288 The Library. flDr. Carnegie an& tbe %ibrarg THE Hon Secretary of the L.A.U.K. has received the following in- teresting letter from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in acknowledgment of the announcement that he had been elected an Honorary Member of the Association : BUCKHURST, WlTHYHAM, SUSSEX. June 30, 1894. MY DEAR SIR, Yours of the 23rd instant received. Will you please convey to your Asso- ciation my most grateful thanks for the great honour it has seen fit to confer upon me. There is no movement of our time with which I am so glad to be connected as that which establishes FREE LIBRARIES. A friend sent me for perusal an old scrap-book, made by one of the lending men of my native town of Dun- fermline. This volume was filled with things pertaining to its history. The item which interested me most was, one setting forth that my father was one of the committee of three among the weavers, who associated and formed the first collection of books in Dumfermline for public use. He began the first public library, and his son has been privileged to give his native town the last. I come by heredity to my free library work. The action of your Committee is, therefore, peculiarly gratifying. With renewed thanks, I am always Yours very truly, ANDREW CARNEGIE. J. Y. W. MCALISTER, Esq., Hon. Sec. Library Association of the United Kingdom^ 20, Hanover Square, W. Jottings. AT the meeting of the Municipal Corporations Association in London, Sir Albert Rollit distinctly laid down that it was most important that boroughs should be very careful in spending money for libraries and museums, and that it was illegal to spend money for a library out of the half-penny rate for a museum. The two accounts should be kept distinct. DURING the recent session the following Acts of Parliament relating to libraries have received royal assent : British Museum (purchase of lands) ; Law Library (four Courts), Ireland ; Public Libraries (Scotland) ; Public Libraries (Ireland). ARTICLES FOUND IN A PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Town Clerk of Rich- mond, Surrey, has advised the local library Committee to return to the finder a bracelet picked up in the public library. Notices had been posted in the library and no one had claimed the article. GENERAL GRANT WILSON, in the course of a lecture he delivered recently, said that within the last half century sixty Americans had given sums varying from $30,000 to $2,500,000, to establish or aid public libraries. The most important of these gifts, amounting to $16,750,000, were made by eleven persons whom he enumerated. The list included three Scottish-Americans, the late Mr. John Crerar, Chicago, being at the
