JOHN W. ALEXANDER.
WILLIAM W. APPLETON.
JOHN BIGELOW.
JOHN L. CADWALADER.
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
CLEVELAND H. DODGE.

JOHN MURPHY FARLEY.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

SAMUEL GREENBAUM.

JOHN HENRY HAMMOND.

H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

MORGAN J. O'BRIEN.

STEPHEN H. OLIN.
ALEXANDER E. ORR.

GEORGE L. RIVES.

CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL.
EDWARD W. SHELDON.

GEORGE W. SMITH.

FREDERICK STURGES.

HENRY W. TAFT.

LEWIS CASS LEDYARD.

WILLIAM J. GAYNOR, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.

WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
JOHN PURROY MITCHELL, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

OFFICERS

President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D.

First Vice-President, JOHN L. CADWALADER, LL.D.

*Second Vice-President.

Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 476 Fifth avenue.

Treasurer, EDWARD W. SHELDON, Esq., United States Trust Company, 45 Wall street.
Director, JOHN S. BILLINGS, D.C.L., LL.D., 476 Fifth avenue.

Assistant Director, EDWIN H. ANDERSON, Esq., 476 Fifth avenue.

156th Street. 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.)

BRONX

140th Street, 321 East, cor. Alexander Avenue. (MOTT HAVEN.)
168th Street, 78 West, cor. Woodycrest Avenue. (HIGHBRIDGE.)
169th Street, 610 East. McKinley Square. (MORRISANIA.)
176th Street. 1866 Washington Avenue. (TREMONT.)
230th Street. 3041 Kingsbridge Avenue. (KINGSBRIDGE.)

RICHMOND

ST. GEORGE. 5 Central Avenue. Tompkinsville P. O.
PORT RICHMOND. 75 Bennett Street.

STAPLETON. 132 Canal Street, cor. Brook Street.

TOTTENVILLE. 7430 Amboy Road. Near Prospect Avenue.

* Vacant because of death of Mr. Kennedy.

OCT 4

1926

BULLETIN

OF THE

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

Published monthly by The New York Public Library at 476 Fifth Avenue, New York City. President, John
Bigelow, 476 Fifth Avenue; Secretary, Charles Howland Russell, 476 Fifth Avenue; Treasurer, Edward W. Sheldon
45 Wall Street; Director, John S. Billings, 476 Fifth Avenue.

Subscription One Dollar a year, current single numbers Ten Cents.

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July
16, 1894.

Printed at The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue.

VOL. XV

MAY, 1911

No. 5

REPORT FOR APRIL

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT

During the month of April there were received at the Library by purchase
1,674 volumes and 760 pamphlets; by gift 1,539 volumes and 2,270 pamphlets;
and by exchange 1 volume and 5 pamphlets, making a total of 3,214 volumes
and 3,035 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 3,146 volumes and 1,510 pamphlets; for this work
were written 3,578 copy cards for the printer, and 2,483 other cards; 5,141
cards had changes made for entries previously written or printed. In the print-
ing office were set 4,167 titles, from which 37,747 cards were printed. For
the copying machine were written 372 slips, from which 53,245 cards were
manifolded.

The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of
volumes consulted, in the *ASTOR branch during the fifteen days it was open:

* Open only April 1-15.

The most important gift of the month came from J. Pierpont Morgan in shape of the set of twenty volumes of "The North American Indian, being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, written, illustrated and published by Edward A. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, foreword by Theodore Roosevelt," printed at Cambridge in 1907-09 in an edition of 500 copies on Japan paper.

Other gifts worthy of mention came from the following: United States Consul at Bremen, Germany, "Verhandlungen zwischen den Senate und der Bürgerschaft," volumes 1-2 (1910), etc.; Chambre de Commerce, Alger, "Exposé des travaux," 1905-1910; Städtisches Statistisches Amt, Barmen, Germany, "Haushaltsplan," 1910, "Statistisches Jahrbuch," 1909, etc.; Monsieur Eugene Bejot, nine etchings by himself; the Mayor of Bologna, Italy, "Atti del Consiglio Comunale," 1909/10; British Columbia, "Sessional papers," 1910; British Museum, "A supplementary catalogue of 15 Bengali books, 1886-1910," compiled by J. F. Blumhardt, London, 1910, “A catalogue of the Kannada, Badaga, and Kurg books," compiled by L. D. Barnett, London, 1910, and various other important catalogues, fifteen volumes in all; Handels und Gewerbekammer, Brünn, Austria, "Bericht" for 1910; M. Burghele, "La Roumanie, 1866-1906," Bucarest, 1907, "Mémoires de l'Amiral Paul Tchitchagof en 1812," Paris, 1909, "Congrès de Berlin, actes et discours des plenipotentiaires de Son Altesse, le Prince Charles I de Roumanie," Bucarest, 1878, etc.; Colonial Secretary of Ceylon, "Ceylon civil lists, January 31, 1911;" Dansk Igeniørforening, "Katalog over Erhvervelser af udenlandsk teknisk Litteratur ved Københavns Kommunale og Foreningsbiblioteker, 1910;" Marineministeriet og Ministeriet for Handel og Søfart of Denmark, "Danmarks Skibsliste, 1911;" Rev. Arthur Wentworth H. Eaton, a copy of his "History of Kings Co., Nova Scotia. With many genealogies, 16041910," Salem, 1910; family of the late Doctor Einhorn, a copy of the "David Einhorn Memorial volume, selected sermons and addresses," printed in a limited edition at New York, 1911; Federated Malay States, ten pamphlets, all official documents; Folkebibliothek at Hamar, Norway, "Aarsberetning" for 1910; Industriforeningen, København, "Katalog," 1910, etc.; John Rylands Library, "Catalogue of an exhibition of manuscript and printed copies of the scriptures illustrating the history of the transmission of the Bible, shown in the Main Library from March to December, 1911, Tercentenary of the authorised version of the English Bible, A. D. 1611-1911," Manchester, 1911, "The John Rylands Facsimiles," numbers 1 to 3, and the "Catalogue of the Greek papyri in the John Rylands Library," volume 1, edited by Arthur S. Hunt, Manchester, 1911; W. W. Knight, twenty-one volumes of the "Shipping and Commercial List" (1846-1868); Montana Historical and Miscellaneous Library, seven volumes and eight pamphlets, all state documents; Eugene M. O'Neill, "History of the Town and County of Wexford," edited by Philip Herbert Hore, six volumes, London, 1911; George Palfray, "Fabiola: Drame en cinq actes," Le Havre, 1909; the Portuguese Ministerio da Marinha e Ultramar, 50 volumes and 23 pamphlets, official documents; the Portuguese Ministro das Obras Publicas, Commercio e Industria, four volumes and