WILLIAM W. APPLETON.
JOHN BIGELOW.

JOHN L. CADWALADER.
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
CLEVELAND H. DODGE.
JOHN MURPHY FARLEY.
SAMUEL GREENBAUM.

H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY.

JOHN S. KENNEDY.
EDWARD KING.

LEWIS CASS LEDYARD.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
MORGAN J. O'BRIEN.
STEPHEN H. OLIN.
ALEXANDER E. ORR.

GEORGE L. RIVES.

CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL.

EDWARD W. SHELDON.

George W. SMITH.

FREDERICK STURGES.

HENRY W. TAFT.

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.

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ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

Published monthly by The New York Public Library at 425 Lafayette Street, New York City. President, John Bigelow, 425 Lafayette Street; Secretary, Charles Howland Russell, 425 Lafayette Street; Treasurer, Edward King, 80 Broadway; Director, John S. Billings, 425 Lafayette Street.

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Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894.

VOL. XII.

OCTOBER, 1908.

No. 10.

REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER.

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

During the month of September there were received at the Library, by purchase, 1,130 volumes and 495 pamphlets; by gift, 956 volumes and 3,688 pamphlets; and by exchange, 81 volumes and 669 pamphlets, making a total of 2,167 volumes and 4,852 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 2,825 volumes and 1,836 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 3,426, and of slips for the copying machine 2,819; from the latter were received 12,706 cards.

The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in the Astor and Lenox Branches during the month: