The Law School Library.

During the past year the library of the Law School has been improved in many ways. During last summer the library stack was extended into the roof of Austin Hall, two new stories being thus added to it. By this improvement sufficient book room has been provided to allow for fifteen or twenty years' growth. The entire stack has also been provided with electric lights.

Besides these improvements in the library itself, many new books have been added. The large annual surpluses make considerable expenditures possible; so that during the last six years the annual expenditures have averaged $6000. During the past year there have been added 3228 volumes and 104 pamphlets, making the total number in the library on Sept. 1, 1896, 38,000 volumes, and 4300 pamphlets. One of the most important and at the same time expensive works has been the completion of the duplicate collection of state reports. In this respect the Harvard Law School library stands unique among all the libraries in this country and probably in the world; it has in every case duplicate sets and in some instances triplicate sets of all state reports. It also embraces a duplicate set of English reports. Many old and rare books have been added, and the collection of engravings of the "Law Lords" has been completed under the supervision of Librarian Arnold. The outside or working library, used daily by about 200 students, numbers 5000 volumes.