Table II. — Showing the issue of weekly periodicals (Directories, 

 Dictionaries, &c.), classified according to their character. Quarterly and 

 Monthly Magazines, &c., are reckoned as Books, and included in 

 Table I. : — 



Classi&catioD. 



Issues. 



Daily 



Average. 



11 



12 

 51 



443 

 3 



Natural Philosophy 3,189 



Natural History 3,466 



Science and the Arts 14,029 



Miscellaueous Literature (principally illustrated and literary 



periodicals) 123,595 



Law and Politics 780 



Commerce and Political Economy 548 2 



Directories and Dictionaries 11,875 42 



Total 157,482 564 



The patents consulted number 11,557 ; average, 41 per day. 



Table III. — Showing the new books added, together with the totals 

 of each class of literature now in the Library. 



Theology, Morals, &c 



Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, &c 



Natural History 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography 



Topograi)hy and Antiquities 



Voyages and Travels 



Miscellaneou.s Literature (principally CoUe'cted Works, Maga- 

 zines, &c. ) 



Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics 



Commerce, Political Economy, and Statistics 



Education and Language 



Poetry and Dramatic Literature 



Prose Fiction 



Latin and Greek Classics and Translations 



Heraldry, Encyclopsedias, and Works of Reference 



Total 2,391 65,.'537 



It may be interesting to give in a synoptical form the Reviews and 



other Periodicals taken : — 



Quarterly. 



Mind, The 



Navy List 



New Quarterly Magazine 



North American Review 



Popular Science Re\-iew 



Journal of the Geological 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles 



Archfeologia Cambrensis 



Archaeological Journal 



British Quarterly Review 



Dublin Review 



Edinburgh Review 



Ibis 



Journal of Anatomy 



Journal of the Britisli Archseological 



Association 

 Journal of Microscopical Science 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 Journal of the Society of Antiquaries 

 Journal fur Omithologie 

 Journal of the Statistical Society 

 Life Boat 

 London Quarterly Review 



Quarterly 

 Society 

 Quarterly Journal of Science 

 Quarterly Review 

 Revue Celtique 

 Revue et Magasin de Zoologie 

 Stray Feathers 

 Theological Review 

 Traethodydd 

 Westminster Review 

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