ings there, and endowed the librarian. Among later benefactors were John, third Earl of Bute, Chancellor of Marischal College, 1761-93; Sir William Fordyce, Lord Rector, 1790-91; Professor Hugh Macleod, D.D., Glasgow; Miss Agnes Melvin; Alexander Henderson of Caskieben, M.D.; Sir John Forbes, M.D.; Robert Wilson, M.D.

The library contains upwards of 125,000 volumes. The Incunabula number about 170, including 13 believed to be unique. The revenues of the Library are:-I. Under the Acts 6 and 7 William IV., chap. 110, and 52 and 53 Victoria, chap. 55, an annual Parliamentary grant of £640, in lieu of the Stationers' Hall privilege enjoyed, from 1709 to 1836, under the Acts 8 Anne, chap. 21, 41 George III., chap. 107, and 54 George III., chap. 156. Such grant to be appropriated "for the purchase of books". 2. Certain Library Funds amounting to about £200 annually. 3. The annual subscriptions and the composition-fees paid by readers. 4. By Ordinance No. 26 of the University Commissioners (1889), the General Fund of the University is directed to be applied inter alia to "providing for the equipment and upkeep "of the Library.

In terms of Ordinance No. 2 of the Universities Commissioners (1858), the General Library is kept in the Buildings formerly belonging to King's College; and works on Law, Medicine, Agriculture, and Natural Science are kept in the buildings formerly belonging to Marischal College.*

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The following are the regulations relative to the superintendence and use of the Library, approved by the University Court, 4th November, 1895; 9th February, 13th April and 8th June, 1897-(Ordinances Nos. 68 and 89 of the Commissioners of 1858; Ordinances Nos. 8, 17 and 64 of the Commissioners of 1889):—

I. A Committee, to be called the Library Committee, shall be constituted, consisting of three members of the University or others, not being members of the Senatus Academicus, appointed by the University Court, and of six members appointed by the Senatus Academicus. The said Committee shall be charged with the immediate superintendence of the University Library, and of the contents thereof, and of any libraries acquired, or to be acquired, for the use of the University or of any class therein. The members of the said Committee, in the proportions afore

*A Catalogue of the Books in the General Library was published in three vols. in 1873-87. These three vols., in cloth, may be had at the General Library for Twenty Shillings. Readers may also obtain at the Library copies of supplementary lists of works added, 1887-98. For a list of works added, 1897-98, see Appendix B.

A Catalogue of the Books in Marischal College Library was published in two volumes in 1874-97. These two volumes may be had in cloth for Five Shillings.

said, shall be appointed by the University Court and Senatus Academicus respectively at their first meeting after the commencement of the Winter Session in each year.

II. The Librarian shall have the ordinary management of the Library of the University, subject to the superintendence of the Library Committee. The Librarian, and such AssistantLibrarians as the University Court, on the report of the Library Committee, may think necessary, shall be appointed by the University Court.

III. All books ordered for the Library by the Library Committee shall be sent direct to the Librarian, and all books received by him shall be forthwith catalogued by him in such manner as the Library Committee may direct, and stamped with the Library stamp; and no person shall be allowed to use or borrow any book until it has been entered in the catalogue and stamped.

IV. The Librarian shall, with the approval of the Library Committee, from time to time prepare a list of such books, manuscripts and other works as cannot, in consequence of any deed of gift or otherwise, be lent out of the Library; and the Library Committee shall from time to time make such regulations as they shall think expedient for allowing access to such works for consultation.

V. Manuscripts, rare books, works of reference, and such other works as the Library Committee shall determine, shall not be lent out of the Library, except under regulations to be made by the Library Committee and approved by the Senatus Academicus and the University Court; and, in addition to such general regulations, the Library Committee may, in each individual case of borrowing such works, impose such special conditions as they may think necessary or expedient; provided always that every such special permission and all such additional conditions imposed by the Library Committee shall be entered in the Minute-Book of the Committee. [Such works shall not, except in cases of special permission granted by the Curator, be lent out for more than one night, from one hour before closing to one hour after opening, under a penalty of One Shilling per volume for each day of detention. A deposit shall be exigible of such value as may be thought adequate.]

VI. It shall be in the power of the Librarian at any time to withdraw any work from circulation, subject to appeal to the Library Committee. [Notice of such withdrawal to be posted in the Library.]

VII. It shall be in the power of the University Court, after consultation with the Senatus Academicus, and on the report of the Library Committee, to sell or exchange such works

as they consider it in the best interests of the Library to dispose of.

VIII. A general inspection of the Library shall take place at such times and during such periods as the University Court, on the report of the Library Committee, shall determine [from 23rd or 24th September to 3rd or 4th October, inclusive]; and all works whatsoever, and by whomsoever borrowed, shall be returned to the Library before the commencement of such periods, under a penalty previously fixed and publicly notified by the University Court [One Shilling per volume, and in case of books of special permission, Two Shillings per volume; with a weekly repetition of the fine until each volume is returned, or until a copy of the work of the same edition and of equal value has been placed, at the expense of the borrower, in the Library in its stead.]

IX. The Library Committee shall frame regulations to be approved by the University Court, under which the persons hereinafter mentioned may respectively borrow or consult books. Such regulations shall prescribe, inter alia, (a) the number of books which the said person shall be entitled to borrow; (b) the period for which they shall be allowed to retain them [two weeks, and thereafter until the Annual Inspection, unless the Librarian issue a notice recalling a book, or books, within a specified time; but provided that if a reader reborrow a book, which within the same Library year (from Inspection to Inspection) has already been in his possession for two weeks, he shall not thereby acquire an exclusive right to retain that book for another period of two weeks]; (c) the penalties to be imposed in the event of their failure to return books in due time, or in the event of books being lost or injured [as in § VIII.].

The persons entitled to borrow books shall be:

1. Members of the Senatus Academicus and University Lecturers [twenty-five volumes; but in addition to the ordinary borrowing powers, power shall be given to each Professor or Lecturer to borrow fifty volumes, all of which shall be kept under proper custody within the University Department of the borrower, and be otherwise under the same conditions as other borrowed books].

2. University Assistants [ten volumes] and Examiners [six volumes].

3. The Librarian [twenty-five volumes] Assistant Librarians [ten volumes and Junior Assistant Librarians, six volumes].

4. Matriculated Students [three or six or nine or twelve volumes, according to amount of deposit-see § XI.].

5. Extra-academical Teachers, recognised by the University Court, in the town in which the University is situated [ten volumes].

6. Students enrolled in any Scottish University as attending the lectures of Extra-academical Teachers in the town in which the University is situated, and who are already entitled by Ordinance to the use of the Library [as for Matriculated Students, § IX., 4].

7. Persons who have retired or who shall hereafter retire from the office of Principal or Professor [fifteen volumes].

8. Members of the University Court [ten volumes].

9. Members of the General Council [six or twelve volumes, according to amount of subscription or composition— see § X.].

Provided that no member of the University Court or of the General Council shall be entitled to obtain from the University Library books required by the teachers or Students of the University in the prosecution of academic work and research; and that it shall be in the discretion of the Librarian, subject to appeal to the Library Committee, to decide from time to time what books are so required.

In fixing the number of books to be borrowed by the aforementioned persons respectively, due regard shall be had to the preferable claims of those engaged in teaching and studying in the University.

X. Members of the General Council shall be required, as a condition of exercising the privilege of borrowing books, to pay such subscription as the University Court shall fix from time to time [an annual payment of 10s. 6d.—or £1 1s.-the year dating from 15th September-or a life composition fee of £5 5s. or £10 10s.— -see § IX., 9].

XI. The University Court shall determine what sum, if any, shall be deposited by those entitled to borrow books [except as in § V., only by students, £1 or £2 or £3 or £4, according to number of volumes borrowed-see § IX., 4, 6].

XII. The Library Committee, with the approval of the University Court, may admit to the use of the Library, upon such conditions as to subscription and otherwise as they may require, members of the General Councils of other Scottish Universities and graduates of the University who, by reason of being under the age of twenty-one years, are not qualified to be members of the General Council [on same conditions as for Members of Aberdeen General Council-see § IX., 9, and X.-except that a life composition fee cannot be received].

XIII. It shall be in the power of the Library Committee from time to time to grant the use of the Library to such extent and on such conditions as they shall think expedient to persons who may not be members of the University, for purposes of literary research; and the names of those privileged readers shall be reported annually to the University Court [on the same conditions as for Members of General Council-see § IX., 9, and X.-except that a life composition fee cannot be received].

XIV. So long as any Library subscription or any fine incurred remains unpaid, and so long as any person continues in possession of a book which he is not entitled to retain, the right of the defaulter to the use of the Library shall be suspended and remain in abeyance.

XV. The Library Committee shall, in an annual report to the Senatus Academicus, furnish information as to :

1. The state in which the borrowing registers are kept, and whether there is in use any finding list or other means for facilitating the recall of books.

2. The condition of the various catalogues, whether they are brought up to date or not; the amount of arrears, if any, of the cataloguing of the titles of current acquisitions; and what portions of the Library, if any, remain uncatalogued.

3. The amount of money spent in the purchase of books and periodicals respectively; and how the expenditure has been distributed among the several departments of literature and science.

XVI. At such time as shall be fixed by the Senatus Academicus [the expiration of the annual period of Inspection] the Librarian shall report to the Senatus in reference to the year then ended :

1. The particulars of every case of admission to special reading privileges.

2. The particulars of every case in which the right to the use of the Library has been suspended or is in abey

ance.

3. Every case in which a book belonging to the Library has been replaced at the expense of a borrower.

4. The titles of all books belonging to the Library, known to have been lost or seriously injured, or found at the time of inspection to be amissing.

5. The titles of all books entered as missing in previous reports which have been recovered.

6. The number of accessions to the Library acquired by purchase and received in donation respectively.