BULLETIN

PREDAL HRRARY,

NOV 28 1910

WILLIAM J. GAYNOR, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
JOHN PURROY MITCHELL, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

OFFICERS

President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D.

First Vice-President, JOHN L. CADWALADER, LL.D.

*Second Vice-President.

Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street.

Treasurer, EDWARD W. SHELDON, Esq., United States Trust Company, 45 Wall Street.
Director, JOHN S. BILLINGS, D.C.L., LL.D., 425 Lafayette Street.

Assistant Director, EDWIN HI. ANDERSON, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street.

BRANCHES-REFERENCE

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Avenue. (COLUMBUS.)

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BULLETIN

OF THE

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

Published monthly by The New York Public Library at 425 Lafayette Street, New York City. President, John Bigelow, 425 Lafayette Street; Secretary, Charles Howland Russell, 425 Lafayette Street; Treasurer, Edward W. Sheldon, 45 Wall Street; Director, John S. Billings, 425 Lafayette Street.

Subscription One Dollar a year, current single numbers Ten Cents.

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894.

VOL. XIV.

NOVEMBER, 1910.

No. 11.

REPORT FOR OCTOBER.

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

During the month of October there were received at the Library, by purchase, 1,313 volumes and 623 pamphlets; by gift, 1,288 volumes and 2,792 pamphlets; and by exchange 111 volumes and 147 pamphlets, making a total of 2,712 volumes and 3,562 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 3,243 volumes and 3, 180 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 7,494 and of slips for the copying machine 5,645; from the latter were received 29,712 cards.

The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in the Astor and Lenox Branches during the month: