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Between the date of the publication of the Supplemental Catalogue in the 

 year 1865, and the year 1869, no occasion offered itself for the Trustees to 

 deliver an account of their Stewardship ; although four years passed marked 

 by the occurrence of many especially notable events. 



A very large addition of most valuable books was poured in annually, 

 including many Donations from various European Powers, Departments of 

 different Governments, Universities, Learned Societies, Clubs, and Private 

 Individuals, and acquisitions from India, many of the British Possessions, and 

 from the Governments of several of the States of America and Institutions 

 therein, as well as from the National Government of the United States. 



The number of Oil Paintings was considerably increased. 



The Marble and Plaster Cast Statues, Busts, and Reliefs were classified, 

 and Catalogues of the Works of Art were prepared and printed. 



The year 1866 was made memorable by the Intercolonial Exhibition, held 

 at Melbourne, to prepare for the International Exhibition held at Philadelphia 

 in the following year 1867. 



Application was made to the Trustees to consent that suitable structures in 

 which the Exhibition might be held should be erected on a portion of their 

 land not occupied by buildings. Their consent having been given, three sides 

 of the first quadrangle of the originally projected building were carried up 

 to the height of the first story and covered with temporary roofs. These 

 structures embraced 



(a) A Great Hall 220 ft. by 82 ft. and 48 ft. high. 



(b) Two Galleries connecting the Hall with the original building, each 

 230 ft. by 25 ft. 



Having served the purposes of that Exhibition, been employed for the 

 Reception of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on his visit in the year 1867, 

 for several occasional Public Ceremonies, and also for an Exhibition of Pictures 

 and Works of Art generously lent by private individuals to the Trustees, these 

 buildings were handed over to the Trustees in the year 1867. In a short time 

 the side galleries were filled, that on the North side with the Statues, Busts, 

 and Reliefs, before then inconveniently placed in other apartments; that on 

 the South with Pictures, Prints, Photographs, Coins, Medals, and Miscellaneous 

 Collections of Objects of Art highly interesting in character. 



The comprehensive series of Geological Specimens acquired by Donations 

 from Exhibitors in 1866, from the Survey Department, and removed from the 

 National Museum built in the grounds of the University, with many other 

 objects of great interest and instructive importance, were placed in the Great 

 Hall. 



So steady and rapid had been the growth of the Institution in each 

 department, that it became necessary to relieve the original Trustees of the 

 oppiessive burthen of the administration. Accordingly, in the year 1869, an 

 Act was introduced into Parliament, by which the Library was incorporated. 



