PART OF A LIFE HISTORY 
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1890 Professor Lloyd Morgan filled the post, and for the 
last thirteen years Dr. C. K. Rudge has been in office. 
For the past twenty years Mr. H. J. Charbonnier has been 
Sub -Librarian. In December, 1864, it was decided to 
commence a Library by the aid of voluntary donations 
and subscriptions, and a year later the “ nucleus ” of the 
Library was shown at the forty- third meeting of the 
Society. The first list of books, including fourteen works, 
was printed in the Report read May 3, 1866. The next 
list printed at the end of the Report, read on May 7, 1868, 
shows thirty- two works. At the end of the session 1871-2 
the number had risen to eighty-six, and included Sowerby’s 
English Botany ; but a footnote states that the ninth 
volume of the work was missing. Unfortunately, it is 
still absent (Jan., 1904). In the next two Reports a 
supplementary list of works added during the year is 
appended to the full list. In 1875,-6, and -7 the recently- 
added volumes alone are mentioned, and during the next 
four years no list at all seems to have been issued. But 
in the twentieth annual Report (May, 1882) it is stated 
that a “ Catalogue ” had been printed and circulated. 
There is, unfortunately, no copy of this preserved in the 
Library. 
In 1888 a new Catalogue was printed, and it records 
some hundreds of books and pamphlets, the list occupy- 
ing forty pages. Since 1888 the number of books has 
so largely increased that another catalogue is urgently 
needed. 
Until 1871 the books were deposited at the “ Philo- 
sophical Institution,” Park Street. Then, until 1884, 
the books were housed at Professor Leipner’s. Subse- 
quently space was found for them in University College, 
but at the end of 1890 it was found necessary to increase 
the accommodation, so a room was rented from the 
“ Literary and Philosophic Club ” in Berkeley Square, 
