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room available for the extension of the Library, having 
been removed to a more convenient place, that room was set 
at liberty. But the expense of fitting up the room with the 
requisite book-shelves, and also the expense of binding a 
number of the books for their better preservation and more 
convenient use, the necessity of which had made itself from 
year to year more felt, had to be provided for. The ordinary 
funds of the Society, having been almost entirely absorbed 
by the current expenditure, left no available surplus sufficient 
for these purposes. The Society, therefore, on the 20th of 
October last, resolved that a subscription should be opened 
amongst the members, for raising the necessary funds, esti- 
mated at about £145. 
This subscription has not hitherto been very successful. 
One honorary member, and 47 ordinary members have con- 
tributed the amount of £76. 16s. Consequently 134 of the 
ordinary members — to whom alone, of course, the appeal was 
made — have not yet subscribed. It is, however, to be hoped 
that most of these members will add their names to the list, 
and that the required amount will ultimately be obtained. 
The subscription will be kept open until the beginning of next 
session, when the result will be reported. Meanwhile the 
fitting up of the additional library room is in operation, and 
the binding of the books has been commenced, and will be 
continued as far as the collected sum will admit. 
The Catalogue has had the attention of the Librarian. A 
Supplement, embodying all the transactions and other publi- 
cations of learned Societies, at the present moment accessible 
in the library, has been compiled and laid before the Council. 
The other additions to the library have been inserted in the 
catalogue compiled last year. 
A number of volumes, being parts of the works of Dr. 
Dalton, and consisting chiefly of the 1st Part of the 1st vo- 
lume, and the 1st Part of the 2nd volume of his New System 
of Chemical Philosophy, together with his later minor Essays, 
