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in a supplementary Deed which has been unanimously approved 

 by the Council. 



The Council has also to record its thanks to Dr. Schunck 

 for presenting to the Society portraits in water-colour of the 

 Rev. William Johns, formerly Secretary of the Society, and the 

 Rev. William Gaskell, formerly Vice-President. These have 

 been framed and placed in the Council Room. 



The Lihrarian is pleased to report that the re-cataloguing 

 of the Society's library is now practically completed. There yet 

 remain a few volumes of tracts and the collection of dissertations, 

 and these will be catalogued as opportunity offers. During the 

 session, 1,594 volumes have been catalogued, stamped, and 

 pressmarked, 792 of these being serials, and 802 separate works. 

 There have been written 1,326 catalogue cards, 306 for serials, 

 and 1,020 for separate works. The total number of volumes 

 catalogued to date is 25,448 for which 8,381 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, [95 volumes have been borrowed from the library, 

 as compared with 205 volumes in the previous session ; it is 

 hoped that, as the card catalogue now affords every facility for 

 quickly finding any work required, members will make further 

 use of the valuable collection of books possessed by the Society. 



Attention has continued to be paid to the completion of sets, 

 with the result that 49 volumes or parts have been obtained 

 which render 17 sets complete, whilst 51 volumes have been 

 acquired which partly complete 13 sets. These 100 volumes, 

 with the exception of 6 purchased, were presented by the 

 respective societies publishing them. Since the commencement 

 of the re-cataloguing of the library, a total of 7 88 missing volumes 

 has been obtained, resulting in the completion of 94 sets. 



Considerably more binding has been done than in the 

 previous year, 612 volumes having been bound in 446, whilst 

 several volumes have undergone repair. 



