Johns Hopkins University 220,000 The University of California 240,000 The University of Michigan 252,000 Princeton University 260,000 The University of Pennsylvania 285,000 Cornell University 355,000 Columbia University 430,000 The University of Chicago 480,000 New York State Library (Albany) 500,000 Yale University 550,000 Harvard University 800,000 Boston Public Library, about 1,000,000 New York Consolidated Library, about 1,400,000 Library of United States Congress, about 1,800,000[67] Strasburg University, France 700,000 Royal Library, Berlin 1,000,000 Imperial Library, Petrograd 1,500,000 British Museum, London 2,000,000 Bibliotheca National, Paris 3,000,000[68]] XVIII VARYING FORTUNES OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY The incomparable Library at Alexandria was exposed to the same vicissitudes as those which beset everything mundane. It was frequently rifled and portions of its contents were often destroyed through disturbances occurring in the period of the Roman domination, but it was as frequently replenished by the literary activity which found home and harborage in Alexandria for hundreds of years after the Christian Era had begun.