BOOKS FOR A REFERENCE LIBRAR BEING LECTURES ON THE BOOKS IN THE REFERENCE DEPARTM FIRST SERIES. 1885. LONDON:-SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO. BIRMINGHAM & LEICESTER:-MIDLAND EDUCATIONAL COMF 519 CONTENTS. BOTANICAL BOOKS IN THE REFERENCE LIBRARY, by Professor BOTANICAL BOOKS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Professor Bibliographical Appendix ... "SOME ART BOOKS " IN THE REFERENCE LIBRARY, by Alder- BIRMINGHAM REFERENCE LIBRARY LECTURES. BOOKS ON LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE. On the 12th November, 1884, in the Chemical Lecture Theatre of the Mason College (kindly lent for the purpose by the Trustees), the first of these lectures was delivered by Councillor G. J. Johnson. The chair was taken by the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Thomas Martineau), who said: Ladies and Gentlemen,-It is a subject of a good deal of interest to me that the two first public duties I have had to perform as Mayor have been in connection first with science and secondly with literature. On Tuesday I had the honour on behalf of the town of Birmingham to invite the British Association for the Advancement of Science to hold its meeting for the year 1886 in the town of Birmingham, and I am happy to say that having in 1884 crossed the broad Atlantic in order to meet at Montreal, and being about, in the year 1885, to go to the North East Coast of Scotland they have decided on their return to English latitudes to hold their meeting in the midlands in 1886. We have nothing to do specially with science on this occasion, we are here on behalf of literature. I have a peculiar pleasure in appearing here to-night for the purpose of presiding over this |