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In the table of the principal libraries of the world, in the latest volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the volumes accredited to the principal college libraries are as follows: Cambridge (Eng.) University Library, 200,000, besides a total of 266,500 volumes belonging to the separate college libraries; Trinity College, Dublin. 192,000; Edinburg University, 140,000; Glasgow University, 125,000; University College, London, 100,000; Oxford Bodleian, 400,000, besides a total of 306,000 among the several colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg University, 270,000; Giessen University, 160,000; Gottingen, 400,000; Halle University, 220,000; Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin, 37,000; Harvard, 259,000, besides 216,000 pamphlets; Dartmouth, 61,000; Cornell, 50,000; Yale, 125,000; Columbia, 45,000; Princeton, 72,000; Brown, 54,000; and Williams, 30,000.
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