Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, pr. as an appendix to the 4th annual report of the board of regents of the Smithsonian inst. (Smithsonian reports). |
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500 volumes Academy alphabetical American annual increase annum appropriated association Athenæum Benjamin Franklin Bibliotheca Sacra books are arranged books are lent Boston Athenæum Brown University cabinet catalogue was printed consult the library dollars donations edifice entitled erected feet high Franklin Hall Historical Society hour incorporated institution January legislature libra librarian Library Company library contains library is open library occupies library room library was commenced library was founded manuscripts maps and charts Massachusetts Mercantile Library number of volumes o'clock a. m. officers open daily open every day pages 8vo pamphlets permanent fund persons possesses present president printed catalogue Professor proprietors public library published purchase of books reading-room secretary Seminary shelves Smithsonian Institution societies of students Society Library subscribers subscription take out books Thomas tion trustees University vols vols.-Founded vols.-The college library vols.-The library week William York York Society Library
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Stran 9 - To discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and of this State in particular.
Stran 143 - December, 1846, conferring upon it authority " to establish at or near the town of R6mney a seminary of learning, for the instruction- of youth in the various branches of science and literature.
Stran 54 - In 1806 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the spontaneous vote of the University of Glasgow; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the National Institute of France.
Stran 87 - Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge and the general good of society...
Stran 33 - Books, and also the English statutes, as well as the principal treatises in American and English law, besides a large collection of Scotch, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and other foreign law, and a very ample collection of the best editions of the Roman or civil law, together with the works of the most celebrated commentators upon that law.
Stran 34 - They consist of valuable select works, principally in modern Theology, with some of the early Fathers in the original. Means have been recently devised to add to the Library valuable modern works in Theology and Morals, as they are published. The Medical Library is in the Medical College in Boston. It is placed there for the convenience of students attending the medical lectures. The number of books is about ten or twelve hundred.
Stran 55 - At a meeting of the standing committee of the corporation of Brown University, held January 10, 1831, it was unanimously resolved;— " 1. That immediate measures be taken to raise, by subscription, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the purchase of books for the library, and apparatus for the philosophical and chemical departments of Brown University.
Stran 71 - An alphabetical index to subjects, treated in the reviews, and other periodicals, to which no indexes have been published ; prepared for the library of the Brothers in Unity, Yale College.
Stran 56 - The room appropriated to the Library, at the time when the Library Fund was raised, " was an apartment in University Hall, crowded to excess, unsightly and wholly unsuited for the purpose to which, from necessity, it was devoted." To remedy this defect, the Hon. Nicholas Brown erected at his own expense a beautiful edifice, for a Library and Chapel ; to which, in testimony of veneration for his former instructor, he gave the name of Manning Hall. At the dedication, February 4, 1835, Dr.
Stran 180 - The money which may have been or shall be paid by persons as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...