160 Our Hon. Member M. Leopold de Lisle, Administrateur-général of the Bibliothèque Nationale, recently read before the Académie des Inscriptions, a "Mémoire sur l'école calligraphique de Tours au ixe siècle," to which we hope to call the attention of our readers when it is printed. We are glad to learn from Dr. Gustav Becker, Custos of the Bonn University Library, that his forthcoming book, to which we referred in our last issue, has almost passed the press and will shortly appear. and embraces 136 early Catalogues from the 8th to the 12th century. It will be called "Catalogi Bibliothecarum Antiqui," followed by a list of Catalogues extending to the year 1500. A carefully prepared These are index will supply all necessary explanations, and serve to some extent as a commentary. Notes and Queries. VANCOUVER'S Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 6 vols., 1801. My copy wants pages 29 to 32 of vol. 1, also plate to face page 349, vol. 5. Do these deficiencies occur in other copies? If not, what do pages 29 to 32 contain? I to 256, diagrams 1 to 58, but no title page and index. 2 vols., 1851-6. Vol. 2 of my copy has copies? J. D. M. pages Is this the same in all BLUME, C. L. Museum Botanicum. Correspondence. Mrs. BRAY. In your Bibliography of Mrs. Bray there is one mistake. You attribute "Physiology for Schools" to Mrs. E. A. Bray-the novelist, and old friend of our house. It is not by her, nor by my cousin Mrs. R. M. Bray, but by Mrs. Charles Bray, who is still alive, and for whom (and her husband) we publish various works. 39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., August 18, 1884. AUSTRALIAN LIBRARIES. C. J. LONGMAN. During the present year I have been engaged in visiting the capitals and some of the Union Club, Sydney, N. S. W. chief towns of the various Australian Colonies, visiting as many as possible of the large Libraries, and where not able to visit personally I have endeavoured to obtain the most recent statistics and information as to the state and working of these Libraries. My efforts were continued more zealously when I found what progress was being made by some of the Libraries in these Colonies, and that too without the knowledge of or encouragement from the Library Associations in England and America, which are wont to take notice of Library work in all parts of the world. Indeed I believe that with the tion of occasional brief notices of the Melbourne Library in the pages of "Monthly Notes," the Libraries of Australia have received no recognition at the hands of the Assoexcepciation. This seems to me to be regretted, for the Colonies are extremely loyal to England, and their Institutions, modelled as they are on hers, deserve to be encouraged, and the progress which they make, to be recorded equally with those at home. Consequently I have endeavoured, however unsuccessfully and insufficiently, to break the ice which has hitherto surrounded the Libraries in these Colonies, and to introduce them to the best of my ability to the members of the L. A. U. K. I have met with extreme courtesy and assistance in every case, and a generous disposition to give me all the information in their power has been shewn me by all the gentlemen with whom it has been my pleasure to meet in the various Libraries. On this account alone, even if there were no other reasons such as I have already shewn that there are, I should wish to do my utmost to bring before the members of the L. A. U. K. as full and perfect an account of the Libraries in the Australian Colonies as possible. CLIFFORD W. HOLGATE, B.A., B.N.C., Oxford. Printed and published for the Library Association of the United Kingdom by J. DAVY & SONS, at the Dryden Press, 137, Long Acre, London. Annual Subscription, post free, 6s. |