Oregon | | California | | 865,000 Cuba |public library. | British Provinces | | 360,000 Scotland | | 575,000 --------------------+----------------+------------ SUMMARY BY SECTIONS OF COUNTRY ====================================================== North Atlantic Division |art works, mss.,| $7,199,700 |engravings, etc.| South Atlantic Division | services. | 291,000 South Central Division | | 151,000 North Central Division |art works, mss.,| 3,880,000 | etc. | Western Division | | 1,248,000 +----------------+------------ | |$12,769,700 Cuba |1 library | British Provinces | | 360,000 Scotland | | 575,000 +----------------+------------ | |$13,704,700 ------------------------+----------------+------------ Total Gifts and Bequests to American libraries from all sources, $19,786,465.16, 145,361 volumes, and 20,856 pamphlets. The above figures do not include several buildings and other gifts, the value of which was not stated. Statistics of this nature must ever remain mere approximations until some uniform system of gathering them is devised and carried out. REPORT OF THE A. L. A. PUBLISHING BOARD. BY JOSEPH L. HARRISON, _Treasurer, Librarian of The Providence (R. I.) Athenæum_.