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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the present century. I have before me "A new Catalogue of the Aberdeen Circulating Library, consisting of several thousand volumes of the latest and best authors in history," &c., and which are lent by the year, halfyear, quarter or month, by "A. Angus & Son, Booksellers and Stationers, Aberdeen." There is no date, but the Catalogue is in three parts:--The first contains books dated down to 1779; the second, books dated down to 1787; and the third part is headed, "New Appendix to the Catalogue of the Aberdeen Circulating Library, 1790." This shows that the Library must have been established not later than 1780, and that it must have existed till 1790 at least. There are 3384 entries of works, but collections of voyages, histories, &c., are entered separately, each volume being numbered. I have also an early copy of A. Brown & Co.'s Catalogue, which dates, I am sure, from last century, but I am not able at present to lay my hands on it. Angus's Library was a very good collection of the literature of the period, far superior to any circulating library of the present day in Aberdeen, and not unworthy of comparison with the Public Library. FERRYMAN. David Gregory, Savilian Professor Of Astronomy (III., 69).--Allow me to point out a singular error that has crept into J. P. E.'s notice of this distinguished mathematician, as published in your last number. It is there stated that David Gregory, born 1661, succeeded his uncle in the Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews in 1674. Now, the fact that at that date David Gregory was only 13 years of age, might have suggested to your Correspondent that he had fallen into a mistake. And if he had consulted any good biographical dictionary he would at once have learned that Dav...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the present century. I have before me "A new Catalogue of the Aberdeen Circulating Library, consisting of several thousand volumes of the latest and best authors in history," &c., and which are lent by the year, halfyear, quarter or month, by "A. Angus & Son, Booksellers and Stationers, Aberdeen." There is no date, but the Catalogue is in three parts:--The first contains books dated down to 1779; the second, books dated down to 1787; and the third part is headed, "New Appendix to the Catalogue of the Aberdeen Circulating Library, 1790." This shows that the Library must have been established not later than 1780, and that it must have existed till 1790 at least. There are 3384 entries of works, but collections of voyages, histories, &c., are entered separately, each volume being numbered. I have also an early copy of A. Brown & Co.'s Catalogue, which dates, I am sure, from last century, but I am not able at present to lay my hands on it. Angus's Library was a very good collection of the literature of the period, far superior to any circulating library of the present day in Aberdeen, and not unworthy of comparison with the Public Library. FERRYMAN. David Gregory, Savilian Professor Of Astronomy (III., 69).--Allow me to point out a singular error that has crept into J. P. E.'s notice of this distinguished mathematician, as published in your last number. It is there stated that David Gregory, born 1661, succeeded his uncle in the Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews in 1674. Now, the fact that at that date David Gregory was only 13 years of age, might have suggested to your Correspondent that he had fallen into a mistake. And if he had consulted any good biographical dictionary he would at once have learned that Dav...
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