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incomplete volumes for binding, and preparing the cata- 

 logue. Much time during the illness of the Superin- 

 tendent was unavoidably lost, as without his assistance 

 very little could be done. 



Your Librarian is pleased to report that increasing 

 interest is being taken in the Library by the members, 

 and much more use will be made of it when it is known 

 what scarce and valuable works are to be found in it. In 

 this connection I am glad to state that a permanent cata- 

 logue is now well in hand. After much consideration the 

 card system has been adopted. It becomes of use as the 

 work goes on, and from it a printed catalogue can be easily 

 got up on any arrangement that may be decided upon. 

 Two of the cases are finished, and the cards will be at 

 once arranged in alphabetical order. I must here acknow- 

 ledge the great assistance received from Mr. Griffin, wdth- 

 out whose ready and intelligent help the work I have 

 mentioned could not have been performed. The other 

 cases will be taken in hand at once, but the assistance of 

 some of the members of the Society is asked in the 

 arrangement and cataloguing the contents of the two cases 

 containino- works in the French and German lano-uatres. 



Above 300 volumes of exchanges are now waiting for 

 the binder. It is a pity that these volumes, which contain 

 very important papers on recent science, should not be 

 more available for the use of members in consequence of 

 their waiting to be bound in volumes for so long a time 

 after their publication. 



The cases being filled, more shelving is urgently 

 required, and it would be to the interest of the Society if 

 the Council could at an early period make a liberal grant 

 to the Library for new cases and for binding tlie volumes 

 mentioned. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



E. T, Chambers, 



Hon, Lihrariari. 



