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Among other additions made to the Library are 

 numerous standard works in different branches of Natural 

 Science which bear directly on the contents and purposes 

 of the Museum. Such works are not only useful for re- 

 ference in the library, but are also indispensable in con- 

 nection with the practical work of the Museum; while 

 their coloured illustrations are of great service when ex- 

 hibited side by side with the objects in the cases, to which 

 they refer. 



The Subscription Library attached to the Museum has 

 continued to work satisfactorily, and during the past two 

 years 2,573 volumes that have passed through the hands of 

 the subscribers have been placed at the disposal of your 

 Committee. Of these 1,382 volumes of general literature 

 were retained for use in the Reference Library, and 1,191 

 volumes of fiction, with duplicate and other works in 

 general literature, were passed over to the Libraries 

 Committee. 



The total number of volumes added to the Reference 

 Library during the two years is 2,907. Of these 1,382 were 

 received from the Subscription Library, as mentioned 

 above, 1,335 were purchased, and 190 were presented. 

 Included in the total are 117 volumes that have been 

 added to the Special Bristol Collection, and to the same 

 collection has been added the portfolio of water colour 

 and pencil drawings of "bits" of bygone Bristol, referred to 

 previously. 



The work of cataloguing the whole contents of the 

 Library has made considerable progress, but as this work is 

 being done during such time as the staff can give to it in 

 connection with their other duties the progress is not so 

 rapid as could be wished. Every book that has been added 

 since the Library was presented to the city has been care- 

 fully recorded for catalogue purposes at the time of being 

 received. These additions from 1893 to tne present time 



