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up in connection with Arctic discovery, and this the Society 

 has aimed at obtaining. Hall and Kane, Ross and Franklin, 

 Petitot and Young, Simpson and Kennedy, and many others, 

 speak of the frozen north, and tell of British energy and en- 

 durance. Works on the Hudson's Bay Company, with its 

 wonderful history, are here in large numbers. Warburton and 

 Tyrrell, from the barren regions of the north country, tell their 

 tale, and Ballantyne and Phillips- Wolley are here in their 

 sketches, while a considerable Alaska literature is made 

 accessible. 



BOUND PAMPHLETS AND MAPS. 



Canadian, and especially Western Canadian, pamphlets ac- 

 cumulate in great numbers in a library. Trivial and unimport- 

 ant as many of them may seem, they form the very basis of 

 true history, for they are not consciously historical. A year 

 or two ago the Society spent a considerable amount of money 

 in binding up pamphlets, and these now constitute two long 

 shelf-rows of fat volumes. Valuable maps and manuscripts 

 are hidden away in the Society's archives, that but need to 

 have good quarters to be of great service to those searching 

 for early information. 



GREAT SETS. 



In seeking to keep in touch with all literature bearing 

 specially on Canadian life, the Society has taken in many series 

 that publish a volume or two a year, but extend over five or 

 ten years. Among these was the valuable reprint of twelve 

 volumes (in 9) of Hakluyt's Voyages to America, a rare 

 work, of which the original is valued at £80. Old Hakluyt 

 was of Queen Elizabeth's time, and was Prebendary of West- 

 minster. For our purpose the reprint is as valuable as the 

 original. The Society is a subscriber to Murray's great dic- 

 tionary, which publishes a volume every two years. Four 

 volumes have now reached to the letter K. It is promised 

 that of new quotations and extracts there will be one million 





