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Excerpt from Report on Public Libraries, 1903 Library progress Comparative summaries. In the following table, totals of reports made to the Regents bv 1160 libraries Of 200 volumes or more are compared with totals of similar reports of preceding years since organization Of this division in 1892. The circulation of libraries free to a limited class, as school, Y. M. C. A. Libraries and those requiring a subscription fee, is included with circulation of libraries free to all. In the next table only free lending libraries are given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.