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Concerning the ordinary current work of the Library, I need 

 only say that it has been carried on as well as circumstances 

 would admit, and I think we may congratulate ourselves that the 

 improvements made have been effected without interfering in any 

 greater degree with the use of the Librar}', either for consultation 

 here or for home reading, and with no loss of books and little 

 injury. 



ROBERT MANNING, 



Secretary and Librarian^ 



