Excerpt from Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 17: November, 1913 During the month of October there were received at the Library volumes and pamphlets, of which volumes and pamphlets were credited to the reference department and volumes to the circula tion department. Of the reference department receipts volumes and 496 pamphlets were purchases, volumes and pamphlets were gifts, and 33 volumes and 7 pamphlets were exchanges. For the circulation department volumes were purchases and 480 were gifts. The reference department catalogued volumes and pamphlets; for this work were written cards, copy slips for the printer, and 232 slips for the duplicating machine. From these 232 slips cards were manifolded. Cataloguing of volumes and 542 pamphlets was completed by addition to cards. In the printing office titles were set, from which cards were printed. The circulation department cataloguing force wrote 489 cards for the union catalogue, entered volumes in the union catalogue and shelf list, classified 599 volumes. At the branches cards were written. Through the interbranch loan system books were asked for and were supplied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.