Bulletin of the New York Public Library

REPORT FOR DECEMBER, AND SUMMARY FOR JULY-DECEMBER
LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO MUHAMMEDAN LAW
LIST OF JEWISH DRAMA .
PRINCIPAL ACCESSIONS IN DECEMBER
PRINCIPAL DONORS IN DECEMBER

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NEW YORK

WILLIAM W. APPLETON.

ALEXANDER MAITLAND. John Bigelow.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN. John L, CADWALADER.

MORGAN J. O'Brien. ANDREW CARNEGIE.

STEPHEN H. OLIN. CLEVELAND H. Dodge,

ALEXANDER E. ORR. JOHN MURPHY FARLEY.

HENRY C. POTTER. SAMUEL GREENBAUM.

GEORGE L. RIVES. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY.

CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, JOHN S. KENNEDY.

GEORGE W. Smith. EDWARD KING.

FREDERICK STURGES.
Lewis Cass LEDYARD),

George Brinton MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
HERMAN A. METZ, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
PATRICK F. McGowan, President of the Board of Aldermen, 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.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. John S. Billings, 425 Lafayette Street.

BRANCHES-REFERENCE Lafayette Street, 425. (Astor.)

Fifth Avenue, 890. (Lenox.)

CIRCULATION

MANHATTAN.
East Broadway, 33. (CHATHAM SQUARE.)
East BROADWAY, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.)
RIVINGTON STREET, 61.
Le Roy Street, 66. (Hudson PARK.)
BOND STREET, 49.

Near the Bowery. 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.) ioth Street, 331 East. (TOMPKINS SQUARE.) 13th Street, 251 West. Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) 22d Street, 230 East. Near 2d Avenue. (EPIPHANY.) 23d Street, 209 West. Near 7th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG. Department Headquarters.) 34th Street, 215 East. Between 2d and 3d Avenues. 40th Street, 501 West. Between foth and 11th Avenues. (St. RAPHAEL's.) 42d Street, 226 West. Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE.) 50th Street, 123 East. Near Lexington Avenue. (CATHEDRAL.) 51st Street, 463 West. Near roth Avenue. (SACRED HEART.) 59th STREET, 113 East. Near Lexington Avenue. 67th STREET, 328 East. Near Ist Avenue. 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (RIVERSIDE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 77th Street. 1465 Avenue A. (WEBSTER.) 79th Street, 222 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue, (ST, AGNES. BLIND LIBRARY.) 96th STREET, 112 East. Between Lexington and Park Avenues. 100th Street, 206 West. Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE.) nroth Street, 174 East. Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) 123d Street, 32 West. (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) 125th STREET, 224 East. Near 3d Avenue. 135th STREET, 103 West. Near Lenox Avenue. 145th Street, 503 West. (HAMILTON GRANGE.) 156th Street. 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON Heights.)

BRONX. 140th Street, 569 East, cor. Alexander Avenue. (Mott HAVEN.) 176th Street. 1866 Washington Avenue. (TREMONT.) 230th Street. 2933 Kingsbridge Avenue. (KINGSBRIDGE.)

RICHMOND. TOTTENVILLE. Amboy Road, near Prospect Avenue. PORT RICHMOND, 12 Bennett Street.

REPORT FOR DECEMBER, AND SUMMARY FOR JULY-DECEMBER.

The following table shows the operations of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library for December, 1906, with the corresponding figures for the last six months, as compared with the corresponding six months of 1905:

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LAST
6 MONTHS.

1906.
6,369
5,484

537 2,714 5,445 6,920 2,374 II, 255

3 807

34 295

539 5,797

624 4,790 3,105 509

I 13,538 15,152 39,177 13,260 61,190 98,426 85,711 82,189 331,314

611 15,336

97 116,654 24,376

7,658 10,519

No. vols. sent to outside binders
No. vols. sent to Library binder
No. maps mounted by Library binder
No. books catalogued
No. pams. catalogued
No. cards written
No. slips written for copying machine
No. cards from copying machine
No. readers and visitors
No. readers.
No. readers, desk plicants
No. vols. consulted by desk applicants
Daily average of readers.
No. readers, periodical department
Daily average
No. periodicals consulted .

(No. taken from rack)
No. readers, Russian department

(No. works consulted)

CORRESPONDING 6 MONTHS.

1905. 7,040 6,184

425 4,448 5,134 4,608 1,996 13,554

564 445

388 31,045 54,751 24,651

5,169 3,068 574

2 17,068 18,170 40,350 17,088 85,395 92,466 75,291 73,166 313,856

491 13,692

87 106,386 21,586 4,937

2,940 2,545 7,930 2,218 JI,401 19,536 17,500 16,063 61,772

698 2,797

III 21,360 4,288 1,371 1,889

8,539

During the calendar year ending December 31, 1906, the number of volumes actually received was 30,966 and of pamphlets 70,401, of which 13,381 volumes and 29,113 pamphlets were gifts, and 6,916 volumes and 36,404 pamphlets were received by exchange.

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