Table I. 



12 



LENDING LIBRARIES. 



-General Statistics : — 



Volumes lent 



Tickets issued to New Readers 



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 Volumes worn out — withdrawn 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 I South 

 Library. Library. 



215,052 



2,646 



2,34.6 



2,487 



4,965 



35 



i 



664 



289 



686 



21,338 



221,3631436,415 



2641 

 2,344 I 

 2,452 I 

 5,049 I 

 31 I 



710' 



322 i 



594 I 



21,9471 



5,287 



4,690 



4,939 



10,014 



66 



4 



1,374 



611 



1,180 



43,285 



North 

 Library. 



South 

 Library. 



214,467 



2,514 



2,319 



2.568 



4,806 



27 



5 



824 



464 



457 



21,041 



209,104 



2,610 



2,284 



2,486 



4,860 



36 



10 



879 



290 



412 



21,675 



Total. 



4-.23,57l 



5,024 



4,603 



5,054 



9,666 



63 



15 



1,703 



754 



869 



42,716 



* This Library was closed from July 12th to 26th for Stocktaking, &c. 



Table II. — Classification of Volumes Lent and Added : — 



Volumes Lent 



Volumes Added. 



Theoloery, Moral Philosophy, &c 

 Nat. Philosophy and Mathematicsi 



Natural History 



Science and the Arts ; 



History and Biography i 



Topography and Antiquities .... 

 Geography, Voyages and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature 



Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics 

 Commerce and Political Economyj 

 Education, Languages, Logic, &c.| 



Poetry and the Drama ! 



Prose Fiction ' 



Latin and Greek Classics . . . 

 Books for the Blind 



North 

 Library. 



4,515 



3,692 



2,347 



8,509 



10,876 



1,235 



6,102 



13,232 



454 



711 



2,22-2 



1,807 



159,024 



281 



45 



South 

 Library. 



Total. 



Total 215,052 221,363 ' 436,415 



3,664 

 3,293 

 2,607 I 

 9,000 

 11,405 I 

 1,376; 

 5,679 I 

 13,314 1 



486 ! 



8111 

 2,371 

 1,691 1 

 164,883 



368 



365 



8,179 



6,985 



4,954 



*17,509 



22,331 



2,611 



11,781 



26,546 



940 I 



1,622 I 



4,593 



3,498 



323,907 



649 



410 



North 

 Library. 



22 

 13 

 21 

 40 

 73 



8 

 35 

 95 



5 

 12 



15 

 233 



686 



South 

 Librarj'. 



23 

 15 

 20 

 54 

 74 



6 

 27 

 93 



3 



9 



2 



13 



225 



6 

 24 



694 



Total. 



45 



23 



41 



94 

 147 



14 



62 



188 



8 



21 

 5 



28 



458 



6 



35 



1180 



Of this number 5,588 were vols, of vocal and instrumental music. 



MUSE U M . 



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



ISSO. 1S79. 



213 Days. 219 Days. Decrease. Increase. 



Total Visitors in the year 415, 122 416, 156 1,034 



Weekly average 7,983 7,852 131 



Daily average 1,948 1,900 48 



The 18th of October, 1880, was the 19th f.nniversary of the opening 

 of the Museum in the present building. 



The total number of visitors during that time amounted to 8,249,420, 

 giving a yearly average of 434,180. 



