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Motes ant> Iftewe. The Editor earnestly requests that librarians and others will send to htm early and accurate information as to all local Library doings. The briefest record of facts and dates is all that is required. In course of time " Library Notes and News " will become of the utmost value to the historian of the Public Library movement, and it is therefore of the highest importance that every paragraph should be vouched for by local knowledge. Brief written paragraphs are better than newspaper cuttings. ABERDEEN. Professor John Fyfe has resigned, through ill health, the Chair of Moral Philosophy in Aberdeen University. He was librarian of King's College from 1857 to 1876. At the University Court held on August 2 ist, to receive his resignation, the Principal said : " But above all, it was his great work in connection with the library which deserved special remembrance. It was under him, at that time, that the important work of cataloguing the University library took place, and those two volumes that formed the original nucleus of the University catalogue were a Herculean labour. It was a monument which would long remain a proof of his devotion and energy." BINGLEY. At a meeting of the Bingley Free Library Committee on September 6th, it was resolved that it be a recommendation to the Local Board " to black out all sporting tips and forecasts of races from the newspapers supplied to the Free Library." BIRKENHEAD. Two new branch Reading Rooms and lending libraries were opened on August 25th. BRECHIN. Several years ago, the handsome sum of ^5,000 was given to the town of Brechin for the purpose of building a public library for the city, on condition that the inhabitants should adopt the Public Libraries Act, but the name of the munificent giver was withheld. The offer was made to the town through Mr. Forbes Dallas, of Edinburgh, who had been engaged by the donor as agent. The offer was accepted by the town, and the library has been erected, and has been opened now for over a year and is largely used by the public. The giver, who has hitherto been designated the " anonymous donor," is now declared to be Mr. G. M. Inglis, the proprietor of the estate of Murlinden, about two miles from Brechin. Mr. Inglis is a native of Glenesk, who, at an early age, went to South America, where he became connected with the nitrate trade, in which, it is understood, he has been eminently successful. GLASGOW. MITCHELL LIBRARY. It has been decided to pur- chase the library of the late Mr. Morgan, of Bishopbriggs, for ^200. It consists of 11,300 volumes. GLASGOW. On September gth, at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. R. Graham gave notice that at the next meeting he would move that " In the opinion of the Town Council the Free Libraries Acts should be adopted as from the beginning of the next financial year." He pro- posed to take the discussion next month, but not to take any vote until after the October ward meetings and the elections in November. Treasurer Gray said it was exceedingly disadvantageous to take the