The following is the Report with Statement of Accounts for the year 190
There has again been a small decrease in the number of subscribers. It was hoped that the printing of the fiction portion of the Catalogue would have been completed before the end of the year, but although the manoacript was in the hands of the printers in Jaly of last year it has only recently been completed. Copies can now be obtained at the Library at $1 exch, and it is hoped that every subscriber will help to defray the heavy cost of production—amounting to $520—tby purchasing s copy, 287 works of fiction and fifty books of biography, travel, etc,, have been added during the year, and the circalation of books has amounted to 17,986 as against 16,224 in 1908, The number of persona, mootly nonsubscribers to the Library, who have visited the public reading-room for the purpose of reading the magazines and mounted to 13,857 daring the oar, the Library to the general pobli, The Committee has lost th of Mr. F. 8, A, Bourne, and joined by Sir Havilland de Sausmarer, Dr. A. Stanley, and Mr. F. W.
The thanks of the subscribers are due to Mr. G. 8. Helfer for kindly auditing the accounts.
For the Committee, H. W. ye Savsmannz, Chairman,
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