Reports of officers of the cities and towns of Massachusetts: practically complete from 1866. Political economy: chiefly English and American works, about 2500 vols.

Local history of Massachusetts: about 2200 vols.

Genealogy: about 1100 vols.

Brooklyn, N. Y. - BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. (Mary I. Crandall, Librarian.)

The library, containing about 16,000 vols., is strongest in the following subjects:American colonial history: 860 vols.

Brooklyn, Long Island, and New York (state and city): 486 vols.

Entomology: 600 vols. and 1500 pams., periodicals, monographs, etc.

Geography: over 1100 works, containing a large collection of maps, globes, text-books, helps to teachers, books of travel and exploration, etc. Brought together as an educational collection, these books and maps were placed on public exhibition in Brooklyn and afterwards in New York and Boston, in 1891. A catalogue was printed in connection with the exhibition.

Additions are made to all of the above collec tions. The library has many first editions of American publications in history and literature from 1780 to 1840.

Brooklyn, N. Y.- LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Emma Toedteberg, Librarian.)

The society was organized in March, 1863, and is particularly rich in local history and genealogical collections, especially the older books, having over 5000 vols., not including English local history, of which there are several hundred volumes. Additions are constantly made.

Among the unpublished Mss. in the possession of the Society are: a large portion of the papers of Henry Laurens; the correspondence of his son, Col. John Laurens; letters of R. H. Lee, Horatio Gates, and other eminent men of the period; and a series of 123 original letters of Washington, recently printed by the Society.

Brunswick, Maine. BOWDOIN COLLEGE LIBRARY. (George T. Little, Librarian.)

Of special interest are the collections of French public documents, 1789-93, 140 vols., the gift of Hon. James Bowdoin; of the works of Joseph Priestley, 96 titles (see General catalogue, 1863); versions of the Bible, 250 vols. (Catalogue of 1863); and works relating to Maine and by Maine authors, about 1600 vols. and 2000 pams. The last two collections are increased by additions, especially that of works relating to Maine.

The library, for one of its size, is rich in collected travels, political pamphlets, English and American (1770-1810), and United States government publications.

Buffalo, N. Y. BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Geo. G. Barnum, Librarian.)

The library, principally historical, biographical, and genealogical, was formed in 1862, and its additions since then have been by donations and by exchange.

Ciril war: the collection of "Lincolniana," made by the late Julius E. Francis, consists of 127 vols. relating to the history of the Civil war, 1400 illustrated envelopes used during the war, 11,822 autographs of soldiers and sailors, including members of the 43d Congress, and many relics.

Bibles: Bibles, and parts of the Bible, in twentyeight different languages.

Newspapers: 1000 bound vols.

The library of the Society includes also the private library of the late Mrs. Millard Fillmore (800 vols. and pams.), and that of Rev. Dr. John C. Lord (8000 vols. and pams.), besides many portraits, and several cabinets containing coins, postage stamps, Egyptian antiquities, etc. A catalogue is now being made of all the possessions of the Society.

Burlington, Vt. - UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - GEORGE P. MARSH LIBRARY. (Henry A. P. Torrey, Librarian.)

Of the 44,000 vols. now belonging to the University about 13,000, once the private library of Hon. George P. Marsh, U. S. Minister to Italy, were purchased and presented by Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock, Vt. Among these there are:

In Italian, including Italian dialects and philology, 2400 vols.

In the literature and philology of the Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic languages, about 2000 vols.

In forestry 140 vols., with other special collections in physical geography, travels, the Catalan dialect, and other European dialects, Early English, Dutch, and works on the Catholic church. A catalogue of the Marsh library, compiled by H. L. Koopman, is now in press.

Cambridge, Mass. - HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. (Justin Winsor, Librarian.)

***The distinction between the University Library and the College Library should be borne in mind. The former embraces the College (or central) library, as well as the nine departmental libraries (Law School, Divinity School, Museums, Astronomical Observatory, Herbarium, etc.), eight laboratory libraries, and thirteen class-room or seminary libraries.

The COLLEGE LIBRARY (in Gore Hall). The collection relating to American history, biography, genealogy, and geography numbers 22,348 vols., of which 16,762 relate to the United States. This is independent of contributions to American history which may be contained in collections too general to be classed as Americana, and it does not include the official publications of the federal and state governments and of cities and towns. The basis of the collection was the libraries formed by Professor Ebeling and David B. Warden, the former the gift of Col. Israel Thorndike of Boston in 1818, and the latter presented by Mr. Samuel A. Eliot in 1823. (Nar. and Crit. Hist. America, vol. i. p. iii.) Pains have been taken constantly to fill such gaps as exist. The early ecclesiastical history of America, particularly of New England, so intimately connected with the civil government, is also not included in this enumeration, but will be found with the later history in the ecclesiastical department of the College Library, supplementing that in the library of the Divinity School.

The collection of books and tracts illustrating the rise and growth of American slavery numbers 869 vols. as bound, much the larger part being volumes made up of many pamphlets bound together. In the subject catalogue the titles under the heading Slavery number about 2300. The collection is largely the result of the assiduity of the late Charles Sumner and of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

The Library has also a very good and growing collection of British local history and topography; and that part of the collection illustrating specially British municipal history is represented in Bibliographical Contributions, No. 43, edited by Dr. Charles Gross, an authority in this field.

In the sources of mediaeval European history the library has all the large or important collections relating to countries as a whole, and many of the more useful and extensive documentary works relating to single cities and monasteries. The latter branch of the subject has been much strengthened by the recent gift of several hundred volumes relating to early German history and law from Denman W. Ross of Cambridge, and by the bequest of Professor E. W. Gurney's private library. In the Roman or Civil law the catalogue of the Library shows about 950 vols. Professor Gurney's library has also notably increased this department,

many of his books being still uncatalogued and not included in the number given above. Many of the volumes placed on the shelves under Roman political antiquities stand in close relation to this subject, but are likewise not included in the number mentioned.

The collection of United States Congressional documents numbers 2800 vols., and is one of the most complete in the country; many of the earlier and rarer volumes having been received with the Ebeling library.

The collection of books by and relating to Dante numbers 1372 vols. In 1884 Professor Charles Eliot Norton gave the larger part of his valuable collection on Dante to the College Library, and since that time the Dante Society has made an annual appropriation for the purchase of books in this department. It has but little manuscript material, but of printed books it has everything of the first importance required by scholars for critical study, and a large proportion of the supplementary and expository writings on Dante and his times. No. 34 of the Bibliographical Contributions published by the Library is Mr. Wm. C. Lane's "Dante Collections in the Harvard College and Boston Public Libraries" (Cambridge, 1890). This enumeration includes additional titles from the private collections of Professor Norton and the late Professor George Ticknor.

A collection of books by and upon Milton, numbering 278 vols., is largely made up of one formed by the late George Ticknor.

The Library received under the will of Thomas Carlyle his collection of books on Cromwell and Frederick the Great, numbering 422 vols., which are enumerated in No. 26 of the Bibliographical Contributions. At a later day some additions were made to Mr. Carlyle's own bequest by Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, and these books are noted in the University Bulletin, No. 52.

The collection of folk lore and mediaeval romances number 5822 vols., and is supposed to be the largest in existence. Its Slavic section is remarkably good. Professor F. J. Child has based upon the collection his well-known English and Scottish Popular Ballads, the final edition of which is now nearly completed. There are included in the collection a very large number of Chap-books; and manuscript copies of all the important collections of popular ballads in the British Museum, which have not been printed. The large collection of French popular ballads (with music) which was made by a commission appointed by Napoleon III. has also been copied.

The collection of classics and classical philology numbers 17,848 vols., and is supplemented by the collection of the Classical Seminary in Harvard Hall, and by illustrative archaeology in the archaeological and art classifications of the College Library. 1850 vols. and 1000 pams. are now collected, and it is intended to make the University a centre in southern Illinois for this kind of educational information. The library contains in all 10,286 vols. and 2214 pams.

The collection of Sanskrit literature includes about 400 printed texts, about 500 mss., the gift of Mr. Fitzedward Hall, and about 500 more Mss. purchased in India by Professor Lanman for the Library. Many of the printed books were given by the late Henry W. Wales, and his brother, Mr. Geo. W. Wales, has since annually given $200 to increase the collection.

The Library is well supplied, particularly with the older books, in all departments of theology and Biblical criticism. Including the collection in the Divinity School library, it probably excels any other in Unitarian theology and controversial works. It has a very fine collection of the rarest Bibles selected by the late George Livermore and Ezra Abbot, authorities in the bibliography of the Scriptures. Professor Abbot's private library was bequeathed to the Divinity School and still farther enriched this department. The collection of printed sermons probably numbers about 10,000.

In 1888 Mr. John Harvey Treat presented his collection of works on ritualism and doctrinal theology, numbering 587 titles. It is catalogued in Bibliographical Contributions, No. 36.

The late President of the College, Jared Sparks, left his collection of manuscripts - mostly copies, but including some originals, such as the papers of Gov. Bernard, one of the royal governors of Massachusetts - to the Library. A calendar of them, and of other minor collections of papers relating to American history, constitutes No. 22 of the Library's Bibliographical Contributions. The most considerable collection of original manuscripts in this field, possessed by the Library, is the papers of Arthur Lee, which were left to the Library in 1827; two other parts of the same collection being given at the same time to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and to the library of the University of Virginia. A calendar of the portion in Harvard College Library is given in No. 8 of the Bibliographical Contributions.

No. 6 of the Library's Bibliographical Contributions (1879) shows part of the books and autographs bequeathed to the Library by Hon. Charles Sumner. The collection is a general one, but embraces many books of curious and bibliographical interest, and interesting autographs.

Indians living in the present Middle States, by David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary, were given to the Library in 1845. See Bibliographical Contributions, No. 22, pp. 86-88, and the enumeration in J. C. Pilling's Algonquian Languages (Washington, 1892).

The most interesting of the manuscripts of a character other than American history - and the Library has a small collection - is perhaps a book in which the poems of Shelley when he composed them were written either by himself or by his wife. This manuscript is described, with a fac-simile of the poem "To a Skylark," in Bibliographical Contributions, Nos. 30 and 35.

The collection of loose maps is the largest in the country, numbering about 12,000 sheets, - the basis of the collection being that formed by the late Professor Ebeling of Germany, which came to the Library with his collection of Americana in 1818. It has been added to from time to time, particularly so as to complete the cartographical publications of the United States government and the ordnance surveys of the principal European countries. The collection of bound maps and atlases is also large (about 700 vols.), including such fac-simile collections as those of Santarem, Nordenskiöld, etc., and the printed editions of the early geographers like Ptolemy, Mela, Wytfliet, Münster, Mercator, Ortelius, etc. In maps illustrating the historical geography of America, the collection (to judge from a comparison made with its printed catalogue) is quite as good as that of the British Museum. Efforts have been made to procure all printed books which are useful in facilitating the use of the collection. There is a Ms. subject catalogue of the maps.

Librarian.)

DIVINITY SCHOOL. (R. S. Morison,

This library, containing about 23,000 vols., though mainly devoted to theology and Biblical and ecclesiastical subjects, is not limited to those departments. Its theological collection has already been spoken of above. A collection of the works of Joseph Priestley and the Greek Testaments deserve separate and special mention. In both subjects the additional works in the College Library form important supplements.

Librarian.)

The aim of the library of the Law School is to maintain and constantly increase a useful working collection for the benefit of the School. It pos

works on modern German law, especially on commercial law, of nearly 1000 vols.

While the library is very complete in its reports of the various Courts of the United States and of foreign countries, it cannot be said to differ in this respect from other important law libraries in this country.

In one respect, however, the library is believed to be exceptional, namely, in the quality and number of its editions of important legal treatises. Much care has been taken to accomplish this result, which is of especial use to students, writers, and investigators, who often find in an early or particular edition of a work matter of especial interest and value, not to be found elsewhere.

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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOÖL

(Miss F. M. Slack, Librarian.) This library, of about 22,000 vols., is almost exclusively devoted to zoölogy and geology. Its nucleus was the private library of Professor L. G. de Koninck, collected between 1835 and 1860. The books on embryology number about 300 vols. and 1000 pams. The entomological collection is described by Mr. S. H. Scudder in Bibliographical Contributions, No. 11, as the most valuable in America. It includes the private collection of Professor H. A. Hagen, and in 1880 contained about 2000 vols. and 3000 pams. It has many sets of the older magazines, many works of great rarity, and is particularly rich in papers on the Neuroptera and Pseudoneuroptera and in the bibliography of entomology. In the College Library are some 500 vols. more relating to insects, mainly selected while Dr. Harris was librarian. The private library of Mr. S. H. Scudder should also be mentioned here; it contained, in 1880, 765 vols. and nearly 2000 pams., and is particularly rich in works relating to Orthoptera and to fossil insects.

The private geological and geographical library of Professor J. D. Whitney will eventually become a part of the Museum library. It consists of some 10,000 vols. and contains many scarce pamphlets, the reports of State and United States geological surveys and works on geology, palaeontology, mineralogy, and geography.

PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. (F. W. Putnam, Curator.)

The library of the Museum (1232 vols. and 1340 pams.) forms a useful working collection of books on archaeology, ethnology, and anthropology, but does not call for special notice. The principal anthropological and ethnological journals are regularly received.

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. (E. C. Pickering, Director.)

The library of the Observatory contains in all 7000 vols., and is strong, through the exchange of

its Annals, as well as by purchase, in the publications of astronomical, meteorological, and magnetic observatories. Geodesy and physics (more particularly those branches connected with optics) should also be mentioned.

The Observatory has a special fund for the maintenance of a mountain observatory, and in connection with this work provides its library with the literature relating to the geography of mountainous countries throughout the world. The collection of books in practical mathematics, including old astronomical treatises, is of some importance.

The library at present is being put in more serviceable condition, arranged according to subjects, with accompanying lists.

LIBRARY OF THE GRAY HERBARIUM.

(B. L. Robinson, in charge.)

This library contains about 6000 vols. and 3000 pams. Its nucleus was Professor Asa Gray's private botanical library of some 1600 vols. and about the same number of pams., which was presented by him to the Herbarium in 1864. The same year John A. Lowell also presented his botanical library of 350 vols., including a number of works of especial rarity and value.

The branch in which the Herbarium library is strongest is the systematic botany of phaenogams and icones illustrative of this subject. The collection of botanical periodicals is also very good. While the departments of cryptogamic, structural, and physiological botany take a secondary place, they are nevertheless represented by several hundred volumes and many pamphlets. For works on these subjects the College Library should also be consulted.

Bibliographical Contribution, No. 9 (1879), is a list of the floras of different countries by Professor G. L. Goodale, almost all of which are either in the Herbarium or the College Library.

Canton, N. Y. - ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY HERRING LIBRARY. (Profs. C. K. Gaines and H. P. Forbes, Librarians.)

Contains the Credner collection, 2850 vols., the library of Prof. K. A. Credner of Giessen, Germany, formed between 1810 and 1865, and rich in works on dogmatic theology of the Reformation era; the Loveland collection, 600 vols., mostly philological, formed by Rev. S. C. Loveland; and a large collection of Universalist periodicals and pamphlets of the period from 1800 to 1850. Whole number of bound volumes about 11,000, and nearly as many pamphlets.

Carson City, Nerada. - STATE LIBRARY. (J. Ponjade, Librarian.)

The library, created by statute of 1865, has a very good law department; and all the Nevada newspapers since 1883, in 400 vols.

A catalogue of the library appeared in 1890.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. - IOWA MASONIC LIBRARY. (T. S. Parvin, Librarian.)

This is the oldest Grand Lodge library in the country, organized in 1844, and founded by the present librarian. It now contains 12,000 vols. of masonic and anti-masonic works, including the proceedings of all Masonic Grand Bodies of the world and many periodicals. Antiquarian researches and archaeology are well represented also, works on ruins, pyramids, temples, and the mound builders. There is a fair but varying appropriation each year; by this means and by gifts the additions reach 300 and 400 vols. yearly. A full catalogue was printed in 1873 and a supplement in 1883.

The library has about 100 mss., mostly of a Masonic character, a few relating to the early history of Iowa; also a large collection of masonic and government medals, engravings, and photographs of masons, and autographs of distinguished men and masons.

Charleston, S. C. - CHARLESTON LIBRARY SO(Miss Anne E. Pinckney, Librarian.)

CIETY.

The library (about 2000 vols.) consists principally of books on chemistry, pharmacy, physics, microscopy, geology, and botany, and includes many old works.

The standard reference books and very complete files of scientific journals and proceedings of societies add much to its value.

Chicago, III. - CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. John Moses, Librarian.)

The Society, since its new building was erected in 1877, has increased its library at the rate of about 1500 vols. and 2000 pams. a year, and now

owns 20,000 vols. and 45,000 pams. and papers, including 71 vols. of Mss. There is a special fund for the purchase of books amounting to $13,500.

In Western Americana there are 1300 vols. and 2000 pams.; and about one half that number of historical society publications and genealogies; also 3300 bound vols. of newspapers and periodicals.

The Society has a large collection of maps and atlases, many coins and engravings, and 32 oil portraits.

Chicago, INI. - NEWBERRY LIBRARY. (W. F. Poole, Librarian.)

Has special collections in bibliography, Americana, early printed books, and music.

An entire musical library of Italian books at Florence was purchased, including many valuable volumes; these with large additions recently received make the musical library equal to any in the country. A detailed statement of works in this department appeared in the Nation, May 2, 1889.

The library of a well-known collector in Cincinnati has been bought, consisting of early editions of the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, and other authors, with specimens of binding from the time of Grolier to Trautz-Bauzonnet and the modern French artbinders.

Chicago, Ill. - PUBLIC LIBRARY. (Frederick H. Hild, Librarian.)

The library contains about 175,000 vols., the large number of books in foreign languages illustrating its cosmopolitan character. Its collection of Bohemian literature, over 3900 vols., is probably larger than any other in the United States, and its Scandinavian literature exceeds 4000 vols.

The principal specialty of the library is its periodicals, numbering 19,000 vols., containing almost every periodical given in Poole's Index, with complete sets of many of the best foreign reviews, and the transactions of learned societies.

In patents there is a complete set of British patents (including specifications and drawings) from 1617 to date; also American, French, Canadian and German patent reports.

The library is strong also in bibliography, Americana, genealogy, fine arts, general reference books, and the literature of the Civil War.