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7. Receipts from all sources during 1854, $ 



8. Expenditures during 1854 for Books. $; 



" " Bindino-, 



" " Periodrcals, 



Salaries, 

 " " Incidentals, 



9. Wild are entitled to use the Library? 



10. On what terms ? ' 



11. Is it a reference or a Lending Library"? 



Special, or Miscellaneous"? 



12. Are the books arranged on the slielves b\^ subjects? 



If not, what is the arrangement? 



13. How many days and liours is the Library open? 



14. How many volumes were lent during 1854? 



15. How many per.w;2s have borrowed books during 1854? 



16. What number of volumes in the Librar}- are in the English lan- 



guage ? — French "? — 



German"? — Spanish? — Other Modern Languages"? — Latin? — 

 Greek "? — Hebrew ? — Oriental ? — 



17. What is the date of the last printed Catalogue? 



Cost of its publication, size, and number printed? 



18. What system of classification is adopted in the construction of the 



Catalogue ? 



19. If possible, state what number of books have been read during 



1854, in the different classes of literature — how many works of 

 theology, law, medicine, fiction, &c. — and what particular books 

 have been most called for. 



20. On the 1st of January, 1855, how man}' books, »&c., in the Li- 



brary ? 



21. What collections of Natural Histor}^ are connected in any way 



with the Librar}' ? 

 22., What is the nature and extent of these collections? 

 23 'iWhat other Natural History collections, public or private, are found 



in your neighborhood, and what is their character? 



24. Have any regular pubhcations of Memoirs, Transactions, Proceed- 



ings, &c., been made by any Institution or Society with which 

 the Library is connected, and of what character and extent? 



25. Please send copies of your Catalogue, Charter, Rules and Regula- 



. tipns, &c., and any information respecting the history or condi- 



