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Hon. Librarian with Mr. C. H. Oaffyn as his Hon. Assistant. 

 These gentlemen, with the assistance of Mr. Sheppard and Mr. 

 A. Morley Jones, have overhauled the books very thoroughly. 

 They have examined and checked carefully every volume. Since 

 the last catalogue was published in 1904 about 330 volumes 

 have been added to the Library, of which sixty-four are complete 

 works and the rest are Periodicals, Proceedings, etc. ]Many of 

 the latter were in parts which have since been bound. 



To do this and to provide certain necessaries the sum of =35 

 has been granted by the Committee. Of this 29 has already 

 been spent. 



The work of the four gentlemen already named in classifica- 

 tion and examination of parts for binding, in compiling a new 

 catalogue, in labelling and arranging the collection of books, is 

 deserving of the Club's best thanks, and your Committee desires 

 to express its appreciation of the many hours of hard work done 

 by them in the interests of the Club. For kind assistance with 

 the Card Catalogue Messrs. Holder and Yogeler also deserve its 

 best thanks. 



Members will be given opportunities for examining the con- 

 tents of many volumes of the Proceedings of other Societies 

 which will be put on the table on Gossip Nights ; and will be 

 encouraged to make known the names of books which they 

 consider should be in the library. Current numbers of periodicals 

 and journals will be lent subject to prompt return. 



A new catalogue of the Library is in preparation and will be 

 issued as early as possible. 



The Library now contains about 1,500 volumes, two-thirds of 

 which are Memoirs and Proceedings of various Societies. The 

 Librarian finds that five volumes are missing without hope of 

 recovery. 



This shows that the value of his predecessor's work is not to be 

 reckoned only by the length of his forty years' service, but 

 also by the close grip that he kept upon the details of his task. 



The five missing volumes are as follows : 



L. L. Clarke, Descriptive Catalogue of Objects for the 

 Microscope. 



Benj. Martin, Micrographia Nova (1742). 

 G. Murray, Phycological Memoirs, vol. I. 



