REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 1918. 



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Sales of Publica- 

 tions and Value 

 of those on hand. 



The following table shows the amounts received 

 from subscriptions to the Index Medicus, from 

 sales of Year Books, and from sales of all other 

 pubHcations for each year since the foundation of the Institution : 



Table showing sales of publications. 



At the end of the fiscal year there are on hand 99,189 volumes 

 of miscellaneous pubhcations and Year Books, having a sale 

 value of $253,630.25; also 35,895 numbers of the Index Medicus, 

 having a sale value of $19,266.00. The total value of pubhca- 

 tions on hand is therefore $272,896.25. 



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 171,195 volumes of 

 pubHcations of the Institution. 



^ _^i. J T7_x .. 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. Three hundred and 

 seventy-two volumes, embracing a total of 102,758 pages of 

 printed matter, have thus far been issued by the Institution. 



