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" The Faith of an Imperialist." By Ellis T. Powell, LL.B., B.Sc. 



" Universities and Practical Education." By Professor A. E. Shipley. 



" Mountain Trails in the Rockies of Canada." By Mrs. Henshaw. 



" Settlement by ' Whites ' of Tropical Australia." By Hon. J. M. Creed, 

 M.L.C., New South Wales. 



" The Panama Canal and its Relation to the British Empire." By Vaughan 

 Cornish, D.Sc. 



" Some Problems of Empire." By Hon. George E. Foster (Minister of Trade 

 and Commerce, Canada). 



" Canadian Loans in London." By Sir F. Williams Taylor. 



" The Purpose of Life in the East and in the West." By Sir Bampfylde 

 Fuller, K.C.S.L, CLE. 



" Queensland's Railways." By Major Sir Thomas Robinson (Agent-General 

 for Queensland). 



" Australian Literature and Art." By William Moore. 



" Medical Science and the Tropics." By Major Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



Christinas Lectures for Young People. 



" Our World-wide Empire." By W. H. Garrison. 



" Birds of the British Empire." By James Buckland. 



" New Zealand, the Wonderland of the World." By W. H. Garrison. 



The Library. 



13. The additions to the Library number 2,673 books, 1,431 pamphlets, 216 maps, 

 and 404 photographs, making a total of 4,724 additions during the year. These figures 

 do not include the large number of special parliamentary reports that are subsequently 

 received in bound form, separate parts of monthly periodicals, or proceedings 

 of societies. Of the additions during the past year 3,497 were presented by their 

 authors, by publishers, by learned societies, and by the Dominion, Colonial, and Indian 

 Governments. On December 31, 1912, the Library contained 89,368 volumes and 

 pamphlets. The newspapers and magazines received at the Library, the majority 

 of which are presented by their publishers, now number 701. During the year 81,366 

 separate parts were filed, an increase of over 23,000 parts. The practice of subse- 

 quently sending newspapers to the British Museum, where they are kept for permanent 

 reference, has been continued. The cataloguing of the additions to the Library 

 involved a large amount of work. A total of 14,000 cards have been written during 

 the year, the number since the commencement of the card-catalogue in April 1910, 

 being 44,000. These cards represent additions to the Library during that period. 

 It is gratifying to find that the Council's invitation to publicists and students to make 

 use of the resources of the Library has been freely responded to. The great interest 

 that is shown in foreign countries in problems of British Colonial administration is 

 exemplified by the fact that authors and students from Germany, France, Italy, the 

 United States, Belgium, Japan, Bohemia, Finland, Korea, and other countries made 

 extensive use of the Library during the year. The special Law Library has also proved 

 of great value to students of law and lawyers engaged upon Privy Council practice. 

 During the year a complete set of Victorian Law Reports was presented by the Govern- 

 ment of Victoria, and the Law Library new contains almost complete sets of many 



