24 



The following analysis shows how these were 



acquired : — 



Maps and 

 Vols. Pamphs. Plans. Engravs. Newspapers. Totl. 



By Purchase .. 223 22 — 26 — 271 



By presentation 208 74 1 223 25V0IS. 531 



From Subn. Lib. 653 — — — — 653 



i,455 



The additions have been catalogued and located in 

 accordance with the Library classification, viz. : — 



Maps and 

 Vols. Pamphs. Plans. Engravs. Newspapers. Totl. 



To the General 



Collection. . 1,062 38 — 249 20vols. 1,369 

 To the Local 



Collection. . 22 58 1 — 5 vols. 86 



',455 



1,546 descriptive cards have been added to the card 

 catalogues, making the total number of card entries 

 15,913. These figures represent the additions to the 

 Library since it was taken over in 1893 to the present 

 time, and include the " Bristol " collection of 3,809 

 vols., etc. 



Considerable interest being always attached to early 

 Bristol newspapers, the Committee would specially refer 

 to the gift by Mr. Alfred Capper Pass of 2 1 8 numbers, 

 forming several series, of papers issued between 1742 

 and 1749, the titles of which are given in the list of 

 donations. They are now bound in five volumes, and 

 from a report upon them prepared by Mr. Taylor, the 

 Librarian, it appears that up to the time of this gift being 

 received, only a solitary number of these various publi- 

 cations was in the Bristol collection ; and further, that the 

 existence of only one other series is recorded in the 



