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Rh Passionei;The Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian (1780)/Notes that of Naudé,The Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian (1780)/Notes who deserves particular mention, that of Muratori,The Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian (1780)/Notes that admirable prodigy of learning, whose writings in every department of learning would of themselves alone form a library; and, finally, the name of Franck,The Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian (1780)/Notes whose Catalogue of the Library of Bunau has always seemed to me the first and most perfect of all the works devoted to bibliography.

Thus, gentlemen, when the numerous duties of the librarian, and the consideration habitually attached to that title, present themselves to my mind, I have been surprised, as I still am, at having been the object of your suffrages; and my surprise is