RECEIPTS COPYRIGHT FICE: OF Receipts and ex penses Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1909-10 as above... $104, 644. 95 15, 685.00 The amount expended for salaries ($87,761.97) includes the sum of $4,680 paid in salaries to certain employees who have been classifying and crediting the old deposits received prior to 1897. This expenditure is chargeable to arrears. The current expenses of the Office are therefore considerably more than met by the current receipts. The above statement includes all disbursements except the cost of furniture, of printing, and of binding, but only cash receipts. In addition to cash fees the copyright business brings each year to the government, in articles deposited, property to the value of many thousands of dollars. During the past fiscal year 219,024 such articles were received. The value of those drawn up into the collections of the Library far exceeded the amount of net cash earnings. The work of the Copyright Office is divided into two parts: (1) The current business, covering applications. received since the reorganization of the Office under the Register in 1897; (2) The arrears, the classification, crediting, and indexing of the entries and deposits prior to 1897 (i. e., from 1870, when the copyright business was first placed under the Librarian of Congress). On the 6th day of July, 1910, when the report of the Copyright Office was submitted, the remittances received up to the third mail of the day had been recorded and acknowledged; the account books of the bookkeeping division were written up and posted to June 30, and the accounts rendered to the Treasury Department were settled up to and including the month of June, while earned fees to June 30, inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. All copyright applica tions received up to and including June 30 had been passed upon and refunds made. The total unfinished business for the full thirteen years from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1910, amounts to but $383.98, against a total completed business for the same period of $963,067.70. At the close of business on July 6, 1910, the works deposited for copyright registration up to and including June 30 had all been recorded except 10 books, 2 pieces of music, 2 dramas and 15 photographs, 29 works in all, and the certificates and notices of entry had been made, revised, and mailed. The Catalogue of Copyright Entries, which since the transfer of its publication from the Treasury Department to the Library of Congress has been issued in four separate parts, had been brought forward, in the new series, to Part 1, Group 1, books, etc., Vol. 7, No. 26, June 30; Part 1, Group 2, pamphlets, leaflets, etc., Vol. 7, Nos. 22-26, June; Part 2, periodicals, Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June; Part 3, musical compositions, Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June; Part 4, works of art, etc., Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June. ness prior to July 1, 1897 During the fiscal year about 17,500 articles received prior Copyright busito July 1, 1897, were examined preparatory to being credited to their respective entries. Entries were found for some 15,000 of these and the articles were arranged by their entry numbers to facilitate crediting later. No entries were found for about 2,500 pieces which were therefore laid aside until the entire remaining accumulation of uncredited pamphlet matter, numbering 34,444 pieces, has been examined. During the past thirteen years the business done by the Office shows the following: Total number of entries.. Total number of articles deposited.. Total amount of fees received and applied. 1, 341, 603 2,372, 943 $963, 067. 70 $145, 799. 88 deposits During the forty years since the copyright work became a business of the Library of Congress the total number of entries has been 2,222,459. Elimination of Owing to the increase of business and the pressure of new business caused by the new copyright act, without an adequate corresponding increase in the force (requested in the urgent deficiency bill of 1910), no attention could be given to the assorting of the accumulated deposits, and correspondence necessary to the reduction of the mass contemplated by the new act. Contents of the Library June 30, 1910 INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets made 1909, and June 30, in June, 1902, as being accurate, the total contents of the Library, inclusive of the Law Library, at the close of the past two fiscal years were as follows: Printed books and pamphlets.. Manuscripts (a numerical statement not feasible) Maps and charts (volumes and pieces). Music (volumes and pieces).... Prints (pieces). . Miscellaneous. Net accessions a Includes the Yudin collection not hitherto enumerated. 93 The accessions of books and pamphlets during the past ACCESSIONS: two years, in detail, classified by source, were as follows: Books and pamphlets by sources By transfer from U. S. Government libraries... Library of Congress publications (specially bound). Gain of volumes by separation in binding, and by binding of books and periodicals previously uncounted or uncounted in their present form. Total added-books, pamphlets, and DEDUCTIONS By consolidation in binding.. Duplicates sent in exchange. Returns of college and library catalogues. Books withdrawn from stacks and returned to Copyright Office. Net accessions. • This includes the Yudin collection not hitherto enumerated. Gifts Purchases Among the gifts of printed material notable for their bibliographic interest were the privately printed illustrated catalogues of the collection of pictures and also of the collection of old plates owned by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan; five fascicules of the "Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy;" the catalogues of the Demotic Papyri and the Coptic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library; and seven volumes of the facsimile reproductions of early editions of Don Quixote, issued by the Hispanic Society of America. Other notable gifts of the year in the form of manuscript, of music, of map, and of print are mentioned and described under their respective heads. See especially those of manuscripts. The purchases of the year have not included any considerable collection of printed books. Deserving of mention, however, are the following: Collection of early editions of old English plays (in many cases the first), including the plays of Addison, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman, Cibber, Congreve, Davenant, Dekker, Dryden, George Farquhar, Fielding, Fletcher, Heywood, Aaron Hill, John Home, Ben Jonson, Nathaniel Lee, David Mallet, Massinger, Shadwell, Steele, and more than fifty others. This serves to round out and complete the Longe collection bought last year. It also gives standing to the library as possessing a considerable body of the works of the early English dramatists in their first texts. London News Letters, comprising official news of daily occurrence, dated from Whitehall and London, 1665-1685, addressed to William Scott, of Harden, County Berwick, and other Scotch lairds, comprising several hundred letters on upward of 3,000 leaves, written by various contemporary hands, in nine volumes. In consequence of the ban upon printed periodicals, these news letters, which did not require a license, form the best sources of information upon current events. Readers of Macaulay are familiar with his |