Annual report of the Library Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for the year 1906.

  • College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Annual report of the Library Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for the year 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Library Endowment Fund, 166 volumes 679.28 Weir Mitchell Fund, 51 volumes 173.57 Philadelphia Medical Society Fund, 3 volumes . . . 30.58 Lewis Rodman Fund, 49 volumes 280.40 John F. Weightman Fund, 6 volumes 25.11 Caspar Wistar Fund, 44 volumes 199.70 Special Accounts: Fund for completing files of journals, 32 volumes . . . 72.90 Journal Association, 24 volumes 149.59 New Book Fund, 35 volumes 68.64 J. Ewing Mears Account, 17 volumes 78.27 S. D. Gross Library Account, 16 volumes 92.16 From the George B. Wood Library Fund 8300.44 has been expended for library supplies, stationery, etc. One thousand six hundred and ten volumes have been bound. There have been 7378 visits to the Library recorded, of these 3175 were made by the Fellows of the College. 21,864 volumes have been consulted beside those taken directly from the shelves by Fellows, of which no record can be kept. 5332 books have been taken out. 2S38 works and 1108 vol- umes have been catalogued and 8164 cards have been written during the year. All books and the more important pamphlets received during the year have been catalogued, and the work on old pamphlets bound in volumes has been completed. The Committee appropriated $240 for the classification of the pamphlets accumulated during the past seventeen years; this work will be completed during the present year, including the additions of 1905 and 1906 (16,082). 20,952 cards have been revised, type-written, and indexed during the year. At the request of the Library Committee the College, at its meeting of Decem- ber 6, 1905, authorized the Librarian to solicit contributions to defray the expense of completing the revision of the catalogue of the Library. Within six weeks’ time the Librarian had obtained subscriptions of sufficient amount to complete the work of revision; these subscriptions to be paid in full; or, in three payments as best suited the subscribers. About three-fifths of the amount subscribed has been received. This year the books of the entire Library have been examined and com- pared with the shelf-list. At the last stock-taking (1904) three books were reported as missing, viz.: 1. Army Medical Department Report 1882, v. 24, London, 18S4. 2. Galen, C. De l’usage des parties du corps humaine, 16°, Lyon, 1566.