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Meissonier, Munkacsy, Pine, Reynolds, Schreyer, Stuart, Troyon, 

 Turner, Ver])oekhoven, II, Vernet, Vibcrt, and Wilkie. There is also 

 a small collection of statuary and prints; and, finally, some minerals, 

 ceramics, glass, etc., in wooden cases. The nunil)er of visitors to the 

 museum was 34,000." 



The Lenox Library pul)lished or printed between 1879 and 1893, 

 seven Contributions to a Catalogue of the following contents: The 

 Hulsius collections of voyages; the Jesuit relations; the voyages of 

 Thevenot; the Bunyan, Shakespeare, Milton, and Walton collections; 

 also the letter of Columbus on the discovery of America (1-492), as 

 well as catalogues of paintings of the Lenox and Stuart collections, 

 and twelve short title lists. 



The new library, which cml)races the two justdescribed and the Lenox 

 collection, and has ))een administered as the new library since 1896, is 

 controlled b}' a director, under a board of trustees of 21 members, 

 with a president at its head, and also 5 committees, nominally con- 

 trolled by the l^niversity of the State of New York. (See Albany.) 

 All the following applies to the Astor, Lenox, and Tilden libraries 

 together. The New York Public Library will soon be increased by a 

 great distribution section, which will include all the public libraries 

 belonging to the city. New York has too long been without such a 

 central library. More than 600,000 books and pamphlets are now 

 accessible and about 7.5,000 are not yet installed.'' In 1899 more than 

 115,000 readers called for over 500,000 volumes, without including 

 the reference library — an average of 347 readers daily. In the year 

 named the extraordinarily large increase of almost 165,000 volumes 

 and pamphlets was recorded. The average annual increase is now 

 estimated at over 50,000 numbers; 3,925 periodicals were received,'" of 

 which 1,207 were American and 909 German; 819 of these were dona- 

 tions. There were 148,000 parts of periodicals consulted during last 

 year, an average of more than 500 daily.'' The annual increase 

 amounts to 6,400 numbers, including 48 dailies, 543 weeklies, 1,075 

 monthly and 580 yearly papers.' All of these are purchased. In 1899 

 more than 91,000 volumes and pamphlets were catalogued on 225,000 

 cards. The catalogue of the reading room, accessible to all, contains 



"New York has three public picture galleries: Those of the Metropolitan Museum, 

 Brooklyn Institute, and Lenox Library. Of prominent private galleries I may 

 mention those of (". T. Yerkes, II. O. Havemeyer, (t. AV. Vanderbilt, U. (Jouhl, 

 and W. A. Clark. 



''In 1902 there were 777,768 books and pamphlets in the library. The Berlin 

 Library has over 1,000,000 volumes and manuscripts, the Paris Library nearly 

 3,000,000, the British JNIuseum from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000. 



'In 1902, 4,495. 



'^In 1902, 226,39(5 current periodicals were called for, being a daily average of 750. 



' In 1902 the average of separate nundiersof periodicals (excluding annuals) received 

 daily was 280, the total number for the year being 86,800. 



