REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1914. 



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At the end of the fiscal year just closed there are on hand 91,951 

 volumes of miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a 

 sale value of $214,791.45; also 29,481 numbers of the Index 

 Medicus, having a sale value of $14,772.75. The total value of 

 publications on hand is therefore $229,564.20. 



In connection with the above statement 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 132,430 volumes of 

 publications of the Institution. 



The data furnished in the following table are 



Growth and Extent ..... . . 



of Institution's of Statistical interest m respect to the work of 



ica ions. publication of the Institution. Two hundred and 



seventy-six volumes, embracing a total of more than 73,000 



pages of printed matter, have thus far been issued by the 



Institution. 



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

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

 thirteen years from 1,902 to 1914- 



