copyright deposits

Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the Copyright Elimination of act of 1909, 15,545 volumes have been transferred to the Library from the deposits in the Copyright Office during the fiscal year; 4,252 books have been deposited in governmental libraries in the District of Columbia, and 27,516 articles have been returned to copyright claimants, including 13,642 books, 3,324 prints, 3,108 periodicals, 7,430 motion picture films, 8 photographs and 4 pieces of music.

In addition, 597 volumes of American poetry and plays have been forwarded through the Order Division to Brown University, to be added to 19,797 making the total number of volumes transferred 20,394.

INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY, PRINTED MATERIAL 1

Library, June 30, 1919, and June

(From the report of the Chief of the Order Division, Mr. Slade) Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets Contents of the made in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the Library, inclusive of the Law Library, at the close of the 1920 past two fiscal years, were as follows:

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1 For Manuscripts, Maps, Music, and Prints see under those headings infra.

ACCESSIONS:

Books and pam phlets by sources

The accessions of books and pamphlets during the past two years, in detail, classified by source, were as follows:

133, 766

Total added-books, pamphlets, and pieces. 100, 954

663

143

82

89

In the fiscal year that ended with June 30, 1914, our accessions of books and pamphlets numbered 125,054, a total that had been exceeded but once in the history of the Library, that being in 1909, when the Yudin collection was purchased. In 1914 the European war began. In 1915 our accessions of books and pamphlets dropped to 110,564, in 1916 to 88,101, in 1917 to 85,948, in 1918 to 76,601. In 1919 the upward trend resumed, and 96,033 books and pamphlets were received, while in the fiscal year just ended the number was, as stated, 120,777. This total includes purchases of several collections of war material and also considerable arrears of continuations and other volumes previously ordered in Europe but not delivered until this past year. The limits that have been reached on shelving space, Material by caused the suspension in January of the acceptance of material by transfer from United States governmental libraries, excepting so far as the material might be found to serve a particular purpose here or fill an important need. The books and pamphlets recorded in the table of statistics as having been received by transfer were, almost without exception, received before this action was taken. From the library of the American commission to negotiate peace we received by transfer 1,420 books, 1,561 pamphlets, and 3,088 numbers.

transfer

Forty-three volumes of bound collections of engravings, GIFTS originally deposited with the Cosmos Club under the bequest of Mr. and Mrs. George Lothrop Bradley, were formally transferred by the board of management of the club to the Library of Congress in order that they might be made more effective in use through union with similar material collected by Mr. Bradley and directly bequeathed by him to the Library.

The bequest of Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk brought to the Library 443 books, 10 pamphlets, and 11 maps, augmenting certain sections of our collections in history, travel, and literature.

From Dr. Charles Alwis Hewavitarne, of Colombo, Ceylon, came the second, third, and fourth volumes of the "Atthakathā” or Pali commentaries on the Tripitaka: Dhammapāla. Paramattha Dípaní, or The commentary of the Thera-Gáthá, 1918; Dhammapāla. Paramattha Dípaní, or The commentary of the Theri-Gáthá, 1918; Buddhaghosa, Sumangala vílásiní, or The commentary of the Díghanikáya. Pt. 1, 1918.

The Spanish delegation to the International Labor Conference presented various publications of the Instituto de Reformas Sociales and of the Instituto Nacional de Prevision, and also certain other works on labor and welfare, together about 100 volumes and pamphlets.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace placed with us a duplicate set of its publications.

The Société Marseillaise de Crédit Industriel et Commercial et de Dépôts presented as a memorial to its late president, Monsieur Jules Charles-Roux, three handsomely printed volumes, all in quarto, sumptuously bound (by Gruel), "Le livre d'or de la Camargue," volume 1 (all published); "Le Costume en Provènce," 2 volumes bound in 1; and “Le Jubilè de Frèdèric Mistral''; all by Monsieur Charles-Roux, and containing results of his indefatigable researches.

Another delightful achievement in typography and bookbinding, "Lord Howard of Effingham and the Spanish Armada," in the series of publications of the Roxburghe Club, came as the gift of Lord Aldenham, while yet another attractive specimen of book making, "Curiosities of early economic literature," was the gift of the author, Dr. Edwin R. A. Seligman.

Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice presented the four beautiful volumes comprising the catalogue of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University.

Dr. Thomas Featherstonhaugh gave a collection of material relating to John Brown, consisting of 55 volumes, 6 pamphlets, 122 prints, and 11 numbers.

Some unusual specimens of early legal literature, added by Dr. William Vail Kellen to his previous gifts, are noted in the report of the Law Librarian below.

Mr. Charles P. Greenough presented three early printed items: "Oratio Dominica," London, 1713; "Mr. Colman's funeral discourse upon the death of the pious and bountiful Mr. Hollis of London," Boston, 1731; and "A discourse occasioned by the death of the Reverend Jonathan Mayhew, D. D., by Charles Chauncy, D. D.," Boston, 1766.

From Mr. Arthur L. Bailey, librarian of the Wilmington Institute Free Library, came a volume containing a number of pamphlets in Spanish, among which was a copy of the "Real cédula de erección de la Compañía de Filipinas," 1785.

Interest in our Oriental collections has brought to us a number of gifts that should be noted. Mr. C. L. Chang presented two author's divans bound in one volume, “Chien Kuang Tang Shih Tsi," by Me Chien Chu, and "Tsang Hsueth Shih Chao," by Ling Hsiao Peng. Because of the attitude of the authors and members of their families towards the Ching Dynasty, their writings were long prohibited. After the Chinese revolution of 1911, copies of these divans were found and published by the donor's father, Mr. Kia Mo Chang. Mr. S. C. Kiang Kang-hu gave two volumes in the Chinese language containing collections of examination papers of successful candidates taking certain provincial examinations. From Mr. Yu Yung-Lung, we received interesting rubbings of various inscriptions. The Hon. Koreshiro Wada, a well-known book collector of Tokio, presented the "Hosho yoroku," in 6 volumes, a finely executed Japanese work containing reproductions of old Chinese and Japanese books.