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LENDING LIBRARIES. 



Table I. — General Statistics : — 



Volumes lent 



Tickets issued to New Beaders. . 



Tickets renewed 



Tickets cancelled 



Total No. of readers on the books 

 Books lost or injured, and paid for 



Books lost 



Volumes worn out — withdrawn. . 

 Volumes worn out — replaced .... 



New volumes added 



Total No. of vols, in the Libraries 



• This Library was closed for Stocktaking, Painting, &c., from July 10th to 24th. 



Table IL — Showing the Classification of Volumes Lent and Added :- 



Theology, Moral Philosophy, &c. 

 Nat. Philosophy and Mathematics 



Natural History , 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography 



Topography and Antiquities . 



Voyages and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature . . . 

 Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics 

 Commerce and Political Economy 

 Education, Logic, and Languages 



Poetry and the Drama 



Prose Fiction 



Latin and Greek Classics . . . 

 Books for the Blind 



Volumes Lent. 



North South 



Library. Library. 



3,418 

 2,845 

 1,856 

 6,757 

 7,985 



893 

 4,668 

 11,333 



331 



660 



1,871 



1,238 



144,956 



248 

 43 



3,668 



3,248 



2,325 



7,991 



9,400 



1,104 



4,953 



12,416 



362 



53G 



1,340 



2,218 



154,680 



324 



227 



Total. 



7,086 



6,093 



4,181 



14,748 



17,385 



1,997 



9,621 



23,749 



693 



1,193 



3,211 



3,456 



299,636 



672 



270 



Total 189,102 j 204,789 393,891 



Volumes Added. 



North South _ 

 Library. Library. Total. 



31 



13 



12 



36 



62 



10 



23 



89 



2 



6 



7 



16 



361 



16 



14 



11 



37 



52 



3 



19 



103 



2 



4 



5 



18 



231 



657 



515 



46 

 27 

 23 

 72 



104 

 13 

 42 



192 

 4 

 10 

 12 

 34 



592 



1172 



MUSEUM. 



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



1882. 1881. 



213 Days. 215 Days. 



Total Visitors in the year 391,237 422,326» 



Weekly average 7,523 8,121 



Daily average 1,836 1,964 



The 18th of October, 1882, was the 21st anniversary of the opening 

 of the Museum in the present building. 



The total number of Visitors during that time amounts to 9,079,175, 

 giving a yearly average of 432,341. 



• The number of Visitors in 1881 was greatly augmented by the Exhibition for several 

 days of the objects presented by the Corporation and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 

 to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The persons admitted on these days were 26,288 in 

 exccbs of the numbers on the same days in 1882. 



