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THE LIBRARY. 
2. Members of the Society, whether residing in London or the country,* may obtain 
books on making personal or written application for them ; but no Member shall have 
more than two volumes at a time, nor shall he keep any book for a longer period than 
fourteen days. But when a book is returned by a Member it may be borrowed by him 
again, provided it has not been bespoken by any other Member. Books which have been 
bespoken shall circulate in rotation according to priority of application. 
3. Associates, Apprentices, and.Students of the Sooiety may obtain books on present¬ 
ing an order from a Member, who shall in all cases be responsible for their safe keeping 
and return. 
4. The scientific journals shall not be circulated until the volumes are ^completed and 
bound. Works containing valuable plates, and a few standard works of reference, which 
are distinguished in the Catalogue hy a mark (*), shall not be circulated. 
5. Members retaining books longer than the specified time shall be subject to a fine of 
One Penny per day for each volume so retained. If any book be retained bj a Member 
for three months, and be not returned after written application has been made for it, the 
Council may order it to be replaced, and charge the Member in default with the amount 
thus incurred, in addition to the fine. If any book, when returned by a Member, is found 
to have been damaged during the period such Member has had it, a fine equivalent to 
the injury shall be paid by the Member. 
6. The Library shall be closed for a fortnight once a year, to admit of the revision of 
the books. 
Before entering on any discussion with regard to these regulations, it may be 
as well to give a general idea of the class of books here offered. The Library 
consists of about 3000 volumes, including,— 
1st. A tolerably complete collection of works on MateriaMedica, which, leaving 
out of the question what is contained on the subject in classical works, as Pliny 
and others, commences with the Ortus Sanitatis, date 1517, .(A work with no 
author’s name, but which is compiled from, or owes its origin to, the Liber Pan- 
dectorum Medicines of Mattheus Silvaticus, published in Venice some thirty- 
eight years before,) and, continuing through the 17th and 18th centuries, ends 
with Pereira. 
2nd. A good collection of Dispeusatories and Pharmacopoeias, perhaps as com¬ 
plete as any to be met with in a public library other than that of the British 
Museum, or the College of Physicians. Besides foreign Pharmacopoeias there is 
the whole series of the London, with the exception of the two first. It is stated 
that the College of Physicians does not possess the first. These works are in 
constant demand for reference. 
3rd. A fair collection of chemical works, comprising translations and ab¬ 
stracts of nearly all the old alchemists, with a few original editions of their 
tracts, and all the standard works on Chemistry published in England to the 
present time. 
4th. A good assortment of Botanical works, including some illustrated books, 
valuable for reference, in connection with Medical Botany. This collection in¬ 
cludes the old folio lierbals of Gerarde, Salmon, Parkinson, and Culpeper. 
5th. There area few modern works exclusively relating to Practical Pharmacy, 
but the majority of the old books on this subject are included in the dispen¬ 
satories and herbals and.some chemical works. 
6th. A very complete set of the principal English and French scientific and 
medical journals. This includes the Transactions of the Royal Society, Society 
of Arts, Royal Institution, American and Continental Societies, and dates from 
an early period. There are also a few .odd volumes of German journals ; but from 
the fact that they meet with very few readers, these have not been provided 
regularly. 
7th. What may be termed Miscellaneous; viz. works on Natural History, 
Natural Philosophy, and most of the collateral branches, Dictionaries, Cata¬ 
logues, etc. 
* Country Members must bear the expense of carriage of books. 
