REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1921. 



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, „ ^,. The following table shows the amounts received 



Sales of Pubhca- . . . ixit%tt r 



tions and Value of froHi Subscriptions to the index Medicus, from 



sales of Year Books, and from sales of all other 



publications for each year since the foundation of the Institution : 



Table showing sales of puhlicalions. 



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At the end of the fiscal year there are on hand 93,333 volumes 

 of miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a sale 

 value of $284,281.75; also 34,777 numbers of the Index Medicus, 

 having a sale value of $20,089.25. The total sale value of pub- 

 lications on hand is therefore $304,371. 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, a total of 226,039 volumes of 

 publications of the Institution. 



