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History of Music (4 vols.), ,9, is. ; Locke's Works, 

 (10 vols.), 9, is. ; Playfair's System of Chronology, 

 2, i6j. icd. ; W. Roy's Antiquities of Scotland (Mili- 

 tary Antiquities of the Romans in Britain), ^5, 13^. 9^. 

 In consideration of this and other valuable gifts to the 

 Society, and of his having expended ^ 10,000 in the 

 erection of a stove tenter house, 1 as also 6000 for 

 a hospital for sick poor in the liberties of Dublin, 

 Mr. Pleasants was elected an honorary member. 



A sum of 500 per annum was reported as avail- 

 able in 1 8 1 6 for the purchase of books, newspapers, and 

 periodicals. On the nth of December 1817, a cata- 

 logue of the library was ready for delivery, and fifty 

 guineas were voted to Dr. Litton on its completion. 

 In 1820, Dr. Litton was paid the compliment of being 

 elected an honorary member, and on the occasion of 

 his taking his seat as such he was specially addressed by 

 the vice-president from the chair. 



Frederick Cradock, whose father had been libra- 

 rian at Marsh's Library, was elected librarian in the 

 room of Dr. Litton, on the latter's appointment in 

 1826 to the professorship of Botany. In that year the 

 collection consisted of 8300 volumes, and j6o were 

 paid to the sub-librarian for an index to sixty-one 

 volumes of the printed Proceedings. Another catalogue 

 (raisonne) was completed in 1829, in four folio volumes, 

 for which a sum of ^100 was paid to the librarian. On 

 the death of Cradock in 1833, John Patton was elected 

 librarian, two of the other candidates for the post 

 being John Anster 2 and Robert Travers. In 1855, 



1 See p. 206 n. 



2 Anster was born in Charleville in 1793. He became Regius 

 Professor of Civil Law in Dublin University, early published some 

 poems, and was the first to render Goethe's Faust into English verse. 

 His version of portion of the poem appeared in Blackivood in 1820. 

 The first part was completed in 1835, and the entire by 1864. Anster 



