120 REPORT— 1839. 



proportion, then, of those who evince any, even the smallest, know- 

 ledge of science, to those who pass the examination, is 1 :12. 



Notice of the Progress of the Inquiries made by the Committee instituted 

 at the meeting of the British Association in Newcastle, when the sum 

 of 501. was placed at the disposal of Mr. Car gill, Mr. Wharton, Mr. 

 jBuddle, Mr. Forster, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Johnston, for the pur- 

 pose of making inquiries into the Statistics of the Milling Districts of 

 Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire. Presented by W. L. 

 Wharton, Esq. 



(The subject is still under investigation.) 



Account of the Circulating Libraries in the Dorough of Kingston-upon- 

 Hull. By the Manchester Statistical Society. 



Circulating Libraries in the borough of Kingston-upon-HuU, maj^ be 

 ranged under the following heads : — 1. Public Subscription Libraries. 

 2. Libraries attached to Public Institutions. 3. Congregational Li- 

 braries. 4. Libraries attached to Sunday Schools. 5. Private Circu- 

 lating Libraries. 



These public subscription libraries contain an extensive assortment of 

 works in every department of literature. There are four, containing 

 25,671 volumes; of which, 2,537, or 9*88 per cent., are Theology and 

 Ecclesiastical History; 2,674-, or 10'41 per cent., are Jui'isprudence 

 and Political Economy ; 7,549, or 29*41 per cent., are History and 

 Biography ; 9,566, or 37*27 per cent., are works on the Art^, Sciences, 

 and general Literature; and 3,345, or 13*03 percent., are Novels, 

 Romances, and works of imagination. The circulation is 102,180 vo- 

 lumes per annum, affording an average of 126 volumes annually to each 

 member. There are four Whvs^viGs. connectedi \\ii\\ publicinstitutions, 

 and they contain 2,920 volumes, of which, 467, or 15*99 per cent, are 

 works in Theology and Ecclesiastical History ; 26, or*89 per cent., are 

 on Jurisprudence and Political Economy; 1,016, or 34*80 per cent., 

 are History and Biography; 1,397, or 47*84 per cent., are Arts, Sci- 

 ences, and general Literature, and 14, or -48 per cent., are Novels, 

 Romances, and works of imagination. The Library of the Mechanics' 

 Institution contains 2,260 volumes, the average annual circulation 

 being 17,992 exhibiting an average reading of 52 volumes per annum 

 to each subscriber. 



There are ten congregational libraries attached to churches or cha- 

 pels, and designed to promote the religious instruction of the congre- 

 gation. In these libraries are 2,994 volumes, which are, with scarcely 

 an exception, of a religious character. The average circulation is 

 10,088 volumes per annum. The number of persons having access to 

 these libraries not being in all cases ascertainable, no estimate of the 

 average number of volumes to each can be made. There are 28 libra- 

 ries attached to Sunday schools, which have 5,655 volumes, exclusively 

 of a religious tendency, with an annual circulation of 48,942 volumes, 



