318 The Library. discussion without a vote, and he would, therefore, propose a motion which would bring up the question, and have a vote on it. He would propose that they should not adopt the Public Libraries Act until the sense of the citizens should be ascertained as favourable to adoption. HA WARDEN. In the Illustrated Church News of September 8th, is given an account of St. Deinol's Library, which Mr. Gladstone has founded. KILMARNOCK. On September 8th, the Reading Room at Elmbank was opened by Provost McLelland. LONDON: BRITISH MUSEUM. In the Daily News of Septem- ber ist there is a leading article on the printing of the Catalogue of the British Museum. LONDON : HOUSE OF LORDS. A gentleman was summoned to attend an inquest at the Wandsworth Town Hall, on September 3rd. He asked to be excused from serving as he was exempt. In the con- versation which ensued it appeared that he was librarian of the House of Lords. The Coroner replied, " That is a good and valid reason." Mr. Jas. H. Pullman, who resides in Wandsworth, was forthwith excused, and the coroner ordered his name to be taken off the list. LpNDON : LEWISHAM. Mr. William W. Fortune, formerly sub- librarian of the South Shields Public Library, has been appointed sub- librarian of the Lewisham Public Libraries. LONDON : MIDDLE TEMPLE. The library is to be lighted by electricity. LONDON : PUTNEY. Harry Watkins, described as an artist, was charged on September 8th with stealing a dictionary of medicine from the Putney Public Library Reference Department, from which thirty or forty stamps had been removed. Mr. Sheil, the magistrate, ordered a remand. LONDON : ROYAL SOCIETY Miss Lillian Gould, who won a First-Class in the Honour School of Natural Science, has received an appointment in the Library of the Royal Society. A portrait of her appeared in The Gentlewoman, September 8th, 1894. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. The Thomlinson Library, which is now incorporated with the reference department of the public library, was opened for public use on September I3th, by Sir John W. B. Biddell, Bart. This celebrated collection of books was bequeathed to the public by the Rev. Robert Thomlinson, D.D., Rector of Whickham and Lecturer of St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle, in the year 1736. The books originally numbered 8,000, but at the time of the transfer there were scarcely 4,500 volumes. REDRUTH. Mr. J. Passmore Edwards, on September 6th, laid the foundation-stone of the free library building at Redruth, in Corn- wall, to the cost of which he has contributed .2,000. A public luncheon was given in honour of the event. A sketch of the proposed building appeared in the Daily Graphic of September 7th, 1894. SALFORD. A reading room, in connection with the Salford Free Libraries, was opened at Weaste on September nth.
