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OF THE

CLASSIFICATION ON THE SHELVES.

I. History (Nos. 1 to 759.)-Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Universal, National, Local, and of Races; Geography; Ethnography; Chronicles; Annals; Historical Diaries and Correspondence; Memoirs of Courts, Reigns and Campaigns; Philosophy of History; Manners and Customs; Antiquities, Heraldry; Episodes and Incidents.

II. Biography-(Nos. 760 to 1484.)-Collective and Individual; Personal Memoirs of Dynasties; Personal Diaries and Correspondence.

III. Travels (Nos. 1485 to 1973.)— Universal and Local; Voyages; Scientific and Commercial Expeditions; Military Reconnoisances; Military and Nautical Adventures; Descriptions of Court and Social Life; Governmental, Religious and National Characteristics.

IV. Political Science (Nos. 1974 to 2290.) Histories of Civilization, Administrations, Conventions and Constitutions; The Collected Letters and Works of Eminent Statesmen and Diplomats; Diplomatic and Official Papers and Correspondence; Social Science; Political Economy; Congressional [Debates; Jurisprudence; Statistics of Trade and Commerce; Celebrated Trials.

V. Natural Science, Technology and Mathematics (Nos. 2291 to 2589.)-General and Special Treatises on the Arts and

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Sciences, and the Relations between Science and Religion; Reports; Researches; Domestic Economy; Agriculture; Architecture; Surveying; Navigation; Applications of Science to Domestic and Mechanic Arts and Manufactures; Military Art and Science. VI. Medical Science-(Nos. 2590 to 2637.)--Medical Jurisprudence; Popular Treatises on Medicine and Hygiene.

VII. Theology and Philosophy (Nos. 2638 to 3114)-General and Local Ecclesiastical History; Histories of Denominations, Missions, The Reformation, and Religious Orders; Doctrinal Treatises; Apochryphal Books; Commentaries; Religious Philosophy; Evidences of Christianity; Entire Writings of Celebrated Divines and 'hilosophers; Sermons, Lectures, Discourses, Sketches and Miscellanies; Natural Theology; Practical Christianity; Psychology; Metaphysics; Ethics; Logic; Rhetoric; History of Philosophy; Free Masonry; Spiritualism; Mythology; Magic; Demonology; Superstitions; Witchcraft.

VIII. Miscellaneous Literature (Nos. 3115 to 4032.)Scientific, Historical, Biographical, Philosophical, Theological, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; Lectures on Poetry and Dramatic Literature; Collected Works in Belles Lettres ; Sketches of Society, Persons and Places; Desultoria; Table Talk; Facetiæ; Papers from the Periodicals; Esthetics; Romantic Chronicles, Histories, and Travels; History of Literature ; History and Philosophy of Language; Mental and Physical Recreations; Rural Occupations and Scenery; Works on Education; Didactic Letters; Orations and Speeches; Transactions of Agricultural and Historical Societies; Bibliography; Greek and Latin Text-Books; Selections in Prose and Verse; Fables.

IX. Poetry and the Drama-(Nos. 4033 to 4472.)—Classic and cotemporary Authors of Britain and America; Translations of Greek, Latin and Modern Continental Poets, in Prose and Verse; Songs and Ballads; Complete Works of Standard Dram

atists.

X. Fiction.-(Nos. 4475 to 5959.)-Novels, Tales and Romances, by American, English, Scotch, Irish, German, Italian, Spanish and Oriental writers; Religious, Historical, Sentimental, Satirical, Humorous, Nautical and Professional Novels; Juvenile ries and Adventures; Fairy Tales; Legends; Collections of

Tales.

ON THE SHELVES OF THE LIBRARY.

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XI. Periodicals.-(Nos. 5960 to 6088 and 6959 to 7373.)Literary, Critical, Scientific, Mercantile, Political, Religious, Mechanical, Musical and Miscellaneous; Reviews, Magazines, and Illustrated Papers, British and American.

XII. Works of Reference.-(Nos. 7774 to the end.)-Encyclopædias, General and Special; Dictionaries-English, French Spanish, Latin, Greek, Literary, Scientific, Law, Philosophical, Fine Art, Historical, Chronological, Biographical, Mythological, Genealogical, Commercial, and of Arts and Manufactures; Concordances; Publications of the Smithsonian Institution; Gazetteers, Universal and State; Atlases, General and Physical; Illustrated Works; Valuable Scientific, Agricultural, and Antiquarian Works; Journals, Reports, and Documents of Congress and the State Legislature; Commercial, Scientific and Military Expeditions authorized by Government; Astronomical, Boundary, Geological, Commercial, Financial, Land, Military, Naval, Educational, Postal, Meteorological and Sanitary Reports; Reports on Foreign Relations, The Coast Survey, Rail Road Surveys, and the Census; Presidents' and Governors' Messages and Accompanying Documents; Records of Congressional Debates in extenso; Reprints of Important State Papers and the Annals of Congress; Voluminous Documentary Histories; Session Laws; Revised Statutes; Codes; Reports of the State Supreme Court; Journals of Constitutional Conventions; Parliamentary Law; Records of Inventions; Bound Pamphlets,-including Speeches and Addresses, Reports of Library Associations and other Public Institutions, &c.

Class XII., is composed of Works which are permanently retained in the Library for reference and consultation there only.