THE LIBRARY. 
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This is something like a general idea of what the Library contains. It will be 
seen, however, by the Catalogue, that we are very deficient in more recent works, 
and especially in the last editions of foreign Pharmacopoeias. 
The last catalogue is dated 1853 ; an Appendix is in course of preparation, 
which in some sense will be more valuable than the first catalogue, since it will 
contain the most recent books, and many new editions of old ones. The Cata¬ 
logue, with Appendix, will be furnished at the cost of one shilling. Here is a 
list of the chief of its Periodical Literature :— 
Lancet. 
Medical Times. 
British Medical Journal. 
Weekly. 
Medical Circular. Chemical News. 
Athenaeum. Comptes-Rendus. 
Society of Arts’ Journal. 
Monthly. 
Edinburgh Medical Journal. 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
Zoologist. 
Journal of Botany. 
Philosophical Magazine. 
Educational Times. 
Chemist and Druggist. 
British Journal of Dental Science. 
The Dental Review. 
The Technologist. 
Journal of Chemical Society. 
Photographic Journal. 
Veterinarian. 
Pharmaceutical Journal. 
Bi-Monthly. 
American Journal of Pharmacy. 
French Monthly. 
Annales des Sciences Naturelles. j Journal de Chimie Medicale. 
Journal de Pharinacie. | Repertoire de Chimie Pure et Appliquee. 
Annales de Chimie et de Physique. | 
Revista Farmaceutica. (Published by the Pharmaceutical Society of Argentine, S. A.). 
Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
Quarterly. 
| Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 
At Irregular Intervals. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. 
„ „ Royal Institution. 
,, „ Linnean Society. 
Proceedings of the Medical and Chirurgical 
Society. 
Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de Paris. 
„ „ Societe deBotamquede France. 
The number of periodicals, weekly, monthly, and quarterly, placed upon the 
table, number 37, of which 19 are either exchanges for the ‘ Pharmaceutical 
Journal,’ or sent free by various Societies. 
All the English and French periodicals are very generally read. The back 
volumes are also much referred to. The current numbers are read by those who 
use the reading-room, and the volumes are used more especially by members 
and others for the purpose of consulting particular papers.* 
The average circulation of books is about 40 per month. Many of these 
are books which must be used for the purpose of gaining special information 
iiseful to the reader, and have more generally reference to pharmacy. 
Few books are taken out simply for reading, as in an ordinary library, nor has 
this circulation but little reference to Students’ text-books, it being understood 
that they possess copies of their own. 
The average attendance of readers during last session was 258 per month, sub¬ 
ject to the deductions mentioned below. 
* Agent for Continental Medical Literature, Hippolyte Bailliere, 219, Regent Street, W. 
Agent for American Publications, Triibner and Co., 00, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
