EAST INDIES, &c.

37. INDIA

38. ADEN, SOCOTRA, &c.

39. ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

40. BURMA

41. CEYLON.

42. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND MALAY PENINSULA

43. COCOS-KEELING ISLANDS

44. BORNEO, LABUAN, SARAWAK, &c.

45. HONG KONG

46. ASIATIC ARCHIPELAGO.

WEST INDIES

47. THE WINDWARD AND LEEWARD ISLANDS

48. BARBADOS.

49. JAMAICA

50. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

51. BRITISH GUIANA

52. BAHAMAS .

53. BRITISH HONDURAS .

54. FALKLAND ISLANDS

55. GIBRALTAR .

56. MALTA AND GOZO.

57. CYPRUS.

58. THE BRITISH COLONIES: THEIR HISTORY, TRADE, RESOURCES, GOVERNMENT, &c.; EMIGRATION, IMPERIAL FEDERATION, &c.

59. COLONIAL BOTANY AND FLORA

60. COLONIAL POEMS &c. .

61. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS BY COLONIAL AUTHORS.

62. SCHOOL BOOKS-COLONIAL GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, &c.

63. TRANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS, AND REPORTS OF SOCIETIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE; UNIVERSITY CALENDARS &c.

64. ALMANACS, ANNUALS, HANDBOOKS, AND DIRECTORIES

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LIBRARY REGULATIONS

OF THE

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE

I. The Library will be open to Fellows on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; excepting Good Friday to Easter Monday, both inclusive, Christmas Day, and the days appointed as Bank Holidays. The Library will be closed during the whole of the first and second weeks in September for the purpose of cleaning, examination of books, &c.

II. Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopædias, and other works of reference and high value, Manuscripts, Atlases, Maps, Books and Illustrations in loose sheets, Drawings, Prints, unbound Books, New Books until the expiration of six months from the time of their reception, and such other Books as the Library Committee may from time to time declare to be Books of Reference, shall not be taken out of the Library, unless with the special written order of a member of the Council.

III. The title of every Book, Pamphlet, or work of any kind that may be lent, shall first be entered in the Library Register, with the borrower's signature, or a separate receipt under his hand. No more than three volumes shall be lent at any one time to a Fellow.

IV. No work of any kind shall be retained longer than one month; but at the expiration of that period, or sooner, the same must be returned free of expense, and may then, upon re-entry, be again borrowed, provided that no application for it shall have been made in the meantime by any other Fellow.

V. All Books that have been borrowed must be returned to the Librarian free of expense, by the 31st of August in each year.

VI. Every volume used in the Institute Building shall, when done with, be at once handed to the Librarian, to be by him returned to its proper shelf.

VII. In every case of loss of, or damage to, any volume, or other property of the Institute Library, the user or borrower shall make good the same; and all or any property shall be considered as lost, and recovery of its value be capable of being enforced, if such property is not returned within one month after application for it shall have been made by the Librarian, by letter addressed to the borrower at his address as entered in the Register of Fellows.

VIII. Visitors may be admitted to the Library on the introduction of a Fellow, whose name, together with the names of the Visitors, shall be inserted in a book kept for that purpose.

IX. Any infraction of the above Regulations will be reported to the Council, who will take such steps as the case may appear to require.

By order of the Council.

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE,

NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.