Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-10
GROWTH OF LIBRARY
1,702,685 Is Now Total Num-
Der of Books on Shelves.
ACCESSIONS ARE NOTABLE
Collections of Music, Engravings,
Maps, ETC., Increased.
METHODS ARE INDORSED
Code Of Rules Adopted by English
Association and May Be Ex-
tended Throughout Europe.
ARE NOTABLE
ARE I

Books of almost Priceless value have
been added to the collection in the Lii
brary Of Congress during the past year,
according to the annual report of Her
bert Putnam, librarian. submitted to Con-
gress today.
During the year which the report COW
making the total number in the Library
1 .7O2, 6S5. The collection of maps and
charts now numbers 111,343, the music
collection comprises sol ,29a volumes and
pieces, and the statistics Of the prints di-
vision show 3O3. O36 pieces.
Among noticeable purchases made dur
ing the year was collection OF African
linguistics, about 500 pieces. formed by
Wilberforce Eames, and one of early Eng
lish plays, about 700 pieces. consisting
Of original editions, some very rare, of the
early English dramatists.
China's Gift to Library.
Among the gifts a leading place is
taken by that of a set of the great Chi
nese Encyclopedia given by the Chinese
government, and brought to Washington
by the special ambassador charged with
the Acknowledgements from China to the
United States for the remission of the
Boxer indemnity. The government OF
China alone among nations has attempted
to embody in a single literary record the
entire knowledge of an epoch.
Other Gifts of Books.
Among the gifts from individuals are to
be noted over 100 volumes from the IL
brary Of the late George Bancroft, pre-
sented by Mrs. j. G. Bancroft DAVIS, to-
gether with an illustrated copy of DR..
Bancroft's History and a unique copy Of
the plates illustrative of the stained-glass
windows in st. Johns Church, Washing
ton.
The Library has gained valuable ma
terial through a system OF transfers from
the government departments, especially
from the State. Treasury, Post Office and
Interior Departments. From the state
Department were received all the "ap-
plications for office" during Washington's
administration; from the Treasury De-
partment, the original vouchers and &C
counts Of Washington's expenses during
the revolution; from the Interior Depart
ment historical documents regarding rev.
dictionary pension claims and papers per-
tanning to the slave trade and negro COLO
nizatton. This material all found its
place in the manuscripts division.
Manuscripts Recently Discovered.
The accessions to the manuscripts also
include papers on the Shaker movement
from j. P. MacLean, and a collection OF
papers from Francis Burton Harrison.
consisting of letters to his father, Burton
N. Harrison: his grandfather. Jesse B.
Harrison, and his great-grandfather. Sam
uel j. Harrison, from Thomas Jefferson,
Henry Clay and others.
BY purchase the collection has been en-
riched by the letters and log books of Adj
miral Sir George Cockburn Q712-1SJ3) In
fifty-four volumes, containing the MARIA
tive of the cruise of Lord Nelson's squad
ron from Gibraltar and the battle of the
Nile; the operations of the British squad
ron in American waters In 1914 and the
voyage taking Napoleon to st. Helena
in 1915.
Items deserving special notice are the
manuscript originals of the speeches by
Luther Martin and James McHenry to the
Maryland legislature relating the pro-
ceedings in the constitutional convention
of 1871 The McHenry document has spe-
cial Significance from the fact that 1t was
hitherto unknown to historians and even
escaped the compiler of the McHenry
papers. These documents were found
among the papers of John Leeds Bozman,
historian of Maryland, which were pur-
chased during the year.
New Music and Engravings.
The collection of music received i'm
portant accessions. To be especially noted