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(•i pa^es, with 230 titles). Rciulini,*- lists on special topics are also 

 pul)lished, for example, Good books on Electricity for popular Read- 

 ing (2 pages); Greek Sculpture, in connection with the Exhibition 

 of Casts in the Bufi'alo Fine Arts Academy (3 pages); Interesting 

 Books for Boys and Girls from 14 to 18 Years {U pages). Other pu))li- 

 cations are: Finding list of history, travel, political science, geography, 

 anthropology- (224 pages, octavo, October, ISOS), and Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of the Gluck Collection of Manuscripts and Autographs in the 

 Buffalo Public Library (149 pages, on handmade paper), July, 1891>. 



Every year there appears an annual report, the third one for 181>1>, 

 with 55 pages and a map of the city, on which all delivery stations, 

 also the schools, fire houses, and police stations, to which the libi'ary 

 gives books, are designated in red. The last annual report of the 

 Buffalo Library appeared in 1897, as the sixty-first (with 90 pages), 

 and the last annual report of the Young Men's Association, in 1886, 

 as the fiftieth (with 51 pages). The first report of the i^ufl'alo Library 

 counts, therefore, from the fifty-first, while the public library since 

 its establishment in 1897 has numbered its reports from one, and states 

 on the title page that it is at the same time such and such a 3'ear of 

 the Buffalo Library. The third was the sixty-fourth 3'ear. 



Branch libraries are now being established in the city. 



With the wise administration which we have described, and the active, 

 constantly increasing patronage of the people on the one hand and the 

 prospective great development of the city and the devotion of its citi- 

 zens on the other, a much wider sphere of activity and a future rich in 

 blessings may confidently be predicted for the Buffalo Public Library." 



"In the State of New York there were, in 1898, 408 pnl)Hc Hbraries with a ratio of 

 1,800,000 books to 7,000,000 inhabitants; altogether 98;i Hbraries with 5,400,000 

 books (Extension Bulletin, No. 27, University of the State of New York, 1899, pp. 

 48 and 50). 



In the State of Massachusetts, in 1899, there were for 3,000,000 inhabitants 344 

 public libraries with 3,-700,000 hooks, each of which were lent on an average more 

 than twice. During the last lifty years $8,000,000 in cash have been donated or 

 be(iueathed for the buildings and books, besides i>resents of books and other collec- 

 tions. In 1899 only 7 towns with less than one-half per cent of the total poj>u- 

 lation were without a public library. In 1895 Massachusetts had in all its libraries 

 combined over 7,000,000 books, to the value of !5!10,000,0()0 (9th Report Massachu- 

 setts Free Public Library Committee, (luoted in American Ixei'lcir of licrieivs, Sep- 

 tember, 1899, p. 324). 



In the State of New Hampshire public libraries, like public schools, are obligatory. 



In the United States, with its 70,000,000 iuhubitants, there were, in 1896, 4,020 

 public libraries, society libraries, and school libraries of over 1,000 volumes each, 

 a total of 38,500,000 books aud pamphlets, of which 2 libraries had over half a mil- 

 lion books, 4 between 300,000 and 500,000, 28 between 100,000 and 300,000, (19 

 between 50,000 and 100,000, 115 between 25,000 an<l 50,000, 411 between 10,000 and 

 25,000, 030 between 5,000 and 10,000, and 2,Y27 between 1,000 and 5,000. Of publii' 

 libraries with over 3,000 volumes there were 627, witli a total of 9,000,000 books, 

 which were loaned out for home use on an average three times a year (United States 

 Bureau of Kducation No. 232, 1897). 



