Excerpt from Tenth Biennial Report of the Minnesota Historical Society to the Legislature of Minnesota: Session of 1899 On the date of our last biennial report, January 1, 1897, there were on our shelves, bound and unbound volumes; total, volumes. During the year 1897 there were added bound volumes and 117 unbound volumes, making the total num ber of volumes on our shelves on January 1, 1898, During the year 1898 there were added bound and 584 unbound vol umes, making on January 1, 1899, bound and unbound volumes; total, volumes. The bound volumes acquired during the years 1897 and 1898 were from the following sources: By gift, of which 409 were newspapers; by purchase, of which 142 were newspapers. All these accessions were catalogued, requiring the writing of cards during 1897, and 58, during 1898; total number of cards on January 1, 1899, The cataloguing has been done in a very careful manner by Mr. Kingsbury, besides his general at tention to supply the books inquired for by users of the library. The newspaper volumes were all bound by the society; and about 300 other books acquired by gift or purchase during 1897 and 1898 were bound by the society. The preceding figures Show a steady increase in the growth of the library. That the people of the state appreciate the magnitude and importance of our collection, is Shown by the large increase in donations of books, manuscripts, pictures, and articles for the museum, from the people of the state at large; and the society trusts that those who have anything of an interesting or historical character, bearing on the history of Minnesota particularly, or of the Northwest, which ought to be placed where it cannot be lost, and where it will be accessible to those looking after information, will donate it to the society. Many who frequent our rooms seeking information are authors, teachers, and scholars, who find on our shelves books which cannot be found elsewhere in the state, and which indeed are in only few of the older libraries of the East. 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.