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libraries.
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(the indoor sections) has been visited by 107 468, 107 203, 90 591, 121 482,
and 135 265 persons respectively; during the five years 1907—11 (the Museum
was opened on Lejonslätten in the first of these years) the total of visitors rose
to 331 988. In the same time Skansen was visited by 3 512 426 persons. In
both departments together, from the start to 1912 inclusive, 11 699 400 visits
have been paid.
Besides its leading röle the Northern Museum has played in museum
organization it has exerted a profound influence also in other respects;
thus, it has conduced doubtless more than anything else to awaken to
life Swedish national, taste.
Libraries.
The national library of Sweden, the Royal National Library (Kungl.
Biblioteket), dates from time of King Gustavus Vasa (1523—60). As
early as 1661 it was enacted that the Royal Library should have a copy of
every publication printed in the Kingdom. This law is also embodied in
the press-law now in force. During the period 1871—77 a special
building-was erected for the Royü Library in the Humlegården Park, in
Stockholm, at a cost of 900 000 kronor. The Library possessed, at the beginning
of 1913, about 400 000 volumes and about 1 000 000 pamphlets, loose
sheets, plates and maps, kept in 12 150 portfolios. The manuscript
section contains about 11 000 manuscripts. The annual increase amounted
in 1912 to 55 264 volumes and pamphlets. In the year 1912 the number
of books used amounted to 93 330. The number of volumes lent out
amounted to 15 458. Since 1887 the Royal Library has published annually
a Catalogue of Additions of the foreign literature acquired during the
previous year by the public libraries of Sweden; the number of libraries
covered by this in 1912 was 42.
In Stockholm there is a large number of Special Libraries, among which
we might mention: a) The Library of the Royal Academy of Sciences,
embracing natural science, astronomy, and mathematics. The number of
volumes in this library amounted in 1912 to about 100 000, besides 80 000
pamphlets. The Library received in exchange for its own publications
those of about 929 learned societies and scientific institutions. — b) The
Library of the Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute, containing the greatest
collection of medical literature in the country, possessed in 1912
40 000 volumes and 15 000 pamphlets. — c) The Library of the Central
Gymnastic Institute for gymnastics, anatomy, and physiology, has about
6 000 volumes. — d) The Library of the Royal Academy of Literature,
History, and Antiquities, for archaeology, numismatics, and history,
contains about 25 000 volumes. — e) The Library of the Riksdag, for
jurisprudence, political economy and the parliamentary documents of foreign
countries, — in all 43 000 volumes. In 1912 the government appointed
three experts to consider the possibility of extending this library as a cen-
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