most part possess libraries. These are generally useful collections of books of a popular character. Sometimes (in Yale College particularly) they are large, well selected, and admirably arranged and kept. Dust seldom gathers on the books in such collections. 5. Libraries of professional schools and incorporated academies.--This class includes theological seminaries, law schools, medical colleges, and military academies as well as high schools, generally termed in this country "academies." The professional schools, several of them, possess the best special libraries in the country. These institutions (particularly the theological) are so frequently connected with academies, that it was found most convenient to group them together. The notices in the body of this work will generally enable the reader to subdivide this class, as well as the other classes, if desired. 6. Libraries of Learned Societies,-scientific, literary and historical. These libraries are mostly composed of the Transactions of similar societies and of periodicals which contain the current records of science and letters. They have been mostly procured by donation and exchange. Some of these collections are extensive and important. The historical societies are doing great service in gathering and guarding the precious memorials of our early annals. 7. Public School Libraries. Several of the States have taken great interest in supplying every township and school district with a library. Other States have commenced such collections, and it is to be hoped that they may be greatly multiplied. They are not intended for pupils alone, but for all the population of the district or township to which they belong. They are composed of valuable books, designed and adapted to communicate useful knowledge in a popular way, and to cultivate all the higher elements of character. They are in continual use, and it is impossible to over-estimate their beneficial influence. Another class of libraries of which it has not been in my power to collect the statistics comprises Sunday School Libraries. The aggregate number of books which they contain is very great. These books, though mostly for juvenile readers, are always of a moral or religious tendency, and they have vast influence in forming the intellectual as well as the moral character of the people. Tabular view of Public Libraries in the United States. For the sums marked with an asterisk, I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Kennedy, superintendent of the 7th census. GENERAL SUMMARY. Whole number of Libraries exclusive of those of the public schools Aggregate number of volumes Whole number of Libraries containing, each, 1,000 volumes and upwards Aggregate number of volumes in these Libraries. Number of Libraries reported, containing less than Aggregate number of volumes in these Libraries. Number of Libraries containing 5,000 volumes and Number of Libraries containing 10,000 volumes and upwards, and less than 20,000 Number of Libraries containing 20,000 volumes and upwards, and less than 50,000 There are but five Libraries containing, each, 50,000 volumes and upwards, namely: Theological Library Medical Library. Students' Libraries The Philadelphia Library, (including the Lo 694 2,201,632 423 2,105,652 4,977 271 95,980 198 175 43 11 5 In this statement, and in those which follow, the Libraries of Societies of students, and those of professional department are counted with the Libraries of the Colleges or Seminaries with which they are connected. THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES.* MILITARY DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES No. 1. ARMY. Departments. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Head-quarters at Fort Adams, R. I. No. 2. Michigan, Wisconsin (east of the line from Fond du Lac to Cape Sable), Ohio, and Indiana. Head-quarters at Detroit. No. 3. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Head-quarters at Baltimore. No. 4. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and that part of Florida lying within the Eastern Division. Headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va. No. 5. The portion of Florida within the Western Division, the States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Head-quarters at New Orleans. No. 6. Wisconsin (west of the line from Fond du Lac to Cape Sable), Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri, above the 37th degree of north latitude. Head-quarters at St. Louis. No. 7. The country west of the Mississippi, south of the 37th degree of north latitude, north of Louisiana and Texas, and east of Department No. 9. Head-quarters at Fort Smith, Arkansas Territory. No. 8. That part of Texas lying south and east of a line drawn from a point on the Rio Grande, opposite the southernmost limit of the island south of El Paso, containing the towns of San Elizario, Socorra, and Isletta, to the junction of the Ensenada Choctau (Choctaw Creek) with the Colorado or Red River, and down said river to Arkansas. Head-quarters at San Antonio. No. 9. New Mexico, and the territory north and west of the aforesaid line, from the Rio Grande to and down the Colorado or Red River, formerly claimed as a part of New Mexico. Headquarters at Santa Fé. No. 10. The Territory of California. Head-quarters at Benicia. No. 11. The Territory of Oregon. couver. Head-quarters at Van In the preceding volumes we have from time to time given the lists of the officers, and tables of the rank and file of the army. Divisions. The Eastern Division is composed of the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th departments. Head-quarters at Troy, N. Y. The Western Division is composed of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th departments. Head-quarters at New Orleans. The Pacific Division of the 10th and 11th departments. Headquarters at Sonoma, California. * No returns from Iowa, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico. 17* |