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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903 It is to be noted that the above totals contain no revision of the figures given prior to 1902 for the manuscripts, maps, music, and prints. The sorting of the old material is still in progress. With an incessant interchange of articles among the several divisions of the Library, while the constant loss by consolidation in binding renders an itemized statement even now very difficult. 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.