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for our Fortnightly Ordinary Meetings, as a Beading Room 
also, daily for the use of the Members and Associates. 
Several publishers have kindly supplied the New Reading 
Room with journals and newspapers, and some other period- 
icals are purchased for the use of Subscribers. The nucleus 
f a i Zi lbrar y ma y n ? w also be considered as formed, consisting 
ot 180 volumes, ninety-four of which, were presented durino- 
the last year. This small “Library” is certainly nothing to 
boast of; but “the day of small things” should never be 
despised, if the work is good. Considering that the Victoria 
Institute is now completing the fourth volume of its published 
Journal of Transactions, and has matter partly in type for 
another volume, it is only natural to reflect how much more 
liberally other Institutes and Associations which have done 
nothing at all, or nothing like our Institute, in the production 
ot pure and scientific literature themselves, seem to have been 
nevertheless handsomely supplied with gifts of libraries of 
books and with suitable buildings for their occupation. 
3. -there is nothing, however, like self-reliance. The 
Council will gladly welcome gifts of books and further sub- 
scriptions for the Library and Reading Room. But, if the 
present Members and Associates will also let their friends 
taow ot this additional advantage to Subscribers which the 
institute can now offer, and thus induce new members to join, 
this will be one of the most certain and best means of advan- 
cing the interests of the Society, and of enabling the Council to 
carry out more fully its objects. The central position of the 
institute, m the immediate vicinity of Charing Cross, is very 
convenient, both for town and country members; and, whenever 
the funds will warrant the outlay, the Council will gladly add 
and Library a S b °° kS ofreference to the Reading Room 
4. As there are now 46 Second-class Associates, who only 
subscribe one guinea per annum, the Council feel that it will be 
necessary either to limit the numbers of such subscribers, or to 
lliii lelr l . prlVle ? eS) com P are d with the First-class Associates 
and Members, who subscribe two guineas a year; and they 
ould propose that Second-class Associates, resident in 
ondon, should not be entitled hereafter to the use of the 
library and Reading Room, but only to receive the Journal 
,l„!;,J h f\ C0Un< r il 1-egrefc t0 have t0 report the loss by death 
of C-E.K. Butler, Esq., Foundation 
KelTvF, Pe pp Ca w^ W V. Esq ” Life Asaociate ; a o q of John 
p 8 *' ( ?' E ” VJ - R - Geol- Soc. Ireland, and W. A. 
JN unes, Esq., Associates. 
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