The following are the returns for the year :— 



This Year. 



North South 

 Library. Library. 



Volumes lent 



New Tickets issued 



Tickets renewed 



Tickets cancelled 



Total readers on the books 

 Books lost or injured, and paid for 



Books lost 



"Volumes worn out — replaced . . 

 Volumes worn out — withdrawn 



New volumes added 



Total No. of vols, in the Libraries 



North 

 Library. 



200,720 



2,461 



2,194 



2,055 



4,628 



32 



6 



597 



254 



437 



21,040 



Total. 



227,800 



2,613 



2,294 



1,978 



4,899 



46 



7 



722 



160 



423 



21,441 



4'i8,620 



5,074 



4,491 



4,033 



9,527 



78 



13 



1,319 



414 



860 



42,481 



Classification of Volumes Lent and Added, 1878 



Volumes Lent. 



Volumes Added. 



North 

 Library. 



Theology, Moral Philosophy, &c.j 

 Nat. Philosophy and Mathematics| 



Natural History j 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography . j 



Topography and Antiquities . . . . j 



Voyages and Travels i 



Miscellaneous Literature | 



Jurisprudence, Politics, &c 



Commerce and Political Economyj 

 Education, Languages, Logic, &c.| 



Poetry and the Drama 



Prose Fiction j 



Latin and Greek Classics 



Books for the Blind I 



4,927 



3,658 



2,301 



8,385 



11,738 



1,384 



5,887 



14,248 



362 



681 



2,521 



1,9.39 



166,103 



421 



loO 



South 

 Library. 



TOTAl. 



4,267 

 2,950 

 2,179 '■ 

 7,264 



10,492 

 1,228 

 5,548 



15,261 



278 



538 



2,036 



2 262 



9,194 



6,608 



4,480 



15,649 



22,230 



2,612 



11,435 



29,509 



640 



1,219 



4,557 



4,201 



North South 

 Library. Library. 



161,710 327,813 

 357 778 

 149 299 



19 

 12 

 4 

 11 

 49 



36 

 94 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 6 

 84 



Total I 224,705 I 216,519 441,224 j 318 



17 

 13 



k2 

 11 

 51 



34 

 99 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 6 

 84 



321 



36 

 26 

 6 

 22 

 100 



69 



193 



2 



2 



4 



12 



168 



639 



iEnsftrm. 



STATISTICS. 

 The visitors to the Museum during the year have been as follows :— 



1877-8. 1876-7. Decrease. 



Total Day Visitors 413 923 435012 21,069 



Weekly Average »fo 8,.(,o -JO 



Daily Average 1>9*'^ -'"''^ ^"® 



The depression of trade throughout the manufacturing districts has 

 continued to affect unfavourably the number of visitors. 



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