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this session, has been charged in the accounts, and will be 

 retained in the Treasurer's hands until the invoices are 

 received and duly receipted. This course has been adopted 

 in order that the Bank Pass Book and Invoice Book should 

 show the actual expenditure authorised by the Council for 

 the session 1896-7 as required by the Trust deeds. 



The Council has approved a design for the Wilde Gold 

 Medal, and the die is now being prepared by Messrs. 

 Elkington. 



The work of re-cataloguing the library, which was begun 

 on the 13th of August, 1896, has made satisfactory progress. 

 The total number of volumes catalogued amounts to 2,681 ; 

 of these, 1,862 are serial publications, and 819 separate 

 works ; for, as was stated in the last Report, the library 

 is now divided into these two distinct categories. Every 

 volume that passes through the hands of the cataloguer 

 is duly stamped and press-marked, and a great number of 

 the catalogue-cards, to which reference was made in the 

 last Report, has now been written both for serials and 

 separate works, 493 being due to the former, 781 to the 

 latter, making a total of 1,274 cards. The separate works 

 catalogued belong to the following branches of science : 

 Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Zoology. 



The shelf list, which was in contemplation last session, 

 has now been commenced, and will be found most useful," 

 as showing what books on the various subjects the library 

 contains. 



In the last Report the hope was expressed that funds 

 would shortly be forthcoming for the binding of volumes, 

 which, owing to the expenditure necessitated by the pro- 

 vision of new shelving, had been postponed. This hope 

 has now been fulfilled, and 374 volumes have been bound 

 in 362, while 11 volumes have been suitably repaired. 



It has not yet been possible to catalogue the inaugural 

 dissertations contained in the library and amounting to 

 some hundreds. But in the meantime, in order to facilitate 



