By the foregoing account, which embraces the library year from Oct. 1, 1897, to Sept. 30, 1898, inclusive, it will be seen that the expenditures may be aggregated as follows:

The amount expended for books, periodicals, pamphlets and maps each year, for the last ten years, has been as

The following table of comparisons will show at a glance the annual additions that have been made to the library during the past ten years, and the general classification of sources from which they were received:

Appended to this report will be found a special bulletin, issued in January, 1898, which contains a list of the works upon taxation in the State Library at that date.

SEPT. 30, 1898.

C. B. TILLINGHAST,

State Librarian.