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usual, and I hope that I may ere long have to report a clean sheet in this 
respect. 
The only additions made to the Museum during the year have been a 
small collection of Geological and Archzeological specimens purchased 
from the Trustees of the Museum at Brampton, near Chesterfield. The 
Mineral and Geological collections have been more made use of by 
students during the past year than I have ever known them; and the 
visitors to the Museum generally show no diminution. 
As your Librarian I attended the Annual Meeting of the Library 
Association, held this year at Aberdeen, and derived much profit therefrom. 
I had while there the honour of being elected, for the third time, a Member 
of the Council of the Association, and I have been since elected as 
Chairman of the North Midland Library Association for the ensuing year. 
I accept both appointments as much as a testimony to the importance 
of the Institution which I represent, as a compliment to myself. 
The principal members of our staff have remained unchanged during 
the past year. I cannot speak too highly of the way in which they discharge 
their duties, and I believe they do their best to serve both you and the 
public faithfully. I desire also to express the obligation I feel toward the 
Press of the town for their ready co-operation in all that tends to the 
benefit of the Institution; and, lastly, to yourselves for the uniform 
kindness and consideration I receive at your hands. 
IT remain, Gentlemen, 
Very faithfully yours, 
WILLIAM CROWTHER, 
LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR. 
October 30th, 1893. 
LO LKO 
"CART 
