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Excerpt from Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Direction of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York: May, 1877-April, 1878
We think, however, it unreasonable to expect that this Institution could escape from sharing some of the effects of the disturbed and depressed condition of the commercial World with which We are so intimately connected. The num ber of members who have joined the Library during the year is less than it has been for a number of years, thus abridging our income to a considerable extent. 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.
