The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . r 1 LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS. 363 pamphlets. The Library Journal not long ago gave a list offorty-seven libraries in the United States, each of which containsmore than 50,000 volumes, making an aggregate of 5,000,000 vol-umes. Eight of these have over 150,000 volumes each, and theymay thus be grouped in the order of their magnitude : the Con-gressional, Boston Public, Harvard, Astor, Mercantile
The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . r 1 LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS. 363 pamphlets. The Library Journal not long ago gave a list offorty-seven libraries in the United States, each of which containsmore than 50,000 volumes, making an aggregate of 5,000,000 vol-umes. Eight of these have over 150,000 volumes each, and theymay thus be grouped in the order of their magnitude : the Con-gressional, Boston Public, Harvard, Astor, Mercantile of NewYork, Mercantile of Philadelphia, Athenaeum of Boston, and theLibrary Company of Philadelphia. The cities of Boston, NewYork, Philadelphia, and Washington are numerically foremost intheir library resources. Museums upon a generous scale are of recent growth in thiscountry, as a few familiar facts will show. Yalensians rememberthe ofttold story, that when Silliman was appointed a professor atNew Haven, early in this century, he took with him to Philadel-phia, to be named, all the minerals of Yale College in a candle-box. This was the nucleus of the superb collections now includedin the Peabod
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