The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history . and Statistics has beenmentioned previously. He was connected with theLibrary nearly 41 years. While in charge of theCatalogue Department he edited for publication theimportant Ticknor Catalogue of Spanish and Portu-guese Books, the Hand Book for Readers, theBulletin of books added to the Library, and otherprinted catalogues and publications. All of these,particularly the Ticknor Catalogue, with its elabo-rate notes, exhibited the scholarly research and liter-ary care which marked his work as a public card catalogue, in its
The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history . and Statistics has beenmentioned previously. He was connected with theLibrary nearly 41 years. While in charge of theCatalogue Department he edited for publication theimportant Ticknor Catalogue of Spanish and Portu-guese Books, the Hand Book for Readers, theBulletin of books added to the Library, and otherprinted catalogues and publications. All of these,particularly the Ticknor Catalogue, with its elabo-rate notes, exhibited the scholarly research and liter-ary care which marked his work as a public card catalogue, in its present form, isprincipally due to him. It grew under his super-vision during 20 years of painstaking effort, and theresult secured not only the appreciative recognitionof readers who found the catalogue a practical guideto the collections within the Library, but also theunqualified commendation of competent experts. James M. Hubbard, who joined the staff atthe time of Mr. Wheelers death, prepared the firstpart of the noteworthy Barton Catalogue. 192. ^.tV £lsoi-c & Co.,-Bascon
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