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46 APPENDIX.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Drs. Wallace, Henry, Fox, and Paton.
William G. Young, House Surgeon — Mrs Cottar, Matron.
GREENOCK LIBRARY— Watt Monument, Union Street.
Instituted 1783.
The Management is vested in a Committee, who are elected
annually in January. The annual payment for proprietors is
13s, and for others one guinea.
Chairman, George Williamson.
Arthur 0. Leitch, Treasurer and Secretary — E. C. Black,
Librarian.
In 1807 a collection of Foreign Literature was commenced,
which collection, now greatly enlarged, was in 1834 added to
this Library, and is free to all the subscribers without any
additional charge. Ten Pounds annually from the general funds
are applied to the purchase of foreign books. The Library con-
tains upwards of 10,000 volumes, and has above 200 subscribers.
Attached to the Institution is a small but admirably selected
Scientific and Mathematical Library, composed of about 170
volumes, purchased with £100, given for that purpose by the
late Dr James Watt. Students, though not subscribers to the
Town Library, are entitled to the use of this, on the payment
of a small sum annually.
GREENOCK MECHANICS' INSTITUTION,
Sir Michael Street— Instituted 1836.
John Lennox, President — David M'llwraith, Treasurer.
Samuel Lang, Secretary — David Gow, Curator and Librarian
The Institution comprises a Library of upwards of 5000 vo
lumes ; a Reading Room, containing almost all the Metropolitan
and an extensive selection of the Provincial and Local News
papers, and nearly the whole of the popular Periodicals, Maga
zines, and Reviews of the day — accessible to mechanics and
others on the following terms, viz., Reading Room, Is 6d per
quarter; occasional visitors, Id per visit; Library, Is per half-
year.