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He also submitted the following communication from the Libra- 

 rian relating to the present condition of the library : 

 Dr. C. E. Briggs, Ch. Com. on Library, Acad, of Science. 



Dear Sir :— I am instructed by Dr. Auler, President of the Board of Mana- 

 gers of the St. Louis Public School Library, to inform you that at a meeting 

 of the Book Committee held Thursday, 28th inst., it was ordered that the 

 duplicate books belonging to the library, and not in circulation, be re- 

 moved from the book-cases and stored away, and that the shelf-room thus 

 gained, together with that which will result from bundling and storing 

 away the Transactions of the Academy (as you suggested), be devoted to 

 the books and pamphlets of the Academy. The work of getting the pam- 

 phlets into book-cases will be begun at once, and the cataloguing of the 

 entire library of the Academy will be pushed on as rapidly as possible. 



The count made for the U. S. Commissioner of Education shows the 

 contents of the library to be as follows : 



407 bound volumes Transactions of Societies 

 904 " " miscellaneous works 



962 unbound " Transactions of Societies 

 162 " " miscellaneous works 



(The last two items represent complete vols.) 

 214 " " Transactions (incomplete) 



95 " " miscellaneous " 



54 " " pamphlets, Transactions 



133 " " pamphlets, miscellaneous 



(Computed at 10 pamphlets per vol.) 



2931 vols, total contents of library. 

 As regards the unbound volumes and pamphlets, the haste with which 

 the count had to be made rendered absolute accuracy impossible. I be- 

 lieve, however, that the corrected count, to be made while cataloguing, 

 will not differ materially from the above. 



In addition to the foregoing, the Academy library collection contains 

 the following numbers of its own Transactions : 



12 copies Vol. 1, No. 1, Transactions 

 104 " " 1, " 2, 



no " " 1, " 3, 



304 " " 1, " 4, 



256 " " 2, " 1, 



384 " " 2, " 2, 



488 " " 2, " 3, 



543 " •" 3> " ii 

 469 " " 3, " 2, - 



750 "' Charter, Constitution, &c. 

 I beg to suggest that a large proportion of the above unbound volumes 

 could be bound in "Emerson's Patent Binders" at a cost (labor included) 

 not to exceed from 13 cents to 45 cents per volume, according to size. We 

 are using these binders very largely in the Public School Library, and 

 intend binding with them all our loose pamphlets. Samples of them may 

 be seen in the library. I have the honor to be 



Your very obedient servant, 

 St. Louis, Oct. 30, 1S75. JNO. J. BAILEY, Librarian Ac of Sci. 



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