Of the 1027 undergraduates only 121 failed to borrow books, and some of these probably used the reserved books in the Reading Room.

Mr. Kiernan kept during January, February and March, 1888. a record of the fiction used. Of the 15,540 books drawn out in those months, 3027 volumes were prose fiction, and these were mainly taken out by the lower classmen.

A good deal of work was done in the Catalogue department. The total number of titles catalogued for the year 1887-88) was 8,423, of which 6,711 were of books recently received and 1712 of books received before 1860, when the present card catalogue was begun. Besides this, 843 titles of books for the subsidiary libraries were catalogued twice-once for the College Library and once for the subsidiary libraries.

The printing of the index to the subject-catalogue has proceeded slowly. Eighty pages are now in type, which brings the list up to L.

Two important changes have been made in the catalogue. In the first place, the titles of all the books which appear in the Bulletin are printed on cards. The second change consists (1) in distributing the cards for the works of Greek and Latin authors and of the church Fathers to their natural alphabetical places in the authors' catalogue, keeping with each author's works-as at present-the works relating to him; and (2) in addition to the same catalogue the works relating to other authors-now under Biography and Bibliography; placing the works which treat of any author after the works written by him. The object of this last change is to bring the Latin and Greek authors and the church Fathers from their anomalous position in the subject catalogue to their natural position in the author catalogue.

During the past year orders were sent out amounting to $6,805. This amount was divided among agents as follows: Domestic, $1,300; English, $2,150; French, $1,035; German, $1,950; Italian, $112; Scandivanian, $36; Bombay and Cairo, $170.

In the map department, Mr. H. C. Badger has gone over the maps of the World, Europe with subdivisions, Russian and Asia Minor, in preparing the titles for printing. He has also made a special grouping of the plans of the property of the University, including those estates which belonged to Harvard at any time.