posit account amounts so deducted for fines or replacements.

(f) Borrowers on Deposit lending to other readers the books borrowed in their name render themselves liable to have the privilege of Borrowing on Deposit withdrawn.

(g) Borrowers on Deposit may obtain the Library Bulletin on payment of 1s. per number, or an annual subscription of 2s. 6d.

(h) A Member of the General Council who has become a Borrower on Deposit, desiring to terminate his connection with the Library, shall be entitled to receive back the sum he has deposited, or, in event of any outlays having been incurred or any loss having accrued to the Library on his account, such part of his Deposit as may remain over after meeting such outlays or loss.]

XI. The University Court shall determine what sum, if any, shall be deposited by those entitled to borrow books. [Except as in Regulations V. and X., only by students. Any Matriculated Student, after signing the Daybook and presenting his Matriculation Card, is allowed to consult books within the Library Rooms. If he desire to borrow books

1. He may deposit £1 or £2 or £3 or £4, according to the
number of volumes which he wishes to have in his
possession; see § IX., 4; or

2. While actually in attendance on University classes he
may borrow not more than three volumes at a time,
provided that he produce to the Librarian his Ma-
triculation Card, and fill up and sign the following
declaration :
:-

Being at present a Matriculated Student in attendance on classes
in the University of Aberdeen, and desiring to borrow_books
from the University Library without making a deposit, I here-
by undertake to conform to all the Regulations of the Library.

He will then receive a ticket entitling him to borrow three volumes at a time under conditions as under; such conditions being stated on the ticket.

3. Books borrowed by a student without deposit must be returned to the Library seven days before the close of

the Term which ends his attendance on classes for the current Academical Year; but he may then anew borrow books, provided that he makes a deposit under § XI., 1.

4. At the close of the Spring and of the Summer Term the Librarian shall furnish the Secretary with a list of the names of such non-deposit student readers as have failed to conform to the Regulation embodied in § XI., 3; and the Secretary shall have power to withhold from such students class certificates and money prizes and the final instalments of bursaries until they shall have returned or replaced the books borrowed by them and paid any fines incurred; and they shall be debarred during the remainder of their course from the privilege of borrowing without deposit.

5. At the close of the Winter Term the Secretary shall furnish the Librarian with the names of any students then ceasing to attend classes, and to such of these as are non-deposit readers the preceding sections shall apply.]

XII. The Library Committee, with the approval of the University Court, may admit to the use of the Library, upon such con ditions as to subscription and otherwise as they may require, members of the General Councils of other Scottish Universities [on payment of an annual subscription of 10s. 6d. or £1 1s., as in Regulation X., § 1]; 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 [as in Regulation X., §§ 1, 2].

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 payment of 10s. 6d. or £1 1s., as in Regulation X., § 1. The Librarian in consultation with the Curator shall be authorised to lend to the Librarians of other Universities or Colleges books desired for consultation within the Libraries under their charge: all outlays connected with such loans to be defrayed by the borrowers.]

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. [When a reader fails to return an out-of-print book

borrowed by him, his Library privileges shall be suspended until he pay the value of the said book as assessed by a competent authority.]

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 abeyance. 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 missing.

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.

7. Any other matter which the Librarian may think it of importance to bring under the notice of the Senatus Academicus, or which he may be directed by the Library Committee to report.

The Senatus Academicus shall forward the reports to the University Court. [The reports will be printed in the Library Bulletin.]

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. 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 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.

ix. 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.

x. 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.

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

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

xiii. 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.

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

xv. 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 ▲), 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