LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING, PART I. 512-552 PRINCIPAL ACCESSIONS IN OCTOBER 553-555 PRINCIPAL DONORS IN OCTOBER 556 NEW YORK WILLIAM W. APPLETON. JOHN L. CADWALADER. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY. JOHN S. KENNEDY. EDWARD KING. LEWIS CASS LEDYARD. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. HENRY C. POTTER. GEORGE L. RIVES. CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. EDWARD W. SHELDON. GEORGE W. SMITH. FREDERICK Sturges. GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. OFFICERS President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D. First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D. Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq. Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street. 10th Street, 331 East. 13th Street, 251 West. 23d Street, 228 East. 23d Street, 209 West. 34th STREET, 215 East. 40th Street, 501 West. 42d Street, 226 West. 50th Street, 123 East. 51st Street, 463 West. 58th STREET, 121 East. 67th STREET, 328 East. 69th Street. 77th Street. (TOMPKINS SQUARE.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.) Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) Between 2d and 3d Avenues. Department Headquarters.) Between 10th and 11th Avenues. (ST. RAPHAEL'S.) Near Lexington Avenue. (Cathedral.) Near Lexington Avenue. Near 1st Avenue. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (RIVERSIDE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 79th Street, 222 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue. (St. Agnes. BLIND LIBRARY.) Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE.) (AGUILAR.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) 100th Street, 206 West. 110th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th STREET, 224 East. 135th STREET, 103 West. 145th Street, 503 West. Near Lenox Avenue. (HAMILTON GRANGE.) 156th Street. 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.) During the month of October there were received at the Library, by purchase, 831 volumes and 633 pamphlets; by gift, 1,189 volumes and 2,076 pamphlets; and by exchange, 41 volumes and 31 pamphlets, making a total of 2,061 volumes and 2,740 pamphlets. There were catalogued 3,889 volumes and 4,046 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 4,643, and of slips for the copying machine 3,562; from the latter were received 14,772 cards. The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Exhibition at the Lenox during the month: The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Ibsen's Plays, Benson's "From a College Window," Hill's "Fighting a Fire"; (adult fiction): Chambers' "The Younger Set," Parker's "The Weavers," Burnett's "The Shuttle "; (juvenile fiction): Barbour's "Crimson Sweater," Lang's Fairy Books, Craik's "Little Lame Prince." The most important gift of the month was a collection of 636 pieces, Russian official documents secured for the Library from the Russian Ministries of Agriculture, Finance, Foreign Affairs, War, Interior, Justice, and the Senate, by Count Mikhail Mikhailovitch Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo, through Miss Isabel F. Hapgood. Particularly worthy of mention are the files of the Army Annual and the Bulletins of the Military-Medical Academy received from the Ministry of War; the Journal of the Postal-Telegraph Department (1888-1906) from the Ministry of the Interior; about 200 volumes from the Senate, containing the record of its decisions as the court of appeals in general, civil, criminal cases, etc., for the last forty years; a file of the consular reports (1898-1907) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Journal of the Ministry of Justice (1903-1907); and about 150 monographs issued by the Ministry of Agriculture relating to various topics of rural economics. Other gifts worthy of mention were received from: The American-Swedenborg Printing & Publishing Co., a "Bibliography of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, original and translated, by Rev. James Hyde," London, 1906; from William H. Bixby, a copy of "Hamilton's Itinerarium, being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Md., through Delaware, Pennsylvania. . . from May to September, 1744," by Dr. Alexander Hamilton, edited by Albert B. Hart, printed for private circulation by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, 1907; from the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 42 volumes and 15 pamphlets, all Brazilian documents, secured by Professor Leo S. Rowe; from Stewart Culin, a set of 36 facsimile letters relating to the raising of a fund to establish a chair in memory of Dr. Daniel G. Brinton; from the De Vinne Press, a copy of its newly issued specimen book, entitled "Types of the De Vinne Press"; from Henri Guyot, a copy of "L'infinité divine depuis Philon le Juif jusqu'a Plotin. Avec une introduction par H. Guyot"; from Harvard University, Bloomfield's "Vedic Concordance," volume 10 of the Harvard Oriental series; from the Lake Superior Canal Semi-Centennial Commission, a copy of "Exercises at the Semi-Centennial Celebration at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, August 2 and 3, 1905, together with a history of the canal by John H. Goff . . . edited by Charles H. Moore," Detroit, 1907; from Clarence B. Moore, a copy of his studies in the archæology of the southeastern portions of the United States, entitled "Moundville Revisited," Philadelphia, 1907; from Arthur Huntington Nason, a copy of his "Heralds and heraldry in Ben Jonson's plays, masques and entertainments," University Heights, New York City, 1907; from the Constitutional Convention of Oklahoma, 2 volumes and 1 pamphlet, including the Constitution of the State; from Francis Beaufort Palmer, his "Peerage Law in England," London, 1907; from Frederick G. Pauli, his privately printed "A record of a trip through Canada's wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo . . in the summer of 1906," New York, 1907; from the City of Richmond, Virginia, 8 volumes of city documents; from Senhor J. C. Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro, his "Catalogo annotado dos livros sobre o Brasil pertencentes a J. C. Rodrigues," Rio de Janeiro, 1907; from Gino C. Speranza, a collection of 55 volumes and 2 pamphlets, Italian works of fiction, classic literature, art, etc.; from the Swedish Mission, Asmara, Abyssinia, 30 volumes and 2 pamphlets, including vocabularies, reading books, etc., in Tigri, Galla, Amharic and other languages |