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REPORT FOR DECEMBER
LETTERS OF RICHARD COBDEN TO SIR Joshua WALMSLEY, 1848–1863 .
LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO CONSTITUTIONS, PART I.
PRINCIPAL ACCESSIONS IN DECEMBER '.
PRINCIPAL DONORS IN DECEMBER

9-21
22-36

37-43

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NEW YORK

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILLIAM W. APPLETON.

ALEXANDER MAITLAND. SAMUEL P. AVERY.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN. John Bigelow.

MORGAN J. O'BRIEN. JOHN L, CADWALADER.

STEPHEN H. OLIN. ANDREW CARNEGIE.

ALEXANDER E. ORR. JOHN MURPHY FARLEY.

HENRY C. POTTER. SAMUEL GREENBAUM.

GEORGE L. RIVES. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY.

CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. JOHN S. KENNEDY.

Philip SCHUYLER. EDWARD KING.

GEORGE W. Smith. LEWIS Cass LEDYARD.

FREDERICK STURGES. George Brinton McClellan, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio. CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex oficio.

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., 40 Lafayette Place.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway..
Director, Dr. John S. BilliNGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

BRANCHES-REFERENCE
Lafayette Place, 40. (ASTOR.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (Lenox.)

CIRCULATION

MANHATTAN. . East Broadway, 31. (CHATHAM SQUARE.) East Broadway, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.) Eldridge Street, 184. (University Settlement Building.) Bond Street, 49. Near the Bowery. 7th Street. 106 Avenue C. 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.) 13th Street, 251 West. Near 8th Avenue. (Jackson SQUARE.) 23d Street, 130 West. Near 6th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG.) 34th Street, 215 East. Between 2d and 3d Avenues. 42d Street, 226 West. Near 7th Avenue. (George Bruce.

Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Dept. headquarters.) 59th Street, 113 East. Near Lexington Avenue. 65th Street, 116 West. Near Broadway. (RIVERSIDE.) 76th Street, 538 East. 79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.) 91st Street, 121 West. Bet. Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (Blind LIBRARY.) Tooth Street, 206 West. Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 110th Street, 174 East. Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) 123d Street, 32 West. (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) 1 25th Street, 218 East. Near 3d Avenue. 156th Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON Heights.)

RICHMOND. Tottenville. 137 Johnson Avenue.

OF THE

REPORT FOR DECEMBER, AND SUMMARY FOR JULY-DECEMBER.

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

The following table shows the operations of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library for December, 1903, with the corresponding figures for the last six months, as compared with the corresponding six months of 1902:

LAST
SIX MONTHS.

1903.

66

No. pams.
No. pams.

1,159

807

543 2,328

157

No. maps No. maps

35

69 6,363

87 53 357 34

No. vols. purchased, accessioned
No. vols. given,
No. pams. purchased,
No. pams. given,
No. vols. actually received by purchase
No, vols.

gift .
" purchase

gift No. prints

gift .
purchase

gift . No. vols.

exchange . No. pams.

exchange
No. vols. sent out in exchange
No. pams. sent out in exchange
No, vols, sent out for binding
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 received from copying machine
No. readers and visitors
No. readers, desk applicants
No. vols. consulted by desk applicants
Daily average of readers .
No. readers, periodical department
Daily average, periodical department
No. periodicals consulted .
No.

from outside rack-approxi-
mately.
No. readers, Russian department
No. works consulted, Russian department

3

4,990 6,897 1,637 6.703 4,346 5,042 2,331 17,121

287

49 347

500 6,912

825

600 2,326 341

4 16,133 15,310 70,028 14,080 72,465 83,322 56.659 226,690

451 12,383

79 103,921

CORRESPONDING
MONTHS.

1902.
7,820
7,388
2,650
8,382
6,280
6,318
2,554
15,725

567

22 272

463 10,588 2,207 3,376 2,278 537

65 24,614 16,220 54,410 15,985 81,068 76,532 54,523 197,698

439 12,156

77 II1,795