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 in that country, present some especial features of interest. This document provides for the sale by private auction of 10,000 duplicates lying in the Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele at Rome, and of a theological nature. A list is to be made of such of them as exist in more than two copies in public libraries in Rome, and the other public libraries are to have a copy of the list and fifteen days in which to select what they would care to have. State libraries outside Rome and non-State libraries open to the public, whether inside or outside Rome, are to get the duplicates by exchange for their own, or else at a low price. State libraries in Rome are to have them for nothing, unless the Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele covets any duplicates in their possession.

The disposal of duplicates in the university and "students" libraries in Austria is provided for by two decrees of the Ministry of Public Instruction. The first, dated 31st March 1887, is now only applicable to books published before 1850. If a library possesses several copies of the same edition of a book, and has no need of more than one copy, the copy in best condition is to be kept, and the others to be put aside in one place. Defects in one surplus copy may be made up from another. Books presented may not be put aside without previous permission from the Minister of Public Instruction. The official in charge of the selection shall inscribe on the fly-leaf of each the note ''dupl. coll.'' (duplum collatum), the press-mark of the copy kept, add his initials, and remove the titles of the