§ MR. HORACE PLUNKETT (Dublin Co., S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the fact that other Government Departments have made a practice of presenting thei, publications to the National Libraryr Dublin, the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty will present a complete set of charts of the coast of the British Isles to that Library?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHIt is considered by the Admiralty that they would not be justified in incurring the large addition to charges on naval funds which would be caused by undertaking the supply of charts to Public Libraries. Charts are presented under the Copyright Act to the libraries of the British Museum, and of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin. It is the practice to inform other Public Libraries that the charts can be purchased from the Admiralty agent.