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Library. The diminution of readers at the North Branch Library has 

 been 81G ; at the South, SDG. The subjoined tables shew the working 

 of these Libraries during the year. 



Table 1.— 



Volumes issued 



New Tickets issued 



Tickets renewed 



Tickets cancelled 



Readers on the Books 



Books lost or injured and paid for . . 



Books lost 



Volumes worn out — withdrawn . . 



Volumes worn out — replaced 



Volumes added 



Total number of volumes in Libraries 



Table 2.— 



Theology 



Natural Philosophy 



Natural History 



Science and the Arts 



History and Biography 



Topography and Antiquitips . . . . 



Voyages and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature 



Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics 

 Commerce and Political Economy 

 Education, Logic, and Language 



Poetry and the Drama 



Prose Fiction 



Latin and Greek Classics 



Books for the Blind 



Total 146,412 



Volumes Issued. 



178,545 324,957 



EVENING READING ROOMS. 



These Reading Rooms, open from 6 to 9-30 p.m., are located in 

 various school-rooms. They are now four in number, the room in Low 

 Hill having been closed when the new Reading Room in Kensington was 

 opened in January last. Their establishment was the outcome of ^ desir? 



