REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1915. 



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At the end of the fiscal year just closed there are on hand 95,585 

 volumes of miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a 

 sale value of $221,107.60; also 30,428 numbers of the Index 

 Medicus, having a sale value of $15,486.75. The total value of 

 pubhcations on hand is therefore $236,594.35. 



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 hbraries and to authors, but to a 

 noteworthy extent also by sales, a total of 143,896 volumes of 

 pubhcations of the Institution. 



^ ^ ^ The data furnished in the following table are of 



Growth and Extent .... 



of Institution's statistical interest in respect to the work of pub- 



hcation of the Institution. Two hundred and 



ninety-nine volumes, embracing a total of more than 79,000 



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



Institution. 



Table shoiving 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 

 fourteen years from 1902 to 1915. 



