REPORT. 



Since the last Annual Report of the Committee the management of the Gardens 

 and Park has, by a -vote of the Council, been transferred to the Finance Committee. 

 The Committee of the Library and Museum are gratified in being able to state 

 that ivhen their supervision of the Gardens ceased, they nvere in a most efficient 

 and satisfactory condition ; and it is a source of much pleasure to them to know 

 that they nvill remain under able superintendence. The Committee, in presenting 

 their Eleventh Annual Report of the Library and Museum, have pleasure in 

 stating that the interest in the Institutions still continues unabated. 



REFERENCE LIBRARY. 



Since the commencement of the Library more than two millions four hun- 

 dred thousand volumes of books have been issued and returned, -with the 

 exception of fifty-nine ; twenty-one of these have been successfully traced and 

 recovered, and nine of the purloiners prosecuted to conviction ; the cost of 

 replacing the remaining thirty-eight volumes has not exceeded £4, which sum 

 represents the total loss of books from the opening of the Library to the present 

 time. The average issue is now upwards of one thousand six hundred volumes 

 per day, which is more than four times the number issued in the old building 

 in Duke-street. 



Diu-ing the past year 472,010 volumes have been issued and returned, which 

 is an increase of 15,638 compared vrith the previous twelve months. 



