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Librarians
Until 1907 there was an Honorary
Librarian and a Sub-Librarian. The Sub-Librarian had
previously been an attendant who doubled as a Museum
caretaker. The duties of the Sub-Librarian included
unlocking and locking the Institution each day, cleaning,
seeing to the fires, recording books taken out by
those not entitled to the privilege of holding a library
key and collecting subscriptions.
In 1903 William Murray Tuke, who
had been a long term Honorary Librarian and President
of the Institution, died, and a paid librarian was
appointed for the first time, J. W. Huck.
In 1926 the Librarian, Fisher,
went on holiday and never returned. It was found that
several of the Library’s valuable books had
gone missing at this time and “Fisher’s
list” was compiled, listing the missing books.
Some of them later turned up in second hand book shops.
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