TO SUPPLEMENTAL CATALOGUE OF 1865. 



' Some sparkling showy thing got up in haste, 

 Brilliant and light, will catch the passing taste ; 

 The truly great, the generous, the sublime, 

 Wins its slow way in silence." 



Fattst. 



Three years have elapsed since the publication of the first printed Catalogue 

 of the Books in the Melbourne Public Library. 



During that period several thousand volumes have been added to the 

 collection, so that a perfect guide to the literary resources of the Institution 

 no longer exists. 



To supply the want, felt by all intelligent inquirers, the publication of a 

 Supplement has been undertaken. The occasion appeared suitable for annexing to 

 the Catalogue of Books a List of the Objects of Art of various descriptions, as 

 well as of the miscellaneous Illustrations of Science, Art-Manufacture, Ethnology, 

 and other allied subjects which the building contains ; thus giving to the Public 

 in this permanent form information not conveyed before. Such a list is now 

 subjoined. 



In opening their Preface the Trustees consider it their first duty to 

 record, which they do with much satisfaction, that the representations preferred 

 by them on behalf of the Public respecting the necessity for an extension of the 

 building were entertained in a liberal spirit by the Government and generously 

 supported by Parliament. 



Votes taken in the years 1863 and 1864 have supplied the sum of 

 11,880, with which a portion of the Northern Wing has been completed. 



This affords considerably increased accommodation. A new Reading Room, 

 90 feet long, corresponding in size, architectural structure, and features with the 

 Queen's Room, opens from the Central Chamber up stairs. In this and in its 



