Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1877 The reading-rooms of such libraries as were opened to the public, including Sundays, through the year, received Visitors on 360 days, during which readers made use of periodicals, an increase of readers and of periodicals. The employment on Sundays of the branch reading-rooms, as intimated in the last report of the Trustees, has become so limited that a portion of them has been discontinued. 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.