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able deficiencies may be ranged under the following heads r 
1. — Newspapers published in the Island : I believe- 
the Library possesses none.”* 
2. — Local Publications and Pamphlets relating to the 
West Indies : In this department l am sorry to say 
a very great neglect has been evinced. No pains 
have been taken te obtain such works, and where 
the authors or publishers have been at the- trouble 
. to present them to the Library, they have not al- 
ways been properly acknowledged, nor have they 
been duly preserved, bound and recorded in the 
. catalogues. In this way papers of great interest and 
future value hav6 been lost to the Library. 
C. — Publications of the local Government, including 
the Council Tapers, Ordinances and Loyal Gazette. 
The only expense that would fall on the Library in 
respect of these' would be the binding, for I. feel 
assured that, on application, copies of these papers 
would readily be granted by the Government. y > 
4. — Parliamentary Papers : There are a number of 
these in the Library, some presented and some pur- 
chased. A few are ; bound, but the majority lie in 
a heap, inaccessible to any one save the insects.' 
t >. — -Scientific Works : The Scientific Works in the- 
Library may be counted on the fingers This re- . 
mark does not apply to Manuals, of which there is 
a moderate supply ; but these are books which the 
student usually procures for himself, and their pur- 
pose in a Library is rather for the perusal of casual 
* I am glad to observe, that since this paper was read, the Public 
Library has obtained, for the moderate sum of $47, forty-four vo- 
lumes of the Port-of-Spain Gazette, and three of the Trinidad 
Gazette,— R. J. L. G,’ 
