TABLE 9.-Summary of statistics of libraries in 1875 of 300 rolumes and over.

NUMBER OF LIBRARIES AND NUMBER OF VOLUMES.

TABLE 10.-Summary of statistics of libraries in 1885 of .300 volumes and over. NUMBER OF LIBRARIES AND NUMBER OF VOLUMES.

TABLE 11.-Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries of 300 volumes and over and less than 1,000 volumes in 1896.

TABLE 12.—Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries in 1896 of 300 volumes and over.

NUMBER OF LIBRARIES AND NUMBER OF VOLUMES.

Total libraries of 300
volumes and over.

States and Territories.

Libraries. Volumes.

34, 596, 258

2,000

17, 647, 723

912

496, 441

2, 912

18, 144, 164

322

4, 015, 087

176

84, 832

498

4,099, 919

255

1,360, 451

242

115, 504

497

1,475, 955

1, 195

8,016, 780

1,043

510, 154

2,238

8,526, 934

254

2, 011, 831

785

337,455

1,039

2, 349, 286