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committee, for binding such as can be completed, as well 

 as some other volumes urgently requiring it. 



The stipulated amount for preparing the catalogue has 

 been paid ; but that for arranging the books on the shelves 

 &c, replacing the missing parts and superintending the 

 binding has not yet been settled, as the work is still in 

 progress. The committee have also called for tenders for 

 printing the catalogue, and the proposals have been sub- 

 mitted to the Council. 



Mr. Eobb reports that the number of books in the library, 

 including those about to be bound, is upwards of 3,000, 

 and of pamphlets which it is not at present intended to 

 bind, about half that number in addition. It is proposed 

 to classify and deposit the unbound pamphlets in cases 

 which have been ordered for the purpose. 



Apart from the current scientific periodicals, which are 

 very fairly represented, the re is in the library a very con- 

 siderable number of rare books, chiefly valuable for their 

 antiquity, which have hitherto been, for the most part, 

 buried in the lower cases, but are now transferred to the 

 shelves and may prove an attractive feature. 



A list of duplicates in the library, consisting of 43 

 volumes, bound or in boards, and 284 pamphlets and parts 

 of periodicals has been printed ; and a list of deficiencies 

 has been prepared, so as to enable the Society to dispose of 

 the duplicates and to fill up the deficiencies by purchase or 

 exchange as the case may be. Mr. Eobb is now engaged 

 in distributing these lists. 



Your committee have not yet prepared the regulations 

 for the use of the books in the library, as their arrange- 

 ment in the shelves is not yet complete ; and it has been 

 thought advisable to defer the matter until the new com- 

 mittee shall have assumed ofiice, when they could probably 

 be printed in their appropriate connection with the cat- 

 alogue. 



The following is a list of donations to the library during 

 the session now coming to a close, not including, however, 

 the parts or numbers of scientific periodicals, transactions 

 &c, usually received in exchange for the "Record. " 



