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The following Return sliews tiie Ciassuication of the Books, and the Issues 

 in each Depai'tnaent for the last Ten Years : — 



Classification. 



Books in the 

 Uepartmeui 



Theology, Morals, and Metaphysics 



Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, &c 



Natural History 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography 



Topography and Antiquities 



Geography, Voyac^es, and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature 



Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics , 



Commerce, Social Science, and Political Economy 



Education, Rhetoric, Logic, and Language , 



Poetry and Dramatic Literature , 



Light and Amusing Literature 



Latin and Greek Classics, and Translations , 



Embossed Books, for the use of the Blind 



Totals 



E3.573 



3,402,951 



The Issues may be thus summed up : — 



Religion, Science, History, and General Literature... 1,030,144 vols. 



Light and amusing. Literature 1,471,114 sets, 



or 2,372,807 vols. 



The following are the receipts under each head, for the last 10 years, viz. 



For Tickets of Membership £301 G 11 



For Catalogues sold 654 15 7 



In Fines for undue detention of Books 973 19 10 



£1,930 2 4 



The whole of this amount has been applied towards the expenses. The 

 Tickets of Membership, au'l the Catalogues are sold at a price to cover the 

 cost of production. 



NO. OF VOLUMES LENT EACH BORROWER, AND TnE COST PER HEAD. 



Each reader borrows on an. average 53 volumes yearly. Nearly 9,000 adults 

 and young people (one half under 21 years of age,) are at these Libraries pro- 

 vided with the means of self-education for less than three shillings each person. 



