xxxii Anminl Report of the Council. 



The Wilde Endowment Fund, which is kept as a separate 

 banking account shows a balance of ^66. iSs. id., in its favour, 

 as against ;^7i. 12s. gd., at the beginning of the financial 

 year, the receipts from the invested funds being the same as 

 last year. 



During the session improvements in the lighting and 

 ventilating of the Library were carried out, and the floor of the 

 caretakers' room was covered with linoleum. The cost, amount- 

 ing to ^26. 2S. 5d., has been charged to the Wilde Endowment 

 Fund. 



The Librarian reports that during the session 897 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked, 804 of these 

 being serials, and 93 separate works. There have been written 

 415 catalogue cards, 292 for serials, and 123 for separate works. 

 The total number of volumes catalogued to date is 30,673 for 

 which 10,859 cards have been written. 



Satisfactory use is made of the library for reference purposes, 

 but the number of volumes consulted is not recorded. During 

 the session, 205 volumes have been borrowed from the library, 

 as compared with 176 in the previous session. 



Some attention has continued to be paid to the completion 

 of sets, 42 volumes or parts having been obtained, which 

 complete three sets, and partly complete three. Of these, 8 

 volumes were purchased, and the rest were presented by the 

 societies publishing them. 



A larger amount of binding than usual has been done this 

 session, 200 volumes having been bound in 183. 



A record of the accessions to the library shows that, from 

 April, 1907, to March, 1908, 812 serials and no separate works 

 were received, a total of 922 volumes. The donations during 

 the session (exclusive of the usual exchanges) amount to 106 

 volumes and 89 dissertations ; 8 volumes have been purchased 

 (in addition to the periodicals on the regular subscription list). 



