REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1916. 



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At the end of the fiscal year there are on hand 100,128 volumes 

 of miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a sale 

 value of $243,142.35; also 31,081 numbers of the Index Medicus, 

 having a sale value of $16,147.75. The total value of publica- 

 tions on hand is therefore $259,290.10. 



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 159,908 volumes of 

 publications of the Institution. 



.t. J T7 . . The data furnished in the following table are of 



Growth and Extent .... 



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

 lication of the Institution. Three hundred and 

 thirty-four volumes, embracing a total of more than 91,000 

 pages of printed matter, have thus far been issued b}^ the 

 Institution. 



Table shoicing 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 1916. 



