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You are Viewing an Archived Copy from the New Jersey State Library 38 REPORT OF STATE LIBRARIAN. DOMINION OF CANADA. ANNlJAL REPORT Ottawa-Library of Parliament. Senate Journal. Vol. 29,1895, and 30,1896, '.' .. OF THE Statutes of Quebec, 59th Victoria, 1895, . Statutes of Canada, 59th Victoria, 1896. Vols. 1 and 2 in one, . Journal House of Commons. Vol. 30, 1896, . Canada Supreme Court Reports. Vols. 24 and 25, . Appendix to House Journal. Vol. 29, 1895,. Sessional Papers. Vol. 28, 1895, Nos. 1 to II; Vol. 29, 1896, Nos. I to 5, Geological Survey of Canada. Vol. 7 (N. S.), 1894, . State Librar·ian Geological Survey of Canada, colored sheets. Nos. 556, 557, 561, 562, 563,567,571, ...................•.... OF ,.~3·~~~? ; APR 7 1898 '* "-,.---. ~;t~ ~~~~.', \I.:l~ 'NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR 1897. 13LAlRS'l'OWN, N. J.' TilE BI.AIRSTOWI' PRf:SS. IS'.)7 /; You are Viewing an Archived Copy from the New Jersey State Library Commissioners of the Library. GOVERNOR, JOHN W. GRIGGS. CHANCELLOR, ALEXANDER T. McGILL, JR. CHIEF JUSTICE, WILLIAM J. MAGIE. SECRETARY OF STATE, GEORGE WURTS. TREASURER, GEORGE B. SWAIN. COMPTROLLER, WILLIAM S. HANCOCK. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, SAMUEL H. GREY. LIBRARIAN, MORRIS R. HAMILTON, ANI) SECRETARY OF THE BOARD. Ii·" You are Viewing an Archived Copy from the New Jersey State Library REPORT. OFnCE OF THE 1 NEW JERSEY STATE LIBRARIAN, ( TRENTON, N. J., No\'. 1st, 1897. ) To J-Iis Excellency, john W. Griggs, G01.Jernor, and ex-officio President oj the Board ojCommissioners oj the State Library of./Ilew Jersey: SIR-Permit me to submit the following report of the condition of the State Library for the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1897. The number of books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers on file in the State Library at the time of my last annual report, was 47,II4· During the past year the following additions have bec-n Blade by exchanges with the General Government, the States and Territories, Honolulu and Canada, donations and purchase, as more particularly specified in the Appen~ix : By exchange from other States, Territories, Honolulu and Canada 486 By exchange from the United States, ---------- 320- By individual donations, books, pamphlets, &c., ---- IS0- By individual donations, newspapers, - ----- 90- By subscription, papers and magazines, ------ 39- By purchase, miscellaneous books, --------- 259 By pnrchase, law books, ----------- 308 From the State, bound volumes, ---------- 220 Total additions, -------------- 1,872 Making the whole number of books, &c., now in the Library 48,986. On the 15th of last September the following dnplicate State books Were transterred to the State Custodian of Documents, for the pur pose of relieving the shelves of the Library:-6I3 copies of Legis lative Documents. back to 1892; 484 copies of Senate Journals, back to 1893; 412 copies of Assembly Minutes, back to 1894 nlaking 15°9 books-reserving to the Library enough for regular Use. You are Viewing an Archived Copy from the New Jersey State Library 6 REPORT OF STATE LIBRARIAN. REPORT OF STATE LIBRARIAN. 7 Among the most important Law Books added to the Library a N. J., has supplied the Library with a finely illustrated copy of the Ontario & New Brunswick, Canada Reports, nearly cOlnplete. the "Book of the Naval Reserves of N. J." (Battalion of the East) the Encyclopaedia of English Law; Clark's Mineral Law Digest: for 1897. Joyce on the Law of Insurance; Clinton's "Remarkable Cases":' The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts has favored the Libraty Morrell's American Electrical Cases; Short on Rail way Bonds and with a large, square Album of engravings of "Selected Works in its Mortgages; and the Hawaiian Island Law Reports, in ro volumes Permanent Collection" which assimilates finely with the other art complete. works of the Library. Among the Miscellaneous works are the Encyclopredia of Elec It was stated in my last Report, that the opening of the valuable trical Engineering; Broglie's Tallyrand; Poole's Index to Periodi reference books of the Library to the young'scholars of the State cal Literature; History of Banking in all Nations; Putnam's and City Schools, was an experiment fraught with much perplexity, !'Books and Their Makers" (in two vols.); Nansen's "Farthest and we found it so indeed. After the destruction of much paper North"; Thompson's "New Light on the North West"; Dictionary • and considerable injury to several books, we were compelled to de- of Religious Sects; Davis' Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, &c.; Record prive the scholars of the use of ink, and, while we continue to fur of the Esopus Dutch Church; Historic Churches of AmeI:ica; nish paper, insisted upon their supplying their own lead-pencils. Maspero's "Dawn of Civilization" and "The Struggle of the However, this seems to make little difference in the number of Nations"; Lady Jackson's Works; Hittell's History of California; attendants. During the nine school months oflast year, there Was Harper's Library of the 'World's Best Literature; Hawthorne's an average daily attendance, during five days of the week, of 43 Literature of All Ages; English Notes and Queries, complete to pupils-amounting in gross to 7,740 for the year. The average date; and 46 volumes added to the North American Review. number of reference books used was 50 per day-or 9,000 for the Among the Donations in the Appendix, it will be found that year. In fact, during the last two years, the Library has become Adjt. General vV. S. Stryker, has added three important mono. an essential referendary to the teachers of the Public Schools: and graphs to those heretofore given to the LibrarY:-"The Continental under the management of 111y patient and attentive Assistant, in the Army at the Crossing of the Delaware, 1776"; "New Jersey Conti Miscellaneous Department, f-Ir. John M. Rogers, the pupils seem nental Line in the Virginia Campaign, 1781", and "The Battle of to be substantially benefitted. Thus, while the Library does not Trenton, 1776." . circulate its books, it certainly has a large circulating attendance, It will also be seen that Dr. E. S. Wyckoff, of Philadelphia, has calculated to prove of immense service to the State. presented the Library a rare work, entitled the "Charter and Docu Since my last Report, a Revolving Bookcase, for Bibles, Diction ments relating to the Hunterdon Co. N. J. Copper Mining Co., 3ries,Gazetteers, &c., to relieve the Patent Office Report Division, 1859. " has been added to the Miscellaneous Department: two new stands Miss Viola V. Holbrook, Secretary, has presented the Library, for bound files of newspapers have been erected in the corridor, aud "the Ancestral Register of the General Society of Daughters of the the Law Department has been supplied with two splendid Oak Revolution" for 1896 . 'Cases, almost exactly like the old ones. For these the Library is The Library has also received frotu the office of Foreign Affnirs, indebted to the State Honse Commission and the handiwork of the at Honolulu, an illustrated work descriptive of "The Resources of State Carpenter, Mr. Edward F. Scott. the Hawaiian Islands in 1896." These additions compelled the narrowing of the Alcoves at the The Lib:':~ry is also indebted to Capt. Wm. H. Webb, of New 'West encl of the Law Library, and the consequent use of narrower York, for t 1\'0 royal folio books of plates of Ship Building, comprising Alcove Tables-which, "I,,\·ith chairs to match, were also promptly plans, mea'>l1rements and drawings of a large number of celebrated furnished by the Commi~sion Of course, the New Cases required wood and i:'on vessels. reshelving of the State and U. S. Reports and the Text Books, Commander WaShington Irving, U. S. S. Portsmouth, Hoboken, causing the old lawyers to be s,)mewhat at a loss in finding their ,..,. You are Viewing an Archived Copy from the New Jersey State Library 8 REPORT OF STATE LIBRARIAN. references-but as the arrangement is upon the old Alphabe" system, the services of our efficient Assistant in the Law Dep ment, Mr. John D. Faussett, will soon abate the inconvenience. The two departments of the Library are now rendered adequa APPENDIX. for a ten years' extension-when it will be necessary to throw iron balcony around the inside wall of the Library, to duplicate I capacity for fifty years more,-upon the present Alcove System. nade to the State Library During the Our thanks, and those ofour regular visitors, especially of the Sta Year 1897. Schools and Business Colleges, are again due to 90 editors of coun weekly papers who have supplied us regularly with their is,-;ues, as named in the Appendix. BY PURCHASE. During the last year the number of Registered visitors, other thaD regular attendants, at the Library, ,vas 2,880, being exactly 300 Miscellaneous more than the previous year. Many of these visitors expressed their Broglie's Talleyrand 5 Vols. ... ... ' 5 astonishment and delight at finding the State had such a splendid Library. Meyers' "Art Smithing." J. R. Lowell's Poems During the year 142 books have been bound, and 384 repaired. British Indies (Story of the Nations) . There were also ten newspaper files bound, and two large volnmes Pro. N. J. Bar, reI. to death of Gen. Garrett D. "Vall (pam.) ofD. S. War Maps of the Rebellion. In addition to these there Gov. j\IcDowall's Address to Princeton Alumni. ". were 20 of our regular county atlases repaired. Rev. Dr. Yeoman's Sermons at 1st Presbyterian Church, Trenton. 1 In conclusion, I may be pardoned for expressing my deep regret Judge Field's Address to Survivors of State Cons. Con. (pam.) at the death of Chief Justice Beasley, who was a member of the N.