received, has expressed himself much pleased with the manner 

 in which the documents have been dealt with. 



Upwards of fifty years ago the widow of the late Mr. 

 Richard Smith, Surgeon, presented to the Bristol Institution a 

 box of documents relating chiefly to the poems of Chatterton, 

 and including the original letters addressed to George Catcott 

 by Lord Camden, Lord Charlemont, Dean Milles and others, 

 in the course of the Rowley controversy. These papers have 

 now been arranged, mounted and bound up, like the other 

 collections referred to, and to this and each of the other 

 volumes an index of contents has been compiled to facilitate 

 reference. Your Committee would take this opportunity 

 of acknowledging the patient and careful manner in which 

 Mr. Latimer has carried out this work of immense labour. 



Since the last Report the Library Staff" have been engaged 

 upon a Location Catalogue, in which the place of every volume 

 is now recorded. By means of this record the work or 

 producing any book required is much facilitated, and the 

 foundation is laid for a new and complete catalogue for the 

 use of the public, which has now been commenced. 



For Reference purposes the Library has proved to be of 

 great value not only to the readers of current Scientific 

 literature in the general Reading Room, but also to a rapidly 

 increasing number of Students and those engaged in literary 

 research. During the two years ending September 1896, the 

 number of those who used the Library for the purposes of 

 study and research was 62,339. During the same two years 

 289 volumes have been bound or repaired, and in all, 1730 

 volumes have been added to the shelves. 



Your Committee have much pleasure in stating that as a 

 permanent record of the generosity of the late Sir Charles 



