GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. OFFICERS President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D. First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D. LL.D. Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq. Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street. 10th Street, 331 East. 13th Street, 251 West. 22d Street, 230 East. 23d Street, 209 West. 34th STREET, 215 East. 40th Street, 501 West. 42d Street, 226 West. 50th Street, 123 East. 51st Street, 463 West. 59th STREET, 113 East. 67th STREET, 328 East. (TOMPKINS SQUARE.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.) Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) Near 7th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG.) Between 2d and 3d Avenues. Department Headquarters.) Between 10th and 11th Avenues. (ST. RAPHAEL'S.) 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (RIVERSIDE. 76th Street, 538 East. (Webster.) TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) During the month of February there were received at the Library, by purchase, 717 volumes and 298 pamphlets; by gift, 1,046 volumes and 2,810 pamphlets; and by exchange, 67 volumes and 6,356 pamphlets, making a total of 1,830 volumes and 9,464 pamphlets. There were catalogued 2,883 volumes and 3,129 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 8,662 and of slips for the copying machine 2,594; from the latter were received 12,962 cards. The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Exhibition at the Lenox during the month: The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): London's "War of the Classes," Hunter's "Poverty," Shaw's "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant"; (adult fiction): Wharton's "House of Mirth," Glasgow's "Wheel of Life," Jacobs' "Captains All"; (juvenile fiction): Barbour's "Behind the Line," Rhoades' "Little Girl Next Door," Burnett's "Little Princess." Important gifts of the month were: From the Architectural Record Company, a copy of Sweets' indexed catalogue of building construction, 1906; from the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, "Catalogue des gravures contemporaines formant la collection Ardail, par Georges Riat," 1904; from William K. Bixby, a privately printed volume of "Letters from George Washington to Tobias Lear, with an appendix containing miscellaneous Washington letters and documents reprinted from the originals in the collection of Mr. William K. Bixby of St. Louis," Rochester, N. Y., 1905; from Charles W. Bump, "Down the historic Susquehanna, a summer's jaunt from Otsego to the Chesapeake, by C. W. Bump," Baltimore, 1899, and "London plays of 1901, an American critic's summary and review of the season," Baltimore, 1901, a volume of newspaper clippings made up into book form; from Mrs. William Allen Butler, 42 copies of the poems of William Allen Butler; from Joseph H. Choate, 282 volumes and 671 pamphlets, a miscellaneous collection of English and American publications, documents, etc.; from the Chief Engineer, Columbus, Ohio, 4 volumes and 9 pamphlets, relating to water supply and sewage disposal; from James S. Cushing, a copy of his Genealogy of the Cushing family, Montreal, 1905; from Charles Stewart Davison, "Daniel Boone, contribution toward a bibliography of writings concerning Daniel Boone, by William Harvey Miner," New York, published by the Dibdin Club, 1901; from Sir James Dewar, 10 pamphlets relating to his work in physics and physical chemistry; from the Friends' Book and Tract Committee, New York, 14 volumes of works by and relating to the Society of Friends; from B. Frank Green, his Gordon Genealogy, in manuscript; from Charles R. Knapp, his Knapp genealogy, 1905; from the Prince of Monaco, through the Musée Océanographique de Monaco, 30 volumes, 56 pamphlets, and 5 maps, the important oceanographic work entitled "Résultats des campagnes scientifiques, accomplies sur son yacht par le Prince Albert 1er Prince de Monaco, publié sous sa direction avec le concours du Baron Jules de Guerne," Monaco, 1889-1905; from Feliks Piotrowski, "Opis ciata ludzkiego czyli antropografia," Warsaw, 1906; from the Statistical office of Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentine Republic, the "Anuario estadistico de la ciudad," 1904; from the Royal Society of St. George, London, three of its publications; from the U. S. S. Pennsylvania its monthly paper "The Liberty Bell Magazine" and from the U. S. S. Kentucky its paper the "Kentucky Budget." At the LENOX Branch the exhibition of manuscripts, books and portraits relating to Benjamin Franklin was continued. At the ASTOR Branch plates from a collection of reproductions of the works of Quentin Matsijs and "Handzeichnungen, Stiche und Gemälde von Lucas van Leyden" and from "L'Estampe Moderne" were exhibited, and the permanent exhibition of photographs of branch libraries was enlarged. At the MUHLENBERG branch plates from a set of photographic reproductions of paintings in the Dresden Gallery were placed on exhibition. Other exhibitions from the print room shown in the circulation branches remain as before. Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the circulation branches were as follows: CHATHAM SQUARE, Animals, Nathan Hale; EAST BROADWAY, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Victor Hugo; RIVINGTON STREET, Sociology; HUDSON PARK, |