14 These Curators were no less anxious than the former to see the collection placed, and they accordingly, in 1830, reported to the Facultyas follows:—“Spanish Library. The catalogue of this valuable collection they found completed by Dr Irving when they came into office; and, although they have not been able to procure sufficient room in the present apartments for depositing the whole of it in shelves, they find that there is a small apartment entering into the Thorkelin Room, in which temporary shelves may be placed, so as to contain at least the whole historical branch of it, which consists, it is believed, of about three thousand volumes; they have, therefore, directed that such shelves shall be put up, and the historical collection deposited in them, with as little delay as pos- sible. The Curators regret, that from the present want of accommodation, they cannot suggest any mode by which the rest of this library may at present be made accessi- ble.”* Thus it appears that, even in the year 1830, and after the new catalogue had been finished, the Curators still entertained an opinion that this collection was as large as had been reported in 1827, since they thought that the historical part of it, which in reality does not exceed one thousand six hundred volumes, consisted of three thou- sand, and that want of room was the cause why the entire collection could not be placed. Mr Repp having previously, according to instructions received from one of the Curators, prepared an exact copy of the catalogue compiled by the keeper, was now desired to place and arrange this collection, and mark the place of every book in his copy of the catalogue. To the surprise of the Curators, as well as of other gentlemen of the Faculty, Mr Repp, in the execution of this task, found room for the whole collection in the place which he had at first pointed out, and in which the Curators expected to find room only for the historical department. The small space which the collection now occupied naturally gave rise to the suspicion that it did not amount to seven thousand volumes. Accordingly, a mem- ber of Faculty, who had been several times with Mr Repp while he was arranging the collection, undertook Curators’ Report, 1830, p. 5.

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