has also prepared for the annual Icelandic volume, a bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas.

From the President White Library the librarian, Professor Burr, reports a year of much and satisfactory growth. The additions,

however, though they include many interesting items, both in print and in manuscript, are too miscellaneous in character to invite enumeration. Once more the growth of the library has made necessary a very considerable transfer of volumes to the general stacks of the University library-the migrants this year including the whole of geography and travel and of the sciences auxiliary to history; with canon law, hagiography and the great collections fundamental to church history.

From the report of Mr. W. H. Austen, assistant librarian in charge of the reference and loan departments of the general library, the following statistics of general interest are taken. The library has been open 306 days during the year. The number of registered users of the library, as here given, includes only those who have drawn books for home use from the general library and is as follows:

University Officers.......
Students

Special borrowers.

385
327

42

The following table shows the recorded use for this and the preceding year, exclusive of the use made of the circulating library, the statistics for which are given separately in Miss Van Natten's report:

REFERENCE AND DEPARTMENT USE

1905-06 1906-07
84,154
4,073 3,583

4,105

8,555

No. of volumes used in the reading rooms 79,258
No. of volumes sent to seminaries__
No. of volumes sent to departments..

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The number of volumes on open shelves in the reading rooms and seminary rooms in the library building is 13,594, the number reserved at the delivery desk for special work 609, and the number in locked presses 1,248. The number of volumes similarly removed from the stacks and deposited in various laboratory and department collections in other University buildings is now 15,210.

The number of volumes reported missing from these collections at the close of the regular inspection this year is 448, distributed as follows:

From open shelves in the reading room.

From seminary rooms.

From department collections in McGraw Hall.
Architectural College..

Morse Hall___.

Sibley College..

197

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31

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During the Christmas recess the books which had been designated, with the advice of the various professors, for transfer to the circulating library were brought together (some 3,200 volumes in all) and placed on open shelves in a pleasant, well-lighted room, adjoining the new stacks under the reading-room. The conditions imposed upon the selection of books for this collection, viz., that they should be either duplicates, or such books not duplicates as might be transferred to the circulating library without detriment to the work of the University, prevented the transfer of a large number of desirable books, but a fairly representative showing has been made in most departments. In order to round out the collection and add to its usefulness, the library council has requested an appropriation of five thousand dollars, which it is hoped may be granted this year. This collection on open shelves has now been accessible to all students without restriction for six months, and the use made shows that the opportunity of selecting for themselves from the shelves books for general reading is greatly appreciated by many readers. Miss Van Natten, the attendant in charge, reports that during this period, the number registered as borrowers from the circulating library was 812; 81 being officers of the University and 731 students. The number of volumes taken for home use was 3,991, of which fiction averaged 59 per cent. This, however, by no means represents the full use made of the collection, for during the same period, the number of readers

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