Manual of Public Libraries, Institutions, and Societies
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Excerpt from Manual of Public Libraries, Institutions, and Societies: In the United States, and British Provinces of North America Ill. Springfield. Ill. Institution for the Blind is located at Jacksonville, not Springfield.; Ill.Institution for the Deaf and Dumb is at Jacksonville, not Springfield. Ky. Augusta. "Augusta College has ceased to exist." - Letter from J. Doniphan, late Secretary.1858.; The College of St. James is not in Chestertown, as might be supposed from the types. Its post-office is "College of St. James."; Harvard College: lines 18 to 27 should be omitted.; Franklin College is the post-office as well as the name of the College. It is not in Columbia, Tenn.; Hiawassee College is the post-office of the College of that name, not Greeneville, Tenn.; Only $5000 have been appropriated for the Territorial libraries of Kansas and Nebraska.; Ky. Harrodsburg. Bacon College is now Kentucky University Letter from H.H. White, May, 1859.; S.C. Theological Department of Furman University is discontinued, and an independent Theological Seminary established, for which$100, 000 have been raised in South Carolina. Letter from C.H. Judson, May, 1859. Texas. Chappell Hill. Soule University succeeds Chappell Hill College, and has its buildings, &c.; The Young Men´s Christian Association of Philadelphia is now the largest in this country, having 2000 members and a large library. A full notice of this highly useful and important society was accidentally omitted in the proper place.; An account of the Agricultural Societies in the United States, may be found in the Patent Office Reports for 1857 and 1858. Most of these, however, have but small libraries.; The "Boston Library" has been transferred to the "Athenæum" in the same city.; The Mass. Historical Society now has 100 members. "Normal College," North Carolina, is now called "Trinity College." It has a library of 600 volumes. Columbian Society, 2500; and Hesperian Society, 2400 volumes.; Part of the Introduction was transposed after the Index was printed. 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.
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