Excerpt from Official Register, Persons in the Civil, Military and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels, 1907, Vol. 1: Directory The growth of the Register in size and number of names contained has been approximately at the rate of 50 per cent in each decade. How great this increase has been is illustrated by the following table: The great number of pages consumed in presenting the Register for 1905 were unequally distributed between the two parts or volumes: Of the total pages, Volume I contained and Volume II, The two Volumes together weighed slightly more than 25 pounds. The index alone consumed 869 pages. The great size of recent issues of the Register was partially due to the fact that the compiler had continued to allow to each name, with the accompanying data required by law, the same amount of space that had been allotted in the earlier issues, when the small number of names made economy of space comparatively unimportant. 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.