7 It certainly was not difficult to judge that this charge was impracticable; for the duties of the Law Room are such, even during vacation, that they re- quire a constant attendance — there generally being present, on an average, half a dozen of gentlemen, searching for law authorities, and preparing papers. These naturally feel inconvenienced, if he, in whose charge the Law Room is understood to be, is out of the way; and his being in the opposite end of the library, surrounded with applicants for books of a miscellaneous nature, is hardly admitted to be a good apology by men of business, who naturally think that their demands ought to take precedence of all such applications. Mr Repp has, accordingly, been frequently blamed by different gentlemen for attempting to do so much; and thus the order of the Curators now alluded to, naturally operated to diminish that good will and favour which Mr Repp hoped to enjoy from the members of Faculty, as it placed him in a situation in which it was impossible that he could give satisfaction to every body. Even the assistance of a porter was denied to Mr Repp on this occasion ; and thus a severer mechanical duty was laid on him than on any individual in the library, either at the time, or at any other time during the eight years Mr Repp has been acquainted with it. While the charge of the sixteen repositories was given to Mr Repp, one of the porters had, and still has, a comparatively easy charge in the historical department; and, on the whole, Mr Repp cannot help being of opinion, that the exigencies of the library by no means required or countenanced the arrangement which was actually made. It is with great reluctance that Mr Repp makes any allusion to former differences of opinion betwixt the Curators and himself; but in consequence of certain passages in their statement, he finds it absolutely neces- sary briefly to allude to the subject. The Curators state,—“ But during all this time, (the summer of 1831,) he was stationed almost entirely in the Upper Library, for the purpose of taking charge of it, and also of giving out and receiving books; and though that Library was shut up in November, 1831, yet he teas directed to take charge of giving and receiving

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