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. Alexander Maitland. George Brinton Mcclellan, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. OFFICERS President, Hon. John Bigelow, LL.D. Secretary, Charles Howland Russell, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street. BRANCHES—REFERENCE Lafayette Street, 425. (astor.) Fifth Avenue, 8qo. (lenox.) CIRCULATION MANHATTAN. East Broadway, 33. (chatham Square.) 23d Street, 209 West. Near 7th Avenue. (muhlenberg. Department Headquarters.) 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (riverside. Travelling Libraries.) 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.) 110th 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.) RICHMOND. Tottenville. Amboy Road, near Prospect Avenue. 42d Street, 226 West. During the month of March there were received at the Library by purchase, 1,291 volumes and 409 pamphlets; by gift, 5,257 volumes and 3,656 pamphlets; and by exchange, 72 volumes and 3,830 pamphlets, making a total of 6,620 volumes and 7,895 pamphlets. There were catalogued 4,024 volumes and 1,802 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 8,667, and of slips for the copying machine 2,065 > from the latter were received 12,959 cards. 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: Circulation Department. The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Ibsen's Plays, Clemens' "Christian Science," Gasquet's "Lord Acton and his circle"; (adult fiction): Chambers's "Fighting Chance," Harrison's "The Far Horizon," Klein's "The Lion and the Mouse"; (juvenile fiction): Alcott's "Little Women," Barbour's " Crimson Sweater," Aldrich's " Story of a bad boy." CIRCULATION STATISTICS FOR MARCH. BRANCHES. MANHATTAN. East Broadway, 197 Rivington Street, 61 ■» Le Roy Street, 66 Bond Street, 49 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue 10th Street, 331 East 13th Street, 251 West 22d Street, 230 East 23d Street, 209 West 34th Street, 215 East 40th Street, 501 West 42d Street, 226 West 50th Street, 123 East 51st Street, 463 West 59th Street, 113 East 67th Street, 328 East 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. Travelling Libraries 77th Street. 1465 Avenue A 79th Street, 222 East 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue. Blind Library 96th Street, 112 East 100th Street, 206 West 110th Street, 174 East 123d Street, 32 West 125th Street, 224 East 135th Street, 103 West 145th Street, 503 West 156th Street. 922 St.Nicholas Avenue. BRONX. RICHMOND. Port Richmond Totals The most important gift of the month consisted of 332 volumes from the Honorable Elihu Root, Secretary of State, being a collection of reports, orders, statutes, translations of Spanish laws and documents, official opinions, decisions circulars, etc., printed in the course of the military government of Porto Rico Cuba, and the Philippine Islands, and of the civil government of the Philippine Islands, together with some volumes relating to kindred subjects, such as the China Relief Expedition of 1900, and various features of the War with Spain, the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, and our insular policy and affairs. Other gifts were from: Lord Amherst of Hackney, "A hand-list of a collection of books and MSS. belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney," compiled by Seymour de Ricci, Cambridge, 1906 (privately printed); from the British Museum, 3 volumes of catalogues, including Barclay V. Head's "Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia," London, 1906, J. F. Blumhardt's "Catalogue of the Marathi Guajarati, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Pushtu and Sindhi MSS., London, 1905, and G. K. Fortescue's "Subject Index of the Modern Works added," 1901-1905, London, 1906; from Loys Delteil, a copy of his "Le peintre graveur illustré, XIX et XX siècles. Tome 2: Charles Meryon," Paris, 1907; from the Frankfurter Zeitung, i volume and 2 pamphlets, including the "Geschichte der Frankfurter Zeitung 1856 bis 1906," Frankfurt a. M., 1906; from George A. Lucas, a copy of "Manet, graveur et lithographie, par Etienne Moreau-Nélaton," (No. 4 of 20 copies printed); from the American Ambassador to Mexico, a set of plans, with a descriptive album, relating to the General Hospital of Mexico, Mexico, 1905; from Charles B. Meyer, 48 volumes relating to railways in New York State; from the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, 4,000 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets, a collection of briefs from 1900 to 1906; from Nicholas Wapler, 44 volumes of the "Illustrirte Zeitung," Leipzig, covering the period from 1884 to 1905; from Arthur Sandys, his "Annals of de Normandie as preserved in documents, notes, private papers, public records, the writings of old authors and the registers of the City of Geneva," Cambridge, 1901, one of fifty copies printed; from T. Jefferson Coolidge his "Autobiography," privately printed at Boston in 1902; and from Horace Hart of the Oxford University Press his " Ñutes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794,'' printed in an edition of 150 copies in 1905. Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the circulation branches were as follows: East Broadway, Birds, Birthdays of celebrated men and women, Books on Japan, John Fiske, Music and musicians, Sir Edwin Landseer; Rivington Street, Indoor games, Sea stories, Roumania; Hudson Park, Lakes of New York and the Erie Canal, Niagara Falls, New England States, Cats, Ireland, Knights of the Round Table; Bond Street, Folk Songs, Central Africa, Picturesque New Zealand, New York Harbor, Education, Battle of Gettysburg, Spectrum analysis and the stars, Color photo, Optics of painting; Ottendorfer, Japan, Animal stories, John Milton; Tompkins Square, Alice in Wonderland, Lists of books in connection with public lectures, Panama; Muhlenberg, Modern Government, Julius Caesar, Lafayette, Pilgrims; George Bruce, Wild animals, Country life; 67TM Street, The baby, Circus books, Picture books, Birds, Animals; Riverside, Country homes, Playtime, Henry W. |