Commons’ Journals; 4, Encyclopedias; 5, History of Painting and the Fine Arts; 6, Works on Botany; 7, Novels. In short, every one examining the lower apart- ments may satisfy himself that, with the exception of the law room, the civil law room, and the civil law gallery, the arrangement, or rather want of arrangement, warrants Mr Repp in arriving at the conclusion, that improvement is highly desirable. Mr Repp, at the same time, readily admits, that the existing confusion partly owes its origin to late movements and changes occasioned by the loss of two rooms. 2. A systematic Catalogue has long been a desi- deratum in the Advocates’ Library. It is, indeed, more needed in this library than in most other similar institu- tions ; for it is not unfrequent that applications are made for books on a certain subject, without any author, who has written on that subject, being known; and thus the alphabetical catalogues are of no avail. The observation sometimes made, that any systematic catalogue will answer for any library, is more specious than true ; for not only is literature not stationary, thousands of volumes being added to the sum total every year, but literature has, besides, everywhere more or less a local character. Certain departments of literature, which even in England excite little interest, are much run after in Scotland, and vice versa. Particular classes of books are, conse- quently, much more numerous in some libraries than in others; and, indeed, are frequently not to be found any where else. A systematic catalogue, in order to be well compiled, requires in the author a minute encyclo- pedical knowledge of science and literature. 3. There is a vast collection of books and tracts (but chiefly tracts) belonging to the Faculty, known by the name of Count Dietrichs’s Collection, which, in point of number, is almost equal to all the rest of the Advo- cates’ Library. At the time Mr Repp had this collection before him, which was in 1828, he faithfully reported its state and condition to the Curators, and what he thought of its value. In pronouncing it extremely valuable and important, he can conscientiously say, that his judgment was not formed on any vague or unsub- stantial grounds. It is certain that applications have been made by members of Faculty for law books and

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