. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. R. , 1S45-6. constant state ot poverty, but wMth acommodious and handsome home onone of the finest sites in vSydney. Formany years it attracted to its ReadingRoom and Lecture Hall the cultureand learning of Sydney, and becamethe recognised meeting-place andhome of literary and scientific amongst its prominentmembers many men of remarkablemental calibre and earnestness, it becamea much more powerful educational factor. S. A. , 1S50-1. -M- V THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 2
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. R. , 1S45-6. constant state ot poverty, but wMth acommodious and handsome home onone of the finest sites in vSydney. Formany years it attracted to its ReadingRoom and Lecture Hall the cultureand learning of Sydney, and becamethe recognised meeting-place andhome of literary and scientific amongst its prominentmembers many men of remarkablemental calibre and earnestness, it becamea much more powerful educational factor. 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. , 1852-61.
Size: 1433px × 1743px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidhistoricalnotesp00bladric
