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Meetings. 



9. The Evening and Afternoon Meetings of the Institute have been largely attended 

 and the following Papers read and discussed and circulated in the monthly journal, 

 United Empire : 



'' Northern Nigeria as I Saw it." By J. Astley Cooper. 



" Some Less-known Islands in the Pacific." By Sir Everard im Thurn, 

 K.C.M.G., C.B. 



" A Journey down the Tana River in the East x4frica Protectorate." By 

 W McGregor Ross. 



■' Some Aspects of the Evolution of the British Empire." By the Right 

 Hon. Sir George Reid, G.C.M.G. (High Commissioner for the Commonwealth 

 of Australia). 

 . " Imperial Defence and Closer Union." By Viscount Hythe. 



" Land and the Woman in Canada." By Miss Binnie-Clark. 



" Agriculture and Land Settlement in South Africa." By Dr. William 

 Macdonald. 



" Australia and the Empire." By Hon. W. A Watt (Premier of Victoria). 



" Gold Coast Colony (the Northern Territories)." By Captain C. H. Armitage, 

 C.M.G., D.S.O. 



•' Northern Rhodesia : Past, Present and Future." By Lt. -Colonel A. St. 

 Hill Gibbons. 



" The Awakening of Vancouver Island." By Mrs. Charles Henshaw, F.R.G.S. 



" Citizenship in Canada." By C. F. Roland, 



" German Colonial Policy." By Professor M. Bonn (of Munich University). 



" Zanzibar and its Possibilities," By A. R. Galbraith. 



Christmas Lectures for Young People. 



" Beautiful British Columbia." By Mrs. Charles Henshaw, F.R.G.S. 

 " The Romance of India." By W. H. Garrison, F.R.G.S. 

 " How British Boys and Girls are Helped to Find Canadian Homes." By 

 W. W. Hind-Smith, F.R.G.S. 



Library. 



10. The additions to the Library during the year numbered 3,794 books, 2,133 

 pamplilets, 382 maps, and 2-57 photographs, making a total of 6,566. 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. 

 It will be seen that they represent an increase of 1 ,842 items, compared with the number 

 added in 1912. Of these additions 4,714 were presented by their authors, by publishers, 

 by learned societies, by the Imperial, Dominion, Colonial, and Indian Governments, 

 and by private individuals ; while 1,852 were added by purchase. On December 31, 

 1913, the Library contained 95,934 books and pamphlets. The newspapers and maga- 

 zines received at the Library, the majority of which are presented by their publisliers, 

 now number 848, an increase of 141, and during the year 82,360 separate parts were 

 filed. The practice of subsequently sending Colonial newspapers to the British 

 Museum, where they are kept for permanent reference, has been continued. The 



