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galleries arrangements are carried out for the systematic distribution of the books 

 according to the distinctive classification originally adopted in the others, and 

 the public are now admitted to a suite of well-lighted, well-ventilated apartments, 

 230 feet in length, 50 in breadth, and 30 feet in height, capable of containing 

 sixty thousand volumes of books, and of accommodating at the same time, 

 without inconvenience to themselves, six hundred readers. 



The number of volumes in the Library at the close of the year 1861 

 was 26,723 ; that ascertained on the last enumeration was about 34,000. 

 Intelligence has been recently received that nearly 2,000 more have been 

 prepared for shipment from London. These, with others ordered, the arrival 

 of which may be expected in the course of the ensuing three months, may raise 

 the number of volumes to somewhat more than 36,000 ; of these many are 

 of the highest order of literary and scientific merit, many of a class also of an 

 expensive character, which the resources at the command of the Trustees would 

 not have enabled them to purchase. For these the public are indebted to the 

 munificence of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and of the Sovereigns 

 of several of the States of Europe, as well as to the comity of several 

 departments of the Government of the United Kingdom and of Foreign countries, 

 and the liberality of many Literary and Scientific Societies and of private 

 individuals. 



The Emperor of the French has enriched the collection with a Second 

 Donation even more varied and important than that with which he was on a 

 former occasion pleased to honor the Institution, and the Consul-General of 

 His Imperial Majesty has, with a kindness natural to a person of his extended 

 travel and learning, offered his assistance to render more perfect the roll of 

 French authors at present found within the walls. 



The Emperor of Russia has extended his generosity to this Library, and 

 also to that of the University of Melbourne. 



The King of Prussia presented, with other books of peculiar interest, a 

 copy of Lepsius' great work on Egypt, in twelve volumes of the largest size ; 

 these were accompanied with most encouraging promises of further aid by 

 Dr. Pertz, Librarian of the Royal Library of Berlin. 



The late King of Denmark, through the medium of the Librarian of the 

 Royal Library of Copenhagen, also bestowed a considerable number of volumes. 



The King of Italy entrusted to his Consul, recently appointed, a handsome 

 gift, which indicates substantially His Majesty's sympathy for the Library. 



The Imperial Geographical Society of Austria have forwarded, at the 

 instance of the venerable Haidinger, a large body of scientific productions of great 

 jinictical usefulness, in addition to that formerly given by that and by other 

 Societies in Vienna. 



The Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians of Denmark have, through the 

 instrumentality of the distinguished historian Rafn, sent from Copenhagen a 



