75 I 3 3 I 7 3 I I I I 4 N. Zealand Dept. of Labor Paine, Nathaniel . Penna. Academy of Fine Arts. (Portrait of Washington.) Queensland, Gov't of Selleck, Rev. Charles M. So. Dak. Gd. Lodge A. F. & A. M. Springfield, Mass. Stern Brothers . Stevens, B. F., Lond. Stoeckel, Mr. & Mrs. Carl. Sweden, Kongl. Univ. Biblioteket | U. S. Civ. Serv. Commission 2 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture . U. S. Dept. of Interior . I U. S. Patent Office U. S. Supt. of Documents U. S. War Dept Victoria, Aus., Dept. of Mines Waring, Vechten (periodicals) Ill. Soc. Sons of the Amer. Revol. India, Sec'y of State for .. I Ind'pls Monetary Convention. Industriforeningen, Cop'nhag'n 13 1 Yale Univ. Library I * Vacancy caused by death of S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, June 23, 1898. OFFICERS President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW. First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D. Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq. Secretary, GEORGE L. RIVES, Esq., 32 Nassau Street. Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 8o Broadway. THE REGULATIONS HE Astor Building, 40 Lafayette Place, and the Lenox Building, Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, are open daily, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from 9 A. M. until 6 P. M. The Reading rooms and the Exhibition rooms are free to all persons; but children under the age of fifteen years must be accompanied by an adult. In the Reading room of each Library Building certain shelves are set apart for books of reference, which readers are allowed to take down and examine at their pleasure. For all other books an application must be made by filling out and signing one of the blanks provided for the purpose. Published monthly by The New York Public Library, No. 40 Lafayette Place, New York City Subscription One Dollar a year, single numbers Ten Cents Entered as second-class matter at the New York, N. Y., Post Office, January 30, 1897 During the month of September there were received at the Library by purchase 687 books and 166 pamphlets, and by gift 755 books and 1,709 pamphlets. There were catalogued 2,307 books and 2,442 pamphlets, for which purpose 18,992 cards and 1,080 slips for the printer were written. The following table shows the number of readers and the number of volumes consulted in both the Astor and Lenox branches of the Library during the month: During the summer an engine and dynamo, having sufficient power for the lighting of the Astor Building, have been put in place and are now in regular service and working very satisfactorily. A considerable number of additional lamps has been introduced on the first story in the catalogue room, and in the annex rooms, where books are stored. The Stuart room at the Lenox Building has been closed during the month to permit of the cataloguing and re-arrangement of the books in the collection. This work has been completed, and the room was again opened to visitors on October third. The alterations in the former exhibition room of the Lenox Building have been nearly finished. Sixteen tables, which will seat about fifty readers, are arranged in this room, and electric light has been introduced. The west end has been railed off, and thirty special double cases have been placed in the enclosure for shelving the Drexel musical collection and the musical collection of the Astor, which has been transferred. It is hoped that this new reading room may be ready to be opened on November first, by which time the American local histories and American genealogies will have been transferred and properly arranged on the shelves at the east end, and the musical collection will have been put into sufficient order to be available for the use of readers. Special attention has been paid to the enlargement of the Hebrew collection, by means of the fund for Semitic literature, generously placed at the disposal of the Library by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff. In recent Hebraic literature, including modern Judæo-German literature of this country, and in its sets and current issues of Jewish periodicals, this Library already has one of the best, if not the best, collections of its kind in the United States, and it is desired to make it as complete as possible in reports of all Jewish charities, institutions and societies. in this country. It is hoped that the officers of such institutions will aid in making the files of this collection complete in all reports and documents issued by them or relating to their work. Among the important gifts received this month were 2 volumes from the Ministre de l'Instruction de Belgique; 58 volumes and 4 pamplets from H. E. Deats; 5 volumes from the Secretary of State for India; 39 pamphlets from the "Ingeniörforening," Denmark; 2 volumes from the Peabody Institute; II volumes from the Railway Branch N. Y. C. Y. M. C. A. ; 285 pamplets from the Social Reform Club; 2 volumes from the Victoria Institute; and a large collection of theatrical programmes, criticisms, etc., from H. W. Thompson. |