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would by their sale nearly repay the ex- 

 pense of publication, which a complete 

 alphabetical catalogue of the library cer- 

 tainly would not. These remarks, it will 

 be perceived, coincide with those made 

 yesterday by Mr. Vickers, which struck 

 me as eminently sensible and practical. 



I have prepared a list of the subjects 

 comprised in the classification of the 

 Museum,* which I put in for your exami- 

 nation. For a list of the principal sys- 

 tems proposed for the classification of 

 libraries, I may refer to Petzholdt's 

 " Bibliotheca Bibliographica." It is in 

 so far deficient that it necessarily con- 

 tains no reference to the recent labours 



* See Appendix, " List of subjects of works in 

 the British Museum library, according to the ar- 

 rangement of books on the shelves." 



