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1877. , VICTORIA. REPORT OF THE TR,USTEES OF THill PUBLIC LIBRARY~ MUSEUMS', & NATIONAL GALLERY OF· VICTORIA, WITH THK REPORTS OF THE SECTIONAL COMMITTEES AND A STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE, FOR TilE rEAR 1" 8_ ~(0-, ~ 6 ... l)RESENTED 'fO BOTIl HOU8l<~S OF PARLIAMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COM~IANn. til! alltboritl!: JOHN FERRES, GOYlmNMENT PRlNTER, MELBOURNE. Ne.11, THE, TRUSTEES OF TH,E PUBLIC LIBRARY, ETC.' THE HON. 8m WILLIAi\[ Fos'mR STAWELL, THE lION., JOHN ALEXANDER :MACPHERSON, M.P. HIS HONOIt MR. JUSTICE BAlmY, PRESIDENT, CHaRLES EDWARD IllUGHT. ESQ., 'I'HE HON. sm FRANCIS l\IURPHY, M.L.C., 'PIlE REV. JOHN IGNAT£US BLEASDALE, D.D., DAVlO CHARTEHL'l ?I]c.Ul'rHUH, ESQ., J.I'., ·FleE·PRESIDENT, ,,[AllTlN HOWY mYING. ESQ., '::l~.A., IUS fiONOR MlL JUSTICJi: FELLOWS, TIlE EO". I'm WILLJAlII ~I. F. lIU'l'CHEI,L. JlLL.C .• 'l'IIE liON. sm JOnN O'SHANASSY, K.C.?lr.G., 'rHI, no". 8m GEORGE VERDON, K.C:~r.G., C.B., TilE HON. sm C. GAYAN DUFFY,1IL1'., 'rUE lION. sm CHARLES lIfAC J\fAIlON.,JlI.P., THE RON. BIll JAlIIES McCULLOCH, ·K.C.:\r.O., 'I'HE HON. WILLJAlII lIr. K. VAIJ~. THE HON. JA.ms '.GOODAI,J, FRANcrs, THE HON. FllANK STANLEY DOBSON, fif.L.C., 'l'lm nON. ']'UO?lIAS 'rUHNER A'm;CKETT, )f,J,.c., THl!, nON. JOHN J\[ACGHEGOR, 'fHE HON. SA)HfEL IH~NRY BINDO:-.r, 'rHE lION. EDWARD LANGTON, M.P, 1~teu illent : ~t1 ire4arCll illent: . HIS HONOR ~m. J1SS'l'ICE' BARllY, DAYID CHARTE;IUS JlICARTIIUR, ESQ", J.P. ~rec'lGtu:~t: 'I'HE nON~ EDWAIlD 1,ANGTON: --"~--... --~-.. --"---- LIBRARIAN: . ImNllY SIIIWFIELD, ESQ. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INmisTRIAL :r.mSmUM: J. COS:UO NEWUE;RY, ESQ., B.Se. DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: l'HOFE;SSOR ::IIoCOY. THE MASTER OF SCHOOL OF PAINTING A.ND CURATOR OF FINE ART GALLERY, EUGENE YON' GUERAlm, ESQ. THE MA!?TER OF' THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN: OSWALD 1l0Sg CAMPBELL, ESQ. >. SECRETARY TO THE TRUSTEES: UOBER'l' cUR'rI5, ESQ~ APPRoxnf.ATE COST OF REPORT. :£ 9. d. PrepaT~t!on-Not given., Prin\iu'J (U2" co; les) 84 0 0 TO THE HONORABLE THE CHIEF SECRETARY. 'The Trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria have the honor to report for the year 1876 :- At a meeting of the Trustees held 7th April 1876,' His Honor Mr. Justice ,Barry was re-elected President, and David Charteris McArthur, Esq., J.P., was re elected Vice-President; the, Honorable Edward Langton was elected Treasurer; the Sectional Committees were elected. The Sectional Committees were composed of the Trustees whose names appear at the head of each Report. ' The Reports of these Committees and of the respective administrative officers are annexed, from which full particul~rs of the general pl'oceedings and the internal economy of each section of the institution may be learned. In December the Honorable Sir Francis Murphy, upon leaving the colony for Europe, resigned his position as Trustee. At a special meeting of Trustees called to consider- 1. vVhether the number of Trustees should b.e 'fixed i 2. Wll€ther any, and if any, what provision should be made for the disquali fication of Trustees: it was resolved- 1. That, in the opinion of the Trustees, the number ,of Trustees should not exceed twenty-one. 2. The Trustees propose to make a regulatiop. for their attendance, which they will submit for the approval of the Governor in Council. The attention of the Trustees has been' directed by the Building Committee (see Report) to the defective ventilation of the Reading-room of the Public Library, and they recommend that, in view of the urgent necessity for increased accommodation for the Library, application be made to the Government for a grant sufficient for the completion of tl;le Great Hall, and for raising the r60f of the present Reading-room in accordance with the original design. With these recommendations the Trustees entirely concur: The accommodation required for the purposes of the National Museum at 'the University is wholly inadequate. A vote of £2,000 was included in the Estimates of last year for additional buildings; but after careful consideration, and in defer~nce to the opinion expressed in Parlfument in 1865, the Trustees have determined to re~om mend that suif;able buildings should be erected on the land vested. in them? \lnd the collection removed thither as 'soon as possible. For this purpose the Trustees have applied to the Government for a vote on the next Estimates. (Signed), D. C. McARTHUR, Vice-President. REPORT OF THE SEOTIONAL CO}IMITTEE OF 'fHE PUBLIO 'LIBRARY ~er.tional I/tommittee: DAVID CHARTERIS lVIcARTHUR, Esq., Chairman; His Honor Mr. JUS~'ICE BARRY, . lVIARTIN Howy IRVING; Esq., lVI.A: The Hon. Sir WILLIAM FOSTER STAWELL, Sir GEORGE VERDON, K.G.lVI.G., C.B., The Hon. S,ir JOHN O'SH.ANASSY, K.C.lVI.G., The Hon. JOHN :J.1ACGREGOR, The Hev. JOHN 1. BLEASDALE, ,D.D., The Hon. EDWARD LANGTON. The Sectional Committee of the Public Library have the honor to present th~ Report of th~ir proceedings for the year 1876. In accordance ,,vith the regulati~'ns, the enumeration of the books was made . in the month of lVIarch. The schedules ~how the amount of money expended during the year for the purchase of books and binding in Europe and the colonies ... (Ree Schedules I., II., and III.) The Fourth and.Fifth Schedll1es show the number of books received as donations and under' the Copyright J\ct, with the flill particulars respecting them. The Sixth Schedule gives the circulation of volu.mes ftom the Lending I,ibrary, the towns to which the books have been forwarded, and the number of persons within whose reac~ the books have been brouO'ht.'" . 1>' - , -The. more important donations, as shown in Schedule IV., are those contributed ,by the departments of the EngJish Government, by the Master of the ·Rolls, the Commissioners of () Patents, the :qritish lVIuseum, the Governor-Gener:alof India, the Lieutenant-Governors of the Provinces, the departments of the Government of Canad(1 and other Colonial Possessions of the Crown, from the Government of the United states, particularly that of Rhode Island, several , Libraries of San Francisco, Boston, and New York, the· Smithsonian Institute, the Governments of Germany, Belgium,. and Holland, and, the Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg, by the .Athenreum and CObden Clubs, and the Corporation' of lVIelbourne.· ' The donation made. by the Government of the United States is unusually large.· Many contributions also are due to the liberality of the Commissioners for the Philadelpliia Exhibition. The Government of California has also hugely contributed. The interest thus shown in the institution is attributable to the exertions of Sir Redinond Barry, who h:;ts brought the Library under' the notice of all kindred institutions in America visited by him. .' . The donation of the Athenreum Cluh and of the Melbourne Corporation claims also especial notice; the latter consists. of 20,.and the former of 351 volumes and pamphlets. The Unitarian Association of America also pre~ented 34 volumes. Among the gifts made by private donors may be mentioned that by Colonel Champ, of .41 MSS. and vocabularies relating to the Aboriginal tribes Of the Australian Continent. The enum:eration now finished,;1s compa~ed with that of 1876, gives the following com parative returns :':'-', Yolumc9 of Books. l'al-t., Pamphlet., &c. , 1876 , .. 73,202 1876' 14,378 1877 ..... 76,044 1877 13,775, Showing an increase of 2,239. This increase is mainly due to the liberality of the donations as referred t9 above. The Co~urriittee :have decided to purchase from local hou,ses for six nionths as an experi ment, and an o~der for 687 ~olumes is now in course of Epxecution by 'Messrs. George Robertson, Mullen, and Bailliere. , . , . -' _ '. The catalogue or the Library referred to in the last Report is still unprinted. The Committee again recommend the Trustees to ask the Chief Secreta.ryto place on the Estimates a snI? sufficient for the publication of this work, which is often asked for and much. needed by the public. The present enumcrH,tion gives 28 ai:\ the number of missing; and 14 as the number of· mutilated- works. - - The Committee again have to call attention to the want of proper ventilation in the galleries. An experiment of placing a ventilator in the ceiling has been made, and though the atmo.sphere in the immediate vicinity was somewhat cooled by this means, bnt little perceptible difference in the general temperature was made. ' SCHEDULE 1. BOOKS, ETC., PURCHAi5ED IN MELBOURNE, 1876. Bought from- Volumcs. Amouni. Total. Bought frol1i- Volumes. Amount. ToW. - .. --~~~--- I £ s. d. i£ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. I £1 Bailliere ... 58 i3 18 0 Sands & McDougall 1 5 0 Ditto ... .. 10 25 80 Ditto ... .. 1 1 5 0 lJitto ... .. 31 20 12 3 Ditto ... ... 1 1 . 5 0 -----119 18 3 , ~ ::- 3 15 0 Bruce ... ... 12 ... 0 15 6 Scott ... ... 6 .. , o 19 6 GOI'don and Gotch Subscription ... 21 3 0 Smith ... ... 81 36 4 6 Jones ... ... 79 ... 13 11 6 Ditto ... ... 6 1 3 6 Maxwell ... Subscription " . 18 18 0 37 8 0 Mcl'1ahon ... 2 .. 0 3 6 Stillwell• & Kni"ht0 2 ... 1 6 0 Mullen .. Subscription 21 17 0 Ulrich ... 1 ... 2 15 0 Dirto .'" ... 33 13 10 6 Ditto ... ..., 235 95 11 3 Dino ... 8 vol •. & sub. 12 104 I Books for Lending. Ditto •.. ... 77 37 11 9 ---- 181 010 Mullen ... 71 ... 35 18 9 Needham 4 . 2 Smith ..