REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1922. 



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At the end of the fiscal year there are on hand 91,618 volumes of 

 miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a sale value of 

 $273,748.25; also 33,280 numbers of the Index Medicus, having a 

 value of $19,980. The total value of publications on hand is there- 

 fore $293,728.25. It is fitting to add that since the foundation of the 

 Institution there have been distributed, chiefly by gifts to libraries 

 and to authors, but to a noteworthy extent also by sales, 242,196 

 volumes of publications of the Institution. 



The data furnished in table F are of statistical 

 interest in respect to the work of publication of the 

 Institution. 466 volumes, which embrace a total of 

 130,766 pages of printed matter, have thus far been issued. 



Growth and Extent 



of Institution's 



Publications. 



-Table showing number of volumes, number of pages (octavo and quarto), and totals of 

 pages of publications issued by the Institution for each year and for the 

 twenty years from 1902 to 1922. 



