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In Table V. we have varied information . The total number of borrowers 

 remains about as usual, while of new borrowers there have been added 

 rather more children and fewer adults than last year. No fewer than 

 1,071 borrowers had to be reminded through the post that their books 

 were overdue, and tlie amount of fines levied is rather more than last 

 year. Only 340 books had to be re-bound, and I l)elieve we are now 

 beginning to feel the good effect of the use of the Electric Light in this 

 particular. 3,934 l)Ooks passed through the liinder's hands for greater 

 or less reason, minor repairs, numbering, labelling, and lettering, being 

 done by our own binder on the premises. The occupations of the 

 last thousand borrowers are shown in Talile VI., and as usual 

 our clients come from allclasses of the community. The same thousand 

 borrowers are distributed among the wards as shown in the following 

 table, on which there is no special remark to make. 



The Newsrooms are as fully used as ever, and I have not had any com- 

 plaint throughout the year concerning the conduct of those who fre- 

 quent them, neither is there any ground for complaint in the way our 

 books are used. I believe that in both matters there has been a steady 

 improvement during the last five years. 



The work of re-arrangement in the iVIuseum has gone steadily on 

 during the year. The British Mollusca are now finished, and a begin- 

 ning has been made with the birds. A very useful purchase was made in 

 June last, that of the collection of bird skins belonging to A. E. Brown, 

 Esq., of Burton-on-Trent. These are very largely local, and therefore 

 of special interest. The Committee hope that with these, their former 

 stock, and a very few purchases, they will have a good display in the 



