Second report to the Radcliffe Trustees, on the progress of the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford University Museum / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Second report to the Radcliffe Trustees, on the progress of the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford University Museum / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    It remains for me to say, that the Library is now thoroughly warmed, and the arrangements of the Reading- Loom, so far as I know, give satisfaction. As the old Library, now attached to the Bodleian, is open daily till ten o’clock at night, there seems to be no reason for opening yours in the evening for more than two days in the week during Term. If it be found that Evening Lectures, or Evening work, spring up in the Museum, as has, from time to time, been the case with Professorial Lectures in Oxford, you might probably wish your Reading-Room to supply what- ever demands in this direction may be created. Our Ash- molean, or Literary and Scientific, Society, meets every other week at the Museum, in the evening, and during its session the Library is open. I will only add that the Loan of your old Building to the Bodleian has proved most valuable to many Readers. It must surely ere long become a source of convenience to the Literary world in general, when it is known that so near the Metropolis all the Treasures of the Bodleian, always liberally and courteously available to those who need them, are accessible daily for twelve hours, in a sumptuous apartment, of pleasant temperature, and capable of perfect ventilation. It may not be improper that I should take the present opportunity of acquainting you with the satisfactory pro- gress of the New Ward at the Radcliffe Infirmary, to which you contributed the sum of £1500. It is rapidly approach- ing completion, and will in conjunction with the Out Patients Department, built by General Subscription, prove a great addition to a Hospital which your Predecessors erected in 1770. As soon also as your arrangements for granting the