Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report: 1st January, 1940-31st December, 1940 The chairman referred to the loss sustained by the Library during the year by the death of Lady Phillips, Mrs. F. J. W. Van der Riet, and Miss Ethel Mullins. A vote of sympathy was recorded, the audience standing in silence. The Mayor then called on Miss Wood and Colonel miller to read their reports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.