GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, 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., 40 Lafayette Place.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. JOHN S. BILLINGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

BRANCHES-REFERENCE

Lafayette Place, 40. (ASTOR.)

Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.)

CIRCULATION

MANHATTAN.

East Broadway, 31. (CHATHAM SQUARE.)

East Broadway, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.)
Eldridge Street, 184. (University Settlement Building.)
Bond Street, 49. Near the Bowery.

7th Street. 106 Avenue C.

8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.)

13th Street, 251 West. 23d Street, 130 West. 34th Street, 215 East. 42d Street, 226 West. 59th Street, 113 East.

65th Street, 116 West.

76th Street, 538 East.

Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.)
Near 6th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG.)
Between 2d and 3d Avenues.
Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE.
Near Lexington Avenue.

Near Broadway. (Riverside.)

79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.)

82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.)

Dept. headquarters.)

91st Street, 121 West. Bet. Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) 100th Street, 206 West. Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) Near 3d Avenue.

110th Street, 174 East.
123d Street, 32 West.
125th Street, 224 East.
156th Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue.

Tottenville. 137 Johnson Avenue.

(WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.)

RICHMOND.

During the month of April there were received at the Library, by purchase, 612 volumes and 368 pamphlets; by gift, 1,238 volumes and 3,740 pamphlets; and by exchange, 122 volumes and 5,271 pamphlets, making a total of 1,972 volumes and 9,379 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 3,005 volumes and 3,202 pamphlets, for which were Written 13,169 cards, in addition to which 3,295 slips were written for, and 18,252 Cards received from, the copying machine.

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): Leupp's "The Man Roosevelt," Brownell's "Heart of Japan," Mitchell's "Organized Labor"; (adult fiction): Johnston's "Sir Mortimer," Glasgow's "The Deliverance," Norris's "The Pit"; (juvenile fiction): Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," Alcott's "Little Women," Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy."

The most important gifts of the month were: From the British Museum, volume 3 (N-Z) of the "Subject-index of modern works," R. K. Douglas's Supplementary Catalogue of Chinese books and manuscripts (1903); R. L. Hobson's Catalogue of the collection of English pottery (1903); Campbell Dodgson's Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts (Vol. 1, 1903); E. R. J. Gambier Howe's Catalogue of the Franks collection of British and American bookplates (1903); from the Bureau International de la Cour Permanente d'Arbitrage, "Recueil des actes et protocoles concernant le litige entre l'Allemagne, l'Angleterre et l'Italie, d'une part, et le Vénézuela d'autre part... La Haye, Sept., 1903Feby., 1904"; from Atherton Curtis, I print, Dürer's Triumphal arch of Maximilian; from Robert Needham Cust, "Linguistic and Oriental Essays, written from the year 1840 to 1903," 7th ser. (London, 1904); from the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Stadt New York, 112 reports of German aid societies in various Amercan cities; from E. D. French, 1 volume, "Histoire de la langue universelle," par L. Couturat and L. Leau, Paris, 1903; from the John Rylands Library, 3 pamphlets, including "Works upon the study of Greek & Latin palæography and diplomatic in the John Rylands Library," and a catalogue of an exhibition of Bibles illustrating the history of the English versions from Wiclif; from Sir Thomas LauderBrunton, 2 volumes and 3 pamphlets, including "The Reform Club, its founders and architect, by Louis Fagan " (London: B. Quaritch, 1887); from Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, 5 volumes and 87 pamphlets, relating to the United States and the Philippines, the labor question, etc.; from Mrs. Henry Marquand, 338 volumes and 380 pamphlets, Government documents, addresses of Elliot C. Cowdin, etc.; from the National Indian Association, 15 volumes and 94 pamphlets, reports of the several branches of the work and vols. 1 to 16 nos. 1-7 of "The Indian's Friend"; from Eliot Norton, 117 volumes and 32 pamphlets; from the King's Printer, Nova Scotia, 9 volumes and 3 pamphlets, all Government documents; from the Ontario Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F., 26 volumes of proceedings, etc.; from E. C. Richardson, "Writings on American history, 1902, an attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of books and articles on United States history published... 1902... by E. C. Richardson and A. E. Morse" (Princeton, 1904); from Heinrich Armin Rattermann of Cincinnati, "Deutsch-Amerikanische Magazin," 1886-87 (the only volume published), with 9 pieces of his own relating to German-American history and biography; from Mrs. Mary F. Smith, "The Ballous in America" by Adin Ballou (Providence, 1888); and from Gaylord Wilshire, 4 volumes and 18 pamphlets, a file of "The Challenge" and "Wilshire's Magazine."

The exhibition of the loan collection of mezzotints was continued during the month at the Lenox Branch; the exhibition of the Raffet collection was continued until April 28, when it was replaced by an exhibition of lithographs by Eugene Isabey. At the Astor Branch were shown plates from H. I. Triggs' "Formal Gardens in England and Scotland." The exhibition of New York City views was continued at the Harlem Branch, and the "Arts of Japan" at the Chatham Square Branch.

At the Circulation branches the picture bulletins and reading lists were as follows:

CHATHAM SQUARE, Wild animals, Electricity, Alexander Hamilton, Shakespeare;

EAST BROADWAY, Famous men and women born in April, Shakespeare, E. E. Hale, Irving, Wordsworth, Spring, Korea, Japan, Russia; ELDRIDGE STREET, Shakespeare, Paul Revere, Famous men and women born in April; BOND STREET, New books, Arbor day; AVENUE C, Famous men and women born in April, Arbor day, Battle of Lexington, New books, Nature study, Spring, Shakespeare; OTTEndorfer, St. Louis Exposition, Arbor day; JACKSON SQUARE, New books, Louisiana purchase, Automobiles, Nature study; THIRTY-FOURTH STREET, Arbor Day, New books; BRUCE, Nature study, Arbor day, Fairy tales; FIFTY-NINTH STREET, Spring, Arbor day, St. Louis Exposition, Louisiana purchase and territory; RIVERSIDE, New books; ST. AGNES, Hawthorne, Arbor day; BLOOMINGDALE, Detective stories; AGUILAR, Famous men and women born in April, Birds, Flowers, H. C. Andersen, Shakespeare, Greece; YORKVILLE, Arbor day, New books, Sweden, Denmark, also an exhibition of the Horace K. Turner Company collection of pictures of American art, which was visited by 169 people.