60 DEPARTMENT, REPORTS. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN 



To the President Michigan Agricultural College : 



Sik — I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of 

 the College Library and the work done since my appointment as librarian, 

 at the beginning of the current year: 



The library work has been done mostly through student labor. The cata- 

 loging of accessions has gone forward according to the plan of my prede- 

 cessor, and something has been done in advancing the index catalogue. 



The library has been freely used by nearly all members of the school, 

 officers and students. The records show the number of books drawn to be 

 2,821, of which 321 were history, 28? poetry, 1,327 fiction, 177 criticism, 

 564 science, 145 philosophy. 



The accessions for the year have been 438, of which 117 were by purchase, 

 128 by donation, 193 by binding. 



The following is a list of donations and donor3, other than State reports 

 and college catalogues : 



Brewer, M. S. — Growth of Industrial Art. 



Baird, H. W. — Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees. 



Cooley, Thos. M. — 2d An. Rept. Interstate Commerce Commission. 



Hough, W. S. — A Critique of Kant. 



Hussey, Dr. C. G. — Principles of Economic Philosophy. 



Kansas (Agr'l Coll. Library)— Mich. Bd. of Agr'l Repts. for 1852-66-78; 

 Rept. Kan. Hort. Soc'y 1884-5-6 ; Forestry Rept., 1885-86; Senate Docu- 

 ments, 35th Cong., vol. 16. 



Knoblauch, Herr Dr. — 5 vols. Nova Acta Academic. 



Lawton, Chas. D. — Mines and Mineral Statistics, 1888. 



Levering, Mortimer — Am. Shropshire Sheep Record. 



Mills, W. T.— The Science of Politics. 



Perry, Mrs. Benj. F.— Sketches of South Carolina, by Gov. Perry. 



Reynolds, Mrs. H. G.-*-The Dignity of Man, Sermons, by Bishop Harris. 



Stockbridge, Hon. F. B. — Message and Documents, 1886-7; Greeley 

 Relief Expedition, 1884; Observations United States Observatory, 1883; 

 Report on Wool and Other Animal Fibers; Report Smithsonian Institute, 

 1885, part 2d. 



Spaulding, Hon. 0. L.— 4 vols. 10th Census United States; 4 vols. War of 

 the Rebellion. 



Taft, Prof. L. R.— The Practical Fruit Grower; 30th An. Rept. Missouri 

 Hort. Soc'y. 



Waters, 0. — From City to Surf. 



Willits, Mrs. Edwin— Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs; The Gospel 

 Choir. 



The following is a list of pamphlets donated, other than public reports: 



Agr'l Students' Gazette, regularly. 



Alger, Gen. R. A.— Eulogy on Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan. 



Browning, Oscar — Aspect of Education. 



Craigie, Maj. P. G. — Rept. on French Agr'l Schools. 



Forbes, S. A., Ph. D. — Studies on the Chinch Bug. 



Gompers, Sam'l — Trade Unions, by Wm. Trant. 



The periodicals subscribed for by the Library are as follows, viz. : 



