Report of the President of the University of Rochester, and the Report of the Treasurer (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... The Report of the Assistant Librarian To the President: The report on the Library for the year ending April 30, 1910, is as follows: The last entry on the accession book on April 30, 1909, was 51,175. The last entry is now 53,409, an increase of 2,234. The number of volumes regarded as now belonging to the Library is 52,606, exclusive of the portion of the Harkness collection and of the Welles gift awaiting cataloging, and the Fairchild Geological Library, which is shelved and administered in the Geological Laboratory. The 2,234 added volumes came from the following sources: By purchase: Vols. General Fund 343 Rathbone Library Fund 448 Sage Fund Ill Terry Fund 55 Willard Fund 7 Welles Fund 3 Fassett Fund 2 Sage, Hubbell and Hale Fund 1 Sherman Scholarship Fund 72 Morgan Zoological Fund 3 State Grant Fund 28 Total purchased 1073 By gift: From Mr. Hiram W. Sibley 159 From the Harkness Library 367 From Mr. F. R. Welles 204 From various donors including deposits by the United States Government 431 Total presented 1161 Besides departments, officers and legislators of the National, State and other governments, corresponding institutions of learning, the publishers of several periodicals and the publishers for several learned bodies, the following have made gifts of books to the Library during the year: Mr. E. Stanley Abbot; Miss Belle Andriessen; Mr. R. H. Arnot; Rev. C. F. W. Betz, Jr., '96; Mr. Frederick Betz, '06; Prof. H. F. Burton, LL.D.; Rev. Frederick Campbell, ex-'77; Mr. Herbert N. Casson; Mr. Frank Chamberlin; The Croceus Board, '10; Mr. Henry G. Danforth; Emmet Densmore, M. D.; Rev. W. F. Faber, D. D., '80; Mr. E. C. Farnsworth; Rev. W. C. Gannett, D. D.; Rev. Frank Gardner, '81; Miss Fannie C. Goddard; Mr. Stephen M. Griswold; Mr. R. D. Havens, Ph. ...