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Library extension, they have placed a new book range in the 

 Inner Library which will hold about 1,300 volumes of the 

 larger sizes. An abstract of the contents of the above- 

 mentioned "Challenger" volumes has been prepared by the 

 Librarian, and a small charge is made for printed copies. 



In the important department of local literature your 

 Committee have been able to make many improvements. All 

 books and pamphlets connected with the bibliography of Bristol 

 are now brought together in a separate room, their total 

 number at the present time being 2,129. Of these, 203 

 volumes and tracts have, during the past two vears, been either 

 newly acquired or transferred from the General Reference 

 Library. They have all been carefully catalogued, and are 

 much consulted. 



In connection with our local history, an important under- 

 taking has been most ably carried out by Mr. John Latimer, 

 in dealing with large quantities of manuscript material which 

 your Committee derived from various sources. He has 

 arranged and catalogued an interesting collection of ancient 

 deeds, which were presented by the Rev. Samuel Seyer in 1831, 

 and which were transferred to the City with the other contents 

 of the Museum; and he has dealt in the same way with 

 another collection of deeds which formed part of the contents 

 of Mr. Jefferies' Bristol Room, the whole contents of which 

 were purchased by your Committee. The miscellaneous 

 papers, chiefly derived from the latter of those sources, and 

 which were several thousands in number, have been separated 

 into categories, mounted on cartridge paper and bound up in 

 separate volumes* They are now comprised in twenty-five 

 folio and five smaller volumes, which can all be conveniently 

 referred to. In addition to this, numerous engravings and prints, 

 some of which are of great rarity, have been bound up in five 

 volumes; and a large quantity of loose pamphlets and tracts of 



