T List of libraries (not private) containing more than 1,000 volumes-Continued. Mechanics and Manufacturers' Association New England Yearly Meeting Boarding-School.. Perrin's Circulating Library.. Providence Athenæum Providence ...do.. ....do. .....do.... ...do... ....do.... ...do... ...do.. ..do.. ..do.. ....do..... ..do... 4, 034 41,000 1,000 8,000 6,600 2,500 6,000 943 Young Men's Christian Association.. 1,600 944 945 Slatersville Library..... Pawcatuck Library Association.. .....do.. 6,000 1,500 946* Harris's Institute Library Westerly 3,500 Woonsocket 6,000 List of libraries (not private) containing more than 1,000 volumes-Continued. Post-office. Number of volumes 3,500 Post Mills Village. 2,00 Poultney. 1,500 Rutland 1,500 Saint Johnsbury .do.. Thetford 1,000 Abingdon Near Alexandria. Boydton do... .do.. 10,000 2,000 3,000 Emory 3,000 Hampton. 13,580 Hampden.. 1,275 Hampden Sidney 7,000 Hampden... 3,200 Lexington 8.500 .do.. 1,000 ..do. 5,000 Newmarket.. 10,000 Petersburgh 5,000 ..do... 3,400 Richmond. 1,000 3,000 1,000 25,000 9,000 1,500 2,000 .do. .do.. Staunton ...do.... University of Virginia. 1020 College of William and Mary 1021 Eastern Lunatic Asylum... TABLE XV.-Statistics of museums; from replies to inquiries by the United States Bureau of Education. Institution with which connected. Locality. When founded. By what individual, society, Amount of en dowment. Other sources from which Museum of Wesleyan University.. Wesleyan University Peabody Museum of Yale College... Yale College.. Middletown, Conn 1831 Trustees of Wesleyan Univ None From Univ. and donations. Yale School of the Fine Arts.. ..do ....do 1864 do $150,000 None Museum of the Medical School. .do ..do do Metallurgical Collection of the Sheffield Scientific ..do ....do .do School. Surgeon-General's Office, .do 1862 ..do Nono Do. do 1869 .do None Do. .do 1864 .do Nono Do. Notre Dame, Ind.. 1848 Congregation of the Holy None From University. Cross. Davenport, Iowa... Iowa City, Iowa 1861 Griswold College.. Tabor, Iowa. 1870 Tabor College. Nono Amherst, Mass 1821 Amherst College. Nono Privato benefactions. Univ. and State legislature. Amherst College. .do Prof. C. U. Shepherd None Boston, Mass. 1831 Boston Soc. of Nat. History ......... Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass. 1859 Board of trustees, special $150,000 Herbarium. ..do ..do Harvard College.. 12, 550 Mineral Cabinet .do .do ..do ...... ..do ..do 40,000 ..do Historical Society of Pennsylvania.. Museum of Brown University ..do 1825 Historical Society of Pa Museum of Medical College of State of South Medical College of State Carolina. Brown University of South Carolina. Providence, R. I... 1871 Brown University None Charleston, S. C 1832 Medical College of State None of South Carolina. 1852 Hiram A. Cutting.. None Middlebury Collego. Middlebury, Vt. Middlebury College. None Montpelier, Vt. 1854 State of Vermont.. None Stato appropriations. Cabinet of the University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis 1850 University of Wisconsin.. None Proprietor. Middlebury College. University of Wisconsin. |