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NEWSPAPER OFFICES, &c.
Frazbr's Time Table and Conveyance Guide,
Monthly, 15 Drury St.
Glasgow Almanac, Annually, 94 Mitchell St.
Leather Trader, Monthly, 19 Howard Street.
Life Boat, Monthly, G. S. Meek, 211 Gallowgate.
Malcolm's Diary, 34 Ann Street.
Murray's Time Table, Monthly, 18 Eenfield St.
Murray's Monthly Diary, 18 Eenfield St.
Occult Magazine, Monthly, 25 Jamaica St.
Sabbath School Magazine, Monthly, 181
Buchanan Street.
Scottish Cyclist, 25 Jamaica Street.
Scottish Law Review, Monthly, Wm. Hodge &
Co., 26 Bothwell St.
Scottish Sanitary Journal, 7 Mitchell Lane.
Scottish Temperance Mirror, 94 W. Regent
Street.
The Bulwark, Monthly, Aird & Coghill, 263
Argyle St.
The Mercantile Age and Textile Times,
8 Gordon Street.
The Reformed Presbyterian Witness, 61
Bridge Street, Wishaw.
The Young Man, Monthly, 74 Bath St.
The Young Men's Christian Magazine,
Monthly, 70 Bothwell Street.
Times Diary, 66 Mitchell Street.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING OFFICES.
Glasgow office for the following publications : —
Hamilton Advertiser (Saturday).
Airdrie Advertiser (Saturday).
Ayr Post (Friday).
Oban Times (Friday).
Coatbridge Express (Wednesday)
Lanarkshire Examiner (Friday).
Rutherglen Reformer (Friday).
Stirling Observer, Thursday and Saturday.
The Reaper (Monthly).
Advertiser's Vade Mecum (Annually).
Charles P. Watson, British, Foreign, and Colo-
nial Advertising Agent and Contractor, 109 St.
Vincent street (Estab. 1856). Telephone No. 3617.
Telegraphic address, "Advertising," Glasgow. Lon-
don office, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus,
E. C.— See Advt.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ROOMS
Receives regularly all the latest home and foreign tele-
grams, and the London, English, Provincial, Scotch,
and Irish newspapers and Directories ; also, Commer-
cial Lists, French, German, Colonial, Canton, Indian,
and American papers, with all the leading reviews,
magazines, &c. Open daily from S morning till 8
evening, Sundays from 9 morning till 5 evening.
Strangers resident beyond 45 miles, having no busi-
ness connection with city, introduced by subscribers
not charged, unless they attend for more than four
weeks. Telegraph and telephone offices in vestibule.
Subscribers are allowed the free use of the telephone
in and aronnd the city on production of their Royal
Exchange tickets of membership.
General Manager, G. B. M. Beatson ; Master of
Room, Alex. Russell; clerk, Ceo. Smith, and two
assistants.
STIRLING'S & GLASGOW PUBLIC LIBRARY.
48 Miller Street.
Stirling's Public Library was founded by Walter
Stirling, merchant, an ex-bailie of the city, and son
of Dr. William Stirling, a well-known Glasgow sur-
geon of the last century. The bequest came into
effect at the death of Mr. Stirling on 17th. January,
1791. It consisted of the founder's own library (802
volumes), his house in Miller Street (where the library
now stands), a share in the Tontine Society, and the
sum of £1000. Mr. Stirling directed that the library
was to be free to any one, and was to exist in per-
petuity. In 1825 Mr. William Jameson, jun., be-
queathed his books to the library, as did Dr. Scouler,
professor of mineralogy in the Royal Society of
Dublin, in 1871. In 1871 the Glasgow Public Library,
a subscription lending library started in 1804, amal-
gamated with Stirling's Library, and the title then
became Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library.
The library contains over 43,000 volumes and pam-
phlets, including many rare, valuable, and useful
works. It possesses several manuscripts (two on
vellum), and nearly thirty examples of fifteenth cen-
tury printing, the earliest being 1469, or fourteen
years after the issue of the first printed book. It is
the depository of the only complete set in the West of
Scotland of the publications of Her Majesty's Patent
Office, which consist of over 150,000 separate publi-
cations. They date from 1617 when the first British
patent was enrolled, and come up to the latest patents
issued. The Board of Trade recently presented a
complete set of the Trade Marks Journal to the
library, and supply the current numbers as issued.
The foundation being inadequate for the proper
maintenance of the library the directors organized a
system of lending of books. This has been immensely
developed in recent years, and a large supply of new
books and magazines — nearly 1850 annually of the
latter — render it one of the best, as it is by far the most
extensive and most moderately rated lending library
in the city and district. The terms are — For two
works and one magazine at a time, one year, 10s. 6d.;
six months, 7s. 6d.; life, £5 5s.; for one work (no
magazine) at a time, one year, 5s. 3d. Members
may join at any time (no entry money), and may
change their books and magazines singly or together
as often as they choose. The library is open every
lawful day from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. A new general
catalogue of the books has just been issued.
Board of Directors — President, the Hon. John
Muir, Lord Provost ; vice-president, Sir Michael
Connal ; elected by the Town Council, ex-Preceptor
Wilson, Councillor Colquhoun, and Bailie Graham;
elected by the Merchants House, J. O. Mitchell, J.
Guthrie Smith, and Chas. Gairdner, LL.D. ; elected
by the Presbytery of Glasgow, Rev. Dr. F. L. Robert-
son, Rev. David Millar, and Rev. G. Gibson Gunn;
elected by the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons,
Dr. R. Perry, Dr. J. Wallace Anderson, and Dr. John
Barlow.
Hon. treasurer, J. M. Cunningham ; lion, secretary,
John Forbes Ferguson ; librarian, William Huttoc.
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY.
23 Miller Street.
Founded on a bequest of the late Stephen Mitchell,
Esq. Mr. Mitchell died in April, 1874, and the be-