BY-LAWS.

i. Students using the Library are required, at their first entrance to the Library on any day, to sign a book provided for the purpose.

ii. Visitors to the Library, not entitled to read under Regulation IX., are required to sign a book provided for the purpose.

iii. Readers are allowed-at the discretion of the Librarianfree access to the shelves in certain parts of the Library.

iv. No reader may remove a book from the Library without filling up and handing to a member of the Library Staff one of the borrowing receipt slips provided for the purpose.

v. The receipt slip signed by a reader on borrowing a book shall be cancelled when the book is returned.

vi. No book can be issued except to the borrower in person, or to some one having written authority from him; provided that it shall be allowable for the Librarian to forward books by parcel post or in a locked box by rail or carrier to any borrower who sends a written request to that effect, and who prepays the carriage. The borrower shall be liable for the books on the Librarian producing a receipt of the despatch of the parcel as requested.

vii. Persons not entitled to borrow books from the Library, who apply for permission to consult books therein, shall be required to fill up a slip for each book asked for; and the books when returned shall be checked, in the presence of the consulter, with the slips, and the latter cancelled.

viii. Books of exceptional rarity or value shall be consulted only under the supervision of some member of the Library staff.

ix. The Library and Reading Rooms in both buildings are open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from Ten A.M. to Four P.M. (at Marischal College, closed from Twelve-thirty P.M. to One-thirty P.M., and open during the Summer term from Nine A.M. to Four P.M.), and on Saturday from Ten A.M. to Two P.M.; except during the Annual Inspection, the Christmas Vacation, and seven weeks following the Summer Graduation.

x. The Library and Reading Rooms are closed at the time of the Annual Inspection, and on such Public Holidays as may be determined by the Library Committee. During seven weeks following the Summer Graduation and during the Christmas Vacation they shall, be open only from Ten A.M. to One P.M. on three days in each week in each building, the days alternating. xi. A daily exchange of books between the two portions of the

Library has been arranged, so that volumes required from one Library may be called for or returned at the other.

xii. Books recently added to the Library are displayed on special shelves.

xiii. The Library Committee meets, as far as possible, on the third Thursday of every month, except April, July, August, and September.

xiv. By an arrangement come to with the Aberdeen Public Library Committee, persons who are entitled to borrow books from the Public Library may obtain certain privileges in the University Library on payment of a modified subscription.

xv. All subscriptions and all deposits are payable to the Secretary of the University.

xvi. Readers are encouraged to recommend (on forms provided for the purpose) books or periodicals that they consider should be purchased for the Library.

DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES.

THE GEDDES CLASSICAL LIBRARY (4).

The S.E. transept of the King's College Library has been fitted up as a Memorial to the late Principal Sir William D. Geddes (Professor of Greek, 1855-85), and in this room are placed (1) the books of the old Classical Library (including those from the Collection of the late Principal presented by Lady Geddes); (2) books purchased with a donation from the late Mr. W. R. Mac. donell, LL.D.; (3) books purchased with the Scottish Universities Classical Scholarship Fund; (4) books purchased with the interest of that portion (£500) of the Geddes Memorial Fund invested for the purpose of augmenting the Geddes Collection; (5) books purchased with a sum allocated by the Library Committee from the annual Class Library grant. These combined collections form a Classical Library (shelf marked A), from which books (except certain volumes marked as Books of Reference) may be borrowed by Classical students who are readers in the General Library, under Library Regulations, No. XI. Such students may borrow from the Classical Library six volumes, over and above the volumes from the General Library to which they are entitled under Library Regulations, No. IX. (4).

THE CARNEGIE MODERN LANGUAGES LIBRARY (ML).

In 1906 Mr. Andrew Carnegie, "in recognition of his happy visit to Aberdeen " [at the Quatercentenary Celebrations], sent a cheque for £500 to found a Departmental Library in Modern

Languages. Of this sum £250 was spent on the purchase of French and German books, and £250 was permanently invested. The income from the investment is combined annually with a sum allocated by the Library Committee from the Class Library Grant. The Collection thus formed has been placed in the S.W. Transept of the King's College Library, which was fitted up in 1915 as a Reading Room. Students who are readers in the General Library under Regulation XI. may, on paying two shillings per annum, borrow six French and six German volumes; on paying one shilling per annum they may borrow six French or six German volumes.

During class attendance the General Library regulations apply to all books borrowed from the Classical Library or the Modern Languages Library; but borrowers are allowed to retain Classical Library or Modern Languages Library books in their possession at the close of a summer term, during the ensuing autumn, provided that this regulation shall not apply to the autumn following the summer term in which a student has completed his curriculum.

THE DEY-MASSON CELTIC LIBRARY (г).

In 1896 the Library, with the aid of a grant from the Aberdeen Highland Association, acquired the Celtic collection of the Rev. Donald Tolmie Masson, M.A. (King's Coll. 1848), M.D. (St. And.); and an annual grant has been made from Library funds to keep the collection up to date. The books (shelf marked г), of which a separate Catalogue was printed in 1897, are placed in the N.W. transept of the King's College Library. They include not merely Celtic literature and philology but works dealing with the history, topography and antiquities of the Scottish Highlands.

In 1915 Mr. William Dey, LL.D., bequeathed the sum of £1000: the free income to be applied to the purchase of books for the Celtic Library.

THE LOCAL LIBRARY (4).

In the Librarian's room at King's College is placed a large Local Collection (shelf marked A) containing books and pamphlets (except such as belong more naturally to the Dey-Masson Celtic Library) relating to or published in the district allotted to the University of Aberdeen by the Act 24 and 25 Vict. cap. 107 (Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Nairn, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, Orkney and Shetland); or written or edited by natives of, or residents in, that district, or by graduates, alumni, or officers of the University of Aberdeen. The Library Committee confidently appeals to

former students and to all friends of the University to present to the Library copies of any publications which they may write or edit. All such, however small, will be gratefully received and acknowledged.

THE THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

The Theological Library, founded in 1700, contains about 3500 volumes, of which a Catalogue was printed in 1901. It is placed in the King's College Library, and students of Divinity, who are readers in the General Library under Regulation XI., have the privilege of borrowing books from the Theological Library, which books may be retained during the Summer. A Catalogue was printed in 1901.

THE PHILLIPS PHARMACOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

A room in the West Tower, Marischal College, has been set aside to contain a special collection of books on Pharmacology and Therapeutics founded in memory of Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips, M.D. (Mar. Coll. 1859), LL. D. (1888), by his widow. The collection includes books presented by Mrs. Phillips or purchased through donations made by her, together with all older books and periodicals on Materia Medica formerly shelved in the General Library. A Subject Catalogue was printed in 1911.

THE LAW LIBRARY.

A Law Library, placed in a special room at Marischal College, is open during Term on certain evenings (in addition to ordinary Library hours) for the use of Law Students, for whom tutorial classes are held. A Subject Catalogue was printed in 1906.

CLASS LIBRARIES.

There are also Class Libraries in connection with the following Departments, viz.: Agriculture, Agricultural Chemistry, Anatomy, Biblical Criticism, Botany, Celtic, Chemistry, Church History, Comparative Psychology, Education, English, Forestry, Geology, History, Hygiene, Law, Logic, Materia Medica, Mathematics, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Pathology, Physiology, Political Economy, Political Science, Semitic Languages, Systematic Theology, Veterinary Hygiene, Zoology. Information regarding these may be obtained on application to the Professor or Lecturer. By Ordinance No. 8 they are under the general superintendence of the Library Committee, which allots to each a small sum annually from a grant assigned for the purpose by the University Court.

UNIVERSITY STUDIES.

In 1899-largely through the efforts of the Principal, Sir W. D. Geddes-a Committee of Senatus had entrusted to it the supervision of a series of publications by the teaching staff and others connected with the University. The object of this series, styled Aberdeen University Studies, is to stimulate original research within the University in all branches of study, to prove a bond of union between alumni, such as is much required after they leave the University, and to provide a means of effecting exchanges with other Universities and learned bodies. The Curator of the Library was appointed Convener of the Committee, and the Librarian, General Editor of the Studies. Certain volumes have been issued through the co-operation of the New Spalding Club, and others by means of a small grant made annually for the purpose by the Library Committee. The scheme has been much helped by the action of the late Miss Anne Hamilton Cruickshank, who, in 1911, bequeathed a sum of £10,000 to special trustees empowered to expend the revenue therefrom on behalf of the Library, either by purchasing books or periodicals, or by aiding the publication of Catalogues and of University Studies, with a view to exchange with other institutions or societies. The subjects already dealt with cover a wide field, including, among others, Classical Archæology, Scottish History, German Literature, Bibliography, Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Physiology, Pathology, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Chemistry, and Agriculture. The publications received in exchange from all parts of the world prove of the utmost value to the Library.

For notes on the History of the University Library, see Appendix B, Calendar 1893-94; and Aberdeen University Review, i., pp. 123-31.

An Author Catalogue of the Books in the King's College Library was printed in three vols. in 1873-87. These three vols. may be had in cloth for Twenty Shillings. An Author Catalogue of the Books in Marischal College Library was printed in two volumes in 1874-97: price Five Shillings. Subject Catalogues of Books in certain departments have been printed.

The Aberdeen University Library Bulletin giving lists of recent accessions is issued at intervals.