The regulations are as follows:

1. All persons who are admitted to study in the Museum will be admitted to the Reading-room of the Library, for the purpose of reading.

2. Persons who desire to use the Reading-room without studying in other parts of the Museum, may obtain an order for the Reading-room by letter, addressed to 'The Radcliffe Librarian-Oxford Museum,' enclosing, if personally unknown, a sufficient letter of reference or introduction.

3. All persons entering the Reading-room are at liberty to use all books, maps, and documents in it, and to take any such from their places. They are requested to leave them on the table, and not to return them to their shelves.

4. Readers may, by application to the Sub-Librarian in attendance, obtain any book which is in the Library, other than those in the Reading-room. They may apply orally, or in writing on one of the slips provided at the Catalogue Stand.

5. There are two forms of slips for written application, one for books to be used in the Reading-room, one for books to be taken into the Central Court.

6. Books may be removed according to the regulation on the slips, for study of objects in the Court, but readers may bring from the Court to the Reading-room such objects as osteological specimens, if the rules of the Court allow it; such as are calculated to injure the books cannot be so introduced.

7. The permission to use books in the Court does not extend to the Work-rooms, Private Rooms, or Laboratories.

8. By means of the Catalogue, and by application to the SubLibrarian, it is believed that readers will obtain everything which they require; under special circumstances an order may be obtained from the Librarian to consult works in the Principal Book-room without removal to the Reading-room.

9. Readers who intend to frequent the Reading-room may have part of a table reserved for them, if they leave their names with the SubLibrarian-subject, of course, to the condition that they retain their right by use. If they wish books in use to be reserved for the next day, they should express their wish to the Sub-Librarian.

10. Readers who desire to draw, either from objects in the Museum or from plates existing in the Radcliffe Library, may have an easel and water (for water colours) on application to the Sub-Librarian. At present an artist is ready to take pupils in Natural History Drawing.

II. The Master in the Ruskin Drawing School (see p. 65) is ready to hold Evening Classes for teaching the Anatomical drawing of the Figure, on certain evenings during Term.

12. A first-class microscope by Powell and Lealand (including a object-glass) is attached to the Library, for reference, and for comparison of real objects with the illustrated works.

13. Readers are earnestly requested to observe silence. They can communicate to the Sub-Librarian any wants they may find unsupplied, and any inconvenience which they desire to have remedied.

§ 4. College Libraries.

At University, the College Library is open to all members of the College, and books may be taken out at all times, the borrower being only required to enter his name in the Register kept in the Library.

At Balliol, the College Library is especially rich in Divinity and modern books bearing on Classical Literature and Philosophy. There is a reading-room attached to the Library, which is open to Undergraduates between the hours of 10 A.M. and 10 P.M. Books may be taken out both in Term and for the Vacations.

At Merton, the College Library is open between 9 A.M. and I P.M. in Term to all members of the College. The Library is especially rich in Medieval Theology and Medicine: it will hereafter be devoted chiefly to books on Modern History.

At Exeter, (1) the Fellows' Library is open to Undergraduates every Saturday in full Term between noon and I P.M. Books may be taken out at that time on application to the Librarian, and at other times on application to a Fellow. (2) There is a Library for the special use of Undergraduate Members of the College, which is open every week-day from 9 A.M. to sunset, and from which books may be taken out under certain conditions.

At Oriel, (1) the College Library is open to Undergraduates under certain restrictions; (2) there is a separate Library and Reading-room for Undergraduates open to them without restriction.

At Queen's, (1) the College Library is especially rich in Modern Literature. It is open to all resident Graduates of the College, who may on application to the College obtain a private key for use during Term: also to all Undergraduate members of the College, who are allowed to take out books, not being books of reference, for any period not exceeding three weeks. Graduates of the University, residing in Oxford, may take books out, under certain conditions, on application to the Librarian.

(2) A special reading-room for Undergraduates is open until II P.M. It is provided with books of reference and other works likely to be of use to candidates for Honours in the Schools of the University. The books are during Term confined to the room, but may be taken out in Vacation on application to the Librarian. (3) A room called the Taberdars' Room is provided for the use of residents, in which newspapers &c. are supplied.

At New College, the College Library is open to Undergraduates, and books may be taken out under conditions prescribed by the College or by the Librarian.

At Lincoln, (1) the College Library is especially rich in Scholastic Theology, in pamphlets of the period of the Civil War, and in books bearing on the Old Testament. It is open to Fellows of the College only, except by special leave. (2) The Undergraduates' Library is furnished with books bearing on the subjects of study in the various Schools recognised in the University. It is open to all Undergraduates of the College between 9 A.M. and to P.M. on every day during Term.

At All Souls, the Library is especially rich in works bearing upon Modern History and Law. A Reading-room is attached to it, which is open to all Graduates of the University, to Barristers on the Oxford Circuit, and to other persons recommended by the Warden or a Fellow of the College, by a Chichele Professor, or by a Head or Tutor of a College or Hall, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. every week-day in full Term, and from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. in Vacation (but on Saturdays from 11 to 2); during the months of August and September, and on some few days during the rest of the year, it is entirely closed. Books from the General Library, except those specially reserved by the Librarian, may be sent for into the Reading-room, upon application to the Assistant Librarian.

At Magdalen, the Library is rich in Divinity, Natural Science, and Topography. Standard works in Classics and other branches of University education are added as required. Undergraduates can obtain books from it by application to the Librarian or his Assistant, and it is open at stated hours of the day, during which

they can either take out such books as they require, or use them in the Library itself.

At Brasenose, Undergraduates have admission to the College Library at times arranged by the Librarian: there is also a special Library and Reading-room for the use of Undergraduates.

At Corpus, the Library is rich in MSS., in early printed books, and in works relating to Italian history and topography.

At Christ Church, (1) the Library is especially rich in old Divinity: (2) there is also an Undergraduates' Library and Reading Room, which contains the books most likely to be useful to those who are studying the Classics, Modern History, Philosophy, Theology.

At Trinity, Undergraduates may obtain books from the College Library by applying to the Librarian. There is also an Undergraduates' Library.

At St. John's, (1) the College Library is especially rich in Theology, and is open to Undergraduates under certain restrictions. (2) There is also a special Library, which is open every day in full Term, and from which Undergraduates are at liberty to take books out for themselves.

At Jesus, the College Library is especially rich in English law and controversial divinity of the latter half of the seventeenth century. There is also a Library of selected books for the use of Undergraduates.

At Wadham, (1) Undergraduates may obtain books from the College Library by applying to the Librarian: Graduates may, on application, be provided with keys. (2) There is a Library for the special use of Undergraduates, from which books may be taken out by them, under certain conditions.

At Pembroke, there is an Undergraduates' Library; and Undergraduates can also obtain books from the College Library by applying to the Librarian or to a resident Fellow.

At Worcester, (1) the College Library has many Architectural Works, Travels, Old Plays, and Pamphlets: its special department is Classical Archæology. All members of the College and resident members of Convocation, on application to the Librarian, may under certain restrictions, obtain books from it,

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for use both in Term-time and in Vacation. (2) The Undergraduates' Library, containing books bearing on the subjects of the several Schools, is open as a reading-room every day until

II P.M.

At Keble, the Library is open to Undergraduates, and books may be taken out under regulations made from time to time. Part of the Library is fitted up as a Reading-room, and provided with duplicates of the books most commonly required, which are confined to the Library.

At Hertford, Undergraduates can obtain books from the College Library by applying to the Librarian.

At St. Mary Hall, the Library is at all times accessible to Undergraduates without restriction.

At St. Edmund Hall, the Library is rich in Patristic and Modern Theology. It is open at fixed times on three days in the week to all members of the Hall.

§ 5. Non-Collegiate Students' Library.

This is a Library of books necessary for Students in the various Schools (with the exception of the Natural Science School).

It is open whenever the Clarendon Buildings are open.

There is also a Lending Library, which is open, under certain conditions, to those Students who have paid an entrance fee of ten shillings.

§ 6. The University Museum.

The University Museum consists of a large group of buildings which are wholly devoted to the study and teaching of various branches of Physical Science. It contains collections in illustration of Mineralogy, Geology, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Pathology; together with the necessary apparatus for Chemistry and Physics. It also contains Lecture-rooms, special Libraries, Laboratories, Dissecting-rooms, and other appliances for each class of teaching. It also contains the Radcliffe Library, which consists of a large collection of books in almost every department of Physical Science, and which is open to all who are admitted to the Museum (see p. 44).

It is divided into separate Departments, which correspond to the several Professorships of Mathematical and Physical Science, and