The report of Mr. Winsor, librarian of the University Library, shows that the accessions to the library during the past year have amounted to 22,370 volumes. This makes a total of 431,298 cnntents of the possession of the University, and if unbound pamphlets be included (as is the case in counting the volumes in many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records are singly counted. The American system is to count books as bound, and not to separate their component parts in the enumeration.

Of the accessions to the Gore Hall collections there were added by gift durthe past year, 4118 volumes and 13,770 pamphlets.

The percentage of users among the undergraduates during the recent years is given in the following table, which shows, however, only such students as were registered at the general delivery desk in Gore Hall, and drew books at that desk:

1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893

Seniors, 99 97 91 89 92 91

Juniors, 98 99 95 95 92 90

Sophomores, 94 90 90 84 82 77

Frehmen, 77 69 67 59 61 62

Seventeen years ago only 57 per cent. of all the college students used the library. In the last year, of the 1449 undergraduates only 299 failed to borrow books, and of this number 250 drew out "reserved books," of which no record was made at the General Delivery. This reduces the number of students, who made no recorded use of the library to 41 out of a total of 1449.