3rd. An Inventory of the books placed alphabetically under their titles, with Authors, Editors, &c., annexed, showing how they are classed in the presses, and the mode of arrangement under the various subjects to which they refer; cross references being given in each case where a book refers to more than one class, or to different subjects, for example :-Topographie de tous les Vignobles, par Jullien-will be found at page 79 under "Topography," at page 4, under "Agriculture," and at page 181, under "French Literature." A special Inventory (page 175) of Foreign Literature and Greek and Latin Works having been collected from the various classes under which the books are placed, for the purpose of enabling any one to see at a glance all the books in different Languages that the Library contains. Books entered. in this portion of the Inventory, which do not happen to be placed in the same compartment, as well as cross references all through the Inventory, are shown by a cypher in the column appropriated for the number of the volumes.

4th. Preceding the Inventory is an Index, prepared upon a plan somewhat different to ordinary Indexes. The title of every book is first entered; it is again entered under the subject matter of each title, and also under the leading words in the titles, as well as under the subject matter given in the Inventory headings. These are all placed in strict alphabetical order; so that if a reader is at a loss for the name of an author, the book may be found by referring to the Index for the Title, and if the title is not known, it may be traced either by the subject matter or by any leading word in the title; but Foreign Literature and Greek and Latin works are only indexed once under their Titles, owing to their being all collected under one heading as previously explained.

The manuscript of this Catalogue was completed at the end of the year 1875, the intention being to continue it from that date by supplements. The printing was commenced at the Government Printing Office in January, 1876, but as only 238 pages of the Inventory had been printed up to December of that year, a Supplementary Inventory of the books added to the Library during the year was prepared and printed, and the manuscript of Authors (the printing of which had not commenced at that date) was interleaved with the additions, so as to include all books in the Library up to the 31st December, 1876.

The labour of preparing a work of this kind, both in the compilation and reading of the proofs, is but little understood except by Librarians, or those who have been accustomed to perform similar duties, and the revision of the work has been made heavy and tedious by the length of time the matter has been in the printer's hands; and in consequence of the type having to be broken up after the completion of each sheet, it has been impossible to rectify some errors which could only be discovered by reading the subsequent pages. Two years have elapsed since the printing was commenced, but the task has been a heavy one, and is unlike ordinary printing. It consists of 585 pages in long primer, with spaced headings and large capitals; 297 pages of tabular matter in brevier; 110 pages of double columns in nonpareil; and 16 pages of other matter, in all 1,008 pages of printing; but, independently of this, two years does not, from the reports of similar Institutions, appear to be a long time for the completion of a work of this magnitude, prepared as it is under so many various headings.

Sydney,

2nd January, 1878.

R. C. WALKER,

Principal Librarian.

CONTENTS.

1, TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS.

2. REGULATIONS.

3. BOOKS PRESENTED BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

4. LIST OF DONORS.

5. GENERAL CATALOGUE, ARRANGED UNDER AUTHORS.

6. CATALOGUE OF PAMPHLETS.

7. INDEX TO INVENTORY.

8. INVENTORY, 1875.

9. SUPPLEMENTARY INVENTORY AND INDEX FOR 1876.

TRUSTEES

OF THE

FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, SYDNEY.

PROFESSOR CHARLES BADHAM, D.D. (Chairman).

THE REV. WILLIAM BRANWHITE CLARKE, M.A., F.R.S.
THE HON. WM. BEDE DALLEY, M.P.
WILLIAM AUGUSTINE DUNCAN, Esq.
THE REV. JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D.

THE HON. SIR WM. MACARTHUR, KNT.

THE HON. WILLIAM MACLEAY, M.P., F.L.S.

THE HON. ROBERT OWEN, M.P.

W. J. STEPHENS, Esq., M.A.

JOHN STEWART, Esq.

Principal Librarian :

ROBT. COOPER WALKER.

Assistant Librarian and Compiler:

D. R. HAWLEY,

[From Government Gazette of 24th March, 1876.]

Department of Justice and Public Instruction,

Sydney, 21st March, 1876.

THE following Amended Regulations for Visitors to the Free Public Library, Sydney, are published for general information.

JOSEPH DOCKER.

Regulations for Visitors to the Free Public Library.

1. The Library will be open every week-day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., except New Year's Day, Anniversary Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Queen's Birthday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and such other days as the Trustees may from time to time direct.

2. Visitors will not be permitted, under any circumstances, to take books out of the Library.

3. Adult visitors may themselves take such books as they wish to read from the shelves, but must leave them on the Library tables when done with. All persons under 18 years of age must apply to one of the Library Assistants for such books as they may desire.

4. Such visitors as may wish to make extracts from the books, papers, maps, &c., with ink, must make special application to the Librarian to do so. 5. No conversation will be allowed in the Library, otherwise than in a whisper.

6. No person will be permitted to sit in the room with his hat on; nor will any person who is intoxicated, or in a dirty condition, be admitted to the Library.

7. Children under 12 years of age are not admitted.

8. Any visitor writing in or upon, folding down a leaf, defacing, mutilating, or otherwise injuring any book, spitting on the floor, smoking in the doorway, or eating food or fruit, will be excluded from the Library.

9. The Librarian has the power to remove, by force if necessary, any visitor who shall wilfully break any regulation, or injure any property of the Library, or shall otherwise prove offensive to readers or Officers of the Institution.

10. The Librarian shall at all times have power to prohibit any book or books, &c., from being taken off the shelves, or to exclude from the Library any person or persons who may refuse to comply with any part of the Regulations of the Institution, or to obey any reasonable directions of the Librarian.

11. Readers desirous of proposing books for addition to the Library may do so by writing the same in a Suggestion Book which will be submitted regularly to the Trustees for consideration.