1. Lib. of Congress 396,000

2. Public Lib. Boston 395,478

3. Harvard University 259,000

4. Mercantile Lib. N. Y. City 193,000

5. Astor Library 192,547

6. Mercantile Lib. Phila. 141,000

7. Lib. House of Rep. 131,000

8. Yale College 125,000

9. Lib. Co. Loganian, Phila. 123,000

10. Public Lib. Cincinnati, O. 122,030

11. Boston Athenxum 122,000

12. State Lib. Albany, N. Y. 110,000

17. Coll. of N. J., Princeton 72,000

21. Dartmouth College 61,000

25. Brown University 54,000

30. Cornell University, Ithaca 50,000

37. Columbia College 45,000

42. Amherst College 42,180

45. Union Theo. Sem. 40,800

50. Andover Theo. Sem. 38,000

51. University of Vt. 37,000

52. Bowdoin Coll. Brunswick 37,000

65. N. W. University, Ill. 31,000

68. Georgetown Coll., D. C. 30,000

Harvard men are particularly fortunate in regard to library facilities, for in addition to the library of the University they are able to use the fine Public, and Athenxum libraries in Boston, having an aggregate in 1881, of 776,000 volumes in the three libraries at their service.