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lable 7 simply glV es general results summarised in such a form that 



the year s work can be easily compared with that of its predecessor 

 on * he , at f tendrtnCL ' m the Newsrooms shows no falling off, and although 

 on the first opening of the Arboretum Branch some little difference was 

 n iced they are now fuller than ever. The average attendance a h 

 Aiboretum Branch has been 345 daily, that at the central Beading Booms 

 at least four tunes the number. The behaviour of those who visi! all the 

 Bering Booms leaves little to be complained of, and the petty pilfering 

 I have often had to deplore has been all but absent during the year* 

 Work in the Museum has progressed slowly and steadily. The sub- 

 committee having charge of the re-arrangement has met weekly during 

 the year, and them tune has been principally devoted to the Invertebrates 

 They have carefully gone over all the specimens that existed in the 

 Museum, have got rid of the imperfect and worthless, and have 

 prepared a list of typical specimens to be obtained in the various classes 

 Some of these have already been obtained, others are on order, and in 

 the course of a few months they will be available for the public ^n 

 important purchase of British Land and Freshwater Shells was made 

 from the collect™ of the late Mr. Hagger, of Bepton, and with the specit 

 mens already m stock, a tolerably complete case has been prepared, and 

 these have been arranged and labelled, spaces being left for the species 

 we do not possess. The Bev. Canon Carr, of flolbrook, has enriched the 

 Museum by the presentation of a cabinet of Lichens and Mosses 



The Annual Conference of the Library Association was held this year 

 at Buxton, and m addition to attending it as the representative of this 

 Institution, I was asked to perform the duties of Local Secretary The 

 meetings were exceedingly useful to those employed in Library work I 

 had the honour of being elected a member of the Council for the sixth 

 year in succession, and have since been elected President of the North 

 Midland Branch, which embraces the counties of Derby, Nottingham 

 Leicester, Lincoln, and parts of Yorkshire and Northants. 



An important change in our staff has taken place this year through 

 the resignation of Miss Miller, who for very many years occupied an im- 

 portant post m the Library, discharging its duties m a manner highly 

 creditable to herself and acceptable to the public. Her departure necessi- 

 tated a general re-arrangement of duties, but the other members of the 

 staff have done their best to meet the circumstances, and I have no reason 

 to believe that the interests of the Library or of the public will suffer Of 

 the zeal of the whole of the staff in your service I have spoken before in 



