COUNTY BOROUGH OF DERBY. 



Fortieth Annual Report 



... OF THE . . . 



Free Library, Museum, and Art 

 Gallery Committee. 



The Committee have much pleasure in laying their Fortieth Annual 

 Report before the members of the Town Council. 



The buildings are all in a satisfactory state of repair. The outside 

 painting was done last autumn, and there seems nothing likely to want 

 doing in the near future, except the floor of the Museum, which shows 

 signs of its thirty years' wear, and will shortly have to be re-laid or 

 covered. 



The Library continues to be increasingly made use of, and the books 

 available for free consultation in the Reference Room are more used 

 than ever. The cases of stealing and mutilation have been fewer 

 during the past year, although such malpractices have not entirely 

 disappeared. 



