DEPARTMENT EEPORTS. 



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taken pains to ascertain the number who daily use the Library, but the number 

 of students \yho spend some time between work hours and supper time in the 

 Librui-y is hircje. 



I am exceedingly gratified at the prospect of a permanent Librarian. This 

 ■will relieve me from a charge which, distracting in itself, makes other work, 

 consisting of almost infinite detail, doubly distracting, and it will enable me 

 to make the work of my department of instruction of mucli more value, espe- 

 cially tiie rhetorical exerciiies. But the advantages to mvself and the Enolish 

 Department are of minor importance. The Library needs the constant care 

 of a competent person who can give it all his time. It will be a great advant- 

 age to all using the library to have it open at least a part of the forenoon, as 

 well as the afternoon. The books ought to be classified more systematically 

 iiud a new and complete catalogue made, botli of title and authors. Subject 

 indexes should be made for all books of reference, and as many more as pos- 

 sible. All the periodicals should have their contents indexed as fast as they 

 are received. Subscription li.-ts, books coming in parts, bindery matters, new 

 publications, and opportunities for bargains in books should be looked after 

 more carefully tlian is possible by one whose time and energy is needed for 

 other duties. Moreover, if the Library can be kept open more hours a day 

 fewer books need be drawn, and thus more persons can use the same books, 

 and there will be less danger of temporary or permanent loss or damage. 



I add classified li>ts of the periodicals received on subscription and by dona- 

 tion, and a list of donatioiis to the College Library. 



All of which is most respectfully subn)itted. 



E. J. MA.CEWAN, 

 Professor of English Language and Literature, and Librarian. 



The following is a list of periodicals subscribed for and bound when volumes 

 are complete : 



FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 



Agricultural Gazette. 



Annales de Ciiemie et de Physique. 



Blackwood's Magazine. 



British Quarterly. 



Contemporary Review. (Reprint.) 



Chemical News. 



Canadian Eutomolo!ii.-t. 



Cliambers's Journal. 



Edinburgii Review. (Re)n':nt.) 



Engineering. 



Fortnightlv Review. 



Gardener\s Montiily. 



Garden. 



Gardener's Chronicle. 



(Reprint.) 



Journal of the Chemical Society. 

 Journal of Science. 

 Knowledge. 



London Quarterly Review. (Reprint.) 

 Lomion Times, weekly edition. 

 London Veterinarian. 

 London Journal of Anatomy and Phys- 

 iology. 

 Nineteenth Century. (Reprint.) 

 Nature. 



Nortii British Agriculturist. 

 Popular Science Review. 

 Spectator. 

 \Vestminster Review. (Reprint.) 



AMERICAN PERIODICALS. 



America!) Architect and Building: News. 

 American Agriculturist. 

 American Poultry Journal. 

 American Bee Journal. 



American Naturalist. 



American Monthly MicroscopicalJour- 



nal. 

 American Journal of Microscopy. 



