MAJOR-GENERAL WOOL TO W. L. STONE ON THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS PIRACY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, 1823 LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO IRELAND, PART II. PRINCIPAL ACCESSIONS IN MARCH PRINCIPAL DONORS IN MARCH NEW YORK 115-119 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., 40 Lafayette Place. 91st Street, 121 West. Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) 100th Street, 206 West. 110th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th STREET, 224 East. Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) Near 3d Avenue. During the month of March there were received at the Library, by purchase, 1,000 volumes and 848 pamphlets; by gift, 1, 142 volumes and 2,105 pamphlets; and by exchange, 476 volumes and 3,675 pamphlets, making a total of 2,618 volumes and 6,628 pamphlets. There were catalogued 3,360 volumes and 4,161 pamphlets, for which were written 8,032 cards, in addition to which 4,256 slips were written for, and 15,774 cards received from, the copying machine. 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 following statistics for the Astor branch in March, 1903, 1904, 1905, show an interesting increase in the use of the Library: The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction) Haeckel's "Wonders of Life," McLellan and Dewey's "Applied Psychology," and Ulmann's "Landmark History of New York"; (adult fiction) Ward's "The Marriage of William Ashe," Williamson's "The Princess Passes," and Lane's "Nancy Stair "; (juvenile fiction) Tomlinson's "Two Young Patriots," Alcott's "Little Women," and Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy." The most important gifts received during the month were: from the Burgomaster of Antwerp, 14 volumes and 5 pamphlets, being the "Bulletin Communal de la Ville d'Anvers," etc.; from the Estate of George Becks, 233 pieces, being an addition to the bequest noted in February; from the Commission de la Belgica, 17 of their publications on Antarctic exploration; from Mrs. Albert W. Berg, 14 volumes of musical journals; from the British Museum, 5 volumes, being the "Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Cyprus," by George F. Hill, 1904, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities," by H. B. Walters, 1903, "Index to the Sloane Manuscripts," by Edward J. L. Scott, etc.; from the Cassella Color Company, 8 volumes of their publications on dye stuffs; from Samuel Colman, 35 of his etchings; from Mrs. Henry Draper, 43 volumes and 51 pamphlets, being a collection of folk songs of various countries; from Louis R. Ehrich, a copy of the edition de luxe of the catalogue of the Ehrich Gallery of paintings; from H. O. Haughton, 13 of his monographs on shipping, etc.; from the "India Rubber World," 12 volumes and 16 pamphlets of publications relating to the Argentine Confederation, etc.; from Arthur Lovell, copies of his "Ars Vivendi " and "Beauty of Tone in Speech and Song"; from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, copies of its illustrated catalogue of paintings; from the Secretary of State of New York, the current Senate and Assembly documents in 21 volumes; from Hon. Redfield Proctor, "Records of Conventions in the New Hampshire Grants for the Independence of Vermont, 1776-1777," reproduced in facsimile from manuscripts in the Library of Congress, Washington, 1904; from Philip Schuyler, 191 copies of the "Life of General Philip Schuyler," by Bayard Tuckerman, 1905; from Mrs. Theodore Sutro, 2 copies of her book "Milestones on Life's Pathway"; from Herbert L. Thowless, 7 volumes and 57 pamphlets, being reports of the Board of Trade and various city documents of Newark, N. J.; and from the Secretary of State of West Virginia, 17 documents, being journals and bills of the Senate, etc. During the month two new circulation branches have been opened-the PORT RICHMOND Branch on Saturday, March 18th, and the MOTT HAVEN Branch on Friday, March 30th. At the opening of the PORT RICHMOND Branch (the second of the circulation branches to be opened directly by the Library, and the first so opened in the Borough of Richmond), the Hon. Charles V. Fornes, President of the Board of Aldermen, presided as the designated representative of the Mayor of the City. An address on behalf of the Trustees of the Library was made by Charles Howland Russell, Esq., and short addresses were also made by Hon. George Cromwell, President of the Borough of Richmond; by Dr. J. S. Billings, Director of the New York Public Library, and by Mr. A. E. Bostwick, Chief of the Circulation DepartMusic was furnished by the Glee Club of Public School No. 20, Port ment. |