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49. B.

or evening callers.

This professional collection
is enriched with engineers
autographs & bookplates - and
some of its items throw interesting
light on the early history
of our Rys. and Canals - those
most potent of forces in our modern
social and industrial evolution.

It is probably the "Envelope
Room" that gives the most surprise
to the unsuspecting visitor. Some
form of pigeonholing or indexing
is adopted by the youngest amateur
lover of facts or things, if it be
only a stamp album or a mixed
scrapbook, but a small room
deeply shelved to a height of 8 ft carrying some
800 thick envelopes 15in wide
by 20in deep, filled with cuttings