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 LIBRARY LIBURNIA 405 PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE UNITED STATES CONTAINING 25,000 VOLUMES OR MORE. PLACE. Name. si y 182T 1802 1770 1827 1807 1807 1852 1826 1638 1852 1848 1861 M 111 111 Augusta, Me Brunswick, Me. . . Hanover, N. H... Amherst, Mass... Andover, " . . Boston, ' . . Cambridge, Mass.. New Bedford, " Salem, Springfield, Worcester, " Providence, R. I.. Hartford, Conn.... 11 U Middletown, Conn. New Haven, " Albany, KY Brooklyn, " Buffalo, " '.'.'.'.'. Ithaca, " . New York, N.J.. West Point, " Princeton, N. J.. . Carlisle, Pa Harrisburg, Pa... Philadelphia, " .. it n u u ' Annapolis Md State 28,000 35.000 50,000 29,000 32,800 103,000 260,500 85,000 200.000 80,000 30,000 36,000 28,000 55,000 83,500 42,000 34,500 44,500 26,000 25,500 100,000 67,500 25,500 26,500 48,000 27,500 40,000 50,000 148,000 25,000 80,000 40,000 148,000 64,000 32.500 25^00 28.500 25,000 31,000 30,000 25,600 26,000 101,000 105,000 25,000 40,000 27,300 56,000 81,000 261,000 38.000 25,000 80,000 36,000 80.000 26,000 62.000 85,500 89,000 26.000 so;ooo 80,000 25,000 40,000 28,000 40,000 26,000 36,000 42,000 25,000 34,000 38,000 26,000 'l50 1,000 800 600 15,666 1,200 1,500 2,666 1,566 8,100 '800 1,200 1,700 2.350 3,500 2,000 2,000 2.500 3,500 1,000 4,500 500 700 400 2,500 12,666 3,566 300 12,000 2,500 1,600 400 800 8,666 1,200 1,200 1,900 15,666 400 5,000 1,300 300 1,600 3,000 2,500 Bowdoin college Dartmouth college . Amherst college Theological semin'y. Athenaeum Public State Harvard university. Public. . Essex Institute City Museum of natural history Antiquarian society. Public 1812 1859 1768 1836 1858 1838 1831 1700 1818 1868 1857 1S35 1868 1820 1848 1754 1869 1804 1820 1700 1S36 1815 1748 1812 1783 1816 1812 1860 1731 1821 1749 1827 1839 1857 1789 180? 1865 1840 1822 1825 1805 Brown university. . . A thenaeum "Watkinson and Con- necticut hist. soc. . Young men's insti- tute Wesleyan university Yale university State general . " law Long Island histori- Mercantile Young men's associ- Cornell university. . Apprentices 1 Astor Columbia college. . . Eclectic Historical society. . . Mercantile Society Union theological seminary U. S. military acad'y Coll'e of New Jersey Theological semin'y- Dickinson college. . State Academy of natural sciences Brotherhead Library company. . . Mercantile University of Pa.. . . State Baltimore, " Georgetown, D. C. Washington, " Richmond, Va Charlottesville, Va. Columbia, 8. C.... New Orleans La. Mercantile Peabody institute... Georgetown college. Congress Surgeon general's office Patent office State Univ'y of Virginia. . University of South Carolina State Cincinnati Ohio Public 1867 1835 1817 1835 1871 1841 1865 1849 1874 1857 1865 1846 1829 1853 1853 1854 Columbus " Mercantile . State Marietta, ". . Louisville, Ky Ann Arbor, Mich.. Petroit, Mich Lansing, " Madison, Wis Chicago 111 Marietta college Public Univ'y of Michigan. Public . State State historical so- ciety Public Evanston, 111 St. Louis, Mo Sacramento, Cnl. . . San Francisco, Cnl. Northwestern uni- versity Public school Mercantile St. Louis university. State Mercantile Odd Fellows' These figures, which include bound volumes only, do not fairly represent the value of the libraries of the United States, as most of them contain in addition many thousands of unbound pamphlets. The public library of Boston, for example, has more than 100,000 pamphlets and unbound serials, the antiquarian society of Worcester 70,000, the library of congress 50,000, &c. If these were counted as they would be under the English law, which defines the term book to include " every volume, part or division of a volume, pamphlet, sheet of letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart, or plan separately published," many of our libraries could be stated to contain several thousand volumes more. The same or a similar rule is followed also in many of the European con- tinental libraries, which will account partly for their rapid increase in the last decade. The number of volumes in college libraries in the above table represents all the collections, legal, theological, medical, &c., under the govern- ment of the several institutions. LIBRATION. See MOON. LIBRI-CARRUCCI DELLA SOMMAIA, Guiilaunic Brntns Idle Tfnioleon, count, a French mathema- tician, born in Florence, Jan. 2, 1803, died at Fiesole, near Florence, Sept. 28, 1869. He be- came professor of mathematics at the univer- sity of Pisa, but, having been compromised by his political views, fled in 1830 to France. Be- ing naturalized as a Frenchman (Jan. 2, 1833), he was called to the academy of sciences as successor of Legendre, became inspector gen- eral of public instruction, and inspector gen- eral of the libraries of France, an office cre- ated expressly for him. Several works were published by him during this period, among which were Histoire des sciences mathematiques en Italie depuis la renaissance jusqita la fin du 17 e siecle (Paris, 1838-'41; 2d ed., Halle, 1865) ; Souvenirs de la jeunesse de Napoleon (1842) ; and Lettres sur le clerge et la liberte de Venseignement (1844) ; besides many memoirs, articles in magazines, and bibliographical labors in the form of annotated catalogues. During the latter part of the reign of Louis Philippe he was accused of purloining the most precious books and manuscripts from the libraries of Grenoble, Montpellier, Troyes, Poitiers, and Albi, as well as from the Mazarin collection and that of the arsenal. A report on this sub- ject by M. Bouchy estimated his literary thefts from 1842 to 1847 at more than 500,000 francs. Libri, who had escaped to London, was found guilty and condemned (June 22, 1850) to ten years' imprisonment and degradation from public employment. In England, where he long resided, he was believed to be innocent. He left unfinished a life of Galileo. L1BURNIA, in ancient geography, a moun- tainous district of Illyricum along the coast of the Adriatic, now included partly in Croa- tia and partly in Dalmatia. The inhabitants, who maintained themselves chiefly by naviga- tion, occupied the northern islands of the
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