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FERGUSON, ( Dr.) D. BLAIR, CHAS. CONVERS, @ andGEORGE 
H. LOXDALE. Be 
At the first general meeting on the r2th of rer the 
first ele€&tion of Office-bearers took place, Sir MICHAEL Ree 
M’TwuRK being chosen President, Hon. WILLIAM ARRIN- | 
DELL and Mr. CHARLES CONYERS, Vice-Presidents, Mr. 
W. H. CAMPBELL, Secretary, and Mr. WM. BRAND, — 
Treasurer. Among the first arrangements made by the _ 
General Committee (answering to the present Board of 
Dire€tors) were those for a Reading Room, and it willbe — 
interesting to note some of the papers ordered for the : 
tables. Comparatively few of them are in existence now, 
and many of the remainder have been given up, so that — « 
with the exception of the Zzmes, Atheneum, SpeCator, — 
Punch, and the New York Herald, none of them are to — a 
be seen in the Reading Room to-day. The list was fairly 
comprehensive, including the Gazettes ot London, Dublin, — “S 
Edinburgh, and Amsterdam, the Evening Mail, Evening — 
Chronicle, St. Fames’s Chronicle, English Chronicle, q 4 
Liverpool Mail, Dublin Evening Mail, Bombay Mail, — 
Nation, Fohn Bull, Glasgow Courter, and a great many — 
others. The Zuropean Mail of to-day was represented — 
by the Colonial Gazette and Willmer and Smith's — 
European Times, while agriculture received such atten- , . 
tion that the list included the Mark Lane Express, — 
Farmers’ Fournal, New Farmers’ Fournal, and the 
Proceedings of the English and Highland Agricultural — 
Societies. Among the Magazines were Blackwood’s, — 
Fraser's, Colburn’s, Ainsworth’s, Chambers’ Fournal — 
and Bentley's Miscellany, besides a few others that are — 
still in existence and many which have long been dis- — 
continued, It will thus be seen that the Reading Room — 
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