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obtained space more in correspondence 

 with the comprehensiveness of his ideas, 

 and the Museum library will bear the im- 

 press of his mind for all ages. With his name 

 will be associated that of the late keeper, 

 Mr. Rye, for many years his coadjutor, 

 and whose own independent arrangement 

 of the Grenville library and the reference- 

 library of the reading-room will always 

 be cited as models for the disposition of 

 limited collections. I trust to be excused 

 this brief reference to gentlemen prema- 

 turely lost to our profession — the former by 

 death, the latter by indisposition, brought 

 on, it is to be feared, by over-application to 

 his official duties. To the example of the 

 former and the instruction of the latter I 

 am indebted for whatever claim I may 

 have to address you on a subject to which 

 I can contribute little of my own. 



