. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. S. A. , 1S50-1. -M- V THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 27 than the limited member roll would suggest. The exclusiveness, to whichwe can trace the ultimate reverses of the Society, was characteristic of thetime and was not more peculiar to Sydney andits Library than to other places and similarbodies. At a General Meeting held on 9th July,1846, it was resolved that ladies should be ^ ,^ eligible for election as subscribers. Thisresolution may have been passed in a formalway to allay the scruples of sticklers for
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. S. A. , 1S50-1. -M- V THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 27 than the limited member roll would suggest. The exclusiveness, to whichwe can trace the ultimate reverses of the Society, was characteristic of thetime and was not more peculiar to Sydney andits Library than to other places and similarbodies. At a General Meeting held on 9th July,1846, it was resolved that ladies should be ^ ,^ eligible for election as subscribers. Thisresolution may have been passed in a formalway to allay the scruples of sticklers for con-stitutional propriety ; or it may mark thefailure of an attempt to exclude women, forin the old lists of members and subscribers,published in the thirties, the names of severalmarried women are frequently to be found. In the year 1847 Governor Fitzroy grantedto the Society an additional block of land on thenorthern side of the Library, having a frontage of 30 feet to Macquarie-street. ^ H. H. , ^ M V^. AUSTRALIAN SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY. 1853. 28 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF Special orders were sent to the London acrent about this time to sendregularly, as published, the works of Dickens, Bulwer, Trollope, Disraeli,Warren, Lever, and Maxwell. On the igth June, 1848, Alexander McLeay died. He had filled thepresidents chair, uninterruptedly, from the date of the foundation of theSociety, and during the entire period his active interest had never flagged Mr. Deas Thomson, who had succeeded McLeav as Colonial Secretaryin i8.:;7, was elected his successor as President on iith January, 1849 r
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