﻿Annual Report of the Council. xli 



The Wilde Endowment Fund, which is kept as a separate 

 banking account, shows a balance of ^233. 16s. 6d. in its 

 favour, as against ,£181. 4s. 8d., at the beginning of the 

 financial year, the receipts from the invested funds being 

 the same as last year. 



No expenditure has been incurred in respect of the Joule 

 Memorial Fund and the Dalton Tomb Fund, the balances of 

 which remain at the amounts stated above. The Dalton Tomb 

 Fund stands as a separate account at the Manchester and 

 Salford Savings Bank. 



The Librarian reports that during the session 826 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked, 756 of these 

 being serials, and 70 separate works. There have been written 

 602 catalogue cards, 485 for serials, and 117 for separate works. 

 The total number of volumes catalogued to date is 28,365 for 

 which 9,729 cards have been written. 



Satisfactory use is made of the library for reference purposes, 

 but the number of volumes consulted is not recorded. During 

 the session. 134 volumes have been borrowed from the library, 

 as compared with 184 in the previous session. 



Some attention has continued to be paid to the completion 

 of sets, 13 volumes having been obtained which render two sets 

 complete, whilst in volumes or parts have been acquired 

 which partly complete seven sets. Of these, 52 volumes or 

 parts were purchased, and the rest were presented by the 

 respective societies publishing them. 



A larger amount of binding has been done this session, 257 

 volumes having been bound in 204. 



A record of the accessions to the library shows that, from 

 April, 1904, to March, 1905, 731 serials and 50 separate works 

 were received, a total of 781 volumes. The donations during 

 the session (exclusive of the usual exchanges) amount to 47 

 volumes and 41 dissertations; 3 volumes have been purchased 

 (in addition to the periodicals on the regular subscription list). 



During the past session the Society has arranged to exchange 

 publications with the following : — The South African Association 



