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The following is the classification of the books in the Libraries, 

 and books read : — 



Theology, Morality, and Metaphysics . . . 



Natural Philosophy and Mathematics 



Natural History 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography 



Topography and Antiquities 



Geography, Voyages and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature 



Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics 



Commerce, and PoHtical Economy , 



Education, Rhetoric, Logic and Language. 



Poetry and the Drama 



Novels and Romances 



C lassical Literature 



No. of Vols in 



each Class in 



Library. 



No. Lent in 

 each Class. 



124 



120 



1G4 



128 



950 



36 



426 



629 



28 



31 



20 



210 



1548 



22 



858 



777 



590 



634 



5741 



264 



2588 



3384 



107 



104 



102 



886 



19808 



135 



Average No. 

 of Times Lent 



7 

 6 

 3 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 6 

 5 

 4 

 3 

 5 

 4 

 12 

 6 



Total No. of Vols, in the Libraries, 4,435, Lent 35,978, each volume being issued on an 



average 8 times. 



BOOKS MOST READ IN THE VARIOUS CLASSES. 



Theology, Morality, and Metaphysics.— Wylie's Bible Scenes, 

 lent 30 times; Robert Hall's Works, 25; Chalmers's Bridgewater Trea- 

 tise, 24 ; Pye Smith's Relation between Scripture and Geology, 20 ; 

 Dick's Christian Philosopher, 17 ; and Bickersteth's Restoration of the 

 Jews, 17 times. 



Natural Philosophy and Mathematics. — Lardner's Treatise on 

 Arithmetic, lent 41 times; Herschel's Astronomy, 25 ; Moore's Power of 

 the Soul over the Body, 22. Works on Chemistry have been a good deal 

 sought after, Donovan's Chemistry, issued 31 times ; Stockhardt's 

 Experimental Chemistry, 22 ; and Liebig 12 times. 



Natural History.— Buffon lent 27 times. Miller's Old Red 

 Sandstone 15, and Pickering's Races of Man 13 times. Jardine's 

 Naturalists' Library, Goldsmith's Animated Nature, and White's 

 Natural History, of Selborne, have also been in request. 



Science and the Arts. — Works in this class have had a good 

 circulation among Mechanics, vi-ho read apparently with a -view to 



